Summary:
Option to Export app settings and Layout Setting in XML format should be a standard on all apps. Current Apps such as MX Video Player and Nova Launcher allow this, in Titanium Backup we can Export and Import Call Logs, SMS and WiFi Saved Passwords in XML.
Also If all apps that allow this via a single setting MENU export/import on ANDROID Setting it will be AWESOME.
Question:
Why need this? You can backup your Whole App with Titanium Backup.
Answer Short:
Just have Export and Import SETTING or Export and Import PROFILES in XML format (or whatever file extension you like) in ALL your Apps. PLEASE NOTE a Note should appear when importing and exporting that, YOUR PASSWORD OR LOCK SETTING WILL NOT BE EXPORTED. This is a great feature on ALL Phones because ROOT is not required for this, and not everyone has ROOTED phone.
Answer Long:
1st of All Not Everyone has ROOTED phone. When install app on my mobile to update setting, I should have ability to See a Trebuchet Launcher (CynogenMod Launcher) App Drawer and Desktop Layout previous backups by date.
And if my friend or family wants same launcher with same look or settings i can do is simply Export XML then Bluetooth the file to the Person and import XML file in settings. THIS SAVES 15-20 Minutes on SETTING UP EACH APP every time.
Even Titanium Backup export/import Call Log, SMS and Wifi. BUT it DOES NOT export/import its own settings and Filter which is very sad.
FOR EXAMPLE it took me only 5 secs to export, then Bluetooth then import MX Video Player, Nova Launcher, Smart Keyboard and some other apps settings for my brother and for a friend in to their mobile. No ROOTED Phone Needed.
While to setup others Apps such as Rocket Music Player, Google Keyboard, Zeam Launcher and every other app took me several minutes (hours or whole day you can say).
So it is very easy to search Play Store and Download the Apps, but it is very hard and time consuming to Setup apps. Not Everyone has ROOTED Phone and Not Everyone knows how to setup an app, common person searches for a Tech Expert to setup an App but not every Tech Person has Time to go look into remember and match setting what they have in their own phones. Got my Point?
thanks awaiting you response.
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OK - here's the deal. I hope I'm not posting redundantly...
I've tried several ROMs in the past week and I have to say that changing each one is a tedious process. With each new one, I've used Titanium to backup everything. But even with Titanium, I always lose my call records, SMS other than what's in Google Voice, keyboard preferences, dictionary (the words I enter into HTC's dictionary), ALL email accounts, language preferences, app layout and scenes, and even some apps are lost because Titanium can't recover them. I especially hate losing the individual dictionary. WORST OF ALL IS THE EMAIL ACCOUNT LOSS. Having to setup Exchange, Yahoo, GMail each time even with a tiny change in the ROM really sucks. Titanium restore takes something like an hour and for each one I have to approve each app, even though I do it in batch mode. So that kind of defeats the purpose of BATCH.
I backup my 2.1 SMS and call records with SMS Backup and Call log backup apps, but neither one successfully restores on Froyo. So I've lost 6 months worth of call logs and SMS because of incompatibilities with Froyo.
This time, I'm also doing a Nandroid + Titanium. But as I said, those won't save my email accounts, call records, SMS records, dictionaries, keyboard preferences, layout and scenes, some apps and many other things...
The one thing I liked about BlackBerry (probably the ONLY good thing) was the backup - it saved everything.
My question is: is there an all-encompassing total & complete backup solution for Android? If not, then I just don't think I'll be updating ROMs very frequently because I simply don't have an hour to waste approving app restoration in Titanium and all that other crap (Install--> Done --> Install --> Done x 100 apps is ridiculous!).
I use Titanium for all my apps and MyBackup Pro for my SMS, Bookmarks, ect... http://www.appbrain.com/app/com.rerware.android.MyBackupPro
Good Luck
stlandroidfan said:
OK - here's the deal. I hope I'm not posting redundantly...
I've tried several ROMs in the past week and I have to say that changing each one is a tedious process. With each new one, I've used Titanium to backup everything. But even with Titanium, I always lose my call records, SMS other than what's in Google Voice, keyboard preferences, dictionary (the words I enter into HTC's dictionary), ALL email accounts, language preferences, app layout and scenes, and even some apps are lost because Titanium can't recover them. I especially hate losing the individual dictionary. WORST OF ALL IS THE EMAIL ACCOUNT LOSS. Having to setup Exchange, Yahoo, GMail each time even with a tiny change in the ROM really sucks. Titanium restore takes something like an hour and for each one I have to approve each app, even though I do it in batch mode. So that kind of defeats the purpose of BATCH.
I backup my 2.1 SMS and call records with SMS Backup and Call log backup apps, but neither one successfully restores on Froyo. So I've lost 6 months worth of call logs and SMS because of incompatibilities with Froyo.
This time, I'm also doing a Nandroid + Titanium. But as I said, those won't save my email accounts, call records, SMS records, dictionaries, keyboard preferences, layout and scenes, some apps and many other things...
The one thing I liked about BlackBerry (probably the ONLY good thing) was the backup - it saved everything.
My question is: is there an all-encompassing total & complete backup solution for Android? If not, then I just don't think I'll be updating ROMs very frequently because I simply don't have an hour to waste approving app restoration in Titanium and all that other crap (Install--> Done --> Install --> Done x 100 apps is ridiculous!).
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Come off the cake and donate to the devs of Titanium. Restoring your programs becomes automatic then.
The only thing I don't get a consistent restore on is the home page layouts.
app backing up and restoring is awesome if you donate to titanium devs. it is definitely on the top of my list of awesome paid apps. 1 click backup and restore is only available if you donate along with a nice boost in speed in the app. Also, there is a nice feature in titanium that allows you to create a unsigned zip to flash titanium as an app right after you flash the rom, so on your first boot you already have it to restore apps in case you dont have 3g or wifi access.
i have heard good things about mybackup as well for sms and call log, but i have only used it once because now all my texts and calls are in gvoice, so no restoring needed there.
as far as email goes, i dont mind setting my accounts back up nor losing my dictionary. thats about the only thing that i have to redo every time i flash a new rom.
So i am a frequent flasher, i like to try different ROMs and I have a problem with recovering my data. It seems to be a huge pain in the ass with android. With Win Mo it was simple, one click on SPB backup and everything was restored. Not on Android.
I am using only Desire HD or Z based ROMS, currently NAND wit SD IMG. I am looking for a simple way how to backup and restore following settings:
1. CONTACTS - and I mean all contacts with all detail. I have my contacts synched with FB, Twitter, LinkedIn, Skype etc. Google sync and HTC Sense pretends that its synched, but after flash, only basic google contact is synced and I have to manually add all the login info for those services and then wait for them to be asociated and then asociate those that were not connected manually.
2. SMS - this could be solved by using SMS backup, but it would be nice not to have a special application for that. I also have suspicion, that sometimes this is restored from cloud and sometimes not. After one flash, I thought that my sms are lost, because i didnt backup them. After another flash, they miraculously reapeared without me doing anything. WTF?
3. Call log
4. EMAIL SETTINGS - I dont want to set up all the email after each flash.
5. Apss and Data - yeas, this could be done by several apps, smallest problem.
6. System DATA - by that i mean mostly my homescreen setup, wifi settings, bookmarks, RSS feeds, calendar, tasks etc. Something seems to be synced by google, something not. Some apps do that, but after restore, they mess up whole system and cause repeated errors (acore etc.)
IS THERE A ONE APP ONE CLICK SOLUTION FOR THAT?
What pisses me most is the inability of Gmail or HTCSENSE to sync all the information of my contacts. WTF? WHy it cant store all the info, pictures etc. WHy even HTC sense couldnt do it? WHat the hell is HTC SYNC good for, when only option to sync contacts with PC is to sync them to Outlook, whioch is not even available in windows anymore!
I tried several apps and they mostly fail. When tried My Backup Root to backup contacts, it created 800 duplicated contacts out of 300 and when google sync steps in the way during that, it will even mess up your data on the cloud. When i tried to restore system settings with this app I ended up with broken system with error every second.
I dont know how to force Titanium to backup my system data, or SMS and I doubt its possible. When I selected batch full apps+data backup, it didnt recovered even my homescreen setup.
Is it really ncessary to fiddle with my phone for several hours after each flash to get it into previous shape?
the answer is pretty simple
use this application 'mybackup pro'
and install it then you can configure how to backup
it will backup all your app and data
and when you flash a new rom you can restore everything
android is cool
i'm cool too
Is mybackup pro better than titanum backup ?
As far as i get it, My Backup Pro is paid version of My Backup Root which messed my contacts and caused my system to crash after restoring system settings.
I am running CheckROMv3 on my Note, and decided to install the Torch Light application of Samsung.
I found the apk in the developers thread, and when I opened it with Installer it requested a lot of permissions. Some highlights are listed bellow:
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Add or modify calendar events, read browser's history and bookmarks, read contact data, read user defined dictionary, write contact data.
SysScope (??) (sound snooping enough?)
Directly call phone, send, receive, read, edit SMS or MMS.
Your location, both coarse as well as GPS.
Your account: act as account authenticator, use credentials.
Modify, delete USB sotrage contents.
Change audio settings, record audio, take pictures and videos.
System tools including BT, wifi etc
Discover knowns accounts, read Google service configuration, view configured accounts.
Automatically start at boot, read Home settings and shortcuts.
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All of that for a simple torch widget?
Seriously Samsung, why do you need my GPS and access to my SMS and Google services to light a dark staircase? And how are you planning on acting as an authenticator on my part?
Is this even legal or ethical? And how about all the stock ROM users that have no idea of the above list? Are they really making an educated decision when accepting the update?
This is why I love android and cooked ROMs. I get to decide what I want to share and in this case I decided not to install it.
PS: I just hope this is just an oversight of the programmers. They might have just used a shared library that requests all of the above. Today the Torch Light widget might be using none of them, but if you give your permission to it, future updates will not inform you of any changes.
:O good thing i deleted it.
shahadat said:
:O good thing i deleted it.
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I wish to update my Android version, and have done this several times before, but each time I had to manually reinstall my apps and I would lose the app settings and (game) progress made.
I am rooted and have TWRP installed.
How can I back-up all the apps with settings, images, messages (sms/ whatsapp)?
My biggest problem is that my phone has very little storage left, so how can I back these things up to my PC?
Afterwards the upgrade I want to restore these as well.
Thank you
Michael
Try an app called helium. It lets you back up to cloud based storage
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You can use an external program such as Titanium Backup for the apps and associated data needing to be saved (mainly games). It can also save your sms, call logs and wifi access points. I don't know for WhatsApp.
I once used Helium, but it failed restoring some games, I never had a problem with Titanium.
If you synchronise your applications in your google sync settings, all your apps from playstore should be automatically downloaded after first account add.
It is not generally recommended to restore apps, it can cause problems, so I recommend you to save only the apps with data/settings you cannot change manually or hard to retrieve. That won't take too much space. I usually only save games, or apps not coming from playstore/amazon appstore..., and sms, call logs and wifi access points. Then, once all the apps downloaded, i go into every one individually to change settings or log into (facebook, ...) according to my needs, that does not take too long generally.
Hi,
I'm about to get my new S8 and would like to copy all of my stuff from my old iphone.
I was thinking of using the SmartSwitch app that everybody seem to recommend, but all of my contacts are also backed up
by google, so I'm afraid that once I enter my google account details (during the phone initial setup or later) I'll get all of my contacts from the Iphone, and then when I run
Smart Switch for photos and all of the reset, I'll see each contact twice.
How can I solve it? I would like SmartSwtich to import my old data, but once my phone is set up, also would like
google to continue backing it up.
Hope that my question is clear enough and you are able to understand what is bothering me
It isn't a problem. My contacts are backed up using my Google account and when you will use SmartSwitch app, it will let you pick what you would like to back up, so no issues there. Another interesting thing to consider is that S8 has Samsung Cloud which also offers back up and this one does back up more than Google backup. It can backup your homescreen icon position, wallpaper, messages, call log, settings, Samsung Keyboard settings and other stuff including docs, music and so on. You can enable both, the Google Back up and Samsung Cloud.
Charkatak said:
It isn't a problem. My contacts are backed up using my Google account and when you will use SmartSwitch app, it will let you pick what you would like to back up, so no issues there. Another interesting thing to consider is that S8 has Samsung Cloud which also offers back up and this one does back up more than Google backup. It can backup your homescreen icon position, wallpaper, messages, call log, settings, Samsung Keyboard settings and other stuff including docs, music and so on. You can enable both, the Google Back up and Samsung Cloud.
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So basically if my contacts are backed by google I shouldn't transfer them using SmartSwitch? (unchecked the contacts when I transfer data)
ttl100 said:
So basically if my contacts are backed by google I shouldn't transfer them using SmartSwitch? (unchecked the contacts when I transfer data)
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Right, don't check items that you don't want SmartSwitch to transfer.