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HTC Backup on your Wing.

I've had this .cab kicking around but never tried it till today. Seems to work great on my Wing. Not quite sure everything it backs up. It only works when installed to the phone -- won't work if you install it to the Storage Card.
It creates a file on your Storage Card used to backup your phone.
My guess is, that you could create the backup image file and then remove/uninstall the program to save space and then if you ever needed it, you could reinstall the program and just run the backup file. Or just leave the program on your phone.
Anyway, I don't know if anyone wants it but here it is.
Cheers!

This is neat to have. My question is, does this backup my profiles in the programs (like games) installed so next time I install/backup the program it will be restored? I'm thinking about flashing to new ROM...
Thanks.

no
you have to copy that stuff from either the app data folder or your program's folder usually

i been using this since i got my wing. this back-up every single thing from reg to program data..

ok guess i was wrong then

aron4588 said:
i been using this since i got my wing. this back-up every single thing from reg to program data..
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Awesome, thanks man!

I just saved this to my storage card and installed it on the storage card, is this correct? Should I save it to the phone memory and then back up to memory card?

Toxis said:
I just saved this to my storage card and installed it on the storage card, is this correct? Should I save it to the phone memory and then back up to memory card?
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zcink said:
It only works when installed to the phone -- won't work if you install it to the Storage Card.
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I believe the answer you was seeking was in the first post. . . .

The PPCGeeks forum shows some users experiencing major issues with this software - beware .. ! Hard resets necessitated etc,,,

I have a weird problem with HTC Data Backup... I first installed it on the SD card because on the page I downloaded it from it didn't say you have to install it on the device, later I saw some people mention it in the comments... I've uninstall it and installed it again on the device, but I can't find it anywhere - it's not in the Programs, or Program Files, although I see it in Add/Remove applications... How do I start the program?

Can I install games on sd card?

I have couple games for ppc but I want to install them on the micro sd card and play on the Wing. Can I do that? Will doing that corrupt the file on the sd card in the long run?

yes, you can.
they can only cause boot loop if it overwrites a neccessary windows driver..which it will probably not..
the probability of storage card or file corruption.. well you are dealing with windows and with blocks of memory...so it's always a possibility... no matter how great of an os windows is... it's still annoyingly stupid at times, hehe.
of course.. some games don't work properly from the sd card.. usually they automatically look for local windows files needed and they can't find them.. because they look for storage card/windows... oops.. so some games do have to be installed on the ppc itself.

mv3 said:
yes, you can.
they can only cause boot loop if it overwrites a neccessary windows driver..which it will probably not..
the probability of storage card or file corruption.. well you are dealing with windows and with blocks of memory...so it's always a possibility... no matter how great of an os windows is... it's still annoyingly stupid at times, hehe.
of course.. some games don't work properly from the sd card.. usually they automatically look for local windows files needed and they can't find them.. because they look for storage card/windows... oops.. so some games do have to be installed on the ppc itself.
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OK thanks for the info. I Guess I have to try to see which one works from the sd card.

joking said:
OK thanks for the info. I Guess I have to try to see which one works from the sd card.
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Every game that I have ever installed, I've put on my storage card and had no problems. You should be fine with just about anything.

JLine05 said:
Every game that I have ever installed, I've put on my storage card and had no problems. You should be fine with just about anything.
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and then you have to create a short cut for the game in the "start up menu" folder right?

joking said:
and then you have to create a short cut for the game in the "start up menu" folder right?
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Not if its a .cab file. It will auto install and create the link for you.

JLine05 said:
Not if its a .cab file. It will auto install and create the link for you.
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Oh I see, so you copy the cab file to the sd and run it from there.
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One more thing, this is not relate to subject but here is a thought.
I remember reading the cookers said that there is certain size limit requirement when they cook a rom and that's why they can't remove a lot of stuffs.
Here is my thought, why don't they just remove stuffs that they want. Then let say the size limit for a rom is 50 MB and now they have 45 MB. Can they just create a "junk" folder and put some junk files/pictures in that folder to bring the size of their rom to the limit. After people flash their rom, they can just delete the "junk" folder? Then we can have a clean rom with less amount of storage.

Storage of "cab" files

I have several cab file programs (PDS Status Full, HHC v10 Final, Google Maps and Youtubeplay), that are stored in the "My Documents" folder . Can I move them to the storage card and still run the apps. from there in order to free up memory on the device?

The CABs are installation files. Once you've opened them and installed them you can do whatever you want with them, move, delete, whatever. They're not needed anymore.

What kilrah said.
I just keep them in a dedicated folder on my storage card so I can easily reinstall the programs if required.

Sparrowhawk said:
What kilrah said.
I just keep them in a dedicated folder on my storage card so I can easily reinstall the programs if required.
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Ditto. I've reflashed my Hermes about 10 or so times and I'm pretty sure I'll do the same with the Kaiser. It's very convienient to have the installation files on the Storage card.

GREAT, thanks...
just upgraded from an 8525 to a Tilt in the last month and still learning. Found this site and have downloaded several programs mentioned here.

\windows folder content

Hey guys,
some time ago I've tried to free some space from my internal memory, so I've chosen several files to remove in my \windows directory, like ringtones, 007 trailer and some .cabs of default installed programs. Overall size was about 90MB, what is pretty nice while I had like 100MB free space on internal. I know these files can't be just deleted, so I've prepared fake files with the same name, but zero size and I did these steps:
1. backup of chosen files
2. rewrite old files with new files of zero size using Total Commander
!! BUT !! when I did so, free space of internal memory was always the same (even after restart)
3. so, when I saw it had no effect, I restored original files from backup back to the \windows folder and I was shoked when I saw 10MB of free memory
4. as a last step, I've changed these files again with those zero sized and I had the free space back
Now I have the same amount of free space as I had at the beginning, but with zero sized fake files instead of original files.
I want to ask:
a) why my method did not work??
b) how can I really free up some space?? (by removing those useless files)
c) where is the "ROM image" located?? I mean .. if I'll change those original files with fake files and I'll do hard reset, what will happen? Will be those original files restored from some hidden ROM image or are they necessary to keep (for any reason) in \windows folder?
Thank you for any ideas.
FYI I am using stock R3A ROM.

C'mon ... I am sure somebody knows the answers. I've already read several threads about deleting files in windows folder, but all of them were about overwriting files with new, fake files. There were nothing about free memory. And also I can't find the answer on my third, probably most important question
c) where is the "ROM image" located?? I mean .. if I'll change those original files with fake files and I'll do hard reset, what will happen? Will be those original files restored from some hidden ROM image or are they necessary to keep (for any reason) in \windows folder?
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Any help is appreciated.

on wm there is a flash area
devided into 2 places 1 is storage
1 is rom
rom is read only after one flash the firmware
you can overshadow files in the rom flash with empty files
but they don't mean they are not still there
but it's don't matter because files on rom don't take up storage space at all
they take up rom space it's 2 seperate "partitions" if that makes something you can understand better
only way to truely remove files from the rom flash is to cook a rom without them
and even if you do that that will not give you more storage space as it's 2 seperate spaces
so basicly you're barking up the wrong tree for more storage

Thanks man. This answer is absolutely enough for me, now I understand it much better.

What to keep after rom upgrade?

Hi everyone.
I have a Google G1 and have recently upgraded to Cyanogen 6.0.0.
After the upgrade there are a lot of files left on the SD card and I would like to know which I need to keep and which I can get rid of?
The files are;
Android folder which contains another folder called data, which contains the following files; com.coolaris.media and com.google.android.apps.genie.geniewidget.news-content-cache
other folders are;
Clockworkmod
.android_secure
and in the download folder there are lots of .apk files all are downloadfile.apk from 1 to 14.
Do I need to keep any of these files on my sd card or can they be deleted after the installation?
Thank you for any help.

steveluigi said:
Hi everyone.
I have a Google G1 and have recently upgraded to Cyanogen 6.0.0.
After the upgrade there are a lot of files left on the SD card and I would like to know which I need to keep and which I can get rid of?
The files are;
Android folder which contains another folder called data, which contains the following files; com.coolaris.media and com.google.android.apps.genie.geniewidget.news-content-cache
other folders are;
Clockworkmod
.android_secure
and in the download folder there are lots of .apk files all are downloadfile.apk from 1 to 14.
Do I need to keep any of these files on my sd card or can they be deleted after the installation?
Thank you for any help.
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I would just keep all of that on your SD card, since it doesn't take up that much space to begin with.
However, I had a bunch of those downloadfile.apk's in my download folder, I deleted all of them, and everything was okay. You can probably delete all of those and not have a problem.

Thank you very much for the help mattdrumz, very kind.