retrieve pictures from twrp backup - Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

Hi, i extracted my TWRP from my device to PC, and i would like to retrieve some files from my old backup. I tried and looked everywhere but can't find my download folder of my old android backup.
Is there a way to recover pictures i had on my downloads folder from the TWRP backup?
i extracted the data and system folder, but cannot find my old files at all, like the folders DCMI, Downloads, Notifications, Ringtones,whatsapp etc
The cell was s6 edge international

fadiji said:
Hi, i extracted my TWRP from my device to PC, and i would like to retrieve some files from my old backup. I tried and looked everywhere but can't find my download folder of my old android backup.
Is there a way to recover pictures i had on my downloads folder from the TWRP backup?
i extracted the data and system folder, but cannot find my old files at all, like the folders DCMI, Downloads, Notifications, Ringtones,whatsapp etc
The cell was s6 edge international
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Make a backup of your current state and flash your old backup, then, retrieve the information and send it to yourself via Gmail or any other service.
Hope that helped and leave a thanks if I did .

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Where does android store contact photos ?

Hi guys ... Well I want to export all the contact photos Android is currently storing for all my 'Phone' contacts ..
Does anyone know where Android stores all contact photos/images ?
I'm currently running a Sense 3.6 ROM (Virtuous Affinity) on my Desire Z ..
Well I could not find them anywhere on the SD card, but I did find another solution to this, which can work until something better comes along:
1) Download and install Titanium Backup
2) Open Titanium Backup, and create a backup of the Contacts app
3) Open the SD card on your PC, and then open the 'TitaniumBackup' folder
4) Find your backup here .. if its date sorted, find the backup that was created most recently maybe ..
5) Open the TAR file in WinRAR, and then open the 'files' folder inside the TAR file
6) All associated contact images should be here now ..
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ahmadka said:
Well I could not find them anywhere on the SD card, but I did find another solution to this, which can work until something better comes along:
1) Download and install Titanium Backup
2) Open Titanium Backup, and create a backup of the Contacts app
3) Open the SD card on your PC, and then open the 'TitaniumBackup' folder
4) Find your backup here .. if its date sorted, find the backup that was created most recently maybe ..
5) Open the TAR file in WinRAR, and then open the 'files' folder inside the TAR file
6) All associated contact images should be here now ..
Please 'Thank' this post if this helped you out
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Thank you so much! I was looking for a way to do this andd your methodd worked like a charm! Maybe this should a sticky for the android tips section. :good:
I tried to do this your way, but i only get cut photos, not original ones. Any help?

Nandroid backup files missing

Hi, Everyone
I was attempting to make a new backup of my HTC one using TWRP. For some odd reason, I can't find the file when I browse my phone SD. The TRWP folder has the old backup, but when I attempt to do a restore I can see the new files. I tried using the ES explorer app to find the missing backup files but nothing. I know for a fact that these files are stored somewhere and they are taking space on my HTC. Can I restored to an early restore and it will delete these files?
I'm new to the Android scene and still learning. Any suggestions will be gladly appreciated.
Thanks.
djorn2k said:
Hi, Everyone
I was attempting to make a new backup of my HTC one using TWRP. For some odd reason, I can't find the file when I browse my phone SD. The TRWP folder has the old backup, but when I attempt to do a restore I can see the new files. I tried using the ES explorer app to find the missing backup files but nothing. I know for a fact that these files are stored somewhere and they are taking space on my HTC. Can I restored to an early restore and it will delete these files?
I'm new to the Android scene and still learning. Any suggestions will be gladly appreciated.
Thanks.
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Nevermind, I found the solution. The problem is that the ES file explorer does not have root access to /data folder. I enable root access in ES file and there was the following folder: /data/media/twrp.
I was able to make a new folder in the /SD and copy the files to that location. Then I deleted the folder.

Whatsapp Data location

Hi,
I have an old phone (Galaxy S3 international unbrandedand) and I would like to decrypt my whatsapp backup files.
I've googled many tutorials but they all seem to be outdated.
Most of them presume that the key file is located in /data/data/com.whatsapp/, however this folder does not exist on my phone.
I've also tried adb backup as root on my linux laptop (adb backup -f whatsapp.ab -noapk com.whatsapp), but when I transform this ab file into a tar and then extract its contents, it's just empty.
I've also tried to locate the com.whatsapp folder (not the user files folder with the actual *.crypt8 files, pictures, etc), but I can't find it anywhere on my phone.
Am I missing something? Are the whatsapp app files somewhere else now? Or has the location of whatsapp changed?

Backup all QuickMemo+ notes?

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

Fouad whatsapp v8.26 message restore issue

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 ?

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