Root titanium backup resets wallpaper?

dirtycar74 · Mar 30, 2013

Does anyone else have an issue with Titanium backup resetting the wallpaper to the MetroPCS stock image after running a backup? I'm not sure where those files are stored either... if i did, I ould just replace those files with my own preferred images.

rhino889a · Mar 30, 2013

What wallpaper did you have set when you used titanium backup to make the backup?
Wait did you restore
Or did a backup and wallpaper changed?

dirtycar74 · Mar 30, 2013

The latter. Did backup and it changed the wallpaper.

rhino889a · Mar 30, 2013

Wow that is totally weird
No i have never heard of anything like that
Its like. What the? Huh?

Airbuz · Apr 5, 2013

Yup, just rooted and backed up my new Xperia Z and sure enough had the same thing. Thought it was strange so googled it and ended up here. After backup my background image was changed. Truth is, I changed it back but I actually liked what it had changed it to (black with blue smokey waves through the middle) but don't know where the heck it got it from.

bart2201 · Apr 7, 2013

While I'm not having the problem with wallpaper disappearing after using T.B. I still have a nother T.B. problem. whenever I do a restore of a nand backup all my back up files on T.B. are gone. This includes the app backups and the apps that T.B. saves at the end of the list. The ones that have been frozen and or deleted are lost forever when doing either a backup or restore from T.B.

No matter which configuration I try it still happens. This includes when T.B. is backed up and saved to the sdcard which is never formatted or touched during a nand back up or restore. I sure wish that someone could find a solution for this.

DirtyDee · Apr 10, 2013

this has been happening to me, everytime I do a back up, stock metro image. but whenever I flash a rom or even reflash firmware it goes back to the bat family wall paper

Airbuz · May 10, 2013

Just a thought I had, when backing up user and/or system apps there is an option at the top that states either "pause" or "exclude" active apps. Since the background wallpaper is always running perhaps it's pausing it so it can be backed up and in the process it gets reverted or stopped.

Kcttocs · Jul 10, 2013

I just now pinned it down to Titanium back up and googled and here I am too. Happens to my SG 4 every flipping time. In addition to it resetting my live wall paper to default, iIt also changes my keyboard back to default samsung, I use Swift Key and it also resets my lockscreen to dafault, I use Widget locker. Frustrating as heck. I am not seeing where I can Pause or exclude active apps as Airbuz stated above... I'll keep digging I guess.

JimTheGlawsFan · Sep 6, 2013

I'm here following a Google of the issue too. I'm also getting the default wallpaper and default keyboard on my S2. Plus it turns sound on (it should be on silent) and it turns off Tasker and Pebble in my accessory settings. Very annoying! Anyone got a fix?

piannetta · Sep 13, 2013

Me too, I'm all the same problems...very annoying

ArunGupta · Oct 22, 2013

Although this thread is a bit dated, I would also like to add my experience.

Last night, I installed Titanium backup on rooted Galaxy Note 2, 4.1.2. I started a backup of system plus user data and went to sleep. This morning when I woke up, I found that my Go Launcher custom theme had been replaced by the default wallpaper which the phone had the first day when I bought it, WidgetLocker had been killed, the keyboard had been reset from Switftkey to Swype and programs like Malware Bytes anti-malware and Adblock had been stopped. I had to fix these by re-running all these programs.

Not sure if I can trust Titanium backup anymore. I have been reading for years that this is the best backup program.

dvdhs · Nov 17, 2013

Samsung Galaxy I8530
Android 4.1.2
Titanium Backup 6.1.0 or 6.1.3

My default language is English, but when I open Titanium Backup and reset android, it change back to deutsch, if i reset without open titanium backup stay english, no problem.

Inha1966 · Dec 19, 2013

Me too!

Just rooted specifically to get titanium and it is reverting to my stock wallpaper and stopping a number of services and Apps, eg: NiLs+; Sleep as Android, Widget Locker, etc.

Not sure what I am doing wrong....but if this is the best backup app then its a sad state of affairs...

Airfluff · Feb 28, 2014

Ditto.. So I take it no one has found any sort of fix for these issues yet?

DirtyDee · Feb 28, 2014

Airfluff said:
Ditto.. So I take it no one has found any sort of fix for these issues yet?

I don't think anyone thought of them as more than a minor inconvenience at most.

Airfluff · Feb 28, 2014

DirtyDee said:
I don't think anyone thought of them as more than a minor inconvenience at most.

Yeah, probably. But I have a few dif apps that are ongoing processes that won't come back on until I run those apps again, including tasker, besides the other stuff happening. (which, yeah, my wallpaper/keyboard changing isn't that big of a deal). But having something like Tasker, which is supposed to automate a whole list of things for me, stop working till I specifically open it again kinda sucks.

Airfluff · Mar 3, 2014

Airbuz said:
Just a thought I had, when backing up user and/or system apps there is an option at the top that states either "pause" or "exclude" active apps. Since the background wallpaper is always running perhaps it's pausing it so it can be backed up and in the process it gets reverted or stopped.

So, I think you're right. (Lol, Idk, maybe everyone already figured this out.. ) In the settings there's a checkbox that says "Advanced App Control [PRO ONLY] If enabled: Apps are paused before backup and resumed afterwards. If disabled: Apps will be terminated upon backup."

Guess I need to get the pro version.

RobFreundlich · Jun 11, 2014

Airfluff said:
So, I think you're right. (Lol, Idk, maybe everyone already figured this out.. ) In the settings there's a checkbox that says "Advanced App Control [PRO ONLY] If enabled: Apps are paused before backup and resumed afterwards. If disabled: Apps will be terminated upon backup."

Guess I need to get the pro version.

I've been having the same problem the last couple of weeks, and I realized this morning that after my last clean custom ROM install, I hadn't installed the TiBu PRO key. I installed it, and THEN went in to look at settings and saw that the "Advanced App Control" setting was enabled.

Of course, since I was already on Pro, it didn't say "PRO ONLY", so I assumed it had been set all along. So I was sitting here wondering if the setting was broken!

Your post set me straight. I bet tonight's backup won't kill my wallpaper and Tasker. So thanks very much for this detail - you've probably saved me hours of aggrevation!

Airfluff · Jun 15, 2014

RobFreundlich said:
Your post set me straight. I bet tonight's backup won't kill my wallpaper and Tasker. So thanks very much for this detail - you've probably saved me hours of aggrevation!

Glad I helped. Airbuz's comment gave me the idea.

After buying the pro version, I haven't had a problem since. Titanium Backup really is a good app, but it's Def worth it to buy the pro version. ^_^'

cutefuzzybunny · Aug 14, 2014

It still does it, so apparently they're not going to fix it in the free version, just the paid one. Not too interested in paying for an app because the free one has been broken for over a year. Plenty of backup apps in the sea.

Not much of a 'minimal problem' either. I've been pulling my hair out for months over why my wallpaper kept resetting. Until I noticed the correlation with tb running its scheduled backup. I thought it was something I screwed up when I rooted my phone and the carrier software might have been doing it because it had some problem with the root. Never thought a backup program would reset wallpaper so I didn't associate it with that, but I installed tb after rooting.

baldmosher · Apr 7, 2015

Same issue here, no problems for months and then started happening again... turns out my Pro key managed to uninstall/unregister itself during last ROM update. Now reinstalled...

Also disables my alarm which is pretty dangerous for an overnight schedule...

SGS4 FLTGPE 5.x

udance4ever · Aug 23, 2020

hate to surface an old thread as a newbie & just wanted to post that in 2020 Titanium Backup still resets wallpaper on my unlocked/rooted j700T1 from MetroPCS flashed w SyneXOS.

I was really looking forward to automating backups with Titanium and like others, a bit let down.

I see people using oandbackup so I'll look at this.

props to TWRP backups - got restored to last night's baseline pre-Titanium!

Root titanium backup resets wallpaper?

Newbie

Android Expert

Newbie

Android Expert

Lurker

Android Enthusiast

Android Expert

Lurker

Newbie

Lurker

Member

Lurker

Lurker

Lurker

Newbie

Android Expert

Newbie

Newbie

Lurker

Newbie

Lurker

Newbie

Lurker

BEST TECH IN 2023

Smartphones

Best Android Phones

Upcoming

Best iPhones

Upcoming

Tablets

Best Tablets

Upcoming

Laptops

Best Laptops

Upcoming

Televisions

Best TVs

Upcoming

Game Consoles

Best Game Consoles

Upcoming

Wearables

Best Wearables

Upcoming

Smart Home

Smart Home Tech

Upcoming

Similar threads