So my S2 is stuck in an infinite reboot loop. I was wondering if there's any possible way for me to retrieve my photos? I saved Gallery in Titanium backup.
My question is: when I log into my account with a different phone and I restore the gallery app with Titanium backup, will my photos be restored too?
First...titanium backup backs up and saves everything on either your sd card or internal storage. So if you sign into a different phone, you wont be able to restore anything you backed up.
Second...pictures are saved in your internal storage. They are files, not data or apps that can be restored.
Now since you're using titanium backup im assuming you are rooted and have a recovery installed. You can try booting into recovery..connect usb cable from phone to computer and mount storage to transfer them onto your computer for safe keeping.
Or if you want to have a fully functional phone again, take a look at this thread.
EDIT: You can use the new jellybean 4.1.2 update instead of the ics version. Just go to the thread and download the odin version.
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First...titanium backup backs up and saves everything on either your sd card or internal storage. So if you sign into a different phone, you wont be able to restore anything you backed up.
Second...pictures are saved in your internal storage. They are files, not data or apps that can be restored.
Now since you're using titanium backup im assuming you are rooted and have a recovery installed. You can try booting into recovery..connect usb cable from phone to computer and mount storage to transfer them onto your computer for safe keeping.
Or if you want to have a fully functional phone again, take a look at this thread.
EDIT: You can use the new jellybean 4.1.2 update instead of the ics version. Just go to the thread and download the odin version.
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Reverting back to stock does not delete your internal storage I believe. I can't turn on my phone at ALL so I can't use adb or anything.
lilsaiful said:
Reverting back to stock does not delete your internal storage I believe. I can't turn on my phone at ALL so I can't use adb or anything.
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*face palm* you said your phone is stuck in bootloop...pull the battery...hold volume up and down and connect USB cable from computer to phone
Did you even read the thread I provided?
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iburnhearts said:
*face palm* you said your phone is stuck in bootloop...pull the battery...hold volume up and down and connect USB cable from computer to phone
Did you even read the thread I provided?
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That's what I meant by turn on my phone. It's just non stop vibrations. I somehow got lucky and managed to get into recovery mode and restore a previous backup. And yes, I read those before you even posted it to me. People have been solving it by different methods but it's all luck. It's a manufacturer's problem.
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Help a friend accidently wiped her sd card how do i get it mounted to computer thru usb to transfer an old nandroid for her or a new rom? and is there anything else I need to do?
Just plug the phone via USB to a computer. It should recognize it automatically. If not, reboot into recovery, select the MS-USB option and wait for the drive icon to appear on your computer. Afterwards, transfer any file you want. As for the nandroid you mentioned, please make sure it is a backup made from her device ONLY! If you're transferring a backup made from a different EVO, and your friend decides to restore it on her device, she will be asking for trouble.
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Just plug the phone via USB to a computer. It should recognize it automatically. If not, reboot into recovery, select the MS-USB option and wait for the drive icon to appear on your computer. Afterwards, transfer any file you want. As for the nandroid you mentioned, please make sure it is a backup made from her device ONLY! If you're transferring a backup made from a different EVO, and your friend decides to restore it on her device, she will be asking for trouble.
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Yes I knew only to use one of her old ones couldnt get the phone comp to reconise the phone so i used an alternate sdcard and my phone to dl and flash a new rom then backup and restore her old nandroid.
before writing any new files on the card, I suggest that you try Recuva, I managed to recover all the files on my card when it got wiped a while ago (though I still don't know how it happened!).
I flashed clockworkmod recovery. I then proceeded to backup my rom. I went to my computer to transfer the backup to a safe place, but it wasn't there. I tried again, went back to the folder on my sd card, but the only thing there is in the clockworkmod folder is a "Salted.hash" file. Nothing else. Yes, I'm rooted.
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I flashed clockworkmod recovery. I then proceeded to backup my rom. I went to my computer to transfer the backup to a safe place, but it wasn't there. I tried again, went back to the folder on my sd card, but the only thing there is in the clockworkmod folder is a "Salted.hash" file. Nothing else. Yes, I'm rooted.
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If you have an external sdcard it will be there, not the internal.
That folder is on my external SD card, but it doesn't have anything else in it.
I have a clockworkmod folder on my external SD card but it's empty as well. My backups are saved to /sdcard/clockworkmod/backup. Did you check there?
Quick question: when doing a backup with rom manager should you place device in airplane mode? Just wondering what, if anything happens if a call, text, email crimes in while doing a backup, or does cwm disable connections when backing up, or does it not matter either way? Thanks!
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Quick question: when doing a backup with rom manager should you place device in airplane mode? Just wondering what, if anything happens if a call, text, email crimes in while doing a backup, or does cwm disable connections when backing up, or does it not matter either way? Thanks!
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Doesn't matter, the actual OS isn't booted when in cwm
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When you are in recovery mode you will not receive calls, etc. as you haven't fully booted Android. Once the backup is complete reboot as normal to resume using the phone itself.
Problem solved. For some reason, clockworkmod stuck the backup in the internal SD. I'm now running Cyanogen 7.
I made a Nand back up when I first rooted my Epic 4g Touch, and unfortunately that is the only Nand Back up I had saved.....I flashed the Blend ICS Rom and had a lot of problems with it so I decided to start fresh and restore that Nand back up.....My question is....would restoring that Nand back up erase everything I had in my USBSTORAGE folder?? I had a folder of pics in my usbstorage because when you save pictures there they do not come up in the picture gallery....but some time between that nand back up and flashing the ICS ROM that folder got emptied and I have no idea where those files went grrrrr
restoring nand never deleted or effected anything stored on external USB for me. hopefully you didn't format SD. if not, try connecting to a computer and browsing your device that way.
If you saved the pics to the internal sd, you should be fine. I nandroid restore from ics to gb and back many times and the contents in my internal sd stays untouched.
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restoring nand never deleted or effected anything stored on external USB for me. hopefully you didn't format SD. if not, try connecting to a computer and browsing your device that way.
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I did connect it to my laptop and heres the problem lol before that nandroid restore and before going to ICS.....when I plugged into my laptop 3 storages would come up 1) phone 2)usb storage and 3) sd card and I was able to browse them all, but now plugged in to my laptop, only thing that comes up is 1)phone 2) card .....and its confusing cuz if I go to settings and storage, all 3 are there but whe nI try to click on something in usbstorage from there my setting foreclose...... its making it seem like it never existed, or Im going nuts lol I just dont know
Maybe reinstall the drivers? Or mount through adb??
Whenever you connect your phone to PC as USB storage, be sure that you go Settings > Wireless and network > More... > USB utilities in ICS ROM.
With USB cable unplugged, click on 'connect storage to PC' and connect your USB cable to phone.
One more thing that you need to know is, be sure that you use the original usb cable. Sometimes, different usb cable something like LG USB for Samsung Phone, it does not work on data communication. It looks like it works at first time but when you do something, it lose the connection and reset.
Backing up everything (important data) using this method is the best way ensuring your data is 'there'. For me, I frequently back up my nandroid backups into my pc's harddisk. Also, this is the fastest way to copy or move data if the data size is really back.
To play it safe, you should odin back to gingerbread first, then nand restore.
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To play it safe, you should odin back to gingerbread first, then nand restore.
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I nand back to blazer just to video record. It only takes less than 5 minutes. Then band back. I've done this at least 20 times with no issue.
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If want to access your external without flashing you could use the card adapter that came with the phone and put it in the computer if you have a card reader.
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Whenever you connect your phone to PC as USB storage, be sure that you go Settings > Wireless and network > More... > USB utilities in ICS ROM.
With USB cable unplugged, click on 'connect storage to PC' and connect your USB cable to phone.
One more thing that you need to know is, be sure that you use the original usb cable. Sometimes, different usb cable something like LG USB for Samsung Phone, it does not work on data communication. It looks like it works at first time but when you do something, it lose the connection and reset.
Backing up everything (important data) using this method is the best way ensuring your data is 'there'. For me, I frequently back up my nandroid backups into my pc's harddisk. Also, this is the fastest way to copy or move data if the data size is really back.
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This definitely worked! thanks bro! Only wish I figured out how to access those files from the phone now...... but at least they are still there !
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To play it safe, you should odin back to gingerbread first, then nand restore.
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+1 there have been some issues reported about flashing from ICS to GB. After you get your files transferred I'd do the Odin restore and then auto root with sfhub's tool. Then restore your apps and data with Titanium or MyBackup.
Good luck!
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+1 there have been some issues reported about flashing from ICS to GB. After you get your files transferred I'd do the Odin restore and then auto root with sfhub's tool. Then restore your apps and data with Titanium or MyBackup.
Good luck!
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How do you transfer NAND backups stored on the internal memory to the external SD card?
Sprint GS3 running AOKP. Came from CM10 stable. AOKP is too buggy.
Copy the whole clockwork mod folder over.
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Right but which Clockworkmod folder? What's the directory for internal memory?
I'm using the Sprint Galaxy S3, and I have ES File Explorer and GridSize Free. Whenever I run GridSize it says the largest folders/files I have are "blobs" too. Am I copying these over too?
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adamryanx said:
Right but which Clockworkmod folder? What's the directory for internal memory?
I'm using the Sprint Galaxy S3, and I have ES File Explorer and GridSize Free. Whenever I run GridSize it says the largest folders/files I have are "blobs" too. Am I copying these over too?
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Hoping you know you're asking in the E4GT forum so I'd really hate someone to give you an answer that'll screw ya up.. (Although moving is the correct answer)
Since you're having issues, I'd go to your forum area to ask. Also, there's the handy toolkit for ya.
This is for the S3 - http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1746680
Specifically, that tool kit can do this - Perform a FULL NANDROID Backup of your system via adb and save in Custom Recovery format on your PC
Internal if your on twiz is either sdcard or sdcard0 and microsd is ExtSDCard. AOSP should be labeled similar but I can't guarantee that.
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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?
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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?
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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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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.
Hey quick question,
so I make a backup of my system for flashing. Then I move the backup onto a folder to my computer same with my titanium backup folder. So when I wipe and flash a new rom, I have all of my files for my system backup and my titanium backup on my phone. After I restore all of my apps after flashing the new rom, can I move the backup files and leave them on the computer as well as the system backup to save space? Is there anyway that I can still restore the system if it gets stuck in a bootloop - (besides flashing a new stock one)?
basically I want to store the system backup and the titanium backup on my computer so they are safe and because they take up about 4 gb of space on my phone.
I tried to be clear but let me know if I should further explain
Thanks
I wouldn't backup system apps with titanium, because they can vary from rom to rom. As long as you properly wipe your phone before flashing, you shouldn't get bootloops(can still happen). If you get a bootloop, try pulling the battery 1st. If your phone still bootloops, you have to use download mode and ODIN to flash stock ROM.
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right which I have done before. I just want to know that if my phone does get stuck somewhere (has happened before, and I had to flash a stock rom and lost everything - lost backup) Would I be able to move my system restore and titanium backup files from my computer to my phone to be able to recover?
Basically store backups on computer, then if something happens, be able to transfer them back to phone
Thanks for the help
Generally it's good to leave backups someplace where they won't get easily corrupted or lost. Since the S3 has a microsd slot, sure, keep them on your computer and move them over if necessary.
My SOP is to keep the current backup on the microsd, and store the backups on my computer. Then if I need to reflash/nandroid back, they're there, and if my microsd is corrupted I have a known good backup.
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right which I have done before. I just want to know that if my phone does get stuck somewhere (has happened before, and I had to flash a stock rom and lost everything - lost backup) Would I be able to move my system restore and titanium backup files from my computer to my phone to be able to recover?
Basically store backups on computer, then if something happens, be able to transfer them back to phone
Thanks for the help
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As long as you can get into your custom recovery after anything happens, backups will work. Make sure to backup system, data, and boot. If not and you have to flash using ODIN, like starting from scratch, you may have issues such as md5 mismatches.
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ok I was just looking to see if it was possible or not to transfer backups from computer to phone if the phone cant turn on ie. stuck in download mode or recovery mode.