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I just did a full wipe of my system and proceeded to restore with TB(pro).
When I restored I noticed 2 things:
1. It re-installed old apps I had removed long time ago, can I make it so it would not keep these anymore?
2. A lot of apps it did not restore, it kept them uninstalled, making me re-install manually...
Any solution for these?
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jmejiaa said:
I just did a full wipe of my system and proceeded to restore with TB(pro).
When I restored I noticed 2 things:
1. It re-installed old apps I had removed long time ago, can I make it so it would not keep these anymore?
2. A lot of apps it did not restore, it kept them uninstalled, making me re-install manually...
Any solution for these?
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In an effort to help you out anyway....
1) No, there's not really a way (that I know of) for Titanium to automatically remove backups for old apps. It's often used for reinstalling apps that were uninstalled. You can set the backup limit to 1 so that it will at least only retain the most recent version of each app, but that's about the best you can do.
2) It really depends on the app. Some apps take to be automatically installed better than others.
When you choose batch and see all the options, there is an option to remove backups for uninstalled apps. That will alleviate your issue.
It is odd it didn't install everything that you had at the time of the last backup. There have been a couple times I needed to run it a couple times. Maybe try that.
Quick Tip for using Titanium Backup
1. Backup "application widgets". Once you restore your launcher, restore this and reboot so that your widgets will work and you don't have to reconfigure your home screen widgets (which would say "problem loading widgets" otherwise).
2. Backup "accounts" to remember the fact that you have "allowed" access to your google account for various apps (mainly google apps and any app that accesses your google account). This is also required to remember your facebook and skype passwords.
3. Backup "LogProvider" for the call log. A lot of people think call logs are backed up by "contacts storage" but they're not.
4. "contact storage" backups your speed dial
5. "dialer storage" backups your SMS/MMS. After you restore you need to reboot for it to take effect.
6. No need to backup "calendar 1.0". Just calendar 1.1. (this backups the setting not the actual content provided that you sync with google)
7. Most settings in Setting cannot be backed up (ie. Voip account, wifi hotspot ssid, ringtones, volume, etc). Simply re-enter them.
8. After upgrading your rom version or migrating to a different rom, before you restore, for "system" apps, make sure you check each one to see if the version has changed. If so, don't restore or you will probably have force-closes down the road. This is especially true if you move to cyanogen or miui, don't restore system apps at all.
9. Generally you don't need to save system apks unless you plan on uninstalling them to experiment instead of freezing.
10. Don't backup/restore "market" settings or you'll lose market links to your apps. In fact after you restore all your user apps you won't see all of them linked in the market even if titanium backup is set up to remember the links. Just use titanium to clear the market user data, restart market and you're ready to go.
11. Titanium backup does not save your default programs. (ie. DEFAULT browser, dialer, and for different file types).
12. Let TB save the settings to sd card. The next time you install TB you won't need to install the "pro" app. It remembers.
13. TB does not remember what apps are frozen. So after a reinstall, you need to refreeze whatever apps you want to freeze.
Other things good to know:
If you migrate to a new rom, although titanium Pro has an option to attempt to restore system apps to be compatible, try only restore user apps just to avoid force closes.
If you have a fixed set of apps you know you want to freeze, create a filter containing these apps. If you install a new rom, you can freeze all of them all at once without having to go through each.
Can you expand on what you mean in point 1.
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Scenario:
I have, say, go launcher or touch wiz as my launcher, I put widgets on my home screen like weather, google search bar and maybe a music player widget. I can use TB to backup my launcher, which would supposedly backup where these widgets are located on your home screen. However after reinstalling the rom, if I restore my launcher without restoring "application widgets", the place where these widgets are supposed to be will show "problem loading widgets". And you would have to remove these problematic widgets and recreate them.
So when you backup your launcher, backup "application widgets" as well. When you restore, restore both of them. And preferably after restoring, reboot before you go back to your launcher
By the way "application widgets" is an actual backupable item in TB (shown in green)
Is this making any sense?
Thanks and yes you are making perfect sense.
Many times I've had to delete then replace widgets from my launcher after restoring using TB so I'm interested in where in TB to find this option.
I'm probably looking right at it but just can't see it. Can you steer my in the right direction in TB?
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Nice to learn new things, especially the widgets, hate having the "problem loading widget" all the time.
Thanks for highlighting these.
Ok found it.
It's an item in the app list called "application widgets" with the TB icon next to it.
Cool thanks never noticed it before.
Great tip.
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Having a Problem
Ok so I am tring to do an Extract from CWM Backup...
Just Flashed Jugg. 2.0 everything is running great!!!
But TBP is just stuck at Restoring 0% on my first program... I have even followed their help page. cleared the market memory... What am i doing wrong please help...
T-mobile - SGH - T989
ROM: Juggernaut 2.0
Bardouns said:
Ok so I am tring to do an Extract from CWM Backup...
Just Flashed Jugg. 2.0 everything is running great!!!
But TBP is just stuck at Restoring 0% on my first program... I have even followed their help page. cleared the market memory... What am i doing wrong please help...
T-mobile - SGH - T989
ROM: Juggernaut 2.0
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Have you enabled USB debugging and UNKNOWN sources?!
yes on both
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Ok... Don't know WTF... but its working like lightning now... have no idea... didn't do anything except download google text to voice... weird
Been using it for years and didn't figure out the speeddial backup. Good post. A couple thoughts in general as far as backup strategy.... IMO freezing is better than removing system apps because space is not an issue with the sgs2 like it is with some (older) phones. Swap a lot of roms and sooner or later your are going to either on accident or purpose delete something you shouldn't have and then have to restore. Going down the list and freezing them only takes a minute and is readily reversible with the same end result. If you must be rid of them freeze them first and give it a few days for any oddness to show up. Then uninstall.
Agree on restoring system apps. Always a good way to get odd behavior or fc's and the like. Normally there is no need anyways as the new rom has the same system apps in it and most of the settings can be remembered elsewhere. I do back up system apps though in case I want to grab an apk that isn't in the new rom.
Also IMO its a good idea to copy the entire contents of the internal sd over to the pc after doing a nandroid and ti backup. This way if things go to hell you have everything. The process I use is to do a ti backup and then nandroid in recovery. I mount while still in recovery and copy everything over to a folder on the pc. Now I have all my pics, everything. I use the external sd for music and other items that I know will move from rom to rom so that I don't have to hassle with them. Do this and your covered in every way if you have problems with your ti backup or nandroid. Both can happen sometimes. Also if your phone dies, goes missing etc at least you have a backup as recent as your last rom swap which for us is probably not too long ago. lol I keep the most recent two backups and delete the oldest as I make new ones with each new rom. This only takes a few minutes extra during the rom swap and if you need it you will be glad you have it.
Thank you for tips!
Very helpful. Been using TB for a while now but did not know all the details!
thanx for your efforts...
got some useful tips. I thought I know TB, but I didn't.
Nice write-up!
Any advice on what to do when you try to restore an app and it tells you "problem parsing the package"?
Seam to happen more often with apps that did not come from Android Market or Amazon Appstore...
Very good guide and not just for newbie's.
Thank you.
App Folders i nApp Draw
i cant seem to figure out where the folders in the app draw are actually stored. i tried to do a restore from a previous rom (apps only, widgets ect) but im not sure where to go for app folders, thats if it will even do this for me.
Many Thanks...
...to the OP & others for this thread & the tips in it ;-)
Just rooted yesterday & ran TI backup. Have run it again incorporating the tips in this thread. Very good suggestion to copy the lot over to PC as well.
Also, people should remember to make a copy of their EFS file & keep that somewhere safe off the phone (keep a copy on your external SD card as well).
Everything I've read so far suggests you're royally boned if you trash your EFS, so making a couple of copies & keeping them in various spots (one on the external SD/one on PC) makes sense to me. Hellcat's kTool does a bangup job & is a nice little app to have handy ;-)
Hi everyone. If someone can give me the confirmation about the following:
1. is Titanium backup saving the settings for the backed up app or only the app itself?
2. are social hub, readers hub, game hub, talk, IM, safe to freeze or unistall cos I don't use that?
3. When you freeze the app, is the icon gone or it stays under "menu"?
4. is Email app safe to freeze/uninstall or I need that for using Gmail app?
I'm on stock 2.3.3 + CF-Root-SGS2_XX_OXA_KH1-v4.1-CWM4 for now.
thank you and regards.
Thanks - very helpful to have more information.
3. Backup "LogProvider" for the call log. A lot of people think call logs are backed up by "contacts storage" but they're not.
This was really helpful. Thank you.
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Took me some time to find a solution, a lot of googling,
eventually I found this magic post
And I thought it deserves a better spotlight.
1. Copy /data/system/packages.xml to your PC. (or edit it somehow...)
2. Edit it, find the line with your app name that looks something like :
Code:
<package name="com.sec.android.app.samsungapps" codePath="/data/app/com.sec.android.app.samsungapps-1.apk" nativeLibraryPath="/data/data/com.sec.android.app.samsungapps/lib" flags="1" ft="134880eb380" it="11b7e237e00" ut="134880eb753" version="26114" userId="10039" enabled="false">
3. This line freezes samsung apps, which I wanted to desfrost to make S-Choice work. Change the false, to true > Save.
4. Copy the file back to the phone.
5. Contact titanium backup author and report this bug.
Reboot, Enjoy.
PS - I did not find the solution myself, I am just making a solution found by olympicchicken More readable and searchable.
I too have been having the problem with not being able to unfreeze system apps. What worked for me is to uninstall the frozen app from within Titanium BU (be sure to have a backup before uninstalling). Then just reboot and was able to restore the app through Titanium BU.
Don't know if it made any difference but I had done the app backup in Titanium before I froze it in the first place.
Mdpearo said:
I too have been having the problem with not being able to unfreeze system apps. What worked for me is to uninstall the frozen app from within Titanium BU (be sure to have a backup before uninstalling). Then just reboot and was able to restore the app through Titanium BU.
Don't know if it made any difference but I had done the app backup in Titanium before I froze it in the first place.
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I didn't backup any of the system apps I froze before freezing, hence if I would have deleted them, I would have been deleting the only apk copy i had of them.
Could somebody please check their /data/system/packages.xml for the line referencing "com.sec.android.app.controlpanel" (Task Manager) and post this entire line for me?
I've stupidly uninstalled it and TB can't restore it from backup as the line is missing.
Cheers.
eitama said:
I didn't backup any of the system apps I froze before freezing, hence if I would have deleted them, I would have been deleting the only apk copy i had of them.
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Even if you have an app frozen you can still select backup. Then uninstall the app, reboot, and restore the app.
Mdpearo said:
Even if you have an app frozen you can still select backup. Then uninstall the app, reboot, and restore the app.
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That didn't work as TB just hangs when trying to restore. I don't have a nandroid backup so if someone can post that line then I can at least fix it manually.
A simpler way to locate the particular line is by searching for "false" will keep showing all the frozen apps ) much faster too
I can confirm the uninstall and restore method worked for me..
I had frozen all three samsung app services(app, account, una) and I wanted to unfreeze them because of the free Dead Space and Modern Combat offers and I couldn't unfreeze them..
So as they were already frozen I made a back up of them, uninstalled them, reboot and restore them.. Worked like a charm..
Thanks guys.
I also try to contact the TITANIUM BACKUP developer informing about this bug... but not update avaible for the moment!
The file-edit method did not work for me. However, the uninstall/restore did. You have to convert system apps to user apps to backup them first, but it's quick and easy.
Possible solution
Hi guys,
Check out this test version of TB and try the "power defrost" feature in Batch menu. Hopefully it will help
http://matrixrewriter.com/tmp/TitaniumBackup_4.7.4-test1_r237_Market.apk
joel.bourquard said:
Hi guys,
Check out this test version of TB and try the "power defrost" feature in Batch menu. Hopefully it will help
http://matrixrewriter.com/tmp/TitaniumBackup_4.7.4-test1_r237_Market.apk
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Works fine, thx.
joel.bourquard said:
Hi guys,
Check out this test version of TB and try the "power defrost" feature in Batch menu. Hopefully it will help
http://matrixrewriter.com/tmp/TitaniumBackup_4.7.4-test1_r237_Market.apk
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hey, i also having same prob that i cannot unfreeze apps through either link2sd or tb.
is it the link is death? can resend the link again? thx lot
rshui said:
hey, i also having same prob that i cannot unfreeze apps through either link2sd or tb.
is it the link is death? can resend the link again? thx lot
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Hi,
This link is not needed anymore. The official version has it now
I recently upgrade from CM10.1 to 10.2 (I have to say I forgot to flash 4.3 Gapps at first, and my phone was acting crazy until I realized what was going on), and when I went to reinstall all my apps, there are a few that won't. The apps that won't are ones that I've purchased, Beautiful Widgets Pro and Swiftkey, and Titanium Backup Pro are the big ones. The apps download fine, on WIFI or Mobile Data, but then when they begin installing an error code 'Uknown error code during application install: "-24"' pops up.
I have tried everything I can think of. I flashed new GAPPS, new roms, wiped the system, cache, and dalvik many times.
My phone actually let me download the Swiftkey Tablet App, and with the new Cloud Sync feature I guess it doesn't really matter.
However, using the free version of BW sucks, so any recommendations for another set of widgets is welcomed.
If it helps, when I went into the batch restore on Titanium Backup, the apps that wouldn't restore were on the bottom of the list with lines through them? I'm guessing this means Titanium ran into the same problem I did. But just in case I went into the Titanium Backup file on my file explorer and deleted the data it had for the apps that wouldn't install, and uninstalled it TB. Still nothing.
I have run out of ideas. If I need to run files using a computer, I have a Chromebook Pixel that I can dual boot into Ubuntu.
Thanks for looking, and for all help!
This is more of a general question than an S5 specific one, but I am having the issue on the S5 so I figured I'd post it here.
I back up everything of mine with Titanium Backup, because when I install a new ROM, I only want a small amount of the apps associated with my Google account to be downloaded.
However, whenever I flash a new ROM and sign in, it immediately starts downloading every damn app I've ever had on a phone. I would much prefer to just go into Titanium Backup and manually restore the apps that I want to restore. Is there a way to set this up so that, right from the initial boot, I can just go download Titanium Backup and do it myself without Google Play interfering?
Rhypht said:
This is more of a general question than an S5 specific one, but I am having the issue on the S5 so I figured I'd post it here.
I back up everything of mine with Titanium Backup, because when I install a new ROM, I only want a small amount of the apps associated with my Google account to be downloaded.
However, whenever I flash a new ROM and sign in, it immediately starts downloading every damn app I've ever had on a phone. I would much prefer to just go into Titanium Backup and manually restore the apps that I want to restore. Is there a way to set this up so that, right from the initial boot, I can just go download Titanium Backup and do it myself without Google Play interfering?
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I always uncheck all apps and then check manualy wich apps are to be restored/installed with TB.
gee2012 said:
I always uncheck all apps to be restored and then check manualy wich apps are to be restored/installed with TB.
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Well that's what I want to do as well. The problem is, as soon as I flash my phone and reboot, Google Play IMMEDIATELY takes over and starts forcing all of these apps to install on my phone. I want to disable that completely, and just go manually download Titanium Backup and do what you said. That way I only install and restore the apps that I'm actually using.
EDIT: Upon reading my initial post, I realize that I didn't make it very clear that Google Play is the problem here, not Titanium Backup. I would like to use TB, but Play just gets right to work without asking me.
Rhypht said:
Well that's what I want to do as well. The problem is, as soon as I flash my phone and reboot, Google Play IMMEDIATELY takes over and starts forcing all of these apps to install on my phone. I want to disable that completely, and just go manually download Titanium Backup and do what you said. That way I only install and restore the apps that I'm actually using.
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When you setup the phone after the flash you can choose not to restore the apps after you entered the Gmail account/password. Then when you`re done go straight to the Play Store and stop the restoring of the (Google) apps.
After a new flash and upon Gmail sign-in, Android will ask you whether you would like to back up data. If you leave them checked your system will automatically download all the apps. Hence, uncheck both of those boxes.
gee2012 said:
When you setup the phone after the flash you can choose not to restore the apps after you entered the Gmail account/password. Then when you`re done go straight to the Play Store and stop the restoring of the (Google) apps.
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mediumsteak said:
After a new flash and upon Gmail sign-in, Android will ask you whether you would like to back up data. If you leave them checked your system will automatically download all the apps. Hence, uncheck both of those boxes.
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Thanks, that's what I was missing. For some reason I thought that it was referring to something else. Problem solved!