I'm finally upgrading from my OG Droid to a Droid 4. My OG Droid is rooted and running CM7. I just wanted to make sure I correctly transfer all of my data to my new phone. Here is what I'm planning on doing:
1. Backup everything on my old phone using Titanium Backup, and sync to my dropbox
2. Activate new phone.
3. Root new phone using Droid 4 Utility 0.4 for windows.
4. Sign in to google account on new phone, allow Market to install apps.
5. Insert SD card from old phone into new phone. Use Titanium Backup to restore data and missing apps to new phone.
Am I missing anything, or should I do things in a different order?
grhopper said:
I'm finally upgrading from my OG Droid to a Droid 4. My OG Droid is rooted and running CM7. I just wanted to make sure I correctly transfer all of my data to my new phone. Here is what I'm planning on doing:
1. Backup everything on my old phone using Titanium Backup, and sync to my dropbox
2. Activate new phone.
3. Root new phone using Droid 4 Utility 0.4 for windows.
4. Sign in to google account on new phone, allow Market to install apps.
5. Insert SD card from old phone into new phone. Use Titanium Backup to restore data and missing apps to new phone.
Am I missing anything, or should I do things in a different order?
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Given the locking back plate on the d4 and the need for a special tool to remove it, I'd go ahead and insert the sd card at the same time as the sim card before you activate the phone. That's how they handled the activation on the d4's for the wife and I.
Don't forget to tell Titanium Backup on your D4 to use /sdcard-ext instead of /sdcard, otherwise it won't see your backups.
Dave Lister said:
Don't forget to tell Titanium Backup on your D4 to use /sdcard-ext instead of /sdcard, otherwise it won't see your backups.
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Would it be better to just copy from my sd card to the internal memory? I'm probably going to put the sd card back into the og droid.
grhopper said:
Would it be better to just copy from my sd card to the internal memory? I'm probably going to put the sd card back into the og droid.
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Either way would work. It's a matter of preference since one is just as good as the other.
Also, the back plate is tough, but you don't actually need the tool to remove it. The tricky part is that you need to lift the SIM cover to insert the SD card.
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Sprint HTC Hero (Non-Google Branded)
Fresh Rom 1.0 with De-Fresh and Nexus One Boot screen
Recovery 1.5.2
16GB SD Card
So this is what i know.
1) I already know that Fresh 1.0 has A2SD support built within it.
2) I know to go to Recovery and use the format SD (I used these settings)
Swap:516, Ext3:516, Fat32: Rest ammount
3) Did this once before and it seemed that all my apps were on SD card (when i took it out and reboot, all my apps were gone. When i put it back in then reboot they all back on phone)
What i need to know.
1) How do i choose which apps/games to transfer over to SD card.
2) Where are they on my SD card? (Could not see it when i checked the SD card)
3) When you do this are all of the apps off of the phone memory? or are the apps still able to stay on phone.
What i essentially want to do.
1) i just want to be able to easily use A2SD to backup and easily transfer my apps/games back and fourth if i need to.
Any usable help would be greatly appreciated ^^ thanks.
frostrunner said:
Sprint HTC Hero (Non-Google Branded)
Fresh Rom 1.0 with De-Fresh and Nexus One Boot screen
Recovery 1.5.2
16GB SD Card
So this is what i know.
1) I already know that Fresh 1.0 has A2SD support built within it.
2) I know to go to Recovery and use the format SD (I used these settings)
Swap:516, Ext3:516, Fat32: Rest ammount
3) Did this once before and it seemed that all my apps were on SD card (when i took it out and reboot, all my apps were gone. When i put it back in then reboot they all back on phone)
What i need to know.
1) How do i choose which apps/games to transfer over to SD card.
2) Where are they on my SD card? (Could not see it when i checked the SD card)
3) When you do this are all of the apps off of the phone memory? or are the apps still able to stay on phone.
What i essentially want to do.
1) i just want to be able to easily use A2SD to backup and easily transfer my apps/games back and fourth if i need to.
Any usable help would be greatly appreciated ^^ thanks.
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If someone has better info please correct me if I'm wrong
1. When you install a ROM with apps2sd, as long as you have your SD card formated properly everything except for stock roms are transfered. If they were not, uninstall and install in the market and should go to SD card.
2. On fresh rom I noticed (atleast for me) that the app and app-private folders were in /system/sd/
3. All of your downloaded apps will be on your SD card. Stock apps (sprint apps and what came with the phone etc.) will still be on the phone's memory.
I use ES File Explorer and just copy the app and app-private folders when i want to backup all my downloaded apps. Pretty easy app to use and supports root.
frostrunner said:
1) How do i choose which apps/games to transfer over to SD card.
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You don't. If it's in /data, it gets moved. This means that applications that come with the phone, which are in /system, do not get moved. The symlink solution means that you cannot easily choose applications to leave on the phone.
2) Where are they on my SD card? (Could not see it when i checked the SD card)
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Correct. They are on the EXT partition you created, oddly enough just like the documentation says. You cannot see this partition. If you are so inclined, you can adb into the phone and see it mounted on /system/sd.
3) When you do this are all of the apps off of the phone memory? or are the apps still able to stay on phone.
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Applications shipped with the phone stay on the phone. Data directories created by downloaded applications stay on the phone. You will still see space on the phone being used.
What i essentially want to do.
1) i just want to be able to easily use A2SD to backup and easily transfer my apps/games back and fourth if i need to.
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A2SD has nothing to do with a backup solution and is not necessary for you to back anything up. Pick one of the umpteen backup applications available in the Market and go to town.
Before I rooted my X8 my SD memory card had at least 1.3/ 1.4 GB space on it, which I am definatly sure about, but after the root it says that I have no space on it at all.
What gives, any ideas on how to fix it?
Copy all files to PC, format it in fat16 and copy files back.
Probably you have some errors on card.
Thanks! Hope that, that's the case.
It wasn't the case :L Something has taken up all the space... Could it have been the backup that Titanium Backup did? And how do I get rid of it?
The backup that is.
Just browse SD and delete you thing is unnecessary. Just make backup first
I don`t think that TB can make so big backup.
Don't take this the wrong way, but, rooting has nothing to do with the SDCard. Can you tell us exactly what is it you did until you've discovered that you lost the space on the SD?
beacuse, my theory is that after you rooted, you went and tried to install a new ROM, and consequently made a backup of the previous ROM. that's around 200MB, add the ROM you were planning to install plus another backup...
I havent changed the ROM on my phone yet. I havent got the confidence to yet. All I have done is rooted my phone using superoneclick, downloaded and installed titanium backup and apttek app manager, and then did a full backup using TB. After that I then noticed I had no space left on my sd card.
It doesnt matter as such now as I just bought a 4Gb card.
That is strange. Try exploring the card in windows. Might find out what's taking up space.
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Did you select "charge phone" when prompted to plug the phone in super one click? You may have mounted the SD card and that might be the problem.
Yes, I did everything the tutorial told me to do :L
So, I finally have got my hands on another Milestone which means that I can play around with different ROMs as much as I like and still be able to be sure that people can call me on my stable phone. But, installing ~20 apps by hand and restore of messages every time is a pain in the as and therefore I would like to simply make a backup on the SD card and apply all the apps.
I thought that I could simply make a backup via Titanium Backup to SD-Card 1, copy that content to SD-Card 2, install TB on my other Milestone (which uses SD-Card 2) and just restore that way as you do every time you install a new ROM but no, TB can't find anything to restore.
Any thoughts how I should do?
*Milestone 1 uses CM 7.1.5 and Milestone 2 uses CM 9 4.0.4
TB allows you to change to change the directory on the SD card it uses for backups. Make sure it's looking in right one on the 2nd Milestone.
Dave Lister said:
TB allows you to change to change the directory on the SD card it uses for backups. Make sure it's looking in right one on the 2nd Milestone.
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Thx man, turned out the folder with the backup was inside the TB folder (sd/TitaniumBackup/TitaniumBackup/"all backup files").
Well, TB manages to restore some of the apps but not all of em...hmmm...
Think I'm going for installing all the apps by hand insted, takes longer but at least works. Hehe.
As my understanding is with app2ext (default with Kabaldan's CM ROMs) to install all apps you need only copy them from MM1's ext into MM2's ext. During restart all apps should get installed. Obviously its just apps no data, but here the TB may help...
One command, if moving from one ROM to an other do not copy the lib dir from the ext partition.
Hey guys!
I bought a new bigger SD card for my galaxy mini. Since I moved a lot of apps to my old SD card, I can't get the new SDcard to work without loosing all the data.
So basicly I'm asking, how to change SD cards without loosing anything and just getting the new sd-card to work.
I'm using chocobread latest release. Thank you for your responses!
With Titanium backup, backup all apps.
1. If not rooted, *root your phone
2. Install Titanium Backup
3. Batch Backup all user apps on SD
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Copy the 'Titanium backup' folder
4. Now copy & paste the 'Titanium backup' folder from OLD SD to PC.
5. Recopy & paste from PC to NEW SD.
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Restore all apps & data.
6. From Titanium backup, Batch Restore those apps with data.
7. Reboot the phone (not necessary, but to speed up the phone)
*Read up the reference sticky thread for how to root.
and dont forget to partition new one before restoring
Try just copying the old memory card content to the new one . Did the same a while back and i guess pretty much everything worked the way it should.
thinkingood said:
Try just copying the old memory card content to the new one . Did the same a while back and i guess pretty much everything worked the way it should.
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Yeah, already tried that one, didn't work though. Going to try again, maybe it's the hidden files issue.
Hey, wanna ask
I already partioned my sdcard but I forgot which one I use to partition, ext3 or ext4, anyone knows how to check it without using PC/Laptop?
droidface said:
Hey, wanna ask
I already partioned my sdcard but I forgot which one I use to partition, ext3 or ext4, anyone knows how to check it without using PC/Laptop?
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you can use mini tool partition wizard
just use the google [i can't post the link , my posting still under 10 ]
and it's free for home edition
bacangaja3 said:
you can use mini tool partition wizard
just use the google [i can't post the link , my posting still under 10 ]
and it's free for home edition
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Mini Tool? It's included here -> http://4shared.com/file/1dR4dAGy/Tools-tools_Penting_partisi_mi.html
the other day my tablet reset. i had to download everything again. when i use titanium backup it will only backup to the tablet which it sees as the sd card which gets erased if you have to restore the tablet. there doesn't seem to be a way to change it in the settings. any way to backup my apps to my external sd card? i did search here but nothing clear came up. i am running stock with root. no cm 10 or any of that stuff
bckrupps said:
the other day my tablet reset. i had to download everything again. when i use titanium backup it will only backup to the tablet which it sees as the sd card which gets erased if you have to restore the tablet. there doesn't seem to be a way to change it in the settings. any way to backup my apps to my external sd card? i did search here but nothing clear came up. i am running stock with root. no cm 10 or any of that stuff
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You have three choices. The first is to just copy the backup folder on sdcard to ext_sdcard. Then it does not get wiped out in a reset. The second is to use the CWM card you had used to root to do a nandroid backup to SD. That way if reset, just restore and everything is back. The third way is to use my swap zip to swap sdcard and ext_sdcard. Then TB backs up to your external card. I prefer the nandroid backup myself.
Sent from my Nook HD+ running CM10.1 on emmc.
i recently just set my backups to back up to my sd card
first thing is make a folder on the sdcard, something like TitaniumBackup
in the TB app, press Menu in the top rightthen > preferences, then down to the backup settings > Backup folder location > hit back once or twice until you are on /mnt > find ext_sdcard > then click the folder folder you made on the sd card and then hit use current folder.
I do the nandroid backup probably once every 4-5 days just to be safe in case i eff something up lol
Yea I am using a 16gb card. At first I used the wrong zip and my open space wasn't enough. Found the 4gb zip and all is well with the nandroid backup. This is the second time in 3 days I had a tablet reset. One thing I like about apple products is less crashing and such but loving this tablet for $179.
bckrupps said:
One thing I like about apple products is less crashing and such but loving this tablet for $179.
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Less crashing because they don't allow you into the area where you can mess things up in the system (unless you jailbreak) Also, much less complexity with tens rather than hundreds of device configurations. I'll take more complexity, a little less stability but the ability to do what I want :cyclops: