Hi, is there anyway to backup apps so that i dont lose save files? (so i dont have to restart from the beginning of the game each time)
It'd be best if there was some way to move apps + their saves files to the external SD card (also is it necessary to format extSD card before flashing ROMs that need full wipe?)
I heard titanium backup might be able to do this, but if i full wipe my internal sd card titanium back up + backup file also gets deleted.
Thanks.
Skere said:
Hi, is there anyway to backup apps so that i dont lose save files? (so i dont have to restart from the beginning of the game each time)
It'd be best if there was some way to move apps + their saves files to the external SD card (also is it necessary to format extSD card before flashing ROMs that need full wipe?)
I heard titanium backup might be able to do this, but if i full wipe my internal sd card titanium back up + backup file also gets deleted.
Thanks.
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In titanium backup preferneces move the backup folder to external card.
kevinarjun said:
In titanium backup preferneces move the backup folder to external card.
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Does titanium backup also restore save files and settings?
It backups and restores the application data storage.
If an app stores it's saves or some content on the sdcard, then that particular conten is not stored since it technically does not belong to the app and thus Titanium has no way of knowing what to backup.
I can however recommend for savegames etc to sync those folders on the sdcard with Dropbox. Not only will you have an offsite backup but it also includes the history of the last 30 or 90 days so if you f%#@ up ingame you can restore your old save.
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d4fseeker said:
It backups and restores the application data storage.
If an app stores it's saves or some content on the sdcard, then that particular conten is not stored since it technically does not belong to the app and thus Titanium has no way of knowing what to backup.
I can however recommend for savegames etc to sync those folders on the sdcard with Dropbox. Not only will you have an offsite backup but it also includes the history of the last 30 or 90 days so if you f%#@ up ingame you can restore your old save.
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Which folders do I backup? does drop also back up the app itself
Back up everything just in case, it's there for if you ever need it.
Luckily I can help you as I made the mistake last night of restoring system data.
First of all back up EVERYTHING and place it in your external SD card if you wish.
When you've wiped the phone download Titanium Backup again and restore "missing apps + data" just the missing apps and data. Do NOT restore the system files, it will result in everything to stop functioning.
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Hi everyone,
I just updated my Aria to FR007 and really want to have a 'brand new' phone look + feel.
I would like to delete ALL unnecessary files in the SD card & phone memory cos at the moment, I feel like something is not amiss.
I only have 574mb left out of the stock 2gb SD card. And my internal phone storage have only 132mb available space left.
I would like to save only my nandroid backup in the SDcard and nothing else. So deleting all other datas like saved apps, games, contacts, images, music and others are fine.
Please advice what procedure I need to follow as I am not familiar with what files are safe to delete. Is it safe to just do this:
Settings > SD & Phone Storage >Factory Data Reset ?
Thank you for your advice!
I would like to know this as well because out of a 8GB SD card (7.59GB) i only have 549MB remaining and i only have 1 nandroid back up and 3 GB of music on the phone.
That's a loaded question dependant upon what apps are installed. Many apps create folders and populate the sd card in some form.
Best I can tell you, mount the storage and copy the sd content to your computer. Erase the sdcard content and see what happens after reboot. Should only potentially bother 3rd party apps.
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Thanks for the advice BelacNongaw.
I thought about that too but I was thinking maybe there are some system files or essential files that MUST be in the SD card. And also, wouldn't deleting everything in the SD card also delete my nandroid backup? And Clockwork? <-They do reside in the SD card, yes?
Let me reiterate please: I want a 'brand new' phone while keeping only my last nandroid backup Will a factory reset do?
Thanks again everyone!
I had the same problem and the only thing I noticed was nandroid backups take a lot of space and also apps that have been deleted keep their folders in the sd card
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Okay this is what I did:
1. Back up my SDcard to the computer (plug it in, mount as disk drive, copy all contents to a folder on the desktop).
2. Restart the Aria in Recovery mode (Vol. down while Power up)
3. Go to Recovery > Partitions > Format SD Card
Now I have 1.84gb of SD storage with these folders (viewed in Astro):
1. .footprints / thumbnails / voices
2. LOST.DIR
3. tmp / .astro / astro
Haven't tested everything yet but eBuddy and Market are doing well, downloading and app installation are running fine too.
Now I'm quite concerned about the following:
1. Does this mean that I do not have clockwork anymore? Because there was a 'clockworkmod' folder in the SDcard before I formatted it.
2. Am I screwed?
Thank you for any suggestions/advice. I hope this thread can offer some helpful tips to those who need it in the future.
You are fine. The clockworkmod folder is where rom manager downloads and your nandroid backups are stored. You can just copy it back or rom manager will generate it again next time you nandroid backup.
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Thanks for reminding me BelacNongaw.
I just made a nandroid backup of my bare minimum Aria, and it automaticall created a clockworkmod folder in the SDcard with the md5 file.
Anyways, it's great to have all these space now
Great post guys I was wondering this myself. I recently rooted my inspire 4g to factory restore but all 3rd party apps are still on the sd card and i have no intention of re-installing any of them so i am looking for a safe way to delete unnessesary folders without deleting the vital ones, ill give your suggestions a try.
Technically you can safely delete everything that's on the sd card. Android will automatically create whatever folders it needs. Of course you'll lose any data saved to the sd, but you wont mess up your phone at all.
Sent from my cm7 Aria.
i have a g2 but i have the same thoughts i want the space back from sd card not worried about loosing any thing just dont want to mess the phone up
Don't worry. SD card is totally an external of the phone. Delete everything, it doesn't matter. And backup your needed files to any place you like. You can move them back to your reformatted SD card whenever you like.
Hey good people, I had Hot Pursuit running in my device with all its 350 or so MB that you have to download when installing it . I then was going to install a new ROM and for that did both a cwm and titanium backup. Restored all the apps and all it's good except for the fact that now when I tap onto the game it asks to download the whole 350mb again. Shouldn't I be able to restore the whole thing without having to download it again ? Thanks
Many games install aditional files directly into the SD Card. Titanium Backup does the backup of the app itself, not the files on the SD Card asociated to the app.
If you don't delete the internal memory you shouldn't have problems with this, since its usually on /sdcard/Gameloft/... directory. If you need to delete the internal memory, then copy the /sdcard/Gameloft directory to your SD to save the app install files.
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Many games install aditional files directly into the SD Card. Titanium Backup does the backup of the app itself, not the files on the SD Card asociated to the app.
If you don't delete the internal memory you shouldn't have problems with this, since its usually on /sdcard/Gameloft/... directory. If you need to delete the internal memory, then copy the /sdcard/Gameloft directory to your SD to save the app install files.
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Thanks mate, am still new to Android. I did wipe all the system and data to install the new rom, so will probably have to download the files again, but next time will know what to do. Thanks again.
Wiping system and data doesn't delete the game data saved on the SD card. Only formatting SD card will delete the game data. Check in 'my files' to see if its still there on your SD card under gameloft. Sometimes when you delete the app it needs to re-download only a few mbs, not all.
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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?
Deeco7 said:
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.
Darwichee said:
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.
blacksec said:
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 guys,
I'd like to restore my apps and data from my current EVO using Titanium Backup (and probably MyBackup for text messages).
I'd like to clean up the card after I have restored what I want. The card has accumulated so much junk that I want to start fresh.
Do you guys have a best practice for doing this? I haven't seen a question/answer that specifically addresses this.
Thanks!
(I promise to make funnies in the future. )
Do you mean you want to get rid of all the backups that you have made with TB? If so just delete the TitaniumBackup folder on your sdcard.
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Do you mean you want to get rid of all the backups that you have made with TB? If so just delete the TitaniumBackup folder on your sdcard.
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I want to clean the card completely after I backup all the obvious things like pictures and videos. I want to wipe the entire card clean or remove everything that is just garbage. I'm not sure where TB stores the app data.
I can't help you and I expect you to get a satisfactory answer.
once you remove your card from your old evo. delete everything that you dont want. might want to keep Music and DCIM and the TitaniumBackup folder. everything else should be deleted. then restore.
the only excepting that is keeping any external downloads like Gameloft. besides the Evo LTE uses its own internal SD card first before ours, so most of the folders you have will not be used
after you back up your data from the card. Put it in your Evo 4g lte, settings, Storage..unmount the card..then the earse card will be highlighted..select..done
Hi!
When I backup app + data with Titanium backup, it doesn't seem to backup the entire data for the app.
For example, I have installed NFS Hot pursuit and Max Payne mobile and downloaded the game data which is around 600 MB and 1.3 GB respectively. Now when I backup these apps with Titanium Backup (Batch > App+Data backup), the backup size in the Titanium backup folder is only around 50 - 60 Mb.
How do I get Titanium backup to to backup the game and entire game data, so that in case I restore the game after wiping the phone, I don't have to re-download the entire game data.
Please help.
Samsung Galaxy S2 (GT-I9100)
Android 4.0.3 rooted
Questions belong to Q&A.
The game data is already on the SD card. This 50MB backup is the apk + some or no files. The rest is on /sdcard/Android/data.
marcellocord said:
Questions belong to Q&A.
The game data is already on the SD card. This 50MB backup is the apk + some or no files. The rest is on /sdcard/Android/data.
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My apologies for not posting the question in Q&A section.
So, do I need to manually copy the game data stored in /sdcard/Android/data for future restoration. Is is not possible to get this backup done through Titanium backup or any other backup application?
I think that paid version of TB supports backuping of all application data, even from SD card.
I am using Titanium Backup Pro.
adrianzeus said:
Hi!
When I backup app + data with Titanium backup, it doesn't seem to backup the entire data for the app.
For example, I have installed NFS Hot pursuit and Max Payne mobile and downloaded the game data which is around 600 MB and 1.3 GB respectively. Now when I backup these apps with Titanium Backup (Batch > App+Data backup), the backup size in the Titanium backup folder is only around 50 - 60 Mb.
How do I get Titanium backup to to backup the game and entire game data, so that in case I restore the game after wiping the phone, I don't have to re-download the entire game data.
Please help.
Samsung Galaxy S2 (GT-I9100)
Android 4.0.3 rooted
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the data its backing up is cache not the downloaded game data itself and all the downloaded files, only game save data and etc data/data/com.yourgamehere
and to not delete the downloaded data you can pull the downloaded data which is probably in android/data/com.yourgamehere
or gameloft/games/yourgamehere
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the data its backing up is cache not the downloaded game data itself and all the downloaded files, only game save data and etc data/data/com.yourgamehere
and to not delete the downloaded data you can pull the downloaded data which is probably in android/data/com.yourgamehere
or gameloft/games/yourgamehere
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So, I need to manually copy the game data stored in /sdcard/Android/data for future restoration. Is is not possible to get this backup done through Titanium backup or any other backup application?
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So, I need to manually copy the game data stored in /sdcard/Android/data for future restoration. Is is not possible to get this backup done through Titanium backup or any other backup application?
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Gameloft games has a regular content and a downloadable content,
the downloadable content isn't backed up so you need to pull if from the folder which i stated above
I have 8 GB of map data placed on my external SC card related to several Navigators ... happy that Titanium Backup do NOT include this kind of data.
Once a while I backup my entire external SDcard.
exactly. titanium backup is not supposed to backup that amount of data because it is pointless.
it copies your apps and data from the /data/ partition to the /sdcard partition, but games by gameloft and ea, as well as navigation data is already on the sdcard, no need to have it there twice.
whenever you make a factory reset, you usually format /data/ only and not the sd card (or your titanium backup would be gone as well), so there is really no point to it.
adrianzeus said:
Hi!
When I backup app + data with Titanium backup, it doesn't seem to backup the entire data for the app.
For example, I have installed NFS Hot pursuit and Max Payne mobile and downloaded the game data which is around 600 MB and 1.3 GB respectively. Now when I backup these apps with Titanium Backup (Batch > App+Data backup), the backup size in the Titanium backup folder is only around 50 - 60 Mb.
How do I get Titanium backup to to backup the game and entire game data, so that in case I restore the game after wiping the phone, I don't have to re-download the entire game data.
Please help.
Samsung Galaxy S2 (GT-I9100)
Android 4.0.3 rooted
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Take a look here:
[Guide] Types of Android backups
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1678239
You can just go into settings, there's a "Backup External Data" option, just activate it, and right below set the maximum size of the backup date, I believe the default limit is 32Mb, so if you want Max Payne or so you just need to increase that limit to 1.5Gb or something. There's no need for extra apps or whatever, it's just a setting.
Thanks everyone for resolving my query....
Cheers!!
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You can just go into settings, there's a "Backup External Data" option, just activate it, and right below set the maximum size of the backup date, I believe the default limit is 32Mb, so if you want Max Payne or so you just need to increase that limit to 1.5Gb or something. There's no need for extra apps or whatever, it's just a setting.
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Does this actually work? Whenever i flash a new ROM, i always erase all of the sdcard as well in order to be sure i dont have anything i dont need there. I keep my TB backup in the extSd and also the .apk of TB there. Can i really backup downloaded data of my games? E.g. i have almost 4 GB of downloaded data from games and i would like to keep it. I've set the option with the external data to "always on" im making a backup right not. It indeed takes some time to finish it and that makes me happy. Lets hope it ll work.
philippas said:
Does this actually work? Whenever i flash a new ROM, i always erase all of the sdcard as well in order to be sure i dont have anything i dont need there. I keep my TB backup in the extSd and also the .apk of TB there. Can i really backup downloaded data of my games? E.g. i have almost 4 GB of downloaded data from games and i would like to keep it. I've set the option with the external data to "always on" im making a backup right not. It indeed takes some time to finish it and that makes me happy. Lets hope it ll work.
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Try it and you will know if works
I made the mistake of relying upon Titanium Backup when I was trying to restore games I accidentally deleted while setting up Directory Bind (saw that the original files were still there in file explorer and deleted them, they were of course the illusion of the original files that Directory Bind spoofs the system with, Doh!). It's always AFTER you lose files that you realise the steps you should have taken to back them up. In future I'll just do a full manual backup as well! Such is life!
Recuva file recovery probably not much help for this one.
UPDATE: Recuva recovered all deleted game data from the SD card! Get in!
It used to work flawlessly for me. Recently it has not worked for me at all.
EDIT: And I figured out why! A lot of games have started to keep their external data in encrypted binary blobs as *.obb files located in folders under sdcard/Android/obb/ and Titanium does not currently seem to look for these. I've submitted an enhancement request for this.
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flamepanther said:
It used to work flawlessly for me. Recently it has not worked for me at all.
EDIT: And I figured out why! A lot of games have started to keep their external data in encrypted binary blobs as *.obb files located in folders under sdcard/Android/obb/ and Titanium does not currently seem to look for these. I've submitted an enhancement request for this.
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I have experienced issues with some games like Ski Safari, which I am unable to export to third party devices, probably the savegame is encrypted and only works in the device where it was generated.
Also, consider that some games like GTA or Asphalt store a lot of MB or even GB in the obb folder.
scandiun said:
I have experienced issues with some games like Ski Safari, which I am unable to export to third party devices, probably the savegame is encrypted and only works in the device where it was generated.
Also, consider that some games like GTA or Asphalt store a lot of MB or even GB in the obb folder.
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I've got Titanium configured to backup external data no matter how large, and I'm not moving it across devices. I'm pretty sure it just isn't checking that folder for things to back up.
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How to backup obb files with Titanium Backup?
Hello, I have Titanium Backup PRO and I usually back up entire applications including all external data, especially big games, so if I need to restore, would not need to download a lot of data again.
However, I have had problems with some games like Asphalt 7 and Modern Combat 3. Even if the first has 1.16 GB of data and the second 1.35 GB installed, when I backup them the size of it is less than 100mb. TB is already configured to backup all external data and no size limitation. I noticed that unlike the other games, these that are not doing the full backup saves their large package of data as a Obb file.
Therefore, If possible, I would like to know how to do a full backup of these games including all external data (especially Obb ) with Titanium Backup...
Thanks!