Last year:
1. Bought phone (Verizon S3)
2. Rooted it
3. Installed Titanium backup
4. Set it to backup everything to my dropbox acct.
5. Configured it to have no limit on "external data" backups.
Recently:
Phone lost / destroyed, irretrievable.
Now:
Rooted new phone, same model
Put on titanium backup
tried to restore from dropbox backup
Allows me to restore the following:
apps
app-specific data (meaning data generated by a particular app)
but WHERE ARE MY UNASSOCIATED DATA FILES? How do I restore them? Office documents on the external SD card, music files, etc, etc, etc, everything that is NOT a data file that is "owned" by particular application?
I've searched everywhere. Nowhere does anyone talk about needing to do this. This seems to be one of the most very basic needs.
What am I missing? I had tons of files on my external sd card AND my internal sd card on my old phone. In various directories. Many were music files, video files, movie files, all kinds of files that don't have - necessarily - anything at all to do with any particular phone application.
I had expected that Titanium was backing up everything because I went to great pains to make sure it was backing up everything.
Now I can't find any of my files. Oh, sure, I can restore particular apps and their settings and any files that were PART of those apps but my general data files of varying types (even some files that couldnt' be opened by ANY app on the phone but were copies of some data from my pc I was transporting) - all seem gone.
I still have my big Titanium backup directory on my dropbox. But if my individual data files are in there I have no idea how to restore them. Titanium backup only seems to allow you to restore applications. I can't find an individual file restore in it anywhere.
Help?
1. Bought phone (Verizon S3)
2. Rooted it
3. Installed Titanium backup
4. Set it to backup everything to my dropbox acct.
5. Configured it to have no limit on "external data" backups.
Recently:
Phone lost / destroyed, irretrievable.
Now:
Rooted new phone, same model
Put on titanium backup
tried to restore from dropbox backup
Allows me to restore the following:
apps
app-specific data (meaning data generated by a particular app)
but WHERE ARE MY UNASSOCIATED DATA FILES? How do I restore them? Office documents on the external SD card, music files, etc, etc, etc, everything that is NOT a data file that is "owned" by particular application?
I've searched everywhere. Nowhere does anyone talk about needing to do this. This seems to be one of the most very basic needs.
What am I missing? I had tons of files on my external sd card AND my internal sd card on my old phone. In various directories. Many were music files, video files, movie files, all kinds of files that don't have - necessarily - anything at all to do with any particular phone application.
I had expected that Titanium was backing up everything because I went to great pains to make sure it was backing up everything.
Now I can't find any of my files. Oh, sure, I can restore particular apps and their settings and any files that were PART of those apps but my general data files of varying types (even some files that couldnt' be opened by ANY app on the phone but were copies of some data from my pc I was transporting) - all seem gone.
I still have my big Titanium backup directory on my dropbox. But if my individual data files are in there I have no idea how to restore them. Titanium backup only seems to allow you to restore applications. I can't find an individual file restore in it anywhere.
Help?