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mrgsm021

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#75213 14-Jan-2011 16:47

Have been flashing my SGS today and used Titanium backup for the first time to backup and store the apps, I must say its not as easy as I thought, but still is more convenient then searching through the market to download the apps again, certainly saving the bandwidth on my wifi.

When I do the batch restore, I still have to manually click install on each app, luckily, I only have 41 apps to restore, so not a lot by any means.

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#427215 14-Jan-2011 17:00

Have you tried "Astro"? You have a checkbox at the top to select all and then you just deselect the ones you dont want. I use Titanium, astro and a few others as they all do different things better and they don't take up that much space with apps2sd or 2.2

edit: I just clicked on what you mean... how you have to click install and all the permissions and stuff... a PITA but it's better than a rogue app sneaking in and stuffing things up. Amd if you decide that you had backed up a sh*te app, you just click cancel and it skips to the next one! Or buy pro... after a refresh I see this was suggested!

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#427217 14-Jan-2011 17:00

In order to get fully automated app restore you must purchase the pro version (well worth it in my opinion) was only about $5 and i use it all the time when updating to the latest ROM, great app.

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#427257 14-Jan-2011 20:09

If you need another buy titanium backup pro, it gives you the ability to push updates to system apps (Maps, etc) that have been downloaded from the market into the phone's ROM (/system), freeing space in the usually fairly limited size user (/data) partition. Dropbox sync is nice too.

I've only found one issue with the batch restore, TB is meant to support restoring apps back to the SD card if they were installed there when backed up but it's not 100% reliable.

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#427284 14-Jan-2011 21:40

blakamin: Have you tried "Astro"? You have a checkbox at the top to select all and then you just deselect the ones you dont want. I use Titanium, astro and a few others as they all do different things better and they don't take up that much space with apps2sd or 2.2

edit: I just clicked on what you mean... how you have to click install and all the permissions and stuff... a PITA but it's better than a rogue app sneaking in and stuffing things up. Amd if you decide that you had backed up a sh*te app, you just click cancel and it skips to the next one! Or buy pro... after a refresh I see this was suggested!

No, I haven't tried Astro, titanium is one of the highly rated backup & restore app on the market so only looked at that and nothing else, but thanks for the suggestion, will take a look.

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#427285 14-Jan-2011 21:41

hazza87: In order to get fully automated app restore you must purchase the pro version (well worth it in my opinion) was only about $5 and i use it all the time when updating to the latest ROM, great app.

Ahh, that's what the difference is between the free and the paid pro version, I guess you can't make all the nifty features available on a free version, gotta make some money out of writing an app.

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#427289 14-Jan-2011 21:50

the paid version is 5 odd dollars and well worth it. I usually have about 70 apps that i restore with every rom flash and having the convenience of restoring the apps with press is great.. rather than.. install... done... install done... that's 140 button presses i could do without :-)

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#427290 14-Jan-2011 21:58

Everytime I flash to a new ROM, the market does not seem to recognise the apps I have downloaded on the previous ROM, I thought the market will recognise which apps I have previously downloaded via my Gmail login?

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#454079 1-Apr-2011 10:01

Damager: the paid version is 5 odd dollars and well worth it. I usually have about 70 apps that i restore with every rom flash and having the convenience of restoring the apps with press is great.. rather than.. install... done... install done... that's 140 button presses i could do without :-)

Just bought the Pro version and started on automated restoration but it takes ages to start, as I am typing this it is still on 0% with 0/66 apps, is this normal?

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#454085 1-Apr-2011 10:27

Doesn't sound right...

Titanium Backup is so worth the money. I flashed to Darky's 9.5 ROM day before last, batch installed my 131 apps, would be a nightmare otherwise!

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#454088 1-Apr-2011 10:29

That's what I thought, so I stopped the batch restore and went back to my home screen and there it is, the app that was being restored on TB is actually restored, that is weird. will try rebooting my phone and see if that helps.

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#454091 1-Apr-2011 10:33

nope, it still does the same thing, it just shows restoring xxxx app and progress is 0%.

Any ideas anyone?

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#454094 1-Apr-2011 10:35

Do you have USB Debugging enabled?

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#454102 1-Apr-2011 10:51

lokhor: Do you have USB Debugging enabled?

Ahhh, that was it, thank you lokhor, its restoring automatically now.

Didn't know I had to enable USB debugging first, didn't have to enable it when using the free version

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#454105 1-Apr-2011 10:54

Yeah it's required for automated restoration only

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#454167 1-Apr-2011 12:34

mrgsm021: Everytime I flash to a new ROM, the market does not seem to recognise the apps I have downloaded on the previous ROM, I thought the market will recognise which apps I have previously downloaded via my Gmail login?

It takes a while to reconcile everything if you have 100s of apps. Sometimes it helps to clear the data for the Market app from Settings, Applications.

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