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[Q] When doing a full wipe switching ROM, how do you backup?

I'm about to switch Roms but want to know how do you backup the data ie Titanium backup, pics etc....
I mounted the Nexus to my pc, backed up the nandroid, pics, but for some reason can't see the Titanium Backup folder, I can see it on my phone, but can't see the folder when i mount.
Any info?
Thanks!

Have you installed Titanium Backup from the Market yet?

One of the lovely things about MTP... Download an app called SDrescan from the market which will force the Android media server to rescan files on the virtual sd. This will allow the phone to index any file changes and then they will show up on your computer.
Also as an FYI doing a wipe from CWM will not erase the contents in your virtual sd card. Although it's good to backup the contents in there to your PC anyway.

Thanks Silow!! That is the answer I need!

[Q] how to move my backups from titanium backup to the GN?

I am going to get the galaxy nexus in the next couple of days and I was wondering if there is a way to transfer all the backups from my sdcard to the GN since the nexus doesn't have an sd card slot. Any suggestions?
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Hook up your old phone and put the files on your PC.
Hook up the GN and put the files on the GN. When you install TiBu you'll be able to see the files.
Be weary of batch restoring all the apps + data. There might be some incompatibilities.

martonikaj said:
Hook up your old phone and put the files on your PC.
Hook up the GN and put the files on the GN. When you install TiBu you'll be able to see the files.
Be weary of batch restoring all the apps + data. There might be some incompatibilities.
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When I put the the files on the pc, is the TiBu folder the only one I copy to my pc? Or do I have to copy the whole sd card?
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happymfeet said:
When I put the the files on the pc, is the TiBu folder the only one I copy to my pc? Or do I have to copy the whole sd card?
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If you just want the apps your old phone had, just copy the TiBu folder. (If you want your music, pictures, videos, etc., then copy the whole SD card). Then go into TiBu and select "batch," "restore," "app only." Again, like the post said above, I do not recommend restoring "app+data" as it will most likely cause problems (since you're coming from one phone to another).

how to reset but not lose pictures?

I want to reset my system part of the One X but not lose anything of my pictures and mp3 files and installed apps. Possible?

Make a backup through CWM, Titanium Backup or some other program?
Or just simply plug the phone in to your computer and drag them onto your computer?
Oh yea, I didn't read the "installed apps" part.
Get Titanium Backup for making backups of installed apps. You can then reinstall them with Titanium Backups without losing any data from them.
You will not lose mp3 or images if you're flashing another ROM tho.

Just copy them to your Desktop, reset the unit, and copy them back

Ok! Thank you, i´m use to SGS 1 where the stuff, not apps. was saved allways on sdcard, and One X has a own part of the sdcard for this, but they will be gone? if i use titanium, the backup file on the phone will be deleted?

restore question...

Bricked my GS3. Received new one today. Is there anyway I can restore the apps, data, and/or settings from titanium (I backed up to drop box)? I log into drop box but titanium does not let me restore from drop box. Thanks.

Did you try moving the backups from your dropbox to your sdcard?

I just have the internal SD at the moment, would that matter?

If you saved the titanium backup folder just move it from dropbox to the ad card and run TB. See if that works.
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How would I do that? The only way I can move the files is to download them, which I am doing, but it's downloading a .zip file to my PC. Once it's done I will try to move it into the titanium backup folder on the phone? Sorry for all of these questions...I am a complete novice when it comes to cell phone rooting, flashing, and all this fun stuff.

Download a file explorer for your phone from the play store. It can unzipp files for you after you download it from dropbox.

Root the new phone, d/l TiBU, reconnect with it to drop box, profit?

nadi-nam ereduos
I have a file explorer so I have been downloading each app and reinstalling them. Thanks guys.

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Thanks in advance for your time and help.
I'm trying to transfer system settings, apps, and data from one Galaxy Note 2 to another using Titanium Backup Pro with SuperUser installed. Both phones are rooted and are identical and run the exact same version of the same Android OS.
After backing up the contents and system data of the old phone, I upload the 1.7 GB backup files up to DropBox via the "Sync to DropBox" function. All 1.7 GB appears on DropBox.
I remove the SIM card and SD card from the old phone and put it into the new phone. On the new phone, I install the pro version of Titanium, and the superuser apps, plus BusyBox.
To download the backup files from DropBox to my new phone, I tap on "Sync to DropBox" on the new phone. Instead of downloading the backup files from DropBox to my new phone, this deletes all the DropBox files stored there. This happens probably because by tapping Sync on the new phone within Titanium, it sees that the backup folder is empty and therefore cleans out what was previously uploaded from the old phone.
The same SD card that was used on the old phone is now in the new phone and should technically contain the backup files, but Titanium installed on the new phone says there are zero backups on it.
1) How can I make Titanium download 1.7GB of the backup files instead of deleting it?
2) After being able to successfully download the backup files, I suppose what I need to do after that is to restore apps + system data? Thanks so much for your help!

Weird, that's not how it's supposed to work. You could attempt to either restore the android id or create a new one from tb options.
Regarding your second question, yes, but when restoring system data, I prefer to simply tick the apps and xmls that I want to avoid conflicts.
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Why you not changing location of TB to Ext SD card and select Auto Sync TB setting
After this reload application and just move same SD card to new device, install TB and everything will be fine.
-To restore
I recommend
-Restore missing app + Data
then only data from
Contact storage - green
Messeging-yellow
setting-green
setting storage-green
Sec Home Launcher - Red
I think this should be enough.

Thanks
Thanks for your helpful suggestions, guys.
What I figured out is this: Titanium Backup defaults to syncing the external SD card TI folder with the DropBox folder. If the folder is empty or isn't present on the external SD card (the one that is removable), it will delete the files that are on the cloud on DropBox but not on the external SD card.
The workaround is to specify where Titanium Backup should look for the backup files. If I connect my new phone to a computer and manually move the TI Backup files to the internal SD card (internal phone memory) and later specify for TI Backup to look at the phone's memory, not the external SD card for the TI Backup folder, the backup will work just fine (except for the usual app installation glitches because the Android ID doesn't match).
When I clicked "Sync to DropBox" on my new phone, hoping that the DropBox backup files would be downloaded to the new phone, I didn't realize that the external SD card was full and so TI Backup defaulted to Sync it with the internal SD storage on the new phone which was of course empty.
When I realized this, what I did was to manually move the entire TI Backup folder from DropBox to the new phone.
Thanks very much for your help and time taken to advise me. I really appreciate your responses.