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apps won't restore

did a backup pro of apps+data and data(contacts)
installed a new rom
restored from the backups.
but the majority of apps haven't restored although there was no error given after the restore. initially it looks like the apps that where on the sd card haven't restored. the links to them are there but when you click it says this app is no longer installed on this phone.
seems as if its an issue with the apps being on the sd ?

had a good go at doing it other ways still no joy

leecavturbo said:
did a backup pro of apps+data and data(contacts)
installed a new rom
restored from the backups.
but the majority of apps haven't restored although there was no error given after the restore. initially it looks like the apps that where on the sd card haven't restored. the links to them are there but when you click it says this app is no longer installed on this phone.
seems as if its an issue with the apps being on the sd ?
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I had the same issue with my sd card apps (no access to the card and no update from market.
HTC Desire rooted 2.2
Rom Opendesire or leedroid
sd card 16Go with ext 4
PLEASE HELP !!!!!

[Q] Restoring an app stored on SD card

Hi all,
I had several games downloaded from Google Play which I then moved from my Arc S to my SD card. Yesterday, I upgraded to ICS which wiped the phone. I made no other backups other than what was previously on the SD card when I moved the apps in the first place.
Is there a way to restore these games and their save files?
With thanks in advance!
schnide

Unless you made a backup with Titanium Backup, I doubt you'll be able to retrieve your save state.

Awww..
Assuming I get rooted, could I not make a backup of the files on the SD card, reinstall the app, then copy the old files back over the top?

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Titanium Backup and External Micro SD Problems

I'm a long time reader of XDA but I'm fairly certain that this is the first time I've ever really needed to post as most of my questions are answered by others. This time I can't find any answers so I have to post.
Here is my situation: I've backed up all of my data with Titanium Backup Pro, I do this regularly. I was running CM9 and everything worked beautifully well and all of the apps that I wanted to be were saved on my external micro SD card. Then I decided to upgrade to the new CM10 for one reason or another so I did a backup with TB then wiped my phone, installed Gingerbread, and then installed CM10 (I guess I had to, the current CM9 wouldn't allow me to flash CM10 for one reason or another).
The installation all went well but then when doing the restore with TB I realized that it was restoring everything to my phone memory and not to the external SD. It then stopped restoring when it ran out of space on the phone. Now I have data on both my external (that wasn't wiped so the info is still there) and on my phone. When I try to move any app to the external SD as I once did, instead of sending it to the micro SD card, it sends it to an internal mounted drive called ASEC (or at least as far as I can tell). Basically the phone ignores the fact that I have an external card and it won't let me move apps there. Being put off by this I went through the steps of restoring CM9 but not through a Nandroid backup. I did a full factory wipe and just reinstalled it. I didn't think to make a nandroid because it was backed up with TB. It may have been stupid but there's nothing I can do about it now.
Now with CM9 installed I'm having the exact same problem I had with CM10 and I'm confused as hell. Why doesn't it want to link my apps to the external data that's already there? Shouldn't TB remember the directory's and point the apps in that direction? I can understand why it would be confused with CM10 because the file naming structure was different (it was Sdcard1 or something like that instead of external_SD) but now I'm completely lost after reinstalling CM9. Anyone have any ideas on how to correct this? When I try to move any apps to the SD card it just puts them in the same ASEC folder. Any help is certainly appreciated.

Titanium Backup, save to external SD card? (E980 AT&T)

Searched and found some info on the above in regards to other phones, but the solutions did not work for this phone (or maybe just not for me):silly:
Rooted with Towelroot, and Chainfire for the Superuser last week. Installed TiB, and checked in one of its menus to use the external SD card for automatic backups (I believe).
I perform a full backup of all apps and data, but I had been having issues with a bad install of Go Launcher so I decide to do a phone reset (to KK 4.4.2) and restore with a fresh OS.
Upon reboot, the phone automatically Dl'ed all of my Google info and apps, contacts, and everything, all by itself. When the phone rebooted, I was surprised to see that I still had root, but without SU. Did another restore just to be sure and reinstalled Towelroot manually. There must have been an update to it since last week as the SU was automatically installed this time and I had SU without needing to install Chainfire. I reinstalled TiB and attempted to do a TiB restore, but learned that all of my backup info had been stored on the INTERNAL SD card and it was all wiped with the phone restore.
Is it just me, or am I wrong in thinking that a backup/restore app should put the data on an external source by default, or at least search your device for external storage and then ask if that's where you want it to go? storing data on a drive that is going to be wiped seems totally counter-intuitive to me!!!
I go back into TiB settings and try to redirect the storage location to the EXTERNAL SD card by hitting the back button when looking at the file structure, but when I get to the external card, TiB says it's not writable. Some other phone threads mentioned to use the MNT directory but that didn't work either.
So, after all the above, can anyone either talk me through how to get TiB to store externally, or possibly would you provide a link if you know of a thread that allows it to work with our phones (E980 on AT&T). I've tried a few things mentioned on different threads but none of it seems to work!

I had a similar problem with stock AT&T KITKAT ROM. I could not get any app to write to the external SD card, not ROOT Explorer, ROMToolbox, or Titanium Backup. I could move files from my external SD to my internal, but nothing would copy or save to the external. This pissed me off and I said goodbye to stock AT&T KITKAT. I flashed Sphinx for E980 and have had no problem with SD card. It's a solid ROM if you want a stock-like experience.

I had the same problem on the AT&T KitKat rom. I just edited platform.xml to enable writing to the external sd and that fixed all of the access issues on root apps.

nugundam said:
I had the same problem on the AT&T KitKat rom. I just edited platform.xml to enable writing to the external sd and that fixed all of the access issues on root apps.
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[Q] Help - No OS installed, How do I install a new OS? Phone isn't rooted, Can't root

So in preparation for flashing CM, I was rooting my phone. I made a backup to my SD, and wiped my system, When I attempted to flash CM onto my phone, It didn't work. The backup didn't appear on the SD card (somehow broken now so borrowing another) CM was on my SD Card but didn't install. I couldn't put the file on internal storage because I'd messed up the partitions earlier, I digress.. So now I have TWRP 7.2 running, No OS on the phone, Can't install from SD card, Running windows 8.1.
No clue what to do, any help?
I am a novice also, Previously got by rooting and flashing by using dedicated guides. Now i'm lost even when searching for same problem