I backed up my call logs, messages and apps with mybackup on my Nexus. So when I switched to the G2X I thought I could simply install mybackup and restore data! As I did when i went from g1 to nexus. It says "restore from /mnt/sdcard" when i click that it says "error...no backups found at current....path" The backup is in the rerware folder, i even copied it to other folders, but when i look at my sd card using Astro File Manager I don't even see a folder called /mnt/sdcard. I mount phone to computer and don't see a folder called /mnt/sdcard. How can I get my data from mybackup? Thanks
Try the folder
mnt/sdcard/_externalSD
You might have to move them to
Mnt/sdcard for it to work.
Looks like that is how the G2x handles internal and external memory.
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Yes, what the poster above me said. I had to do this exact same thing. Your SD card is mapped to:
/sdcard/_ExternalSD
Go into mybackup pro and on the main screen hit menu and go into options then backup location and type in /sdcard/_ExternalSD don't worry about the /mnt only /sdcard/_ExternalSD and it works fine for me now!!
Ghost_1 said:
Try the folder
mnt/sdcard/_externalSD
You might have to move them to
Mnt/sdcard for it to work.
Looks like that is how the G2x handles internal and external memory.
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pettigrew95 said:
Yes, what the poster above me said. I had to do this exact same thing. Your SD card is mapped to:
/sdcard/_ExternalSD
Go into mybackup pro and on the main screen hit menu and go into options then backup location and type in /sdcard/_ExternalSD don't worry about the /mnt only /sdcard/_ExternalSD and it works fine for me now!!
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Thanks a lot to both of you! It worked! that helped me a lot, Thanks
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I understand that the internal sd card mounts here:
mnt/emmc
but the problem is i cant get something things to work i believe because of it.
eg... i cant take a picture with the camera because it finds that there is no storage.
i cant get Titanium backup to work. I understand i can change the backup location, but when i go to do so, the app force closes on me.
any ideas on what i can do?
Regards,
I've never been able to get Titanium Backup to "see" the internal SD card (emmc), so I just set it to backup to my external, real SD card.
yes but i cant even get to that point, because it FCs as soon as i want to change backup location
GameOver69 said:
yes but i cant even get to that point, because it FCs as soon as i want to change backup location
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Go into recovery and then go to fix permissions
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Suprah said:
Go into recovery and then go to fix permissions
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Same issue after i fixed the permissions. I have the latest version of TB installed from the market as well FYI
GameOver69 said:
Same issue after i fixed the permissions. I have the latest version of TB installed from the market as well FYI
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Try moving your Titanium folder over to the corect path. In other words put the folder back in the path mnt/sd and out of mnt/emmc/. It will go to the phones external partition instead of the actual external sd card that you put in.
Then put your settings in titanium back to the way they were origanally
I've used TBU with many, and I mean many ROMs and have not had the troubles I'm having with CM7.
Used to be you copy TBU folder somewhere safe and then when you install new ROM, you just replace the newly created TBU folder with the one you saved. Worked PERFECTLY every time.
CM7 reads the Ext SD Card as a SD Card. The Internal SD Card is located at the emmc folder. I thought the Ext SD Card was supposed to be located in the emmc folder?!?!?
I moved my backup TBU folder, with all my saved info from the last install to both SD Cards. One at a time and have tried to run TBU, but it doesn't show all the elements I saved. Only like 96
Don't have a clue how to make TBU work with CM7. Can anyone give me a clue?
Thanks!!!
MC
Go into your preferences on tbu and choose the location of the folder were your backups are at. I just did this so I know it works
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The tbu backup files you made prior to flashing cm7 can be found as a folder in /emmc.
So one trick is to change the folder location within the TBU app to find the emmc. That will allow you to restore your 96 apps. I agree, it does get confusing.
Has anyone been able to get Titanium backup to backup to the removable storage? It wont let me navigate to my ext sd and will only backup to the on device storage! Can copy and paste to ext whenever I want to clean install a rom but kind of a pain!
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Has anyone been able to get Titanium backup to backup to the removable storage? It wont let me navigate to my ext sd and will only backup to the on device storage! Can copy and paste to ext whenever I want to clean install a rom but kind of a pain!
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First create a new folder on your sd card then copy all the backups to your new folder on the sd card.
1. Open Tibu, tab on the 3 stacked little boxes(most top right of the screen),
2. Select "preferences" from the drop down, scroll down to "backup folder location", tab to open,
3. Then tab on "detect" button, then tab on "whole device" button and it will find your new folder location,
4. Then hit the back button to bring you back to previous screen, your new path displayed and you tab on "use the current folder". you done.
If you've never made a backup, then you need to do the following:
In TiBu, Settings --> Preferences --> Backup folder location. Use the back key to navigate to /, then go to /Removable/MicroSD and then you can create a folder in there and use it as your backup location.
Took me a bit of a while to find the location.
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If you've never made a backup, then you need to do the following:
In TiBu, Settings --> Preferences --> Backup folder location. Use the back key to navigate to /, then go to /Removable/MicroSD and then you can create a folder in there and use it as your backup location.
Took me a bit of a while to find the location.
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+1
This is how I got mine working.
johnlgalt said:
If you've never made a backup, then you need to do the following:
In TiBu, Settings --> Preferences --> Backup folder location. Use the back key to navigate to /, then go to /Removable/MicroSD and then you can create a folder in there and use it as your backup location.
Took me a bit of a while to find the location.
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this solved my Tibu to ext sd card problem .. also off topic appreciate all your work for Bionic.... John Galt.. . rooted ics .232
You're welcome, and thanks in return for the props. I do what I can
Sorry to hijack this thread but I have a weird issue with Titanium Backup - have the paid version...
I want to set my preferred backup location to be on the micro SD but when I navigate to it Titanium backup says it is not writable and that the folder is empty.
I can write files toitin other apps and it is most definitely not empty, I have the install files for the ROM I'm using stored on it.
The ROM is CROMi-Xenogenesis 4.7.0- 10.16.1.14.8/WW DEODEX
Kernel is 3.1.10-hundsbuah-v3.4.5-oc-gaa752e8-dirty
Any ideas?
dang
berndblb said:
dang
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I guess that means you're stumped on that one then
fatboyinlycra said:
I guess that means you're stumped on that one then
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No, I posted in the wrong thread
How's the card formatted?
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berndblb said:
No, I posted in the wrong thread
How's the card formatted?
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FAT32.
It's a 64Gig SANDisk but it also happens on a 4gig and a 1 gig card, both of which are made by Kingston. Oddly enough every other app that writes data can write to these cards. It's only Titanium (paid version too) that seems to think the card is not writeable
Just upgraded to Cromi 5.4, still using Hunds F2FS kernel, but the issue still remains - cannot configure Titanium Backup to write to any Micro SD.
Anyone got any ideas?
ES File Explorer, the simple file explorer and other apps can all write to this card but not Titanium
fatboyinlycra said:
Just upgraded to Cromi 5.4, still using Hunds F2FS kernel, but the issue still remains - cannot configure Titanium Backup to write to any Micro SD.
Anyone got any ideas?
ES File Explorer, the simple file explorer and other apps can all write to this card but not Titanium
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I have exact setup as your and tibu is working fine for me.
I seem to be having the same problem as this except(android.stackexchange.com/questions/61531/removed-storage-emulated-0-file-and-lost-access-to-all-files) there was never a solution. I tried remaking the folders and restarting the phone but that didn't work.
Can anybody help me out?
Soooo you wiped internal storage? Pictures are gone... Best bet is to try Disk Digger or some similar app and see if it works. Also make a backup next time before you do whatever you tried to do as to avoid this situation in the future.
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Soooo you wiped internal storage? Pictures are gone... Best bet is to try Disk Digger or some similar app and see if it works.
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I was thinking that I only wiped the symlink to the files. I will try to see if it helps. Thanks for the tip.
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Also make a backup next time before you do whatever you tried to do as to avoid this situation in the future.
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I was going to, except to make a nandroid backup or backup in general using custom recovery I need to go have more than half of my sdcard be free space (since it back it up to the internal sdcard) and I only had like 500-600 MB free I know you can move nandroid backups to the computer to free up space, but I do not know if I could backup straight to computer since N5 has no space.
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I was thinking that I only wiped the symlink to the files. I will try to see if it helps. Thanks for the tip.
I was going to, except to make a nandroid backup or backup in general using custom recovery I need to go have more than half of my sdcard be free space (since it back it up to the internal sdcard) and I only had like 500-600 MB free I know you can move nandroid backups to the computer to free up space, but I do not know if I could backup straight to computer since N5 has no space.
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A nandroid wouldn't have helped. It doesn't backup pictures,etc. Use drop box or something or back them up on your pc frequently.
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jd1639 said:
A nandroid wouldn't have helped. It doesn't backup pictures,etc. Use drop box or something or back them up on your pc frequently.
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From my understanding, a nandroid backs up everything on the selected partition. So /system would save your ROM and its settings, etc. Normally on a phone with a SD card it won't back that up, but the N5 only has internal memory. Backing up /data won't save pictures and videos you took?
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From my understanding, a nandroid backs up everything on the selected partition. So /system would save your ROM and its settings, etc. Normally on a phone with a SD card it won't back that up, but the N5 only has internal memory. Backing up /data won't save pictures and videos you took?
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nope. It just backs up the system partition; data, apps and settings; and boot, kernel
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That's odd. I could have sworn after I accidentally wiped my internal storage I had my pictures back after restoring a nandroid. Still have them all.
OP, any luck with disk digger? I just deleted a folder of useless memes I made with an app and used disk digger and restored them. This is the one I used
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.defianttech.diskdigger
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OP, any luck with disk digger? I just deleted a folder of useless memes I made with an app and used disk digger and restored them. This is the one I used
play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.defianttech.diskdigger
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Running it right now! It has found 6876 files and counting, and they seem to be full size! Thank you so much! That app is awesome.
And thanks guys, going to go back up my files after it's done
EDIT: Shame the file structure is not preserved
victorymobile said:
EDIT: Shame the file structure is not preserved
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It's not possible..
You're scanning the drive for actual files on the drive that no longer exist in the filesystem. Think of the file system as a database that tells the OS where the files are. When you delete a file, it doesn't really get deleted. Just the database entry about it.
The files exist whether there is a database entry in the file system or not but if you think about it, unlike files , the folders don't really exist on the disk.. When you create a folder, it doesn't really create a folder on the disk. It just reflects the "location" in the database. Folders don't exist on the disk so they cannot be restored. Restoring the files just adds new entries to the file system. It cannot find the deleted entries and reconnect them with the actual files
Hope this clarifies what you're seeing
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Anyone know how to get Titanium Backup to actually see a backup directory as writeable when pointing it at the external card? It seems to only see /mnt/sdcard2 not /storage/sdcard1 like ES Explorer does.
Thanks.
I used an app on play store called something like...SD card fixer. It changes the permissions to write to the card. Worked for me. Must be rooted though.
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salado said:
I used an app on play store called something like...SD card fixer. It changes the permissions to write to the card. Worked for me. Must be rooted though.
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Thanks! It worked! Yay! At least Titanium, Root Explorer and the rest can now write to the external SDcard. Works for me.
Again, thanks. :good:
No problem....Glad it worked for you
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