Like the title says,I have been flashing a ton of roms over the last few days,I have no idea what did it specifically,but somehow my data partition (where my apps are) is only 197mb. I have wiped data in recovery,tried different roms,restored to the stock rom,wiped data using fastboot,everything and it shows up under settings>SD&Phone Storage as "Internal Memory" Total space 197MB Available Space 161MB. This used to be like 700 something.Does anyone know how I can get it back? I have the MFG bootloader so I can flash anything with fastboot,I have amonra recovery and the stock rom on it,but I'm willing to try anything as long as it doesn't brick my phone.
nevermind,I ended up using the RUU and it fixed it. I still want to know what caused it,if anyone knows
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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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Flashed slimbean via freegee/cwm. All works fine however, the available memory shows ~20GB with a total of 23GB. The 23GB is the same as what was available with the stock firmware.
Should I have increased my memory due to slimbean being much smaller than the stock?
Or is this a case of the locked bootloader and the original rom still taking up its own space and I just boot into slimbean due to loki, thus I only have the 23GB to work with to put a ROM on and apps, etc.?
Thanks.
think I figured out the issue. . .
To answer my own question, possibly. I need to format system in cwm if I want the old ROM gone, but is that ok to do on the OGP?
formating system + works
after more reading, for anyone else who is curious, I found that formatting some of the partitions is required. If you are on stock and don't format anything and install a new rom, that rom will be put in a new folder which will take away ~3GB of space. After formatting a few of the partitions the new ROM installed properly and I have back the 23.3GB of space.
Phone Gt-N7105t Note 2
Issue turned on and gave error with data and to click to reboot to recovery and wipe data.
Tried this had twrp installed. Didn't work so I flashed it again and it booted. My issue is I now have lost all internal sd contents and /data partition (SMS etc).
Tried
http://forum.xda-developers.com/gal...de-internal-memory-data-recovery-yes-t1994705
The result was only what you would expect from a fresh flash.
I am wondering if anyone knows a way of recovering data after flash (like hdd) which could work.
I really want to get as much back if possible.
Also does anyone know how much google/Samsung backups get?
Thanks in advance.
iDi0t
I'm trying to do my first custom ROM flash via CWM, but every time I've tried to backup it says I can't backup /data. I'm not sure if it may be related to a size issue? I have a 16gb phone with 6.21gb free, and a microSD with about 3.7gb free when formatted. If this is the issue, could I possibly backup to my PC? Also, is it normal to have 6.26gb of system memory used, and if not, how can I find out what's taking up the extra space? Thanks for any help, and bear with me, I'm still learning lol.
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I messed up my boot.img and had to totally revert to stock, but when I was preparing to flash my custom rom back with TWRP I ran out of space. This phone is a 32GB phone, which meant I usually got at least 20G in storage space, which is evident when I look at my last sdcard backup that takes exactly 20G. However, looking at the internal storage settings after resetting, it says I only have 16G of data, with 10G of that as usable sdcard data.
What the hell? How is it possible that the phone only thinks I have half the data? There isn't even a 16GB variant of this phone... :/ I'm very confused and I have no idea what to do. Please help.
EDIT
Okay, I solved the problem but I'll just edit this in case anyone else has the same issue. When I was flashing stock image with Odin I could use the CSC file (clean wipe) or the USERDATA file (keep files and apps). I selected USERDATA, but discovered it had erased my data and apps anyway. However what it seemed to have done was kept them on the device, just on a different partition or something, I don't know. But they were still there using up the space even though I had no access to them. So I reflashed the stock image and used CSC clean wipe, and now my phone is once again a 32GB phone lol.