joshuah

Software Reviewed: Titanium Backup
Version: 2.7.2
Date of review: 22/FEB/2010

I was looking for an application that would allow me to:

1) Migrate to another phone easily.
2) Backup my applications (with ease)
3) Backup my DATA (with ease)

After some playing around with the market of available applications to backup applications/data, I found some very interesting applications which allowed scheduled backups (which I believe is a must have..) well that’s my opinion anyway… but out of all the applications I tried, titanium was the only application which after restoring the applications, also restored the links into the marketplace under downloads… which allowed me to then receive further updates in the future..!!! Most backup applications will restore the application, no problem, but what about future updates? You WONT get them….!!

Just recently, the developer of Titanium released the market doctor feature (only for donate users) which will attempt to fix any applications that don’t show up in the marketplace after a restore (before this feature you had to restore, sometimes twice before it would show up) GREAT WORK !!

I am abit (personally) disappointed with the GUI of titanium… I believe that it should have an option (wizard) when you first startup the application which asks you, are you an advanced user or beginner, and if you’re a beginner it shouldn’t show you all the advanced information (that half the people wont understand anyway)

What I’d like to see added?

1) beginner / advanced view of home page
2) shortcut options (or widget to run defined backup)
3) Scheduled backups
4) Backup of (SMS, call logs, bookmarks, system settings?)
5) Option to move most recent backup to remote location (i.e. network share over wifi, ftp over data etc)