Best way to back-up settings and apps for a new rom?

Guys I know I'm stupid. But I know all the basics of flashing, rooting, recovery, etc... But I never cared about backing up my settings and apps, I always started fresh. But now since I flash a lot more I'm starting to get annoyed. :silly: I want to start backing up, but is it possible to do so and keep all my settings, my apps, and the settings of my apps? I know Titanium Backup can backup setting and apps but can it backup system settings as well? I would prefer to use what you guys think is the best option, thanks again. I do not care about backing up the whole ROM itself with all the apps and settings via TWRP or any other custom recovery, the whole point of this post is to have a fresh ROM then restore it with all the apps and settings I previously had on the ROM before.

INVALID/00 [re-write] IMEI without any backup

As there's no solutions yet for the problems above hope you guys or some devs. can help/produce some solutions.. more specific situations:
1. you never backup the imei numbers
2. device totally bricked (fatal error/failed while flashing fastboot rom).
3. device fall into qhsusb_bulk, which no fastboot or recovery access..
4. bring it back to live with testpoint process(hardware) jtag likes on other devices.
5. its back to live with known baseband, esn but the 00/invalid imei.

what to achieves :
1. find ways to bring back its default imei numbers.

ive do some research and ive start a thread on miui forums too
you can see it here http://en.miui.com/forum.php?mod=vie...66001&mobile=2
some people does have this problems too.

How to backup all contacts with full res images

I like to experiment with roms and settings and that's why i have to take backups and restore my contacts several times a month. Google contacts sync is worse than useless (reason: suppose one contact has multiple phone numbers and emails, after restore Google always creates separate contacts with those, and it doesn't backup high resolution images).
There are several apps on playstore which deal with this issue but they all fail miserably while backing up original quality contact photos stored in my device. Mcbackup does a decent job but even when photo compression is disabled, is still reduces the quality of saved images.
So please please please help me find a proper way to take full contact backups with original quality contact images. Share your valuable experience. :)

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Can't select .ab file for Titanium Backup Pro

Hi there,

I made a backup of my phone's data using adb backup (data only) and now want to use Titanium Backup Pro to restore some of it to my phone after a data wipe when I unlocked the bootloader. I'm trying to follow their kb article on restoring from a .ab backup but when I try to select my file it's simply greyed out and I cannot select it.

I'm using a Sony Xperia Z C6603 rooted with TWRP on the stock rom and all.

Cheers

Need help extracting backup file.

I made a backup with the stock "android recovery 3e". Anyway to extract it? It's a ".backup" file and I can't open it whatever i try. It's not a nandroid backup, but with an "backup" extension. I've been searching for three days now and so far haven't found anything. There were some other threads with the same topic too but no solution was posted. Any help would be greatly appreciated, thanks.

Problem with Titanium Backup in android 6

Hi
I just root my device with elemntalX kenrel and supersu 2.52 but Titanium is not working, its my problem or titanium not working on 6 ? BTW i'm desperate , all my data is unavailabe now!!

getting htc m8 backup to my lg g4

Hi,
I have a problem to get my backup on my new phone. Let me explain, I had a htc m8, I made a backup with htc sync on my pc and when it broke I bought the LG G4 but now it seems that the lg backup software can't read the backup files made with the htc sync. I searched a way to get it back but the only way I found was if the m8 could be turn on and as you can think it can't.
Do you know any way to get my contacts and/or sms back to my g4 ?
Thanks.

Need help making a flashable zip from TWRP backup

So like the title says I would let you make it flashable zip from a twrp backup. Now before you all go crazy lol I have looked all over xda and I have followed every single guid I can find on doing it. Each time I do it it fails in TWRP when I try to flash it. Now I don't know if I am doing something wrong or what the deal is but for some reason it just will not boot it says fail every time I've tried with 7zip as well as WinRAR to make the zip and still nothing is there any kind of program or anything like that out there that can help me out can someone please point me in the right direction I definitely do not need my handheld just trying to figure this out and have been messing with it for the past 4 hours and getting pretty pissed off to be honest with you lol any help is appreciated thanks in advance.

Help making a flashable zip from a twrp backup

So like the title says I would let you make it flashable zip from a twrp backup. Now before you all go crazy lol I have looked all over xda and I have followed every single guid I can find on doing it. Each time I do it it fails in TWRP when I try to flash it. Now I don't know if I am doing something wrong or what the deal is but for some reason it just will not boot it says fail every time I've tried with 7zip as well as WinRAR to make the zip and still nothing is there any kind of program or anything like that out there that can help me out can someone please point me in the right direction I definitely do not need my handheld just trying to figure this out and have been messing with it for the past 4 hours and getting pretty pissed off to be honest with you lol any help is appreciated thanks in advance.

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Can't copy titanium backup files to PC [LGG4]

I used to be able to do this with my Galaxy S5, though that was always on Windows 8, I'm on 10 now.

When I connect to my computer to find my backup folder it is just a blank white icon that is 0kb, but if I look at it with ES File Explorer I can see everything fine. I see no way to upload a folder through onedrive or drive and ES File Explorer won't let me share over 100 files. I have over 600 files in the backup and I don't want to have to manually select all of them.

What is going on? How can I back up my back up to my PC? All other files and such are easily accessible through the computer

Thanks

Problem with backup TWRP

I did a backup with the TRWP recovery but I can't find the directory "TWRP" in the sd card, neither in the explorer nor in the pc when connecting. However, the directory is there if I look from the recovery.

Titanium Backup wont get root

Hi,

ehm soz for my bad english :)

Im running Android Revolution HD-One M9 12.0 ! All works fine

SuperSU was preinstalled!

I got rrot access there for sense tool box, root explorer etc.

Today i installed Titanum backup and now its getting interesting:

Installed - opend - SuperSu askes for permissions - press allow

Then Titanum said "No root......" At the same time i see the small HTC Windows who says root is allowed ???

So o tried do delete data in settings - apps - titanium and also for SuperSu

Tried it several times but it wont work ???

Anyone got similar Prob? It couldnt be much because SuperSu is working is asking and WTF :D

Thx all

How To Backup Original Stock ROM Of Lenovo A6000 Plus Without Root?

Hi XDA Developers, Good Evening To All... I'm Sathish, I'm Beginner And I'm New To This Forum... I've Already Asked The Original Stock ROM Of Lenovo A6000 Plus... But You Guys Didn't Provide It Here, Its Disgusting... OK Now I'm Asking You, How To Backup Original Stock ROM Of Lenovo A6000 Plus Without Root? At Least Tell Me What's The Procedure To Backup Original Stock ROM? I Will Backup Stock ROM Of Lenovo A6000 Plus And I'll Provide It Here... I Hope Any Android XDA Developer Give Solution For This...

[Titanium Backup] Update.zip too large

HI,

I'm having trouble with my update.zip file, created with Titanium Backup. I created it on my old Oneplus One thinking this would help me send all my data to my new Oneplus One. However, the file is 2.4GB, so too large to flash it with TWRP. This is the only backup I made before losing my old Oneplus, so I'd really like to get my data back.

Does anyone know if there's a way to use this update.zip file and maybe modify it to make it smaller and flashable with TWRP ? Or maybe use another recovery that doesn't have the 2GB limit ?

Thanks a lot.

ADB Backup Question

Has anyone used ADB to do a full backup of XT1575 and subsequent restore? I want to do a complete backup of phone so that restoring EVERYTHING to exactly as it was, after factory wipe (or with a new replacement phone), would be a simple matter of restoring from complete backup. Similar to what you get with the old Norton Ghost for Windows PCs: Brute force, image, 100% backup and restore, the restore puts the device back in exactly the same place it was when backed up including OS, config, apps, everything.

ADB:

I noticed that ADB backup of XT1575 (command "adb backup -all") produces a backup file about 25MB in size. This is whether the phone is encrypted or not. That seems WAY too small to be a complete "full image" backup of the phone, I would expect several GB. (For comparison, a different Android 5.1 phone produces a 200-700MB backup file, using the same command "adb backup -all".)

Running the command "adb backup -apk -all" produces a huge multi-GB backup file - even larger than I would expect for the OS/config/apps image itself. Is this the "full image" sort of backup I want? The ADB documentation says the -apk switch backs up apk's, which I believe should not be necessary to back up the installed/compiled apps as part of the system, which are different from their respective apk's. But without the -apk switch, the ADB backup file is only 25MB.

Appreciate any info offered.

TIA...

[Q] Phone can't recognize any fingerprints & dont accept my backup passes& No Wi-fi

so it sounds like any other stucked lockscreen thread BUT my problem is that i turned off both wi-fi and data before locking the device and now i cant turn them on due to SECURE LOCKSCREEN ! is there any way to turn them on and use either of those android device manager methods or other online methods or am i doomed to reset the phone ??!?!:confused:

No photos,datas...after TWRP backup restore

So I restored my twrp backup to my phone.

Restarted the phone, everything's perfect but when I check album there are no photos. I don't see any data's either.

I tried to backup like maybe thrice but it's still the same.

Any ideas ?

How can i backup my rom on xperia D2303?

Hi guys,
I have a rooted and unlocked Sony Xperia D2303 (18.3.1.C.1.13).
The only way i could find to make a whole backup of my phone is to use a cwm recovery. The problem is i have one but its only cwm based and there is no backup and restore functionaly.

So can someone help me? What should i do?

Strange Build #. Want to root, backup and revert.

I need a bit of help with this one.

I have a Samsung Galaxy S4 on Verizon, Android 4.4.2 Build VRUFNK4 (I believe this is an intermediate build between the stock VRUFNK1 and Lollipop).

What I'd like to do is root, backup the current build and then revert back if possible to VRUFNK1.

I'm new to rooting a phone so I could use a bit of help and links. I've read many of the posts and tips, but most specifically don't mention my build, which makes me a bit nervous.

Will towelroot work with this ?
Should I use TWRP or Titanium for backup ?
And.........can I find and revert back to the official build VRUFNK1 (4.4.2)

I simply want to get out of this strange build, remove bloatware........ and have some control over not being pestered over OTA updates from Verizon/Samsung.
Possibly, in the future, I'll play around with some custom ROM's.

Any help and opinions would be appreciated.

how to backup and restore imei on samsung galaxy s3 i9300

how can i backup my samsung galaxy s3 i9300 and restore to cyanogenmod 12.1?
i have battled with this for a really long time but i havent been successful but i believe there is a way i can get through this.
i have tried alot of programs like efs professional, ktool app, efs imei from playstore but after backing up, restoring to the cyanogenmod OS become an issue. HOW DO I GET AROUND THIS?
ANY HELP WILL BE MUCH APPRECIATED.