Am i right in thinking that the 4ext recovery is held on the memory card or is it on the phone?
I'm buying a new memory card tomorrow for my Sensation and want to know what I have to do to set it up to how my old one was.
4EXT is held in your phone, somewhere, i don't know where, but definitely not on the SD card
Arsenal23 said:
Am i right in thinking that the 4ext recovery is held on the memory card or is it on the phone?
I'm buying a new memory card tomorrow for my Sensation and want to know what I have to do to set it up to how my old one was.
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Hi,
Look on the root of your sd card.
You will see clockworkmod/backup
Your backups are in there.
Copy the whole of your sd card to a folder on your PC.
Then,you can put back what you need later(pix,music,backups)
Don't worry about the android files.
Android will put back what it needs.
malybru said:
Hi,
Look on the root of your sd card.
You will see clockworkmod/backup
Your backups are in there.
Copy the whole of your sd card to a folder on your PC.
Then,you can put back what you need later(pix,music,backups)
Don't worry about the android files.
Android will put back what it needs.
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i think he asked about the actual recovery, and not the backups...
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Hi guys, I haved flash CWM to the external SD card using NV Flasher the external version and flash a ROM through the external version.
What shoul happen if the external sd card fails? Do I just take sd card out and the original firmware runs by the internal or what?
BTW, thanks in advance
I don't believe you flashed to the external, but you flashed the version that supports external cards. if your external craps out, then any backups are gone. It is wise to double up on your backups.. one on your card, and another on a service like Dropbox.. a free 2gb backup service: http://db.tt/ooY4qYA
Basically, connect your usb.. find the clockwork folder and your backup is in there. Drag/drop into your dropbox folder on your desktop.. good to go. Or you can get dropbox for the android and do it from your phone.. whatever flips your bippy.
Yes, external sd ext 4 support, thanks. So to restore the system to be full functional again can be 1) flash the CWM for the internal sd, put the backup inside and flash it. 2) buy another card flash the CWM external version put the backup inside and flash.
My apologies for my english, thanks.
josepr07 said:
Yes, external sd ext 4 support, thanks. So to restore the system to be full functional again can be 1) flash the CWM for the internal sd, put the backup inside and flash it. 2) buy another card flash the CWM external version put the backup inside and flash.
My apologies for my english, thanks.
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Hmm, with the difference in english, I can't tell if you completely understand it correctly or if you are mistaken, haha.
First and foremost after you have flashed CWM... You shut off your phone. Then hold down volume down + power.. until the green android logo loads, then let go. Then you will be in CWM. While in there, go through the menus and do a backup first and foremost. It will place the backup on your external card.
Once you do the backup, it will be on your external card. Take a copy of it off of your external card and drop it into dropbox, put it on your computer, etc. Basically.. make a backup of the backup.
Then, if your external craps out... then you can either get a new one and put the backup back on the external card.. Or, you can reflash CWM for internal support... and move the backup from your dropbox, your computer, etc. onto the internal. Then you can restore it.
Edit: after re-reading what you said, i'm pretty sure you understand it correctly. As long as you have your backup...and you have duplicated the backup somewhere else.. Then you will be 100% ok. Well, 99%.
Everything is clear to me now, thanks.
I've just bought a new 32GB SD card and I need to put it in my phone. Now my phone isn't rooted so what's the best way to make sure all my apps/games that are installed on my old memory card can be backed up and transferred to the new one? Or will I have to sit and install everything again?
Thank you
If you have enough space on your device just move all your apps back to the device. Then make a copy of your SD card and past that copy to your new SD card. Then put the new SD card in your device and move all the apps back to the SD card.
Naa I don't have anywhere close to enough space on phone memory..
I'd suggest the following.
A simple copy should work. A card reader will help.
1. Take the old card out of your phone, put the new card in and let the phone format/delete/prepare it.
2. Change cards back, plug in the data cable and connect it to your computer. Open explorer or some other file manager and copy the content of your old card to a temporary directory.
3. Changing cards again. The content of the temp directory can now be copied onto the new card.
If I remember right, this way it worked for me.
wr8_utd said:
I've just bought a new 32GB SD card and I need to put it in my phone.
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Cool, what brand?
itsjustmeagain said:
I'd suggest the following.
A simple copy should work. A card reader will help.
1. Take the old card out of your phone, put the new card in and let the phone format/delete/prepare it.
2. Change cards back, plug in the data cable and connect it to your computer. Open explorer or some other file manager and copy the content of your old card to a temporary directory.
3. Changing cards again. The content of the temp directory can now be copied onto the new card.
If I remember right, this way it worked for me.
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Thanks for the steps. I'll try that when I get a new SD card.
Sent from my HTC Sensation XE with Beats Audio Z715e using XDA
Please could someone tell me which files i would need to copy across to from current sd card running in sensation xe over to new SD Card to keep system running correctly. So that i can format the old car and make sure i have the updated new files without clutter on new SD card.
r.king35 said:
Please could someone tell me which files i would need to copy across to from current sd card running in sensation xe over to new SD Card to keep system running correctly. So that i can format the old car and make sure i have the updated new files without clutter on new SD card.
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Hi,
Copy the whole card over to your PC/laptop (using ctrl+a and ctrl+c )
Then,format your card to FAT32 .
Put back the files you want(music,pix,backups,docs,etc.)
Then put your card back in your phone.
Android will put back the files/folders it needs,and you are good to go.
If you did forget anything,you should still have a copy of it on your PC/laptop.
Yep, that's the best method. You don't need an adapter, either - just plug your phone into your computer via USB and mount 'as disk drive' and you're good to go.
I'm having the worst time trying to find out how to friggin' backup my phone to my external sd card. For some reason, I can do it to my internal storage, but have no way of getting it backed up to my external SD card. I can see the option to select it, but I can't actually select it. I think I have to create a folder on my external SD card for the root but I just can't figure it out. Does the whole entire SafeStrap file need to be copied over to my SD cars as well with a repeat process of installing it the same way in which I did for the internal storage too?
Have you tried backing it up then manually copy pasting it to your sd card?
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I have not, as I assumed that while that might be an option, that if I cannot select the external storage option then something is wrong with SafeStrap. If all I have to do is manually copy it over to my external SD card, and with that done Safestrap can still function OK, then that is what I can do. I thought there was something smaller I might have been missing, so I wanted to make sure it was done accurately. Thanks for the input!
EDIT: My real worry with this, is that if I cannot select external SD storage, then how will I select the files I need to install when flashing ROM? I don't have enough space on my internal storage for the files, and would have to put them onto my external SD card, but if I can't select it then I have no clue how I'll be able to flash the ROM.
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no way of getting it backed up to my external SD card. I can see the option to select it, but I can't actually select it.
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I thought I had the same issue and mashed the radio button a bunch of times out of frustration and it eventually worked. It's like the touch isn't as responsive in that area of the screen when in SS.
Well, I got the ROM to work. Since my internal storage is only 5 GB, I couldn't leave both the backup file and the ROM zip files on the same storage device, so I moved the backup manually to my external SD and left the ROM.zip on my internal. I flashed them, got the ROM to work but when I opened it up and booted, as I expected, the phone is like new (nothing installed like I originally had it). Well, I can't restore the backup since it is on my external SD card and since I can't still select that option under SafeStrap, I'm kind of in a pickle here. As well, I my computer couldn't recognize my phone either when on the new CM10 ROM. I'm just going ROM this weekend. If any of you have any clue how to get my computer to recognize my phone when booted on the CM10 ROM, or know how to get SafeStrap to allow me to select my external SD card for storage etc I would much appreciate it!!
Hi,
I had a HTC explorer which i had rooted . I was using a 8GB class 10 card on it . I have got a new phone in which i want to use that 8GB card.
Is there a way i can copy the rom installation from the 8GB card to a 2GB card i had got with explorer ??
Thanks
AlbusDumbelodr said:
Hi,
I had a HTC explorer which i had rooted . I was using a 8GB class 10 card on it . I have got a new phone in which i want to use that 8GB card.
Is there a way i can copy the rom installation from the 8GB card to a 2GB card i had got with explorer ??
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If you aren't using any memory increasing scripts, you can just swap memory cards, move the "Android", and ".android_secure" folder from the old card to new. I'd recommend that you do a complete copy, not to miss out any other data from other apps.
AlbusDumbelodr said:
Hi,
I had a HTC explorer which i had rooted . I was using a 8GB class 10 card on it . I have got a new phone in which i want to use that 8GB card.
Is there a way i can copy the rom installation from the 8GB card to a 2GB card i had got with explorer ??
Thanks
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Take a nandroid backup.. Using the recovery..
In the card you will see a folder named clockworkmod or something... Copy the folder in the new card..
If you had a partition in the previous card then make a partition in the new one..
Place that folder in your new card..
Go to recovery.. Make sure you install the recovery through which you had done the backup..
Go to backup and restore.. select the backup.. done..
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Go to recovery.. Make sure you install the recovery through which you had done the backup.[/QUOTE said:
Couldn't understand this step !!
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shubhojit89 said:
Take a nandroid backup.. Using the recovery..
In the card you will see a folder named clockworkmod or something... Copy the folder in the new card..
If you had a partition in the previous card then make a partition in the new one..
Place that folder in your new card..
Go to recovery.. Make sure you install the recovery through which you had done the backup..
Go to backup and restore.. select the backup.. done..
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I partially disagree with this. Some of the apps use some custom folder, (hidden with "." prefix) in the SDcard, and so, an exact copy of the SD Card's what I recommend.
AlbusDumbelodr said:
Couldn't understand this step !!
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If you don't jump about installing recoveries, then, you don't have anything to worry about.
Insider details: TWRP's and Clockworkmod's backup/restore mechanisms work in different ways, and they're two "different" recoveries. Hence, they use different folders, "clockworkmod" (or "clockwork") and "TWRP" respectively. The backups are stored in those folders. If you don't flash a new recovery, and use the old recovery itself, you've got nothing to worry about.
p.s. ROMs are installed in internal memory. The SDCard, only some data is stored.
thewisenerd said:
I partially disagree with this. Some of the apps use some custom folder, (hidden with "." prefix) in the SDcard, and so, an exact copy of the SD Card's what I recommend.
If you don't jump about installing recoveries, then, you don't have anything to worry about.
Insider details: TWRP's and Clockworkmod's backup/restore mechanisms work in different ways, and they're two "different" recoveries. Hence, they use different folders, "clockworkmod" (or "clockwork") and "TWRP" respectively. The backups are stored in those folders. If you don't flash a new recovery, and use the old recovery itself, you've got nothing to worry about.
p.s. ROMs are installed in internal memory. The SDCard, only some data is stored.
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Basically if i make a image of a memory card and restore that image on another card ..it should work .. right ?
AlbusDumbelodr said:
Basically if i make a image of a memory card and restore that image on another card ..it should work .. right ?
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simply to say mate backup your apps and all through titanium backup.. paste in your PC then partition the card.. go to recovery partition the card then flash the ROM.. setup everything after boot. install titanium go to preferences -> batch actions-> restore user apps..
AlbusDumbelodr said:
Basically if i make a image of a memory card and restore that image on another card ..it should work .. right ?
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Yes, the simplest way. :good: