Root Copying apps to SD card...

[Philadelph]

So this has had me wondering for a while with no urgency to figure it out until now. Anyway, what is the deal with copying apps to your SD card? I have Titanium Backup, but don't understand what happens when you make a "backup"... If you flash a new rom, you need to reinstall TB AND your apps, so it seems pointless, but I'm sure I'm missing something. Does there need to be a partition for apps, or can you do this without?

Basically, I'd like to copy apps to the card so that I can just reload them into a new rom without having to re-download and lose data. Thanks!

 

[ocnbrze]

So this has had me wondering for a while with no urgency to figure it out until now. Anyway, what is the deal with copying apps to your SD card? I have Titanium Backup, but don't understand what happens when you make a "backup"... If you flash a new rom, you need to reinstall TB AND your apps, so it seems pointless, but I'm sure I'm missing something. Does there need to be a partition for apps, or can you do this without?

Basically, I'd like to copy apps to the card so that I can just reload them into a new rom without having to re-download and lose data. Thanks!

with titanium backup it saves your backed up apps in a folder on the card. so when you flash a new rom, tb will restore those apps from the card. with tb you can also do a batch restores and you could also restore apps data as well.

and when you partition your card, you still need to wipe sd ext as well which will delete any apps that are on the sd card. so you will still need tb to restore them and their data as well.

just make sure that you are not restoring system data. it will have pieces of the previous rom and could create issues with your new rom.

 

[9to5cynic]

TB does that, but with the data too.

Also, if you just want the .apk (so you don't have to re-download) you can use Astro file manager to get nearly every app onto your SD card. (Again, just the .apk file, to be reinstalled at a later date.)