Hi,
Since upgrading to Lollipop I noticed that Titanium Backup no longer backs up the APK file. Looking into this I found that in Lollipop apps seem to install as "base.apk" inside a folder by the "com.xxx" name of the application inside "/data/app" along with a folder called lib.
Is there a fix/workaround for this to allow Titanium Backup to backup the APK files as well. Has anyone else noticed this.
Thanks in advance
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OK when I got my phone. I activated it, rooted, installed titanium and did a full apps+system backup. Then removed the apps that I did not want to use. Since 2.2 maybe coming around the corner I tried to restore all apps+system data. This worked except for I cannot restore any of the apps that I made backups of such as all home(blur), desk(blur), cityid, blockbuster, social... stuff, news, help etc.. Titanium has never failed me before with my rooted droid.
Does anyone know how I can either get titanium to restore these, or does anyone have a /system/apps dump that I can put all default apps back in. I am assuming that without these apps I will not get the update.
BTW: did use Titanium wrong for this approach of making a backup?
Hey,
I had the same thing happen to me, I believe its because you probably did not install busybox just like i did not from inside titanium. None the less just go to droidxforums.com there are copys of the system dumps just make sure you get a system dump that matches your firmware version. Then once installed make sure you adjust the permissions on all the apks to match what ever else is inside the system\apps folder.
And B-LAMO! your done!
btw make sure you get the correct verison of the system dump or else its just a big waste of time
thanks
I found a system dump and moved all apps back over, installed set permissions and yep blam that simple. Thanks for the help
I used titanium backup to backup the new Swipe before removing it. I went to restore it and there is a checkbox next to the item, instead of the other logo. Basically the restore feature is grayed out for most items I backed up? I went to the directory the backup uses and there is a compressed file for swipe. If I open it, I see some data, but no apk file.
Question 1st is how do I find the apk to restore this?
Question 2 is why can't I restore all backed up files via titanium (paid version)? Scares me to think I was safe using this product.
Use astro and hit the search button. Type swype with no spaces and search. You might find the apk that way.
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Well I just discovered something strange with most Apps backed up with titanium. If I click on a file that I backed up (say swipe from last update) and uninstalled via titanium, and I get a message that data was backed up, and but no apk present. Sure enough, if I click on the archived swipe file, I see a data file and folder and no apk. Why would titanium backup some files completely and partially with others?
Also, without doing a nand restore, which I really don't want to start from square one, how can I get the swipe apk from the last OTA? SwiftKey has been unreliable since their past two updates?
Thanks
Pull the APK from a stock rooted ROM's zip file.
TB usually won't backup /system apps because, y'know, they're in the non-writable system partition. Normally, they're still there, and normally, you don't mess with stuff in /system, nor should you copy stuff over from one ROM to another if it's a system app.
hi everybody
I used Titanium to backup all apps and data and in backup folder there are 3 files for each app( *.properties , *.tar.gz and *.apk.gz)
after I changed my rom, copied the backup folder to my sd but when I go to Titaninm,I dont see any app or data to restore.
what should I do?
You have to have those backed up files exactly in following folder:
sdcard/TitaniumBackup/
In case they are not there exactly, the program can't find them.
Also, you can install them manually one by one, if that doesn't work, in each of those 3 files, 1 can be used for installation of the program.
Hey guys,
So I recreated a 100% stock device to update to 4.2.2 and had all my Titanium Backup files in a folder on my PC. I then successfully
updated, rooted, and am running stock ROM with no kernels. I cut and pasted all the Titanium files into the newly created folder in my device
but nothing shows up in my restore options. Please help as I am in dire need of the information in the backups. Thanks in advance.
a little information on what you did would be nice
i'm assuming you:
installed titanium backup
copied your old backup files into sdcard/titaniumbackup (this folder should be automatically created if you installed tbackup)
then open titanium backup?
if it doesn't see the backups kill the app and restart it
if that doesn't work, try backing up a random application and see where the information is being stored on your tablet. then move your old files into that same folder.
remember that if you're restoring applications that you haven't installed, it will be listed at the bottom of the app list in tbackup with a line through the name
Had to reinstall Titanium Backup and then do the whole kill app/restart process and it worked. Thanks a lot!
Thanks mate....lifesaver
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Hi, I just start to use Note 4 with Marshmallow 6.0.1 installed. My current phone is on Kitkat 4.4.4. How can I transfer apps and user data from Kitkat to Marshmallow? I tried to use Titaniumbackup by copying the folder over, but no apps got showed up in Marshmallow. I tried another apps called app backup and restore, but it seems this apps only backup and restore apps, not user data. Thanks in advance to advice.
Use titanium backup and create a flashable zip file with the backup. Copy the zip file to the new phone then flash the zip file. Don't backup system data if you're using a different phone or ROM.
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Hi, I just start to use Note 4 with Marshmallow 6.0.1 installed. My current phone is on Kitkat 4.4.4. How can I transfer apps and user data from Kitkat to Marshmallow? I tried to use Titaniumbackup by copying the folder over, but no apps got showed up in Marshmallow. I tried another apps called app backup and restore, but it seems this apps only backup and restore apps, not user data. Thanks in advance to advice.
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Where did you copy the TB backup folder to? Did TB find the folder to restore apps?