You can also choose not to include certain applications in the backup. Titanium Backup wants to know if you want to kill the active apps or exclude them. ![]() Once you select your backup roster, you’ll be prompted one more time. You can opt to only backup user apps or system data by themselves, but we installed Titanium Backup so we could do fast and total backups of our entire system and we suggest you do the same-it’s no fun to find out one data catastrophe too late that the thing you really wanted backed up wasn’t. From the large Batch menu select Backup all user apps + system data. From the menu that pops up at the bottom of the screen select Batch. Once Titanium Backup in installed and you’ve repeated “I will not click on buttons that perform unfamiliar tasks!” three times, you’re ready for your first backup. Second, if you haven’t enabled installation of application files from unknown sources (which Titanium Backup needs in order to restore your apps from backup later) make sure to enable it. If you’re going to be using the schedule feature for automated backups (and you should be using that feature) you’ll want to check the Remember box here so that Titanium Backup doesn’t need your attention every time it goes to backup. First, you’ll get an initial prompt to elevate Titanium Backup’s user privileges. There’s only two things you really need to pay attention to during the installation process to make sure your future Titanium Backup use goes smoothly. If you’ve done the prep work grab a copy of Titanium Backup from the Android Market and install it. If you’ve skipped the rooting process and/or installing Superuser, jump back to the previous section and check out the XDA forum to read more about your device. If your phone is rooted and Superuser is installed, installing Titanium Backup is a breeze. Avoid simply searching Google for a rooting guide as many guides are outdated and will lead to big headaches-XDA’s forum posts and guides are frequently updated and it’s easy to make sure you’re looking at a current version. In the process you’ll learn more about your phone than you ever thought possible. Search for your specific phone/carrier for detailed guides on how to root your device. One of the best resources around is the XDA Development forums. If your phone isn’t rooted already there are some excellent resources available to help you root. Phone-by-phone rooting instructions are beyond the scope of this tutorial but don’t worry. If Titanium Backup did not have root access it would not be able to access systems files to backup system data and it would not be able to access restricted applications in order to copy the application itself and (sometimes) the data for backup. Titanium Backup requires root access to Android in order to effectively backup every aspect of the system. ![]() Why a rooted phone? Rooting an Android phone simply means modifying your phone so that applications can have root (administrator) access to the Android operating system. For this tutorial you’ll only need two things
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