I'm not going to dwell on my stolen phone - it's gone and I've come to terms with that
What I do need help with are restore options of the various backups I made of my EZ to a new device
I made PC Companion backup and also a backup using the installed app that came with the phone to the SD card so I have available 2x backups of my Z
I am intending to wait for the Honami and I need to restore contacts and sms and notes to the new device from one of the backups, I didn't sync with google or any other online service as I don't like the exposure so all I have are these two backups
can I use semc-fullbackup on my spare sd card that I made on my Z to a new model phone or will it only restore to the EZ, is there any way of extracting the information in these backups - for example - could I do a backup on PCC on my new phone then swap out the parts of the backup with my old EZ backup - I can see all the files/folders if I rename the PCC backup file to ZIP
any solutions help would be much appreciated
You can restore the backup taken from backup and restore app on honami
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pjgowtham said:
You can restore the backup taken from backup and restore app on honami
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that sounds like good news, so the app backup is not model specific like the PCC and can restore on any recent sony android phone with JB
thanks for the info
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I have a Google Nexus One phone that I joyfully used for 1.5yr. I have a Whatsapp that is linked to a phone number that no longer in service, but I still happen to receive messages from that phone number, now and then.
Now I am moving to Galaxy Tab 7.7 (no forum in here yet), but how do I migrate the old Whatsapp no to the new device witout re-activating it? Is there any backup software that can migrate the whatsapp with all the functionalities/message history without reactivating the phonr? Please help, I'm reallt stucked. thanks a lot.
What is the best backup Android apps without rooting the phone?
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I am not too sure on the app itself as I don't use it, but using another app to back it up without root, most likely, isn't possible. Android locks each app to itself to limit security risks.
Whatsapp backs up it's messages every night to your sd card (assuming that option is selected in whatsapp settings) as well as on internal memory. If you download whatsapp to another phone, but use the same sd card in that phone, on launch, it'll ask if you want to restore the messages.
If you have root -use titanium backup and restore on the new phone.
Download Titanium Backup
Backup App+Data
Put SD Card in new device
Restore App+Data. Done.
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Download Titanium Backup
Backup App+Data
Put SD Card in new device
Restore App+Data. Done.
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bakubaku said:
What is the best backup Android apps without rooting the phone?
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Titanium Backup requires root access...
do settings>more>chat history backup. Then look for the whatsapp folder on the sd and move that to the new device and that might work maybe. whatsapp might need the original number to also be verified on the new device which might prevent you from using that backup. You really need root to solve a root problem though.
question, if i get a new number in a new country, will i still be able to get my old life long account back?
Backup chats on sd card -> move to new phone -> install whatsapp -> restore from backup. Or use a 3rd party android whatsapp transfer utility to help.
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Download Titanium Backup
Backup App+Data
Put SD Card in new device
Restore App+Data. Done.
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Hi, is it possible to restore acc settings from Whatsapp Plus to new wahtsapp without validation?
I have Titanium Backup of Whatsapp Plus 3-4 month old, it works after restore...but when i enable network it wants a validation...
I have used Virtual Number and want to keep it...Thanks
Hi Guys,
I have flashed my Note for the first time, I've gone for Rocket Rom V21.
all is working fine, however I had to do a wipe for the rom to work, so I'm missing all the text messages, app/settings, and calendar dates.
I do have a backup from yesterday done with CWM.
My question is, how can I apply or retain all of the above on my newly flashed rom?
Thanks
I think that the backup you made is localised to your ROM. So you may be unable to use the backed up data in the new ROM. Or you might have to modify/move somethings. Best of luck
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I think that the backup you made is localised to your ROM. So you may be unable to use the backed up data in the new ROM. Or you might have to modify/move somethings. Best of luck
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Well I have restored my backup sucessfully just to check it, because people always reccomend having a backup of your working system if you are going to flash new roms.
The backup is functioning perfectly with all my texts and calendar dates in tact.
So I have an opportunity to back up these items, so what would you reccomend to do this?
Should I be using Titanium backup?
Titanium Backup will backup all Apps and Settings. I believe the newer versions of titanium Backup can extract backed up files from nandroid (CWM) backups.
if you wipe then it wipes the internal memory (dont confuse this with the 11gb storage space) you need to back up the messages with an app that will allow you to do this
if you have root then i use mybackup root if you dont have root then there are plenty of apps onthe market that will backup and restore your messages
I suggest you restore the previous ROM; install Titanium Backup and execute a backup of "all user apps + system data"; flash again your favorite ROM, then restore the apps + data you want.
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I just got a Note2 and I was wonderinf if I can backup my files with titanium in Note1 then copy tge tiranium backup folder to note2 and restore tgere??
Im guessing the filesystem is differebt so it nay not be that easy.
Any ideas?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1373728
For a second there I thought that was a link to answer my q
It is that easy, just don't backup system apps or data, only backup user apps and data and then restore on the note 2.
I've had backups from years ago and they've worked with every device I've had
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It is that easy, just don't backup system apps or data, only backup user apps and data and then restore on the note 2.
I've had backups from years ago and they've worked with every device I've had
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Thanks man
Dropbox can be your best friend in that situation too.
Also, sync with Google too, like your contacts and stuff.
I used the sony backup and restore app on the phone.
I then unlocked my bootloader, this is all on .290 firmware
In the middle of restoring, it reboots.
any ideas? I still have the .semc-fullbackup folder on my SD card, is there any way i can extract those or something? they are not APK's and sony PC companion software saves stuff as one big dbk file so i couldnbt drag it into there... any help would be much appreciated... my messages are very much needed!
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stealthj said:
I used the sony backup and restore app on the phone.
I then unlocked my bootloader, this is all on .290 firmware
In the middle of restoring, it reboots.
any ideas? I still have the .semc-fullbackup folder on my SD card, is there any way i can extract those or something? they are not APK's and sony PC companion software saves stuff as one big dbk file so i couldnbt drag it into there... any help would be much appreciated... my messages are very much needed!
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i'm guessing sony back and restore app only works with locked bootloader?
try a third party app from playstore, there are some who don't require root.
I relocked the boot loader and still the same thing. Any way to get data out of these files??
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Have you tried factory resetting your phone? It works on mine.
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Yes I've relocked, reflashed, re updated, tried again, didn't work, unlocked bootloader again, didn't work
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try doing a selective restore to get back stuff like contacts and sms etc, at least you will have the important stuff, then just re-install all your apps - settings may also restore some stuff
Backup and restore does not backup your homepage folders and stuff like that, I have an SD card which I use for all my music pics videos and files, you can also copy the contents of your internal SD card/drive to a computer as a backup of those
You can also export your contacts as a VCF to your PC
Unfortunately I can't rely on backups working all the time especially if you are trying to restore a backup to a new version of FW, so I keep and hour a week and do a lot of stuff manually
PC Companion is the best option if trying to restore to newer devices or FW/OS it can often do a conversion on the fly
I've never tried any 3rd party backup app but I'd assume they are more flexible
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try doing a selective restore to get back stuff like contacts and sms etc, at least you will have the important stuff, then just re-install all your apps - settings may also restore some stuff
Backup and restore does not backup your homepage folders and stuff like that, I have an SD card which I use for all my music pics videos and files, you can also copy the contents of your internal SD card/drive to a computer as a backup of those
You can also export your contacts as a VCF to your PC
Unfortunately I can't rely on backups working all the time especially if you are trying to restore a backup to a new version of FW, so I keep and hour a week and do a lot of stuff manually
PC Companion is the best option if trying to restore to newer devices or FW/OS it can often do a conversion on the fly
I've never tried any 3rd party backup app but I'd assume they are more flexible
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Can't seem to do a selective restore on the stock sony backup and restore app. You have a way of doing that? I have all my contacts and other stuff were all saved to my google accounjt, its just those SMS's that I need
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Can't seem to do a selective restore on the stock sony backup and restore app. You have a way of doing that? I have all my contacts and other stuff were all saved to my google accounjt, its just those SMS's that I need
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Maybe try downgrading back to the firmware on which you did the backup and see if the restore function works. If it does restore your data and try to get a backup using Titanium Backup or other software.
Unfortunately I tried that already, seems like a part of the restorenis corrupt? This is really odd. Anyone know how to take data out of the backups?
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Any idea??
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unfortunately not, I assume you've never done a backup using PCC
There might be some software out there that can extract the contents of the backup or there might be an update to the software at some point if it's not working properly
I was going to suggest rolling back to a previous firmware you never know, always keep a backup using PCC
Nah I didn't start messing with pc companion until my restore didn't work and I was looking for new ways to extract my backup but I guess they're in different formats. I'll keep looking, later I'll open the conversations backup with wordpad and see whats in there... its 50mB though...
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Hi guys,
I have installed PACMAN rom with root and everything.
I use this app called Clean Master and it says that there is a map that is called commonDir it is 12.53GB big, but it says it is a backup. I do not know if it is a backup, and if it is a backup I don't know what data might be backed up there. So if anyone has any idea what it is and whether i could remove it or not that would be great.
Yo,
I finally found the answer.
Made a Nandroid backup before I deleted mine, thus, realised that CommonDir is the folder name used for Nandroid backup, in my case; TWRP on the external mem card.
In CM, press & hold CommonDir then select ignore so you don't accident delete it. 12.5GBs seems pretty high for a backup file!? Have you tried trimming it by moving less valuable game data to the mem card so it's not included?
Loz
Tnx lauzer i will not remove this item than. Maybe i put it on my PC so it will not take up that much space on my phone.
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Hahahaha found out that there where even 6 backups in that folder. Deleted them all and made a new one
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