[Q] Where is the backup - Nexus 7 (2013) Q&A

Where is the backup file for CWM?
Normally I would find it on the SD card/clockworkmod/backup. It might be there but I do not see it. Is it hidden?
How do I get to see hidden files on a rooted tabelt?

Still have not been able to locate it on the Nexus itself even using X-plore, so is there a way to find on the unit?
I did find the backups using ROM Manager and was able to download them to my PC doing the following:
The ROM Manager app has an option in the Manage and Restore Backups to Download Backups. You might want to try using it to create backups and download those backups to your computer.
Choose Download Backups and you will see:
Provided your phone and your computer are logged into the same network you can point your browser to the address shown on the screen and choose which of the backups you would like to transfer to your computer.
It will take a while depending on the size of the backup. It is downloaded as a zip file.
This may be a feature of the Pro Version, which I have, but the Pro version is worth every penny.

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[Q] Apps backup via Rom Toolbox Pro

hey!
I have been unable to find a solution to my problem by search. Please help me or link me to the solution, if its been answered.
My brother has Gnex and is on 4.2.1. He has rom toolbox pro installed and used it to backup apps (his device is also rooted). Now from the root browser in the app, there is App Manager folder and inside the apps are backed up in a folder. Now, when I plug the phone in, the folder is not visible at all. How do I transfer those apps to the computer? Do I really need to transfer them because my bro wants to flash CM 10.0.0 instead of using pure android 4.2.1 .
Thanks for your help.
If you are changing the ROM then I recommend a full-wipe so Yes you need to backup your apps in order to restore them later. If this is all you need then use Titanium Backup instead. It will make a folder on /sdcard/ which you can easily transfer to your PC afterwards.
I haven't used ROM Toolbox at all but if you can determine the location of the "App Manager" folder you are talking about then probably you will get some help on how to transfer it to PC although I suggest using Titanium Backup to backup your apps
LimitsX said:
hey!
I have been unable to find a solution to my problem by search. Please help me or link me to the solution, if its been answered.
My brother has Gnex and is on 4.2.1. He has rom toolbox pro installed and used it to backup apps (his device is also rooted). Now from the root browser in the app, there is App Manager folder and inside the apps are backed up in a folder. Now, when I plug the phone in, the folder is not visible at all. How do I transfer those apps to the computer? Do I really need to transfer them because my bro wants to flash CM 10.0.0 instead of using pure android 4.2.1 .
Thanks for your help.
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That is a problem with Windows and MTP I believe. I've had the same problem with other folders on my 'sdcard' and windows now showing them. You can use adb to pull them from your device. I actually like that a lot better and use it to transfer my sdcard contents to/from my computer. Also, there is no reason to worry about getting them on your pc just to flash a different rom. With any custom rom, your sdcard will not be wiped unless you do so yourself in recovery. Just do a factory reset from within recovery before installing a different rom like CM10.

ROM Manager (hidden) Backups

I installed ROM Manager Premium v5.5.1.5 and had it update CWM. Now when I do a backup, the backup is hidden, although ROM Manager can see it and I can download it to a .zip file using the browser. I know i should be able to pull the backup from my phone using ADB - only i don't know where the file(s) are located? Can anyone fill me in here? Thanks
dcipher said:
I installed ROM Manager Premium v5.5.1.5 and had it update CWM. Now when I do a backup, the backup is hidden, although ROM Manager can see it and I can download it to a .zip file using the browser. I know i should be able to pull the backup from my phone using ADB - only i don't know where the file(s) are located? Can anyone fill me in here? Thanks
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Please don"t use rom manager, twrp is way better and when you do a backup backup to sd card just in case phone gets stuck in a bootloop and you have to erase data to get it to work. To get twrp download goo manager off google play, after you install it open it and select flash rom and it will ask you if you have a recovery or not select yes and proceed with the download.
I happen to like cwm.
Just wondering why ROM manager makes the backups hidden now and where they are? I am able to download via the built in server, but would be nice to know where they are.

[Q] Helium restore apps missing.

Hi All,
I've got some issues with Helium (Carbon) app. There is no forum on Clockwork site so I just thought someone on XDA will be able to point me in the right direction.
I had Cyanogenmod 10.1 M3 installed on my Nexus with some apps. Because of Sky Go I decided to go back to stock and lock. Helium is the only backup utility that I know about that works with unrooted devces so this is what I used to bacup my stuff on CM. I did full backup (app+data) of several apps.
The problem is that one I try to restore on stock ROM it only shows one game (Tapped Out), it doesn't show anything else although it is in carbon folder on the device.
I thought it might be a licencing issue as some of the apps were paied for and I did a full backup (chunky apps so I wanted to avoid another download). I installed the app from Play store and I was hoping to recover the data only (e.g. I wanted to get back Career progress in Asphalt 6). However Helium still does not show the back up.
Did I do something wrong or is Helium not really a good back up app? What is your experience with it? Do you know how to sort the problem out?
Thanks.
I am having this same problem, I took a backup with helium then copyed the "carbon" folder off the internal mem of my GSM Galaxy Nexus then unlocked and rooted now I have copied the carbon folder back into the phone but the app cannot see the restore file?
Any help would be great, Thankyou.
Did you..?
Did you follow Setup for non rooted users?
Helium Setup
1. Install Helium on Android
a) Root user? You're done!
2. Install and run Helium Desktop (link below)
3. Connect Android to computer.
a) You may need to set your USB Connection Mode to "PTP". (Nexus 7, Nexus 10, etc)
4. Helium on Android should now be enable
Yeah, I did set up OK. As I said it shows and works with Tapped Out.
I have the same problem
I had an unrooted Galaxy Nexus. Installed Helium on the device, on PC, installed drivers, got it all working, backed up some 30 apps + data.
Then I copied the full "SD" to my computer.
Then I bought the LG Nexus 4. Installed Helium on the device, already had the PC software installed, installed the new drivers succesfully, copied the FULL contents of the "Galaxy Nexus' SD" (not actually an SD) that were on my computer to the new "Nexus 4' SD" (again, not actually an SD), got it all working, and here comes the problem.
Few apps were listed for restore. Many were missing. The folders are there inside carbon, but the app doesn't see them. Other needed folders outside the "carbon" folder are also there.
Both deviced run stock android, unrooted, 4.2.2.
The PC software detects the phone properly, i am even able to restore the few apps listed, but where are the others?
Thanks for your help.
Did anyone actually got it to work correctly?
I am going to be rooting my phone again and I'd like to keep some of my stuff.
rokfor2000 said:
Did anyone actually got it to work correctly?
I am going to be rooting my phone again and I'd like to keep some of my stuff.
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I just used Helium for both my Nexus 7 and Galaxy Nexus going from rooted 4.2.2 to custom 4.3 with a stop at factory 4.3 on the way. Before I did the upgrade, I backed up with Carbon (and Titanium), then adb pulled the entire SD card to my pc (ubuntu). Once I got 4.3 flashed, I let the phone sync apps from the play store, launched Carbon, then adb pushed the backed up Carbon folder to the SD card, rebooted the device and went back to Carbon. All my backups were there and restored properly. As another safety precaution I also backed up Helium to my Google Drive.
I backed up something like 64 apps with Helium before wiping and installing 4.3. When I went to recover, Helium would only recover 10. The rest did not show up.
The backups (.ab files) were all there on the "SD". So I had to pull all the backups from the SD to my PC, download the app from Play, and run adb restore one by one. That was tedious as hell, but I got everything back.
Not impressed with Helium at all. It's just a wrapper for adb backup/restore and not a very good one at that. Where's the documentation? Where's the FAQ?
i had same problem.
installed helium in nexus 4 and in my computer following instructions.
copy application data using "select all" and "copy".
creates "carbon" folder. inside XX folders, each one for one application.
i do a hard reset.
copy back the carbon folder and installa helium. i do restore but no copies are found.
however after many tests i found that it is still possible to restore. first keep the original carbon folder that it is not working because it is working with some workaround.
inside each folder there should be 4 files: .noname, .png, .ab and .json
it is the last file that is in most of cases missing, for whatever reason.
i noticed for instance that copying 2-3 applications at one time works better than select all-copy
so as mentioned, keep the carbon folder at the computer.
then remove the carbon folder in the phone.
using google play or whatever other backup program reinstall all the apps. no matter if the configuration is not there.
using helios, select 2-3 applications each time and copy. carbon folder is created. and check inside that there is now 4 files, including the .json file that was missing before.
this file needs to be copied manualy in the carbon folder at the PC, inside the correspoinging folder. for instance if we are copying whatsapp, then copy the json inside the whatsapp folder.
doing this for all applications, now we have in the computer the carbon folder and each application folder has now 4 files, including the original .ab file created and the .json file created manually now.
now copy this carbon folder in the phone memory.
in helium restore and now all the applications are there. at least for me this workaround was ok and i was able to recover all my application data.
Helium / Carbon restore fail
I Found a Solution!
This just happened to me too. Backed up 20 or so apps from old HTC One S which was not rooted. Copied backup files to PC. Copied files to Carbon folder on my new Nexus 5 (not rooted). Restored all to the Nexus 5 (not rooted) and all went well. Then, I used the N5 for a couple days, backed up N5 with Helium and moved files to PC before I rooted my Nexus 5. Then I rooted the N5. After the root, I tried to restore with Helium. Moved the backup files from PC to Carbon folder on N5, but Helium could not find any backups. Strange. Tried delete cache, delete data, uninstall, reinstall, delete carbon folder, recopy files from PC to N5 carbon folder. But still no backups found. THEY ARE THERE, but no, Helium on N5 cant find them.
I saw a couple ways around this posted. But here is what I did to solve the problem. I deleted the Carbon folder on N5. I ran an backup with Helium with all the apps that I originally backed up and put on the PC. Then I copy and overwrite all the data from each individual folder in the PC Carbon Backups Folder I had with the "real" backup data to the new individual folders on the new backup Carbon folder on the N5. Just copiyin all the folders did not work. You will need to keep the folders on the N5 but copy the data to each of them individually.
Hope this helps somebody out.
Helium backups are just android adb backups that are not compressed. Read more here:
[GUIDE] How to extract, create or edit android adb backups

[Q] backup notes

I have a celphone with rom B704, i do a backup with the program hisuite but i change the rom, when i re-install the backup my notes dont have text and disapear, so i re-install the rom B704, when i tried re-install the backup the program show me a window that said unidentified error, somebody can tell me how open the notes in my pc or reinstall the notes in my cellphone?
I ran into the same problem today. In my case I wanted to move the notes from my old Huawei Ascend P6 to my new (non-Huawei) phone that uses a different Notes/Memo app. My solution was to create a backup using Huawei's custom "Backup" app on the phone (selecting only the Notes app as a source, and disabling Encryption) and then copying the backup .zip file off the SD card onto my PC. On the PC, unzipping the backup showed that it contained a "notepad.db" file in SQLite 3 format. Using a SQLite DB browser tool, I was able to extract the notes.
Obviously this won't work if you can't still use the phone. I never found out exactly where the Notes app stores its data in the normal Android file structure. I searched the phone's internal storage for a notepad.db file, but I didn't see one, so maybe it's hidden/encrypted by default.
Jordan Rieger

Unable to Extract from TWRP Nandroid Backup using Titanium Backup

Hi All,
Been trying to figure this out for the last 30 Hours straight & now I'm at the end of my rag with bloody knuckles & a hole in my desk... So I thought this would be a good a time as any to ask for some advice/help!
I have upgraded/flashed my HTC One M8 (2014) from LP (Android_Revolution_HD-One_M8_41.0_866186) to MM (ResurrectionRemix-M-v5.6.2-20160203-m8) (Based off CM13). I created a backup of all my Apps & Data using Titanium Backup & also made a full Nandroid backup using TWRP.
The problem is with restoring the data within the Nandroid backup, previously I have used the "Extract Data From Nandroid Backup" option in Titanium Backup to extract my SMS/MMS messages to my new Rom. However when I try to do that on MM I'm greeted with the message "Failed to locate your TWRP backups directory. Please verify that the "TWRP/BACKUPS" folder exists on your SD card."
To make thing worse, when I try to restore my Nandroid backup, it all goes well except my WiFi & Mobile Data no longer work... I can connect to my WiFi but it always says that there is no internet connection. So restoring is not an option as I can't do much without internet access.
Anyone have any ideas? I have tried to use a different SD Card & no joy, could it maybe be a permissions issue or something or am I just being a muppet & missing a simple solution.
Either way any advice would be much appreciated. Thanks.
Oh yeah, I Googled the message that Titanium brings up with quotation marks & there were only TWO results (both from the same thread on XDA)... I've never seen Google look so barren!
Hi - I'm having a similar issue. Upgraded from LP to MM and can't extract apps/data from Nandroid backup...
It says it's been successful but no apps are there...
NeoSonic said:
Hi All,
Been trying to figure this out for the last 30 Hours straight & now I'm at the end of my rag with bloody knuckles & a hole in my desk... So I thought this would be a good a time as any to ask for some advice/help!
I have upgraded/flashed my HTC One M8 (2014) from LP (Android_Revolution_HD-One_M8_41.0_866186) to MM (ResurrectionRemix-M-v5.6.2-20160203-m8) (Based off CM13). I created a backup of all my Apps & Data using Titanium Backup & also made a full Nandroid backup using TWRP.
The problem is with restoring the data within the Nandroid backup, previously I have used the "Extract Data From Nandroid Backup" option in Titanium Backup to extract my SMS/MMS messages to my new Rom. However when I try to do that on MM I'm greeted with the message "Failed to locate your TWRP backups directory. Please verify that the "TWRP/BACKUPS" folder exists on your SD card."
To make thing worse, when I try to restore my Nandroid backup, it all goes well except my WiFi & Mobile Data no longer work... I can connect to my WiFi but it always says that there is no internet connection. So restoring is not an option as I can't do much without internet access.
Anyone have any ideas? I have tried to use a different SD Card & no joy, could it maybe be a permissions issue or something or am I just being a muppet & missing a simple solution.
Either way any advice would be much appreciated. Thanks.
Oh yeah, I Googled the message that Titanium brings up with quotation marks & there were only TWO results (both from the same thread on XDA)... I've never seen Google look so barren!
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Is your TWRP backup folder on the external sdcard? If so, did you give Titanium access? There's multiple thread about apps needing to be given permission to access external storage. Titanium Backup especially has a lot of threads detailing this because of steps needed to access your backup folder if it is on the external sdcard.
topjohnwu said:
Q: **** app cannot access external SDcard!!
A: Look at this explanation:
Since Kitkat (2 years ago man), we don't have direct external storage write permission. Google consider it insecure, so they implemented this feature. The reason why you can access external SDcard easily before is because most roms on XDA already contains a hack in /system/etc/permissions/platform.xml. You should not rely on this hack forever, please take a look below.
In lollipop and after, Google provided a much secure and better way to grant external storage access to third party apps, first of all take a look at this article for details:
http://www.androidpolice.com/2014/1...s-automatic-mediastore-and-improves-security/
So instead of using the old platform.xml hack in the old Kitkat days, adopt yourself with this new behavior of Android!! If a certain app cannot access SDcard, ASK THE DEVELOPER to add support for this API!!
Many apps already have support for this API. I'll take Titanium Backup for example, as lots of you cannot find the way to use it on externals SD. In Menu>>Preferences>>Backup Location, you can choose Document Provider on top of the detect button.
In the provider, open the menu on the top right corner and select "Show SDcard", then you'll see External Storage in the left side. Select external SDcard in the document provider and press the button on the bottom, the app will then be granted access to the whole external storage. You can then create a new folder in TiBack and select it as your backup location.
Other apps also follows the instructions above, you just have to manually set up the folder where the app can access, in the case which most of us would love to give access to the whole SDcard, I set the location to the root of external storage. Each app has independent permission, so you have to manually grant each app you wish to access external storage.
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-Duir- said:
Is your TWRP backup folder on the external sdcard? If so, did you give Titanium access? There's multiple thread about apps needing to be given permission to access external storage. Titanium Backup especially has a lot of threads detailing this because of steps needed to access your backup folder if it is on the external sdcard.
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'allo mate, I appreciate the reply but it has done nothing for me, just to clarify, I can see my backed up Apps & Data so I'm pretty sure it already has access to the SD card (correct me if I'm wrong) but it is still unable to see the Nandroid TWRP backup... bit of a Jar as I just paid for the premium version of Titanium Backup & Nandroid Manager. Nandroid Manager is able to see the files but hangs when trying to extract the Messages...
Any Ideas?
NeoSonic said:
'allo mate, I appreciate the reply but it has done nothing for me, just to clarify, I can see my backed up Apps & Data so I'm pretty sure it already has access to the SD card (correct me if I'm wrong) but it is still unable to see the Nandroid TWRP backup... bit of a Jar as I just paid for the premium version of Titanium Backup & Nandroid Manager. Nandroid Manager is able to see the files but hangs when trying to extract the Messages...
Any Ideas?
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Copy or move the backup folder to internal storage and it will work. Not sure if it's a bug in TB or because of how MM handles the external sdcard but it doesn't check it. It finds the TWRP folder on internal, which if you don't backup on internal, only has your preferences (and theme if you use one). I never used it, so not sure if it was an issue before MM or not.
I did try and got an error about not finding a "clockworkmod/backup" folder or a "TWRP/Backups" folder so to see what happened I made a "Backups" folder in the TWRP directory on my internal storage and the error basically changed to say there were no backups in it.
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Copy or move the backup folder to internal storage and it will work. Not sure if it's a bug in TB or because of how MM handles the external sdcard but it doesn't check it. It finds the TWRP folder on internal, which if you don't backup on internal, only has your preferences (and theme if you use one). I never used it, so not sure if it was an issue before MM or not.
I did try and got an error about not finding a "clockworkmod/backup" folder or a "TWRP/Backups" folder so to see what happened I made a "Backups" folder in the TWRP directory on my internal storage and the error basically changed to say there were no backups in it.
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Cheers for that mate, seems to have done the trick. Unfortunately when I restore my Phone & Messaging data it completely destroys my phone... I get the message "com.android.phone" has stopped working & the entire system slows down to a crawl... I also get the Sim Card icon in the top right of the screen with a line through it... Is this because I'm moving between Sense to something else? I'm really at my wits end with this.
Any advice would be much appreciated.
NeoSonic said:
Cheers for that mate, seems to have done the trick. Unfortunately when I restore my Phone & Messaging data it completely destroys my phone... I get the message "com.android.phone" has stopped working & the entire system slows down to a crawl... I also get the Sim Card icon in the top right of the screen with a line through it... Is this because I'm moving between Sense to something else? I'm really at my wits end with this.
Any advice would be much appreciated.
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I would say that's definitely it. Not only are you restoring app data for system apps from two different Android versions (LP -> MM) which can be buggy, but also for two completely different builds (Sense -> CM) which don't use the same apps. Sense will use HTC's own Phone and Messaging apps and CM if I remember uses stock Android versions). It's been too long since I tried CM but when I did it I had a third-party program for backing up contacts and installed something like GoSMS to backup messages, then installed the same apps on CM and restored the data from within those apps and the stock dialer/messaging apps had the data. But this was before HTC added backup/restore capability into their versions of the apps.
I'm having a similar issue, I google searched and it brought me here. I can see my backup from within TWRP, even on the PC I can see the TWRP folder and files. But when I boot and use titanium backup or nandroid manager, it says backup not found. Even in the root browser, the TWRP folder is empty and even on the PC I can't see the files anymore. Its kind of frustrating because there are two apps that I want restored but I don't want to completly restore using TWRP.
rapiollymega said:
I'm having a similar issue, I google searched and it brought me here. I can see my backup from within TWRP, even on the PC I can see the TWRP folder and files. But when I boot and use titanium backup or nandroid manager, it says backup not found. Even in the root browser, the TWRP folder is empty and even on the PC I can't see the files anymore. Its kind of frustrating because there are two apps that I want restored but I don't want to completly restore using TWRP.
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Try going to Settings>Apps, find Titanium Backup, then select Permissions and see if Storage is toggled on.
I've got the same problem, storage permission is toggled on. Although I am using a LG G3
same here with my Galaxy S5 (AOKP 6.0.1)
The same problem on Xiaomi Mi Max (Android 6.0.1). External SD card permission is granted to TB (it can see full SD contents and select TWRP backup directories). But "extract from Nandroid backup" shows "folder not found" error.
I'm afraid CWM/TWRP directory locations are hardcoded as "/TWRP on SD card" while /sdcard is mapped to internal memory on modern phones.
I had copied data files of the backup (1.5 gigs, not a best choice) to internal memory (/sdcard) and TB immediately found them. Unfortunately, TB offers only apps and app data for restoration. I need to extract plain user data directories but TB offers no way for that.
Stock S5 6.0.1
same here...what a pain..
Had to copy nandroid backup from extsd to internal storage to restore app data
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Is your TWRP backup folder on the external sdcard? If so, did you give Titanium access? There's multiple thread about apps needing to be given permission to access external storage. Titanium Backup especially has a lot of threads detailing this because of steps needed to access your backup folder if it is on the external sdcard.
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DAMN THANK YOU that solved it
Anyone knows how to extract the nandroidbackup from the TWRP folder on ExternalStorage? I cannot move the backup because its to large for my InternalStorage. I think it's an issue in TiBackup, creating a symbolic link also does not work since my ExternalStorage is formatted as exFAT.
Another fix I discovered is get your BACKUP ID
twrp save folder > TWRP>BACKUPS>BACKUPID>backup
if you have a backup without a backupid folder it will not work!
Having storage permission or not doesn't seem to help at all!
-Duir- said:
Is your TWRP backup folder on the external sdcard? If so, did you give Titanium access? There's multiple thread about apps needing to be given permission to access external storage. Titanium Backup especially has a lot of threads detailing this because of steps needed to access your backup folder if it is on the external sdcard.
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This helps Titanium Backup see its own backup folder, but doesn't help it see the /TWRP/BACKUPS folder
emuzychenko said:
I'm afraid CWM/TWRP directory locations are hardcoded as "/TWRP on SD card" while /sdcard is mapped to internal memory on modern phones.
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Can a symlink be created from the location it's looking to the location it's actually at?

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