Hello,
is there any disadvantage if you make a backup with CWM on external than on internal SD card ?
Any risk ?
Is it possible to move external SD card to another phone (same type) and then restore it ?
EB2012 said:
Hello,
is there any disadvantage if you make a backup with CWM on external than on internal SD card ?
Any risk ?
Is it possible to move external SD card to another phone (same type) and then restore it ?
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I don't see a difference between internal and external backups. My current phone doesn't have an SD card, so all of my backups go to the internal, and it is just the same as my previous phone that had an SD card.
To answer your second question...yes. You can transfer the SD to another phone of the same type and restore a backup.
Hi, sorry for another question.
whenever I do backups it doesn't read my external SD card. (Under recovery mode). It goes to the internal memory. Isn't it suppose to go on external sd card?
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See options under backup and restore in cwm if option as backup to sd or external sd found if not so no possible or try to flash another cwm as 6.0.1.2 for your device
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Like the title says, how do you relocate the backup folder of CWM? My internal sd card is getting full and I want all my back ups to go to my external sd card. I know there is an option on recovery to back up to external, but i want the regular backup to be saved automatically to the external sd card. help would be much appreciated
If you are trying to do that from within the app it will place backup on internal card. No option/setting for external card except in recovery.
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Hi,
I installed Gimlo 2 and I installed all my apps and data, etc. Now my internal SD is acting up a little with stopping apps,etc.
I would like to try to swap the internal & external SD to see if it might be the hardware.
Is it possible to install gimlo and swap sd and than restore a backup? Or would that also restore the swap?
Just asking because otherwise would be a pain in the ass to restore everything by hand.
Hi, I've got a Samsung Galaxy S4 Mini Plus running Lineage OS 14.1, and it's desperately in need of space. I have purchased a 64 GB class 10 card to install and use with the "format as internal" option as a solution, but I'm concerned about losing the ability to backup my phone. If I go through with this, will TWRP still be able to backup and restore my phone from this external card? If not, is there something I can do along with formatting as internal that allows me to retain that functionality (like partitioning the SD card, perhaps)?
Thanks!
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Feenix0 said:
Hi, I've got a Samsung Galaxy S4 Mini Plus running Lineage OS 14.1, and it's desperately in need of space. I have purchased a 64 GB class 10 card to install and use with the "format as internal" option as a solution, but I'm concerned about losing the ability to backup my phone. If I go through with this, will TWRP still be able to backup and restore my phone from this external card? If not, is there something I can do along with formatting as internal that allows me to retain that functionality (like partitioning the SD card, perhaps)?
Thanks!
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If you use internal memory, it will not be possible to back up via TWRP, well, you may even get it, but some error will surely occur, I already tried doing it on a G2 bike with MicroSD as internal memory, and it I have an internal memory backup error, however, the advice would be to back it up on another MicroSD for total security that will be safe and no chance of error, partitioning is a big risk of something wrong
I actually decided to just give it a try. I did a full backup on my old SD card, installed the new card, formatted it for internal, ran a full backup, then ran a test restore, and it worked just fine. It does seem like a few apps don't like being kept on the SD card so I moved them back, but so far so good.