Has anyone successfully backed up to external SD with TiBu? I recently mucked up my phone and had to reflash to stock to recover, and this wiped out all my TiBu backups which were on the internal SD partition. When I try to choose my own custom backup path in TiBu preferences it shows the internal SD as an option and then a folder in orange and the message "This folder is not writable". I have already ran SDfix and have the camera store images on the external SD, how do I get TiBu to recognize it as a valid location? I would rather not hassle with manually copying TiBu's folder in ES File Explorer
I did try downloading this Xposed module and TiBu still complains
http://forum.xda-developers.com/xposed/modules/app-handleexternalstorage-t2693521
EDIT: argh, thread already exists on here, the built-in search really sucks...
Make SD Card Writable to Apps
I used the procedure in the link here and it worked fine. I did it specifically for the reasons you cite, but it supposedly makes it work with all apps. I definitely works for TiBU. I am rooted. May need to be rooted to do this.
http://www.droidviews.com/restore-write-capability-to-external-sd-card-on-kitkat-manually/
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Now that Froyo has been released, I'm sure many of us will try to take advantage of the install to SD option. When doing this, is it necessary to move apps back to the phone to before backing up with TB? When restoring apps, will TB know how to properly handle apps installed to SD at the time of backup?
Also, somewhat OT, but where are apps actually stored on the SD card when moved?
TB doesn't care where your apps are and will even help you move them (IME). As to where they go, that is still a mystery to me. I have looked all over and haven't seen them unless I am missing something which is quite possible.
TB backups (at least for me) are in /sdcard/TitaniumBackup, stored as a properties file and a tar file.
As for SD card apps, I don't have any installed there, but the app has restore preferences that indicate that it can backup and restore apps to internal or SD storage...however, I only see the option to put apps on SD card from TB once they're installed by holding down on them in the list.
I have unlock the bootloader, rooted the phone, and installed custom recovery following this thread: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2201148
still running stock rom at the moment.
I installed Titanium Backup Pro, and wanted to move some apps that I don't use often to SD card, but cannot find the option from Titanium menu anymore.
What I found out is that Titanium uses the external directory "sd-ext/app" for moving the apps from internal to external memory.
However, my current SD card is mounted as ext_card and also sdcard1?? I don't know why both of these directories point to the same location, is it something that Sony assigns? or is it how Android is configured right now?
Anyhow, I just want to know if simply renaming the folder ext_card to sd-ext would work?
If not, how can I remount the sd card as sd-ext without affecting other things that are already linked to it?
Thanks.
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found a work-around.
Just use root browser to create a short cut of "sdcard1", then rename it to sd-ext.
that's it!
ah_hin said:
found a work-around.
Just use root browser to create a short cut of "sdcard1", then rename it to sd-ext.
that's it!
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I tried that, but I still have no options to send apps to my sd card. When i restart my note 10.1, the shortcut that i created (sd-ext) is no longer there. Help please?
jlourdon said:
I tried that, but I still have no options to send apps to my sd card. When i restart my note 10.1, the shortcut that i created (sd-ext) is no longer there. Help please?
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i didn't realize that once the phone is restarted, the shortcut is gone....
I guess problem is still not solved then...
We already have 11gb for app stotage
I guess thats more than enough for applications
So why do we need move to sdcard option
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Help
anyone else find a solution to this issue?
ah_hin said:
I have unlock the bootloader, rooted the phone, and installed custom recovery following this thread: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2201148
still running stock rom at the moment.
I installed Titanium Backup Pro, and wanted to move some apps that I don't use often to SD card, but cannot find the option from Titanium menu anymore.
What I found out is that Titanium uses the external directory "sd-ext/app" for moving the apps from internal to external memory.
However, my current SD card is mounted as ext_card and also sdcard1?? I don't know why both of these directories point to the same location, is it something that Sony assigns? or is it how Android is configured right now?
Anyhow, I just want to know if simply renaming the folder ext_card to sd-ext would work?
If not, how can I remount the sd card as sd-ext without affecting other things that are already linked to it?
Thanks.
edit: admin, please move to the appropriate section.
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my folder for titanium backup is on sdcard
Does anyone has fix this yet? I want to move some apps to sd card but the option is gone lol
ah_hin said:
found a work-around.
Just use root browser to create a short cut of "sdcard1", then rename it to sd-ext.
that's it!
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I've been trying and trying and TRYING to accomplish your solution, yet I'm not able to modify any files or folders in the internal storage. When I try to do so by any means, my device freezes the app trying to create new files (in this case Root Browser, but it happens with anything else like ES Browser, apps, desktop applications, etc).
I just CAN'T write to the internal storage even if my device is rooted. I've tried to solve this but I just CAN'T. I don't know what else to do.
Any help is appreciated beforehand
THANKS!!
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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Care to elaborate?
I rooted my phone, if I do a factory reset will it screw up my phone?
Sometimes FR doesnt delete your root access. Try, if it doesnt work, simply flash your original .kdz file and root counter will be reseted.
Ok, are you saying do it, the worst that happens is I lose root, then I just have to run stump again?
Root should survive a factory reset. But if it doesn't yeah just re-run your root app and all should be good.
I reset, root survived, but my titanium backup was wiped clean. Nothing was left. Did I do something wrong?
I always save by backup to the external sd card for this reason.
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big70tom said:
I reset, root survived, but my titanium backup was wiped clean. Nothing was left. Did I do something wrong?
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No, you didn't do anything wrong.
The Titanium Backup app was located in your /data folder. Furthermore, the backup location for TB was probably in the stock location (internal sdcard). These are wiped when you perform a factory reset.
In future, if you want to, you can set the backup location to be the external sdcard. That way, if you perform a wipe, you can then reinstall TB and restore your backups from the external sdcard backup location which isn't touched by a factory reset.
EDIT: Another way would be to backup your TB backup folder to your PC before you wipe and then restore it afterwards.
Thanks. I'm use to flashing using recovery and my tb always stayed...thanks
Titanium Backup to External SD Card
I tried to set the external SD card as the location for the Ti BU, but could not do it until I changed the write permission as described in the following link. I think that there may be some apps like SD Fix that also work, but the manual method worked fine for me. Before doing this the Ti BU gave me some error about the external SD not being writable.
http://www.droidviews.com/restore-write-capability-to-external-sd-card-on-kitkat-manually/
If you do this Ti BU and other 3rd party apps can write to the SD card. It is much better to keep your Ti BU on the external SD and this keeps you from having to copy it over occasionally. Also frees up a pretty good chunk of space on your internal SD.
EDIT - I rebooted as it says to do at the end of the link above. I had already moved an old TiBU to the external SD. When I tried to run my incremental updates through TiBU I got some error about not enough disk space. had to reboot again and then everything worked fine.
Ok. Have sd, did sd fix, HOW DO I GET TIBU TO SEND BACKUPS TO THE MICROSD
big70tom said:
Ok. Have sd, did sd fix, HOW DO I GET TIBU TO SEND BACKUPS TO THE MICROSD
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Menu>preferences >Backup folder location. Once select go back until you reach storage and select external sd, once you're in there you'll want to create a new folder I named mine tbackup and then select it. If you get folder not writable message get out apply sd fix and try again.
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I press detect and it never does anything but locate the folder it's in
Ok, I used Root explorer to set permissions, and AFTER restart it seems to be working
I have a T-Mobile Note 3, running DomPop v4.3. A new version (v5) came out and i was like why not. So i downloaded the files to my phone, which gets downloaded to my internal SD Card by default. I then moved it to the external SD Card. Then i backed up everything using TWRP 2..8.5.0. to my external SD Card, and did a normal wipe (data, cache, storage). After that i proceed to install the file and i cannot find it in the folder. I kept looking for 5 mins but no luck. So then i think there might have been some mistake and i'll restore to the backup i just made and that's not there either. I rechecked to make sure i hadn't backed it up in the internal storage but its not there either. So i reverted back to an older backup, which was still in my external SD Card. Upon reboot, i used ES File explorer to check my external Storage and the file i copied and the backups that i made wasnt there. Another interesting thing i noticed was that my TitaniumBackup folder had 0 files. I always make backups before each install and i'm sure there was 200+ files in there. So then i do a titanium backup, download the file again, but this time i copy it to external SD Card. Then i reboot into recovery, trying to install the file but its missing again. What ?? I reboot system without doing anything further and check my external SD Card and i see that the file i copied isnt there. And the Titaniumbackup folder that i just populated like 2-3 mins ago is empty again. I've repeated the process again and again - copying the file, doing titanium backup, and only rebooting my phone, and the files keeps getting deleted. I dont think its a R/W issue because i can write to those folders in the external SD Card just fine without any issues . Its just that when i reboot its gone. So what gives?
You might be better off asking in the DomPop Q&A thread. Maybe someone has had the same issue or already solved your issue over there.
Titanium backup is funky, and can sometimes create more problems than it can solve.
If you have mismatched bootloader and reflash the backup will bork your phone, can't figure out why you would use TB, I tried it once during my Galaxy S2 days and never bothered with it.
Maybe there is a different app that works better on lollipop.
Or you could be having the internal SD card issue that some are having, there is a fix in one of the update threads try that.
Pp.
Thanks for your input guys. The issue was with my Transcend Premium 300X 64 GB external SD Card. I'm not sure what but something broke it, and broke it bad to the extent that i cannot write on it anymore. I can view the existing files in there, copy it but cannot delete it. I cannot format the SD card either. I tried using command prompt (disk part, format), softwares (SD Card Formatter, HDD Low Level Format Tool, etc) but no luck. Keeps saying its unable to format. I tried removing the write protection which was off to begin with, and scanned it multiple times with different Anti-Virus software but to no avail. And yes, i also removed the lock in the adapter. So yea, seems like i'll have to throw this one away. Unless someone knows a hard-core tool to format this sucker because i tried most of the conventional ways/tools i can find in the internet and it didnt work for me. Thanks.
Check out you tube with different search prompts, you never know, someone may have put out a video on it.
Good luck.
Pp. Cyclops