I've searched many forums and Google trying to find an app that would do automatic backups of an external SD card. The search always leads me to apps that backup TO the SD card rather than THE SD card.
Does anyone know of an app that will do scheduled backups of your SD card to Dropbox or some other cloud?
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I use foldersync. It will do one way/two way syncs, scheduled syncs, instant syncs, etc. It costs a couple bucks but it's worth it.
Just downloaded it. It's exactly what I was looking for.
Thanks much for the help!
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No problem, it took me awhile to find it as well.
What's the difference between FolderSync and using something like DropBox?
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If it was easy you'd of hired the guy at Home Depot to to it.
Foldersync syncs things to dropbox
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I have a friend with an Evo 4g that opted not to have contacts synced to gmail (unknowingly). Her phone is now stuck in an endless bootloop (unrooted, completely stock) and she can't do anything with it. Is there a way to get her contacts from her SD card or are they stored on the phone's internal storage?
They are stored in the internal storage.
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Nope, if she didn't back them up before, and she didn't have them as Google Contacts synced with gmail, then there is no other way to get them. Once again, another reason to stress the importance of backing up files, no matter what kind of files they are, or how secure or safe you feel.
I've synced my phone using Touchdown to access my corporate mail. However I'm unable to download attachments. I get a message stating that server policy does not allow for attachment download without an SD card (which the Nexus obviously doesn't have). This seems to be the server policy set by my company. Is there anyway I can bypass this/fool the app into thinking I have an SD card? Or any other workaround?
Thanks!
Tell your company to alter that policy. Assuming a phone has an SD card is stupid and wrong.
Have u tried using via Otg cable ? Idk just a thought hope it will work. Good luck bud
OTG is an interesting idea =) but won't suit my purpose. I literally need mail (and my attachments) on-the-go, and not while tethered to any other device.
My company is not going to change the policy, not easily at least, we've tried. Is there no other way around this? =/
Get something like this: http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B000Q3IUV2
And something like this: http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B005FUNYSA/ref=mp_s_a_1?qid=1325859777&sr=8-
Insert SD card and reader into OTG cable; insert OTG cable into phone; tape any hanging parts to the back of your phone; ... ; profit?
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Sounds like a problem with Touchdown to be honest. The phone sees the partitioned space as an emulated SD card. Touchdown just isn't pointing to the correct area which is a problem with the app.
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Sounds like a problem with Touchdown to be honest. The phone sees the partitioned space as an emulated SD card. Touchdown just isn't pointing to the correct area which is a problem with the app.
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+1 I was actually about to type the same thing. Touchdown must be looking in the wrong place because even though the phone doesn't have an ACTUAL SD Card it emulates one that most apps can use without an issue.
Have you tried setting up the email account using the stock app rather than Touchdown? If it works in the stock app then it's definitely an issue with touchdown, if not then you may need to have your IT department remove the "Require SD Card" restriction in Exchange, a very simple fix.
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+1 I was actually about to type the same thing. Touchdown must be looking in the wrong place because even though the phone doesn't have an ACTUAL SD Card it emulates one that most apps can use without an issue.
Have you tried setting up the email account using the stock app rather than Touchdown? If it works in the stock app then it's definitely an issue with touchdown, if not then you may need to have your IT department remove the "Require SD Card" restriction in Exchange, a very simple fix.
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Speaking on behalf of the second part of this post, if you avoided using the basic email app due to Exchange security there are a couple .zips out there that are supposed to fix that.
Also, yes they should disable the "Require SD Card" restriction as it makes no sense in terms of security (Other than the SD Card can be removed easily without the user knowing and someone getting all of your attachments, but I guess this is a little backwards )
very interesting issue
good thing it's only limited to the App in question
yet another of the worse fear has come true
as it's been pointed out. it's an issue with the app and not understanding the emulated SD card of honeycomb and ICS. email them and hopefully they'll fix it.
I have same issue. Its Touchdown's issue.
Edit: I just tried for fun and downloaded an attached PDF thru my work email on touchdown and it worked fine. I do recall not being able to on previous attempt.
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i just downloaded a large excel spreadsheet to the sdcard using touchdown. no issues here.
Why don't you head over to Touchdown support group to get the latest beta with GN fixes or report it there to the developer.
do any of you guys backup your backups to cloud storage? i started doing this after my first sdcard took a crap on me for some reason. lost all my titanium backups and nandroids. pics were already automatically synced to google+ via wifi. anywho, i dont care so much about nandroids anymore as much as i do my titanium backups.
i used to use foldersync to keep all my titanium backups synced onto my box.net account. but now that titanium backup has native support for google drive syncing, i've been using that. every night at 2am i have TiBa backup all new apps and newer versions; at 2:15 i have it backup apps with modified data which then syncs to google drive immediately afterwards. it's been working great so far. it only syncs new/modified files so i'm not constantly syncing every single file.
what do you guys use?
I'm overly paranoid so I make a Nandroid every couple weeks. I save one nandroid on internal sd and one on the sd card. I don't automate Titanium to back up to Google Drive but I just manually back up to Drive whenever I think about it (Maybe twice a week). I don't know why I don't automate Titanium to back up to Google Drive. Maybe I feel like I have to control it. Same reason I pay bills online but I do it manually instead of auto pay lol.
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Same reason I pay bills online but I do it manually instead of auto pay lol.
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I do the same thing..
cnstarz said:
do any of you guys backup your backups to cloud storage? i started doing this after my first sdcard took a crap on me for some reason. lost all my titanium backups and nandroids. pics were already automatically synced to google+ via wifi. anywho, i dont care so much about nandroids anymore as much as i do my titanium backups.
i used to use foldersync to keep all my titanium backups synced onto my box.net account. but now that titanium backup has native support for google drive syncing, i've been using that. every night at 2am i have TiBa backup all new apps and newer versions; at 2:15 i have it backup apps with modified data which then syncs to google drive immediately afterwards. it's been working great so far. it only syncs new/modified files so i'm not constantly syncing every single file.
what do you guys use?
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FolderSync also syncs new or modified files. So, you can continue to use FolderSync. It provides more control than TB's sync.
SachinShekhar said:
FolderSync also syncs new or modified files. So, you can continue to use FolderSync. It provides more control than TB's sync.
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word, but i'd rather just have to mess with one app for everything, plus TiBa does it exactly like i need it too.
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word, but i'd rather just have to mess with one app for everything, plus TiBa does it exactly like i need it too.
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I don't think, TB's sync can be controlled based on connection type (WiFi/data/roaming) and battery level/charging.
I hate the name 'cloud'
It's too cutesy and innocent.
Expecially when your handing over all your files to who-know's-who.
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I hate the name 'cloud'
It's too cutesy and innocent.
Expecially when your handing over all your files to who-know's-who.
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They should just rename it to "The Man" then.
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mcadamry said:
I hate the name 'cloud'
It's too cutesy and innocent.
Expecially when your handing over all your files to who-know's-who.
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You can use TB's encryption feature to gain confidence that your data is really secure in cloud.
Sprint just sent me a new Epic due to problem with my current phone (which is rooted and running CleanGB).
I actually want to roll with the new phone in stock condition for a bit, just to see how the other half lives and to see if GPS is more stable.
What would happen if I popped my old SD card into the new phone? My primary question is text messages. Will the new phone see my SMS threads and just pick up where my old phone left off? If not, is there someway to get the new phone to recognize the SMS threads so that I'm not starting from scratch?
And what about apps? There are a bunch of apps installed to the card that won't be installed on the new phone. Will the phone ignore these apps or will it install the apps if it sees them on the SD card?
Any other issues I should know about? Or is this a bad idea with disaster written all over it?
TIA
You can use your sd card without any problems.
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Thanks for the response but not clear regarding my specific questions.
Will the new phone recognize my SMS threads and pick up where I left off?
I'm going to assume from your response that there is no problem with the previously installed apps. What if I want to install an app on the new phone that was previously installed on the card (old phone), will there be any problems? Say Amazon was previously installed on the SD card and I want to install it on the new phone. Any potential problems in that scenario?
sms are stored on the phone, not the sd card. i think if you sent the old phone back, the texts are gone for good.
im not sure about the apps on the sd card, but they would probably work on the new phone, as when you install apps to sd, everything the need to run is on the sd card.
what i would do, is copy the contents of the card to my computer, then format it and use ot on the new phone.
you could also just create a folder on the card named "old card" or something to that effect, cut and paste the contents of the card to the new folder. stick a .no media text file in there with it, and your phone should never even look at the contents of that folder.
Yeah, sorry i didnt elaborate more. I would consider your sms messages gone. As far as apps installed on it, they will still be there and if an update is needed you will see notifications for it.
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If you still have the old phone run SMS back up then run it on new phone and you will have all old messages.
Or download google voice. All your texts show up in there too.
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Or download google voice. All your texts show up in there too.
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Will Google Voice sync MMS messages or just SMS?
Yeah nothing will happen to your new phone. Your sdcard is just an extra storage
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Hi, i am upgrading my G3 micro SD to a larger size because it is almost full. What is the best way to move the files over from one card to another? Will a straight copy from one card to another work? I would think that would cause issues because the phone has apps stored on the sd card. Also, can you set the contacts app to store to the sd card so when you flash ROMs on the phone you dont loose your contact data? Could you use clockworkmod to backup the old card and restore it to the new card? TIA for any help.
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I would be interested on this answer as well, I can tell you that straight copy/parte doesn't work, I got a larger SDcard for my Bday and tried doing it that way, and it didn't work, what I did was to reformat the SDcard and start fresh, (I really didn't have much stuff there yet). would love to know the "right" way to do this when your SDcard is full.
Transfer to computer then transfer to new card?
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That's what I did, put the card into my laptop and create a dir to drag and drop the entire contents of the old card into. Then put in the new card and d&d them all to the new card. All done in the three or four mouse clicks.
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as for contacts... why aren't you using Google sync?
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as for contacts... why aren't you using Google sync?
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Well, honestly, i am still getting comfortable with storage in the cloud and i prefer my contacts to be locally for security reasons. I have had my contacts and business data hacked before, my industry is very competitive. I also don't like how one sevice syncs with another service syncs with another service .. next thing you know, your personal data is synced to 10 servers like facebook, linkedin, samsung, google, at&t, ect.... i only want to sync what i want to sync with who i want to sync with and since i don't know how to sync selectively at the moment i am syncing very little. I work in different business worlds that dont mix well... Maybe i am a little paranoid!! Any advice would be appreciated.
You can export your contacts to SD card before you flash. You can import from your SD card after you flash and all is back as it was.
USB storage is internal
SD Card is external
Look under contact/options/Import-export
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As said earlier.
For contacts open up contacts click menu, click import/export and export to sd card.
When contacts are on there.. Make a folder on ur desktop and copy all files and folders into there.
Copy all the stuff back over to the new sd card.
Give it some time to re scan etc after u boot your phone..
Then go back to contacts and this time import instead of export.
All of your data/files/pics/everything will be as it was before.
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As said earlier.
For contacts open up contacts click menu, click import/export and export to sd card.
When contacts are on there.. Make a folder on ur desktop and copy all files and folders into there.
Copy all the stuff back over to the new sd card.
Give it some time to re scan etc after u boot your phone..
Then go back to contacts and this time import instead of export.
All of your data/files/pics/everything will be as it was before.
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Thanks, i will give that a try.
Thanks, i will give that a try.