I know the contacts, call and text logs, apps, app settings and data, etc. will all be wrong but can I swap Captivates with a friend by simply swapping SIM cards? i.e. our phone number and plan and data plans move to each others phone.
If so, can all that other stuff be Titanum Backed up to the external sd and then restored on the proper phone?
Yeah, it will work just fine. The only thing that will change is your IMEI, this will only be an issue if you try to file a warranty or insurance claim.
Both Captivate accounts are on the AT&T network so I'm supposing the IMEI is not an issue except as you say for warranty purposes and whos name is on the account for that particular phone IMEI.
What about doing the Titanium Backup on each phone to the SD card then after swapping the SD cards doing a restore to the phone? Will Titanium Backup complain that the backup file doesn't match the phone?
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I know the contacts, call and text logs, apps, app settings and data, etc. will all be wrong but can I swap Captivates with a friend by simply swapping SIM cards? i.e. our phone number and plan and data plans move to each others phone.
If so, can all that other stuff be Titanum Backed up to the external sd and then restored on the proper phone?
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Not that it really matters, but why are you switching Captivates? What's the advantage of trading the same phone?
Well, they're not really the same phones since my friends phone is stock Eclair and mine is unofficial Froyo with root and lag fix.
My friend is very impressed with the speed of my phone compared to his but is afraid of bricking his phone and/or losing all his apps and data. So I thought rather than chance it with OS updates and such, maybe just a swap of SIM cards (and data and such) would let him try it for a few days to see if it's worth the chance.
If you have titanium backup folder on your external card no problem. I have 2 captivates that I swap back and forth ever so often and never have an issue with tibu restoring.
Since you are running different ROMs, do not back up and restore ANY system data with TiBu after the switch. I would just flash his phone for him. He will be able to restore all his apps and if he's using Google to sync he can easily get his data back. You're really complicating things by swapping phones.
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Since you are running different ROMs, do not back up and restore ANY system data with TiBu after the switch. I would just flash his phone for him. He will be able to restore all his apps and if he's using Google to sync he can easily get his data back. You're really complicating things by swapping phones.
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Just flash his phone to the official Froyo rom for him (after backing up everything that can be backed up and restored from 2.1 to 2.2), if it messes up, he can always go get another phone from AT&T as a warranty replacement... Rooting and the Lagfix isn't very risky so he really has nothing to worry about there, most of the big issues come with installing custom roms/recoveries...
Hi all, been lurking for a while (mostly in the SGS3 Verizon forums though to keep updated on ROMs) and I'm not proud of this being my first post but I have a quick question that I couldn't find a definitive answer to. I got a replacement S3 in the mail today from Verizon as I had problems charging my old phone. Before switching over, I ran a normal batch backup in TiBu and then unrooted/factory reset my old phone so I could send it back tomorrow under warranty. I then rooted my replacement and after installing Titanium Backup again, went to restore all my apps. However, none were to be found.
I'm assuming this is because the backups were made in the internal storage of my old phone and not in the extSD card where I automatically assumed they were. So my question is, is there any way I can retrieve these backups now to restore all my apps/messages/etc. or are they lost forever? For now I'm going with I got screwed and I'm gonna have to reinstall everything the old-fashioned way and deal with the lost SMSs. Any help is greatly appreciated.
Thank you and I truly am sorry if this was posted before or is in the wrong section (mods, feel free to move it if it is). The closest things I found were guides for using TiBu that suggested exporting the backups to the extSD card before switching phones which is why I feel like I'm in trouble.
tl;dr: Got a replacement phone, didn't export TiBu backups to extSD card, unrooted old phone. Is there any way I can get my backups back?
Is it possible to recover your phone's data from a ClockWorkMod recovery file.. Without a phone?
My Samsung Galaxy S2 Skyrocket finally borked on me a couple days ago, where the screen started to randomly turn blue in the corner, it looked like someone used an airbrush inside of the screen. Later on this started getting worse and it spread through out the whole screen. I made a backup immediately with ClockWorkMod's recovery and put it on my SD card, which I now have on my computer.
Is it possible to open it somehow and grab my pictures and other important notes and such from it without having a phone? As in, use some setup with VirtualBox or something along those lines, or even some way to open up the files themselves and pulling them.
So is this possible at all or am I just plain out of luck unless I want to accept the $200 insurance covered Skyrocket they're offering me?
Can anyone shed some light on this?
Unless you stored the pictures within the internal memory of your device (I don't know why you wouldn't), the files you mentioned should be stored on your SD card. When CWM makes it backup, it backups two folders, /data and /system. No other folders are backed up, as these are the only two folders you need to restore a device. If you really needed to retrieve something from the /data folder (SMS messages or contacts), you can use a YAFFS file system viewer to extract the files. If the data you seek is stored within an internal SD (SD0), as long as you can turn on your phone and connect to it via USB, the device should automatically allow you open the contents of the SD folder within the computer.
I've just rooted my Springboard with ICS 4.0.3 and have been trying to move some apps to the SD card because even though
it's reporting I have 5gb open on internal it won't let me update or install anything if my primary storage is set to internal now.
It has to be set with the SD card as primary.
Anyway I have a couple of OBDII apps, Torque Pro and Dashcommand and it seems now that I changed primary storage to SD
when I open the apps they don't see the profiles I already set up for my car.
It doesn't matter if I change the location of the apps are on the tablet or sd. I tried moving them back and forth using the settings in Android
and tried using Link2SD. Still the same thing.
The only way the profiles come back is if I change Androids primary storage back to internal.
Is there any way I can move these apps complete data storage to the sd card with the app? Or make the apps look for the data back on the internal?
I think it can't find it because with it set as sd for primary the app looks for that data on the SD.
Can someone give an idea what to do other than redo the profiles or reinstalling it?
Hi, I have bought a new, larger SD card for my S7. The old SD contains only files, anyway in Samsung Gallery I have saved as "favourites" many photos that are saved on the SD card and I don't want to lose those preferences by unmounting the SD card before transferring all the data to the new one.
To avoid the problem I am thinking about switching off the phone, then removing the old SD card and cloning it to the new one, inserting the new one and switching back on the phone. This way the phone shouldn't (?) see any change. I had this done with a secondary drive on my PC and it didn't see anything happen besides the drive's model and capacity. Could this work on Android too?
I am thinking about cloning instead of just copying the files to be sure that all the "created on dd/mm/yy" etc data will stay the same.
I haven't found much on the web. Thanks in advance to anyone that will help