[Q] Rooted S5 Titanium Backup Issues - Galaxy S 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

My only previous experience with Titanium was with the HTC One and Nexus 5 (2013), it always opened up superfast and backed up, restored, and froze/uninstalled apps with a problem...but for some reason with my S5 I can only restore data (not apks and data) and I also cannot freeze any apps...I'm trying to go through and get rid of some of this Samsung bloatware but it just isn't working.
Is this a titanium issue or maybe something with Knox? Disabling Knox using the terminal emulator method also isn't working, just says "aborted"

This was caused by switching to ART. As soon as I switched back to Dalvik (because my banking app isn't compatible with ART) the problems with Titanium disappeared.

cherrytontonne said:
This was caused by switching to ART. As soon as I switched back to Dalvik (because my banking app isn't compatible with ART) the problems with Titanium disappeared.
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I too am having this problem - I don't want to switch back to Dalvik but I think the greater performance increase will be from removing (AKA freezing - I don't like removing system apps from anything other than a Nexus device) apps over ART. Too bad. I am not sure what causes this as Titanium backup was updated for ART and I ran it flawlessly on my Nexus 5 on ART.
It just finished freezing an app after switching back - guess there is some weird ART bug introduced by Samsung. Odd and this makes me not look forward to the headache that will come of the Android L update.
Sorry for bumping an old thread but I thought I would weigh in.

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TitaniumBackup ruins notifications

After flashing a ROM, I tried installing Titanium Backup and restore my app+app data on a game I got a lot of progress. The only problem is (and this has happened after restoring with other ROMs too), is that when I restore with Titanium backup, that specific app that I restore no longer receives notifications. I tried clearing the cache, but that doesn't work. I tried removing game, and installing directly from play store, and notification receive just fine. But if I install the APP DATA from titanium backup, the notifications stop working.
I don't want to have to start all over again and beat hours of levels just for notifications.
Any fix on this?
any update, please?
Sounds pretty buggy to me. My guess is that the game might have been storing data somewhere it shouldn't have been (and therefore TiBu missed it?).
To be clear, after installing from the market, you're only restoring the Data part (not app & data)? Your post seemed pretty clear, but just checking.
Further, I suggest, looking through all the settings in the game itself and see if something got reset within the game. Otherwise, I'm out of ideas, sorry.
Aou said:
To be clear, after installing from the market, you're only restoring the Data part (not app & data)? Your post seemed pretty clear, but just checking.
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I've tried both. I've tried restoring App+Data via TiBu. I've also tried installing from the market and only restoring the data portion.
Aou said:
Further, I suggest, looking through all the settings in the game itself and see if something got reset within the game. Otherwise, I'm out of ideas, sorry.
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I've tried switching off/on the notification setting in game. Still doesn't notify me unless I manually open the game. The game is called "Super StickMan Golf 2". I've gotten so far and I don't' want to have to do it all over again. Especially since it's multiplayer and the skills you've earned carry with you into multiplayer sessions.
TB messed my textplus notification as well.
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Philtest said:
TB messed my textplus notification as well.
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It's weird because some apps work that TB restored. For example, I also restored SnapChat with TB, and those notifications work perfect. Except other applications don't (like SuperStickManGolf 2) unless they are installed fresh from the market.
kalmoa said:
It's weird because some apps work that TB restored. For example, I also restored SnapChat with TB, and those notifications work perfect. Except other applications don't (like SuperStickManGolf 2) unless they are installed fresh from the market.
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You'll find that tibu is far from perfect. It takes longer, but I almost always restore apps from the store after flashing. There are a few I know tibu will restore and I selectively restore those and get the rest from the store. Also, don't restore system data.
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jd1639 said:
You'll find that tibu is far from perfect. It takes longer, but I almost always restore apps from the store after flashing. There are a few I know tibu will restore and I selectively restore those and get the rest from the store. Also, don't restore system data.
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It almost makes TiBu worthless if you can't (or preferably shouldn't) restore the app's data from it. It's too bad they don't have a fix for this. Again, all my other apps (+notifications) work from TiBu's restore (app+data), except Super Stickman Golf 2. ARGH...
If someone finds a fix for this, I'll marry them.... forever
This just happened to me as well but to all restored apps that have notifications. I tried restoring with helium and the same thing happened. Reinstalling the app fixes it. Pretty odd.
Anybody ever find a solution to the SSG2 notifications?
Not willing to lose my single player progress but would love to get those multiplayer notifications working again...
@kalmoa Notifications on this game are jacked in general it seems like. I've started over from scratch and still receive no notifications anymore. Every now and then I'll get one with no rhyme or reason. Sooo annoying.

Titanium Backup / My Magazine issue..

So i went and debloated some apps with Titanium Backup (Backed them up, then uninstalled).. One of them was My Magazine, which just sent my Note3 into a tizzy. I restored it, but now on every reboot it was corrupting it (it seems), and there is no icon for it in the app drawer anymore. When i restore it, (wipe data, restore), it comes back just fine, i can launch it..
I used titaniums option to "integrate Update into Rom".. because it seemed on reboot it would do something and drop it back to an old version..
I dunno, somethin has gone funky and its really annoying me..
Anyone run into anything like this ever?
I just did another wipe, and restore w/ data, and the icon is back, and it seems to be normal, but im going to reboot and see if it remains.. Im skeptical.
Well, the app remained, but the icon is gone from the app drawer, it looks to be working im not getting any "Unfortunatley My Magazine has stopped" errors, but what the hell is nuking the app icon?
SuBDivisions said:
Well, the app remained, but the icon is gone from the app drawer, it looks to be working im not getting any "Unfortunatley My Magazine has stopped" errors, but what the hell is nuking the app icon?
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Did you try restoring My Magazine - Here and Now as well?
Yeah i wiped them both out and restored them both.. but the goofy thing is they come back just fine and dandy until i reboot.. i at least got them to stay now, but there is no icon in the app drawer.. Its not like i even use the thing, because when i removed it, all hell broke loose with Unfortunatley errors..
Very odd.. I wonder it titanium didn't back them up properly or something.
Yup, restored both, again, rebooted, and its gone again, it starts up and immediatley hits me with "Unfortunatley My Magazine has stopped".. No app icon in the drawer, but titanium says its there (but it doesnt say its UPDATED, like it does when it works).. It does after i restore it, and then it works fine, but on reboot something is nuking it.
Im leaning twords reflashing and starting over again.. What a pain.

[Q] Restoring failing

I'm trying to restore using the Google restore feature from my old phone (Nexus 6P - only because stupid f*cking work email only supported on Samsung sh*tty devices). Everytime it starts on the S7 Edge, Google Play Store force closes (stops) and my restore fails - my apps don't download and install.
Anyone know why this keeps happening? This isn't an issue of clear the cache, it's happening after each factory reset and during the initial setup of the phone.
This is going to sound crazy (although TouchWiz being terrible, maybe this makes sense). TouchWiz was also force closing. So I set it to TouchWiz Easy home and no more crashes so far... 1/3 of the way through the restore. I haven't even gotten rid of my Nexus 6P yet and I miss it already.

Is nougat the king of crashes?

Seems ever since i update my s7 to nougat, and now have nougat on my s8, i'm dealing apps constantly crashing on a daily basis. Apps that never crashed before, ever, are constantly crashing on nougat. And by no means is this a samsung thing, because my friends sony z5 also has similar issues with nougat, what did google do that is causing these apps to crash?
I haven't had a single crash so far.
Not one crash either. You must have a rogue app. System reset.
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No crashes at all.
Did you transfer programs, data from your old phone to new one using something like Titanium backup or smart switch? I read a lot of complains about stability issues from people doing that. Or like someone already said, some app creating issue, but not that easy to find which one.
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Did you transfer programs, data from your old phone to new one using something like Titanium backup or smart switch? I read a lot of complains about stability issues from people doing that. Or like someone already said, some app creating issue, but not that easy to find which one.
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Yes but i've reinstalled the problematic apps, same apps crashed on the s7. I mean it could be the app but they never crashed on android 6, and since nougat has been available to devs since march 2016 i'd imagine they'd fix any compatibility issues by now.
No crashes watsoever on niether my nougat s7 or s8.
I think you have limited options here: either reset the phone and reload all apps fresh from play store, or try to identify what causes the problem and there are few ways to do it. For the record my phone never crashed and I have it since day 1, but I did have couple apps that should be working, installed fine and crash the moment they start.
I had to factory reset out of the box after my first update. It sucked and was a bad first impressikn but it has been working ever since and I've had it for a week.
pete4k said:
Did you transfer programs, data from your old phone to new one using something like Titanium backup or smart switch? I read a lot of complains about stability issues from people doing that. Or like someone already said, some app creating issue, but not that easy to find which one.
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I used Helium on my S8 coming from S7 as Smart Switch was not importing my apps settings.
Backup went well, but I have some apps that force closes some time.
The funny thing is that I have force closes not on those apps where importing data was for me mandatory (like games or note apps), but on standard apps where I could even install them from Play Store.
I made backup of everything for simplicity, just for not having to insert all the logins and passwords for all my apps.....
I still can't understand why Smart Switch failed to import my data when I was coming from Samsung S7 with Nougat update, so if someone maybe knows why, please tell me...but as far as I've read, I haven't noticed big complain and force closes after importing with Smart Switch... Maybe they where importing from a non Nougat Samsung.....
In my actual case, resetting device would be a real problem as I have a lot of apps and reinstalling them would mean to lose an entire day in doing the job.
If someone knows how to fix things, maybe cleaning things up or so, please reply.
If there's no solution, I think I'll do only a data backup with Helium and then go through reset and consequent Play Store install of all apps list previously saved on AppBrain so to have the complete list already set...but it's still a huge work!!
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2 s8's here and neither have crashed once yet. Do a factory reset, and install all your apps manually from the play store and be done with crashes.
JaeMelo said:
2 s8's here and neither have crashed once yet. Do a factory reset, and install all your apps manually from the play store and be done with crashes.
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I've had my s8 6 days and only once have I had to Reboot due to crashing. And it was apple music crashing one that I use a lot
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I've had my s8 6 days and only once have I had to Reboot due to crashing. And it was apple music crashing one that I use a lot
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Your crash seems to be isolated to one app. An app that I wouldn't be too surprised is crashing. The OP on the other hand post would seem to suggest he's expierencing crashes from multiple apps.

Vault Apps Freezing

I have no idea if this could even be answered in these forums, but here goes.
I use Vaulty to hide pictures on my phone with a password. Restoring data and app has always worked from TB, from phone to phone or ROM to ROM. Today I flashed a custom OOS ROM and it didn't go so well.
Behavior: Hangs/ freezes during any kind of gallery search or media loading. This eventually results in a force close. The settings work, but if you try to switch accounts, it will hang on the screen where it's trying to find old vaults.
Things I have done: Force close the app, clear data, clear cache. Uninstall and reinstall from Play Store. Uninstall and restore only app from TB. Froze 3rd party gallery apps. Set the default gallery app. I even installed another vault program - Vault. This app won't even load up AT ALL. It goes black immediately upon trying to open it. This led me to think something else might be going on.
Has anyone seen anything like this? Anything I could try?
xgerryx said:
I have no idea if this could even be answered in these forums, but here goes.
I use Vaulty to hide pictures on my phone with a password. Restoring data and app has always worked from TB, from phone to phone or ROM to ROM. Today I flashed a custom OOS ROM and it didn't go so well.
Behavior: Hangs/ freezes during any kind of gallery search or media loading. This eventually results in a force close. The settings work, but if you try to switch accounts, it will hang on the screen where it's trying to find old vaults.
Things I have done: Force close the app, clear data, clear cache. Uninstall and reinstall from Play Store. Uninstall and restore only app from TB. Froze 3rd party gallery apps. Set the default gallery app. I even installed another vault program - Vault. This app won't even load up AT ALL. It goes black immediately upon trying to open it. This led me to think something else might be going on.
Has anyone seen anything like this? Anything I could try?
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Did you manage to solve this problem? I facing same problem in my device.
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Did you manage to solve this problem? I facing same problem in my device.
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I actually managed to recover the pictures, saved them of the phone and switched to keepsafe, it works better. I found that adding the app manually and logging in, trying to restore just data from TB, and a bunch of other combinations finally allowed me to recover the pictures. This was a while back so I don't remember exactly but eventually I got it.
xgerryx said:
I actually managed to recover the pictures, saved them of the phone and switched to keepsafe, it works better. I found that adding the app manually and logging in, trying to restore just data from TB, and a bunch of other combinations finally allowed me to recover the pictures. This was a while back so I don't remember exactly but eventually I got it.
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Thanks for the response. My problem is, I have old vaulty backup on my phone and no app installed. Today I tried to install app to recover my backup. But it went blank screen as soon as I open my app. Tried different apks of different versions from net. But it won't go beyond black screen. Tried all cleanup, cache removal from twrp and from app settings. But same. Aldo tried to install different vault app to check what happen and surprisingly it also freeze at app startup screen and won't go beyond black screen. I think it's ROM problem and some file would be corrupted which belongs to vault apps working. Last resort is to flash fresh ROM and try. (I even didn't restore app backup from tb as I didn't have one. Always installed fresh app from play store)
Apcoolboy said:
Thanks for the response. My problem is, I have old vaulty backup on my phone and no app installed. Today I tried to install app to recover my backup. But it went blank screen as soon as I open my app. Tried different apks of different versions from net. But it won't go beyond black screen. Tried all cleanup, cache removal from twrp and from app settings. But same. Aldo tried to install different vault app to check what happen and surprisingly it also freeze at app startup screen and won't go beyond black screen. I think it's ROM problem and some file would be corrupted which belongs to vault apps working. Last resort is to flash fresh ROM and try. (I even didn't restore app backup from tb as I didn't have one. Always installed fresh app from play store)
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I went as far as to try to find out how to convert those proprietary .vaulty files back to pictures with some kind of file converter online. I didn't get very far with that method but that might be the last resort. I think I ended up flashing another ROM at the time too and maybe it was dumb luck that I was able to get it back.

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