is there a way to backup or save my apps then be able to flash a new rom then restore them without losing data or atleast not have to re download them
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titanium ---- you can find it in the market.....it costs but it restores apps and data.....
if you just want apps ...... eclips3 scripts...they work
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=6142643
Did you not see the post I made which is about ten posts below this one? Or you can click the link in my sig about the backup and reinstalling of apps script that I wrote.
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ok cool thanks man ill try it
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mkdir /sdcard/backupapp/
cp /data/app/* /sdcard/backupapp/
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cp /sdcard/backupapp/* /data/app/
mkdir /sdcard/backupapp/
cp /data/app/* /sdcard/backupapp/
cp /sdcard/backupapp/* /data/app/
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Thais exactly what's in my script except for the mkdir which I was looking for to update my script.
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so how do you reinstall, sorry, i'm using a mac
*edit* never mind figured it out
There is an amazing feature in Amon Ra's recovery called "Fix Permissions".
DO NOT WIPE DATA
Click other ->Fix permissions after flashing a new rom.
All your apps will still be installed
As a note - still do a dalvik wipe. ALWAYS.
Thanks
Will either of these methods restore market links so updates will be avail?
Dude, IMO Astro file manager is just plain simple to use for app backup. I mean seriously just install it, run it, go to app/ backup manager and either check all or some apps to backup up. Voila. Don't get no easier than that my friend.
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Dude, IMO Astro file manager is just plain simple to use for app backup. I mean seriously just install it, run it, go to app/ backup manager and either check all or some apps to backup up. Voila. Don't get no easier than that my friend.
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Yes but your apps are not listed in the market after an update to a new ROM. You have to hit next, done like a million times. If your apps arent in the market, you wont get notice about updates. With the donated version of Titanium, it does it all for you automatically. Very simple and full of features. You can get the free version to see what it offers and then pay the 2.99 for the full future one. The dev responds very quickly too.
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Hi I was thinking of buying titanium backup pro but I was thinking.. don't you lose it once you flash a new rom?
Also when I want to flash a new rom can I just flashover the other one with clockwork ? Im new
No you just download it again from the market after you log into gmail
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Thanks but how exactly? Because I flashed yesterday, logged back into my gmail. And no apparently were in downloads
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Search for Titanium, and redownload. You can always redownload purchased apps after flashing or even uninstalling them, as long as you're signed in with the same Google account. You can also make an update.zip file within Titanium that will let you flash it back in to make restores quicker when you flash a new ROM.
Or you can do what i do which is anything that I purchase, make sure you save the .apk file not only on your phone but back it up to your desktop. That way you can reinstall Titanium immediately after flashing your new rom.
Okay thanks guys, but im kinda a noon soon how might I make the update.zip or save the apk to.my desktop if titanium the app itself is saved to the phone not the sd card?
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steelefriese said:
Okay thanks guys, but im kinda a noon soon how might I make the update.zip or save the apk to.my desktop if titanium the app itself is saved to the phone not the sd card?
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If you have a rom saved to your desktop that already has Titanium then all you have to do is unzip and find the apk in there. I think its usually under /system/apps and /data/apps. Or...
You can use ADB. If you know the name of your app, this is the command:
adb pull system/app/titanium.apk c:\dir
Or to get a list of apps installed to phone:
adb remount
adb shell
cd system/app
ls
list the apps installed to the sd card:
adb remount
adb shell
su
cd data/app
ls
Titanium is different than any other paid app (at least this is how it used to work when I bought it.)
When I bought it, the author provided a text file that you placed in the root of you SD card that unlocked the pro version. That way, I just have to make sure that file's in my root dir and I can just download the free one from the Market (or install the APK) whenever I change ROMs. I don't have to worry about the potential that the Pro version doesn't show in the Market.
Does it not work like that anymore?
That version still exists, but you can also now buy it in the market.
Saiboogu said:
That version still exists, but you can also now buy it in the market.
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That's good. I'd encourage anyone to use that method of purchase, if still possible.
That way, you're automatically upgraded to the Pro version, even if a dev provides the free one in a ROM, by installing from a backup APK, or just downloading the free one from the Market.
I am totally new to smart phones but i am pretty savy on a computer. I rooted my thunderbloat using a one click root i found on this site but still cant remove the software I want. Anyone else have the same issue?
Are you using titanium backup to uninstall the bloat?
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Are you using titanium backup to uninstall the bloat?
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I use Titanium Backup Pro and Freeze the apps for now...
If you have root, you can download Root Explorer from the app store. Use it to browse to the app directory and just delete the apps you don't want. Another option is to rename the unwanted apps. For example, change APPNAME.apk to APPNAME.apk.bk ... then it will be "hidden" from the system. Restore it at anytime by removing the ".bk" extension.
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If you have root, you can download Root Explorer from the app store. Use it to browse to the app directory and just delete the apps you don't want. Another option is to rename the unwanted apps. For example, change APPNAME.apk to APPNAME.apk.bk ... then it will be "hidden" from the system. Restore it at anytime by removing the ".bk" extension.
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Is there a free version of root explorer? Or a free way to rename these files? I don't really feel like paying $4 to remove bloatware.
coder_t2 said:
Is there a free version of root explorer? Or a free way to rename these files? I don't really feel like paying $4 to remove bloatware.
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there is always the option of adb and manually removing stuff if you are familair with linux commands
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there is always the option of adb and manually removing stuff if you are familair with linux commands
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Anytime I connect via my computer, it says permission denied for su. I know I have root, so I am a little confused. I can uninstall with Titanium Backup, but I was planning on keeping a copy of the apk, just in case. Is there any reason I would need this bloatware? Such as for Warranty or insurance? Other wise I'll just go and remove the worst of the bloat with Titanium backup. Thanks.
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Anytime I connect via my computer, it says permission denied for su. I know I have root, so I am a little confused. I can uninstall with Titanium Backup, but I was planning on keeping a copy of the apk, just in case. Is there any reason I would need this bloatware? Such as for Warranty or insurance? Other wise I'll just go and remove the worst of the bloat with Titanium backup. Thanks.
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there is RUU downloads in the Dev forum that will get you back to where you need to be in case you want to warranty your phone and make it 100% stock again. Best thing to do before removing stuff is boot into clockwork recovery or use rom manager(from the market) and backup everything...then delete. if you come across a problem with deleting something jsut restore from a backup.
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there is RUU downloads in the Dev forum that will get you back to where you need to be in case you want to warranty your phone and make it 100% stock again. Best thing to do before removing stuff is boot into clockwork recovery or use rom manager(from the market) and backup everything...then delete. if you come across a problem with deleting something jsut restore from a backup.
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Oh I didn't about the backup. I'll have to do that. Does the backup copy apks and everything too? Thanks.
can I use any uninstaller app from the market to do this, or do I need a special one? thx.
I believe you have to be s off
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You could try SystemApp Remover (market link: https://market.android.com/details?id=com.danesh.system.app.remover&feature=search_result ). It only requires root and busybox for most devices. I say most because it requires S-OFF for the HTC Desire.
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I believe you have to be s off
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Just a lil curious... Wont the Titanium Backup do the job??
My Aria is S-off. is that changes anything?
didn't tried titanium backup.
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My Aria is S-off. is that changes anything?
didn't tried titanium backup.
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If it does, then its for the better. You could try Titanium backup or some root uninstaller like the one linked.
thx, I will try titanium.
Bloat freezer works well too if all you wanna do us freeze them. I use it to freeze some system apps.
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can I use any uninstaller app from the market to do this, or do I need a special one? thx.
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Search this forum, there is a thread about removing bloatware using adb commands - no s-off needed.
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EDIT: see here
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=735255&highlight=bloatware
I'm comfortable using ADB commands, but still if that can be done using titianum backup then using ADB seems just a hassle.
Bloat freezer works well too if all you wanna do us freeze them. I use it to freeze some system apps.
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what do you mean by freeze?
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what do you mean by freeze?
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I did a quick search and found this: "Freezing an app prevents it from running constantly in the background on its own and pretty much makes it invisible to the system."
I would just freeze system apps that you don't want/need. You can just unfreeze if something goes wrong.
Like today my voice search was force closing on me and tried everything to make it work. Finally figured out it needed the stock browser to work, I had it frozen since I use dolphin.
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so far uninstalled most of AT&T apps and everything is OK. good tip about the browser. would freeze it.
reboot to clockwork recovery, mount /system via partitions menu, attach usb to PC, adb shell, remove the offending APKs via the busybox shell.
/system is writable when in CWR's busybox.
Works for me with CWR 2.5.0.1, s-on, hboot 0.57 (original aria) and CM71
I was wondering if there is a way to point to a directory containing nothing but APK files and have each one installed on the device in question.
See I found myself needing to wipe my SGS3, I went ahead and backed up every USER installed app (from /data/app dir) and copied all the apks to my external SD card. After I install a fresh OS on the phone I would like to be able to have an app or some kind of batch file to point to where all the apks are and have them auto install.
EDIT: I just found THIS <APK batch installer>, would this work on our device?
I don't know about that but
I used titanium backup to backup my apps on My old phone and used it to batch restore
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I'm not sure if I am okay with you using the bear as a profile picture.
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Titanium back up (for rooted phones) free version will restore all the apps, but you have to hit "install" on each one as they come up.
I believe the Pro version does it automatically.
MontyPyFly said:
Titanium back up (for rooted phones) free version will restore all the apps, but you have to hit "install" on each one as they come up.
I believe the Pro version does it automatically.
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Titanium Backup (Pro version) does what you want. Once you have the Pro version, click on the checkmark in the top right corner to see the batch operations.
And you do want the Pro because it works better than anything else I've tried. Go Backup and MyBackup have both failed for me before.
Titanium Backup Pro is what you want.
But if you're cheap, and you don't care about app data, you can batch adb install all your apps with a simple batch or shell script like:
Code:
$ for app in *.apk; do echo "Installing $app ..." ; adb install $app; done
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I'm not sure if I am okay with you using the bear as a profile picture.
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Its ok, I am
JDMpire said:
Its ok, I am
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Bwahaha
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Ok I'm not talking about htc built in apps. But this useless bull**** apps that just sitting on my app drawer with no ****ing reason:
7digital
Ais
Axis net
Broadband
Dtac
I store
I muzik 3g
Mobiletv
Mobile tv
Mobi tv
Mworld
My HTC
Myhtcs
Ringtunes
Telkomsel
Truemoveh
Viettel
XL
I have successfuly uninstalled them all using link2sd (need root).
I try to uninstalled 7digital then my phone restarts by itself, I'm scared a bit, then after my phone booted all that **** apps I just uninstalled came back. Wtf???
Any solutions?
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You can only remove them in recovery via adb shell rm /system/app/*.apk
And if you're on stock ROM, also remove it's odex adb shell rm /system/app/*.odex
Or you can use the script made by Maarten here : http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=36278172&postcount=30
extract the updater-script, edit the filename for the apk that you need to remove and put in back in the zip, and flash that in recovery.
Tried root uninstaller but no luck either. It came back after reboot :/
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w1040 said:
Tried root uninstaller but no luck either. It came back after reboot :/
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No app can uninstall app on DX except the way I described above.
There is some sort of protection HTC imposed on DX that you cannot use an app like TB, Root Uninstaller & etc; they won't work.
Note: before you remove anything, make sure you make a nandroid of your stock ROM before that as once an OTA is out, you need a clean stock ROM to update successfully.
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No app can uninstall app on DX except the way I described above.
There is some sort of protection HTC imposed on DX that you cannot use an app like TB, Root Uninstaller & etc; they won't work.
Note: before you remove anything, make sure you make a nandroid of your stock ROM before that as once an OTA is out, you need a clean stock ROM to update successfully.
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But my rom are now rooted its too late to make a nand backup now..
Anyway, nand backup is on cwm recovery right?
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If you never remove anything from the system partition, it is never too late.
(I believe you not yet able to remove anything )
And yes, make a nandroid backup with CWM.
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If you never remove anything from the system partition, it is never too late.
(I believe you not yet able to remove anything )
And yes, make a nandroid backup with CWM.
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What I meant is its too late for me to backup a clean stock unrooted rom.
Sorry can't edit my post above since I'm new user although I'm not new to xda I'd just created a new account.
Anyway I wish there was a simple way to remove the odex on the bloatware I want to uninstalled. On link2sd, the app mentioned above are marked with ODEX (green).
Guess you were right, can't move an an app with an odex on it though I don't know what odex is.
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I understood that. What I meant is it is ok to make backup with a rooted stock ROM.
To update an OTA, you don't need to remove your root app or any installed app as long as all system files are intact. You don't even need to relock your bootloader. What you need is a stock recovery.
You can read more on this topic on the link in my sig. Even though that is for One V, it works the same principal for DX.
You can remove system apps from recovery using app called Aroma File Manager, made by Amarullz, you have the link in my Index.
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You can remove system apps from recovery using app called Aroma File Manager, made by Amarullz, you have the link in my Index.
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Totally forgot about this nice recovery explorer/file manager
As I always use a PC base explorer/file manager to add/remove files to/from system partition.
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ckpv5 is right. You can not delete files simply from Data or System folders.
You have to do that in recovery mode. If you try to delete files from any File explorer, your phone will simply restart.
Though we have rooted our phone, however it is not 100% rooted. HTC made S-ON on all of those device so that people can not do any changes on systems.
Play with your phone with complete nand backup.
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ckpv5 is right. You can not delete files simply from Data or System folders.
You have to do that in recovery mode. If you try to delete files from any File explorer, your phone will simply restart.
Though we have rooted our phone, however it is not 100% rooted. HTC made S-ON on all of those device so that people can not do any changes on systems.
Play with your phone with complete nand backup.
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Actually we do have 100% root, S-Off differs a lot from root. And there are multiple ways of deleting the apps. You can make a flashable zip file yourself if you know how to, you can use aroma file manager (mount system before using it), adb, or any other recovery file manager, if it exists
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Probably someone should make a tutorial how to delete system apps here using aroma file manager?
Would be really useful.
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MaartenXDA said:
Actually we do have 100% root, S-Off differs a lot from root. And there are multiple ways of deleting the apps. You can make a flashable zip file yourself if you know how to, you can use aroma file manager (mount system before using it), adb, or any other recovery file manager, if it exists
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Yup understand. I am sorry I wanted to say he can not do it thru any file browser when the phone is running. It will simply reboot.
Need to try Aroma File manager. Deleting with flashable.zip is really a pain not so simple.
w1040 said:
Probably someone should make a tutorial how to delete system apps here using aroma file manager?
Would be really useful.
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+1 for that.
Addition
I have made a new idea on removing bloatwares. The idea is that the user can select the apps that are to be deleted in aroma. I have already made a project regarding this but only for my device. You can port it to your device and maybe share this with everyone.
Link to my thread: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2632355
With some changes, it will work great and our community can develop!!
But please don't cross post...
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But please don't cross post...
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Yeah! One moderator told me! I won't do like that from now onwards!
I have the t-mobile 626s variant. Ive rooted and still have a bunch of process and apps I dont want. I dont have a computer at the moment becuase its being fixed. Is there a list of apps safe to remove? Thank You
You have to install an insecure kernel. You can find a lot of custom kernel in these forum, choose one of them