AT&T GS3
I have looked over and over. And I see articles mentioning how to backup your device before Flashing ROMs. They even show how to do it. One of the articles said it could be done and how to do it. I did it and just like the other ways I tried the backup is stored on the Internal Storage.
I have all this room on my SD card available. My internal storage is almost completely filled with me not being able to store games or any apps for that matter on my SD card. Right now I have about 4GB left for my Internal Storage. After the backup I had 1GB left (I deleted the backup on the Internal Storage).
Is everyone else just storing the backup(s) on your Internal Storage? Your computer? SD Card?
davidstech11 said:
AT&T GS3
I have looked over and over. And I see articles mentioning how to backup your device before Flashing ROMs. They even show how to do it. One of the articles said it could be done and how to do it. I did it and just like the other ways I tried the backup is stored on the Internal Storage.
I have all this room on my SD card available. My internal storage is almost completely filled with me not being able to store games or any apps for that matter on my SD card. Right now I have about 4GB left for my Internal Storage. After the backup I had 1GB left (I deleted the backup on the Internal Storage).
Is everyone else just storing the backup(s) on your Internal Storage? Your computer? SD Card?
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Well you can backup to the internal sd card a d once you made a nandroid you can move the folder "clockworkmod" to your external sd card. And once you need to backup just move it back like a storage kind of thing. Tbh I'm not sure if you can make a backup to your external but I would always save it on your computer if anything happened to your phone
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Thanks. I think I am going to go ahead and do it the way you said. Have a good one.
I do it this way but would prefer to backup directly to the sd card.
TWRP can do nandroids on the external sd.
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davidstech11 said:
Thanks. I think I am going to go ahead and do it the way you said. Have a good one.
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Happy to help!
PMentior said:
TWRP can do nandroids on the external sd.
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I had to look up what TWRP was. LOL
Anyway, I looked it over, decided to try it and it worked! I now have my device backed up on the SD card instead of my internal memory.
I want to thank you and the other person for the helpful info. Each of you helped point me in the direction I wanted to go. Have a good one.
My cwm automatically backs up to external sd card. I'm pretty sure most versions do this now but can't verify. Also when I flash zips it will look in external unless I choose install zip from internal sd card
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Doesnt work with the newest version of cwm. It worked with the 5.5.0.4 one though.
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I have a few general and a few specific questions regarding storage:
1. Why did Samsung create 2 directories for internal storage? It has regular internal storage and "SD" storage but both are really internal storage. Why not just make one big partition and SD storage is actually your removable SD card (this is how it was on the OG EV) Someone please explain this to me if you know the answer.
2. On CM9 rom how do you save apps and their data to a external SD card? I'm trying to install a Gameloft game but it's saying I don't have enough space available which I certainly do.
3. On TW based ICS roms how do you save apps w/ data on the actual external sd card? Possibly planning on trying out Rujelus' rom so I'd like to know before hand.
SantinoInc said:
I have a few general and a few specific questions regarding storage:
1. Why did Samsung create 2 directories for internal storage? It has regular internal storage and "SD" storage but both are really internal storage. Why not just make one big partition and SD storage is actually your removable SD card (this is how it was on the OG EV) Someone please explain this to me if you know the answer.
2. On CM9 rom how do you save apps and their data to a external SD card? I'm trying to install a Gameloft game but it's saying I don't have enough space available which I certainly do.
3. On TW based ICS roms how do you save apps w/ data on the actual external sd card? Possibly planning on trying out Rujelus' rom so I'd like to know before hand.
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The OG evo didnt have an emmc partition. It had internal storage dedicated to things like app storage, same as any other phone. You cant mount internal storage to your PC so combining these would be a waste of space.
You might be able to push game data from emmc to the sd card and they might still locate it but I have never tried as I never fill up my emmc, I just keep everything else on the sdcard. But worth a shot.
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barnacles10 said:
The OG evo didnt have an emmc partition. It had internal storage dedicated to things like app storage, same as any other phone. You cant mount internal storage to your PC so combining these would be a waste of space.
You might be able to push game data from emmc to the sd card and they might still locate it but I have never tried as I never fill up my emmc, I just keep everything else on the sdcard. But worth a shot.
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I don't quite get your reply but to make things easier for myself what is the best way to format the SDcard. I am talking about the internal SDcard not my actual removable micro SD card. I know there is an option in storage but I don't know what SD card its referring to.
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I don't quite get your reply but to make things easier for myself what is the best way to format the SDcard. I am talking about the internal SDcard not my actual removable micro SD card. I know there is an option in storage but I don't know what SD card its referring to.
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Just remove your external then hit the format option in storage. And if you move back to the fd16 kernel on cm9a3 you will be much happier with the way the storage is handled.
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Hi I'm having problems with moving my apps from internal storage to my sd card seems titanium backup does it but the apps are still on my internal storage I also tried rOM Toolbox pro and same result I'm trying to figure out why my apps won't move to my sd card since my internal memory is being all used up I can't download more . Also the apps in the playstore don't work either
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edkills said:
Hi I'm having problems with moving my apps from internal storage to my sd card seems titanium backup does it but the apps are still on my internal storage I also tried rOM Toolbox pro and same result I'm trying to figure out why my apps won't move to my sd card since my internal memory is being all used up I can't download more . Also the apps in the playstore don't work either
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there is an app called "APP BACKUP AND RESTORE". Download this app on your old phone. Open the app and transfer all desired app onto your SD card. Next, install the same app on your new phone. there is and option to restore all apps from SD card to your new phone. I've done this and it took about 10-15 minutes (depending on how many apps you are trying to transfer). HOPE THIS HELPS
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Hi I'm having problems with moving my apps from internal storage to my sd card seems titanium backup does it but the apps are still on my internal storage I also tried rOM Toolbox pro and same result I'm trying to figure out why my apps won't move to my sd card since my internal memory is being all used up I can't download more . Also the apps in the playstore don't work either
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The newer Samsungs are different in how they handle the SD card. They have their 2 GB internal memory, and therefore see the 16 GB internal memory mistakenly as the "SD card". Your actual SD card is mounted as a different partition altogether.
Someone help me out with this, but I don't think the standard App2SD will work because of this design. Somewhere out there is a mod that allows you to fake swap your internal memory with your SD card, but I've never tried it. I don't run a lot of huge applications so I haven't run into the issue, just seen it around.
Hopefully some searching will help with what I mentioned above or someone else can chime in with more experience.
Ive always flashed roms from my extsd, but the one I had died, cant get a new one till mon. Can I flash from the phone sd, Without causing problems? If so what should I wipe?
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Yes you can flash from internal sd card. Same procedure as if flashing from ext sd card.
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Hi there. You would in cwm touch choose install zip from internal instead of install zip from external sd card option. Cwm touch is pretty straight forward. Follow the choices. Also make sure you do your nandroid backup before flashing anything. You would want to save that backup to your external sd card when you get it to save device memory. A few backups on internal storage will eat up ALL your internal storage space on the phone so sd card is important to have. If your using cwm you MUST in settings specify for backups to go to EXTERNAL sd card other wise by default they go to internal storage.word of warning this will quickly use all your device storage so make certain once you get your sd to fix the settings so it will go by default to EXTERNAL sd card rather than internal device storage. Hope this helps you out. Best wishes
I'm rooted but none of my backup managers will let me make a backup of my app's to external sd card... I'm trying to backup so I can try a new rom, but also everytime I try to copy or delete something from my external sd card it says it failed or denied and card is something I forgot copywrite protected or some crazy junk like that.
I just wanna get control of my external sd card back
Why not reformat the card first. Settings>storage
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Why not reformat the card first. Settings>storage
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It's a 64Gb card with about 48Gb's of stuff on it.
I'm trying to backup to the cloud and then flash a new rom, it backs up about 20 or so app's at a time and then errors out.
I might try and copy all it's files to my hard drive and then reformat.
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It's a 64Gb card with about 48Gb's of stuff on it.
I'm trying to backup to the cloud and then flash a new rom, it backs up about 20 or so app's at a time and then errors out.
I might try and copy all it's files to my hard drive and then reformat.
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Yes...
Bulk copy it...g
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I've been seeing 128Gb microsd cards on ebay with zero negative feedback or bad reviews, but being burned once on fake sd cards makes me a bit hesitant when I bought a 32Gb and it was actually a 512Mb microsd with cloned layers to appear to be a 32Gb.
I just moved from the Sensation XE to the M8. The Sensation has a SD Card and the internal memory and no emulated SD Card.
So how do you control where the apps stored their data?
Is the SD card only for data (music, pictures and storage), and the emulated SD card in the internale memory for app data and such?
And finaly, where do you guys keep your nandroids - emulated SD Card og SD Card?
jkolner said:
Is the SD card only for data (music, pictures and storage), and the emulated SD card in the internale memory for app data and such?
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That's pretty much it. The internal memory is essentially an emulated SD card. App data, backups are going to be saved there by default. Nothing is going to be saved to the removable SD unless you take a specific action to do so.
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And finaly, where do you guys keep your nandroids - emulated SD Card og SD Card?
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I keep mine on the internal storage. Not even sure recovery will allow you to read/write a nandroid on the removable SD (although you can manually copy or move if you wanted).
But I normally just keep the latest known good nandroid on the phone, and move others to my computer "just in case".
Even with ROM zips, some folks have had issues with recovery (at least TWRP) not consistently recognizing the zip on the removable SD; even though you should be able to browse and find zips on either the internal memory or removable SD. It seems safest/easiest to have the ROM zip on the internal memory (or at least know how to adb push it there).
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That's pretty much it. The internal memory is essentially an emulated SD card. App data, backups are going to be saved there by default. Nothing is going to be saved to the removable SD unless you take a specific action to do so.
I keep mine on the internal storage. Not even sure recovery will allow you to read/write a nandroid on the removable SD (although you can manually copy or move if you wanted).
But I normally just keep the latest known good nandroid on the phone, and move others to my computer "just in case".
Even with ROM zips, some folks have had issues with recovery (at least TWRP) not consistently recognizing the zip on the removable SD; even though you should be able to browse and find zips on either the internal memory or removable SD. It seems safest/easiest to have the ROM zip on the internal memory (or at least know how to adb push it there).
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So when you flash a new custom rom, is the emulated SD Card left alone or is it also wiped?
jkolner said:
So when you flash a new custom rom, is the emulated SD Card left alone or is it also wiped?
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Usually left alone, but there is a buggy TWRP, possibly official 2.8.0.2, that has wiped cards, if I have followed correctly.
TWRP can write backups to external card and read from there too. That's what I do.
BenPope said:
TWRP can write backups to external card and read from there too. That's what I do.
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Good to know, I was wondering exactly that.
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jkolner said:
So when you flash a new custom rom, is the emulated SD Card left alone or is it also wiped?
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Just answered the same question over here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=55778210&postcount=2