I installed Minion Rush and i spent a lot of time in it and then my phone messed up so i made a back up of everything and then i restored my phone and i am wondering because i can explorer my backups would i be able to restore my save for it. cause i've been trying to like taking the folder from data/data and using my old one no luck so i'm wondering is this possible? not sure if this right thread but it's on this device.
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I installed Minion Rush and i spent a lot of time in it and then my phone messed up so i made a back up of everything and then i restored my phone and i am wondering because i can explorer my backups would i be able to restore my save for it. cause i've been trying to like taking the folder from data/data and using my old one no luck so i'm wondering is this possible? not sure if this right thread but it's on this device.
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i use titanium and it restores my app data. ie game scores and stuff
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I only have a full back up would it be possible to restore? Its data?
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cgibbons51 said:
I only have a full back up would it be possible to restore? Its data?
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In theory yes but unless u know what ur doing it'll never happen, as its more than just moving files around, u need to know how to decompile and recompile because the data ur looking for can't just be moved around
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In theory yes but unless u know what ur doing it'll never happen, as its more than just moving files around, u need to know how to decompile and recompile because the data ur looking for can't just be moved around
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That would explain why using my old files caused the game to crash
Last I looked titanium backup will restore from cwm and twrp backups.
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Just like the title says, Anyone know the best way to transfer saved game data and other app settings from one phone to the other?
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Just like the title says, Anyone know the best way to transfer saved game data and other app settings from one phone to the other?
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You myst be rooted for this. Use titanium backup to backup everything to your sdcard on the old phone. Then put that card in the new phone and restore. DO NOT RESTORE SYSTEM APPS OR DATA. That will only lead to major headache.
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^^^like he said. Titanium backup. I have gone thru 6 phones in the last 2 years and always restore my games data with this app. Totally worth the price.
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Can you explain the tooting process? I've mostly been using titanium to debloat
I might suggest mybackup root or my backup pro
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Can you explain the tooting process? I've mostly been using titanium to debloat
I might suggest mybackup root or my backup pro
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Thanks for pointing out my mistake. It's fixed now.
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I don't know how to toot sorry lolol
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Guys I'm looking to bring my phone to Samsung to ask them to change some faulty components for me.
I've unlocked and rooted my phone.
So I saw that by locking my Gnex again. All my internal storage will be lost? Does that me all my titanium backups as well as my Cwm backups?
How do you guys deal with this?
Previously on my gs2. I just had to backup to my external sd card.
Anyone have any ideas?
Much appreciated
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Last time I unrooted an factory reset I just copyed all clockwork backups to one folder on SD card(virtual) as we don't have a external one. And then just copyed it all over to my laptop. Once ready just re-root phone copy/paste all files back and ur golden..
at least that worked for me.
Heaven tried on titanium files tho
Cheers
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You're gonna want to take all of your personal data off before you factory reset and set it all back to stock anyways.
Takes ages to transfer backups over doesn't it. So long that it crashes. What do you mean by virtual drive?
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Takes ages to transfer backups over doesn't it. So long that it crashes. What do you mean by virtual drive?
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The Galaxy Nexus doesn't have a physical SDcard. It has a "virtual" spot that acts like an SDcard. Your files are stored there, that's where you need to take your stuff from and put on your computer. If USB transfer isn't working. Put it on WiFi & stuff them all on Dropbox or use an FTP app.
My main concern is the pad lock on the boot screen. Is there anyway to remain on my flashed rom and remove the unlocked sign? Cause i just wanna do some over the counter exchange.
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Don't think so.
The lock signifies u unlocked the boot loader(90%) sure bout that.
And u cant stay on a custom ROM with it locked. Unless someone found a way around it.
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Someone has to find a way! My god it's quite trouble some to move them big files.
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Also. If u think that the store won't be able to the the diff between u being unlocked or not. U can get "logo me" from market and change the unlocked pad lock to a pic if a locked one. So phone is still rooted unlocked but looks stock in boot process
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Also. If u think that the store won't be able to the the diff between u being unlocked or not. U can get "logo me" from market and change the unlocked pad lock to a pic if a locked one. So phone is still rooted unlocked but looks stock in boot process
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Hmm.. I'm actually just trying to swap my battery for a new one. That should work eh?? Haha. There aren't really any other differences.
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Hmm.. I'm actually just trying to swap my battery for a new one. That should work eh?? Haha. There aren't really any other differences.
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Oh damn its 3 bucks.
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There's an app called BootUnlocker that let's you lock and unlock your phone within android without losing root.
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You don't have to take it to Samsung you could always take it to a 3rd party phone repairer that deals with Samsung phones an doesn't care if its rooted.
Yea, its a bit pricy but worth it IMO. I paid for it and love the customization.
If u have a bit of time on or hands, u can try looking thru or system.apk file. I think its also in there but I'm not 100% on that.
Use root explorer or any other explorer and go to system/app/ and pull or system apk. Put it on or PC or laptop.
Open it with 7zip (right click , open archive. DO NOT EXTRACT) then go to red/drawable. And in the xhdpi folder look thru the pics. I believe one of them is the boot logo lock.
I'd give u exact paths and file names but I dont have my laptop on me right now.
Hope this helps
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There's an app called BootUnlocker that let's you lock and unlock your phone within android without losing root.
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Ty. Did not know that. Its on market?:beer:
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There's an app called BootUnlocker that let's you lock and unlock your phone within android without losing root.
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Holy **** dude. That's the best ever. That should be on the toolkit guide!
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I find the most reliable way to backup your entire /sdcard contents is via ADB. I can't recall the exact syntax that works but it's so much better than trying to make it work by MTP...
adb pull /sdcard sdcard possibly? Or some variation of that. And then it just starts copying en masse, and you leave it for whatever 25-50 minutes it requires, and then you're all backed up. Restoring by adb push works well too.
If the pull gets interrupted or messed up in any way while booted into the OS, you can try again while booted into CWM Recovery. Careful when pushing entire directories back via CWM - sometimes this can leave you with messed up permissions and then you will be unable to edit/delete/create files in some places. More info about how to fix that in this post: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=22970837&postcount=14
But yeah once you backup your entire internal storage, including whatever nandroid backup you need to get back to your custom setup, you can flash it all clear back to wiped stock without any concern of data loss.
I have just done one and it took me no longer then 2 minutes is this normal ??
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Yeah that's normal. Write speeds to internal memory are quite fast. Last backup I made took 130 seconds. 300+mb system, 650+mb data. Its all normal
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Yeah that's normal. Write speeds to internal memory are quite fast. Last backup I made took 130 seconds. 300+mb system, 650+mb data. Its all normal
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Thing is when i go to my cwm folder and long press "system" or "data" they are just like 20/30 mb files each so kinda worried ..
And then there is a file called blobs and file size is 1.7gb am i safe ?
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Thing is when i go to my cwm folder and long press "system" or "data" they are just like 20/30 mb files each so kinda worried ..
And then there is a file called blobs and file size is 1.7gb am i safe ?
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I have done backups that were around 2 minutes as well.
Don't worry about the size of the actual backup, mine are only about 23mb and every time I restore it works perfectly fine.
I can understand where you're coming from, the backups on my HP Touchpad take 10-12 minutes each and are about 1 gig.
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I have done backups that were around 2 minutes as well.
Don't worry about the size of the actual backup, mine are only about 23mb and every time I restore it works perfectly fine.
I can understand where you're coming from, the backups on my HP Touchpad take 10-12 minutes each and are about 1 gig.
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Yeah it was about 5-7 minutes on my sensation just dont want a brick im doing anything i can to not make that happen..
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You need to use tar mode. backup and restore > backup method > tar.
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You need to use tar mode. backup and restore > backup method > tar.
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And if i dont will i still be able to restore my backups normally ?
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The default backup method is "incremental" as opposed to "full", or dup and tar respectively. I don't know what was going through the mind of the mad genius who wrote it - but it was a bad call. I never have, and never will trust incremental backups.
Whether it's "incremental" or " full" it always works fine for me. I switched to twrp so idk how this backup is made...
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Whether it's "incremental" or " full" it always works fine for me. I switched to twrp so idk how this backup is made...
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Now im even more confused... all i want is safely restore my nandroid lol..
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Whether it's "incremental" or " full" it always works fine for me. I switched to twrp so idk how this backup is made...
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TWRP runs full backups. v6 still does it, but not by default.
So if I backup a rom and switch to a different rom but then do a full wipe and restore backup from original rom it'll still be okay even if it's the "incremental" backup?
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I installed a mod that I now know want to remove. Not sure what I lose though in terms of personal data like texts and app settings etc
I could just reinstall the jb update as well to get rid of the mod?
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I installed a mod that I now know want to remove. Not sure what I lose though in terms of personal data like texts and app settings etc
I could just reinstall the jb update as well to get rid of the mod?
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When you created your backup, that that point in time of the phone everything was backup, meaning system data, apps , etc.
so whatever you have installed or changed after wont be on that backup, so when you restore to that backup, only everything from that time state will be reverted too, nothing else.
Does that mean then I lose any pictures I've taken or texts?
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Does that mean then I lose any pictures I've taken or texts?
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no you wont lose anything of that nature, unless you do a full wipe, and format you SD card.
As far as text, I believe they are saved for a few days somewhere on the phone but everything will be as you left it from that state when you made that backup.
I could just install jelly bean over my current install no? That way I keep my apps and data but just lose the mod?
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I could just install jelly bean over my current install no? That way I keep my apps and data but just lose the mod?
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what are you currently using .. is your phone rooted? did you flash roms?
Hey guys so when in my storage options it does not adequately reflect my storage availability I'm wondering if this is normal. This only represents about 4-5 gigs being used but only 700mb available. Is this normal? I honestly don't have that much on my internal but it is running low faster than it should be. Just wanted to know if this is normal.
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I would venture to say that's not normal... Try an app called "Disk Usage" and see what exactly is taking up the space.
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I would venture to say that's not normal... Try an app called "Disk Usage" and see what exactly is taking up the space.
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Im having the same problem and I used that app and its saying for me that system data is 7.2gb is that normal?
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Im having the same problem and I used that app and its saying for me that system data is 7.2gb is that normal?
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No thats not normal. mine is at 523mb
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No thats not normal. mine is at 523mb
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Any suggestions?
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Julianmgn said:
Any suggestions?
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No, I really dont have any. Sorry. Are you sure that is the amount of storage that the system data folder is using?
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No, I really dont have any. Sorry. Are you sure that is the amount of storage that the system data folder is using?
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Well I guess im not really sure. Thats what the app said.
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Well I guess im not really sure. Thats what the app said.
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Yeah, seems correct. Do you have a Galaxy S4 or are you on a different device?
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Yeah, seems correct. Do you have a Galaxy S4 or are you on a different device?
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Yeah I have galaxy s4 from tmobile.
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Now what exactly could cause the system data to soar to 7GB? Have you tried exploring around the directories to see exactly what files or directories are abnormally large?
Op-is your device rooted
Backups may be the issue then.
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Thanks for all the responses I just got a chance to look at this I'll take a look at that app and see what I get. What kinda backups are we talking? Because I haven't intentionally backed anything up. And I am rooted yes
Edit: currently running wicked v4 but have had a few before that with same circumstances. I always factory reset, wipe cache, dalvik cache.
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Thanks for all the responses I just got a chance to look at this I'll take a look at that app and see what I get. What kinda backups are we talking? Because I haven't intentionally backed anything up. And I am rooted yes
Edit: currently running wicked v4 but have had a few before that with same circumstances. I always factory reset, wipe cache, dalvik cache.
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I havent looked through my directory but I will today.
And im also running wicked v4 and have also had this problem before.
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I've looked through everything, and using the disk space app, showed about 5.7 gigs to system. Went through system couldn't find specifics as the culprit or what I could remove to make space. Is there any type of reset that'd clean it up, like a Odin flash? I'm usually better with these things but this is just odd and outta character for me.
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I think I found the problem I was wondering wtf was going on... Everything has been different folder setup in cwm than before when I go to flash from SD card I get 0, legacy, and one other folder. Well... I found a folder in my system called emulated... It's basically two extra copies of my entire internal system. Anyone know where this came from? And how to prevent it from reoccurring? It shows updated today. Please correct me if this is not the issue... Gonna try deleting it will post after
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Well... That only deleted everything on my internal SD... Wtf so strange. My internal SDcard showed like 2.7 gigs taken up the 'emulated: legacy and 0' folders were exactly 2.7 gigs each... Leading to the theory these were copies of the internal SD but when deleted they took the internal with them, now it shows I have 3.3 gigs avail and one being used... Outta 9+ gigs... Wtf ha
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Ok so I figured out that its was my nandroid backups that where taking up all the space. Especially my nandroid of stock.
Its under data/media/clockwork
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Ok so I figured out that its was my nandroid backups that where taking up all the space. Especially my nandroid of stock.
Its under data/media/clockwork
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Idk if it's my es file explorer but there's nothing in the data folder, I checked the 'show hidden files' too let me know if any other jnfo
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Idk if it's my es file explorer but there's nothing in the data folder, I checked the 'show hidden files' too let me know if any other jnfo
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I used root explorer, I got the paid version
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Figured it out... Wish I'd have waited 5 min before deleting all my internal storage haha I wonder if there's an easy way to restore that crap...
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