Okay so here's my question. I've been running a variety of different roms since I rooted almost a year ago and it seems like my sd card is just full of junk from all the apps I've installed/removed as well and any number of files/folders injected when flashing. I would like to know what method I can use to reformat my sd card and wipe it clean. I guess what I'm asking is that if I boot to recovery (AmonRa) and check the options to wipe EVERYTHING, what am I left with? I'll still have the recovery along with usb mass storage capability right? If so, that would mean I could throw whatever rom onto the sdcard that way and reflash it? I'd just like to start over without any bloat at all and try to keep the card trimmed of fat. Sorry to be long winded and most likely not clear at all. Lol. Any direction would be appreciated.
Also, where is the backup information for titanium located so I can transfer it and restore my apps after all this. Thanks again.
I would like to know what method I can use to reformat my sd card and wipe it clean.
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menu-settings-sd and phone storage-format sd card.
I guess what I'm asking is that if I boot to recovery (AmonRa) and check the options to wipe EVERYTHING, what am I left with?
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I dont believe you can format the sd card through recovery.
Also, where is the backup information for titanium located so I can transfer it and restore my apps after all this. Thanks again.
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In the titanium Backup folder on the sd card.
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So I completed step 2 of root today and decided to flash Fresh .5.3
Wiped data, but forgot to wipe SD card. Began to boot loop so I read that I would need to partition the SD card. I tried to Flash back to Fresh .2 in order to backup my SD card and began to boot loop there too.
So I go into recovery and partition (0,0)
I'm still boot looping Fresh .2 and I can't flash anything else (read: my backup) because I wiped the SD card.
Help would be greatly appreciated
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zhensley said:
So I completed step 2 of root today and decided to flash Fresh .5.3
Wiped data, but forgot to wipe SD card. Began to boot loop so I read that I would need to partition the SD card. I tried to Flash back to Fresh .2 in order to backup my SD card and began to boot loop there too.
So I go into recovery and partition (0,0)
I'm still boot looping Fresh .2 and I can't flash anything else (read: my backup) because I wiped the SD card.
Help would be greatly appreciated
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LOL, Just format your SDCard using a PC, download the ROM to you SD and flash it again. Note - You dont need to wipe your SD Card lol
Kykiskly said:
LOL, Just format your SDCard using a PC, download the ROM to you SD and flash it again. Note - You dont need to wipe your SD Card lol
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flipz says that you should wipe your sd card for whatever reason. so he was just following the instructions. :/
Yeah, I was just following the instructions I was given via Flipz.
I don't have an SD adapter handy...is there a way to access the SD card while in the phone or am I going to have to get an adapter and go that way?
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Yeah, I was just following the instructions I was given via Flipz.
I don't have an SD adapter handy...is there a way to access the SD card while in the phone or am I going to have to get an adapter and go that way?
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nenn said:
flipz says that you should wipe your sd card for whatever reason. so he was just following the instructions. :/
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I flashed Flipz latest without wiping my SD and got no issues, but if Flipz mentioned that and you followed, I am sorry to hear you have this conflict now. Like I suggested in my previous post, easiest way is to format your SD using an adapter with WIN or MAC, your choice, then download and place Flipz ROM and re-flash.
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I flashed Flipz latest without wiping my SD and got no issues, but if Flipz mentioned that and you followed, I am sorry to hear you have this conflict now. Like I suggested in my previous post, easiest way is to format your SD using an adapter with WIN or MAC, your choice, then download and place Flipz ROM and re-flash.
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I was boot looping after the initial install so I looked at Flipz FAQ. He says, "In every case that I've seen, this has been caused by sd:ext not being wiped properly" and then advises to do a complete sd wipe. Anyway, I guess I will have to wait until I can get an adapter. Sheesh.
zhensley said:
I was boot looping after the initial install so I looked at Flipz FAQ. He says, "In every case that I've seen, this has been caused by sd:ext not being wiped properly" and then advises to do a complete sd wipe. Anyway, I guess I will have to wait until I can get an adapter. Sheesh.
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He was talking about the SD card ext2/3/4 partition, not the fat32 partition
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He was talking about the SD card ext2/3/4 partition, not the fat32 partition
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Here is the exact quote.
"In every case that I've seen, this has been caused by sd:ext not being wiped properly. Clockwork Recovery isn't doing it right. It appears to but actually errors out. The fastest way to actually wipe it properly would be to reboot in to recovery and re-partition it. This will wipe EVERYTHING off of your sdcard! Do 0/0/Remaining if you want to use apps2sd or 32/1gb/Remaining to use apps2sd. Then wipe everything and re-flash the rom."
It's confusing enough that he said both the 0/0/remaining and 32/1gb/remaining both allow you to use apps2sd...I didn't know there were different levels of repartitioning.
I've discovered that in the recovery menu there is an option that is something like "USB-MS" which basically allows you to access the SD card while in the menu. I threw .5.3 on there and am booting now....Hoping this works.
so, i put a partition on my sd card for the specific purpose of apps2sd. I went from cm6 to slidemeroot5r1. how do I access the apps that i had saved on my sd card? they don't show up on the phone after i flashed the new rom.
I'm probably overlooking something simple, but any help would be appreciated
Umm, you can't. At least I don't think so since your phone can't see that partition unless you tell it to. I would just restore from a nandroid backup and use titanium backup to backup the apps then when you install the rom you want just restore the apps with titanium.
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so, i put a partition on my sd card for the specific purpose of apps2sd. I went from cm6 to slidemeroot5r1. how do I access the apps that i had saved on my sd card? they don't show up on the phone after i flashed the new rom.
I'm probably overlooking something simple, but any help would be appreciated
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Assuming you wiped when you went from CM6 to SLIDEMEROOT5r1, all your apps would have been wiped as well including, if you have it, your ext partition on your sdcard. That's why you should always use a backup app like Titanium.
Since this phone does not have an SD card, does this mean that anytime I want to try a new ROM or something and have to factory reset, that everything off my phone will be erased? Including pictures and ect? I cannot believe they didn't leave SD card support for this phone, really upset about that. It takes too long to transfer my 10gig+ data from my sdcard to this phone. I don't want to have to go through that constantly with this phone.
No the stuff on your phone will not be wiped. The whole "sdcard" thing is a misconception.
The phone itself has a internal storage.
Other phones such as Galaxy S2/S1... have a internal storage and external. Which is removable.
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Since this phone does not have an SD card, does this mean that anytime I want to try a new ROM or something and have to factory reset, that everything off my phone will be erased? Including pictures and ect? I cannot believe they didn't leave SD card support for this phone, really upset about that. It takes too long to transfer my 10gig+ data from my sdcard to this phone. I don't want to have to go through that constantly with this phone.
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Well, if you flash a new a new system image only, then I guess the stuff located in the userdata partition will not be erased...
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No the stuff on your phone will not be wiped. The whole "sdcard" thing is a misconception.
The phone itself has a internal storage.
Other phones such as Galaxy S2/S1... have a internal storage and external. Which is removable.
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... but if you flash the userdata partition, ALL of your data will be erased, because /sdcard is actually a link to /data/media
If it was me I would make a backup anyway for the sake of a few minutes before flashing any ROM.
Flashing a new rom does NOT erase your data, ie photos - downloads - music etc.
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Flashing a new rom does NOT erase your data, ie photos - downloads - music etc.
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Have you tried it? Try flashing one of the stock builds from Google found here and tell me if your data gets erased. I can tell you that mine did, but I make sure to make a backup of everything (like daleski75 said earlier) before flashing anything related to the data partition.
as far as I have seen the stock recovery will wipe the /sdcard partition. CWM recovery will not
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as far as I have seen the stock recovery will wipe the /sdcard partition. CWM recovery will not
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Is there any way to flash a ROM or factory image in fastboot without wiping the SD card partition? I can only get my device to show up in fastboot, not ADB.
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Is there any way to flash a ROM or factory image in fastboot without wiping the SD card partition? I can only get my device to show up in fastboot, not ADB.
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Remove userdata.img from the Google images.
Honestly I would work on getting ADB to work properly. It will give you much more flexibility in these situations.
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i got the same prob i just rooted, im use to having a sd card so whats the answer if you flash in cwm do a wipe in cwm it wont erase the internal storage? because it sux reloading everything from the computer via usb
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i got the same prob i just rooted, im use to having a sd card so whats the answer if you flash in cwm do a wipe in cwm it wont erase the internal storage? because it sux reloading everything from the computer via usb
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No it won't wipe the SD card partition unless you unlock the bootloader or flash the factory images in fastboot.
Will wiping the data (before ROM flash) also wipe the "SD Card" data? I know on other phones, that have a physical SD card, when you wipe data the SD data remains. But, with the Nexus having a virtual SD card, I didn't know what would happen.
In essence, I'm thinking Titanium Backup is useless unless you pull the backup data from the phone before flashing a new ROM, because the backed up data would be deleted with a data wipe for new ROM flash.
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Will wiping the data (before ROM flash) also wipe the "SD Card" data? I know on other phones, that have a physical SD card, when you wipe data the SD data remains. But, with the Nexus having a virtual SD card, I didn't know what would happen.
In essence, I'm thinking Titanium Backup is useless unless you pull the backup data from the phone before flashing a new ROM, because the backed up data would be deleted with a data wipe for new ROM flash.
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The "sd card" data remains. Nothing is messed with in that portion of memory. TiBu works great.
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The "sd card" data remains. Nothing is messed with in that portion of memory. TiBu works great.
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Thanks! I wondered what would happen with a data wipe.
If you flash a stock ROM via fastboot it WILL WIPE THE "SDCARD". EVERYTHING.
Basically:
Stock recovery data wipe/factory reset = SDcard wiped
Custom recovery data wipe/factory reset = SDcard untouched
So if you haven't rooted/CWM'd your phone yet, don't put anything big and important on the SDcard. If you have put stuff on your card just make a backup of it on your PC and then do the unlock/recovery install procedure. Then you'll be set. Titanium Backup will be back to working just like it does on any other phone once you have a custom recovery installed. No worrying about the SDcard getting wiped.
you'll definitely want to install a custom recovery if you're going to be wiping anything. Id highly recommend the clockwork touch recovery. The standard one is really a pain to use as the navigation is odd and its hard to select what you want.
^ I wonder as well, but I proceed without thinking about sdcard. Lucky enough our great dev took care of that. Btw, I didn't have time to see the recovery since when I got it I flash CWM immediately.
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The answer is here for TWRP
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This thread had been dead for 8 months...
I am curious what the results will be if I use the factory restore within a custom rom . I'm currently running AOKP M5.1 . I am wondering if there are any unsightly ramifications to booting into TWRP and doing a factory restore and erasing the SD card contents? I would like to do this to free up as much space as possible and remove the left over remnants of over 20 flashes and a plethora of app installs. One question I have is will TWRP wipe its own directories?
Would this be better from a stock perspective? The only time I wiped my SD card I was on stock and I really don't care to experience any directory malfunctions or card mounting issues. Doing this within a custom rom will my device still know its a kindle lol?
Edit: I know that this will not restore to 6.3.1 I'm just looking to run AOKP in a clean fresh environment including the SD card thanks for any input
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I am curious what the results will be if I use the factory restore within a custom rom . I'm currently running AOKP M5.1 . I am wondering if there are any unsightly ramifications to booting into TWRP and doing a factory restore and erasing the SD card contents? I would like to do this to free up as much space as possible and remove the left over remnants of over 20 flashes and a plethora of app installs. One question I have is will TWRP wipe its own directories?
Would this be better from a stock perspective? The only time I wiped my SD card I was on stock and I really don't care to experience any directory malfunctions or card mounting issues. Doing this within a custom rom will my device still know its a kindle lol?
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You cannot wipe recovery from inside recovery, only the TWRP backups on your sdcard will be lost. The sdcard is on its own partition apart from recovery and system files.
Backups are backed up on my pc also the only time I have used factory restore is when I was going to flash something new. The idea of this seems simple I just don't want it to be problematic since I won't be doing a new flash.
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I am curious what the results will be if I use the factory restore within a custom rom . I'm currently running AOKP M5.1 . I am wondering if there are any unsightly ramifications to booting into TWRP and doing a factory restore and erasing the SD card contents? I would like to do this to free up as much space as possible and remove the left over remnants of over 20 flashes and a plethora of app installs. One question I have is will TWRP wipe its own directories?
Would this be better from a stock perspective? The only time I wiped my SD card I was on stock and I really don't care to experience any directory malfunctions or card mounting issues. Doing this within a custom rom will my device still know its a kindle lol?
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Factory data reset from a ROM will wipe the /data partition. It's effectively the same as "Wipe -> Factory Reset" from TWRP.
On the other hand, if you do the equivalent from the stock software, it too will wipe the /data partition, but it will also take the SD Card contents along with it. I learned this the hard way.
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Factory data reset from a ROM will wipe the /data partition. It's effectively the same as "Wipe -> Factory Reset" from TWRP.
On the other hand, if you do the equivalent from the stock software, it too will wipe the /data partition, but it will also take the SD Card contents along with it. I learned this the hard way.
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I would like to flush the SD for a clean start music video and apps can all be restored before I stick both feet in I want to make sure that it just gives me the spring cleaning that I'm looking for
Well here's what I decided to do I figured since I had a working rom on I would do it all from the factory restore in the rom. So I clicked factory restore and erase SD card after rebooting it prompted me to set up my Google account. After it restored my account and all my apps downloaded and installed, I moved some files to my SD that I wanted back on and did a backup through twrp. All said and done I was very excited to see that I had 4 gigs of remaining space on my SD card so I managed to clear out 2 gigs of excess clutter from what I have done on my kindle. The only downside I have noticed so far is when hooking my kindle to my computer it shows G: removable disk . ADB drivers are good but its no longer listed as kindle under my computer which isn't the first time I've seen this.The way I figure no big deal adb works and I can access my SD card contents on my computer how its listed is irrelevant.
Drivers driver drivers windows sucks lol at this point they are functioning so I will not be trying to reinstall them. Later I will try another restore and wipe my SD through twrp to see if that changes probably won't make a difference I'm just gonna do it for kicks and giggles
On a device that only has 5 gigs of storage regaining 2 more gigs of play room is substantial. There was more clutter than what I anticipated I was only hoping for a half a gig and I'm certainly thrilled by 2