I installed TNT on my tablet with no problem. How do I update the ROM in the future without losing my data files/apps? I believe Titanium will backup the apps but what about data?
I assume any data on the SD card would be fine or does the SD need to be wiped before a new ROM install?
Thank you!
Titanium backs up Apps and data. I highly recommend it. Anything on a removable SD card (SDCARD2) would be fine. The internal storage (SDCARD) should be backed up in case you have trouble and need to repartition.
Do NOT restore system data however. It leads to bad things
thebadfrog said:
Do NOT restore system data however. It leads to bad things
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Yeah... what he said! Thanks, BadFrog. I always forget that part...
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Hello
I rooted my phone a while ago and has been running a rom happily. I have two sd cards so I decided to flash my phone with a new rom on my secondary sd card. I did a nandroid backup + ext first on my old sd card. Installing rom on new sd card went fine. But I lost all my contacts so I wanted to boot the old rom to sync wavesync. I did a restore but now the old rom doesn't boot anymore? Isn't that how nandroid is supposed to work.
Anyway back to the new rom again.
Secondly where are all the data for programs stored? I found andnav and another data folder for a program on the fat32 partition but when I copied them to my new sd card they are simply not recognized after I reinstalled the programs. It's the same version of the programs. And this is only two programs. Like does anyone know where abduction stores it's data?
Thanks in advance.
Have you added the ext partition to your new sd card?
Yes I have
Nandroid takes like a picture of your system at a certain time and then restores that exact picture when you run the restore.
What exactly is happening, did the restore say "successful"?
Yes it finished with no problem. How does everyone else upgrade to a new rom? I'm guessing that the application data is stored in /data/data somewhere?
arj03 said:
Yes it finished with no problem. How does everyone else upgrade to a new rom? I'm guessing that the application data is stored in /data/data somewhere?
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that is correct. i don't really get what you want to do, if you want to upgrade just install the new rom. if you don't then don't. if you have a bootloop you can find the problem in logcat.
I want all my progress/high scores made to abduction to be there on my new rom
Also contacts would be nice, but I can dump/restore that now.
arj03 said:
I want all my progress/high scores made to abduction to be there on my new rom
Also contacts would be nice, but I can dump/restore that now.
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use titanium backup. you can aswell try to find the according files in /data/data, but titanium does the job for you and it works.
try flashing the boot.img for the backup your doing.I dont mean the nand backup boot.img i mean the original boot.img from the update.zip
I need to RMA my NT having some hardware issues. I want to backup months of settings and so when the new one arrives i can recover it back to how i have it now.
Im on stock rooted rom using CWM 5.5.0.4 to backup.
back works fine till i get to Backing up data. Work for a few minutes then keep getting "Error while making backup image of /data!"
SD card is 32GB clean and used SD formatter
any suggestions? or a different backup method for stock rom?
thanks!
m0000 said:
I need to RMA my NT having some hardware issues. I want to backup months of settings and so when the new one arrives i can recover it back to how i have it now.
Im on stock rooted rom using CWM 5.5.0.4 to backup.
back works fine till i get to Backing up data. Work for a few minutes then keep getting "Error while making backup image of /data!"
SD card is 32GB clean and used SD formatter
any suggestions? or a different backup method for stock rom?
thanks!
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I'm pretty sure you could do a backup in ADB.
Solar.Plexus said:
I'm pretty sure you could do a backup in ADB.
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any tutorials on how to do a nandriod backup for NT using ADB? i'm not familiar with it
thanks
m0000 said:
any tutorials on how to do a nandriod backup for NT using ADB? i'm not familiar with it
thanks
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1818321
Also...
I had the exact same issue you are having shortly before my old NT crapped out. Not saying yours will, just giving my voice to the issue. Really all I wanted to do was clear the caches (initially) so I could download additional apps (even though it said I had plenty of space, it was erroring every time).
Replacement is working great, though I need to update CM10 so my son can play Where's My Perry without it going into SOD (with audio rapid repeat, no less).
Or this method right here might work for you, too.
thanks for the the help. after a lil research I was able to determine the problem is with CWM 5.X. it cripples when data that is larger then 2gb.
Your entire backup can be whatever size but if the /data backup is larger then 2gb then my problem is common. I did my routine backups with TB and uninstalled a bunch of apps and games. Got he data well under 2gb and the nandriod backup was flawless. :good:
thanks again
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
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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.
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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.
Hey all,
So over the years, I've copied all of my data from phone to phone to my SD Card, mostly to save pictures and videos, but sometimes to also save phone backups and stuff. At this point, I have Gigs of stuff I can get rid of, but I don't want to frak anythign up. Anyone got any suggestions, or is my proposed try the best one?
Here's what I plan to do:
1. Do a backup of my apps and settings like I would do in Titanum Backup.
2. Copy the app backups and any pics/videos I want to a safe place.
3. Reformat SDCard
4. Restore pics and app backup.
Is there something better for this, or something that runs inside of the OS, like an app from the Market, or is this probably the best solution? I obviously don't want to hose any of my apps, but I need to clean up this card.
THanks,
Mike
this is good. everything will work fine.
some applications have their data in sd card. don't know whether TB will backup them or not.
RavinduSha said:
this is good. everything will work fine.
some applications have their data in sd card. don't know whether TB will backup them or not.
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Cool, thanks for the tip, just didn't want someone to point out something that I would have missed that would end up hosing my phone.
Hi. My phone was bootlooping this morning, I decided to wipe data (I had a backup of /data) reflash, and carry on. However, I accidently confused the factory reset option in TWRP with the one in the bootloader, and clicked the bootloader one. This wiped my internal sd card. I tried to use things like Undelete from play, but it only works on the external sd. I've been trying to follow this guide (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1994705) to regain my data, but I don't know what the name of the /data partition is (for example, for the galnex, it's mmcblk0p12). Does anyone know A. what the name of the partition is for the evo, or B. an easier/different way to recover my files? Thanks in advance for any assitance.
/data is mmcblk0p37 according to steelh over in this thread
roids87 said:
/data is mmcblk0p37 according to steelh over in this thread
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awesome. however, is /data the same as internal sd card?
Va1ha1a said:
awesome. however, is /data the same as internal sd card?
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I am not sure. You could try and use the Mount Point Swapper and see if undelete will work then. I'm just tossing out some ideas. I've never actually tried to recover anything.
I'm gonna necrobump that first thread you linked to and see if anyone knows. I'll also try mount point swapper.
Edit: I've tried everything. mount point swapper caused bootloops, the guide i mentioned earlier created .raw files with nothing inside, etc. The upside is that I didn't have my roms, photos, or music on the internal. I can't remember. What else does android normally store there?
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I can't remember. What else does android normally store there?
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Usually not much, random app data, downloads, photos, music(depending on settings). You may get a warning in Titanium Backup(if you use it) about a different android id, you can restore your old id, or keep your new one. I have yet to see any issues. I've restored old id's and kept new is's without issues.
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Usually not much, random app data, downloads, photos, music(depending on settings). You may get a warning in Titanium Backup(if you use it) about a different android id, you can restore your old id, or keep your new one. I have yet to see any issues. I've restored old id's and kept new is's without issues.
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Thanks, I don't think I had anything of massive importance on there (at least not that I can remember)