So suppose I have 10gb free on my 65gb phone. How do I back it up if I wanna flash a new ROM? Or what happens if the device runs out of space during a backup?
What phone do you have with 65gb memory just wondering... Do you know how to do a nandroid backup? And usually when backing up it tells you roughly how much space the nandroid backup will take and tell you how much you have spare. Or if you have an otg cable. Use a USB stick and backup your nandroid s to that.
nathlynn22 said:
What phone do you have with 65gb memory just wondering... Do you know how to do a nandroid backup? And usually when backing up it tells you roughly how much space the nandroid backup will take and tell you how much you have spare. Or if you have an otg cable. Use a USB stick and backup your nandroid s to that.
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lol I meant 64gb. and didnt know you could otg it
If you don't have enough space for a backup the backup will not begin in the first place.
phone will explode and uve to buy new one.
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Ok simple question I know but its in not easy to get a DEFINITIVE answer for (yes I have searched). When the time comes for me to install a custom ROM to my beloved Nexus S, it is highly recommended to do a full system wipe....fine, but does this leave my precious SD saved files intact or is it literally a nuclear option wipe? Apologies for this simplistic question but I prefer caution to bravery
You're forced into it anyway, unlocking the phone wipes it.
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You're forced into it anyway, unlocking the phone wipes it.
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Thanks for that, I am unlocked and rooted, did that the day I got it and realised that procedure would kill the SD card. Does the same apply to, for example, loading cyanogen off rom manager? I mean would my nandroid backup of my current rom still be in the Clockwork backup folder on the SD card after a wipe? (I got it saved to my laptop anyway) Thanks
It leaves your sd contents intact. The wipe just clears out everything for the operating system like your apps. Just always make a backup to pc just in case.
Very good, thank you for the advice. I will backup all possible things and all will be fine. I worried that with the SD card being internal on the Nexus S that it made a wipe that much more complete!
willcpfc said:
Very good, thank you for the advice. I will backup all possible things and all will be fine. I worried that with the SD card being internal on the Nexus S that it made a wipe that much more complete!
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Since you're rooted I suggest you get Titanium backup. Go for the paid version, it makes restoring everything much easier.
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Since you're rooted I suggest you get Titanium backup. Go for the paid version, it makes restoring everything much easier.
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Got it I do titanium backup's, Nandroid backups with Clockwork, and just for completeness save the lot to the laptop....I should pop it all on a memory stick just in case my laptop packs up! Where others boldly go......I follow behind with caution
That's actually quite funny. So far I have yet to have an issue with my NS wiping SD card so I would say you SHOULD be safe. I did however loose EVERYTHING twice when testing different roms and kernels with my Vibrant so now like yourself I backup EVERYTHING. When restoring with Ti I suggest you only restore you apps and not full system. That has been known to cause issues.
Agreed. Titanium for apps only. I guess it would not be the end of the world to lose everything but it would be a hell of a job to put it all back how it used to be......and that scares me man!! And thanks for the advice to my reassuring but simple questions.
If you have Titanium Pro, you can also backup to dropbox so you always have it with you on the go. Well, sort of anyways.
I have been told I need to do a "Factory Data Reset" to a) clear out phantom crap-data from my built-in storage (now at 4% free space), and b) stop my phone from random double SMS posts.
I see several Market options for backup but none look very appealing nor do they guarantee to backup everything. Several require your phone to be rooted (mine isn't). Free apps don't backup everything and paid apps only back up the the SD Card but mine is nearly full.
Some on this forum say they can do it all by hand but I have no idea how.
Can't I just plug it into my laptop and move the files over?
This is my first Android phone and I would like to eventually ROOT the phone but I am not there yet. Perhaps this is the next step towards being comfortable doing that.
Some Market Apps, like MyBackup Pro, will back up to the "cloud" but at a price: MyBackup Pro comes with 50MB of free cloud storage, which you can upgrade to 250MB for $1 per month or 1GB for $2 per month.
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I have been told I need to do a "Factory Data Reset" to a) clear out phantom crap-data from my built-in storage (now at 4% free space), and b) stop my phone from random double SMS posts.
I see several Market options for backup but none look very appealing nor do they guarantee to backup everything. Free apps don't backup everything and paid apps only back up the the SD Card but mine is nearly full.
Some on this forum say they can do it all by hand but I have no idea how.
Can't I just plug it into my laptop and move the files over?
This is my first Android phone and I would like to eventually ROOT the phone but I am not there yet. Perhaps this is the next step towards being comfortable doing that.
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titanium backup pro works very well
tylermaciaszek said:
titanium backup pro works very well
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But doesn't that only work for ROOTED phones?
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But doesn't that only work for ROOTED phones?
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thats right sorry forgot you werent rooted
try this vv
http://free-mobile-messenger.com/2011/03/09/backup-everything-1-0-apk/
And that app only saves to the SD card. Mine is FULL
Where do you want to save it to? anywhere but the sdcard will be wiped in any sort of flashing, making it a useless backup. the only logical place to backup your data is your sdcard, and then copying that backup to your computer.
How do I safely move stuff off the SD Card to make more room for the backup?How much room will the backup take? Does the backup only backup the Phone storage or also the SD Storage? (FYI, I have Astro File Manager)
Backing up the sdcard would be an oxymoron, as trying to backup your sdcard to your sdcard would never work, that would be like trying to make 1 + something try to be less than 1. You can plug your phone in as a Mass Storage Device, which will use your phone essentially as a flash drive, and you can add or delete as you please. If you're worried about deleting something, copy it to your computer rather than deleting it outright. Backing up should take about 500 MB if you're using Nandroid, but you're not rooted, and I'm not familiar with the posted backup. Backing up without rooting is very difficult
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...Backing up without rooting is very difficult
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Yeah that is why I am posting. many of us non-root-ers want to be able to do this, and also, aren't you supposed to backup your system BEFORE you attempt to ROOT? How does everyone else do it??
OK So I Sideload everything from the SD Card to the laptop, then delete everything from the SD Card, then backup the phone storage stuff to the SD Card, then move THAT File/folder to the laptop.
Is that right??
Rooting is non-invasive, I've never backed up before rooting. Rooting just edits permissions on one file, which no non-rooted backup app can backup anyways.
If you wanted to backup that way, then yes, that would work, but if you're looking to backup before you root, I would say don't even bother, as it will not backup the phone system anyways, as no non-rooted app can do that.
If rooting is so "non-invasive" then why do you read so many warnings that if you don't do it **JUST RIGHT** you can totally BRICK your phone??
Also what do you mean by "not backup the phone system"?
Rooting can't brick your phone, flashing kernels and bootloaders can. The actual phone files, the operating system files, cannot be backed up by a non-rooted phone, as they are privileged. Rooting only installs the SuperUser.apk to manage super user rights, as well as changing the privileges on the system's super user binary so that you as a user can use it. all that to say, it's not a big deal to root, but what you do once you get root is what can cause issues. And if you brick yourself, no backup is going to help you, as by definition, bricking is beyond repair.
I may be posting in the wrong thread so if that is the case plz let me know.
So, I want to install another rom in my phone and as we all know I guess, that means that I will lose my apps. Although I can use titanium backup to restore them afterwards, this time, the problem is that I dont have enough space to do the backup as usual... And I already own an 8gb sd card so dont tell me to buy a bigger one(if I do I will download even more games to play xD)... So, could I somehow make a backup of my apps into my pc, since it is the only place where I have enough space? Oh and I want also to have the data of each app( I am on a limited data plan for a couple of months)
Any solution will be greatly appreciated
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I may be posting in the wrong thread so if that is the case plz let me know.
So, I want to install another rom in my phone and as we all know I guess, that means that I will lose my apps. Although I can use titanium backup to restore them afterwards, this time, the problem is that I dont have enough space to do the backup as usual... And I already own an 8gb sd card so dont tell me to buy a bigger one(if I do I will download even more games to play xD)... So, could I somehow make a backup of my apps into my pc, since it is the only place where I have enough space? Oh and I want also to have the data of each app( I am on a limited data plan for a couple of months)
Any solution will be greatly appreciated
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Remove some items from your sd card n make dwm backup then later u can place the cwm backup on ur pc
n can restore later
I've got two easy solutions to your problem:
- try out Carbon and find if it's able to back everything (app+data) durectly on your PC (personally I prefer TitaniumBackPRO and I've never used Carbon, but a friend of mine told me that he uses it to backup+restore stuff)
- try to create not just one single big and heavy backup with Titanium BackUp but...just more than one!
I mean, you can select to backup half of the apps+data you've got in your phone in one backup, upload it to Dropbox/Drive/Box...and then do the other half-backup of apps+data of your phone.
Maybe it's not that fast but it's easy...and you don't have to use any other apps than the one you've already on your smartphone.
Cheers!
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I may be posting in the wrong thread so if that is the case plz let me know.
So, I want to install another rom in my phone and as we all know I guess, that means that I will lose my apps. Although I can use titanium backup to restore them afterwards, this time, the problem is that I dont have enough space to do the backup as usual... And I already own an 8gb sd card so dont tell me to buy a bigger one(if I do I will download even more games to play xD)... So, could I somehow make a backup of my apps into my pc, since it is the only place where I have enough space? Oh and I want also to have the data of each app( I am on a limited data plan for a couple of months)
Any solution will be greatly appreciated
Sent from my MT27i using xda premium
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Have you looked into the cloud solutions TitaniumBackupPRO has? I've used it with Google Drive and it worked very well.
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JaronRH said:
Have you looked into the cloud solutions TitaniumBackupPRO has? I've used it with Google Drive and it worked very well.
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This is what I would suggest... if you don't mind spending a little money.
Mokiwipeout said:
I may be posting in the wrong thread so if that is the case plz let me know.
So, I want to install another rom in my phone and as we all know I guess, that means that I will lose my apps. Although I can use titanium backup to restore them afterwards, this time, the problem is that I dont have enough space to do the backup as usual... And I already own an 8gb sd card so dont tell me to buy a bigger one(if I do I will download even more games to play xD)... So, could I somehow make a backup of my apps into my pc, since it is the only place where I have enough space? Oh and I want also to have the data of each app( I am on a limited data plan for a couple of months)
Any solution will be greatly appreciated
Sent from my MT27i using xda premium
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Helium app should dao it for you. Afaik you will be able to back up your app apk as well as the app data. Search for it on google play. You will have to download Helium app for your PC as well. That will enable you to backup stuff to PC.
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Why not just get another SD card lol. I would delete my old backups if you don't need them and transfer the files I have on the SD card now to the PC. Then I'd use titanium backup and save then transfer that contents to my PC.
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You could try Titanium Backup its gr8 but you need a pro version.
My nexus 5 has so little space and I tried to delete large apps but in order to do a nandroid backup on the phone I need at least 8GB of space which I only have 3GB free. Is their a way to do a nandroid backup without the need to save the file to the phone but just on the pc?
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My nexus 5 has so little space and I tried to delete large apps but in order to do a nandroid backup on the phone I need at least 8GB of space which I only have 3GB free. Is their a way to do a nandroid backup without the need to save the file to the phone but just on the pc?
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see here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1818321
samersh72 said:
see here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1818321
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Thank You.
here's the deal, I got only 8gb microsd, and 6gb freespace internal storage
whenever I make nandroid backup using phillz, I always backup it on my 32gb otg flash drive
I always use titanium backup to restore apps+datas from nandroid backup, since the usual method always freeze/hang, so I copied the cwm backup to external microsd first, then, using titanium to restore it
recently my nandroid backups reach 7.63 gigs, and since my ext card only has 7.6 gb, so there isn't enuff space to copy the cwm backup onto the ext sd
and unfortunately titanium backup doesnt detect cwm backups on usb otg , is there a way to make it detect cwm backup on usb otg ?
thanks
Refer to this
One other thing worth mention is when you make CWM(Phillz) backup, make sure there is no previous backuped file in your device. CWM backup will backup everything including old CWM Backups, doesn’t matter it’s stored in External SD or internal, that’s totally waste of space. May it be the reason why you got 7G backup?
I think this is a major feature request...
It can't be that difficult to implement restoring NANDROID Backups from otg.
I have the same problem with a Motorola (falcon) with only 8gb memory where it is impossible to restore a backup, because I don't have enough space to have the data and the full backup within 8gb.