How to Backup Applications on Android Phones

Nafa Lightyani

How to Back Up Applications on an Android Phone
How to Back Up Applications on an Android Phone

Rancakmedia.com – Did you know that there is an easy way to backup applications on an Android cellphone that you can do, if you are an Android user, including cellphones and tablets.

You must already know that applications downloaded via the Android market will regularly receive updates or the latest version provided by the creator or developer of the application concerned.

In most cases, newer versions of an app come with enhanced functionality and/or new features not included in previous iterations.

However, in reality, this is not necessarily how it works. The latest version sometimes performs worse than the previous one.

If you experience this and don't back up your app, then you can't do much and can only hope that the app creator fixes it quickly.

However, did you know there is a solution to this problem? The secret is to back up Android apps, so that if we install the latest version of an Android app, and we don't like it, we can reinstall the old app.

To avoid having to re-download the same apps from the Android Market every time we upgrade our Android phone, Android app backup is a useful feature to have.

List of Ways to Back Up Applications

There are many free (but credit-based) backup apps available in the Android market today. In this post, we will provide recommendations on how to backup Android applications using the “Titanium Backup” application and the “App Backup & Restore” application.

Apart from this application, we also have an article on how to backup Android applications to apk and backup Android applications to Google Drive.

How to Backup Applications Using the Backup and Restore Application

To be able to use this application is quite easy, and here are the steps:

  1. Download apps from Android Market
  2. When you enter the application for the first time, the application will automatically create a list of applications installed on your Android cellphone
  3. After that, you just need to tick the application you want to back up then click "Backup Selected Apps"
  4. Applications that are successfully backed up will be saved in the "Archieved" tab.

Following are the steps to reinstall applications that have been backed up or saved:

  1. You need to make settings so that your Android cellphone can install non-market applications. The way to do this is to go to Settings > Applications > make sure the words "Unknown Sources" are checked.
  2. Enter the "App Backup & Restore" application, then click the "Archieved" tab
  3. Put a tick on the application you want to reinstall
  4. After that click "Restore Selected Apps"

"Raw" files or installation files from Android applications that have been "archived" or archived can also be found on the memory card in the App_Backup_Restore folder.

So, if you buy a new Android cellphone, you can use the files stored in that folder to install it on the new cellphone without having to re-download it from the Android market.

The following is an example image of a "raw" file or Android installation file (.apk format) that is saved or successfully backed up and located on the memory card:

If you want to install using the .apk file stored in the App_Backup_Restore folder, you don't have to use the “App Backup and Restore” application.

You just need to search for the installation file of the application you want to install using the file manager, after that just click on the file and the Android system will carry out the installation automatically.

How to Backup Android Applications Using Titanium Backup

Popular among Android users is this application. To be able to backup using this application, you must root it first.

The advantage of Titanium Backup is that this application not only backs up applications, but this application can back up data from applications.

When you use Titanium Backup to back up games, all the settings you made (such as volume, button configuration, sensor calibration, and so on) will be preserved.

Using this application is also easy, here's how:

  1. Enter the Titanium Backup application
  2. Click the Backup/Restore tab
  3. Click on the application you want to backup or want to restore (reinstall / want to restore the data)

After you click, you will be given options as below

The following is an explanation of these options:

1.Backup:

To back up applications and data

2. Run App:

Run or activate the selected application

3. Restore:

If you click Restore, three options will appear, namely Data Only: restore application data according to the data that has been backed up; App Only: only reinstalls the application, does not include data; App+Data: Reinstalls the application including its data.

4.Freeze:

Makes the application not work or "freeze". Freeze will not uninstall applications, but in a frozen state, applications cannot be used and will not use phone resources at all, including CPU and RAM.

If at any time you want to use the application again, you can defrost or "unfreeze" it.

The Freeze feature can only be used on the Titanium Backup donate version (paid). If you use the free version, then you cannot use this feature.

As a note, you should be careful if you want to freeze, especially if you want to freeze the default application. If it's not really necessary, it's best not to freeze the default application.

5. Un-Install:

Function to delete or uninstall applications

6. Wipe Data:

Deletes data from applications, such as preferences (application preferences), accounts (application accounts), databases (databases), and so on.

7. Delete:

Deletes backup data stored in Titanium Backup

If you want to back up applications all at once or not one by one, you just need to press the MENU > Batch button.

The free version of Titanium Backup can only back up one version and data of each installed application.

So every time you do a backup, it will automatically delete the old backup data.

Conclusion

That's the article on how to back up applications on an Android phone easily and quickly, which you can do yourself.

From the article you read above, there are two ways to back up applications, namely backing up applications using the backup and restore application and the next way is backing up applications using Titanium backup.

Hopefully the article above can be useful and help you to backup applications on Android.

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