How to restore data saved on my Xperia Play? - Xperia Play Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

I needed to do factory settings, steps before that i rooted my phone and i was able to put through some applications to SD card (for example FIFA 12, etc.). Obviously when i did the reset, the applications and root has disappeared, my SD card was out of the phone during this project to make sure that it will not be removed. When i turn on the phone and put SD card in the phone, it shows the same amount of free space as before but I dont know how to restore my FIFA and other applications back.
Do i need to do root and installl the same application i was moving data to SD card?
I bought this phone from other guy and FIFA was bought on his gmail account, i did account.db change and backup and signed in with my gmail and everything worked and i tricked the system. Now i am little bit worried to lose programs and i had on my phone.
Thanks for your help

Your saved game states are gone. They are saved in the internal memory not the sd card.

chery2k said:
Your saved game states are gone. They are saved in the internal memory not the sd card.
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Depends on the game. Older games save their savestates on the SD card. Newer ones save it on the /data partition.

Use Titanium Backup for backing up.

i dont care about saves
MC3 game this is what i was able to save, only 4mb were needed to download.
i am more worried of other applications on my SD
is this something what can help me?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1542412
i can see data on my SD card in Androi/data
my phone is rooted, is there any way to visualize the root on the PC?
i have Total Commander on my phone but i am unable through it functions to create new folder and move those data to Data/data as mentioned on the link.

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[Q] Where are programs stored when moved to SD?

I have moved may apps to SD and can not find them. Were do they go too? Also as a 2nd question, when I clear data and flash a new rom do these apps stay on the SD card just taking up wasted space?
Thanks for any info you guys can give me.
EricSS619 said:
I have moved may apps to SD and can not find them. Were do they go too? Also as a 2nd question, when I clear data and flash a new rom do these apps stay on the SD card just taking up wasted space?
Thanks for any info you guys can give me.
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I believe when clearing data, by selecting wipe sd partition in RA recovery, you'd be wiping whatever apps you have on your SD. But I would also like to know how to see the apps I've installed to SD via DT A2SD. Hope that helps somewhat.
They're in .android_secure, but you won't see them while the card is mounted in android (i.e., through Astro). Put the card in disk drive mode (or pull it an use a card reader if you prefer) on your computer and you'll see a bunch of .asec files. They're basically encrypted containers, so you can't just pop an SD card with a bunch of paid apps into another phone and move them back to their internal storage.
I do believe it gets wiped by both clockwork and amon when you wipe data. They're encrypted with a key somewhere in your data partition, so they're useless once you lose that.

[Q] Sd card filling up after flashing new roms.

Hi I looked to see if anyone else posted about this and I couldn't find one like this. I have an evo that I have rooted. I still have the 8gb sd card. After I rooted my phone I still had about 6gb left on my sd card. After I flashed Mikfroyo 4.5, reinstalled all my apps and and put most of my games on my sd card, like I had before I flashed mikfroyo I had about 4gb left on my sdcard. Yesterday I flashed a new rom on my phone, installed most of the apps that I had, and put the same amount of apps on my sd card it went down to under 2gb. I don't see triple the amount of folders on my sd card. Does anyone know why it shows up like this or at least how to free up some room? Thanks.
Kovernm said:
Hi I looked to see if anyone else posted about this and I couldn't find one like this. I have an evo that I have rooted. I still have the 8gb sd card. After I rooted my phone I still had about 6gb left on my sd card. After I flashed Mikfroyo 4.5, reinstalled all my apps and and put most of my games on my sd card, like I had before I flashed mikfroyo I had about 4gb left on my sdcard. Yesterday I flashed a new rom on my phone, installed most of the apps that I had, and put the same amount of apps on my sd card it went down to under 2gb. I don't see triple the amount of folders on my sd card. Does anyone know why it shows up like this or at least how to free up some room? Thanks.
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Have you been deleting the ROMs from your SD card after you flash them? Each Sense rom is roughly 180-200mb. It adds up. Also, if you have been creating Nandroid backups, they too will take up a lot Space, and you need to shuffle through them and delete the old ones. Nandroid backups add up quick. I don't store my apps on the SD card, so don't know much about it, but what method are you using to do so, and are you sure they're not doubling up? I'd be more suspicious of an excess amount of nandroid backups and roms on the sd card though. It doesn't take much to fill up that stock 8gb card.
i agree you should check how many nadroid backups you have on your card, they take a lot of room, i usually move them from my phone to my pc and only leave the last one on my phone, plus they are safer on the computer. also all the zip files you use to flash roms can be moved from the sd card to the computer, once used you dont need them on the root of your sd card anymore they just waste space, i would also recommend upgrading to a 16gb sd card ebay has them for like 20 to 30 bucks and save you the trouble of worrying about memory. to move files from one sd card to another you just connect phone to pc as disk drive open my pc and right click on the drive that represents your phone, go to folder options and in views, select view hidden files. once that is done just copy all inside the sd card to a folder on your pc. then you unplug from the computer, turn off phone replace old sd with new, turn on your phone go to settings storage and unmount the sd card then format it. the plug it to your pc again in disk drive open the folder where you put all the info from the old sd and copy all that to the drive your phone represents and hit yes when it says if you like to copy and replace some files, then you are done new sd and twice the memory cv
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[q] need to free up space on internal sd card

I need to make room on my internal and even on my external sd card, i have made backups using titanium backup... all i need to know is what folder contains those backups and what folders have my saved games including glu, gameloft, etc
The game data on your SD is only thongs like textures music etc. Delete all of that, it will are download when you load the game again. The folder wothbyour titanium backups should be labeled titanium backup.
Is there any way to make your SD card as a default storage for everything? I did it with my pictures and stuff, but apps keep installing straight to the phone.
Eonn said:
Is there any way to make your SD card as a default storage for everything? I did it with my pictures and stuff, but apps keep installing straight to the phone.
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You can't install everything on SD Card. Even when you move applications to SD, they will only transfer partially. Why do you want to move it all to SD ? You should have about 2 GB almost entirely dedicated for your apps.

I know I'm pretty much screwed, but I'd figured I'd ask.....

Today, my 32GB SD card on my phone died today... so that means I have lost everything I had.. all my apps, backups, songs, saves on emulators, etc..
The SD card had to be broken and thrown in the trash, as it was not format-capable and was reading Blank SD Card constantly and my PC would not read it.
My only question now is, and it's a stretch but, ...if I get a new SD card, will I be able to SAVE ANY of what is on my phone now without an SD? My phone at current still shows icons from my SD card but tapping them leaves the App Not Installed, message.
Is it possible there's anything backed up the phone to actually TRANSFER sometime of the stuff on a new SD?
Squall429 said:
Today, my 32GB SD card on my phone died today... so that means I have lost everything I had.. all my apps, backups, songs, saves on emulators, etc..
The SD card had to be broken and thrown in the trash, as it was not format-capable and was reading Blank SD Card constantly and my PC would not read it.
My only question now is, and it's a stretch but, ...if I get a new SD card, will I be able to SAVE ANY of what is on my phone now without an SD? My phone at current still shows icons from my SD card but tapping them leaves the App Not Installed, message.
Is it possible there's anything backed up the phone to actually TRANSFER sometime of the stuff on a new SD?
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im sad to say that if the application was moved to the sd card it's near impossible to recover that specially if the sd card has been trown away, what you see are the icon traces which are saved in the system however the actual apk and other components on saved on the sd card can not be restored.
As far as I know, you guys are correct, the only way to find it would be in the /android-secure folder on the sd card.

hard reset question about apps on sd card

my phone is runnign sluggish,. its due a hard reset, i have a lot of apps stored on thesd card, but i seem to recall last time i hard reset the phone i had to reinstall the apps from the play store...
is this required? or can i just copy the app shortcut back from the sd card to the phone?
if i do need to reinstall then i move the data over to the sd card again am i not just doubling up files on the sd card?
its stock rom, so i cant use all those titanium backup apps and stuff as far as i know..
please advise

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