I noticed in cwm I have a bunch of folders in blobs but its not the recovery I'm using anymore. I have a feeling it would free up more space. Thanks
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It's the backup files from your recovery. If you are not using the recovery anymore it's safe to delete. It will free up around 2 gbs easily depending on how big your backups are. Mine are always over 2gbs.
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If you go into advanced options in recovery and change the format from dup to tar (I am pretty sure, but I haven't looked in a while) then you will no longer have blob files. I have found that tar backups are more reliable. May not be true though, you decide
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vroomr said:
If you go into advanced options in recovery and change the format from dup to tar (I am pretty sure, but I haven't looked in a while) then you will no longer have blob files. I have found that tar backups are more reliable. May not be true though, you decide
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Thats correct tar backups are usually bigger though than dup. I agree that tar can be more reliable since it copies every file not just one out of a string like dup does but tar takes more space. So it's all about what you prefer as you said.
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The blobs folders are for recovery. Go ahead and delete them but don't expect to restore.
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Trying to free up some space on my external card and realizing I have no idea what folder the backups are stored in, running clockworkmod based recover v5.5.0.4
never mind, found it, but for some reason every time i back it up, the date is all wrong, just backed up and it is 1970-01-04.06.58.12?
In had this same question, where did you find it?
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MikeWjF said:
In had this same question, where did you find it?
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Check clockwork folder and inside there should be a folder that says backup
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Backups on this phone will always have the incorrect date. The recoveries do do not have access to the time.
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Check clockwork folder and inside there should be a folder that says backup
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That's weird, I made a backup with CWM before switching to TWRP and there's nothing in that folder.
Another question, where are the backups stored from TWRP? I can see them while in recovery, but not in any file explorer.
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Alright so I'm on JB, rooted, Kt kernel and I wanted to factory reset my phone to see if battery life will improve because I've heard it works for some.
My question is, is it better to backup through Kies, reset, and restore from kies backup or will I risk bringing back theb (maybe) source of problems by doing it that way?
Or suck it up and restore from a TWRP or CWM backup. The only reason I prefer the Kies backup is because I hardly have enough memory left on my SD card to hold a Nandroid backup.
Thoughts?
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I always hate dealing with kies but i get the issue of memory. That's why i like extra sd card space makes it easier for backups. I prefer cwm but its Ur call
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Will the CWM backup include all the pics, texts, etc.?
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Do a nandroid on external SD that's where I do mine. Also use titanium you can back it up to dropbox , box or Google.
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Nandroid on external sd. As far as the pictures go. I have mine default save to the sd. I normally do not format the external sd during restores, backups or rom swaps. So the pictures always remain.
However, one time I left the the sd card installed when I was returning to stock via oden. It wiped both internal and external. So now when oden is involved I pull the external. Just to be sure.
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Will the CWM backup include all the pics, texts, etc.?
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Pics a always remain
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So now to my understanding in TWRP the option to create image.zip is just creating a backup that I can flash right through Odin like a rom as opposed to the option to create a backup?
What can I do with that option to create a backup? Is that also an odin flashable zip?
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So now to my understanding in TWRP the option to create image.zip is just creating a backup that I can flash right through Odin like a rom as opposed to the option to create a backup?
What can I do with that option to create a backup? Is that also an odin flashable zip?
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Usually Odin doesn't flash zips but it creates a flash able zip through cwm
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Yea I meant CWM. Thats the recovery I had installed that allowed me to create the image.zip
So basically that just creates the exact state that my phone is in and allows me to flash it via cwm to get right back to that state.
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Yea I meant CWM. Thats the recovery I had installed that allowed me to create the image.zip
So basically that just creates the exact state that my phone is in and allows me to flash it via cwm to get right back to that state.
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Yep exactly just so u can revert in case of mistakes
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Is it possible to delete the backup blobs in CWM? Thanks in advance.
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Sv: Can I delete CWM backup blobs?
Yeah, in the clockworkmod folder on the sdcard there is a folder called blobs, erase it and you will get alot of free memory
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Yeah, in the clockworkmod folder on the sdcard there is a folder called blobs, erase it and you will get alot of free memory
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Thanks
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Will that do anything bad though or mess something up
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Sv: Can I delete CWM backup blobs?
No
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You won't be able to restore to the backups that those blobs pertained to.
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Ahhh! Wait. Deleting the /blobs folder would be very bad, if you wanted to restore backups! See this post by CWM's developer:
https://plus.google.com/103583939320326217147/posts/L5aVZe7C9vg
Some of you may be thinking "well, how do I delete a backup?".
First, never delete the blobs directory. This would actually delete all your backups by rendering them unusable.
Simply delete the usual backup directory, and the next time you run a backup, all the unused hash files will be automatically delete (a process known as garbage collection). The recovery will show "Freeing space..." while this is happening.
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Ahhh! Wait. Deleting the /blobs folder would be very bad, if you wanted to restore backups! See this post by CWM's developer:
https://plus.google.com/103583939320326217147/posts/L5aVZe7C9vg
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If i deleted the file and now I make backups with twrp will they work or no. Thanks
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No. TWRP only works with TWRP and cwm only works with cwm.
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No. TWRP only works with TWRP and cwm only works with cwm.
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No I mean will the backups that I make with twrp still work when I restore them on twrp. Even though I deleted cwm blobs backuo
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I don't think the TWRP backups should have anything to do with the blobs folder. (i could be wrong but i don't think i am) And i love your galaxy S3 rom reviews.
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I don't think the TWRP backups should have anything to do with the blobs folder. (i could be wrong but i don't think i am) And i love your galaxy S3 rom reviews.
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Thanks!
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I have a bunch of space being taken up by CWM blobs. I can't tell what files are what though. I have my original backup under the backup folder.
Is it safe to delete files off the blobs folder?
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No
Ok. 5 gigs are being taken up by CWM. Is there anyway to free up some of this space?
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Those files are critical to your backups
What you can do is delete some old backups, I only keep my factory original, the most up to date of the rom I'm using, and any other roms that I happen to be experimenting with. If you have umteen backups they will take up many gigs.
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I was thinking, I rarely use anything that requires root and I am thinking of just going back to stock. However, the only firmware I have I'd the original tar file that I had when I rooted it in November and used when I had to do a warranty replacement. How would I get a newer version/update?
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There's a sticky in android development on firmwares.. There's prerooted and official ones you can flash with Odin and MD5 is the latest
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Just start with the one you have and then do an update.
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Thanks guys!
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Suo, if I dl the md5 and flash it as normal, I'll lose root? Or should I do it through odin and use that md5 instead of the one I have?
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Depends which md5 you download.. If you just download a stock ROM like stockarama, you flash through recovery, if you download a stock image then you will have to flash it with Odin.. The one you flash through recovery will probably have root, the one with Odin won't, as long as it's not a root66 image, but you can also just unroot the stock ROM, so up to you
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They are all flashed in Odin.
If you want root, use the root66 firmware. Otherwise use the regular stock fw.
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Don't wanna sound lime a noob jerk but could you tell me or show me the link to the one to flash with Odin? Just really don't wanna screw it up.
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1949687
The first that are posted first are prerooted, keep scrolling and you'll find the official images
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I down loaded "official firmware" the md5 one... that's the right one?
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Sounds right. If it's the root66 version it'll have it in the filename.
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Sounds right. If it's the root66 version it'll have it in the filename.
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Ok, thanks! There were some up to that were root 66 then the next ones down were official.
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Right, I did that because the majority of people are looking for the prerooted versions.
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Hi can someone tell me a few things:
Does flashing take up your internal storage and if so if phone is put back to how it was brought from store will the internal storage go back to that also? Personally I don't think it makes a difference as I'm trying to explain to my son that I think apps take up most of your internal storage.
Anything that goes on the /data partition can affect your internal storage. So if you install an app, it will take up some of your storage space on internal.
Flashing is different. Roms for example flash to the /system partition. Unless the dev includes apps they specifically put on /data this will have little effect on you're available storage space. The only way it does affect it is system apps store their data and dalvik cache on the /data partition.
Flashing mods and other items usually will be the same as flashing roms in this sense. Some will include data that takes up your user space, but most will have little, if any effect on it. There is usually little reason to flash anything to the data partition as you can generally just install normally.
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