the other day I wiped out my contacts (while i was experimenting with syncing between phone and gmail account; unlike Xmarks, for example, there's no option for `maintain data on server; maintain data on phone; merge`). I remembered that my phone was set to back up stuff to the sd card, but I couldn't find any info in the manual or online about restoring it. Is this something I need activesync for? I use Linux which I'm not sure is supported. If I can't restore stuff then there's no point in backing stuff up. I'm not actually sure what is being backed up other than contacts; there's no provision for backing up apps; perhaps data (photos etc) but surely that should be being stored on sd card in the first place to conserve the tiny amount of storage out of your total of 576megs which is technically available in the first place.
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Is there anyone can help me how to configure text message so i can save text message and contact in my SD or my UIM Card ?
ok, please don't tell me, you really have a UIM card, meaning, that you are on a CDMA network, then the entire other thread you opened was redundant, BECAUSE:
cdma devices of the general shape and outlooks of the blueangel are called harrier, meaning they cannot be upgraded with wm6 anyways.
but to come to your actual question. there is no way to store your contacts or sms on the sd card directly. they need to be stored in the phone. if however you are planning on making backup copies of your pim data to the sd card, to not lose the data in case of a hard reset, download -=PIM backup by DotFred=- and put the app on your sd card and make backups to the sd card, that way you always have all your data save in case you somehow should lose the device's storage's contents.
Now that Froyo has been released, I'm sure many of us will try to take advantage of the install to SD option. When doing this, is it necessary to move apps back to the phone to before backing up with TB? When restoring apps, will TB know how to properly handle apps installed to SD at the time of backup?
Also, somewhat OT, but where are apps actually stored on the SD card when moved?
TB doesn't care where your apps are and will even help you move them (IME). As to where they go, that is still a mystery to me. I have looked all over and haven't seen them unless I am missing something which is quite possible.
TB backups (at least for me) are in /sdcard/TitaniumBackup, stored as a properties file and a tar file.
As for SD card apps, I don't have any installed there, but the app has restore preferences that indicate that it can backup and restore apps to internal or SD storage...however, I only see the option to put apps on SD card from TB once they're installed by holding down on them in the list.
I'm using a 32gb sandisk SD card and would hate to accidentally drop the phone in water or whatever and lose all of its contents. Is there any trick to backing up the sd card that I'm not thinking about? I was just going to copy and paste everything over to an external hard drive every week. Should that do it?
m4rk0358 said:
I'm using a 32gb sandisk SD card and would hate to accidentally drop the phone in water or whatever and lose all of its contents. Is there any trick to backing up the sd card that I'm not thinking about? I was just going to copy and paste everything over to an external hard drive every week. Should that do it?
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There's several apps that'll back up your information to the net automatically. I'm not sure what info you're concerned about, but Appbrain and MyBackup pro will backup all your apps (and mybackup pro will do other data) to the cloud. If you're looking to backup stuff on your 32 gig card though...I'd consider using Dropbox. As in...keeping all your stuff in a dropbox account and then DLing it to the phone when you want it.
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There's several apps that'll back up your information to the net automatically. I'm not sure what info you're concerned about, but Appbrain and MyBackup pro will backup all your apps (and mybackup pro will do other data) to the cloud. If you're looking to backup stuff on your 32 gig card though...I'd consider using Dropbox. As in...keeping all your stuff in a dropbox account and then DLing it to the phone when you want it.
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I was less worried about apps and more about nandroid backups, custom wallpapers, music, etc. Since I have mozy backup service I'll just continue to copy over my sd card onto my ext hard drive that's getting backed up on Mozy.
I use RSYNC, to copy my entire SD card to my Linux system,
Dynamic DNS to assing a host name for the phone on the Internet
I just start RSYNC on the phone, start the copy on my linux box, and go shopping or something.
i have been having major issues with my evo. where to start, really...
i have virus rom 2.2 rooted, apps2sd, etc...
i've been having issues with my evo being recognized by my computer when plugged into the usb port. i never used to have issues and this is a seemingly random thing that has started to happen.
i wanted to load some music onto my sd card and popped it out of my evo to plug it into my computer. unfortunately, my power button has been sticking on the evo and for whatever reason i put the battery back in after taking out my sd card. the phone reset, then couldn't recognize any of my apps that had been stored on the sd card. i put the card back into my phone and reset again but it refuses to believe any of the apps are available. i've lost access to market, appbrain, etc., and cannot re-download. when i log into my google account to redownload appbrain it will not let me because the website says i still have it installed.
i hope i explained this well enough. i've never had any problem like this before. my phone has essentially become useless because i cannot access any programs on it. any suggestions how to recover? unfortunately my last nandroid backup was in december. i've used titanium and lookout to backup since, but both are now missing. if there's any way i can recover my data (pictures, web history, text history, call history, address book, etc...) and then do a wipe and repartition my sd card/get market back, i'm willing to do it, i just have no idea how. any help is appreciated.
bump in case anyone can help, thanks
So hold on...you can't access you SD card on your EVO but you can when you stick it into the computer...because if that's the case and you can see the files on your computer still, I would back up everything on you SD card and then format your card from the computer...I had this very problem a couple months ago...and I recommend to put apps that you want to access easily (browser, market, voice, mail, etc...) on your phone memory...that way you can still use them if it ever happens again...that's just my 2 cents...
But anyways I recommend formatting your card and reloading the files onto it...fixed it for me
Sent from my nightly EVO
the apps that were on my SD card are the only things that have gone missing from it. it is as though they never existed... i don't even know how the marketplace ever got saved onto my sd card, but it's gone.
The apps are on the SD ext.when you took out the SD and the phone rebooted,you apps weren't there......follow the post above you should he good.or you can pit the card in wipe everything and reflash the Rom.....
sent from a terminal in the NIGHTLANDS.......
My device was on android 10 then I flashed android 11 using Odin3.
I have lost all data and photos.
Is there any way I can restore the data?
Thank you
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Maybe. Always backup critical data redundantly at least 2 times on separate hdds that are physically and electronically isolated.
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A7medA50 said:
My device was on android 10 then I flashed android 11 using Odin3.
I have lost all data and photos.
Is there any way I can restore the data?
Thank you
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Why don't you use Google Backup and Google Photos? Easiest way to backup your stuff.
For data (but not photo) backups you can also use adb.
xunholyx said:
Why don't you use Google Backup and Google Photos? Easiest way to backup your stuff.
For data (but not photo) backups you can also use adb.
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If the victim device was backed up with Google or Samsung cloud this is an option... if it works.
Easiest and the best way is to back it up yourself.
Google backup is a battery and bandwidth hog.
With large data files in the hundreds of GBs it's a sick joke.
Cloud stuff can get hacked and otherwise lost.
Properly stored enterprise class hhds are very reliable and very well isolated.
If you have an SD card slot use that as a data drive. Only the OS, apps, downloads (temporarily) and DCIM (temporarily) go on internal memory.
Set up right you can do a factory reset with zero data loss in about 2 hours.
Nonetheless you always keep the SD card fully backed up!
A .5tb V30 Lexar card is only $64 now... and they run great.
blackhawk said:
If the victim device was backed up with Google or Samsung cloud this is an option... if it works.
Easiest and the best way is to back it up yourself.
Google backup is a battery and bandwidth hog.
With large data files in the hundreds of GBs it's a sick joke.
Cloud stuff can get hacked and otherwise lost.
Properly stored enterprise class hhds are very reliable and very well isolated.
If you have an SD card slot use that as a data drive. Only the OS, apps, downloads (temporarily) and DCIM (temporarily) go on internal memory.
Set up right you can do a factory reset with zero data loss in about 2 hours.
Nonetheless you always keep the SD card fully backed up!
A .5tb V30 Lexar card is only $64 now... and they run great.
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I used to make regular backups to ext SD when I had a phone that had an ext SD slot. Since 2018 (P2XL) I've been on the Pixel line though.
When I was on HTC devices and Samsung before that though, I'd be fearless flashing stuff. I'd always have my TWRP backup on SD to restore if things went sideways.