Hey guys,
I did some searching and can't seem to find info regarding this. I was wondering if anyone knows how to delete old automatic device backups from their Google account? I'm referring to the question during (LP) setup that asks if you want to restore your apps/data from an old backup or choose to set it up as a new device. I've chosen to set up as a new device a few times, but then chose to back up the "new" device and now my list has a bunch of old backups that I'd like to clean up.. Anyone know if this is even possible? I've tried hiding old devices under my Play account, but that doesn't seem to hide them from the available choices during the setup of a new ROM.
Any help would be appreciated!
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(I also posted this on the Titanium users forum, but there is a lot more traffic here, so I hope to get better results here)
Like a lot of people here, I test a lot of ROMs on my phone. Probably every week I go through at least one new ROM. A lot of people suggest NOT backing up system settings when installing new ROMs, because the settings on a current ROM may not make sense on the newly installed ROM. But many of the settings *should* be safe to backup, in my opinion. For instance, each time I install a new ROM, I spend quite a while resetting my SMS, gmail, ringtones, and other notifications. I would think those would be safe to backup. My questions: Which setting in Titanium should be safe to backup and restore when installing a new ROM? Specifically, which items in the titanium system settings refer to the notification sounds and ringtones? There are so many of them and some of them are quite cryptically named, I don't know which ones are the ones.
Thanks in advance!
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OK, I know there are Titanium users in here. We've all heard not to use it to restore system settings when testing new ROMs. I have searched and my question has not been answered as far as I could tell (can't prove a negative). So, how about a little love, please
Bluetooth pairings, wireless access points, sms/mms, and web bookmarks and I think that's it.
Hi folks,
I've used the Google Nexus 7 Root Tookit to root my new N7 and made sure to create a backup before doing anything weird and wonderful with my device.
I figured option 1 would be the safest (backup all installed apps), but now after rooting I find that my settings are missing, magazines from zinio need to be downloaded again etc.
So, what have I missed, and how do I make sure that I have a proper backup next time I need to do something?
Thanks!
crótach said:
Hi folks,
I've used the Google Nexus 7 Root Tookit to root my new N7 and made sure to create a backup before doing anything weird and wonderful with my device.
I figured option 1 would be the safest (backup all installed apps), but now after rooting I find that my settings are missing, magazines from zinio need to be downloaded again etc.
So, what have I missed, and how do I make sure that I have a proper backup next time I need to do something?
Thanks!
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When you performed Rooting on your device, all user contents got erased. Rooting & unlocking will effectively hard reset your device. That is why you need to re-set up all your apps and settings.
Hi,
So Ive looked and I cant seem to find an answer for this besides "select the back and restore option" and "use titanium backup".
Heres my issue:
Ive noticed that when I load different roms, sometimes at startup you go through the google account setup, sometimes you dont.
When you do, wifi passwords and apps are restored. yay!
When you dont, they are not restored. Even after you access the play store, enter your google account info, and select "backup and restore". In fact I think this may delete all your info.
Does anyone know if there is a way to do this for these roms that dont force or start with a standard google setup? Or what Im missing? Its just a pain if your switching roms a lot and Im hoping to figure out a workaround because titanium backup doesnt always work right when switching between two totally different rom versions and its just nice to get on wifi and start downloading stuff right away when you boot into a new rom..
Thanks!
Hi
I would like some help I'm on my new 1+5 about 1 week
And I noticed it not restored Google backup I had to reinstall all my apps, set wifi passwords manually, etc...
Now I can't see any reference in Google Drive, I can see just my N5X (Android O)
And I noticed this is SS
my apps didn't restore either. i noticed a question during setup that said something about restoring, but the wording made it sound like a direct NFC/bluetooth copy of files from another phone.
Getting ready to OTA the official 8.1 from Nougat BUT I am paranoid.
I have two PH-1's so I would like to update the never yet used phone to 8.1 THEN copy all contacts, text, photos and downloads into it from my in use PH-1. After that, I would like to factory reset my used PH-1, update it to 8.1 and then copy my stuff back.
Coming from Samsung to Essential, I lost a lot of file downloads - mostly .pdf's, some photos and some contacts. It took a long time to recover not knowing what was missing until I could not find it and some things are still missing!
Thanks in advance for all suggestions!
That's what the cloud is for my friend. Google Contacts, Drive, and Photos.
Used Google last time. Lots did NOT transfer!
If you're rooted, I love Titanium Backup. I've used it for years now. It will backup anything and everything, then just backup your Titanium folder to your PC. I also have tried SMS Backup+ which will backup your texts and MMS to Google. I will restore texts but will NOT restore MMS (yet. maybe one day.) Contacts should always be available on the cloud as long as you have the settings for it set. (You can check what contacts are saved to the cloud by going here: https://contacts.google.com) Also, if you're using Google's built-in backup services, you can check in settings to see when the last successful backup was done (Or check here: https://drive.google.com/drive/backups. If you change any settings you'll have to wait a while for it to sync again. Hope this helps!
Contacts look good but File Backups only have 5 files. Lots missing!
Zargone said:
Contacts look good but File Backups only have 5 files. Lots missing!
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Do you mean that Google Drive only shows 5 entries named something like "PH-1 backup"? This should be correct -- it stores the entire backup as one entry. What you'll want to check, most importantly, is the date on the right side of each entry. The most current, which would be done 'today' will have the time, instead of a previous date.
I may be wrong, but to me, it seems like some apps just don't backup their data to Google Drive. I know, for instance, my bank app does not seem to remember my login, but I find that to be more secure.. if someone gains access to my Google account, they cant just restore my bank app and get my login handed directly to them. Another thing I've personally noticed is that when you do a fresh install and during setup it asks if you want to restore, the top option is NOT always the most recent backup. I don't know why this is, but I have accidentally restored an older backup while restoring a fresh install. Maybe that's what happened to you last time when things were missing?
If you want to make absolute sure you get everything in a backup, or don't trust Google to get the job done accurately, I still recommend Titanium (I use this, I'm not affiliated.. I just KNOW it works and it works well). Or, you can use any other 3rd party backup utility that you like.
Hope this helps!
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If you want to just make a backup to your PC, you can use ADB to do backups.
adb backup [-f <file>] [-apk|-noapk] [-shared|-noshared] [-all] [-system|nosystem] [<packages...>]
I personally don't use adb for backups because I only backup a few select apps, but I would think that running adb backup with the 'nosystem' argument would provide you with a solid backup. I do NOT know all the ins and outs of using ADB so you'll want to research the correct usage to backup what you want, but I just wanted to add this as a backup option.
I also see no reason you couldn't use adb backup to do exactly what you originally asked... that is backup one PH-1 and restore it to another?
The link to the Backups keeps changing to:
https://drive.google.com/drive/mobile/my-drive
It shows individual files only, no Backups.
Zargone said:
The link to the Backups keeps changing to:
https://drive.google.com/drive/mobile/my-drive
It shows individual files only, no Backups.
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Hmm. I don't have my phone right now so I can't look into it further, but is there not an option somewhere within that (in a dropdown menu maybe?) to view Backups? Alternatively, you could try the Desktop version. Click the 3 dots on the right upper corner of Chrome and select the box that says something about desktop version or desktop view.. something like that.
If all else fails, open the link I shared on an actual computer.