Hey, I have the galaxy nexus and I was wondering how to go about keeping titanium backup files on NY phone for when I flash more Roms . Other phones have an SD card to keep these files that does not get deleted when wiping data. Since the gnex does not have an SD card, is there anyway to have these files on my phone all the time ? Thanks!
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Steve-37 said:
Hey, I have the galaxy nexus and I was wondering how to go about keeping titanium backup files on NY phone for when I flash more Roms . Other phones have an SD card to keep these files that does not get deleted when wiping data. Since the gnex does not have an SD card, is there anyway to have these files on my phone all the time ? Thanks!
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If you are using a custom recovery like CWM, it will NOT wipe /sdcard when you wipe data.
Right, when you do a factory reset before flashing a new ROM, the internal (virtual) SD is left intact. Same goes for NAND backups made with CWM. Also, your music, pictures, etc.
Also, you can always transfer files to your computer for a second backup.
OK, so it just tells the phone this portion of memory is the SD card and to keep it. Okay thanks !
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Hello everyone. My friend rooted my EVO for me about two months ago and I went CRAZY downloading roms and themes and all sorts if stuff. The problem now is my phone is FULL and so is the SD card. So my question is what can I delete off the phone using astro and still have a functioning phone. Also what can I delete off the SD card? All I want left on my phone is to keep it rooted, keep my current rom, and be able to re sync on Google contacts. I want all the apps and other roms gone.. is my best bet to unroot, hard reset and then root again? Thanks for your help.
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All you have to do is go to recovery then wipe or factory reset if you will then wipe your sd card also
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Why don't you just delete the zips for roms that you aren't using? You can either use file explorer (or something like it) or put the SD card in a card reader to delete the roms. Should be able to delete the apk's that you don't want too.
You can also connect as a usb memory device to your computer and delete that way.
I would make a copy of your SD card at its present state just in case.
Cranbiz, that's the method I was using but Im not sure which files are pertinent and which ones aren't so i dont want to delete the wrong ones.
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I have had similar experience and this is what I've dive:
Backup your SDcard on your PC then format your SDcard, wipe everything, transfer over your desired ROM and flash.
Now you have a clean setup and can pull anything of your backup if you need to.
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hey guys im running newest build of aokp and im running very low on space
what is safe to remove from the SD card can i remove everything and just re-flash my rom or will i **** my phone up for good thanks
lots of junk folders and crap made by apps etc wanted a simple way to clean it out and start fresh
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hey guys im running newest build of aokp and im running very low on space
what is safe to remove from the SD card can i remove everything and just re-flash my rom or will i **** my phone up for good thanks
lots of junk folders and crap made by apps etc wanted a simple way to clean it out and start fresh
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Delete all the contents in /sdcard/
That's all you need to do
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Try SD Maid from market to clean out useless stuffs. Android really needs to control application files on the sdcard. This is like windows
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Zepius said:
Delete all the contents in /sdcard/
That's all you need to do
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Will this deletion method delete even ROMs and backups stored on it.
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Try deleting backups. Keep 1 or 2 and delete the rest.
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mrm43 said:
Will this deletion method delete even ROMs and backups stored on it.
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Use some common sense when deleting, like the clockworkmod folder is backups, TitaniumBackup folder is titanium backup files, and etc. ROMs are not installed on the sdcard orbviously.
Will the next nexus have a longer screen?
Biggest memory hog is backups. Like cwm or titanium
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1. In twrp can I format my internal sdcard and then flash a ROM from my external sdcard to make it completely fresh? Will this reorganize everything back to just what the ruin has in it?
2. I see allot of posts on the 4.2.1 sdcard0/0/0 issue. I have gotten the newest twrp and am told it won't do it anymore? Does it only do this when going back and fourth from 4.1 ROMs and 4.2 ROMs? And will doing ? #1 fix this mess? Doesn't seen to be taking up any space on my internal sd just seems messy and I would like to understand it more, but from what I read it's never really explained well. I know it's for multiple users.
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Hmmm.....
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blaker13 said:
1. In twrp can I format my internal sdcard and then flash a ROM from my external sdcard to make it completely fresh? Will this reorganize everything back to just what the ruin has in it?
2. I see allot of posts on the 4.2.1 sdcard0/0/0 issue. I have gotten the newest twrp and am told it won't do it anymore? Does it only do this when going back and fourth from 4.1 ROMs and 4.2 ROMs? And will doing ? #1 fix this mess? Doesn't seen to be taking up any space on my internal sd just seems messy and I would like to understand it more, but from what I read it's never really explained well. I know it's for multiple users.
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Your backups are made on the internal sd so if you format it, you'll format those as well. Also, flashing is made from the root of the internal to make sure everything goes fine.
Not so sure about your 2nd question though.
1. Yes you can. My nan backups are on my external. Once in awhile I do format internal and flash a fresh ROM. Remember though..some app settings and saved data are on internal. Also make sure you back up your pics..if you have them on internal. Make sure the files you need to flash are actually on your external before you wipe LOL
I have my nandroids and my PiCs on my external SD... and the roms I want to flash... anything else I need on the external to format my internal? Don't care about app data and stuff.
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I have my nandroids and my PiCs on my external SD... and the roms I want to flash... anything else I need on the external to format my internal? Don't care about app data and stuff.
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Could always make a backup of your efs folder before going ahead with this. Should be done either way
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I have my nandroids and my PiCs on my external SD... and the roms I want to flash... anything else I need on the external to format my internal? Don't care about app data and stuff.
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I usually just use something like root explorer and browse the folders on my internal just to be sure. Sometimes I forget there may be an apk i want and its in my download folder. And make sure you have your titanium back up stuff if thats important to you
Just recently rooted my friend's GN2, I transfered the files to the SD card and went into CWM recovery. I'm having 2 issues.
1: The phone says there's not enough room to make a backup when there clearly is. I have about 2 gigs on the internal, but but it either says I have 3mb of free space or 0.
2: I click 'install from SD' and the only file it sees is "-clockworkmod/ ".
What am I doing wrong? I personally have an S2 and it's very similar but these two things are preventing me from flashing any rom.
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Bump. Come on guys
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Every time I have that happen formatting the sd fixed it.
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Every time I have that happen formatting the sd fixed it.
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Would everything on the internal be lost?
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What I do is copy titanium backup folder and music or whatever i wanna keep. To my desktop. Format the sd. Then copy back my stuff to sd. System files remain untouched. If that doesn't work,a bad flash was taken. And full wipe and reinstall of rom,will be needed. You can do this in recovery and all will be fine. Your system files will regenerate on first boot up,after sd format.
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Sweet thanks I'll try that
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I have the Sprint Galaxy Note II with CyanogenMod flashed. Recently I reverted to stock but before I did I did a backup of the phone with CWM. I had a bunch of pics/videos on my internal storage (/sdcard). When I reverted to the backup I no longer have those pics/videos. Is there a way to mount the image somehow in windows so I can look at the files on the backup image?
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I have the Sprint Galaxy Note II with CyanogenMod flashed. Recently I reverted to stock but before I did I did a backup of the phone with CWM. I had a bunch of pics/videos on my internal storage (/sdcard). When I reverted to the backup I no longer have those pics/videos. Is there a way to mount the image somehow in windows so I can look at the files on the backup image?
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Well if you did not backup your internal sdcard then the pics/videos are lost. When you revert to stock all data except your external sdcard gets wiped.
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I have the Sprint Galaxy Note II with CyanogenMod flashed. Recently I reverted to stock but before I did I did a backup of the phone with CWM. I had a bunch of pics/videos on my internal storage (/sdcard). When I reverted to the backup I no longer have those pics/videos. Is there a way to mount the image somehow in windows so I can look at the files on the backup image?
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well. i'd say you'll have to restore your backup to the phone if you have the ability still. when you do that, make sure the things that were lost, they would have been backed up with the rom if they were on internal storage, are still there.
Plug the phone into your computer and copy all the files you dont want to lose again over to the pc.
Then revert back to stock.