FLAWLESSVW
Well-Known Member
I stumbled on a useful feature in Titanium Backup the other day.
I am assuming it is a Pro feature but since going pro I believe it's well worth it.
I find myself wanting to freeze and defrost apps on-the-fly, such as Facebook, since it is such an invasive app when you're not using it. But the once a day or so I log on, I do want to use the actual fb app as opposed to the Web interface.
Typically I'd go into TB and manually freeze/defrost which is mildly painful since you need to filter thru all other apps in the TB app list.
I found you can create a widget to "toggle" this behavior for any app.
(Once you get into the widget setting, you'll see there are a million other things you can do related to backups and a bunch of other things as well).
Create a new Titanium Backup widget (Actions)
Set action to Freeze/Defrost/Launch an app. Set the application to the app of your choice. You can even set a password here if you wish!
You'll have a new app icon that doesn't look much different than the normal app icon. The difference as you'll see in the screen shots below is that it has either a green or red lock over it, letting you know if it's frozen or defrosted. When you click to toggle and defrost it will automatically launch the app for you. After you're done using the app, simply click again to freeze.
Simple but I think very handy for the 6 or 8 apps I do use but like to keep frozen when not in use! :thumbup:
I am assuming it is a Pro feature but since going pro I believe it's well worth it.
I find myself wanting to freeze and defrost apps on-the-fly, such as Facebook, since it is such an invasive app when you're not using it. But the once a day or so I log on, I do want to use the actual fb app as opposed to the Web interface.
Typically I'd go into TB and manually freeze/defrost which is mildly painful since you need to filter thru all other apps in the TB app list.
I found you can create a widget to "toggle" this behavior for any app.
(Once you get into the widget setting, you'll see there are a million other things you can do related to backups and a bunch of other things as well).
Create a new Titanium Backup widget (Actions)
Set action to Freeze/Defrost/Launch an app. Set the application to the app of your choice. You can even set a password here if you wish!
You'll have a new app icon that doesn't look much different than the normal app icon. The difference as you'll see in the screen shots below is that it has either a green or red lock over it, letting you know if it's frozen or defrosted. When you click to toggle and defrost it will automatically launch the app for you. After you're done using the app, simply click again to freeze.
Simple but I think very handy for the 6 or 8 apps I do use but like to keep frozen when not in use! :thumbup:
