As it says in the subject line, I'd never felt compelled to root my Shield Tablet buy now wishing I had. It is on the latest 5.1.1 update and I want to transfer my data in such a way as go clone it onto the new tablet I've received due to the recall.
Is there anyway of making a Nandroid backup and loading recovery without unlocking and losing the data I want to keep or another alternative method such as the built in adb backup solution.
Thanks for the assistance in advance.
I managed to use Helium (Carbon)
But remember having several issues:
First step was getting the desktop app to recognize the tablet in debug mode. In the end drivers need to be reinstalled with 'have disk'.
Think i used the ones from nvidia website
Also afterwards Helium had trouble detecting existing backups. Had to install all apps manually on the new tablet, 'fake' backup everything again, then replace all .ab files with the ones from your 'real' backups. Some details here.
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Hi, a while back I rooted my T-mo mytouch Q. It was fine for a while and I
enjoyed the benefits of having a rooted phone, but some problems I can't seem
to find the answer to occured. First off, I can't install my phone driver onto any
computer anymore. It says failed to install driver. At first I thought this was my
old computer's fault (it had vista) but now I got a brand new computer with
windows 7 and it is still a problem. Second of all, I uninstalled some system apps
I didn't seem to find a use for (browser because I used dolphin, some widgets)
and Titanium backup will not restore these apps (spins endlessly). I have tried
manually pushing them to the system folder but it wont allow me to. Any help
with either of these problems will be much appreciated.
Hi, I'm a new user and i'm sorry for making this post without even introduce myself, but i'm desperate
I broke my Acer Cloudmobile (S500) screen, making the touchscreen not working.
The device is rooted (i had several problems with my sdcard not mounting in CWM but it worked, it seemed), the USB debug is on and i'm running a stock 4.1.2 JB (so no "adb root").
How can I backup my app data and sms? that's the only folders i can't see from my pc (i tried with several computers, Win8/WinXP/MacOSX10.7)
Thanks for your future replies!
P.S.: if i make any error, let me say i'm not a native speaker, and if you need any other detail or explanation i'm, of course, happy to tell
Maybe try this: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=969650
But I don't know how you can grant superuser permission for adb. If your phone support otg just connect a usb mouse and backup your data.
Another solution: Make a cwm backup, reboot your phone and pull the backup files from your sdcard with adb. On your computer you can extract contacts and everything.
I hope this is helpful for you!
Yes, i know of titanium backup
however, i find it extremely cumbersome. especially for my nexus 5, where the backups will NOT show up in the folder when i connect it to my pc, although i created a folder in TB in a location visible on my pc.
anyway, i was wondering if there is an itunes-like program for windows that allows me to connect my phone to the pc and use that program backup everything, including apps, to the computer and restore when needed? does something like that exists?
murfi said:
Yes, i know of titanium backup
however, i find it extremely cumbersome. especially for my nexus 5, where the backups will NOT show up in the folder when i connect it to my pc, although i created a folder in TB in a location visible on my pc.
anyway, i was wondering if there is an itunes-like program for windows that allows me to connect my phone to the pc and use that program backup everything, including apps, to the computer and restore when needed? does something like that exists?
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If your bootloader is unlocked, you can flash or boot into TWRP recovery, it supports MTP.
This means if you are in TWRP recovery, you can view all /sdcard files on phone and backup any folder, including
Titanium Backup folder via windows explorer directly to PC.
Also, it is a good safety practice to make a full backup in TWRP. Again with the MTP capability of TWRP recovery , you can view and backup
the TWRP directory directly to PC via windows explorer.
Simple:good:
If you have any connection problems between PC and TWRP MTP, it is likely driver related.
You will need to look in Device manager on PC while phone is connected.
Download the howto_driver.zip from the "15 seconds ADB Installer thread" and follow the picture tutorial contained in the zip file. This should fix your connectivity issues.
If you are sill having connection issues, You could try and install ADB drivers . It might help the pc detect.
64bit
32bit
Then go back through the picture tutorial in the howto_driver.zip
Best of luck
Use Titanium Backup.But I prefer Helium
Use NexusRootToolkit. It is somewhere here on XDA. Cannot give you the link now, but search and you'll find it.
murfi said:
Yes, i know of titanium backup
however, i find it extremely cumbersome. especially for my nexus 5, where the backups will NOT show up in the folder when i connect it to my pc, although i created a folder in TB in a location visible on my pc.
anyway, i was wondering if there is an itunes-like program for windows that allows me to connect my phone to the pc and use that program backup everything, including apps, to the computer and restore when needed? does something like that exists?
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This is a problem with MTP not TiBu. Even on a good day, it's flaky.
joegestes said:
If your bootloader is unlocked, you can flash or boot into TWRP recovery, it supports MTP.
This means if you are in TWRP recovery, you can view all /root files on phone and backup any folder, including
Titanium Backup folder via windows explorer directly to PC.
Also, it is a good safety practice to make a full backup in TWRP. Again with the MTP capability of TWRP recovery , you can view and backup
the TWRP directory directly to PC via windows explorer.
Simple:good:
If you have any connection problems between PC and TWRP MTP, it is likely driver related.
You will need to look in Device manager on PC while phone is connected.
Download the howto_driver.zip from the "15 seconds ADB Installer thread" and follow the picture tutorial contained in the zip file. This should fix your connectivity issues.
If you are sill having connection issues, You could try and install ADB drivers . It might help the pc detect.
64bit
32bit
Then go back through the picture tutorial in the howto_driver.zip
Best of luck
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thats interesting, didnt know that. will give it a shot!
murfi said:
thats interesting, didnt know that. will give it a shot!
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Yes,
I meant to say In TWRP recovery, you can view all /sdcard files on phone.
Not all /Root files
You can also MPT from Android. But for me, transfer seem more reliable from TWRP.
Hello!
im trying to recover a very specific file that i think is a .dat file. i have tried different recovery tools but haven't find anyone one that is able to find the file. does any one know of a recovery tool that may be able to find this file? it's okay if the tool costs money but i want to be sure that it can find .dat files
thx for the help
Edit:forgot to write that im trying to recover it from a factory reset
A Factory Reset deletes all those files that weren't present when the phone was put in the market.
Deleted files aren't accessible from within Android.
What 3rd-party recovery tools have you tried out so far?
jwoegerbauer said:
A Factory Reset deletes all those files that weren't present when the phone was put in the market.
Deleted files aren't accessible from within Android.
What 3rd-party recovery tools have you tried out so far?
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i have tried undeleter so far
I am also interested in file recovery. I have an Motorola XT1032 with a locked bootloader, Android 5.1 and the app/data has been uninstalled.
So far I have tried:
Dr Fone root
KingRoot PC
Recoverit for PC
UltData Android
Minitool Android Recovery
None have been able to root the phone or find anything useful
Ultdata can only recover pictures videos etc
Minitool needs the phone to be rooted, and surprisingly did not detect older phones that I tried that were already rooted.
DrFone Android Recovery indicated 300 files which it zips up, unfortunately I had to pay to recover them to the PC, and they were all just remnants of kingroot, drfone etc.
DrFone root, kingroot, kingoroot, iroot etc all failed to root the device
I am now considering the approach from https://forum.xda-developers.com/t/guide-internal-memory-data-deleted-files-recovery.3093292/
-but am concerned that this process will first wipe the device.
Update: The DirtyCow exploit appears to work on this handset without resetting it, using the method from https://forum.xda-developers.com/t/xt1528-verizon-pre-paid-temporary-root-achieved.3530293/
Hello,
We constantly have to prepare new tablets by connecting google accounts, installing apps etc. Maybe there's some tools for this? I can see that you can install apps with adb but what about google account? All devices are using same account.
Ideano said:
Hello,
We constantly have to prepare new tablets by connecting google accounts, installing apps etc. Maybe there's some tools for this? I can see that you can install apps with adb but what about google account? All devices are using same account.
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No, that requires physically signing into each individual account on each individual device. This is required because you are signing in over the Google network(external to your device), not just signing into the device itself.
There is maybe one exception but it would only work if all of the devices were rooted or had a custom recovery installed. In the case that all of the tablets are the exact same specific model number, you could physically sign in to the Google account on one of the devices, then install TWRP on that device, then boot into TWRP and use the Backup option to create a nandroid backup, then install TWRP recovery on all of the other devices then place a copy of the backup on a external sdcard or a USB then, on each device, one at a time, insert the sdcard or USB then boot the device into TWRP then use the Restore option in TWRP to restore the back that is stored on the USB, this will flash an identical copy of everything that was on the device used to create the backup. Do this with each tablet and they will be exactly the same down to every single file that was on the first device.
In the case that all of the tablets are not the same, it would require rooting each of the devices then signing into the Google account on one of the tablets then locating where the files associated to the Google account are stored, copy those files and store them on your PC, then, using adb connect each of the devices to adb one at a time and use adb push commands to push the files associated to the Google account to the folders they belong in. You could even create an adb batch file to automate the adb push commands. You could even include the apps that were downloaded and installed by the user and use adb batch file to automate the installation of the apps but this may not work if the devices have extremely different chipset or SOC.
You may be able to simplify the process more than I described if you do a little research, use some thought and use some creativity.
All in all, virtually the same amount of work as just physically signing into each device and installing the apps and data from a Google backup during the sign-in process, though, this process could cause issues on devices that have different architectures if device settings are included in the Google backup and restored on incompatible devices.
Droidriven said:
No, that requires physically signing into each individual account on each individual device. This is required because you are signing in over the Google network(external to your device), not just signing into the device itself.
There is maybe one exception but it would only work if all of the devices were rooted or had a custom recovery installed. In the case that all of the tablets are the exact same specific model number, you could physically sign in to the Google account on one of the devices, then install TWRP on that device, then boot into TWRP and use the Backup option to create a nandroid backup, then install TWRP recovery on all of the other devices then place a copy of the backup on a external sdcard or a USB then, on each device, one at a time, insert the sdcard or USB then boot the device into TWRP then use the Restore option in TWRP to restore the back that is stored on the USB, this will flash an identical copy of everything that was on the device used to create the backup. Do this with each tablet and they will be exactly the same down to every single file that was on the first device.
In the case that all of the tablets are not the same, it would require rooting each of the devices then signing into the Google account on one of the tablets then locating where the files associated to the Google account are stored, copy those files and store them on your PC, then, using adb connect each of the devices to adb one at a time and use adb push commands to push the files associated to the Google account to the folders they belong in. You could even create an adb batch file to automate the adb push commands. You could even include the apps that were downloaded and installed by the user and use adb batch file to automate the installation of the apps but this may not work if the devices have extremely different chipset or SOC.
You may be able to simply the process more than I described if you do a little research, use some thought and use some creativity.
All in all, virtually the same amount of work as just physically signing into each device and installing the apps and data from a Google backup during the sign-in process, though, this process could cause issues on devices that have different architectures if device settings are included in the Google backup and restored on incompatible devices.
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Wow thanks for detailed answer.
They usually are the same unless when we start to replace them with new models. I was thinking about backup/restore but yeah then I have to root every device and they also come with some software preinstalled with different user accounts so that won't work.
Tbh I was certain that such software should exists. I'm working at the trucking company and even though we are far from biggest even in my small country it does take significant time to configure every tablet manually so I imagine bigger companies must have separate person only for this.
Ok then I'll try to play with adb I found that you actually can install apk, open playstore and fake clicking install so I assume I could automate google account connection and etc. Although it won't be as smooth as just plugin it and clicking cofigure.