I am having problems with backup to my external SD. I have 30 gigs free, and the backup freezes at very end and is not usable. When backing up to internal though its fine. Any suggestions????
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Hi all,
I had several games downloaded from Google Play which I then moved from my Arc S to my SD card. Yesterday, I upgraded to ICS which wiped the phone. I made no other backups other than what was previously on the SD card when I moved the apps in the first place.
Is there a way to restore these games and their save files?
With thanks in advance!
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Unless you made a backup with Titanium Backup, I doubt you'll be able to retrieve your save state.
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Assuming I get rooted, could I not make a backup of the files on the SD card, reinstall the app, then copy the old files back over the top?
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I'm a long time reader of XDA but I'm fairly certain that this is the first time I've ever really needed to post as most of my questions are answered by others. This time I can't find any answers so I have to post.
Here is my situation: I've backed up all of my data with Titanium Backup Pro, I do this regularly. I was running CM9 and everything worked beautifully well and all of the apps that I wanted to be were saved on my external micro SD card. Then I decided to upgrade to the new CM10 for one reason or another so I did a backup with TB then wiped my phone, installed Gingerbread, and then installed CM10 (I guess I had to, the current CM9 wouldn't allow me to flash CM10 for one reason or another).
The installation all went well but then when doing the restore with TB I realized that it was restoring everything to my phone memory and not to the external SD. It then stopped restoring when it ran out of space on the phone. Now I have data on both my external (that wasn't wiped so the info is still there) and on my phone. When I try to move any app to the external SD as I once did, instead of sending it to the micro SD card, it sends it to an internal mounted drive called ASEC (or at least as far as I can tell). Basically the phone ignores the fact that I have an external card and it won't let me move apps there. Being put off by this I went through the steps of restoring CM9 but not through a Nandroid backup. I did a full factory wipe and just reinstalled it. I didn't think to make a nandroid because it was backed up with TB. It may have been stupid but there's nothing I can do about it now.
Now with CM9 installed I'm having the exact same problem I had with CM10 and I'm confused as hell. Why doesn't it want to link my apps to the external data that's already there? Shouldn't TB remember the directory's and point the apps in that direction? I can understand why it would be confused with CM10 because the file naming structure was different (it was Sdcard1 or something like that instead of external_SD) but now I'm completely lost after reinstalling CM9. Anyone have any ideas on how to correct this? When I try to move any apps to the SD card it just puts them in the same ASEC folder. Any help is certainly appreciated.
This is probably a pretty basic question, but I have not found the answer so far, so I will post here. I have moved a 32 GB phone from a previous phone (a rooted Epic 4G) where I had many apps installed onto the SD card. I am using the card, it works fine. I assume, however, that since I have installed none of my apps on this phone onto the SD Card, there are probably folders on the card that are not being used. I don't want to wipe the entire card, because of pictures, music, etc. Anyway, I am just posting here to ask which folders I can safely remove to free up space, as they are not being used on this phone.
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You should be able to remove whatever folders you want. Most of your info is being store on the phones internal memory unless you choose otherwise. On my GN2 I'm only storing my pics, music and titanium backup info on my microSD card, everything else is on my internal memory. However you might want to make a backup of the microSD card on your computer incase you ever want to use it again on your epic before you delete anything.
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Hi all. Im writing here to help others who might be having the same issue I was having with full internal storage. I had plently of storage then I rooted and ran a few roms and suddenly I had no internal storage left. I searched and searched and finally figured out the problem. Im no stranger to rooting and running roms and custom recovery. But I am new at using cl ockwork mod recovery. All my old recoveries that ive used when making a nandroid backup they store the backup to sd card by default. Well as I found out not clockwork mod.it must be specified with cwm. Otherwise it goes to the internal memory of your device by default. As I soon found out. My four backups filled my internal storage full. Which once I realized what happened I deleted my backups and my internal storage came back. from now on I must specifically direct the backup to the sd card. Im writing this to possibly help someone else who might be in the same situation as I was. Hope this helps someone. I was used to my backups automatically going to my sd card so I assumed that cwm also directly sent them to sd. I was wrong. So if your suddenly faced with a internal storage issue you didn't have before and your using cwm, its likely your backups are being sent to internal storage unless otherwise specified. Just thought this could possibly help someone else out in the future. I should have paid closer attention to exactly where my backups were being stored but its never been an issue with my other recoveries so I didn't even think it would be sent to internal storage. I really hope this thread helps someone else out. Thanks for reading.
I saw the title and was going to suggest moving the Backups folder to extSdCard card in TiBu, in addition to flashing Nandroids to extSdCard card.
Then I read your post
Good suggestion.
Will definitely help many :good:
When I used to use TWRP, I always back'd up to extSdCard, especially with some of these back ups being around 2.5GB.
I miss the 32GB of internal my S3 had, but my 64GB card picks up the slack.
I actually have about 8GB left on my Internal. I was having to wipe internal often due to previous freezing issues, which have since been resolved, so I kept everything on extSdCard. I gotta get back in the habit of utilizing device storage again.
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I saw the title and was going to suggest moving the Backups folder to extSdCard card in TiBu, in addition to flashing Nandroids to extSdCard card.
Then I read your post
Good suggestion.
Will definitely help many :good:
When I used to use TWRP, I always back'd up to extSdCard, especially with some of these back ups being around 2.5GB.
I miss the 32GB of internal my S3 had, but my 64GB card picks up the slack.
I actually have about 8GB left on my Internal. I was having to wipe internal often due to previous freezing issues, which have since been resolved, so I kept everything on extSdCard. I gotta get back in the habit of utilizing device storage again.
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It took a bit for me to figure out what was actually going on. I had about 4 backups to internal storage. It was so full I was getting messages that my voicemail will no longer be saved. Glad I got it figured out. Now I have plenty of room avaiable. I do hope this post helps someone else.
I am unrooted, and used a non root app to move apps to the SD card. After moving all that can safely be moved, plus a number apps that were only somewhat compatible, I backed out to the main screen. Voila! The SD card ejected itself virtually. All that got moved became gone. Luckily, a simple restart put everyone back. I'm hypothecising that LG omitting the native storage from the ROM effed up the SD ejection. What, if any, work around exists?
Hi. Please in the future post your questions in the Q&A section. I'll ask a moderator to move this thread.
I don't know the answer to your quesiton, though.