I saw this comment by another user in another thread this morning and guess that many people don't do this automatically.
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The update destroys your internal sd memory, this is where titanium likes to back up . Enjoy going through the pain of re-installing all your apps from scratch. ( for the love of god change where titanium backsup AND sync it to your drop box) Every thing in your download folder is also going to be vaporized.
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When I setup Titanium Backup, I always make sure that it is using the real external SDcard instead of the internal card it uses by default. I'm surprised the app doesn't ask when it is run the first time, but it doesn't.
It is easy to change, especially if you don't have any backups yet. Even if you do, it will move them to the new folder you setup in the process.
The mount point for the external SDCard can be one of two though I normally use the system default one which is
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I use BOX to sync 1 copy of my backups (I have 3 histories) rather than using my dropbox because I have a 50gb box account.
If you think about it, having TB store on the Internal card doesn't do you much good if the unit dies. At least by syncing it to the external card you can take it out of the phone, but if you lose the phone altogether, you lose all your backups if you don't make a habit of copying them to another source which if you do manually won't work because you will forget to do it.
I made the mistake of flashing the RUU and expecting titanium backup to restore all my old apps. When I loaded it I was pissed! I think this thread will help some people restore their apps.
Yeah I saw that comment as well. It always takes me longer to setup my phone up because of things like this. One of the first things I do after flashing!
I didn't realize people didn't know about that function.
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^^That's what's at the root of my gtab's /sdcard.
Also, there used to be two folders in that that I had created and are no longer there.
Here's what I was doing immediately before I noticed this:
I'm currently using TnT Lite. I need to be able to access wifi at work but my company uses EAP encryption and TnT doesn't have a setting for EAP. I decided that rather than switching roms, I would just switch settings menus (using the files found here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=857939).
Stupid me, I downloaded them to /sdcard2 rather than /sdcard. I booted into clockworkmod and tried to install the zip from the sdcard but clockworkmod couldn't find anything. I realized my mistake and rebooted the gtab and hooked up the usb to my pc. That's when I noticed the file corruption.
Everything still seems to work as it did before, I just don't have access to any of the files that were in those folders.
In case it matters, one folder held the TnT Lite rom and the other held several videos.
Does anyone have any idea what could have caused this?
Should I try to delete the corrupted files?
Any help with this is much appreciated.
I don't claim to know why this happens this is just what I did to fix my problem.
I noticed this on my gtab also, to the point my cal program wouldn't open. The only way I could fix it was to do an sd partition to it fix the issue. There are instructions on how to do that with cm8. This is from memory so please double check, go to the advanced options choose sd partition 2048/0. Please note that this wipes the sd card so back up prior.
I still get a few of those weird files buy not like before.
same thing happened to me but hasn't come back after
re-partitioning with cwm ... maybe that is the fix
I would *really* like to know why this happens (that and why
the sdcard2 gets wiped out sometimes).
Basically, you dare not trust android with any important data
and you never know if what's on it will disappear suddenly
Unfortunately, this makes the tablet just a toy
So is the best option really just to re-partition the sd card?
If I end up re-partitioning, will I have to flash the ROM over again? Or does partitioning just remove the user data?
Quote: will I have to flash the ROM over again?
No
Not sure whats up, running Shostock3 2.1, gym today Evernote kept giving errors but I can't see the full message, says something about "insufficient device...." but it's cut off and can't see what it says and clicking it just goes right to Evernote settings. Checked the phone and it says available space 69mb (however all the other items it just says calculating and never gives a numer), which doesn't make sense to me as I know before I had waaaay more and that was with having like 5 or 6 Rom zips on the internal, when I flashed 2.1 I deleted all those extra zips which were an easy couple hundred mb each, so where the heck did all that mem go? I haven't downloaded any new apps or anything, went through folders in ES File Explorer and don't see anything out of wack.
edit- now just tried opening gallery and says not enough space please delete unnecessary items. I don't have a lot of pics, and somehow before I would have much more pics and vids along with the 5 or 6 Rom zips and no memory issues ever.
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Have you cleared your clock work mod folder and deleted all your old blobs?
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Have you cleared your clock work mod folder and deleted all your old blobs?
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Hmm no never even thought of that, was also thinking of checking TiBu and clearing all backups done then starting a fresh backup.
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Hmm no never even thought of that, was also thinking of checking TiBu and clearing all backups done then starting a fresh backup.
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Maybe you should do a completely new backup as you indicated, then do a full wipe and re-install the rom. The only time I saw this message was when my old GS2 started having crazy issues; turns out the motherboard had started to fail. Right now, my three year old son has it, he just plays games and other junk on it and it still gives the same error. So do a full wipe and see what happens; sometimes it's better to start fresh and maybe if you can afford to, try installing the apps fresh from the play store instead of restoring them from TiBu. Just my two cents.
hello,
i've done a nandroid backup of my phone, copied it to my pc and did a factory reset and installed a new rom.
went all fine ..
the backup was like 4gb big, but now its like 23gb big and i dont know how the hell that happened ?!?
i can't copy it back to my phone .. what happened?
i mean, the logfile is 2gb big .. what the hell .. seems my backup is like gone.. ohman
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damn it seems i've lost my backup.
i even did a adb backup .. which is only 1gb. didnt know it wasnt a full backup allthough it was stated in that guide.
(i can't remember if i've used the full command line (adb backup -f FullBackup.ab -apk -all) or not. i hope i've copied/pasted it completly)
the data files of that twrp backup is still intact, the system files aren't. seems ive lost all that.
great.. and i dont know how it happened .. just copied it to my pc .. great
update1: i do have alot of important files like contacts, sms/mms, whatsapp, and all that. how do i migrate it from the old twrp backup "data" file to my phone?
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copied it to my pc
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Is where it all went wrong, if it's that important then verify the md5 after copying.
Try titanium backup, which can extract data from nandroid -don't know about corrupt files though.
i've managed to restore some stuff from the .ab file ..
i can't get whatsapp to run again. it won't load the old db/pref files.
besides that, copying the db files f rom mms/sms and contacts crashes the phone.
anyone knows why?
ok, i've managed to get my contacts and mms and stuff back..
i can't get whatsapp running again. probably due to a different android_id ?? ..
i've got my old id back, the one i had for ages. but i dont know if whatsapp also registers the imei and mac stuff
to/with a phone.
my problem is that the cellphone number is gone. whatsapp did still work cuz it was registered to the phone.
i can't register it anymore to the old number. does anyone know a workaround or something, or does anyone
know what whatsapp is binded to?
My wifes device is stock/rooted. I've tried moving all the apps to the SD card that I can but it's still showing 4.16GB of apps in internal storage. What can I do to fix this and get everything on the SD card that I can? I have tried Link2SD but it only moves somethings. I just want all user apps, downloads and pictures to default to the SD card.
So, does anyone know how to moved everything to the SD card and make it the default storage location?
5.0.2 does not allow moving everything to SD card like previous versions. You can only move the main app, but all data still needs to be on internal. I had the same issue. I tried updating some apps the other day, and got the error of not enough space, so the only option was to uninstall some apps I hardly used. I'm back up to around 1.2 free. Another thing to do is clear cache a lot. I free up around 400MB each clean. I use two apps for that, and both work great. Apps2SD has more features, and you have to enable the cache clean notification in settings. Cache Cleaner does just that. You can even use CCleaner to see if there are orphaned files/folder that can take up needed space.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.a0soft.gphone.app2sd
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.jrummy.cache.cleaner
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.piriform.ccleaner
I just learned that I have the same problem: I moved several apps to the SD card and it's still showing that I have 1 GB of free space. However, when I check which apps I have in the SD card, link2sd shows that nothing's in external memory. Please check the images I attached to this post. The first one shows which apps I supposedly have in the SD card. The other image says otherwise.
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I think this is because the device is rooted, I've heard xt1527 model has some issues with root binaries...
HI all, does anyone know of an app that works in the same way as the built in google backup works, except it saves to a local pc over wifi on a schedule?
The 15Gb cloud space is nowhere near enough for me but I have a server with plenty of space, so makes sense to use that.
I have seen a few apps that backup media, but I really want everything backed up (sms, app data, wifi passwords etc)
Is this even possible with a 3rd party app? My phone is a Honor View, The official huawei app (hicare) does most of them but needs the device to be plugged in via USB and I don't think it will let me restore to a non huaewi phone in the future.
Edit: forgot to mention, locked bootloader so not rootable
flamery said:
HI all, does anyone know of an app that works in the same way as the built in google backup works, except it saves to a local pc over wifi on a schedule?
Is this even possible with a 3rd party app? My phone is a Honor View, The official huawei app (hicare) does most of them but needs the device to be plugged in via USB and I don't think it will let me restore to a non huaewi phone in the future.
Edit: forgot to mention, locked bootloader so not rootable
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Yeah I'm afraid the backup solution you were searching for is one who needs root. But I can suggest something else. You can transfer the data you have on your drive (files other than backups) on your server, it will leave room for backups.
Otherwise you may wanna consider rooting, if it is possible with this Huawei model (that's why I hate Huawei, but don't get me started on that lol)
Have a good day
@flamery
1. No root mode is required to create a backup
2. Hint: Backup to an external SD-card. Use Super Backup app. It's a free-of-charge app.
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BTW: To root device's Android its bootloader must not be unlocked. Has nothing to do with each other.
Thanks both I will check it out!
Although I just discovered something interesting, if you change the setting in Google photos from original quality to high quality they don't count toward the 15Gb quota so I just freed up a lot of space.