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.
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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...
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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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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Dont mind the skidmarks...
Thank you!
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Whenever I try to do a nand backup, I get a message saying there was an error in backing up my /data folder.
Does anyone know why this is happening and what I can do? I'm on Virtuous.
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Whenever I try to do a nand backup, I get a message saying there was an error in backing up my /data folder.
Does anyone know why this is happening and what I can do? I'm on Virtuous.
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How much space do you have free on you SD card? I like to have 2GB free for doing Nandroids.
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Well, I don't use it for media and I frequently dump out my pictures to my computer. Is there anything left behind when you uninstall an app? I have 2 nandroid backups. And a my backup pro backup I made once. Is there an app that will tell you all the large sized files on your phone's sd card?
No, app uninstalls don't generally clean up data that they save on the SD card. You can check your available SD card space under Settings--> Storage. If it is under 2GB and you don't need both existing Nandroids online, you can copy one off to your computer. They are located in individual folders under:
/clockworkmod/backups
You can copy them back as needed or even from within recovery through the mount options. I keep a library of Nandroids on my computer and generally only keep 1 or 2 on the SD card.
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TitaniumBackup will backup all apps and system data, but does it backup data stored onto the internal SDcard ? Say you copy a few albums and some pictures onto the SDcard, will Titanium figure this out ? My gut feeling is that it does'nt and if so, what would you recommend to take care of this ?
I would like to install a new ROM, and I know from past experience that the SDcard on the 'Nexus 7' will be completely wiped and want to ensure that I don't loose any data
I backup all my data regularly offsite by using both TB and nandroid backups, then use a sync app to copy the data including other folders (Like pictures) to a workstation.
Lost/Stolen/Broken/Messed up by a ROM update, I can restore and be back like new (even with a new device).
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Excellent advice, thank you !
i sync to my ftp server..
But ti backup will backup to and restore from a sd card with OTG Cable. Done it several times. just set your backup location to the sd card while its mounted.. but do not unmount while ti is open do not unplug otg without unmounting.. You WILL CURRUPT YOUR BACKUP.. YES I DID THIS once too...
Good Luck.. TI sync app is so very slow and useless ..
i use andftp. app
Well if your already unlocked, your SD card won't be wiped when you install ROMs.....
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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?
Ok, I ordered a white nexus 4 from the google play store. I was just thinking that there is no sd card, so how does flashing roms work? Do we just flash from the internal sd card. Im just confused with this no external sd card and internal on the nexus 4.
mattoaida said:
Ok, I ordered a white nexus 4 from the google play store. I was just thinking that there is no sd card, so how does flashing roms work? Do we just flash from the internal sd card. Im just confused with this no external sd card and internal on the nexus 4.
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it works the same as having an sd card when flashing roms/kernels.
simms22 said:
it works the same as having an sd card when flashing roms/kernels.
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Well what do you guys wipe before flashing a ROM?
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There is a partition of storage which acts exactly like an SD Card (you just can't remove it), so things like your Downloads, Pictures and Photos wont be wiped when you do a full wipe as they are in the internal "sd card" storage
But always good practise to take a backup in case something goes wrong during a flash
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Well what do you guys wipe before flashing a ROM?
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just chose wipe data/factory reset in the recovery. and as stated above, nandroid backup!
A bit of a noob question, what exactly is contained within a nandroid. Just system files and and user apps? What about apps that store to sd card?
I tried helium but it doesnt back up the sd card part and i doubt titanium does either. (eg real racing back ups only save the apk)
drawkcaB said:
A bit of a noob question, what exactly is contained within a nandroid. Just system files and and user apps? What about apps that store to sd card?
I tried helium but it doesnt back up the sd card part and i doubt titanium does either. (eg real racing back ups only save the apk)
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A nandroid backs up everything on the phone - boot and system files, ROM, kernel, user apps - except the SD card. So no, if apps are installed to your SD card they will not be backed up.
Just copy your SD partition onto your computer so you have a backup.