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I searched and couldnt find anything about this. I have a question is it okay to remove the nandroid back ups from the sd card and save them on your computer? (to save room on the sdcard) and if indeed i do need to use it pop the sd card into my computer copy it back over to the sd card and then run the recovery to use the back up? would this work? or am i missing something about the backup process.
never tried this before, but i am sure it will work.
Yeah, i dont think it would matter either. But i'd rather ask and get a positive answer before i do it, mess up and need it and it not work anymore lol.
Taylor08 said:
I searched and couldnt find anything about this. I have a question is it okay to remove the nandroid back ups from the sd card and save them on your computer? (to save room on the sdcard) and if indeed i do need to use it pop the sd card into my computer copy it back over to the sd card and then run the recovery to use the back up? would this work? or am i missing something about the backup process.
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Of course that will work and no, you don't have to take out the card, just use the Partitions menu in Koush's recovery to mount the phone on USB, then you can cut and paste from the card, or even format, to your heart's content on your PC. Just make sure you properly dismount the volume (only /sdcard shows up in recovery, not /emmc, for some reason) in your PC, then use the track button to dismount from the DI.
rynosaur said:
Of course that will work and no, you don't have to take out the card, just use the Partitions menu in Koush's recovery to mount the phone on USB, then you can cut and paste from the card, or even format, to your heart's content on your PC. Just make sure you properly dismount the volume (only /sdcard shows up in recovery, not /emmc, for some reason) in your PC, then use the track button to dismount from the DI.
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Thank you sir, appreciate it.
I have installed A7Comb rom which mostly does a good job. The biggest problem is that external sdcard and usb are inaccessible. If I choose to go back to 3.01 where I had this capability, access to external sdcard is required to flash the old rom. Am I screwed or are there any other alternatives?
ooorah
im not positive, but if i remember correctly you have access to the external sd (using Root Explorer or something like it) there is /Mnt/sdcard check in there im not sure the exact directory, but im pretty sure it was in there when i was using A7comb, then you can copy and paste the update.zip to the root of the sd
Let me know if you can't find it, i will flash A7comb real quick to give you a hand
Catch-22 eLocity A7
smallba, Thanks for the reply. Can root explorer be used to do the rom flashing? I can get the 1.41 rom on the sdcard using my desktop, but the A7 can't see it. I've tried to flash using the start button routine, but it never recognizes the sdcard and sends me back to boot. Then I cant boot until I remove the sdcard. Also, even though I'm rooted and have superuser, root explorer always fc's. What a mess.
ooorah
ooorah said:
I have installed A7Comb rom which mostly does a good job. The biggest problem is that external sdcard and usb are inaccessible. If I choose to go back to 3.01 where I had this capability, access to external sdcard is required to flash the old rom. Am I screwed or are there any other alternatives?
ooorah
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Try mnt/external_sd ..
ooorah said:
smallba, Thanks for the reply. Can root explorer be used to do the rom flashing? I can get the 1.41 rom on the sdcard using my desktop, but the A7 can't see it. I've tried to flash using the start button routine, but it never recognizes the sdcard and sends me back to boot. Then I cant boot until I remove the sdcard. Also, even though I'm rooted and have superuser, root explorer always fc's. What a mess.
ooorah
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Do you have Sdhc adaptor physically plug the micro sdhc in the computer and then move the update zip to the sd?
What kind of sdcard are u using?
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Thanks for your reply. At /mnt/external_sd the sd folder is shown as empty.
ooorah
smallba I connect via usb to my desktop using a Targus adapter. The sdscard is Kingston 2gb formatted fat32. I cut/paste update.zip to the sd card.
ooorah
Do you have a cell phone to try the sd card in? I just want to make sure it is not corrupted, you have flashed before using this same sdcard?
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Yes I've used this sd card to flash on my Acer A500. I'm sure it's ok.
ooorah
What does it do when you put in and pull out the sdcard?
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When sdcard is installed I look at externai_sd and it's empty. I cannot reboot until the sdcard is removed. BTW, various mount apps I've tried fail to recognize the presence of a sdcard.
ooorah
I know I been asking many questions, but it recognized in the accer?
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Yes, sdcard was recognized in Acer 500. Content was shown under external sd.
A7
What rom are you trying to flash back to?
I had some issues reverting back from A7Comb.
I think I had to flash back to stock first.
Re: your previous post, how can I flash back to stock if I can't find external sd?
ooorah
Cant read SD
I reloaded my copy of A7Comb and will play around with it to see if I run into the same issue. If the SD can't be used, it may be possible to connect via USB/ADB and push the stock images.
However, I have never used ADB with the A7, only with other devices. I will also try and figure that out to see if that's a viable option. Will need to find the drivers and get those loaded. Been meaning to test ADB with this device anyway.
Thanks DANO, I'd appreciate the help.
ooorah
I'll do what I can, I'm no expert, but I am very comfortable with ADB and have no concerns about messing with my A7. I've been meaning to do this for a while anyway. Will probably take me a few days to get get the A7 connected to ADB as its USB port doesn't play nice, and there are some tricks to getting windows/ADB to pick up the device. I'm also gonna try and lookup Dexter to see if he can give me some tips on doing this.
I used ADB last March and rooted my CRUZ 7" tablet. Whether it will work with a usb connection to eLocity A7 will have to be tried. I'll play around to see if I can get it working. If I get that far I'll have to wait for further instructions.
ps I can use a usb keyboard with no problem. ooorah
Yeah, keyboards, thumb drives, etc. should all work as the A7’s USB slot is set to host mode by default. The trick is flipping the switch to slave/device mode so we can use ADB to communicate with it.
Dexter’s A7Comb Rom had an App “OTG” for doing this (with a reboot), but when I tried it out, my Windows 7 box only saw the device but still didn’t fully communicate with it (ADB didn’t see it at all). Most likely due to the lack of a driver, or rather telling it where the driver was.
I’ve got some info on doing this, and I plan on trying to get this up and going tonight. Once I get ADB connected to the A7, I would think we should be able to push a new recovery image or something along those lines to fix whatever happened with the SD Card.
Just curious, have you tried a factory reset, data wipe, etc. (then reboot back into recovery), and tried to run the update.zip from the SD Card. I doubt this will work, but the A7 re-writes the recovery image with each update, therefore if something got corrupted, perhaps a wipe will fix whatever is broken in recovery by way of re-writing it. I’m not sure if recovery gets replaced with just a data wipe/reset, but if you don’t mind resetting your device it might be worth a shot.
Im having an issue with TWRP 2.2.2.0.
It seems that I cant mount USB storage from the recovery at all. I can hear the sound on my lappy that a USB device is connected but when I try to mount through the recovery, nothing shows up on my computer. I tried mounting all the options there with no luck. Is this a known issue or have I messed up with my Nexie somewhere?
Thanks in advance fellow forumites.
Are you trying with usb otg? as in, cable and flash drive?
chichoko said:
Im having an issue with TWRP 2.2.2.0.
It seems that I cant mount USB storage from the recovery at all. I can hear the sound on my lappy that a USB device is connected but when I try to mount through the recovery, nothing shows up on my computer. I tried mounting all the options there with no luck. Is this a known issue or have I messed up with my Nexie somewhere?
Thanks in advance fellow forumites.
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I couldn't figure that out either, I'm also using twrp. I had to use adb to transfer files. I don't think you messed up your nexie.
unclefrancis said:
I couldn't figure that out either, I'm also using twrp. I had to use adb to transfer files. I don't think you messed up your nexie.
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I am having the same problem.
With my Kindle Fire I could connect with a USB cable and see all the files on my pc, just like it was a drive. I can't get that to work on my N7. The only way I can do it is to use WIFI File explorer which works great, but I would still like to get the cable to do it's thing if possible.
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Are you trying with usb otg? as in, cable and flash drive?
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Im trying to access the internal storage of the N7 from within the recovery. And it seems impossible :S
Right now for example, I wanted to do a NAND backup but I forgot to delete the previous one and Im out of space. The only thing I can do is reboot back to the system, plug in the usb and delete the backup, then reboot into recovery and backup -.- I wanted to avoid just that but it seems that USB mount doesnt work in TWRP at all. Is anyone using CWMR and can report wether it works there? I would re-flash the recovery in an instant...
Plugging my device into my PC, there is a TWRP folder that contains the backup I made. Couldn't you do this and just delete that folder? I'm not in debugging mode.
Some times windows detect USB device but fail to attribute a letter for that mass storage device. Look at disk managment for storage device without a letter.
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Visa Declined said:
Plugging my device into my PC, there is a TWRP folder that contains the backup I made. Couldn't you do this and just delete that folder? I'm not in debugging mode.
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I'm used to do all that stuff from within the recovery on my phone... So Im looking for the same thing for my Nexie. My biggest concern is that I wanted to have USB mount from within the recovery in case my Nexus fails to boot so I can transfer a new ROM and flash it with ease. Dont want to mess with ADB for basic stuff. I can access the storage when its booted normally just fine, its the recovery mount thats bothering me...
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Some times windows detect USB device but fail to attribute a letter for that mass storage device. Look at disk managment for storage device without a letter.
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That is something I completely forgot about, will check it later on and report back. Awesome advice, thanks man! :good:
unclefrancis said:
I couldn't figure that out either, I'm also using twrp. I had to use adb to transfer files. I don't think you messed up your nexie.
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How do I use adb to transfer files? Thanks
Adb push/pull file_name
I guess
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I don't have fast boot though .... What else should I do?
Hi, I've made two different nandroid backups using twrp in the last couple weeks and both times when I try to transfer the backup to my laptop through data cable it only transfers like 10 megs of the data and does nothing else, even though the file has almost 3 gigs in it. If I open the backup folder itself and select every item in there and try to transfer that way, same thing, most of the items just don't copy over, don't get an error or anything.
Furthermore, if I use a file explorer and try to transfer the backup folder to my external SD card, I get an error message (cant remember what it said and I already deleted the backup as it was taking up too much space).
Any ideas about what's going on? I will try to do another backup soon but it's pointless if I can't move it anywhere, since I don't want it taking up space on my phone. Thanks guys!
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What type sdcard? 32g, 64g?
Hi, just a 16 gig. I didn't think it was the SD card though because even when the backup is stored on the phone itself, it still won't transfer to the computer (via a usb cable)
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on the pc transfer can you copy smaller files of anything to pc from phone
try different cable or pc
try a different recovery and see if things copy ok--maybe the backups are bad
not sure on internal transfers--try the stock file mgr "My Files" and try with smaller files also
i have a 64gb samsung pro exfat--works perfect
How can I transfer my apps and app data from old phone with titanium backup without Sd card?
dps33 said:
How can I transfer my apps and app data from old phone with titanium backup without Sd card?
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Option 1: usb cable
Option 2: wireless
votinh said:
Option 1: usb cable
Option 2: wireless
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Umm.... I don't see how this would work. You can't really transfer the apps themselves without root at least. The app data, maybe.
dps33 said:
How can I transfer my apps and app data from old phone with titanium backup without Sd card?
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There is an app called Helium that you can get on the Play Store, that should help. It's buggy and some apps aren't supported, but it at least something. If you want to root your phone, then use titanium backup, and transfer the files via usb cable to your pc, then to your new phone, as the person above said. Then just restore using Titanium Backup again on the new phone.
Why can't he transfer the entire Titanium Backup folder over?
I can't find any reason not too.
Usb otg works as well. I use rom toolbox pro for backups and I just did a fresh backup to the sdcard of my razr, popped it into the $5 otg adapter I got from dealxtreme, and transferred the whole app_manager folder onto my g2. When I installed rom toolbox it found everything & I could do a batch restore of apps/data.
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votinh said:
Why can't he transfer the entire Titanium Backup folder over?
I can't find any reason not too.
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Agreed. In the "SD card" folder is the TB folder. This should contain all of the back-up files. Transfer them as you would any other files.
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Agreed. In the "SD card" folder is the TB folder. This should contain all of the back-up files. Transfer them as you would any other files.
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I am on STOCK ROM and not Rooted. I do not see SDCARD folder? Do I have to be rooted?
dps33 said:
I am on STOCK ROM and not Rooted. I do not see SDCARD folder? Do I have to be rooted?
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SDCARD is just going to be your main folder using any file manager. However, as far as I know, TB is limited to rooted devices or ADB. I am not familiar with how the non-rooted TB works as I have never used it. I root every phone by the time I leave Verizon's parking lot.
Am I missing something, not fully understanding or OP just makes his life more complicated than it supposes to be???
I still don't understand why can't he just "transfer" them over.
OP, your old phone, called phone A, has TB folder, your new phone, the G2, called phone B, unrooted. You don't have SD card.
Why can't you "transfer" that TB folder from phone A to your PC then from PC, "transfer" them to phone B?
What stop you from doing that? You can do wirelessly or using usb cable.
Can you treat that TB folder like your "personal" folder which hold your documents or pictures?
votinh said:
Am I missing something, not fully understanding or OP just makes his life more complicated than it supposes to be???
I still don't understand why can't he just "transfer" them over.
OP, your old phone, called phone A, has TB folder, your new phone, the G2, called phone B, unrooted. You don't have SD card.
Why can't you "transfer" that TB folder from phone A to your PC then from PC, "transfer" them to phone B?
What stop you from doing that? You can do wirelessly or using usb cable.
Can you treat that TB folder like your "personal" folder which hold your documents or pictures?
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Thanks, I may be making it more difficult for me, I wasn't sure about ROOTED phone (A) vs Non Rooted LG G2 (Phone B). Especially when it comes to TB. I wll try and see what happens.