So I've been playing Magic 2015 Duels of the Planeswalkers on my Android for a long time and I would like to transfer my progess to my new phone but unfornately the game data is located under the data folder, impossible to access without root.
The thing is I don't want to root any of my phones because I ONLY want to backup the data from just ONE game. Nothing more.
I tried Hellium backup, but it always gives me an error when attempting to backup Magic.
is it possible to backup and transfer the data without rooting? maybe an ADB command or something? what can I do?
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Hi All,
I am using Android from the past 2 years but never really came across any PC Suite like applications that allows to backup apps data/game data. I recently found wondershare Mobilego, a PC application which can backup app apk files but that also comes with bugs, it will not restore always. I had a Iphone 3Gs before and must say backup and restoring was a child's play.
Please let me know if we have something of that sort for Backing up and restore or easier way of backup, not Titanium backup as it does not backup all apps like asphalt 6. Each time I flash a new ROM I have to download 540mb of game data.
mobfest said:
Please let me know if we have something of that sort for Backing up and restore or easier way of backup, not Titanium backup as it does not backup all apps like asphalt 6. Each time I flash a new ROM I have to download 540mb of game data.
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I think you're doing something wrong... Are you wiping all user data when you flash another ROM? I have Let's Golf 3 on my phone and when I update to a new ROM I don't loose the 900Mb of additional data of the game.
Usually the game data is saved to /sdcard so if you don't format it, you shouldn't loose it.
A possible workaround for this issue could be the use of a manual backup script to save /data and /sdcard files (Do a tar and gzip to those folders and download to your PC).
Thanks for the reply but do we have any PC suite app for backing up.
How do i transfer all my data over to the new phone?
I have many apps that i use along with Angry Birds that i have played for a long time and have achieved 3 stars in practually all levels.
Im thinking of doing an exchange to keep the hit in the pocket smaller,and therefore need to hand over a completely re set and clean phone.
Thanks.
You need to backup all your data first.
1) Download Titanium Backup and backup all user data and apps.
Then plug the phone to the computer and copy all Titanium Backup folder to your local computer.
2) Run a rom backup using Rom Manager / just reboot to recovery and backup.
afterwards copy the backup to your local computer, just incase of emergency.
After getting Galaxy S3, download Titanium Backup on it as well, then copy the Titanium Backup folder from your local pc (from S2) to the S3, and run recovery from the application.
No guarantee there would be 100% fit but it should work...
Also, see if your apps provide some kind of logging in process. Then you can login, save all your data to that profile, and login from different devices with same profile...
Thanks for replying , i was hoping not to root the phone.
For the normal rom backup you don't have to root... And try finding logging in... Perhaps its that easy.
Update:
I've done some more research about this problem and tried the adb backup as described here [GUIDE] Full Phone Backup without Unlock or Root and then extract the data using this guide [GUIDE] How to extract, create or edit android adb backups.
Then I found out the backups of the non working apps contains no app data at all. For the working apps, the app data was included. This is the same issue as with Helium, but Helium uses the same way to make the backup as far as I understood.
My conclusion is that something must have happen to the app data when update was triggered, and therefore I guess there is no way to get it back.
Well the positive side of it, I lost my game progress in Candy Crush Saga, so at least I'm done with that. Not starting it all over again.
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Hi.
I have a Samsung Galaxy Tab 8.9 (GT-P7320) with Android version 4.0.4 (not rooted).
Some weeks ago, the device freeze during use, and I have to restart by holding down the power button. It took much longer time to start up than usual, therefore I tried another restart (during startup). I probably shouldn't have done this, because this seems to trigger some kind of updating and afterwards a lots of things seems to be back at factory default (icons on start screen, wallpaper etc).
But the data on the internal SD card storage was intact, and all my apps was still installed. But most of the apps was unable to start. It gives a message "Unfortunately, <app name> has stopped". I have found out that if I reinstall the app through Play Store, the app starts working again, but all the settings and data for the app is lost.
I have only so far done this with the apps with no important data or settings, and tries to find out if there is a way to make a backup of the app data before reinstalling the app. I have tried Helium, and it seems to back up the data, but when restoring it's still the same error message. If I try Helium on one of the apps I have reinstalled, it seems to work fine to restore these (incl app data).
I'm no expert on Android but could it be some kind of permission problems? It's very annoying that Android doesn't have a better solution to make backup of app data. Some apps store the app data on the SD card, for example Bad Piggies, and for this app, I copy the app data folder to my computer, reinstalled, and copy the app data back and everything works fine. But the problem is that most apps doesn't store the data on the SD card.
I understand that by rooting the device I will maybe get access to the app data folders, but rooting is not an option.
So my question is, is there another way to get my app data back?
I have read a little about the way Helium works to get access to the app data without root by using some developer features. Would it be possible to get access to the app data on my device, by connecting it to my computer and then use some kind of developer access?
I have also looked at Samsung Kies, but as far as I understand it's not possible to use this to make backup of app data.
I would be glad for any help regarding this issue, and still if there is no way to get the data back, I would like to know.
hi
i got a new tablet and i wanted to tranfer some games and data to it
normally i use Titanium Backup but i found out my tablet cant be rooted
so there went that methode
i tried helium but that didnt work couldnt get it to connect from pc to tablet
so no go
i looked for other noroot backup managers but they all backup the apk and not the data
are there really no backup managers that can backup game data without root
i never thought tranfering game data to a new tablet would be this diffecult
Good evening all together, does anybody know an app or a method (possibly via ADB) to save the user apps including data / settings, so that I can restore the apps with the corresponding settings relatively easily after a factory reset? Titanium Backup, for example, only works with root, I have already tried. The Mi Mover only saves the .apk files for the new installation, so not really helpful. I thought about using adb / fastboot command to create an image of the DATA partition, but I think this will fail because of the encryption, right?
Anyway, I am grateful for suggestions.