If your iPhone crashes and needs to be restored, what will happen to your third party Apps? Below are two programs that serve as great safety nets, should your iPhone go crazy and lose your stuff.
AppBackup
AppBackup from Scott Wallace lets you back up and restore Apps that you have purchased from the App Store.
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Features
- Back up saved data and settings for App Store Apps
- You can back up either a single App or all of your Apps at one time
- Great to have if an App you currently own is no longer available in the App Store (For example, if Pandora is banned from the App Store, you’ll want to make sure you backed it up!)
Limitations
- Does not back up data for jailbroken Apps (see our review for AptBackup below)
- May take a few moments for program to start up
AptBackup
If you have Apps you’ve downloaded from Cydia, AptBackup by Chris Featherstone will make a list of all of your Cydia Apps then back that list up. When you restore your iPhone and iTunes, run AptBackup’s restore in order to find and reinstall all of your packages.
Features
- Makes a list of every App you’ve downloaded from Cydia, then backs it up
- Will restore all packages in one step upon iPhone and iTunes restoration
Limitations
- Will not back up the actual Apps, or their settings (In order to reconfigure those parameters, you’ll have to know how to access your iPhone, which we will demonstrate in an upcoming post)
- Your Springboard file placement will not be saved
- Can only restore backups right after your restore your iPhone and iTunes
Summary
You’ll never know what can happen with your iPhone; one day it may work perfectly fine, and the next day it may crash and burn. In the event of an iPhone crisis, it’s good to have an insurance plan in place, and AppBackup and AptBackup are the best insurance plans you can have for your Apps.
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Ok, here’s a question… (as a new iPhone –non 3G– user).
When you ‘backup’… where does said data GO to? Does it just get logged within the AppBackup App and then when you do a (making the sign of the cross) iTunes sync/backup, it goes within THAT App?
Now…what about that pesky ‘notes’ backup…….
@Jfriah, we will do article on that.
two ?’s
1. itunes has an option to sync applications, is this not equivalent to appbackup?
2. i’ve installed aptback up and tapped the backup button, and synced with itunes. where in itunes is that list of cydia apps saved to?
It’s the data in the appstore apps that appbackup saves. Unfortunately this data isn’t always backed up during an itunes sync, and worse, is often lost during an app update.
It should be noted if you add any extra repositories, you’ll need to add them before you do a restore. At least my backup froze until I did that. The only extra repo I had was for the MobileInstallationPatch.
AptBackup is backup software for your iphone which is able to backup your Cydia software, the way it works is that it makes a list of your installed apps and puts that list in a location under iTunes backup, so when synching your iphone everything is stored
I found a download link about AptBackup cydia. Enjoy yourselves.
http://www.freeiphoneware.com/applications/preview/AptBackup-cydia.aspx
Hello,
yes this solution is working correctly. I’ve tested today and it’s total easy and it’s work perfect!
Hello,I have a plants vs zombies v.1.6 and want to upgrade to 1.7,but since when you upgrade it you’ll lose all your data/progress,I want to know how to backup,the restore process,and which onecan be used? is it apt or app? do you have to download it on appstore if you want to use appbackup?
thanks !
try this post http://ismashphone.com/2011/01/how-to-save-your-ios-game-progress-before-a-firmware-updaterestore.html
also, just in case if you want to revert to older version of PvsZ
http://ismashphone.com/2011/01/how-to-revert-to-old-app-versions.html