[Q] Restoring apps after flashing ROM - Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

Usual disclaimer... I tried searching, I really did. I found one thread about restoring apps that confirms I followed what should be done, but I had something I didn't want happen... happen.
I flashed my first custom ROM the other day, and it went pretty much as planned/hoped with a couple of glitches. I did the latest stable Cyanogen (6.0.2), and had a couple of the problems that other people did... the email app didn't work (found the cure (new apk) on cyanogen's forum) and I couldn't send/receive MMS.
The cure I found for the latter was to wipe data/cache, which I did through clockworkmod recovery.
When I initially installed cyanogen, I signed into my google account, used Ti Backup to reinstall all my apps, and then activated the phone (*228) . Worked great, everything loaded.
When I wiped data/cache, after rebooting, I signed into my google account (just like before)... and before i could start restoring with Ti, my apps started downloading from the market. Took much longer than a Ti restore, and it missed Tasker (which I bought directly from the developer... and for some reason was not in my Ti backup).
So what happened with the second restore? should I have stopped all the downloads and restored with Ti?
I've since done a full apps+data backup with Ti backup that includes tasker (I have no idea why it wasn't included, it should have been, and I've since backup up profiles from within the app as well)... but am confused about not just repeating and the same thing happening with the restore.
Any suggestions?

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[Q] Weird spontaneous bootlooping?

I searched the forum for something similar to no avail, so if I missed it, I apologize. So I had been running CM 6 stable for a month and everything was great. Hadn't upgraded kernels, or any other modifications. Turned my phone off for the night last night, and when it came back on, stuck in bootloop for no good reason why. So, oh well, I'll just flash a new ROM, no big deal, then tried CM7RC, it boots, I use titanium backup to restore everything, it all works well, until I reboot the phone again, and bam, right back to bootloop, but this time with CM7. I'm completely out of ideas, any help would be appreciated. I've wiped davlik, cache, did factory reset, everything I can think of.
Thanks ahead of time.
Try fixing permissions in recovery, if that fails then try wiping ALL data and installing CM again. If that doesn't work, try a Sense ROM, it might be an AOSP problem
so here's an update to my problem so far. What I had left out earlier was that I could install a new ROM, and I could reboot my phone and it would work fine. Not until I used Titanium Backup and restored all of my apps and settings did I run into a problem. With that said, I did as PGleo86 said. This time, it worked just as it had before. Phone was fine, until I restored data. So I thought about what I had installed last. So the last time I wiped everything and installed CM7, I used Titanium Backup, but this time I omitted a few programs and settings, namely, Amazon App Store and Angry Birds Rio. This time when I rebooted, it worked fine. So I am slowly going to restore the settings, apps, and data I omitted one at a time and reboot my phone to see if any of them put me into boot loop. Has anyone heard of anything like this before? Particularly with Amazon App Store or Angry Birds Rio? (I did recently upgrade my version of Swype as well)
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so here's an update to my problem so far. What I had left out earlier was that I could install a new ROM, and I could reboot my phone and it would work fine. Not until I used Titanium Backup and restored all of my apps and settings did I run into a problem. With that said, I did as PGleo86 said. This time, it worked just as it had before. Phone was fine, until I restored data. So I thought about what I had installed last. So the last time I wiped everything and installed CM7, I used Titanium Backup, but this time I omitted a few programs and settings, namely, Amazon App Store and Angry Birds Rio. This time when I rebooted, it worked fine. So I am slowly going to restore the settings, apps, and data I omitted one at a time and reboot my phone to see if any of them put me into boot loop. Has anyone heard of anything like this before? Particularly with Amazon App Store or Angry Birds Rio? (I did recently upgrade my version of Swype as well)
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From what I understand, its restoring the data that is killin it. You can restore all the apps you like, but when you start restoring data, it seriously screws with alot of roms. You will keep having the issue as long as your restoring data. Good luck dude
This may take a while but try reloading a few apps at a time to see which on in particular is causing the issue. I saw a post like this somewhere on this massive forum, but the person found out it was one app that was killing the boot process.
Different roms store data in different places. So titanium is writing data to somewhere it shouldn't be.

[ROM][7/6] GSB v3.7 NAVIGATION FIX

Hi All,
Being a newb, I couldn't post in workshed's thread. I found a solution to the navigation issues (The cause is well over my head, so someone please forward to workshed for me??)....
After flashing to GSB-3.5 I noticed navigation would randomly freeze, then cause a full reboot, not just a force close usually after about 10 minutes. I waited for 3.6 assuming Shed would catch it and fix, but the problem persisted through 3.7-odex with gapps 0613.
Reading through his thread; other's were suggesting the issue wasn't in the rom but in the GAPPS package or possibly in the CM themes or supercharger script, or possibly the titanium backup-"restore apps and data settings"...
I religiously Nandbackup and Titanium back-up all system and App data (due to all the scary phone brick warnings)
Anyway whenever I flash a new Rom, I run titanium backup, nandbackup, delete the android secure folder, then reboot into recovery wipe the caches, flash the rom, then the recommended GAPPS, cach2cache (sp?), CM and android themes, then reboot, allow the GAPPS to full install from the market installer (some addition apps install since i have the backup apps to google account option checked in CM settings), then i download titanium backup (pro) and I only restore the user apps with data (never batch restore system data.) I selectively restore my user dictionary, bookmarks, wifi, bluetooth settings.
This time I restored all of the user apps without data and only selectively restored data to a couple of apps like cardiotrainer
I remembered someone suggesting to delete the maps data and cache in settings>applications>manage applications, so i did that, then uninstalled MAPS, then redownloaded from market. after the install I rebooted and drove home from work...
navigation was perfect, I restored a couple of app's data, then drove to work the next morning...perfect...when it hasn't gone for more than 10minutes in the last 3or4 weeks without restarting my eris. I'll continue to test for the next few days, but i believe the solution was to not restore user app data for maps and possibly other apps.
background:
I had tried wiping and flashing gsb 3.4., 3.5, 3.6, and 3.7 and both 0dexed and non odexed 3.6 and 3.7 with and without themes and with and without supercharger., while running supercharger I'd use agressive, ballanced, and multitasking settings. after reading the one comment about wiping the map cache and data then reinstall, i tried it too (but without the whole re-flash process... with the same affect full reboot in ~10minutes) after every iteration I'd reboot and drive to or from work ---2 attempts per day for a while... I realize it was a little naive to assume that it was something to do with my setup and not the code somewhere...
All that to say with every new flash i always restored user apps with data, but never restored system data like people have said, but this time i dawned on me not to restore any data and try it.... i drove home it worked, i restored the data i mentioned above, and drove to work it still worked.
Sorry for being so wordy, but i wanted to give the dev's enough to troubleshoot or at least note for people not to restore all data...
Thanks for all the great work guys I really appreciate all the effort!!!
*update- worked for a day then the same force close issue happened.
I also tried Telenav GPS-nav with the same force close results. I'm a newbie so maybe don't take much stock in this but I believe the issue is in the memory management setup either with CM7 or GSB3.4-3.7, to test the theory I flashed the macdroid's Everevolv port which only contains "bits" of cm7 and an older release of Google maps... if google maps works in the older release, i'll update to the newest release and try it using this Rom
Maps issue
*update 2- I flashed Macrodroid's ported Rom found here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1134907
He had pre-installed an older Maps version (be careful, it tried to auto-update right away) NAV worked perfectly for a couple longer trips... then I updated to the newest Gmaps and crash city!!!
Nice Rom!! less customization than GSB 3.7, but quick, no crashes, Macdroid included a flashable launcher pro (which I use), cache2cache works fine, I haven't tried supercharger but i will.
I'll try to find this maps version.apk to install on gsb 3.7 to see how it works... if it works fine I'll have to apologize personally to workshed and the CM team for having a smidgen of doubt. I totally dig the work those guys do!!
If you're still working on this there is a thread going here ... http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1185340&page=5 ... about the Navigation problems. Unfortunately there doesn't appear to be a fix for it yet.
Thanks, I'll make sure to share anything that might be useful

[ARHD 9.3.2 + Titanium Backup] Google Talk won't come online...

Hi, I'm having problem restoring my backups after I installed an updated version of a custom ROM on my HTC One X, namely I upgraded from ARHD 9.1.0 to 9.3.2.
My specific problem, as far as I can see, is only related to Google Talk: since I restored my backups (all apps + sys data) everything works fine except Google Talk, which always shows me as Offline....
I tried many things, from restoring previous AndroidID to delete Talk caches and data; I also tried to remove the Google account altogether and reload it....
Nothing worked and I know that, before restoring the backups, Google Talk was working just fine.
Are you aware of any similar situation or any advice I can follow to solve this problem??
Thank you
I have similar problem. Flashed newest ARHD and restored system data thru Titanium backup and Google Talk does not work anymore. It only shows offline on all of my accounts. Still trying to figure out how to get it working again. I removed the app and installed a fresh one from the ARHD rom file but still it does not work.

[Q] Need help - getting stuck on boot after TI restore

My phone keeps getting stuck on the samsung boot screen after restoring with TI.
I used the LI3 ROM and AIO modem zips here, everything went fine until after I used TI to get my apps and date back. After I reboot, I get stuck. I've tried using both XML and snapshot to restore with TI.
I have also tried letting google play restore all my apps (before I stopped it and went right to TI).
That didn't work either. Also, if I don't restart I keep getting temp freezes with an error message - "unfortunately, logsprovider has stopped"
Any ideas?
If anyone else is looking for a solution to a similar problem, this is how I solved it.
Restored to a nandroid on LIF from before I tried all this. Used TI to backup sms only, so I wouldn't lose a weeks worth of messages (you could do more but I didn't care about anything else that wasn't synced to gmail anyway.) Restored to a nandroid on LG8. Made a TI backup for everything except the sms. Full wipe and flash to LI3. Used TI restore, no problems.
There must have been some system data from the LIF TI backup that didn't agree with LI3.
freeza suggested another route. You could try restoring user apps and data only from TI then doing system data 1 by one until you found the screwed up one. Luckily I had two recent nandroids but if you don't, or there is enough data you don't want to lose that the longer version is worth it, you might want to give that a try.

[Q] Installed my first rom today (Jedi), went well except for issue with G apps.

So today I installed the latest Jedi rom onto my note 2. This is my first rom install, so excuse me if this is a newbish question. I used Rom Manager to backup, wipe, clear caches, and flash the rom. I let the phone sit for 10 minutes after the install, and when I started using it, data worked and everything. I installed Titanium Backup and restored my apps, and everything went pretty great. I had my old desktop and everything.
The only issue I have is with my google apps. Google+ and messenger will not open. It says no connection, couldn't connect to server. When I hit okay, it asks me to select an account, but upon doing so, the same error just comes up. Gmail works, but curiously, I have to update it manually to see if/when I get new emails, contrary to my settings in the application. Google now appears to work, at least when I load it up, but I don't know if it'd update on its own in the background like it normally does. I also just discovered that I can't install apps from the play store on my PC.
I tried uninstalling google+ with titanium, then reinstalling it in the market, but that didn't work. I also deleted my google account, then re added it and re synced everything, but that didn't fix it either. I tried searching the Jedi thread for "gmail" and a few other things, but didn't find any relevant info.
cjmodiano said:
So today I installed the latest Jedi rom onto my note 2. This is my first rom install, so excuse me if this is a newbish question. I used Rom Manager to backup, wipe, clear caches, and flash the rom. I let the phone sit for 10 minutes after the install, and when I started using it, data worked and everything. I installed Titanium Backup and restored my apps, and everything went pretty great. I had my old desktop and everything.
The only issue I have is with my google apps. Google+ and messenger will not open. It says no connection, couldn't connect to server. When I hit okay, it asks me to select an account, but upon doing so, the same error just comes up. Gmail works, but curiously, I have to update it manually to see if/when I get new emails, contrary to my settings in the application. Google now appears to work, at least when I load it up, but I don't know if it'd update on its own in the background like it normally does. I also just discovered that I can't install apps from the play store on my PC.
I tried uninstalling google+ with titanium, then reinstalling it in the market, but that didn't work. I also deleted my google account, then re added it and re synced everything, but that didn't fix it either. I tried searching the Jedi thread for "gmail" and a few other things, but didn't find any relevant info.
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When you restored with TIBu did you restore apps and data or??? Did you ensure to follow the exact steps in the post?
Original Tester for Jedi ROM!
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I'd also flash manually...not using ROM Manager. Sounds like you may need to start over and make sure you don't restore any system apps or system data.
johnnywhojr said:
When you restored with TIBu did you restore apps and data or??? Did you ensure to follow the exact steps in the post?
Original Tester for Jedi ROM!
Jedi Council
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I flashed with rom manager, and I did restore app data when I restored my apps. Is there any way I can clear the particular trouble apps (g apps, and facebook I discovered as well will not give me notifications) and reinstall, or do I have to flash again?
Best thing to do is fresh install everything. I know its a pain in the ass but ive been the original tester of the jedi rom for i317/m and have yet too have any issues. Restoring through tibu does work but making sure to restore apps only.
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johnnywhojr said:
Best thing to do is fresh install everything. I know its a pain in the ass but ive been the original tester of the jedi rom for i317/m and have yet too have any issues. Restoring through tibu does work but making sure to restore apps only.
Original Tester for THIS ROM!
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Hmm okay, do you know what it is that I restored that screwed things up? I thought all I restored was apps. I just did one operation along the lines of 'restore all apps and app data'
I think also when I restored, it asked if i wanted to restore the device's ID or something like that, maybe that had something to do with it. It said if I restored the device ID to the original one, it would help with restored apps functioning properly.
cjmodiano said:
Hmm okay, do you know what it is that I restored that screwed things up? I thought all I restored was apps. I just did one operation along the lines of 'restore all apps and app data'
I think also when I restored, it asked if i wanted to restore the device's ID or something like that, maybe that had something to do with it. It said if I restored the device ID to the original one, it would help with restored apps functioning properly.
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Best thing is start from scratch! Install your apps direct from play. If you follow the directions perfectly, you should have no issues
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