My phone is about to be taken away (XPERIA X10) for a replacement in few days. I want to back up everything on it, not just the apps or settings. I want to back up the Android 2.2 which I have on it, all the apps in it with the settings.
I had 2.1, i have got everything ready, such xrecovery and etc.
Could you tell me a way I could also backup my root files (not the sd files).
Thanks
I do have my phone rooted, I want to backup everything, everything, so I can restore the phone as it was. Dont worry about the new phone, i can root and get android 2.2 on it.
Simply enter recovery and make a back up, then turn on the phone. Turn on your PC and plug your phone in and mount the SD card. Find the folder called xrecovery and enter it and enter the one inside there called back up. Simply copy and paste the contents of the backup folder to your PC. On new phone copy and paste it to the same location on your new sd card (xrecovery/backup) and put it there. Root the phone install xrecovery and simply restore your file. Easy
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so it would have already created a folder called backup within a folder xrecovery? right, but my phone already has xrecovery installed but no folder called xrecovery there?
thisisuzair said:
so it would have already created a folder called backup within a folder xrecovery? right, but my phone already has xrecovery installed but no folder called xrecovery there?
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It should have created the folder backup inside. Have you got some kind of file manger like astro or andexplorer or something and look on your SD card not the phone memory. Look for a folder called xrecovery, it should be there. If not create one and one inside there called backup and then use recovery to make a back up and it shall be there.
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On ur SD card copy and paste the folder u made a backup in and place it on ur computer. When u get phone back drag it back to SD card and restore in xrecovery
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Hey all.
Is it possible to backup every single thing on my phone? Apps, contacts ect? I want to format it, but not lose everything.
Iam looking for the same
Maybe MyBackupPro???
eiabea said:
Iam looking for the same
Maybe MyBackupPro???
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i dont think that backs up everything though.
i want it to back up to a PC or something aswell, as the SD card is what i want to format
As far as i know MyBackUp Pro creates .zip files on the sd card.
So after the backup we could transfer this .zip files to the PC and "format" the phone?
eiabea said:
As far as i know MyBackUp Pro creates .zip files on the sd card.
So after the backup we could transfer this .zip files to the PC and "format" the phone?
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i dont know, aslong as we can transfer it to the PC, hopefully we'll have nothing to lose
Delete, misread the question.
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qwer23 said:
Delete, misread the question.
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Doas Titanium also backup my contacts?
Yes. You could backup everything to sd card, copy backup folder to pc and wipe everything. Then reflash rom, copy the backup folder back to sd card and reinstall titanium. Titanium is the most complete backup you'll get on your x10 till bootloader is cracked. Another method would be the custom recovery, but i didn't try it out.
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Can't you just use root explorer to copy every single system file to your SD, then copy the backup from SD to your PC....???? I would imagine it would be as easy as copying all the files/folders in your system root folder.
MyBackup sucks dogs bollocks - it's no better than the one included...
I backed up using the included one and Titanium, and did a restore from both - seemed to get everything back on as required...
For Apps backup.. you can use File Expert. It backed up all apks installed to sd card...
Contacts u can sync with Sony Ericcson. For messages i dont have an idea...
k1sr said:
MyBackup sucks dogs bollocks - it's no better than the one included...
I backed up using the included one and Titanium, and did a restore from both - seemed to get everything back on as required...
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+1 for this
Titanium Backup + SE Backup and Restore does the lot!
I installed Wuiu the other night and now when I try to restore a back up that I had previously had saved on my phone it just says "no files found" What did I do?! Did the ROM update my CWM and now the files are not compatible or what? If this is the case how can I find out which version of CWM i had and how can I get that back?
If I guess correctly, what happened is the sd cards are now mounted differently. You just need to find the backup directory with astro or some other root able file manager and move it to the correct sd card. I can't remember if the external is emmc or the internal one is. But whichever is which you just need to move the backup folder to the correct sd card. Sorry I can't give more detailed instructions, as I don't use wiui but if I remember right its based on cm7 file structuring.
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In cwm, there should be two option to restore from. Go to backup and restore and then the third or fourth option down should be restore from internal.
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I installed Wuiu the other night and now when I try to restore a back up that I had previously had saved on my phone it just says "no files found" What did I do?! Did the ROM update my CWM and now the files are not compatible or what? If this is the case how can I find out which version of CWM i had and how can I get that back?
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While in CWM try both locations, cause Entropy and Siyah have it named differently.
I have a rooted i9300 running Paranoid Android 4.1.2. My problem is when I use my root file explorer to move my nandroid back up made with rom manager to my external SD card and go look for it when I'm in recovery mode I get the message NO FILE FOUND when I select it. The title of the back up is there but apparently there is no file there!! I'm a touch confused as I have another SD card I keep all my ROMS on just to be safe and they were all moved there using the same root file explorer.
move the whole folder
I'll give it a try, cheers.
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FAIL..!!! lol
I moved the whole folder again and it has made no difference!! majorly confused now.
Gonna just try and copy the folder and move the copy to my external SD card. Kind of defeats the purpose of what I was trying to achieve by having all my roms and back ups on my EX SD to keep space on my internal storage lol
Make a backup on Ext SD card then copy previous backup to the same location .
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To clear it up, try copying the whole clockworkmod folder, not the whole backup folder
Will give all of the above a try thanks folks.
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I have really screwed my phone. It is a Samsung Fascinate 4G from Telus. I have tried to flash my phone that didn't work. So I tried to go back to stock with files I downloaded from here. I would get the phone to work but there was no sdcard, I could not mount or format an extrenal sd card and the sim card was not recognized. I did make a backup of my extrenal sdcard and found this folder on it. "sgs-kernal-flasher" there is two sub floder titled "backup and tmp". Does this mean I made a backup of my rom before I started to screw the phone up or did I download it from someplace? If this is a backup how do i restore if the phone will not mount the sdcard?
OK well let's see first of all you have a completely different fascinate than us you need to use this thread to find ROMs and stock files
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1540809
Now then just find the stock files in that thread and flash back to stock and no if it was a backup it would be under "clockworkmod"
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hi
iam trying. to flash a rom. for the 1st te and i want to backup the current. rom so i can restore it if i didn't. like the new one.
so everytime when i do a backup i find it on the internel sd not the ext
so i went to setting. but use ext sd is uncheckable 1/
so i manually. copied the cmw folder to the ext sd. iam i save yet ? or i won't be able to restore
2| how can i tell that i completed the back up successfully ? i mean the stock rom back up for lg l3 e400 took like 290mb is this right
shady2137 said:
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iam trying. to flash a rom. for the 1st te and i want to backup the current. rom so i can restore it if i didn't. like the new one.
so everytime when i do a backup i find it on the internel sd not the ext
so i went to setting. but use ext sd is uncheckable 1/
so i manually. copied the cmw folder to the ext sd. iam i save yet ? or i won't be able to restore
2| how can i tell that i completed the back up successfully ? i mean the stock rom back up for lg l3 e400 took like 290mb is this right
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1. Copying the cwm folder to your sd is fine. Just make sure that when/if you want to restore it, you put it back into the same directory that its supposed to be in. (/clockwordmod/backups/). Also dont rename the folder name of the backup.
2. If your backup didnt complete successfully, cwm wouldve given you an alert saying so.
thx man
chromium96 said:
1. Copying the cwm folder to your sd is fine. Just make sure that when/if you want to restore it, you put it back into the same directory that its supposed to be in. (/clockwordmod/backups/). Also dont rename the folder name of the backup.
2. If your backup didnt complete successfully, cwm wouldve given you an alert saying so.
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Thx man ur awesome. and very helpful
shady2137 said:
Thx man ur awesome. and very helpful
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Also if your phone's system memory is around 250 mb then the backup size is fine. It is more because it also backups data partition with all your apps.
For more questions you can follow link to help thread from my signature, its a sticky thread in this very section.