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Trying to restore apps after wiping to install xboarders rooted GB

So I moved all of my apps to sd before wiping, hoping I could move them back after flashing the new rom but that doesn't seem to be working? My apps do not show up in either App2SD or Superbox pro . Did I screw up?

msage said:
So I moved all of my apps to sd before wiping, hoping I could move them back after flashing the new rom but that doesn't seem to be working? My apps do not show up in either App2SD or Superbox pro . Did I screw up?
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So you moved apps to external SD card?
Did you NVFlash Clockwork? More importantly, did install the Clockwork with Ext SD Card support?
Not sure if you move them back, but I had similar issue. I had all apps backed up with Titanium Backup on Ext SD Card. I NVFlashed and could not located TB backup folder. Turns out I NVFLashed the wrong CWR and did not have Ext support. Once I installed correct CWR I was able to restore all applications.

jabhome said:
So you moved apps to external SD card?
Did you NVFlash Clockwork? More importantly, did install the Clockwork with Ext SD Card support?
Not sure if you move them back, but I had similar issue. I had all apps backed up with Titanium Backup on Ext SD Card. I NVFlashed and could not located TB backup folder. Turns out I NVFLashed the wrong CWR and did not have Ext support. Once I installed correct CWR I was able to restore all applications.
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Actually yea I did NVFlash with Ext SD support. After booting into recovery though and trying to install the .zip from SD I realized that I forgot to move the rooted GB.zip to the SD card, so I powered off, moved the .zip to my sd, then just held vol down+power and hit install from sd.
Was I supposed to go through the whole NVflash again?

msage said:
Actually yea I did NVFlash with Ext SD support. After booting into recovery though and trying to install the .zip from SD I realized that I forgot to move the rooted GB.zip to the SD card, so I powered off, moved the .zip to my sd, then just held vol down+power and hit install from sd.
Was I supposed to go through the whole NVflash again?
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If you Clockwork loads up instead of a standard Factory Reset you don't need to go through NVFlash again.

jabhome said:
If you Clockwork loads up instead of a standard Factory Reset you don't need to go through NVFlash again.
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In that case it would seem I did everything right but I must've screwed up somewhere

Moving apps to the SD card doesn't stop them getting wiped.
The only way to keep hold of them is to back them up first.

Rusty! said:
Moving apps to the SD card doesn't stop them getting wiped.
The only way to keep hold of them is to back them up first.
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Well, balls.

CM7 - Mount Issues

I understand that the internal sd card mounts here:
mnt/emmc
but the problem is i cant get something things to work i believe because of it.
eg... i cant take a picture with the camera because it finds that there is no storage.
i cant get Titanium backup to work. I understand i can change the backup location, but when i go to do so, the app force closes on me.
any ideas on what i can do?
Regards,

I've never been able to get Titanium Backup to "see" the internal SD card (emmc), so I just set it to backup to my external, real SD card.

yes but i cant even get to that point, because it FCs as soon as i want to change backup location

GameOver69 said:
yes but i cant even get to that point, because it FCs as soon as i want to change backup location
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Go into recovery and then go to fix permissions
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Suprah said:
Go into recovery and then go to fix permissions
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Same issue after i fixed the permissions. I have the latest version of TB installed from the market as well FYI

GameOver69 said:
Same issue after i fixed the permissions. I have the latest version of TB installed from the market as well FYI
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Try moving your Titanium folder over to the corect path. In other words put the folder back in the path mnt/sd and out of mnt/emmc/. It will go to the phones external partition instead of the actual external sd card that you put in.
Then put your settings in titanium back to the way they were origanally

[Q] Titanium Backup to Removable sd??

Has anyone been able to get Titanium backup to backup to the removable storage? It wont let me navigate to my ext sd and will only backup to the on device storage! Can copy and paste to ext whenever I want to clean install a rom but kind of a pain!

mike1984jr said:
Has anyone been able to get Titanium backup to backup to the removable storage? It wont let me navigate to my ext sd and will only backup to the on device storage! Can copy and paste to ext whenever I want to clean install a rom but kind of a pain!
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First create a new folder on your sd card then copy all the backups to your new folder on the sd card.
1. Open Tibu, tab on the 3 stacked little boxes(most top right of the screen),
2. Select "preferences" from the drop down, scroll down to "backup folder location", tab to open,
3. Then tab on "detect" button, then tab on "whole device" button and it will find your new folder location,
4. Then hit the back button to bring you back to previous screen, your new path displayed and you tab on "use the current folder". you done.

If you've never made a backup, then you need to do the following:
In TiBu, Settings --> Preferences --> Backup folder location. Use the back key to navigate to /, then go to /Removable/MicroSD and then you can create a folder in there and use it as your backup location.
Took me a bit of a while to find the location.

johnlgalt said:
If you've never made a backup, then you need to do the following:
In TiBu, Settings --> Preferences --> Backup folder location. Use the back key to navigate to /, then go to /Removable/MicroSD and then you can create a folder in there and use it as your backup location.
Took me a bit of a while to find the location.
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+1
This is how I got mine working.

johnlgalt said:
If you've never made a backup, then you need to do the following:
In TiBu, Settings --> Preferences --> Backup folder location. Use the back key to navigate to /, then go to /Removable/MicroSD and then you can create a folder in there and use it as your backup location.
Took me a bit of a while to find the location.
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this solved my Tibu to ext sd card problem .. also off topic appreciate all your work for Bionic.... John Galt.. . rooted ics .232

You're welcome, and thanks in return for the props. I do what I can

Sorry to hijack this thread but I have a weird issue with Titanium Backup - have the paid version...
I want to set my preferred backup location to be on the micro SD but when I navigate to it Titanium backup says it is not writable and that the folder is empty.
I can write files toitin other apps and it is most definitely not empty, I have the install files for the ROM I'm using stored on it.
The ROM is CROMi-Xenogenesis 4.7.0- 10.16.1.14.8/WW DEODEX
Kernel is 3.1.10-hundsbuah-v3.4.5-oc-gaa752e8-dirty
Any ideas?

dang

berndblb said:
dang
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I guess that means you're stumped on that one then

fatboyinlycra said:
I guess that means you're stumped on that one then
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No, I posted in the wrong thread
How's the card formatted?
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berndblb said:
No, I posted in the wrong thread
How's the card formatted?
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FAT32.
It's a 64Gig SANDisk but it also happens on a 4gig and a 1 gig card, both of which are made by Kingston. Oddly enough every other app that writes data can write to these cards. It's only Titanium (paid version too) that seems to think the card is not writeable

Just upgraded to Cromi 5.4, still using Hunds F2FS kernel, but the issue still remains - cannot configure Titanium Backup to write to any Micro SD.
Anyone got any ideas?
ES File Explorer, the simple file explorer and other apps can all write to this card but not Titanium

fatboyinlycra said:
Just upgraded to Cromi 5.4, still using Hunds F2FS kernel, but the issue still remains - cannot configure Titanium Backup to write to any Micro SD.
Anyone got any ideas?
ES File Explorer, the simple file explorer and other apps can all write to this card but not Titanium
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I have exact setup as your and tibu is working fine for me.

[Q] Restore from backup on galaxy s3

A couple of days ago, I installed android 4.2.2 liquidsmooth on my galaxy s3 i9300. Before installing this custom ROM, I took a backup into external SD card. I see the folder to which I had taken a backup and files like boot.img, recovery.img are there in this folder. Now I want to restore to my old state but when I go to recovery mode and select backup and restore > restore, it says no such files directory found. It is unable to recognize the backed up files. How do I go about restoring?

regex_vid said:
A couple of days ago, I installed android 4.2.2 liquidsmooth on my galaxy s3 i9300. Before installing this custom ROM, I took a backup into external SD card. I see the folder to which I had taken a backup and files like boot.img, recovery.img are there in this folder. Now I want to restore to my old state but when I go to recovery mode and select backup and restore > restore, it says no such files directory found. It is unable to recognize the backed up files. How do I go about restoring?
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verify that its in the same folder where the backup was kept and u didn't changed anything.if u did undo it!

prantoroy said:
verify that its in the same folder where the backup was kept and u didn't changed anything.if u did undo it!
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When I took a backup, it was stored in internal storage under /clockworkmod directory. I copied that folder to external SD. I'm unable to restore from external SD card and also from internal storage. If I select backup and restore > restore, it says no such files found. Am I missing something?

regex_vid said:
When I took a backup, it was stored in internal storage under /clockworkmod directory. I copied that folder to external SD. I'm unable to restore from external SD card and also from internal storage. If I select backup and restore > restore, it says no such files found. Am I missing something?
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puted it in under /clockworkmod/backup
???

prantoroy said:
puted it in under /clockworkmod/backup
???
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Yes. By default it was copied to that location.

regex_vid said:
Yes. By default it was copied to that location.
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last question
are u using cwm?

anythinh hentypd
prantoroy said:
last question
are u using cwm?
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Yes

regex_vid said:
Yes
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hopeless!

prantoroy said:
hopeless!
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Why? what happened?

regex_vid said:
Why? what happened?
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it mostly happens if the file is missing or renamed or even hidden.
but here all is ok.
so I can't assist you further!
SORRY.

[Q] Clockworkmod backups

I am just wondering if it is safe to store these on the external SD card??
If for some reason i needed to access them, would I be able to? They are currently taking up a good chunk of my internal memory. I only have one, but its taking up 483MB. I want to make a newer one as well - how do I go about doing that? Again, would it be safe to keep it on the external SD card if I needed access in the future? The old one is from when the original owner rooted the device I imagine, cant be sure, but it was definately before I had it. It was brand new other than the root/unlock which i knew about ahead of time.
Anyway, is it safe to move/create a new one and move it?

Yes, if you copy and paste, make sure to keep the exact folders and their names, along with any files in them. It is completely safe
Edit: in fact you can also do the backups directly to external sd card right from recovery.

Nick_73 said:
Yes, if you copy and paste, make sure to keep the exact folders and their names, along with any files in them. It is completely safe
Edit: in fact you can also do the backups directly to external sd card right from recovery.
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Do you mean on the external sd card to also call the folders "clockworkmod/backup/<date>"?

Pawprints1986 said:
Do you mean on the external sd card to also call the folders "clockworkmod/backup/<date>"?
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Yes. Whatever the folder tree looks like on ur internal memory copy it EXACTLY to ur sd card

Nick_73 said:
Yes. Whatever the folder tree looks like on ur internal memory copy it EXACTLY to ur sd card
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Is there a way, after i move it, to see if I can see it from my external SD card within the recovery without actually using the backup/reverting back to those settings???

Pawprints1986 said:
Is there a way, after i move it, to see if I can see it from my external SD card within the recovery without actually using the backup/reverting back to those settings???
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If u go to "restore" u should see ur backups.

Nick_73 said:
If u go to "restore" u should see ur backups.
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Ok, so ive taken the time tongiht to copy my backups from the internal to the external, using the same paths. I even included the ".nomedia" ".salted_hash" and ".settings" just in case.
I also have a copy on my desktop hard drive.
Is it now safe to delete them off of the internal storage? How can I confirm that they can still be seen from recovery - but without actually using them to recover/reset the system at this current time?
I already made another backup accidently last night. I was in custom recovery clearing out the cache, and I went into backup just wondering if thats where you go to make one (i figured it would confirm by making you scroll to yes like every other option). it started making a new backup. Luckily i had 60% battery so i was able to let it finish. So at least now i have a backup of my current system.
The problem is both backups are taking up 2 gigs of internal space now and i only have 4gigs. So, these definately need to be pitched if possible.
ETA: So after I watched a video on youtube, i did go in, and i can see both dates of backups.... but all of the files are still in both locations... how can I tell which ones CWM is seeing??