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
baseballfanz said:
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/
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Just got my transformer today, its awesome. I've found one slight annoyance, being that the internal storage is infact an SD card. I use titanium backup to backup my apps but I cant seem to direct titanium to backup to the external SD. If were to install Custom roms would my apps still be intact?
honeycomb recognizes internal storage as SD and your microsd as MicroSD. if you install a custom rom you can restore from titanium still. however, i flashed prime 1.3 over stock without wiping so i lost no data anyways. basically i am just using the internal storage for /system and apps+app storage, and my 32gb sd for all media.
Go to – preferences/backup folder location and then use the backup/return arrow to navigate back to root folder (/). You should see Removable and inside that will be MicroSD if you have one inserted. Create a new folder if you like
You will now backup to the external SD.
Hope this helps.
That's great thanks, what a stupid way, I would expect the back arrow to close the window entirely. Now I just need to figure out how to get double twist to sync to the external sd.
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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.
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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?
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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?
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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.
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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?
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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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basicaly i have only 2 questions.
1, when creating whole ROM backup of my system do i need to create full copy of my SD card?(as i understand it ClockworkMod does not backup SD card) in case that after full WIPE and ROM reinstall i would like to go back to old ROM i would need it. i have a lot of apps stored on SD card.
2, when creating apps backup with titanium backup, i dont need to store any SD card data, because this is stored by titanium backup and after WIPE apps will be installed back to SD card(in new ROM)?
As long as you dont format your SD card, doing a full wipe before installing a new ROM will not affect it.
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!
Curiously wondering why my internal sdcard is now saying I only have 5gb of storage space available.
I have a 32 GB Samsung galaxy s3 I have no music or pictures stored on my internal card. Seems like it all started when I went to a cm10 ROM then back to a touchwiz.
Maybe ther is a method I could use to format the internal storage and start from nothing?
Use DiskUsage to see what is using up your internal memory. You can use cwm or twrp to format internal memory.
I did find a 3gb movie that I had placed on the phone to watch. So based on disk usage. I have 16gb of system data and now 10gb free
Occasionally you might have to format your internal card if you switch flash many different roms as they tend to live "residuals" behind. Then there is the renaming of sd folders when you switched to aosp roms
If I decide to format the internal sdcard is it simple, reformat, reflash ROM backup? Or should I set everything back to stock first?
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Make sure you manually back up all your data(pics, documents, music, files, etc.) that you want to keep. Then format internal memory. I would remove the external sd card to be on the safe side.
I am not sure about restoring rom backup. When I do format my internal card, I usually end up flashing a new rom (with the whole wipe data, cache, and system procedure).
Hopefully someone else can answer that question about restoring rom backup.
Did you backup your system ie nandroid with cwm or something like titanium bu? Hoe many times did you do if you did? Which back up utility are you using?
And download Storage Anlyser from play its the BEST way to find the big files.
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(with the whole wipe data, cache, and system procedure
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Always wipe.
I've not formated the internal card yet, when I do new ROMs I only factory reset phone, cache, delvik then install new ROM.
My method of backing up my apps is by using my backup pro, but I do keep backups of my ROMs just by booting into cwm then backing up.
I want to format the internal card, but that's something I've never did. Which makes me worry about losing needed phone drivers.. Etc.
Also I'm not sure if I'll lose root or my recovery.
You will not lose root, recovery, or drivers, It is basically formatting your micro sd card, but instead it is your internal "sd card."
You will definitely need to manually backup the data you want to keep from your internal memory, either by connecting to a computer and copying to your computer or by copying them to the micro sd card.
I now have 25.6gb free space on my internal card