Few Noob Questions

[Harkes2k]

I have been massing around with ROM's today and flashed to APEX and so far to me I think it is my favorite along with darkslide... anyways... so I backed everything up with titanium backup... Now the main things I want restored are my contacts I really don't want to go through the whole "linking" process again but I am having some trouble getting that figured out as well as restoring most everything else without any of the crap settings that might mess with how its running.. Also with the themes... I would flash in a theme and then I can also change the theme on ADW? Thanks guys!

 

[dvader]

there are known issues restoring settings with TB. only restore app's and app data. not system apps or system data.

as for contacts. go into the contacts app IN THE APP DRAWER, not the contacts icon in the dialer. and then press the options buttons and there is an export/import option. use that for backing up your contacts before you switch roms.

 

[racinwarrior]

arent your contacts backed up by google?

 

[Harkes2k]

there are known issues restoring settings with TB. only restore app's and app data. not system apps or system data.

as for contacts. go into the contacts app IN THE APP DRAWER, not the contacts icon in the dialer. and then press the options buttons and there is an export/import option. use that for backing up your contacts before you switch roms.

Im confused the only options I have involve missing apps and missing data or all apps and data?

 

[dvader]

if you download something like (for example) angry birds. that is an "app"
you can safely restore that and it's data.
do not use TB to backup your contacts, messaging engines, providers.. blah blah.. all that stuff is "system app" and system data.

 

[wildman]

I use MyBackup to restore all settings and apps after hard reset but allow Google to import my contacts back in when I log into Google in email app. It allows mr to restore app settings and activations without issues.