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Help Titanium Backup experts: I need your help restoring

sremick

sremick

Android Expert
I'm in uncharted personal territory here and could really use some assistance from people who have done several successful full restores with Titanium backup on the Captivate.

I had my phone replaced and I'm trying to restore onto the replacement phone. Here is what I did, and the order:

Installed SIM and MicroSD
Went to market (at which point had to add Google account)
Downloaded Titanium Backup
Copied sdcard/ folder from backup drive
Installed z4root via SWM
rooted via z4root
Confirmed that TB now had root access and saw my license file
Manually redid TB settings, including pointing to sd/TitaniumBackup
Restored with "Restore missing apps + all system data"

Here's where things have not gone well. Right from the beginning, the TB restores starting giving me issues. They'd churn for a while, then hang (stuck on a progress percentage without advancing any more) or even "reboot" (I put that in quotes because I don't get the Galaxy S splash screens or animations... it just seemingly shuts "off" for a bit, then the next thing I see is the "Draw pattern to unlock" screen and watch what appears to be the rest of a normal warm boot). I kept trying to re-run "Restore missing apps + all system data" to pick up where I left off, but it took many, many rounds to get all the apps to restore.

Worried my backup was bad, I tried a verify... but it checks out fine.

And even now, things are not well at all. The thing is dog slow... we're not talking the normal nuisance "lag", but lag to the point of being unusable. The boot process takes so long I sometimes wonder if it ever actually ends... long after I think it's ended, I finally see something like the second "media scanner", or my "Startup Cleaner" finally run after ages. Lots of things FC. I can't run LauncherPro... it FCs... and when I tried restoring it again a-la-carte via TB I got another "reboot".

I'm not sure if I did something wrong, or in the wrong order, or missed a step, or what. Could really use some advice here from people who've gone through this before (probably some of you do this on a regular basis). Thanks!
 
Open Titanium, go to Preferences, scroll down to App processing mode, and press second radio button: AUTO, Indirect.

I suffered through the loop / hang and this took care of it.
 
Jack45 said:
Open Titanium, go to Preferences, scroll down to App processing mode, and press second radio button: AUTO, Indirect.

I suffered through the loop / hang and this took care of it.
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Thanks, but I already had done this before even starting the restores, having remembered needing it to successfully use the "freeze" feature (clued into this by the TB author).

So that's not it. It's been set to "Auto, indirect" since the start. :(
 
Thanks. Read through that thread and was enlightening about some issues but didn't really see anything that applied to my situation.

Waiting on the author's reply to my latest email but still experimenting. If I need to I'll install MyBackup on my old phone and make a new backup using that but it seems to be a "dumber" program than TB.
 
sremick said:
If I need to I'll install MyBackup on my old phone and make a new backup using that but it seems to be a "dumber" program than TB.
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It certainly doesn't sport some of Titanium's features (freezing apps, etc.) but it does work as advertised. There have been times when Titanium would not do my bidding and I needed to resort to the reliable MyBackup Pro.
 
What I ended up doing is doing a factory reset, starting over, and only restoring individual applications with their data, being sure to not do any batch restores that included "system data". Instead, I only restore specific system data I cared about, such as contacts, wifi APs, etc.

Much better now. Still takes much longer to boot than before, but at least now it does boot and is stable once it finishes booting.
 
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