OK, So I have my rom properly working on my device and I have a nandroid backup of it. I'm making an update.zip so I can hand it to my testers, but when you flash the update.zip, the settings.apk and gmail/google_login don't appear in the programs list, even though they're in the /system/app/ folder on the device.
I end up having to adb push the settings apk to get it back, and no matter what I do I can't get gmail to show up again - so I wiped and restored my nandroid backup and that works - Gmail and settings. OK, weird, so I adb PULLED all of the apps in the /system/app/ folder and used those to recreate the update.zip... same problem after flash, settings.apk needs to be pushed and gmail is broken.
Edit: Also, on the new flash, the first screen of HTC setup is skipped, the first screen you see is the second screen. If I open HTC setup on my restored backup, this doesn't happen.
HELP!
Not content with installing apps one by one, I decided to see if Titanium Backup would work..and alas! It does!
Pre-Reqs:
1. Rooted NookColor: http://nookdevs.com/NookColor_Rooting
2. BusyBox: http://nookdevs.com/NookColor_Installing_Busybox
3. SU/Superuser.apk: http://nookdevs.com/NookColor_Installing_su_and_the_Superuser_app
Titanium Backup installed on the phone: http://www.appbrain.com/app/titanium-backup-★-root/com.keramidas.TitaniumBackup (I recommend the paid version!)
Steps:
Open up Titanium Backup on your rooted Android phone, and backup the apps you'd like to transfer
Use Astro to backup Titanium Backup(Oddly wasn't able to do this through Titanium Backup itself?)
Use adb/astro to install Titanium Backup on the Nook, after BusyBox and SU have been installed
Transfer the 'TitaniumBackup' directory on your phones SD card to your nooks
Run Titanium Backup on your Nook, and go to batch restore, and then restore missing apps. I chose to restore the apps only, and not data.
Let it do it's thing, and you should be set Just did this with about 50 apps, and it seems to have worked.
you know, i was planning on trying this but never got to it. i'm glad you've already found out it can be done.
also, this is the easiest way to get busy box installed.
madsquabbles said:
also, this is the easiest way to get busy box installed.
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i wish, ive got busybox in the xbin folder but i get permission denied when installing
I was trying to use Titanium to back up whatever I have in my NC but no go.... it would always stay at 0%. Any ideas? I'm rooted and SU-ed.
I cannot get pass step 7. It said "bad mode"
A better way to install Busybox. Just install it from Titanium backup.
if you get the "bad mode" error, just use root explorer and copy busybox to the /system folder anthen install using the code in instruction # 11. then your good to go. thats how i got around it.
also i used a terminal emulator on the NC itself
sminker said:
i wish, ive got busybox in the xbin folder but i get permission denied when installing
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just click "problems?" and titanium will install busybox in the correct location for you.
madsquabbles said:
just click "problems?" and titanium will install busybox in the correct location for you.
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wish i had known that
bad mode
the "bad mode" was due to the chmod wrong format, it is now corrected on the site.
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Titanium Backup is also an awesome way to get apps on to the NC that has problems installing otherwise:
1) Make a backup of the app you want on another device that has it successfully installed (in my case, my Vibrant).
2) Find the three files in your Titanium Backup folder on the SD card of the device. It'll have a date stamp with when you made you back up.
3) Copy and paste into the TB file on the NC's SD card.
4) Start TB on the NC and you should see that there's an uninstalled app at the bottom (the one you just "exported" from your other device).
5) Click on it and choose install (or is it "restore"?)
This is probably a repost and some of you already know it, but its just something else you can use TB for.
So I used MyBackup Root to backup my APK and its data (Settings, saved games, etc) but upon restoring, almost all of the apps give the (The process ____ has stopped unexpectedly) or something like that error. So I installed a fresh rom again and I tried manually restoring the apps by installing the APK from the MyBackup folder. And then I replaced the data/data from the MyBackup folder. But the apps still give that error. What am I doing wrong?
Did I backup wrong all along? or can you not manually replace the data/data/com._____ files?
Rooted SGS2 (with S2root) on Three network - kernel KI8, PDA KI2, CSC KI2
Backed up Talk 1.3 with titanium backup (not pro), uninstalled, cannot restore. 3 seemingly related titanium backup files:
com.google.android.talk-20111209-015957.properties
com.google.android.talk-fabd85cd35eb7dca08bec6aea0e6c41e.apk.gz (containing the apk)
com.google.android.talk-20111209-015957.tar.gz - (containing signinginactivity.xml)
com.google.android.talk.apk is still in the system\app folder, though nothing by that name on the titanium backup list, appears as "Talk 1.3".
Tried running a copy of talk.apk on the phone, didnt install, tried copying it to system\app and resarting: nothing. didnt even show up in titanium backup as an installed app.
Basically....help please! I thought it was something else and I want it back. Whatever changes i do, i still see the gtalk status next to people's names in my contacts/text message list, online/away etc. but no app in the app list. I can't work out what titanium backup did.
alternatively
Or if someone could just post a list of system apps that are on a stock sgs2 (latest UK firmware), that would be great too.
So I finally got my Transformer Prime and rooted it manually using the NachoRoot method because I wanted to get rid of all the ASUS bloat apps. After I rooted it, I installed Titanium Backup (free version cause my Market account is broke right now with purchases stuck in the Pending state) and since I couldn't use the "Freeze" function with the free version, my n00bness thought that if I backed them up first using Titanium Backup, then deleted them, that Titanium Backup would be able to restore them, but I found out the hard way, that wasn't the case... I've since read that it will only restore them if the app is still on the device.
So, my question to the people with more wisdom then myself is...
Is there a manual way to get those apps back on there via the backups that TiBa made?
I tried unarchiving them and manually putting the .apk's back in /system/app/ folder, but I noticed that the .odex file I don't have anymore and they're not showing up in the app drawer just putting the .apk files in there by themselves.
Is there anyone that would be so gracious as to do a full dump of the /system/app/ folder on the 8.8.3.33 build so I can just put the .apk's and .odex's back in there using Root Explorer?
My goal is to get those back in there the way it came stock and go back to using the Freeze method so it doesn't remove them so I don't have any issues when the ICS update hits.
Thanks in advance for anyone who chimes in to help!
otosnede said:
So I finally got my Transformer Prime and rooted it manually using the NachoRoot method because I wanted to get rid of all the ASUS bloat apps. After I rooted it, I installed Titanium Backup (free version cause my Market account is broke right now with purchases stuck in the Pending state) and since I couldn't use the "Freeze" function with the free version, my n00bness thought that if I backed them up first using Titanium Backup, then deleted them, that Titanium Backup would be able to restore them, but I found out the hard way, that wasn't the case... I've since read that it will only restore them if the app is still on the device.
So, my question to the people with more wisdom then myself is...
Is there a manual way to get those apps back on there via the backups that TiBa made?
I tried unarchiving them and manually putting the .apk's back in /system/app/ folder, but I noticed that the .odex file I don't have anymore and they're not showing up in the app drawer just putting the .apk files in there by themselves.
Is there anyone that would be so gracious as to do a full dump of the /system/app/ folder on the 8.8.3.33 build so I can just put the .apk's and .odex's back in there using Root Explorer?
My goal is to get those back in there the way it came stock and go back to using the Freeze method so it doesn't remove them so I don't have any issues when the ICS update hits.
Thanks in advance for anyone who chimes in to help!
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i experience with Tbu is that you can batch add apps and their data regardless of whether you have them on the device or not... thats the whole point of it
and there is a dumb i believe in the development area... if i had my cable at work i woulda done it
but as long as you backed up in Tbu, just batch install them all
System dump: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1418487
Also, next time do a NAND backup of possible.
You could always reflash your ROM too.
And yes, Titanium backup keeps all the files you backed up in a folder. So even if you removed it from your device. Titanium has a copy on your SD card.
Thanks for the reply.
When I go into the batch section (I'm now on the paid version of TiBa), if I go into "Restore all apps with data" or "Restore missing apps with data", those both show nothing in the list to restore... but I know they're there cause I see them on the SD card in the TitaniumBackup folder and if I do a "Verify all your backups", they all show up.
I take it I'm missing something or am in the wrong menu?
otosnede said:
Thanks for the reply.
When I go into the batch section (I'm now on the paid version of TiBa), if I go into "Restore all apps with data" or "Restore missing apps with data", those both show nothing in the list to restore... but I know they're there cause I see them on the SD card in the TitaniumBackup folder and if I do a "Verify all your backups", they all show up.
I take it I'm missing something or am in the wrong menu?
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means you didn't restore them, really.
or something is wrong with the app
Can you restore without data.
Dblfstr said:
Can you restore without data.
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No, does the same thing as when I try to restore with data... just sits there saying "restoring" but I can let it go for 10 minutes on just one app and I eventually just force quit it since I know it's not doing anything.
Dblfstr said:
System dump: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1418487
Also, next time do a NAND backup of possible.
You could always reflash your ROM too.
And yes, Titanium backup keeps all the files you backed up in a folder. So even if you removed it from your device. Titanium has a copy on your SD card.
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Okay, so I downloaded that dump (thank's for the link)... so if I just put in the .apk and .odex for each app TiBa removed, will that do it? Is there anything else attached to each app that would go anywhere else besides the user data (which I don't want anyway)?
If you see tbu app backup stuff on your memory card you may need to go into the settings menu of tbu and change backup folder location to the place where that folder is on your sd
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Dblfstr said:
System dump: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1418487
Also, next time do a NAND backup of possible.
You could always reflash your ROM too.
And yes, Titanium backup keeps all the files you backed up in a folder. So even if you removed it from your device. Titanium has a copy on your SD card.
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how would you do a NAND backup without booting into ClockworkMod? Unless i've missed it somewhere that is not yet available on Primes, and there are no ROMS available as of yet.
aawshads said:
how would you do a NAND backup without booting into ClockworkMod? Unless i've missed it somewhere that is not yet available on Primes, and there are no ROMS available as of yet.
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its not haha
Okay, so I downloaded that system dump and tried taking the apk and odex for AppLocker (one I had removed with TiBa) and put them in /system/app/ and set the permissions the same as the other apps in the app folder and restarted the device... AppLocker doesn't show up in the app drawer
Any ideas why?
otosnede said:
Okay, so I downloaded that system dump and tried taking the apk and odex for AppLocker (one I had removed with TiBa) and put them in /system/app/ and set the permissions the same as the other apps in the app folder and restarted the device... AppLocker doesn't show up in the app drawer
Any ideas why?
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may require lib files and all that too :/ best luck is to flash an update
biggem001 said:
may require lib files and all that too :/ best luck is to flash an update
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Is there any way to flash the original ROM?
biggem001 said:
may require lib files and all that too :/ best luck is to flash an update
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And how would I flash an update if it's already on the latest version from ASUS?
You should be able to push the apk to system to data - the odex should be created in dalvik_cache on boot (you need to rename them if you want to move them into /system)
what happens if you just run the apk? will it not install itself?
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what happens if you just run the apk? will it not install itself?
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I tried that and it just says "Application not installed"
otosnede said:
And how would I flash an update if it's already on the latest version from ASUS?
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my tablet will flash the latest manual update on itself
have you tried putting .33 on an sd card and doing a manual update. I know you already have it on, but if you put it on the sd card, it usually asks again if you want to update.