Titanium Backup not showing any backups - Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II

So just picked up my Note 2 this afternoon and already rooted and unlocked it thanks to the incredibly helpful tutorials on the development forum...
So I installed the SD card I had been using from my Xperia Play, after doing one last final TB, and am a little surprised to see that none of my backups are showing up in TB. I can see all the current apps installed, it's pointing to the right directory, yet nothing from my XP is showing as an available backup to restore. Is it just a compatibility issue between phones?
I'd like to restore some game data and some kik convo's... but if I can't I can't!
Thanks in advance!

Get TB to search the entire phone for the backup directory.

xanderharris86 said:
So just picked up my Note 2 this afternoon and already rooted and unlocked it thanks to the incredibly helpful tutorials on the development forum...
So I installed the SD card I had been using from my Xperia Play, after doing one last final TB, and am a little surprised to see that none of my backups are showing up in TB. I can see all the current apps installed, it's pointing to the right directory, yet nothing from my XP is showing as an available backup to restore. Is it just a compatibility issue between phones?
I'd like to restore some game data and some kik convo's... but if I can't I can't!
Thanks in advance!
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this happened to me. i forgot the solution, but i think clearing the data or reinstalling the app worked.
in my case, i used an app that cleared tb cache.

nunyazz said:
Get TB to search the entire phone for the backup directory.
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This. By default it looks at internal sd. You need it to look at the external sd. So open tibu/settings/preferences and click back up folder
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kintwofan said:
This. By default it looks at internal sd. You need it to look at the external sd. So open tibu/settings/preferences and click back up folder
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I assume he has already done that.
xanderharris86 said:
So just picked up my Note 2 this afternoon and already rooted and unlocked it thanks to the incredibly helpful tutorials on the development forum...
So I installed the SD card I had been using from my Xperia Play, after doing one last final TB, and am a little surprised to see that none of my backups are showing up in TB. I can see all the current apps installed, it's pointing to the right directory, yet nothing from my XP is showing as an available backup to restore. Is it just a compatibility issue between phones?
I'd like to restore some game data and some kik convo's... but if I can't I can't!
Thanks in advance!
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kimdoocheol said:
I assume he has already done that.
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Guess I missed that
Sent from the dark on a Note 2

kimdoocheol said:
I assume he has already done that.
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kimdoocheol said:
this happened to me. i forgot the solution, but i think clearing the data or reinstalling the app worked.
in my case, i used an app that cleared tb cache.
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kintwofan said:
This. By default it looks at internal sd. You need it to look at the external sd. So open tibu/settings/preferences and click back up folder
Sent from the dark on a Note 2
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kintwofan said:
Guess I missed that
Sent from the dark on a Note 2
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it could very well be that the OP thinks "sdcard0" is the microsd.
had the same issue and thought the same thing. Had the my microSD in my droid X and i just simply put it in my note 2 without formating so when i installed TiB the app ofcourse didnt detect the back up location i had for the DX so it created on in the sdcard0 file.
heres what i did hope it helps
go into Titanium Backup
click your menu button
select preferences
scroll to Backup Location folder
click your back button on the phone and stop at the /storage folder
there you will see "extSdCard" and "sdcard0" under it.
select ExtSdCard and HOPEFULLY you'll find your Titanium backup folder

thenuke1 said:
it could very well be that the OP thinks "sdcard0" is the microsd.
had the same issue and thought the same thing. Had the my microSD in my droid X and i just simply put it in my note 2 without formating so when i installed TiB the app ofcourse didnt detect the back up location i had for the DX so it created on in the sdcard0 file.
heres what i did hope it helps
go into Titanium Backup
click your menu button
select preferences
scroll to Backup Location folder
click your back button on the phone and stop at the /storage folder
there you will see "extSdCard" and "sdcard0" under it.
select ExtSdCard and HOPEFULLY you'll find your Titanium backup folder
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if that is true, maybe he didn't even back up to the SD in the first place from his xperia

kimdoocheol said:
if that is true, maybe he didn't even back up to the SD in the first place from his xperia
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interesting...
maybe he doesn't even have an SD card lol

thenuke1 said:
interesting...
maybe he doesn't even have an SD card lol
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maybe, just maybe, he doesn't even own a phone. mind blow.

Wwwwoooooaaaaahhhhh
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Mind super blown! Having tb scan my entire phone did the trick, but even so many apps didn't recognize my saved data... which is a shame, I had a good game of Simpsons tapped out going!
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xanderharris86 said:
Mind super blown! Having tb scan my entire phone did the trick, but even so many apps didn't recognize my saved data... which is a shame, I had a good game of Simpsons tapped out going!
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to show all apps all that needs to be done is refresh app list from menu.

that tutorial works excellent!!
thenuke1 said:
it could very well be that the OP thinks "sdcard0" is the microsd.
had the same issue and thought the same thing. Had the my microSD in my droid X and i just simply put it in my note 2 without formating so when i installed TiB the app ofcourse didnt detect the back up location i had for the DX so it created on in the sdcard0 file.
heres what i did hope it helps
go into Titanium Backup
click your menu button
select preferences
scroll to Backup Location folder
click your back button on the phone and stop at the /storage folder
there you will see "extSdCard" and "sdcard0" under it.
select ExtSdCard and HOPEFULLY you'll find your Titanium backup folder
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Thank you sooooooooo much, I thought i had lost a year of info when i opened up tb and it said "first time using this app" message. You are a life saver!!

Figured It Out!!!!!!!!!
xanderharris86 said:
So just picked up my Note 2 this afternoon and already rooted and unlocked it thanks to the incredibly helpful tutorials on the development forum...
So I installed the SD card I had been using from my Xperia Play, after doing one last final TB, and am a little surprised to see that none of my backups are showing up in TB. I can see all the current apps installed, it's pointing to the right directory, yet nothing from my XP is showing as an available backup to restore. Is it just a compatibility issue between phones?
I'd like to restore some game data and some kik convo's... but if I can't I can't!
Thanks in advance!
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I just had this issue after flashing a Rom. I had the correct backup location set and could see the backups in the folder, but under Restore they didn't show. Finally, figured out that there was a filter on by default and it was screening out all but System backups. I've never seen a filter affect this area before, only ever used it to filter under the Backup/Restore tab, not under the Check Mark list of options. When I changed the filter to ALL, then the backups magically appeared.
Hope this helps someone else, since this thread kind of went off track.

Thanks
motomoose68 said:
I just had this issue after flashing a Rom. I had the correct backup location set and could see the backups in the folder, but under Restore they didn't show. Finally, figured out that there was a filter on by default and it was screening out all but System backups. I've never seen a filter affect this area before, only ever used it to filter under the Backup/Restore tab, not under the Check Mark list of options. When I changed the filter to ALL, then the backups magically appeared.
Hope this helps someone else, since this thread kind of went off track.
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Best is to clear TB's cache from app manager and reopen to change the backup folder search to whole device.
TB recognized all the missing apps and i was able to restore after that.
Sud

this fixed rooted galaxy s6
motomoose68 said:
I just had this issue after flashing a Rom. I had the correct backup location set and could see the backups in the folder, but under Restore they didn't show. Finally, figured out that there was a filter on by default and it was screening out all but System backups. I've never seen a filter affect this area before, only ever used it to filter under the Backup/Restore tab, not under the Check Mark list of options. When I changed the filter to ALL, then the backups magically appeared.
Hope this helps someone else, since this thread kind of went off track.
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Holy moses- yes this thread got off track, but i'm glad i kept scrolling and found your reply-
I had just gotten a new galaxy s6, rooted it, and though the tibu folder was absolutely full with all my old backups from the old phone, none appeared. It turned out to be a 'filter' issue, and just clicking the green "check" in the upper right corner, and all reappeared.
thanks- i was messing with this for hours before i found your reply

a simple rename did the trick
I just had an odd experience recently (as in yesterday) and this thread didn't help. however, I found something new that might help other ppl.
A brief background, I took a backup from my first S5 (now being utilized by my wife) then copied the files from the phone memory to the SD card. After setting up my second S5 (flashed then root process) copied the backup files from SD card to the phohe memory. But when I ran TB it can't find/detect the files, so meaning I wasn't able to restore anything. What's odd is I didn't experience this when I first setup my wife's S5, all went very smooth.
After many hours of digging I finally found a solution (in my case, at least). All I did was to rename all the backup files with extensions .gz.zip to .gz and wallah!
Hope this helps.

snake_pliskin said:
After many hours of digging I finally found a solution (in my case, at least). All I did was to rename all the backup files with extensions .gz.zip to .gz and wallah!
Hope this helps.
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OMG Thanks so much this has been confusing me for days....
The difference with us as far as I can tell is that at some stage we used windows to copy our old backups to the new phone/SDcard...
And I assume the stupid MTP protocol is 'smart' and does some file conversion, in this case, adding .zip to the .gz files...
Anyway I wasn't about to rename 100 files, so I used 7zip to make one big .tar file from my original SDcard and copied that to the new Phone via windows and then used a phone app to decompress to my TIB backup folder...
Another NOTE: I copied them to /storage/external_SD/Android/data/com.keramidas.TitaniumBackup/ to avoid any other permissions issues... (I am on Lolipop)

motomoose68 said:
I just had this issue after flashing a Rom. I had the correct backup location set and could see the backups in the folder, but under Restore they didn't show. Finally, figured out that there was a filter on by default and it was screening out all but System backups. I've never seen a filter affect this area before, only ever used it to filter under the Backup/Restore tab, not under the Check Mark list of options. When I changed the filter to ALL, then the backups magically appeared.
Hope this helps someone else, since this thread kind of went off track.
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Thank you so much man, I don't know if I would have figured out this filter issue without your post :good::good::good:

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[Q] ok guys a little help here please

i recently flashed rom to my 3d. i did a full wipe and everything but i was told my contacts wouldnt dissapear but theyre gone. also my sd card has 121 mb free but there is only 1 app on it? does that make any sense? thanks for your help.
Your contacts should have backed up to googles servers. Did you ever deselect that option on your previous ROM?
Can you explain the last part? What do you mean you have only one app?
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wizsenseisablur said:
i recently flashed rom to my 3d. i did a full wipe and everything but i was told my contacts wouldnt dissapear but theyre gone. also my sd card has 121 mb free but there is only 1 app on it? does that make any sense? thanks for your help.
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Your contacts should come back when you sign into your google account and let it sync. No idea about your sdcard.
i cant seem to find out why so much space is missing from my sd? could it be the actual rom itself? the only thing i have on there before using tb to get my apps back is adobe app.
and my contacts didnt come back even after sync.. is there anything i can do ?
wizsenseisablur said:
i cant seem to find out why so much space is missing from my sd? could it be the actual rom itself? the only thing i have on there before using tb to get my apps back is adobe app.
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I'm going to assume you are using the 8GB card. Umm, you don't have anything on it, like movies or music? Did you create a nand backup before flashing? Those can take up like 1GB of space. Do you use a lot of apps?
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wizsenseisablur said:
and my contacts didnt come back even after sync.. is there anything i can do ?
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Did you log onto your Google account?
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nope nothing on it. and yes i did. about 3-4 times. no on the apps.
View the files on your SD card with a file manager. You should see what's on it.
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wizsenseisablur said:
nope nothing on it. and yes i did. about 3-4 times. no on the apps.
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Wait, what three or four times? Log onto your google account four times or make a nand backup four times?
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Let me get this straight...
Your taking about your micro sd card right? Is it the 8GB one, or did you swap it?
You say you have nothing on it, but the ROM you downloaded right? Also you say you only have one app also.
Can you view in what's in your sd card?
I'm really trying to understand.
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nand backup 4 times. my google has nothing on it. how can i restore my contacts?
wizsenseisablur said:
nand backup 4 times. my google has nothing on it. how can i restore my contacts?
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You nand backed up four times? Then that can be the problem consuming all your space on the SD card. About the other one idk.
Did you ever uncheck the boxes in the privacy settings in your last ROM? If not, then I really don't have a sufficient answer for you.
I still can't see how nand backing up would take up all of the space, but with all the given information. Theres not much I can say.
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thanks for your help. can i undo what ive done regarding overdoing the nands?
wizsenseisablur said:
thanks for your help. can i undo what ive done regarding overdoing the nands?
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You can delete them. Or move them all to your computer to be safe. Just keep one handy, and restore back to it. You'll probably get your contacts back doing that.
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When you have your contacts back. Go to your Peoples app. Press the menu button, select import/export. Then your going to select export to sd card. Select the export to phone and google options. So next time if they go missing, you just import them.
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thanks you have been very helpful. one last thing please. lol. how do i go about deleting or moving some of them? =)
wizsenseisablur said:
thanks you have been very helpful. one last thing please. lol. how do i go about deleting or moving some of them? =)
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Do you know which folder they are in? If you do, then you just go to the folder and right click it. Select whatever option your going to do then voila! Your good to go.
Are you doing it by phone instead of using a computer? Just use astro file explorer and navigate to the folder. Long press it to bring up a list of options.
I assume you know how to move them to your pc right?
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i did a nan restore of my most recent backup then rebooted. my screen is stuck on the htc logo. i pulled battery twice. am i dumb or did something bad happen?
wizsenseisablur said:
i did a nan restore of my most recent backup then rebooted. my screen is stuck on the htc logo. i pulled battery twice. am i dumb or did something bad happen?
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Try doing a full wipe (factory reset) before restoring the nandroid backup. If you're using the latest version of TWRP, go to the advanced settings menu, and then choose format menu. Wipe cache, data, system, and boot. DO NOT WIPE SD CARD. Then try restoring one of your backups. Make sure you have your phone unplugged when restoring and rebooting (sometimes it can be problematic when plugged in). If that doesn't work, then try flashing a new rom from scratch.
The easiest way to delete your nand backups, or store them to your computer, is to plug your phone into the computer, and choose mount as disk drive. Then navigate into your sd card, and find the TWRP folder, then choose backups, then navigate into the next folder (labeled as your phone's serial number), then you'll see your backups, which are labeled with the date and time they were created. Delete the ones you don't need, or move them to your computer for safe keeping. That should free up a good amount of space on your sd card, as each backup ends up between 800-1500mb.

Titanium Headache

Titanium has been giving me problems for awhile. I haven't flashed anything for a couple months so it hasn't been a big deal, but today when I upgraded the firmware and wound up with some "issues", I really needed to be able to let Titanium do its thing and restore my stuff back like usual. No go.
I'm talking with the TB development people, but in case any of you masters out there have run across this, I thought I'd share.
After a new flash, TB doesn't access my backups. It sees them; they are all crossed out and the summary says I have none to restore. I can tap one and it opens up, but all of the boxes are grayed out. (See pic). Then, if I re-download the app from the store and install it, TB will access it and allow me to restore data only.
So in order to "restore" my apps, I have to download them one at a time from the market first. Any ideas?
I'd force close TB, move the files to a new folder, configure TB to use the new folder
dyetheskin said:
I'd force close TB, move the files to a new folder, configure TB to use the new folder
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I had the same problem. I created a new file on the ext_sd and changed the backup folder location in preferences and it magically worked. It wouldn't work on the internal sd for some reason
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Thanks, guys, tried both of those already: no dice.
Are you going from ICS back to gingerbread? if so it won't work as ICS will "optimize" all of your apps.
rfarrah said:
Thanks, guys, tried both of those already: no dice.
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Maybe the backup is too old? Dont know if that's possible. Also, check to see if the app has superuser permissions
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dlumberg said:
Are you going from ICS back to gingerbread? if so it won't work as ICS will "optimize" all of your apps.
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Nope ICS (RezROM 3.4) to ICS (RezROM and CleanROM )(and in the past, GB to ICS)
brycekerr said:
Maybe the backup is too old? Dont know if that's possible. Also, check to see if the app has superuser permissions Sent from my RezAwesome S-Off running Scott's CleanROM 4.5
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Nope, always a fresh backup. Thanks, guys - keep 'em coming!
rfarrah said:
Titanium has been giving me problems for awhile. I haven't flashed anything for a couple months so it hasn't been a big deal, but today when I upgraded the firmware and wound up with some "issues", I really needed to be able to let Titanium do its thing and restore my stuff back like usual. No go.
I'm talking with the TB development people, but in case any of you masters out there have run across this, I thought I'd share.
After a new flash, TB doesn't access my backups. It sees them; they are all crossed out and the summary says I have none to restore. I can tap one and it opens up, but all of the boxes are grayed out. (See pic). Then, if I re-download the app from the store and install it, TB will access it and allow me to restore data only.
So in order to "restore" my apps, I have to download them one at a time from the market first. Any ideas?
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I use astro file manger it works much better than titanium backup plus it doubles as a file manager and an application backup and restore application .... and I have swapped between gb and ICS with no issues multiple times
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I've used Astro too, for a LONG time. Never tried their backup. Thanks!
Do yourself a favor and use My backup root instead. So much better than titanium.
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I love titanium. But I do have my backup folder on my SD card because ROM flashes wipe the internal one. My apps will be all crossed out and junk until I direct it to the new folder.
GrayTheWolf said:
I love titanium. But I do have my backup folder on my SD card because ROM flashes wipe the internal one. My apps will be all crossed out and junk until I direct it to the new folder.
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Yeah, I've tried directing it to several different folders. No luck.
GrayTheWolf said:
I love titanium. But I do have my backup folder on my SD card because ROM flashes wipe the internal one. My apps will be all crossed out and junk until I direct it to the new folder.
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Strange, I have never had a ROM flash wipe my internal sd card. That's where my TiB backups are stored. The only time it got wiped was from the s-off procedure and a radio update.
Kdog71588 said:
I use astro file manger it works much better than titanium backup plus it doubles as a file manager and an application backup and restore application .... and I have swapped between gb and ICS with no issues multiple times
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Personally, even though I paid for Titanium BU Pro a few years ago I don't even bother installing it anymore.
All I use now is AppMonster Pro & I never get the errors/FC's etc. that TBU users experience on a regular basis......
trickster2369 said:
Strange, I have never had a ROM flash wipe my internal sd card. That's where my TiB backups are stored. The only time it got wiped was from the s-off procedure and a radio update.
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Well it doesn't really wipe the whole SD card, but clears key folders. I store my backups on my external card and then also back them up to my computer. Just in case...
I had the same issue at first. Moved my backups from internal to external sd. Used dropbox to upload and sync to a folder on my account. When flashing a new ROM I just download TiBu, open it up, make sure the directory is right and then open the menu, hit the reload titanium option and after that hit the menu again and hit the refresh apps button. Works for me every time.
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nosympathy said:
Do yourself a favor and use My backup root instead. So much better than titanium.
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jmorton10 said:
Personally, even though I paid for Titanium BU Pro a few years ago I don't even bother installing it anymore.
All I use now is AppMonster Pro & I never get the errors/FC's etc. that TBU users experience on a regular basis......
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didn't think either of these restored app data though. That is why people use titanium.
I know I had problems with it earlier this year, but it seems to get updated every week here lately and no problems at all. I switched my backup folder to the sd card and it restores apps and data no problem.
I just flashed Venesaur, and I haven't had an issue with TiBu.
In fact, I don't think I've ever had an issue with it. Except when I didn't know how to do something.
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Titanium backups gone after ROM install

Hello,
I recently got bored with my old ROM on my GIII so I installed a couple new ones today. On the final one I tried I no longer have a single Titanium Backup file on my SD card. All restore items show 0. I know these all worked and existed because I restored them earlier on in the day and all was well. I then installed my current ROM and nada.
My question isn't about getting these files back as its apparent they are gone (super sad), I double checked the sd card in windows and the only thing is all my pictures/videos and a single file for TB for the license. My question is is, will this occur in the future again? Do people have flaky luck with Titanium Backup? Each of the rom installs were done the same way, boot into recovery, delete data/cache, install from SD etc. I did it the same way both times. I just dont want to get burned again because whats the point of even backing stuff up right?
Has anyone had luck with the Cloud feature on Titanium Backup, does this work??
Thanks.
Did you flash an aosp/cm Rom? If so they are probably hidden down in sd/0...... if you have Phil's recovery fire up the aroma file manager and move then to root of sd card (move the whole folder)
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Edit that.....normal file manager will do, I thought you were stuck in recovery/no access to nandroid, just realised it's titanium backup your after....same might apply if you were on 4.2.x or cm/aosp
slaphead20 said:
Did you flash an aosp/cm Rom? If so they are probably hidden down in sd/0...... if you have Phil's recovery fire up the aroma file manager and move then to root of sd card (move the whole folder)
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Edit that.....normal file manager will do, I thought you were stuck in recovery/no access to nandroid, just realised it's titanium backup your after....same might apply if you were on 4.2.x or cm/aosp
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Ok cool thank you I will look when I get home.
thewalrusking said:
Ok cool thank you I will look when I get home.
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er.. there is no need to move the entire folder. just goto titanium backup menu > Preferences > backup folder location and click detect it will find the backup folder. Now select it and use it as current folder ..
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er.. there is no need to move the entire folder. just goto titanium backup menu > Preferences > backup folder location and click detect it will find the backup folder. Now select it and use it as current folder ..
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Same thing happened to me.
Where did the backup go?!?!? Was it backed up on the phone and not on the SD card? That would be dumb!
The TitaniumBackup folder on the SD card is EMPTY and the "detect" found no backup files
SUPER SAD, I lost ALL phone numbers!!!
read the thread
Change the backup folder location to external SD when you back up to prevent this sort of thing.
Wayne Tech S-III
This!
zelendel said:
Change the backup folder location to external SD when you back up to prevent this sort of thing.
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THIS! :good:
yea the same thing is happening to me guys! help!
I backup ALL my apps like 150 and then when I flash ROM backups are gone but they are in my sd-ext card under titaniumbackup.? all of them are there. I cant figure HOW to restore them though. It says there are no apps to restore? again yes what is the point if I cant restore apps or it doesn't show me how to?
agustincards14 said:
yea the same thing is happening to me guys! help!
I backup ALL my apps like 150 and then when I flash ROM backups are gone but they are in my sd-ext card under titaniumbackup.? all of them are there. I cant figure HOW to restore them though. It says there are no apps to restore? again yes what is the point if I cant restore apps or it doesn't show me how to?
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Change the directory in TIBU to see your SD card instead of internal storage maybe?
zelendel said:
Change the directory in TIBU to see your SD card instead of internal storage maybe?
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Do I go to Preferences>Backup Folder Location ? How can I manually change it though I only press DETECT and it automatically finds sdcard and- oh wait I got it man! I just pressed DETECT and the WHOLE DEVICE and SDCARD options several more times and I guess it dug out the backups. Thanks for the quick reply 'preciate it!
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After a install of new rom TIBU shows all backups in verify, I have restore file from ext sd card but restore missing apps shows zero. Have used tibu a long time and never had this problem.
check the backup location and clear the filter
Ok, I can find backip folder, all files there how do you clear filters?
mickrg123 said:
Ok, I can find backip folder, all files there how do you clear filters?
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Edit Filters > Clear when you're on the list of applications.
mickrg123 said:
Ok, I can find backip folder, all files there how do you clear filters?
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finding it does nothing. you have to choose it in the preferences
Thanks for responding. When Im in applications and click edit filters it takes me to filters page hitting clear does nothing. Do I have to select anything?
Here are screen shots showing my verified apps and my filter page
that means that all that's backed up is installed

Going from Stock to CM. Storage vanishes.

I'm trying to set up my girlfriends S3, but I have an issue.
When on stock rom, I can see the titanium backup folder with all the backups. In fact all the folders are there, SMS backups, images etc.
Since going to Cm10.1, the folders are gone. I used droid explorer to see if I've missed it. I made a folder in Cm10 called tester.
It appears 3 times now. And I have no idea where all my other files are. It's like it's blank.
But, if I restore back to stock, it's all there. Annoying.
I only installed 1 custom ROM. From what I know, you have to wipe your phone completely before the flashing process. I have smooth ROM installed on my nexus 7, works perfectly!
So I THINK if you want to install a custom ROM the right way, you have to wipe anyway..
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The thing is, this worked before. I had a slight problem finding the files, but I have installed CM before on this, and never had this issue.
I could copy the files to my PC, wipe the phone and copy them back, but if I have to restore to the stock backup I made, it's going to break a lot of things surely?
Guys, seriously - this is asked every day.
Please read page 227 of this thread:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1887819&page=227
Care to link to the post rather than the page? My forum setup isn't default.
X82X said:
Care to link to the post rather than the page? My forum setup isn't default.
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Not really as it was across several posts, which was why I had to link to the page.
However, I have created a thread to make it easier for me to link people to, as it's a common occurrence
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2274218
Fantastic. Thanks so much!
X82X said:
Fantastic. Thanks so much!
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No probs. let me know how it goes
rootSU said:
No probs. let me know how it goes
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Followed the instructions from your thread, worked beautifully. I actually feel stupid, it's so simple.
Thanks again.
X82X said:
Followed the instructions from your thread, worked beautifully. I actually feel stupid, it's so simple.
Thanks again.
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Don't feel stupid. It is simple, but only when you know about it. Caught many of us out this did!
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Don't feel stupid. It is simple, but only when you know about it. Caught many of us out this did!
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It worked great. But there is one issue. Titanium backup works great, but if I connect my phone to PC, the storage is the blank set of folders. Gallery cannot find any pictures either. I've followed the instructions to the letter.
If I open File Manager, it shows me the 0 directory full of my files as it should, but on my PC or in the gallery it finds nothing but empty folders.
Try wiping data on the gallery app, in case something was restored from titanium perhaps.
I don't connect to a Windows PC regularly myself, so I'm not sure about that one. Have you rebooted since?
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Try wiping data on the gallery app, in case something was restored from titanium perhaps.
I don't connect to a Windows PC regularly myself, so I'm not sure about that one. Have you rebooted since?
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Wiping gallery data did the trick, thanks. Not sure why connecting to the pc shows empty folders.
It means I Can't save my camera photos, or add new roms to install in the future. Most puzzling.
Have you rebooted?
Infact reboot the PC too, whilst not connected to each other.
Sorry, yes I have. In fact, going into recovery after following the instructions and my backups are no there. Or rather "no files found". Using CWM Recovery v6. I've also lost my sms backup files. I can't even go back to stock if I wanted to.
X82X said:
Sorry, yes I have. In fact, going into recovery after following the instructions and my backups are no there. Or rather "no files found". Using CWM Recovery v6. I've also lost my sms backup files. I can't even go back to stock if I wanted to.
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As per my other thread, some recoveries still use the old location /data/media (which is really poor from those recoveries). To be clear, this is the recoveries fault for not keeping up with the times.
If you needed to restore from one of those recoveries, you would need to move the clockworkmod folder back. Or you could flash Philz recovery http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2002953
...which has a toggle to change to /data/media/0 to pick up 4.2 locations.
So to be clear, you have not lost anything. Everything is there. I don't know what sms backup app you have, but everything should just work. The apps all look for /sdcard (so they don't need to know if it is /data/media or /data/media/0) so as long as your data is in the right place, there shouldn't be an issue.
Some of these issues you're having (forgetting recovery) could be a result of a titanium backup restore. Perhaps you need to wipe the device from recovery and get things working without data that could be skewing the truth

twrp backups not showing..??

Hey everyone. So I wanted to try out the vanilla root box ROM today and after a while of checking it out I decided to swap back to the back up I made before doing the ROM install. Problem is, when I boot into recovery, and press restore...non of my backups are there. Can anyone help? Where did my back ups go?
ok, sorry guys, i was on my phone at a friends place when i posted this thread so i wasnt able to search to much on google. so the deal is my TWRP isnt seeing the backups i did after i rooted my note 2 and the backup i did before i flashed my vanilla rootbox rom. kinda weird. anyways, i looked thru my phone files with file manager and the backups are indeed there...
does anyone know where i need to move these files to have them show up under restore in TWRP? i tried one method of making another backup and then moving the backups to where the new backup was stored. but when i go to look, the new backup doesnt show in file manager in the location where TWRP said the backup was stored...i even searched for it and still no dice. lmk if you have a fix for this. thanks!
i also went into TWRP, went to advanced, file manager, data, media, twrp, backups, the back i was looking for was there.
i tried moving it to the media/0 location like mentioned in this youtube vid
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j_ziillAA-I
it doesnt let me copy the folder over like shown in the vid. waited like 3 mins, then says it failed. then wont even try after each attempt afterwards, just goes straight to fail....
WHAT THE DEUCE!?
Ima connect the phone to my laptop and see if I can locate the newest backup I made and see about moving the older ones to that location. Seen if they show up. If anyone knows the actual location or fix for this do let me know. Seems that the newest version of twrp was suppose to fix this but I guess not.
ok so i figured it out.
somehow the first couple stock backups i made ended up in the TWRP backup folder on the internal drive of the phone.
the new backup was stored in the TWRP backup folder on my SD Card.
so after finding both locations, i cut the two stock backups i made and pasted them into the SD Card TWRPs Backup folder and BAM! they show up now in my restore option on TWRP.
ok just to confirm, my first nandroid backup flashes correctly. but the backup i made before i flashed the vanilla rootbox rom some reasno fails...i dunno. im just happy i got my backups to show up now. and at least one works. ima try and get the one backup to work again but well see. hope this thread helps someone out if they are having this same problem.
flip06 said:
ok just to confirm, my first nandroid backup flashes correctly. but the backup i made before i flashed the vanilla rootbox rom some reasno fails...i dunno. im just happy i got my backups to show up now. and at least one works. ima try and get the one backup to work again but well see. hope this thread helps someone out if they are having this same problem.
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Glad you found them and are you're good to go!
double post..oops!
flip06 said:
ok just to confirm, my first nandroid backup flashes correctly. but the backup i made before i flashed the vanilla rootbox rom some reason fails...i dunno. im just happy i got my backups to show up now. and at least one works. ima try and get the one backup to work again but well see. hope this thread helps someone out if they are having this same problem.
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Sorry I am late to the party... But in twrp at the top of the screen you can change where to get the backup from its a bar that says data(xxxx) however much space you have left.. Tap it and you can. Go from internal to external memory and search any folder. Doesn't have to be in the twrp backup folder either... Just for future references... Again sorry probably could have saved you time and effort if I saw this earlier.
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Sorry I am late to the party... But in twrp at the top of the screen you can change where to get the backup from its a bar that says data(xxxx) however much space you have left.. Tap it and you can. Go from internal to external memory and search any folder. Doesn't have to be in the twrp backup folder either... Just for future references... Again sorry probably could have saved you time and effort if I saw this earlier.
Sent from my SCH-I605 using xda premium
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hey man, thanks for the info. yea i didnt realize you could change the location, i dont even remember tapping that part of the screen before initializing the backup process...maybe i hit it and didnt think about it. *FACEPALM!*
anyways, ill keep that in mind for next time.
flip06 said:
hey man, thanks for the info. yea i didnt realize you could change the location, i dont even remember tapping that part of the screen before initializing the backup process...maybe i hit it and didnt think about it. *FACEPALM!*
anyways, ill keep that in mind for next time.
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Sorry, but what part of the screen are you tapping? I can select between different drives, but I don't see any directory in there (and neither the classic two dots to go one directory back). I am using 2.7
Thanks
actually i can see my backups they are unpacked i got same issue twrp not seeing them. i really would like to go back to stock
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actually i can see my backups they are unpacked i got same issue twrp not seeing them. i really would like to go back to stock
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Follow instructions in post 8.
For fellow googlers out there: if, like me, TWRP shows only the "internal storage" and the "SD card" options but you can't see any folder, even though your backup is there, check if it's the serial number of the phone! Your backup should be in TWRP/Backups/<serial number>/Name of the backup. If you saved your backup in another phone, you need to check the serial number and rename the folder with the serial number.
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For fellow googlers out there: if, like me, TWRP shows only the "internal storage" and the "SD card" options but you can't see any folder, even though your backup is there, check if it's the serial number of the phone! Your backup should be in TWRP/Backups/<serial number>/Name of the backup. If you saved your backup in another phone, you need to check the serial number and rename the folder with the serial number.
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Thank You. You saved my buns.
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For fellow googlers out there: if, like me, TWRP shows only the "internal storage" and the "SD card" options but you can't see any folder, even though your backup is there, check if it's the serial number of the phone! Your backup should be in TWRP/Backups/<serial number>/Name of the backup. If you saved your backup in another phone, you need to check the serial number and rename the folder with the serial number.
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In fact, the correct path where all your disk image files (data.ext4.win etc.) have to be stored, is /data/media/0/TWRP/BACKUPS/<serial number>/<name of folder with disk image files>, so BACKUPS in capital letters.
TWRP does not "find" your backup otherwise (tested with 2.8).
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In fact, the correct path where all your disk image files (data.ext4.win etc.) have to be stored, is /data/media/0/TWRP/BACKUPS/<serial number>/<name of folder with disk image files>, so BACKUPS in capital letters.
TWRP does not "find" your backup otherwise (tested with 2.8).
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That was very helpful. Thanks
Thanks for the complete directory info!
Can anyone give me backup file of note 2 to restore from custom rom plz help ... i dnt hv backup when i flash .. if i create backup file from other note 2 can it works .. is it in dead risk ?
flip06 said:
ok so i figured it out.
somehow the first couple stock backups i made ended up in the TWRP backup folder on the internal drive of the phone.
the new backup was stored in the TWRP backup folder on my SD Card.
so after finding both locations, i cut the two stock backups i made and pasted them into the SD Card TWRPs Backup folder and BAM! they show up now in my restore option on TWRP.
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Thanks dude, I've done the same and it worked!
restorimg data error when I performe a restore for your rom. Why?

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