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[FIX] Internal Storage Issue GS3 even after wipe

THE FIX IS BELOW (it's the quote)
My description of my problem is below but, first off I want to say that I have made several searches on google, androidcentral, and xda about this issue and have found no solution. I have also attempted to trouble shoot the problem myself by fixing permissions, wipes, flashing backups, deleting really old backups, etc. I even purchased SD Maid Premium and deleted duplicates and ran the appcleaner.
I am running CM10. I use Titanium Backup and Clockwork Recovery Mod to backup my system and apps regularly. I was running CM10 with KT Kernel (and used KTweeker to undervolt my processor) but recently flashed a new CM10 nightly (with a fully factory data, cache, and davilk cache wipe) and kept the "baked-in" Cyanogen Kernel.
I got a notification that my internal storage was close to full (this happened right after making a backup using CWM, I was running CM10 and KT kernel at the time and had 4 additional older nandroid backups). So I went through my apps, pictures, videos, old backups etc and deleted a bunch of stuff. But I still had the storage full notification. I then wiped data, cache, and davilk cache, and flashed the latest CM10 d2att nightly and gapps4.1. Before installing any apps I went to check my storage in Storage Settings, Apps Settings, and SD Maid . In App Settings and SD Maid it showed 7.5gb used and 4.5gb free, but in Storage Settings it showed 0.4gb used and 11.6gb free. (In my research I found that this may be because my ROM (CM10) is odexed). I have done some exploring using Root Explorer and found that my /data file is 7.5gb, i have a file /storeage/sdcard0 that is also 7.5gb and a /storage/sdcard1 that is 2.3gb.
I have come to the point where I just want to fully wipe my phone and start over; i think it is called a hard reset. It would be more than a Factory Data Wipe, which I have done several times in Clockwork Recovery Mod and it always leaves behind 7.5gb of data in my storage. I dont mind loosing all my data, media, etc. It would be nice if there was a solution that did not require a "hard reset" but I am willing to do it if that is my only option. I am familiar with download mode and odin in case that needed for the hard reset.
Thanks in advance for all the help.
pdelponte said:
Fixed.
First I took all my media and files I wanted to save and transferred them over to my external sd card. Then I downloaded the zip files for the latest CM10(any rom will do) , gapps, and ktoonz kernel and transferred those over to my external sd card.
Then I rebooted into recovery. I went to mounts and storage and formated /system /data /cache and /sdcard
After that I flashed the zip files I downloaded earlier from my external sd card.
Rebooted and took this screen shot.
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You can go to mounts and storage in cwm and format everything. That pretty much wipes you clean. Fixed a similar problem I was having.
I didn't do my external sd though
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ineversl33p said:
You can go to mounts and storage in cwm and format everything. That pretty much wipes you clean. Fixed a similar problem I was having.
I didn't do my external sd though
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Will this delete a ROM (.zip) (that I would flash after the formating) from my /sdcard?
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It's an issue between our GSIII and rom manager, go to settings, then storage, then miscellaneous, wait for it to load, select rom manager, hit the delete key. This will not un install the program it will however delete your nandroids backups.
From now on only make your nandroids while in recovery and always choose ext-sd for output.
This is what fixed it for me. Please let me know if it works for you.
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I'm curious if you figured it out or not
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lostboy702 said:
It's an issue between our GSIII and rom manager, go to settings, then storage, then miscellaneous, wait for it to load, select rom manager, hit the delete key. This will not un install the program it will however delete your nandroids backups.
From now on only make your nandroids while in recovery and always choose ext-sd for output.
This is what fixed it for me. Please let me know if it works for you.
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When I go to Settings / Storage Misc pops up and says calculating... Then disappears a second later. When I try to click it during that spit second nothing happens
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Have you looked into clearing the data from rom manager?
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lostboy702 said:
Have you looked into clearing the data from rom manager?
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Couldn't find an option to clear data in Rom Manager
EDIT: LOL I'm dumb. You mean the clear data in Settings/Apps/Rom Manager?

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Couldn't find an option to clear data in Rom Manager
EDIT: LOL I'm dumb. You mean the clear data in Settings/Apps/Rom Manager?
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Cleared Data in Settings, Apps, Rom Manager. Backups are still there, I have one recent backup and a backup called "blobs" that I never made. Come to think of it, blobs showed up around the time the problem started. I read somewhere not to delete it though. What is blobs?
Also I'm still looking into formating /system /data /cache etc. Will that possibly brick my phone? Any tips?
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I'm at work now but I'll look into it and respond later today
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I'm trying to figure out the blobs as well.
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Take a look here. http://forum.xda-developers.com/archive/index.php/t-1793706.html
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I'm going to format /system /data and /cache soon but before I do I would love some feedback on if formating /system /data or /cache will unroot, brick, delete the zip I plan to flash after the formating (the zip is on my external sd) or any other pitfalls I could encounter by formating.
Thanks and I'll let you know how it works.
Edit: changed "tonight" to "soon"
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I would also very much appreciate some info on what /storage/sdcard0 and /storage/sdcard1 is. I think those are possibly what's causing me to show 7.5 gb full even after a factory reset wipe
Thanks
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You're on cyanogenmod 10 right.
0 is the phones internal storage and 1 is the ext-sd
Btw why are you should probably ditch rom manager in favor of rom toolbox pro-if you do you'll get rid of those pesky blob files
I love rom manager for its ease of use but had to ditch it because it's blobs take up so much space on my gs3, at least until they update it to allow backups to be sent to the ext-sd. again.
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I would also very much appreciate some info on what /storage/sdcard0 and /storage/sdcard1 is. I think those are possibly what's causing me to show 7.5 gb full even after a factory reset wipe
Thanks
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Fixed.
First I took all my media and files I wanted to save and transferred them over to my external sd card. Then I downloaded the zip files for the latest CM10(any rom will do) , gapps, and ktoonz kernel and transferred those over to my external sd card.
Then I rebooted into recovery. I went to mounts and storage and formated /system /data /cache and /sdcard
After that I flashed the zip files I downloaded earlier from my external sd card.
Rebooted and took this screen shot.
THANKS EVERYONE.
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pdelponte said:
Fixed.
First I took all my media and files I wanted to save and transferred them over to my external sd card. Then I downloaded the zip files for the latest CM10(any rom will do) , gapps, and ktoonz kernel and transferred those over to my external sd card.
Then I rebooted into recovery. I went to mounts and storage and formated /system /data /cache and /sdcard
After that I flashed the zip files I downloaded earlier from my external sd card.
Rebooted and took this screen shot.
THANKS EVERYONE.
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Is there any reason to think that this won't work on the verizon version with cm10.1

i had an 8gb legacy folder after doing a full wipe and reflash.. just deleted it and everything works

I didn't notice this 0 folder issue until today. Up until now I was wondering why some files seemingly disappeared etc. Then I noticed too much space unavailable. This copy this over there and all that was not working so here's what I did:
Copy what you want to keep from internal sd to external sd
Get zip of your current rom and copy to external sd
Nandroid to external sd
Remove external sd from phone
Boot into recovery
Wipe everything, data, cache, dalvik 3x for good measure
Insert external sd
Reboot recovery (ignore no OS warning)
Flash rom (creates a clean file system and installs rom)
Reboot into rom and let it load
Reboot into recovery
Factory wipe, cache, dalvik
Restore your Nandroid backup
Reboot
Tada

/storage/sdcard0 is the mount path for your internal sd card. /storage/sdcard1 is your external. /storage/emulated is the location used for the emulated card in Android 4.2 for multi user support

Why did my internal storage get wiped?

I have been on Liquidsmooth for a while, and switched to Infamous Lite from Liquidsmooth rc2. After playing around with it I tried to nandroid back to Liquidsmooth rc1 and everything went well, except it seems like my internal storage got wiped along with my Titanium Backup and a lot of other things. Is there any way to recover these things?

If you didn't wipe it, then I'm sure your files are still there. Use a file explorer to look around in your folders.

I am looking around, and I see storage, emulated, sd1, sd0, and all of them have the same files and not the ones that I had on my phone before.

Check the 0 folder?
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I checked the emulated folder, sdcard0, sdcard1, usbdisk0, and all of them are the same as the sdcard folder. I know my files need to be somewhere, 1.6GB of my internal storage is being used. I just can't see any of the files :/

ticholas said:
Check the 0 folder?
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This IS the correct answer, it creates a 0 directory, files are there....

Same happen to me. Flash back to a tw rom and they should come back
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Yes I flashed touch wiz and they came back and I copied them to my desktop. Should I just wipe internal storage and then copy everything back to my phone to free up that space?
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toobz said:
Yes I flashed touch wiz and they came back and I copied them to my desktop. Should I just wipe internal storage and then copy everything back to my phone to free up that space?
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There is a folder called "0" that contains all of your files on certain ROMs. It happened to me too. I wouldn't worry about it too much but if you want to clean it up, go for it.

Yeah I found 0, it does not contain everything unfortunately. If I wipe internal storage does my rom get wiped out too? I think my twrp has a wipe internal button.
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toobz said:
Yeah I found 0, it does not contain everything unfortunately. If I wipe internal storage does my rom get wiped out too? I think my twrp has a wipe internal button.
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If you wipe internal, it deletes everything on the device except the external SD card, yes.
If you do this, I would remove your SD card just to be on the safe side. Things go wrong sometimes as you've unfortunately found out with the data loss.

Internal SD and AOSP roms

Tried Google search and didn't get an answer to this. I flashed the PACman ROM yesterday night, and after everything booted I couldn't find my internal SD card with root explorer. Where would it be stored? I loved how responsive the ROM was and would like to try it more, but I have things on my internal SD that I need to access.
Also the SD card was not erased. I use TWRP and did a factory reset/wipe cache/wipe dalvik before I flashed. I restored my nand after trying out the ROM and everything was still there on my internal SD after reboot.
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dante32278 said:
Tried Google search and didn't get an answer to this. I flashed the PACman ROM yesterday night, and after everything booted I couldn't find my internal SD card with root explorer. Where would it be stored? I loved how responsive the ROM was and would like to try it more, but I have things on my internal SD that I need to access.
Also the SD card was not erased. I use TWRP and did a factory reset/wipe cache/wipe dalvik before I flashed. I restored my nand after trying out the ROM and everything was still there on my internal SD after reboot.
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When you flash an aosp 4.2.x ROM you will get your internal SD card repartitioned and you will have a new "0" folder upon boot and all your data should be in that "0." This happens to every 4.2.X ROM because when the new update was introduced there's a feature that allows multiple users that does this. If you want to reverse this and get rid of that "0" folder so your stuff gets saved correctly and you can access it at ease first, copy all your data from that 0 folder out to the root of your internal SD. After you have moved the contents delete the folder. Now the folder might not delete because its encrypted to prevent that so all you have to do is rename that folder and reboot TRWP recovery. If you have cwm I would flash twrp because cwm doesn't have a file manager. That being said once your in recovery hit advanced I believe and then file manager. Scroll and find internal SD, then find that folder you renamed and open it. Now at the bottom right it should have tap select and then tap delete and swipe to delete it and you should be done. Hope this helps
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jazz995756 said:
When you flash an aosp 4.2.x ROM you will get your internal SD card repartitioned and you will have a new "0" folder upon boot and all your data should be in that "0." This happens to every 4.2.X ROM because when the new update was introduced there's a feature that allows multiple users that does this. If you want to reverse this and get rid of that "0" folder so your stuff gets saved correctly and you can access it at ease first, copy all your data from that 0 folder out to the root of your internal SD. After you have moved the contents delete the folder. Now the folder might not delete because its encrypted to prevent that so all you have to do is rename that folder and reboot TRWP recovery. If you have cwm I would flash twrp because cwm doesn't have a file manager. That being said once your in recovery hit advanced I believe and then file manager. Scroll and find internal SD, then find that folder you renamed and open it. Now at the bottom right it should have tap select and then tap delete and swipe to delete it and you should be done. Hope this helps
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That helped tons, thank you I really appreciate it!!
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dante32278 said:
That helped tons, thank you I really appreciate it!!
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Your welcome glad to help :thumbup:
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OK so issue is partially resolved. When I am in pacman from 4-2-13 I can only see part of the files on my SD card. I cannot see anything on there from the last 60 days or so. I have been running TW ROMs for a while and in root explorer my internal storage shows as sdcard0 for them. Is that causing some sort of conflict with how 4.2.2 reads my SD card? How do I get everything on my internal to show in one folder? I thought about renaming sdcard0 to just sdcard on my TW ROM and then flashing 4.2.2 but I would rather ask before doing so.
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dante32278 said:
OK so issue is partially resolved. When I am in pacman from 4-2-13 I can only see part of the files on my SD card. I cannot see anything on there from the last 60 days or so. I have been running TW ROMs for a while and in root explorer my internal storage shows as sdcard0 for them. Is that causing some sort of conflict with how 4.2.2 reads my SD card? How do I get everything on my internal to show in one folder? I thought about renaming sdcard0 to just sdcard on my TW ROM and then flashing 4.2.2 but I would rather ask before doing so.
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Sdcard0 is the factory name to your internal SD card no need to mess with that, but inside that directory will be the "0" folder which is where all your stuff is if its not in there maybe its in your external SD if you have one I know my phone switches back and forth it gets annoying but I can handle it.
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How to format EXTERNAL SDCARD?

Does anyone know how to format just the external sdcard with the recovery? I'm on cwm5.0.2.6 SB I saw the option to format under mounts but it there are 2 format sdcard options does anyone know which one formats just external?
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OM13 said:
Does anyone know how to format just the external sdcard with the recovery? I'm on cwm5.0.2.6 SB I saw the option to format under mounts but it there are 2 format sdcard options does anyone know which one formats just external?
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Its been a long time since I used CWM 5.0.2.6, but can I suggest doing it via Windows on a PC? Format as FAT. Its much easier.

OM13 said:
Does anyone know how to format just the external sdcard with the recovery? I'm on cwm5.0.2.6 SB I saw the option to format under mounts but it there are 2 format sdcard options does anyone know which one formats just external?
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Its in the mounts and storage section of cwm if i remember correctly
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I tried to format in windows an keeps saying it could not format. An I did see it on mounts but there were 2 format sdcard it didn't say which sdcard whether internal or external I didn't want to pick one an it be the wrong one I just want to format the external sdcard
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This are the options on cwm recovery I didn't know which option to choose I just want to format external NOT internal
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OM13 said:
This are the options on cwm recovery I didn't know which option to choose I just want to format external NOT internal
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format/sdcard the emmc is internal sd card
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File system

Why do the emulated and sdcard0 have the same files in each?
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??
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re: emulated/sdcard0
chrisa887 said:
Why do the emulated and sdcard0 have the same files in each?
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Use /sdcard (or /storage) like it should be used and do not copy/rename/delete anything in the /data/media folder.
Anywhere else where you see the same files and folders are just a symbolic link to the actual mount located in /mnt
so all is fine there. Just ignore the emulated and sdcard0 or any other locations which points to you internal sdcard.
All this has to do with the new file structure which has options for multi-users on the phone.
Good luck!

For compatibility reasons they mount the sd card in multiple places. /sdcard, /mnt/sdcard, and now /storage/sdcard0 all point to the same location. Same with /external_sd, /mnt/external_sd, /storage/sdcard1. Old apps often hard-code the /sdcard/... path so that mountpoint (technically symbolic link) is kept around for those apps. The /mnt/ folder is where drives are typically mounted on traditional Linux systems so they moved mountpoints there, then storage was added in either 4.0 or 4.1 can't remember as a place to combine all the automounted devices into one location.
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I see. Just looked wierd for a second lol
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So when aosp comes, will it make another 0 folder like it does on 4.2?
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