Is their a program that will backup email settings, all settings

jongordo8 · January 13th, 2011, 07:55 PM

I am wondering if there are programs out there that will save all my email settings so I dont have to manually input the email settings after putting on a new rom?

What about my screens, apps, widgets, etc.?

I have done a nand backup and app list backup as well as titatinum backup, just wondering what I will have to setup again once I go to fresh from stock root.

~~bvbull200~~ · January 13th, 2011, 08:12 PM

Titanium will do it. I haven't switched to an AOSP ROM in a while, but it restores everything anytime I switch Sense based ROMs. Other than setting up your GMail (so you can access the Market) and reinstalling Titanium, I can't think of much more that you will have to do. I guess 1 or 2 widgets wouldn't reload properly, but nearly all of them do.

Pioneer74 · January 13th, 2011, 08:35 PM

My Backup Root or Pro has worked for me.

ryanmiller78 · January 13th, 2011, 09:28 PM

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Originally Posted by bvbull200

Titanium will do it. I haven't switched to an AOSP ROM in a while, but it restores everything anytime I switch Sense based ROMs. Other than setting up your GMail (so you can access the Market) and reinstalling Titanium, I can't think of much more that you will have to do. I guess 1 or 2 widgets wouldn't reload properly, but nearly all of them do.

Done this many times recently with Fresh and cleaning up my phone. He has all of it covered.

Mr. Ed · January 13th, 2011, 09:42 PM

+1 for titanium

jongordo8 · January 13th, 2011, 09:45 PM

I got tons of errors when restoring with titanium...screens are not back, icons are not there, and email settings werent saved. What did I do wrong?

flyjbaker · January 13th, 2011, 11:15 PM

jon, did you reboot after the batch restore??? That is a common mistake. you gotta reboot after the restore is finished.

Covert_Death · January 13th, 2011, 11:26 PM

not trying to be an ass lol but notepad in microsoft is my trick haha, i just have a sheet with all my connection info saved to my external drive so that way if i ever forget i know what servers and ports to connect to on any of my devices from laptop to ipod to phone

jongordo8 · January 14th, 2011, 04:45 PM

so you can change roms and restore all your settings with titanium backup? I kinda figured that was the issue (when I backed it up I was on a stock root, no rom) and when I restored I was on fresh 3.5.0.1. Also does titanium backup restore contacts that are saved on the phone and not gmail?

Matlock · January 14th, 2011, 05:09 PM

With Titanium Backup, restoring settings and apks and such, is not so simple as pressing restore.

If you download one ROM#1, then make a Titanium Backup for ROM#1, then FLASH a different ROM#2 from another Developer, and try to Restore the Backup you made from ROM#1 onto ROM#2.. it can bring problems.

Developers change things on ROMs to their liking, or for their fans.. So ROMs are not always the same.. So things can get a little backwards with it comes to Restoring..

My recommendation..

Use Titanium Backup when your using one ROM. If you plan on keeping it.
Now.. If your going to plan on going from ROM to ROM to ROM, your probably better off doing a Nandbackup.

Thats just my opinion of course.

jongordo8 · January 14th, 2011, 05:26 PM

matlock-

Thats what I figured. So no easy/good way to save all my settings and move to fresh huh?

Matlock · January 14th, 2011, 05:31 PM

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Originally Posted by jongordo8

matlock-

Thats what I figured. So no easy/good way to save all my settings and move to fresh huh?

As long as you want to keep it set up for a Single ROM as a 'backup'. Then you'll be fine.
But each ROM'll have to it's own Backup

flyjbaker · January 14th, 2011, 06:39 PM

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Originally Posted by jongordo8

matlock-

Thats what I figured. So no easy/good way to save all my settings and move to fresh huh?

I disagree. Titanium Backup works quite well going from ROM to ROM. It might leave something out here and there, but it restores about 98% to how it was. I have even used it to restore to MIUI and it did quite a good job. I will agree, it is not as simple as it sounds. A backup takes longer than nandroid...about 10 minutes and then the restore takes about 10 minutes. So that right there burns you for 20 minutes. But you can certainly be bathing the dog while it does it instead of going through the drudgery of reloading apps.

A Nandroid is useless unless you want to go back to the way it WAS....what if you want to try a new ROM...or even a different version of the same? If you restore a nandroid then there you are in the past. I do understand you can use nandroids going from one setup to another if that is what you are talking about.