Quick question.... Since we don't have an SD card to put our backups on anymore... Such as ROM toolbox or nandroid backups... we tend to put roms on our phone but we have to wipe our phone to put new ROM on.. That then deletes our backups as we have top do a full wipe...... How can we get it not to delete them
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snavid972 said:
Quick question.... Since we don't have an SD card to put our backups on anymore... Such as ROM toolbox or nandroid backups... we tend to put roms on our phone but we have to wipe our phone to put new ROM on.. That then deletes our backups as we have top do a full wipe...... How can we get it not to delete them
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Sdcard data is left intact unless you choose to format the card. Its not necessary to format the card to install roms. Just wipe data and both caches and you're good to go
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well see thats the problem when I connect my nexus 4 to my computer all I see is internal storage no sd card folder?
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Regarding Nandroid and apps I backed up with Titanium, do those remain on the phone when you wipe to install a new ROM or do you have to put those on your computer and replace them after you wipe?
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Bump... Anyone? Please?
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The backups are kept on your SD card, not your internal storage. So as long as you only wipe your internal storage, the backups etc will remain.
Thanks so much!
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Actually, I just looked at my SD card and no backups are there, just the movie that came with the phone.
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ArbitrageMan said:
The backups are kept on your SD card, not your internal storage. So as long as you only wipe your internal storage, the backups etc will remain.
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He's wrong nandroid backups done in Clockwork are stored in /sdcard/clockworkmod/backup/....
I was actually wondering the same thing...
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The backups are kept on your SD card, not your internal storage. So as long as you only wipe your internal storage, the backups etc will remain.
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They are actually contained in the internal storage card but you can specify a diff directory in your external sd card if you prefer, it can be changed in your settings.
Either way they standard wipe only effects the section off the internal storage used by your phones system/data n apps and will not effect the internal storage you put in the"root" folder /sdcard, more specially in your case /sdcard/titaniumbackups (titanium) or/sdcard/backups/apps (astro) should survive.... Nandroid restores, flashes through clockwork of new roms and manual wipes of system, cache or data shouldn't hurt your astro or titanium backups.
Any full reformat of the card or as I understand it reflashing back to stock 2.1 with odin will kill your nandroid restore points but I don't know what effect that level of reflashing will have on your backups but when in doubt back up to a computer is never a bad idea.
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How can i move my files?
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Can u be a little more specific?
Titanium backup works awesome for backups if you have root,if not then you will have to do a directory crawl with a pc and back up that way.
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Kodiack99 said:
Can u be a little more specific?
Titanium backup works awesome for backups if you have root,if not then you will have to do a directory crawl with a pc and back up that way.
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i upgraded my rom (paranoid android) and it has android 4.2 on it. but with multiuser support, the sd card contents got redirected somewhere else, but it didnt take my files with it. so now none of my apps see my files. i need to know how to get them into a readable place.
You should have done a backup with titanium before installing the new rom,then you could have reinstalled titanium and restored appa and data.The multiuser file system is a pita,install your apps from playstore and then find the directories they hold their data and transfer it manually.Time consuming but unless you have a nandroid of you 4.1 that you could install to do a titanium backup on thats the way to go.
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I made a nandroid already. My apps aren't the problem. I only need to get to my old sd card contents. That has my app backups from rom toolbox.
So you need to move your rom toolbox backup from your old sd to your new backup location so it can restore?
You will have to use a file manager or pc to copy paste from old location to the new one ,finding the new one might be a pain but I believe the old one should be sdcard/romtoolbox folder.
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I figured out where everything was. My old sd card stuff was under "mnt/shell/emulated" while the new sd card was under "/sdcard". kind of a pain trying to find it.
Good to know.
Cheers
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Just rebooted my phone (rooted s4 w/ twrp recovery, stock rom) and it said that my sd card failed (64 g samsung pro) and would I like to re-format. So I did.
Which obviously erased all data. That is where my nandroid backup WAS.
So, I did another nandroid on both the newly formatted sd card AND one on the internal memory. This obviously ate up alot of precious space on the phone.
Any advise or input would be welcome.
Will it just get deleted from the internal, when I flash a new rom?
Thanks
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Only if you format data. ... I believe
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As a precaution, I'd highly recommend backing up your nandroids to either your computer, or to the cloud (or both).
If you choose to backup to cloud, from my experience: box didn't work for me (because of the individual file size being too large - had to use copy or dropbox)
Edit: Oh, and the next time you have the same issue with phone recommending a reformat, try to unmount, and mount it again. (throw a reboot into the mix if that doesn't work) - it solved the "bad sd card" issue when I had it.
How am I supposed to back up my apps?
Supposedly titanium backup can't be used since it causes problems
Do I also have to wipe my SD card internal storage when doing a clean flash?
I am currently just using the default wipe in twrp.
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john566 said:
How am I supposed to back up my apps?
Supposedly titanium backup can't be used since it causes problems
Do I also have to wipe my SD card internal storage when doing a clean flash?
I am currently just using the default wipe in twrp.
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TB might cause problems, but I've never had any problems and I've used it every time I've flashed a ROM, so if I were you I wouldn't worry about it. And yes, you only have to do the default wipe, but to be safe you can go in to advanced wipe and wipe system as well before flashing. Don't wipe the internal SD unless you want to though
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As long as you don't back up system apps or system app data(messages, logs- have caused problems for me) TB will be fine. Make sure u manually backup any obb files for big games if you have.
Made full wipe(from firmware) and all the contents of internal sd was gone. How can I wipe data partition without loosing sd card contents?
Any Suugestions?
I always pull my sd card just to b safe..
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You can't pull internal sd, because it's a part if internal memory.
buenos said:
I always pull my sd card just to b safe..
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lol...
vodkinagdan said:
You can't pull internal sd, because it's a part if internal memory.
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I use titanium backup to backup my stuff to external SD card. then wipe and if required, bring back stuff from backup.
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I use titanium backup to backup my stuff to external SD card. then wipe and if required, bring back stuff from backup.
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So, there is no way not to loose data on sd?
I know about backuping apps. But SD is also wiped(music, videos, caches, others)
Ha...missed the 'internal' part...
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vodkinagdan said:
So, there is no way not to loose data on sd?
I know about backuping apps. But SD is also wiped(music, videos, caches, others)
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Use file explorer to move files to external..
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danieljamie said:
Use file explorer to move files to external..
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Really? All 32 Gb's?
Seems that problem is solved. CWM recovery has 2 options: format /data and format /data, /data/media
Wipe command from firmware sends the first command(seems to be compability problem with CWM), so SD content is lost during wipe. We should not use it and make all wipes only through CWM recovry.