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Backup questions?

Hey guys, im new to the rooting / ROM thing but think i might want to root my phone. If i do how can i backup my sd card if something messes up? can i copy the whole sd card onto my computer and if something happens just format it, recopy everything and reboot normaly? or is there another way i need to back stuff up. i want to root but i just want to be sure i can revert / fix it if i mess something up.
Thanks
Jhart

yea copying everything to your comp from your sd card will be a good way to assure you wouldnt loose anything

Easiest way to format my SD card and retain my data?

Hey guys,
I'm having a few issues w my X10, my call log and contacts dont show up half the time when I boot up my phone and my last call widget always freezes. It's really really bugging me and I think I need to try formatting my SD card.
How do I format my SD card and put all my data back on it after so my phone is the same after the format?
Thanks

Call log, contacts, etc have nothing to do with the sdcard, unless you choose to back them up - which is the only time they'll be on there.

zephyrix said:
Call log, contacts, etc have nothing to do with the sdcard, unless you choose to back them up - which is the only time they'll be on there.
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hmmm so I should be 'reformatting' my phone then right?
I just rooted and used installed titaniam backup... what should I do to reformat and then restore all my settings? Do I lose root when I reformat my phone?
Thanks a lot!

un1bomber said:
Hey guys,
How do I format my SD card and put all my data back on it after so my phone is the same after the format?
Thanks
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Copy and paste the contents on to your computer, format the card, and paste them back.

XperiaX10iUser said:
Copy and paste the contents on to your computer, format the card, and paste them back.
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Thanks for the advice.... problem for me right now is if that if Call log, contacts, etc have nothing to do with the sdcard then formatting my SD card is not what I need to do
I have titanium backup but I just got it today with root and am not sure how to reformat my phone while restoring everyhitng to how it is right now

Back everything up using titanium, and then do a factory reset.
Reinstall titanium, then restore.

Is suggest mybackup n al
helps you save other stuff 2 such as contacts n msgz
Sent from my rooted 026 x10i using swype via xda!!

thanks for all the help guys! gonna do a factory reset now... hoping for the best
thanks!

I just recently factory reset my phone and I was wondering what was the easiest way to get root back on my phone.
I'm content with keeping R2BA023 pretty much just because I know it works and my battery is consistent enough for me to get through an average day, so reflashing with one of the newer models and then rooting isn't exactly what I want to do.

nm got it!
just restored... titanium backup is the nuts

fk, just did a restore and the problem is still there.... guess I have to try formatting SD card now...
If I want to format, do I plug phone to the computer, mount SD card -> copy all files to my computer -> format sd card -> copy all files back to SD card -> unmount SD card
Is that what I do?
Thanks!

Yup pretty much
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Format SD Card?

there are tons of apps on my SD card from installs that still sitting there... dont really want to go through the whole card to find it and delete..
so i used clockwork to format the SD card... i noticed the it doesn replace back the stock files that came shipped with the phone..
was this a bad idea?

gd6noob said:
there are tons of apps on my SD card from installs that still sitting there... dont really want to go through the whole card to find it and delete..
so i used clockwork to format the SD card... i noticed the it doesn replace back the stock files that came shipped with the phone..
was this a bad idea?
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eh. it depends on your way of looking at it. The only thing on their you may need is the driver for the phone. but that can be downloaded via HTC's WebSite.

[Q] Would this work - Reflashing

Just had a though and wondered if anyone had tried it.
We know when we take a sim card out and boot up WP7 it boots as if it a virgin install.
So my question is if we were to reflash the phone with a second sim card can we then insert the original sim card after the install completes to save us losing all the data and settings?
Has anyone tried this?
EDIT: I meant SD Card not sim card

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If anyone is going to install the new rom would it be possible that you could insert a second sim when reflashing and after the flash it complete reinsert your old original sim and see if it works and keeps your old settings?
If not it will only need a reset to reformat the original sim so nothing to lose in trying this, I would try myself but I have too much on my sim to lose at the moment and cannot try until weekend as I need my phone through the week.
Thanks

ShaGGy_UK said:
Just had a though and wondered if anyone had tried it.
We know when we take a sim card out and boot up WP7 it boots as if it a virgin install.
So my question is if we were to reflash the phone with a second sim card can we then insert the original sim card after the install completes to save us losing all the data and settings?
Has anyone tried this?
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whoops, didnt mean to hit thanks! oh well, one for your collection!
from my point of view it wont work, the SIM being there or not wont make the blindest bit of difference when you flash it, the installer will wack anything on the SD card, which is the only place that could keep the data intact
if your looking for backup wait a while, Windows phone device manager will soon have a backup program built in to it, your phone will need to be unlocked as its not MS supported but other than that it should backup you data and your app data allowing you to flash to your hearts content, and keep your data.
i dont know if it will install apps again though, i suspect not, but its progress!

You got a thanks back
What I meant was, if you power down your WP7 and remover the sim the phone boots up perfectly but none of your contacts are there or emails and preferences.
If you the power down and re insert the sim your phone boots up as normal with all your settings.
So if we reflash using a different sim card the after the flash is complete, power down the phone remove the sim card and replace it with the one you were using before the reflash, would it not use the setting stored on the older sim card?
I have the manager registered so will use that when its out but this was just an idea and wondered if anyone has tried it.
(power down your phone and remove the sim and power up and you will see what my logic is )

DOH I meant SD card not sim (brain dead )

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DOH I meant SD card not sim (brain dead )
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ahh, yes now that makes a lot more sense!
ill check, i plan on reflashing on sunday to update to NoDo, i need to backup all my app data first just incase so it will need to wait until then, you would probably need to make sure the old SD card was the same size as the new one, just incase it checks that out.

It won't work... I bought some SD cards last week and swapped them out and if the info on the phone doesn't match the info on the card, it won't keep the info each time you restart...
For instance, if you insert new sd, get the green theme like a new phone, change to orange theme, turn phone off and on, it goes back to green as its still looking for original card...

Thanks for letting us know, its a pity as it would make reflashing so much easier

Technically it won't work anyway as the sdcard would be part of the raid set that wp7 makes. You cannot just take data from one raid set and add it to another.
The sdcard in wp7 is not just used as additional storage it is treated as one big lump.

norgan said:
Technically it won't work anyway as the sdcard would be part of the raid set that wp7 makes. You cannot just take data from one raid set and add it to another.
The sdcard in wp7 is not just used as additional storage it is treated as one big lump.
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now that isnt quite true,i say quite because doing this doesnt means its just takeing it from the SD card but the idea is the same, ive done a manual backup of the data from the SD card, visible through Windows phone device manager, ie, ive gone through the application folder and copied the IsolatedStore of the programs i wanted to keep the data for.
it does mean that i still need to install the app, but i can just copy the IsolatedStore back to the correct folder which will give back all the data and original settings before the reflash.

[Q] Accidently formated sd card

Hey everybody I accidently formatted my sd card yesterday. I put the sd card in my computer to remove some pics from the phone and add them into the computer. Some how I put it to format and now everything is gone . All my apps seem to still be working, info still in phone, still seem to be rooted and s-off. I was wondering if I needed to add anything into the sd card so everything stays working or it's ok blank?

SD card contents will not effect s-off status. If you had moved any apps to the SD they will have been deleted. You should be fine though. If you want to recover data lost from your SD there are programs out there that can do that for you. Just do a little Google searching and I'm sure yoy could find a trial program or something.
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oh ok sounds good..nah I had a bunch of things I really didn't want anymore that was taking up alot of space..is there a way that when I uninstall an app that it erases everything related to it from the sd card because everytime I look in it there's alot of files and folders and I'm not sure if I need them or not so I leave them there and I was runnung out of space. If not it's ok I'll just reformat the sd card when it's almost full but save what I want first.

Use Recuva. It has saved my tail a lot, and is completely free.
http://www.piriform.com/recuva

SD Card wont affect S-off status at all.. although if you lost your part7backup file, you can't revert back to S-ON again. Some apps throw a bit of their data on the SD Card, but nothing to be extremely worried about.

oh ok..I dont think I would want S-on cuz I like having the freedom of choosing whatever gsm service I want but it's good to know..I'm not really worried about the data from apps on the sd card I just dont like that it's still there after I uninstalled the app and it"s taking up unnecessary space but I guess it's something I have to live wit NO BIGGIE..thanks for everybodies help I appreciate it