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[Q] can i delete all the stuff on my sd card

all the old roms and everything besides my pictures
or will that unroot it

shoofly said:
all the old roms and everything besides my pictures
or will that unroot it
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It won't unroot it at all. You're safe to delete whatever you want to from your sd card. I suggest copying the sd card to your computer, just so you have a good backup. Then delete whatever you want. That way you have everything backed up, just in case you ever remember something you needed, you'll have it.

k2buckley said:
It won't unroot it at all. You're safe to delete whatever you want to from your sd card. I suggest copying the sd card to your computer, just so you have a good backup. Then delete whatever you want. That way you have everything backed up, just in case you ever remember something you needed, you'll have it.
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Aren't there a couple files you need in there to be able to boot into recovery? Other than those you can delete whatever you desire. Of course some apps and rom features may work incorrectly if you delete their files. Generally the rom and apps will replace these at their next start up if they are vital.
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michaelvibe said:
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Aren't there a couple files you need in there to be able to boot into recovery? Other than those you can delete whatever you desire. Of course some apps and rom features may work incorrectly if you delete their files. Generally the rom and apps will replace these at their next start up if they are vital.
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Actually no, since when you load your recovery, it loads it to the phone, not from the sdcard, so you could go into recovery without and sdcard even, you just won't be able to do anything. And yes, as he said, if you have apps/pic backgrounds, ect that are set to read from the sdcard and you delete them you'll get errors, ect.

was wondering the same thing. thx for the info

rmitchell4209 said:
was wondering the same thing. thx for the info
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Glad to help out.

[Q] Will flashing a new ROM wipe my external micro sd card?

Hey guys, I was thinking about flashing a new ROM via CWM and I've been looking at alot of videos and tutorials online, and they all say, that when you install the new ROM you must "factory data reset" your phone from CWM. So my question is, what will that erase? Will it erase anything on my SD Card? And what programs should I use to backup my stuff, in case it does get deleted?

exdeay-dev said:
Hey guys, I was thinking about flashing a new ROM via CWM and I've been looking at alot of videos and tutorials online, and they all say, that when you install the new ROM you must "factory data reset" your phone from CWM. So my question is, what will that erase? Will it erase anything on my SD Card? And what programs should I use to backup my stuff, in case it does get deleted?
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when you do a factory reset it will wipe internal storage not external(sd card). if you want to backup your apps etc. use either titanium backup or rom toolbox to do so.

k786 said:
when you do a factory reset it will wipe internal storage not external(sd card). if you want to backup your apps etc. use either titanium backup or rom toolbox to do so.
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Thank you very much!!! But then how do I get them all back after I flash my new ROM?

exdeay-dev said:
Thank you very much!!! But then how do I get them all back after I flash my new ROM?
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once you back up your stuff. install titanium back or rom toolbox (whichever you used) from play store and select the restore option.
Edit- read this link for more detailed instructions..google is your best friend if you are not sure about something
http://www.androidtablets.net/forum...-backup-restore-apps-system-data-new-rom.html

Ok. And what will this restore? Contacts? Apps? Pictures?
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exdeay-dev said:
Ok. And what will this restore? Contacts? Apps? Pictures?
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yes it will backup the whole system (apps,music,contacts,etc)..read the link i posted in the post above yours

Ok, thank you very much, you have been of very much help Now I feel more confident in flashing ROM's.

exdeay-dev said:
Ok, thank you very much, you have been of very much help Now I feel more confident in flashing ROM's.
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one last advice before you flash read ALL the instruction 2-3 times and ONLY flash when you understand them completely. follow that advice and hopefully you will never brick or harm your phone. good luck

Ok, thank you very much, you have been of very much help Now I feel more confident in flashing ROM's.

exdeay-dev said:
Ok, thank you very much, you have been of very much help Now I feel more confident in flashing ROM's.
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no problem. if you need help with anything else just PM me..if i can help with it i definitely will

Oh, and one more thing, how do you get it to show all the stuff you have when you post? Like yours. Is that just a signature?

exdeay-dev said:
Oh, and one more thing, how do you get it to show all the stuff you have when you post? Like yours. Is that just a signature?
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yes it is a sig. you can set it in user cp

Ok, thank you again, haha I can't thank you enough times

Khizar said:
when you do a factory reset it will wipe internal storage not external(sd card). if you want to backup your apps etc. use either titanium backup or rom toolbox to do so.
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Titanium backup only does your apps and app data......I recommend Easy Backup cuz that will get your SMS, MMS, Contacts, Calender, call log and even your apps

exdeay-dev said:
Ok. And what will this restore? Contacts? Apps? Pictures?
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For photos, i recommend using G-Photos Sync feature. for apps, titanium backup, for contacts (the best you can do is export them to a vcf file transfer it to your pc then import from vcf file)
(For music i contain all the sound files on the ext-sd since factory reset doesn't touch ext-sd).
But if you have lost any of your important files, your best chance of getting them back is using hiren's boot on your pc with the undeleter tools.

[Q] Wrong time/date for nandroid backups in CWM?

Hi,
I installed CWM on my Rogers S3 using the ODIN method that doesn't trip the counter, and everything is going great, except for my nandroid backups all having the wrong date/time (the year shows as 1970). Does anyone know of a fix for this?
Thanks!

the only fix is to flash a new cwm. Not I.would STRONGLY suggest against it. I did that and I lost my imei. So I had to get a new phone. Wait
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MacTheRipperr said:
the only fix is to flash a new cwm. Not I.would STRONGLY suggest against it. I did that and I lost my imei. So I had to get a new phone. Wait
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Oh damn, that sucks. :\ Well it's not a huge issue, I can deal with it for now. Thanks for the info!

I know on my epic if I take out the battery and boot straight into cwm to do a backup it would always show the wrong date.
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Currently, this is a known issue... I would also stay away from 5.8.4.9...you lose sd card function. V. 7 works ok for now other than the date issues.
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I am having the same date issue as well. Also my CWM is not seeing my ext SD card. Any clue how to fix that.

Format your card as fat 32

jmorton10 said:
Format your card as fat 32
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I did that. CWM still not seeing the ext SD for backups or installing ZIP. However if you go into mounts and storage you can mount or unmount
either the sd or ext sd and you can format both. This is very odd. any idea. My phone is on AT&T, not that should matter.

I have CWM and it can see my exSD card fine... It does show the wrong date for the backup though... Question: Will the wrong time/date mess up the ability to restore? Has anyone ever tried to restore from the incorrectly-dated backup? Was it a :good: or did it result in :crying:?!

XooLoo said:
I have CWM and it can see my exSD card fine... It does show the wrong date for the backup though... Question: Will the wrong time/date mess up the ability to restore? Has anyone ever tried to restore from the incorrectly-dated backup? Was it a :good: or did it result in :crying:?!
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Have restored from a few nandroids without issue even though the date is wrong.

Can we just rename the folders to the correct date? Or will that screw something up?

Renaming folders is fine. Just don't rename any files inside.

kthung said:
Can we just rename the folders to the correct date? Or will that screw something up?
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I renamed the folder, and later had to restore using that folder, and it worked beautifully... that date, as it turns out, is just a label. You can change it to whatever date you want...

Rom Manager
Actually if you do a backup using Rom manager the dates come out right

Help Needed !

I just re-root my phone and some of my games and apps are gone. Is there anyway I can restore it ?

MagmaRedRuby said:
I just re-root my phone and some of my games and apps are gone. Is there anyway I can restore it ?
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What kind of backup do you have to restore from?

mf2112 said:
What kind of backup do you have to restore from?
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I use Titanium Backup.

I believe there is a batch option to Restore Missing Apps, so as long as you backed them up they should be restorable. I restore my apps and data regularly when I am testing things. Just don't restore system apps/data, that generally doesn't end well.

mf2112 said:
I believe there is a batch option to Restore Missing Apps, so as long as you backed them up they should be restorable. I restore my apps and data regularly when I am testing things. Just don't restore system apps/data, that generally doesn't end well.
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I still can't find my games and apps...

Well, I would guess that either they didn't get backed up, or if they were then the backup file was moved so Titanium can't see it. Either of those possible?

mf2112 said:
Well, I would guess that either they didn't get backed up, or if they were then the backup file was moved so Titanium can't see it. Either of those possible?
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I don't know... Or must I reinstall the apk ? It taking up my whole SD space even though I can't see the games and apps...

Titanium will reinstall the .apk if it was backed up, but if you have moved the apps to the SD card then I don't believe Titanium can back them up properly. I keep all my apps on the internal memory but I know that is not possible with some phones due to low internal memory or if you have a lot of apps. In that case you would need to move them back from the SD to the internal memory, then back them up, then move them back to the SD.
Try reinstalling the apk, maybe it will be able to relink to the SD.

mf2112 said:
Titanium will reinstall the .apk if it was backed up, but if you have moved the apps to the SD card then I don't believe Titanium can back them up properly. I keep all my apps on the internal memory but I know that is not possible with some phones due to low internal memory or if you have a lot of apps. In that case you would need to move them back from the SD to the internal memory, then back them up, then move them back to the SD.
Try reinstalling the apk, maybe it will be able to relink to the SD.
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Nothing happen.... Btw my phone is Xperia arc S and it have low internal storage..

MagmaRedRuby said:
Nothing happen.... Btw my phone is Xperia arc S and it have low internal storage..
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Unfortunately I don't know anyone from the Xperia Arc forums but I have requested that a mod move this thread over to that device's Q&A forum so you can get better device specific help than here in the XDA General forum.

mf2112 said:
Unfortunately I don't know anyone from the Xperia Arc forums but I have requested that a mod move this thread over to that device's Q&A forum so you can get better device specific help than here in the XDA General forum.
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Ok. Thanks btw.

MagmaRedRuby said:
Ok. Thanks btw.
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It impossible that apps can disappear after rooting.....have you tried reinstalling the apps ? And see if they ask to be overwritten ?
"Friends forever." - Ventus

As I don't have this phone I can only go by what I've read but this thread makes it sound like apps disappearing after moving to sdcard is a common problem
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1046594
Also I know some methods to get root on some devices will wipe system data are you sure this is not the case?
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E.Cadro said:
As I don't have this phone I can only go by what I've read but this thread makes it sound like apps disappearing after moving to sdcard is a common problem
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1046594
Also I know some methods to get root on some devices will wipe system data are you sure this is not the case?
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I think it got wipe... But why it still taking up much space ?

If your referring to the 4gb used and 3.4gb free at the bottom of your screen shot that number is the total space used by everything on your sd card not just apps. I'm guessing you have otjerthings on.your sd card ie music,pics,rom,backups so that total refers to everything on your sd card
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So what do I have to do ?
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MagmaRedRuby said:
So what do I have to do ?
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I would try and install a couple apps manually since you said titanium back up did not work. Reboot and see if they are there if not I would take a look at the thread I linked to in my prior post. If you don't have anything on your sd card like I mentioned and are still missing 4gb of space then you may need to format your sd card. This will erase everything on your card including partitions so back up anything of importance to your pc first.
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All right then.
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E.Cadro said:
I would try and install a couple apps manually since you said titanium back up did not work. Reboot and see if they are there if not I would take a look at the thread I linked to in my prior post. If you don't have anything on your sd card like I mentioned and are still missing 4gb of space then you may need to format your sd card. This will erase everything on your card including partitions so back up anything of importance to your pc first.
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Erm.. I think I need to format my SD
cause the file is still not there...
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restore via cwm or titanium backup
if u hv taken backup via cwm, restore it or if u hv taken backup via titanium backup u can restore, otherwise install again nd hv fun.

[Q] My Rom is Telling me I'm phone is almost full but...

When I look from the perspective my computer I can;t identify where I have fill all 15 GB from?
Could this be a possible error from the Rom its self or is it hidden files that wouldn't be seen by my computer that is causing these kinds of issues?
I have also tried switching to have most my app and information stored on the SD card but nothing seem to be working.
Thanks for any help in advance.

Icon000 said:
When I look from the perspective my computer I can;t identify where I have fill all 15 GB from?
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Do you take a lot of pictures and/or video? If you're using a TouchWiz-based ROM, then you can tell the camera app to use the external storage (SD card) instead of local storage.
You can move them over with any file manager app.
Otherwise, I'm not sure. It's possible you have some games installed that simply can't be moved to SD, but that's pretty rare now days.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.android.diskusage
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Nope
I don't really take any pictures nor do I store anything on my phone really.
Here are the screenshots I took of my memory usage.
My SD card is more Full than the internal memory.
I had tried doing a factory reset which did lower the totally memory usage but still had the system memory issue.

d3athsd00r said:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.android.diskusage
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Thanks for this suggestion but I tried to down load it and my phone said I didn't have enough storage despite the storage information I had previously posted.

Icon000 said:
Thanks for this suggestion but I tried to down load it and my phone said I didn't have enough storage despite the storage information I had previously posted.
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I would go for a fresh, clean install. Backup, wipe all and reflash.

BWolf56 said:
I would go for a fresh, clean install. Backup, wipe all and reflash.
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Seems like your "stuff" is all being saved in the wrong place or partition

hednik said:
Seems like your "stuff" is all being saved in the wrong place or partition
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Agreed but I don't know 100% what to do about it.
I have done a wipe but it seems like its always still full which doesn't make sense.
I looked into storage after I installed a 4.2 rom and it said I have 4.2GB from CWM but then I can't find the files to back that up when I look from the computer side.
Any Ideas?

Icon000 said:
Agreed but I don't know 100% what to do about it.
I have done a wipe but it seems like its always still full which doesn't make sense.
I looked into storage after I installed a 4.2 rom and it said I have 4.2GB from CWM but then I can't find the files to back that up when I look from the computer side.
Any Ideas?
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How many nandroid backups have you made?
I'm thinking you got a few you could get rid of.
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BWolf56 said:
How many nandroid backups have you made?
I'm thinking you got a few you could get rid of.
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I go rid of the 2 I could find but it only openned up 2GB. I;m going to try and down load the other app that was suggested see if it clears things up.
I also had 5 GB of I donknow what kind of data on my SD card labeled. Lost.dir

Icon000 said:
I go rid of the 2 I could find but it only openned up 2GB. I;m going to try and down load the other app that was suggested see if it clears things up.
I also had 5 GB of I donknow what kind of data on my SD card labeled. Lost.dir
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Lost.dir is for a repair recovery thingy for Mac I think. So basically, you can delete it's content if it's not something you wish to recover.