Can anyone suggest a reliable windows application that will do the following:
1. Allow me to view, backup, and edit Android System folders from the phone such as \system\app, \system\csc, \system\etc.
2. The ability to sync system folders on-demand.
3. Function via USB cable, most likely in USB Debugging mode.
This is not to be confused with backing up pictures, music, or other media & files located on the user SD card, via USB Mass Storage connection or via Kies software.
I am currently using MyPhoneExplorer, but if it has not be updated in over six months and has documented stability issues with newer Samsung ADB drivers and possibly ADB.exe.
Thank you.
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Just curious if anybody knows how or could direct me to instructions on how to backup my entire gtab (the whole disk, not just one partition or another, all of them) to PC just so in the event I explode my gtabs partition table or mkfs the wrong partition in it due to inexcusable and wreckless tinkering, I would always have images of the various partitions in their correct form.
Something like a dd would be fine, my pc has plenty of disk space to store however many 16gb images I want.
I have clockwork mod and recognize that it can do this for me, but saving a disk image onto the same disk just makes my spidey sense tingle..
Preferably windows instructions if possible.
rswindle,
Here is what I do:
1. Go into the clockwork mod and select Backup and Restore --> Choose Backup and this should backup the entire tab (done it many times now).
2. Reboot, connect to USB as you do regularly, allow necessary access to copy files from and to GTab (depending on the ROM you use, either Tnt or VeGan).
3. Go into windows (xp is what i used), you gtab should be seen as an usb device and assigned a drive letter (typically F:\).
4. Go into clockworkmod within F drive, copy the entire backup folder to another location within your windows machine.
5. Now unmount the usb drive from Gtab and from windows icon.
6. unplug the usb cable.
7. Go into g-tab into cwm and do whatever you want and again you can copy the backup folder into Gtab back.
Hope this explains.
same with TB
satishraman said:
rswindle,
Here is what I do:
1. Go into the clockwork mod and select Backup and Restore --> Choose Backup and this should backup the entire tab (done it many times now).
2. Reboot, connect to USB as you do regularly, allow necessary access to copy files from and to GTab (depending on the ROM you use, either Tnt or VeGan).
3. Go into windows (xp is what i used), you gtab should be seen as an usb device and assigned a drive letter (typically F:\).
4. Go into clockworkmod within F drive, copy the entire backup folder to another location within your windows machine.
5. Now unmount the usb drive from Gtab and from windows icon.
6. unplug the usb cable.
7. Go into g-tab into cwm and do whatever you want and again you can copy the backup folder into Gtab back.
Hope this explains.
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Do you do this with Titanium Backup also?
satishraman said:
rswindle,
Here is what I do:
1. Go into the clockwork mod and select Backup and Restore --> Choose Backup and this should backup the entire tab (done it many times now).
2. Reboot, connect to USB as you do regularly, allow necessary access to copy files from and to GTab (depending on the ROM you use, either Tnt or VeGan).
3. Go into windows (xp is what i used), you gtab should be seen as an usb device and assigned a drive letter (typically F:\).
4. Go into clockworkmod within F drive, copy the entire backup folder to another location within your windows machine.
5. Now unmount the usb drive from Gtab and from windows icon.
6. unplug the usb cable.
7. Go into g-tab into cwm and do whatever you want and again you can copy the backup folder into Gtab back.
Hope this explains.
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Very simple and concise, thanks!
Nope, I do use TB (mainly I use for market reset), but not for backups. This way I found easier.
Hi
Android 3.2 tablet /sdcard folder under the sdcard folder, I deleted /sdcard/sdcard folder, deleted all my files. How can I recover my files
seems as MTP device to the computer does not see any undelete program tablets
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Use Google. Have a search for Android Forensic Recovery. You will find programs you can pay for which may be able to recover some of your data (assuming you have ADB Debugging enabled) or you can send your phone to one of the companies which are listed and pay them to try and do the same thing for you.
Don't ask me for recommendations - I've recover data off 'wiped' hard-drives (and even memory cards) many times, but doing it from a phone's internal memory is a different prospect.
Hi, I just deleted the camera folder in gallery (dcim folder on internal sd).
Does anyone know a working recovery app or pc tool that works on internal sd?
I tried several ones, but no luck.
Thanks in advance!
I'm not sure about apps, but some of the desktop software may help. There's a company called Active that has a couple options that may help, such as UNDELETE or File Recovery. The main problem is the fact that this is flash memory. If you've written to the card any since you deleted the folder you dramatically reduce your chances of being able to recover those files.
Also, it depends on how new the card is as the more data has been written and rewritten to it, the lower your chances of being able to recover. That goes for all re-writeable storage. Hopefully that helps ... good luck.
If you're unfortunate enough to not already updated to Jellybean, you can use USB Mass Storage mode and try using PhotoRec to recover files.
THIS is why we need USB mass storage mode... MTP just doesn't cut it.
Hi
I rooted and unlocked my one plus and then ran a backup for my EFS Partition using Terminal Emulator app. This created 2 files, modemst1.bin & modemst2.bin, which are on the root of my internal storage. I can see these files on my Root Browser on Phone. However I connected phone to PC and can only see internal storage. I have USB Debugging enabled and MTP. I also De-installed the drive and re-installed and still cannot see it. I tried different ports and also a different USB cable but still the same. I want to copy these files to my PC to have as back up
Anything else I should try?
Thanks
Are you able to see any other personal files/folders on your phone?
Don't have access at the moment but from memory it just showed folders like music, download. data, DCIM etc I think.
I was thinking if I could copy the files using file manager on the phone to one of the folders I can view then save these on my PC. That work? Would still like to know why I cannot see root files on my PC
Thanks
funkyirishman said:
Don't have access at the moment but from memory it just showed folders like music, download. data, DCIM etc I think.
I was thinking if I could copy the files using file manager on the phone to one of the folders I can view then save these on my PC. That work? Would still like to know why I cannot see root files on my PC
Thanks
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Yeah, I think you'll need to put them into one of the folders and then you should be able to see them using your PC. As to why this happens I have no idea though.
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Do you know of any way to enable root viewing of the internal storage? So that I can just use Windows Explorer to view it?
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I have several old Android phones that will mount a USB Flash connected with an OTG cable; however, the backup app built-in to their versions of Android does not offer the option of doing a backup and directing the files to the external USB Flash drive.
I have tried several Backup apps from Google Play Store, but none of them seem to offer backup to the external USB Flash.
File manager apps like Ghost Commander and Total Commander can access the USB Flash drive without a problem.
Can anyone recommend a Backup app that will allow backup to the OTG connected USB Flash for Android versions 6 - 9 ???
If not, can anyone tell me what directories I should include in a manual file copy using one of the file managers above to manually do backups by copying files and directories ???
TIA
I managed to find one program that claims this capability.
My Backup by Rerware LLC.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.rerware.android.MyBackup
Does anyone here have any experience with this app ???
Have a similar issue - only I want to backup/sync photos (DCIM folder) to an OTG USB drive. Your suggested app did not work for me. Similary I also have found only 1 app that does work (was mentioned in one 2012 forum thread that I cannot find at the moment..):
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=dk.tacit.android.foldersync.lite
The main downside - it is seriously packed with disturbing adds (so I'm looking for something better)! (Nope - it worked fine on the SD card, but does not work on USB OTG!)