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Can you back your phone to you're computer

What app do you Use
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What exactly are you trying to backup?
If you already have a Titanium Backup, copy that folder to your PC
Also, SMS Backup and Restore, Call Log Backup and Restore and APN Backup and Restore to backup those items, then copy the folders to the computer from your phone.
We need a little more info to give you a good answer but that should help

xxsicknessxx said:
What app do you Use
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To backup your phone, complete Andorid OS, system files, apps and all.....you need a nandroid backup. This you would acheive with Clockworkmod Recovery. This a complete 1:1 backup that will be an exact replica of your phone. Everything........you then copy the backup folder to your computer.
Now if you want a backup like syncing your files, music, pics and folders, you need Kies, which is the samsung software for this. HOWEVER, it may or may not backup your SYSTEM files and settings......I have not used Kies in a while, so dont know what it does anymore
And finally, you can use a file manager like Astro File Manager, Root Explorer and then copy all files to your external SD card.
Have fun !!

And u say I'm in every thread? I leave for a few hours and u handle all the questions lol, what I'm I supposed to do now?

chappatti said:
To backup your phone, complete Andorid OS, system files, apps and all.....you need a nandroid backup. This you would acheive with Clockworkmod Recovery. This a complete 1:1 backup that will be an exact replica of your phone. Everything........you then copy the backup folder to your computer.
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What he said... ^^^^.... with one exception. .. a Nandroid backup does NOT backup the modem partitions (mmcblk0p17 and mmcblk0p13).

Uncle Irish said:
What exactly are you trying to backup?
If you already have a Titanium Backup, copy that folder to your PC
Also, SMS Backup and Restore, Call Log Backup and Restore and APN Backup and Restore to backup those items, then copy the folders to the computer from your phone.
We need a little more info to give you a good answer but that should help
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I agree with Uncle Irish, Titanium Backup will do all that for you.

To sync to a windows pc, just get my phone explorer from Google play.
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EDIT: MyPhoneExplorer lets you sync to Outlook, Thunderbird, and several other apps on your PC. You'll need to download the PC version, too. I use this to back up my contacts and calendar to Outlook.
The other posts here have great advice for backing up your phone's files. ROM Toolbox is a great app that does a lot of what you want on a rooted phone. It can do app backups just like Titanium Backup (I actually like RTB better than TiBu). I also back up calendar and contacts to google for easy syncing after a wipe.

Restore Titanium Backup through dropbox

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.

jayjay3333 said:
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.

DUCKSHOTIN said:
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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Backup and restore
Using Backup&Restore Drop-box plugin on Word-press is really helpful. It has Unlimited dropbox backups, Unlimited dropbox restores, Unlimited local backups and Unlimited local restores.

Backup all of my apps to a pc?

I may be posting in the wrong thread so if that is the case plz let me know.
So, I want to install another rom in my phone and as we all know I guess, that means that I will lose my apps. Although I can use titanium backup to restore them afterwards, this time, the problem is that I dont have enough space to do the backup as usual... And I already own an 8gb sd card so dont tell me to buy a bigger one(if I do I will download even more games to play xD)... So, could I somehow make a backup of my apps into my pc, since it is the only place where I have enough space? Oh and I want also to have the data of each app( I am on a limited data plan for a couple of months)
Any solution will be greatly appreciated
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Mokiwipeout said:
I may be posting in the wrong thread so if that is the case plz let me know.
So, I want to install another rom in my phone and as we all know I guess, that means that I will lose my apps. Although I can use titanium backup to restore them afterwards, this time, the problem is that I dont have enough space to do the backup as usual... And I already own an 8gb sd card so dont tell me to buy a bigger one(if I do I will download even more games to play xD)... So, could I somehow make a backup of my apps into my pc, since it is the only place where I have enough space? Oh and I want also to have the data of each app( I am on a limited data plan for a couple of months)
Any solution will be greatly appreciated
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Remove some items from your sd card n make dwm backup then later u can place the cwm backup on ur pc
n can restore later

I've got two easy solutions to your problem:
- try out Carbon and find if it's able to back everything (app+data) durectly on your PC (personally I prefer TitaniumBackPRO and I've never used Carbon, but a friend of mine told me that he uses it to backup+restore stuff)
- try to create not just one single big and heavy backup with Titanium BackUp but...just more than one!
I mean, you can select to backup half of the apps+data you've got in your phone in one backup, upload it to Dropbox/Drive/Box...and then do the other half-backup of apps+data of your phone.
Maybe it's not that fast but it's easy...and you don't have to use any other apps than the one you've already on your smartphone.
Cheers!

Mokiwipeout said:
I may be posting in the wrong thread so if that is the case plz let me know.
So, I want to install another rom in my phone and as we all know I guess, that means that I will lose my apps. Although I can use titanium backup to restore them afterwards, this time, the problem is that I dont have enough space to do the backup as usual... And I already own an 8gb sd card so dont tell me to buy a bigger one(if I do I will download even more games to play xD)... So, could I somehow make a backup of my apps into my pc, since it is the only place where I have enough space? Oh and I want also to have the data of each app( I am on a limited data plan for a couple of months)
Any solution will be greatly appreciated
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Have you looked into the cloud solutions TitaniumBackupPRO has? I've used it with Google Drive and it worked very well.

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JaronRH said:
Have you looked into the cloud solutions TitaniumBackupPRO has? I've used it with Google Drive and it worked very well.
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This is what I would suggest... if you don't mind spending a little money.

Mokiwipeout said:
I may be posting in the wrong thread so if that is the case plz let me know.
So, I want to install another rom in my phone and as we all know I guess, that means that I will lose my apps. Although I can use titanium backup to restore them afterwards, this time, the problem is that I dont have enough space to do the backup as usual... And I already own an 8gb sd card so dont tell me to buy a bigger one(if I do I will download even more games to play xD)... So, could I somehow make a backup of my apps into my pc, since it is the only place where I have enough space? Oh and I want also to have the data of each app( I am on a limited data plan for a couple of months)
Any solution will be greatly appreciated
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Helium app should dao it for you. Afaik you will be able to back up your app apk as well as the app data. Search for it on google play. You will have to download Helium app for your PC as well. That will enable you to backup stuff to PC.
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Why not just get another SD card lol. I would delete my old backups if you don't need them and transfer the files I have on the SD card now to the PC. Then I'd use titanium backup and save then transfer that contents to my PC.
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You could try Titanium Backup its gr8 but you need a pro version.

Backup Rom storage questions for you genius's

Hi all, I have a few questions regarding where you store your backup Roms, I am fairly new to this ( duh) , I am running CM on my GS3 ( 10.1.2).
I have a 16gb with another 16gb external storage. I have one backup of stock 4.1.2 JB on my phone and another backup of the Rom I am running.
Do you all usually keep several backups on your phone? And if so where do you usually keep them, on the internal storage or external? Mine are on the internal storage and take up almost 6 gb. I would love to free up space there, just not sure if it's ok to store backups elsewhere, and how I would go about it if there is. Hope this makes sense, I always keep backups but didn't realize just how much room they take up! Once a backup has already been made, can I move it via TWRP to external storage or is this not recommended? Hope this all makes sense...

I used Rom manager and I keep only one Rom backup on my internal storage and everything else is on my external sd card. I also keep a folder in Dropbox with backups.
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Also use ROM Manager, I keep 6-10 Nandroid backups on my external SD card & always backup to my PC also. I'm constantly creating & destroying nandroids as I backup before I flash anything new whether a full ROM, new nightly, different kernel or a simple MOD.
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I use Dropbox for backups and keep my most recent rom in the internal SD card

Speaking of backups, I just did a nandroid backup via TWRP and forgot to choose compression, so now I have a 4+ gb backup file eating up space on my internal storage. If I transfer it to PC, use windows to zip the folder, and transfer it back, I should then still be able to flash it in recovery just like if I chose compression in the first place, right?
Would be nice to have more than 3gb free space...

I do nightly backups with Titanium Backup, then I use FolderSync to copy everything to my computer before I wake.
I do periodic nandroid backups as image.zip files, rename them to include the date, and sync them with my computer using FolderSync.
I save apks separate from data, and never delete them. I only keep the last few ROM images (probably not more than five copies).
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0xScott said:
I do nightly backups with Titanium Backup, then I use FolderSync to copy everything to my computer before I wake.
I do periodic nandroid backups as image.zip files, rename them to include the date, and sync them with my computer using FolderSync.
I save apks separate from data, and never delete them. I only keep the last few ROM images (probably not more than five copies).
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If you just did the backup, delete the backup, enable compression, and re-do it. You'll save time and uncertainty over copying to a computer and back.
That's just what I'd do.
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Argh, I unfortunately already flashed to cm10.1 or I would have just done a new backup. I've already configured everything and so I'd hate to have to flash stock, make a new backup, then flash back to cm... Would the method I described still work as an alternative?

If you have enough storage, you could backup your current CM ROM, restore the other one, back it up with compression, delete the uncompressed ROM and restore your new CM backup.
Now that you've loaded a different ROM, just move it off the phone, zip it in windows, and leave it on your computer.
If you ever want to restore, unzip it and move it back to your phone.
It'll either work or it won't. You're not going to mess anything up with a bad zip. Just don't use any WinZip proprietary options when you zip.
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0xScott said:
If you have enough storage, you could backup your current CM ROM, restore the other one, back it up with compression, delete the uncompressed ROM and restore your new CM backup.
Now that you've loaded a different ROM, just move it off the phone, zip it in windows, and leave it on your computer.
If you ever want to restore, unzip it and move it back to your phone.
It'll either work or it won't. You're not going to mess anything up with a bad zip. Just don't use any WinZip proprietary options when you zip.
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Got it, thanks

Thanks for the responses ...got everything backed up on PC /Dropbox. Thanks!

How do I pull an app off my phone so I can download it on another?

I am going to un route my phone and then root it again. My favorite reminder app Astrid is no longer supported and is no longer in the market however I still use it all the time. I don't like the other applications.
I use titanium back up. I am assuming that I can pull the application off of my phone and put it on my desktop and then transfer it back to my phone and install it. Is that correct? What file should I look for? Do I need multiple files? I copy and pasted the Astrid folder from my phone to my desktop so I could transfer it back to my phone and still have all of my information when I restored however I don't think that folder has the actual application in it.
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Its as simple as opening titanium backup, going to backup/restore, scrolling to the app you want which in this case is Astrid, tap the app and press backup! You don't need to move the file off the phone as long as you're not wiping the internal SD which 95% of the time isn't necessary. Hope I helped!
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Thanks for your response, however I will be wiping the phone completely.
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You can set the location of Titanium Backup to an easy to remember folder. After finishing the backup you can transfer the files to your PC, and then to your new phone.
In case you have an external SD card you can set it to backup there. Then you can just insert your SD in the new phone to recover.

joriswagter said:
You can set the location of Titanium Backup to an easy to remember folder. After finishing the backup you can transfer the files to your PC, and then to your new phone.
In case you have an external SD card you can set it to backup there. Then you can just insert your SD in the new phone to recover.
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Samsung galaxy nexus, so no sd card. Which file am I looking for in titanium? And do I want to restore that file necessarily? I might be putting it on an SG3 and I wouldn't want to include and system info and I'm not sure exactly what that backed up file includes.
Is there an .sdk that I should look for?
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You can use titanium backup or backup system apps using es file explorer backup

Maybe I'm not being clear. What would the filename be called and where would I find it? I installed root browser but there is no search function. I'm assuming it's Astrid.sdk
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