Unable to get Titanium Backup to work on Android 10

[twfry]

Have been unable to get Titanium Backup to work to migrate apps from my old phone to a new pixel 3. From searching around it sounds other people have had issues, but I have been unable to get TB to work.

Phone is newly flashed with Android 10 and google's factory images, after installing Magisk Manager to manage root I've tried the following:
a) install TB through the app store, if I do this TB hangs on restore, but if I install the app through the marketplace and then restore data in TB, that seems to work is some (not many) cases
b) install an older version of TB from apkmirror which was suggested in some threads, TB just hangs if I try that.

This thread suggested disabling "Verify apps over USB" would solve the above issue, but I had no luck. https://forum.xda-developers.com/oneplus-7-pro/help/issues-restoring-titanium-backup-t4011085 and in this thread had the same issue https://forum.xda-developers.com/pixel-3/help/pixel-3-setup-restoring-backups-fails-t3919228

Any suggestions on other things I should try to get TB to work? I've used TB for every phone migration for 10 years now, but am struggling to get it to work. Maybe another backup/restore tool is better, or maybe I should factory reset to Android 9 and stay on that. Thanks!

 

[hg42]

I couldn't restore a lot of my ~300 user apps, e.g. Zoom, Youtube, Advanced Root Checker, GMail.
All these apps are restoring for ever (hanging while restoring).
A lot others worked without any problem.

The main solution was to disable "Verify over USB" in developer settings.
I restored most of my apps with Indirect method, but later used Direct method (and tried on some of the others), which didn't make a difference.

However the suggested "Disable Play Protect" (in play store) didn't make a difference for all of my apps.

Youtube and Android Auto were the only ones that still didn't restore (still hanging), even with both options disabled.
Even the interactive method didn't help here.
May be this also affects other Google Apps like GMail, but I installed those manually from Play Store and connected them to my account, so I don't know.

I then installed Youtube via the market link and restoring via "data only" worked fine.

When looking at an app backup by Total Commander (just for fun) or Xplore, I see that all these apps seem to have split apks, so I guess that's the real reason.

 

[luckana]

You just don't use titanium backup i use swift backup pro it does the same job for me

 

[david1023]

I was able to restore TB backups after a full factory image wipe and Magisk installation.

I had to disable both "Verify Over USB" and "Play Protect" from the Play Store to get it to work. Hope this helps.

 

[PuffDaddy_d]

You just don't use titanium backup i use swift backup pro it does the same job for me

Thanks for this suggestion. Ti Backup has not worked on my Pixel 3 - ever.