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?
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So my phone decided to throw itself in front of an oncoming vehicle in the Kroger parking lot.... Lighter note, even though the screen split in about 10 different directions its still fully functional with no bad touch spots on the screen....My issue is this, the way I have my current phone modded & configured from ROM to widgets is the ideal and perfect setup that I've put a lot of effort into. My insurance replacement is on its way now from AT&T... would it be as simple as creating a Nandroid Backup of my current configuration, then when I get the replacement unit in, root it - install clockwork - put in this sd card & Nandroid restore it to the new phone??
Any suggestions would be great!!
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I am extremely interested with this as well being that I constantly put diff roms on my phone.
For a different device with the same ROM I believe you can back up the ROM with CW, pull the backup file from your Internal SD to your External SD then just restore it, for different ROMs you can just backup your apps with Titanium, but do not restore data.
Thanks for the info....will post my results whenever I get my replacement
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?
rscheller said:
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...
I'm just curious how to delete ALL of the information that I've added to the phone. I've installed/changed/updated/removed mods and applications for over a year now and it's a bloody mess! I don't know what I can and cannot delete manually so I'm hoping that there is a nice and easy method for resetting the phone back to the way it came.
I've tried factory reset, but all of my data is still there.
Thanks!
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I could not find a similar thread so posting this. I have a samsung infuse and its on the stock ROM , baseband version is I997UCKH1. I have over 200 apps installed. A couple of months back I had a problem where in my infuse crashed and booted only after several attempts. After some googling, I figured the problem was because of the SD card, hence i formatted it and installed some apps on the phone memory. But my infuse has not worked properly after that. Everytime I update the apps through google play, the phone crashes. It also crashes while using some apps. I thought it may be because my internal memory was low. So I started moving some apps back to the SD card. The phone crashes even while transferring the apps. I am guessing the problem may still be with SD card, but I do not want to reformat it again and have to install all the apps again. Wanted to know if there is any solution to this problem. If the problem is actually the sd card still, will the apps work if I just transfer all data from my current SD card to a new SD card and use it.
I had similar problems on my first infuse. My solution was a factory reset (since you're on stock). And because you have many apps, definitely back all your data up so you can restore it after.
Also, if your warranty is still up, it might be of use to contact them. I've heard they want a reset before you ship your phone in. Not entirely sure though.
Hope that helps a lil
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Honestly, you probably have too many apps installed. I know running over apx 180 apps on most roms will cause a lot of lag and frequent reboots. If you can, try backing up and then deleting all but your most essential apps and run your infuse like that for a few days and see if the situation is better. You then might want to try restoring either (best) an app at a time or (not as good) a few apps at a time until you find what is causing the problem. Good luck!
thank you for the replies dr_nacho and wd4oay. Sorry i did nit check the forum in sometime. i did clear some unwanted apps from my sd card and now waitin to see hw it goes. also my phone is out of warranty so cant do anything on tht side
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I bought my shield tablet with 4.4 and quickly rooted it using TowelRoot last year. All was well until 5.0 was pushed to my tablet earlier this year - suddenly root no longer worked AND I could no longer get OTA updates (many threads on this forum about that). I was unsuccessful in searching for this, so just wanted to share that I was able to successfully "reset to factory data" in the settings which removed the roadblock to getting OTA updates.
1) It took a long time. I thought I had bricked the device and had seen other posts where folks did. However, that did not happen (thankfully) and it even recovered when I forced a shut down. Be patient.
2) I was not successful in getting the google backup services to work. I turned it on, but it did not work for me. I suspect I missed a step. I was able to use Ultimate Backup which did not require root and allowed be to save to the cloud.
3) When it finished the reset, it came back in version 5.0. I was apprehensive about this at first; however, the OTA updates were all successful and all is well.
I do not know that I will root again, though I suspect I will eventually get frustrated with anything blocking me from writing to my external SD card. Hopefully this will help someone else.
You can write on your external SD without root, I had the same issue but if you connect your SD and give it a name (Like "SD Card" or whatever) it works fine, some crashes and random annoying stuff you might get otherwise goes away, after that I could cut/copy/paste stuff freely between internal and external storage, but deleting files directly from an app still might not work if files are on the external. For example I use MX Player to watch videos but it won't let me delete them if they're written on the external SD, I have to go to ES and delete them from there after I'm done. I am running Lollipop, just rooted but just to get an Adblocker and maybe use a non-Nvidia controller wirelessly.
Best of luck pal!