What is the purpose of backing up the android secure sd card ext? I just did a complete wipe and restored a backup where this was not backed up. I'm not missing anything, not even my apps ap2sded on my sd card (or the saves of these apps).
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Anyone know?
When you try a restore it might not restore the apps that were symlinked to your sd since you chose not to back them up. Basically from my understanding is its a feature to backup the ext 2,3 or 4 partition on your sd if you had one and were using a mod like aps2sd were the apps are linked to the sd. Hope this helps.
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So i downloaded APPS2SD from the market... and i transfered aquapets and plants vs zombies onto my sd card... cuz my titanium backup wasnt working for some reason. So i thought that if i flashed a new rom....since the apps are on my sd card they would reappear on the new rom... but they didnt... how do i get the apps back? i opened apps2sd to see if they were on the sd card... and they dont show up on the sd card.. HELP!!!
originally, before froyo, apps2sd required an ext2 3 or 4 partition on your SD card to be used so that when you flashed a new rom, without formatting the previously mentioned ext partition, your apps would reappear on boot. with the addition of apps2sd in froyo things work differently so when flashing a new rom, you need to redo your apps.
titanium backup is your best friend in this scenario.
Is this program suppose to restore apps to the phone or back to the original location, i.e. Sd card? I tried to do a full wipe and when I tried restoring, it used all of the phone memory.
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If you are not using an EXT partition on your SD card, then MyBackupRoot will attempt to restore everything to the limited internal memory.
If your using S2E or DT Apps2sd, with a ext partition on your SD card, then it will restore your apps to where they came from.
Where you do gals and guys restore your apps. to on this phone? First, by default Titanium Backup was looking at Internal SD Card for storage on this Amaze, so I corrected that in the preferences. Now when I went to restore the apps., it also restored to the internal SD card. Is that correct? How does it normally do it? Does it normally restore to the flash of the phone? I read that when you wipe via Clockwork, for example, before installing a new ROM, it does not wipe the internal SD? Surely I still have to still restore the apps right? Would we just restore the apps, and not their data?
Hello Seniors,
I have some questions (basic newbie) if someone can clarify
1. Moving apps to SD card on rooted phones means - apps will be moved to Internal SD (USB Storage) or External SD card? Howto find the path?
2. If I move apps to SD card, will those be purged while I make wipe data+wipe cache+dalvik+Format System procedure to flash a new ROM? Or it'll remain in SD and catch up back when the new ROM is in?? Big confusion
3. What does a Nandroid backup normally take? Would it keep ROM+ Apps in System Partition or just the ROM?
Apologies if questions sound weir, but hope some can throw sense on it
insaf_mohd said:
Hello Seniors,
I have some questions (basic newbie) if someone can clarify
1. Moving apps to SD card on rooted phones means - apps will be moved to Internal SD (USB Storage) or External SD card? Howto find the path?
2. If I move apps to SD card, will those be purged while I make wipe data+wipe cache+dalvik+Format System procedure to flash a new ROM? Or it'll remain in SD and catch up back when the new ROM is in?? Big confusion
3. What does a Nandroid backup normally take? Would it keep ROM+ Apps in System Partition or just the ROM?
Apologies if questions sound weir, but hope some can throw sense on it
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1 - for phones having intetnal sd- apps will be moved to internal sd..
for phones without internal sd - apps will be moved to external sd..
2 - if you do flash a new rom, all apps irrespective of whether they are on internal storage or internal sd will get deleted.. you need titanium backup to backup and restore apps+ data..
3 - nandroid backup means backing up your rom+ apps.. the backup is stored in sd card.. if you restore the backup, all your current apps would disappear and everything present in the nandroid backup will reappear
Syed.Zeshan said:
1 - for phones having intetnal sd- apps will be moved to internal sd..
for phones without internal sd - apps will be moved to external sd..
2 - if you do flash a new rom, all apps irrespective of whether they are on internal storage or internal sd will get deleted.. you need titanium backup to backup and restore apps+ data..
3 - nandroid backup means backing up your rom+ apps.. the backup is stored in sd card.. if you restore the backup, all your current apps would disappear and everything present in the nandroid backup will reappear
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Thanks for the answers Syed, clear to the hilt
Just wondering where a nandroid backup should be stored and if it matters where it is stored? I tried saving my stock rooted backup to my ext sd card awhile back, and now when I try to restore from backup in twrp there is no information found. I then tried to factory restore from twrp and reset my phone as is. It constantly bootloops until i pull the battery out.
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What do you mean no information is found? I believe Twrp checks the internal sd by default and wont show your backup in your external sd until you change to look for it in your micro sd card. When you boot into recovery and and then hit restore at the top does the storage bar say Internal storage? If so tap it and change it to micro sd card then your backups should be displayed.
obviousfrog said:
Just wondering where a nandroid backup should be stored and if it matters where it is stored? I tried saving my stock rooted backup to my ext sd card awhile back, and now when I try to restore from backup in twrp there is no information found. I then tried to factory restore from twrp and reset my phone as is. It constantly bootloops until i pull the battery out.
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You need to make sure that your Recovery is compatible (i.e., can read) the format of your external card. You might have a 64gb external card formatted in exFAT which TWRP can't read (I don't use TWRP so I don't know if that's the case).
If the issue is compatibility between your card format and your recovery, I would recommend copying the backup off your card onto a PC, reformatting your sd card to FAT32, move the backup back to the card, and try again.
PS - in re: your ? on where to save backup: Internal storage is always 'safest' from a recovery perspective (i.e., your device will always find it); but these days, nandroid backups could be 5GB or more, consuming a huge chunk of space, especially if you only have 16gb to start with. So I think most people end up using their external card.