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Hi all,
I've had my Nexus since the first batch with the volume fix came out at Expansys. and i couldnt be any happier about a phone.
Rooted and installed Roms and everything was buttery smooth. UNTIL.
One day i hooked up the phone to my Windows 7-64bit machine and all i can see in the explorer were the default folders that came with the phone first day i hooked it up.
I mean everything is there i can see everything in ES File Explorer, tried it also in my other XP system, same dilemma.
I know nothing is wrong with the drivers on both computers since am not new to this rooting, ADB and all. This is my first internal storage phone other than an iphone.
and nothing is wrong with the ROM since i wiped data/factory reset in CWR and reflashed MCR ir10. Everything is 100% except this annoyance.
I cant even backup everything since i cant drag and drop the needed files. So formating everything WILL NOT be an option.
Please if someone can tell me what am missing, i would be very grateful. PLEASE HELP. Thanks all in advance.
Well technically gnexus uses a protocol called MTP for file transfer which has a cache that updates periodically. It should reindex after a reboot. You can try wiping cache in cwm and using SDrescan from market to force a reindex.
Since I use the Galaxy Nexus, I have never transferred any files using pc.
I always transfer wirelessly via wifi using es explorer, or dropbox.
It works pretty well and fast.
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gogol said:
Since I use the Galaxy Nexus, I have never transferred any files using pc.
I always transfer wirelessly via wifi using es explorer, or dropbox.
It works pretty well and fast.
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its not that fast man, ive tried the ES File Explorer, plus i want to backup the whole 13GB.
ArmanUV said:
Well technically gnexus uses a protocol called MTP for file transfer which has a cache that updates periodically. It should reindex after a reboot. You can try wiping cache in cwm and using SDrescan from market to force a reindex.
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I tried SDRescaan and it just keeps updating and im familiar with the MTProtocol, and as i said in OP i wiped everything except the data/media, didnt get fixed also, reflashed ROM still nothing. is there any other way to wipe the MTP cache??
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its not that fast man, ive tried the ES File Explorer, plus i want to backup the whole 13GB.
I tried SDRescaan and it just keeps updating and im familiar with the MTProtocol, and as i said in OP i wiped everything except the data/media, didnt get fixed also, reflashed ROM still nothing. is there any other way to wipe the MTP cache??
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If you wiped data/cache in recovery then there the mtp cache was wiped. Did you try a different PC?
Do you have debugging turned on? I had the same issue and turning on debugging seemed to help me.
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Wiping doesn't fix it, tried in windows 7 and xp no luck and debugging has been enabled since the first day I rooted. Did u have the same problem
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Been having the same problem and been searching for an answer. Hopefully someone could provide one. In the meantime airdroid is my only saving grace.
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What rom are you using? Am using mcr ir10 and 9 had the same problem too! Hopefully someone will find a work around.
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Current using AOKP M3. The only time I didn't have any problem was when I was running ARHD 2.13.
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Dats very odd! Can anyone tell me how to format the SD, and if I format how will I reflash the rooms later on? Coz I can't mount the SD on CWR
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I have the same issue of it not showing all the files in sdcard when connected. I am on a stock ROM. There was no way I was gonna try to transfer the files over wifi so I ended up using adb to copy the files. It's not ideal but it gets the job done.
I will also add my 2 cents,
I have the same problem on ALL of bigixe roms from 4 - on...
I have given up trying...
You mean just adb pull the whole mnt/sdcard?? or is there another way to do it??
Hate to be the guy that points out the obvious, but if you go to Settings/Storage/Menu/ is Media checked?
Good luck
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You mean just adb pull the whole mnt/sdcard?? or is there another way to do it??
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It depends what you want to do. You can pull a whole folder or specific file. I would not pull the whole mnt/sdcard if that's not what I wanted. I don't see any reason you would do that except if you wanted a backup of your whole sdcard folder.
Geezer Squid said:
Hate to be the guy that points out the obvious, but if you go to Settings/Storage/Menu/ is Media checked?
Good luck
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MTP wouldn't work if it wasn't selected there in the first place... The problem is that it's not indexing new files/folders for some reason even if you try to force it to re-index.
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It depends what you want to do. You can pull a whole folder or specific file. I would not pull the whole mnt/sdcard if that's not what I wanted. I don't see any reason you would do that except if you wanted a backup of your whole sdcard folder.
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Thats the point am trying to pull the whole sdcard, then i can reformat the whole thing. One thing i noticed after all this happened the benchmarks for disk I/O have been horrendous.
If someone tried to wipe the /sdcard/ will the rom itself get erased???
Same missing folders here. Try to rescan media with SDrescan and get FC of android.process.media.
What is this android.process.media I think its the culprit. Get FC even after restart. Don't know what's wrong? Can someone from the Devs help us pls
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If someone tried to wipe the /sdcard/ will the rom itself get erased???
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No it won't get erased. /sdcard is just a symlink to the /data/media folder...
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So I am about to get a GS3, and I currently have a GS2. I was wondering if anybody successfully backed up their apps and app data on one phone using Titanium Backup, moved the backup to a new a different type of phone, and then restored the apps and app data to the new phone.
I carried a backup from my HTC One X to the sgs3 and it worked fine. I only backed up user apps and their data.
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So I am about to get a GS3, and I currently have a GS2. I was wondering if anybody successfully backed up their apps and app data on one phone using Titanium Backup, moved the backup to a new a different type of phone, and then restored the apps and app data to the new phone.
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I backed up 80+ apps from my HD2 running Ginger Bread with Titanium Backup and restored to my new S3...no problems. What a terrific app!!! A few of the apps/games did not work perfect...but even after fresh installs, they had the same bugs....so that was just app incompatibility and not due to TiB.
I'm doing this exact same thing later today. Do I just need to save my GS2 sdcard folder to my pc then transfer it to my new GS3 and then use TB restore? Also, is there a good way to clean out my GS2 so it's like stock or do I simply delete everything in the sdcard folder? I'm giving my GS2 to my gf and basically want it clean slate for her (not unrooted though).
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AngelsNecropolis said:
I'm doing this exact same thing later today. Do I just need to save my GS2 sdcard folder to my pc then transfer it to my new GS3 and then use TB restore? Also, is there a good way to clean out my GS2 so it's like stock or do I simply delete everything in the sdcard folder? I'm giving my GS2 to my gf and basically want it clean slate for her (not unrooted though).
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Why not just format the SD card from the settings menu?
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Why not just format the SD card from the settings menu?
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Easiest way to do it,yep. Just make sure you transferred everything you want to keep first.
As got the apps, you are correct. Just move your TitaniumBackup folder to the new phone. You may have to manually select the folder as the one to use in TiBu, but that's about it. I've moved mine from a Captivate to an HTC Inspire to my S3 with no problems.
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Why not just format the SD card from the settings menu?
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Or I could do that too
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Easiest way to do it,yep. Just make sure you transferred everything you want to keep first.
As got the apps, you are correct. Just move your TitaniumBackup folder to the new phone. You may have to manually select the folder as the one to use in TiBu, but that's about it. I've moved mine from a Captivate to an HTC Inspire to my S3 with no problems.
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Awesome. Thanks for the info.
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Actually, you may not even need to manually select the folder in TiBu. When I moved mine from my Captivate to my S3, I didn't need to select. It just knew. I put it in the smae exact spot on the internal sd card as it was on the Cappy.
I usually keep mine on external sd, probably why..
I'm still a noob about this phone so bare with me. I've recently flashed the Jedi X rom on and am loving it. I am having issues with some of the apps on the play store telling me that "Insufficient storage available" and cant download it. I do have a 32g microsd along with the the romtoolbox pro to have all my apps downloaded to the sd card. My apps show that its used only 703mb. If someone can help me solve this issue I would greatly appreciate it.
You install your apps onto the device and that part is called the sdcard. Your micro sd 64 gb is called externalsdcard. You probably didnt wipe your system data and/or backed up your phone using reovery onto your phone and didnt delete other stuff. Try going through your phone using the file manager as well as connecting it to the computer and youll find that your phone still has data on it that you didnt wipe. Think if it as you uninstalled the program but failes to delete the saved data and downloaded files. Hopes this helps
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It's a bug that I dealt with yesterday. Your phone has plenty of storage but no matter what you do it won't install. Try going into recovery wiping caches and fixing permissions. Then try wiping data from play store and googlr frameworks setvices in your app settings. If that doesnt work,per google you're looking at a system format or do what i did and restore a nand backup.
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I figured it out. Thanks for all the tips though. I am running rom toolbox pro and had my apps going to the sd. I switched it to auto and it worked like a charm. However, I did switch my rom to clean rom and everything seem to work better there. Thanks again.
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Hi XDA,
I just updated to Android 4.2.2 Vanilla RootBox Custom ROM and low and behold i didnt like it. I want to go back to 4.1.2. Should I just do the same procedure in installing ROM's or is there a proper way of doing a downgrade? I'm an Android NOOB needing help from you Android Experts. Help will definitely greatly appreciated. Thanks!
More Power XDA! Thank You!
Well just copy the 4.1.2 ROM to your sd card and wipe data, wipe cache, wipe dalvik cache and then install the rom and you're done
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Flash stock rom.
Be sure to do a super wipe before you do that.
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4.2 changes the internal sd card formatting due to multiuser support and adds a folder '0' with all your data files and downloads. You will need to use a file explorer to tranfer the contents of the 0 folder back onto the root of your sd card or a lot of your apps will recognise your data etc.
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fach1708 said:
4.2 changes the internal sd card formatting due to multiuser support and adds a folder '0' with all your data files and downloads. You will need to use a file explorer to tranfer the contents of the 0 folder back onto the root of your sd card or a lot of your apps will recognise your data etc.
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what 0? u mean /sorage/emulated/0? or what pls help i want stock firmware back
systemerorr41 said:
what 0? u mean /sorage/emulated/0? or what pls help i want stock firmware back
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Yes, the other poster was warning you about the changes in files structure 4.1 / 4.2. Big changes due to multi-user account option found in 4.2
This thread, while for a different device, explains it well and offers tips how to do what you need to do.....
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2304138
Just got done rooting my ATT GS3, and flashed Cyanogenmod10 onto it. Before I did a full Titanium Backup, and did a backup of my previous ROM on CWM. When I got everything sorted in Cyanogenmod I noticed that my contacts weren't syncing, so I tried to restore them with Titanium Backup. All this did was give me an annoying error where something kept crashing, so I had to clear the data from my contacts app.
Then I found somebodies advice on the forum that said the restore the data from the recovery image I had on CWM. This was terrible advice and left Cyanogenmod frozen on the splash screen. So I reinstalled CM10 and got everything working fine again. Now my question is, is there any way to get my contacts back from my previous stock image, or the backup I made in Titanium before I flashed CM10? I've looked around and haven't found anything that works yet
Thanks
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Just got done rooting my ATT GS3, and flashed Cyanogenmod10 onto it. Before I did a full Titanium Backup, and did a backup of my previous ROM on CWM. When I got everything sorted in Cyanogenmod I noticed that my contacts weren't syncing, so I tried to restore them with Titanium Backup. All this did was give me an annoying error where something kept crashing, so I had to clear the data from my contacts app.
Then I found somebodies advice on the forum that said the restore the data from the recovery image I had on CWM. This was terrible advice and left Cyanogenmod frozen on the splash screen. So I reinstalled CM10 and got everything working fine again. Now my question is, is there any way to get my contacts back from my previous stock image, or the backup I made in Titanium before I flashed CM10? I've looked around and haven't found anything that works yet
Thanks
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Your contacts will sync the second you enter your gmail info. Google syncs and backs them up automatically.
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Sorry I forgot to mention that, for some reason, my contacts weren't backed up with my google account. I have no idea why this is, but when I try to sync them with google I get nothing.
"Contacts Storage" holds the contacts. Backup this regularly and restore this when needed.
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diablo009 said:
"Contacts Storage" holds the contacts. Backup this regularly and restore this when needed.
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When I try to back up Contacts Storage and reboot, contacts crashes and then I continuously get the message processes.acore has stopped working. The only way I can get this to stop is if I clear data from the contacts app
Ok. Another way when moving between ROMs.
Install GoContacts free app. This app allows to export contacts and import after a new ROM flash. The safest method i can think of.
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diablo009 said:
Ok. Another way when moving between ROMs.
Install GoContacts free app. This app allows to export contacts and import after a new ROM flash. The safest method i can think of.
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Any of the Go apps are far from safe.
This is why it is known to never restore any system data.
Wayne Tech S-III
zelendel said:
Any of the Go apps are far from safe.
This is why it is known to never restore any system data.
Wayne Tech S-III
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I never told to use it. Install it, export, freeze/uninstall. And when needed, install/defreeze, import, uninstall/freeze. Simple. Plus I use GoContacts from over an year ago, not the GoContactsEx version.
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A general query.
I switched from samsung Y pro DUOS to samsung grand quattro. I had my old device rooted and had a titanium backup. That folder is also available in my laptop. Is there any way to have my contacts etc back again on my new quattro??
Btw, previous device got washed thoroughly! So all i have is a "titanium backup" folder.
PS: In no mood to root my new device.
UchihaMadara08 said:
A general query.
I switched from samsung Y pro DUOS to samsung grand quattro. I had my old device rooted and had a titanium backup. That folder is also available in my laptop. Is there any way to have my contacts etc back again on my new quattro??
Btw, previous device got washed thoroughly! So all i have is a "titanium backup" folder.
PS: In no mood to root my new device.
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Did you backup with contacts to your google account? If so, that's a way to get them back.
Otherwise, you'll have to root your device.
P.S.: This is the S3 section.
Another sort of general question on doing app+system data full backup on the SG3 using Titanium
Assuming I own the 16GB version, I've rooted and installed custom recovery on the device. I've done a custom recovery backup (TWRP or whatever)
Now I'm ready to install my custom rom zip and gapps, but say I have like 100+ downloaded apps with app data & whatnot, so I have Ti Backup installed and do a complete 'apps+system data' backup file...
but my internal 16GB memory doesn't have enough spare room to store the complete Ti backup file in addition to my existing system files, existing custom recovery backup file and existing apps and data/junk. And my options for cloud storage, lets say Google Drive or Dropbox, don't have enough room either.
Is my external SD card (say a 32 GB card in the slot) and option for backup of the Ti backup app+system data file? Will that Ti backup file be readable by the phone once I flash the custom rom on the phone? Or does stock ROM touchwiz format the external microSD card a certain way that once I flash a different custom ROM like CM, that external SD card and all its data is now unreadable?
kayone73 said:
Another sort of general question on doing app+system data full backup on the SG3 using Titanium
Assuming I own the 16GB version, I've rooted and installed custom recovery on the device. I've done a custom recovery backup (TWRP or whatever)
Now I'm ready to install my custom rom zip and gapps, but say I have like 100+ downloaded apps with app data & whatnot, so I have Ti Backup installed and do a complete 'apps+system data' backup file...
but my internal 16GB memory doesn't have enough spare room to store the complete Ti backup file in addition to my existing system files, existing custom recovery backup file and existing apps and data/junk. And my options for cloud storage, lets say Google Drive or Dropbox, don't have enough room either.
Is my external SD card (say a 32 GB card in the slot) and option for backup of the Ti backup app+system data file? Will that Ti backup file be readable by the phone once I flash the custom rom on the phone? Or does stock ROM touchwiz format the external microSD card a certain way that once I flash a different custom ROM like CM, that external SD card and all its data is now unreadable?
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No the external will work fine as that was always my default storage location. But a word of advice. Backing up your system data is a bad idea.
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No the external will work fine as that was always my default storage location. But a word of advice. Backing up your system data is a bad idea.
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Ive heard that (danger or being caught in bootloop?) but for some reason every youtube tutorial on full Ti backups I see they always choose apps+system data in the batch operations. And I've been doing it on my rooted HTC one with no issues.
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kayone73 said:
Ive heard that (danger or being caught in bootloop?) but for some reason every youtube tutorial on full Ti backups I see they always choose apps+system data in the batch operations. And I've been doing it on my rooted HTC one with no issues.
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Never follow videos, they are seldom done by anyone that really knows what they are doing. The issue is with restoring the data. Like you say you are doing it on your HTC one. If you were to restore that system data on a non HTC device or a non Sense rom (if you are using a sense rom) you will corrupt the system data forcing you to reflash from scratch.
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Never follow videos, they are seldom done by anyone that really knows what they are doing. The issue is with restoring the data. Like you say you are doing it on your HTC one. If you were to restore that system data on a non HTC device or a non Sense rom (if you are using a sense rom) you will corrupt the system data forcing you to reflash from scratch.
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So im best off just choosing 'Backup all user apps' I want to save apps and app data?
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kayone73 said:
So im best off just choosing 'Backup all user apps' I want to save apps and app data?
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Yes your better off saving just user apps. This normally backs up game save data as well but doesnt always work across devices due to different layouts of the partitions.
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Yes your better off saving just user apps. This normally backs up game save data as well but doesnt always work across devices due to different layouts of the partitions.
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Ok thanks for the input.
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Can't find my contacts
So I have a Verizon Samsung galaxy s4 model SCH-I545 NC5. I used the towelroot method and then I used safestrap to flash Hyperdrive onto it. Everything worked fine but then I looked at my contacts and hardly any of them were there. I had previously backed up my data but I can't seem to find the contacts. I used titanium backup and the safestrap backup. Any suggestions? Thanks in advance.
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So I have a Verizon Samsung galaxy s4 model SCH-I545 NC5. I used the towelroot method and then I used safestrap to flash Hyperdrive onto it. Everything worked fine but then I looked at my contacts and hardly any of them were there. I had previously backed up my data but I can't seem to find the contacts. I used titanium backup and the safestrap backup. Any suggestions? Thanks in advance.
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You're in the S3 section (SGH-I747). But that being said, if you had your Google account connected to your device, it should restore all your contacts you had on it.
So can you backup and restore contacts using Titanium Backup?