[Q] Moving from HTC Desire to S5 Mini, how to keep app data? topic

Hello,

I'm the new owner of a S5 Mini (G800F) with the latest OTA update and moving from an HTC Desire under rooted 2.3.3 is quite impressive.
But now, I'd like to move my data from the old phone to the new one. I have read around to find out how to do this and came up with two solutions:

1. Root the S5 Mini and use Titanium Backup to selectively restore what I need
2. Use Helium Backup to get data from the Desire and then selectively restore what I need on the S5 Mini

My problem is that rooting the S5 Mini will trigger the Knox counter and thus void its warranty. I'd like to avoid that at least for a while and so it seems that option 1 is not possible for me.
I went looking for another solution and saw that Helium backup was highly recommended. Unfortunately, the Android App is not available for the Desire under 2.3.3 and so this seems like a dead end as well.
Now, would it be possible to get Helium to use data created by Titanium backup? Or would it be possible to extract the data from the Desire in a way that Helium would be able to use?

Any help would be much welcome.

Regards.

By: dd On 14:43

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Moving apps to SD card without root/mods [?] topic

Hi,
I thinking about buying G2 Mini and I've got one question:
There is way to move apps to SD Card WITHOUT App2sd/root/moding fstab by option (Move to SD) in App Manager?
For example Samsung blocked this opton (i have no idea why) in S4 mini. Sony in the past also didn't have this function, in newest updates they fixed it.

By: dd On 17:36

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[Q] Moving files on start up topic

OK I admit this is somewhat of a n00b question, to a person who knows how Droids works with storage anyway.

The original issue I have is I changed from a phone with no internal memory to one with internal + micro SD. Without too much hacking/modding/customization outside of built in settings or simple file path edits, I want to keep as much of my stuff on the micro SD rather than internal mem incase the phone goes kaput suddenly (like my ol' Droid 3). Unfortunately a few apps here and there point to the internal "sdcard" and can not be changed to the external.

In the end, I was quite happy to simply have a little script that ran on start up (i.e. regularly enough) that moved files from particular folders from to the external sd card. By no means is it the most fancy solution but initially something I could script up myself and be simplistic in the sense that it was just simple file operations and used existing stuff (e.g. no ext apps).

However it's not working and from my logging of things it looks like because at the time userinit.sh runs not all storage has yet been mounted (file/folder not found)?

Here is my simple script cut down to just one path example.

Code:

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#!/system/bin/sh

ULOG=/data/local/test.log
date >> $ULOG

cp -R /mnt/sdcard/Pictures /mnt/external_sd 2>> $ULOG
if [ "$?" -eq "0" ]
    rm -R /mnt/sdcard/Pictures/* 2>> $ULOG
fi

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(and I tried /storage/sdcard0 and /storage/sdcard1 instead of /mnt's with no difference, FWIW)

By: dd On 03:59

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