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.
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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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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?
Forgive me if this has been discussed - What is the memory structure of the n7? I only see one internal memory?
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I think your titanium back ups are gone, before you wipe everything you should save titanium to the cloud/ PC or usb and restore it from there after the wipe. I don't use twrp, sorry.
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shaggyskunk said:
Forgive me if this has been discussed - Just got my n7 a couple of days ago.
After factory reset, wiping system, cache and dalvik, where are the titanium backups - or are they gone, because the n7 doesn't save them somewhere that isn't touched by the above wipes?
I'm also having trouble finding a downloaded zip in twrp, but it's there in root explorer?
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I think by default Titanium Backup is set to save phone internal memory,so wiping system will erase them,I had change it to extSD card so wiping system wouldn't affect the backups.
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I think by default Titanium Backup is set to save phone internal memory,so wiping system will erase them,I had change it to extSD card so wiping system wouldn't affect the backups.
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Deleted my mistake
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When you wipe your data do you lose your backup as well?
Recently got a Nexus 7 and I'm kind of new to this stuff.
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I have the same question.
I use TWRP recovery and in fact I figure out that wiping data is wiping your virtual sdcard also, I can't understand why and ca't find any viale workaround.
It 's due to new feature of android 4.2: Multi user
If someone knows how to wipe data without wiping sdcard
I just use my drop box fit all my back up stuff
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The only way it will delete your sd card is if you choose to delete internal storage.
Wiping data/factory reset doesnt delete whats on the internal sd card.
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OK so I'm abroad but really want to switch ROMs to miui which I already have downloaded but will doing a full wipe get rid of all my pictures?
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As long if you don't wipe data then you're fine.
All you need to wipe is system, cache, dalvik cache and factory reset. Do not wipe data or else your pictures will be gone. You can always back them up to your computer.
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Would an individual factory reset cover it?
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Wiping data wipes the data partition which includes your apps and their saved data (game highscores, facebook account info) Your photos are stored on the SD card partition. The SD card includes your downloads, music, game data (usually all the data for high end games like NFS and GTA). Doing a factory reset in setting will wipe your data partition but not the SD unless you specify so. Therefore you should back up your apps and their data using Titanium Backup which basically zips the data partition and places it on your SD. Most Roms you do need to erase the data partition for them to function properly. By using Titanium Backup you can restore all that data by moving it from your SD card back to data
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