Hey guys, apologies if this has been answered but I couldnt make sense of the results when I did a search.
My question is when I change the data that is on my sd card or change roms and move the data around from phone sd and external sd, will my nandroid backups still restore. I know the clockwork/backup folder has to be on the external to restore but what if the rest of the data is either moved or deleted. For example, what would happen if I put a new or formatted card in with only the Clockwork folder on it. Will the restore re-wright the info it needs?? Thanks and of-course I will be sure to hit "Thanks"
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hi, i've just bought G2X, formerly i had Nexus One.
my question is concerning of restoring apps. i would like them to be installed in internal memory. i backuped apps used at N1 with Titanium Backup. so should i repartition SD card to be whole at fat32 (no ext4 partition)? and restoring in Titanium Backup will restore them to internal memory?
so steps should be like this:
1. formatting card - whole at fat32
2. copying Titanium Backup folder to sd card
3. restoring apps
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hmm, it seems, that apps are already installed to internal SD and i need to move folder with my backups of Titanium Backup to internal SD and change backup directory in program.
so will try this in the evening. anyway: there is no need for having ext3/4 partition in SD card (external) for apps, like for N1 and whole card may be formatted in fat32, right?
I wouldn't worry about EXT3/EXT4... I've found no need for it. Apps install perfectly fine on the SD card without it.
That if what I did. The entire micro sd formatted as fat. Works fine.
jsapp said:
That if what I did. The entire micro sd formatted as fat. Works fine.
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Same here. The G2X has plenty of onboard memory for apps. No need to install them to sdcard.
G2X CM7
phburks said:
Same here. The G2X has plenty of onboard memory for apps. No need to install them to sdcard.
G2X CM7
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so did I. my question is: which apps folders from external SD card i can move to internal SD card? do i need to open every app and look for "save" or "backup" folder in settings and then change it after moving or so? how about your apps?
miguelm75 said:
so did I. my question is: which apps folders from external SD card i can move to internal SD card? do i need to open every app and look for "save" or "backup" folder in settings and then change it after moving or so? how about your apps?
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Is the A2SD on the Nexus just a partition that is symlinked to /data? If so, you should just be able to restore all in Titanium rather easily. If it's the official Android A2SD, that might be more complicated.
Just a guess, but maybe just manually copy all your apk's from your backup folder into the /data/app folder, reboot, then restore all the app data from Titanium?
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Is the A2SD on the Nexus just a partition that is symlinked to /data? If so, you should just be able to restore all in Titanium rather easily. If it's the official Android A2SD, that might be more complicated.
Just a guess, but maybe just manually copy all your apk's from your backup folder into the /data/app folder, reboot, then restore all the app data from Titanium?
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i used DT Apps2sd script, so restoring from TiBa wasn't a problem. i'm wondering about moving folders with some apps data, like preferences etc.
miguelm75 said:
so did I. my question is: which apps folders from external SD card i can move to internal SD card? do i need to open every app and look for "save" or "backup" folder in settings and then change it after moving or so? how about your apps?
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To b honest I never bothered with copying my app data from my nexus 1. Other than my photos, music, movies, and documents, I just started over from scratch with my G2X. I figured I wanted as clean a slate as possible and didn't wanna carry over anything that might conflict with my new phone. Maybe that wasn't a necessary step, but then again, I haven't had many issues with my phone so maybe it helped.
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I wanna format the SD card on my phone but i have a nandroid backup on it.
So 1. how do i format the card?
2. how do i do that and saving the nandroid backup?
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I wanna format the SD card on my phone but i have a nandroid backup on it.
So 1. how do i format the card?
2. how do i do that and saving the nandroid backup?
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You can't do a Nandroid backup of your SD card. A Nandroid backup is only for backing up the image on your phone.
Simply plug your phone into the PC, select Disk Drive and backup all your SD card data to your PC. Once complete right click the SD Card Drive, click Format. Copy data back to SD card.
EDIT: Sorry - misread the question. Same procedure really - just copy the Nandroid backup onto your PC and then copy it back afterwards. Usually the Nandroid backup and be found in the clockworkmod folder on the sdcard. The folder containing the nandroid backup is usually time stamped.
Does it mean i also have to reflash the radio?
Formatting (or replacing) the SD card will not require you to reflash any part of the phone. The ROM and the Radio are kept on the internal phone memory and never on the SD card.
Simply do as dr9722 has stated - take a copy of the nandroid backup onto your PC, then format the SD card and copy the backup back from the PC afterward and you'll be fine.
So I'm planning on ditching honeycomb and switching to an Ics rom... I backed up all my apps using TitaniumBackup but the rom requires a full wipe and cache wipes, question is, would performing the required wipes before flashing the rom also wipe the backups TitaniumBackup made on the internal storage?
No. All that is stored on a different partition...so you're safe. Just don't use the SuperWipeFULL version zip. THAT...will wipe all downloaded stuff on the internal SD storage.
Infact...to make it easy for you...just download and use the SuperWipe Lite script from the Revolution HD thread. That's what I do...when I need to wipe.
Also you could move the backup folder location to the micro sd card.
Just go into "preferences" and change it to micro sd card
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Also you could move the backup folder location to the micro sd card.
Just go into "preferences" and change it to micro sd card
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Don't forget to change it back after you wipe and reinstall titanium, or it will just look like you lost all your backups since it defaults to internal storage.
After reinstalling TB, you can have it do a quick scan to pick up any folder that tb uses.
Also remember that TB stores its own settings on removable card if available on /Removable/MicroSD/data/com.keramidas.TitaniumBackup/
So Synergy has been the first rom that I installed on my phone. Now, if i make backups on ROM Manager, and decide to flash to a different rom, say cyanogen for example. If I wipe all of my data, which I would assume is my best choice of action when flashing to a new rom, will these backups that I've made on the SD card be saved or will they disappear with the rest of my data? Should I buy a micro SD to store all of those on or can i even do backups to the external sd card?.
Also, when making Titanium backups, are those something I want to store on an external SD? Or can i restore from places like dropbox? I appreciate any input.
I flash roms three times, and wipe user data every time.
The data on internal sd card is safe.
But I think backup to external sd card is much safer,so I get one(32G) :laugh:
And yes ,Titanium and clockworkmod can backup to external sd card,change the Titanium backup store path and look for cwm menu!
For some reason, when trying to restore a backup (either from inside the rom manager app, or going to it in recovery), it keeps saying there is an error. Since i do a lot of backups to be safe, i move them from the internal sd card to my external to save space. When i want to restore, i move them back to the internal sd card. is this what is causing my problem? can i not copy them back to the internal sd card?
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For some reason, when trying to restore a backup (either from inside the rom manager app, or going to it in recovery), it keeps saying there is an error. Since i do a lot of backups to be safe, i move them from the internal sd card to my external to save space. When i want to restore, i move them back to the internal sd card. is this what is causing my problem? can i not copy them back to the internal sd card?
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Are you moving the blob file also.
No, just the backup file. I see the blobs on my internal SD and external SD with different dates. Is it OK to copy over the ones from my SD to my internal? Won't that try and overwrite either the blob folder or files themselves? Is this OK to do?
Need to move blob files - that's where actual data resides.
For future,I would recommend "backup to external sd) from cwm. Saves you from having to do this.
You can also restore from external sd as well
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Need to move blob files - that's where actual data resides.
For future,I would recommend "backup to external sd) from cwm. Saves you from having to do this.
You can also restore from external sd as well
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ding ding ding we have a winner!
I moved blob files to no avail. Well, looks like i'll just delete those backups. Luckily i dont really lose anything so its ok. Hey, definitely a good learning experience! .
Thank you guys for all the help, i'll definitely be backing up straight to my external from now on.