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[Q] SD Card Backup

I'm using a 32gb sandisk SD card and would hate to accidentally drop the phone in water or whatever and lose all of its contents. Is there any trick to backing up the sd card that I'm not thinking about? I was just going to copy and paste everything over to an external hard drive every week. Should that do it?

m4rk0358 said:
I'm using a 32gb sandisk SD card and would hate to accidentally drop the phone in water or whatever and lose all of its contents. Is there any trick to backing up the sd card that I'm not thinking about? I was just going to copy and paste everything over to an external hard drive every week. Should that do it?
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There's several apps that'll back up your information to the net automatically. I'm not sure what info you're concerned about, but Appbrain and MyBackup pro will backup all your apps (and mybackup pro will do other data) to the cloud. If you're looking to backup stuff on your 32 gig card though...I'd consider using Dropbox. As in...keeping all your stuff in a dropbox account and then DLing it to the phone when you want it.

donnie_darko said:
There's several apps that'll back up your information to the net automatically. I'm not sure what info you're concerned about, but Appbrain and MyBackup pro will backup all your apps (and mybackup pro will do other data) to the cloud. If you're looking to backup stuff on your 32 gig card though...I'd consider using Dropbox. As in...keeping all your stuff in a dropbox account and then DLing it to the phone when you want it.
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I was less worried about apps and more about nandroid backups, custom wallpapers, music, etc. Since I have mozy backup service I'll just continue to copy over my sd card onto my ext hard drive that's getting backed up on Mozy.

I use RSYNC, to copy my entire SD card to my Linux system,
Dynamic DNS to assing a host name for the phone on the Internet
I just start RSYNC on the phone, start the copy on my linux box, and go shopping or something.

[Q] How to recover data after factory data reset?

After I upgraded my nexus OTA to 4.0.2, my nexus randomly turned off by itself. So I did the factory data reset, but I forgot to backup my phone. I need help recover my images from before

rennerwin said:
After I upgraded my nexus OTA to 4.0.2, my nexus randomly turned off by itself. So I did the factory data reset, but I forgot to backup my phone. I need help recover my images from before
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Once it's gone, it's gone.

If you have a backup, restore it
If you don't, why the heck not? YOU'RE SCREWED.

Yeah unfortunately it's gone. Get Titanium Backup from the market and perform a backup. you can set it up to automatically backup any changes, i think.....I haven't tried that option yet. RomManager will backup your current rom if that interests you.

If you can find a way to mount mass storage (which as far as I know isn't possible yet) you can use any number of data recovery utilities to get your data back.
No removable SD card + no USB mass storage is kind of a major fail and my only regret about owning this device...

Data req after reset
DEAR ALL
I HAVE RESET MY MOBILE SAMSUNG GT-I9100 BEFORE DATA BACK AND XDA registration
CAN I RECOVER MY DATA PHOTOS AND VEDIOS
PLEASE HELP AND REPLY
THANKS

laxman.pol said:
DEAR ALL
I HAVE RESET MY MOBILE SAMSUNG GT-I9100 BEFORE DATA BACK AND XDA registration
CAN I RECOVER MY DATA PHOTOS AND VEDIOS
PLEASE HELP AND REPLY
THANKS
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Caps isn't necessary friend, if they are on your virtual SD card they should still be there. If you've wiped the SD card you can't recover them.

ronnievathers said:
Factory reset will delete all data on the phone.
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Good job replying to a 22 month old thread.

you can recover data from android phone with android data recovery software, here's a good one: recover files from android phone
hope this helps.

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Storage question

Coming from my EVO, I am used to wiping my data and caches and whatnot and not having to worry about losing backups because they are in my SD card. Now, I plan to buy this phone which does not have an SD card, but I read that it has a partition that acts like an SD card. Is this true? Also if.this is true will it be wiped when I do a factory restore and data wipe in.recovery, or no? I.plan to back up things like apps and sms through third party apps, and photos .to remain there through multiple roms. What I heard is that all your stuff will sync to.Google, then sync back after factory restore, is this true? Thanks for all the help.

CWM recovery doesn't wipe your virtual SDcard when you do a data wipe to switch ROMs.

How big is the virtual SD card?

DRatJr said:
How big is the virtual SD card?
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Well, as big as the stuff in it lol. Its virtual, it doesn't have to have an arbitrary partition limit to it.
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[TIP] How to regain [possible a lot of] internal storage

I tried something tonight and I think discovered a great way to regain internal storage. I had about 1gb left internally and I couldn't figure our what was taking up so much data because it didnt seem like even my largest apps added up to what I was using. The steps reclaimed 7.5gb of space. Thats a lot of "unknown" data if you ask me.
WARNING: THIS WILL ERASE EVERYTHING ON YOUR INTERNAL STORAGE. Make sure photos, music, downloads, etc. are backed up elsewhere first. (I.e. I had to go into this knowing I would lose all of my Spotify music.)
1) Make a titanium backup of everything just in case something goes wrong with step 2.
2) Reboot into recovery and make a nandroid backup that you SAVE TO EXTERNAL SD Card.
3) Wipe data. I know on TWRP it will show a red triangle and remind you you don't really have to do this. Go forth boldly knowing you have a nandroid.
4) restore your nandroid.
5) reboot and see how much more internal data you have now (share here if it worked.
If anyone smarter than me at android (who are many) and can offer additional input on this, please feel obliged. I can honestly say this worked for me and my phone works just perfectly (and looks thinner doing it )
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I also apologize if this is the oldest trick in the book and I have only just discovered it. But, I know I'm no the only one still figuring out android.
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I think that wipe removes everything from your internal SD card.
And I could be wrong, but I don't think restoring a nandroid will restore EVERYTHING that was on your SD card. Like pictures, music, etc.
So I'd probably suggest backing up the entire SD card contents as well.
Or another option is to use SD Maid to wipe all your old, unused cache/etc. It's safer and won't remove anything you would have wanted to keep.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/...en.sdm&feature=nav_result#?t=W251bGwsMSwyLDNd
Here is the "Pro" version unlocker. I bought it and like it a lot for cleaning up ROM's of old junk.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/...SwxLDEsImV1LnRoZWRhcmtlbi5zZG0udW5sb2NrZXIiXQ..

Dumb question: you need to save your nandroid to your EXTERNAL SD card for this to work right? Otherwise it will wipe your nandroid too?
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sgp77 said:
Dumb question: you need to save your nandroid to your EXTERNAL SD card for this to work right? Otherwise it will wipe your nandroid too?
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Most definitely. I'll add that to original post.
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CZ Eddie said:
I think that wipe removes everything from your internal SD card.
And I could be wrong, but I don't think restoring a nandroid will restore EVERYTHING that was on your SD card. Like pictures, music, etc.
So I'd probably suggest backing up the entire SD card contents as well.
Or another option is to use SD Maid to wipe all your old, unused cache/etc. It's safer and won't remove anything you would have wanted to keep.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/...en.sdm&feature=nav_result#?t=W251bGwsMSwyLDNd
Here is the "Pro" version unlocker. I bought it and like it a lot for cleaning up ROM's of old junk.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/...SwxLDEsImV1LnRoZWRhcmtlbi5zZG0udW5sb2NrZXIiXQ..
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I've used SD Maid (Pro) and it does give some "relief" to storage. However, I've still not achieved nearly the results I have with this method. Also, you have to select each cleaning method one at a time and it can take a while to process results. It's definitely a great option for folks afraid to take this plunge
Thank you for pointing out about the pics and storage. I'll add a warning to rhe OP. I keep all that stuff on my external card (as most probably do), so I didn't think about it. The Downloads folder is something people might want to back up as well.
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natefish said:
I tried something tonight and I think discovered a great way to regain internal storage. I had about 1gb left internally and I couldn't figure our what was taking up so much data because it didnt seem like even my largest apps added up to what I was using. The steps reclaimed 7.5gb of space. Thats a lot of "unknown" data if you ask me.
WARNING: THIS WILL ERASE EVERYTHING ON YOUR INTERNAL STORAGE. Make sure photos, music, downloads, etc. are backed up elsewhere first. (I.e. I had to go into this knowing I would lose all of my Spotify music.)
1) Make a titanium backup of everything just in case something goes wrong with step 2.
2) Reboot into recovery and make a nandroid backup that you SAVE TO EXTERNAL SD Card.
3) Wipe data. I know on TWRP it will show a red triangle and remind you you don't really have to do this. Go forth boldly knowing you have a nandroid.
4) restore your nandroid.
5) reboot and see how much more internal data you have now (share here if it worked.
If anyone smarter than me at android (who are many) and can offer additional input on this, please feel obliged. I can honestly say this worked for me and my phone works just perfectly (and looks thinner doing it )
Sent from my SGH-I747 using Tapatalk 2
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So just so you know, what you have done here is delete all of your data. Titanium backup only backs up the actual APK and installer data. Any larger games like ones from gameloft and allot of others will now need to download their resources again so once you play those games the space will be taken up again.

whoamanwtf said:
So just so you know, what you have done here is delete all of your data. Titanium backup only backs up the actual APK and installer data. Any larger games like ones from gameloft and allot of others will now need to download their resources again so once you play those games the space will be taken up again.
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That's a valid point, to an extent. I did not have any games like that installed when I did this and went from 1gb free to 8.5. I gave up playing games like that on my phone because 1) I have an iPad and 2) 16gb is not enough room for that stuff. There is an app (think it's called GL to SD) that will put the extra data those games download onto your external sd card. The biggest thing I lost is Spotify, but I don't mind resyncing that app if it means I just made a heck of a lot more room for more music.
I'm not a developer and I'm not an expert at Android by any means. I do know, however, that my phone runs perfectly fine after this experiment. I think all OS's do this memory cluttering to an extent. I know Windows does and I remember my iPhone doing it as well. I used to restore once in a while just for this reason. So, I don't pretend to know all the reasons, but I can speak from multiple experiences.

whoamanwtf said:
So just so you know, what you have done here is delete all of your data. Titanium backup only backs up the actual APK and installer data. Any larger games like ones from gameloft and allot of others will now need to download their resources again so once you play those games the space will be taken up again.
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The paid version of Titanium is very powerful. There are settings you can adjust. An odd game I enjoy is paradise Island. I have moved it from an HD2 to a pos gb G2x and on to the GS3. You need a large sdsc card.

Just wanted to confirm that I had the same issue and used a similar process to regain my internal storage. In my case, I had deleted a large amount of files (~7gb's) and never gained the space back in available internal storage.. So I went into recovery (I'm using TWRP) and wiped internal storage, system, data, cache.. Then just installed a fresh rom (stored on my ext sd), bingo, everything seems to be perfect again.

+1 for titanium pro, this helps me keep my storage in check

Or, you download Disk Usage from the app store, run it and delete the largest folders which are typically TWRP or CWM backups....thus saving all of your other data.
And everyone that does this will gain back all of their storage, because they will be completely wiping their internal storage.
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I think I figured out one of the problems
Facebook and google both "sync" their galleries with my phone. thus putting upto 9 gigs of pictures onto my internal storage, without anyway of removing them (so it seems???) I can't disable them in the gallery, and I can't find their physical existence in "my files"
Is there anyway to remove them if they've accidentally synced??
although currently it's too late as I just did a wipe to my phone, deselecting those options I figured I would pose the question and hopefully give someone some food for thought.
EDIT: I also assume this is the same with any other account based app that syncs large file directories. (maybe twitter?)

Question Wipe data but not internal storage?

Hi all. Is it possible to wipe everything but the internal storage before flashing a different ROM? I have a load of stuff on my storage and don't want to have to copy it all off and then back on again afterwards when want to change to a different ROM. Used to do this all the time on my other phones
Thanks

I'm sorry to say that I don't think there is a way. It's been asked a few times before, but I haven't found any way to do that. That's one of my pet peeves for not having MicroSD card slots on the Pixels (and many devices these days).
If TWRP is ever updated for Android 12, plus made available for the Pixel 6/Pro, then we should be able to do that.

I routinely backup everything in internal storage to my PC for the express purpose of doing what you ask. I use wireless FTP but you can do it anyway you want. It is easily restored after wiping. As far as doing this with TWRP, I've all but given up hope for that to ever work again. It is effectively obsoleted I'm afraid.

I have my p6pro internal storage synced to OneDrive with the onesync ultimate app, except for /data , but Swift backup takes care of that.