What's the difference? Ever since coming to the rezound everything has been saving to mnt/sd and all of my old stuff is on mnt/sd/ext_sd. therefore my apps can't restore backups. This is super annoying. What can I do to remedy this problem? Thank you.
Sd is the internal and sd_ext is the external card.
Move from internal to external and set your apps to use external.
Setting apps to use external only works if the app itself allows it, correct?
bolt_of_thunder said:
Setting apps to use external only works if the app itself allows it, correct?
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That is correct
Yeah I've been having this problem too. Even though I copied my backups from the external to internal storage, the apps don't see the backup files. I even changed the location for the some of the apps to look at for the backup files for restoring and it still says no restore files found.
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I migrated from a Droid DX to a Motorola Atrix and there is an important difference in external storage handling between the two devices that prevents me from optimally using several program, including Titanium backup pro and mybackup pro with the atrix.
Motorola has chosen to call the internal ROM storage area "SD card" and the actual SD card "SD Card Ext". TB allows me to backup only to the internal storage space which is far more limited in size than my actual SD external card.
Is there any way to redirect TB to backup/restore etc. from the actual SD card and not the internal storage motorola is calling the SD card?
I have contacted the tech support for both the programs listed above and have not heard back, but I am guessing there are many more programs that don't work with this new storage lexicon Motorola seems to have adopted with the atrix (such as the music/video/podcast services like isyncr, tunesync, doubletwist, etc.)
If anyone knows a workaround or something I'm not doing properly I'd love to hear about it.
Thanks
IN TB Menu > Preferences > Backup folder Name = /mnt/sdcard-ext/TitaniumBackup
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IN TB Menu > Preferences > Backup folder Name = /mnt/sdcard-ext/TitaniumBackup
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Thanks; I saw the backup folder name but had no idea it contained an actual file path. However when I use the folder above, TB FCs while starting? That folder does exists on my sdcard.
Make sure you spelled everything correctly.
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Make sure you spelled everything correctly.
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It was a one time FC - the next time i went into TB it worked fine. Thanks again.
I'm trying to understand a feature of Titanium Backup that I can't figure out.
On their home page they advertise:
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Move app to/from SD card
Move app data to/from SD card (needs ext2/3/4 partition)
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So what are these features?
The first one, "Move app to/from SD card", appears to be just a front-end to the Froyo app-to-sd feature.
What I'm really interested in is the "Move app data to/from SD card" feature, but there is zero documentation on this as far as I can tell. I've tried playing around with Titanium but can't seem to find any way to enable it.
I have a number of apps that leave fairly large databases or other data in /data/data/[appname]/ and I'd love to be able to move these to the SD card. Neither froyo's app-to-sd feature nor link2sd moves this data.
Any idea about what this feature is and how to enable it?
I emailed Titanium support, and got back an answer that unfortunately didn't make much sense:
This is how Titanium identifies storages. If you have an ext partition, that is considered as your "internal storage" and the fat32 storage space is considered as you "external storage". So you can even use ext + froyo a2sd together.
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Not quite sure what they are trying to say.
Here's how to do it
I managed to figure this out on my own, no thanks to Titanium support. (I like the product a lot but their support leaves something to be desired. And yes, I've paid for the Pro version)
Here's how to do it:
Your second sd card partition must be mounted as /sd-ext, and the directory /sd-ext/app must exist. Once these are in place, titanium backup will detect the partition and it will give you the option to move app data to the sd card.
This is a great feature for apps that create large databases in /data/data/[appname] that are not otherwise moved using either Froyo's built-in migration tool as well as link2sd, which moves the app & lib but not the app data.
larrycl said:
I managed to figure this out on my own, no thanks to Titanium support. (I like the product a lot but their support leaves something to be desired. And yes, I've paid for the Pro version)
Here's how to do it:
Your second sd card partition must be mounted as /sd-ext, and the directory /sd-ext/app must exist. Once these are in place, titanium backup will detect the partition and it will give you the option to move app data to the sd card.
This is a great feature for apps that create large databases in /data/data/[appname] that are not otherwise moved using either Froyo's built-in migration tool as well as link2sd, which moves the app & lib but not the app data.
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My link2sd mounts sdext as sd-ext2, how can i make titanium backup work?
Please use the Q&A Forum for questions Thanks
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Any help?
I'm using Link2SD as well, on the Lg Ally. I'd like to move data/data to the sd-ext2 that I have, but no one answered the above poster's question so...any help?
Hi,
I've looked around, but noone had same problem as me.
I have Titanium Backup, and i did a backup on my 34 apps to my externals SD. Today i installed new ROM so i wanted to restore these apps, but titanium can't do this.
This is how i do:
1. I went in to Preferences --> restoration settings --> "Restore backups to..." and there is choosed "external media".
2. I went back to first screen --> batch---> restore , but there's no apps there at all.
Please help.
Sounds like you didn't backup your SD card which contains the Titanium backups you have made before installing the new rom. Your new ROM may have formatted your SD card, am I correct?
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Sounds like you didn't backup your SD card which contains the Titanium backups you have made before installing the new rom. Your new ROM may have formatted your SD card, am I correct?
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No, all the files are at the SD card, i made a map called "titanium backup" where i placed all the backups, and they're still there. But titanium wont restore these.
Pretty lame, i bought the pro version for the "single click" function, meaning restore everything in single click, but it's useless if i can't save these to SD card.
Edit: I tried move the entire folder to internal SD, but same, titanium wont recognize anything.
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No, all the files are at the SD card, i made a map called "titanium backup" where i placed all the backups, and they're still there. But titanium wont restore these.
Pretty lame, i bought the pro version for the "single click" function, meaning restore everything in single click, but it's useless if i can't save these to SD card.
Edit: I tried move the entire folder to internal SD, but same, titanium wont recognize anything.
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Oh ok, try checking the file sizes of the backup and let me know.
Check TB preferences for backup location, and scan the entire device it should locate the folder with your backups.
And from then on that will be your backup folder.
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Check TB preferences for backup location, and scan the entire device it should locate the folder with your backups.
And from then on that will be your backup folder.
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Thanks i managed to solve this now, and now TB can find those apps, but when i press begin and it begins to restoring, nothing happens, it stuck at 0%, does this happend to you to when you use your external SD to restore?
I've tried 3 times now, and it allways stuck at 0%.
Edit: i moved the folder to Phones internal memory, but same, it wont load my backups.
What could be the problem?
I had this problem once too.
copy the folder with the TB backups to our PC and formate the sd card. additionally I reinstalled the whole rom too. And after that try again. It worked for me.
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I had this problem once too.
copy the folder with the TB backups to our PC and formate the sd card. additionally I reinstalled the whole rom too. And after that try again. It worked for me.
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Ok, i installed a new ROM today anyway, and i formated my external SD too. Is it enogh to format it in phone settings, or i need to do it in PC, or it doesn't matter?
I get back if i still have the same problem again,
thanks
for me it worked with the recovery formatting tool.
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I read about this in a thread...
You might want to try this:http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1432699
Hi,
I did a backup using Titanium Backup and Go Backup and after wiping my Motorola Defy, tried to restore apps, contacts etc.
The problems I encountered were:
1) Go Backup can't recognize backup directory on SD card for some reason.
2) Can't move apps to SD. An error occurs: "Move Application: Failed to move application. There is not enough storage left." Needless to say, I have more than enough storage.
This is was I encountered by far, although I believe these are just a small part of the symptoms for a single problem.
Maybe its because there are no permissions, or moving apps is impossible because of an existing app files on the SD card.
Does anyone know what is the actual cause for this?
Or is there a tool to fix the permissions on the Defy?
Thanks ahead!
See if any of your other partitions are full or close to full.
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See if any of your other partitions are full or close to full.
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I have no partitions on my SD card
No, I mean the internal memory of the device.
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No, I mean the internal memory of the device.
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Does it has to do with the moving app to the SD card?
And it seems I do have a little space for apps, but how should I check it anyway?
The easiest way is to run Link2SD -> menu -> Storage Info
This will show all the mounted partitions, and space used/free.
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The easiest way is to run Link2SD -> menu -> Storage Info
This will show all the mounted partitions, and space used/free.
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Internal: 103mb used, 25mb free
SD: 8.71gb used, 6.12gb free
SD 2nd: not found
System: 178mb used, 148mb free
Cache: 16.29mb used, 177mb free
No idea?
I tried that:
1) Deleted the GO Backup directory
2) Removed the app
3) Re-installed the app
4) Copied back the backup from my PC
I could then see use the backup, but I still can't move apps to SD
Something must be jamming it
Can it be something with the mounts?
I haven't used Go Backup, so I have no experience with it, but it does seem that it's somehow involved/responsible. I noticed they have an update as of yesterday, so you can see if it makes any difference.
Have you tried putting your SD card into your computer? Does it function normally? Can you run a disk check on the card from your computer?
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I haven't used Go Backup, so I have no experience with it, but it does seem that it's somehow involved/responsible. I noticed they have an update as of yesterday, so you can see if it makes any difference.
Have you tried putting your SD card into your computer? Does it function normally? Can you run a disk check on the card from your computer?
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The problem is not with GoBackup, as it works now.
The problem must be with something jamming access to the SD card.
I tried to run a check from my PC and I get "No problems found"
And now, for some reason the phone activity crashes after I terminate a call
Well, all the applications I installed where installed using Titanium Backup.
While trying to install from Play Store, the device crashes.
It uses CM 7.2.
So it might be a permission problem in the device itself.
I was trying to root my HTC One V and i unlocked the bootlocker,however that resulted in factory reset of my phone.Whenever i installed an app on my phone i always moved it to sd card via settings-->apps.I assumed that once my phone restarts after factory reset it will read the apps in the sd card but it is not so.The phone does read songs,pictures and contacts stored on my sd card and the sd card does have the folder of each app but how do i install it from the sd card?
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The stock android move-app-to-sd does not move all app data to the sd card and some data is left on the device on purpose.
I might be wrong (since I never researched this) but I think you cannot restore those apps.
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The stock android move-app-to-sd does not move all app data to the sd card and some data is left on the device on purpose.
I might be wrong (since I never researched this) but I think you cannot restore those apps.
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Okay
But is it possible that if i install the same app again,it reads the application settings from the sd card?Like if i download and install a game,is it possible for the game to read my score from it's folder in the sd card?
If the app is storing this kind of information (settings etc.) on the sd-card as a separate file then I would say that it is very likely that it will be able to read that data.
But not all apps store that kind of information on the sd-card (security reasons etc.).
I am not sure what happens to the parts of the app itself that are still on the sd-card though (I am talking about the app itself). I guess that the app will not care about those if it is stored in the internal storage. Moving the app to the sd card will probably overwrite the data on the sd-card. If the app stores the settings etc. in one of its own files then it might be overwritten as well.
You might want to make a backup of those files, even if you can't use the information in the end. But if they are gone they are gone.
Some really crazy idea would be to download the app, move it to the sd-card and then overwrite the files on the sd with the ones from the backup.
If android has no verification or security methods for this and there was no update to the app there might be a small change that this will work.
But I guess that the chances to get all your settings and user data back are still very slim as those are possibly not stored there.
But if you have the backup and some xda user swings by with a good idea (or more knowledge that me) you can still try that.