I've never used Titanium Backup, but when I flash ROMs to my phone, my apps have always auto-restored with no problems. I haven't needed to go and restore a backup. Of course, I could be missing something grand and wonderful, but I've yet to run into any problems.

 

I am also unable to use Titanium Backup....right now I'm working on figuring it out.

 

right when your phone starts up go to market, hit the menu button, then click my apps. cancel anything u dont want

 

yeah, one of the boxes that you checked when you initialized the phone after installing the new ROM asked you if you wanted to sync to your Google account

if you checked yes, it downloads all of the apps you had from the Market onto your phone automagically

 

the android market automatically starts restoring your apps upon update. however, sometimes it misses some, on my phone anyway, so i've disabled autorestore and use titanium backup

 

Well, I must just be one of the lucky ones, because I have installed Apex 1.3.1, DarkSlide 4.2, and I am currently on Liberty 1.0 and none of those installs did any of my apps auto install or restore, to my knowledge. I checked for it to sync my Google account each time. There were a few in the app drawer that I had installed and used in the past, but I assumed those came with that ROM, because I am talking only a couple. I restored my apps using Titanium Pro. After doing so, when I would go to the Market and it would show say Handcent FREE, it would not show it as being installed. Guess that was because I restored it from Titanium Pro. But I just re-installed it and all is well.

bbuck002,

Where do you go to disable that auto restore?

 

The easiest way I found to NOT have all my apps automatically restored after a new rom is to go into setting, then applications, then manage applications, go to running apps and find the market and hit clear data...That will stop all apps from downloading...

 

yes, skipping the gmail sign in altogether should work

 

The setting you guys want in settings under privacy.

Uncheck "automatic restore". Doesn't help you now, but what it backs up for you now should be what it restores next time.

Like QuickAudi said, that's one of the first questions you were asked with a new rom.