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[Q] Titanium Backup problem with Charge

Has anyone tried moving apps and data to a Charge with Titanium Backup? I have migrated between numerous devices in the past with very little trouble, but in going from the Tbolt to the Charge, app data does not appear to be transferring. For example I have a database of 1600 CD's in Memento that does not transfer. It has always come across fine in the past. Note that this is not something stored on the SD card; it is part of the app's data. Similarly notes in Kote, saved searches in Craigsnotifica, etc. The apps restore fine but data is missing.

No problems here on my end. Everything has gone from a fascinate>thunderbolt>atrix>charge and no issues. All app data and apps work just fine.

Thanks for that data point. Maybe it's something unique to the ROM I have on the Thunderbolt (das BAMF). Or just bad luck! Titanium support people are looking into it but based on prior experience I don't have a lot of faith. It's great software when it works but when there are problems, they haven't been great at getting to a resolution.

Have you tried updating busybox from inside titanium? Thats seems to help me anytime I have a problem with the app.

Yeah, pretty sure it was up to date. I just refreshed it again and it downloaded the same version I already had. The biggest remaining issue is my CD database and it seems to go beyond Titanium Backup because I also did a backup in the database program itself (Memento) and restored it on the Charge. It said the restore was successful, but the data still does not show up. Pretty odd.

droidmark said:
Yeah, pretty sure it was up to date. I just refreshed it again and it downloaded the same version I already had. The biggest remaining issue is my CD database and it seems to go beyond Titanium Backup because I also did a backup in the database program itself (Memento) and restored it on the Charge. It said the restore was successful, but the data still does not show up. Pretty odd.
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Just a thought as I don't have a Charge or use Memento, but have you checked to see if the Charge refers to its internal storage by a different name?
The reason I ask/suggest, is because I had difficulties when I installed/migrated CoPilot Live v.8 to an Atrix and an Inspire. It turned out that the CoPilot program would not recognize the name by which the internal storage memory was mounted; when I moved the maps to the external SD card, all was well. In my case until ALK (programmers of CoPilot) changed the way internal mounted storage could be referenced in the program there was nothing I could do to keep the data on the internal storage memory!
HTH

Thanks, I'll send that to the Memento developer and see if it might apply in this situation.

What can I delete off internal SDCARD?

What folders do I need to keep on the internal phone memory? The storage that is mounted as \sdcard\ by default? I only have a couple of gig free and as far as I know I havent put anything on it! I know that some apps install to it (\sdcard\data\ ?) but most of them are installed internal. I looked in settings and the option to format the drive was greyed out.
Thanks

You can root yor o3d and install titanium backup. With this app you can delete systemapplications like the 3d games for example. But you have to know what you are deleting, otherwise you could damage your system.
The most space is taken by the games i think.

Thanks for the info.. I'm going to have a look round later on because I think there are some 3D sample videos on there that I will move off to my PC.
I recently reflashed Thaiz ROM on the phone (after two days of flashing it for the first time) because the phone was running pitifully slow and kept hanging which was what brought me to it in the first place!

[Q] Space getting low even after enabling a2sd hybrid

Hii, I use kryllios 9.5 and I enabled a2sd 1gb. Now my phone shows internal memory is low. On checking with titanium it shows:
internal: 201 MB (37.3MB free)
SD card (a2sd): 959MB (571 MB free)
Now basically I used only half of my a2sd space and it is showing my phone memory is full ( I have even sent apps to sd card from menu for the time being to get some space).
Anyone some suggestions???

could you please check if you have a
/data/tombstones/tombstone_xx
file?

Sorry for replying late. Was experimenting with pb os2
Yankees I have that file.
Still waiting for a solution.

thakns a lot for the information, my thought is approved
...just delete that file, restart your phone and feel happy again.
A feedback would be very good.
Cheers
qaysed

Thanks a lot man
but I have to delete the whole folder or just the files?

I think the files should be enough
but try it (never had these files/directory, cos my phone didnt crash so far)
If you delete the whole folder, no problem afaik, the folder gets created in case of crash
no crash, no folder, easy thought

[Q] Recovering Nandroid backup from LOST.DIR

I recently lost a lot of the data on my external SD card after restoring a CWM 6 backup from the external card. Several folders have had the first letter of their name replaced with μ (mu), the rest capitalized, and contents emptied, others are simply missing. For example "μOWNLOAD." Sadly my clockworkmod folder has become an empty "µLOCKW~1," and I had 3 backups included, most importantly my stock root backup.
I noticed that my LOST.DIR folder had 259 new random number files and is nearly 4 GB, suggesting that the files are stuck in there, but I have no idea how to figure out what is what or even if it is possible to save any of them. I tried the suggestion posted here, but nothing in the clockwork folder was found. I can pick out what I think are the 3 pairs of "system.ext4.tar.a" and "data.ext4.tar.a" files based on them being several megabytes larger than everything else, but I have no idea how to separate them or how to pick out the right "boot.img", "recovery.img", and "cache.ext4.tar.a." I'm assuming that I don't need "cache.ext4.tar,"data.ext4.tar," and "system.ext4.tar," because they all show 0 bytes in the new backup that I made on the internal card.
Does anyone have any ideas on how I might be able to save the backup?
EDIT: Also is it "safer" to keep important things on my internal or external card? I kept all of my backups on the external card specifically to avoid something like this happening during a flash or at some other time, but googling tell me that several people have had seemingly random issues with SD cards and the S3.

From my experience everything in the lost. Dir gets its file extension stripped. I had this happen to my music folder and I had to change all the files to mp3. It may be more of a pain than its worth to change every file back. And because there not all the same type who knows what file is suppose to be what
I would move any data off and reformat the card
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I had everything of import other than nandroids backed up offsite so the remaining data doesn't matter, and I expect that everything is gone, but no harm in trying.
Also, if you ever need to rename a lot of files at once again, you might want to try File Renamer Basic, it is extremely useful for batch operations like that.

Yea I just used the command line built into windows. I was surprised it had the option to do it. Ever since they stopped basing windows off Dos they got rid of some commands. I thought I was gonna have to get a live version of linux. But if there isn't anything wrong with the current rom I would just make a new backup. Format the card first before you move anything back on it
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I was having terrible battery drain when first got the phone, took out my SD-Card and now get nearly 5-6 hours screen on time!
I don't know if it was the SD-Card or the new modem/rpm (I'm still on the OTA ICS one)
but for me I use google play and I keep a copy of all my nandroids on my computer for safe keeping. and keep only the ones I need recently on the internal, and I have plenty of space left, so for me it was better to just keep the SD-Card out, it was making it hard to choose to put on sd-card or internal LOL

Maybe I've been lucky, but coming from the Droid 2 the battery life on this seems amazing (CleanROM), I have had the external card in since I bought it however.
I was mainly worried about stability issues, mainly I was always worried that a factory reset or changing roms would affect the internal card, so it would be safer to keep things on the external card.

I'm sorry if i have mistakes in this text . i'm persian . i don't know english well/
I have a solution for this problem:
I've lost my data twice. first time i thought that it is virus so i format my SD card .
this time I LOST some important data therefore i tried to get them back.
I noticed that LOST.DIR is included my data.
I connect my phone to PC (galaxy s4) then i copied all LOST.DIR files in to my PC.
then i opened one of them with windows photo viewer. ( right click -> open -> choose windows photo viwer) then i saw one of me missing photos (luckly).
however it will take a long time to take back all of your missing photos but still you will get it.
(sorry for mistakes)

[Q] Insufficient storage

My Nexus S (GT-I9020)keeps giving me an "insufficient storage" message. Particularly when updating "Google Newstand".
So I have cleared out lots of Photos and music and stuff. Cleared caches. Moved stuff to SD etc. Still keeps happening.
So while connected to my PC by USB, I ran "Treesize" on it, and it tells me that I have 9.87Gb free. What is the problem?
Of the few Gigabytes that are used, by far the biggest folder is called "DCIM", I know that this is where pictures are stored, but I have cleared out loads of photos. The largest file in there is called " thumbdata", at 966Mb by far the largest file on the entire phone. What is this waste of space? Can I delete it?
It seems that whenever I take a pic. with my phone, it is stored there, then a little while later a second copy appears thanks to Google upload or something, but the new copy is not as high res as the original. I do want Google to upload my photos back to my PC, but why does it have to send them back to the phone? How do I stop this? I spend too much time deleting copies of pics that are already on the phone in original. I think that the thumbnails folder is a result of all this.
The biggest memory hog after DCIM is Clockwork Mod, within it a folder called "blobs". What is it and can I delete it?
The Next biggest memory hog is called "TWRP". What is it? Can I delete it?
Is there a guide to what all these things mean and do, for us learners?

monkey shoulder said:
My Nexus S (GT-I9020)keeps giving me an "insufficient storage" message. Particularly when updating "Google Newstand".
So I have cleared out lots of Photos and music and stuff. Cleared caches. Moved stuff to SD etc. Still keeps happening.
So while connected to my PC by USB, I ran "Treesize" on it, and it tells me that I have 9.87Gb free. What is the problem?
Of the few Gigabytes that are used, by far the biggest folder is called "DCIM", I know that this is where pictures are stored, but I have cleared out loads of photos. The largest file in there is called " thumbdata", at 966Mb by far the largest file on the entire phone. What is this waste of space? Can I delete it?
It seems that whenever I take a pic. with my phone, it is stored there, then a little while later a second copy appears thanks to Google upload or something, but the new copy is not as high res as the original. I do want Google to upload my photos back to my PC, but why does it have to send them back to the phone? How do I stop this? I spend too much time deleting copies of pics that are already on the phone in original. I think that the thumbnails folder is a result of all this.
The biggest memory hog after DCIM is Clockwork Mod, within it a folder called "blobs". What is it and can I delete it?
The Next biggest memory hog is called "TWRP". What is it? Can I delete it?
Is there a guide to what all these things mean and do, for us learners?
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how many apps in your device? u can check your remaining storage at setting>apps>downloaded...if the remaining is under 100mb...u need to delete some apps to update some apps...

Re:insufficient storage
cshnz said:
how many apps in your device? u can check your remaining storage at setting>apps>downloaded...if the remaining is under 100mb...u need to delete some apps to update some apps...
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I have 51 countable icons for apps, 102 in the list of "All apps." which includes all sorts of android stuff.
Under "downloaded" (36 apps) internal storage shows 784Mb used, 224Mb free.
Under USB it shows 3.4Gb used, 9.9Gb free. Aha! so that's what Treesize is looking at.
I get it, my 1Gb of internal storage is being used up. I will try and move more apps to USB.
Is that it?

also check your system partition, google apps often go there, if you're not rooted you wont be able to free space on it, the system partition is about 500MB large so it gets easily filled up, it contains your android rom and system apps
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monkey shoulder said:
I have 51 countable icons for apps, 102 in the list of "All apps." which includes all sorts of android stuff.
Under "downloaded" (36 apps) internal storage shows 784Mb used, 224Mb free.
Under USB it shows 3.4Gb used, 9.9Gb free. Aha! so that's what Treesize is looking at.
I get it, my 1Gb of internal storage is being used up. I will try and move more apps to USB.
Is that it?
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yes i think you must move some apps to sd, or delete it.... hope it will work