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[Q] No sd-ext found. Skipping backup of sd-ext.

Does anyone else have this problem? This happens when I make a nandroid backup. I just want to make sure that this is not something that will hurt my phone or keep me from being able to restore a rom. Any help would be appreciated.
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dave2metz said:
Does anyone else have this problem? This happens when I make a nandroid backup. I just want to make sure that this is not something that will hurt my phone or keep me from being able to restore a rom. Any help would be appreciated.
Thanksyall
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I believe a nandroid only backs up your internal sd card. Its nothing to worry about. It wont hurt anything and wont cause any problems restoring a backup.

That means you don't have sd-ext is present on your sd card. EXT is simply a partition of a sd card so that you can dedicate the space to apps. Example, if you have a 2GB SD card and you partition your card to so that the 1GB will be available to apps. Other 1gb you can access it on explorer to store files, etc

Thanks for the info. How do I go about fixing it?
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Thanks for the info. How do I go about fixing it?
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create the partition cwm searches for when doing a backup.
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Hmm. OK. Thanks
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dave2metz said:
Hmm. OK. Thanks
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You don't need one....you aren't fixing anything.
EXT used to be used back in the days of the G1 because it had limited space. Now a days, phones have a ton of space and it is not really an issue.

OK. Still confused ...what do I need to do to have my sd-ext recognized.?
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You don't need to do anything. Its OK because the phone already has enough memory. This is for phones that don't have a large amount of memory. For example, the HTC G1 had like ~85 MB of memory for apps. So one had to create a separate partition on the memory card, EXT 3 or EXT 4 with at least ~500 MB to store more apps. With this phone, we get about ~1.90 GB. So there is no need for that. Anyone correct me if I'm wrong.
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dave2metz said:
OK. Still confused ...what do I need to do to have my sd-ext recognized.?
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It's attempting to back up something that no longer needs to be backed up because the information that was previously stored there is now being stored on your internal sd which IS being backed up. You don't need to do anything or worry about it, everything on your phone is being backed up except your external sd card (which no flash should touch and thus shouldn't need to be backed up). We all get the same message, it's nothing to worry about.

Wow lmfao this is comical xD answer the dude 3x n he still disnt get it xD
U want it fixed? Boot to cwm, Reformat sdcard, wen it asks for ext size put 512, swap size 0, issue "fixed" basicly useless tho on this phone, n the ext will probably b slower then the system storage, but u obviously want it to stop showin onn the log so there ye go, done

OK. Thanks for everybodies help.
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LOL thanks homeboy...
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yoft1 said:
It's attempting to back up something that no longer needs to be backed up because the information that was previously stored there is now being stored on your internal sd which IS being backed up. You don't need to do anything or worry about it, everything on your phone is being backed up except your external sd card (which no flash should touch and thus shouldn't need to be backed up). We all get the same message, it's nothing to worry about.
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Thanks for that detailed information

galaxy ace, LG
could you tell me how to make a backup for apps on the sd card, my sister and girlfriend both have **** phones where they constantly run out of space or memory so they sometimes cant even receive sms messages, my girlfriend has a galaxy ace, she can't have to many apps because the memory is crap, my sister has a crappy LG phone which gives her really bad problems, how can i turn their terrible phones into half decent phones in order to release a bit of their sd cards for app management? any bit of help would be amazing, cheers guys

"Insufficient storage available" but its a lieeee

Why does my phone give me these weird "insufficient storage" pop ups when I have free memory. I barely have any apps on my phone and I just went to update tb and it said that I have no room. Also when I move apps to sd card most of them work but some of them give me this message as well even tho I know they're lying because I know I have free memory on both the phone and sd card but I get this message and they don't let me install or move apps. Anyone have this problem before? And I've seeen it on different roms so I don't think a reflash will fix it.
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lilajrestnom said:
Why does my phone give me these weird "insufficient storage" pop ups when I have free memory. I barely have any apps on my phone and I just went to update tb and it said that I have no room. Also when I move apps to sd card most of them work but some of them give me this message as well even tho I know they're lying because I know I have free memory on both the phone and sd card but I get this message and they don't let me install or move apps. Anyone have this problem before? And I've seeen it on different roms so I don't think a reflash will fix it.
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First, what program is giving the error, and what segment of the memory is it trying to write to. If you are trying to write to the SD card and there is no room there, then you might have a problem with that. On the other hand, it may be another section.
Additionally, you may have downloaded a program that wants to allocate a very large chunk of space for itself. More than you have. Some games download their data when you first load them. They often check for sufficient space first. They can use well over half a gigabyte, so if your SD Card doesn't have that space free, it will error out.

I know wht you're talking about but I don't recall titanium backup needing an extra couple hundred Mbs to work lol.
Its happening with every freaking app I'm trying to download off the market or install off my sd card. And even the apps I'm trying to simply update off the market.
And I have like 4gbs free on my sd card and 500 mb free on the phones storage.
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There's been several ways of going about remedying this, there's the odin to stock method, the factory reset, and the clear market data method. I've personally only tried the latter 2, and they work temporarily in my experience.
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This has happened quite a few times to me.

lilajrestnom said:
Why does my phone give me these weird "insufficient storage" pop ups when I have free memory. I barely have any apps on my phone and I just went to update tb and it said that I have no room. Also when I move apps to sd card most of them work but some of them give me this message as well even tho I know they're lying because I know I have free memory on both the phone and sd card but I get this message and they don't let me install or move apps. Anyone have this problem before? And I've seeen it on different roms so I don't think a reflash will fix it.
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DONT REFLASH... lol titanium backup odex file is corrupt, remove it from system/app and uninstall TB, then download again

What hsppens is there are fragments of the old programs still In data that screw up the reinstall. Search with root explorer and nuke those bits. For instance if youtube app fails, search for youtube and a list of all files with that in the name will pop up. Nuke those files (don't forget to make r/w). Other option is odin and clean imstall.
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yeah I got that error too
Is there a app that can automatically clean old left behind files like 1click cleanup.
Hi all, I too had that problem before when I was on stock EC05 BML and had little space on internal memory. I could not upgrade Titanuim so I got so mad that I started getting into custom roms with MTD to have more space. Also helps if you get a class 10 32gb card.
I saw that the July 15, Titanium try to download from market it failed because not enough space and I was tripping but I used the lucky and it cleaned the messed up left behind odex, then install was coolio.
I also get sometimes could not parse error on .apk and never could figure it out. I guess they are not compatible with my phone since they were not downloaded from market...
Lanboy =)

lanboy said:
Is there a app that can automatically clean old left behind files like 1click cleanup.
Hi all, I too had that problem before when I was on stock EC05 BML and had little space on internal memory. I could not upgrade Titanuim so I got so mad that I started getting into custom roms with MTD to have more space. Also helps if you get a class 10 32gb card.
I saw that the July 15, Titanium try to download from market it failed because not enough space and I was tripping but I used the lucky and it cleaned the messed up left behind odex, then install was coolio.
I also get sometimes could not parse error on .apk and never could figure it out. I guess they are not compatible with my phone since they were not downloaded from market...
Lanboy =)
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A app called SDmaid has helped me in the pass.

Thank you guys. I'm going to try now and see what happens.
Edit: okay so I searched "titanium backup" in root explorer and got nothing.
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lilajrestnom said:
Thank you guys. I'm going to try now and see what happens.
Edit: okay so I searched "titanium backup" in root explorer and got nothing.
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It isn't called "Titanium Backup". It is com.something.something in /data/app/
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MДЯCЦSДИT said:
It isn't called "Titanium Backup". It is com.something.something in /data/app/
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its in data/app and its called com.kermidas.titaniumbackup-1.odex and .apk
If you delete something else you will not be able to run the program yyou delete...btw

Andy_nu said:
its in data/app and its called com.kermidas.titaniumbackup-1.odex and .apk
If you delete something else you will not be able to run the program yyou delete...btw
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I just missed the .odex file but I got it now. Thank you very very much its working now.
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lilajrestnom said:
I just missed the .odex file but I got it now. Thank you very very much its working now.
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No problem, just helping out. have fun

Titanium Backup is one of the most useful programs to come along for people who root and flash. It is well worht a few bucks ($6) to guarantee working updates, support the developer, freeze apps, batch work, and to save all your data. It pains me to see a program discussed here whose sole purpose is to cheat the developer out of a few bucks.
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kennyglass123 said:
Titanium Backup is one of the most useful programs to come along for people who root and flash. It is well worht a few bucks ($6) to guarantee working updates, support the developer, freeze apps, batch work, and to save all your data. It pains me to see a program discussed here whose sole purpose is to cheat the developer out of a few bucks.
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I just had to scroll back and re- read the whole thread. The second time around I saw the app you refered to by name. After Google searching it I realized what you are talking about. I agree with your statement and am a proud owner of Titanium Backup.
He says it will get rid of all 'corrupt data'?? I don't understand...?
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I think that this is sometimes caused by unnecessarily re-flashing the gapps when doing a dirty upgrade upgrade on cm or aokp. It also happened to me after advance-restoring data on aokp. Duplicity seems to be the main connection here. Clean installs are good for the epic's soul.
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All JPEG files automatically deleted today - CM10

So today I noticed all my photos in my gallery app were greyed out... thought it was strange. Selected one... big grey pic... then another.... and another....
These pics span the internal storage and sd card....
First I deleted the cache to the gallery app.... same result...
OK... went into es file explorer.... dcim... camera..... all JPEGs gone....
Went into the sdcard..... have multiple folders under pics main folder... all empty... except for any video files...
Then mounted on my PC... and they also don't show.
What could of happened to cause this.... I wouldn't normally care but I lost a lot of pics of my kids... that spanned 3+ years that weren't all backed up. Any help on the snowballs chance in hell of recovering this would be appreciated.... but at the very least any reasonable explanation as to why this may have happened would be much appreciated.
Thanks in advance.
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You could try pulling the sd card out, putting it in the computer directly, and then using a data restore or undelete app. As long as the sectors haven't been rewritten, they should be recoverable.
Also, this may help for the future. I use my phone to capture my kids as well. What I've been doing is using the auto upload features in both Google+ and DropBox, to back pics up in replicate. Sucks for bandwidth and battery usage, but it is what is is. lol
Hope you get them back!
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Forza Palermo!
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Mi|enko said:
You could try pulling the sd card out, putting it in the computer directly, and then using a data restore or undelete app. As long as the sectors haven't been rewritten, they should be recoverable.
Also, this may help for the future. I use my phone to capture my kids as well. What I've been doing is using the auto upload features in both Google+ and DropBox, to back pics up in replicate. Sucks for bandwidth and battery usage, but it is what is is. lol
Hope you get them back!
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I will try that when i get the chance.... just wish i knew WHY this happened. So frustrating!

So i was able to recover my files on the external sd card with a card reader.... now how would i do the same on the internal card, if we cant mount it with usb mass storage mode?

GameOver69 said:
So i was able to recover my files on the external sd card with a card reader.... now how would i do the same on the internal card, if we cant mount it with usb mass storage mode?
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There is a pc program called recova I think it's from pirova. I wiped my phone once and was able to do the deep scan and recovered them. Hope it helps good luck.
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GameOver69 said:
So i was able to recover my files on the external sd card with a card reader.... now how would i do the same on the internal card, if we cant mount it with usb mass storage mode?
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Unfortunately, I don't think that one's doable with the way the device mounts. You may be able to mount it as a drive via recovery, but I'm not sure.
Edit: Just noticed your other post. You're asking the right thing. Hope you get an answer. If CWM doesn't have it, you could try TWRP.
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Mi|enko said:
Unfortunately, I don't think that one's doable with the way the device mounts. You may be able to mount it as a drive via recovery, but I'm not sure.
Edit: Just noticed your other post. You're asking the right thing. Hope you get an answer. If CWM doesn't have it, you could try TWRP.
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Recova is what i used on the SD card and worked perfectly.
Also, i flashed TWRP... and the option isnt there either, so i will assume that its not possible on our phone yet... so for now im screwed...
am afraid to install any new programs or files, in fear of losing my more current pics, which were internally.

That happened to me too, but i am using the GS2 Tmobile, after flashing cm 9 nightlybuild. but my picture on my sd card, so i guess will use recova.
Thanks and hope you get your pictures recovered.
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It sucks that you lost quite a few pictures that mean a lot to you. I do see sincerely hope that you now understand the importance of backing up these important files. This really goes for everyone. Keep important files backed up in at least one other place, and keep it up to date. Most people don't start doing backups until they've lost something that's irreplaceable.

mediahub downloads to sd card?

Is it possible to move movies purchased thru media hub to the sd card? I've got that free download of the avengers taking up over 2gb of my internal storage right now and can't find an option to do it. I'd imagine I could do it manually somehow, but how and will it affect anything with playback?
Thanks!

Yea, it's been said on the other Avengers threads
You need to change the settings to show hidden files, go your file manager under settings, and you will see that option
Next you need to find. SamsungMediahub open it, and find the " Sd" or Hd" file and move it to the extSdcard
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thanks. i did do a search but found people kinda going back and forth on whether or not it actually worked once moved so i figured i'd just ask.
thanks though. worked great.

polarbearmc said:
thanks. i did do a search but found people kinda going back and forth on whether or not it actually worked once moved so i figured i'd just ask.
thanks though. worked great.
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NP,
It worked the same on my internal memory as it does on my extSdcard, little laggy but I turn on my Wifi like some one mention on the other thread and it worked better
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Music to external sd

I Decided to move all my music to my ext. Sd card. I went into root explorer and just moved the whole folder over. I when I go to my storage now, it shows that the 1.24 gigs of music was sucxefully transfered to external but the 1.24 gigs still shows up as misc. On my internal sd. I went to the dcim folder and there are no remnants of any of it. I cleared my dalvik and even used sd maid pro, and still no luck. any ideas of why it's still showing up on my internal? Also my cover art doesn't show up on ayer pro anymore T. Y. I. A:beer:
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There is a post in either this section or the q&a that talks about getting more space on you sd card. I'm hedging a bet it would help you. Let me see if I can come up with the link.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=33918194
That should be it. Hope it works for ya.
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ih8mydroid said:
There is a post in either this section or the q&a that talks about getting more space on you sd card. I'm hedging a bet it would help you. Let me see if I can come up with the link.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=33918194
That should be it. Hope it works for ya.
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Yea i found this post before posting...... Tried it and it didn't help... Idk it sped my phone up but still have the 1.24 gigs of misc. Thanks though for the link
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I'm very interested in this too! My only lasting complaint with my phone is not being able to have Google Music save music to the external card. If anyone can help figure this out I'd be so happy.
I love Google and android but I hate how they keep pushing external cards away and pushing the cloud so hard.
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Alex2x3 said:
I'm very interested in this too! My only lasting complaint with my phone is not being able to have Google Music save music to the external card. If anyone can help figure this out I'd be so happy.
I love Google and android but I hate how they keep pushing external cards away and pushing the cloud so hard.
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Agreed
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a duplicate of the /sdcard also resides at /data/media. you can only access this folded if you are rooted and have a root enabled file system browser like es file explorer.
if you are rooted, you can safely delete the duplicate media folder from that directory as well.

DerekPradoFLA said:
Yea i found this post before posting...... Tried it and it didn't help... Idk it sped my phone up but still have the 1.24 gigs of misc. Thanks though for the link
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Are you sure it's your music? If you click on "Miscellaneous files", it shows you exactly what it's counting and how much space it takes.
(I didn't know that until I just tried it now, so thanks!)

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