I only had a small microSD when I rooted. I ordered a bigger card. When I get the new one can I just copy the files from my original card to my pc and then copy them on to the new card? Maybe a dumb question..I am new to rooting.
I have Titanium backup,what do you recommend should be backed up?? I will have a 16gb card coming. Should I back up everything?? Thanks for any help you can give me. Great forum..I am hooked1
Yes, you can simply transfer the files from card to card. I do it all the time. You don't even need to employ titanium backup at all unless you are changing or reinstalling roms, or doing a factory reset and re-rooting. If you ARE doing that I would suggest doing the "Apps + Data" batch backup. This will restore applications in there exact state.
But if you are just swapping memory cards the only thing I would suggest is that you take advantage of any backup to-sd card features your apps might have before you copy files from one sd card to the other. Then you can restore anything that apps might save on your sdcard(which Titatium backup by the way doesn't save anyways).
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Current setup is an N1 on 5.0.6, desire cam + OC/UV, 8GB class 4 SD, multiple apps on the SD card.
What I want to do is buy a class 6 16GB, as im not that far off running out of room if i put any serious amount of music on, and i do sometimes record for several hours (tennis) on the cam.
Is there any way I can literally clone my old SD card, including partitions, to the new SD card so I can literally slap it back in my N1 without having to reinstall everything etc?
Titanium backup.
Or android with ext backup.
And backing your fat partition to a computer then back to your new SD card
Henchman said:
Titanium backup.
Or android with ext backup.
And backing your fat partition to a computer then back to your new SD card
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RE the ext backup, where exactly does it save that backup to? Or am I thinking its only backing up the application partition?
Also, how do I manually reformat the new SSD into the app + storage format, really can't remember how I got to that menu, was it amon? Sorry another thing xD If I want to increase the size of my app partition, will that break anything during the restore? Cheers.
So I have ordered a bigger memory (Class 4) and my tracking number says it is out for delivery, while it is being delivered I am wondering if someone on here help me figure out what is the best way to transfer my apps from existing sd card to the new one? (I am thinking maybe nadroid ext backup and restore on the new card?)
I am not sure if my thinking is right since the new card will be class 4 and maybe the apps gets corrupted? Has anyone done this in the past and what is the procedure?
Thank you!
I would get Titanium backup and just worry about backing up your main sdcard partition.
I only crappy thing about it is if you don't get the donated version then you have to click click click when you reinstall/restore.
you could Nandroid + EXT and copy the nandroid back to the new SD card.
Titanium is well worth the 3.99 - I would buy 20 if I needed to.
great! thanks guys!
Hi guys,
I'm planning to get a new SD card for my G1 to replace my current 4GB SD Card.
Currently, I'm running Cyanogen 5.0.8 DS and Apps2SD.
If I change to a new SD card, will anything be lost? or is there anything that I will have to take note of in particular?
Thanks!
weipingchong said:
Hi guys,
I'm planning to get a new SD card for my G1 to replace my current 4GB SD Card.
Currently, I'm running Cyanogen 5.0.8 DS and Apps2SD.
If I change to a new SD card, will anything be lost? or is there anything that I will have to take note of in particular?
Thanks!
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Yea same. i wanna use a 16GB cause my 4GB is almost full. and i dont want to lose all my apps i have installed from Apps2SD. cause ik in ubuntu when u mount it shows the the partition part of the SD card. but idk how i would transfer apps from my 4GB to my 16GB
You will lose all your applications on your SD card, which should be 98% of them. To prevent this from happening, go to the Market and download an application called Backup for Root, it is free. Check APK's and anything else you want and hit backup. The backup will be created on your (old) SD card. Take your SD card and put it in your computer and open it up, you will see that there is a new folder in it called Backup, copy the contents onto your computer. Put the new SD card, fully partitioned, into your phone. Go to the market and reinstall Backup for Root and also place the contents from the backup folder onto your new SD card, check all that apply in the application and hit restore.
Another option:
Using your recovery image, create a backup using Nandroid or BART (I use BART). The backup will be on your old SD card. Take that backup and put it on your computer. Put the BART/Nandroid backup onto your new SD card into your phone and through the recovery window restore it. Make sure your SD card is partitioned in the exact same way, I have not done this method before so be careful. However, if this method works it will ensure that all applications stay intact as opposed to the previous method where some applications just seem to break, it is inevitable.
Lets say I have SD Card (A) and SD Card (B). SD Card (A) has the stock Rom on it, but I want to try out some other ones without running my settings. Is there anyway I can use SD Card (B) to "test" other roms and then if I don't like it I can put SD Card (A) back in and everything fine?
Sorry, I searched didn't find a thing.
No way. The ROM lives in the phone's RAM, not on the sdcard. Sorry.
Great, thanks for your help. I was unsure.
You can always set up a rom use it the way you want then run a nandroid backup go into the sd card and go into nandroid and rename your nandroid as to what rom it was.. =] And then boom you have backups of every rom you tried and what ever settings it had =] Haha
Yeah, you can always swap between NANDroid backups, but it's not exactly convenient. It cannot boot up from the SD card.
After toying around with CM7 via sd card for a week or so, I decided to take the plunge and install it onto internal memory. Prior to doing this, I performed a Nandroid backup via CWM and saved that file onto the sd card and my computer for safe keeping.
Once the install of CM7 to the internal memory was complete and my apps were restored, I was wondering if there's a way to restore my game saves from my cwm/nandroid backup file? Is this possible or should I have done something different prior to nuking the sd card install?
My world isn't lost since I could start each game anew, but it would be nice to continue at a saved spot...
Any input would be helpful.
Thanks!