Hi there, i am fairly new in android. Owned a HTC Diamond2 till 10 days ago when the maxis deal became too good to ignore, so got myself a blue 16G s3. Rooted for backup purposes. Can i find out whether what i think is correct?

1. My titanium backup can be copied into my external microsd. If something bad happens, i can always copy the information back to internal memory, use TB and restore, correct?

2. ROM manager created the backup in my internal memory. Not sure why. So in order to open up more space, i moved the whole folder into my external microsd. If i need to restore, can ROM manager restore from my external or do i need to copy it back into my internal memory?

3. Lastly, since i have already rooted my phone, do i need to re-root if i do a minor ICS update? I am not referring to the major ICS to JB update, just the small incremental update of ICS that pops up on and off.

Thanks in advance to all the sifus and experienced users out there.

Thanks apisfires for you advice. I used ROM manager because i thought it was able to do complete system, app, setting all in 1 go in case factory reset become inevitable. Haha. Currently also using TB for all my apps backup.

Was toying with the idea of wanamlite but currently my knowledge a bit too fresh. No guts to flash my s3 yet. Maybe after a little while to get a bit more experienced.

Thanks Noobi3, but for some wierd reason i couldnt figure out how to force it to backup (both TB and ROM manager) to my ext SD and not my internal memory. Still toying with the app. Haha.

Phew. Lucky you told me. Haha. Thanks apisfires.

Thanks Noobi3, will go to my setting and check it out after this.

Thanks for the suggestion waveweaver, pardon this question from an inexperienced (<2 week android, <1 week root experience) user but when you mention CWM recovery, i assume it has already been installed into my phone when i rooted it even though i can only see CWM and SuperSU icon in my apps. I assume i can enter the recovery either via the CWM manager or the triple button combination on phone. Does the choice of backup appear in the recovery mode or is it an apk app that i activate similar to all programs e.g. ROM manager and it will self boot and self backup after that?
Strangely when i try to use the CWM, it says "This version of CWM Manager should be used with CF-CWM v1.1 or newer. It appears you are running a different recovery. Various features have been disabled". Umm, i am in need of a dictionary to explain this. Does this mean i have to re-flash again? I used the Odin method of rooting my phone last week.

Thanks again.

Thanks TunYau, strangely when i boot into recovery i only have 5 choices (reboot system now / apply update from ext storage / wipe data factory reset / wipe cache partition / apply update from cache). How do i do a backup? DO i need to enter one of these choices? Or is there something wrong with my CWM recovery?

Thanks

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Added on September 2, 2012, 9:20 pmThanks waveweaver. Will look through my files and let you know. I think i flashed with CF-root via Odin but will confirm with you later. Through my 3 button technique into recovery mode, i got these choices: reboot system now / apply update from ext storage / wipe data factory reset / wipe cache partition / apply update from cache but no backup choice, any idea whats wrong? Will uninstall ROM manager and retry again, maybe its an app clash causing it..

No luck, uninstalled ROM manager but still same issue.

This post has been edited by wynx: Sep 2 2012, 09:26 PM

TunYau, you are probably right. Need to root again probably. Btw, how do i check for which version of root i have. Other than having to dig through my files at my desktop is there a way to check the version on my phone through my phone?

Thanks

Thanks waveweaver, will re-root again, I havent found my previous files yet. Haha.
You are right, it is stock 3e recovery. What does that mean?

Cool. Thanks waveweaver. Will try to do later. Haha. Thanks for the advice. Will update you of its progress. Haha.

@TunYau
@waveweaver

Many thanks to both of you for your suggestions. Manage to finally get it to recovery mode to backup my phone. Not sure what was wrong but i failed even with flashing the CWM recovery 5.5.0.4 - "v1.5" by itself. So decided to do the whole shebang CF-Root 6.4, that reset the whole thing and now it works, even the CWM manager. Yea!

My previous attempt to root was with CF-Root 6.1, maybe that version caused some gremlins in my S3. Not sure...

Anyhow, all is well. Till JB anyway. Haha.

I am curious if there's a setting i missed. In my previous HTC diamond2, i managed to sync 2 years of calendar events with gmail calendar that i can peruse when i log into gmail.
However when i bought my s3, and synced with the calendar, it only downloaded that particular months's event. All the rest of the previous 2 years were not syned into my phone. Is it because it is considered past events? Is there a way to sync it into my phone even though it is 2 years ago?

Thanks in advance

i was trying to figure out whats taking up my internal memory and saw these:
/sdcard/.thumbnails (474MB)
/sdcard/DCIM/.thumbnails (1.3GB)

Does anyone have these high amount of GB used for thumbnails? I am not even sure if they are duplicates.

I am using x-plore as my file explorer. Not sure if they are created by it or other programmes. Do you think its safe to delete them?

Thanks in advance.

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Added on September 4, 2012, 8:26 amThanks apisfires. Will check it out later.

This post has been edited by wynx: Sep 4 2012, 08:26 AM

Moogle Stiltzkin, excellent advice. Will do as you advised tonight.



This post has been edited by wynx: Sep 4 2012, 10:25 AM

much appreciated by a newbie.

My whatsapp still not working on both streamyx n maxis. Losing patience already. Paid for it somemore. Sigh.

Theoretically, apparently, after a year in android, you are supposed to pay usd1.99 i think.
So i did it via ipad for usd0.99 and ported it over to my s3. I dont support the idea of different charges for different OS, thought i could save usd1. Also android apparently is a recurring annual fee while its not on ipad.
I guess i miscalculated something. When it working before this, it was awesome, now, not so much


This post has been edited by wynx: Sep 9 2012, 01:07 AM

Sad its not functioning. Not damage, just great inconvenience, some contacts no viber or line, ended have to sms, waste $ equivalent to usd 1 already. Sigh.
Anyhow, tellvmyself the usd1 is support for developer. Hahaha.

My whatsapp working suddenly. Hopefully stays that way.

Hahaha, good one.

I agree. Just that i dont understand why apple is single pay (10 years) while android is yearly.

Thats why i paid via ipad n ported over for a 10 year license on my s3. Hahaha.

I dont mind paying fair value for apps but not when got different price structure.

I hope they are clearing out batch by batch of phone numbers. mine only worked very late yesterday when lots of other people could already use whatsapp. you probably can't do much except wait and have patience.