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Crazy Phone Crippling Titanium Backup Error!

I am guilty of a the crime of trying something without researching it for a change.
Yesterday, I moved all of my "user apps" to the sd card using the batch method in the application Titanium Backup. Everything worked fine until I rebooted, upon which all of my applications no longer appeared in my market under "downloads" or my app drawer. It also wouldn't let me reinstall them. Titanium backup won't install, so there I can't use the app to fix it.
Any suggestions?

Have you tried pushing the Titanium Backup apk to /system/app? If your apps on /data are screwed, you might be able to get to TB that way. (You can get the apk here if you need it.)

datajosh said:
Have you tried pushing the Titanium Backup apk to /system/app? If your apps on /data are screwed, you might be able to get to TB that way. (You can get the apk here if you need it.)
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I got it to reinstall, but it isn't restoring the backups correctly.

Biofall said:
I got it to reinstall, but it isn't restoring the backups correctly.
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Have you tried using the batch option to move user apps back to the phone?

datajosh said:
Have you tried using the batch option to move user apps back to the phone?
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It only has seven apps there.
I think the problem may be that the apps are caught in a bad partition limbo.
Titanium backup's developer told me that once you get over 123 (weird) apps on your sd card and reboot this happens pretty uniformly.

SD card blank or has unsupported file system

I am get this message whenever I plug in my SD card. Whenever I try to format, it just gives the same message. Any idea what this is?
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When you plug it into your phone or computer?

To my phone...
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It looks like your SD card is toast. There is a small chance of recovering some files from it, but I wouldn't get my hopes up just yet. It's time to connect it to your PC and use of the many freeware recovery utilities out there.
Good luck to you and I hope you get your data back. I lost all mine like this recently and it isn't fun

try using this
https://www.sdcard.org/downloads/formatter_3/

Thanks kenfly.
Good tip and if you have Titanium Backup Pro it's pretty painless to restore what's missing.

jerryp7 said:
Thanks kenfly.
Good tip and if you have Titanium Backup Pro it's pretty painless to restore what's missing.
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The very same thing just happened to me last night- lost everything.
How is Titanium an option when backups are stored on memory card which is now unreadable?

ScandaLeX said:
The very same thing just happened to me last night- lost everything.
How is Titanium an option when backups are stored on memory card which is now unreadable?
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Sorry - I should have said IF you saved your backup to dropbox or copied the backup to a safe spot on your computer. There is also an option to make an "update.zip" where all your apps+data can go but this might be something that only the Pro version offers.

delete nandroid!?

quick question... i have about 8 nandroid backups on my phone.. problem is they are all named by date and i have no idea what is what... what i want to do is just delete them all and make 1 main nandroid back up of stock el29..blah blah... but i cant see where i can delete all the other backups... anyone know of a app or dir. where i should look and delete!?
thanks in advance!... muchas gracias por todo!
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Mine were on the SD card in the Clockwork folder or something very close to that.

Just use es file explorere and delete
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should be external sd card / Clockworkmod / backups. in that folder is all the back ups you have created. you can also rename them as well.

i usually rename mine then copy them to my laptop, then cannot get myself to delete them, i am up to 50.1 gb of nandriods right now

As stated above they should be on your external sd, under clock work mod folder.
I love the 50 gigs worth of nandroids. Lol, it's like once you start chronically flashing roms, you get especially careful of not losing things. I had about 10 before I wiped useless nandroids. I'll be on the Hoarding show eventually.
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the only reason i haven't had to delete any is because its a work laptop, no porn on it so plenty of room

Mine where in clockwork mod on sd. I have about 7 backups. I recommend that next time you nandroid, go to the folder and rename the backup so you know exactly what it Is. If you go into cw rom manager, you can designate where they are save. Don't recommend using rom manager for anything else but that
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ill go search.. i didnt recall seeing the clockworkmod directory any place.. i used to see it when i would make backups using rom manager. but i made these in recorvery...
let me look.. thank you all for responding
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FOUND IT!!!

Cool, and keep making them in recovery... Rom manager is not your friend lol
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Make sure you look on the external SD

chris-allen said:
quick question... i have about 8 nandroid backups on my phone.. problem is they are all named by date and i have no idea what is what... what i want to do is just delete them all and make 1 main nandroid back up of stock el29..blah blah... but i cant see where i can delete all the other backups... anyone know of a app or dir. where i should look and delete!?
thanks in advance!... muchas gracias por todo!
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Just came across this and thought I'd add some things, some of which were already stated too I guess.
Backups will usually be on the external SD card/clockworkmod/backup then in folders named by international date and time (GMT by the way usually)
OR depending on your recovery it could put it in to a folder 'sdcard' on your external SD card (I've seen that too).
IF you are going to rename your backup folders you should rename 'to the back of the file folder name(s) with no spaces or special characters.
AND if you don't already you should verify you nandroids too. I use the freeware app Android File Verifier from the Play store [ https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=sa.afv&hl=en ].
Few things are more fustratiing that starting a restore and having it fail - at the end. I too am an image freak on all my machines and always check my backup images.
Oh, and I can't re-iterate this enough DO NOT USE ROM MANAGER!! You will surely end up with an expensive paperweight.
Do some searching and loads of reading and put on a 'safe recovery' for the Android version you are on - GB or ICS and you'll be OK
Good luck.

How to back up all GNex data to PC

How can I backup all my data, apps, and contacts on my GNex to my PC? Thanks

Ryu234 said:
How can I backup all my data, apps, and contacts on my GNex to my PC? Thanks
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Make a backup in TWRP, copy said backup to your PC, profit.
Note: I gave you this type of answer because it's the most direct. If you have specific parameters, please specify

But I can't find my device under that list, TWRP doesn't seem to support GNex i9250. What other backup & restore options can I use?

You got clockworkmod? If so, backup using that for apps and data, and you can drag and drop files from sdcard.
If you have stock recovery, on do adb backup.
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CWM Weird Space Issue

Hello,
So I connected my Note 2 to my pc, and noticed that there was a lot of space being taken up by Titanium Backup, so I cut/pasted the files somewhere else, but my computer did not show that any space had been freed up. So then I navigated to the CWM folder, and cut and paste the only backup I have from the phone to my pc, and now on my computer shows it taking up 0 space. But when I look at the folder in the phone itself, it says CWM is taking up 3.15gb. Any help is much appreciated. I've already changed the destination of Titanium back up to my SD card. Below is a link to the screen shot of the space CWM is taking up on my phone.
http://db.tt/0Vc78M8T

Are you taking the entire cwm folder or just the backup folder? Because the is a folder labeled blobs inside the cwm fold er. That's where all the space is taken up.
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Weird, when I right click the whole cwm folder, it says it's taking up no space. Do you know for a way for the backup to go to my sd card instead of the phone drive?

inyrules said:
Weird, when I right click the whole cwm folder, it says it's taking up no space. Do you know for a way for the backup to go to my sd card instead of the phone drive?
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I'm sure under the backup section on cwm there is an option for external. I would check but I use twrp
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kintwofan said:
I'm sure under the backup section on cwm there is an option for external. I would check but I use twrp
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I think I'm going to flash twrp and then just delete the CWM folder all together from my phone. Thanks for your help!

I had the same exact problem and ended up uninstalling Titanium Backup and Rom Manager and now I'm using Rom Toolbox with TWRP. I was kind of attached to TB and RM (and CWM) since I've been using them for so many years, but RM got wonky and annoying, and I don't even want to talk about when I tried to upgrade to the touch version.