Their recently was a thread here asking if their is a way to import your apps from one rom to another. And I just thought of this lil idea. If you copy the apps folder in your data folder and save it to your SD card and flash a whole new rom and replace your apps folder with the one you saved on SD. Will this work? Has anyone tried this? Idk just curious. maybe this method is the hard way of doing what titanium back up does lol your thoughts?
gman87 said:
Their recently was a thread here asking if their is a way to import your apps from one rom to another. And I just thought of this lil idea. If you copy the apps folder in your data folder and save it to your SD card and flash a whole new rom and replace your apps folder with the one you saved on SD. Will this work? Has anyone tried this? Idk just curious. maybe this method is the hard way of doing what titanium back up does lol your thoughts?
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This will work for most apps. A few apps require installation but most will work this way. For ones that don't work just delete the apk file and install it properly.
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My phone is already rooted and currently on infused v2.2.2. So far flashing from rom to rom or installing apps from apps, there are so many folder in phone.
Is there anyway to do a clean flash where all those unnecessary folder not be in the phone? Even if i do a wipe/reset, I still see other folder from different rom i flashed or other apps folder that i no long needed. I hope you understand what i'm trying to say.
thx
You must manually delete those folders between flashing. Dont worry, it wont harm anything, just be sure to not delete anything you need. For instance, i always delete all the folders except the DCIM one for my photos and my titanium.backup folder. All other needed folders will be created again when you flash the new rom.
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You can always mount the SD card to your computer and format it that way as well. Just remember what slapshot30 said about backing up items you will want to keep though.
I go through all those folders in root explorer, and and if there's nothing in them and the name doesn't seem important (like gnotes) I end up deleting them.
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Moving from s2 to the s3 and was wondering whats the procedure for moving all my stuff over to the new phone?
I know I can sync my contacts. I can also sync the apps I bought/downloaded i presume?
Regarding sd cards, the one Im using at the moment is giving me a lot of problems so I'm getting a new one for the s3. Do i have to copy over all the contents from the old card to the new one, and if I don't, what affect will that have on apps etc?
I've titanium pro so do I have to back up anything on that for instance before moving phones?
Kinda confused over what I need to move over as the s2 was my first android.
Thanks.
If using titanium to backup just insert new card into old phone backup then put new card with backups in new phone and using batch option if you have pro version move all apps and data to new phone.
Ps only move user apps. Not system it might screw things up
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zolaisugly said:
If using titanium to backup just insert new card into old phone backup then put new card with backups in new phone and using batch option if you have pro version move all apps and data to new phone.
Ps only move user apps. Not system it might screw things up
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ok, so backup with new sd card on s2, then on the s3 just move just the user apps over?
Sounds easy enough.
Or backup everything with Titanium/myBakcup or whatever then upload it dropbox. But Google syncs your contacts and apps. And SD card - connect phone to PC and mount as disk drive then copy the WHOLE SD to your computer then when you get the new SD put the contents on it! Hope I helped
Just so I'm 100% clear on this:
1. Google will sync "all" my apps onto my new phone? So The 60+ apps will all be downloaded onto S3 once I set sync up?
What about any data associated with each app? Like game data etc? How will I get that info relocated into each app?
2. I copy the content from my current sd card onto computer and then copy it onto new sd card when I've it in the phone?
Thanks.
yeah, im a bit confused about the google-app-restoring, because i did some wipes (for custom roms) and my phone didnt restore anything (it was enabled in settings). is the unofficial android 4 the reason for that?
Can anyone else confirm that this is the best way to get data from one sd card onto another??
If u backup your apps using astro you can restore them and it will also restore the data
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If u backup your apps using astro you can restore them and it will also restore the data
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Ok, I'm just going to do it now as I have Astro already installed.
So I backup on my current sd card?
Then how do I get the data onto my sd card?
Also doesn't some apps only work if they are installed on the phone memory and not the external sd card? How do I go about sorting that out?
Thanks for help.
chicoelnino said:
Just so I'm 100% clear on this:
1. Google will sync "all" my apps onto my new phone? So The 60+ apps will all be downloaded onto S3 once I set sync up?
What about any data associated with each app? Like game data etc? How will I get that info relocated into each app?
2. I copy the content from my current sd card onto computer and then copy it onto new sd card when I've it in the phone?
Thanks.
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The main problem with using Google to restore your apps is that it generally screws up at some point. I usually have issues because I go ahead and get on WIFI while it's syncing because all the apps that I have would take forever on 3G. Unfortunately the switch over to WIFI does it in and at some point the sync fails and it won't try and autoload your apps beyond the first time you set up the phone.
Never tried Astro for backups so I can't say how that works, but TiBu is absolute gold when moving between phones and Roms. The only thing I like even better is using Nandroids, but that only works for certain instances and won't help in the case of switching devices.
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Moving from s2 to the s3 and was wondering whats the procedure for moving all my stuff over to the new phone?
I know I can sync my contacts. I can also sync the apps I bought/downloaded i presume?
Regarding sd cards, the one Im using at the moment is giving me a lot of problems so I'm getting a new one for the s3. Do i have to copy over all the contents from the old card to the new one, and if I don't, what affect will that have on apps etc?
I've titanium pro so do I have to back up anything on that for instance before moving phones?
Kinda confused over what I need to move over as the s2 was my first android.
Thanks.
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As you said, you can backup all the data in your old device then restore to your new one! I know that Moborobo has the backup and restore feature. I used it to make the transfer. Hope it can help you!
I've rooted both my S2 and S4.
I've used Titanium to back up my S2 apps on to my Micro SD and put it in the S4.
When I run Titanium on the S4, it can't detect my backups from the S2.
Am I doing something wrong?
I uploaded my apps to dropbox because my current Nexus S broke. When I got the new one I could not restore my apps. I rooted the new phone and installed TB and DB and did this:
With Titanium Backup 3.6.4 (or above):
If your backup folder is empty, then with you can simply switch to the Schedules tab and hit the “RUN” button in the “Sync to Dropbox / Box.net / Google Drive” section to download all backups from Dropbox / Box.net / Google Drive back onto your phone.
The downloaded files show up in TB, but when I go to run all missing apps with data it says 0.
Sorry for the stupid question but I already did the searches and other than this I came up empty handed.
Just move the TitaniumBackup folder to SD. Wouldn't that be faster? Maybe something got corrupt from DB to TB.
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Just move the TitaniumBackup folder to SD. Wouldn't that be faster? Maybe something got corrupt from DB to TB.
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Did that too.
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Did that too.
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Your backup may have been corrupted if moving to SD didn't work.
So I downloaded a few apps and tried it all over again but with less apps. Same problem. I'm doing something wrong or not the right way.
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I think something must have been corrupted, because i have done the same thing repeatedly and never had any problems. I just copy the TB folder from the sd card to a new location and point TB at it. I have done this from my evo, to my nook color, to my wifes epic touch with no problems. Since i dont ever save system apps i dont worry about restoring incompatible files. Only app that ever has a problem is Swype keyboard. I have to download that one new every time...
Yeah, but everytime I do it with a new set of apps it still doesn't work.
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So I learned I have to set the preferences in TB and tell it where the backup file is. Anyone else know what else I might not be doing?
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Hi everyone,
I'm looking to remove some of my old excess folders off my SD Card and I was wondering if anyone knew what the stock folders are I should be keeping or if it's ok to wipe the SD card? Wasn't really sure if it was ok or not to do so and thought I should ask..
Thanks!
You can wipe the SD-card within android. Its safe and wont make the card unusable or anything like that.
Just remember to save the stuff you want to keep before formatting it
Thanks for the info. I wasn't so sure as I came from a HTC Desire and ended up using ROM's that dumped half the system onto the SD card so was a bit wary with that.. :S
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Thanks for the info. I wasn't so sure as I came from a HTC Desire and ended up using ROM's that dumped half the system onto the SD card so was a bit wary with that.. :S
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I think any apps that is installed to sd will be deleted so make sure none are.
How?
How can I wipe the card?
I often tried some apps, and now I installed CM so it would be great to have an "empty" SD.
Is there any tool which logs all folders/files that have been created when an app has been installed?
Piccolo1986 said:
How can I wipe the card?
I often tried some apps, and now I installed CM so it would be great to have an "empty" SD.
Is there any tool which logs all folders/files that have been created when an app has been installed?
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Setting/storage and you should see it there.
Thanks
that was a good hint.
And what about a tool?
Piccolo1986 said:
that was a good hint.
And what about a tool?
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Em tool to do what?
I forgot to say
Like I said in my last post:
Is there any tool which logs all folders/files that have been created when an app has been installed?
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Like I said in my last post:
Is there any tool which logs all folders/files that have been created when an app has been installed?
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Think adb can do that but why would you need to know that?
i would make a back up of your sdcard to your pc before doing anything
Backup not the best solution...
especially when you "on the road". Sometimes when I'm outside (waiting for the bus or so) I've time to look around in the play store. Screenshots are nice, but it's always better when you try an app on your own.
But once installed you see "oh that one is crap" you want to uninstall it, but the folders that has been created are still there. So it would be nice if there would be a app that watches for the changings during installation and you are able to delete all the folders and files of the crappy app.
If you delete data before uninstalling the app everything should disappear.
Actually, I think its only if you uninstall through play store the data is kept.
TitaniumBackup will remove all of it when using it to uninstall stuff.
I wanted to start this thread because I am having trouble, (and I assume other noobs are as well), understanding what's on my SD Card and how to navigate through it.
I've attached what I see when I open my device and check the internal storage.
My main reasoning for trying to understand all that's on my SD Card is because it's important! And because I'm trying to figure out where all my apps are stored. I recently installed the venom custom ROM, and since then have lost the knowledge of where my .apk files are stored. That's really what I'm after trying to find those files. I've searched every folder but still no dice. I used Titanium Pro to backup all my files but there is nothing located in the Titanium folder.
Can anybody help me identify where my .apk files are located?
I also have a few .apk files I wish to install on my phone. From what I've gathered the way to do this is to add them to where the other .apk files are located and then Fix Permissions. If I cannot locate my .apk files is there another file path I could save it to?
Lastly I have these two files I have not recognized before, BUGSENSE and .profig
What are these files?
So if you're downloading the apks off a website they'll be in the downloads folder if you downloaded then through Google play..they won't be on your sd unless you manually backed up them up through titanium
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So if you're downloading the apks off a website they'll be in the downloads folder if you downloaded then through Google play..they won't be on your sd unless you manually backed up them up through titanium
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Right okay, so if I choose to back them up onto the SD card then my .apk file paths should appear? Because as you can see now I have no app folders on my phone (sd card) currently.
I've backed up my phone via titanium still nothing in there is an .apk file.
I'm also interested in keeping my phone clean of useless things (another reason for this thread).
As file explorer. Settings allow up to root allow root. Go up from sd card. System/data folder
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Boom. That's what I was searching for. Thanks.
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dmcin23 said:
I've backed up my phone via titanium still nothing in there is an .apk file.
I'm also interested in keeping my phone clean of useless things (another reason for this thread).
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If you go to titanium backup location on sd card and open it you will find what you looking for. Its pretty easy to restore backup in titanium app itself.....also a true backup should be done in twrp recovery as it backs up everything (file partitions,kernel,radio,apps) it will save a copy (known as a nandriod backup) on your sd card that you can recover if your rom won't boot or you just need to restore .
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Make sure you enable writing to the root folder as well. System apps are in system/app.