I rooted my brand new Aria recently and have all three custom roms (liberated, froyo liberated, and intruder) on it, but i dont see any difference between the two liberated's and standard. Can someone help me out? and also, how do i get all my stuff like contacts and apps from my nandroid backup of the standard rom to a liberated rom?
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I rooted my brand new Aria recently and have all three custom roms (liberated, froyo liberated, and intruder) on it, but i dont see any difference between the two liberated's and standard. Can someone help me out? and also, how do i get all my stuff like contacts and apps from my nandroid backup of the standard rom to a liberated rom?
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The difference between the liberated roms is the android version (2.1 vs 2.2(froyo)). Also the liberated do not have all the bloatware from the carrier (I.e. at&t navigator) that come with the stock rom).
As for contacts I'd say the easiest way would be to sync them with your Google account...as for apps you'd have to restore to your nandroid and back them up with titanium or mybackup and then restore back to your rom of choice and restore apps using whichever program you used to back them up. Obviously make a nandroid backup before you restore to your original nandroid backup. Gosh that all sounds so confusing lol...
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That actually made perfect sense to me. But is there NO difference between liberated and standard aside from the lack of "bloatware" apps?
Also, no matter what I do, i can't get my contacts to sync to my gmail account.
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Ok, so I wanna start trying a lot of different roms, but didn't wanna keep losing all of my apps/settings, how exactly do i do that? someone told me to use Titanium Backup, and i got it, but am not quite sure how to use it... -.-; lol
There is a backup guide in my sig.
To be honest you'll learn to live without most of the settings backups you make but the app backups are useful. If you're going from rom to rom the settings will often not work - for example 2.1 backups won't work on 2.2. Sense UI backups wont work on Vanilla. 1.5 backups are a no go on 2.1 or 2.2 etc...
well google saves my contacts for me, but is there anyway to get around having to re-install all my apps?
Yes, use bulk backup of installed user apps in titanium, then restore them on new rom.
Donate version means no need to manually allow each app to get installed.
it works
pulser_g2 said:
Yes, use bulk backup of installed user apps in titanium, then restore them on new rom.
Donate version means no need to manually allow each app to get installed.
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Okay so maybe some one can help me here. I am trying to restore my texts via Titanium Backup, but for some reason it seems like they don't want to show up. I was thinking it could be because due to the fact the last rom I used was Blur based GB rom(from the D2 leak), and my current rom is a stock CM7 based rom, but I doubt that could be it? Before the GB I was a latest on a stock Froyo(i.e. no Blur) rom, and my text with ease showed up the Blur sms software when I moved to the GB rom. Any ideas on what I could do? Thanks
There is a program in the market called sms backup and restore. Give that a try
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I fixed the issue(well the text is there but its out of order which is better than nothing I guess), by enabling migrate system data in Titanium Backup.
so I had a full system + app backup made in titanium while on vipers ROM. I just flashed to team XRONs ROM and then did a full restore through titanium.
My question is, is titanium smart enough to not overwrite newer version of things when restoring?
I'm basically wondering if its technically possible to restore back to an older version of sense components via a restore.
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Yea it will restore the last backup, so ifs an older version that's what will be restored, you can always select uncheck what you don't want TB to restore.
I know that it won't help here but in the future, you may want to consider MyBackup Root for your backup options. You can find it in the market and it is free.
TB does the restore in batch mode relative to the last incrementally saved
backup, gives you the option to uncheck the apps you would not like to
install, which is very convenient.
I haven't had too much problem restoring backups of apps when jumping from one ROM to another. If you jump between Sense and AOSP ROMs, Titanium doesn't handle that well. With the 3D, there isn't a fully functional AOSP ROM yet, so you shouldn't have to worry about that now.
I wouldn't restore any system backups when jump from one ROM to another though. Just apps that I have downloaded from market, that's always worked for me. I don't usual restore apps that are part of the base ROM like Internet and Messaging. You may be able to do that go from one ROM to another, but you could be restoring older versions of apps.
I will have to look into MyBackup Root. Curious if it handles Sense to AOSP backup of Apps better.
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I know that it won't help here but in the future, you may want to consider MyBackup Root for your backup options. You can find it in the market and it is free.
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It is only free for first 30 days.
what's a good option for backing up and restoring just text messages and phone logs
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It is only free for first 30 days.
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I think that the Root version is free, the Pro version costs.
I used it coming over from stock rooted to viper. I unchecked everything viper's rom already had so it just imported new stuff for me (saving me at least 15 market downloads) and some other one off items and settings. Worked well. Just takes a second to dig through some times and make sure not to lay down unnecessary crap. Its also color coded for convenience.
I am new to HTC devices, coming from Motorola Droids. I have read a lot of the info here but still have a few noob questions. I am currently running RezROM 1.5 and like it a lot. But I would like to get the OTA update for the new radio and I would also like to check out some of the ICS ROM's.
So question is: Is there an easy way to restore user data and apps after flashing ROM's? Many of the ROM's I see suggest or require full wipe and often recommend not restoring anything. I have had problems restoring data (both on Motorola and HTC) with Titanium backup.
Thanks!
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I am new to HTC devices, coming from Motorola Droids. I have read a lot of the info here but still have a few noob questions. I am currently running RezROM 1.5 and like it a lot. But I would like to get the OTA update for the new radio and I would also like to check out some of the ICS ROM's.
So question is: Is there an easy way to restore user data and apps after flashing ROM's? Many of the ROM's I see suggest or require full wipe and often recommend not restoring anything. I have had problems restoring data (both on Motorola and HTC) with Titanium backup.
Thanks!
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The apps part is easy. Backup your /data/app/ somewhere before changing ROMs. Then drop it everything back in /data/app/ afterward. All you're backing up though is the installed application, not the data. Data is not recommended across many ROMs so I don't even think about it.
I've tried a few ways... but ultimately. I just deal with resetting everything up the way I want.
I've used MyBackup. It does alright. Takes forever if you have a lot of SMS messages. And it doesn't exactly get all of your system settings either. I also had a problem where I factory reset, re-installed all my apps. and then ran MyBackup restore to get the home screens back in order and while it did, none of the app buttons worked. So I had to replace everything, but at least I knew where things belonged I guess...
Eitherway, haven't been that impressed with any of the backup/restore things as of yet. I'm feeling bold enough to say there isn't a SlamDunk solution out there that'll work for everyone, but the ones that do exist might do enough for you to be happy.
The best way I have found by far is to use the app "App Monster Pro".
You can have that app made a BU copy of the APK for all your installed apps to a folder on your storage card. Then, after a ROM flash you just go to that folder & click on whatever APK's you want installed for the new ROM & you get a completely clean new install of everything in no time.
That way it a little slower than a TI batch recover, but the difference is it works 100% right 100% of the time (something TI & My BU Pro NEVER do)
It doesn't restore text messages, but I never had any desire to do that anyway (it always cracked me up when I had my TouchPro 2 & people would post I just restored 4200 text messages to my new ROM & now my phone is freezing constantly when texting, what do I do??)
I just use ES File Explorer to backup my apps, as for data, for me, my critical data are my contacts, so I just sync those up with my google account.
I second AppMonster Pro for just apps. I love that as soon as you download an app it makes a backup of it so you never have to think about it. And when restoring it's easy on the eyes, unlike TiBU which I find I have to search around a lot before I find what I'm trying to restore. Still I use three back up systems - AppMonster Pro, MyBackup Pro and Titanium Backup Pro - just in case so if one fails I have others to turn to.
Can I switch between CM7 and Eclipse to try Eclipse out? Or do I have to sbf back to 2.3.4 or 2.3.5 to switch? Also, do I share my data across the roms, or do I have to partition my sd-card?
Eclipse is supposed to be run on 2.3.5 but some have reported success flashing over 2.3.4. You can always try it and see. Just make a nandroid backup first.
Also, you can use Titanium Backup to back up your apps and data.
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Eclipse is supposed to be run on 2.3.5 but some have reported success flashing over 2.3.4. You can always try it and see. Just make a nandroid backup first.
Also, you can use Titanium Backup to back up your apps and data.
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Really now? If you can confirm this, I will love you forever!
Titanium Backup is arguably the best backup app on the market. I used to use MyBackup Pro as it would allow you store backups on your sd card AND online but I realized I didnt really need the online storage (one more way for something to be stolen from me
I definately wouldnt try flashing different-kernal roms over one another simply because one could give themselves one big of a headache...sbf to 2.3.4, flash Eclipse, something blows up, sbf again...lots of time and strain.
But then again, significant discoveries often involve lots of stress and strain so if you have the time and resources, go for it man.