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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JuanOfMany said:
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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JuanOfMany said:
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")
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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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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.
Koush has released an updated CWM that mitigates the sdcard/0 folder migration, but for the users that have the /0 folders already, how are YOU fixing these extra folders?
Move every file in front of the /0 folder
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using it how theyre supposed to be used, all the files are in the 0 folder. why fight it? its not a bug of any kind, that how android is set up now. everything works properly, as it should. unless you mess with it.
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using it how theyre supposed to be used, all the files are in the 0 folder. why fight it? its not a bug of any kind, that how android is set up now. everything works properly, as it should. unless you mess with it.
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doesnt it affect your restoration of local backups?
eg. titaniumbackup, whatsapp messages, nova launcher settings
dornestic said:
dowork fine,ffect your restoration of local backups?
eg. titaniumbackup, whatsapp messages, nova launcher settings
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nope. twrp recovery backups work fine, and i sync my titanium backups to the cloud(google drive) and restore from there. i dont use whatsapp nor nova.
Flash the 4.2 stock images: profit :good: (fresh and clean sdcard with no /0 folder. (Only in recovery its visible )
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I did a clean flash of stock 4.2 takju factory image an I have data/media/0 directory as well as the usual /sdcard directory with exact same folders in both, I used a titanium backup that I moved to PC then back to my phone after flashing 4.2 image an then restored, nova layout an settings restored fine for me as I used the updated beta nova that was already updated to work with 4.2 before I did my titanium backup that I restored from.
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I accidentally deleted the contents of my SD card when installing a rom, and then I reverted back to CM 10.1. This obviously deleted all of my data, backups, ect but I had TB set up to sync with dropbox, so I had the backups. I wiped the phone and installed TB. I put the backups back onto the SD card and set the location in TB preferences. Now it will only detect a few of the backups. I've tried everything that I can think of or that I found on line but to no avail. Does anyone know a fix for this? I really don't want to lose all of my data.
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Did you install the Dropbox app and then enable Dropbox in TB's preferences?
Edit: Nevermind, I misunderstood. Usually when something like this happens to me it's do to apps being filtered out somehow. Make sure you have "All" selected for all the "Filter by..." options.
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Did you install the Dropbox app and then enable Dropbox in TB's preferences?
Edit: Nevermind, I misunderstood. Usually when something like this happens to me it's do to apps being filtered out somehow. Make sure you have "All" selected for all the "Filter by..." options.
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Thanks for the reply! Yeah, that was the first thing that I checked. There are no filters on. I even tried to reinstall TB and delete the settings file on the SD card, but it still won't recognize the backups.
I'm also gonna try to install CM 10 and see what happens. I don't have much hope though.
Ok, more info. I tried installing CM10, but it didn't do anything. When I set it to the backup directory, it only finds 13 backups, but there are well over 100 in the folder.
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I'm running out of hope, but bump.
Sorry man, but you gotta bite the bullet.
Grab a drink, go to play.google.com and reinstall the apps you want.
Has happened to me twice... makes a quick, simple flash on Sunday night turn into a tired lug to work/school on Monday morning.
My guess would be that the Dropbox sync in TB was never able to complete. Uploading gigs of files can take some time, even on a decent connection.
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Greycloak42 said:
My guess would be that the Dropbox sync in TB was never able to complete. Uploading gigs of files can take some time, even on a decent connection.
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I had something like this happen. I put a new rom on and even though I didn't do anything to my backups now in Ti backup it says im missing a ton of them. There more backups then it claims I have apps.
Anyway I deleted all the history for the app, clear all pref , reinstalled and its working now use Ti backup to uninstall its self lol
Seeeveral months later, but I had the same problem. No version of my backups would be detected, etc. Happened after an incident while redoing a ROM. And this is the only thread anywhere that seemed to say anything about the issue.
What ended up working, for whatever reason: I cleared everything from my SD, probably not entirely necessary, just remove TB and it's folder. Reinstall, update TB. Do a new backup of everything. Then I hooked the phone to the computer, copied my old stuff into the folder, overwriting the many that asked for it. When I went back to TB and did a batch restore, it picked up all the previous programs.
Unfortunately, I did have to sit with my phone, and most applications would ask if I wanted to install it, click Install, then Done, then it would move on to the next. Or if it was a system application, just hit cancel and it would skip it.
But it fixed it. So, I'm not complaining too much.
Next step is to delete all backups, do NEW backups, then go forward from there. Will probably see about doing a full wipe and TB backup, which I sure hope works.
My fix
I logged in through adb as root and found that the external SD card was being hidden from Titanium. So I just copied the files as root onto a directory next to the existing Titanium back up (the one just created that it could see) via bash command
Code:
jfltexx:/ # cp -a /storage/6163-6233/TB_orig/ /mnt/sdcard/
I think each new release the Google people decide to move around the SD card and generally make it hard for old data to be seen by Apps on the new system in the name of security or some fancy new feature.
Painful but as I could see the SD card when plugged into my laptop I knew it was really there.
I've installed Xylon 2.1.1 (based on AOSP 4.2.2) and recently did a factory reset. I noticed that all my stuff was now in a folder called something like /sdcard/0/0 rather than /sdcard/0 where it had previously been. After another reset it moved to sdcard/0/0/0. I searched for the issue and apparently it's a problem with the recovery. So I updated from an old version of CWM to the latest version of TWRP, and performed another reset. There are no more zero folders but the old ones are still there.
So my question is this: how do I fix this? Can I just copy all my old files and move them up a few levels to where they should be? Clean installs haven't solved the problem.
Funny I just posted in the nexus 7 form about this yesterday. This nesting is causing old files from old flashes to take up space and I can't delete them even with a full wipe
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murso74 said:
Funny I just posted in the nexus 7 form about this yesterday. This nesting is causing old files from old flashes to take up space and I can't delete them even with a full wipe
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I wouldn't really mind but it's giving Titanium Backup and Nandroid a lot of trouble.
I have moved the files and deleted the 0 folders. You shouldn't have a problem.
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I have moved the files and deleted the 0 folders. You shouldn't have a problem.
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That's promising. Also this is kind of off-topic but can I restore a backup I made in CWM with TWRP?
bnenenenen said:
That's promising. Also this is kind of off-topic but can I restore a backup I made in CWM with TWRP?
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No.
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No.
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Oh... why not?
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Oh... why not?
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TWRP and CWM use completely different, totally incompatible archives.
Here is a way to restore to original sdcard layout.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1999214
UPDATE: I ended up finding my files - device/mnt/shell/emulated.....how the hell did they get there?
Rather than create a new thread, I'll post my issue in here. I have a verizon galaxy nexus. I was using a 4.1.2 rom, and flashed ParanoidAndroid 3.6. Usually, I would have one of those /0/ folders on my internal storage, and I could access my old files by going to the root of the storage. I don't have the ability to do that anymore. Using ES File Explorer, I have two folders on the Device level; sdcard, and storage. sdcard has the the list of folders on my sdcard, such as alarms, camera, download, etc. These were created when my rom was flashed. Storage has emulated, and sdcard0. Emulated has 0 and legacy folders. Both of these folders contain the same files as the sdcard folder. the sdcard0 folder contains the same files as the previous mentioned folders.
How can I go in and see my files that were on my sdcard prior to flashing my 4.2 rom? Is there some what via ADB I can look through my file structure? I know the files are still there, as I had about 23GB free space prior to flashing my rom, and now I have about 21GB free.
So I've been using paranoid android for a while and I've been wanting to go to Slim Bean rom for a while. So i flashed everything correctly blah blah performed full wipe etc. Directly after the full wipe and flashing it says i have 866 MB available.. How is that possible? I just performed a full wipe, every piece of data is gone.. No apps, music, pics, or cached data and have not even a single GB of data available?
Before switching ROMS i deleted all of my themeing data - custom lockscreen and wallpaper data and widgets. They take up a ton of space. But none of that is on my phone anymore.. Why the hell am I only being granted that tiny amount of space?
Just so we're on the same page, where does it say 866mb and what all was wiped in by our full wipe?
It says 866 MB on the storage setting in settings menu and on the internal storage menu on my computer - when i plug the phone in
I would check your nandroid backups as well as your ''0'', see if there are copies of it.
You wiped your internal SD card from recovery? Or did you just wipe data?
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Rawbster said:
So I've been using paranoid android for a while and I've been wanting to go to Slim Bean rom for a while. So i flashed everything correctly blah blah performed full wipe etc. Directly after the full wipe and flashing it says i have 866 MB available.. How is that possible? I just performed a full wipe, every piece of data is gone.. No apps, music, pics, or cached data and have not even a single GB of data available?
Before switching ROMS i deleted all of my themeing data - custom lockscreen and wallpaper data and widgets. They take up a ton of space. But none of that is on my phone anymore.. Why the hell am I only being granted that tiny amount of space?
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In order to completely wipe the device, you need to wipe the sd card from recovery, or with a file manager.
Try this:
1. Download your favorite root file manager (My favorite is Root Browser Lite)
2. Check to see if your /sdcard folder is empty alternatively you can go to /data/media/0 to check this
3. If it is try navigating to /data/media/legacy/ this will be all of your stored files from before flashing to 4.2
Before deleting make sure you aren't deleting your clockwork folder or TWRP folder because that is likely where any nandroid backups would be located
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aeppacher said:
In order to completely wipe the device, you need to wipe the sd card from recovery, or with a file manager.
Try this:
1. Download your favorite root file manager (My favorite is Root Browser Lite)
2. Check to see if your /sdcard folder is empty alternatively you can go to /data/media/0 to check this
3. If it is try navigating to /data/media/legacy/ this will be all of your stored files from before flashing to 4.2
Before deleting make sure you aren't deleting your clockwork folder or TWRP folder because that is likely where any nandroid backups would be located
If I have helped slap that thanks button please.
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Ok, so I deleted a few things from my 0 file because it had duplicates of existing files in it. I gained about 1 gb of extra space from that, thanks.
But now when I go redownload an app that I once had ( i.e widget locker ) it says unknown error code during application install : -24
I was searching and I think i may have deleted the widget locker that was located in my "0" folder. Is there a way around this? Can i make a new folder titled Widget Locker or something?
Try format data.
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Try format data.
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I know how to do that but will it erase all of my data?
Rawbster said:
I know how to do that but will it erase all of my data?
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yep it will wipe everything,
so make sure you save all your photo, documents before you format
pcshano said:
yep it will wipe everything,
so make sure you save all your photo, documents before you format
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ok i'll be sure to do so. apps as well?
Rawbster said:
ok i'll be sure to do so. apps as well?
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Well if you want, make sure you save the backup on your computer
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