Sort of a noob at rooting and such (I've rooted my Samsung Tablet and have flashed multiple roms) but I am wondering if I run the new installer for Cyanogenmod, is there a way to recover or restore my pictures that I had? I know you can restore apps, but pictures? I have quite a few on my phone and I do not wish to lose them. Like Dropbox automatically uploads all my pictures, but I don't want have them all in a single folder, I like how it is where it's sorted into: screenshots, downloads, camera, baconreader, snapchat. So is there a way to install cyanogen mod and then restore the folders?
Copy them off your phone to a computer. Install CM. Copy them back to your phone. Simple.
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I tried Titanium once, and when I try to restore a backup with Titanium, it does not restore my market apps.
So I know this has been discussed before but I cannot find even one answer for this because I do not understand much in android phones therefore I have no idea what clockworkmod is or nandroid is.
I want to get transfer to a new rom with all my apps, themes, info, accounts, widgets, wallpapers, and even my homescreen layout. Is this possible? Please explain because Im a noob. THANKS TO ALL WHO HELP!
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Thanks, but what I need is not to backup the apps so I can restore if I F up. But I need an app that will transfer everything to my new rom. Which Titanium Fail to do in the past because it showed my market apps to be grey (This happened in my Rooted HD2)
So,
now that the first usable ROMs for X8 pop up i am wondering: what is the easiest way to import all your settings to a new ROM?
i am thinking of Apps, App-Settings, Sync-Settings (gmail, Roadsync..), SMS, Mails etc etc...
Restoring/Setting this up manually after every installation of a new ROM takes some time.
What is your trick for the lazy people?
How much can be backed up with Titanium Backup? I'm still not sure about this.
What other Apps can you recommend?
update: found a solution at lifehacker today.
Non of them will work when going from ROM to ROM. When you go to a new ROM, you should backup the previous one so you can go back to the default when there is a problems with the Custom ROM.
Basically, you can't transfer apps or anything from one ROM to another. You will have to manually install them yourself, take a list of them and download/install again. I wish it could work but it cant ):
Too bad.
Ok, I cant backup apps this way.
Is there a way or script to automatically install apps (apks) from a folder on sdcard?
Maybe I could use AppBrain to sync apps.
But how about System Settings, Accounts...
Hm, actually come to think of it .. If your phone is rooted (obviously is lol) you can go to Root Explorer or any root application manager, go to System>App and if you can transfer them to your SD card, I use Root Explorer, just select all and zip them, then transfer to SD card .. All the .apk's will be in the zip file. I suppose just install one by one
As for system settings, accounts etc. those can't be backed up .. You'll just have to be updated manually :L Don't be lazy haha
just found this tip from lifehacker using titanium backup. looks pretty convinient.
if someone tries this, please report if you have success.
laureus said:
just found this tip from lifehacker using titanium backup. looks pretty convinient.
if someone tries this, please report if you have success.
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Use this, for me it's the best way.
Titanium backup can store all your current apps and data settings for theseapps, too.
After flashing your new ROM, install Titanium backup and restore your backuped apps. Works fine.
Okay, so after my previous thread here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1080251
I backed up my sms using SMS Backup+ and backed up my SD card. I wiped my phone clean, unlocked the bootloader flashed CM 7.0.3. Didn't like it much. Read somewhere NSCollab looked more like stock and I liked the stock UI.
So installed NSCollab and I liked it. So I setup my wifi and add my google account and expect it to restore my apps but it doesn't. Its been 8 hours now and I don't see any positive chances of apps being restored. Although I have appbrain, it requires me to go to each app individually and click on restore.
Restoring from .apk files I had backup using astro would make the apps not-linked to market, so I won't be notified of their updates (Or am I wrong?).
I missed a little detail here.. When I installed and booted CM 7.0.3, the market started restoring the apps but since I didn't like the UI, I switched off the wifi and flashed NSCollab interrupting the restoring process. But I don't think it would matter.
So the question is, is there any way to force restore my apps and settings from google's servers? Also, is it possible to install apps from .apk files and receive updates from the market?
I've noticed that sometimes I have to go to downloads in the app market and until I do the apps don't automatically restore themselves. Once I go to downloads they all start downloading.
After running ParanoidAndroid for a little bit, I decided that I simply wanted to go back to stock/rooted/custom kernel for a while. So using the Nexus 4 Toolkit (because it's easier), I a) backed up my apps, b) backed up my virtual sd card, c) wiped everything d) downloaded and installed the 4.2.2. factory image and e) rooted my phone. Afterward I f) restored my virtual sd card backup and manually re-installed the apps I felt like having again. Shortly thereafter, I installed the latest motley kernel, #40.
I took my phone to work today and all was going well until I decided that I wanted to take some pictures of this and that. It will take photos, but it will not save them to the phone. The camera app gives no indication of any problems until I swipe to the right in an attempt to look at the photos I've taken. None of them are there. I've also tried browsing my filesystem with a file browser to see if, perhaps, they had saved but ended up someplace else. No dice.
Has this happened to anyone else? Searched, but didn't find anything. I'm not sure if the kernel would impact this sort of thing or not. I'm inclined to say no, but I don't know enough to say with any confidence.
Hi,
You have nothing in /sdcard/DCIM/Camera? Have you a .nomedia file anywhere (at least in this folder)?
Maybe re do a full wipe or wipe cache / data for Galery then reboot.
No the kernel have nothing to with this.
/sdcard/DCIM/Camera has photos in it from before when I had taken pictures of whatever I had taken pictures of. None of the photos I attempted to take today are anywhere to be found, in that folder or any other. I cannot see a .nomedia file anywhere in this particular folder.
Hey guys,
I am currently trying out some ROMs and for that I wanna know how to restore my apps/data the quickest way. Got TitaniumBackup Pro and I tried to create a update.zip with my wanted apps for which I don't want to backup the data manually but instantly when I startup the new ROM. But the .zip install failed in TWRP after I flashed the ROM and GApps. Or is the update.zip not what I want for that?
But even when I recover the backup for some apps, some of them still kinda need some extra work like LightFlow or SwiftKey and the Facebook Messenger App. For example some of them need notification settings changed etc. Is there any way to avoid doing that every time?
Also, I know there was some change in the backup directory from 4.2 to 4.3 in TB where you have to change to legacy or something but why do I still have to do that when switching between 4.3 ROMs? Or can I fix that by deleting all my backup and doing another backup so it will be in the new "right" directory?