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[Q]

Thanks in advance for your time and help.
I'm trying to transfer system settings, apps, and data from one Galaxy Note 2 to another using Titanium Backup Pro with SuperUser installed. Both phones are rooted and are identical and run the exact same version of the same Android OS.
After backing up the contents and system data of the old phone, I upload the 1.7 GB backup files up to DropBox via the "Sync to DropBox" function. All 1.7 GB appears on DropBox.
I remove the SIM card and SD card from the old phone and put it into the new phone. On the new phone, I install the pro version of Titanium, and the superuser apps, plus BusyBox.
To download the backup files from DropBox to my new phone, I tap on "Sync to DropBox" on the new phone. Instead of downloading the backup files from DropBox to my new phone, this deletes all the DropBox files stored there. This happens probably because by tapping Sync on the new phone within Titanium, it sees that the backup folder is empty and therefore cleans out what was previously uploaded from the old phone.
The same SD card that was used on the old phone is now in the new phone and should technically contain the backup files, but Titanium installed on the new phone says there are zero backups on it.
1) How can I make Titanium download 1.7GB of the backup files instead of deleting it?
2) After being able to successfully download the backup files, I suppose what I need to do after that is to restore apps + system data? Thanks so much for your help!

Weird, that's not how it's supposed to work. You could attempt to either restore the android id or create a new one from tb options.
Regarding your second question, yes, but when restoring system data, I prefer to simply tick the apps and xmls that I want to avoid conflicts.
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Why you not changing location of TB to Ext SD card and select Auto Sync TB setting
After this reload application and just move same SD card to new device, install TB and everything will be fine.
-To restore
I recommend
-Restore missing app + Data
then only data from
Contact storage - green
Messeging-yellow
setting-green
setting storage-green
Sec Home Launcher - Red
I think this should be enough.

Thanks
Thanks for your helpful suggestions, guys.
What I figured out is this: Titanium Backup defaults to syncing the external SD card TI folder with the DropBox folder. If the folder is empty or isn't present on the external SD card (the one that is removable), it will delete the files that are on the cloud on DropBox but not on the external SD card.
The workaround is to specify where Titanium Backup should look for the backup files. If I connect my new phone to a computer and manually move the TI Backup files to the internal SD card (internal phone memory) and later specify for TI Backup to look at the phone's memory, not the external SD card for the TI Backup folder, the backup will work just fine (except for the usual app installation glitches because the Android ID doesn't match).
When I clicked "Sync to DropBox" on my new phone, hoping that the DropBox backup files would be downloaded to the new phone, I didn't realize that the external SD card was full and so TI Backup defaulted to Sync it with the internal SD storage on the new phone which was of course empty.
When I realized this, what I did was to manually move the entire TI Backup folder from DropBox to the new phone.
Thanks very much for your help and time taken to advise me. I really appreciate your responses.

Question about TWRP

I get new mobile and i wanna move all my data including apps photos contacts whatsapp chat history to the new mobile.. Is it enough to backup data to micro SD through twrp and restore it again in the new mobile or what shall i do to get exact full copy of my old mobile

mina_munchy said:
I get new mobile and i wanna move all my data including apps photos contacts whatsapp chat history to the new mobile.. Is it enough to backup data to micro SD through twrp and restore it again in the new mobile or what shall i do to get exact full copy of my old mobile
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Well, I suggest to use NanDroid Backup to backup everything to SDCard. Nandroid also backup android settings/ apps, so I suggest do this backup only if you're going use same Android version as you currently on.
Otherwise I sugg you to do only User's Apps/Data/settings backup.

Hi,
Please don't use a nandroid backup from a different device to a new one. That can cause many issues, including destroying your new phone if you restore system or EFS by accident.
Try titanium backup maybe for User apps only... no system apps. Or again, might be serious issues.
If you saved contacts to your Google account, they will be on your new device the minute you log into your Google account during setup of the new phone.
If any other apps don't restore data properly, that's just something you'll have to live with. ?

[Q] how can I recover database.db from internal storage?

So I got myself a new phone note 4. I used that new Samsung transfer apk first time ever. After it completed I factory reseted my old phone note 3. Unfortunetly Samsung apk was crap and I lost data for one of my applications. Any idea how can I recover database.db file from internal storage? None of the applications I found could recover .db files just images and documents. Please help and advice

HELP! LG Backup will have a backup copy of my Whatsapp audio files?

Hello,
For some reasons I had to make a “Restore to fabric” in my LGG3 I made sure I made a backup of all my Whatsapp chats. I also made a full LGBackup including App Data (over 7GB). However after reinstalling Whatsapp and restoring its own backup from the online cloud copy, all my audio files in whatsapp conversations are gone, and they are very important as I’m involved in a trial and these audio files are required.
Before the restoration these old files wouldn’t be immediately played. I would get an animated circle icon and after some seconds the audio would be available (downloaded from the cloud?).
After restoring the phone and doing the LG Backup restore, I opened whatsapp it asked me if I wanted to download my Cloud backup copy, to which I answered "yes". All my text messages and most of my images or videos are there. However now, whenever I click on those audio files I get the message that the file is no longer in my device, and won’t even attempt to download them from the cloud.
I thought that my Whatsapp backup would include EVERYTHING and not discard the audiofiles. JPEGs etc are still downloadable but not audio files.
I don't know if restoring the whatsapp cloud backup copy has messed my LG Backup. I am not even sure if I opened and installed whatsapp before doing the LGBackup or after, I just know I made sure I clicked Backup App Data in the LG Backup options, and the back up files (2) are over 7GB together. I don't know if later on my cloud copy has erased those audio files, as it was only until a few days later that I realized they were gone.
This would be an ABSOLUTE DISASTER, had these files vanished, I also noticed that my BACKUP copy has gone down from over 4GB the moment I made it before the phone restore to 2.3GB some days ago without any intervention other than the restoration itself.
My question is:
If I restore my LG Backup file, would it contain my audio files? I wouldn't mind losing all my messages since 10 days ago, as the important ones are a few months old. I just know the online copy of my whatsapp backup (that made by whatsapp itself) doesn't contain the important Audio Files. So my only hope is that somehow they are contained in this LG Backup file which is 7GB, and either get them through whatsapp or through the database file it creates in the mobile (no clue how though).
Kind regards thank you everyone,
Luis

You can certainly try to restore it. If it backed up your entire internal memory, it will contain them. How large is it? Thats what you have to look for.

Restore Data (Audio Files) without root?

Hi,
i accidentally deleted a whatsapp chat a few days ago. i have no whatsapp backups anymore from google or local on the phone cause its to late. there are already new backups created without chat.
i wanted to restore at least the whatsapp audio files. but im not rooted and whatsapp audio was stored in internal storage.
I read about some apps that can restore data or at least audio files when rooted.
now i wanted to root my device ... but it seems i have to format data... so im concerned if it all would work. even if rooted.
can you give me some advice ? should i root ? is it even possible ? or else ??
Thanks in advance.