Hello,
My old phone had a SD Card, Nexus 5 not. So my backup process doesn't work any more. I used to make a backup with CWM. I then mounted the SD Card in CWM so I could copy all my data and the CWM backup. If I wanted to install a new ROM I just deleted complete SD card and copy new ROM for installation on it...
Now I have installed TWR. In TWR I can't mount the internal storage to USB. So I have to boot to Android and then copy data from internal storage to my computer. But I can't copy all the data to my computer because it stops the copy process in order of a copy failure. I think I can't copy some data because they are used/opened by system or something like that.
How do you backup your whole phone?
You can use the Nexus Root Toolkit. You can do a Nandroid backup and much more. NRT will boot into recovery, make the backup and copy the backup to your PC, after booting normally.
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wim69 said:
You can use the Nexus Root Toolkit. You can do a Nandroid backup and much more. NRT will boot into recovery, make the backup and copy the backup to your PC, after booting normally.
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Great! I'll try that. Thanks a lot!
Myphoneexplorer can be usefully too, even when you are not rooted
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What is the best way for me to do a full backup, given that there is no sd card. Does that data stay after a wipe? this is pre root. Previously I would use astro, but I'm not sure of the no sd issue. Guess I can mount and backup to pc.
Any suggestions?
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There is an sd card...just that's its internal. The data stored in the sd card is safe after you flash new rom's after a wipe.
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Thanks.
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The best way to back up your things are to connect it to your computer and simply move whatever you have in your internal SD to your desktop or wherever you'd like to save it to. That way if anything should go wrong you have it on your computer
rborg said:
What is the best way for me to do a full backup, given that there is no sd card. Does that data stay after a wipe? this is pre root. Previously I would use astro, but I'm not sure of the no sd issue. Guess I can mount and backup to pc.
Any suggestions?
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You can back it up to the Cloud
if you have Titanium Backup PRO
you have the option to backup to Drop Box
you get a FREE 2GB, when you sign up
which is more than enough, since our internal memory is only 1 GB to backup
He's pre-root, so Tit Pro won't work, as it requires root.
Since he's PRE-ROOT, he will lose everything on the internal sd card if he tries to do the FASTBOOT OEM UNLOCK command to root.
Best thing you can do right now is plug up to USB on the computer, copy all contents to your computer and copy back after rooting/restoring.
The internal sd card is safe from a "factory reset" kind of wipe but NOT SAFE from a bootloader unlock.
AllGamer said:
You can back it up to the Cloud
if you have Titanium Backup PRO
you have the option to backup to Drop Box
you get a FREE 2GB, when you sign up
which is more than enough, since our internal memory is only 1 GB to backup
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yeap, that's the only Drag in the NS rooting method
back in the SGS it was so straight forward, just unroot, and you are done, you don't even need to reboot the phone
much less Format the whole thing, just to get root
Ok, good thing I waited. It's a ***** to export app settings too. Now to pick a good rom.
Thanks for the help.
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OK, copying internal SD contents is easy. But how to make a backup of things from internal storage?
haerwu said:
OK, copying internal SD contents is easy. But how to make a backup of things from internal storage?
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You can't. There's no way.
This is why many of us rooted ASAP, to avoid accumulating data (like Angry Birds progess, LOL) that we would lose once we rooted.
There are apps to backup SMS messages, and your contacts, calendars, etc, should backup to the cloud. All you're going to lose is apps data that isn't saved by the app to the sdcard.
When I take back up from ClockWork recovery it does not back up apps and data. Am I right ? or it does ?
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It does.
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Don't know what wrong am I doing but It refuses to restore with apps
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Don't know what wrong am I doing but It refuses to restore with apps
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Hmm, apps are stored in the data portion of the backup. Where do you install your apps? To SDcard or to the phone's internal storage? If you're not installing them to the internal storage I'm not sure where they would be or whether they're being backed up at all.
If you're not installing them to the SD card, try this. Do your restore then reboot then go back into recovery and do an advanced restore and just do /Data.
I have done full nandroid backup using CWM recovery. The backup folder was placed on external sd card. If my device gets bricked after installing Custom ROMS, Can i restore CWM backups using external sdcard or i have to always copy the backups to internal sdcard before restore?
TWRP can, so I would be surprised if CWM couldn't.
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Bhaskar1109 said:
I have done full nandroid backup using CWM recovery. The backup folder was placed on external sd card. If my device gets bricked after installing Custom ROMS, Can i restore CWM backups using external sdcard or i have to always copy the backups to internal sdcard before restore?
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Yeah u can restore ur rom with sd card... No need to move it in internal memory!
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Hello! I need help!
I flashed a rom yesterday and I backed up my rom before flashing. Today I was trying to restore my backup and the system did not find it. I can see it using Astro file manager under clockworkmod and backups. But on recovery it won't show. And the recovery shows three backups that I don't remember doing but two out of the three are not accesible. Please, if you can tell me how to make clockworkmod see my backup. I'd really appreciate it! Thanks!
Did you backup to the internal drive or external sd card. Try going to your backup and restore then click the restore from external sd card to see if it is possibly there.
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Did you backup to the internal drive or external sd card. Try going to your backup and restore then click the restore from external sd card to see if it is possibly there.
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I don't have an SD card. It was saved on my internal drive. I tried to but it says I can't because there is no Sd card.
Did you format your internal drive before you tried restoring the backup. Usually my cwm just populates the ones I have done or if I want to pull one of the ones on my sd card I can. I will try moving my backup and see if I can replicate the problem.
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Did you format your internal drive before you tried restoring the backup. Usually my cwm just populates the ones I have done or if I want to pull one of the ones on my sd card I can. I will try moving my backup and see if I can replicate the problem.
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no I didn't I'll try to move it to an sd card and see what happens
I moved my backup to another folder and cwm did not find it. I'm not sure if you possibly moved it from the clockwork folder or not. I hope you figure it out.
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If you are still having problems try going into rom manager app. Should have a manage and restore option. From there it should have a list of your backups and will let you restore from one of those.
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sergioosvaldo1 said:
Hello! I need help!
I flashed a rom yesterday and I backed up my rom before flashing. Today I was trying to restore my backup and the system did not find it. I can see it using Astro file manager under clockworkmod and backups. But on recovery it won't show. And the recovery shows three backups that I don't remember doing but two out of the three are not accesible. Please, if you can tell me how to make clockworkmod see my backup. I'd really appreciate it! Thanks!
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Another thing to try is to make sure your recovery is current and up to date. That same thing happened to me (with TWRP) and it turned out it was due to me flashing a 4.2 rom (which changes the file structure of your sd) and having an older recovery that didn't support it.
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I have backup my data using titanium
but when i want to move the titanium backup (in internal storage) to my computer via usb, it did not work.
i copy and paste the backup to my desktop, but nothing happen.
and when i create a .txt file in the phone, it is not shown in the computer.
why is this? and what can i do?
jefflau1994 said:
I have backup my data using titanium
but when i want to move the titanium backup (in internal storage) to my computer via usb, it did not work.
i copy and paste the backup to my desktop, but nothing happen.
and when i create a .txt file in the phone, it is not shown in the computer.
why is this? and what can i do?
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What is thr location of the backups? Check that in settings. Make sure it's data/media/0.
Reboot your phone prior to connecting. It always need a fresh restart to connect properly with MTP
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mariosraptor said:
Reboot your phone prior to connecting. It always need a fresh restart to connect properly with MTP
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It works! thank you.
Glad it did
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