Hello there,
I wanna format my phone.. but I have no idea how to do it with MTP.. anyone have an answer for me here?
Thanks
there is no sd card in the nexus
droidstyle said:
there is no sd card in the nexus
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Well, I meant the internal 16gb then ;D
Do you mean reformat the phone then? If so you do that through the backup and reset settings.
Sent from my Galaxy Nexus using XDA App
I MAKE AN ERROR...u formatted my sdcard and now,that my phone have problems and won't boot,i hve my cwm nandroid only on pc,my cwm rom files deleted and remain only on pc...and we have not microsd...how i can boot my phone now that i can't flash via cwm because i haven't got any files,and i can't boot my phone to transfer them..i have only fastboot and cwm mode workin..any help is appreciated..i have the GN stuck at boot..
My phone is showing +19GBP of misc. Files on my 16gb device. Any ideas what's up?
Trying to attach a screenshot...
Sent from my SPH-L710 using Tapatalk 2
That's odd. I think it might be a hiccup. Try rebooting it to see if it goes back to normal.
Sent from my killer sweet Sprint Samsung Galaxy S3 using XDA Premium
ChaosTime86 said:
That's odd. I think it might be a hiccup. Try rebooting it to see if it goes back to normal.
Sent from my killer sweet Sprint Samsung Galaxy S3 using XDA Premium
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
It could be backup files if you have done several nandroid backups (check backup folders)?
Or go to recovery, delete backups, restart phone - check if it helped, if yes, do 1 backup.
Other than that it might need a factory reset.
eMi111 said:
It could be backup files if you have done several nandroid backups (check backup folders)?
Or go to recovery, delete backups, restart phone - check if it helped, if yes, do 1 backup.
Other than that it might need a factory reset.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
I believe the problem is that it says 19gb of misc files which is more than his internal memory can handle, not that he has to many misc files.
bestdayever said:
I believe the problem is that it says 19gb of misc files which is more than his internal memory can handle, not that he has to many misc files.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
That was my interpretation as well, though I don't have a clue why. Try swapping another card to see if it reads correctly
I'd say it's because he is plugged into his pc and is reading files on his pc through his phone, that or a 32gig chip fell in his phone during 16gig assembly
epic4GEE said:
I'd say it's because he is plugged into his pc and is reading files on his pc through his phone, that or a 32gig chip fell in his phone during 16gig assembly
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
That is most likely not to happen as the gs3 has a special file that's able to deffirientiate between int., Ext., And mass storage so even if he was to plug it into he's pc and it hiccups then it would see it as a mass storage with multi storages separate if he has any others installed.
Now back to topic, most likely it may have something to do with ure back up files specially if u nandroid, most tell u to nandroid to internal sd, and when u recover from clockwork mod usually what happens since it's in internal memory it erase itself after nandroiding but the Data still remains hidden, and if u do it more and more over time it built up.
Other reason could be that if ure on a custom rom and u flash new roms or re flash whatever saved info usually doesn't erase even if u wipe data through cwm and it remains as clutter. Only way is to factory reset, usually that fixs the problem.
Hi, my tmo GSII recently stopped working (vibrating boot loop?). I did a unroot and factory rom reset through odin but still nothing. Now I am supposed to get a replacement from tmo. The only problem is that i want to retrieve the photos from my phone, and it doesn't boot plus it was reset. They are not on the SD card, but I do have CWM backups on the SD card. I extracted the data.ext4 and the system.ext4 TAR files but still couldn't find my photos. Where else can they be? Help would be much appreciated, thanks.
ilya124 said:
Hi, my tmo GSII recently stopped working (vibrating boot loop?). I did a unroot and factory rom reset through odin but still nothing. Now I am supposed to get a replacement from tmo. The only problem is that i want to retrieve the photos from my phone, and it doesn't boot plus it was reset. They are not on the SD card, but I do have CWM backups on the SD card. I extracted the data.ext4 and the system.ext4 TAR files but still couldn't find my photos. Where else can they be? Help would be much appreciated, thanks.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
forgot where they may be but when you get your replacement why not do a restore on it
Cwm doesn't back up pictures. They should be in /sdcard/dicm or sdcard/pictures or something. If you did a clean through Odin you might have cleared you sdcard already
-dark
ilya124 said:
Hi, my tmo GSII recently stopped working (vibrating boot loop?). I did a unroot and factory rom reset through odin but still nothing. Now I am supposed to get a replacement from tmo. The only problem is that i want to retrieve the photos from my phone, and it doesn't boot plus it was reset. They are not on the SD card, but I do have CWM backups on the SD card. I extracted the data.ext4 and the system.ext4 TAR files but still couldn't find my photos. Where else can they be? Help would be much appreciated, thanks.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
A nandroid backup is the exactly replica of your operating system, plus your kernel. Your pictures aren't store at the system but in your internal memory card (phone). Even if you use Odin to restore to stock your pictures are there, if you can see your phone in you computer just check a folder calling DCIM in your internal sdcard, or also a folder calling pictures and copy those to you computer.
Sent from my AT100 using xda premium
The phone doesn't boot so I can't look at the internal sd. Also I took out the sd before I restored it, what else can I do?
A little while back I posted a thread asking the following.
"Just recently rooted my friend's GN2, I transfered the files to the SD card and went into CWM recovery. I'm having 2 issues.
1: The phone says there's not enough room to make a backup when there clearly is. I have about 2 gigs on the internal, but but it either says I have 3mb of free space or 0.
2: I click 'install from SD' and the only file it sees is "-clockworkmod/ ".
What am I doing wrong? I personally have an S2 and it's very similar but these two things are preventing me from flashing any rom"
The only person to respond recommended I format the sd card so I did so. However the phone still did not recognize any files in the sd card so I couldn't flash any rom. Upon startup it began boot looping and the phone is no longer activated? It can't make calls or send texts and reboots every minute upon ' failed activation'. The phone currently is useless. I'm not new to flashing roms I've been doing it for years but this is the first time I'm stumped thanks to some bad advice (not blaming that person) and it's not even my phone. Luckily I just got an htc one and I could give my friend the my s2 until the problem is fixed...any ideas how to fix it? Or unroot at least to bring in for repair?
Sent from my HTCONE using xda app-developers app
Any replies would be appreciated.. I'd like to get his phone functioning as soon as I can
Sent from my HTCONE using xda app-developers app
Try using twrp instead. Sorry I couldny be more help. But I have never used cwm on this phone since I got it. Only twrp. You can find it in original dev section.
Sent from my SPH-L900 using Tapatalk 2
Yes use twrp. Find the latest version and flash it in clockwork. I havent used cwm since my og evo lol.
Maybe I'm old school but I'm a long time flasher and I've always just been more comfortable with cwm. But I'm not so sure it's a kernel issue?
Edit: and the issue is that I can't flash anything because I can't store anything on the sd card. I'm thinking of odining to a stock build?
Sent from my HTCONE using xda app-developers app
The only thing I can suggest is doing a quick format on the SD card to FAT32, especially if the card is a 64 GB card. Also, some Sandisk 64 GB cards were bad from the factory, so check that too. Finally, if all else fails, try breaking the phone even more to the point it won't even boot and get a replacement.
smmiller506 said:
The only thing I can suggest is doing a quick format on the SD card to FAT32, especially if the card is a 64 GB card. Also, some Sandisk 64 GB cards were bad from the factory, so check that too. Finally, if all else fails, try breaking the phone even more to the point it won't even boot and get a replacement.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
What would be my excuse for the phone not booting?
Sent from my HTCONE using xda app-developers app
MultiLockOn said:
What would be my excuse for the phone not booting?
Sent from my HTCONE using xda app-developers app
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Don't come up with one. Just take it in and show them. Before you take it in, if you can, try to reset the flash counter. If they can check that and see it isn't correct, you're in trouble. If it's reset or it can't be checked, then take it in.
MultiLockOn said:
Maybe I'm old school but I'm a long time flasher and I've always just been more comfortable with cwm. But I'm not so sure it's a kernel issue?
Edit: and the issue is that I can't flash anything because I can't store anything on the sd card. I'm thinking of odining to a stock build?
Sent from my HTCONE using xda app-developers app
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
i was too, but i got over it. twrp rules, really, it does.
smmiller506 said:
The only thing I can suggest is doing a quick format on the SD card to FAT32, especially if the card is a 64 GB card. Also, some Sandisk 64 GB cards were bad from the factory, so check that too. Finally, if all else fails, try breaking the phone even more to the point it won't even boot and get a replacement.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
smmiller506 said:
Don't come up with one. Just take it in and show them. Before you take it in, if you can, try to reset the flash counter. If they can check that and see it isn't correct, you're in trouble. If it's reset or it can't be checked, then take it in.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
this crap? only last resort. (man, you must have one pissed off friend.)
seriously, ODIN something. stock it.
if you're not really familiar with samsung stuff, do a bit of reading. perhaps a pit file might be needed. garwynn and sextape have some good threads on this.
Thanks guys. I'll try some things today and check back
Sent from my HTCONE using xda app-developers app
MultiLockOn said:
A little while back I posted a thread asking the following.
"Just recently rooted my friend's GN2, I transfered the files to the SD card and went into CWM recovery. I'm having 2 issues.
1: The phone says there's not enough room to make a backup when there clearly is. I have about 2 gigs on the internal, but but it either says I have 3mb of free space or 0.
2: I click 'install from SD' and the only file it sees is "-clockworkmod/ ".
What am I doing wrong? I personally have an S2 and it's very similar but these two things are preventing me from flashing any rom"
The only person to respond recommended I format the sd card so I did so. However the phone still did not recognize any files in the sd card so I couldn't flash any rom. Upon startup it began boot looping and the phone is no longer activated? It can't make calls or send texts and reboots every minute upon ' failed activation'. The phone currently is useless. I'm not new to flashing roms I've been doing it for years but this is the first time I'm stumped thanks to some bad advice (not blaming that person) and it's not even my phone. Luckily I just got an htc one and I could give my friend the my s2 until the problem is fixed...any ideas how to fix it? Or unroot at least to bring in for repair?
Sent from my HTCONE using xda app-developers app
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Ok...what files did you transfer to the sd card? Was it the internal or external? Even 2 gigs on the internal for a backup may not be enough. I have a backup that is just over 3 gigs. As far as formatting your external sd what did you do ? Fat32? Personally TWRP is the way to go. Try to format fat 32, download a stock rooted TW rom and put on external sd, also dl TWRP recovery to external sd. Boot into cwm recovery and try to flash twrp. If that works out pull battery put back in volume up+home+power. Hopefully that gets you to twrp, if so go to wipe then factory reset. If you click on advanced it will let you wipe system which couldn't hurt. After that, back arrow on bottom of screen to twrp home screen. Click install...choose external then locate where rom is...hopefully on root of external and see if that helps.
Oh and was the phone activated prior to flashing?
Android...A New Digital Revolution Of Incredible Developers...
Please do the following:
01). Format the SD card to FAT32 (NOT EXFAT OR NTFS) on ANOTHER computer and do NOT use the built in windows format options. Use a third party tool like guiformat.exe and do NOT USE QUICK FORMAT. (With my current sd card, windows format failed, guiformat.exe partially failed(and by failed I mean formatted fine but caused problems being seen) but I installed and used eausus partition master to regular format it to fat32 and followed the next few steps and its been working fine ever since.
02). Immediately after formatting the SD card slow format to fat32 in easus partition master create a text file on the sd card in its root directory (I've had an issue before where my SD card would not be seen or writable by certain devices if the root directory was 100% empty), before you copy any further files insert the SD card into the phone and use your recovery kernel(CWM/TWRP) to navigate to the root directory of the sd card and insure that you can in fact see the text file you created, POWER OFF THE PHONE(or alternatively unmount it in android terminal if possible) before removing or inserting the SD card(also always eject from the PC before removing, do not just rip it out off the usb slot/card reader), insert the SD card back into your PC/card reader and copy TWRP to the sd card.
03). Boot back into your current recovery and Install TWRP(if it's not already) you may prefer CWM but TWRP just causes people a lot less bugs in general.
04). Verify in the backup section of TRWP that you have explicitly selected external storage as the backup location and given the backup a name, as internal storage is selected by default, and you very well may not have enough free internal storage for the backup, regardless of whatever reasons you think you should.
05). Its probably a good idea to turn off md5 verification of the backup, I do this every time, the one time I did try to verify a backup with an md5 checksum it failed, I unchecked this option backed up restored to it and all was fine(and still is), also a good idea to uncheck md5 when installing roms/kernels/apk's as most don't have md5.
05). If the above does not work you probably have a bad SD card, try another and post back here.
ianmb said:
Ok...what files did you transfer to the sd card? Was it the internal or external? Even 2 gigs on the internal for a backup may not be enough. I have a backup that is just over 3 gigs. As far as formatting your external sd what did you do ? Fat32? Personally TWRP is the way to go. Try to format fat 32, download a stock rooted TW rom and put on external sd, also dl TWRP recovery to external sd. Boot into cwm recovery and try to flash twrp. If that works out pull battery put back in volume up+home+power. Hopefully that gets you to twrp, if so go to wipe then factory reset. If you click on advanced it will let you wipe system which couldn't hurt. After that, back arrow on bottom of screen to twrp home screen. Click install...choose external then locate where rom is...hopefully on root of external and see if that helps.
Oh and was the phone activated prior to flashing?
Android...A New Digital Revolution Of Incredible Developers...
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
There is
no external sd card in the phone. Just a 16g internal, and I've wiped pretty much everything so there shouldn't be a problem with room. I'll go out and buy an external and attempt to flash something.
garymaurizi said:
Please do the following:
01). Format the SD card to FAT32 (NOT EXFAT OR NTFS) on ANOTHER computer and do NOT use the built in windows format options. Use a third party tool like guiformat.exe and do NOT USE QUICK FORMAT. (With my current sd card, windows format failed, guiformat.exe partially failed(and by failed I mean formatted fine but caused problems being seen) but I installed and used eausus partition master to regular format it to fat32 and followed the next few steps and its been working fine ever since.
02). Immediately after formatting the SD card slow format to fat32 in easus partition master create a text file on the sd card in its root directory (I've had an issue before where my SD card would not be seen or writable by certain devices if the root directory was 100% empty), before you copy any further files insert the SD card into the phone and use your recovery kernel(CWM/TWRP) to navigate to the root directory of the sd card and insure that you can in fact see the text file you created, POWER OFF THE PHONE(or alternatively unmount it in android terminal if possible) before removing or inserting the SD card(also always eject from the PC before removing, do not just rip it out off the usb slot/card reader), insert the SD card back into your PC/card reader and copy TWRP to the sd card.
03). Boot back into your current recovery and Install TWRP(if it's not already) you may prefer CWM but TWRP just causes people a lot less bugs in general.
04). Verify in the backup section of TRWP that you have explicitly selected external storage as the backup location and given the backup a name, as internal storage is selected by default, and you very well may not have enough free internal storage for the backup, regardless of whatever reasons you think you should.
05). Its probably a good idea to turn off md5 verification of the backup, I do this every time, the one time I did try to verify a backup with an md5 checksum it failed, I unchecked this option backed up restored to it and all was fine(and still is), also a good idea to uncheck md5 when installing roms/kernels/apk's as most don't have md5.
05). If the above does not work you probably have a bad SD card, try another and post back here.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Can't thank you enough for the post, I appreciate it. Parts if it are a little over my head (most of it actually) but I'll try and manage aha. I'm a little confused on step 1 in particular, how do I format the sd card to a computer? Is there a separate program I need that manages the phones memory temporarily through an external hard drive or...
Sent from my HTCONE using xda app-developers app
I think I might have misunderstood your original question I apologize. Those instructions relate to an external SD card
Il if you are treating the phone plugged into a computer via USB the same way you would treat an external microsd card you are making a huge mistske/misconcepyipn ..
I am at work right now so I can't help further but at this point you need to.find and follow the instructions to restore the phone back.to its stock state and start from.fresh. I will post back tonight with instructions to do that and the best way to root and custom recovery currently when I get home
garymaurizi said:
I think I might have misunderstood your original question I apologize. Those instructions relate to an external SD card
Il if you are treating the phone plugged into a computer via USB the same way you would treat an external microsd card you are making a huge mistske/misconcepyipn ..
I am at work right now so I can't help further but at this point you need to.find and follow the instructions to restore the phone back.to its stock state and start from.fresh. I will post back tonight with instructions to do that and the best way to root and custom recovery currently when I get home
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Thanks. The problem is that the phone boot loops so fast that I can't stick anything on the internal. And the one time it was on long enough to, the phone still reads that there's no files there. It's why I'm in this mess in the first place, I don't know why it's not recognizing any files
Sent from my HTCONE using xda app-developers app
MultiLockOn said:
Thanks. The problem is that the phone boot loops so fast that I can't stick anything on the internal. And the one time it was on long enough to, the phone still reads that there's no files there. It's why I'm in this mess in the first place, I don't know why it's not recognizing any files
Sent from my HTCONE using xda app-developers app
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
If you wiped everything then you might have wiped the partitions by accident. Get an ext sd card put flashable rom on that then boot into your custom recovery and try flashing the ROM through that
Android...A New Digital Revolution Of Incredible Developers...
ianmb said:
If you wiped everything then you might have wiped the partitions by accident. Get an ext sd card put flashable rom on that then boot into your custom recovery and try flashing the ROM through that
Android...A New Digital Revolution Of Incredible Developers...
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
That seems like the best thing...won't the phone still rely on the internal sd card though and keep bootlooping?
Sent from my HTCONE using xda app-developers app
Odining back to stock is prooobably your best bet. No need to go through repair fees or restocking fees etc. When you can fix it in house.
Sent from my SPH-L900 using xda premium
It should not rely on the internal. Download mode is deep down in the bootloader. If you borked that then jtag or sending it to samsung/asurion is the only option.
Sent from my SPH-L900 using Tapatalk 2
MultiLockOn said:
That seems like the best thing...won't the phone still rely on the internal sd card though and keep bootlooping?
Sent from my HTCONE using xda app-developers app
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Try a stock rooted rom and see if it works. Because it should at least give you the boot.img in the rom so you might be able to get past the boot screen. Hopefully it will re partition your phone. Im not for sure but its worth a shot.
Android...A New Digital Revolution Of Incredible Developers...
Hello,
I'm a new member here.
One weeks ago I rooted my galaxy tab pro 10 with picassowifi.
everything run very fines during 5 days.
Then I woke up last morning with a password on it that I don't know.
Normally I would just factory reset, but today I'm back from a marvelous trip in Italy with very good picture and video on my tab.
how can I access my tab and my pictures
Samy
Thanks for your help
If you don't have an external SD card go buy one.
If you have not installed TWRP do so via ODIN.
First try to reboot into TWRP recovery and use TWRP file manager to browse to your folder with the pictures and videos and copy them to an external SD card. If that doesn't work try the following.
Reboot into TWRP recovery and make a backup to external SD card just in case. After backup wipe data using TWRP. This should NOT wipe the pictures and videos off your tablet! But you made a backup to be safe. Now reboot back into system and it should run you through the setup process but your pictures and videos will still be in the gallery!
In the future you can set the save location to external SD card in your camera app to avoid any issues.
Sent from my SAMSUNG-SM-G900A using XDA Premium HD app
thanks you
Thank you,
I will try this tonight.
one issue I have is my external sd card port seems not working.
Can I save my data throught usb port.
How this tricky password appears on my tablet.
Samy
shakatu said:
If you don't have an external SD card go buy one.
If you have not installed TWRP do so via ODIN.
First try to reboot into TWRP recovery and use TWRP file manager to browse to your folder with the pictures and videos and copy them to an external SD card. If that doesn't work try the following.
Reboot into TWRP recovery and make a backup to external SD card just in case. After backup wipe data using TWRP. This should NOT wipe the pictures and videos off your tablet! But you made a backup to be safe. Now reboot back into system and it should run you through the setup process but your pictures and videos will still be in the gallery!
In the future you can set the save location to external SD card in your camera app to avoid any issues.
Sent from my SAMSUNG-SM-G900A using XDA Premium HD app
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
How do you mean external SD isn't working?
Yes you can over USB by using the ADB pull command on a computer. Try reading up on ADB commands but they're a little trickier especially since your system is password locked (so you can't tell it to trust your computer) and TWRP doesn't always play nicely with ADB...
Sent from my SAMSUNG-SM-G900A using XDA Premium HD app
SD card not working
I try 3 differents sd card , all of them was working fine in my phone.
none of them was working in my tablet.
Is TWRP still a good option.
Samy
shakatu said:
How do you mean external SD isn't working?
Yes you can over USB by using the ADB pull command on a computer. Try reading up on ADB commands but they're a little trickier especially since your system is password locked (so you can't tell it to trust your computer) and TWRP doesn't always play nicely with ADB...
Sent from my SAMSUNG-SM-G900A using XDA Premium HD app
Click to expand...
Click to collapse