-
After 15+ years, we've made a big change: Android Forums is now Early Bird Club. Learn more here.
where is the apps user data stored?
- Thread starter rotex
- Start date
Usually app data are stored in /data/data/<app>, which you can't access directly from Android without root.
Try the Helium backup app from the Play Store - that should be able to do it (or an adb backup, but Helium may be easier).
Try the Helium backup app from the Play Store - that should be able to do it (or an adb backup, but Helium may be easier).
How about using Titanium if you are rooted?
electricpete
Android Expert
For a podcast app, if you poke around in the settings I think you'll find a setting which lists the current podcast storage directory, and gives ability to change it including to external sd card. At least that's what I have in beyondpod...See bottom off screenshot.
many thanks Hadron! and can i restore the backup data without Titanium - browse the /data/data/ folder in some way? (supposing i want to restore only specific files from backup)
electricpete: i knew that, but there are many apps without this option.. also Titanium is really great for backing up all at once!
electricpete: i knew that, but there are many apps without this option.. also Titanium is really great for backing up all at once!
You can restore a single app, or a single app's data, using Titanium. But if you want to restore say a single podcast without overwriting others then you can't use the app for that.
But I'd have thought that podcasts would be big enough that they'd be written to sd (real or "internal" ) somewhere. If so I'd not expect Ti to back them up, so it's worth making sure they aren't hidden somewhere on sd (in an obscurely named folder or in a subfolder).
If they are in /data/data then you should be able to manually extract them from the Ti backup. If you look in the Titanium folder on your sd card you'll see the format: data for each app are stored as gzipped archives (.tar.gz) of the corresponding folder in /data/data. Of course it depends how the podcast app works - if it keeps a database of what podcasts it has then you may be able to copy the audio file (from wherever it is) but it may be harder to tell the podcast app it's there without restoring the corresponding copy of the database (overwriting any newer one). Just speculating though, as I don't know the app.
But I'd have thought that podcasts would be big enough that they'd be written to sd (real or "internal" ) somewhere. If so I'd not expect Ti to back them up, so it's worth making sure they aren't hidden somewhere on sd (in an obscurely named folder or in a subfolder).
If they are in /data/data then you should be able to manually extract them from the Ti backup. If you look in the Titanium folder on your sd card you'll see the format: data for each app are stored as gzipped archives (.tar.gz) of the corresponding folder in /data/data. Of course it depends how the podcast app works - if it keeps a database of what podcasts it has then you may be able to copy the audio file (from wherever it is) but it may be harder to tell the podcast app it's there without restoring the corresponding copy of the database (overwriting any newer one). Just speculating though, as I don't know the app.
I got it! finally got the access to /data/data/ .. after using Mount /system (rw / ro)
i saw all the system content.
thanks!
https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct...xMnhpV0I1f-MImRTA&sig2=AjVoZIdLvMwNhvSZyGzU5w
i saw all the system content.
thanks!
https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct...xMnhpV0I1f-MImRTA&sig2=AjVoZIdLvMwNhvSZyGzU5w