I can use Titanium Backup Pro for my apps but what do I use to backup all my media files and other things stored on the "SD card?" I have a 32Gb USB drive that I've used to store the Ti backup on but what can I use to basically copy /mnt/sdcard to the USB drive?
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how did you copy all your titanium backups to the USB drive? or are you looking for an app which you don't really need?
I assume you can just plug in your nexus 7 to PC, mount it and copy the entire sd card contents. this would include your titanium backups, so in fact you could backup everything in one go.
when you do a factory reset within recovery when switching roms, it shouldn't touch the sd card partition unless you specifically ask it to wipe it within recovery. having the sd card backup is merely safer if you want it.
You can use USB cable connection.
I use ES FILE EXPLORER to transfer files to and back by wifi. Connects to your lan, ftp, cloud, etc.
MyPhoneExplorer also works. Easier but less tools than ES File Explorer.
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Anderson2 said:
You can use USB cable connection.
I use ES FILE EXPLORER to transfer files to and back by wifi. Connects to your lan, ftp, cloud, etc.
MyPhoneExplorer also works. Easier but less tools than ES File Explorer.
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ES transfers to usb like a million times faster than mtp does to a computer.
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ES transfers to usb like a million times faster than mtp does to a computer.
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So you just open /sdcard in ES File Explorer, select all and then copy to your USB card? How long does it take? I'm sure I've got at least 10G of media files.
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So you just open /sdcard in ES File Explorer, select all and then copy to your USB card? How long does it take? I'm sure I've got at least 10G of media files.
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Could take up to an hour or so, so grab some chips and be patient.
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Took quite more than an hour, more like 3 but worked fine. Interestingly, a factory reset via the standard settings (vs. doing it in recovery) preserved the pseudo SD card on Android 4.2.2 so all the copying was unnecessary. Of course its useful for just making general backups of my media so the knowledge is still useful.
Also of interest, was that I couldn't use ES File Explorer to do the copy. It had the "smarts" to know there was only 1.5G free on /sdcard and wouldn't let me copy the 17G of media and files to the USB card since stickmount mounts it as /sdcard/usbstorage/xxx and ES ignored that it was a mount point and incorrectly assumed that the storage limit of /sdcard applied. Root Explorer didn't verify space requirements so did the copy.
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Interestingly, a factory reset via the standard settings (vs. doing it in recovery) preserved the pseudo SD card on Android 4.2.2 so all the copying was unnecessary.
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It's my understanding that the settings menu merely prepares a recovery command file (/cache/recovery/command) which calls for a factory reset, and then reboots to the recovery - which then reads the command file and does the bidding of whatever prepared the command file (to the extent that the recovery actually implements the full syntax of the command file language).
A custom recovery will obey this command - and "factory reset" according to it's own definition of what that is. So TWRP or CWM won't wipe the whole of /data. But if it is a stock recovery that you have sitting there, that's a different story (I *think*).
Are you saying that you had a stock recovery installed when you did this - or a custom recovery?. Up until now, I have always assumed that a stock recovery wipes everything when a "factory reset" is requested.
Custom recovery, latest CWM touch actually. I was completely unprepared after doing the factory reset from the settings screen to find the pseudo SD card intact. This would be the first Android device I've owned that behaved this way. Then again it's also the first Nexus (or perhaps I should say Google device) with bog standard Android without some manufacturers additions on it. I've rooted them all starting with my Android 1.6 device so it comes as a huge surprise to me.
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bsoplinger said:
I was completely unprepared after doing the factory reset from the settings screen to find the pseudo SD card intact.
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i did try to tell you
eddiehk6 said:
when you do a factory reset within recovery when switching roms, it shouldn't touch the sd card partition unless you specifically ask it to wipe it within recovery.
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never mind, no harm in being extra safe.
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Custom recovery, latest CWM touch actually. I was completely unprepared after doing the factory reset from the settings screen to find the pseudo SD card intact. This would be the first Android device I've owned that behaved this way. Then again it's also the first Nexus (or perhaps I should say Google device) with bog standard Android without some manufacturers additions on it. I've rooted them all starting with my Android 1.6 device so it comes as a huge surprise to me.
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I'll bet you $1 that the stock recovery wipes everything.
The problem with a custom recovery on a device with no external SD card is there's no place for Nandroid backups and ROMs to hide if a factory reset wipes everything. But it's clearly needed for clean ROM installs. So "factory reset" in custom-recoveryland is not the same as factory reset with the stock recovery for those devices.
Sort of bad nomenclature for a rooted device in the first place anyway - if there is one thing the operation is not for a rooted device, it's "factory reset".
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...would it be OK to delete them from them TWRP backups folder, in order to save space? I could free up a solid gig. Either way, I will make a couple more backups on my PC and put them on a couple USB thumb drives, btw. Thanks.
You need to keep at least one on the Kindle in case something goes wrong and you can't use adb so you can restore.
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You need to keep at least one on the Kindle in case something goes wrong and you can't use adb so you can restore.
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I figured as much. I believe the stock backup is 300mb and the CM7 backup is a little over 700mb.
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TWRP has a mount button, which would allow you to mount the kindle as a usb drive. So technically, you could keep no images on, but mount through TWRP and copy back over if you really had to. Theres also an option to compress the backup during creation.
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So it took me a while to find the actual location of the nandroid backups created by CWM. They're located in /data/media/clockworkmod/backups. However, because when connecting the phone to the computer, it only mounts the sdcard, I have no access to that location. Does anyone know of a good way to grab the CWM backups off the phone?
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So it took me a while to find the actual location of the nandroid backups created by CWM. They're located in /data/media/clockworkmod/backups. However, because when connecting the phone to the computer, it only mounts the sdcard, I have no access to that location. Does anyone know of a good way to grab the CWM backups off the phone?
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If you have adb installed you can pull the whole backups folder. Just do 'adb remount' then 'adb pull /data/media/clockworkmod/backup'.
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You can do it from your phone if you're rooted by using a root explorer type app and copy/cut and pasting the CWM data into a folder on the SDCARD.
But judging by your sig, you are not rooted.
*edit* post above me got it.
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You can do it from your phone if you're rooted by using a root explorer type app and copy/cut and pasting the CWM data into a folder on the SDCARD.
But judging by your sig, you are not rooted.
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My sig is old. I just rooted, flashed CWM, and franco kernel just an hour ago.
Anyways, I've tried your method, it doesn't work though. All of those programs fail to copy the backups folder to the SDCARD.
Another reason why I prefer twrp.
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put files into SD folder... export through DROP BOX and bingo, instant FULL OF WIN!!
Where does TWRP store NAND backups i cant seem to find the backup i made
I think this is 4.2(.1) thing, file structure is baaad and Google should feel bad.
I'm not sure for TWRP but CWM stores it to Internal Storage/clockworkmod and everytime you make a factory reset all of the folders get moved into a new "0" folder. Plug your tablet to the PC and move the recovery folder where it belongs.
Connected to a PC, mine was kept in
Computer\Nexus 7\Internal storage\TWRP\BACKUPS\
You should then see a long string of numbers/letters, then a folder inside this with the date of the backup.
On my Nexus 7 from within ESExplorer, it's located in
/sdcard/TWRP\BACKUPS/
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I think this is 4.2(.1) thing, file structure is baaad and Google should feel bad.
I'm not sure for TWRP but CWM stores it to Internal Storage/clockworkmod and everytime you make a factory reset all of the folders get moved into a new "0" folder. Plug your tablet to the PC and move the recovery folder where it belongs.
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i finally found it its located in data/media/TWRP/BACKUPS/then a bunch of letters then in that folder is the backup but now i have a problem with moving it i use rom toolbox root browser to find it then select it and when i try to move it into my sd storage so i can put it on my computer it always gives me operation failed is there anyway to access the system files on a pc so i can save my backup?
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i finally found it its located in data/media/TWRP/BACKUPS/then a bunch of letters then in that folder is the backup but now i have a problem with moving it i use rom toolbox root browser to find it then select it and when i try to move it into my sd storage so i can put it on my computer it always gives me operation failed is there anyway to access the system files on a pc so i can save my backup?
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I wanted to do the same, but I the end I just plugged it in my PC and did it like that
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bradr00lzd00d1 said:
Where does TWRP store NAND backups i cant seem to find the backup i made
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HI
There is a simpler solution, OTG cable and direct backup to an memory stick
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HI
There is a simpler solution, OTG cable and direct backup to an memory stick
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how do you tell twrp to use an ext hdd?
I think you can only copy through a file explorer,to delete you need to boot to recovery and delete using twrp.Moving is like a cut/paste and it is protected.
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I think this is 4.2(.1) thing, file structure is baaad and Google should feel bad.
I'm not sure for TWRP but CWM stores it to Internal Storage/clockworkmod and everytime you make a factory reset all of the folders get moved into a new "0" folder. Plug your tablet to the PC and move the recovery folder where it belongs.
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Nexus 7 wifi (2012)
My TWRP backup is stored at location: /data/media/0/TWRP/BACKUPS.
That location is not shown when the N7 is connected to a PC.
So I was about to flash a ROM and I had too many things on storage and cleaned and wiped everything. I then went on to use Format Data, hoping that it will only delete files and not the OS too. So now it deleted the OS and I'm stuck between bootloader or recovery mode and I can't seem to find a way to copy the zip file to my internal storage. Tried adb using cmd but it's not recognized and I'll have to dowload Google's SDK. This in turn will take about 2 hours and I'd really like to fix the problem ASAP. Anything I could do please?
Thanks and much appreciated.
You could always go to recovery, Mount your sd card and copy the file that way. Or setup fast boot and flash the stock image, or even just push the rom file through adb. You have a few options.
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You could always go to recovery, Mount your sd card and copy the file that way. Or setup fast boot and flash the stock image, or even just push the rom file through adb. You have a few options.
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Adb-toolkit is in the folder but cmd is not recognizing it unfortunately. And through TWRP I have no option to mount USB... usb-otg doesn't work...
Anyone please? I have no idea what to do at this point and I'm pretty much phone-less...
I'm having a heck of a time with the internal storage on my S4. What I have done so far: Rooted -> Flashed with Xousos v1.0 (no problem) -> Backup to SD card with CWM -> Flashed with Xousos v2.0 -> Flashed Theme Reverepats ICS (MF9) -> Flashed ComaDose = No Space
I moved all my apps to my SD card and even deleted dropbox and all documents sync to free up space. Before I do a rom flash I clear data/cache/davilik cache and format system. I know the S4's 16GB is really an 8GB - but to only have a few hundred megs left after a fresh flash and TiBackup restore of a handful of apps is not right.
I figure I must have copies of the previous installs somewhere on the internal storage, I just dont know where to look. So if anyone could point me in the right direction as to what directories I can delete or any steps to help free up some space, I would really appreciate it.
Thanks in advance
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Check the "MISC" folder and check to see what are the folders that take up the most space. I have a feeling you are going to have a nandroid on there that is taking up about 3-4gbs
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Wipe system/and factory reset then flash ROM will fix it. Make sure the ROM and everything else you need is on your external SD first.
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Check the "MISC" folder and check to see what are the folders that take up the most space.
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^^^^ that.
daniel4653 said:
Check the "MISC" folder and check to see what are the folders that take up the most space. I have a feeling you are going to have a nandroid on there that is taking up about 3-4gbs
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I apologize for the dumb question in advance, but do you know the location of that folder?
I went to storage/emulated/0 in root explorer and the file structure looks the same as the phone folder explorer but no large files - screen shot attached (largest file first)
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Wipe system/and factory reset then flash ROM will fix it. Make sure the ROM and everything else you need is on your external SD first.
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This will be my last resort, I just did the wipe/flash and would like to try and solution the problem before I do the wipe
Get disk usage app and poke around the filesystem. It will graphically show you what folders are storing large amounts of data. It will be a lot faster using that tool with finding large files than going through each folder with a file browser app.
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I apologize for the dumb question in advance, but do you know the location of that folder?
I went to storage/emulated/0 in root explorer and the file structure looks the same as the phone folder explorer but no large files - screen shot attached (largest file first)
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In the storage screen (from your original post, where it showed the breakdown), just tap on miscellaneous and it should show you the folders that make up that 7.52GB
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Get disk usage app and poke around the filesystem. It will graphically show you what folders are storing large amounts of data. It will be a lot faster using that tool with finding large files than going through each folder with a file browser app.
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Thanks, this is a handy little app, especially with root access.
I attached a screen shot - it looks like the system data folder is dominating the space - is it possible there is still an old rom on there or possible a backup (like was mentioned earlier) and if so, how do I get to it?
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In the storage screen (from your original post, where it showed the breakdown), just tap on miscellaneous and it should show you the folders that make up that 7.52GB
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That was my last screen shot - when I tap miscellaneous the biggest folder in there is 3.69 MB - which is why I am so confused
I'd probably just make a nandroid backup, move any files from internal to external that I wanted to keep, turn off phone, remove SD card, boot phone back up, go into SD card in menu settings, format the card then go into accounts and do a full factory reset. I would think that would get rid of any unknown bloat from the internal storage. Yes you'll have to set the phone up again but it might fix your running out of space problem. A nandroid restore might throw the crap back in there. I don't know.
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Wipe system/and factory reset then flash ROM will fix it. Make sure the ROM and everything else you need is on your external SD first.
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I'd probably just make a nandroid backup, move any files from internal to external that I wanted to keep, turn off phone, remove SD card, boot phone back up, go into SD card in menu settings, format the card then go into accounts and do a full factory reset. I would think that would get rid of any unknown bloat from the internal storage. Yes you'll have to set the phone up again but it might fix your running out of space problem. A nandroid restore might throw the crap back in there. I don't know.
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Wiping the internal sdcard did the trick. Reloading everything was not what I wanted but it did solve the problem
Thanks to everyone who helped in this thread, I appreciate it :good:
Mine started giving me the low storage space warning once the MF9 update downloaded. I had to wipe the internal sd card completely. What a PITA.
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Mine started giving me the low storage space warning once the MF9 update downloaded. I had to wipe the internal sd card completely. What a PITA.
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that makes a lot of sense because mine did the same and the update notification wouldnt go away until I flashed the update. I guess next time I need to format the internal sd before I flash