Do YOU Have A Wiping Problem?

LOL - now that I have your attention ... :icon_eek:

Anyone using my ROMS, or thinking of upgrading to my ROM, should not worry about wiping anymore. That is the beauty of

bkapps/rstapps - read about them here

These tools make it very easy to jump to my ROM, even if you have never used it before. You will only lose your desktop widgets. If you find that any apps do not restore, please let me know the app name and I will research.

If you have your phone setup the way you like, but want to try my ROM ... look for my latest release @

http://chevyno1.richstevenson.com/froyo/<version>, for example, once I post up 4.4, that would be froyo/4.4.

In there you will find a bkapps.zip, which is an 'update.zip' format that you can install. Once installed from recovery and rebooted, open up a terminal emulator, and type:

su
bkapps -c

Give it about a minute. Done. Assuming you get no errors, you can now safely wipe/factory reset your phone. Then install my ROM. When your Droid first boots up, skip the Google Login. Get to your desktop, open up your App Drawer, open Dev Tools, scroll to the bottom and select Terminal Emulator.

When that opens, type in:

su (you will be prompted to allow)
rstapps -c

Give it a few minutes; assuming you get no errors (you MAY get FC's at the end), you can now reboot. When it comes up, you are done except for your desktop widgets!

Feedback is appreciated

How convenient. It's so time consuming using Titanium to restore applications.

After I did the restore. All went well. Awesome job! Really convenient. But I lost your bootanimation. How can I get it back? I looked everywhere.
TIA

You might have a bootanimation.zip that was restored to /data/local - if so, remove it, my bootanimation is present in the 4.4 ROM

Chevy, do these scripts backup and restore just the app or data too, and is it only apps in the data/app folder or both /data/app and system/app as well. Or something different all together.

Thanks man

My /data folder is empty.

So you've installed 4.4, and you're getting a different boot animation?? Which one is it??

Basically my scripts back up all apps (except system) but they back up data for EVERYTHING, system apps, data apps, all login accounts, desktop icons, backgrounds, etc

Stock.....

OK, what do you get when typing in terminal:

ls -l /system/media/bootanimation.zip

After having the same problem over several different ss roms, I figured something out might help other users. What I was doing is making a backup of my old rom and backing up the apps with bkapps, flashing new rom and wiping data, then rstapps. I was getting huge problems doing this, such as endless force closes, phone would restart in the middle of rstapps, etc. What I found helped was installing new rom, THEN bkapps, flash, rstapps. Might help someone

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Where is rstapps?

ChevyNo1,

I installed the .zip file, but all that installs is the bkapps half, where do I get the rstapps portion?

Thanks,
RossG

rstapps is included with Chevy's ROMs. You can't install it to separate ROMs

"Digital Clock Widget" app was missing after I used bkapps and rstapps.

Thanks for the info Tornado Rex.

Got it working. So far everything looks good, all that I can tell is missing is locations I had saved in The Weather Channel app.

I seem to have double apps in my drawer... and the ones that are doubled seem to exist on both the sd card and in internal memory... just not sure which one to uninstall..

when i do rstapps -c it restores my apps, but the ones that were put on the sd card dont show up on the phone. i looked and there still in the .android_secure folder, but nothing shows up on the phone. any ideas?

Can you verify that they are sitting in /data/data?

I am newly rooted and I find this "tool" extremely easy to use! I tried a few different ROMS before I finally stumbled upon Simply Stunning and the one thing I hated was starting from scratch every time. This eliminates that whole process!!
On a different note, after having some "annoyances" with SS4.4 using different themes and kernels, I wiped and reinstalled it with just the stock theme and kernel. With the "bkapps/rstapps" feature when these little "annoyances" arise the decision to wipe cache and reinstall is a no brainer!!

Tried using this coming from Team Chaos Froyo and had nothing but errors. Never did get backed up. Went ahead annas moved on to SS4.4 and really like it. Looking forward to the next upgrade so I can try it again!