I've copied both nandroid & Titanium backups to my laptop, but but I'm wondering if people delete the backups from their phones.. Especially the nandroid backups, since if you have more than a couple... They take up lots of space?
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I transfer the nandroid to an external HD, I do leave one on my external SD card though - the stock rooted one I took after first rooting my phone before I did anything else.
TB backups I sync with Dropbox, but also have a copy on an external HD.
I only have ones set of titanium its on my drop box and I only keep 2 nandroids; one of cyanowiz after its all setup and one of nexusmod4
droid512 said:
I only have ones set of titanium its on my drop box and I only keep 2 nandroids; one of cyanowiz after its all setup and one of nexusmod4
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This is what I do^^^
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This is what I do^^^
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lol do you ever rename your nandroids, because ive had issues in the past with my nexus and a droidx but I havent seen any issues on this phone
Yup, I always rename mine, and I keep em all up to date so I can just jump from rom to rom with little effort
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lol do you ever rename your nandroids, because ive had issues in the past with my nexus and a droidx but I havent seen any issues on this phone
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No, I haven't yet.
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Yup, I always rename mine, and I keep em all up to date so I can just jump from rom to rom with little effort
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That's good to know it works, haven't tried it yet in fear of them getting fuxxered up
I keep all of them on the external sd card and mirror them to dropbox.
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I was asking, because I think that I've got a ridiculous amount of memory being used, by my suspenders & belt "safety first" neurotic "better be safe than sorry" fear of mucking something up
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I was asking, because I think that I've got a ridiculous amount of memory being used, by my suspenders & belt "safety first" neurotic "better be safe than sorry" fear of mucking something up
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Haha, I just keep 2 nandroids on the card. One stock rooted and the last stable build I am using. I keep superwipe on there as well.
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Haha, I just keep 2 nandroids on the card. One stock rooted and the last stable build I am using. I keep superwipe on there as well.
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Ya, ya... so now I'm down to my boxers... Kept the stock rom backup, the first backup after that... And the one that I did just now
AND I changed the number of backups to save in titanium from a gazillion to just TWO
BUT, just in case... I've got all those warm & fuzzy backups on my laptop.... Uhm, think I'll sync with dropbox now..... Soon, this little bird is gonna fall out of the nest..
Wait... Superwipe??? Should I have a backup of this... & what is it?
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Ya, ya... so now I'm down to my boxers... Kept the stock rom backup, the first backup after that... And the one that I did just now
AND I changed the number of backups to save in titanium from a gazillion to just TWO
BUT, just in case... I've got all those warm & fuzzy backups on my laptop.... Uhm, think I'll sync with dropbox now..... Soon, this little bird is gonna fall out of the nest..
Wait... Superwipe??? Should I have a backup of this... & what is it?
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This
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1487706&highlight=superwipe
Backups
Yeah, I keep my backups in the micro sd and have a copy on my computer! I have been considering renaming the nandroid backups for ease of recognition, but wasn't sure!!
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Looking for that file so I can put it on my PC just in case (is that even a good idea, by the way)?
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benyben123 said:
Looking for that file so I can put it on my PC just in case (is that even a good idea, by the way)?
Thanks
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Mine backs up to the External SD card/clockworkmod/backup.
I keep a copy of mine on the PC also.
Exte sd/clockwm/backup u was looking at internal sd cwm backup not in thwre beo
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Looking for that file so I can put it on my PC just in case (is that even a good idea, by the way)?
Thanks
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Yes, it is a good idea. People make mistakes. Having an up-to-date backup has been invaluable to me on a couple of occasions. After thinking I knew what I was doing and became a little more confidant, I got lazy and did not backup to my pc. Not much fun. Lost a bunch of things, but losing the pics of my wife and kids bothered me the most.
Might be more of a google market question, but thought I would start here.
I have 1 MT4GS with 90 or so apps, getting a second MT4GS. Most apps are market, but some from other spots. Is there a way to massively update/download the apps I have on current phone to new phone. In the past, I have just downloaded them one at a time from market.
Thanks in advance...
Possibly
Just an idea, you could make a backup of your current mt4gs and then restore it on the new one? Ive never tried it but I dont see why it wouldnt work
Your google account should keep record of your downloaded apps and redownload on the next device you sign in on... Usually...
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Just an idea, you could make a backup of your current mt4gs and then restore it on the new one? Ive never tried it but I dont see why it wouldnt work
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Backup to the SD card OR some other form, like using a backup/restart App?
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Your google account should keep record of your downloaded apps and redownload on the next device you sign in on... Usually...
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I know with previous phones this didn't work. I would connect to my same account with the new phone, but it wouldn't show that I had apps loaded. Example, the eBay app would not show installed, I would have to load like it was a new app install. It would be great if that would do that, or it would show 90 updates to be applied. But I haven't done this in a while, maybe newand improved market will allow. I guess I will find out when I get receive the 2nd phone.
Thanks..
Well if your rooted and your next phone is rooted then you can use titanium backup to backup all your apps. If you CWM installed on both then you can make a nandroid backup and either restore it on the new one or use appextractor to restore the apps. But if your not then your best bet is let Google restore the apps that it does and manually resinstall the ones that it doesn't.
all of your payed for apps will certainly appear in the market under my apps and you can just go thru clicking on them one after another after another. the ones that were free though, i dont know any quick/easy way. i'm sure theres an app that will track all your downloaded apps regardless of if they were free or not.
The market website actually keeps a log of every app you downloaded. You can then send them right to your phone from there.
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all of your payed for apps will certainly appear in the market under my apps and you can just go thru clicking on them one after another after another. the ones that were free though, i dont know any quick/easy way. i'm sure theres an app that will track all your downloaded apps regardless of if they were free or not.
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This is what I'm seeing, it show my paid for apps, but not the freebees. FYI - first phone is not rooted, second one is..
I also logged into google and google market on the pc hoping to see 'my apps', but no luck there..
So looks like a download at a time..
Thanks all for your inputs...
That is odd. I still have stuff on the Web Based Market list that I haven't used since my old craptastic Behold II 2 years ago.
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Just an idea, you could make a backup of your current mt4gs and then restore it on the new one? Ive never tried it but I dont see why it wouldnt work
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I've done this before with my old MT4G. I would just flash a backup of my previous phone onto my warranty replacements... So I can say it does work....
roms make a difference
I have been trying out different roms and they act different with Market.
These 2 work like I mentioend before, only show bought apps:
Bulletproof
Doubleshot Lite 1.2.4
But this one does an auto download of all my past downloaded apps, very cool.
RootzWiki and install Undeadk9's ICS-splashed ROM: RubiX_ICS_v5.3_release-keys_signed
So, I rooted my Nook Color and my Nook Tablet, and that made sense to me, because they were so locked down. But this thing connects to my PC with no problems, and there's nothing I haven't been able to install on it. What is the point of rooting?
Running software not available without having root rights (OpenVPN, Titanium backup, Ad blocker, ...)
Hmm, okay. Doesn't seem worth the hassle. Thanks, though.
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hmm, okay. Doesn't seem worth the hassle. Thanks, though.
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correct ! :d:d:d:d:d:d:d
I don't see any reason to root the note 10.1
I had to return my first one because rooting it broke the s pen and flashing stock firmware didn't fix it.
I didn't need to root in the first place, just did it out of habit.
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This device is great out the box. So for me, I feel no meed to root it yet. Once roms mature and developement and custom kernels pick up more, ill likely root.
I like the fact I can root my devices as it gives more flexibility if I need it.
I also like my clock to be accurate and I can't use clocksync properly without root...
Droidwall, titanium backup and clocksync.
Do I need to say more?
titanium backup! i need it to restore my previous device's apps
I did it to get rid of the damn mini apps.
I rooted purely for Titanium Backup and Sixaxis. Totally worth it.
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I rooted purely for Titanium Backup and Sixaxis. Totally worth it.
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That would also be the two reasons for me to root my Note 10.1 at some point down the road, but first I have to get it. Hopefully next week
Dousan...
Why would you want root access?
Well, ask yourself this...
Would you be satisfied with only your desktop and start menu as a user?
Or you would prefer to have access to C:\ as an administrator?
It's the difference between REALLY having control over your device vs having the illusion you have control of your device.
Titanium Backup, I can't stress enough how useful TB is. Between backing up, restoring, moving save data to another device, not to mention being able to save it all to cloud storage. If you ever have to do a factory reset, TB is imo the best way to keep your data.
Ad Away. Doesn't need to be explained.
ability to remove worthless stock software, or freeze it (via Titanium Backup).
access to apps that you otherwise might never have access to (example - Google Now before it got downgraded)
because it's easy to do.
everybody is doing it!
Chicks dig it.
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Chicks dig it.
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Thanks for all your responses, everyone. I'll consider it. But given that I started this thread and am a straight female, this last reason is probably the least persuasive.
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Chicks dig it.
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Guys dig it..... :laugh:
Nice!
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Guys dig it..... :laugh:
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You are not really the owner if the device until u rooted it
Why do people always say to wipe the cache 2 to 3 times when flashing a fresh ROM?
Is there a bug in the wipe code that leave little bits left behind?
If there's no bug, then doing it ONCE is plenty. Anything else seems like ignorance and ghetto science.
It was common practice back when we were sharing a recovery not specific to our device. We now have the correct recoveries and this is no longer needed.
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Maybe it is needed process since some noobs been known to ignore the processes or simply forget and results in bad flash. I sometimes I even forget to do a nandroid backup as well and go through that annoying process of setting up everything again.
I had been flash wiping once and no problem what so ever with sk8's.
Nothing is never truely fully gone with only one delete
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I have been using this practice since SKYJB. It may not be necessary but for the time it takes it really does not hurt either. As a result when installing various ROMS I do not have issues that some have.
So can only be a good practice to take...aside from the couple of extra minutes.
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Nothing is never truely fully gone with only one delete
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So, the software is buggy? Is there someplace to report the bug?
A wipe should do just that and not leave anything behind.
Once is all that's required, unless you're OCD in which case you can never do it too many times.
Seriously, the benefits of multiple wipes or formats are a baseless myth.
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Once is all that's required, unless you're OCD in which case you can never do it too many times.
Seriously, the benefits of multiple wipes or formats are a baseless myth.
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Yep. I've never wiped more than once and have never had any issues. Plus the way I look at it is storage has a usable life span. By doing all those extra wipes you're wasting that life span. Just the way I look at it.
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Once is all that's required, unless you're OCD in which case you can never do it too many times.
Seriously, the benefits of multiple wipes or formats are a baseless myth.
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I'm equal parts OCD and paranoid. One of my first flashes on my Captivate almost went horribly wrong (brick-level wrong) because CWM failed to wipe a couple pieces of system data while switching from stock to an AOSP ROM. FC's all over the place, unusable phone, and on the third try after fixing permissions, it refused to boot to the system. Ever since then, wipe x3 for everything.
That said, it's really unnecessary with sk8's CWM and TWRP, and my doing so is merely further proof of my insanity.
Lol tj
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If Vincom says wipe x2 or x3 I do as he says.
Thank you Vincom.
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If Vincom says wipe x2 or x3 I do as he says.
Thank you Vincom.
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Who left and made vincom king? Ohh right, seanz. Is SuperFetus out yet?
I still will never understand why threads continue to go on after the correct answer was given in the first reply. Again by crazy.
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Who left and made vincom king? Ohh right, seanz. Is SuperFetus out yet?
I still will never understand why threads continue to go on after the correct answer was given in the first reply. Again by crazy.
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Because they refuse to believe xcrazy is correct lol.
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i usually now recommend 2x, why..... old habits, ive seen stuff stick after only 1 wipe(rare), i'm paranoid and i forget if i wiped a certain partition or not, if wiping does bork the phones memory because of overwiping then mine, devs and flashaholics phones should of been dead along time ago.
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if wiping does bork the phones memory because of overwiping then mine, devs and flashaholics phones should of been dead along time ago.
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How many flash drives go bad? Not a large percentage but the ones that do do so because of being corrupted. I'd rather do as little as possible to achieve the same result.
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Nothing is never truely fully gone with only one delete
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Yeah, in terms of memory forensics. With one wipe its easy to deduce your last rom of choice memory. BUT one correct wipe will clear your rom for a fresh install.
I'm looking for advice on how to handle my nandroid backups.
Nandroid backups take up a lot of room which quickly adds up if one has 3 or more backups.
Is there a problem with transferring the backups to a pc or usb flash drive instead of keeping them on the phone?
Can they still be used to restore if not on the phone? How?
I prefer not to put them in the cloud.
Thanks
Anderson2 said:
I'm looking for advice on how to handle my nandroid backups.
Nandroid backups take up a lot of room which quickly adds up if one has 3 or more backups.
Is there a problem with transferring the backups to a pc or usb flash drive instead of keeping them on the phone?
Can they still be used to restore if not on the phone? How?
I prefer not to put them in the cloud.
Thanks
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Yes, but I always keep the latest one on my device.
Anderson2 said:
I'm looking for advice on how to handle my nandroid backups.
Nandroid backups take up a lot of room which quickly adds up if one has 3 or more backups.
Is there a problem with transferring the backups to a pc or usb flash drive instead of keeping them on the phone?
Can they still be used to restore if not on the phone? How?
I prefer not to put them in the cloud.
Thanks
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I always transfer mine to my PC. When you want to restore it just transfer it back.
I'm with aerowinder, always keep one on the device
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I'm with aerowinder, always keep one on the device
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I try to, but sometimes I don't have the space. But I agree, it's definitely good practice to keep one on your device.
I keep them on a meenova with 64 gigs on it. Plenty of space and I always have it handy in case things go south.
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I try to, but sometimes I don't have the space. But I agree, it's definitely good practice to keep one on your device.
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You can remove /data partition when you do not have enough space. It can still help and you restore data when you go home.
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You can remove /data partition when you do not have enough space. It can still help and you restore data when you go home.
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That's crazy. Besides, I'm talking long term storage. I have a TON of games and I also like to store music locally and nandroids take up a LOT of space.