First off, apologies if this is in the wrong place, I'm new here.
I've been thinking about rooting my device for a while now, but the one thing putting me off is the fact that I have to unlock the bootloader. Not a massive issue, it's just the fact my phone will be completely wiped. Which brings me to my question. Is it possible to move what I can to the SD card, unlock the bootloader, root and then transfer my apps and files back? If not, is some sort of backup feasible?
Cheers.
No problem with the files on the external SD but you can't save the apps, you need "Titanium Backup" for that which needs root permissions ?
You will need a bit of free time but in my opinion it's worth it ?
Backup everything you can: launcher settings, widgets, check all the options on the Google account...
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Hi,
i just flashed a new ROM and when i went to restore my apps and data from TB i realize that all numbers in the batch tab are 0!!!
First i had the backup in the external sdcard. I move them to the internal and nothing.
Any ideas?
I did the same in another note and everything went fine...
kurokirasama said:
Hi,
i just flashed a new ROM and when i went to restore my apps and data from TB i realize that all numbers in the batch tab are 0!!!
First i had the backup in the external sdcard. I move them to the internal and nothing.
Any ideas?
I did the same in another note and everything went fine...
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Did you search for and select the "Backup folder" in the settings of TB?
When switching to JB the mount points of the cards changed and so the old backup folder "moved". Check this.
dont use backup apps, they mess stuff up like this, crossinfect roms with junk and old versions and corrupt stuff. and then blame the rom, sheesh, good you dont do that.
Android should be build better with backups in mind, my 2cents
Hi,
I solved it. In the end it just was that TB for some reason loaded the user filter, so obviously the backed up app won't show
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Hi, before buying The Xperia Z1, i would like to know if the device allows "Move to sd card" for apps and games, anyone can help?
Nope not yet maybe in the next update
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you can write your own scripts app to sd or use titanium app to link folders. there are plenty of work around with out app. but you need to know adb and other scripts for it to work. if you code and understands linux, you should know some work around for app to sd. Of course you Need Unlocked Bootloader and Full Root access. linking apps with folders, direction can be used similar to Google Music folder link to external SD.
oh btw, you can choose any phone, not just Z1. cause most runs with OEM customized UI with limitations.
your best bet is running a Phone with stock closely related with out restriction.
I'm sorry this can appear as another lame demonstration of lazyness, but I searched everywhere and I just can't understand what is happening with my cellphone.
So I grab my Moto G 2014 8GB yesterday. It asked for Lollipop upgrade right out of the box, which I followed instantly. So I can say I never experienced KK and it quierks with SDCards before - although I know them.
So I keep this handful numbers of apps installed; not just that, they create their amount of data on their own - Pocket, Evernote and some other examples. I was just happy to see the whole storage options appearing on Android 5 - external app, external data and so. But the bottom line was different; I had this feeling that altough I could move some apps 2 external SD, they were not actually being moved. And with OI File Manager (don't laugh, everyone has its preferred file manager) I could check it was really not moving anything at all:
So, what I am not understanding: Why the system shows that I can move apps and that they were moved if anything is going to the external storage?
I can take more pictures showing that my ANDROID folder is quite empty and that the example app is not listed there.
Just so no one calls me lazy, my crazy non-tech opinion is that the Lollipop update allows the moving but the new runtimes (ART) don't.
Can someone with the Android 5 update check where their moved apps went?
REMARK: Just so you have all the info, mine is the XT1068 hw model.
EDIT: Mine is a 32GB Kingston Class4. Hum... Does it pick wich card it could work with?
Am I really being that noob? No one answered me...
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Well, Lollipop does allow apps to be moved to your SD Card as usual, I don't see what's the issue here..
Everything has been working fine for me, and your apps appear to be moved as well.
Thanks for your reply. Yes, Motorola Lollipop allows apps to be moved to external memory - but it seems my system it's faking it.
I tried something else: I uninstalled the reference app. Nothing happened to external SD, but the internal memory got the whole amount of space that the system pointed out as internal and external ones. Again, the information is right, but the system is not doing what it's showing in the pictures.
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Yes you can move to sd card
Hey, you can also move move your to external sd card using app called "Link2SD"
If your solution involve root, I'm sorry but it's a no-go for me. I'm tray ng to stay as clean as can - and moto phones seemed my best option for this. But now I can't even download my Evernote data because it's too big and it keeps downloading to internal memory - although it says it's using the external one.
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I am a moto e user..and need my device's elder brother's help
It will be very great full of you guyz if u can confirm if any games are working with their data file placed in sd card ?
i am using moto e(lollipop) and when i place data in sd card it is detected but then the game just shuts down without any message or fc..
That's because data is usually saved on the internal storage. You can move the apps, but not their data.
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That's because data is usually saved on the internal storage. You can move the apps, but not their data.
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My research from the last two days shows exactly this. But it seems that Motorola has made some changes so we could use much more of the external SD card - which is the complaining I have against Moto G 2014.
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Ok i did my research and found that may be those new apps only can be moved which are using the new lollipop api to move the data..as i tested world of tanks(2.5gigs) and it installed fully in sd card..and another one is limbo which too got installed in the sd card..post some more info if u get
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-Adarsh- said:
Ok i did my research and found that may be those new apps only can be moved which are using the new lollipop api to move the data..as i tested world of tanks(2.5gigs) and it installed fully in sd card..and another one is limbo which too got installed in the sd card..post some more info if u get
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could help me with THAT?
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could help me with THAT?
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How can i help u
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could help me with THAT?
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Please check this link:
https://awanstuff.wordpress.com/201...ink2sd-in-any-android-phone-with-screenshots/
It describes the exact way to enable your phone to move all apps to SD. I also ran into the low memory problem and this was my solution.
I have a samsung galaxy S3 on android 5.1.1 by the way. The solution is the 2nd partition on the sd-card that has to be created as primary partition. This is the key. Then Link2SD
sees it and is able to put data on it. There's lots of tools in the play store that promise to handle this and create the partition for you, but none are able to do this correctly. So, you have to resort to a pc and usb-cable and follow the above instructions. Then you can move your apps. Even system apps, but i recommend against that, as i tried this with google play services, but that kept crashing after that, so i reverted the move quickly.
Good luck, it works for me! Can't imagine why it woudn't work for you. :good:
After 2 months of using my Huawei P9, suddenly the internal memory wiped and cleaned by it self... i lost all gallery and...
how could i restore the internal memory???
I haven't heard anything like this before, you or somebody else probably did a soft-wiped of the device, or do you change your SD Card, probably files will be there, so check if it is correctly inserted or if it stopped working.
Hello
I couldn't understand why also, it never happened with me before, it deleted all data on internal storage since last update.
I would like to get help by recovering photos without root. if any one have ideas.
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I haven't heard anything like this before, you or somebody else probably did a soft-wiped of the device, or do you change your SD Card, probably files will be there, so check if it is correctly inserted or if it stopped working.
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Aissar5 said:
Hello
I couldn't understand why also, it never happened with me before, it deleted all data on internal storage since last update.
I would like to get help by recovering photos without root. if any one have ideas.
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There no a way to recover them, you should had a recover app, Google Photos for example sync you pics in the cloud so If you change your device or lose all of them they are already in the cloud.
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Thank you
I usually recover deleted files from my computer or from SDCard with "Recuva" software
but i couldn't mount the internal memory of the P9
so i tried several other software :
Wondershare Dr.Fone for Android
FonePaw Android Data Recovery
MobiKin Doctor for Android
but also didn't work
jeremymolina said:
There no a way to recover them, you should had a recover app, Google Photos for example sync you pics in the cloud so If you change your device or lose all of them they are already in the cloud.
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Aissar5 said:
Thank you
I usually recover deleted files from my computer or from SDCard with "Recuva" software
but i couldn't mount the internal memory of the P9
so i tried several other software :
Wondershare Dr.Fone for Android
FonePaw Android Data Recovery
MobiKin Doctor for Android
but also didn't work
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Latest security updates of Android prevent those things, because many people resell there devices and just wipe there memory, so for preventing the new owner access the data of the previous one they enforce the way to delete user data.
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Aissar5 said:
Thank you
I usually recover deleted files from my computer or from SDCard with "Recuva" software
but i couldn't mount the internal memory of the P9
so i tried several other software :
Wondershare Dr.Fone for Android
FonePaw Android Data Recovery
MobiKin Doctor for Android
but also didn't work
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Latest security updates of Android prevent those things, because many people resell there devices and just wipe there memory, so for preventing the new owner access the data of the previous one they enforce the way to delete user data.
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Hi,
I have a Huawei P9 Plus and exactly the same happened with my phone. I have this phone since 2 months, but until now I do not use it productively. Sometimes I used it to take photos. So I only lost photos and no other data. But I’m not sure if I can trust the phone to use productively or this happens later again and I’ll lose more data.
My phone was out of battery for maybe two days. I plugged in cable for charging, the phone starts immediately by itself. But while starting, the phone turned off and on again. This process repeated multiple times, until I used another power adapter. Maybe 500 mA of the power adapter, I used first, aren’t enough for the Huawei phone. Three hours later, I discovered that I lost all data from internal SD card. I haven’t lost any data from data partition, like apps and app settings. Only data from internal SD card. On factory reset you lose data from data partition but not from internal SD card, usually. In my case it’s the other way round.
Aissar5, I’ve some questions to you:
Did you get your data back?
Did it happen again?
Did you find the cause for this?
Best regards
hello it didn't happen again, but i couldn't resolve the issue and get back my old data.
Hello I'm using a Huawei GR3 2017 (PRA-LX2 running emui 5.0.1) and I was wondering if this device has been restricted to move apps to sd card?
At first I thought that switching the default location in the Settings from Internal to SD card would make the move to SD card possible in apps, or at least put my apps I would download to the card.
However, I guess it just means that it would just put my shot photos, videos, screenshots etc. and downloaded files to the card, but not apps themselves. Factoey reset then downloading my applications again didn't work.
Is the only way to move them is to have my phone rooted then? What led me first to assume that I can move apps to sd is the option "force allow apps on external storage" in the developer options (which I can't seem to turn on no matter what)
Has Huawei restricted moving apps to sd card for this device?
Thanks for your time! (and i hope i am in the right forum)
Since Android 6 Google disabled that option. So you need root or you can format SD card as internal storage
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Thanks for the reply! Unfortunately there really is no option to format my sd card as internal; not sure if this is an emui thing or what, since I see people using stock android 6 and above with that option available in their devices.
So my only option is to root then? Or is there a chance that they would enable it again on emui 8.0? I've searched a bit and found out (in many sites) that gr3 2017 is on the list to receive the update.
CookieThief said:
Thanks for the reply! Unfortunately there really is no option to format my sd card as internal; not sure if this is an emui thing or what, since I see people using stock android 6 and above with that option available in their devices.
So my only option is to root then? Or is there a chance that they would enable it again on emui 8.0? I've searched a bit and found out (in many sites) that gr3 2017 is on the list to receive the update.
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Search for a tutorial for change / resize the partitions of sdcard, no need root.
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dannyzamora said:
Search for a tutorial for change / resize the partitions of sdcard, no need root.
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Thanks for the tip!
Did some research and found a turorial for my device to make my sd card part of the internal (i guess?) using adb. With this method and no root in the process, i shouldn't be worried of having my warranty voided, issues on OTA updates, etc. then? Just making sure
CookieThief said:
Thanks for the tip!
Did some research and found a turorial for my device to make my sd card part of the internal (i guess?) using adb. With this method and no root in the process, i shouldn't be worried of having my warranty voided, issues on OTA updates, etc. then? Just making sure
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Did you achieve it? Would you share the description?
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Did you achieve it? Would you share the description?
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UPDATE:
Yes, it was a success
By doing it via usb (debugging mode) and using adb to enable adoptable storage. A detailed procedure can be found here: https://forum.xda-developers.com/an...3-p8-lite2017-enable-adoptable-t3689850/page1 (credits to the op!)
At the part where I had to unmount and mount the sd card, I tried inputting the code to do it, but it seemed that adb couldn't recognize it so I just went to my settings in the phone, ejected the sd card and mounted it again. So far I didn't screw things up tho. The free space was 11+ gb after I was finished with the process. Before it was only 400 plus mb :cyclops:
After 3 days since, I've experienced nothing wrong; no bugs, glitches, slowdowns etc. All I haven't tested are the OTA updates, but I guess it's still working cuz I can still search for the updates (I already have emui 5.0.1)
But keep in mind that ONLY use fast micro sd's, I am using a Sandisk Ultra with an A1 rating, which I think is made for running applications (from the"A" bit) so I would recommend that at the very least (I bought the 16gb one)
Thanks all for the help! I included a screenshot of the settings' readings on my phone's storage, but I think this is only natural from force adopting storage (hope so) and a screenshot of my file manager readings on it.
yeah this messes up the storage settings.
It's also not a perfect solution - some apps will install to the "adopted" SD card, but many still insist on installing on the internal memory, so it doesn't buy you a lot of extra space. Fundamentally 16GB is not enough for a modern Android phone - I won't buy another with less than 32GB.