I had an ATT S2 which I sold to get the Galaxy Note. I had taken full backups of the internal and external SD cards of the S2 before selling it and I have been trying to locate a saved "Note" that I had typed up but I don't know where in the backup the typed up Note could be located.
Any guidance / advise on where I can locate it?
Do you mean something you created with the stock Memo application?
You can back up and restore to the data for the Memo application with Titanium Backup. You can extract the data for the Memo application from a nandroid backup using the Titanium Backup application. You can then restore the data to a working Memo application.
So I guess it depends on how you made the back up, and what tools you have to work with. I've never used a note, so I don't know if it has the same or similar Memo application or not.
Hi Creepy,
Thanks for responding. Yes the stock Memo application. I essentially went into the "internal" and "external" drives and copied and pasted the data to folders on my laptop, so it's not a TiBu backup. Since I have sold the device, I can't do a restore on the Note I imagine since JB doesn't have a stock Notes app?
I was just wondering if I can extract the saved "Note" in whatever format it's saved in and then pull out the text / data from it.
Memo is a system app. It doesn't store it's data in an obvious place. The guys that write backup applications like nandroid and tibu probably would know where to look for it. And even then, no telling if it is stored as text or as binary data. Anyway, it's way beyond my scope.
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I recently got App2sd and noticed it doesn't save them to the ext-sd/sdcard2 just to sdcard ... is there a way to do this or does everyone just use Titanium Back Up pretty much
edit: I also hear that it isn't good to use TBU restore when flashing a new rom ... can a dev enlighten me if you have some time or someone who knows about this.
Thanks!
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What do you use to backup/restore YOUR vigor?
I use titanium backup. I back up all apps and use it to restore apps only first, then only restore data on key apps like list mgr pro, acar, and my games. The main concern with restoring backups is to not do a batch backup and to never restore data on a system app, because the code can change from build to build.
what do y'all use to backup pictures and some messages.. or do you just manually move them to ext-sd with a root explorer or similar thing...
sorry trying to figure out the best way to do all this back up stuff
As far as messages I have SMS Backup + because it does a backup to your gmail account, then I just dump my pictures into "box" which has a special going on for 50 gigs of cloud storage for life just for signing up (only until 03/26/12).
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I could be wrong but i believe there used to be a a2sd script you could flash from recovery to move dalvik to the sd card partition. Has that been abandoned?
Can someone tell me where the "physical" folder of the sms'es are located? I need to do a recovery on a galaxy s2...The bloke deleted his sms'es, now i'm trying to recover the lost info...
tia
Based on Root Explorer search
Doing a search for sms found this file on my phone - /data/user/0/com.android.providers.telephony/databases/mmssms.db
I can't say for sure if this is it, but that database sure has all of my sms in it
As I'm sure you will also recommend that your friend does future backups of his sms, I thoroughly recommend SMS Backup & Restore. It has worked well for me for a long time, and automatic backups are very easily scheduled
Jacko
njackson said:
Doing a search for sms found this file on my phone - /data/user/0/com.android.providers.telephony/databases/mmssms.db
I can't say for sure if this is it, but that database sure has all of my sms in it
As I'm sure you will also recommend that your friend does future backups of his sms, I thoroughly recommend SMS Backup & Restore. It has worked well for me for a long time, and automatic backups are very easily scheduled
Jacko
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Believe it or not, i have tried locating/searching for mmssms.db before my post...and found nothing
Think what i'll do, is download sms backup and restore....backup my sms'es...and see what the backup file is called...hopefully it will give me an idea where to search (for future ref)...thx for the tip
One thing i DID notice though, is that the "internal" storage, is actually called SDCARD? what a way of naming an internal storage. If i think about INTERNAL storage, its def NOT called an SDCARD...rather call it intstorage, or something like that....it will def confuse people...as we all accept the word SDCARD as a device you plug INTO th cell...and not a build in device...
RobinHoodSnr said:
Can someone tell me where the "physical" folder of the sms'es are located? I need to do a recovery on a galaxy s2...The bloke deleted his sms'es, now i'm trying to recover the lost info...
tia
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If you want to backup your sms when switching from a stock samsung rom to another install Titanium Backup from the store (it's free). Find something called [SMS/MMS/APN] and do a backup.
After you install another samsung rom (with wipe), you can just open Titanium and restore Data from the save you made. Make sure you go inside the sms app first and untick 'Delete old messages'. Do a reboot and youre done.
If you are interested in adding new sms messages to your samsung rom (when you used cm9 for example, use Sms Backup and Restore, it's also free on the store). Do a reboot. Save your sms/mms with titanium and youre done.
I havent found a way to transfer mms messages between samsung and cm9/aosp/aokp roms yet.
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If you want to backup your sms when switching from a stock samsung rom to another install Titanium Backup from the store (it's free). Find something called [SMS/MMS/APN] and do a backup.
After you install another samsung rom (with wipe), you can just open Titanium and restore Data from the save you made. Make sure you go inside the sms app first and untick 'Delete old messages'. Do a reboot and youre done.
If you are interested in adding new sms messages to your samsung rom (when you used cm9 for example, use Sms Backup and Restore, it's also free on the store). Do a reboot. Save your sms/mms with titanium and youre done.
I havent found a way to transfer mms messages between samsung and cm9/aosp/aokp roms yet.
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I have all those apps...Thing is, i need to attach the phone to my PC, and then do a recovery on the phone...thats why i need to know the "exact" location of the sms-storage directory...as i will have to access the phone via my PC via USB...
RobinHoodSnr said:
I have all those apps...Thing is, i need to attach the phone to my PC, and then do a recovery on the phone...thats why i need to know the "exact" location of the sms-storage directory...as i will have to access the phone via my PC via USB...
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The files you're looking for are:
mmssms.db
telephony.db (this one contains contacts and call logs)
They are located in:
/data/data/com.android.providers.telephony/databases/
Internal storage (sdcard)
RobinHoodSnr said:
One thing i DID notice though, is that the "internal" storage, is actually called SDCARD? what a way of naming an internal storage. If i think about INTERNAL storage, its def NOT called an SDCARD...rather call it intstorage, or something like that....it will def confuse people...as we all accept the word SDCARD as a device you plug INTO th cell...and not a build in device...
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I guess that you are aware of this but ... just in case ...
The internal storage that you are calling "sdcard" is only partly correct. If fact sdcard is below the top level root. So, sdcard is actually /sdcard, and the data directory where I found the database is /data (not on sdcard, but off the root directory). To get to this you need a rooted phone, and a file explorer like Root Explorer or ES File Explorer.
Sorry if you already knew this, but the sdcard thing was quite confusing to a newby like me before I had done quite a bit on the rooted phone.
Jacko
victorator said:
The files you're looking for are:
mmssms.db
telephony.db (this one contains contacts and call logs)
They are located in:
/data/data/com.android.providers.telephony/databases/
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Thanks Victorator...i manage to manually find it. Weird...Although my phone is rooted, doing a search didnt get it
(althought i DID start the search from "root" )
...think i had a crappy explorer program, lol
deleted sms on Gal S2
RobinHoodSnr said:
Can someone tell me where the "physical" folder of the sms'es are located? I need to do a recovery on a galaxy s2...The bloke deleted his sms'es, now i'm trying to recover the lost info...
tia
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Hi RobinhoodSnr, did you ever manage to retrieve the deleted sms's? Because I have the same problem. Deleted by accident this morning!
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Hi RobinhoodSnr, did you ever manage to retrieve the deleted sms's? Because I have the same problem. Deleted by accident this morning!
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At the end of the day...I just left it and couldn't find it, although i could recover my contacts at location "/data/data/com.android.providers.telephony/databases/" ( as a previous member has mentioned )
Apparently the smses are located as "data/data/com.android.providers.telephony/databases/mmssms.db"
...hope this helps
I obtained my new Galaxy S III yesterday, yet I cannot recover application data, nor the actual themselves via Titanium Backup.
I am transferring from the T-Mobile G2(HTC Vision). The titanium backup data is from there.
I rooted the Galaxy S III, installed the "Omega v.28" ROM, and installed Titanium Backup from the Google Play Store. However, Titanium Backup can no longer detect the data from my former phone. My query is that must I begin anew, or is there a method by which I may recover the application data.
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I obtained my new Galaxy S III yesterday, yet I cannot recover application data, nor the actual themselves via Titanium Backup.
I am transferring from the T-Mobile G2(HTC Vision). The titanium backup data is from there.
I rooted the Galaxy S III, installed the "Omega v.28" ROM, and installed Titanium Backup from the Google Play Store. However, Titanium Backup can no longer detect the data from my former phone. My query is that must I begin anew, or is there a method by which I may recover the application data.
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I am not sure in how far titanium can restore data from different phones whereas did you set your backup folder to the correct folder? otherwise the apps do not show up in the restore menu. In addition take into account that restoring system app data is not advised.
I never modified the folder location. I simply removed the SD card from one phone and attached it to the other. Aside from which, I do not require former system application, and I am aware of the hazards of ignorant restoration.
Go to preferences and find the backup location just in case the location is wrong.
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The data layout is different in a different phone .
jje
I think it's just a matter of backup location change, denomination of sdcard changes among Rom.
Concerning the application data the backup format is the same in every room as it's done by titanium. As long as he doesn't want to restore system data there is no problem, I've already transferred apps + data without problem from my phone to my tablet, and from my LG p990 to the sgs3.
Go to TB settings, and show choose the existing backup location...
You guys can laugh at my misfortune, but I need your help. A customer needed some work done that required downgrading his OS. So before doing so I used titanium backup to back everything up...to the INTERNAL SD!
Yeah one star TiBu, two thumbs way down. Why the heck would you default to the internal storage rather than the EXTERNAL? I guess it is my fault for not checking the location of the backup but I also did not expect the internal storage to be erased when flashing via Clockworkmod and Odin. I also did some OTA updates during my troubleshooting, this particular issue was very stubborn. Somewhere in there the backups were entirely erased.
Anyway, I used Hexmob Recovery Pro to backup the deleted files, hoping to salvage the apps and other user data. Well I got over five thousand files and they're all named like this:
f6826096.xml
f6826112.sqlite
f3946400.png
f6841912.txt
etc
This would be very handy if they were just pictures and other documents, but they're supposed to be a backup compatible with Titanium Backup. I tried to go to settings > preferences > backup folder location > detect > whole device. It didn't find anything. I tried manually adding all the files into the backup location that is listed by default, and they did not show up. I tried to force close titanium backup to force it to check the folder again. Without Titanium Backup able to recognize the files, none of them are going to do me any good. So:
How is a titanium backup structured? Can I make these files conform to that format so some of the user data can go back on?
Would anyone (via PM/e-mail) like to look at some of these files to help me identify if they belong to a backup? Most are XML or TXT files, which look like property lists?
How long is this process going to take? I think the customer's data may not be important but I promised I would not erase anything.
It's a very bad time when you are not using WhatsApp. The thing is I was using s3 with root and many more. And I always use to take backup with titanium application. I took WhatsApp backup in my s3. Unfortunately in last week my s3 gets wet and now it won't work. But I have that backup file in my sdcard. Yesterday I bought galaxy a5 which I don't want root ri8 now. The main problem is I want restore my WhatsApp data. Because I was using my wp on my very old number and now I couldn't able to do verification of wp again. So I had this problem many time but now because of new phone it's very difficult to restore because tb ask for root access. I want to use my wp on my old number so please help me. Hw can I restore my tb data in my new phone which is not yet root..?
I have no full solution, but just an idea. In your TitaniumBackup folder, you should find a tar.gz file with the name of the WhatsApp apk. In there, you should find a data folder and then a /. folder, in which there should be the actual data used by WhatsApp. Then, if your new device accepts that, you should be able to push with adb these files and folders to the new data folder of your new installatation of WhatsApp.
I have never tested anything like that, so I don't take any responsibility, but it is an idea based on Helium from Clockworkmod which uses this trick.