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[Q] Cleaning up SD card

I have so much junk on my SD card from deleted apps, ROM downloads, original root zips. I want to format the card to get rid of the junk. I realize that it will wipe out some current data. I can reinstall that on a selected basis. What would be the proper way... Format? Re-Download and flash ROM.
Im running CM6 RC1 with Nightlys
Thanks in advance

I would just back up the data that you know you'd want (maybe pictures, or folders of certain apps) then just format the SD card. I'm not sure if there's "mission-critical" stuff in there nowadays, since Froyo lets you use the SD card a lot more (to store apps among other things), that would be up to you I think.
But you shouldn't have to flash the ROM again. I'm waiting until 32GB micro SD cards are cheaper then I'm just going to change my 8 with that.

EVOfla said:
I have so much junk on my SD card from deleted apps, ROM downloads, original root zips. I want to format the card to get rid of the junk. I realize that it will wipe out some current data. I can reinstall that on a selected basis. What would be the proper way... Format? Re-Download and flash ROM.
Im running CM6 RC1 with Nightlys
Thanks in advance
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I thought this would be a great idea the first time i looked at my sd card and realized it was halfway full after 1 day with my evo, so i backed up my photos and videos and music formatted it and installed a rooted rom, the only problem is, that flashing a rom full (rooted or unrooted, I tried both) none of the folders on the sd card get recreated, which causes a problem when taking your fist few pics, and it then lumps all photos and videos into the same folder, kinda creates a messier sdcard than I had originally anticipated, wished i had imaged the card first so i could put everything back where it belonged, even if it was just a blank folder, but thats just my 2 cents

[Q] Nandroid Hangs Before Completing - unrEVOked 3.2 [RESOLVED]

I rooted my EVO running Froyo last night using unrEVOked 3.2. Everything went fine, installed titanium backup and backed everything up.
This morning I tried to do a nandroid, and it kept hanging at various points and never completed. I would wait a good 5-10 minutes (with nothing happening), then do a battery pull. Tried this six or seven times, each time hanging at diffent points on different files.
I have s-off, and succusfully installed titanium backup and wireless tether.
I checked the sd card, there is no recovery folder after trying the nandroid. I can mount the sd card to my Win7 pc and navigate through all folders without a problem. The sd card is a class 10, 16 gb kingston card. Have had the card running just fine for two weeks prior to root.
Don't want to do anything else until I get this resolved.
Any and all suggestions appreciated.
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10/04/2010 Update
It was the sd card. I formatted a spare 8 gig card, and AMON_RA created a nandroid without a hitch.
I then ran error checking on the 16 gid sd card whick fixed a number of errors; but no dice on the nandroid. I formatted the 16 gig card and everything worked fine. Great way to test TitaniumBackup (which worked as advertised).

...hmmmm guess I'm the only one with this problem.
Using ROM Manager I flashed Amon_RA and did make a backup. Since that one succussfull backup I have the same problem. Amon will image boot and wimax, then hang on system.
anyone??

Greetings steve053,
If I were to venture a guess, I'd say your sdcard was corrupt. Maybe not completely, but corrupt is corrupt, no matter how small.
I'd advise "wiping" the card, and starting anew. Bad news, I'm sure, but if it is corrupt, and you wipe, and start anew. You'll have spent less time, and effort, that you would trying to force the issue, trying to load corrupt ROMs/backups onto your phone.
HTH
--Chris

Did you make sure that your memory card wasn't almost full? I have had my Nandroid backup stop like that......but then I realized that I didn't have enough free space on my card.

bluebeast213 said:
Did you make sure that your memory card wasn't almost full? I have had my Nandroid backup stop like that......but then I realized that I didn't have enough free space on my card.
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Thanks for the suggestion, but I'm using a new 16gb class 10 kingston card with 11gb free. Will definitely keep the free space issue in mind going forward.

CTH-EVO said:
Greetings steve053,
If I were to venture a guess, I'd say your sdcard was corrupt. Maybe not completely, but corrupt is corrupt, no matter how small.
I'd advise "wiping" the card, and starting anew. Bad news, I'm sure, but if it is corrupt, and you wipe, and start anew. You'll have spent less time, and effort, that you would trying to force the issue, trying to load corrupt ROMs/backups onto your phone.
HTH
--Chris
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Thanks Chris,
You may be onto something. My titanium backups have been hanging too, so there could be something preventing writes to the card. It's strange that Amon_RA does write the wimax and boot images; and my one succussful backup indicates that the system image is the next one backed up.
I have a spare 8 gb card that I will format and test with.
Thanks for the suggestion.
Steve

[Q] Blank SD Card?

Alright, I'm getting a notification that says Blank SD card in CM7, and on my sense ROM it said phone storage not found. Under memory in settings, it also says /mnt/emmc is not found, and my music is missing. I think this is because I loaded my own ROM that had apps to ext and a couple other storage features in it. If I take all my folders off my sd card, format it to fat32 and put them all back on, will I lose any functionality? Also, is there any other way to fix this?

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Alright, I'm getting a notification that says Blank SD card in CM7, and on my sense ROM it said phone storage not found. Under memory in settings, it also says /mnt/emmc is not found, and my music is missing. I think this is because I loaded my own ROM that had apps to ext and a couple other storage features in it. If I take all my folders off my sd card, format it to fat32 and put them all back on, will I lose any functionality? Also, is there any other way to fix this?
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Backup what you have on your sd card to your computer and then format the card to what you need. Then, put everything from your backup back on to the sd card and you should be fine.

ithrewitontheground said:
Alright, I'm getting a notification that says Blank SD card in CM7, and on my sense ROM it said phone storage not found. Under memory in settings, it also says /mnt/emmc is not found, and my music is missing. I think this is because I loaded my own ROM that had apps to ext and a couple other storage features in it. If I take all my folders off my sd card, format it to fat32 and put them all back on, will I lose any functionality? Also, is there any other way to fix this?
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This happened to me once on CM7 as well...and unfortunately I lost everything.
It wasnt the SD Card though - I dont even think it was the emmc. It was some odd error that I can only fix by doing a RUU.
And even then I had to factory wipe it through the RUU like 3 times.
Wasnt a fun experience...almost took it back to the Verizon Store.

CM 7, as do all AOSP roms, interacts with sd during boot for stuff it needs. As such, sd reformat prior to AOSP rom boot will result in failure, bootloop among the issues. So, don't do that.
If sd fails/failed already, your rom won't boot anyway, so you have to download a sense rom like Virtuous, boot it, and go from there.
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On the gingerbread leak is when it happened, and it said phone storage not found. It wouldn't let me install Apps though.
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[Q] Starting Over From CM7

Hello all. Thanks in advance for any help. I attempted some searches before posting this but didn't come up with much.
I've been using CM7 for quite some time and I quite like it. However, I've started to get some random resets, force closes, and a few other issues. I also feel like I have a lot of unused garbage saved on my memory card and that the phone is generally bogged down and slower than it used to be. Long story short, I'd like to start from scratch, including formatting my 32GB SD card.
As I said, I'm currently on CM7. I'm looking to essentially do a total factory reset and format my SD card. I may go back to Sense until a stable ICS ROM is ready. But I may also go back to CM7. Regardless, my main concern is all these apps I have that were moved to my SD card.
How do I go about saving all of my data while still starting clean? I was thinking I'd back up all app data with MyBackup Pro and save that file on my computer, and then format the SD card. After wiping, flashing a ROM, etc., I'd download MyBackup Pro and upload the data backup back to my phone. Should I also save the .apk files and use them to restore the apps? Would there be any functional advantage in redownloading all the apps individually to ensure a totally clean start? I'm thinking about going the "redownload" route just to force myself to only reinstall the apps I really want/use. If I do that, would restoring data through a batch restore in MyBackup Pro for apps that are no longer installed create any kind of conflict?
If I do save the .apks, when I restore those won't it fill up my internal memory quickly because those apps are not being moved to the SD card automatically? Maybe that's another advantage of downloading each app individually. It would allow me to manually move each app to the SD card so as to keep the used internal memory to a minimum.
I know that was long-winded. Thanks in advance for any advice.
Josh

Get Titanium Backup, backup all your apps to the sd card. They should all be in the Titanium folder on the card, so if you want to format the card too, be sure to copy that to a computer first.

sitlet said:
Get Titanium Backup, backup all your apps to the sd card. They should all be in the Titanium folder on the card, so if you want to format the card too, be sure to copy that to a computer first.
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After formatting copy the titanium backup folder back to your SD card, pop back in phone,reinstall TB,restore apps.
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And in order to wipe the phone, format/wipe everything you can in your recovery before you reflash CM7 and your Kernel. Make sure you don't wipe the titanium backup on your SD card on accident.

Thanks guys.
So Will Ti Backup put all the apps back to the SD card? I tried this once before with MyBackup Pro and my internal memory filled up because it failed to move to the SD Card automatically.

jjbehren said:
Thanks guys.
So Will Ti Backup put all the apps back to the SD card? I tried this once before with MyBackup Pro and my internal memory filled up because it failed to move to the SD Card automatically.
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Depends, if you have dta2sd flashed before restoring then yes, if not you restore apps then move them to sdcard.
Here's the dta2sd thread.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=715938
Flash rom,then gapps if applicable, then kernel if applicable, then dta2sd, Reboot ,download TB, restore apps.
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jjbehren said:
Thanks guys.
So Will Ti Backup put all the apps back to the SD card? I tried this once before with MyBackup Pro and my internal memory filled up because it failed to move to the SD Card automatically.
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Yes, if you set it to do so. In preferences (under restoration settings) there's the option "restore backups to...". You can choose all internal, all external, default (some apps automatically install to SD, most don't), or you can restore each backup to wherever it was when you backed it up.
Having all of your apps (or even a lot of them) stored on the SD card could be causing your lag. Internal memory always beats an SD card when it comes to read/write speeds. There's no need to have 200 mb free on internal storage, it's just wasted space. I don't know how much you actually have free, that was just an example. Definitely keep your important apps and apps that are heavy on resources on internal, it'll keep some of the lag at bay.
After a full wipe, I always only restore the absolutely necessary apps, even though I restore them from TB. If I ever need an app that I didn't initially restore then I'll restore it. It's like having a brand new phone when you do it that way.
If you decide to use TB, you'll need to move the TB preferences file back to your SD card after formatting... or you can just set it up again. The preferences file is on your SD in data/com.keramidas.TitaniumBackup. Copy the entire folder back to your SD if you don't want to set it up again.
Though it's been covered, I'll do a quick run down.
Do a nandroid backup + any other backup you want.
Copy the contents of your SD card to your computer.
Format your SD card.
Move the files that you need back to your SD card. Rom, kernel, TB folder & preferences folder, nandroid, whatever you want
Assuming you're using Amon Ra, wipe boot, system, data, .android_secure, SD-ext, cache, and dalvik. Since you're starting fresh, I'd wipe them one or two more times.
Flash rom and whatever other files you need.
Restore what you want to restore.
To help with lag, try increasing your VM heap size. You can do so with VM Heap Tool or Rom Toolbox. It'll help more than you'd think.
You can also try the V6 Supercharger script.
Good luck!
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Yeah. I know I have way too much stuff on my phone. I have a ton of apps, mainly games. Damn you Amazon free app of the day! I usually roll with about 100MB or so of free internal memory.
So that being said, would you move the Dalvik-Cache to the SD? I have a 32GB Sandisk Class 4 SD card.
And it really seems you guys steer clear of MyBackUp Pro, huh? I've found it much easier to use than Ti Bu.
Thanks again for the advice.

Funky SD Card Issue

I have a T-Mobile Note 3, running DomPop v4.3. A new version (v5) came out and i was like why not. So i downloaded the files to my phone, which gets downloaded to my internal SD Card by default. I then moved it to the external SD Card. Then i backed up everything using TWRP 2..8.5.0. to my external SD Card, and did a normal wipe (data, cache, storage). After that i proceed to install the file and i cannot find it in the folder. I kept looking for 5 mins but no luck. So then i think there might have been some mistake and i'll restore to the backup i just made and that's not there either. I rechecked to make sure i hadn't backed it up in the internal storage but its not there either. So i reverted back to an older backup, which was still in my external SD Card. Upon reboot, i used ES File explorer to check my external Storage and the file i copied and the backups that i made wasnt there. Another interesting thing i noticed was that my TitaniumBackup folder had 0 files. I always make backups before each install and i'm sure there was 200+ files in there. So then i do a titanium backup, download the file again, but this time i copy it to external SD Card. Then i reboot into recovery, trying to install the file but its missing again. What ?? I reboot system without doing anything further and check my external SD Card and i see that the file i copied isnt there. And the Titaniumbackup folder that i just populated like 2-3 mins ago is empty again. I've repeated the process again and again - copying the file, doing titanium backup, and only rebooting my phone, and the files keeps getting deleted. I dont think its a R/W issue because i can write to those folders in the external SD Card just fine without any issues . Its just that when i reboot its gone. So what gives?

You might be better off asking in the DomPop Q&A thread. Maybe someone has had the same issue or already solved your issue over there.

Titanium backup is funky, and can sometimes create more problems than it can solve.
If you have mismatched bootloader and reflash the backup will bork your phone, can't figure out why you would use TB, I tried it once during my Galaxy S2 days and never bothered with it.
Maybe there is a different app that works better on lollipop.
Or you could be having the internal SD card issue that some are having, there is a fix in one of the update threads try that.
Pp.

Thanks for your input guys. The issue was with my Transcend Premium 300X 64 GB external SD Card. I'm not sure what but something broke it, and broke it bad to the extent that i cannot write on it anymore. I can view the existing files in there, copy it but cannot delete it. I cannot format the SD card either. I tried using command prompt (disk part, format), softwares (SD Card Formatter, HDD Low Level Format Tool, etc) but no luck. Keeps saying its unable to format. I tried removing the write protection which was off to begin with, and scanned it multiple times with different Anti-Virus software but to no avail. And yes, i also removed the lock in the adapter. So yea, seems like i'll have to throw this one away. Unless someone knows a hard-core tool to format this sucker because i tried most of the conventional ways/tools i can find in the internet and it didnt work for me. Thanks.

Check out you tube with different search prompts, you never know, someone may have put out a video on it.
Good luck.
Pp. Cyclops