[Q] The best backup solution for phone to PC? - Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

About to start flashing a custom rom (Aryamod) after more than a year on rooted,xposed Stock 4.3 on my N9005. As you can imagine I filled my 32 GB model to the brim and now I don't know how to back-up all my data on my phone straight to my PC. Something like a recovery image of my entire phone to my PC if ever I screw up flashing. Titanium might be an option but I only have the free version and again I don't have enough space on my phone to back up all my data. Any suggestions?

mathmango said:
About to start flashing a custom rom (Aryamod) after more than a year on rooted,xposed Stock 4.3 on my N9005. As you can imagine I filled my 32 GB model to the brim and now I don't know how to back-up all my data on my phone straight to my PC. Something like a recovery image of my entire phone to my PC if ever I screw up flashing. Titanium might be an option but I only have the free version and again I don't have enough space on my phone to back up all my data. Any suggestions?
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1- make sure your ? is on.
2- connect your ?to ? with cable.
3- copy & past / drag & move.

Will that back up my app data settings and game progress as well as my passwords and accounts?

mathmango said:
About to start flashing a custom rom (Aryamod) after more than a year on rooted,xposed Stock 4.3 on my N9005. As you can imagine I filled my 32 GB model to the brim and now I don't know how to back-up all my data on my phone straight to my PC. Something like a recovery image of my entire phone to my PC if ever I screw up flashing. Titanium might be an option but I only have the free version and again I don't have enough space on my phone to back up all my data. Any suggestions?
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When you say you have 'filled' the phone, are you talking Internal or do you mean you filled a 32GB external SD Card?
With TWRP you can easily set your backup (nandoid - i.e. everything) to an extSDCard and then simply copy that zip file to your PC. Later you can Restore only the Data if you want.
Titanium also lets you set your backups to the extSDCard.
If you mean you filled your extSDCard you have multiple options - take out the card and put it in a caddy and then a card reader and simply copy everything to PC. Buy a new and larger card. 64GB hi-speed ones work very well and even 128GB ones are down in price.

Journyman16 said:
When you say you have 'filled' the phone, are you talking Internal or do you mean you filled a 32GB external SD Card?
With TWRP you can easily set your backup (nandoid - i.e. everything) to an extSDCard and then simply copy that zip file to your PC. Later you can Restore only the Data if you want.
Titanium also lets you set your backups to the extSDCard.
If you mean you filled your extSDCard you have multiple options - take out the card and put it in a caddy and then a card reader and simply copy everything to PC. Buy a new and larger card. 64GB hi-speed ones work very well and even 128GB ones are down in price.
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I meant I filled my 32 (well, 26 GB) internal and only have a 16 gb external.

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Backing up my device with spb backup

Ok, I am exchanging my phone tommorrrow because.... well I should do it at least once... LOL, no just some issues... but seriously I am using spb backup and I want to know does this program save everthing and then I will be able to load my programs and files onto my computer when I am done and then load my phone with the same programs and what have you...
sorry I am a noob and don't want to screww this up...
christian15213 said:
Ok, I am exchanging my phone tommorrrow because.... well I should do it at least once... LOL, no just some issues... but seriously I am using spb backup and I want to know does this program save everthing and then I will be able to load my programs and files onto my computer when I am done and then load my phone with the same programs and what have you...
sorry I am a noob and don't want to screww this up...
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in spb backup, you can selesct what you want to backup. if you want to backup your entire phone memory and microsd memory you can. you then specify the save location (specify microsd location) and its done after a few minutes.
when you receive your new pdaphone, just double click the cab file in the microsd and the restore process will begin. Just ensure that your new replacement has the same ROM as the one you have backed up from.
I'm a noob myself, but I will swear by this program. I have had to do a few hard resets with my TyTN and have loaded a specific back up day and voila...everything was great again.
I didn't notice that anything was missing. And heck...even if there was something missing, I didin't feel it.
Ok, but the memory on the microsd card? not the whole sd card right... but the stuff on the phone like any files and what have you that will sync correct... lastyly there isn't a cab file it is a WCE file. just making sure because that is what it made...
oh and one more thing... do you use the unpackage tool from the pc or just use the file on the micro device and place it in the new phone...
in spb backup, you can backup your entire phone with all the settings and apps etc as well as all your files on the microsd card.
spb backup should create a .cab file. to restore, you simply click that cab file and the restore process will begin
jasjamming said:
in spb backup, you can backup your entire phone with all the settings and apps etc as well as all your files on the microsd card.
spb backup should create a .cab file. to restore, you simply click that cab file and the restore process will begin
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Maybe I am crazy but I don't think it does the cab thing... and the file it saved is only 15 megs big... I know my sd card has about 800 megs on it...
can't be that small of a back up could it?
nope, something is seriously wrong.
800mb cannot be compressed into 15megs
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nope, something is seriously wrong.
800mb cannot be compressed into 15megs
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lol lmao... I knew that sounded wierd as heck... but, I don't think it backs up the card. I think just the device onto the card. I don't think this backup program would back up a card because you would have to back it up through the pc... that is not what this does.
my version of spb backup backs up all files - phone mem and sdcard, and places the cab file on he sd card.
not sure which version you have, mine is the latest
how could it compress the file of the storage card and place it on there. If I have a gig card and have used 900 megs... what size file would this possibly create to back up the card and the device. 900 megs is a lot. I am thinking minimum I dunno 300 megs. perhaps 600 megs. Where would this posibbly go to. not the storage device. SPB backup?
OH GEEZ/... I appologize... I am MORON... I was using the full backup selection ASSuMING it meant full back up including card. LOL... NOPE.. you have to choose custom... ahhh so silly.
now I have to remove the musica on the card... but really right now i don't need to deal with the card huh...
also... do you use WMP sync with WMP 11 on the pc... I need to reset my sync... I will post to my other thread so you can see what I mean... it will be at the top.
I have never successfully restored a phone with any of the backup programs availible.
They always miss something (like owner configuration, phone config, e-mail settings and so on..)
i have always done full backup included the sd-card. My reason for doing this was that I were the projectleader for buying and configuring 10 Hermes phones to my Boss's that would look the same, and then be able to restore everything in a flash..
although, this didn't work very good, i went fine as long as I used the backup on my phone, but when trying it on another phone (same model, same rom etc. ) some things would be restored and some weren't
so , just be careful, it might not go well, but then again , it might go very well.
I've never understood the logic behind SPB Backup. From what I understand, it's supposedly possible to back up the entire device, including the SD card, however, from the trial version that I used, it was not possible to save this file on the PC when connected with ActiveSync. So the problem is, if one has a full storage card, and wants to back up their entire device including the storage card, where could the output backup file be stored?
I use SPB Backup and I dont know why I would want to include my storage card in the backup. If I want to back up my storage card I just put it in a cardreader or use sync and copy the entire card over to a directory on my computer. If your device crashes or you just need to do a hard reset, programs installed on your storage card will not be effected. If you have a backup that works, all you need to do is restore from that file. Any program that was installed on your storage card will work fine as ong as you still have the card in your device.
Worked flawlesly... Thanks so much... but I think the card back up is just smarter to just put the whole card on the computer then take it back off...
christian15213 said:
Worked flawlesly... Thanks so much... but I think the card back up is just smarter to just put the whole card on the computer then take it back off...
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glad to see you got it working
brettatk said:
I use SPB Backup and I dont know why I would want to include my storage card in the backup. If I want to back up my storage card I just put it in a cardreader or use sync and copy the entire card over to a directory on my computer. If your device crashes or you just need to do a hard reset, programs installed on your storage card will not be effected. If you have a backup that works, all you need to do is restore from that file. Any program that was installed on your storage card will work fine as ong as you still have the card in your device.
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This is true, but for the same reason, SPB is not a complete backup solution. Do you backup your storage card every time you back up your device internal memory? I have many files that I store on my storage card that are working files - that is, they change in content frequently. Included is an 80Mb SQL Mobile replicated database file. I have actually had a program corrupt my SD card at one point - such that I had to restore it (I did have a manual backup of this, but it was out of date).
At the moment, I still do SD card backups manually anyway, and just use Activesync for incremental backups every time I connect, because it's basically the same as using SPB, and saves having to use a 3rd part program to swap and copy files.
When restoring from Activesync, all I need to do is a soft reset, do a forced refresh of PIM data (contacts, tasks, appointments) from the PC, and everything else is fine. The only thing I find necessary is, after a hard reset, to soft-reset my device on the first 'boot' before the 3 second auto-installation. I don't use a cooked ROM because the programs I like to have on my PPC change all of the time.
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Just to clarify for me as I am a noob to WM5 and HTC.
If I use SPB to backup EVERYTHING except my SD card (which I can manually backup whenever and often using a card reader and PC), I will have a single CAB file with all settings.
So if I do a Hard Reset and lose everything, then before the 3-sec auto installs from the service provider I do a Soft reset to stop those. Then I run the backup CAB file and supposedly everything will be back to the way it was...meaning all registry hacks, email accounts setup, user info, today screens, ringtones, and other installs like previously installed jars and other cabs I had before.
Is this an acurate description of the SPB program?

A little confused by sdcard and external_sd

As the title says, I'm a little confused by the folder "sdcard" and the sub-folder "external_sd".
This is my first native Android device. I've been using Android on my HD2 for about 8 months now and I was fine with the "sdcard" folder actually being my sd card. Now, I've got internal memory of 16GB and that has an "sdcard" folder that my apps use to store stuff to the sd card, but they're not really storing anything on the sd card - it's a folder on the internal memory.
I'd ideally like to have internal memory and an sdcard folder that really is a sd card, so that when apps store things to "/sdcard" it does go to my sd card.
Can someone please clarify this for me?
Thanks
im not 100 precent sure on this but i think this is how it works.
thr tab has an internal non removable 2gb drove that is mounted as /
there is a internal non removable 16 gb drive that mounts as /sdcard ( /mnt/sdcard/ ) this is where your apps are installed.
then whaever external microsd card you insert gets mounted to /sdcard/external_sd/ ( /mnt/sdcard/external_sd/ )
. why its done like this is kinda stupid. apps like titanium backup you gave to type "sdcards/external_sd" as the backup folder if you want to put your backups on the microsd card since it thinks /sdcard is a removable device, which it isnt.
this is where i store pics vids and music crap.
also clockworkmod does seem to correctly put backups on the external card automatically.
heres a tip. create an empty folder on the external card called "THIS IS THE EXTERNALS SD" and likewise for the internal. that way when you are using a app or mounting as usb storage you can quickly and eaisly recognize what drive is what.
i dont know if tha answeres your question but i hope it helps.
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gophet said:
im not 100 precent sure on this but i think this is how it works.
thr tab has an internal non removable 2gb drove that is mounted as /
there is a internal non removable 16 gb drive that mounts as /sdcard ( /mnt/sdcard/ ) this is where your apps are installed.
then whaever external microsd card you insert gets mounted to /sdcard/external_sd/ ( /mnt/sdcard/external_sd/ )
. why its done like this is kinda stupid. apps like titanium backup you gave to type "sdcards/external_sd" as the backup folder if you want to put your backups on the microsd card since it thinks /sdcard is a removable device, which it isnt.
this is where i store pics vids and music crap.
also clockworkmod does seem to correctly put backups on the external card automatically.
heres a tip. create an empty folder on the external card called "THIS IS THE EXTERNALS SD" and likewise for the internal. that way when you are using a app or mounting as usb storage you can quickly and eaisly recognize what drive is what.
i dont know if tha answeres your question but i hope it helps.
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Thanks Gophet. That's pretty much what I assumed, and it was specifically apps like Titanium and Launcher Pro that backup to the SD card that made me ask the question in the first place. Shame I can't set backup folders for everything!
Cheers mate
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gophet said:
there is a internal non removable 16 gb drive that mounts as /sdcard ( /mnt/sdcard/ ) this is where your apps are installed.
then whaever external microsd card you insert gets mounted to /sdcard/external_sd/ ( /mnt/sdcard/external_sd/ )
. why its done like this is kinda stupid.
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Actually, the reason it is done like this is pretty logical.
Applications get stored in /data/apps (or /system/apps if they are system apps), and can use storage in /data/data. However, on most regular Android devices, the space in these partitions is quite limited, so if an application needs a lot more space (e.g. a game), it stores it's other resources where there is a lot more space and generally this in the sdcard. So many apps are hardcoded to look in /sdcard.
Since the GSM Tabs have 16GB of flash memory, it makes sense to have this space where it is going to be the most use, and that is going to be /sdcard because it is where most applications expect it to be.
If it didn't do this, you'd find that you would have to have a MicroSD card installed on the Tab in order for most applications to work properly, which is a nonsense when you have all that additional internal memory to play with.
Regards,
Dave
Cheers Dave.
That does make sense. I guess it's because I'm coming from a device where I only had about 70MB free space internally, so I needed an SD card, and was constantly moving apps over to it (if they would work there). I guess I need to rethink my ways and just use my SD card for media, with the "sdcard" folder being used for apps.
johncmolyneux said:
Cheers Dave.
That does make sense. I guess it's because I'm coming from a device where I only had about 70MB free space internally, so I needed an SD card, and was constantly moving apps over to it (if they would work there). I guess I need to rethink my ways and just use my SD card for media, with the "sdcard" folder being used for apps.
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If you are referring to our beloved HD2 bud then why do you manually move apps? Just use a sd-ext partition, most the nand roms come with the support or you can flash a zip to enable it. You dont need to mess about with linux to create the partitions you can just use the one included in CWR, it creates a ext3 partition that works fine, ive been using it for ages.
Depending on the rom, the user data will either be moved to your partition or the partition will actually been seen by the HD2 as internal memory so our euro HD2 can actually have 1GB of internal memory.
I myself got a Tab recently and am loving it, its like the big brother to our HD2's
Hey did you notice how small the HD2 seems now?
TheATHEiST said:
If you are referring to our beloved HD2 bud then why do you manually move apps? Just use a sd-ext partition, most the nand roms come with the support or you can flash a zip to enable it. You dont need to mess about with linux to create the partitions you can just use the one included in CWR, it creates a ext3 partition that works fine, ive been using it for ages.
Depending on the rom, the user data will either be moved to your partition or the partition will actually been seen by the HD2 as internal memory so our euro HD2 can actually have 1GB of internal memory.
I myself got a Tab recently and am loving it, its like the big brother to our HD2's
Hey did you notice how small the HD2 seems now?
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I'm more than happy to move things to the SD card on the HD2. Titanium can do it in batches too, which makes life a lot easier. To be honest, I found a ROM that I liked a couple of months ago and I've just stuck with it. It's just a basic NAND ROM with no support for ext sd partitioning, but it's fine as it is. If I do ever flash a newer ROM to it then I'll probably stick with the same setup, to be honest. I'm a bit set in my ways
And yeah, it's funny you should say that about the size of the HD2. It used to feel quite large - a really good size - but after 1 day with the tab it feels like a matchbox in a giant's hand.

heres my gameplan for buddies phone.. what u think?

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.

Change of Ext. Micro SD Card

Hi All,
I have checked/Search the forums... but haven't found a sure and certain answer.
Device: Dell Streak 5 : Carrier unlocked
Android 2.2.2
Baseband version: GAUSB1A135411-US
Kernel Version: 2.6.32.9-perf
Build: 15881
Recovery: Streakroid Dr. fixit
Current Status: Very Stable with Zeam Launcher giving good battery backup.
I was using a 4 GB class 6 card as a Ext. Micro SD Card on my dell streak 5, But now i want to use a 16 or may be a 32 GB Ext. Micro SD Card.
My questions are:
1. Do i have to do a nandroid restore for this using new card with backup nandroid on it. (to do this i have to take backup of my nandroid to my PC first and then Back to my new card, will this mess-up the MD5 check-sum?)
2. Or it can be simply done by:
a) Formatting new card as Fat32 Using PC/XP sp3
b) Copy-Paste the old card data into new card.
c) Placing new card with data into phone and reboot.
3. Or I have to move back the apps from sd card to phone before following above steps, and then again move them back to sd card after above listed things are done.
Concerns: I have moved a lot of apps/games/data onto SD card via going into Settings>Applications>Manage applications>move to sd card. So will it still work that way.
I am Asking this as once i had took out the memory card from my streak and rebooted it, it refuses to restart and i had to do a factory reset via recovery to make it work again.
Note: i cant afford to mess this thing as now this is my primary phone.
thank-you all for your time
Hi All, 91 views and not even a single reply... Is my question is extremely nooby ..or its too common and answered everywhere on Internet.
In either of case pls accept my apologies.. but i have yet to find a certain answer for this.
Anyone want to share a word.
Thankyou
Could be that noone know. I dont know the answer, but then I dont use hundreds of apps and when I have helped other who use apps2sd we have been flashing from scratch so havent needed to restore to sd.
If you do find out I'd be interested to know for future reference.
hey Marky, thanks a lot.
I was thinking the solution is so obvious that nobody cares to answer.
thank-you
I think everyone was just leaving it to someone else.
OK, here goes...
There are three possible ways this can go
Firstly, if you have NO apps on the SD card at all, all apps in internal memory, then all you need to do is
1) mount the card to your PC
2) copy all the card data onto it
3) power off the phone
4) put the new card in
5) mount it again on the PC
6) copy the data back.
Secondly, if you have used the move to SD card option from froyo, you have two choices - you can move them all to main memory, then do the above one, or you can
1) power off the phone
2) use a card reader to copy all the data from the old phone to the new one
3) put the new card in
4) reboot as normal
Finally, if you have repartitioned the card so that you can use a different app2sd system (such as Dark Tremor), then the easiest way is
1) mount the old card on your PC and back up the FAT data
2) use nandroid to backup the EXT data
3) swap the card out
4) partition the new one
5) nandroid restore the EXT data
6) boot up normally
7) mount and restore the FAT data
(and if you are not sure if you have partitioned the card, then you almost certainly haven't)
I'm pretty sure from what you asked that the middle option describes your position, and yes, apps on SD will work fine if just copied across to the new card, but it is advised not to boot the phone up without them there, hence the card reader being needed. I added the other methods in for anyone else who may be looking for answers from slightly different cases
thankyou Jim bro ,
I have moved a lot of apps to sd card, but i think i will play safe and just move them back to phone manually .
then do a reboot > turn if off> plug in new fat32 formated microsd card and turn on the phone.
if everything works fine then reboot it again just to make sure.. or do you suggest or not suggest a wipe cache and delvik cache via recovery and a reboot.
Option #1 (Jim-bo post) or option #2 (your post) above. PERIOD! I do it all the time. (see my signature)
Dalvik and wipe cach have nothing to do with EXTERNAL card. It's just like changing sd cards in your pc. Just make certain to copy EVERYTHING including hidden files/folders.
If you're talking about the INTERNAL card......that's an entirely different process.
kraz
thanks kraz, I thought when I change card (external ) still system must be changing some entries. .. might be some very small entries which does not affect the stability overall.
thanks for your clarification.
on a side note... I am planning to shift to di's 1.9.1 but I am confused on few issues.
1. do I need to update the amss.mbm and dsp1 , currently my streak is on
Android 2.2 .2
Baseband version: GAUSB1 A135411- US
Kernel Version: 2.6. 32.9-perf
Build : 15881
2. should I go for prefmod or not, long battery life is my concern... currently on my rom I am getting around 1% battery drain per hour in ideal with screen off (with edge data turned on and auto sync on for data and mails)
how much battery performance shouuld I expect from dj's 1.9.1
thanks
You're on baseband 354 A135411-US. Should be compatible with 1.9.1 for both amss and dsp1.
Couldn't tell you about battery. My streak was only on stock rom first 30 minutes I had it. I don't worry about battery life as I have charging cables at home, work, and car. Charge is never a problem for me! My cars and my phone are all about the speed. I don't wory about gas mileage either.
kraz
, thanks for breaking it up for me,
354 nice to know that I m on latest updated band...

Retrieve data from unreadable adopted storage card

I am not the author of this, it is from https://android.stackexchange.com/q/174799/146132 but it has some great info I thought I would share... My thanks to the author.
About a month ago the Moto G (3rdGen) of my wife was not able to recognize the SD-card 32GB Trancend premium 400x (which was formatted as adoptable storage) anymore. On this card were very important pictures and movies for us (of our new born baby). As of a certain Android version the adoptable storage is also encrypted and reading it on a PC or other phone is not possible without the encryption key. Since the phone was also not rooted it was also not possible to get the encryption key from the /data/...something directory... (see https://nelenkov.blogspot.ch/2015/06/decrypting-android-m-adopted-storage.html) So I almost gave up hope...
I bought the exact same type SD-card, also 32GB, only about a year later. Hoping that I would be able to make an exact clone of the card and I would be able to start some experiments with it without the risk of destroying something on the original card and losing all the data. When I mounted the original card under Linux it shows two partitions 17MB and about 31GB. Cloning the card with some Linux command line tools didn't gave me the same result. Next thing I tried was cloning it using HDDrawCopy, first write the entire card to an image on my harddrive. When I copied the data to my new 32GB card I noticed that the new card did not have the same capacity of the image file (image was 32.22GB, new card shows capacity of 31.11GB) so hmmmm that trick doesn't work... Luckily I also happen to have a 64GB SDcard (same type) which should have enough space for this test. So using HDDrawCopy I wrote the image to this card. Checked under Linux if I see the same partition as with the original card and this happens to be (of course it also shows about 32GB of free space not partitioned).
So I thought lets see if the Moto shows the same error with my new card in the phone and that I made an image on which I can start to try to hack the encryption off(now or in the future). To my surprise the Moto shows immediately that the transcend 32GB volume is mounted! I went to the gallery of the phone and IT SHOWS OUR PICTURES AND MOVIES again!!!
So in short when this happens buy a larger volume SD-Card (to make sure that there are enough data-block available). Use HDDrawCopy to make a bit-wise clone/image of the original card. Write the image to your new card and check if it can be read by your phone.
Never do the following or your data will be lost:
Format the cardSet your phone back to factory default (destroys your encryption key)Make the phone to forget/unmount the storage location (also destroys encryption key)upgrade to a newer version of Android (or any other major system update).
(of course make sure to make backups or cloud syncs to prevent this situation at all)
I hope this can help someone out there who might ended up in the same situation.
Unfortunately I have clicked on forget the card. Can anything be done?
Unfortunately I have clicked on forget the card. Can anything be done?
ajparag said:
Unfortunately I have clicked on forget the card. Can anything be done?
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Unfortunately, no... When you click "Forget" the unlock token is erased and not recoverable by normal means. The daya stored on an internal SD csrd is now lost forever.
Hi, I am in a similar situation. I have a marshmellow phone with an sd card set up as adopted storage, but the phone stopped working and I needed the memory card somewhere else so I took an image backup of the SD card Partition. This is the mistake I did, should have taken the entire disk image backup. So now when I restored the image and the phone is fixed, the phone doesn't recognizes the memory card even though it still has the encryption key.
Any ideas?
The partition table is correct, the first partition "android_meta" probably has the wrong info

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