Hi there,
My wife has an S8+ and needs to backup everything in it but cannot do it with Smart Switch and when trying to access it from Windows the folders appear empty. She didn't activate a secure folder or anything like that.
Thanks for the help.
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I had to reset my phone tonight and I backed up everything to the cloud and I backed up my SMS as well using the stock app, for which I have a HBK file sent to my email.
Now, I am having trouble restoring the SMS, the phone says : "no back up files found" . I did transfer the HBK file to the phone but its not working, Is there a specific fold for it ?
Thank you
Hell all, after a good night of sleep I was resolved the problem this morning
There is indeed a specific folder the HBK file has to go into, it's called "SMS_back-up" , it resides in the SD card menu, along Android, Pictures, etc...
I had to create a new SMS back in order to create the file folder needed to complete the restoration, after that I simply copied the HBK file into that folder and the restoration was done!
Hope this helps
So, I rooted my new S3 today and was seemingly successful.
Now, I want to restore all of the applications that were on my Droid 2 (SD card is transferred into my S3).
When I connect the phone to my PC and look at the SD contents, I see all of my old apps and data.
However, when it's disconnected and I open Root Explorer or attempt to restore with Titanium Backup, all of the folders appear blank. I mean ALL of them. Music, DCIM, Tit Back ... seems to think there's nothing in anything.
Can someone clue me in?
RobinDean said:
So, I rooted my new S3 today and was seemingly successful.
Now, I want to restore all of the applications that were on my Droid 2 (SD card is transferred into my S3).
When I connect the phone to my PC and look at the SD contents, I see all of my old apps and data.
However, when it's disconnected and I open Root Explorer or attempt to restore with Titanium Backup, all of the folders appear blank. I mean ALL of them. Music, DCIM, Tit Back ... seems to think there's nothing in anything.
Can someone clue me in?
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In TiBU hit menu, select preferences, and there will be an option to select backup folder location. Then hit detect, and choose "whole device". It will find your backup folder. when it does, select the folder, and then hit use current folder.
... and there we go.
Thank you!
Same but bigger problem
I thought the same issue here, when I clicked on the scenario calculations tick, all the figures were 0.. then i did as per what u said, still same problem.. i even installed superuser again.. pls help..
*SORRY PROBLEM SOLVED! FILTER ISSUE* my bad...
First off, sorry if this is not the right place to post this.
I've googled around and can find lots of answers to 'where does ROM manager store backups' but that doesn't help me with this.
In the past I've backed up a ROM then moved it (using something like Root Explorer) to my external card and also because I want a backup on my computer - I just copied the file across.
But now the files (and folders) are invisible to my PC.
I tried moving it, renaming the folder, creating a new folder and moving the contents out of the original folder into the new one... but to no avail. The PC simply cannot see what ever folder contains the backup.
But If I look in the same location using Root Explorer, the backup is sitting there clear as day.
I pretty much always have 'show hidden files' turned on on my PC anyway - why can't I see/transfer the backup to my computer?
As in the title. My friend asked me to recover stuff from his Lenovo P2 with dead screen. I've already pulled out photos and other files and also managed to recover contacts but for messages, as he did not turn on USB debugging, I couldn't do much. Then I saw that at some point he had backed them up using built-in backup app. They were on the sd card in the "message data" folder. The file is named "sms001.db" When I'm opening it using DB Browser on my PC I can see the messages. But the question it how to send them to his new phone? There's like 20k of them in this file... Thanks in advance.
Is his new phone the same brand? If you are able to view them on your PC my guess would be that other than the .db file type they are not encrypted in any way, so simply placing them in the same file as before doesn't allow your friend to recover the messages?
I have a new phone (Xiaomi Mi 11 Lite). I wanted to transfer my Whatsapp account to it. But I stupidly went ahead without making a Google Drive backup of my messages on my old phone (Motorola G5S).
Instead, I installed Whatsapp on the new phone, which, since it has my old sim card in it, recognised me and re-created all the Whatsapp groups.
BUT all chats were empty.
I have copied the msgstore.db.crypt14 file from my old phone's Whatsapp/Databases folder. I've transferred it to my new phone. But no luck.
Is there any way to recover my old Whatsapp data (at least the chats)?
There is recover software for deleted files on your phone.. unless you wrote more data over in your old phone it is likely that you can recover it.
Google for a trusted recover software for android.
It might be possible if you install whatapps on your old phone again and it might recover the chats on it's on..
But I would try first going over a recover software.
Sorry if I wasn't clear, I do not need to recover files. I have been able to copy the msgstore.db.crypt14 file from my old phone's Whatsapp/Databases folder. But transferring it to my new phone does not seem to work.
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Sorry if I wasn't clear, I do not need to recover files. I have been able to copy the msgstore.db.crypt14 file from my old phone's Whatsapp/Databases folder. But transferring it to my new phone does not seem to work.
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I read that but that encryption file is most likely tied to hardware identifiers of your old phone and I doubt you might be able to decrypt in your new phone.
So my recommendation still stands try to power up your old phone, recover the whatsapp files, copy these files to a folder on your pc, then install whatapps again on your old phone.. see if it recovers automatically if not, replace the recover files..
Then there should be a backup option natively in whatsapp and then do a migration..
That seems to me your best shot.
Thank you, I will try this and report back if it works.
It worked, thanks!
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It worked, thanks!
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Did it simple worked by reinstall whatsapp on the old phone?