I rooted my Photon, installed Titanium Backup and backed the phone up to my sd card. Today, i exchanged my Photon for another Photon.
Do I need to root the new phone in order to backup using Titanium?
I guess what I'm getting at is that if the phone needs to be rooted again, it would seem there's no on the fly solution to immediately backing up the phone. I'd have to re-root the phone which means having my laptop handy.
Any help would be much appreciated.
How do you guys do it?
Thanks again.
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Yes you need to root again. I havw tried titanium unrooted and it says it wont work. The only one i ever got to work without having root was mybackup pro but you have to buy the app when restoring to new device when using mybackup pro. Not much info but hope it helps.
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You don't need the laptop to root.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1216131
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in the same boat
I have a broken-screen Photon and want to use TB to restore to my new Photon.
New Photon is rooted, but TB will not see all my elements. It don't think it's seeing any of my downloaded apps & data.
Any advice on what I need to do? I just want my new Photon to be like my old Photon.
bluedonut said:
I have a broken-screen Photon and want to use TB to restore to my new Photon.
New Photon is rooted, but TB will not see all my elements. It don't think it's seeing any of my downloaded apps & data.
Any advice on what I need to do? I just want my new Photon to be like my old Photon.
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need the files from your sdcard then have tb scan that folder where those files are then all gravy baby
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spleef said:
need the files from your sdcard then have tb scan that folder where those files are then all gravy baby
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I've tried everything that I can possibly think of, with no luck.
I did a fresh app only save and that didn't work. New phone would not see the apps to restore.
I can't figure out how to get my app saves off my old phone to be recognized by TB on the new phone. Do I need to download all the apps from the market? Do I need to factory reset the new phone and start over?
This is really starting to drive me crazy. It doesn't seem like it should be this difficult.
bluedonut said:
I've tried everything that I can possibly think of, with no luck.
I did a fresh app only save and that didn't work. New phone would not see the apps to restore.
I can't figure out how to get my app saves off my old phone to be recognized by TB on the new phone. Do I need to download all the apps from the market? Do I need to factory reset the new phone and start over?
This is really starting to drive me crazy. It doesn't seem like it should be this difficult.
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I now have a suspicion that y new phone is not reading my SD card correctly. It's not seeing all my pictures or videos. I've unmounted and remounted the card but no change.
Continually confused.
Try moving your titanium folder to internal storage and see what happens
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mof9336 said:
Try moving your titanium folder to internal storage and see what happens
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This was the key (I hope, at least). I realized I was using the internal storage SD mount for my saves. I changed the directory to sd-ext and created a new folder there to perform the app & data save.
It's working through a restore right now, but I may be close.
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I now have a suspicion that y new phone is not reading my SD card correctly. It's not seeing all my pictures or videos. I've unmounted and remounted the card but no change.
Continually confused.
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Chalk this up to inexperience. I was backing up to the internal SD, not the external. Once I restated to external, it worked pretty well. Now just some tweaking to be done.
Thanks all for your help!
I was deleteing junk apps from sdcard/app_manager/app_backups/user_apps cause of tapjoy
And I realised my space was still less than before using tapjoy
So I deleted .DinerRush folder from sdcard. It took about 10 seconds and freed up .06 gb so I was concerned it wasn't something left over from a tapjoy game, but might have been important?
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Anything in SDcard can be removed with the exception of clockworkmod folder unless you want no back.
I have so many folders in sdcard and I know some of the apps I use-use them, but what about the crap ones from junk apps that didn't clear out with an uninstall?
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Edgarhighman said:
I have so many folders in sdcard and I know some of the apps I use-use them, but what about the crap ones from junk apps that didn't clear out with an uninstall?
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Remove them, if you want move everything to your PC.
Run your apps and see if anything is missing then find it and transfer it back.
Also you can just delete 1 by 1...it depends on how you want to go about it.
My PC has been down since Oct/Nov 2011, I was having fun with adb too
I did order a USB micro to female USB otg host. Maybe I can use that with flash drive
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Hello, apps to sd would be an option for people who don't want to do an sd swap but still want to save space on their internal memory. My question is, has anyone used Titanium Backup to put all their huge apps onto their external sd card? If so, how's it going, is it working ok?
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Bill Idol said:
Hello, apps to sd would be an option for people who don't want to do an sd swap but still want to save space on their internal memory. My question is, has anyone used Titanium Backup to put all their huge apps onto their external sd card? If so, how's it going, is it working ok?
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Doesn't work even though it says it works.
Only option would be to backup to SD, delete app, and restore when needed.
kimdoocheol said:
Doesn't work even though it says it works.
Only option would be to backup to SD, delete app, and restore when needed.
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Cool, thanks. Glad to know is not working for someone else than me.
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Hah. I've been wrestling with this for the last hour. Glad to see that I'm not crazy.
hi guys
theres a few things that i need to know if somebody could be so kind to assist or point in the right direction.
i have my s3 international for the past month now. i had put cyanogenmod 10.1 and it had its issues yet my titanium back up and my sd card was working fine. now i got my s3 back yesterday with stock rom and i flashed it and put cwm then restored a backup of the old nightlies then i did an update with the new nightloies,problem is that now none of my images are there and titanium backup is giving me the elements failed when i try to restore missing apps. how do i go about restoring my images from a nandroid backup? or where is it? i like this rom but now i noticed that the battery drain lasst night was like 15%. as you can see im still a noob at this so i cant check logs etc cos i dont know where to look. i have attached screenshots that might help.
Images are either stored on your internal or external SD card, in the DCIM folder. If they aren't on your external SD then you have lost them, nandroid doesn't back up the internal SD unless you tell it to and service would have wiped the internal SD.
Ask in your ROM thread for specific help, but I'd suggest flashing a fresh version of the ROM without performing any restore - see how it runs for a few days before you add any apps.
If you aren't confident then best stick with stock, or an modded version of stock, for a while first.
so what section do questions go?
Glebun said:
so what section do questions go?
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why are you asking a question in a non question section? :angel: :cyclops: just kidding
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Images are either stored on your internal or external SD card, in the DCIM folder. If they aren't on your external SD then you have lost them, nandroid doesn't back up the internal SD unless you tell it to and service would have wiped the internal SD.
Ask in your ROM thread for specific help, but I'd suggest flashing a fresh version of the ROM without performing any restore - see how it runs for a few days before you add any apps.
If you aren't confident then best stick with stock, or an modded version of stock, for a while first.
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thank you, very good advice. i will miss those apps for those few days tho. i think that if titanium back up will work i will get all my images etc back.
going to try your advice now and if i dont come right ill be back right here.
thanks again
Mate, if your images aren't on your internal or external sd card - they ain't there. No amount of titanium backup fiddling will restore your images.
Regarding your apps, play store will have a record of anything you have downloaded. Menu, my apps, slide left. Profit.
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so what section do questions go?
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And yet you haven't reported the thread and asked for it to be moved?
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Mr Woolf said:
Mate, if your images aren't on your internal or external sd card - they ain't there. No amount of titanium backup fiddling will restore your images.
Regarding your apps, play store will have a record of anything you have downloaded. Menu, my apps, slide left. Profit.
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so you saying that if i ddi a nandroid backup and a full titanium backup and if i did a wipe then i will still lose all my images etc??
Mate, using a file browser, look in your DCIM folder on BOTH the internal and external SD cards.
If you can't find it, download a software called Recuva. It works like a charm. Sure, they'll be some corrupt images, but, most of them are there.
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Mate, using a file browser, look in your DCIM folder on BOTH the internal and external SD cards.
If you can't find it, download a software called Recuva. It works like a charm. Sure, they'll be some corrupt images, but, most of them are there.
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ok thanks so much, ill keep that in mind. but just for future reference, if you are installing a new rom how do you backup your images etc? apps i understand a nandroid and titanium is best, but what about pics and vids etc?
abukad said:
ok thanks so much, ill keep that in mind. but just for future reference, if you are installing a new rom how do you backup your images etc? apps i understand a nandroid and titanium is best, but what about pics and vids etc?
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Copy them onto your pc or set camera to save to external sd.....or both preferably
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Copy them onto your pc
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no way? seriously? is that the only way? makes sense though, but i think i might have effed up there. cos i didnt think clearly when doing a wipe it will clear all th pics etc am i right? i hope i have a backup of those pics on my pc. the latest pics will be lost though.. so start fresh then..
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no way? seriously? is that the only way? makes sense though, but i think i might have effed up there. cos i didnt think clearly when doing a wipe it will clear all th pics etc am i right? i hope i have a backup of those pics on my pc. the latest pics will be lost though.. so start fresh then..
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Same rules apply as with a pc......backup, backup, backup.....especially before messing with firmware
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Same rules apply as with a pc......backup, backup, backup.....especially before messing with firmware
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im beginging to realise that. i should have thought about all this before i started. well thats one thing sorted out for now. im sor tired, lol. now im jsutgonna look for one rom with no issues and with great battery life and performance and jsut sit still.
thank god fro tiem viewer! so i checked at home and i have all stuff backed up on my external at home and im lucky it was plugged in so i could check. EVERYTHING in a fodler called s3. i surprise myself sometimes. only thing i wont have is the pictures i took after i backed it up, thats a small speech tho. so i dont have to stress now,i can do it at home. i think im gonna need a larger sd card, i got an 8 gig card but shows as 5.6 or so.
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Same rules apply as with a pc......backup, backup, backup.....especially before messing with firmware
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But that's no fun, I like to live dangerously
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delsus said:
But that's no fun, I like to live dangerously
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Me too! I'm a total hypocrite in this respect
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And yet you haven't reported the thread and asked for it to be moved?
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have you?
I can't from tapatalk
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Me too! I'm a total hypocrite in this respect
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So I taken it hypocrite is your middle name?
Glebun said:
have you?
I can't from tapatalk
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I haven't but it doesn't bother me, also you can report in tapatalk, you hit menu then web view and it opens the full XDA site, with added reporting feature.
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Why go through all that trouble?
What's the best way to backup, kies air or plug in and use like usb ?
Do you have to let a Rom work its way into the phone per say before making judgements and installing another rom ?
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2 questions. Where are pinned songs located and do they get saved when u wipe and flash a new rom? If they don't is there a way to move them? To SD card or something
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kregstrong said:
2 questions. Where are pinned songs located and do they get saved when u wipe and flash a new rom? If they don't is there a way to move them? To SD card or something
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Needs root access:
/data/data/com.google.android.music/files. If you wipe + flash you will lose it.
I moved to SD card using Solid Explorer. First killed the music app to makes sure it wasn't running. Then backed up the files to my sd card and removed the directory under /data/data. Then I added a symlink of my SD card's location over in /data/data/com.google.android.music/files. Haven't tried flashing a new rom yet to see if they remain, but the files should stay there. I may need to look into backing up the databases or something as well to the SD card to make sure it remembers what songs it has downloaded. At least they are using sd card memory, which was my more pressing concern of how to do. Maybe move all of com.google.android.music over to external sd.
I'm not sure how symlinks work during a wipe of system for new install? So might want to remove the symlink before flashing new roms? Then recreate once flashed and installed google play music again.
So annoying that google doesn't allow switching that location to external. I want to be able to flash new roms and not have to re-download again. Also way larger storage available on my sd card.
Im gonna try that out yea i hate that u cant put them on sd card or atleast have a list of previously pinned music that i can easily just repin them all. I never know which ones i had
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kregstrong said:
Im gonna try that out yea i hate that u cant put them on sd card or atleast have a list of previously pinned music that i can easily just repin them all. I never know which ones i had
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I have a playlist titled "Phone" that I use to synch or remove songs from my phone. Once the playlist is pinned, it just always stays up to date with what it contains. So I can add/remove tracks and albums from the computer and then refresh my phone and it does the same.
Are u serious??? Man that's exactly what I wanted. So it automatically downloads them to my phone if I pin them on PC???
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kregstrong said:
Are u serious??? Man that's exactly what I wanted. So it automatically downloads them to my phone if I pin them on PC???
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You pin the playlist on the phone. Then modification to the playlist (done by computer or phone) will then trigger the playlist to also update on phone with those changes. If it doesn't start the update automatically you can also hit menu then refresh music on phone to trigger a check for changes.
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