Hi,
I had Gin-Tazz 27 S.R.E. installed on my eris for a few months. During that time, I moved some apps to the SD card (by going to 'application settings' > 'manage applications' under the rom's settings). Yesterday, I did a NAND backup (not of the EXT partition), just a NAND backup) of my gin-tazz 27 and flashed Ginger Tazz THE END pt 2-rom (and doing a
Data/Factory Reset wipe, then the davlik wipe right before flashing). After the flash, I did a batch restore of my apps from titanium backup pro, I realized that I forgot to backup a couple newer apps from my Gin-Tazz S.R.E. setup (because my TB app backups were a couple months old).
I then rebooted, did the Data/Factory Reset and davlik wipes again and restored my NAND backup from gin-tazz27. However, the applications in my gin-tazz27 that were moved to my SD card now say that they are no longer installed...
Is there a way I can restore these apps ?
I just started using Mybackup root to back up my apps and just reinstall them when done.
For what it's worth, what I ended up doing was downloading unyaffs
(see http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=15397304&postcount=264 for more info) to open my nand backup, copied the app folders that contained the data that I was looking for (located in /data in my extracted nand backup), and then copied them to my SD card's /data/
(don't copy over the symbol link file in each of the app's folder that is 40 bytes large), and then reinstalled each of the missing apps.
Upon opening each of those apps, my data was still there. (actually you may need to move those apps to the SD card before opening).
thanks to mongooseHelix in #droid-eris for his help
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Will anything bad happen if I backup my SDCards (internal and external) to my computer and erase everything but the Titanium Backup folder and install a new rom?
Will I run into any complications with the new rom install? I am going from Stock to Axura 2.25.9?
Most likely yes because some apps have folders and if you delete them then they MIGHT not work properly.
I've never run into an issue formatting my internal and external sd completely. Backup all your files you want to keep to your pc. Including your titanium folder. Format your storage through your phone. Flash the rom of your choice. Restore your files to your phone, including the titanium folder. Titanium will still see the folder and you will be able to restore the previously backed up apps. If those restored apps had data folders on your sd, the apps will rebuild the folders they require when you launch them.
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[Rooted with xtrSense 5.0.1 ROM]
Well the first issue I was having was my phone wouldn't boot past the white android screen. I popped the sd out and then it booted up fine. Turned off/on and again same issue. So I decided to copy everything on my sd to my computer, format, then converted it to ext2 to ext3. Copied everything back to the sd from my computer. It booted up fine this time but now none of my apps will work. (I had apps2sd as you probably figured) - I also re-flashed it and still no apps working.
Anybody have any ideas?
thetornado said:
[Rooted with xtrSense 5.0.1 ROM]
Well the first issue I was having was my phone wouldn't boot past the white android screen. I popped the sd out and then it booted up fine. Turned off/on and again same issue. So I decided to copy everything on my sd to my computer, format, then converted it to ext2 to ext3. Copied everything back to the sd from my computer. It booted up fine this time but now none of my apps will work. (I had apps2sd as you probably figured) - I also re-flashed it and still no apps working.
Anybody have any ideas?
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Yes. The ext2 or ext3 partition was probably not visible from your PC - I am guessing it is Windows. You probably only copied the files from your FAT32 partition, but the files in your ext3 partition - where your apps are stored on apps2sd - were not copied, and when you re-partitioned, you basically formatted the disk and erased them if they were there.
If you look at the backup/restore menu in Amon_RA recovery, there is an item called Nandroid+ext backup - this would backup (and allow Nandroid restore to restore) the apps on your ext3 partition. If you have a Nandroid backup that you made with the Nandroid+ext item, you should be able to restore your apps. If not, you'll have to reinstall them. (If you installed and backed up with Titanium Backup, you could restore them from there as well, with data.)
I did a nandroid and a nandroid+ext backup before formatting my sd, so I will go ahead and restore the nd+ext now.
So what actually backups for the nandroid? ..and for the +ext?
thetornado said:
I did a nandroid and a nandroid+ext backup before formatting my sd, so I will go ahead and restore the nd+ext now.
So what actually backups for the nandroid? ..and for the +ext?
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Nandroid (on Amon_RA) backs up /system, /data and the boot partition. (If you installed the trackball optional version of Amon_RA created by Scary Alien, it also backs up the /cache partition.) Nandroid+ext does all of these and adds the SD ext partition. Nandroids from Amon_RA are named automatically with names that start with something like BDS, BCDS, BDES, followed by yyyymmdd-hhmm - these letters let you know what was backed up with that backup - (B)oot, (D)ata, (C)ache, (E)xtended partition, and (S)ystem, plus the GMT date and time of the backup.
So, any of your backups with BDES should have your apps.
I want to wipe /sdcard and then to restore apps and data. So what I'll do:
1. Titanium Backup for all apps and data.
2. Wipe /sdcard.
3. Reinstall a fresh Titanium Backup.
But -- Titanium Backup is now fresh, so it doesn't have the apps and data backup I made earlier to restore from.
So the question is:
Does it suffice to copy the entire old Titanium Backup directory into the fresh (and empty) Titanium Backup directory?
Will the option 'restore missing apps with data' show all the stuff I backed up?
Mmm I did this when I moved to a custom JB rom. Like you said if you wipe sd card you will loose all the TB data. I'm not sure if you can move the TB folder to your pc then move it back after the wipe to restore your apps. I personally decided not to as I wanted to make sure I only had JB compatible apps on my phone as I was moving from an ICS rom. Perhaps other users have done this and can advise further.
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I found the answer here
I've been using TiBu a lot to back up and restore my apps now that I'm flashing a lot more, but now with the smaller data partitions in the new JB roms I'm finding myself having to move a lot of apps to the sd card... which is fine. The problem is though TiBu always tries to restore everything to the data partition and will freeze when it runs out of space. Is there any way to get it to remember which apps are backed up on the sd card and restore them accordingly or no?
SOLVED
Go to TiBu's Preferences and scroll down to RESTORATION SETTINGS. Select 'Restore backups to...' and then change option to 'Original location (for TB 3.2.8+ backups)'.
Your apps will now restore to the sd card and you don't have to worry about moving them after a restore!
I just restored a nandroid I had and all the apps I had moved to the sd were missing. Is there a way to correct this or do they have to be in the phone storage to be included in the backup? Of course I had everything in TiB, but that's not the same. When I do a nandroid I expect it be exactly the way I left it.
a nandroid backup usually includes the system, data, and boot images. user apps are usually installed on the data partition, but if you chose to move apps to your sd card via application settings then it would not be backed up.