Im looking at my sdcard and see lots of stuff that is old, old apps and other things, I want to format my sdcard and start fresh but dont want to lose my data and apps that i currently have and game data. can anyone tellme what i need to back up or is there an app that will clean my sdcard of junk?
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I'm wanting to setup apps2sd on my phone but not sure if I'll be able to reinstall all my apps afterwards?
I'm running Defrost 2.9b, haven't updated the rom for months and months, it's served me well but there's some little annoyances that have made me want to try new roms. My version of Defrost had an option to automatically install all apps to external storage, so just about everything except system apps etc are already on my sd card, and I've backed up everything I want to keep with Titanium backup.
Now, if I do the following:-
1. backup all contents of my sd card to pc
2. format memory card ready for apps2sd
3. flash new rom / kernel
4. restore my apps with titanium backup
Will apps2sd automatically move everything to the apps partition, or should I move my apps back to the phone and make new backups?
Sorry if this is a dumb question, but I'm new to this and very confused by it all, I only ever flashed it once, that's the rom I'm using now and that was months ago! Any help is much appreciated.
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I am using a stock rom (rooted) but have a problem where i always have around 15mb available on internal storage. Clearing the cache only saves around 1mb. All my user apps (where possible) have been moved over to my SD card so i just dont see where all this space has gone.
After some investigation on here ive been reading about a2sd+ and data2sd. Is there a stock room (fully up to date, with latest stock fixs etc) which contain this and if so can you point me in the direction of the best one?
Also, is there any way of solving this problem another way...without having to flash my device?
Thanks in advance for your help
Most of the space get's taken up by data from the settings of each app. You can do something about it like use A2SD or something like that but you do need a rom that supports it. This rom is very stock rom, like unmodified apart from a lower voltage but it can be fixed to the default voltage.
Thanks for this. Ive just updated to this rom now so fingers crossed the issues are over.
Just out of interest, other than save the apps to the SD, is there anything else i need to do to make sure all the data saves there too?
I should add that im going to restore all my apps and data using titanium backup....will this just put all the data back on the internal storage? or will it be clever and put it on the sd?
Plan on installing the JB Goodness v.8.0.5 ROM coming from Team Sonic. Have to do a factory reset & wipe. What will I lose from my phone's internal storage. Will i lose downloaded pics, gifs, documents etc?
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Plan on installing the JB Goodness v.8.0.5 ROM coming from Team Sonic. Have to do a factory reset & wipe. What will I lose from my phone's internal storage. Will i lose downloaded pics, gifs, documents etc?
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All your apps will have to be re-downloaded from the play store and you lose all progress in games, etc. But no none of your pictures or music is affected (I'm 99% sure). I save my pictures to my SD Card though..
Factory data / wipe reset is only for the rom itself, as Joe said everything is lost EXCLUDING your internal / external storage.
But if your planning on literally cleaning your phone id suggest backing up all of your important stuff thats in your intSdCard
and exSdCard move the important stuff to your PC/Mac/Linux and then do an internal + external storage wipe just to
remove the left over stuff from apps that save files / temp files into your sdcards.
However you can backup your apps using Titanium Backup Root and move the TitaniumBackup folder to your PC
to backup your apps + data. I've been jumping roms as well and doing full blown wipes for everything ( Data / Cache / Davlik / internal
/ external ) and titanium backup is a MUST if you want to keep most of your apps with data.
However if those apps get buggy ( FC, won't start etc ) then you'll need to wipe the apps data .
All in all, that should be it. Hope this helps, and i hope you enjoy using the JB Goodness rom
Galaxy s3 T999 tmobile phone.
Liquid Smooth ROM. - Amazing rom btw. I cant thank those folks enough for their brilliant work
TWRP for recovery
Ive done numerous dalvic/system/cache/data wipes through twrp in preparation for new roms. But my INTERNAL 16 gb SD card always shows that i have around 12GB USED. thats with no personal apps installed
Heres my question. How do i remove all unnecessary data thats hogging up space. I want a CLEAN space to work with!
I do have 4 twrp recovery files (4gb worth of data?) stored in there. Im assuming the system uses about 3 gb's. plus the gapps and liquid rom are only 194 mb combined. So that accounts for maybe 7 or 8 gb
So how do i do a totally clean wipe without losing twrp, recovery files AND root!
the only wipe option ive never used is USB-OTG. (USB On The Go?) No idea what it is or what it does. so i never messed with it. Ive read that it acts like a driver of some sort to allow usb devices to communicate with each other..
Ive also never gone into the Format data section of twrp out of fear that i might wipe the wrong things and render my phone useless
One article i read said that i might have to revert back to stock? im hoping thats not so. And do a factory wipe. Is that different from TWRP's functions? Im assuming that i would lose root.
they said din flash to stock
Odin master clear (or wipe SD from settings)
*2767*3855# on the phones keypad ...(i think codes in general only work on stock TW)
Do i have to format the sd card? would i lose important partitions that would delete the recovery system?
any ideas? i considered opening a partition wizard app to see the different partions on the internal sd card.
I'm no expert on this, but I think that Liquid Smooth has a place in Settings to let you view the space allocation of the storage in your phone and external SD card.
Go to Settings > Storage (or something similar) and take a look at how much space is being allocated of each of the different types of data. It might give you a better idea on what might be taking up that additional ~4GB of space.
If you can, provide us with a screenshot of the Storage screen. If not, you can just type them here so we can better understand what might be going on.
Back up internal sdcard to your computer.
Wipe data/factory reset.
Wipe /data/media.
You can do this through TWRP. Won't lose anything except contents of your internal sdcard. Which is why you back it up first.
Don't forget the formatting of the filesystem does this. Just like windows a 100gig hard drive formats to a smaller amount.
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I flash a lot of roms on my phone. Recently I noticed that there was a lot of left over programs and apps on my internal memory. I have nothing on the phone I want to keep that is not already backed up via TitaniumBackup.
What I would like to do, is wipe everything that I can without messing up partitions or Mount points or the needed stuff in ./data/media so I can flash a new room on a totally clean phone (except for the nessasary files needed like the data/media stuff and recovery stuff ect..)
Normally when I flash I do this: (in TWRP)
1. Nandroid backup
2. Wipe/factory restore
3. Wipe data and system again
4. Flash new ROM
5. Wipe devlik/cache
6. Reboot
When I finally get to the desktop I start up root explorer and look around my internal memory. This is were I still see a lot of old apps still sitting there. I want them gone. I'm afraid to wipe/format internal memory while in TWRP because I will lose everything right ? Even the stuff that is needed to boot the phone to recovery.
Any suggestions ?
Thanks
T-Mobile Samsung G S4
SGH-M919
TWRP v6.x.x.x
16 gig micro sd-card
Go in twrp and click wipe, advanced, and click everything. after wiping Mount the phone to PC via twrp and move the rom and kernel to sd card. Unmount then do the steps you usually do to install a ROM, including wipe.
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Thibor69 said:
I flash a lot of roms on my phone. Recently I noticed that there was a lot of left over programs and apps on my internal memory. I have nothing on the phone I want to keep that is not already backed up via TitaniumBackup.
What I would like to do, is wipe everything that I can without messing up partitions or Mount points or the needed stuff in ./data/media so I can flash a new room on a totally clean phone (except for the nessasary files needed like the data/media stuff and recovery stuff ect..)
Normally when I flash I do this: (in TWRP)
1. Nandroid backup
2. Wipe/factory restore
3. Wipe data and system again
4. Flash new ROM
5. Wipe devlik/cache
6. Reboot
When I finally get to the desktop I start up root explorer and look around my internal memory. This is were I still see a lot of old apps still sitting there. I want them gone. I'm afraid to wipe/format internal memory while in TWRP because I will lose everything right ? Even the stuff that is needed to boot the phone to recovery.
Any suggestions ?
Thanks
T-Mobile Samsung G S4
SGH-M919
TWRP v6.x.x.x
16 gig micro sd-card
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If you have your TiBu backups, nandroids, and ROM zips, pictures, videos, etc already on your SD card; there is no harm in formatting your internal memory. You won't lose recovery, you won't have a problem with booting, nothing of that sort.
When I was running SynergyRom on my S3, wiping Internal memory was usually Always suggested because of the reasons you mentioned.
Move your Nandroid and files you want to flash to your extSdCard card for obvious reasons.
I have TWRP 2.5.0.2 as my Recovery, which has been running without issues for months.
Enter Recovery:
Press -
Wipe
Format Data
As a safety valve, you'll be asked to Type in Yes to continue this Internal wipe.
You'll retain the partitions you mentioned.
I think the above will get you to where you want to be.
You can always double check afterward as you've already done before.
Biker1 said:
When I was running SynergyRom on my S3, wiping Internal memory was usually Always suggested because of the reasons you mentioned.
Move your Nandroid and files you want to flash to your extSdCard card for obvious reasons.
I have TWRP 2.5.0.2 as my Recovery, which has been running without issues for months.
Enter Recovery:
Press -
Wipe
Format Data
As a safety valve, you'll be asked to Type in Yes to continue this Internal wipe.
You'll retain the partitions you mentioned.
I think the above will get you to where you want to be.
You can always double check afterward as you've already done before.
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Just wanted to say good question and responses. Helpful.