I am running Nameless 4.1 and had an issue with my sd card needing to be reformatted, but I wanted to get my nandroid back ups off the card first. Where would I find the backup I made on the SD card? I'd like to find the backup I made so i can go back to EF 3.6 with all my data. Thanks!
EDIT: Figured it out
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Hey guys, i have been writing and re writing different Rom to my phone for about a year now. But last night the worst thing that could happen happened. I did a backup of my external sd card and a titanium backup before writing the rc3 Rom final gingerbread clone to my phone. Well after writing it i decided i did not want it. So as any other time i just booted into recovery and looked for my nandriod backup and none of my backups were under restore. I realize now
that my backups including my titanium backups must have been on my actual phone and had been wiped. How can i avoid this problem in the future. I thought overtime i wiped my phone
and restored it, it was because i had my stuff on my sd card. I have a nandriod folder backed up from my external sd card but that seems to be worthless at this point. Any advice would help. Thanks, signed starting over.... Lol
you are correct in that all of your backups are originally stored in your phone memory (/sdcard) not your external sd card (sdcard/external_sd) unless you physically move them yourself or re-set the destination in each program. For example my nandroids are in (sdcard/clockworkmod/backup), TB in(sdcard/TitaniumBackup), and sms/mms in (sdcard/SMSBackupRestore
Usually flashing a new ROM will not wipe my internal or external sdcard. If anything it will wipe the INTERNAL sdcard not your external.
In any case backing up your backups is a good idea. Simply move them from their location to your PC. Voila! now you have all your backups stored on your PC.(aren't i smart) Now heres a little TOP SECRET tip..... ever since i started having mount to PC issues on random ROM/kernel combination's I keep a hidden nandroid backup in my external sdcard I always move my last nandroid there heres my path (sdcard/external_sd/backup/TOPSECRET/hiddenfile/poop/)... this makes it easy to pull your last nandroid just in case your internal does get wiped. Hope this helps
thank you for your reply...
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...
Haven't seen this anywhere yet so here it goes:
Nandroid backups are great, when you still have your SD card. In several attempts to run MTD on my phone, my sd card would "appear" damaged or wouldn't mount, no matter the installation process or anything, and required my SD card be formatted, thus erasing my Nandroid backups. Back on TW again, I am saving my nandroids on my PC. If the time comes when I would need to do it, how would I go about restoring? I'm assuming it could be moving the file back on the sd card and "restore" would read it as a backup, but I want to be sure before even remotely attempting. Thanks in advance.
Yeah you can move them back and forth from the SD card and PC, that's what I did back when I used Nandroid backups.
OhioYJ said:
Yeah you can move them back and forth from the SD card and PC, that's what I did back when I used Nandroid backups.
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thanks man. i like to know what will do what before i attempt it. i read through these forums quite a bit and have developed intuition, but i was not sure about this one at all.
I have been running Cleanrom 1.7 for a while and decided to make the leap to Nils ICS Rom. When on GB I could always do an SMS Backup and after the new rom pull it back into my texts as if nothing was wiped. I did a Nandroid Backup of my 1.7 and then did a full SMS Backup as well before going to the new leaked RUU and ICS Rom. I can not get SMS to find any files or backups and I need to get these texts back as some have important info linked in them. Is there a reason why it wouldn't be able to recognize or find the any SMS backups.
I saw there is a way to get into the Nandroid backup and pull the correct files from the data area but have no idea how to put it to use once located.
Custom recovery is AmonRa 3.15
Any help is appreciated
fox_forma said:
I have been running Cleanrom 1.7 for a while and decided to make the leap to Nils ICS Rom. When on GB I could always do an SMS Backup and after the new rom pull it back into my texts as if nothing was wiped. I did a Nandroid Backup of my 1.7 and then did a full SMS Backup as well before going to the new leaked RUU and ICS Rom. I can not get SMS to find any files or backups and I need to get these texts back as some have important info linked in them. Is there a reason why it wouldn't be able to recognize or find the any SMS backups.
I saw there is a way to get into the Nandroid backup and pull the correct files from the data area but have no idea how to put it to use once located.
Custom recovery is AmonRa 3.15
Any help is appreciated
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The RUU wiped internal sd card so that is what wiped out the backup. You could try the band backup and move the backup to sd card. Then rrestore ICS and then and will find backup on external card
I had always saved to my ext sdcard but for some reason it didn't do it this time. I ended up dropping the old PH98IMG back into bootloader and nandroid restored my previous set up so I could save it again. I did an ext sd save and copied everything to my comp as well. This time around it took when the ICS Rom was dropped back on and everything is up and running. Just wish I planned for it from the beginning as it took a lot of time out of my day to redo it all.
I will def remember this for the future
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!
ericmtnbkr said:
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.