Sorry if this is too basic a question and I should know this already, but... I've currently got a rooted E4GT that I've had for quite some time. I'm planning on moving to the GS4 in a few days and wanted to know how to move certain applications WITH their data intact from the E4GT to the GS4. Prime example would be the application ColorNote. When I install the application on the new GS4 how do I import the existing data that's been saved on the E4GT? I have set the application to backup the data to SD card on the E4GT already but I don't know how to import the backup back into the application (unless it will do it automatically if I put the same SD card into the GS4??).
There are probably other apps as well. I know the data is backed up for each of them but I don't know how to restore to the new phone...
Any pointers for this newbie??
1. DL Helium
2. Select which apps you want to backup... *MAKE SURE YOU SAVE TO EXT SD CARD!*
3. Get your new GS4.
4. Insert your SD Card into your new GS4.
5. DL Helium on your GS4.
6. DL all apps that you backed up to your ext SD Card.
7. Restore app data from Helium from your ext SD Card.
Hopefully that helps man.
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hes got a sprint cdma hero that he is complaning that theres no room to install programs and its slow.
he has a 8gb sdcard in the phone and another spare
today i tried rooting but it appears that the phone is already rooted
installed titanium backup and backed up all his apps to the sdcard
installed sms backup and restore, backed up to sdcard
went to contacts, settins, and exported to sd card
Q. I rooted and custom romed my other buddies phone and not all his contacts were exported. Is there something else i need to do to get all contacts backed up?
Q. i couldent find "Call Logs Backup & Restore" in the market. Do i really need it?
ok so this point i plan on plugging the phone into ubuntu, and copying all the data on the SD card to my laptop. This should backup all his pictures, contacts, craps onto my laptop.
Then i will install clockworkmod recovery from market. Reboot into recovery.
The use ADB to manually partiton the 8 gb SD card
1 - 7.5GB FAT32
2 - 512MB ext4
3 - 32MB swap
Q. Is this sound like a good layout?
Now that the card is partitioned i will install clockworkmod via the market and make a backup of the current system state, just incase he wants to go back to original. and copy the new rom from the laptop to the sdcard
as far as roms / kernels
i am overwhelmed and confused by the choices, he just wants something fast without bugs and without the sprint preloaded crap. But i dont think he wants any fancy custom hacker looking ****, just something plain fast and works.
Q. would cynagonmod be a good choice?
Q. Do i need to load a custom kernel in addition to loading the ROM ?
Q. after the new rom is installed is that when i copy his original sdcard data back to the newly formatted sd card?
sorry about the questions, this is a guy i work with and i wanna show off my leet, but i dont wanna **** his phone as hes goin on vacation soon and needs it to just work. I have a galaxy tab, acer tab, but never messed with a htc phone. i am curious to hear if this sound like the best way to go at it?
thanks
gophet said:
hes got a sprint cdma hero that he is complaning that theres no room to install programs and its slow.
he has a 8gb sdcard in the phone and another spare
today i tried rooting but it appears that the phone is already rooted
installed titanium backup and backed up all his apps to the sdcard
installed sms backup and restore, backed up to sdcard
went to contacts, settins, and exported to sd card
Q. I rooted and custom romed my other buddies phone and not all his contacts were exported. Is there something else i need to do to get all contacts backed up?
Q. i couldent find "Call Logs Backup & Restore" in the market. Do i really need it?
ok so this point i plan on plugging the phone into ubuntu, and copying all the data on the SD card to my laptop. This should backup all his pictures, contacts, craps onto my laptop.
Then i will install clockworkmod recovery from market. Reboot into recovery.
The use ADB to manually partiton the 8 gb SD card
1 - 7.5GB FAT32
2 - 512MB ext4
3 - 32MB swap
Q. Is this sound like a good layout?
Now that the card is partitioned i will install clockworkmod via the market and make a backup of the current system state, just incase he wants to go back to original. and copy the new rom from the laptop to the sdcard
as far as roms / kernels
i am overwhelmed and confused by the choices, he just wants something fast without bugs and without the sprint preloaded crap. But i dont think he wants any fancy custom hacker looking ****, just something plain fast and works.
Q. would cynagonmod be a good choice?
Q. Do i need to load a custom kernel in addition to loading the ROM ?
Q. after the new rom is installed is that when i copy his original sdcard data back to the newly formatted sd card?
sorry about the questions, this is a guy i work with and i wanna show off my leet, but i dont wanna **** his phone as hes goin on vacation soon and needs it to just work. I have a galaxy tab, acer tab, but never messed with a htc phone. i am curious to hear if this sound like the best way to go at it?
thanks
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Q. would cynagonmod be a good choice?
Yes
Q. Do i need to load a custom kernel in addition to loading the ROM ?
No
Q. after the new rom is installed is that when i copy his original sdcard data back to the newly formatted sd card?
Yes
I wouldn't do the swap partition tho. It will kill the SD card in a less than a month. Cyanogenmod and AOSPCMod are good choices and have settings under the Cyanogenmod settings for memory management and caching so the swap partition really isn't needed. It wouldn't help unless it was at least a class 6 sd card too.
fpineda thank you for the prompt reply
Yea, Cyanogenmod 7 is best. Make sure it's the Heroc one. It will say "aospCWMod-HEROC" on the file name, then the version number. Download it and copy it to the root of the microsd card.
I also agree with gophet about partitioning the SD card. Just leave it alone. You won't have to restore any of the data but it's good that you backed it up on the laptop just in case.
Once you install clockworkmod, shut down. Then turn on the phone while holding down the home key. It will put you in recovery.
From there go to "flash zip from sd card" --> and pick the Cyanogenmod. It will take a while but you should have no problems. Also, the first boot will take a long time.
Sounds like you should look into firerating it, if that's even a word.
I am moving from an HTC Rezound to the g2 and have all of my apps/data backed up on the rezound sd card. I want to restore the apps data part on my new G2 so I dont lose all the data related to each app. How would I go about doing this since the G2 does not have an sd card slot?
Thanks for any help.
Michael
roywood said:
I am moving from an HTC Rezound to the g2 and have all of my apps/data backed up on the rezound sd card. I want to restore the apps data part on my new G2 so I dont lose all the data related to each app. How would I go about doing this since the G2 does not have an sd card slot?
Thanks for any help.
Michael
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I do this all the time, very easy. First download the titanium app on the G2. Open the app on the G2 and go through the initial setup/screens. Once that is done, plug in your HTC Rezound or sd card into your computer and locate the Titanium folder. It contains all of your apps/data. Save that folder to your computer. Then plug your G2 into the computer and copy and replace the titanium folder on the G2. Remember that there are going to be alot of apps that you wont be using from your old HTC so i recommend running titanium after transfer and deleting all the htc apps that are in titanium and backing up all the apps that are on the G2.
Or you can get MyBackUp Pro and do a Migrate backup.
Install the app on both phones. Make sure both are on the same wifi network & in the same room
On the old phone, hit the migrate option & select the apps & data you want transferred to your new phone.
On the new phone open the same app, go to Migrate hit that and wait for the data to flow from your old phone to the new one in a special zip file.
The new phone will take that zip & unpack the apps & data by itself!
Incredible & easy
I am getting my new Note 3 today and now have a rooted note 2. I have titanium backup on the note 2. I have heard horror stories in the past about using TBU to restore apps from two different phones. Is there a way to transfer apps as well as data from the 2 to the 3. Can i use the same micro card without formatting? What about wifi passwords?
Thanks
texasez said:
I am getting my new Note 3 today and now have a rooted note 2. I have titanium backup on the note 2. I have heard horror stories in the past about using TBU to restore apps from two different phones. Is there a way to transfer apps as well as data from the 2 to the 3. Can i use the same micro card without formatting? What about wifi passwords?
Thanks
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First, to answer your questions.. 1. Yes, you can just move your SD card (I've done this many times). 2. Make sure you have set everything to "sync" in your google account on your phone and then the wifi passwords should restore. It's always worked for me.
I've had great luck using Helium. Pay for it to make it easier.
Using Helium, You can backup all of your apps (and data) to SD card and/or Google drive and Dropbox. SDcard is much faster of course. I always create both SD and Google Drive backups just in case.
You can just back up the apps, put the card in the new phone. If your phone hasn't been activated or booted yet, do that and let all of the apps reinstall. Sometimes they don't reinstall automatically (from Google). I then open Helium on the new phone and click restore. Then you can just restore each app and data.
The one thing with Helium is that if the app isn't installed, it will be a couple of clicks to get it reinstalled so it's not quite as slick as Titanium but I've had far better luck with it.
mistertek said:
First, to answer your questions.. 1. Yes, you can just move your SD card (I've done this many times). 2. Make sure you have set everything to "sync" in your google account on your phone and then the wifi passwords should restore. It's always worked for me.
I've had great luck using Helium. Pay for it to make it easier.
Using Helium, You can backup all of your apps (and data) to SD card and/or Google drive and Dropbox. SDcard is much faster of course. I always create both SD and Google Drive backups just in case.
You can just back up the apps, put the card in the new phone. If your phone hasn't been activated or booted yet, do that and let all of the apps reinstall. Sometimes they don't reinstall automatically (from Google). I then open Helium on the new phone and click restore. Then you can just restore each app and data.
The one thing with Helium is that if the app isn't installed, it will be a couple of clicks to get it reinstalled so it's not quite as slick as Titanium but I've had far better luck with it.
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Thanks, I will give it a try.
I just got an S5 today and I thought I did everything correctly to get my back files up and working but so far I'm having no luck.
I backed up the entire S4 with Helium and when I put the SD card with the back up on it, I don't have an option to search the external SD card on the S5.
I've factory reset my S4, installed Helium, put the SD card in the S4 and retrieved the back and restored with no problem.
Is helium just not compatible with the S5 yet?
What I did for the time being was take my S4, put the external SD back in it, download Helium again, restore just the SMS back up (I didnt want to download ALL the apps from my google app store) and then connected the S4 to Kies and then backed up the SMS from there and restored it to the S5. It worked!
Still curious why the back up from the internal SD card didn't pick up the Carbon back up though.
Also curious why the external SD card wasn't an option on Helium like it was on the S4.
On a side note, where did I miss singing up for a Samsung cloud account? I watch a video that showed how to back up SMS via "cloud" under the accounts menu on the S4/S5. I also didnt have a "cloud" option.
Cheers
I read that... Android 4.4 block the ability for apps to read SD cards. So, all I can advice you to do is to copy the whole helium "carbon" folder & paste it into the Internal memory of the S5. Then restore backup.
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fumes007 said:
I read that... Android 4.4 block the ability for apps to read SD cards. So, all I can advice you to do is to copy the whole helium "carbon" folder & paste it into the Internal memory of the S5. Then restore backup.
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You read really, really wrong. It does no "block the ability for apps to read SD Cards" lol.....
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I read that... Android 4.4 block the ability for apps to read SD cards. So, all I can advice you to do is to copy the whole helium "carbon" folder & paste it into the Internal memory of the S5. Then restore backup.
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I copied that folder over to the internal SD and its not able to find any backups.
Joe0113 said:
You read really, really wrong. It does no "block the ability for apps to read SD Cards" lol.....
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I kinda feel like I read as similar statement. I just didn't think this was one of the features that would have been blocked...
Good afternoon guys, there have been a lot of SS roms lately and I want to try them out. The 8gb card I used is filled up with my backups. WHen upgrading to a 32gb card, is it as simply as copying over the stuff in my 8gb to the new card including the other stuff needed to flash the new roms?
Any tips on making this as painless as possible is much appreciated. Thanks in advance for any help.
It's as simple as copying your old stuff over and inserting the card
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thanks chief. much appreciated.
Whenever I upgrade to a new/larger card, I prefer to make an image backup of my old card and restore the image to the new card (resizing if necessary). I use Acronis for this, but any image backup tool should work. Unlike Windows copy, this ensures that the file formats, hidden files, permissions, and everything else (except for the volume size) is exactly the same on the new card as it was on the old one. Whichever method of backup you use, don't forget to run h2testw to check your new card for errors before restoring your backed up files to it.
Once you've verified that all your important programs and data work with the new card, you'll be in a great position to make a nandroid backup (that you can always go back to) before trying out some new roms.