Can I restore a backup from a S3 to a S4? I have backup my S3 several ways... the whole phone using titanium backup, rom manager, and maybe even a few other software's too... I had very important information on it (for my divorce I am going through with my committing adultery) and wanted to make sure I had a backup no matter what. Can I restore my rom and / or backups onto a S4 that I have or even my new S5 if I have to. Both phones my S3 and S4 I am giving each someone in my family (both of people in my family needs the phone because they broke theirs and don't have insurance) and I need to make sure I can restore my backups or at lease be able to access it to get the pictures and text messages off the backups. Both phones are backed up by means of the same method. All help would be great... I have been really lagging on getting these phones to them because of having a neck injury and have been in too much pain to deal with it.... Thank you!!
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Can I restore a backup from a S3 to a S4? I have backup my S3 several ways... the whole phone using titanium backup, rom manager, and maybe even a few other software's too... I had very important information on it (for my divorce I am going through with my committing adultery) and wanted to make sure I had a backup no matter what. Can I restore my rom and / or backups onto a S4 that I have or even my new S5 if I have to. Both phones my S3 and S4 I am giving each someone in my family (both of people in my family needs the phone because they broke theirs and don't have insurance) and I need to make sure I can restore my backups or at lease be able to access it to get the pictures and text messages off the backups. Both phones are backed up by means of the same method. All help would be great... I have been really lagging on getting these phones to them because of having a neck injury and have been in too much pain to deal with it.... Thank you!!
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what exactly do you need? please be more specific.
Kobro said:
what exactly do you need? please be more specific.
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I need to know if I can take the Rom's and/or backups and restore them on either my S4 before I send it out or be able to put them on my S5. I need to be able to do this in case I need to retrieve important information for my divorce in court. But I have to send out my S3 today. My S4, I need to send out very soon. So I won't have either phones any longer and just my Note 3 and S5. My S5, I don't use that much so I can, if I am able to do it, load the backup onto it from each phone. I know it maybe a process to do but I need to make sure I can do it if I need to. I hope this clears things up a little more. Thanks.
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Hey everyone
My friend has a gsII and was asking me how to back it up to his pc because he migt be changing phones. Not sure if he is sticking with android or not, but wants to back it all up. If he leaves android, he will probably just want all of his contacts, music, etc... In the past i have used tibu, but that was for switch roms and saving apps and stuff. I have never backed up on my pc so wasnt sure what to tell him. What is the best way for him to back-up to his PC?
Thanks for all the help!
Heuser1 said:
Hey everyone
My friend has a gsII and was asking me how to back it up to his pc because he migt be changing phones. Not sure if he is sticking with android or not, but wants to back it all up. If he leaves android, he will probably just want all of his contacts, music, etc... In the past i have used tibu, but that was for switch roms and saving apps and stuff. I have never backed up on my pc so wasnt sure what to tell him. What is the best way for him to back-up to his PC?
Thanks for all the help!
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Well the Infuse isn't compatible with the Kies application but maybe the GS2 is. That would be your best bet in backing up the phone. He might also try Kies Air. Of course for anything on the sd card, you can just mount it to the PC and copy it off. You might want to try asking the GS2 forum the same question.
http://www.androidstatic.com/use-dropbox-and-safe-backup-to-wirelessly-back-up-your-photos
You can actually use this to back up to a local drive/folder.
jvanlew said:
Well the Infuse isn't compatible with the Kies application but maybe the GS2 is. That would be your best bet in backing up the phone. He might also try Kies Air. Of course for anything on the sd card, you can just mount it to the PC and copy it off. You might want to try asking the GS2 forum the same question.
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Dam, and here I thought that I was accessing my Infuse with Kies.
Wonder why it said that it edited and saved my contacts when it really didn't.
Wonder why it allowed me to transfer music to my phone when it really didn't.
Wonder why it says that it connects to my Infuse when it really doesn't.
Yes I'm being smart, but I can and have accessed my Infuse using Kies.
I usually just use adb pull to backup absolutely everything, that or just make a rom backup through recovery that way everything is there. Would take a little work to sort through everything though..
Hi again!
I have a bricked S3 that I have to send back to Verizon, as they shipped me a new one that is working
I am concerned about them being able to access files and texts that are saved on the internal phone memory. Since I cannot get my phone started to delete these, is there anything I should be concerned with, or anything I can do to make sure they will definitely NOT be able to access these?
I am anal when it comes to stuff like this, I have a ton of saved passwords and everything... all it takes is the wrong person to be the one handling my phone there
Any ideas/advice is appreciated!
Meliette said:
Hi again!
I have a bricked S3 that I have to send back to Verizon, as they shipped me a new one that is working
I am concerned about them being able to access files and texts that are saved on the internal phone memory. Since I cannot get my phone started to delete these, is there anything I should be concerned with, or anything I can do to make sure they will definitely NOT be able to access these?
I am anal when it comes to stuff like this, I have a ton of saved passwords and everything... all it takes is the wrong person to be the one handling my phone there
Any ideas/advice is appreciated!
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I doubt they will look at your files. They most likely determine the issue, fix it, and then get the phone ready to be used as CPO.
there is nothing you can do if it won't boot, short of microwaving it or using a hammer. It is possible that someone could J-Tag the phone and restore operation and possibly find your porn, but unlikely that Verizon will bother taking the time.... unless its really good porn.
I was scared for a bit too when I returned my old phone, but nothing happened. I'm sure it's not allowed. And even if it was it's just unnecessary effort, Samsung gets ALOT of phones in, it would be a huge waste to crawl through every one
Hey I'm really glad Samsung found out these phones have a problem. But I got my phone working smooth as silk and they say I got to give it back. This is the my first android phone that I haven't rooted (5th phone). Which means no way to use Titanium Backup. So I'm back to my backup pro and maybe Samsung backup who or whatever will get the job done. Now if Best Buy let me take my replacement home so I could use Smart switch that would be great. But this is not a perfect world which is why I have to return my wonderful phone.
So my question is how are you going to set your new notes backup? Do you have an easy way for doing this or are you getting something else. NOT!! Share your thoughts.
This might not answer your question but what im planning to do it start fresh. I dont like backups. All my game data are saved with google account. My contacts are in google account also. Ill download the rest of the programs from play store and start fresh. I dont care about text messages. I dont need to save them for future use.
i think Samsung cloud work just fine along with google backup.
DarkManX4lf said:
i think Samsung cloud work just fine along with google backup.
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This, and I use Helium backup (paid version). Helium can be kind of finicky, but it does work. Backed up all my games and most everything else.
Before I rooted I backup up everything, then rooted. Ran the phone that way for awhile, but my Gear S didn't work so I backed up everything with Helium, Titanium and Smart Switch, then unrooted.
My Helium backups restored fine.
Probably overkill doing all this, but some of my games I have been playing for years. Don't want to lose that data.
I will reroot when i can and then just restore with tb
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I will just turn mine on. Charge it and start using it ?
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Hey I'm really glad Samsung found out these phones have a problem. But I got my phone working smooth as silk and they say I got to give it back. This is the my first android phone that I haven't rooted (5th phone). Which means no way to use Titanium Backup. So I'm back to my backup pro and maybe Samsung backup who or whatever will get the job done. Now if Best Buy let me take my replacement home so I could use Smart switch that would be great. But this is not a perfect world which is why I have to return my wonderful phone.
So my question is how are you going to set your new notes backup? Do you have an easy way for doing this or are you getting something else. NOT!! Share your thoughts.
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Well lucky fir me i hadn't wiped my note 4 yet. I did use every backup method available to me and still lost some stuff.
I returned my note 7 last night. I am so sad. I HATE HATE HATE HATE HATE this note 4 now. Hard to believe only what 2 weeks and the note 7 had already changed my perspective of what i need in a phone. I would gone to an lg or nexus but neither of those are any better than the note 4 which i already own. Gues im lucky we hadn't sold them already ha ha ha. I miss my phone. . I hope it isn't gone long. I miss fingerprint and samsung pay. I reallly miss the much smaller and better feeling in my hand. This note 4 now feels do big and clunky and the fingerprint not working the first time drives me crazy.
Please hurry and give us our phones back. .
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Hey guys, anyone had dead pixels? Mines formed a clump, the size of a grain of dirt in the left middle part of the screen.
What's the number of dead pixels a device can have before warranty can be claimed? It's not a big deal, but kind of annoying on a new device.
Just do a exchange.
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Just do a exchange.
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You sure I won't look like a sook? ?
Should have put this in the original post, but what would be the easiest way to transfer everything from my current S8+ to a replacement one? One thing I applaud Apple for is the ease of using of iCloud backups
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You sure I won't look like a sook?
Should have put this in the original post, but what would be the easiest way to transfer everything from my current S8+ to a replacement one? One thing I applaud Apple for is the ease of using of iCloud backups
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thats what I was wondering in case i have to return mine due to red screen. you cant do a nandroid backup without root and thats the only thing i would trust not to screw something up when restoring. smart switch etc are all risky as they often result in battery drain and random crashes after restoring apps and settings. A proper nandroid backup wouldnt suffer form that since its just replacing the entire image. So I think the only safe way is to just let the play store/samsung store restore as many aps and settings as it can, and manually do the rest.
There REALLY should be a native way to do a full image nandroid type backup on rooted android devices by now, there is no excuse for me that it isnt part of android itself to be able to do proper backups, its ridiculous. Without it you either have to risk things not working right after restoring using smart switch or helium, or do it all from scratch.
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thats what I was wondering in case i have to return mine due to red screen.
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Exactly. There's no real win. I've done Samsung backup and restores and all it does for me is keeps a list of apps I had installed and redownloads them. No saved data or anything. Nandroids were the best, but voiding warranty wasn't a good feeling. And now with Knox it's a real issue.
Hey. So today I massively effed up and caused my phone to go into a non-repairable bootloop. After flashing my ROM I managed to get it back, but then the encryption got screwed and I ended up erasing all of my data. Not too bad because I had a back up. Except I didn't... Samsung Cloud did a **** job at preserving anything, I lost a TON of stuff and have to reinstall everything.
Anyhow, I've come to the conclusion that neither Samsung nor Google offer a stable, steady or reliable backup system (Google pretty much only re-downloads app from Play which is... nice... I guess). That is the ONLY thing I miss from iPhones, but I digress...
Does anyone have a good, solid and trustworthy alternative for automatic backups that would actually keep my ****? I know I can do it manually, but I tend to forget and I don't want the hassle of dealing with multiple apps and connections and whatnot.
Any suggestion welcome.
Thanks!
Titanium backup PRO is probably the best suited to your requirements, but requires root.
Here's a decent overview on it: https://www.lifehacker.com.au/2011/...automated-app-and-settings-backup-on-android/
Also their website https://www.titaniumtrack.com/titanium-backup.html which mentions scheduled backups in the pro section
If you have TWRP you could also do nandroid backups but it's all manual.
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Titanium backup PRO is probably the best suited to your requirements, but requires root.
Here's a decent overview on it: https://www.lifehacker.com.au/2011/...automated-app-and-settings-backup-on-android/
Also their website https://www.titaniumtrack.com/titanium-backup.html which mentions scheduled backups in the pro section
If you have TWRP you could also do nandroid backups but it's all manual.
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Thanks for the suggestion. I definitely know how powerful Titanium is, but the issue is that I was going to retire from rooting and custom recoveries; it's what got me into this mess to start with. Plus, aside from using Titanium I really had very little day to day use for root and pretty much none that I absolutely couldn't do without, so I decided to just stop messing with it.
I find it infuriating that there is no decent backup system that doesn't require root; it seems like the most basic service to have! Sometimes I wonder if my account is not to blame because Google backup seems to say it keeps app data, passwords and such, yet I NEVER get any of it back... But enough *****ing, back to searching.