Hello
I rooted my phone a while ago and has been running a rom happily. I have two sd cards so I decided to flash my phone with a new rom on my secondary sd card. I did a nandroid backup + ext first on my old sd card. Installing rom on new sd card went fine. But I lost all my contacts so I wanted to boot the old rom to sync wavesync. I did a restore but now the old rom doesn't boot anymore? Isn't that how nandroid is supposed to work.
Anyway back to the new rom again.
Secondly where are all the data for programs stored? I found andnav and another data folder for a program on the fat32 partition but when I copied them to my new sd card they are simply not recognized after I reinstalled the programs. It's the same version of the programs. And this is only two programs. Like does anyone know where abduction stores it's data?
Thanks in advance.
Have you added the ext partition to your new sd card?
Yes I have
Nandroid takes like a picture of your system at a certain time and then restores that exact picture when you run the restore.
What exactly is happening, did the restore say "successful"?
Yes it finished with no problem. How does everyone else upgrade to a new rom? I'm guessing that the application data is stored in /data/data somewhere?
arj03 said:
Yes it finished with no problem. How does everyone else upgrade to a new rom? I'm guessing that the application data is stored in /data/data somewhere?
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that is correct. i don't really get what you want to do, if you want to upgrade just install the new rom. if you don't then don't. if you have a bootloop you can find the problem in logcat.
I want all my progress/high scores made to abduction to be there on my new rom
Also contacts would be nice, but I can dump/restore that now.
arj03 said:
I want all my progress/high scores made to abduction to be there on my new rom
Also contacts would be nice, but I can dump/restore that now.
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use titanium backup. you can aswell try to find the according files in /data/data, but titanium does the job for you and it works.
try flashing the boot.img for the backup your doing.I dont mean the nand backup boot.img i mean the original boot.img from the update.zip
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Installed Eugenes JI5 ROM. Created backup in Clockwork. Heres what happened:
backing up system
backing up data
backing up datadata
no/ sdcard/ .android.secure found
skipping backup of apps on ext. storage
backing up cache
no sd-ext found
skipping backup of sd-ext
generating md5 sum
backup complete
I assume this is just telling me its not backing up my external sd? Just want to make sure I will be able to restore this without any problems? Thanks.
That's what my backups say too. I think you are correct. Maybe thats for apps2sd which the vibrant doesn't support. That's what I always assumed.
Btw. My nandroids seem to work fine though.
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I am getting that error message also. Seems to have started after I restored to a back up of my latest ROM (Nero V5).
Anyone have any other advice on this?
Same problem
i have the same problem too.. i only have had to backup things so i am not sure if this backup will work while restoring if anything goes wrong? and if it gets to restore the rom will it restore the apps that i had installed on sd card and externed sd..
i want someone to enlighten me with his experience.. Cheers!
I am having the same problem I rooted and then instal CWM did a back up and got the same MSG.
When to SD card under CWM and the back up was there so I hope if I needed it will work.
My phone is a Samsung Epic Touch Sprint with a ROM Manager v5.0.0.6 Model SPH-D710 Android Version 2.3.6 BAse version S:d710.10 S.EL29
This
no/ sdcard/ .android.secure found
skipping backup of apps on ext. storage
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is for when you use the native app2sd function of Froyo and beyond to move your apps to the sdcard.
.androidsecure is where they go. As a side note, if you try to look at it in the ohone wth Root Explorer or ES, it will show up as empty. You have to look at it on your PC and make sure "show hidden file" is checked. Sucks that you can't see it on the phone but this has been a long time glitch and really a non-issue anyways since we have such a huge 2gb partition for apps anyways.
hey guys, the search isn't working right now, i am trying to backup my apps with titanuim before i flash a new rom and i followed a step by step i found that said to change the backup file name to external_sd/TitaniumBackup and then to check your sd to see if it's there, well i did that and when i use astro to look at my sd it's not there....any help please? i'm really tired of re-downloading all my apps everytime i flash a new rom. thanks guys.
its on your internal sd... should be a folder named TitaniumBackup. Thats where all my backups go to anyway.
I think that the folder location of external_sd/TitaniumBackup is for 2.2 roms. The external card is found at sd/ on 2.1 roms, and at external_sd/ for 2.2 roms. If you are currently using a 2.2 rom, you wont find anything on your external card under the folder sd/.
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hey guys, the search isn't working right now, i am trying to backup my apps with titanuim before i flash a new rom and i followed a step by step i found that said to change the backup file name to external_sd/TitaniumBackup and then to check your sd to see if it's there, well i did that and when i use astro to look at my sd it's not there....any help please? i'm really tired of re-downloading all my apps everytime i flash a new rom. thanks guys.
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WHY would you need to change the backup file name, that makes no sense. Not saying anything to you, just questioning the guide you are following.
Cant you just go to Ti Backup and restore your apps?
yeah i don't know, it was just the guide i found when i searched for it. so the file is on the internal memory, i just didn't know if all the internal gets erased when you flash a new rom?
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yeah i don't know, it was just the guide i found when i searched for it. so the file is on the internal memory, i just didn't know if all the internal gets erased when you flash a new rom?
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The backup is automatically held on the internal 16g memory. The easiest way to make sure Titanium can see your backup is to open Titanium, click on Backup/Restore at the top and scroll through the listed items. Under them they should say 1 backup. If they don't then renaming the file confused Titanium and you won't be able to restore.
Hi,
I backed my sd card contents to my pc, my rooted incredible was a mess it was running CM7. I wiped the card flashed PB31IMG, a stock+ ROM then flashed MIUI now how do I get my backup onto the phone? So my apps + all the information and upgrades are like they were. Ie. all the money and levels I have got to in a app such as drag racing, my Handcent settings messages etc.
I am not sure how to copy the just the names of all the folders so you can see them if that would be more helpful to you please let me know how. If I could get my backed up removeable disk on here without the files I dont need I would be so grateful. Thanks
If you made a backup before you flashed you will have to restore to the backup and backup the apps using titanium backup. If not, sorry, all is lost...
Hi,
I've looked around, but noone had same problem as me.
I have Titanium Backup, and i did a backup on my 34 apps to my externals SD. Today i installed new ROM so i wanted to restore these apps, but titanium can't do this.
This is how i do:
1. I went in to Preferences --> restoration settings --> "Restore backups to..." and there is choosed "external media".
2. I went back to first screen --> batch---> restore , but there's no apps there at all.
Please help.
Sounds like you didn't backup your SD card which contains the Titanium backups you have made before installing the new rom. Your new ROM may have formatted your SD card, am I correct?
Deeco7 said:
Sounds like you didn't backup your SD card which contains the Titanium backups you have made before installing the new rom. Your new ROM may have formatted your SD card, am I correct?
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No, all the files are at the SD card, i made a map called "titanium backup" where i placed all the backups, and they're still there. But titanium wont restore these.
Pretty lame, i bought the pro version for the "single click" function, meaning restore everything in single click, but it's useless if i can't save these to SD card.
Edit: I tried move the entire folder to internal SD, but same, titanium wont recognize anything.
Darwichee said:
No, all the files are at the SD card, i made a map called "titanium backup" where i placed all the backups, and they're still there. But titanium wont restore these.
Pretty lame, i bought the pro version for the "single click" function, meaning restore everything in single click, but it's useless if i can't save these to SD card.
Edit: I tried move the entire folder to internal SD, but same, titanium wont recognize anything.
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Oh ok, try checking the file sizes of the backup and let me know.
Check TB preferences for backup location, and scan the entire device it should locate the folder with your backups.
And from then on that will be your backup folder.
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Check TB preferences for backup location, and scan the entire device it should locate the folder with your backups.
And from then on that will be your backup folder.
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Thanks i managed to solve this now, and now TB can find those apps, but when i press begin and it begins to restoring, nothing happens, it stuck at 0%, does this happend to you to when you use your external SD to restore?
I've tried 3 times now, and it allways stuck at 0%.
Edit: i moved the folder to Phones internal memory, but same, it wont load my backups.
What could be the problem?
I had this problem once too.
copy the folder with the TB backups to our PC and formate the sd card. additionally I reinstalled the whole rom too. And after that try again. It worked for me.
blacksec said:
I had this problem once too.
copy the folder with the TB backups to our PC and formate the sd card. additionally I reinstalled the whole rom too. And after that try again. It worked for me.
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Ok, i installed a new ROM today anyway, and i formated my external SD too. Is it enogh to format it in phone settings, or i need to do it in PC, or it doesn't matter?
I get back if i still have the same problem again,
thanks
for me it worked with the recovery formatting tool.
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I read about this in a thread...
You might want to try this:http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1432699
Hello everyone,
I'm hoping you can help me with an issue I'm having with Titanium Backup not being able to see old backups. I just reflashed stock de-odexed 5.0.1 using Flashfire. In Flashfire I set it to wipe 3rd party apps before flashing. The flash went fine and my phone went through the setup fine, and I chose not to restore all my app/setting from Google. All the TB backups were still on my SD card and I set the backup location in TB to the old directory on my SD card. But my problem is when I got to restore user apps in TB, it can't see any of the old backups in the TB directory on my SD card. Anyone else ever experience this? Did you find a way to fix it so TB could see all the old backups?
Thanks.
Eric
I'm guessing it's related to 5.0.1 not allowing access to your external SD card. Try running SD Fix, available in the app store. Be sure to reboot after you run the app. Hopefully, this will fix the problem!
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Hello everyone,
I'm hoping you can help me with an issue I'm having with Titanium Backup not being able to see old backups. I just reflashed stock de-odexed 5.0.1 using Flashfire. In Flashfire I set it to wipe 3rd party apps before flashing. The flash went fine and my phone went through the setup fine, and I chose not to restore all my app/setting from Google. All the TB backups were still on my SD card and I set the backup location in TB to the old directory on my SD card. But my problem is when I got to restore user apps in TB, it can't see any of the old backups in the TB directory on my SD card. Anyone else ever experience this? Did you find a way to fix it so TB could see all the old backups?
Thanks.
Eric
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Thanks for the suggestion. I looked into that, but it didn't fix anything.
I'm having this issue too, you're not alone. I recently flashed Hyperdrive RLS21 over stock rooted MJ7 and TB could not see my user apps backup on the external SD card... Very weird. I'll let you know if I come up with anything.