I installed the Titanium Backup Pro and it works fine. But the folder created for the backus is located in the main memory instead of SD memory where it should be. Anobody has the same issue? How to make it to locate the folder in SD?
by default it is located on /sdcard/titaniumbackup or /mnt/sdcard/titaniumbackup (thats the real path)
this is the internal SD and not 'main memory' it doesnt go away if you flash back to stock. if you want it to go to an EXTERNAL sd card you need to change the option in titanium backup to point to
/mnt/sdcard-ext/titaniumbackup
why do you think it 'should' be in a location that not everyone has?
The folder appears in "Internal phone storage" and not in "SD card". What do you mean external SD?
And how can I change the path?
To change the path, click menu> preferences> backup folder name and put /mnt/sdcard-ext/TitaniumBackup
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Edprigar said:
The folder appears in "Internal phone storage" and not in "SD card". What do you mean external SD?
And how can I change the path?
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internal phone storage is the 10gb of usable space for you. do you have an external SD card? as in, a microSD that you inserted in the microSD card slot? if you dont have a microSD, where do you think you are going to move those backups to?
just sit back and put a little logic into what you want
Pirateghost said:
internal phone storage is the 10gb of usable space for you. do you have an external SD card? as in, a microSD that you inserted in the microSD card slot? if you dont have a microSD, where do you think you are going to move those backups to?
just sit back and put a little logic into what you want
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Of course I have a micro SD card (32 GB) inserted in my phone. That's why I'm asking this. To me it's more logic to think in that SD card, when TB says it will save the backups in the SD, than in an internal partition in the main memory, named SD, as it seems to be. But I want to have this clear.
Edprigar said:
Of course I have a micro SD card (32 GB) inserted in my phone. That's why I'm asking this. To me it's more logic to think in that SD card, when TB says it will save the backups in the SD, than in an internal partition in the main memory, named SD, as it seems to be. But I want to have this clear.
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Dont think you quite understand...
In most other android phones the sd card path is /mnt/sdcard/. However in the Atrix this same path is used as our internal memory while our (actual) sd card path is /mnt/sdcard-ext/
Titanium Backup caters to the majority by default but this is easily fixed if you just change the path as stated above.
Charsher47 said:
Dont think you quite understand...
In most other android phones the sd card path is /mnt/sdcard/. However in the Atrix this same path is used as our internal memory while our (actual) sd card path is /mnt/sdcard-ext/
Titanium Backup caters to the majority by default but this is easily fixed if you just change the path as stated above.
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Thanks. It worked fine.
Sorry to "Necro-Post", but how exactly do I change the path to my external card? I have Titanium Backup Pro, and cannot find a way to edit the path in the settings dialog...
y0himba said:
Sorry to "Necro-Post", but how exactly do I change the path to my external card? I have Titanium Backup Pro, and cannot find a way to edit the path in the settings dialog...
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Create your backup folder on your external SDCard 1st using root explorer, or some other file manipulation app.
Open TiBu > Menu > Preferences > Backup Folder Location > Use the back key on your Atrix to move up folders until you can select sdcard-ext > select sdcard-ext > select the backup folder you created earlier > press Use Current Folder > select OK > done.
Using the back key to move up a folder is what gets most people.
CaelanT said:
Create your backup folder on your external SDCard 1st using root explorer, or some other file manipulation app.
Open TiBu > Menu > Preferences > Backup Folder Location > Use the back key on your Atrix to move up folders until you can select sdcard-ext > select sdcard-ext > select the backup folder you created earlier > press Use Current Folder > select OK > done.
Using the back key to move up a folder is what gets most people.
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Huh. I must be living under a rock. Has this changed very recently? I know you use to have to manually enter the name of the folder... Thanks for the heads up!
I tried creating a folder manually and pointing TiBU to it.. It asked me if I wanted to move my backup files there and I said yes. It then said '0 of 512 moved successfully'. haha, big surprise since my backup folder is 2gb.. So I just moved the TitaniumBackup folder from sd to sdext, and pointed TiBU to it. Verified backups and all is well.
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I was confused for the first few days when I would tell an app to backup its settings on the sdcard and then later they couldn't be found. I just realized that HTC has the internal memory mounted as /sdcard and the MicroSD card mounted as /sdcard/ext_sd/
This is a great idea IMO and I always wished it was this way on my Incredible. I always hated how on my Droid and my Incredible that all my settings files were crapping up my sdcard instead of the internal memory (which I rarely ever used for storing stuff), it made it a pain to find things when you were placing the MicroSD card in other devices since you had to hunt through all the settings folders.
The more I use this phone the more I like it.
brando56894 said:
I was confused for the first few days when I would tell an app to backup its settings on the sdcard and then later they couldn't be found. I just realized that HTC has the internal memory mounted as /sdcard and the MicroSD card mounted as /sdcard/ext_sd/
This is a great idea IMO and I always wished it was this way on my Incredible. I always hated how on my Droid and my Incredible that all my settings files were crapping up my sdcard instead of the internal memory (which I rarely ever used for storing stuff), it made it a pain to find things when you were placing the MicroSD card in other devices since you had to hunt through all the settings folders.
The more I use this phone the more I like it.
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Direct link is sdcard2
This messed with me for a lil while. I was trying to restore backups of my launchers and other stuff.
Had to mount it on my comp and move needed files to the internal sd and left other junk on ex sd.
now im rocking 7gb internal and ~20gb external. wtf am I going to do with all this space?
I'm not a fan of it by any means. I think they should have made internal SD2 and let the actual SD card be sdcard. Titanium saves everything to the internal memory now because of its name, which is stupid. And I don't see anywhere to change the directory Ti saves to, just the folder name. So anytime I do a backup, I have to copy the folder from internal memory to the SD card. I'm not sure what else is performing the same actions, hopefully not everything else.
This also really complicated folks like me with Exchange accounts that require encryption of your card. Since the internal memory is now listed as a sd card it encrypts the internal drive too stopping others programs from writing to it
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rboddy said:
I'm not a fan of it by any means. I think they should have made internal SD2 and let the actual SD card be sdcard. Titanium saves everything to the internal memory now because of its name, which is stupid. And I don't see anywhere to change the directory Ti saves to, just the folder name. So anytime I do a backup, I have to copy the folder from internal memory to the SD card. I'm not sure what else is performing the same actions, hopefully not everything else.
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Ok so how do I save to my sd card not the internal mem
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rambo8987 said:
Ok so how do I save to my sd card not the internal mem
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Only think I have been able to figure is everything is saved to the internal sd and you have to manually move it to the extra sd.
Imagine all the people that arent tech savy. They are going to fill up the internal and think they have no more room.
rboddy said:
I'm not a fan of it by any means. I think they should have made internal SD2 and let the actual SD card be sdcard. Titanium saves everything to the internal memory now because of its name, which is stupid. And I don't see anywhere to change the directory Ti saves to, just the folder name. So anytime I do a backup, I have to copy the folder from internal memory to the SD card. I'm not sure what else is performing the same actions, hopefully not everything else.
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1st, make sure that whatever from Titanium that is on /sdcard is moved over to /sdcard2 then in Titanium:
Press Menu button, scroll down to Backup Folder Location and press that. Press "DETECT!" and then press "WHOLE DEVICE" It should locate the spot on /sdcard2. After choosing that, press "Use the current folder" and you should no longer have to manually move stuff from internal to external.
What I have yet to try on this phone is to move my apps and pictures to the internal "sdcard" then use a program like "MyBackup Pro" to run scheduled App, Photo, and Data backups to the External card (I don't believe Titanium will backup your photos which is why I say use that). That would mean that not only would my apps, pics and data be stored in its own partition internally, but I would have a true redundant backup location in case my phone craps the bed.
I'm running 3.7.5 and don't see any option for Detect, all I can do is change the name.
rboddy said:
I'm not a fan of it by any means. I think they should have made internal SD2 and let the actual SD card be sdcard. Titanium saves everything to the internal memory now because of its name, which is stupid. And I don't see anywhere to change the directory Ti saves to, just the folder name. So anytime I do a backup, I have to copy the folder from internal memory to the SD card. I'm not sure what else is performing the same actions, hopefully not everything else.
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You can change the Titanium backup directory (you'll have to do it during temporary root). I did and pointed it back to where my backup files were on the SD card that had been in my Incredible. It's possible it's only available with the paid Titanium version (but that is an app I didn't mind paying for).
Hello All,
Just got a white one without any external SD-Card (the micro SD) installed. I was able to root it using the CF-ROOT V5.0 guide which is an excellent resource for noobs like me.
Using the CWM (which shows in the applications menu after the root) I was able to take phone complete backup.
Now the confusion begins that even though there was no external SD card installed the backup took place and then it was saved in
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/sdcard/Clockworkmod/backup/folder_name_date_time
Infact /sdcard is the home directory to start with, which is shown when I browse files using the built-in file manager called "My Files".
So when is there is no SD-Card installed, why is the internal home directory called SD-Card , where the nandroid backups are saved automatically ? (i guess the internal storage is also called SD-Card, is it so ? bad naming idea then)
Now I did install a 2GB external SD-card and formatted it using the storage options within the settings menu.
So apparently this (actual) SD-card is mounted in the directory called
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/sdcard/external_sd
Then again I tried taking a nandriod backup hoping that it would automatically detect this available external sd card and would save the backups, which did not happen and the nandroid again took backup to the internal SD storage.
So how to direct nandroid to take and place backups on the external SD card.?
Secondly I have also read about the Sd-Ext partition, can someone please explain what is this partition , how is it made, and what is the benefit of using this partition. Can i make it a default location for installing application and what other uses can I have of an SD-Ext partition.?
Do i need App2SD and Link2SD in order to use SD-ext partition for any purposes.?
If I take a backup again using nadriod would it place it on the SD-Ext partition or the left over space in the regular SD card partition. ?
Thanks a lot for reading and clearing up my confusion mentioned above.
Internal card is named SD card in CWM .
Me i just copy the clockwork backup folder to PC and External SD card .
jje
JJEgan said:
Internal card is named SD card in CWM .
Me i just copy the clockwork backup folder to PC and External SD card .
jje
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Well,
Thanks however I am hoping some more details to satisfy the specific queries I had, waiting for the gurus to shed some light.
Thanks again.
So I've done some searching and apparently on SGS2, the Move To SD option in Manage Applications *should* move apps to your external SD in the .androidsecure directory.
However, it doesn't seem to do that for me, it moves it to the .androidsecure directory of my INTERNAL sd.
I'm running MIUI, with Void.echo kernel.
In App 2 SD, it notes at the bottom "External storage status: shared"
barrist said:
So I've done some searching and apparently on SGS2, the Move To SD option in Manage Applications *should* move apps to your external SD in the .androidsecure directory.
However, it doesn't seem to do that for me, it moves it to the .androidsecure directory of my INTERNAL sd.
I'm running MIUI, with Void.echo kernel.
In App 2 SD, it notes at the bottom "External storage status: shared"
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Maybe u have luck and u got an answer but I think u will got an better and faster answer in MIUI thread
It can be that it is a change or fold from it, so that maybe only MIUI users can help u.
CHEERS
barrist said:
However, it doesn't seem to do that for me, it moves it to the .androidsecure directory of my INTERNAL sd.
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That's how it always worked. Im sure there's an app in the market that will move it to an external sdcard.
peachpuff said:
That's how it always worked. Im sure there's an app in the market that will move it to an external sdcard.
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I agree with OP there's something weird about how the move to sd works. In reality it moves the app to internal SD, however it also put some info on those apps in the .android_secure folder in your external SD. And if you remove the external SD those app stop working, even though they reside in the internal SD and shouldn't be affected by removal of external SD.
jzmtl said:
I agree with OP there's something weird about how the move to sd works. In reality it moves the app to internal SD, however it also put some info on those apps in the .android_secure folder in your external SD. And if you remove the external SD those app stop working, even though they reside in the internal SD and shouldn't be affected by removal of external SD.
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Actually my "Move to SD" doesn't even create the .android_secure folder on external SD. It creates it on the internal SD.
It should create it on the external SD, where you can see the files when mounted on your PC. (they are hidden when you try to find them from within your phone).
So I think in your case, the apps ARE being moved to the external SD just in a weird way (that's why they don't work when you remove the card).
In my case, it's not functioning that way at all; nothing is being moved to the external sd.
I used the instructions from iJimaniac to swap my storage from internal to external (love the mass storage now!) however all my apps that I originally had moved to the SD card have suddenly disappeared and now i have to remember and re-install them. I made a copy of everything under /mnt/sdcard and moved it to my external SD card before making the switch so that everything would still be linked ok. Any ideas on what went wrong? Note: i took everything on my external SD card and put it in a separate folder on my external SD card so I wouldn't lose any of that.
Well, I used a PC to copy .android_secure folder from the real external_SD to the new "fake" external_SD. If that doesn't work, I would copy back the original vold.fstab then move all apps to internal, then use modified vold.fstab and move your apps back to sd if you want. Remember to reboot after making a change. Several reboots might even be needed for all apps to show up (might want to try that before anything). Hope this helps!
Ok well the problem is apparently that the .android_secure folder on the sd card is empty. Strangely it also has no permissions and refuses to let me change it. Whenever i try to replace it with the full .android_secure folder it gives me a black screen and i have to restart. Any idea what might be wrong?
Well, it might not actually be empty, it looks empty when viewed with an android file browser, but when you look at it on a computer (might need to disable "hide protected system files" in windows folder options) you should see stuff in it. So, you need to copy the .android_secure folder FROM your REAL microSD card TO your REAL internal memory using a pc, not an android file browser. To be clear, I have figured out that android transfers the app to your sd card when you select "move to usb storage", so that can be deceiving. Your apps were on the sd card, but now you need to transfer them to your usb storage by moving the .android_secure folder. Hope you figure it out!
Ah something decided to start working again and all my apps came back! Thanks for your help!
No problem! What was probably wrong was your player was rebuilding the dalvik-cache. It sometimes takes a while I find. Glad you got it working.
Hey guys, I just noticed that my Titanium Backups are stored in sd storage as opposed to the ext. Sd storage? What did I do here?
Have you tried going to Preferences | Backup folder location | Press back button and look for:
/mnt/extSdCard
and look for your Titanium Backup directory?
edit- you have to "Reload application" in TB for the changes to kick in. I just confirmed this on my rooted GS3 with backups made using a GS2.
androholic said:
Hey guys, I just noticed that my Titanium Backups are stored in sd storage as opposed to the ext. Sd storage? What did I do here?
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Mine are stored in /mount/sdcard instead of /mount/extsdcard, when I go to preferences to change it, it won't allow me to "write files to this location? The only thing on my external sd card storage is my camera folder with my pictures in it? But I forgot to put the sd card in my phone until a couple of days after I had it, but I can't imagine that has anything to do with it? Also, I'm only using an 8gb card, but it has 7.39 of 7.40gb available?