For some reason this morning, my VZW GN decided to not recognize anything that is in the SD card memory. It's all still there, I can access it through the computer, even copy or add stuff to it. But it refuses to register anything unless it's new. Since there is no physical SD card, how do I get the phone to rescan the files? I've gone into CWM, wiped all cache, system, data, and even factory reset, still nothing. Reloaded CM10 ROM, restored a nandroid, neither fixed it. I can copy it all to computer and recopy to card, but there has to be an easier way.
So you can see your "SDcard" at all times except when booted into Android?
If I hook it up to a computer it's all there. In fact, it's all there through Root Explorer and CWM also. But the Android system is acting like it's blank, all photos, ringtones, etc are gone. I cleared the media cache in applications, and was preparing to copy the whole thing and reformat it, and suddenly it all came back. I don't know if clearing the media cache fixed it or what, but at the moment it's working again. Really weird to happen out of the blue.
Update Rom manager, delete .nomedia file from sdcard root directory, clear Media Storage data, reboot. Done.
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kyokeun1234 said:
Update Rom manager, delete .nomedia file from sdcard root directory, clear Media Storage data, reboot. Done.
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ROM Manager is up to date (2 updates pushed last night and this morning). I'll do the rest, thanks.
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Hey everyone, I am having a little problem... I recently did a factory reset and when the phone booted back up all the files photos and folders that were there before the reset are still there. I have tried to do it from cwm with the code from the phone and from backup and reset in every case all the folders and photos and music remain. I have cwm version 6.0.1.2 installed have rooted but have stock Rom on the phone, I have also noticed when I go in to my filenfolder and start browsing inside the internal sd card it seems laggy. Any help would be greatly appreciated
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Hey everyone, I am having a little problem... I recently did a factory reset and when the phone booted back up all the files photos and folders that were there before the reset are still there. I have tried to do it from cwm with the code from the phone and from backup and reset in every case all the folders and photos and music remain. I have cwm version 6.0.1.2 installed have rooted but have stock Rom on the phone, I have also noticed when I go in to my filenfolder and start browsing inside the internal sd card it seems laggy. Any help would be greatly appreciated
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I guess if you have CWM theb factory reset doesn't delete your files and folders. If you want to delete files and folders as well, then you can simply connect your phone to laptop and delete the files and folders from there. The files will be recreated after the restart. Also, you can try the format option from cwm. I haven't done myself, therefore please do a search to see if it'll help your needs or not.
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If you want to delete your files and folders, go into storage and wipe/reformat there. In cwm, i think it's under mounts and storage.
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If you want to delete your files and folders, go into storage and wipe/reformat there. In cwm, i think it's under mounts and storage.
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Thanks I will have to try that, I just wondering if I do that is there any chance I will delete the original rom on the on board memory?
It will delete the zip file for the ROM, but won't change the ROM you are currently running.
So, here's the deal. Last night I decided to flash one of the 4.2 ROMs to my VZW GNex. I tried doing a restore with TiBu, and afterwards Gmail and the Play Store kept force closing, so I ended up formatting cache, dalvic, and data, and installing the latest Cyanogenmod nightly. I realized that maybe my TiBu restore was wonky, so I'm just starting from scratch this time.
My question is this: Even though I'm back on 4.1.1 now, I have what looks like a second copy of my SD Card on my SD Card in the form of the 0 directory. What can I do about this? Can I delete the 0 folder? Where are the system files located now? I'm afraid that if I flash a 4.2 ROM again that I'll have 4 identical folders instead of 2, and I'll be out of memory.
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It should be possible to delete it yes.
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So, here's the deal. Last night I decided to flash one of the 4.2 ROMs to my VZW GNex. I tried doing a restore with TiBu, and afterwards Gmail and the Play Store kept force closing, so I ended up formatting cache, dalvic, and data, and installing the latest Cyanogenmod nightly. I realized that maybe my TiBu restore was wonky, so I'm just starting from scratch this time.
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wait, you went through all that because the play store and gmail were force closing? i hope that you first tried deleting the app data from the play store and gmail, and tried fixing_permissions first. usually there are easy ways to fix things instead of wasting time starting over from scratch. even deleting both apps and reinstalling them would be much easier.
upgrade to 4.2 using this guide and you will keep the old sdcard format.. no more"0" folders
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1999214
Well, I did try deleting the app data for Gmail, but I don't know how to fix permissions. I suppose I should look into that next time I have this problem.
Regarding the duplicate data, which set is being used? The set in the home directory? Or the data set in 0? I don't want to delete the wrong data, of course.
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Well, I did try deleting the app data for Gmail, but I don't know how to fix permissions. I suppose I should look into that next time I have this problem.
Regarding the duplicate data, which set is being used? The set in the home directory? Or the data set in 0? I don't want to delete the wrong data, of course.
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delete the "0" folder you shouldnt have any issues
The /0 folder? Seems like that's where all my data is now. Should I copy folders over to sdcard0 first? If I install another 4.2 based ROM, will I end up having a sdcard0/0/0 directory?
Wait.. Never mind. It seems that the /0 folder is missing now. I must have fixed it by accident or something.
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Here is my situation I came from Android rom 4.1.2 then upgraded to 4.2(gave me problems) downgraded to 4.1.2 and I am having "0 file folder" I was wondering if I can move the files/folders that is currently in "0 folder" into the regular internal storage folder.
Here it is visually I currently have [Computer>Galaxy Nexus>Internal storage>0](folder with all my data)
can it be just [Computer>Galaxy Nexus>Internal storage](with all of the data moved from "0 folder")
I have flashed a few of the different builds that have recently become available and in doing so I have had some weird happenings with my internal storage. First I had both /sdcard, and /sdcard/o where everything I had prior to flashing was in /sdcard, but now resides in /sdcard/0. I moved everything back over and all was dandy. However now I have /sdcard and in there is nothing. All my stuff is actually in mnt/shell/emulated??
I know that chadouming and the everyone else that are contributing are working hard to get a stable build of CM10.1 out to everyone, and when that happens I want to start fresh.
Now my question is how do you go about formatting your internal sdcard without screwing everything up?? Should I flash ROM, GAPPS, backup's from Nova, and Titanium then format? I just don't want to be left with a phone that won't boot for whatever reason.
typically in the past I have never done this. But contrary to some of the instructions for flashing ROMs in this forum I used too
Wipe system/factory reset
Wipe Cache
Wipe Dalvik Cache
format system, data
then flash rom then flash gapps. There is a lot I still don't understand about this stuff so any help would be appreciated.
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I have flashed a few of the different builds that have recently become available and in doing so I have had some weird happenings with my internal storage. First I had both /sdcard, and /sdcard/o where everything I had prior to flashing was in /sdcard, but now resides in /sdcard/0. I moved everything back over and all was dandy. However now I have /sdcard and in there is nothing. All my stuff is actually in mnt/shell/emulated??
I know that chadouming and the everyone else that are contributing are working hard to get a stable build of CM10.1 out to everyone, and when that happens I want to start fresh.
Now my question is how do you go about formatting your internal sdcard without screwing everything up?? Should I flash ROM, GAPPS, backup's from Nova, and Titanium then format? I just don't want to be left with a phone that won't boot for whatever reason.
typically in the past I have never done this. But contrary to some of the instructions for flashing ROMs in this forum I used too
Wipe system/factory reset
Wipe Cache
Wipe Dalvik Cache
format system, data
then flash rom then flash gapps. There is a lot I still don't understand about this stuff so any help would be appreciated.
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Ah, you didnt said that. You can't simply delete the 0 folder on sdcard. That's how thing work on android 4.2 and it's because of multi-user capabilities. put everything back in 0 folder nad it shoulbe alright. Note that it's zero and not "o"
I can't move things. I am able to select files, but it won't move them. Tried with CM file explorer and with root explorer. Won't work with either. Wouldn't be a problem if I could access them from my computer, but I can only see /sdcard when it comes up, so I can't access mnt/shell/emulated. Frustrating.
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I have downloaded a program called android commander to access internal storage on my phone via pc but I can't get it to work. I can't for the life of me even get the drivers for the phone to install correctly. Grrrr. Don't want to lose this data but I cannot seem to gain access our move it.
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i needed to move my backups from the 0 folder so plugged the phone on to pc and did it through windows.
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i needed to move my backups from the 0 folder so plugged the phone on to pc and did it through windows.
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Yes this is my problem. I can only access the /sdcard portion of the internal memory through my pc. The 0 folder along with the original /sdcard folder is now located in the above mentioned directory /mnt/shell/emulated. It's very strange, and what is more frustrating ifs that I can select the files to move them through root explorer, but when I hit paste nothing happens.
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Yes this is my problem. I can only access the /sdcard portion of the internal memory through my pc. The 0 folder along with the original /sdcard folder is now located in the above mentioned directory /mnt/shell/emulated. It's very strange, and what is more frustrating ifs that I can select the files to move them through root explorer, but when I hit paste nothing happens.
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i actually had to save to my desktop then back to sdcard. took a while but it worked.
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i actually had to save to my desktop then back to sdcard. took a while but it worked.
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That would be fine but I can't access that directory on my pc. Hence the problem.
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i installed a game called contract killer 2 and when i uninstalled it, i noticed that it didn't delete the game data but when i try to delete the folder for the data, it says it deleted but i still see it and i went into that folder and i see three files that are blank, no file names at all...one of them says that it's taking up 2gb but i try to delete it and it's still there. i even tried with adb as root with no luck, does anybody know what's going on? i included a screenshot so you can see what i'm talking about. it makes no sense, LOL if anybody knows how to fix this, that would be awesome! thanks in advance for the help!
Copy your files you want (such as backups/nandroids, photos and music) on the internal storage to your computer, boot into recovery and wipe internal SD card.
In cwm: its under mounts and storage
In twrp: select wipe, then advanced wipe and wiping the internal SD card should be an option
Once you reboot copy all of your files back to the device...then reboot the device once again and everything should be back to normal...minus the unwanted file/files
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Thanks for your help! It worked!
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So here's what I am working with. A Rooted, S-OFF Verizon M7. The ROM I have been using up until now is here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2485319. I have been running v6.22.605.4 and everything has been working well. Well, sorta. There was something eating up the storage space. To the point I only had 1GB of storage left and had no music, pictures, downloads, or anything personal on the SD. Yet it was shown as full and no file manager could show me what was taking up space. I figured some app had gone off the reservation and since it had been a while since my last reset, a refresh would be good to do anyway. I backed everything up and used TWRP to do a factory reset. That's when the trouble began.
Once I was booted back into the system and accounts were all set up I noticed my files and folders were nowhere to be found. I used ES and the HTC file manager and both show used space on the SD partition but there were no files or folders visible. Odd. So I went back into TWRP and used the file explorer there. Lo and behold, everything was still there in the sdcard folder. Files, folders, everything. Weird. So I thought I would start over from a clean device. I wiped the cache, dalvik, and data partitions, including the SD. After that was complete and verified I pushed over the 6.22.605.6 ROM, did a firmware upgrade, and flashed the ROM. Completely started over, good to go.
Well, not quite. The problem is still there. TWRP shows the usual folders on the SD that must have been created when the ROM first set up. "Pictures", "Music", etc. But when booted into the system, nothing. Oh, and now I have the apps System UI, Package Access Manager, and a host of others crashing upon startup. I tried downgrading and flashing 6.22.605.4 like I had before and still have the same issues with storage and app crashes. Which leads me to believe there is something derped in the underlying system but I can't figure out what it is.
Any help I can get is greatly appreciated!
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So here's what I am working with. A Rooted, S-OFF Verizon M7. The ROM I have been using up until now is here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2485319. I have been running v6.22.605.4 and everything has been working well. Well, sorta. There was something eating up the storage space. To the point I only had 1GB of storage left and had no music, pictures, downloads, or anything personal on the SD. Yet it was shown as full and no file manager could show me what was taking up space. I figured some app had gone off the reservation and since it had been a while since my last reset, a refresh would be good to do anyway. I backed everything up and used TWRP to do a factory reset. That's when the trouble began.
Once I was booted back into the system and accounts were all set up I noticed my files and folders were nowhere to be found. I used ES and the HTC file manager and both show used space on the SD partition but there were no files or folders visible. Odd. So I went back into TWRP and used the file explorer there. Lo and behold, everything was still there in the sdcard folder. Files, folders, everything. Weird. So I thought I would start over from a clean device. I wiped the cache, dalvik, and data partitions, including the SD. After that was complete and verified I pushed over the 6.22.605.6 ROM, did a firmware upgrade, and flashed the ROM. Completely started over, good to go.
Well, not quite. The problem is still there. TWRP shows the usual folders on the SD that must have been created when the ROM first set up. "Pictures", "Music", etc. But when booted into the system, nothing. Oh, and now I have the apps System UI, Package Access Manager, and a host of others crashing upon startup. I tried downgrading and flashing 6.22.605.4 like I had before and still have the same issues with storage and app crashes. Which leads me to believe there is something derped in the underlying system but I can't figure out what it is.
Any help I can get is greatly appreciated!
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Copy everything off while in twrp. Format SD (internal). Copy back files. Continue on.
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Copy everything off while in twrp. Format SD (internal). Copy back files. Continue on.
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Thanks for the reply. Unfortunately it didn't work. I did a total format and it didn't seem to help. I was able to get it back by using a RUU and then adding TWRP back in. Just finished about an hour ago and everything seems to be coming back as expected.
Thank you for the help!