I recently used the toolkit to unlock and root my device, and I installed CM10 on it. I've been having hardware issues so I was going to replace my phone, but the nandroid backups that this version of Clockwork makes are extremely small, and fail when I try to restore. Someone in another thread said it also uses the files in the other folder (blops? blubs? something), so do I move the entire thing? I'm slightly confused over it. Thanks!
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So I'm running CM9 on my GSM GNex, and all of a sudden I saw that my phone was completely full (memory-wise). Upon further investigation, I saw that clockworkmod was taking up 8.9GB of space. My question is can I delete this folder. Will it kill my root/ phone?
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Night Galaxy said:
So I'm running CM9 on my GSM GNex, and all of a sudden I saw that my phone was completely full (memory-wise). Upon further investigation, I saw that clockworkmod was taking up 8.9GB of space. My question is can I delete this folder. Will it kill my root/ phone?
Thanks!
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You should check first. It holds all of your nandroid backups and ROM downloads. Probably shouldn't start blindly deleting that.
I only keep one backup at a time because nandroid backups take up a lot of space.
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joshnichols189 said:
I only keep one backup at a time because nandroid backups take up a lot of space.
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Bingo. I think my last nandroid was 2.7GB. I keep one on the phone, and transfer the others to DropBox so I can grab them if I run into serious issues and need to revert back.
To answer the original question, though, you most certainly can delete that folder; it will not kill your phone - though you won't be able to restore your nandroid backups (since they'll be gone).
I recently rooted my GS3 (I previously rooted my evo 4G, and GS2, so I am experienced in rooting / flashing), and installed the latest CWM 6.0.1.2
It's been working fine and I flashed CM10 without any issues.
However, I just noticed that in the clockworkmod directory on my phone, under backup, it's only about 22mb each. Previously all my phones would have nandroid backup around 600-900 mb!!!!
I read that they changed how the backup works, and it's more incremental now, but it still doesn't sound right. Or is it? Or is there a different folder that keeps the full backup while these are incremental backups??
please let me know
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Jb and cm 10 should be around 110-165 some where in there give or take some but 22 is way not right
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I believe things were changed as far as how backups are done. Look for a blobs folded in your backup folder. Should be significantly larger
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I've posted a few threads relating to my issue, and I keep thinking it is solved, but the issue still lingers for me. The previous posts are here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1791701
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1808195
My current issue is having a few apps write to storage. The 3 apps that are most obvious are:
Dropbox - when exporting a file, it says 'error exporting file'
Beautiful widgets - I download a skin, but it doesn't show up in the downloaded files list.
Sixaxis - I made a custom controller profile, and hit save, but it doesn't save. The folder to put downloaded profiles doesn't seem to exist.
I'm pretty sure this issue started when I used the Gnex toolkit to backup and restore when I was updating from Android 4.0.3 to 4.1.
If I knew it would help, I would go so far as to restore back to 4.0.3, and factory reset,
Anyone offer any insight into this?
Thanks
So you probably already checked this, but I remember having this problem when my sd was full...
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So you probably already checked this, but I remember having this problem when my sd was full...
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Yep, still have about 5 GB free
So just to clarify, have you changed anything with your phone such as flashing a rom, rooting, or a custom kernel?
If so you might want go back to stock and see if that fixes it.
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So just to clarify, have you changed anything with your phone such as flashing a rom, rooting, or a custom kernel?
If so you might want go back to stock and see if that fixes it.
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Yeah.
My carrier was being really slow about releasing Jelly Bean, so I rooted, and installed it myself.
It was "bigxie_JRN84D_rooted_busybox_deodexed" for 4.1 and
Maguro_JZO54K_Deodexed_Rooted_FactoryImage_teshxx for 4.1.2
Both just zipped version of the factory image. I didn't change the Kernel beyond that.
My carrier has now released the most current version now, so I could return to stock, then root again.
Sounds like a good idea, and if you're looking for a good Rom,I would suggest minco, it's as stable as stock and a whole lot faster with better battery life.
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Think I got it solved.
Previously I was doing a factory reset on the phone, so it was restoring the same ROM.
Today I used the Gnex toolkit, and flashed the stock rom from google, and re-rooted. That seems to have worked. I can export files from Dropbox no problem now.
Glad to hear it
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So I just flashed PA2.99 and now my CWM shows all kinds of paths for when I select choose zip to flash. One of them is zero? When I tried to restore CWM could not find my backups. So once I flashed a different ROM I tried to restore a titanium back up and it could not find backups. I found the SD path that the system and apps are trying to use and moved the files there and now TB worked. So my question is how do I get all my storage/SD card paths correctly defined again.
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So I just flashed PA2.99 and now my CWM shows all kinds of paths for when I select choose zip to flash. One of them is zero? When I tried to restore CWM could not find my backups. So once I flashed a different ROM I tried to restore a titanium back up and it could not find backups. I found the SD path that the system and apps are trying to use and moved the files there and now TB worked. So my question is how do I get all my storage/SD card paths correctly defined again.
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This is due to the 4.2 update. A device can have multiple users, so it takes everything on the sdcard and puts it into folder 0, because that is the first user (you). Not sure how you can remedy the situation but I figured I'd at least try to explain what/why it happened.
Would that mean that all my apps need to update to the new paths or should I move all my data to the 0 folder?
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Read the forum threads, people. There's a lot already on this.
If you've have read it first, you could avoid this.
I guess I could have tried to search it out before installing the ROM but I was unaware of the changes. If there is a way to get everything squared away that would be great.
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try this
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1999214
Ok I use Nandroid recovery to restore my phones instead or a backup app simply because (1) I'm a cheap bastage and (2) nandroid works from one phone to another as long as I root it, and I have a question. How do I delete a nandroid backup? I have three on the phone right now and I want to delete them and make a new one.
If its on the sd card somewhere, PLEASE be as specific with the file path as possible because I'm as literate about these things as a dead frog.
Al that I am sure of is rooting my Epic is easy as long as I watch qbkikng videos and whoever made cwm recovery is a friggin genius
Nandroid backups only work with the same model phone. I.e. you have a nandroid backup before flashing on an Epic, the flashing bricks it so you get a new Epic, you can restore the backup as long as you're rooted. Also the file path using CWM recovery is /sdcard/clockworkmod/backup
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Nandroid backups only work with the same model phone. I.e. you have a nandroid backup before flashing on an Epic, the flashing bricks it so you get a new Epic, you can restore the backup as long as you're rooted. Also the file path using CWM recovery is /sdcard/clockworkmod/backup
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Thanks, I know it only works with the same model phone, that makes sense to me I got my second replacement Epic in 6 days yesterday and had to root it to make it work the first one wouldn't connect to the network so it was defective according to Spring and this one basically was a good as a dead cat before root, now it runs like a champ but Titanium backup dumped 70% of my apps, so luckily for me I remembered make a nandroid backup only thing is now that everything is updated, I want to make a NEW backup just in case.
I see you already got your answer, but please next time post questions in Q&A section not development, Thanks!
Kenny, mind moving this when you get a sec?!?!
Moved!
Wolf...you in time out!
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Sorry if I put it in the wrong place.
I honestly thought I posted this in Q&A ( guess that would explain why I couldn't find it till now)