OK - here's the deal. I hope I'm not posting redundantly...
I've tried several ROMs in the past week and I have to say that changing each one is a tedious process. With each new one, I've used Titanium to backup everything. But even with Titanium, I always lose my call records, SMS other than what's in Google Voice, keyboard preferences, dictionary (the words I enter into HTC's dictionary), ALL email accounts, language preferences, app layout and scenes, and even some apps are lost because Titanium can't recover them. I especially hate losing the individual dictionary. WORST OF ALL IS THE EMAIL ACCOUNT LOSS. Having to setup Exchange, Yahoo, GMail each time even with a tiny change in the ROM really sucks. Titanium restore takes something like an hour and for each one I have to approve each app, even though I do it in batch mode. So that kind of defeats the purpose of BATCH.
I backup my 2.1 SMS and call records with SMS Backup and Call log backup apps, but neither one successfully restores on Froyo. So I've lost 6 months worth of call logs and SMS because of incompatibilities with Froyo.
This time, I'm also doing a Nandroid + Titanium. But as I said, those won't save my email accounts, call records, SMS records, dictionaries, keyboard preferences, layout and scenes, some apps and many other things...
The one thing I liked about BlackBerry (probably the ONLY good thing) was the backup - it saved everything.
My question is: is there an all-encompassing total & complete backup solution for Android? If not, then I just don't think I'll be updating ROMs very frequently because I simply don't have an hour to waste approving app restoration in Titanium and all that other crap (Install--> Done --> Install --> Done x 100 apps is ridiculous!).
I use Titanium for all my apps and MyBackup Pro for my SMS, Bookmarks, ect... http://www.appbrain.com/app/com.rerware.android.MyBackupPro
Good Luck
stlandroidfan said:
OK - here's the deal. I hope I'm not posting redundantly...
I've tried several ROMs in the past week and I have to say that changing each one is a tedious process. With each new one, I've used Titanium to backup everything. But even with Titanium, I always lose my call records, SMS other than what's in Google Voice, keyboard preferences, dictionary (the words I enter into HTC's dictionary), ALL email accounts, language preferences, app layout and scenes, and even some apps are lost because Titanium can't recover them. I especially hate losing the individual dictionary. WORST OF ALL IS THE EMAIL ACCOUNT LOSS. Having to setup Exchange, Yahoo, GMail each time even with a tiny change in the ROM really sucks. Titanium restore takes something like an hour and for each one I have to approve each app, even though I do it in batch mode. So that kind of defeats the purpose of BATCH.
I backup my 2.1 SMS and call records with SMS Backup and Call log backup apps, but neither one successfully restores on Froyo. So I've lost 6 months worth of call logs and SMS because of incompatibilities with Froyo.
This time, I'm also doing a Nandroid + Titanium. But as I said, those won't save my email accounts, call records, SMS records, dictionaries, keyboard preferences, layout and scenes, some apps and many other things...
The one thing I liked about BlackBerry (probably the ONLY good thing) was the backup - it saved everything.
My question is: is there an all-encompassing total & complete backup solution for Android? If not, then I just don't think I'll be updating ROMs very frequently because I simply don't have an hour to waste approving app restoration in Titanium and all that other crap (Install--> Done --> Install --> Done x 100 apps is ridiculous!).
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Come off the cake and donate to the devs of Titanium. Restoring your programs becomes automatic then.
The only thing I don't get a consistent restore on is the home page layouts.
app backing up and restoring is awesome if you donate to titanium devs. it is definitely on the top of my list of awesome paid apps. 1 click backup and restore is only available if you donate along with a nice boost in speed in the app. Also, there is a nice feature in titanium that allows you to create a unsigned zip to flash titanium as an app right after you flash the rom, so on your first boot you already have it to restore apps in case you dont have 3g or wifi access.
i have heard good things about mybackup as well for sms and call log, but i have only used it once because now all my texts and calls are in gvoice, so no restoring needed there.
as far as email goes, i dont mind setting my accounts back up nor losing my dictionary. thats about the only thing that i have to redo every time i flash a new rom.
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I'm just curious about the way you guys back up your devices before wiping your phone.
I usually use Astro to back up my apps, although it doesn't save the apps data, and use SMS Backup & Restore for my messages.
How do you guys do it?
Mybackup pro - does it all
I also use My Backup Pro. I tried Titanium a few times and it always screws something up royally. Backing up my SMS messages is something I can't afford to have done improperly and MBP does everything perfectly.
does MBP save apps data? or does it only save the apk's?
I am curious about this as well... I love trying to keep up to date with everything in the rom business but having to redo all my settings, reinstall my apps (even though they are backed up) and having my contacts get ****ed up all the time is just plain annoying....
I don't know what that other guy is talking about but Titananium Backup is awesome! Backs up apks AND app data.
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I don't know what that other guy is talking about but Titananium Backup is awesome! Backs up apks AND app data.
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I agree. Excellent app!
I've never used anything other than NAndroid.
I use both Titanium back-up (for apps and app data) and My Back-Up Pro for SMS, Call logs, and whatever else (Except Contacts and Calendar). Always works pretty great. I don't know about any problems with Titanium backup. I think it works great, could just use a better UI.
Yup, i use that exact combo too ^
I like Titanium back-up and it does a great job!
WaveSecure Beta also does a good job with SMS and Call Logs. Sends them to a server rather than backup up on your SD card.
So i am a frequent flasher, i like to try different ROMs and I have a problem with recovering my data. It seems to be a huge pain in the ass with android. With Win Mo it was simple, one click on SPB backup and everything was restored. Not on Android.
I am using only Desire HD or Z based ROMS, currently NAND wit SD IMG. I am looking for a simple way how to backup and restore following settings:
1. CONTACTS - and I mean all contacts with all detail. I have my contacts synched with FB, Twitter, LinkedIn, Skype etc. Google sync and HTC Sense pretends that its synched, but after flash, only basic google contact is synced and I have to manually add all the login info for those services and then wait for them to be asociated and then asociate those that were not connected manually.
2. SMS - this could be solved by using SMS backup, but it would be nice not to have a special application for that. I also have suspicion, that sometimes this is restored from cloud and sometimes not. After one flash, I thought that my sms are lost, because i didnt backup them. After another flash, they miraculously reapeared without me doing anything. WTF?
3. Call log
4. EMAIL SETTINGS - I dont want to set up all the email after each flash.
5. Apss and Data - yeas, this could be done by several apps, smallest problem.
6. System DATA - by that i mean mostly my homescreen setup, wifi settings, bookmarks, RSS feeds, calendar, tasks etc. Something seems to be synced by google, something not. Some apps do that, but after restore, they mess up whole system and cause repeated errors (acore etc.)
IS THERE A ONE APP ONE CLICK SOLUTION FOR THAT?
What pisses me most is the inability of Gmail or HTCSENSE to sync all the information of my contacts. WTF? WHy it cant store all the info, pictures etc. WHy even HTC sense couldnt do it? WHat the hell is HTC SYNC good for, when only option to sync contacts with PC is to sync them to Outlook, whioch is not even available in windows anymore!
I tried several apps and they mostly fail. When tried My Backup Root to backup contacts, it created 800 duplicated contacts out of 300 and when google sync steps in the way during that, it will even mess up your data on the cloud. When i tried to restore system settings with this app I ended up with broken system with error every second.
I dont know how to force Titanium to backup my system data, or SMS and I doubt its possible. When I selected batch full apps+data backup, it didnt recovered even my homescreen setup.
Is it really ncessary to fiddle with my phone for several hours after each flash to get it into previous shape?
the answer is pretty simple
use this application 'mybackup pro'
and install it then you can configure how to backup
it will backup all your app and data
and when you flash a new rom you can restore everything
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Is mybackup pro better than titanum backup ?
As far as i get it, My Backup Pro is paid version of My Backup Root which messed my contacts and caused my system to crash after restoring system settings.
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What is the best way to keep a backup of email account settings? I feel most of us switch ROMs and every time adding same accounts is very painful.
Please suggest best way to backup email accounts .
If you use a 3rd party email application then with Titanium Backup you can backup the email app(s) and associated data, which will include your account settings.
Titanium is a doddle to use and one of the most useful apps I've got off the market.
If you're talking about your google account then you have to re-add that for every flash anyway, so don't worry about it.
I have tried TB backing up
User Apps + System Apps
System Apps
Email app
But none of them worked for me..
Can you please suggest what settings need to be backed up.
What app do you use for email?
I am using Email.apk provided by Samsung Galaxy S2.
In that case, I think that gets backed up with system apps, which may be a cause for concern as system apps are sometimes not compatible from one FW or ROM to another, so you can't restore them without screwing up your phone.
If this is a major deal to you and you don't want to have to recreate your account(s) if and when you flash your phone with something, then I'd recommend looking into some of the alternative email apps on the market. I can't personally suggest any from experience as I use the gmail app and have all my other email accounts polled from that, so I only have to enter 1 account on my phone and it gets everything for me (only good for pop3 accounts though - not exchange or imap).
I do know that K9 gets recommended by lots of people though. Maybe that's worth a look.
Edit: I just checked Titanium, and the email app is listed as an app there, so you can back it up, along with associated data. That should do the trick
I always backup my email with titanium backup. Works perfectly with 2.3.3 moving from rom to rom.
I did have issues after updating to 2.3.4 but since I'm sticking with the newest fw I just deleted the old backup and made a 2.3.4 backup. Works great you just need to start the email app twice.
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I'm having trouble using the go sms backup feature. I'm getting ready to switch phones, and there are any few sms messages I would like to save. When I click and hold the message thread that I want to save, I choose the option for "backup". It takes me to the backup and restore page. When I click backup, it just says "login successful" and nothing happens. I'm not sure how it logs in when I haven't set up a name or password.
I know there are other free apps that will backup and restore messages. But if possible, I would rather use go sms since I already have it and will be downloading it on my new phone anyway.
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I don't use Go SMS for backup. I use "Backup to Gmail" app to backup my SMS. It backs up the SMS to my gmail. And I can use it to restore SMS on the same device or onto another device. It actually backs up SMS, MMS and Call logs into its own folders within gmail. There I can explore and read them within my gmail. I used this to backup and restore my SMS, MMS and call logs from my Droid X to my Galaxy Note 2.
Sorry the app is not free ($1.99 one time cost to purchase app), but well worth it. Google is where you sync Gmail email, Contacts, Calendar and photos. It makes logical sense to sync your SMS, MMS and call log with Google too.
Why not ask this question in the device, that you getting, forum about this.
But "Backup to Gmail" app is one seamless way of doing what you want to do. Just saying.
[SMS Backup +] (SMS Backup Plus) is the apparent predecessor to "Backup to Gmail" -- and it's free.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.zegoggles.smssync
https://github.com/jberkel/sms-backup-plus/#readme
I wish to update my Android version, and have done this several times before, but each time I had to manually reinstall my apps and I would lose the app settings and (game) progress made.
I am rooted and have TWRP installed.
How can I back-up all the apps with settings, images, messages (sms/ whatsapp)?
My biggest problem is that my phone has very little storage left, so how can I back these things up to my PC?
Afterwards the upgrade I want to restore these as well.
Thank you
Michael
Try an app called helium. It lets you back up to cloud based storage
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You can use an external program such as Titanium Backup for the apps and associated data needing to be saved (mainly games). It can also save your sms, call logs and wifi access points. I don't know for WhatsApp.
I once used Helium, but it failed restoring some games, I never had a problem with Titanium.
If you synchronise your applications in your google sync settings, all your apps from playstore should be automatically downloaded after first account add.
It is not generally recommended to restore apps, it can cause problems, so I recommend you to save only the apps with data/settings you cannot change manually or hard to retrieve. That won't take too much space. I usually only save games, or apps not coming from playstore/amazon appstore..., and sms, call logs and wifi access points. Then, once all the apps downloaded, i go into every one individually to change settings or log into (facebook, ...) according to my needs, that does not take too long generally.