Quick question:
I want to give my phone a clean up and want to know if it's safe to do the following;
1. Get in to recovery and do a backup
2. download back up to pc (full SD card copy to PC)
3. Format SD card (here's where i need help, what do i need to put back on the SD card from my back up? i.e Titanium backup anything else?
4. flash new ROM CM7 nightly
Anything else? whats the best way to format the SD card?
Thanks
James
Go into ur phone sdcard n storage settings n erase everything.....
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uafridi_1179 said:
Go into ur phone sdcard n storage settings n erase everything.....
Sent from my HTC Desire using XDA App
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So thats how to erase the sd card what about the other things i listed?
Are they the correct procedure? What do i need on the SD card after the new ROM is on?
Thanks
J
I'd:
1. Backup apps you want the data for using Titanium Backup
2. Copy the contents of the SD card to your PC
3. Format SD card in PC using card reader
4. Copy back the data you want from original SD card backup to the clean SD card
5. Flash new ROM
6. Restore data from Titanium Backup
EddyOS said:
I'd:
1. Backup apps you want the data for using Titanium Backup
2. Copy the contents of the SD card to your PC
3. Format SD card in PC using card reader
4. Copy back the data you want from original SD card backup to the clean SD card
5. Flash new ROM
6. Restore data from Titanium Backup
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This is what i would like to get confirmation on, What do i need back on the sd card? Titanium Backup i assume, will the phone put what ever it needs back on if i format from the PC rather than the phone?
Thanks
J
I don't understand what you mean. If you copy everything from the SD card to your PC and then format the SD card you'll have a clean SD card. Then copy back the folders you need (Titanium Backup, photos, music, etc). The phone will then create the other folders it needs on first boot
EddyOS said:
I don't understand what you mean. If you copy everything from the SD card to your PC and then format the SD card you'll have a clean SD card. Then copy back the folders you need (Titanium Backup, photos, music, etc). The phone will then create the other folders it needs on first boot
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Sorry
Thats answered my question, i'm now formatting will copy back folders like Titanium and then let the phone do it's thing.
Will also copy over new ROM.
Thanks
J
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Sorry, I know this has been asked before but I couldn't find the post/thread about it.
I'm swapping to a 16gb card from the original 4gb, does the following look ok?
1) Nandroid backup
2) Copy Nandroid backup to PC
3) Put new card in
4) copy backup back to card
5) Nandroid restore
6) Profit?!?
Is there anything else I need to do/know?
Thanks
Cuchulainx said:
Sorry, I know this has been asked before but I couldn't find the post/thread about it.
I'm swapping to a 16gb card from the original 4gb, does the following look ok?
1) Nandroid backup
2) Copy Nandroid backup to PC
3) Put new card in
4) copy backup back to card
5) Nandroid restore
6) Profit?!?
Is there anything else I need to do/know?
Thanks
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Just swap the card? unless youre using a2sd or Froyo Apps2sd it wont make a difference.
Cactus42 said:
Just swap the card? unless youre using a2sd or Froyo Apps2sd it wont make a difference.
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I'm using a2sd and want to keep all my apps, you've reminded me that I need to partition the card though, cheers
Cuchulainx said:
Sorry, I know this has been asked before but I couldn't find the post/thread about it.
I'm swapping to a 16gb card from the original 4gb, does the following look ok?
1) Nandroid backup
2) Copy Nandroid backup to PC
3) Put new card in
4) copy backup back to card
5) Nandroid restore
6) Profit?!?
Is there anything else I need to do/know?
Thanks
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Phone ROM uses NAND location, not SD card. Therefore you can swap SD card for a new one, and you'll only lose your apps and app data (assuming you use A2SD+), but not the phone ROM itself.
Vice83 said:
Phone ROM uses NAND location, not SD card. Therefore you can swap SD card for a new one, and you'll only lose your apps and app data (assuming you use A2SD+), but not the phone ROM itself.
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But he doesn't have to lose anything.
Cuchulainx said:
Sorry, I know this has been asked before but I couldn't find the post/thread about it.
I'm swapping to a 16gb card from the original 4gb, does the following look ok?
1) Nandroid backup
2) Copy Nandroid backup to PC
3) Put new card in
4) copy backup back to card
5) Nandroid restore
6) Profit?!?
Is there anything else I need to do/know?
Thanks
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I swapped to a 16gB card myself and this is what I did:
1) Made full nandroid backup, including SD-EXt using ROM manager
2) Copied ENTIRE contents of SD card to PC
3) Swapped in new 16Gb SD card
4) Booted phone, cried as everything was missing. Downloaded ROM manager
and used it to partition card.
5) Copied backed up contents from PC to new 16Gb Card.
6) NAndroided the backup
7) PROFIT!
Thanks chaps!
I find that I am running out of room on my SD card in the Evo. I can't figure out what is filling it up so I want to reformat and start over. After a year of apps, ROMS, downloads and such it just seems to pile up. A bunch of it, I have no idea what it's for.
Assuming I do not install apps on SD, move all my Titanium backups, and nandroid files off the SD......what will happen? Everything that needs a file will just reinstall onto the card and I will be good to go?
-Steve
svennn said:
I find that I am running out of room on my SD card in the Evo. I can't figure out what is filling it up so I want to reformat and start over. After a year of apps, ROMS, downloads and such it just seems to pile up. A bunch of it, I have no idea what it's for.
Assuming I do not install apps on SD, move all my Titanium backups, and nandroid files off the SD......what will happen? Everything that needs a file will just reinstall onto the card and I will be good to go?
-Steve
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Backup what you want two keep, stick the sd card in your computer, format, and put back in after putting files you backed up back onto the sd card
iitreatedii said:
Backup what you want two keep, stick the sd card in your computer, format, and put back in after putting files you backed up back onto the sd card
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Or, depending on your rom, go to Menu-Settings-SD & phone storage, select Unmount SD card and then select Format SD card. Also, you can go into recovery, especially if you're using amon RA v2.3, and then go to the wipe menu and then select WIPE SD CARD or while in recovery, go to the partition menu and select partition SD card. All of the available options are effective.
Thanks to both of you.
I'm running CM7 and RA recovery. I'll just send my "keeper" files to Dropbox and or Cloud Drive then format in RA.
-Steve
Hey Guys please help....i bought a new sd card..i have runnymede all in one rom in the stock sd of phone...i partition the new card i copy paste the old sd card to the new..bu the phone is bootlooping.
Djmk4 said:
Hey Guys please help....i bought a new sd card..i have runnymede all in one rom in the stock sd of phone...i partition the new card i copy paste the old sd card to the new..bu the phone is bootlooping.
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That's because you don't have the sd-ext partition data on the sd-card. Stick the old one back in, see if it boots. If it does, do advanced backup, sd-ext, put the backup on new sd-card, put new sd-card in, and restore sd-ext.
sd ext?? i will find a folder with the name sd ext on the old sd card after the advance backup and copy paste it to the new?the phone boots with the old sd card.
Djmk4 said:
sd ext?? i will find a folder with the name sd ext on the old sd card after the advance backup and copy paste it to the new?the phone boots with the old sd card.
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hey another question...i boot the phone into recovery and go in backup and restore to do advance backup???the only choise in that menu is backup and not advanced backup
Djmk4 said:
hey another question...i boot the phone into recovery and go in backup and restore to do advance backup???the only choise in that menu is backup and not advanced backup
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What you should do is restore sd-ext to new card.
Should be "old card in - backup - copy paste backup to new card fat - new card in - advanced restore data (or maybe some recovery has a sdext restore selection?)".
Hope it help
-With old sd card on the phone, go to recovery and do Nandbackup.
-make ext partition on new sd
-copy all files from old sd to new sd
-place new sdcard to phone
-go to recovery and nandrestore
via xda app
Okay, so I am planning to get a 16gb micro sd card but my phone is rooted with CyanogenMod. - new version 7.2
Do I have to change anything on the root if I put a new micro sd in?????
pure.noob said:
Okay, so I am planning to get a 16gb micro sd card but my phone is rooted with CyanogenMod. - new version 7.2
Do I have to change anything on the root if I put a new micro sd in?????
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Some of your data is on the old card especially if you have an sd-ext and swap partition. So:
With the Old Card Still in:
1) Reboot into Recovery
2) Do a full backup (especially if you have an sd-ext partition, clockwordmod or 4EXT can handle this easily for you)
3) Start up USB toggle mode, and copy everything that shows up on your card over to your computer.
4) eject and turn off USB
5) Power off the phone
With the New Card in:
1) Boot into Recovery
2) Format the SD card with the same swap/sd-ext sizes you were using before.
3) Start up USB Toggle
4) Copy back your data from your desktop
5) Do a full wipe (system/data/cache/dalvik)
6) Restore backup from your card (which should also restore sd-ext data as well)
Reboot the phone, you should now have it the same as before with any sd-ext data restored to the new card, and the new larger capacity FAT32 space.
If you do not use swap nor sd-ext partition at all currently, you can simply copy all the files off the old card and onto the new one, just do so with the phone off in case the phone is saving any data to the /android/data/ folder(s), though I'd still recommend using least sd-ext partition with CM7.2
What If I just copy the files to my computer and transfer
it into the new micro SD
kbeezie said:
Some of your data is on the old card especially if you have an sd-ext and swap partition. So:
With the Old Card Still in:
1) Reboot into Recovery
2) Do a full backup (especially if you have an sd-ext partition, clockwordmod or 4EXT can handle this easily for you)
3) Start up USB toggle mode, and copy everything that shows up on your card over to your computer.
4) eject and turn off USB
5) Power off the phone
With the New Card in:
1) Boot into Recovery
2) Format the SD card with the same swap/sd-ext sizes you were using before.
3) Start up USB Toggle
4) Copy back your data from your desktop
5) Do a full wipe (system/data/cache/dalvik)
6) Restore backup from your card (which should also restore sd-ext data as well)
Reboot the phone, you should now have it the same as before with any sd-ext data restored to the new card, and the new larger capacity FAT32 space.
If you do not use swap nor sd-ext partition at all currently, you can simply copy all the files off the old card and onto the new one, just do so with the phone off in case the phone is saving any data to the /android/data/ folder(s), though I'd still recommend using least sd-ext partition with CM7.2
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What If I just copy the files to my computer and transfer
it into the new micro SD???`
pure.noob said:
What If I just copy the files to my computer and transfer
it into the new micro SD
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Well you could, but I think you'll have the best luck letting the phone format the card first. And only if you're not using a swap or sd-ext partition on your previous card (because if you are then you'll actually need to follow the steps I mentioned).
When I switched cards I just powered off the phone, removed the old card and inserted it into my PC. Copied all the files to my desktop. Inserted my new card to my PC, formatted using SD card Formatter, and copied all my files to the new micro SD. Put the new card in the phone. Done.
and as kbeezie mentioned that will be fine unless you want to restore anything that is on your ext partition. if you dont have one then no worries if you do you computer wont read the ext file extension and those files wont transfer over. you can back up just the ext partition if you want and restore just the ext partition via recovery
Help please,
I made a nandroid backup of data in TWRP before flashing CloudyG3_2.4.
After the phone came up and I restored my apps using smsbackup, at this point, I could see the external sd card and all the contents.
I then reboot into recovery and restored data only from nandroid backup made earlier and rebooted the phone.
From here, I cannot see the SD card when the phone restarted but:
1. The sdcard works on other phones/computers without problems and has all the data intact.
2. I can see the SD card and all the files when I reboot into TWRP recovery and go to file Explorer
3. SD card is mounted in the advanced settings in TWRP.
4. Someone on a thread advised I formatted the sdcard to "FAT" in TWRP but I first backed up on my PC with a card reader before putting the SD card back in the phone to format but even though it says successful, it is giving an MTP error = 1
5. I can't find the SD card or any of its files using rootbrowser, or sdmaid etc ie. In normal boot.
I need help please. Thanks
LG G3 D855