weird problems, titanium backup questions, looking ot sbf

[srfrmac87]

So i have been experiencing weird problems for about 2 weeks now. it started when i installed an app called study droid. its a program that is like a digital flash card program. anyway, while using it i noticed that the screen would turn off in a short time (less than 5 seconds) after being touched, no matter what time was set for the screen to time out. making it difficult to use the program. i have since noticed that this particular problem has gone to the rest of the system. i will be browsing internet, playing games, etc. and the screen will go off. i have to press power and unlock the screen each time this happens. at one point it happened so frequently that i had to unlock the screen 3 times in 10 seconds. I am trying to uninstall the program now to see if that helps. the problem randomly goes away. tried restarting phone, usually makes no difference.

Another problem i am having deals with my ringtones and notification sounds. i use ring droid to make them. twice now i have remade them after they mysteriously disappeared. i am no longer going to use this program, i will just make them on the computer.

anyway, i have other problems besides these two, so i was thinking about just reseting everything. which leads me to my first real question. do i have to be rooted to use titanium backup? i saw there was 2 options in the market, one is a paid version and the other says root. do i have to root to use either one, and in either manner which version do you guys suggest?

Next, should i do a factory reset or sbf? I am stock, not rooted, etc. do i need to sbf, or will a factory reset suffice?

Thank you all again for your help!

 

[area52]

AFAIK flashing the .sbf file restores the phone to the out of the box state, meaning it will flash everything including the radio, since your not rooted just doing a factory reset should be sufficient.

and yes you need root to use tb, I've read a lot of posts about people having issues restoring data with tb after flashing roms, personally I just manually re-do everything. I only use tb to restore data for my progress on angry birds

 

[srfrmac87]

thank you for the reply, i would use tb just to back up some settings and have a nice list of apps to reinstall. so i would have to root to be able to do this, which isnt too big of deal. so assuming this, is there any real benefit to the paid version of TB?

 

[area52]

The paid version offers more features than the free, example you can freeze the bloated apps on the phone with the paid version. I just use the free version cause all I use it for is to save my progress on some games