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Cleaning up the phone storage?

Has anyone totally cleaned out their phone storages, sd card and emmc? If so, what is the best way to do this without messing up any nandroid backups, or restores? My folders seem to be getting out of control and I'm not sure what is needed anymore. I've been a crack flasher lately, and I just think some of my problemshave to do with remnants and such left over from other ROMs. Thanks for any help.
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countryfolk07 said:
Has anyone totally cleaned out their phone storages, sd card and emmc? If so, what is the best way to do this without messing up any nandroid backups, or restores? My folders seem to be getting out of control and I'm not sure what is needed anymore. I've been a crack flasher lately, and I just think some of my problemshave to do with remnants and such left over from other ROMs. Thanks for any help.
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You can wipe them thru recovery. But if you do you wilk wipe out nandroids, photos, etc. Your best bet would be to use a file explorer and manually delete files and folders you dont want or need.

Where are the back-ups kept?

Can someone clue me in as to where the nandroid back up files are located on the sd card? I've got a pile of them that are just taking up a lot of space.
Thanks!

if u r using clockworkmod then they will be in /sdcard/clockworkmod/backup folder

Rob the plumber said:
Can someone clue me in as to where the nandroid back up files are located on the sd card? I've got a pile of them that are just taking up a lot of space.
Thanks!
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I was actually going to make a thread about this as I was wondering myself. I have too many of them too and need to get rid of some old ones.

for internal...sd card/clockwork/backup. for externel...external sd card/clockwork/ backup...

delete nandroid!?

quick question... i have about 8 nandroid backups on my phone.. problem is they are all named by date and i have no idea what is what... what i want to do is just delete them all and make 1 main nandroid back up of stock el29..blah blah... but i cant see where i can delete all the other backups... anyone know of a app or dir. where i should look and delete!?
thanks in advance!... muchas gracias por todo!
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Mine were on the SD card in the Clockwork folder or something very close to that.

Just use es file explorere and delete
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should be external sd card / Clockworkmod / backups. in that folder is all the back ups you have created. you can also rename them as well.

i usually rename mine then copy them to my laptop, then cannot get myself to delete them, i am up to 50.1 gb of nandriods right now

As stated above they should be on your external sd, under clock work mod folder.
I love the 50 gigs worth of nandroids. Lol, it's like once you start chronically flashing roms, you get especially careful of not losing things. I had about 10 before I wiped useless nandroids. I'll be on the Hoarding show eventually.
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the only reason i haven't had to delete any is because its a work laptop, no porn on it so plenty of room

Mine where in clockwork mod on sd. I have about 7 backups. I recommend that next time you nandroid, go to the folder and rename the backup so you know exactly what it Is. If you go into cw rom manager, you can designate where they are save. Don't recommend using rom manager for anything else but that
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ill go search.. i didnt recall seeing the clockworkmod directory any place.. i used to see it when i would make backups using rom manager. but i made these in recorvery...
let me look.. thank you all for responding
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FOUND IT!!!

Cool, and keep making them in recovery... Rom manager is not your friend lol
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Make sure you look on the external SD

chris-allen said:
quick question... i have about 8 nandroid backups on my phone.. problem is they are all named by date and i have no idea what is what... what i want to do is just delete them all and make 1 main nandroid back up of stock el29..blah blah... but i cant see where i can delete all the other backups... anyone know of a app or dir. where i should look and delete!?
thanks in advance!... muchas gracias por todo!
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Just came across this and thought I'd add some things, some of which were already stated too I guess.
Backups will usually be on the external SD card/clockworkmod/backup then in folders named by international date and time (GMT by the way usually)
OR depending on your recovery it could put it in to a folder 'sdcard' on your external SD card (I've seen that too).
IF you are going to rename your backup folders you should rename 'to the back of the file folder name(s) with no spaces or special characters.
AND if you don't already you should verify you nandroids too. I use the freeware app Android File Verifier from the Play store [ https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=sa.afv&hl=en ].
Few things are more fustratiing that starting a restore and having it fail - at the end. I too am an image freak on all my machines and always check my backup images.
Oh, and I can't re-iterate this enough DO NOT USE ROM MANAGER!! You will surely end up with an expensive paperweight.
Do some searching and loads of reading and put on a 'safe recovery' for the Android version you are on - GB or ICS and you'll be OK
Good luck.

[Q] How big is your Nandroid /blobs folder?

Hi! I am new to making Nadroid backups. Yesterday, I could've swore my /blobs folder was about 3GB. Today, when I made another Nandroid and it was at 6GB.
I'm on the dedup method, so my /blobs folder shouldn't be increasing. I also tried "free unused backup data" and still at 6GB.
Here's my storage usage, attached. Am I in the right ballpark or is something odd here?
P.S. If anyone has a Nandroid backup management system, let me know! I keep jumping between CWM Recovery to make them and then to Android to fix all the things CWM Recovery does wrong (like the date-for-the-file-name; it's not 1970 and the month/day/time are all incorrect) and can't do (like viewing the backups, renaming the backups, uploading the backups to cloud storage).

My blobs folder at one point was at 4gig. I deleted all my backups except for two. Went into cwm and selected free space under backup/restore and brought it down to 1.01gig.
Mind you the only backup I care about (rooted, stock with TW) is 1.8gig but I have that on external and on my computer just in case.
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KorGuy123 said:
My blobs folder at one point was at 4gig. I deleted all my backups except for two. Went into cwm and selected free space under backup/restore and brought it down to 1.01gig.
Mind you the only backup I care about (rooted, stock with TW) is 1.8gig but I have that on external and on my computer just in case.
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Hmmm...that may be it: this new backup required new blobs for whatever reason. Let me figure out a way to restore SystemUI and SecSettings to stock and then maybe delete those early backups...
How much space have you used,by chance, on the internal SD card?
~Ibrahim~

the blobs folder continues to grow with each backup. the only time it would decrease is you delete a backup then clear unused data after booting to recovery.
this blobs folder will drive your media scanner CRAZY.
my suggestion is to boot into recovery, set the backup type to .tar rather than the default .dup. This unfortunately will cause each backup to take up approx 1.5g, but that is an incredible reduction in indvidual files for the media scanner to scan. but, thats what ext sd cards are for
after making this change, if you have .dup backups you want to convert to .tar, you will have to restore each then backup again.

ikjadoon said:
Hmmm...that may be it: this new backup required new blobs for whatever reason. Let me figure out a way to restore SystemUI and SecSettings to stock and then maybe delete those early backups...
How much space have you used,by chance, on the internal SD card?
~Ibrahim~
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I formatted internal when I went to PAC-Man I've done one back since so my internal is fairly empty. (I switched to TWRP recovery and the backups are around 750mbps)
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Russ77 said:
the blobs folder continues to grow with each backup. the only time it would decrease is you delete a backup then clear unused data after booting to recovery.
this blobs folder will drive your media scanner CRAZY.
my suggestion is to boot into recovery, set the backup type to .tar rather than the default .dup. This unfortunately will cause each backup to take up approx 1.5g, but that is an incredible reduction in indvidual files for the media scanner to scan. but, thats what ext sd cards are for
after making this change, if you have .dup backups you want to convert to .tar, you will have to restore each then backup again.
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YES. YES. THAT'S THE OTHER ISSUE! These things are all related! My Media scanner, out of *nowhere*, exploded to 50% battery usage.
Going to *.tar, then. Thank you hugely.
@KorGuy
I may transition to TWRP. CWM is a fine recovery, but it's backup solution isn't up to par. Appreciate the help!

0... I don't make nandroids... use the external sd...

Quasimodem said:
0... I don't make nandroids... use the external sd...
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Wait, so how do you backup? I make Nandroids onto the external SD.

ikjadoon said:
Wait, so how do you backup? I make Nandroids onto the external SD.
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I don't make backups or use tibu...
Not sent from your phone...

Quasimodem said:
I don't make backups or use tibu...
Not sent from your phone...
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You're brave. But probably more experienced. I bootloop'd my GS3 after just trying to modify the framework-res.apk and my Nandroid saved me! But, I'm on TWRP now and it looks much better.

ikjadoon said:
You're brave. But probably more experienced. I bootloop'd my GS3 after just trying to modify the framework-res.apk and my Nandroid saved me! But, I'm on TWRP now and it looks much better.
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I've got everything I need on the SD to fix whatever... not really worried about it...
Not sent from your phone...

To be honest the huge blobs folder you are stuck with using cwm is exactly why I switched to twrp recovery and I was a long time user and big fan of cwm for a long time. But the blobs really screwed that up for me anyway. Twrp works great and is better in my opinion ...
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I'm using cwm 6.0.2.2 touch recovery and it doesn't have none of that blob folder crap
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thatsupnow said:
I'm using cwm 6.0.2.2 touch recovery and it doesn't have none of that blob folder crap
sent from the dark side of the universe....
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I just updated cwm and noticed that the default is now .tar

Good call from Koush, then. They're a good idea, but executed poorly.
But, CWM has problems for me beyond blobs: it mislabels backups without a way to rename in CWM, somehow mismatched the MD5 of my backups (until I renamed them to "backup" ), and doesn't seem to compress backups = all fixed in TWRP.
Battery life is fixed!

How do you clean your phone up?

My phone is pretty much maxed on space internally and externally.
I delete things I dont want anymore and replace with the new.
I was thinking to myself... "what would happen if I deleted everything off the internal card?"
My first guess is the phone wouldnt boot because it needs files to load the os.
Is there a program or a special way to delete everything that is NOT needed to start fresh?
I think it will be tedious and time consuming going through each folder and deleting things you dont need.
What should stay? What should go?
Anybody have any insight to this? I would appreciate it.
Thanks!!!

Formatting the SD card doesn't delete your partitions silly
I've done it before
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Nice! So I made a backup of the whole drive. When I format, will I be able to replace certain folders to get apps to work again or just restore what I want from titanium backup and that should do the trick? Whats the best way to format? Through recovery or straight from computer?
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Ahhh I could go under storage and format that way too... that the way to go?
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Yea, you can restore whatever you want from titanium and formating the SD card through recovery is the best way to do it
Just make sure that your titanium backup is somewhere else
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deviouskind said:
My phone is pretty much maxed on space internally and externally.
I delete things I dont want anymore and replace with the new.
I was thinking to myself... "what would happen if I deleted everything off the internal card?"
My first guess is the phone wouldnt boot because it needs files to load the os.
Is there a program or a special way to delete everything that is NOT needed to start fresh?
I think it will be tedious and time consuming going through each folder and deleting things you dont need.
What should stay? What should go?
Anybody have any insight to this? I would appreciate it.
Thanks!!!
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While the post above mine is true, let me give you a fair warning. Formatting will delete EVERYTHING, pics, music, etc... Make sure you have anything you want to keep backed up prior to formatting, same for external sd card. Also, if you're looking to get back to a "fresh" phone, you can always run a One Click Restore file linked in the stickied threads in development or at www.rwilco12.com
Just be sure to follow the links to get the appropriate file for this device, and read any and all instructions for anything you flash, now and in the future.
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Got it! Thanks! I have all files internal and external on computer. I will format, copy over TB files and restore some things. I will format through recovery.