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Backup restore problem

Hi all... tonight I decided to try the Samurai kernel. Unfortunately, it boot-looped on me. No big deal I figured, I did a full nandroid before in ACS's CWM, so I'll just restore. Unortunately, doing so isn't working: all of my apps, data and settings are gone! It basically looks stock (although, interestingly, all the Sprint bloat I had manually removed before still seems to be gone, so the restore worked to a degree)... I've restored backups before and never had a problem so I'm guessing the kernel is somehow the culprit, but I think that got restored from the backup too so I don't know what's going on. I'm stock EI22 by the way.
Can anyone help me? I'm pretty frustrated at the moment.
Thanks,
Frank

Try restoring an older backup. If that works you can attempt an advanced restore data only from your recent backup to see if it was something in your setup.
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That was a thought I had too... I tried TWO older backups that I still had, same problem. I also tried a factory reset and then a restore (in theory it shouldn't make any difference to factory wipe first, and sure enough it didn't, but figured it was worth a shot).
My only other thought is maybe if I odin back to stock, root & install recovery and then try the restore again... kind of a shot in the dark, really shouldn't matter, but maybe.

Did you clear cache and dalvik before flashing the new kernel? I wonder if ACS is the issue and if trying CWM 5 might help.

DroidApprentice said:
Did you clear cache and dalvik before flashing the new kernel? I wonder if ACS is the issue and if trying CWM 5 might help.
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I was thinking the same thing D. The only other thing I can think of is bad reads from the sd card.

[Q] Titanium Backup Issue on JWR66V JB 4.3

I've gone today from a custom ROM (Smooth ROM 5.2) manually to JWR66V JB 4.3.
Before that I made a Titanium Backup and then a factory reset.
I've insalled a pre-rooted rom from a zip file with CWM recovery. I've also flashed SU
(SuperSU-JWR66N-S005-130625-1.41.zip).Busybox is installed, TB root acceess granted.
The app sees all my backup files but still fails to work.
I can neither backup nor restore anything.
When I try to backup an app I get a "backup failed insufficient free storage" message.
When I try to restore an app it stucks,that is is starts and keeps restoring until I manually close TB.
I would appreciate your helping ideas. Thanks!

I have the same problem, I was stck 4.2.2 updated to 4.3 (erasing everything) via fastboot, everything great and fine, flashed SU, all ok and working but TB refuses to restore anything. It just cycles... any clues?

dalanik said:
I have the same problem, I was stck 4.2.2 updated to 4.3 (erasing everything) via fastboot, everything great and fine, flashed SU, all ok and working but TB refuses to restore anything. It just cycles... any clues?
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I think I'll flash 4.2.2, try restore my apps and settings via TB and re-upgrade 4.3 manually w/o earsing. I wonder if such an update is wipe or not?

raymundka said:
I think I'll flash 4.2.2, try restore my apps and settings via TB and re-upgrade 4.3 manually w/o earsing. I wonder if such an update is wipe or not?
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If you update via OTA, then it won't erase anything...

read here https://plus.google.com/app/basic/stream/z12rw1urfveawxfxm04cjl1aoor5ezninhc
you must change path of storage in TB and then it will normally restore your apps
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nasty007 said:
read here https://plus.google.com/app/basic/stream/z12rw1urfveawxfxm04cjl1aoor5ezninhc
you must change path of storage in TB and then it will normally restore your apps
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We're not such idiots, thank you Ofcourse we changed the path, it still hangs. If we didn't change the path, it wouldn't have found the backups, would it?

I didn't change paths and it did see my backups but it didn't restore.
I didn't call anyone idiot, but people are so sensitive this days...long story short I don't give a flying **** anymore
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nasty007 said:
I didn't change paths and it did see my backups but it didn't restore.
I didn't call anyone idiot, but people are so sensitive this days...long story short I don't give a flying **** anymore
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And I didn't say you called anyone idiot, I was calling myself an idiot if I didn't notice something like that, and I'm not sensitive, cool down, you can see the amount of smilies I put in my post
I appreciate you trying to help...
D
Hehe, tek sad videh odakle si, jos ce da me optuze da se ljutim na nacionalnoj liniji
P.S.
OK, I flashed SU again, cleared dalvik cache, fixed permissions from recovery, cleared data from TB, set the correct path and now it seems to be working!! (restored 1 app so far)

dalanik said:
And I didn't say you called anyone idiot, I was calling myself an idiot if I didn't notice something like that, and I'm not sensitive, cool down, you can see the amount of smilies I put in my post
I appreciate you trying to help...
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Hehe, tek sad videh odakle si, jos e da me optuze da se ljutim na nacionalnoj liniji
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OK, I flashed SU again, cleared dalvik cache, fixed permissions from recovery, cleared data from TB, set the correct path and now it seems to be working!! (restored 1 app so far)
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Fixing permissions might be the key. I did everything else (re-flash SU, clear dalvik cache) but same issue. I am on 4.2.2 again, just restoring things with TB. Going to upgrade using rooted 4.3 flashable zip. Let's see what happens

dalanik said:
I have the same problem, I was stck 4.2.2 updated to 4.3 (erasing everything) via fastboot, everything great and fine, flashed SU, all ok and working but TB refuses to restore anything. It just cycles... any clues?
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I've found the way restoring apps & settings. It's a workarond. Flashed 4.2.2 JDQ39 and rooted ROM, flashed CWM. Installed TB. Recovered what I wanted.
Downloaded flashable zip from here:
http://downloadandroidrom.com/file/Nexus7/roms/4.3rooted/Stock-Rooted-4.3-grouper-by-Androguide.zip
and SU from here:
http://download.chainfire.eu/340/SuperSU/SuperSU-JWR66N-S005-130625-1.41.zip?retrieve_file=1
I have flashed both. It's no wipe.
TB still fails to work however. I try fixing permissions now

"integrate updates into rom" function seem not working, too... it's extremely fast, and does nothing in the end... using latest TB pro...

Just change the load/restore path of TB
raymundka said:
Fixing permissions might be the key. I did everything else (re-flash SU, clear dalvik cache) but same issue. I am on 4.2.2 again, just restoring things with TB. Going to upgrade using rooted 4.3 flashable zip. Let's see what happens
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As explained a few posts ago by nasty007 (thanks buddy by the way), titanium backup uses an incorrect path... even if it founds your previous backups.
(see _https://plus.google.com/app/basic/stream/z12rw1urfveawxfxm04cjl1aoor5ezninhc)
Change the path from /storage/emulated/0/TitaniumBackup to /storage/emulated/legacy/TitaniumBackup to fix the problem.
This worked for me !

nasty007 said:
read here https://plus.google.com/app/basic/stream/z12rw1urfveawxfxm04cjl1aoor5ezninhc
you must change path of storage in TB and then it will normally restore your apps
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Note: I know it's a different device and I'm not subscribing to this thread, but I just want to chime in and say the folder path mentioned in this linked article sorted TB out for me on my HTC One...
In TB I chose to change to backup path, scanned for backup folders, and simply selected the 'legacy' path that it detected.. After changing the backup path from `/storage/emulated/0/TitaniumBackup` to `/storage/emulated/legacy/TitaniumBackup` everything started working again. This just saved me a good few GBs of downloading...

lebaud07 said:
As explained a few posts ago by nasty007 (thanks buddy by the way), titanium backup uses an incorrect path... even if it founds your previous backups.
(see _https://plus.google.com/app/basic/stream/z12rw1urfveawxfxm04cjl1aoor5ezninhc)
Change the path from /storage/emulated/0/TitaniumBackup to /storage/emulated/legacy/TitaniumBackup to fix the problem.
This worked for me !
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Works here too

Restoring Titanium Backups in 4.3 vs 4.2.x
ZaLiTH said:
Note: I know it's a different device and I'm not subscribing to this thread, but I just want to chime in and say the folder path mentioned in this linked article sorted TB out for me on my HTC One...
In TB I chose to change to backup path, scanned for backup folders, and simply selected the 'legacy' path that it detected.. After changing the backup path from `/storage/emulated/0/TitaniumBackup` to `/storage/emulated/legacy/TitaniumBackup` everything started working again. This just saved me a good few GBs of downloading...
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My question is regarding restoring TB's in Android 4.3 vs 4.2.x. Do you need to change the backup path before you backup while in a 4.2.x rom or when you are in the 4.3 rom and want to restore? I am a noob so please excuse if this is a silly question.
I have CM 10.1.3 (running 4.2.2) in my rom slot 1 and I want to flash LiquidSmooth 2.10 (running 4.3) in rom slot 3 so I want to know if I can restore my user apps & data in Titanium Backup once I'm in a 4.3 rom. I have the free version of TB but I will buy the paid version if what I am asking is possible. Please help if possible. Thanks!

[Q] Backup and restore for frequent ROM switching

I am not so frequent ROM switcher but whenever I do it's little pain and frustrating because I am newbie. I used so far Mybackup Pro and Titanium Backup Pro to backup and restore apps and data.
But I wonder if there is clean and easy way of doing it? I mean recently I tried GE4.3 ROM from stock and when I was restoring apps it was failing with mybackup pro (no apps restored whatsoever) and with titanium backup pro multiple apps failed after restoring.
Also if there is anyway one can restore all accounts (gmail, yahoo, skype etc) rather than manually entering every time you switch a ROM.
Help/inputs are appreciated!!
Thanks in advance and Thanks button hits will follow!!

Here's a trick. After you've flashed a rom and it's booted up, boot back into your recovery and restore just the data portion of your most recent nandriod. It'll bring back all your apps and settings. Works almost all the time.

jd1639 said:
restore just the data portion of your most recent nandriod.
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You mean in TWRP just select Data and deselect all other (Boot, system, Cache.. etc?)

raone26 said:
You mean in TWRP just select Data and deselect all other (Boot, system, Cache.. etc?)
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Correct.

jd1639 said:
Here's a trick. After you've flashed a rom and it's booted up, boot back into your recovery and restore just the data portion of your most recent nandriod. It'll bring back all your apps and settings. Works almost all the time.
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jd1639 said:
Correct.
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Nope. Same thing may be worst. Almost froze everything. Multiple system app failed ( Unfortunately process <bla bla> failed). Launcher failed.

raone26 said:
Nope. Same thing may be worst. Almost froze everything. Multiple system app failed ( Unfortunately process <bla bla> failed). Launcher failed.
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The roms should be from the same base, ie tw or cm,etc If your going from a tw to a cm it won't work well

jd1639 said:
The roms should be from the same base, ie tw or cm,etc If your going from a tw to a cm it won't work well
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I've backup of stock ROM and the ROM I am trying to flash is http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2349077.
Should that be a problem because stock rom is 4.2.2 and this one is 4.3?

raone26 said:
I've backup of stock ROM and the ROM I am trying to flash is http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2349077.
Should that be a problem because stock rom is 4.2.2 and this one is 4.3?
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Stock rom is touchwiz, the rum you flashed isn't. That's why it isn't working. If you restore from titanium, don't restore system data, just restore apps.

[Q] "com.google.process.gapps message wont dissapear

Hi everyone! I recently decided to install the 4.4.2 rom on my Galaxy Note 3 N9005 and I didn't like it because it obviously was buggy as ,entioned in the thread. So I wanted to go back to my nandroid backup which I had made before installing the rom. It all went right in CWM and no errors, so I rebooted my phone and got stuck at the glowing samsung logo, so after many fixes and things I tried which didn't work I flashed a pre-rooted stock rom for it and it all went well. I managed to restore to my nandroid finally and then I unlock my phone to find a "com.google.process.gapps has been stopped" message which wont go away when I tap "OK". It just comes back and gives me one second untill it comes back again. I really need help since I need my phone for work, I have tried reinstalling all the gapps, wont work, I have tried reflashing the stock rom and restoring my nandroid again, I have tried deactivating "Downloads" in the app manager but that wont fix it either and finally I have tried clearing the "app data" for all my apps but again, no luck. If anyone would be able to help me I would appriciate it very much. Thanks in advance!

You're probably gonna have to go back to complete stock. Grab your stock image and flash via odin, boot it up and see if it gives you the error without installing custom recovery and your backup. That way you'll know where the error lays.
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radicalisto said:
You're probably gonna have to go back to complete stock. Grab your stock image and flash via odin, boot it up and see if it gives you the error without installing custom recovery and your backup. That way you'll know where the error lays.
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Forgot to mention but when I return to complete stock there isn't such a message, only when I restore to my nandroid. I also tried restoring from an older backup which I had made like 2 months ago and the same problem remains, "com.google" message is still there. Any suggestions or should I just start over?

mikey429 said:
Forgot to mention but when I return to complete stock there isn't such a message, only when I restore to my nandroid. I also tried restoring from an older backup which I had made like 2 months ago and the same problem remains, "com.google" message is still there. Any suggestions or should I just start over?
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Sounds like a dodgy backup or it somehow got corrupted, I'd start over to save any headaches for future reference -- It's a headache I know, but safer I think. You could hang five, see if anyone else chimes in with any other ideas though

radicalisto said:
Sounds like a dodgy backup or it somehow got corrupted, I'd start over to save any headaches for future reference -- It's a headache I know, but safer I think. You could hang five, see if anyone else chimes in with any other ideas though
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Yeah i'm probably gonna have to start over from scratch, thank you so much for te super fast reply, I appriciate your answer and help. As you suggested I will keep staying on this thread to see if anyone has the fix. If not i'm just gonna reflash this thing again.
And again, thank you so much for the fast reply I appriciate it alot.

mikey429 said:
Hi everyone! I recently decided to install the 4.4.2 rom on my Galaxy Note 3 N9005 and I didn't like it because it obviously was buggy as ,entioned in the thread. So I wanted to go back to my nandroid backup which I had made before installing the rom. ...
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A nandroid backup is simple but monolithic. Most people also use Titanium Backup for the ability to restore selective stuff, or to restore to a completely different model of phone.

I had same issue
Bith titanium and nandroid restore.
Well only way to save your self. Completing wizard of first startup with feeling google..
And just restore user apps and data with titanium except google stuff..
This is the only healthy restore method so far i know that gapss.com keeps kool
Sent from my SM-N900 using xda app-developers app

So I somehow managed to go to settings and disable Play Services with the one second time line that I had before the message appears again, and the message stopped. So it must be something with Play Services. Since i'm new to android (and the Note 3 is my first android phone) I want to ask if there is a way to maybe reinstall Plaay Services?

mikey429 said:
Hi everyone! I recently decided to install the 4.4.2 rom on my Galaxy Note 3 N9005 and I didn't like it because it obviously was buggy as ,entioned in the thread. So I wanted to go back to my nandroid backup which I had made before installing the rom. It all went right in CWM and no errors, so I rebooted my phone and got stuck at the glowing samsung logo, so after many fixes and things I tried which didn't work I flashed a pre-rooted stock rom for it and it all went well. I managed to restore to my nandroid finally and then I unlock my phone to find a "com.google.process.gapps has been stopped" message which wont go away when I tap "OK". It just comes back and gives me one second untill it comes back again. I really need help since I need my phone for work, I have tried reinstalling all the gapps, wont work, I have tried reflashing the stock rom and restoring my nandroid again, I have tried deactivating "Downloads" in the app manager but that wont fix it either and finally I have tried clearing the "app data" for all my apps but again, no luck. If anyone would be able to help me I would appriciate it very much. Thanks in advance!
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Hi, there! I just got almost the same issue like you. Once update to custom 4.4.2, any nandroid backups which worked right before getting GAPPS' FC constantly. :crying: Try double wipes, flash 4.3 gapps full package, stop&restart android download, uninstall google play store update, etc. nothing can fix it. Only way stop the popup error, is flash stock rom. But, consequently, lose root access, even with the same method that rooted the stock rom before. I'll heard some guy said the 4.4.2 has different partition from 4.3 or older android rom. But don't mention how to restore the old partition way. So, hope anyone can help us out, thanks a lot.

Can't restore apps from Titanium Backup?

Before leaving my S4 Active and moving to this S5 (G900F), I made a backup of all my apps using Titanium Backup. Everything went fine during the process; no errors whatsoever. I then rooted my phone using CF-Auto Root then flashed TWRP. Now that I'm trying to restore the apps, it says 'There is a problem parsing the package.' When I press OK, it says that it's restoring the app but in reality it's not. The screen stays like that forever until I kill the process.
Any idea why this happened and how to fix it? Thank you.

Wrong android version for the apps maybe?

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Wrong android version for the apps maybe?
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Hmm. If I remember correctly, my S4 Active was on 5.0.1 when I made the backup and my S5 is still on 5.0. Is there a workaround for this? Tried changing the android version in build.prop but it didn't work.

VIPNobie said:
Hmm. If I remember correctly, my S4 Active was on 5.0.1 when I made the backup and my S5 is still on 5.0. Is there a workaround for this? Tried changing the android version in build.prop but it didn't work.
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Not sure, I know with my tablet, we could flash Android versions > upwards and keep apps/data - but downgrading to a previous version would cause a bootloop, so we would have to wipe apps/data first
Could also be because it's from a different device altogether, not tried restoring between devices before

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Not sure, I know with my tablet, we could flash Android versions > upwards and keep apps/data - but downgrading to a previous version would cause a bootloop, so we would have to wipe apps/data first
Could also be because it's from a different device altogether, not tried restoring between devices before
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I've read some posts here that simply transferring the backup files to a new phone would work though. Is there any way to manually extract the data from the files and restore it?

You can use TiBu to make an 'update zip' you can then do one of two things.....
1) copy the zip to the new device and attempt to flash it from a custom recovery.
2) copy the zip to your new device and extract it.....You'll have all your apps in the extracted folder, and you *should* be able to manually 'sideload' install them.
When making the update zip, there is an option where you can select 'app only' which is probably the best option (rather than 'data only' or 'app + data'). I have a feeling that it is the backed up app data that is causing your issues....so selecting 'app + data' in tibu will land you right back where you started (if you attempt to flash the zip in custom recovery).
http://i.imgur.com/rVnFwJM.jpg

keithross39 said:
You can use TiBu to make an 'update zip' you can then do one of two things.....
1) copy the zip to the new device and attempt to flash it from a custom recovery.
2) copy the zip to your new device and extract it.....You'll have all your apps in the extracted folder, and you *should* be able to manually 'sideload' install them.
When making the update zip, there is an option where you can select 'app only' which is probably the best option (rather than 'data only' or 'app + data'). I have a feeling that it is the backed up app data that is causing your issues....so selecting 'app + data' in tibu will land you right back where you started (if you attempt to flash the zip in custom recovery).
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But it's the app data that I'm really after. Also, I've tried restoring as 'App Only' but the same error pops up.
Will have to try this later. Thanks!

VIPNobie said:
But it's the app data that I'm really after. Also, I've tried restoring as 'App Only' but the same error pops up.
Will have to try this later. Thanks!
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Well, there is that 'data only' option in TiBu, but I honestly think that it is the data that is causing your issues.....especially if it's data from a 'system' app or data from apps that downloaded 'additional files' when you ran the app for the first time.....
http://i.imgur.com/rVnFwJM.jpg

keithross39 said:
Well, there is that 'data only' option in TiBu, but I honestly think that it is the data that is causing your issues.....especially if it's data from a 'system' app or data from apps that downloaded 'additional files' when you ran the app for the first time.....
http://i.imgur.com/rVnFwJM.jpg
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Tried restoring data only, it says the process had finished but it didn't do anything. Now I'm getting UIDs are inconsistent after I rebooted.
The app I tried to restore was Color Switch, it's not a system app and it didn't download anything when I first opened it.

Similar issue to you in this thread....
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2148494
http://i.imgur.com/rVnFwJM.jpg

keithross39 said:
Similar issue to you in this thread....
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2148494
http://i.imgur.com/rVnFwJM.jpg
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Thank you! Fixing permissions in TWRP worked.
keithross39 said:
You can use TiBu to make an 'update zip' you can then do one of two things.....
1) copy the zip to the new device and attempt to flash it from a custom recovery.
2) copy the zip to your new device and extract it.....You'll have all your apps in the extracted folder, and you *should* be able to manually 'sideload' install them.
When making the update zip, there is an option where you can select 'app only' which is probably the best option (rather than 'data only' or 'app + data'). I have a feeling that it is the backed up app data that is causing your issues....so selecting 'app + data' in tibu will land you right back where you started (if you attempt to flash the zip in custom recovery).
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Tried flashing the update.zip. After reboot, Titanium says the batch operation has finished but all the apps ('elements') had failed.

I'm guessing it's the whole previous version of Android problem I get with my tab, I mentioned originally
Try flashing a custom 5.0.1 or higher ROM, see if it accepts the restore then

*Detection* said:
I'm guessing it's the whole previous version of Android problem I get with my tab, I mentioned originally
Try flashing a custom 5.0.1 or higher ROM, see if it accepts the restore then
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Will try flashing CM13.
Edit: It worked! Thank you for the help!

VIPNobie said:
Will try flashing CM13.
Edit: It worked! Thank you for the help!
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Good stuff, yea it's some sort of backwards compatibility thing, you can go up a version and restore older apps, but you can't restore apps from a newer version to an older one for some reason, I guess because the newer version understands the older apps as it was upgraded from that build, but the older droid version has no idea the newer version exists and has no support for the changes

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Good stuff, yea it's some sort of backwards compatibility thing, you can go up a version and restore older apps, but you can't restore apps from a newer version to an older one for some reason, I guess because the newer version understands the older apps as it was upgraded from that build, but the older droid version has no idea the newer version exists and has no support for the changes
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Weird though since backups I made when I was on CM 12.1 worked when I went back to the official firmware (5.0.1) on my S4 Active a few weeks ago.

VIPNobie said:
Weird though since backups I made when I was on CM 12.1 worked when I went back to the official firmware (5.0.1) on my S4 Active a few weeks ago.
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Weird, no idea then lol
What version droid is CM12.1? 5.1.1 ?
Maybe it's some restriction Samsung has added to their ROMs preventing restoring from a different device
Just strange it works exactly that way with my tab too, works going up a version, but not back (Custom to Custom too)

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Weird, no idea then lol
What version droid is CM12.1? 5.1.1 ?
Maybe it's some restriction Samsung has added to their ROMs preventing restoring from a different device
Just strange it works exactly that way with my tab too, works going up a version, but not back (Custom to Custom too)
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Yup, CM12.1 is based on 5.1.1. Anyway, thanks for the help! Do you know of any other backup apps I can try using?

VIPNobie said:
Yup, CM12.1 is based on 5.1.1. Anyway, thanks for the help! Do you know of any other backup apps I can try using?
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I just make Nandroid backups with TWRP recovery - you can use TiBu to restore them too

I've currently got this problem
Flashing from same phone, same Android version Kitkat stock.
Titanium couldnt restore app or data, it says parse error then just idles "restoring app" but nothing happens, have to reboot.
I did have a nandroid TWRP backup stored on storage card, but after restoring that, I get "your something ID is mismatched, your phone will be unstable. You must wipe /data partition" everytime booting Android and the phone did seem unstable (black icons remain in launcher even after uninstalled). After an hour with that message I decided to wipe /data and shelf off twrp backup. Now with Titanium backup it seems I'm going to have the same problem.