Do I odin then flash rooted image ?
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Hi!
If you want to clean your internal SD card (i.e. you are about to sell your phone, and want to delete all your personal data, pictures, videos... before you give your phone to the buyer), simply do the following:
1) Go to Settings;
2) Scroll down to Back up and reset;
3) Click Factory data reset.
Note that a factory data reset should not touch the external microSD card, if you have one in your phone. If you do have an external microSD card, I would suggest you remove it from the phone.
I have zero and ck goodies folders that are write protected
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I recently did an SD swap on my AT&T S3 [internal storage switched to external SD]. It worked, however, I want to return to the normal configuration. There's one problem: my internal SD has only 400MB of storage left. I can't use Odin to return to stock or download any new apps because of no space. Any suggestions?
I don't want to recycle this phone because it's in excellent condition and would love to get it back to normal again.
Thanks.
Um what? Flashing with Odin has nothing to do with your internal SD card...
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Go into cwm and format the internal sd card
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You mean actually erase it?
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d3athsd00r said:
Um what? Flashing with Odin has nothing to do with your internal SD card...
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Um, yeah.
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GAPY427 said:
I recently did an SD swap on my AT&T S3 [internal storage switched to external SD]. It worked, however, I want to return to the normal configuration. There's one problem: my internal SD has only 400MB of storage left. I can't use Odin to return to stock or download any new apps because of no space. Any suggestions?
I don't want to recycle this phone because it's in excellent condition and would love to get it back to normal again.
Thanks.
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Copy everything off of internal, format, swap, copy back onto external
You mean copy back onto internal, no?
GAPY427 said:
You mean copy back onto internal, no?
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You can't copy to internal because it is full. So copy the stuff off of it onto something else, then wipe and you can put it back however you like.
How do I format my SD card from my phone?
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You can hit settings, back up reset and that will delete everything.but ur computer is the way to go.
I'm trying to figure out what I can/not delete from my internal sd card.
More so, I'm trying to understand how it works and how the GS3 reads the file system.
Any takers?
Are you asking what you can delete on the sd card? Or in the devices file system (eg. System, ,data)
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It's easy to remember. If you format your internal sd card, what is left, don't mess with it. That roughly 4gb of stuff is what's running your phone, factory apps, etc. To start deleting those things without knowledge of what your doing can turn your phone into a shiny paperweight
Okay, if someone would steal my phone and wipe it, would it be possible for an app on the external sd card to automatically install another application to the phone again? Or is the external sd card wiped with the factory restore? Is it even possible to install an app to the internal card automatically anyways? I'm just curious...
ownercj said:
Okay, if someone would steal my phone and wipe it, would it be possible for an app on the external sd card to automatically install another application to the phone again? Or is the external sd card wiped with the factory restore? Is it even possible to install an app to the internal card automatically anyways? I'm just curious...
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The app on the external/micro SD card could not be automatically installed if the phone was wiped/factory reset, without first also enabling an option in Setttings > Security and checking Unknown Sources, it is unchecked by default.
The external/micro SD card is NOT wiped by a factory reset.
So basically, it's impossible.
ownercj said:
So basically, it's impossible.
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Yup. After a wipe, any apps still need to be installed/restored to work.
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I recently had to factory restore my M8 due to it constantly rebooting. After my factory restore, I can no longer move files (pictures and videos) to the external SD card. I had the ability to do that prior. I also lost the ability to transfer files from my internal SD to my computer. Can anyone help? . The transfers just hang and then fail. I am stock. No root. I should also note that I tried reformatting the SD card. I moved all the pictures and videos to the internal storage so I wouldn't lose them and could not move them back after reformatting.
You can only do it with root
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EddyOS said:
You can only do it with root
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I've never been rooted and I did it before
Anyone?
Have you tried to move files to another computer?
Give more information. How are you trying to move files to your externalSD? Using your computer or using a file explorer.
You shouldn't be able to write files to your external Sd because of Kitkat's new permissions.
There is a workaround if you have root