Hello everyone. My friend rooted my EVO for me about two months ago and I went CRAZY downloading roms and themes and all sorts if stuff. The problem now is my phone is FULL and so is the SD card. So my question is what can I delete off the phone using astro and still have a functioning phone. Also what can I delete off the SD card? All I want left on my phone is to keep it rooted, keep my current rom, and be able to re sync on Google contacts. I want all the apps and other roms gone.. is my best bet to unroot, hard reset and then root again? Thanks for your help.
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All you have to do is go to recovery then wipe or factory reset if you will then wipe your sd card also
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Why don't you just delete the zips for roms that you aren't using? You can either use file explorer (or something like it) or put the SD card in a card reader to delete the roms. Should be able to delete the apk's that you don't want too.
You can also connect as a usb memory device to your computer and delete that way.
I would make a copy of your SD card at its present state just in case.
Cranbiz, that's the method I was using but Im not sure which files are pertinent and which ones aren't so i dont want to delete the wrong ones.
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I have had similar experience and this is what I've dive:
Backup your SDcard on your PC then format your SDcard, wipe everything, transfer over your desired ROM and flash.
Now you have a clean setup and can pull anything of your backup if you need to.
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Idk what the heck is wrong with my phone but this is getting me mad!!!!
I'm trying to delete some files and copying some folders and every time I reboot my phone everything comes back just like it was before like if I never deleted them or copy them....??????
Any idea????
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romny19 said:
Idk what the heck is wrong with my phone but this is getting me mad!!!!
I'm trying to delete some files and copying some folders and every time I reboot my phone everything comes back just like it was before like if I never deleted them or copy them....??????
Any idea????
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You might wanna be more specific, like what files and directory.
KillaHurtz said:
You might wanna be more specific, like what files and directory.
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Downloading radio to External SD card
And deleted some files and folder from external SD card and they are still coming back after rebooting
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romny19 said:
Downloading radio to External SD card
And deleted some files and folder from external SD card and they are still coming back after rebooting
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What method are you using to remove them ? On phone with root explorer, USB, sd adapter on PC ?
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What method are you using to remove them ? On phone with root explorer, USB, sd adapter on PC ?
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Yes I'm using root explorer.... holding down and then [delete]
But they are still coming back after reboot
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romny19 said:
Yes I'm using root explorer.... holding down and then [delete]
But they are still coming back after reboot
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ROM ?
Try doing it thru USB connection or with an adapter thru PC.
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ROM ?
Try doing it thru USB connection or with an adapter thru PC.
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Gingerbread 2.3 rooted
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romny19 said:
Gingerbread 2.3 rooted
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Stock ? Dude try it on the PC and report back. Chances are if you are using a non paid app its the dev laughing at you.
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Stock ? Dude try it on the PC and report back. Chances are if you are using a non paid app its the dev laughing at you.
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I'm using the app that comes with the phone too to do it and it keeps doing the same thing.... this just started to happen 30 mins ago.... I've never had this prob before...
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So this thing is getting me mad!!!!!!!
ive been trying to format my SD on my phone and my computer and i get to format it on my PC but when i go to check all the files are still there!!!
and when i try on my phone my phone just freezes!!!!!!!
is there any super software to format this devillll micro SD sandisk 32GB?????
The files you are deleting are used by An app or two. The app 're installs the files when you boot.
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Like if you delete lost or android secure. The app will auto 're create them because it may use them
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this is getting me mad!!! i even tried with ubuntu and ubuntu couldnt format it....
i tried on my phone... it just froze!!!!
is my memory LOCKED UP OR SOMETHING!!!!!!????????????
Micronads said:
Like if you delete lost or android secure. The app will auto 're create them because it may use them
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the problem is with my memory!
do you know of any app to SUPER WIPE this freaking memory????
do you know how to format it with command ?
i flashed my phone and it still wont format this memory....
its like all the files i have in my memory are super secure and they cant be deleted unless i unlock them... but idk what the heck happened...
all i remember is that it started to happen after i flashed my note and then i was downloading the radio and then every time i would go in CWM the radio file would not be there so then i rebooted the phone to check and then the radio files was not there......
i tried that like 4 times... now im at the point that i dont care and im trying to delete everything just to solve this...
this memory is just like 2 months old.... its a sandisk... i got it from walmart... 32GB.... i think my warranty was only 30 days
Exactly what file are you trying to delete. I was referring to your memory before. There are files on your removable memory that you can't delete because they will get 're written automatically
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Perhaps your micro SD has a write switch on it? Lol. That's all I can think of. Otherwise boot into Ubuntu and open terminal and CD in and rm -rf *
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Kill it with fire. Its the only way.
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i did but i just game me an error... i cant format it...
and my micro SD doesnt hace a switch....
micro SD dont have swtches....
i think my memory is bad... i think i would have to buy another one
Micronads said:
Exactly what file are you trying to delete. I was referring to your memory before. There are files on your removable memory that you can't delete because they will get 're written automatically
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it doesnt matter what files i try to copy....
if i take pics and save them to the memory, my phone will show it like it is normally working but if i reboot the phone everything will go back and restore everything deleted and delete all the stuff i copy...
its like blocked like i cant make changes on it....
ive been trying different stuff but they dont work.. i think i need to format it with the command app from the phone....
anyone knows how to do it form there???
romny19 said:
it doesnt matter what files i try to copy....
if i take pics and save them to the memory, my phone will show it like it is normally working but if i reboot the phone everything will go back and restore everything deleted and delete all the stuff i copy...
its like blocked like i cant make changes on it....
ive been trying different stuff but they dont work.. i think i need to format it with the command app from the phone....
anyone knows how to do it form there???
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I already asked you to indicate what files/directory you are trying to remove.
Here's the Panasonic Format Utility, is this can't format it your card is toast
https://eww.pavc.panasonic.co.jp/support/en/sd/download/BN-SDCM_WIN_UTIL_V100.ZIP
Hello guys...
I have come across a very strange problem. ..
Couldn't delete any files from main storage or external storage after an failed attempt of upgrading to CM 4.2.
After that attempt I have flashed back to stock ROM, but same thing observed there also. I have also tried factory reset.
Can anyone will advice to get rid of this? Am I affected by any virus?
Format/sdcard from recovery
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Perhaps check/fix permissions before something as drastic as wiping it.
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I would love to help you, but help yourself first: ask a better question
http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
Fix permissions are for system files
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Thanks utkash mate...
It worked for me.
Just what i did is inserted external SD card in pc card reader and formatted it.
It is working fine now.
Thanks mate...
Don't mean to sound stupid but ill feel better if I at least ask. I for the first time bought a micro sd card for my phone. Before I start to move files to it id like clarification on a couple of things. If I move my apps to the sd card, what happens when I flash a new rom? Do I have to install all of them again? Are they automatically recognized and installed automatically? Is. There anything I shouldn't move to the sd card? Also can I move TWRP to the sd card? If I can and boot into recovery the phone will know where the program is located? Dont mean to babble but whenever I try something for the first time like this I just like to get as much info before I proceed. Thanks for any help I can get on this.
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jmlape said:
Don't mean to sound stupid but ill feel better if I at least ask. I for the first time bought a micro sd card for my phone. Before I start to move files to it id like clarification on a couple of things. If I move my apps to the sd card, what happens when I flash a new rom? Do I have to install all of them again? Are they automatically recognized and installed automatically? Is. There anything I shouldn't move to the sd card? Also can I move TWRP to the sd card? If I can and boot into recovery the phone will know where the program is located? Dont mean to babble but whenever I try something for the first time like this I just like to get as much info before I proceed. Thanks for any help I can get on this.
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You can back them up. You have to have the Pro version of titanium backup but you can upload your apps to cloud storage and re download them. I'm not 100% on that because I never restored apps. I could be wrong but you can for sure backup apps before flashing
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HI, I'm in a bit of a problem here. I recently rooted my phone and it worked fine. But recently I downloaded an apk, g pro recovery off the internet. I know it was dumb for me to do that and I should've researched better. The problem is, I installed the apk and installed the custom recovery (cwm) and it rebooted but after that my external sd card just wont mount. I tried hard resetting my phone and I did a factory reset but no luck. The phone isn't bricked but I think the custom recovery is installed is still there. I would like to know if theres a fix for it because my phone seems to be working fine except that the sd card wont mount. Its a phone problem as I tried using the sd card on multiple phones and it worked and I tried using another sd card on my phone but it didnt work so its a phone problem. it just shows "SD card insterted" but it doesn't really do anything other than that. Please help as I have a titanium backup of all my stuff in my sd card.
this is the link from where i downloaded the recovery:- http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2284298
Try flashing original stockrom kdz file by lgflashtool2014.
Then all should be original again
I have the same issue. Will flashing to kdz overwrite any current settings???
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calltsr said:
I have the same issue. Will flashing to kdz overwrite any current settings???
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Ofcours, its like you get it out the box