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Hi,
Probably a silly question, but is there a way of accessing some of the files in a nandroid backup? I recently flashed a new ROM and in preparation I completely re-formatted my sdcard. I did take the precaution of doing a nandroid backup but I didn't copy over an important folder - my holiday snaps.
Now, rather than nandroid restore completely, I'm just wondering if there is a way of opening the file and extracting just what I need?
Thanks
Nandroid only back-ups your system files on the phone not the SD card. If you think about it, it is backing up to the SD card so if your holiday snaps were stored on your card you will have lost them.
Aha! Yes, of course. Bottoms!
Recovering files from SD
stupid suggestion but did you try a program that undeletes/retrieves data from memory cards?
No, I've moved on and, formatted Fat32/Ext3/Linux-Swap and flashed a new ROM
I'll just say I deleted the piccies by mistake and take the flak from the missus.
Thanks all.
palexr said:
No, I've moved on and, formatted Fat32/Ext3/Linux-Swap and flashed a new ROM
I'll just say I deleted the piccies by mistake and take the flak from the missus.
Thanks all.
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If the portion of the SD card your photos were sitting on hasn't been over written yet by new data, a recover program may work. The longer you use the card the less likely you are to recover them.
Hi all,
Since MS Myphone service is not working with WP7 for backing up the short messages, is there any way or a software to backup all contacts, SMS, and others. Most importantly SMS. How can I get a backup for SMS messages.??
Thanks a lot for any advice in advance..
Does anybody know where the sms are stored in file system? If we knew this maybe we could just backup those files via Touchxperience file explorer (Beta).
I posted in another thread about this, because I was also looking for a way to backup my messages. I didn't really find a "real" way. But what I found is, in my opinion, better than nothing. I like to keep my SMSs for sentimental reasons, so if you only want to be able to read them again in the future, I have a theory of how to do so. I took my SD card out of my HD2 and booted WP7, all of my contacts, messages, account info, was gone. I put the SD back in and it was all back to normal. So, I assume that if you back up your SD card with EASEUS partition manager (I think there is a tutorial on this in the dual booting android and wp7 thread) you can keep the backup on your computer and save it for later. I haven't actually tried this, but because nobody seems to be working on this, I thought it might be worth mentioning.
sur3nd1p1ty said:
I posted in another thread about this, because I was also looking for a way to backup my messages. I didn't really find a "real" way. But what I found is, in my opinion, better than nothing. I like to keep my SMSs for sentimental reasons, so if you only want to be able to read them again in the future, I have a theory of how to do so. I took my SD card out of my HD2 and booted WP7, all of my contacts, messages, account info, was gone. I put the SD back in and it was all back to normal. So, I assume that if you back up your SD card with EASEUS partition manager (I think there is a tutorial on this in the dual booting android and wp7 thread) you can keep the backup on your computer and save it for later. I haven't actually tried this, but because nobody seems to be working on this, I thought it might be worth mentioning.
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It's true.
Works fine for me. I use it to backup apps, however.
Good post. It never hurts to do a backup. But it doesn't help when you upgrade the build, all messages etc will be lost.
Edit; Looked at easeus partition manager and it seemed that the only way to copy a disk partition is to create a new partition on your hard disk, thus erasing the whole hard disk! How do you do it Domenukk?
Also I may be wrong about losing all data when upgrading eg to nodo. If this is possible to do a backup, after upgrading the ROM the backed up sdcard could be re-inserted, it might work! Dont know
Edit 2; found thread titled "[Q] Backing up or Imaging SD card partitions" which explains how to backup to hard disk using ease-us. Another poster suggests using a usb stick or external hard drive instead of precious internal one.
a while ago there were rumurs of Myphone for WP7
http://wmpoweruser.com/my-phone-for-windows-phone-7-pictured/
Has there been any updates?
Right now this is the only thing that is preventiong me from making my HD2 with WP7 my main phone.
you could use "copy and paste" to copy each sms message to Office, then put the file in Dropbox and retrieve on your laptop.
I have tried this and only the message gets copied, not the sender or date/time. you would have to add this for every text in Office
It is useful though for important stuff.
If you download apps via Zune to your phone, they are remembered when you change your ROM, though doesn't work for XApps.
Contacts- saved to sim or synched via windows live account.
Come on thebranded, dive in
hi, its going to be stored somewhere, i backup my programs data files, even after a reflash and upgrade i can use the backups to restore the data for the apps, works great for things like petrol usage, fitness programs etc
anyhow, the SMS files must be located somewhere on the card as well, why dont we get to gether, get a sms message and record the time stamp, turn off the phone and then search the phone looking for files edited at that time stamp
i thnk you can just use zune and sync it
faiz1120 said:
i thnk you can just use zune and sync it
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it doesnt backup sms messages
faiz1120 said:
i thnk you can just use zune and sync it
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You think or you try it yourself already? How to do it?
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You think or you try it yourself already? How to do it?
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as i said, it doesnt backup SMS messages. If you were about to update the device it would do it, but we cant, and we probably shouldnt even if we could.
i finally installed nand rom on my phone but completely forgot to back up my contacts that i had on the memory card android build.
all the files are still there on SD card, is there a way i can recover them and merge with nand rom?
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i finally installed nand rom on my phone but completely forgot to back up my contacts that i had on the memory card android build.
all the files are still there on SD card, is there a way i can recover them and merge with nand rom?
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by posting in the right section!
What he said,
But if you signed in with a Google mail account, (which is required to use the market) they should come back if you sign in again in your NAND rom.
i didnt sync anything to google account or backup.
thanx buddy!
Have you tried People -> Menu -> Import/Eport -> Import from SD card?
jose makalolot said:
by posting in the right section!
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umm if you have nothing to contribute dont post.... seems like you just wait to answer questions with your stupid line
wrong section
casemandan said:
umm if you have nothing to contribute dont post.... seems like you just wait to answer questions with your stupid line
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This post has NOTHING to do with development, and I agree with jose makalolot.
casemandan said:
umm if you have nothing to contribute dont post.... seems like you just wait to answer questions with your stupid line
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I thought what he had to contribute was both relevant and informative.
Users need to learn that posting in the wrong sections is not tolerated.
fuzzysig said:
i didnt sync anything to google account or backup.
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Google automatically backs up contacts etc unless you specifically tell it not to, If you did then that was pretty silly.
sorry i didnt post it here on purpose i thought i was browsing the general section at the time( had few windows open)
yes i tried to import from SD card but they are not saved in separate file.
i had the android system on SD card and installed the nand droid before i realized that i didnt really back up any of my data.
all the stuff is still on the card
the whole android system is there i just dont know where they are stored.
i also cant find an option to save to sim card . is there such a feature with this OS?
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sorry i didnt post it here on purpose i thought i was browsing the general section at the time( had few windows open)
yes i tried to import from SD card but they are not saved in separate file.
i had the android system on SD card and installed the nand droid before i realized that i didnt really back up any of my data.
all the stuff is still on the card
the whole android system is there i just dont know where they are stored.
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What I think you can do is to remove magldr flash wondows, boot the android from the sd vard and set it up to sync with gmail. Leave it like that for like 5 or 10 mins, and reflash magldr, and the nand rom, and set the new rom to sync with the same email as the nand one. Let it be for 5-10 mins and you got your contacts back.
Or you can backup your existing nand rom with clockwork recovery, and after doing the whole windows->sd android->sync contacts->imstalling magldr again->installing clockwork, you can recover your backed up rom, and just add the email that you used for the sd sync if different, let it sync the contacts, and you are set.
Its like 20 minz of work, and 18 of them minutes is just waiting.
Good luck.
Edit: sorry for the bad spelling.. was in a hurry and typing on the phone...
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where are they stored?
can i just copy the phonebook file from sd card to nand android system files?
i think gmail will back it up for ya~
All you iphone/ipod/ipad lost data have sync to iTunes.You can recover iTunes lost data,including SMS,contact,photo,video,music,call list,app and so on.
Recover iphone and android SMS,contact,photo,video,music,call list,app and so on.
Android data recovery: URL= recovery-iphone.com/android-mobile-manager.html
Iphone data recovery: URL= recovery-iphone.com/iphone-4s-data-recovery.html
2 solutions to recover photos,video,SMS,Contact,app,ect from iPhone
1.Recover data from iOS Device
Scan iOS device directly to find data deleted recently,or data lost due to inaccessible iOS
2.Recover from iTunes Backup File
Scan iTunes backup files if you deleted data for a long time,failed to recover from iOS device directly,or lost iOS device
Run on Mac:iTunes data recovery
URL= recovery-iphone.com/iphone-ipod-ipad-data-recovery.html
Is it possible to swap a nandroid from one Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 to another Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 (exactly the same tab) like swapping the nandroid from each tablet? In other words clone it...(do a Nandroid in one and restoring in the other) Thanks in advance.
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yes, it possible
If I'm understanding your question correctly, it can be done and is very simple (to the poster above me: is it so hard to explain how to do something when someone is asking if it can be done instead of just saying yes? I see that on this site too often and I see it when I'm searching for the solution to a problem and come across threads discussing the problem that say SOLVED but the person doesn't explain how they solved it. Its ridiculous)
Anyway... Clockworkmod backups can be accessed with any file manager like ES File Explorer. On the SD card. The backups are saves in clockworkmod/backups/ and all you'd have to do is copy the folder that contains the backup you want to share to the tab you want to restore it in. Place the copied folder in the clockworkmod/backups/ then boot into recovery and restore it.
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If I'm understanding your question correctly, it can be done and is very simple (to the poster above me: is it so hard to explain how to do something when someone is asking if it can be done instead of just saying yes? I see that on this site too often and I see it when I'm searching for the solution to a problem and come across threads discussing the problem that say SOLVED but the person doesn't explain how they solved it. Its ridiculous)
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I don't see a "How" in the question. Then why should someone explain the entire procedure just for a confirmation question.
Also if he wants the procedure too, he can ask here again. Its no big deal
Thanks to both of you... I do know the process, done it many times, is just that I haven't tried it by restoring it on another phone or tablet in this case... Just wanted to be a 100% sure, lol that's all. So shake hands you both, and thank you both too! Take care guys...
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Save them to your pc too. Ultimate safety measure. Saved me a few times.
On a related subject, would it be wise to copy or move Nandroid backups, (or Titanium backups), to a storage disk on a computer or USB drive? At nearly 1GB each, backups take up a lot of space on the SD card. If they can be safely stored somewhere else and copied back to the Tab's SD card, this would free up some prescious space on the SD card.
Is this a good plan or am I missing something?
Bob
I always keep at least the latest backup in the device, just in case I dont have my laptop close when I need it...
dsafety said:
On a related subject, would it be wise to copy or move Nandroid backups, (or Titanium backups), to a storage disk on a computer or USB drive? At nearly 1GB each, backups take up a lot of space on the SD card. If they can be safely stored somewhere else and copied back to the Tab's SD card, this would free up some prescious space on the SD card.
Is this a good plan or am I missing something?
Bob
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Yes, it is always best to keep the cwm and titanium backups in your system. But I always keep only the latest copy of both the backups in tab as a security measure as mentioned above.
So I've never rooted and unlocked my G2 since purchasing it which is very odd for me.
Since TowelRoot was so accessible and I've got some free time lately decided to get back in the game.
My problem or question comes from not having an SD card. Do I need to backup Data? Trying to do a backup in TWRP is like 8Gb and after some efforts i've only got 5gb free. Do I need to get chopping away or was that going to backup stuff that wasn't going to be messed with anyways?
Anyone know how to delete large selections of photos without having to click on them one by one or not doing all at once?
MoreGone said:
So I've never rooted and unlocked my G2 since purchasing it which is very odd for me.
Since TowelRoot was so accessible and I've got some free time lately decided to get back in the game.
My problem or question comes from not having an SD card. Do I need to backup Data? Trying to do a backup in TWRP is like 8Gb and after some efforts i've only got 5gb free. Do I need to get chopping away or was that going to backup stuff that wasn't going to be messed with anyways?
Anyone know how to delete large selections of photos without having to click on them one by one or not doing all at once?
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So are you rooted and have custom recovery now? 8gb seems like a lot. You could always store everything on your PC. To delete photos all at once you could make a folder then just delete the folder
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So are you rooted and have custom recovery now? 8gb seems like a lot. You could always store everything on your PC. To delete photos all at once you could make a folder then just delete the folder
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Yeah, when I go into TWRP I can't back up because I'm out of space.
I'll backup on my computer soon so I can have piece of mind.
Thanks
MoreGone said:
Yeah, when I go into TWRP I can't back up because I'm out of space.
I'll backup on my computer soon so I can have piece of mind.
Thanks
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If you want a back up that you can flash if you get in trouble all you need to backup is system, data and boot. If you backup everything you could just store on PC to save room. When you backup data system and boot shouldn't take too much room. No problem