I'm parting with my note 2 for the s4 and want to get rid of all the data I've installed for privacy reasons. Can I go back to "stock" without having to flash any thing or connect to a computer? Any other methods? Thanks a lot and I appreciate any tips regarding sale of devices
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Factory data reset from the settings menu
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How much u selling it for? I'm interested in buying one
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Be careful Samsung internal memory doesn't always wipe on data reset
Make sure u use a file manager app too be certain data and photos delete from internal storage or file manager to transfer and internal pics vids order to external sd card .In many cases personally I've seen factory data resets leave the photos and info on internal storage even after .Takes two times but the sure way is to file manager open hit menu multi select and delete everything every folder u see
First make sure ext sd is out of device
Then u will be fine to sell or trade
Good luck
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If you are not going to take it back to stock just a single Factory Reset will do the trick. I would bring it back to stock/locked/unrooted though.
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Anyone know how to do this please?
I am going to flash and wipe my phone but I have done quite well on thee games and I don't fancy starting again
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I move all of my contents from my sd card to my computer. Then find the files for the games and after I flash my new rom I move those files back onto the sd card in the same place and that seems to work for me
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Titanium backup
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GTA saves are in the /sdcard/android/com.rockstar.gta3 folder. You won't lose them on a wipe of the phone. Unless you do a factory reset. Otherwise in the GTA folder you'll see a few files whereas all others are folders. Those are the saved games
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altimax98 said:
GTA saves are in the /sdcard/android/com.rockstar.gta3 folder. You won't lose them on a wipe of the phone. Unless you do a factory reset. Otherwise in the GTA folder you'll see a few files whereas all others are folders. Those are the saved games
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Any chance you know where the asphalt one goes as I am going to do a factory reset?
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Any chance you know where the asphalt one goes as I am going to do a factory reset?
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asphalt save is in sdcard/gameloft/games/xxx(forget the folder's name, maybe asphalt6)
if you use SuperWipe (found in Android Revolution ROM's thread) it will keep all user data a lone
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This was said before but I will say it again in case you didn't see it - Titanium Backup.
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Works for ALL user Apps copies data from /data
Hello all. I have recently started receiving low storage warnings even though bit appears I have plenty of space with both internal and external memory.
Can anyone advise?
Thanks
Drew
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I don't know what is going on, but that image shows you only have 401 MB available.
Something is chewing up your storage space or at least making your phone think it is almost gone.
Do you have a bunch of nandroid backup's saved to your internal drive or something?
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Yeah, I'm thinking you have either a lot of zips or you have nandroids on there that are taking up space. Check out
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.android.diskusage
It will give you a visual display of the folders that are using the most space and what files are the culprits.
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Yeah, I'm thinking you have either a lot of zips or you have nandroids on there that are taking up space. Check out
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.android.diskusage
It will give you a visual display of the folders that are using the most space and what files are the culprits.
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Thank you both your recommendations I used the supplied app and solid explorer and I was able to find several gigs of picasa 3d gallery cache files and similar situations with ROM Manager "blobs" seems to be resolved now.
Wonder why it occurred in the first place..odd
Thanks
Drew
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Yeah, I'm thinking you have either a lot of zips or you have nandroids on there that are taking up space. Check out
URL
It will give you a visual display of the folders that are using the most space and what files are the culprits.
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I agree that it likely has something to do with those backups. I downloaded the app but can't seem to figure out where space is being taken up. I transfer all my backups to my external sd, but don't know what the hell is taking my space up.
drewdatrip said:
Thank you both your recommendations I used the supplied app and solid explorer and I was able to find several gigs of picasa 3d gallery cache files and similar situations with ROM Manager "blobs" seems to be resolved now.
Wonder why it occurred in the first place..odd
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Drew
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Those 'blobs' are where CWM stores its backup files from what i've read, personally i use TWRP so i can't confirm this.
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Those 'blobs' are where CWM stores its backup files from what i've read, personally i use TWRP so i can't confirm this.
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+1 twrp. Im a former cwm touch user absolutely hated the .92gb backups from cwm. Now I can have multiple backups on hand without sacrificing storage space.
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I had the same problem, I re flashed cm10 4 times and still only had about 500mb of available space on my internal
turns out when you select "wipe/factory reset" on CWM Recovery it doesn't actually delete everything..
DiskUsage was the perfect tool for the job, there was 6 gigs of leftover gameloft stuff on the phone, removed the files and now im a happy camper with plenty of free space!
I just went through and cleared a few gigs of crap and old backups off my internal storage, but when I check how much space is available, it doesn't reflect this. It says I only have 700mbs available still, but the bar and numbers clearly indicate I should have more than that. Here's a screen shot for a better idea of what's going on http://www.imgur.com/sIt8G.png
Has anyone else had this problem before or know how I can fix it?
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Bump.. I have booted inti recovery and cleared cache in hopes of it cleaning it up, but nothing. I also searched Play for a sd card clean up app, I found sd maid, but no success there either. I'm really trying to avoid backing up everything and wiping the card..
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I can't see your pic bc of my work's firewall, but you may want to take a look at this thread here from the ATT side. --->Missing storage space
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I can't see your pic bc of my work's firewall, but you may want to take a look at this thread here from the ATT side. --->Missing storage space
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Perfect. Thanks alot for that link, that thread linked to http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=33918194 and seems to answer my question.
I was using Astro file manager to clear some space on my phone, and noticed that I had a folder called emulated on there that had all the same files, figuring that was what was taking up so much space I deleted it. Now all my files are gone from sddisk0 too! Is there any way to reverse a mass delete like this??
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Maybe try connecting to a PC (or Mac) and running an undelete prog. or check to see if there is an undelete app out their.
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Just tried two apps from the marketplace once couldn't scan it the other just FC instantly :-/ I need to get my files back
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The apps you are trying to use wont work as the phones internal sd is MTP and cannot be mounted as a disk. THIS HERE is your only option. Its a pain in the ass but youll get all your stuff back provided you havent been using the phone heavily overwriting the stuff u want to recover. Used this on two GS3's, a Galaxy Nexus and my Note II. Flawless if you follow the instructions
As the title mentiones, my device is out of memory. Like none. Even if I install a new rom the phone storage is still low cant even update all my apps because there's no space on my device. I tried apps to see whats taking up the huge space but there all worthless really cant delete from the app. Dont want to delete important files either so question is how can I get ride of all this crap the phone doesn't need?
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silly question, but once it was done calculating did you tap on one of the sections to see the individual files and there sizes? i was coming close to having this issue, until i went through each of those sections with a fine tooth comb. it was then i found piles of old downloaded files just stock piled....ended up clearing 3 gigs.
Let that screen sit for a minute to let the calculations finish. Then select a category (like miscellaneous). Then check which files you like to delete. The hidden thumbnail folder can get big, much like other app folders that cache info.
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Have you possibly flashed any aosp or cyanogen roms. Could possibly have files built up in an O folder on your internal sd card
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have any nandroids?
Yea. If you mean backups I have 1
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Yea. If you mean backups I have 1
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In my screenshot above, that 2+GB TWRP folder has only 1 backup of the data partition. Moving these backups to external SD can open a lot of internal storage space.
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