This is my first Android phone, so I'm not sure how the backing up procedure works. Is there a way to back up all settings and apps (including paid apps) so I can restore it afterward?
I've rooted my phone when I first got it, through the unrevoked v1 method. Updated when Sprint gave me the option. Found out I shouldn't have done that, as I lost root access. I've been reading threads on how to set my EVO back to stock and hopefully this will restore everything. Thereby also being able to root once again.
If it means, I can root which method is recommended to also receive the latest updates.
I hope that I didn't lose root access for good.
Also curious, don't want to have to reinstall all the apps and lose the paid ones.
This has been a big question for me too.
Never rooted or modded a phone at all until yesterday, just made my first post here a minute ago.
I rooted and unlocked nand with simpleroot, then installed the damagecontrol rom, everything went ok. Got a lot of help by watching the video links. The biggest thing I was after was the wireless tether, which I have now. I've flashed the rom a couple time since and loose all my apps, contacts, and history every time. I get the contacts back easy through google sync. The apps I have been able to reinstall, the market has remembered my paid apps and lets me re-install no problem. This is still a hassle though. After doing some reading it seems people are using Titanium backup for the apps, and handy backup for the call history. I just installed and backed up everything, haven't tested out the restore yet.
Hey there, i have my phone rooted, i have installed the OTA update, and i have slowly removed some bloat through titanium backup.
i am still experiencing quite a bit of lag, and want to factory reset my phone, then see if that helps. i want all my data to stay though, can i just back it all up through keis? or is there an easier way?
Dallenn said:
Hey there, i have my phone rooted, i have installed the OTA update, and i have slowly removed some bloat through titanium backup.
i am still experiencing quite a bit of lag, and want to factory reset my phone, then see if that helps. i want all my data to stay though, can i just back it all up through keis? or is there an easier way?
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I personally use Titanium Backup Pro (if you haven't bought Pro yet, it's totally worth it - it has saved my @$$ countless times!). I Haven't actually uninstalled any bloatware, but frozen plenty of it. This made it really, really easy to get the OTA installed - all I had to do was unfreeze the 3 magic APKs that let me install the OTA, and even kept the rest frozen. Re-froze when done with OTA.
I have two sets of Titanium Backup backups right now:
- A backup of all system apps plus data. I would never want to restore my system apps, unless I get bored and start modding stuff later. I figured I'd just snag a backup NOW in case it ever comes down to that - I'd be able to theoretically restore a single broken APK, or manually extract the apks out of the backup files later.
- A backup of all my user apps plus data. Be careful not to ever restore system app backups, even the "green" or "yellow" ones in TiBu. Rarely, you can get away with restoring these (like SMS, or WiFi access points, or sometimes even the System Settings), but it's usually asking for trouble. If you're going from the same ROM to the same ROM without any version change, it's usually "okay" to try. Otherwise, use extreme discretion and be prepared for weird behavior.
So to answer your question, I would recommend using Titanium Backup Pro to keep data backed up. If you're thorough and have the patience, you can effectively backup all of your data, individually, for all of your apps and your system settings. I'm actually planning on doing a data wipe for good measure (haven't done so yet since I got the OTA), and this is how I plan to restore all my data and settings.
I installed Lollipop 5.0 with Odin and had no problems with the process. However, WiFi no longer starts up. That is, I can't turn WiFi on from Settings or anywhere else. What's really strange, though, is I can create a FoxFi hotspot and it works as expected, supporting a Nexus 7 WiFi-only tablet.
How do I revive WiFi support?
Did you factory reset after updating to LP ?
Always a good idea
I'd really rather not. The recovery process from an FDR is never fun.
What puzzles me is that FoxFi works. Thinking it might be a backdoor, I started FoxFi then tried to start WiFi. I got the expected "you can't have FoxFi and WiFi" message. I said OK, FoxFi shut down and... no WiFi. V. Weird.
I know it's a PITA to reset, but upgrading from KK to LP leaves rubbish files behind that cause all sorts of weird bugs, I had to reset when I upgraded thanks to battery drain, after the reset, battery drain was cured, and all LP updates since then have not needed a reset, it is purely moving from an older Android version > Newer Android
Sigh... I soooooooo hate doing this. And, yes, I want crackers and cheese with that whine.
Stupid n00b question: Before I blow everything away with the FDR, what's the best way to preserve all of my photos, and other app data? FWIW, before I started this project, I used Titanium to back up everything it knows about, but IIRC it doesn't anything photos, music, etc., etc.
I suppose I can just do a drag and drop of the phone legacy "SD" and stuff it all back in again after the FDR. Or doesn't that fly?
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Sigh... I soooooooo hate doing this. And, yes, I want crackers and cheese with that whine.
Stupid n00b question: Before I blow everything away with the FDR, what's the best way to preserve all of my photos, and other app data? FWIW, before I started this project, I used Titanium to back up everything it knows about, but IIRC it doesn't anything photos, music, etc., etc.
I suppose I can just do a drag and drop of the phone legacy "SD" and stuff it all back in again after the FDR. Or doesn't that fly?
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If you were rooted, and had a custom recovery, you could use that to backup your DATA partition, and restore it later, but yea, definitely backup your photos and vids to PC before doing anything, apps and stuff can be reinstalled, not great losing photos
Titanium backup is great for apps and data, not sure about photos and other user files that I know of, it's been years since I used it last
This gets worse and worse. In hopes of reviving WiFi and root, I went back to 4.4.4. And soft-bricked the phone.
Reverting to 5.0 undid the soft bricking but now I'm back to no WiFi.
At the moment, since I now have access to the data, photos, etc., I'm moving all of them out of harm's way. From there I guess I'm condemned to doing a FDR, installing 4.4.4, rooting, and trying to retain root as I go into 5.0. Damn VZW for making this so hard. [/Snarl]
Mostly out of desperation, I tried going back to 4.4.2 (NCG, not NE9), where the phone was when I started. Once again the phone is soft-bricked. What is going on here??? I'm using the files from Sammobile (forked over €7.50 to get things done somewhat faster...).
Under 5.0, at least I can read much of what I need to save, but things like wpa_supplicant.conf are closed to me because of I can't root the S5 under 5.0. Or can I?? If so, I'd be home free. D/l all the files I want to preserve, do an FDR, use Ti or Helium (I'm trying both) to restore much of the stuff lost in an FDR, and move forward from there.
Yea you can root lollipop with CF Auto Root, but it will trip KNOX
This project is driving me insane!
KitKat soft-bricks the phone, making any backup impossible, making rooting impossible, all under 4.n.n. 5.0 almost works except for the Settings flavor of WiFI (FoxFi works as expected, trying to revert to "normal" WiFi from FoxFi doesn't work).
Rooting under 5.0 will trip Knox. Maybe I'm being silly about that, but I'd like avoid that. I've had the phone about a year, so maybe I should just build a bridge, etc.
Meanwhile, in trying to set up to FDR, I went to Helium (Carbon as was) Pro to put the backup in Google Drive. Why? Because any internal backup ground to a halt at Titanium (37 of 87 backed up by Helium's accounting). Thinking I was hitting a space issue (not enough room for a full internally stored backup), I moved to Pro to store the backup off the machine (whyinhell doesn't Helium let you use the PC needed to enable Helium in the first place???). And that backup also ground to a halt at Ti. ARGH!!!!
OK, I fixed the Helium issue. For some reason, Helium refuses to backup Titanium. Is this hating because clockmod doesn't like Ti or is this one of life's very weird coincidences? Either way, I have 85 of 87 possible apps covered. The rest I can revive some other way without too much pain.
So I guess an FDR is coming soon...
I spoke too soon. Since I tinkered around a bit with trying to see if Helium keeps multiple date and time stamped backups (it doesn't! what's up with that??) I decided to do another full backup (less Ti, of course). and the backup ground to a halt at item 37 of 85 items. Yes, item 37, whatever it is, is a toxic item. What a crock! Worse, I'm out of the refund period for Pro. Dis sux.
OK, the FDR woke up WiFi and left me in 5.0. Now to try to regress to NCG...
I think this ends the thread. I got 5.0 running with WiFi but no root - FDR did the trick. I used Odin to put in 4.4.2 NCG and seemed to be soft-bricked. I used the bootloader(?) to do an FDR on the 4.4.2 install and that cleared up the soft-brick. 4.4.2 is now rooted with towelroot. If I have things right, I can get from a rooted 4.4.n to 5.0 and keep root without changing 0x0. We'll see if that's true... Meanwhile, for this thread, I'm out.
I have a problem transferring all of my data to my replacement 6P. My charging port burnt up and broke the data connection. My phone will still charge though even though I do not trust it. My problem is that I cannot find a way to conveniently restore all apps and data to my replacement phone. ADB is not an option since the data lines are fried and all of the ADB over WiFi options I know of require me to set it up with the cable first. I am not rooted. My bootloader is currently locked. Native Android backup only has like 9 apps backed up and won't restore anything else but those 9 apps and my contacts. I cannot get the native back up to sync anything besides those 9 apps (not sure why this is happening). I could download all of my apps manually and use my NAS to transfer individual files but that will take forever. I want to lose as little data as possible. I do have an ADB backup from right before I updated to Nougat on the official release day so I might just have to lose a month of data (which isn't horrible but not ideal). Does anyone have any other suggestions besides manually reinstalling everything or using my old ADB backup?
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I have a problem transferring all of my data to my replacement 6P. My charging port burnt up and broke the data connection. My phone will still charge though even though I do not trust it. My problem is that I cannot find a way to conveniently restore all apps and data to my replacement phone. ADB is not an option since the data lines are fried and all of the ADB over WiFi options I know of require me to set it up with the cable first. I am not rooted. My bootloader is currently locked. Native Android backup only has like 9 apps backed up and won't restore anything else but those 9 apps and my contacts. I cannot get the native back up to sync anything besides those 9 apps (not sure why this is happening). I could download all of my apps manually and use my NAS to transfer individual files but that will take forever. I want to lose as little data as possible. I do have an ADB backup from right before I updated to Nougat on the official release day so I might just have to lose a month of data (which isn't horrible but not ideal). Does anyone have any other suggestions besides manually reinstalling everything or using my old ADB backup?
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I realize this doesn't really help you now, but you have articulated the best argument for rooting, as Titanium Backup would fix your issue. Second, what about TWRP and a nandroid? You don't need root but you do need an unlocked bootloader. Your only good option would be to manually reset up your apps IMHO.
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Lol. I know. This is the first device I haven't rooted and the only one that absolutely needs root. I was happy with stock on this so I never got around to it then when I did have time, I didn't want to restore everything after unlocking the bootloader. I'm the only one to blame for this. I just can't figure out why the native backup won't back anything up. If I could figure that out, I could easily solve this problem.
I can't unlock the bootloader without losing everything. Looks like I have a long day to look forward to tomorrow.
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Lol. I know. This is the first device I haven't rooted and the only one that absolutely needs root. I was happy with stock on this so I never got around to it then when I did have time, I didn't want to restore everything after unlocking the bootloader. I'm the only one to blame for this. I just can't figure out why the native backup won't back anything up. If I could figure that out, I could easily solve this problem.
I can't unlock the bootloader without losing everything. Looks like I have a long day to look forward to tomorrow.
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Google backup is OK for apps but your settings and data don't get backed up properly anyway. At this point just suck it up, unlock your new BL, custom recovery and root it, then set it up from scratch. After that you can have nandroid and TB app backups and be in good shape.
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Apologies for asking again for what is likely the 100th time here, but what's the good backup/restore package these days? I used to use Titanium, but can't root my phone (Verizon S5 SM-G900V Android 6.0.1) so Titanium doesn't even run anymore and Helium seems to do the backup, but always complains the backup file is corrupt when I try to do a test restore. I get no response from the developers and comment in the Play Store seem to echo my issues with it. I have something bizarre going on with the phone and want to do a factory reset and restore since I haven't done one in well over a year. I do have a 'spare' S5 to test with (Unfortunately, the mic doesn't work on it or I'd just transfer everything and use that one)
I'd really prefer not to have to do this all manually because, invariably, I'll miss something.
Thx!