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[Q] Epic rooting questions

Okay im going to get my epic 4g today and i wanna root my phone and install a viperom along with genocide overclock kernal. I wanna do this right out of the box before i put in my contacts but if i want to switch roms i know it will wipe my phone clean. so my questions are how do i back up apps and contacts i see people mentioning titanium back up. Also is new apps available after rooting my phone? And whats the difference between roms and themes? do i need both? Last but not least i see people saying to partition my sd card why do i need to do this? if installing kernals and roms flash my phone how does this effect my sd card? i just dont wanna forget a step and mess something up. If im forget a key part please fill me in thank in advance

Your contacts will be synced with your google account so they will never be deleted.
As for your apps yes titanium backup is the best way (IMO) to backup all their data.
Yes rooting will allow you to take advantage of apps like "AdFree Android" and "SetCPU"
Roms are an entire system were as themes can be flashed over a compatible build/ROM to make your phone look the way you want it to.
you only have to partition your SD Card if you want to set up Apps2SD
which moves your apps and cache to your SD Card so you have more internal memory.

[Q] app 2 sd to new phone

Hey guys i need to backup my apps and was wondering if when i move an app to my sd card. If i move my sd card to my new phone (same kind still a desire z) will it work in it or do i need to do a backup like with astro or something I don't care about app data, but would be nice. (don't want to root)

noob15 said:
Hey guys i need to backup my apps and was wondering if when i move an app to my sd card. If i move my sd card to my new phone (same kind still a desire z) will it work in it or do i need to do a backup like with astro or something I don't care about app data, but would be nice. (don't want to root)
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If you're completely stock, MyBackup will back your apps up. If you're rooted, go with Titanium.

I'm currently stock, but my screen has a 1/4 of the screen with dust under it and so i want to get my warranty on it for that so i don't want to root until i get the replacement. So since i will eventually root i want to got titanium pro as I hear its better. Although i want my apps for my new phone......

[Q] Flashed 2nd ROM - Where's My All My Stuff

I rooted my Slide back in Nov and have been running Cyanogen Mod since then,
and installed lots of apps.
I just flashed a new ROM (3rd Sense) - this is first time I've changed ROMs midstream. Before flashing, I backed up with ROM BackUp Manager and Titanium Backup Pro and I copied my entire SD card to my laptop just in case.
ROM is running great and my Google apps related stuff switched over perfectly. I logged into Market and some apps that I've bought were downloaded,but not all. I'm missing a lot of apps, including Titanium Backup Pro.
How do I get this stuff back? Have read lots of threads and forums (included the entire 40 page thread for 3rd Sense) before posting, but just don't know what to do.
Thanks in advance!

Rephrase: How To Fit Old BackUp
Okay, so I did more reading and realized I needed to go in and manually install Titanium Backup and then I did a a Restore Uninstalled Apps & Data BUT there's not nearly enough room for everything now.
I used Apps2SD but by moving everything I was permitted to, I still don't have nearly enough room for everything now - Titanium Backup didn't even restore everything bc there was no space. Don't know if the ROM is just so much bigger... Not clear if the space being eaten up is on SD or internal - feels like it's internal.
Old ROM: Cyanogen Mod 7.0
New ROM 3rd Sense
Any thoughts or suggestions much appreciated.
Like 3rd Sense - big issue for me is Bluetooth works with 3rd Sense and not with Cyanogen which was otherwise just great.
Thanks.

if you have a fast sd card on your phone, you can enable data2ext and get you more room for apps. 3rd sense comes with data2ext installed, but only do this if you have a class 6 sd card or above.

Thanks - I read about that - I don't have a class 6, but might get one. I have 2 questions:
1) is Apps2SD same as Data2Ext? B/c I was using that but it still didn't help.
2) Seems like there just isn't enough room to do a full Batch restore from TiBU - but wondering if the way to go is to restore a few apps at a time, then move to SD.
Finally - since you know this phone and the above ROM - please weigh in if you have a fav ROM for Slide that will let me use Bluetooth properly.
Thanks again.

Restoring games after flashing new firmware.

I have not seen any threads about this so I have to ask this now. I am tired of flashing new firmware but then having to update each game over wi-fi all over again. Using root explorer can I just save the files in the mnt\ASEC folder to my SD card & simply restore them after (ex. \mnt\asec\com.gameloft.android.GAND.GloftAsp6.asphalt6-1.asec)? Or is it mnt\secure\asec\ com.gameloft.android.GAND.GloftAsp6.asphalt6-1.asec? Do I have to change permissions? Is this even the folder that has the full updated data or am I looking in the wrong spot? And then should I install individual game's APK after the transfer?? I would think this would allow someone to save games and share them with other xperia play users as well? Any help is much appreciated.

Why not backup all your games in titanium backup with data before flashing new firmware?

I really did not think of that. :| I know I can restore the app(or game), but would I be able to restore the apps data on a different firmware without getting problems or fc's? Especially when flashing different custom ROM's I know certain apps may not work when you try to restore the data as well.

cyrusalmighty said:
I really did not think of that. :| I know I can restore the app(or game), but would I be able to restore the apps data on a different firmware without getting problems or fc's? Especially when flashing different custom ROM's I know certain apps may not work when you try to restore the data as well.
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Games should be fine when transferring from one ROM to another because games are supposed to run on different devices and they don't really take a phones hardware profile/rom into consideration when running...
I transferred stock to cyanogen and didn't have any issues, Apps like video players/ad blockers/audio player might be a bit of a bother but you could easily reinstall them.

Well this sounds like a good solution to me and its simple too. And since I have always used used titanium backup anyways it would seem I have always had backups to my games. Now you see why I had to ask.lmao. Thanks for pointing this out and hopefully this helps someone else out.

Ok im back to the same question again about where the actual game update data is stored again. I was successful before restoring game on my phone ,but say I want to share my games (that are already updated) with a friend on another xperia play, then is there a folder that I need to manually transfer over to their SD card that has game data? Basically I did backup of the games with "TB" on my phones SD then I put that SD card in other xplay,restored to root of phone, booted up game fine without need to update over wifi message but after reboot. I got the same damn message.... ??
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After reading on different sites I think that on the SD card I have to have a folder called Gameloft/Games/(x). X will be a specific folder for game (EX.GloftA6HP for Asphalt 6, Modern Combat 2: Black Pegasus is Games/GloftBPHP ). Without this Data file in proper place I guess you are forced to do updates over like me.lol. If anyone cares. Hope it helps.
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[Q] Firt time Rooter

Hi,
Just joined the forum today and already used Chainfire's CF-Auto root on my Note 8 and so far so good, I have also installed Nandroind manager and nandroid online back up, along with busy box. Titanium Back up was also recommended, and that's as far as I dare go.
So, I suppose, I want to ask, where do i go next, I have no idea where to start or how to go about it. I want to install a ROM but really not sure what to do or which one is best.
How do I back things up and will they be easy to re install after I do so
I want to free up space on my SD card to an external Card too.
I have so many questions and my head is starting to hurt
Cheers

So far you seem to be doing good. You chose one of the easiest methods to Rooting, that's a great start.
Now, I would recommend making a NANDroid Backup. I've never used NANDroid Manager/Online Backup so you would have to actually mess around with it yourself. You can't go wrong if you press an option that says "Backup", so If you see an option to make a NANDroid Backup, DO IT! Once thats done, you would want to put that backup onto your computer or an external HDD.
Now Titanium Backup would be used for apps that you have installed. Example, lets say you have the game Angry Birds on your Note 8.0 and you've gotten really far. You have another Android Tablet or even an Android Phone and want to play Angry Birds on those devices but you want to pick up from where you left off. Thats where Titanium Backup would come in. But thats not the only use of it. If you Flash a ROM onto your Note 8 and you reformat your device, you will lose your progress. Well if you made a backup of your apps via Titanium, you can easily recover them! Even the apk. itself so you don't have to go to the Play Store and redownload it! You can create scheduled backups so you don't forget to do it manually yourself. You will figure out more once you use it after a while.
There's plenty of apps that will also more your installed apps on your device to your External SD Card. I use App2SD, its pretty easy to use and has never failed me so I don't bother looking for a "newer better" one.
I have never used Busy Box, I've heard of it though. I believe its just some type of Framework used in LINUX, I remember an app needed access to BusyBox and I didn't have it installed, so I just installed it to get where I wanted to go. You could find plenty of threads as to what it is and how to use it. I've never bothered unless I had to know about it for some reason.
Once you make a NANDroid, you are free to install ROMs. Choose anyone you think is good, read the posts and see if people are happy with a certain ROM. For my Note 8, I'm choosing to leave it Stock Rooted. You can also find Stock Rooted ROMs that have some extras besides what the manufacturer provides in their Devices.
There are also ROMs that will resemble what a Stock Vanilla Android device would be like, which is what the Nexus Devices that Google sell's on their Play Store such as the Nexus 4 or the older model, the Galaxy Nexus. There is a new Nexus device coming soon dubbed the "Nexus 5". Thats what I'm waiting for!

Thanks for the reply leo9891, great info.
I have backed up all my stuff with titanium and Nandroid manager. but i seem to be having trouble flashing the new rom onto the device
Am I right in thinking that I can do it through Nandroid or is there another way (via Odin)
Cheers

What was the build of your note I have emf2 and am unable to root with chainfire or the toolkit
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Now your rooted i highly recomend multi window manager its on the playstore and allows you to add ANY apps you like to multiwindow you can play a game and watch a movie at the same time, or have ebay open while on whatsapp it lets you choose what to put in the note 8s multiwindow and works very well.
Enjoy
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It's best to use either ClockWorkMod (CWM) or use TeamWinRecoveryProject (TWRP). Flash your ROM through one of those. Also be sure to follow the installation process provided in the developers thread.