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Missing SDcard space

So I discovered I was missing about 2GB of space on my internal card. Through some research I found out that it is being taken up by a folder in the /data/ partition called ._cwm_restore
Is it safe to delete this folder? I'm assuming yes since it seems to be a clone of the apps I already have but I want to check. It is also causing mg backups to double in size.
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naturefreak85 said:
So I discovered I was missing about 2GB of space on my internal card. Through some research I found out that it is being taken up by a folder in the /data/ partition called ._cwm_restore
Is it safe to delete this folder? I'm assuming yes since it seems to be a clone of the apps I already have but I want to check. It is also causing mg backups to double in size.
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That is your nandroid backups and yes, they will fill up memory very fast (roughly 200-400mb per backup) you can of course delete them but I only recommend it if you have a newer backup incase something goes wrong
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Ghstudent said:
That is your nandroid backups and yes, they will fill up memory very fast (roughly 200-400mb per backup) you can of course delete them but I only recommend it if you have a newer backup incase something goes wrong
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That's definitely not the nandroid backup since the backup is stored in /sdcard/clockwork mod/backups. This is stored in /data/data/._cwm_restore so it is actually being backed up with any Nandroid. So if a Nandroid would only be 2GB without that folder, that folder makes it 4Gb
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TWRP internal sdcard install?

Hi everyone!
I originally installed TWRP when I rooted today, but when I went to install and internal sdcard, nothing is there. However, everything else is there on CWMR. Is there something I'm missing here? thanks!

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It's located weirdly under /data/media and NOT under /sdcard .

Yes I thought same thing but for some reason it list all of internal card folders and files at /data/media.
The ext SD card shows normal when on it though
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Technically /data/media is normal. If you navigate to that when you are in Android you will still end up at your internal memory. All the other mounts you are used to (/mnt/sdcard) are only symlinks.
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d3athsd00r said:
Technically /data/media is normal. If you navigate to that when you are in Android you will still end up at your internal memory. All the other mounts you are used to (/mnt/sdcard) are only symlinks.
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Yeah that's right...forgot about that. Technically the sdcard card space that we view as our personal internal storage is merely a symlink for the android os. Makes sense now. Thanks
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[FIX] Internal Storage Issue GS3 even after wipe

THE FIX IS BELOW (it's the quote)
My description of my problem is below but, first off I want to say that I have made several searches on google, androidcentral, and xda about this issue and have found no solution. I have also attempted to trouble shoot the problem myself by fixing permissions, wipes, flashing backups, deleting really old backups, etc. I even purchased SD Maid Premium and deleted duplicates and ran the appcleaner.
I am running CM10. I use Titanium Backup and Clockwork Recovery Mod to backup my system and apps regularly. I was running CM10 with KT Kernel (and used KTweeker to undervolt my processor) but recently flashed a new CM10 nightly (with a fully factory data, cache, and davilk cache wipe) and kept the "baked-in" Cyanogen Kernel.
I got a notification that my internal storage was close to full (this happened right after making a backup using CWM, I was running CM10 and KT kernel at the time and had 4 additional older nandroid backups). So I went through my apps, pictures, videos, old backups etc and deleted a bunch of stuff. But I still had the storage full notification. I then wiped data, cache, and davilk cache, and flashed the latest CM10 d2att nightly and gapps4.1. Before installing any apps I went to check my storage in Storage Settings, Apps Settings, and SD Maid . In App Settings and SD Maid it showed 7.5gb used and 4.5gb free, but in Storage Settings it showed 0.4gb used and 11.6gb free. (In my research I found that this may be because my ROM (CM10) is odexed). I have done some exploring using Root Explorer and found that my /data file is 7.5gb, i have a file /storeage/sdcard0 that is also 7.5gb and a /storage/sdcard1 that is 2.3gb.
I have come to the point where I just want to fully wipe my phone and start over; i think it is called a hard reset. It would be more than a Factory Data Wipe, which I have done several times in Clockwork Recovery Mod and it always leaves behind 7.5gb of data in my storage. I dont mind loosing all my data, media, etc. It would be nice if there was a solution that did not require a "hard reset" but I am willing to do it if that is my only option. I am familiar with download mode and odin in case that needed for the hard reset.
Thanks in advance for all the help.
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Fixed.
First I took all my media and files I wanted to save and transferred them over to my external sd card. Then I downloaded the zip files for the latest CM10(any rom will do) , gapps, and ktoonz kernel and transferred those over to my external sd card.
Then I rebooted into recovery. I went to mounts and storage and formated /system /data /cache and /sdcard
After that I flashed the zip files I downloaded earlier from my external sd card.
Rebooted and took this screen shot.
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You can go to mounts and storage in cwm and format everything. That pretty much wipes you clean. Fixed a similar problem I was having.
I didn't do my external sd though
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ineversl33p said:
You can go to mounts and storage in cwm and format everything. That pretty much wipes you clean. Fixed a similar problem I was having.
I didn't do my external sd though
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Will this delete a ROM (.zip) (that I would flash after the formating) from my /sdcard?
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It's an issue between our GSIII and rom manager, go to settings, then storage, then miscellaneous, wait for it to load, select rom manager, hit the delete key. This will not un install the program it will however delete your nandroids backups.
From now on only make your nandroids while in recovery and always choose ext-sd for output.
This is what fixed it for me. Please let me know if it works for you.
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I'm curious if you figured it out or not
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lostboy702 said:
It's an issue between our GSIII and rom manager, go to settings, then storage, then miscellaneous, wait for it to load, select rom manager, hit the delete key. This will not un install the program it will however delete your nandroids backups.
From now on only make your nandroids while in recovery and always choose ext-sd for output.
This is what fixed it for me. Please let me know if it works for you.
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When I go to Settings / Storage Misc pops up and says calculating... Then disappears a second later. When I try to click it during that spit second nothing happens
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Have you looked into clearing the data from rom manager?
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Have you looked into clearing the data from rom manager?
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Couldn't find an option to clear data in Rom Manager
EDIT: LOL I'm dumb. You mean the clear data in Settings/Apps/Rom Manager?

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Couldn't find an option to clear data in Rom Manager
EDIT: LOL I'm dumb. You mean the clear data in Settings/Apps/Rom Manager?
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Cleared Data in Settings, Apps, Rom Manager. Backups are still there, I have one recent backup and a backup called "blobs" that I never made. Come to think of it, blobs showed up around the time the problem started. I read somewhere not to delete it though. What is blobs?
Also I'm still looking into formating /system /data /cache etc. Will that possibly brick my phone? Any tips?
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I'm at work now but I'll look into it and respond later today
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I'm trying to figure out the blobs as well.
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Take a look here. http://forum.xda-developers.com/archive/index.php/t-1793706.html
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I'm going to format /system /data and /cache soon but before I do I would love some feedback on if formating /system /data or /cache will unroot, brick, delete the zip I plan to flash after the formating (the zip is on my external sd) or any other pitfalls I could encounter by formating.
Thanks and I'll let you know how it works.
Edit: changed "tonight" to "soon"
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I would also very much appreciate some info on what /storage/sdcard0 and /storage/sdcard1 is. I think those are possibly what's causing me to show 7.5 gb full even after a factory reset wipe
Thanks
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You're on cyanogenmod 10 right.
0 is the phones internal storage and 1 is the ext-sd
Btw why are you should probably ditch rom manager in favor of rom toolbox pro-if you do you'll get rid of those pesky blob files
I love rom manager for its ease of use but had to ditch it because it's blobs take up so much space on my gs3, at least until they update it to allow backups to be sent to the ext-sd. again.
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I would also very much appreciate some info on what /storage/sdcard0 and /storage/sdcard1 is. I think those are possibly what's causing me to show 7.5 gb full even after a factory reset wipe
Thanks
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Fixed.
First I took all my media and files I wanted to save and transferred them over to my external sd card. Then I downloaded the zip files for the latest CM10(any rom will do) , gapps, and ktoonz kernel and transferred those over to my external sd card.
Then I rebooted into recovery. I went to mounts and storage and formated /system /data /cache and /sdcard
After that I flashed the zip files I downloaded earlier from my external sd card.
Rebooted and took this screen shot.
THANKS EVERYONE.
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pdelponte said:
Fixed.
First I took all my media and files I wanted to save and transferred them over to my external sd card. Then I downloaded the zip files for the latest CM10(any rom will do) , gapps, and ktoonz kernel and transferred those over to my external sd card.
Then I rebooted into recovery. I went to mounts and storage and formated /system /data /cache and /sdcard
After that I flashed the zip files I downloaded earlier from my external sd card.
Rebooted and took this screen shot.
THANKS EVERYONE.
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Is there any reason to think that this won't work on the verizon version with cm10.1

i had an 8gb legacy folder after doing a full wipe and reflash.. just deleted it and everything works

I didn't notice this 0 folder issue until today. Up until now I was wondering why some files seemingly disappeared etc. Then I noticed too much space unavailable. This copy this over there and all that was not working so here's what I did:
Copy what you want to keep from internal sd to external sd
Get zip of your current rom and copy to external sd
Nandroid to external sd
Remove external sd from phone
Boot into recovery
Wipe everything, data, cache, dalvik 3x for good measure
Insert external sd
Reboot recovery (ignore no OS warning)
Flash rom (creates a clean file system and installs rom)
Reboot into rom and let it load
Reboot into recovery
Factory wipe, cache, dalvik
Restore your Nandroid backup
Reboot
Tada

/storage/sdcard0 is the mount path for your internal sd card. /storage/sdcard1 is your external. /storage/emulated is the location used for the emulated card in Android 4.2 for multi user support

Removing SDcard/0

Hi, anyone know if theres an easy way to have the partition back to just Sdcard. Went from cm 10.1 back to touchwiz and of course all my directories are off now. Should I manually do move everything to SDcard? What have you guys done if you've run into this problem? I'm sure I'm going to switch to android 4.2 again sometime in the future so I don't want to continually be moving files. Anyone switch back and forth from 4.2 to 4.1 and can you tell me what you guys do to address the issue? Thanks.

Will wiping internal storage fix it?

No it's set up that way for the different profiles 4.2 allows. Each profile will get a different number.
It's always going to be that way unless they remove user profiles
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Yeah I know theyre for 4.2 but I'm back on 4.1 stock touchwiz and want the folder structure to revert back. Do you know how to make that happen?

I am not familiar with the 4.2 partitions, so forgive me if this known, but when you say SD card, do you mean internal, or external? If it's your external, you could just back up all the files you want to your computer, format the SD card, and put the files back on. I think you can do this with the internal storage as well from a custom recovery. That should remove any partitions created by 4.2. It will obviously wipe all your data, so make sure back it up before doing this.

bradleyw801 said:
I am not familiar with the 4.2 partitions, so forgive me if this known, but when you say SD card, do you mean internal, or external? If it's your external, you could just back up all the files you want to your computer, format the SD card, and put the files back on. I think you can do this with the internal storage as well from a custom recovery. That should remove any partitions created by 4.2. It will obviously wipe all your data, so make sure back it up before doing this.
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Ah yeah im talking about internal storage. I'm about to format it and see if that works.

vibrant808 said:
Ah yeah im talking about internal storage. I'm about to format it and see if that works.
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Ah just skimmed your post sorry.. and as far Sam I'm aware, they are just sym links
Meaning, just select everything from the 0 folder and past in the sdcard folder then ensure everything is gone from 0 and delete it
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elesbb said:
Ah just skimmed your post sorry.. and as far Sam I'm aware, they are just sym links
Meaning, just select everything from the 0 folder and past in the sdcard folder then ensure everything is gone from 0 and delete it
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Yeah I just wiped everything including internal. Backed up everything first onto a PC of course. It fixed the issue, now there is only SDCARD. no
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vibrant808 said:
Yeah I just wiped everything including internal. Backed up everything first onto a PC of course. It fixed the issue, now there is only SDCARD. no
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Yeah using adb shell I just
Cp -r /storage/sdcard/0/* /storage/sdcard
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I have this problem and my phone (cm10.1) won't connect to my laptop now. Do I have to revert back to cm 10? Because other than this issue everything else seems to be fine. And how do I fix both problems?

if you have TWRP as your recovery then you won't have to deal with /0/0/0 crap, /0 is only present in cwm for 4.2

How would I go from cwm to twrp
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fazelove said:
How would I go from cwm to twrp
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You can flash the twrp zip from inside cwm i believe but gotta put the twrp zip file for your device inside ur sd card and then flash or you can use rom manager to flash the twrp for your device but be careful and read up.

Internal SD and AOSP roms

Tried Google search and didn't get an answer to this. I flashed the PACman ROM yesterday night, and after everything booted I couldn't find my internal SD card with root explorer. Where would it be stored? I loved how responsive the ROM was and would like to try it more, but I have things on my internal SD that I need to access.
Also the SD card was not erased. I use TWRP and did a factory reset/wipe cache/wipe dalvik before I flashed. I restored my nand after trying out the ROM and everything was still there on my internal SD after reboot.
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dante32278 said:
Tried Google search and didn't get an answer to this. I flashed the PACman ROM yesterday night, and after everything booted I couldn't find my internal SD card with root explorer. Where would it be stored? I loved how responsive the ROM was and would like to try it more, but I have things on my internal SD that I need to access.
Also the SD card was not erased. I use TWRP and did a factory reset/wipe cache/wipe dalvik before I flashed. I restored my nand after trying out the ROM and everything was still there on my internal SD after reboot.
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When you flash an aosp 4.2.x ROM you will get your internal SD card repartitioned and you will have a new "0" folder upon boot and all your data should be in that "0." This happens to every 4.2.X ROM because when the new update was introduced there's a feature that allows multiple users that does this. If you want to reverse this and get rid of that "0" folder so your stuff gets saved correctly and you can access it at ease first, copy all your data from that 0 folder out to the root of your internal SD. After you have moved the contents delete the folder. Now the folder might not delete because its encrypted to prevent that so all you have to do is rename that folder and reboot TRWP recovery. If you have cwm I would flash twrp because cwm doesn't have a file manager. That being said once your in recovery hit advanced I believe and then file manager. Scroll and find internal SD, then find that folder you renamed and open it. Now at the bottom right it should have tap select and then tap delete and swipe to delete it and you should be done. Hope this helps
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jazz995756 said:
When you flash an aosp 4.2.x ROM you will get your internal SD card repartitioned and you will have a new "0" folder upon boot and all your data should be in that "0." This happens to every 4.2.X ROM because when the new update was introduced there's a feature that allows multiple users that does this. If you want to reverse this and get rid of that "0" folder so your stuff gets saved correctly and you can access it at ease first, copy all your data from that 0 folder out to the root of your internal SD. After you have moved the contents delete the folder. Now the folder might not delete because its encrypted to prevent that so all you have to do is rename that folder and reboot TRWP recovery. If you have cwm I would flash twrp because cwm doesn't have a file manager. That being said once your in recovery hit advanced I believe and then file manager. Scroll and find internal SD, then find that folder you renamed and open it. Now at the bottom right it should have tap select and then tap delete and swipe to delete it and you should be done. Hope this helps
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That helped tons, thank you I really appreciate it!!
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dante32278 said:
That helped tons, thank you I really appreciate it!!
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Your welcome glad to help :thumbup:
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OK so issue is partially resolved. When I am in pacman from 4-2-13 I can only see part of the files on my SD card. I cannot see anything on there from the last 60 days or so. I have been running TW ROMs for a while and in root explorer my internal storage shows as sdcard0 for them. Is that causing some sort of conflict with how 4.2.2 reads my SD card? How do I get everything on my internal to show in one folder? I thought about renaming sdcard0 to just sdcard on my TW ROM and then flashing 4.2.2 but I would rather ask before doing so.
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dante32278 said:
OK so issue is partially resolved. When I am in pacman from 4-2-13 I can only see part of the files on my SD card. I cannot see anything on there from the last 60 days or so. I have been running TW ROMs for a while and in root explorer my internal storage shows as sdcard0 for them. Is that causing some sort of conflict with how 4.2.2 reads my SD card? How do I get everything on my internal to show in one folder? I thought about renaming sdcard0 to just sdcard on my TW ROM and then flashing 4.2.2 but I would rather ask before doing so.
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Sdcard0 is the factory name to your internal SD card no need to mess with that, but inside that directory will be the "0" folder which is where all your stuff is if its not in there maybe its in your external SD if you have one I know my phone switches back and forth it gets annoying but I can handle it.
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