backup app data of the xperia z2 (mainly game apps) without root?
sister wants to root her z2, but it's on 5.1.1, so phone obviously needs to be downgraded.
i've turned on backup & restore in settings & accounts sync automatically... i've also backed up to sony pc companion, though i'm not sure if it backs up the game data.
i know some games back up to game servers/google play games, not sure about some. if i move apps to sd card, will the data be stored there as well?
edit: could someone tell me if this is still the most used method of rooting?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/xperia-z2/development/stock-d6502-03-23-4-0-546-completeguide-t3171219 using 17.1.2.A.0.314 going to 23.4.A.1.232
You need ROOT, unfortunately, try ESfile Explorer, it can backup apk files
Edit: install recovery and do a factory reset it only deletes apps and it's data, internal storage will be untouched, then through recovery flash a pre-rooted zip
If you want anything i could try to help
game data are not stored in the cloud. There's no way to back up your game data. Downgrade will wipe your internal storage.
Try Backup&Restore app to backup data to sd card. However, she can only restore it after she get back to 5.1.1.
So she needs to downgrade then root then upgrade thru recovery for rooted 5.1.1 then restore using Backup&Restore.
well, i havent tried this so im not really sure if this will work.
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Hi,
I backed my sd card contents to my pc, my rooted incredible was a mess it was running CM7. I wiped the card flashed PB31IMG, a stock+ ROM then flashed MIUI now how do I get my backup onto the phone? So my apps + all the information and upgrades are like they were. Ie. all the money and levels I have got to in a app such as drag racing, my Handcent settings messages etc.
I am not sure how to copy the just the names of all the folders so you can see them if that would be more helpful to you please let me know how. If I could get my backed up removeable disk on here without the files I dont need I would be so grateful. Thanks
If you made a backup before you flashed you will have to restore to the backup and backup the apps using titanium backup. If not, sorry, all is lost...
Hey all
I got my S3 a couple of weeks back.. Used it amazing phone... Rooted it... Flashed slim bean... Flashed official Indian JB 4.1.1
And onto it right now
The thread heading!! With all this flashing the internal memory wipes out. And backing it up every time would be a hassle.
I have come from the galaxy ace where the app data would be stored in the ext sd card so there's no chance of loosing all the data... Like WhatsApp images preferences of apps... I actually lost my entire titanium backup
Had to restore manually
Any way I can transfer app data to extsdcard?
I have root and busybox.
DirectoryBind | Link2SD
jumbobombo said:
Hey all
I got my S3 a couple of weeks back.. Used it amazing phone... Rooted it... Flashed slim bean... Flashed official Indian JB 4.1.1
And onto it right now
The thread heading!! With all this flashing the internal memory wipes out. And backing it up every time would be a hassle.
I have come from the galaxy ace where the app data would be stored in the ext sd card so there's no chance of loosing all the data... Like WhatsApp images preferences of apps... I actually lost my entire titanium backup
Had to restore manually
Any way I can transfer app data to extsdcard?
I have root and busybox.
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Nope, can't move data from internal memory to extSD on S3 i9300 or i9305. It's a major flaw on Samsung's part imo.
There's an app developed by slig, it's called DirectoryBind that will allow you to move data across to your extSD. Works like a charm for 90% of games e.g. Gameloft where extra data can be over 500MB. I'm using DirectoryBind and it's works well, never had an issue, in fact only found one game out of thirty so far that I couldn't bind.
Note: if you use DirectoryBind you'll need to bind each app/game separately, you can't bind a folder like android/obb or android/data thinking it will automatically move the new installs across, this must be done per install.
If you just wanna move apk's across, then Link2SD will also work, but it won't transfer gama data.
Thanks for the reply
I'll try the directorybind
So now how do you manage flashing without losing data?
It's a big bummer :banghead:
MyBackup Pro | Titanium Backup
jumbobombo said:
Thanks for the reply
I'll try the directorybind
So now how do you manage flashing without losing data?
It's a big bummer :banghead:
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I haven't flashed yet, only rooted. I am considering flashing Pandoriam...
So about not losing data... I use MyBackup Pro and would most likely use it when I flash a new rom on my i9305...
If you move data across to your extSD with DirectoryBind, you can backup your config. in DirectoryBind, flash without losing the extSD data and then re-install your APKs and restore your config. backup in DirectoryBind... then you're back where you left off when you start any of the APKs from your launcher, they'll pull the data from the DirectoryBind (extSD) straight away.
Not sure if this answers your question? Another alternative would be to backup the data you'd like to keep with Titanium Backup.
jumbobombo said:
Thanks for the reply
I'll try the directorybind
So now how do you manage flashing without losing data?
It's a big bummer :banghead:
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Make sure you set your backup location in Titanium Backup to the external SD (like "/mnt/extSdCard/Titaniumbackup/").
The same for CWM backup data : do it on external SD. If you create ,ZIP compressed images, you have to transfer this manually to ext SD.
Once in a while (before a ROM-flash) I launch FTP-Server on my SG3 and transfer all data to my PC through WIFI.
Wireless FTP is no hassle, no wires, and the fastest way to transfer lots of data from phone to PC. (I get 8500kB/s transfer rate).
Also, buy a 64 GB SD !
+1 pat 357, that's exactly how I backup my stuff .
Regarding the possibility of transferring the data to the micro sd card this is what I did after having tried apps2sd (doesn't work) & directory bind (imo was quiet unstable and tiresome).
Basically, you're going to make your phone believe that your sdcard is actually your internal & vice versa. Of course, using this tweak will really only make sense if you own either a 32 or higher micro sd card. I run it on the latest jelly bean 4.1.1 (rooted, obviously) samsung official stock rom and works like a charm coupled to a class 10 64GB sd card. I use the initial 16GB (now consiered as external sd for the phone) for music or any kind of media file I feel like having around.
What I did was a fresh install : wipe dalvik cache/factory reset...then flash Rom; Root&install CWM; flash kernel (I used SiyahKernel S3-v1.7 available here) through CWM; flash tweak (ExtSD2internalSD) through CWM. Ticks like a clock ever since then.
Hope this helped, if it did, enjoy and of course, thanks a million to mattiadg for this amazing tweak.
OK, so I flashed lollipop and all was great, I read some issues about buttons not working so i tested flashing. After restoring from TWRP my internal sd was not allowing downloading but would install apps from the play store. I use an app called Dentex Youtube downloader and it would not download at all. Root explorer could write and so would anything with root access. Chrome could not download files and others.
So what was the issue? I am not sure but the only to get it to work again after many flashes was to flash lollipop clean (meaning wipe data factory reset) and flash twrp. After restoring apps from Titanium, I had to go into recovery with TWRP and wipe internal storage. This deletes the internal storage but doesnt effect the system or apps installed. And sure enough all works well.
Just wanted to share and hope it helps someone else down the line as I had to scroll though the entire internet to look for answers but just by chance this worked.
BTW, this is the best phone I ever owned, small compact and powerful.
I'd like to completely backup my n4 running 5.1 (rooted and xposed installed), so i can try some things with it and not be worried about any kind of data loss. The thing is, ive tried the nexus root toolkit by wugfresh and the skipsoft android toolkit, but neither of those COMPLETELY backup my apps , app data and shared storage, it does not matter what i use, something is always missing. For example, i made a "full Android backup", the one with the .ab extension, but its only about 8 Gb in size, and my phone says i have 500mb out free out of 12.9 total, so that makes absolutely no sense to me, as that is over 30% missing and not a full backup at all. a nandroid backup using twrp i not really an option as i have only those 500megs of free space and the nandroid backup wants to back up the data to my phone first and then copy it to my pc.
What can i do? are there any solutions that will literally bring my entire phone back to the state it was before? (recovery cache and kernel dont HAVE to be incuded, that i can reinstall myself)
You can try using an online Nandroid backup.
Copy your internal storage to a PC. Make some room on the phone by deleting enough stuff for a nandroid backup. Copy backup to PC. Mod away. When finished and all is well, return data back to the phone's internal storage.
You should also be able to use USB OTG in TWRP and make a backup to external storage as well.
Hello Everyone,
I need some help restoring whats app msgs which are a couple of days old.I own a Samsung S4 mini.
I got my phone un-rooted and flashed the samsung stock ROM(Android version 4.4.2)
My internal SD card got formatted due to this. But I had taken a google drive back up as well as a local back up of the Database folder of my whats app on my PC before flashing the ROM.
On flashing the ROM, I installed the latest whats app version 2.12.449 .I tried to restore my msgs from the google drive back up but wasnt able to no matter what I did. It failed everytime. I skipped restoring the back up and my google drive back up got overwritten with only the new msgs.
I uninstalled and re-installed whats app.
While restoring the only option it gave me was to restore it using the backup on google drive (overwritten one) which was pointless. So,I tried doing the below steps mentioned in the Whats App FAQs to manually restore a local back up which was a day old.
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To restore a less recent local backup
Your phone will store up to the last 7 days worth of local backup files (Google Drive will only have the most recent). If you wish to restore a local backup which is not the most recent, you will need to do the following:
Download a file manager. Here are some choices: File Managers and Explorers.
In the File Manager, navigate to sdcard/WhatsApp/Databases. If your data is not stored on the SD card, you may see internal storage or main storage instead of sdcard.
Rename the backup file you wish to restore from msgstore-YYYY-MM-DD.1.db.crypt8 to msgstore.db.crypt8.
Uninstall WhatsApp.
Install WhatsApp.
Tap Restore when asked.
This dint help either . It simply doesnt detect the local backup on my internal SD card. It only restored the back up on my google drive by default. Also there is no option to choose whether to restore back up from your SD card or google drive.
I have tried searching all the forums to find a solution to the above problem but couldn't :'(
Is there any way to resolve this issue apart from installing the message extractor on your PC and decoding the DB files??