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[Q] Transferring data from Sprint Galaxy S2 to T-Mobile Galaxy S2

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?

drewsg said:
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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Android_Monsters said:
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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Back to Samsung

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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shawnaye said:
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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Drakkula4 said:
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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shawnaye said:
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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jimmyhook said:
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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jimmyhook said:
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.

[Q] S Note Sync Loss Data

I did factory reset and setup everything from scratch again.
I just noticed that when I sync the S Note from Samsung Account, only some latest notes got sync, while the older are gone. Is there limit capacity for Samsung account S Note?

There isn't.
Welcome to the world of Samsung.
Where nothing is supposed to work as said.
Learn the lesson.
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So, what is the best and more safe way to backup the snotes? Dropbox or something else? Did anyone use dropbox fro backing up snotes? It may backup one by one or all together? Any proposal for this matter?

I did restore few times before and successful. Just this one fail me.
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Just backup s note folder in sdcard
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Απ: [Q] S Note Sync Loss Data
Thanks for the tip. And when I need to restore I just copy back this folder to thw phone memory? Do you know if this method keeps except the files also the folders and general all my creations (drawings, memos etc)?

Yep everything created with s note is stored there. Just move that folder back and forth roms.
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I don't trust S-Note at all, one time I opened it and it said syncing, it then proceeded to delete one of my notes. Samsung support said they will look into it but have'nt heard anything further. Now I back up my snote folder regularly just in case.

UtkarshGupta said:
Yep everything created with s note is stored there. Just move that folder back and forth roms.
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Sorry, my english are not perfect. What do you mean with "and forth roms"?

I mean if I wipe internal memory as well while flashing and then copy over my s note folder to a different rom then it works perfectly.
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Storage question

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.

lordcheeto03 said:
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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Julianmgn said:
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

C.Sweat said:
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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Julianmgn said:
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?

C.Sweat said:
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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lorddart said:
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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Julianmgn said:
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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lorddart said:
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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Help please!

Hi everyone I need help figuring out why my phone says that I have used 88% of my memory even though I don't have music saved on my phone and only have only 5 gigs Max of large files?! :banghead:
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siouxhockey11 said:
Hi everyone I need help figuring out why my phone says that I have used 88% of my memory even though I don't have music saved on my phone and only have only 5 gigs Max of large files?! :banghead:
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Check out the Settings->Storage screen to see where all the storage is being used, maybe you have too many apps? If it is files, I would download ES File Explorer, it has some great utilities for finding and cleaning up your storage.

Use the app DiskUsage.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.android.diskusage&hl=en
It will tell you exactly where all your big files are.

Or sdmaid
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=eu.thedarken.sdm
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Not sure how I have used 28 gigs

siouxhockey11 said:
Not sure how I have used 28 gigs
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with a root explorer see what is taking your memory in data/media, you may have nandroid backups for example.

siouxhockey11 said:
Not sure how I have used 28 gigs
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Download SD maid and go to the tab "biggest" to see whats eating tour space.
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