hi all!! im new in this section of forum,im still waiting to recieve my opt (still in processing) but im taking infos about rooting and modding because i have to transfer tons of things from my galaxy s4 and need titanium backup
talking with some ppl who already recived the phone i discovered a bad bad thing, a full wipe to a clean installation completerly remove any file on the internal storage,now with g s4 with a full wipe it mantain all documents on phone memory,like pics documents whatsaapp folder with all pics and videos,its very usefull when u change rom very often (and i do very often)
now my question is,do i have to save all my titanium backups on pc and restore theme every time i change rom ? is there any way to create a folder to put what u want keep
i use phone for work too and i have tons of pdf i need to bring always with me and its unconfortable if i have to wipe when im not at home with enough time to copy and past all my stuffs
thx in advance for any answer and...sorry for my bad english lol i hope u all can understant it
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ok so all take the chance i know this has been posted a lot on this forum but to be honest the information i obtained from all the threads is not sufficient enough to solve the problem which is IS IT POSSIBLE TO CARRY OUT A FULL BACKUP AND RESTORE ON THE HD USING THE VARIOUS BACKUP SOFTWARE THAT WE HAVE SUCH AS SPB BACKUP, SPRITE ETC.. surely there must be a solution out there somewhere to carry out a full backup and restore because now that we have everything moving over at the hd rom development forum with new roms everyday surely a complete backup and restore of the entire system of the HD is now more important than ever because there is now a lot of software for us to use on our HD so please dont flame me for bringing this up again but its just a desparete attempt to get help. perhaps this way, the programers can then help to make some software that makes it possible to make a full backup and restore on the HD, or even maybe starting a poll or something with people stating what software they have successively used to perform a complete backup and restore thank you again guys and to be gratefull for this great website that makes it possible to provide us with a better device i will make my donation on 27/01/09 thank you xda, lots of love from UK
I think your . button is jammed LOL
I've been wondering the same thing, really. I'm pretty new to these devices. How do people cope with new ROMs coming out all the time as far as installed software? Is there a way to install everything you want including all the dang activation keys, then make a backup that will re-install everything once you update the ROM?
Not sure whether there is an easy answer. I don't think you can save all the various settings - but that does not take long. Place as many as your apps on the storage card a possible. Make sure you keep the original installation cab files on the storage card.
The difficult one (for me) is the bookmarks in Opera. I now keep the URLs on an email on my Pc and resend it after a hard reset. They each have to be opened and saved as bookmarks but at least no typing.
If there is an easier way I would be keen to hear as well.
I use Sprite Backup 6.5 for full restores after ROM Updates, and Level 1 (Personal data and programs) updates have never failed. Tested quite a few non-official ROMs from this forum, never had a problem. Never tried restore after a hardreset, never did one.
i think the best backup-restore program is Spb backup restore. I have used Sprite but it always fails me when it comes to restore.
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Not sure whether there is an easy answer. I don't think you can save all the various settings - but that does not take long. Place as many as your apps on the storage card a possible. Make sure you keep the original installation cab files on the storage card.
The difficult one (for me) is the bookmarks in Opera. I now keep the URLs on an email on my Pc and resend it after a hard reset. They each have to be opened and saved as bookmarks but at least no typing.
If there is an easier way I would be keen to hear as well.
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I notice that each time i flash with a new ROM .. I have to re-install all the programs from my storage card again .. though most of the apps i have installed it on the Storage card ...
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I use Sprite Backup 6.5 for full restores after ROM Updates, and Level 1 (Personal data and programs) updates have never failed. Tested quite a few non-official ROMs from this forum, never had a problem. Never tried restore after a hardreset, never did one.
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Does anyone know what's the different between the 3 levels ?
Let's say I have my ROM and programs running perfectly but I wanna try out new cab files .. I will do a back-up and if anything happens I restore with level 3 ??
My vote is Sprite Backup. Have used it from many years and each update improves on the last. It is stable, functional and easy to use.
ok , SSPL is out and everyones in rush for uploading, downloading, flashing and testing cooked ROMs .
when u are a ROM addict u cannot just walk away from new releases and not try to refresh ROM development page
im using spb backup 2.0 and everytime I restore my backup files ( full restore and customized ) i feel its kinda slower than the time i install the programs manually . i dont know if it is mentally or not but i feel like that .
and now , with having sense in our devices it seems backup apps dont do their job correctly ... and of course I'm not talking about backing up from pim ( contacts, messages, etc. )
am i right about having slower OS after restoring or its just a wrong supposition ?
i want to know your opinions and it would be nice to hear your experiences about this matter ...
tnx
You should never restore from backups such as those made by SPB or Sprite when changing ROMs, plain and simple. There's nothing really to have "opinions" about. It doesn't work properly, no matter what software vendors say. End of story.
it should not be that easy ! if so , thats ok dont end the story so angry!
so u always install all your apps aftere flashing a ROM ?
I'm not angry, but it's a very simple story.
Yes, I always install my apps after flashing, but the process is automated via SASHIMI. Same goes for settings and tweaks.
Hi, I wanted to know exactly what content\files is backed up? Is it only the main ROM and the default apps, or ALL apps and user settings at the time of the backup? Can someone provide a link explaining the same or answer the question here?
Thanks.
It backups System, data, boot, so it makes a total image of your phone immediately!
And what about Contacts and SMS's? are they backed up too? Or when you say total, you mean a 100% copy of how my phone is right now?
honestly i didnt get a situation to test this after backing up my phone in recovery....
but i hope we can restore our phone's present condition if we back it up & try to restore....
why cant u have a back up of all ur phone contents onto PC & try restoring from the recovery backup & let all of us know is it really 100% or not ???
makes sense right sheik ??? i think u can do that.... dont mistake me pls...
yeah I can try it. But looking at the power cuts on my city, it'll be hard to do so. And I've already backed up my contacts on my pc and WaveSecure. I just wanted to know of it is unnecessary as the backup will save all that.
Sent from my HTC Tattoo using the XDA mobile app.
It backups ALL THE PHONE. All it's all.
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It backups ALL THE PHONE. All it's all.
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Thanks for the confirmation mate.
Hello,
I am currently using an xda touch diamond that I have been configuring and
maintaining etc. with much devotion over the last ~two years... For that reason, I understandably fear flashing. However, I am running into the hardly-any-space-on-internal-storage-left-problem, and subsequently have been heavily searching for solutions that might enable the deletion of individual rom-files. I think I read twenty times, no, it's not possible. So my question is: Would it be possible to clone the complete device without any data/config loss whatsoever into a file (simililar to what sprite backup does), and in advance of flashing/whatever you will call the complete restore process actually DELETE certain files that used to be undeletable on the device itself.
Thanks for answering this....
Matthias
me1235 said:
Hello,
I am currently using an xda touch diamond that I have been configuring and
maintaining etc. with much devotion over the last ~two years... For that reason, I understandably fear flashing. However, I am running into the hardly-any-space-on-internal-storage-left-problem, and subsequently have been heavily searching for solutions that might enable the deletion of individual rom-files. I think I read twenty times, no, it's not possible. So my question is: Would it be possible to clone the complete device without any data/config loss whatsoever into a file (simililar to what sprite backup does), and in advance of flashing/whatever you will call the complete restore process actually DELETE certain files that used to be undeletable on the device itself.
Thanks for answering this....
Matthias
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You yourself are describing a 'playful' method of building a new ROM!
This is what ROM cooks do when a ROM is made. They remove or edit - files or folders that are inbuilt and add their custom folders to it and 'cook' it. So in a sense the answer is 'YES' you can remove what you don't like in your ROM. But NO you can't do it by your suggested method. You can cook a ROM yourself or ask a cook on forum to do you a favour and delete unwanted files from your ROM and you can flash custom ROM with better space on it - Flashing is not that bad to be honest! I have done it on my WinMo - uncountable times! More than the number of times you might have changed your wallpaper!
So just make sure you read instructions on how to do it. Back up all your data on storage card and contacts too! - there you are ready to go!
After first flash of new ROM you won't take more than 2 hours making your phone as it is! (and you get faster with each flash!)
yes, drupad2drupad is right,
what I would add, I know what you mean, been facing the same decision. Spend year customizing and didn't want to loose it, on the other hand phone become slow and full. Well if there was a simple solution to this, this forum would be 95% smaller. there isn't any universal solution.
you will loose something. some settings, (registry or config files), some customizing. etc.
by using different backup programs or by setting them differently, you can trigger how much to backup, and how much to revert. BUT if you backup everything, (all registry and all files) after flashing you are right where you was. no big change.
what I do is I copy all int.memory to SD card, export all registry, backup only messages (contacts and calendar are in file pim.vol, if you end all programs and disable today plugins, you should be able to copy there and back this too, not loosing nothing by backup converting)
then flashing new rom, restore messages, copy pim.vol back and then slowly, restoring setting for each program I care to do so.
it's either a file in \program files or in \windows or a part of registry. there you open your big exported reg file, search for a name of program and cut,paste to empty reg file and import.
I made a backup script to do this automatically, but it's not possible to make it universal, it will backup only those programs it's set to backup.
back to you question about deleting rom files. you can, after a fashion, but deleting such will only add info to ignore this rom file. which means, rom file stays, but is not visible. thought, you can clean your int memory. removing temp and accumulated useless files, moving programs you use rarely to SD, but this is very time consuming and advance thing to do.
thanks
first of all, thanks to the two of you for such devoted answers! thanks a lot , really.
My guess is it will take me (I'm quite obsessive) 6-10 hours -- research etc. to make sure everything will definitely go fine and finally restore everything to the prior state. Never having messed around with flashing etc., I think it's too much effort to gain some lousy 20 mb.
I still really appreciate your answers. It's a shame there is no universal method to do this is a few steps, with some utility, for everyone...
So I was wondering, what do you think, on a system like the touch diamond, running windows mobile 6.1, with I think ~100 mb internal storage, how many mb should in your opinion at any point in time be free space, to ensure things are running smooth? (And, I suppose/hope flash memory deterioration due to little space left is not that much of an issue...)
Else I'd go as far as "donating" some chrismas bucks to some kindred spirit in guiding me through the process, I just don't have the nerve to do this, for 10 mb... never again will I buy a device that has too small internal storage!
thanks to everyone...
matthias
(edit) ps.: I find it funny that the files in rom can store data (like the 16 MB mxip initdb.vol which is said to carry contacs I believe) - for the novice, like myself, it's kind of difficult to understand why files can be written to, but not decreased in size to free up memory somehow - or do they have a "size limit" / "fixed size"?) but anyway, you need not comment on this.
There is a way that you can reduce your file storage size quite easily....
Thanks to AnDim, see here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=377514.
Do the following steps:
1. Use a back-up tool such as Resco Backup and make a back-up on your storage card.
2. Use Total Commander and copy all of the files in your Windows directory that are NOT part of the ROM. You can do this quite easily by chosing the "Hide files in Rom" part. Then copy and save these files on your desktop.
3. Use AnDim's HTC ROM Image Editor. Open your original rom with this (I hope you have it).
4. Add the files you copied from your desktop to the rom you opened with AnDim's tool.
5. Delete any duplicate files that were in the original rom from the ones you just copied.
6. Save the new rom and flash it.
7. Use Resco Back-up to restore your original rom.
8. Use Total Commander to delete the files created by Resco Back-Up in your Windows folder that you had previously added to the rom.
After all of this, you will find you have much more storage space and a quicker rom because all of the files you added that overwrote a rom file will no longer have duplicate files and also rom files take up less storage space.
Good luck!
hi mitsi,
thanks for that post, highly appreciated! this looks like a solution to the problem I described -- After doing some time-consuming cleanup, I now have some ~10 MB free, so I think I'll wait for this to decrease down to let's say 5MB in the future, and then follow your steps -- which seem to be advanced, but feasible. This is really a great hint. Hope others who run into the same problem will find this thread helpful too. I'm really impressed with quality and helpfulness in this forum, outstanding. Will have to go out and help others where I can now to compensate for my bad conscience
Grüße nach Berlin aus dem Schwarzwald!
M.
I recommend using SPB backup.
I used that program to do what you wanted to do ever since I used Axim x5 (currently TP2).
I have it set up so it automatically make a backup every week on Sunday, so just in case if something goes wrong (bad cab or driver) I can have most of important changes and not LOSE a thing.
So, good luck : )
Hi everyone
I need to know if there is a way to retrieve notes made with the Catch Notes app (yea that one, that is no longer in service) from the image/sd-card files of an Android-Version that put my HD2 into a bootloop.
I'm running Android via sdcard-booting. The ROM is from AmericanAndroid running Android 2.3.7 (quite old actually).
In the past the phone randomly got into booting loops (rarely though, probably 2-3 times in the last 2 years). To 'solve' this issue I reverted back to a backup that I occassionaly made of the entire SD-card. The problem is, everything between the last backup and the day that those bootloops started to happen was pretty much lost. Atleast concerning the notes I made with the Catch Notes app.
I tried to fiddle through the files on the sdcard (I backed up the files aswell of the 'faulty' state of the image) but couldn't find anything that lead me towards the notes off Catch Notes. Does anyone know where that is stored locally? The thing is, I didn't use the app to sync it with their service, it was all stored locally and it must be somewhere in the app data, but I just can't find it. Could it be that it is in the data.img file? I'm not an expert in that field, so I have no clue where to search.
I would be extremely thankful if anyone leads me into the right direction. There's quite some important notes there that I need to have access to.
Thanks in advance for any help. If you need more info, just tell me and I would gladly give it to you.
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tibursio said:
Hi everyone
I need to know if there is a way to retrieve notes made with the Catch Notes app (yea that one, that is no longer in service) from the image/sd-card files of an Android-Version that put my HD2 into a bootloop.
I'm running Android via sdcard-booting. The ROM is from AmericanAndroid running Android 2.3.7 (quite old actually).
In the past the phone randomly got into booting loops (rarely though, probably 2-3 times in the last 2 years). To 'solve' this issue I reverted back to a backup that I occassionaly made of the entire SD-card. The problem is, everything between the last backup and the day that those bootloops started to happen was pretty much lost. Atleast concerning the notes I made with the Catch Notes app.
I tried to fiddle through the files on the sdcard (I backed up the files aswell of the 'faulty' state of the image) but couldn't find anything that lead me towards the notes off Catch Notes. Does anyone know where that is stored locally? The thing is, I didn't use the app to sync it with their service, it was all stored locally and it must be somewhere in the app data, but I just can't find it. Could it be that it is in the data.img file? I'm not an expert in that field, so I have no clue where to search.
I would be extremely thankful if anyone leads me into the right direction. There's quite some important notes there that I need to have access to.
Thanks in advance for any help. If you need more info, just tell me and I would gladly give it to you.
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My Friend As I Know Apps Save Their Outpots ( TXT - Doc - etc ) In The SD Card So Maybe You Should Take a Look At Your SD Folders ( If You Have Lost Them Then Use a Recovery app To recover files through a PC ... But If You Have a Complete Backup Then You Can Try An Other SD ROM Or a NativeSD ROM TO get It Boot and Recover What You Wanted ...
With Best Wishes
Hitman1376
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My Friend As I Know Apps Save Their Outpots ( TXT - Doc - etc ) In The SD Card So Maybe You Should Take a Look At Your SD Folders ( If You Have Lost Them Then Use a Recovery app To recover files through a PC ... But If You Have a Complete Backup Then You Can Try An Other SD ROM Or a NativeSD ROM TO get It Boot and Recover What You Wanted ...
With Best Wishes
Hitman1376
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I know you are Hitman but why the hell you writing like that with all capitals. I so heavy to understand english and if you write like that you just complicate the situation! Maannn.....
you Hit my eyes!
Sorry
eclyptos said:
I know you are Hitman but why the hell you writing like that with all capitals. I so heavy to understand english and if you write like that you just complicate the situation! Maannn.....
you Hit my eyes!
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Sorry my friend ... My mistake ... Yes your right I'm a shooter but no friendly fire is accepted for me :laugh: ... I would try to write this way ... How is it ? .... Sorry for bad writing ...
With best wishes
Hitman1376