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.
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So I installed the Cyanogen mod from RomManager to try it out. The thing is, now my phone is telling me my SD card is damaged and I can't read from it. My backups were on there and I foolishly did not save copies onto my computer.
So, is there anyway to get a stock ROM for the incredible so I can flash that back onto there?
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So I installed the Cyanogen mod from RomManager to try it out. The thing is, now my phone is telling me my SD card is damaged and I can't read from it. My backups were on there and I foolishly did not save copies onto my computer.
So, is there anyway to get a stock ROM for the incredible so I can flash that back onto there?
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Have you tried booting your phone into recovery.
Then going to nandroid in recovery and choosing your backup to restore?
That damaged message sounds like something you see in rom manager, but you can probably still see your SD card fine in recovery if you haven't tried that yet.
Ditto, except have you tried checking your SD card with a reader straight into the PC? If you can't read it with a reader it may very well be damaged.
If it is actually broken IncredibleRoms (dot) com is usually a good place to look for ROM's.
Looked around and found a stock nandroid backup
incredibleroms.com/roms/stock/
Only other option might be trying to go the RUU route.
This is a rooted stock rom binny made that you can use. Its from a previous thread a few weeks ago
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This is just a stock rom with a few tweeks.
It includes SuperUser, busybox, Wireless -N, Facebook has been moved to /data/local so it can be uninstalled, Zipaling and ROM Manager. CityID has been removed, also the internal task killer has been tweeked so no need to have third party task killers.
I dont plan on working too much on this one, but may update in the future.
http://www.mediafire.com/?uymjmjmmyja
I would recomend wipeing before installing.
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Can't access the card in recovery either. I even took the card out and put it in my computer and can't read it there either.
I found the droid incredible downgrade file for returning to stock without root, I guess I'll have to go this route. I know I can re-root the phone, its just loosing all my apps and data that's painful.
EDIT: or use the rooted rom, thanks kentoe, that definitely saves me some time.
Titanium Backup can take care of the apps and you could pull data to your pc.
Unless the apps and data were on your SD card in which case you'll need some CSI/NCIS tricks to reconstruct your messed up SD.
Hyru said:
Titanium Backup can take care of the apps and you could pull data to your pc.
Unless the apps and data were on your SD card in which case you'll need some CSI/NCIS tricks to reconstruct your messed up SD.
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Yes, I used Titanium Backup for my apps, but unfortunately they were on the card. I'll just have to call it a loss and reinstall my apps one at a time.
Utils for SD recovery
I have a few utils that have been able to recover data from SD cards, flash sticks, CF stuff like that. Look on the net.
Yeah, I somehow actually damaged my friends SD card from his Moto Droid while attempting to root my Incredible. Needless to say he wasn't very happy. So off to google I went and in the morning he had all his files back like it never happened.
I am curious about what is the best way to back up apps from my current Evo and restore them on another phone? I'm asking because I shattered my Evo's screen last night after a year of taking such good care of it...and through Asurion I will be receiving an Evo 3D. Sad to leave this dev community, but I will gladly take a dual core phone over my OG.
I use TB Pro to back up and restore between roms. I normally avoid Google's backup/restore app process because it takes too long over the internet, but does that service also backup the data for the apps as well? Like saving all my info in games and such. Thanks for any input
titanium backup, just be careful with what you restore on the new device (system settings for example are a no-no)
How am I going to restore apps that are on another phone with TB?
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How am I going to restore apps that are on another phone with TB?
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Go on the sd card of your current phone, copy it, [or use the same sd card] start up new phone, install titanium backup, then simply restore all apps+data, NOT system settings.
my back up pro app
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teh roxxorz said:
Go on the sd card of your current phone, copy it, [or use the same sd card] start up new phone, install titanium backup, then simply restore all apps+data, NOT system settings.
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This. Also TB allows you to upload your backup to a dropbox account as well, no need to move the SD card but you trade speed for convenience (dropbox process takes longer since it has to upload when the backup is created then download when you restore to the new device)
And BTW OP yes TB will also backup your game data
TB is a sure way
Hi all,
Looks likely that I am going to get a S4, I will still keep my very much loved S2 but I have a query....
S2 is rooted, Redirection Remix 3.1.1 I also have the full Titanium Backup pro
If I backup all of my apps and data on my rooted S2, save this to my SD card, then put the SD card in the new S4 will I be able to restore all my apps and data to the non-rooted S4?
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Hi all,
Looks likely that I am going to get a S4, I will still keep my very much loved S2 but I have a query....
S2 is rooted, Redirection Remix 3.1.1 I also have the full Titanium Backup pro
If I backup all of my apps and data on my rooted S2, save this to my SD card, then put the SD card in the new S4 will I be able to restore all my apps and data to the non-rooted S4?
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Why would the GS4 be non-rooted? you can use motochopper to Root the SG4 now. It literally takes 1 minute to root your SG4 now. :cyclops:
You can't use TB without root. Sorry.
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Still a little dicey sounding on the 9500 but the 505 has root making it no problem. I would think the 9500 will get solved if it isn't already shortly. Its a good idea to avoid restoring system apps and only restore user apps. This means you will have to go through your various system settings again some of which will be remembered by google depending on your settings, others will not. Google will also restore some of your system data to system apps like gmail but not all of them again depending on your settings. Best to hold on to your old phone until you are sure you have everything transferred across if you haven't done this a lot and know the drill for getting everything. Its very easy to forget something if you aren't practiced at moving on to the next thing.
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.....
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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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...
SM-N9005
Android: 5.0
I am really at the end of my tether here - I would really appreciate some help.
I want to factory reset my phone. Before I do I want to do a thoroughly comprehensive backup of all the whatsapp data on my phone (call logs/media/chats etc.).
I installed whatsapp. Added an SD card to the phone months later.
I specifically prefer doing local backups using my computer or SD card only.
How can I check that whatsapp is indeed backing up chats to the sd card. If t is not - can I make it do this somehow.
If not - whats the best way to get this all done as a local backup please.
Capt Morpheous said:
SM-N9005
Android: 5.0
I am really at the end of my tether here - I would really appreciate some help.
I want to factory reset my phone. Before I do I want to do a thoroughly comprehensive backup of all the whatsapp data on my phone (call logs/media/chats etc.).
I installed whatsapp. Added an SD card to the phone months later.
I specifically prefer doing local backups using my computer or SD card only.
How can I check that whatsapp is indeed backing up chats to the sd card. If t is not - can I make it do this somehow.
If not - whats the best way to get this all done as a local backup please.
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Titanium backup man.
Nothing beats it.
I understand what you're saying.
But I need to understand the app and how to manage this in the future.
Is there a way to check if whatsapp is actually making local backups to my SD card?
If not - how can I make it do this.
It shouldn't be so hard - that I am forced to use cloud backup over local backups.