Does rooting wipe your media - Xoom General

I hear people say that unlocking wipes the xooom but does that mean it wipes media such as songs
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You have to unlock the bootloader to root. That wipes EVERYTHING.
So, yes. Until we have SD support for Titanium Backup or some other backup app, you will have to manually reinstall everything and reset everything the way it was, including music.

Damn guess ill have to copy all my songs to my computer (I stole my friends 1800+ songs the day
I got my zoom)
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Yeah that's a good idea. I lost the preloaded songs when I unlocked.
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Help! My picz and vidz go poof!

I was messing around with qik app trying to enable live streaming and now all my pictures and videos are gone. When I say all I mean all! Is there anything I can do about it... I've been up all night due to some very important top secret stuff I need back in my possession.
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have you checked qik?
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Yea... There not on my sd card at all. Nor on the qik site. Is there a way I can recover them...
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thats a negative, if they are not on your sd card where they suppose to be, then they definitely lost for ever... sorry bud.
dont give up so quickly... before you do anything to your sd card, download "pandora recovery" its free and i have used it to successfully restore deleted items from usb/sd memory
@dr154.... Your losing the theory of having a droid... "In a world that doesn't... DROID DOES!" downloaded diskdigger 0.8. I was able to recover 89.9% of my pictures and videos. Better than "sorry bud"
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browser trouble

i am having problems with the browser,when ever i open a link it opens then i get transferred to some russian website!
i tried clearing all data from browser and even an antivrus but still the same problem.
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9aba7o! It appears as if your phone has been infected with malware, possibly from those mp3 download apps, I had the same problem a while back with my Motorola Atrix. What I did was just do a full wipe and install a new rom. I'm pretty sure there's a simpler way to do this but this was the safest way in my opinion.
i do not download mp3 s or programs othe than from the market but my phone is rooted
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Question about the internal storage and ROM flashing

Hey guys, long time rooted/android user here, I am about to get my Nexus 7 on Monday, and I just had a couple of questions. First, since there is no external storage, when you wipe the device to flash different ROMS, does it wipe EVERYTHING? Like, say I have 250mb's of downloaded data for a game...idk say, Dungeon Defenders, I know that when you typically wipe a device, it wipes everything, but will it still wipe that data? Basically, what I am trying to say is, after each wipe/install, will I have to redownload all of that extra data from the game again? That seems like a super big pain in the ass. Hopefully that isn't the case because I don't want to spend 3 hours redownloading data for games after each new flash lol
No. When you unlock for the first time, it cleans out everything... so do that asap before getting cozy.
CWM is designed to leave your storage folder alone. So wiping and flashing won't touch anything saved.
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player911 said:
No. When you unlock for the first time, it cleans out everything... so do that asap before getting cozy.
CWM is designed to leave your storage folder alone. So wiping and flashing won't touch anything saved.
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Sweet! Thanks for the info. The first thing I do when I get a new android device is root it haha. I have heard that you shouldn't use the toolkit with the device though, is that true?
No, at leat in cwm, it wipes everything not in the sdcard partition, so if you keep any nandroids, or app data in that partition, you'll be fine
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oshizzle1991 said:
Sweet! Thanks for the info. The first thing I do when I get a new android device is root it haha. I have heard that you shouldn't use the toolkit with the device though, is that true?
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The toolkits work fine most of the time. Its just always good to learn how to do things through commands in case the toolkits, or anything regarding your nexus has an issue
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clintkev251 said:
The toolkits work fine most of the time. Its just always good to learn how to do things through commands in case the toolkits, or anything regarding your nexus has an issue
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Yeah I understand. I know my way around ADB so honestly for me, it is whatever way is fastest and gives me the least heartburn. I have heard that users start to have issues after the first day with the device, so I will hold off for a day before I root it, just to be sure

Backup question.

Hey, I would like to know what some good backup options are. The main thing I want is for the backup to have everything, files/data/apps/etc. The reason I'm asking is because I can't find one that looks like it will backup things like downloads/documents.
Thanks,
TechPlease
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I use a sync app like syncme to backup everything on to a PC or in my case, a network drive. I set it up to run every few days at night while I sleep. It syncs via WiFi so don't have to do anything.
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Backup help

I'm trading in my note 2 tomorrow and I want to completely back up the phone and then have all my apps and app data on my new phone I'm not rooted how can I do this
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craigels said:
I'm trading in my note 2 tomorrow and I want to completely back up the phone and then have all my apps and app data on my new phone I'm not rooted how can I do this
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Samsung Kies if your on windows/os x
I don't have access to a laptop or computer are there any other options
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does kies include saving app data like saving game progress, for example you reach level 10 of a certain game with 100 credits, etc . kies is cumbersome for transferring text messages.. not sure if it will work with whatsapp messages too.
i am asking this because soon i will upgrade too to the note 3 and I dont root also. how about the titanium/helium i keep hearing about? thanks, thanks
I tried helium but it kept asking to connect to computer I thought I could just save to sd card
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Good Luck with the backup. I found whilst moving from IOS to Android that the backup for non rooted devices leaves a lot to be desired. This is one area Sammy needs to get sorted out properly. I mean can they not emulate / copy itunes or somethng? lol
itunes saves app data? sorry im clueless about apple-related stuff lol.
some of the games i play can be stored in google cloud but i am not sure if it will work properly on a new phone.
craigel, from what i understand, for sd cards you can store pics, files, etc, as well as apps, just not the complete app data if i am not mistaken
Don't rely on kies. It's garbage.
Try Mybackup

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