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Restore from SD card not working

Hi
Today I received a new HTC Desire after my first one went back to T-Mobile.
Stuck in my old SD card and it recognised that there was a backup file on it and proceeded to load it.
However, my new Desire didn't show any signs of being restored from a back up i.e. bookmarks weren't present, messages etc.
I then added a couple bookmarks and factory reset my phone. Again, got the option to restore from backup but same issue occured i.e. no bookmarks that I had added and the standard bookmarks were present despite the fact that I had deleted them!
Phone is set to automatically backup so this is not the issue (plus there was a backup file present on the SD card).
Anyone else found this and know a solution?!
Thanks

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I had to do a Factory Reset today (made a mess of everything! ) and discovered the same problem. Obviously the stock backup solution does not restore very many of our settings. That would explain why there are Apps in the Market for backing up....
Hey,ho. You live and you learn!

migrating from one EVO to a NEW Evo

well long story short... unrelated to anything herein... i have two EVO phones. one is a replacement phone for the current active phone. Sprint sent it to me, cause they couldn't figure out why Google's market wouldn't download apps to my phone. (I solved that problem on my own) but in the mean time i had this replacement phone, so I decided to test things out...
I have fully rooted the test phone, and I am using DamageControl v3.2.3. I installed apps on this phone over wifi.. and started to think that now i need to move my data over from the current active phone.
I have titanium backup paid version. On the test phone, i have backed up the phone going through the root and unlocking of NAND process. Pretty cool application.
I also have "lookout" installed on the active phone, and it is current.
My question is, best i can tell much of the application data seems to be on the SDRAM card. Is that not the case? what data is actually lost during a root proces or NAND unlocking process?
Since Titanium backup requires root access I really can't back up the current phone using that application. I have some backup with the "lookout" application. But i was wondering when the device gets flashed... what exactly is getting writen over.
i see a folder called Mail on the SD card... it is about 50mb... is that where my mail messages are from my different POP3 accounts? on the test phone, all of the mail account settings are not there obviously... but if i add the email accounts will it read the mail from the SDcard created using the other phone?
here is the data I like to migrate over from the rootless phone to the rooted phone.
1. mail messages from about 12 mail accounts
2. Mail account settings
3. layout of the different Sense walls (or whatever they are called) ..you know the faces with all of the icons you see when you look at the phone (there are 7)
4. phone call history
5. SMS messages and history
6. application settings
7. Browser bookmarks (and settings)
i can see my pictures and video are located on my sdram card, but not sure about the above items....
can you help? I am a skilled IT network pro, but not too skilled in the phone's unix like workings... can you help?

There are probably several ways you can do this, but I think it will be easier to accomplish this if you root your rootless phone. Once that phone is rooted you can use titanium or make a nandroid back up and restore on the phone that already has root. Both nandroid backup and titanium backups are saved on the SD card. If rooting is not an option your going to have to look for an app that can make backups without root. There might be one out there but I dont know of any.

it is not clear to me, what exactly is lost when I root. There are warnings that states:
"wipe all of your data so brace for that. backup or what not"
doesn't that mean I will loose user data in step 1 of the toastcfh process before i am able to install (or run) titanium backup?
the warning is not really clear to me exactly what is going on....
I am not against rooting, the rootless phone. Do think Sprint would care if I send them a rooted phone I suppose i could de-root, the rooted phone. I remember seeing somebody having a process for that... not sure.
need some help clearing up some of this... thanks!

[Q] Backing up etc

Hi all. Well I've not rooted yet (just not had the time), and have a stock orange UK ROM with the default stuff! I have searched around and can't seem to find the answer to simple backup questions!
I am having the reboot issues (well documented in another thread), and it's getting worse and worse. even to the extent now that it's rebooting after calls (started out when charging using games, then now I cant run navigation for more than 2 minutes).
I have been told to do a factory reset (not a bad idea TBH). But backups is my main concern.
I have my contacts and calendar fine (not an issue), what I am concerned about mainly is my paid for apps. I have just synced with AppBrain, but will this get my paid for apps back?
Also SMS is the other thing I want to backup, I have installed SMS Backup which backs up to an XML file, which I can read. But read that some people have had problems with restoring, is this true? Or can someone recommend a better app? I am not too concerned with settings, as happy to do things slightly differently this time round, so mainly paiud for apps! Also what happens when orange eventaulyl send me a new phone (which seems to be the resoltuion of the paid for apps?)
I will take the SD card out when I factory reset, but what else should I worry about?
Regards, Martin

I have used SMS Backup and it seems to work fine with me. Not sure if it backs up MMS though, but there is a seperate free tool to save the MMS to SDcard available on the market.
As for your paid for apps, they will show up in the Market once you have perfromed a factory reset and you will be able to re-install without having to pay again. Just make sure that you log in using the same credentials.
The backups I perfored prior to rooting were as follows:
1) export contacts to SDCard
2) backup SMS using SMS Backup & Restore
3) Backup call logs using Call Logs Backup and Restore - I wanted to keep these.
A factory reset should not wipe what is currently on your SDCard, but I cannot hurt to copy the contents to your PC/Laptop before doing the reset.

dcnice said:
I have used SMS Backup and it seems to work fine with me. Not sure if it backs up MMS though, but there is a seperate free tool to save the MMS to SDcard available on the market.
As for your paid for apps, they will show up in the Market once you have perfromed a factory reset and you will be able to re-install without having to pay again. Just make sure that you log in using the same credentials.
The backups I perfored prior to rooting were as follows:
1) export contacts to SDCard
2) backup SMS using SMS Backup & Restore
3) Backup call logs using Call Logs Backup and Restore - I wanted to keep these.
A factory reset should not wipe what is currently on your SDCard, but I cannot hurt to copy the contents to your PC/Laptop before doing the reset.
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Thanks for this, yes call logs would be cool too! I'm not too fussed with regards to the settings of the phone, gives me a chance to start over! Im not even that fussed on SMS's nice to have a history they're currently backing up to the google mail thing!
It was the apps I've paid for most concerned for, and yeah sounds good that it's tied to the google account, guess that means if/when I get a new phone they'll just get copied over to the new phone, when orange realise that it needs to be replaced... Pffftt...
Many thanks makes sence now (used to the iTunes/iPhone system! WHich shilst walled, does make some things easy! I PREFER DROID THO!)

[Q] How to achieve the most complete backup solution? (I have root)

Hi
So I don't really mind if I have to hook it up to the computer or anything, I just want a really complete backup solution. It should backup pretty much everything I have on my SD Card.
I already have Titanium Backup Pro and upuntil now I thought it was complete, but after completely wiping my SD Card in an attempt to install the latest RUU (which didn't work btw, but that's off topic...) and copying my Titanium Backup-stuff from a computer backup I realized it's really really incomplete. To be honest I'm not at all sure what it even is backing up... maybe my Titanium is just set wrong?
So what happened is this... like I said my SD Card was wiped but I had previously backed up Titanium to my Dropbox and pushed the whole folder to my phone after the wipe. However none of my settings for Nova Launcher were saved. My Nova settings back up was not saved. Passwords for Google, Facebook, Dropbox etc were not saved. Data from Swiftkey was not saved. Kakao Talk and SMS messaging history was not saved.
Like I said, I'm not sure what actually was saved...
I don't really mind, maybe even prefer, if I could use my computer to store these backups instead of the SD since I don't always have a lot of space left on my device.
(I think I got the filesystem thing and updating to the latest RUU didn't work - that's what landed me in this situation to begin with by the way.)

kaminix said:
Hi
So I don't really mind if I have to hook it up to the computer or anything, I just want a really complete backup solution. It should backup pretty much everything I have on my SD Card.
I already have Titanium Backup Pro and upuntil now I thought it was complete, but after completely wiping my SD Card in an attempt to install the latest RUU (which didn't work btw, but that's off topic...) and copying my Titanium Backup-stuff from a computer backup I realized it's really really incomplete. To be honest I'm not at all sure what it even is backing up... maybe my Titanium is just set wrong?
So what happened is this... like I said my SD Card was wiped but I had previously backed up Titanium to my Dropbox and pushed the whole folder to my phone after the wipe. However none of my settings for Nova Launcher were saved. My Nova settings back up was not saved. Passwords for Google, Facebook, Dropbox etc were not saved. Data from Swiftkey was not saved. Kakao Talk and SMS messaging history was not saved.
Like I said, I'm not sure what actually was saved...
I don't really mind, maybe even prefer, if I could use my computer to store these backups instead of the SD since I don't always have a lot of space left on my device.
(I think I got the filesystem thing and updating to the latest RUU didn't work - that's what landed me in this situation to begin with by the way.)
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Even if you pushed the whole folder back to your phone...did you actually restore the app/data using Titanium afterwards? Pushing the back-up folder back to your phone just means Titanium can access it. It doesn't restore everything unless you actually do so using Titanium.
Otherwise, making a nandroid backup using CWM recovery takes a perfect snapshot of your phone at that moment. So your texts will all be in place, passwords, settings etc. will all be as they are now. Of course, you can't really flash your nandroid over a new ROM just to restore app data, but it allows you to revert your phone back to its original state before flashing (like in your above scenario where you had a failed RUU installation)

poofish said:
Even if you pushed the whole folder back to your phone...did you actually restore the app/data using Titanium afterwards? Pushing the back-up folder back to your phone just means Titanium can access it. It doesn't restore everything unless you actually do so using Titanium.
Otherwise, making a nandroid backup using CWM recovery takes a perfect snapshot of your phone at that moment. So your texts will all be in place, passwords, settings etc. will all be as they are now. Of course, you can't really flash your nandroid over a new ROM just to restore app data, but it allows you to revert your phone back to its original state before flashing (like in your above scenario where you had a failed RUU installation)
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Hi, thanks for your reply.
Yes I did restore. When I backup I do the full backup thingie in batch operations and when I restore I do the restore apps and system data + restore app data.
Yeah, I was thinking of Nandroid too but doesn't that just do non-SD card? I'm very new to Android but isn't most of the stuff I actually care about (app data and such) on the SD?

titanium doesn't restore system bits by default and google/facebook/dropbox is integrated into the OS.
You CAN force it to I believe but it WILL break things if you change your ROM at all.
IN my mind a small issue doesn't take long to sign back into those services as long as all your apps and data is intact thats all good.
If you have the filesystem thing I STRONGLY SUGGEST you up to 1.29.xyz.11 before you do any more custom rom/CWM work. Even relock/RUU, OTA then unlock and go. I had very bad experiences with this bug.

wintermute000 said:
titanium doesn't restore system bits by default and google/facebook/dropbox is integrated into the OS.
You CAN force it to I believe but it WILL break things if you change your ROM at all.
IN my mind a small issue doesn't take long to sign back into those services as long as all your apps and data is intact thats all good.
If you have the filesystem thing I STRONGLY SUGGEST you up to 1.29.xyz.11 before you do any more custom rom/CWM work. Even relock/RUU, OTA then unlock and go. I had very bad experiences with this bug.
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Hi. Thanks for your reply.
I totally would upgrade to the RUU if HTC there wasn't this small issue of the RUU not working. I live and bought my phone in Sweden and my CID confirms it's a european phone - however when I run the RUU it formats the phone and transfers about half the ROM then setup says "nope, wrong ROM." and leaves me with a dysfunctional OS. I'm also on a Mac so I have to run Windows 7 in VM Ware Fusion and starting that stupid RUU-file and everything takes AGES. I've already spent the better part of a day and night trying to get it to work and if I'm opening that RUU one more time with VM Ware if it doesn't work I think I'm gonna hang myself. So very very very sick and tired of that bullcrap. So... for now I'm either waiting for access to a Windows computer so I can try all of the RUUs and see if my phone's transmutated into the wrong region OR I'm awaiting an S-OFF mod so I don't need to use RUU.
As for the logins and such, it's not only google/facebook/dropbox. It's also Twitter, Evernote, Swiftkey and well... pretty much everything. Chrome seems to be logged in. AnkiDroid didn't get to save it's data (which luckily is saved in the cloud... and backed up manually).
Google Music offline data would be nice to keep to since it's pretty slow to sync. Plus I have to look-up what I actually want everytime I reflash.
Also, if I'm only flashing an upgrade to my current ROM must I really enter all the passwords again anyway?

kaminix said:
Hi. Thanks for your reply.
I totally would upgrade to the RUU if HTC there wasn't this small issue of the RUU not working. I live and bought my phone in Sweden and my CID confirms it's a european phone - however when I run the RUU it formats the phone and transfers about half the ROM then setup says "nope, wrong ROM." and leaves me with a dysfunctional OS. I'm also on a Mac so I have to run Windows 7 in VM Ware Fusion and starting that stupid RUU-file and everything takes AGES. I've already spent the better part of a day and night trying to get it to work and if I'm opening that RUU one more time with VM Ware if it doesn't work I think I'm gonna hang myself. So very very very sick and tired of that bullcrap. So... for now I'm either waiting for access to a Windows computer so I can try all of the RUUs and see if my phone's transmutated into the wrong region OR I'm awaiting an S-OFF mod so I don't need to use RUU.
As for the logins and such, it's not only google/facebook/dropbox. It's also Twitter, Evernote, Swiftkey and well... pretty much everything. Chrome seems to be logged in. AnkiDroid didn't get to save it's data (which luckily is saved in the cloud... and backed up manually).
Google Music offline data would be nice to keep to since it's pretty slow to sync. Plus I have to look-up what I actually want everytime I reflash.
Also, if I'm only flashing an upgrade to my current ROM must I really enter all the passwords again anyway?
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Not sure if its not vmware thats breaking your RUU..... you can check your CID in fastboot and verify, if its supposed to work then its supposed to work, its vmware breaking it.
Hey at least you can flash a ROM right? 10 minutes entering passwords again is a lot less problems than a lot of people have encountered (including me, I got a corrupted super laggy file system IO after CWM and the disappearing SD card space bug hit at once).
As for nandroid, yes it doesn't touch your sd card but otherwise its 1:1 I've always gotten back from a nandroid with everything exactly as it was

wintermute000 said:
Not sure if its not vmware thats breaking your RUU..... you can check your CID in fastboot and verify, if its supposed to work then its supposed to work, its vmware breaking it.
Hey at least you can flash a ROM right? 10 minutes entering passwords again is a lot less problems than a lot of people have encountered (including me, I got a corrupted super laggy file system IO after CWM and the disappearing SD card space bug hit at once).
As for nandroid, yes it doesn't touch your sd card but otherwise its 1:1 I've always gotten back from a nandroid with everything exactly as it was
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Maybe. But it's very strange that VM Ware would be breaking a RUU isn't it?
Either way it means I need access to a Windows computer, either because VM Ware is breaking or because it's too darn slow. Indeed I have checked my CID in fastboot and it does say euro (well, I don't remember the CID itself but it correlated to euro).
Thanks for all your help. Greatly appreciated.

no probs good luck
edit: are you sure you are unbranded. If you are branded (Carrier handset) you need the carrier's RUU
its not that strange vmware breaks it, you are doing something that requires low level write access via USB.

Cannot access internal storage to make a backup

Hi guys,
After a long break of messing with my phone, I decided to try to root my Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III again. My apologies in advance for this wall of a post.
I'm on Android 4.4.2 on a stock ROM. I do not have an SD card so I am purely using the 16GB internal memory.
Backed up all of my stuff using MyBackup Pro (oh, the regret...), then copied the backed up files - the .zip (Data_2014_12_13.zip) containing all of the personal data like texts, MMS, call log, etc. as well as the folder (AppsMedia_2014_12_14) containing all of my apps, music, videos, and photos - to my PC as I planned on wiping the phone and doing a factory reset.
Followed a video on YouTube to root (the Get High on Android guy that runs galaxys3root.com) and had problems with it, so I followed another one that addressed the issue I was having. Used Odin3 v1.85, "CF-Auto-Root-d2spr-d2spr-sphl710.tar.md5", "openrecovery-twrp-2.7.1.0-d2spr.tar", and "UPDATE-SuperSU-v2.13.zip" to root and it went off without a hitch. Wiped the phone and did a factory reset at this point. Verified root using Root Checker and Titanium Backup and both verified I was rooted. Tried out a bunch of different apps and all showed root access.
Downloaded MyBackup Pro again to try to restore everything. It requests SU permissions and I grant them. Transferred the old backup files over to the phone again and placed them in the correct directory, but MBP isn't recognizing them and doesn't see any backups of data or apps/pics/etc. So I create a backup of the one text I have on the phone and backup one app just to verify everything was in the correct folder and it was. MBP recognized the backup I had just created. Tried to move apps from the old backup folder into the new one next to the one I had just backed up and MBP didn't see it was there. Did the same thing with transferring the picture folder and still nothing.
Decided to do yet another wipe at this point. Problem is, now when I use MBP or Titanium Backup to try to make backups, it shows the directories as inaccessible. In MBP, I get
MBP said:
Error during Backup: unknown error (code 14): Could not open database
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If I go into the options, the default local storage location is "/storage/emulated/0". If I try to change it to anything else or even leave it as is and hit "Select directory", it gives me an error stating:
MBP said:
Could not write to the path selected.
Note: ONLY Andorid 4.4 (KitKat) removes the ability to access the SD card, Android 5+ has added support again. if you are using Android 4.4 the only way to access the SD card is 1-Root your phone, 2-Install SDFix app from the market.
Android 5+ users, the dialog to select the path does not show the SD card by default, you need to "Unhide SD card" from the dialog's Menu.
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At this point, I downloaded NextApp SDFix hoping it would somehow affect internal memory even though it's for SD cards, but no dice.
I load up Titanium Backup. "Root access" has a green check mark and tapping it shows I have BusyBox 1.19.4-Titanium from app and YES for SQLite with SQLite 3.7.6.3-Titanium included.
However, "Backup directory" has a red X and says not available. Trying to press the note with check mark at the top right of TiBu yields the error:
TiBu said:
The current backup location ("storage/emulated/legacy/TitaniumBackup") cannot be accessed.
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When trying to change the backup location, every folder shows a red folder at the top saying "This folder is not writable."
Does anyone have any idea what to do here? I've tried searching and it looks like people have been either having similar problems that worked themselves out by just rebooting (tried it many, many times), reinstalling the backup apps (also tried many times), wiping the phone (did full wipes and factory resets through TWRP), or they were actually talking about external storage (I'm on internal).
All I really care about are getting my texts and pictures back at this point. Unfortunately MBP stores pictures and videos as its own special format and I can't open them on my computer. Same with texts. Can anyone give me any kind of guidance here please?

NextName said:
Hi guys,
After a long break of messing with my phone, I decided to try to root my Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III again. My apologies in advance for this wall of a post.
I'm on Android 4.4.2 on a stock ROM. I do not have an SD card so I am purely using the 16GB internal memory.
Backed up all of my stuff using MyBackup Pro (oh, the regret...), then copied the backed up files - the .zip (Data_2014_12_13.zip) containing all of the personal data like texts, MMS, call log, etc. as well as the folder (AppsMedia_2014_12_14) containing all of my apps, music, videos, and photos - to my PC as I planned on wiping the phone and doing a factory reset.
Followed a video on YouTube to root (the Get High on Android guy that runs galaxys3root.com) and had problems with it, so I followed another one that addressed the issue I was having. Used Odin3 v1.85, "CF-Auto-Root-d2spr-d2spr-sphl710.tar.md5", "openrecovery-twrp-2.7.1.0-d2spr.tar", and "UPDATE-SuperSU-v2.13.zip" to root and it went off without a hitch. Wiped the phone and did a factory reset at this point. Verified root using Root Checker and Titanium Backup and both verified I was rooted. Tried out a bunch of different apps and all showed root access.
Downloaded MyBackup Pro again to try to restore everything. It requests SU permissions and I grant them. Transferred the old backup files over to the phone again and placed them in the correct directory, but MBP isn't recognizing them and doesn't see any backups of data or apps/pics/etc. So I create a backup of the one text I have on the phone and backup one app just to verify everything was in the correct folder and it was. MBP recognized the backup I had just created. Tried to move apps from the old backup folder into the new one next to the one I had just backed up and MBP didn't see it was there. Did the same thing with transferring the picture folder and still nothing.
Decided to do yet another wipe at this point. Problem is, now when I use MBP or Titanium Backup to try to make backups, it shows the directories as inaccessible. In MBP, I get
If I go into the options, the default local storage location is "/storage/emulated/0". If I try to change it to anything else or even leave it as is and hit "Select directory", it gives me an error stating:
At this point, I downloaded NextApp SDFix hoping it would somehow affect internal memory even though it's for SD cards, but no dice.
I load up Titanium Backup. "Root access" has a green check mark and tapping it shows I have BusyBox 1.19.4-Titanium from app and YES for SQLite with SQLite 3.7.6.3-Titanium included.
However, "Backup directory" has a red X and says not available. Trying to press the note with check mark at the top right of TiBu yields the error:
When trying to change the backup location, every folder shows a red folder at the top saying "This folder is not writable."
Does anyone have any idea what to do here? I've tried searching and it looks like people have been either having similar problems that worked themselves out by just rebooting (tried it many, many times), reinstalling the backup apps (also tried many times), wiping the phone (did full wipes and factory resets through TWRP), or they were actually talking about external storage (I'm on internal).
All I really care about are getting my texts and pictures back at this point. Unfortunately MBP stores pictures and videos as its own special format and I can't open them on my computer. Same with texts. Can anyone give me any kind of guidance here please?
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well...if you back up everything with your Google account you just have to log back in after you Odin the stock firmware again....the only things Google won't backup are app data and phone calls/text messages but all your apps and contacts will restore.....i never use TB or any other backup app just the standard Google backup

6th_Hokage said:
well...if you back up everything with your Google account you just have to log back in after you Odin the stock firmware again....the only things Google won't backup are app data and phone calls/text messages but all your apps and contacts will restore.....i never use TB or any other backup app just the standard Google backup
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Yeah... as stated, the only thing I'm really worried about are texts, calls, pictures, etc. I don't care about the apps and I already have contacts and everything synced with my Google account.

NextName said:
Yeah... as stated, the only thing I'm really worried about are texts, calls, pictures, etc. I don't care about the apps and I already have contacts and everything synced with my Google account.
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well picture's will also back up with Google....

6th_Hokage said:
well picture's will also back up with Google....
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Stupidly forgot about Dropbox. Looks like all pictures are saved. Thank you for reminding me.
Texts are now still a large priority to get back. I have messages from a deceased family member and significant other I'd really like to hold onto and I feel like such an idiot for not backing up earlier. Some 40k texts I backed up when I tried to back up my stuff.
As a small, possibly insignificant update though...
Hooked the phone up to my computer and my computer still reads all of the files fine and I can still transfer files to and from perfectly. I tried setting up the MBP folders again and adding the data backup in to see if it would allow me to restore that backup.
MBP recognized the data backup (the single .zip file containing all texts and data) but wouldn't let me view the contents or restore them. Instead, I get:
MBP said:
I/O error: Unable to write to SD Card. Make sure the SD Card is inserted properly, is not connected to your PC, and is not full.
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The phone is neither connected to my PC nor even close to full (11GB of free space remaining) and I don't have an SD card at all and I'm not trying to write to it (at least not intentionally).
Edit: For poops and giggles, I'm going to try out the Wicked X 8 ROM. Already verified I'm on the ND8 bootloader and the download just finished so I'll try that.

Well, it's fixed now, I guess.
For poops and giggles I decided to try out Wicked X 8 and, after quite a bit of extra time spent because I'm an idiot and wiped the entire internal storage prior to flashing the ROM and requiring a sideload, I finally got the new ROM up and running.
I was very delighted to see when I started it up that Titanium could access the directory, as could MBP, and I'm currently going through a full restore right now. Has to restore around 40,000 texts so that'll take a while, but it appears to be going smoothly.

NextName said:
Well, it's fixed now, I guess.
For poops and giggles I decided to try out Wicked X 8 and, after quite a bit of extra time spent because I'm an idiot and wiped the entire internal storage prior to flashing the ROM and requiring a sideload, I finally got the new ROM up and running.
I was very delighted to see when I started it up that Titanium could access the directory, as could MBP, and I'm currently going through a full restore right now. Has to restore around 40,000 texts so that'll take a while, but it appears to be going smoothly.
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nice wicked x is a great rom too

40,000 texts to restore? What? Wow.