[TheGooch90]

Originally Posted by 461am

DFU restore. Don't restore from backup.

The problem with that is that I can't it get into DFU or recovery-mode either, also I need to restore it. Or else I loose everything.

[DanielM_86]

Who wants a fix for this? I know I did, so I found one whilst cursing under my breath, mumbling and frantically searching for a solution. In some cases, including mine and hopefully yours, aptbackup has worked, but the app is malfunctioning, pass as to why.

So if you use your favourite terminal/SSH interface to your phone, navigate to the aptbackup directory and then send "./restore" you may find everything starts happening :-D albeit slowly if you have a lot of apps.

I didn't work this out I found it whilst surfing, but feel free to thank me for passing it on ;-)

[E-Dragon]

Originally Posted by DanielM_86

Who wants a fix for this? I know I did, so I found one whilst cursing under my breath, mumbling and frantically searching for a solution. In some cases, including mine and hopefully yours, aptbackup has worked, but the app is malfunctioning, pass as to why.

So if you use your favourite terminal/SSH interface to your phone, navigate to the aptbackup directory and then send "./restore" you may find everything starts happening :-D albeit slowly if you have a lot of apps.

I didn't work this out I found it whilst surfing, but feel free to thank me for passing it on ;-)

Hmm well you put me on the right track, that file helped point me in the right direction and I found a file with all my old app settings in it. The file was in: /root/private/var/mobile/Library/Preferences The file in there is: aptbackup_dpkg-packages.txt right where aptbackup is looking for it, BUT... iT still don't work, I guess you can say it half-***** worked. It did "save" the app list and put it back onto the phone, for whatever crazy reason the app is not finding it. And I'm still getting a "you must restore" For what ever reason the app doesn't recognize that the phone has already been restored maybe I should restore 5 or 6 times till it figures it out LOL! But either way running the restore command thru the SSH termanial did work, so I guess the app has a bug in it *shrugs*


I accept no responsibility for your actions in following the below instructions, do so at your own risk!

This was MY fix that does NOT mean it will work for you and of corse running commands (any commands for that matter) thru a SSH terminal on you phone can be DANGEROUS!!!


The how to:

I did this in WinSCP.

Before you do the below info:
Check and make sure that these files:

aptbackup_dpkg-packages.txt
aptbackup_openssh.tgz
aptbackup_cydiasources.tgz

Are in: /root/private/var/mobile/Library/Preferences

I suggest to copy: aptbackup_dpkg-packages.txt to your computer and open it (note pad or any text program will open it) once open make sure that those are the apps you want to reinstall.
IF NONE OF THE ABOVE FILES ARE THERE THIS WILL NOT HELP YOU!

..
Now:

Go to: root / applications (the whole address is: root /private/var/stash/Applications.)

Open: AptBackup.app

Select: Restore

RIGHT click on: Restore

Scroll down to: Custom Commands then over to Execute

Click: Execute
You most likely will get a warning screen: “this current session does not support bla,bla,bla do you wish to open a separate session."

Click: Yes

WAIT!!!! (it will seem like nothing is happening)
After 4 min. at most (mine took about 1.5 min) your phone should reboot with all the old Cydia apps on it..



This was MY fix that does NOT mean it will work for you and of corse running commands (any commands for that matter) thru a SSH terminal on you phone can be DANGEROUS do so at your own risk..

[marcoiac]

Originally Posted by E-Dragon

Well so far I have not had any luck what-so-ever in using aptbackup it didn't work on the wifes iPod or on my phone I just get the "Restore can only happen after a backp had been preformed and the Bla Bla Bla"
Hmm Seems to me I FRICKING DID THAT! Well at lest the app is free, even tho it was a waist of time......

Sorry to hear that. It worked fine for me. I went from 2.1 to 2.2, ran AptBackup, got all my Cydia apps back with all their settings. Really nice.

[Jay316]

Didn't work for me either, I used aptbackup, then synced my iphone which backed up my phone, then jailbreaked 2.2, the resynced using an old backup and it didn't work for me either

[E-Dragon]

Originally Posted by Jay316

Didn't work for me either, I used aptbackup, then synced my iphone which backed up my phone, then jailbreaked 2.2, the resynced using an old backup and it didn't work for me either

Try what I suggested above...

[theevilone]

appbackup worked fine for me. some 3rd party apps have to be reloaded.

if you poofed apps download poof and all your apps will be there again.

did not aptbackup, quickpwn put everything back on including my nes games,ringtones.

[DanielM_86]

@E-Dragon
Good stuff getting a tutorial going, and doing a much better job of explaining it than me I must say.

Thought I would add thou, did it in a slightly more interesting way through PUTTY to execute the restore command as I had some issues with WinSCP running apps that involve data xfer. Anyway this allowed me to watch it and see progress as it downloaded etc, quite cool. It did end very abruptly, but comparing the original backup file that you mentioned above with a new one it appears to have reinstalled everything correctly yeeha!

[rx7turbo287]

any of u know where chornus back up file go to, i thinking pull the back up out, save it somewhere on computer.

[crimsontwo]

Originally Posted by E-Dragon

Now:

Go to: root / applications (the whole address is: root /private/var/stash/Applications.)

Open: AptBackup.app

Select: Restore

RIGHT click on: Restore

Scroll down to: Custom Commands then over to Execute

Click: Execute
You most likely will get a warning screen: “this current session does not support bla,bla,bla do you wish to open a separate session."

Click: Yes
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Running AptBackup from shell didn't work. I am using Putty as SSH client... Here's what one should do:

1) SSH into your phone
2) type "cd /private/var/stash/Applications/AptBackup.app"
3) type "./restore"

and wait

2 & 3 can be combined into one step for who know their way around *nix.

[Shinrai]

Thanks for the excellent info which helped me a lot in finding the files used by AptBackup for its backups. Here's what I did (and I did this twice too). I was migrating from one iPod Touch to another FYI

1. Copied the 3 files mentioned to my computer:
aptbackup_dpkg-packages.txt
aptbackup_openssh.tgz
aptbackup_cydiasources.tgz
from /root/private/var/mobile/Library/Preferences
2. Launched AptBackup on the second iPod Touch and clicked Backup
3. Copied the files above to the 2nd iPod and clicked Restore

Everything seems fine and all my Cydia apps are duplicated nicely. Hope this helps other folks who need to migrate Cydia apps from one unit to another (should work okay on the iPhone too)

[E-Dragon]

@Shinrai You're welome...Glad we could help

[Mes]

Originally Posted by TheGooch90

When I used APTBackup, it restored my iPhone. At least I think so, But now the iPhone wont turn on. It just keeps "restarting" itself. Can only see the pineapple-logo. The iPhone also buzzez from time to time like it's connecting to iTunes. How do I fix this??

Just happened to me. But there is a fix, or at least a work-around

If I restore (aka sync) App Store apps from iTunes, and then restore apps from Cydia (AptBackup) it never finishes and reboots every 5-6 minutes.

For me, it was important to not-sync, to NOT install any App Store applications prior to running AptBackup --- just the basic iTunes restore from a newly discovered phone. (Note: before the QuickPwn and after the last iTunes backup I checked 'manually manage music and videos' to limited the iTunes sync time.