WPV App Data Backup - Backup/Restore Data from IsoStore

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Nov 7, 2011 at 8:32 AM
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No and No. Neither of those are "app data" as they are part of the OS.
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so i'm guessing that music, since a part of the OS, couldn't be easily restored/transferred either.

i saw a while back before doing a hard reset that you are able to, i believe with some registry edits on the PC, see all the folders that are on the phone include the album/artists/podcasts/video directory that is in the zune hub.

I thought you'd be able to just copy those folders onto desktop, then copy the same folders back onto the phone, but that didn't' work at all. Would you happen to know of any way where i'd be able to copy all the music from one phone and get it onto another.
 
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simbadogg said:
so i'm guessing that music, since a part of the OS, couldn't be easily restored/transferred either.

i saw a while back before doing a hard reset that you are able to, i believe with some registry edits on the PC, see all the folders that are on the phone include the album/artists/podcasts/video directory that is in the zune hub.

I thought you'd be able to just copy those folders onto desktop, then copy the same folders back onto the phone, but that didn't' work at all. Would you happen to know of any way where i'd be able to copy all the music from one phone and get it onto another.
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Hi there.

Zune software on PC or Laptop can send to and fro videos and music.

Hope I Have Been Of Help. PEACE!!!
 
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Nov 14, 2011 at 6:34 AM
petbede said:
Hi there.

Zune software on PC or Laptop can send to and fro videos and music.

Hope I Have Been Of Help. PEACE!!!
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yeah....i'm very aware of that. problem is, from what i've learned from @winphonesupport on twitter, there's no way you can create an "image" of all the songs that you have synced on one phone, so that you can transfer all those songs onto a second phone when upgrading or replacing a device.

i have about 7000 tracks on my computer, and my phones songs are basically a random mix of songs from that catalog. Taking 2500 songs and selecting them one at a time so i can have the same songs after changing phones is in no way realistic, which is why i was asking for a method of creating some kind of image to make copying easier.
 
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The usual answer to your problem, @simbaddogg, is to change the media folder that Zune uses for music. Make it something like "C:\MyPhoneMusic" or some such - the folder needs to exist, but should be empty initally. Stop monitoring any other music folders.

Then, connect your phone to Zune, and drag all the music from the phone to the PC. This will copy all music off the phone and onto your computer in the specific folder. Meanwhile, that's the only music that Zune sees on your PC. When you want to put music back from the PC to the phone, you can just sync it all back and only those specific files will get copied. Afterwards, you can make Zune monitor the correct folders again, and delete the temporary folder you used to store the PC's version of your phone's music library.

Note: this method also works for pictures/videos/etc.

Hope that helps!
 
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Nov 21, 2011 at 6:33 AM
GoodDayToDie said:
The usual answer to your problem, @simbaddogg, is to change the media folder that Zune uses for music. Make it something like "C:\MyPhoneMusic" or some such - the folder needs to exist, but should be empty initally. Stop monitoring any other music folders.

Then, connect your phone to Zune, and drag all the music from the phone to the PC. This will copy all music off the phone and onto your computer in the specific folder. Meanwhile, that's the only music that Zune sees on your PC. When you want to put music back from the PC to the phone, you can just sync it all back and only those specific files will get copied. Afterwards, you can make Zune monitor the correct folders again, and delete the temporary folder you used to store the PC's version of your phone's music library.

Note: this method also works for pictures/videos/etc.

Hope that helps!
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yeah i actually did this a few days ago...i totally forgot that the zune software had a copy to local disk feature. only took a few minutes to setup, and worked like a charm. thanks anyways though :)

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yeah i need to make sure that next time i actually do it by changing the folder. instead i just created a new folder, moved all the songs to that folder, then copied to collection. essentially the same thing, but i could have saved the extra time of copying/deleting. but again, thanx
 
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I have a chevron unlocked Samsung Focus with the proper win phone dev s/w installed.. I create a new folder, run backup .. No errors, the problem is that the backup file is 16k what the heck? What am I doing wrong? Wish there was a video with instructions in English. what should I do next?..

Anyone?
 
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Hello.

I backuped my apps and games (mostly bought from market, a few sideloaded) and went through the backed up content to make sure the most important was backed up (Bejeweled Live (bought) and SurvivalCraf (bought)) and the data was backed up, so I installed a new rom, installed the games again, ran them, restored successfully, but when I ran the games again it hadn't restored the data?

Really sad since I've spent about 30-40 hours in Bejeweled and done some nice structures in SurvivalCraft.

So, seems like it doesn't restore the data correctly even if the data was correctly backed up. A reboot didn't help either :(

Will try to put it back with TouchXplorer "/

Device: HTC HD2
ROM: Pdaimatejam Rom Wp7.5 mango 7740 v4

PC: Windows Vista x86

EDIT: Successfully restored the SurvivalCraft data, but found out that this tool did NOT backup the Bejeweled data, which I successfully retrieved from the device manually with ISETool. Any idea why it didn't get backed up when it worked manually?

Regards
Izaac
 
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Dec 28, 2011 at 5:53 PM
an even simpler way...

simbadogg said:
yeah i actually did this a few days ago...i totally forgot that the zune software had a copy to local disk feature. only took a few minutes to setup, and worked like a charm. thanks anyways though :)

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yeah i need to make sure that next time i actually do it by changing the folder. instead i just created a new folder, moved all the songs to that folder, then copied to collection. essentially the same thing, but i could have saved the extra time of copying/deleting. but again, thanx
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theres a much more simpler way...
create a new playlist in zune and every time you need to sync just go inside the playlist -> select all songs -> right-click -> sync with handset.. DONE!! :p
 
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i've tried this literally a dozen times. does anyone have any idea what's going on when every time i try to make a backup, the folder is just empty? i had the 7.1 SDK beta 2 installed, so that wasn't the problem. Keeps coming up empty...
 
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