I usually wipe and restore before custom rom. Which folde/directory if any, remains untouched by the Nexus after a wipe? I have GBs of music, etc that I would like to keep in there instead of adding all those files to my phone after every wipe.
Thanks guys, keep up the good work.
SicMe said:
I usually wipe and restore before custom rom. Which folde/directory if any, remains untouched by the Nexus after a wipe? I have GBs of music, etc that I would like to keep in there instead of adding all those files to my phone after every wipe.
Thanks guys, keep up the good work.
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/sdcard or /mnt/sdcard isn't touched.. nor is /data/media I believe
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joshnichols189 said:
/sdcard or /mnt/sdcard isn't touched.. nor is /data/media I believe
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Thanks, going to read that other thread, oops.
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If I do a factory reset via the recovery method will it actually erase any photos I have taken that are on the phone considering there is not a memory card on the phone out will they be safe?
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Yea it should
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I might be wrong but I think it stores photos on a seperate partition. Meaning it should still be there after a reset.
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xxprodigyxx11 said:
I might be wrong but I think it stores photos on a seperate partition. Meaning it should still be there after a reset.
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No it doesn't.
Because the phone doesn't have a SDcard, everything is on 1 partition. Factory reset literally removes everything. You'll lose it all. Back things up before you reset.
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If I do a factory reset via the recovery method will it actually erase any photos I have taken that are on the phone considering there is not a memory card on the phone out will they be safe?
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It'll only format /sdcard/.androidsecure as far as i know, if you do reset via recovery.
However if you do it via settings menu then It'll ask you if you want to erase sd card content or not, if you choose so, it'll erase photos and everything on sdcard, however if you don't, then it won't.
This option will come on next screen after you choose to do factory reset.
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If you wipe data/cache in clockworkmod it DOES NOT ERASE THE /sdcard
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martonikaj said:
No it doesn't.
Because the phone doesn't have a SDcard, everything is on 1 partition. Factory reset literally removes everything. You'll lose it all. Back things up before you reset.
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There is a /mnt/sdcard as if the phone actually had an SD card.
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joshnichols189 said:
There is a /mnt/sdcard as if the phone actually had an SD card.
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So there is a seperate partition?
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Thanks all for your replies, ill back up first just in case before I return it for a swap,
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xxprodigyxx11 said:
So there is a seperate partition?
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yes
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ajhavery said:
It'll only format /sdcard/.androidsecure as far as i know, if you do reset via recovery.
However if you do it via settings menu then It'll ask you if you want to erase sd card content or not, if you choose so, it'll erase photos and everything on sdcard, however if you don't, then it won't.
This option will come on next screen after you choose to do factory reset.
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I dont get that option , it just goes and wipes everything and I mean everything
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If I do a factory reset via the recovery method will it actually erase any photos I have taken that are on the phone considering there is not a memory card on the phone out will they be safe?
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No all photos still be present. A format erases everything
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I'm sorry if this has already been answered but I would like someone to lay out to me exactly what doing a data wipe with CWM will delete. Will it erase the entire internal SD card or only certain portions or what? I have found various other answered pertaining to this question but none are directly about the Galaxy Nexus. I want to make sure that I won't lose the 25 gigs of music that I just transferred on here from my old SD card. Any advice would be greatly appreciated!
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it won't touch the virtual sdcard
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Wiping from CWM will not wipe /data/media (i.e. your internel SD) if your on the latest version of CWM. It has been provisioned to be aware of that directory.
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OK thank you so much. Got the latest cwm so I should be good. I do have all my stuff backed up but it takes so long to transfer all of it.
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Hey I'm still new to Verizon g nexus and want to confirm that wiping data will not erase things like pictures, music and everything else on my internal memory
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Wiping data in custom recovery will not touch your "SD card"
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Yes. It definitely will.
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Yes I am also wondering if doing a data wipe from clockworkmod recovery will delete the sdcard partition? I am about to try as soon as all my music finishes copying over to my computer. I'll post my results here once I know.Cheers!
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dragonboydbboy said:
Yes I am also wondering if doing a data wipe from clockworkmod recovery will delete the sdcard partition? I am about to try as soon as all my music finishes copying over to my computer. I'll post my results here once I know.Cheers!
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OK thanks man. I just put all my stuff from my charge on here and don't want to have to do it again
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dragonboydbboy said:
Yes I am also wondering if doing a data wipe from clockworkmod recovery will delete the sdcard partition? I am about to try as soon as all my music finishes copying over to my computer. I'll post my results here once I know.Cheers!
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No. Wiping in clockwork mod will NOT delete anything on your "SD card".
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HTCluva said:
Hey I'm still new to Verizon g nexus and want to confirm that wiping data will not erase things like pictures, music and everything else on my internal memory
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If you're on a custom ROM and wiping from CWM Recovery, it will not wipe the virtual "SDcard".
If you're on stock ROM and doing something like unlocking the bootloader, wiping the device, it will wipe everything.
I'm on gummynex and the optimus prime recovery. I should be fine then
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Can indeed confirm that it saves the sdcard partition from a clockworckmod custom rom wipe. Yay! Thanks all!
Thanks for all the help guys
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I have an problem, i cant delete anything or download anything anymore via my phone, i can install roms that are inside, but i tried 3 roms and i keep having the problem, yesterday i i changed to TWRP recovery, could this be an problem? Any help is very apriciated, also cant put anything on the phone when mounted to pc
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eggyenergy said:
I have an problem, i cant delete anything or download anything anymore via my phone, i can install roms that are inside, but i tried 3 roms and i keep having the problem, yesterday i i changed to TWRP recovery, could this be an problem? Any help is very apriciated, also cant put anything on the phone when mounted to pc
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Fix permissions?
Use fastboot to reflash cwm, if you want.
try using http://www.wugfresh.com/
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Fix permissions?
Use fastboot to reflash cwm, if you want.
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I tried fixing permission and i will try fastboot flash recovery tonight thanks but i also seem to have 2 storage places:s sdcard0 and storage, with the same inside it, maybe this is preventing downloading and such? I tried to delete sdcard0, but one second later its back
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benb1974 said:
try using http://www.wugfresh.com/
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Can you explain me what i need brother? I really apriciate it
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I saw that the permissions of storage and sdcard0 are different, i set them the same in root explorer and rebooted and they changed back, nothing helps hope flashing CWM Recovery will help
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Yes, permissions will come back, they're set on init.rc.
https://www.codeaurora.org/gitweb/q...70ab1d0b88e4170504d645b5c685468dd8abb17;hb=jb
1 import init.tuna.usb.rc
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3 on early-init
4 export EXTERNAL_STORAGE /storage/sdcard0
5 mkdir /storage 0050 system sdcard_r
6 mkdir /storage/sdcard0 0000 system system
7 # for backwards compatibility
8 symlink /storage/sdcard0 /sdcard
9 symlink /storage/sdcard0 /mnt/sdcard
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As you can see, /sdcard/ and /mnt/sdcard are symlinks of /storage/sdcard0.
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Yes, permissions will come back, they're set on init.rc.
https://www.codeaurora.org/gitweb/q...70ab1d0b88e4170504d645b5c685468dd8abb17;hb=jb
As you can see, /sdcard/ and /mnt/sdcard are symlinks of /storage/sdcard0.
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So you have any idea what is my problem?
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So you have any idea what is my problem?
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which twrp version are you using? i used cwm 6.x after getting issues on flashing JRO03C; didn't have issues accessing my device through adb. A user over @TWRP thread suggested updating to 2.2.x.
have you tried fully wiping the device with fastboot? including userdata? then reflashing cwm, booting to recovery directly from bootloader, push rom over with adb, and reflashing rom?
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which twrp version are you using? i used cwm 6.x after getting issues on flashing JRO03C; didn't have issues accessing my device through adb. A user over @TWRP thread suggested updating to 2.2.x.
have you tried fully wiping the device with fastboot? including userdata? then reflashing cwm, booting to recovery directly from bootloader, push rom over with adb, and reflashing rom?
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Im on twrp 2.2.0 i believe, can you explain me how in an PM mate?
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I havr some knowledge of fastboot and have everything pre installed on my laptop btw
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Can i do wipe internal memory in TWRP? Or doesnt this work for my problem?
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Or format data? Any idea somebody i really could use some help
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I flashed xylon maguro 0082 odexed and it messed up my internal storage. Scrutineers I flash it created a new storage files. Thought I new what I was doing but clearly I don't. So now I go to storage/o for times to find my internals. Please help. Don't know how to correct. Hope this is the right forum.
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The directory structure has changed as of Jelly Bean 4.2.
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Is any way how to change it back? Can I revert back to stock 4.0.4 and fix it that way? Thanks for the reply.
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I guess it has to do with 4.2 using symbolic links and 4.1.2 using hard links.
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I flashed xylon maguro 0082 odexed and it messed up my internal storage. Scrutineers I flash it created a new storage files. Thought I new what I was doing but clearly I don't. So now I go to storage/o for times to find my internals. Please help. Don't know how to correct. Hope this is the right forum.
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Thesingle 0 stucture is rhe new file structure. If you're getting multiple nested 0 folders you need to update your custom recovery to prevent that from happening again.
If done properly, you should one and only one 0 folder. Best bet is to: pull all the files from your sdcard, get the latest recovery version, delete your nested 0 folders, then restore your sdcard data.
Easiest way overall: update recovery, backup sdcard, format internal storage, reboot, restore sdcard.
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Thanks. I appreciate it. Will do and let you know how's it goes.
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Used stick mount backed up and cwm 6.0.1.5 updated, formatted and restored. Now what rom to flash. !
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