I've been using Sony backup and restore. Seems to backup some more than titanium.
I have it set to backup to SD card, it shows the right about of free space yet it goes to internal storage.
Also, most annoying, I can't get it to only backup when plugged in or even set a time. It will start backing up in the middle of the day draining my battery.
Any help would be appreciated
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Everytime I flash a different rom more of phone storage space is taken away.
I am down to 677MB available out of 12.78GB total. Before I flashed the last rom I had almost 3GB available. I notice this everytime I flash a rom.
What do I do to reclaim the space? Is it Nandroid Backups that are taking all the space?
Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks.
If you're making nandroid backup before every rom update and not removing old nandroid backups then i would say that's what taking up space.
I have one backup that i fall back on to go back to mostly all stock and maybe 2nd one that ill fall back on for the more recent configuration. i dont keep more than 2 back ups at a time.
You can use a file manage and locate clockwork in your internal SD card and in the backup folder remove old back ups just keep what you need
Im having problems with my phone, Contact Names getting mixed up battery charging light , comes on by its self. sometimes my phone doesnt charge when it is plugged in..
So, am going to do a FULL WIPE inc a SD Card format. to hopefully eliminate any virus's or what ever the problem is that is causing the problems.
Anyway.. I have just done a backup using Backup & Restore. for contacts , sms and things like that.. But it took a while to back up and I have saved the backup as 2 Apr... On my SD Card I have a folder called Backup, and 2 Apr.sbf
It is less than 1 meg..
Is that the whole backup file???
Of course it is. How big do you think has to be 100mb ?!? These files are very small size, contacts, sms etc...1 mb is absolutely normal size for backup of that kind.
Hey guys, i have been writing and re writing different Rom to my phone for about a year now. But last night the worst thing that could happen happened. I did a backup of my external sd card and a titanium backup before writing the rc3 Rom final gingerbread clone to my phone. Well after writing it i decided i did not want it. So as any other time i just booted into recovery and looked for my nandriod backup and none of my backups were under restore. I realize now
that my backups including my titanium backups must have been on my actual phone and had been wiped. How can i avoid this problem in the future. I thought overtime i wiped my phone
and restored it, it was because i had my stuff on my sd card. I have a nandriod folder backed up from my external sd card but that seems to be worthless at this point. Any advice would help. Thanks, signed starting over.... Lol
you are correct in that all of your backups are originally stored in your phone memory (/sdcard) not your external sd card (sdcard/external_sd) unless you physically move them yourself or re-set the destination in each program. For example my nandroids are in (sdcard/clockworkmod/backup), TB in(sdcard/TitaniumBackup), and sms/mms in (sdcard/SMSBackupRestore
Usually flashing a new ROM will not wipe my internal or external sdcard. If anything it will wipe the INTERNAL sdcard not your external.
In any case backing up your backups is a good idea. Simply move them from their location to your PC. Voila! now you have all your backups stored on your PC.(aren't i smart) Now heres a little TOP SECRET tip..... ever since i started having mount to PC issues on random ROM/kernel combination's I keep a hidden nandroid backup in my external sdcard I always move my last nandroid there heres my path (sdcard/external_sd/backup/TOPSECRET/hiddenfile/poop/)... this makes it easy to pull your last nandroid just in case your internal does get wiped. Hope this helps
thank you for your reply...
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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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.
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.