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Hi,
i run a backup sesseion yesterday with the build-in app "back up & restore" on my ICS 4.04. i had no chance to choose "usb storage" even my mobile was connected with my laptop so i keep it on "internal storage".
but i can't find the backup now on there. There are just a few folders but only some KB's in size.
Where put the app my backup in ?
It's in a folder called .semc-fullbackup
and where is that folder? do I have an access without root?
how to delete backup from app?
can't find it either.... it's not on my internal storage / SD card....
very useful from backup&restore to put the backup onto the phone memory with no option to save it somewhere else <facepalm>
its in internal memory and its hidden so use explorer and then youll see it.
olaf313 said:
can't find it either.... it's not on my internal storage / SD card....
very useful from backup&restore to put the backup onto the phone memory with no option to save it somewhere else <facepalm>
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You're supposed to connect a USB flash drive TO your phone, not your phone to a computer. It works, i've tried it.
To view the folders, open them through your computer when connected via a data cable; if you try to view them on your phone via a file explorer they don't show up.
Edit: To get Es file explorer to show hidden files/folders go to: Settings --> File Settings --> Show hidden files
It's great that you can do a backup to a USB flash drive, but you don't get the USB on-the-go cable in the box and most people wouldn't know they exist, or where to get one (I've never seen one on sale in a shop).
(For those that don't know, you can get official Nokia or Samsung ones dirt cheap from Amazon and probably eBay etc).
I use MyBackupPro and found that it was impossible to transfer the folder contents to another folder on my Mac desktop using MTP. Certain files just won't/can't copy. A total joke.
However, I can use a file manager to copy everything in the backup folder to a USB drive via the cable (well, actually via a LiveDock as the phone can't power an awful lot of flash drives) but that's a right PITA.
To be honest, I know Google can now backup app settings but the whole thing is a mess. When you reset, you don't always get the apps reinstalling (even if starts to do it seemingly fine) and I'm not confident it would work if I needed to rely on it. And even less so if I broke my phone and replaced it with another one, where the backed up data wouldn't reinstall either.
Frankly, despite showing off some really cool features in Android 4.1 at Google I/O today, the one thing they've not really taken much care of is making backups. Why not let me make a backup to my Google Drive storage space? Why not back up all applications and data, including apps installed on the SD card (or internal drive) and also backup widget data, home screen icon positions etc?
Even rooted devices are hit and miss when it comes to backups, and most people don't root their devices - or may have rooted the device they have now, but can't always root the device when changing phone or updating the OS.
Anyway, that was a much longer rant than I intended to write. Going back to the start, the backup app for most people is pretty pointless!!
Access Hidden Files Using Phone
Download Astro File Manager from Google Play
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.metago.astro&hl=en
Open Astro ...
Open Preferences ...
Goto Look and Feel ...
Check Show hidden files ...
Then you can see a folder named .semc-fullbackup.
Open the folder ...
Copy its contents to some other location ...
That is all ...
Enjoy
olaf313 said:
Hi,
i run a backup sesseion yesterday with the build-in app "back up & restore" on my ICS 4.04. i had no chance to choose "usb storage" even my mobile was connected with my laptop so i keep it on "internal storage".
but i can't find the backup now on there. There are just a few folders but only some KB's in size.
Where put the app my backup in ?
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I used ES file explorer to see the folder I said, my phone was rooted, maybe that's the reason the folder was visible by default
meyourchum said:
Download Astro File Manager from Google Play
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.metago.astro&hl=en
Open Astro ...
Open Preferences ...
Goto Look and Feel ...
Check Show hidden files ...
Then you can see a folder named .semc-fullbackup.
Open the folder ...
Copy its contents to some other location ...
That is all ...
Enjoy
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cheers buddy, that was great.
first i thought "Astro" is a horoscope app :laugh:
lordoftheriffs said:
I used ES file explorer to see the folder I said, my phone was rooted, maybe that's the reason the folder was visible by default
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Just checked and you're right, ES file explorer can see the folders (my phone is not rooted), you just have to enable the option in settings.
Es file explorer: Settings --> File Settings --> Show hidden files
HI im ravi...thanks for your post....very good app
I'm not rooted, what I did was:
- connect the phone to you computer
- adb shell
- cd sdcard1
- ls -la
Then you should see the .semc-fullbackup folder. So you need to have android SDK installed, I'm not sure if you need to have developer mode enabled, but I did have it enabled.
Just wanted to add to this because this is the first Google hit I got.
Has anyone installed whatsapp on his wave and get it works?
Mine says that's my device is not recognized.
I read about the way of backup from another device but it's necessary the root and it's not simple.
Thanks in advance
You can't use whatsapp without modem.
MrManson666 said:
You can't use whatsapp without modem.
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Yes we can! :laugh:
Install wp in youwave -> backup titanium backup -> copy backup to phone -> restore in phone with titanium backup. :silly:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1750668
@ Garonte, i don't understand, could you be clearer? thanks
this doesn't work for me...
Tuto
Ok, bad explained...
0. Root ICS android -> http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1750668
1. I assume that you have YouWave instaled in Pc and Whatsapp working. Too many tutos in web.
2. Install Titanium Backup (i instaled version 3.6.7 apk, others dont work for me) in YouWave and make a backup of Whatsapp app+data.
3. Close Youwave.
5. Install winmount and click "mount file" search for C:\Users\"user name"\.Virtualbox\HardDisks
check: youwave_vm01.vdi and open, wait five seconds... a new windows appear with archives open, copy folder "TitaniumBackup" to desktop.
6. Now in ICS android download an install Titanium Backup and whatsapp.
7. Conect ICS android wave to usb and tap usb storage, you will see a folder named TitaniumBackup. Replace this folder with backup folder in "Desktop".
8. Disconect usb and open TitaniumBackup and Restore Whatssapp.
Due to limit partition space, only install this two apps. (titanium and Whatsapp)
9.Done. For me working, now I have the damn Whastapp in ICS android.
Credits to badaspain
@ Garonte , please
" 2. Install Titanium Backup (i instaled version 3.6.7 apk, others dont work for me) in YouWave and make a backup of Whatsapp app+data.
3. Close Youwave.
5. Install winmount and click "mount file" search for C:\Users\"user name"\.Virtualbox\HardDisks
check: youwave_vm01.vdi and open, wait five seconds... a new windows appear with archives open, copy folder "TitaniumBackup" to desktop.
6. Now in ICS android download an install Titanium Backup and whatsapp.
7. Conect ICS android wave to usb and tap usb storage, you will see a folder named TitaniumBackup. Replace this folder with backup folder in "Desktop".
8. Disconect usb and open TitaniumBackup and Restore Whatssapp."
i don't understand in 2. 5. 6.
more....
2. Search google for titanium backup 3.6.7 version and download apk file. then install it in youwave (see help youwave... how to install apk and others app´s)
3.Search google for program "winmount", download and install it in windows... and follow tuto. This program grants open virtual image of hard disk in youwave.
6.Start wave in android... go google play and download these app´s.
greetings.
Same as garonte
Sent from my Samsung Wave GT-S8500 using xda premium
Garonte said:
Ok, bad explained...
0. Root ICS android -> http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1750668
1. I assume that you have YouWave instaled in Pc and Whatsapp working. Too many tutos in web.
2. Install Titanium Backup (i instaled version 3.6.7 apk, others dont work for me) in YouWave and make a backup of Whatsapp app+data.
3. Close Youwave.
5. Install winmount and click "mount file" search for C:\Users\"user name"\.Virtualbox\HardDisks
check: youwave_vm01.vdi and open, wait five seconds... a new windows appear with archives open, copy folder "TitaniumBackup" to desktop.
6. Now in ICS android download an install Titanium Backup and whatsapp.
7. Conect ICS android wave to usb and tap usb storage, you will see a folder named TitaniumBackup. Replace this folder with backup folder in "Desktop".
8. Disconect usb and open TitaniumBackup and Restore Whatssapp.
Due to limit partition space, only install this two apps. (titanium and Whatsapp)
9.Done. For me working, now I have the damn Whastapp in ICS android.
Credits to badaspain
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WOW! You deserve a medal! This is the only tutorial in the entire world wide web that worked for me, you're awesome. Thank you, thank you and thank you again! :laugh:
Cheers from Brazil!
Just use CM 10 v0.31 by rebellos.
Whatsapp works without doing anything, just install it from playstore....
TitaniumBackup does not backup my APK anymore. I think this happen after i update to LP 5.0.2. Is it not working properly on LP?
I even did a factory reset and it's still the same. Everytime I backup my apps, after complete, the icon is a tick. Used to be a smiley face.
Anyone have a fix for this?
EDIT: OK I found out it does backup everything include APK on the first run, subsequent run it only detect the app data and the icon change from a smiley to a tick.
ljhsquall said:
TitaniumBackup does not backup my APK anymore. I think this happen after i update to LP 5.0.2. Is it not working properly on LP?
I even did a factory reset and it's still the same. Everytime I backup my apps, after complete, the icon is a tick. Used to be a smiley face.
Anyone have a fix for this?
EDIT: OK I found out it does backup everything include APK on the first run, subsequent run it only detect the app data and the icon change from a smiley to a tick.
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The reason is in LP TB how adds .txt to its .properties file and TB itself cannot recognize..
Nobody had the same as issue as me? How can this be?
I have the same issue.. How did you fix this???
ljhsquall said:
The reason is in LP TB how adds .txt to its .properties file and TB itself cannot recognize..
Nobody had the same as issue as me? How can this be?
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I think I may have a related issue.
This is my problem description:
- phone: Samsung S4 I9505 upgraded to Lollipop 5.0.1, rooted with CF-Auto_Root
- using Titanium Backup version 7.1.2
1. set backup location to SD card using the DocumentProvider interface
2. after "Calculating scenarios" for different batch actions, for "Redo backups for modified data" shows 402 backups to be redone
3. run the scheduled action "Redo backups for modified data"
4. immediately afterwards, there are still 402 backups to be done
and
- "Calculating scenarios" never seems to finish. It's as if TB is having trouble scanning the backups
- the "properties.txt" files are created in the backup folder but they are empty files
I sent a report of a possible bug to Titanium Backup support.
I'm amazed this bug isn't more widely reported.
At a guess, the DocumentProvider API allows some sort of file type hint when creating a file and TB is optimistically setting this to text rather than whatever binary format is used for the archives, and for god knows what reason android is appending a .txt file extension.
I've spent the best part of a day banging my head against a wall trying to figure out why my backup couldn't be restored. Thank **** I found this thread, I was close to admitting defeat and starting from scratch.
Just to assist people in finding this, here's some of the stuff I googled for: "has app no", "no restore button", "restore question mark", "unknown"
I was lucky that my google-fu led me to this thread, and another one about Titanium backup adding .zip after .gz because I took a backup of my S5 yesterday, upgraded and hard reset, and then it couldn't find any backups. I knew they were there, but it turned out that both those bugs had struck me at the same time! So I copied the directory to the SD card, took the card out of the phone, put it into my pc and did a bit of old school "ren *.zip *." and "ren *.txt *." which put it all right again. Thanks for the thread!
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I was lucky that my google-fu led me to this thread, and another one about Titanium backup adding .zip after .gz because I took a backup of my S5 yesterday, upgraded and hard reset, and then it couldn't find any backups. I knew they were there, but it turned out that both those bugs had struck me at the same time! So I copied the directory to the SD card, took the card out of the phone, put it into my pc and did a bit of old school "ren *.zip *." and "ren *.txt *." which put it all right again. Thanks for the thread!
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renaming files work
This issue is not fixed even in 7.4.0.2 version of TB on LP. But this issue depends on ROM, because on CM12.1 it didn't reproduce.
Here is the fastest fix for Windows:
1.Open cmd
2.Switch drive to sdcard
3.Go to titanium backup folder (or wherever your backups are)
4.Execute two commands:
rename *.gz.zip *.
rename *.properties.txt *.
Example sequence of commands:
g:
cd G:\backup sept 2016\TitaniumBackup
rename *.gz.zip *.
rename *.properties.txt *.
saneksem said:
This issue is not fixed even in 7.4.0.2 version of TB on LP. But this issue depends on ROM, because on CM12.1 it didn't reproduce.
Here is the fastest fix for Windows:
1.Open cmd
2.Switch drive to sdcard
3.Go to titanium backup folder (or wherever your backups are)
4.Execute two commands:
rename *.gz.zip *.
rename *.properties.txt *.
Example sequence of commands:
g:
cd G:\backup sept 2016\TitaniumBackup
rename *.gz.zip *.
rename *.properties.txt *.
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Unfortunately, this didn't made the trick for me... When restoring any update (app+data) it takes so many time that it doesn't end... I don't know what the hell happened...
Hello!
How do I backup each and every note of my LG G5 QuickMemo+?
If your phone is rooted, you can do that by using automatic backup tools such as Titanium Backup, or by manually copying /data/data/com.lge.qmemoplus/ folder to your backup location and then restoring it by copying it back to the same folder, setting the right permission with Root Explorer or similar.
If you're planning to copy them to a txt file, it's quite easy for text notes, as the text is inside /data/data/com.lge.qmemoplus/databases/qmemoplus.db, a SQLite database, in a format similar to HTML.
tremalnaik said:
If your phone is rooted, you can do that by using automatic backup tools such as Titanium Backup, or by manually copying /data/data/com.lge.qmemoplus/ folder to your backup location and then restoring it by copying it back to the same folder, setting the right permission with Root Explorer or similar.
If you're planning to copy them to a txt file, it's quite easy for text notes, as the text is inside /data/data/com.lge.qmemoplus/databases/qmemoplus.db, a SQLite database, in a format similar to HTML.
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My phone is not rooted and I do not plan to root it. Most of the notes I wish to backup are images, is that still possible?
accessing in the /data/data folder is possible only with root. I don't know where images are, if they are in /sdcard/android/data/com.lge.quickmemoplus you can backup them, otherwise not.
EDIT: media files are in /sdcard/android/data/com.lge.quickmemoplus, so you can just copy that folder even without root.
tremalnaik said:
EDIT: media files are in /sdcard/android/data/com.lge.quickmemoplus, so you can just copy that folder even without root.
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Oh. So should all my phone data get deleted, if I paste the pre-copied folder, all the dozens of saved images in QuickMemo+ would be there?
/sdcard/ is (opposite to what would be logical) the internal memory. So if your phone data is erased, also QuickMemo+ photos are deleted But you can always backup them whenever you want.
tremalnaik said:
/sdcard/ is (opposite to what would be logical) the internal memory. So if your phone data is erased, also QuickMemo+ photos are deleted But you can always backup them whenever you want.
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I just went in that folder and I seem to have thousands of 'qmemo_' folders in there, each has 'audios', 'drawings', 'images' and 'videos' sub-folders. The problem is there seem to be a lot of memos I have deleted from my phone long ago (which apparently also is the reason why it took some time to load all the folders as there are thousands), how come the deleted memos appear in those sub-folders? How can I backup only the relevant ones?
If there is a mismatch between the database of notes seen by QuickMemo and the files in the folder, well, you just have to be patient and check them one by one.
You can start by opening QuickMemo and looking at the earliest memo: any folder that has been edited before that date, is something you deleted.
You can use LG Backup too
I had been using Fouad whatsapp v8.12 for quite some time and it was working flawlessly until 20th February when they released a new update with V8.26.
The problem is it starts absolutely fine but I can't seem to restore my recently backed up msgs, when I try to restore on the main screen, it says
No backup found in sdcard/whatsapp/
And when I try to restore the backup from fuoad settings after verification it still gives me the same msg.
It automatically restores some very old msgs from last year although I made a new backup.
Any help would be appreciated, I've already tried several suggestions that were helpful before but none seem to be working now.
Did you find the answer to your problem?
If anyone has any solution please do share
The only solution I found out was to clean install fouad and the skipping the first step where it asks me to restore and it automatically picked the backup file from the folder.
Don't know if it'll work for you but it worked for me.
sauudmir said:
The only solution I found out was to clean install fouad and the skipping the first step where it asks me to restore and it automatically picked the backup file from the folder.
Don't know if it'll work for you but it worked for me.
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I have the backup file of 2.63 gb in which folder or where i have to paste that backup file so that it can restore
Tpain9999 said:
I have the backup file of 2.63 gb in which folder or where i have to paste that backup file so that it can restore
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You need to put the backup file in the backup folder that fuoad whatsapp creates
sauudmir said:
You need to put the backup file in the backup folder that fuoad whatsapp creates
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I m on stage as per 1st image
Till here it has automatically created 2 folders as per 2nd image
Now as per second image from second folder I have copied yobackup folder and databases folder to first folder
Now first folder consist of 3 sub folder i. e media, databases, and yobackup so I have also pasted my 2.63 gb file in that databases folder
Tpain9999 said:
I m on stage as per 1st image
Till here it has automatically created 2 folders as per 2nd image
Now as per second image from second folder I have copied yobackup folder and databases folder to first folder
Now first folder consist of 3 sub folder i. e media, databases, and yobackup so I have also pasted my 2.63 gb file in that databases folder
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I think it's the folder with numbers, what you can do it clear all the storage of fuoad whatsapp by renaming the backup file, open the fuoad whatsapp application and then see which folders it creates and put your backups in that folder.
I stopped using fuoad whatsapp sometime ago due to the same issues of backup on google drive, so this is what I remember the last time I faced this issue.
i just formated my phone and the app cant read the backup file any help ?