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Strange issues.

I have been rooted for like 6 months now and have never really had any issues until last week. Started getting fcs on media and a lot of reboots. Flashed a couple different ROMs and stayed away from any custom kernels still having issues. So I decided to start fresh and not use TB to restore any apps, but now I keep having problems with data not working and my apps are disappearing. The last time I flashed Sprint Lovers after wiping everything and flashing the format all .zip and then I redownloaded all of my apps from the market. Everything seemed fine for a day or two and now all hell has broke loose once again. Any one have any tips or suggestions I really don't want to unroot.
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Well what symptoms are you having? Are your radios up to date, and did you install on a clean install?

Apps keep disappearing and my data randomly stops working. I'm pretty sure my radio and pri are up to date. I've ran Sprint Lovers before with no problems.
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Have you installed any sdcard speed fixes?
~ d3rk

No, haven't tried anything like that. How long does the factory SD card usually last? Could it be starting to fail?
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durandetto said:
No, haven't tried anything like that. How long does the factory SD card usually last? Could it be starting to fail?
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Did you have the apps on sd? Maybe that's the problem. Sdcards usually last for years but sometimes they can corrupt.
~ d3rk

I'm not sure if those ones were or not but its possible. That could possibly explain the media fcs when my phone would ring with a custom ring tone.
Sent from my EVO 3G

One more thing I just discovered. YouTube is one of the apps that disappeared and I go to the market and try to download it and it starts to download then nothing happens. Also most for the HTC widgets are gone now.
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This sounds exactly like a corrupted sd man. How is it working now? Did you do a full wipe and start over?
~ d3rk

I've been having problems since I did a full wipe including flashing a format all .zip. When I get more time I might try formatting my SD card.
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Start from scratch. Copy the contents of your SD card onto your computer or external hard drive. Download a fresh copy of the rom you want to flash as well as a fresh copy of amon RA v2.3. Place the PC36IMG.zip for amon RA on the root of your card and then shutdown your device. Enter the bootloader by pressing simultaneously, the down volume button and the power button until your device starts. When it starts, you'll enter the bootloader screen and pause briefly until a few lines of text scroll across the screen. Afterwards, the bootloader will automatically detect the PC36IMG.zip file and prompt you to install. Follow the prompts to install. The installation process will last less than 10 seconds. Afterwards, reboot into recovery and then go to the wipe menu and select "wipe SD card". Your card will then be formatted. Now individually select to wipe everything in the wipe menu except the SD card, being that you just wiped it. Afterwards, select return at the top. Connect your device, if not already connected, to your computer via USB and then select the "MS-USB". A drive should appear on your computer. If you have a Mac, it will appear on your desktop. Copy the rom you want to flash onto the card. Unmount the card from the computer FIRST and then unmount it from recovery by selecting the power button. Go into the flash menu and flash the rom. Afterwards, reboot into your new homescreen and then update your profile in the settings menu if you're using a sense based rom. Hopefully, your issue will be resolved. Take care and enjoy the rest of your weekend..
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Thanks for all the help, been running ok today. As soon as I get time I'm gonna try starting from scratch or maybe convince my wife I need a new SD card.
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Issue with Titanium Backup

So, I've set the Backup directory to storage/extSdCard/Titanium Backup, but then I noticed that External storage is set to /storage/sdcard0/, so what's the deal with that? :S
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That's a feature of jellybean and because of the partitioned internal. Do not worry. As long though as you point it to your 64gb external card as you have done you are OK.
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mariosraptor said:
That's a feature of jellybean and because of the partitioned internal. Do not worry. As long though as you point it to your 64gb external card as you have done you are OK.
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Thanks for the reply mariosraptor....no wonder why the Move to SD feature in the pro version doesn't really work. I tried moving an app it moves it and I see the memory card icon then when I go back it just disappears and is not listed as an app stored in the ext sd.

Yep cause the apps actually are already in the sd. It's about the partions.
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Yep cause the apps actually are already in the sd. It's about the partions.
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Yeah I know...I just thought to try the move apps to external SD card..but then it's useless.
Guess the only way is Directory bind, but then for some reason I can't find the directories for all my apps? Aren't they supposed to be in /Android/Data? I looked in there and only a few apps are there not all of them. What is the path for the apps?

XeroHertZ said:
Yeah I know...I just thought to try the move apps to external SD card..but then it's useless.
Guess the only way is Directory bind, but then for some reason I can't find the directories for all my apps? Aren't they supposed to be in /Android/Data? I looked in there and only a few apps are there not all of them. What is the path for the apps?
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I do not use directore bind. I use a more convenient solution.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2036796
You already hace root. You need a kernel with init.d support.
I have been using this since my S3.
With this I have about 9gigs to install apps in the "real" internal card. All others like game data, and photos and stuff are in my 64gb extcard which now is internal.
Just read the thread by Mattia.
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mariosraptor said:
I do not use directore bind. I use a more convenient solution.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2036796
You already hace root. You need a kernel with init.d support.
I have been using this since my S3.
With this I have about 9gigs to install apps in the "real" internal card. All others like game data, and photos and stuff are in my 64gb extcard which now is internal.
Just read the thread by Mattia.
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I have tried it and it worked but it caused me more confusion than make things easier and had trouble with the camera and gallery so I removed it. What I hated most about this mod is the reversed partitions when copying things from the pc via MTP
I may give it another try and see how it goes..

I have no problem in camera nor anywhere else.
The first time though after flash that you will open camera and it says it detected a memory card just say NO when it ask if you want to store them there.
Also in browser set phone as where to store downloaded data so you don't end up with this or that file is corrupted.
Hope this help
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mariosraptor said:
I have no problem in camera nor anywhere else.
The first time though after flash that you will open camera and it says it detected a memory card just say NO when it ask if you want to store them there.
Also in browser set phone as where to store downloaded data so you don't end up with this or that file is corrupted.
Hope this help
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Alright will consider this the next time I flash the mod...I better of start doing it from scratch after a full wipe.
Thanks again
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XeroHertZ said:
Yeah I know...I just thought to try the move apps to external SD card..but then it's useless.
Guess the only way is Directory bind, but then for some reason I can't find the directories for all my apps? Aren't they supposed to be in /Android/Data? I looked in there and only a few apps are there not all of them. What is the path for the apps?
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No, Android/Data will contains only such application which requires to download/store some external data.
All application data stores in hidden data folder, titanium backup is actually backup applications in that folder.
Directory bind useful which have big data like gameloft/navigation map. rest of data is very small and can be created again once you hard reset.

dr.ketan said:
No, Android/Data will contains only such application which requires to download/store some external data.
All application data stores in hidden data folder, titanium backup is actually backup applications in that folder.
Directory bind useful which have big data like gameloft/navigation map. rest of data is very small and can be created again once you hard reset.
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Right...thanks for clearing that up dr.ketan...I just thought if its possible to bind apps that are above 70MB coz I have several ones of those that I would like to move to the external sd.
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[Guide][How To] Fix Sdcard / Find backups after cm10.1 Flash!

We all had that problem, we can't find our backups after flashing Cm 10.1. IT IS FIXABLE! So why would you factory reset through Odin? Here is how to fix it.
Step One: Make sure you are on a ROM with the play store. (When I flashed CM10.1, I had CM10 still on my sdcard with the Gapps, so I flashed that.)
I use ES file explorer, but you use what you want. Be sure to rename any important folders just in case so the files don't over lap.
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If you play games.. BACKUP YOUR DATA! THIS PROCESS DELETES GAME AND APP DATA! I AM SORRY! USE BACKUP PRO OR TITANIUM BACKUP IF YOU ARE FAMILIAR WITH IT! YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED!
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Step Two: Go into your 0 folder and highlight everything in there except Android. Shown here:
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Step Three: Hold down on a folder and select "Move to"
Step Four: it will bring up a box, go up till you get to the parent folder, shown here, and select SDcard (Internal SD!).
Step Five: After Selecting the internal SD Card, hit "ok" and it will move everything up to your parent folder where the "0" is. You can delete the "0" Folder (Make Sure there is nothing left in there that you need!), reboot into recovery, and get your backups back!
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Hope that saves someone from doing a factory reset with Odin! Any questions just ask!

corrupt files
i tried to transfer files between my internal memory to my sd card and half the files got corrupted, and also write protected my sd card afterwards. has anyone else experienced this?

bone6606 said:
i tried to transfer files between my internal memory to my sd card and half the files got corrupted, and also write protected my sd card afterwards. has anyone else experienced this?
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the only time I saw writer protected is when I used a computer...
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Won't this just be a problem later when you go to download more stuff. The phone will continue to store files in the "0" folder and not the internal SD card or will it reroute all files to that folder from that point on?

ArmyGurl2011 said:
Won't this just be a problem later when you go to download more stuff. The phone will continue to store files in the "0" folder and not the internal SD card or will it reroute all files to that folder from that point on?
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I said in the guide to select the internal SD card. I will show you what I mean. This is what my Sdcard looks like before I delete the 0 folder.
This Should be your end result.
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Thanks for this, I had about eight "0" folders, driving me nuts!

Lobster$ said:
Thanks for this, I had about eight "0" folders, driving me nuts!
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No problem! Hope this helped fix your problem! I had about 5 0 folders and I would see everywhere people having problems with it, so I thought I would post it.
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Whiplashh said:
No problem! Hope this helped fix your problem! I had about 5 0 folders and I would see everywhere people having problems with it, so I thought I would post it.
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Only issue that I encountered was I lost a bunch of my pictures in the transfer, When I selected internal SD to move them to, a box popped up saying if I wanted to override something and I clicked yes...I wonder if that was the issue. Also I lost all of the files that I downloaded to the internal such as new roms.

Lobster$ said:
Only issue that I encountered was I lost a bunch of my pictures in the transfer, When I selected internal SD to move them to, a box popped up saying if I wanted to override something and I clicked yes...I wonder if that was the issue. Also I lost all of the files that I downloaded to the internal such as new roms.
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I didn't have that problem... you moved everything right? Maybe all add to the OP to change the picture file name. Maybe that will save ot
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Whiplashh said:
I didn't have that problem... you moved everything right? Maybe all add to the OP to change the picture file name. Maybe that will save ot
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Actually I recall that I ran out of internal memory while the move was going on so some things probably didn't make the transfer. All those "0" folders really sucked up my space!

Lobster$ said:
Actually I recall that I ran out of internal memory while the move was going on so some things probably didn't make the transfer. All those "0" folders really sucked up my space!
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When the 0 file is made, it adds extra empty folders. You could delete those
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Phone HOT constantly HEATING with 2 New Battery

My Galaxy Wonder is CONSTANTLY HEATING and made my 2 NEW batteries BULGE..
Even the phone not in "USE" the battery is CONSTANTLY HEATING w/o decreasing in temp.
Any Help Guys? Maybe its related with the Main Board.. but i didn't do anything.. I bought 2 new batteries for test if battery was defective but i got the same result. Maybe a short circuit or something? How do i fix this?
Any Expert would be much appreciated.
Crest

Crest+ said:
My Galaxy Wonder is CONSTANTLY HEATING and made my 2 NEW batteries BULGE..
Even the phone not in "USE" the battery is CONSTANTLY HEATING w/o decreasing in temp.
Any Help Guys? Maybe its related with the Main Board.. but i didn't do anything.. I bought 2 new batteries for test if battery was defective but i got the same result. Maybe a short circuit or something? How do i fix this?
Any Expert would be much appreciated.
Crest
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If it's heating up even in stand-by, that's definitely not ok. Anyway, it would have been nice to know which ROM are you using.
My honest opinion is to make a pristine install of your ROM using the steps below (all of them). It should help.
For installation, first, make sure you got the ROM and the correct Gapps on your External SD Card.
After that, enter CWM and:
clear data (factory reset)
clear dalvik cache (under the "advanced" menu)
go to "mounts & storage" and format /system. This is extremely important!
under the same menu, format /sdcard (be careful NOT to format /external_sd by mistake)
install the ROM (from the external sd)
install Gapps (from the external sd)
reboot your phone
Please, note that every step of this tutorial is mandatory!

arsradu said:
If it's heating up even in stand-by, that's definitely not ok. Anyway, it would have been nice to know which ROM are you using.
My honest opinion is to make a pristine install of your ROM using the steps below (all of them). It should help.
For installation, first, make sure you got the ROM and the correct Gapps on your External SD Card.
After that, enter CWM and:
clear data (factory reset)
clear dalvik cache (under the "advanced" menu)
go to "mounts & storage" and format /system. This is extremely important!
under the same menu, format /sdcard (be careful NOT to format /external_sd by mistake)
install the ROM (from the external sd)
install Gapps (from the external sd)
reboot your phone
Please, note that every step of this tutorial is mandatory!
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Thanks for the reply sire..
My phone ROM is stock ROM the original firmware from samsung and never been modified.
Even in standby mode the battery keeps heating u and thus battery drain occurs.
Im thinking there is some shortage or leakage or problem inside the board ( never been wet by water or any liquid substances)

Crest+ said:
Thanks for the reply sire..
My phone ROM is stock ROM the original firmware from samsung and never been modified.
Even in standby mode the battery keeps heating u and thus battery drain occurs.
Im thinking there is some shortage or leakage or problem inside the board ( never been wet by water or any liquid substances)
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Do you have any data connection on? I'm thinking an app such as Facebook or Facbook Messrenger or other IM clients that might be always trying to connect to the internet, thus making a lot of data trafic and so...making the battery heat up, which under these circumstances would be quite normal.

arsradu said:
Do you have any data connection on? I'm thinking an app such as Facebook or Facbook Messrenger or other IM clients that might be always trying to connect to the internet, thus making a lot of data trafic and so...making the battery heat up, which under these circumstances would be quite normal.
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Yes sire. No apps fresh wipe from stock recovery. On standby still heating up without turning screen on continously dropping.

Crest+ said:
Yes sire. No apps fresh wipe from stock recovery. On standby still heating up without turning screen on continously dropping.
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Well the software issues that I suspected are out off the window now. The only reason for this would be a short-circuit on the battery or the battery connectors or indeed something on the motherboard. Did you try going to a GSM service to see what's wrong with it? Diagnostics are usually free of charge. So I would recommend you to do this.

Do a fectory reset and install CPUSpy and do a screenshoot of you battery statistics. So if this is caused by an app or service, we can better see what is causing this, but if there will be nothing suspicious your phone will be a case for warranty.

honeyx said:
Do a fectory reset and install CPUSpy and do a screenshoot of you battery statistics. So if this is caused by an app or service, we can better see what is causing this, but if there will be nothing suspicious your phone will be a case for warranty.
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I dont think there will be any warranty.. I bought my phone on the first release of the unit,.
"No APPS no Programs Fresh wiped STOCK firmware"

Is this ok? i do this step by step, or i did a wrong step?
1.Wipe data/factory reset
2.Wipe cache partition
3.Format / system
4.Format / cache
5.Format / Data
6.Format / sdcard
7.Wipe Dalvik Cache
8.Fix Permissions
9.install the ROM (from the external sd)
10.install Gapps (from the external sd)
11.reboot your phone
After this i repeat again into step 1 to step 11 then im done

Dhada said:
Is this ok? i do this step by step, or i did a wrong step?
1.Wipe data/factory reset
2.Wipe cache partition
3.Format / system
4.Format / cache
5.Format / Data
6.Format / sdcard
7.Wipe Dalvik Cache
8.Fix Permissions
9.install the ROM (from the external sd)
10.install Gapps (from the external sd)
11.reboot your phone
After this i repeat again into step 1 to step 11 then im done
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It's WAAAAAYYYY too much. Read up my post, compare and you will see exactly what you need to do.
Don't waste your time doing more steps. More steps doesn't always mean better. And in this case, it's not. So, just follow those steps. Only those steps.

arsradu said:
It's WAAAAAYYYY too much. Read up my post, compare and you will see exactly what you need to do.
Don't waste your time doing more steps. More steps doesn't always mean better. And in this case, it's not. So, just follow those steps. Only those steps.
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Too bad im already restored all my backup games and apps and im tired to repeat flash this phone
PS: It takes 2days before i restore all my games ,apps , backups data

Dhada said:
Too bad im already restored all my backup games and apps and im tired to repeat flash this phone
PS: It takes 2days before i restore all my games ,apps , backups data
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2 days? How big is your memory card? ) Cause from my point of view, even if you got a 32GB full of data to restore on your SD Card, with an average speed of...let's say 5MB/s, it should still take you a lot less than 48h.
But anyway...I would recommend restoring only the data you need (if any). Not everything. It takes less time to restore and it's better when changing ROMs.
And since this is going off topic, I think that we should stop this conversation here.

arsradu said:
2 days? How big is your memory card? ) Cause from my point of view, even if you got a 32GB full of data to restore on your SD Card, with an average speed of...let's say 5MB/s, it should still take you a lot less than 48h.
But anyway...I would recommend restoring only the data you need (if any). Not everything. It takes less time to restore and it's better when changing ROMs.
And since this is going off topic, I think that we should stop this conversation here.
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yEAH its 32gig class 4, Well for now im trying to test my phone if the deepsleepmode was working, Sometimes my battery drain to much even during stambymode.

Dhada said:
yEAH its 32gig class 4, Well for now im trying to test my phone if the deepsleepmode was working, Sometimes my battery drain to much even during stambymode.
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Try this.

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Is this good?
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Yes

my battery is very hot too @@ just 15' on wifi

[Q]Something doesn't add up here..

I'm not claiming to be a mathematics expert or anything.. But.. Something doesn't add up here..
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Why is my phone suddenly telling me I'm low on free space this morning? It just updated CWM Recovery using ROM Manager then went to bed and when I woke up, turned my phone back on and all of my free space is gone into some other universe not classified by my phone.
My phone doesn't react any different, its not sluggish or glitchy, but I can't install any apps now. Any suggestions?

Looks like you are on a 4.2+ based rom. Might want to check if you have nested /0 folders. Or a quick wipe with Odin should reset it

mrevankyle said:
Looks like you are on a 4.2+ based rom. Might want to check if you have nested /0 folders. Or a quick wipe with Odin should reset it
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Agreed. ...g
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Oh yeah, I'm running RootBox 4.2 with Plasma Kernel 1.67
I did a full wipe in CWM and restored my backup from a few days ago and its the same thing.
Does the new CWM not restore old CWM backups? I've also noticed that the Fix Permissions is gone from this new CWM.

mrevankyle said:
Looks like you are on a 4.2+ based rom. Might want to check if you have nested /0 folders. Or a quick wipe with Odin should reset it
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What do you mean /0 folder? I'm having the same issues. Low memory, hardly any pics, no vid, like one or two songs, deleted a bunch of apps and still low memory. I'm now running a 4.3 rom but its the same on this and 4.2
Big dogs on the block, NOTE 1&2

try going in /data/media, and delete everything except what is in your "0" folder..

Teufel Hunden said:
What do you mean /0 folder? I'm having the same issues. Low memory, hardly any pics, no vid, like one or two songs, deleted a bunch of apps and still low memory. I'm now running a 4.3 rom but its the same on this and 4.2
Big dogs on the block, NOTE 1&2
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The "0" folders are legacy and storage duplicate files that are created when installing AOSP roms or their variant builds. .
Unless you run the CM revert .zip...or manually move the "0" folder contents back to internal storage. ..they will collect and diminish your internal storage down to nothing over time. ..g
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wase4711 said:
try going in /data/media, and delete everything except what is in your "0" folder..
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This. ..^^^^^^^....g
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I've taken to just formatting my internal storage every time I flash or restore now a days, to eliminate all this "crap" from eating up space on internal storage; when I do that, I have around 9 gigs of free space, even after setting up/restoring a rom...I lose anything that was on internal storage, but, I keep all movies/music/photos on my external card anyways, so I dont ever really "lose" anything I care about...and, things like nova backups, or anything else like that, can be stored somewhere on your external card at all times, and just get moved back to internal after you flash/restore a rom with a tool like root explorer...

That freed up a lot thanks but it still seems I have duplicate stuff in a few places it seems like, for instance the emulated, 0, and legacy folders
Big dogs on the block, NOTE 1&2

Each of these pretty much look the same when opened
Big dogs on the block, NOTE 1&2

wase4711 said:
I've taken to just formatting my internal storage every time I flash or restore now a days, to eliminate all this "crap" from eating up space on internal storage; when I do that, I have around 9 gigs of free space, . . .
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With all the different bases for the roms, unless you get used to backing up app data then formatting /data and /system between flashes, you eventually end up with a buttload of crap.

rangercaptain said:
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With all the different bases for the roms, unless you get used to backing up app data then formatting /data and /system between flashes, you eventually end up with a buttload of crap.
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yeah, and it only adds a few minutes to your restore time, and you get all that free space again...I used to just let it build up, and then try to delelte what I thought was safe, but if you just format your internal space when flashing, EVERY bit of junk is gone..

I would but Nothing ever gets saved to my ad card now, whenever that changed screwed things up
Big dogs on the block, NOTE 1&2

similar issue here on cm10.2. I wiped everything including internal storage/format data in latest twrp before installing cm10.2. had around 2gb available, and now only about 300mb after installing all my apps. How do I get the unaccounted 8gb back? I went directory by directory in solid esplorer and cant figure out whats taking the space