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Galaxy S2 backup Rom installed on a Galaxy Note ?

Hello
I have a S2 backup rom (created by CWM) with some important info on it.
I have since sold the Galaxy S2 phone and moved onto a Galaxy Note GT-N7000
I have used 'nandroid browser' for example to search for the raw files within the rom - but couldn't find them due to the search method being too difficult.
So I thought is it possible to load up the S2 rom on the Galaxy Note and take what I need from it ?
How do I go about doing it ?
I have rooted the Note and have CWM installed ready to go.
Any help would be grateful.
Many thanks for reading and any tips.

I really really would not recommend it, Although they are similar, there could be disastrous consequences..... Is it really worth it for a few apps ?
Why didnt you just make a Titanium backup before switching phones?
You can browse the nandroid files on your PC, use winrar or 7zip, Find the info you want, extract it and copy it over to the Note.

You can manually restore data from old cwm backup. Extract it with winrar and copy what you need.
I had lost my contacts so I extracted backup and copied related files.
But do not restore the back up from recovery.

I'm not bothered about the apps, its text messages and pictures!
As for masking a backup before switching phones, that's why I used CWM !
One backup app is the same as any other.
As for using nandroid and winrar, already done that - as already said no good.
It's easier to install S2 rom, boot up, connect to kies and export text messages to desktop then sync on the note later.
As for retriveng pictures, again go into usb mode, search internal sd card and extract - job done!
As for installing rom, too late already done it!

you installed s2 rom on note succesfully?
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It seemed to load ok using cwm - choosing the 'restore a backup' option.
When the phone rebooted, the Note N7000 boot screen appeared with the yellow triangle.
A few distorted video lines appeared, blank screen but could hear the start up theme, but no picture and no access to the operating system.
Worth a try though!
I may just buy another used S2 just to get what I want from the image and sell on again.

yeah its very dangerous not even worth a try, but thats my opinion. people have destroyed phones by flashin recovrring stuff not meant for their phone lol
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nandroids are not transferable, So if you have s SGS2 you will not be able to restore that nandroid on a SGS3 / Galaxy Note ect ect. Thats why you should have Titanium backups, You can restore a TB backup across a million devices.

you should use titanium backup to explore your nandroid backup of s2 for apps.. and if you want the data of s2 then do a advanced restore of data onto your note may be that will work
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You can try AppExtractor: https://play.google.com/store/apps/...iwiY29tLmhhbmR5YW5keS5hcHBleHRyYWN0b3JrZXkiXQ..
It should be able to restore your text messages from the nandroid backup.

i lol'd, it's like you have been waving $500 in bills above a fire...
As i read you want to retrieve your personal data, maybe ask a friend with an S2 to borrow it for a day, root his S2 and make a backup from his setup with CWM and then restore yours on it. After your done flash back his backup and your done

tsam19 said:
It seemed to load ok using cwm - choosing the 'restore a backup' option.
When the phone rebooted, the Note N7000 boot screen appeared with the yellow triangle.
A few distorted video lines appeared, blank screen but could hear the start up theme, but no picture and no access to the operating system.
Worth a try though!
I may just buy another used S2 just to get what I want from the image and sell on again.
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WTF. For info you have on your phone that you want to buy a seconde s2? You work for the CIA our you are some spy for the Russians?

androiadicted said:
WTF. For info you have on your phone that you want to buy a seconde s2? You work for the CIA our you are some spy for the Russians?
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are you on paranoid rom? ok just kidding no pun intended
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tsam19 said:
One backup app is the same as any other.
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Wrong. It is not. Nandroid is VERY device-specific.
azzledazzle said:
nandroids are not transferable, So if you have s SGS2 you will not be able to restore that nandroid on a SGS3 / Galaxy Note ect ect. Thats why you should have Titanium backups, You can restore a TB backup across a million devices.
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Also, some useful data is part of system apps that don't reliably restore, so should be backed up in a more portable format.
Nandroids - Snapshot of currently running system state
TiBu - Backup of installed apps and data used by those apps. Usually not good for system apps
Call Logs Backup and Restore - Backs up call logs to a portable (and human-readable) XML-based format
SMS Backup and Restore - Same as the previous app, but with an obvious difference.

[Guide]Easily recover data/apps/contacts/etc.. after flashing new ROM(full wipe)

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!!! Seems suspicious -- lol

Willy318is said:
!!! Seems suspicious -- lol
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I don't understand.

it might working but sometimes some data wont work well with new firmware
but you seem to forget one bigggggg step.... to backup the old data using cwm...

edan1979 said:
it might working but sometimes some data wont work well with new firmware
but you seem to forget one bigggggg step.... to backup the old data using cwm...
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Yes I wrote in red. There MIGHT have problem between versions. If you're on 4.0 and you flash 4.1. But even so I did it many time without problems
I didn't separate CWM & TWRP for the backup because it's basically same thing.

Kremata said:
I don't understand.
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Sorry, I just felt it could not be that easy, ROMs are being heavily optimized and tweaked from Dev-to-Dev, let alone the Official releases with different bases and Radios, so I just think that doing your method might pick-up some old cranky stuff from earlier backups, but yet again, its just my theory, which might be totally messed up
Will give it a shot though, it could save me hours.

Willy318is said:
Sorry, I just felt it could not be that easy, ROMs are being heavily optimized and tweaked from Dev-to-Dev, let alone the Official releases with different bases and Radios, so I just think that doing your method might pick-up some old cranky stuff from earlier backups, but yet again, its just my theory, which might be totally messed up
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The "Restore Data" in CWM or TWRP will restore your apps/contacts/sms/etc.. But, for example if you restore a backup that had your gmail but your new ROM doesn't have gmail. The restore will just skip it.
Willy318is said:
Will give it a shot though, it could save me hours.
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You won't regret it.

For restoring data Titanium OR similar application is better than Nandroid
Another advantage of Titanium is schedular backup
Above said method you need to backup just before flashing ROM, while if you schedule titanium you will ready to go anytime.
As well titanium data restore is quite clear then data restore from nandroid.
Nandroid is best for return to point where you were in case you messup things while testing something.

dr.ketan said:
For restoring data Titanium OR similar application is better than Nandroid
Another advantage of Titanium is schedular backup
Above said method you need to backup just before flashing ROM, while if you schedule titanium you will ready to go anytime.
As well titanium data restore is quite clear then data restore from nandroid.
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For restoring data Titanium OR similar application is better than Nandroid
Another advantage of Titanium is schedular backup
Above said method you need to backup just before flashing ROM, while if you schedule titanium you will ready to go anytime.
As well titanium data restore is quite clear then data restore from nandroid.
Nandroid is best for return to point where you were in case you messup things while testing something.
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I think they both have their advantages. Titanium will only restore apps but the method above will restore Apps/contacts/sms/gmail acounts/etc...

Titanium can restore contacts, bookmarks call logs as well sms too
And sms call logs are store in xml which is more clean when you restore trans OS./device
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The reason I only use titanium for restoring: I heard it is the cleanest, and as mentioned above nandroid restoring restores some weird **** from old roms
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I have transfered my sms contacts from galaxy S - S2 - note1 and now on note2 (froyo to JB)
I still have some sms. 3yr old and titanium never failed to restore
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klect said:
The reason I only use titanium for restoring: I heard it is the cleanest, and as mentioned above nandroid restoring restores some weird **** from old roms
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Exactly, titanium restore only what you want. And it's totally under your control, you can mess only if you don't know how to use it.
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dr.ketan said:
I have transfered my sms contacts from galaxy S - S2 - note1 and now on note2 (froyo to JB)
I still have some sms. 3yr old and titanium never failed to restore
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Exactly, titanium restore only what you want. And it's totally under your control, you can mess only if you don't know how to use it.
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Yes when restoring between devices or versions(ICS to JB etc..) The OP method is not the best. But if you flash a lot of ROMs all the same version this method is very quick and trouble free.

Yes, this method is quick, but I wouldn't use it for everyday ROM, maybe for testing etc. With Titanium you can backup/restore only USER apps. I think it is bad idea to restore system apps' data. So still the "cleanest" way is to back up everything with Titanium, flash ROM and then install Titanium and restore selected user apps+data.

Kremata said:
this method is very quick and trouble free.
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Not convincing,
See for nandroid you have to make recent backup if you want to have backup of latest stuff like SMS, call logs, newly installed App, contacts
AFAIK nandroid takes nearly 20 min to backup (depends on data it may take more)
Now again restoring as per you said takes 15 min for data.
For titanium if you have schedule, need not to make backup before flashing, even you want to make just run backup of modified data and it will finish in 1-2 min.
For me titanium takes just 15 min to restore
- >115 user app
- Contacts, SMS,Settings,Launcher home (desktop),Bookmarks
so it is more faster then nandroid ultimately
Nandroid is the choice as i said earlier,
If your device is working perfect just make nandroid, Try you want to test anything and if you are not happy with testing just restore Nandroid (full) you have made just before test and you are back.
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dalanik said:
Yes, this method is quick, but I wouldn't use it for everyday ROM, maybe for testing etc. With Titanium you can backup/restore only USER apps. I think it is bad idea to restore system apps' data. So still the "cleanest" way is to back up everything with Titanium, flash ROM and then install Titanium and restore selected user apps+data.
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But we never need to restore system application
Best scenario in titanium is restore 'Missing application with data', this will by default excludes any system application (from previous OS and absent in new ROM) still you will have choice to uncheck any application you don't want.
Contacts,settings - you can restore just data (green colored) and won't replace system files
while call log, SMS, browser (yellow color) are just xml format and best to restore without any issue
Just you need system data is only TW launche(stock), but we needs just data only not system.

dr.ketan said:
But we never need to restore system application
Best scenario in titanium is restore 'Missing application with data', this will by default excludes any system application (from previous OS and absent in new ROM) still you will have choice to uncheck any application you don't want.
Contacts,settings - you can restore just data (green colored) and won't replace system files
while call log, SMS, browser (yellow color) are just xml format and best to restore without any issue
Just you need system data is only TW launche(stock), but we needs just data only not system.
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No, not application, but data of system applications. That would be able to cause problems.

Yes that I said usually we need not to restore data of system application in normal way. Except for tw launcher home (desktop)
Usually people do restore everything and facing issue later by messing system junks.
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Advance restore data will not restore system apps. It will only restore user apps. Like I said this method is quick and simple and I never had any problem. Can save you a lot of time. 20 minutes for a backup must be a very old phone. I have 108 apps on mine and it takes only 5 minutes to backup

dr.ketan said:
Here thing is totally different, what I know about your recovery guide is no one gave you discredit. When you publish any guide on public forum, sure someone will put their ideas and only that way discussion goes on. Basically public forum is meant for such things. I have wrote many guides having million viewership, thousand thanks, still people suggest me when something better they found, and I love to exchange idea, but it's ultimately you have to decide which one is better. We should have to remain open to discuss on topic we have created.
As far as my comments have concerned, I have discussed point to point why I found other thing is better, if you targeting that then better if you show some nice point to make me convince on your point of view rather complaining to other post. If you targeting else I am sorry.
Does you feel anyone have troll on your post?
I don't think so.
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Ah ok, I was not targeting you at all, I was refering to my other (same)guide on SGS3. I was discredit because I didn't have enough THANKS.
Posted by someone who really has not helped the novice user
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I know the difference between trolling and discussing. Like you said people can make their choice and I beleive Titanium is good and my(it's not really mine I just transfered the information) way is also good. It just depends on the situation.

Kremata said:
Ah ok, I was not targeting you at all, I was refering to my other (same)guide on SGS3. I was discredit because I didn't have enough THANKS.
I know the difference between trolling and discussing. Like you said people can make their choice and I beleive Titanium is good and my(it's not really mine I just transfered the information) way is also good. It just depends on the situation.
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I misunderstood and sorry again.
Yes I never said nandroid is not good, it's definitely best in certain situations. I mean to say overall titanium is cleaner way to restore data particularly when restoring trans rom/device.
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[Q] S4 root info

I wanted to root my galaxy s4 gt i9500
So just before i root it, i just wanted to know the best program which i could use to backup and restore
I also wanted to know that if i do back it up, then will my data on apps (eg. the levels reached or progress in a game) be deleted or will it come back with the restore.
I really need help in this.
Thanks

re: backups
TAANIS said:
I wanted to root my galaxy s4 gt i9500
So just before i root it, i just wanted to know the best program which i could use to backup and restore
I also wanted to know that if i do back it up, then will my data on apps (eg. the levels reached or progress in a game) be deleted or will it come back with the restore.
I really need help in this.
Thanks
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There are two kinds of backup/restore...
One backs up the actual firmware/rom the other kind of backup backs up applications
which are installed in your phone.
The best for application backup/restore "Titanium Backup" (it does backup game and application data)
The best way to backup your entire firmware/rom is by using TWRP recovery.
Twrp can be installed using "goomanager" a app which you can download from playstore,
Titanium backup is also an app you can download from the playstore.
Good luck!

Migrate apps from rooted HTC to unrooted GN3?

Is this possible?
My HTC Dinc2 is rooted, running android v. 2.3.
Helium says it's incompatible with my old phone.
I was hoping to take my time with rooting the Galaxy Note 3, but have a lot of stuff I'd like to transfer over.

siskiou said:
Is this possible?
My HTC Dinc2 is rooted, running android v. 2.3.
Helium says it's incompatible with my old phone.
I was hoping to take my time with rooting the Galaxy Note 3, but have a lot of stuff I'd like to transfer over.
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If they are Play store apps, they will install when you boot the Note 3.
The data from them however won't be transferred.
The best way (keeping the data) would be to Titanium Backup the apps on an external SD or Dropbox, the install them on N3, but obviously you'd have to root.
If it's the functionality of the apps and the data isn't important then go ahead.

Hammer_drum said:
If they are Play store apps, they will install when you boot the Note 3.
The data from them however won't be transferred.
The best way (keeping the data) would be to Titanium Backup the apps on an external SD or Dropbox, the install them on N3, but obviously you'd have to root.
If it's the functionality of the apps and the data isn't important then go ahead.
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What I'm mainly interested in is restoring the apk/data of apps that are no longer available from the play store.
Backing them up is easy, since the old phone is rooted, but AFAIK, they can't be restored on an unrooted phone?

siskiou said:
What I'm mainly interested in is restoring the apk/data of apps that are no longer available from the play store.
Backing them up is easy, since the old phone is rooted, but AFAIK, they can't be restored on an unrooted phone?
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Do a full backup in Titanium Backup "just in case". Then do another one with Helium:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.koushikdutta.backup
(in my experience the program is vastly inferior to Titanium Backup and YMMV but in theory it works on non-rooted devices).

xclub_101 said:
Do a full backup in Titanium Backup "just in case". Then do another one with Helium:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.koushikdutta.backup
(in my experience the program is vastly inferior to Titanium Backup and YMMV but in theory it works on non-rooted devices).
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Can't use Helium, since my old phone is on android 2.3.
And how would I use the TB backup on an unrooted Note 3?

siskiou said:
Can't use Helium, since my old phone is on android 2.3.
And how would I use the TB backup on an unrooted Note 3?
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The first thing you'd be asked once you launch TB is to grant supersu access. So not possible without root

siskiou said:
What I'm mainly interested in is restoring the apk/data of apps that are no longer available from the play store.
Backing them up is easy, since the old phone is rooted, but AFAIK, they can't be restored on an unrooted phone?
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They may be available in Aptoid.
Try it on your HTC prior to the note.
Won't keep your data - I use it for older versions of apps or ones that have been removed.

Why can't you install the app, this may be a problem if KK is incompatible, copy the data to a PC then transfer to either sd card or internal memory overwriting the base data from the install?
Might take a while but it should work...
Worth a shot....

Restoring APP data

Hi,
My old phone was an Galaxy S (i9000) and now I have bougth the Galaxy S 5.
The i 9000 was rooted and I have backedup all Apps + Data to the SD card.
The S5 is new and I dont want to losst the warranty if I Root the phone, so I was wondering if it is possible to Restore all Apps data from the old phone to the new one without root.
Is it possible to do it without a PC?
Thanks,

Titanium Backup should be able to do it, not sure if it needs root though
But also not sure it's a good idea to restore data from a different model phone, which is likely running a different version of Android
You could turn on Google Backup on the old phone, and log into the same G Account on the new S5, and it might restore some things for you that way

*Detection* said:
Titanium Backup should be able to do it, not sure if it needs root though
But also not sure it's a good idea to restore data from a different model phone, which is likely running a different version of Android
You could turn on Google Backup on the old phone, and log into the same G Account on the new S5, and it might restore some things for you that way
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The data I was talking about is from games and apps (some games, whatsapp, notes, etc.).
I was not talking about system data.

zeroze said:
The data I was talking about is from games and apps (some games, whatsapp, notes, etc.).
I was not talking about system data.
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neither was he. hes alerting you to a possible conflict with the data from the galaxy s backups as they were on a different version of android

Ok, sorry didnt know that.
That means that there is no way to restore some game data?
on the galaxy s i was running the CM 10

zeroze said:
Ok, sorry didnt know that.
That means that there is no way to restore some game data?
on the galaxy s i was running the CM 10
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He said POSSIBLE conflict. It means maybe and maybe not. Try it for yourself.

-PiLoT- said:
neither was he. hes alerting you to a possible conflict with the data from the galaxy s backups as they were on a different version of android
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lingowistico said:
He said POSSIBLE conflict. It means maybe and maybe not. Try it for yourself.
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I wold like to try, but the problem is that i dont know how.
Thats why i asked for your help. Lets imagine that there were no conflict. How could i transfer data from apps?
Thanks

zeroze said:
I wold like to try, but the problem is that i dont know how.
Thats why i asked for your help. Lets imagine that there were no conflict. How could i transfer data from apps?
Thanks
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Copy the titanium backup folder from your old phone to your new phone. Install TiBu and restore apps&data.
I'd do this by:
1 connect old phone to PC via USB
2 copy Titanium Backup folder from old phone to PC
3 connect new phone to PC and copy Titanium Backup folder to same place on the new phone
4 install Titanium Backup on the new phone
5 restore apps&data
OR
1 in TiBu backup apks and data to SD card
2 put SD card in new phone
3 fire up TiBu and restore backup

lingowistico said:
Copy the titanium backup folder from your old phone to your new phone. Install TiBu and restore apps&data.
I'd do this by:
1 connect old phone to PC via USB
2 copy Titanium Backup folder from old phone to PC
3 connect new phone to PC and copy Titanium Backup folder to same place on the new phone
4 install Titanium Backup on the new phone
5 restore apps&data
OR
1 in TiBu backup apks and data to SD card
2 put SD card in new phone
3 fire up TiBu and restore backup
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The problem is that TiBu requires root access ...

zeroze said:
The problem is that TiBu requires root access ...
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If you live in EU you can root and keep your warranty.
Also you can root and keep Knox untouched http://forum.xda-developers.com/galaxy-s5/general/how-to-root-triggering-knox-2nd-method-t2843044
Or you can try Helium, it's like TiBu but doesn't need root. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.koushikdutta.backup