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SD card space disappearing

I just rooted my phone yesterday and have been experimenting with different roms but it seems like every time I install a new rom my SD card has one less gig of free space. I am following the instructions every time I flash (clearing data, etc) but there is still less and less free space. Before I rooted I had around 8 GB free. Now I'm down to 1.5. I would really appreciate some help and I'm sorry if this is a repeat question. I searched the forums but had no luck.

Are you making nandroid backups? Each backup usually runs gig so that's probably what's happening. There should be a nandroid fodder on your sd card that they are all saved to.
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No that's not it. I have only been using titanium to back up my apps.
Is it possible that the backups that I make in clockworkmod are the reason all the space is gone? If that's the case then how do I delete the backups made there after flashing?

thebigd01 said:
No that's not it. I have only been using titanium to back up my apps.
Is it possible that the backups that I make in clockworkmod are the reason all the space is gone? If that's the case then how do I delete the backups made there after flashing?
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Yes. Your backups made with clockwork are a big space hog. You can back then up to your computer to save SD card space then remove them from you SD card. They are located on SD card in clockwork/backups
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Yup those are nandroid backups. When you make a backup with cwm in the recovery that's what's happening. Sorry, i quoted the wrong folder in previous msg. There is a clockwork folder on your sd card that contains the backup folder where they are all stored.
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Upgrading My SD Card? O.o

I'm upgrading my SD card to a 16Gs one from my old 8Gs. Is there anyway I can get all the apps back and working if I move EVERYTHING exactly as it is to the new card? Or is Titanium Backup the only way? And IF Titanium Backup is the only way, I guess there's no use of moving the app folders as Titanium Backup does backup all the app settings and data? Right?
And also, do I need to partition my SD? Because all my apps seem to run fine on SD. Does partitioning make it faster?
Thanks! \m/

Just move it all. It'll be like you never changed SD cards.
You don't need to use Titanium Backup but to answer your question, yes it saves data too.
Partition your SD if you're gonna use Link2SD or A2SD. Apps in your partition can still be used even if you have connected your phone to pc via usb. I put all widgets on my partition so I can still use them even when it's not on my internal memory. No difference in speed of running apps but apps load faster at boot because you don't have to wait for media scanning to start/finish. And more internal memory too.

So 512MB of partition becomes the internal memory? And I do use Link2SD but it moves the apps to the external memory without the partition on my 8GB card. And the apps run just fine. So why do i need the partition for?
Confused.

Copy everythng frm your current card to pc... Isert new card... Remove it n copy back everythng in new card.... Datx it
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Because when you move apps to SD not all files are moved, some of them are still taking space in your internal memory. When an app is linked all of it is moved.
And widgets don't work when you move them to SD so they're stuck in your internal memory taking up space. When it's in your partition it isn't, and widgets still work.
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I use link2SD. So i guess everything is moved to the external. The widgets dont work though. So I guess partitioning is only to move widgets to SD so and apps stored in the partition load up on boot without requiring the media scan. Correct? Are there any other uses?

Even if you moved apps to SD with link2sd unless it's linked all it moves is the apk file. If it's linked dex, lib and apk files are moved.
Read this thread for more info:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=919326

Ive done the upgrade and the apps are working. But my back, menu and lock keys aren't working. What could've gone wrong? :/

Never encountered that before. Did you move any system apps?
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Nope. Anyway, I've installed Hybrid 2.1 now. Keys are back to normal. Thanks for all your help. And by the way, I've to go the Titanium way because I had to factory reset my phone. And I have the Nandroid backup too. So if I reinstall from my Nandroid backup, will the key problem come back again? Because that was taken when I had the problem.

raolemo said:
Nope. Anyway, I've installed Hybrid 2.1 now. Keys are back to normal. Thanks for all your help. And by the way, I've to go the Titanium way because I had to factory reset my phone. And I have the Nandroid backup too. So if I reinstall from my Nandroid backup, will the key problem come back again? Because that was taken when I had the problem.
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May be yeah.... Bcoz nandroid backup restores d exact state ua phone was in wen yu took backup...
Dont be too shy.. Jus hit thanks

Turns out I'd messed up with the qwerty.kl system file.
Thanks for the help.

[Q] i just bought MicroSD 32GB

how i can move the apps that on the Old microSD to the new one ?

kingston951 said:
how i can move the apps that on the Old microSD to the new one ?
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The easiest n safest way for me..
1. Backup your old apps using titanium backups
2. Copy titanium backups folder from your old SD card to the new one..
3. Insert your new SD card to your phone, restore it using titanium back up.
4. done.

thnx

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how i can move the apps that on the Old microSD to the new one ?
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Another good method is to create a backup folder on your PC and copy your old sdcard there. Then copy it back to the new card. This has the advantage of giving you a backup in case of failure of the sdcard or the Titanium Backup not restoring properly.
Of course, if you're really OCD like I am, you could do both!
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netizenmt said:
Another good method is to create a backup folder on your PC and copy your old sdcard there. Then copy it back to the new card. This has the advantage of giving you a backup in case of failure of the sdcard or the Titanium Backup not restoring properly.
Of course, if you're really OCD like I am, you could do both!
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first, i already backed up on my PC
second, i dont have titanuim backup (i cant install it)

kingston951 said:
first, i already backed up on my PC
second, i dont have titanuim backup (i cant install it)
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First, don't be a douchebag.
Second, delete useless apps.
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if i backup all my files on the new micro, its will save the apps on it ?

No, it will save the data on it (if present). You will have to reinstall your apps, or restore them using Titanium Backup, as mentioned before. You will need root access for the last one.

someone have "titanuimback" zip for cwm ?

I don't know if there's titanium backup .zip..
why u can't install titanium backup...?
Is your device already rooted..?

yes, but i cant install it, its says that i dont have enough memory.
but i have 90Mb free.

OMG
I just move the apps on SDcard to phone (by link2SD)
and then i tried to install titanuim backup and it worked.
i guess that its installing on SDcard.
bb, thnx for the helpers

I would use my external memory card reader that I use for my Mac and plug it into my eePC and the built in sd card reader. Then all I do is copy the files straight over to my new card no problem. If I didn't have that option then I might make a disk image of my current sd card and have my new card be restored from that image. That way I could be sure that the new card is EXACTLY the same as my old one. I've burned disk images like this so I can install Linux onto a computer and I don't see why it won't work for an sd card.
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Titanium Backup restored apps, but not the data.

I flashed a new ROM. And I used Titanium to restore my apps. Everything appeared fine until i realized that many of my apps had no histories at all. I tried to restore data only for a couple of them, and there was still no data. Does anyone know what could have happened?
When I first launched Titanium on the new ROM it couldn't find any backup. I had to ask it to manually scan the entire phone before it found it.

ashwinmudigonda said:
I flashed a new ROM. And I used Titanium to restore my apps. Everything appeared fine until i realized that many of my apps had no histories at all. I tried to restore data only for a couple of them, and there was still no data. Does anyone know what could have happened?
When I first launched Titanium on the new ROM it couldn't find any backup. I had to ask it to manually scan the entire phone before it found it.
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Is there a different location you saved to such as ExtSD card? I save mine to ExtSD card and every time I flashed a new ROM I would have to go into preferences and chose the ExtSD location.

baseballfanz said:
Is there a different location you saved to such as ExtSD card? I save mine to ExtSD card and every time I flashed a new ROM I would have to go into preferences and chose the ExtSD location.
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Yeah! It appears that at some point I chose to store it on my external SD card. But that shouldn't cause the app data missing issue.

ashwinmudigonda said:
Yeah! It appears that at some point I chose to store it on my external SD card. But that shouldn't cause the app data missing issue.
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Heh, could try FolderMount and mount the files on /extSdcard to your phones internal memory, let TB find it, then unmount them. It will work but not sure why it didn't earlier.

When you want to backup anything, I recommend ease backup on the playstore. Never had an issue, always have issues with tb
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Titanium Backup/ SD card issue.

I am trying to use titanium backup on my rooted LG G3. I am specifically trying to point to where to save the back up on my sd card. The problem is titanium backup is telling me the folder I created it's not writeable.
I am able to twrp a nandroid to it and access the sd card via root explorer no problem.
Please help.
Thank you,
Whiteice.
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WhiteiceDMSTech said:
I am trying to use titanium backup on my rooted LG G3. I am specifically trying to point to where to save the back up on my sd card. The problem is titanium backup is telling me the folder I created it's not writeable.
I am able to twrp a nandroid to it and access the sd card via root explorer no problem.
Please help.
Thank you,
Whiteice.
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I used a kitkat fix sd card permissions app on the play store and it solved this problem. I used this one https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=jrummy.sdfix

digitalpirate said:
I used a kitkat fix sd card permissions app on the play store and it solved this problem. I used this one https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=jrummy.sdfix
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Looks like this is working.
Thank you so much,
Whiteice

WhiteiceDMSTech said:
I am trying to use titanium backup on my rooted LG G3. I am specifically trying to point to where to save the back up on my sd card. The problem is titanium backup is telling me the folder I created it's not writeable.
I am able to twrp a nandroid to it and access the sd card via root explorer no problem.
Please help.
Thank you,
Whiteice.
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digitalpirate said:
I used a kitkat fix sd card permissions app on the play store and it solved this problem. I used this one https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=jrummy.sdfix
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Just wondering why there are so many sdcard issues. I just put a Samsung 64Gb card in, used Titanium to back up to the sdcard and have made two nandroids to the sdcard without using the fix.