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justaneonlol

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Can someone explain exactly how it works? I'm guessing it's pretty simple, I just want to make sure I do it right. First time I rooted I didn't do a backup(I know what a dummy) and flashed a ROM and of course lost everything and it was a pain getting it all set back up. I have sprint so I wanted to un root and try out Jelly Bean, and if it's nothing special maybe re root and flash a different rom. Only thing keeping me is the back up portion. So does titanium backup contacts? Games and gamesaves? I looked briefly and was wondering if there is a way to do a complete backup and not have to do each individual app? And after you un root or wipe the phone, how does titanium backup remember your stuff, like with the wipe it deletes titanium, so once you restore do you just re download titanium and it automatically remembers your stuff? Sorry if this is a stupid question.
 
justaneonlol said:
So does titanium backup contacts? Games and gamesaves? I looked briefly and was wondering if there is a way to do a complete backup and not have to do each individual app? And after you un root or wipe the phone, how does titanium backup remember your stuff, like with the wipe it deletes titanium, so once you restore do you just re download titanium and it automatically remembers your stuff? Sorry if this is a stupid question.
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backup contacts would be through your Google account. and yes, it does backup the games and its save files.

you may run a "backup all apps and data". and it stores this backup on your internal memory in a 'Titanium Backup' folder. then if you flash a new ROM, just download Titanium Backup from the Play Store, and use the restore feature.

the catch is, if you are using the free Titanium Backup, you have to restore each app one by one. but if you buy Titanium Backup Pro, you can do a 'restore all' kinda thing. (as long as the backup files remain in your internal memory)
 
I use Titanium all the time, my backup is stored on my Ext SDCard, which is safer. Sometimes the internal can get wiped with a new rom install.
 
Here is my titanium tip. Never restore system data. This is what breaks things and is the reason most ROMs suggest a factory reset.

When backing up, backup everything. By this I mean use the "Backup all user apps + system data" option. Set the location to extSdCard as already mentioned. I recommend running this on a schedule. I run it every other day (at night).

Backup contacts to google. Backup sms using sms backup+ to gmail (can do call logs too).

When you first get titanium on your freshly reset device, it may say your ID is different and ask you to continue using this one or go back to the old one. You want to go back to the old one. Selecting this will reboot.

Then go back into Titanium, Menu > Preferences > backup folder location > Detect > Whole device. When it finds your location on /extSdCard, select it and press "use the current folder"

Now the actual restore....

Go into the Backup / restore tab
Press "click to edit filters"
Untick "system" and press the tick in the top right
Now you only see your app data. Press the tick in the top right
Choose "restore missing apps with data"

This way you will get all your lovely data back and apps back, but maintaining as clean as possible, a bug free ROM.

You need to change your ringtones, wallpapers etc but thats a small price to pay.
 
Titanium Backup is one of those things you'd think would be part of the basic OS, but it's a small price to pay for the power it brings to your device. Also very hand for freezing or deleting bloatware apps you don't need.
 
trucky said:
Titanium Backup is one of those things you'd think would be part of the basic OS, but it's a small price to pay for the power it brings to your device. Also very hand for freezing or deleting bloatware apps you don't need.
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Ironicly not being able to delete stock apps was one of the reason I got bored of iPhones to begin with - just to see that the S3 also has stock apps you can't get rid of unless you root and use Titanium ... :o

But yes, I do not understand how backup / restore is not part of the stock OS - I mean parts are of course - but I mean not just the apps (can re-download anyway) but their settings ...
 
Couldn't live without Titanium Backup - if you flash or intend to flash a lot buy the pro version. Apart from supporting the devs, as said above with Pro you can do batch restores, include a sync of scheduled backup to Dropbox/Box/Google Drive (i do weekly overnight via wifi) plus a load more that I probably haven't discovered yet :)
 
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