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Noob Help! Hit 'Format SD Card' in CWM Touch & lost all files?!

Did this accidentally when updating Roms & now I have no access to any Roms, backups, or files in CWM. Phone will not boot beyond the initial Google screen b/c it is not recognizing any internal files, I believe? Can I transfer files from a PC into CWM during recovery w/o the device actually being booted up? Haven't tried b/c I won't have access to a PC until I am at work tomorrow. I hope there is a fix for this rookie mistake & I greatly appreciate ANY advice - as I have not been able to find a definitive solution for this problem as of yet...
Thanks in advance,
Confounded Verizon Gnex owner

1) yes you can move files over to /sdcard using adb when booted into cwm. Use "adb push file.zip /sdcard/"
2) you could always flash a stock ROM using fastboot (see the "flash" link in my sig).
3) this is a good reason to not use a touch recovery.
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Thanks for the quick response! Questions/Comments:
#1: Not sure I understand how to do this? Will I be able to add the zip files for the rom, etc. & keep root intact as it was?
Can u please simplify it into n00b terms, haha? Sorry, very new to the scene...
#2: The link is not working from my Nexus 7? Edit: Got it - just couldn't access via the xda app - looks extremely comprehensive.
#3: I agree. Step away from touch recoveries!
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Stixxbixby said:
Thanks for the quick response! Questions/Comments:
#1: Not sure I understand how to do this? Will I be able to add the zip files for the rom, etc. & keep root intact as it was?
Can u please simplify it into n00b terms, haha? Sorry, very new to the scene...
#2: The link is not working from my Nexus 7? Edit: Got it - just couldn't access via the xda app - looks extremely comprehensive.
#3: I agree. Step away from touch recoveries!
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First off, can you boot to recovery? If so then...
#1 All you have to do is plug in your phone and assuming the drivers are installed, you download the ROM and gapps to the computer and drag them to your phone.
Then boot your phone to recovery and install the zips as normal. You will find the files on the SD card and not in the download folder.
If you lost root then follow a guide to reobtain it.
As for the touch recoveries, I personally like CWM touch better than dealing with the volume buttons. It was a mistake that could happen either way.
Good luck. Hope you get it fixed.
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Yes. Recovery is good to go. Gonna give it a shot tomorrow. Thanks for taking the time to help. Gratitude
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This is why I stick with the non-touch recovery.
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Same mistake please help
Zeinzu said:
This is why I stick with the non-touch recovery.
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It happened to me, somebody find any solution, I got recovery mode, but I cant do anything because the system cant mount sd card

diegonando22 said:
It happened to me, somebody find any solution, I got recovery mode, but I cant do anything because the system cant mount sd card
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The trick is to follow these steps in the correct order:
1) flash Google image using fastboot
2)boot into stock android and transfer your files to phone.
3)boot into bootloader
4) flash cwm recovery using fastboot
5) boot into cwm recovery
6)wipe and flash the desired ROM
NB the thing is that cwm does not format your sdcard correctly if I am correct...so any sdcard format...will end up corrupting it.the only way is to flash back Google image and start as stated above.
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Are you trying to press Mount sdcard in cwm?
There is no need to do so, just adb push ROM.zip /sdcard/
Beamed from my Maguro

Try:
CMW>mounts and storage
Mount data
adb push NAME OF ROM.zip /sdcard/
unmount data

My phone is stuck in a bootloop with Cyanogen and CWM!!!

Heyy everyone! i have a samsung sgh t989D (telus edition) and i tried to root it. I put CWM and Cyanogen on it via Rom Manager and when i started my phone up it wouldnt get past the boot screen so im stuck in a bootloop. I can get to the CWM recovery page but i dont know what i should and can do to get out of this boot loop. I backed up i phone when i was trying to use the samsung toolkit a while ago but i still dont want to lose my data. I also dont care for the rom or root anymore. So i guess im asking what the best way to unroot my phone would be. Also my phone disconnects itself from my computer at times (my laptop makes the noise that a usb has been unplugged) and im using the stock wire with a usb 2.0 port.

Can you get into download mode or CWM without it rebooting? If not, does it get partially through the boot process before going into an infinite bootloop and vibrating every few seconds? If so, you could be another victim of power button hardware failure.

bruddah said:
Heyy everyone! i have a samsung sgh t989D (telus edition) and i tried to root it. I put CWM and Cyanogen on it via Rom Manager and when i started my phone up it wouldnt get past the boot screen so im stuck in a bootloop. I can get to the CWM recovery page but i dont know what i should and can do to get out of this boot loop. I backed up i phone when i was trying to use the samsung toolkit a while ago but i still dont want to lose my data. I also dont care for the rom or root anymore. So i guess im asking what the best way to unroot my phone would be. Also my phone disconnects itself from my computer at times (my laptop makes the noise that a usb has been unplugged) and im using the stock wire with a usb 2.0 port.
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Please please please tell me you did a NANDROID backup before making any changes after getting CWM on there!
If you did, you should be able to restore from backup when in CWM. If not... well... flash from an SD card?
KaneHusky said:
Can you get into download mode or CWM without it rebooting? If not, does it get partially through the boot process before going into an infinite bootloop and vibrating every few seconds? If so, you could be another victim of power button hardware failure.
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What's this power button hardware failure? Is it common? I'm scaaaared now.....

sylikc said:
Please please please tell me you did a NANDROID backup before making any changes after getting CWM on there!
If you did, you should be able to restore from backup when in CWM. If not... well... flash from an SD card?
What's this power button hardware failure? Is it common? I'm scaaaared now.....
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i can easily get to the clockwork recovery page and idk if i did a nandroid backup :S i used ROM manager to put CWM on my phone but before that i tried rooting with the samsung toolkit and that made me do some sort of backup i think so i might have but idk. what can i flash from an sd card? pretty much what happens when i start my phone is that it stays at the screen while its booting like the boot logo where the background is moving and stuff and i can turn my phone off and hold volume keys and get into CWM recovery

Check every other thread... they are pretty much the same thing. You answer is Darkside Super wipe. Flash it, flash your ROM, flash GAPPs, reboot!
Done
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-SGA- said:
Check every other thread... they are pretty much the same thing. You answer is Darkside Super wipe. Flash it, flash your ROM, flash GAPPs, reboot!
Done
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soo will that wipe everthing off of my phone? and thanks! i guesss ill just do that

try holding power 3 seconds then let go over and over then eventually it should boot into rom i do this alot

Yup, everything
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richardlibeau said:
try holding power 3 seconds then let go over and over then eventually it should boot into rom i do this alot
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approximately how many times do you do it?

bruddah said:
approximately how many times do you do it?
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sometimes it takes a couple minutes before it boots up all the way. it works for me alot but i am not guaranteeing it will for you but it can't hurt to try

-SGA- said:
Check every other thread... they are pretty much the same thing. You answer is Darkside Super wipe. Flash it, flash your ROM, flash GAPPs, reboot!
Done
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and are you sure i cant just flash the stock rom onto my phone? cuz ide hate to wipe everything off of my phone

bruddah said:
and are you sure i cant just flash the stock rom onto my phone? cuz ide hate to wipe everything off of my phone
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just wipe cache and dalvik . then flash rom make back up if you need too.

richardlibeau said:
just wipe cache and dalvik . then flash rom make back up if you need too.
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which rom do you mean when you say flash rom? the stock rom? or a custom one? i want to keep it stock for now

bruddah said:
which rom do you mean when you say flash rom? the stock rom? or a custom one? i want to keep it stock for now
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YES STOCK

richardlibeau said:
YES STOCK
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lool i was just making sure and i cant find a file for the stock telus ics :$ can someone help me? i found one for the koodo and tmobile ics but i want the telus one. Thanks

Ive got a new problem :S i now know exactly how to fix my phone. But there are some pictures on the internal SD Card that i really need. Theyre pictures from a family vacation to Washington DC an theyre really important. I tried to mount my phone from Clockwork Mod Recovery but mounting the system but it didnt work. Then i tried selecting all the options and mounted them all but all my computer does is reckognize that something is plugged in. I cant get into the files of my phone. I also checked and my computer says the my phone is a "Storage Device; Modem"

bruddah said:
Ive got a new problem :S i now know exactly how to fix my phone. But there are some pictures on the internal SD Card that i really need. Theyre pictures from a family vacation to Washington DC an theyre really important. I tried to mount my phone from Clockwork Mod Recovery but mounting the system but it didnt work. Then i tried selecting all the options and mounted them all but all my computer does is reckognize that something is plugged in. I cant get into the files of my phone. I also checked and my computer says the my phone is a "Storage Device; Modem"
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Your not suppose mount the system, just storage. In TWRP you can mount internal or external storage. Also, I'm not quite getting what you're saying. You have tried taking out the SD card and mounting it directly on your PC and it didn't work?
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In the CM9 thread it says to ensure you download/install a CWM Touch recovery - if you don't you're guaranteed to get a boot loop. Their "fix" was to download and flash darkside-wipe-cache-only.zip via recovery and that will fix the problem.
I ended up having the same issue and that's how I fixed it.

LoopDoGG79 said:
Your not suppose mount the system, just storage. In TWRP you can mount internal or external storage. Also, I'm not quite getting what you're saying. You have tried taking out the SD card and mounting it directly on your PC and it didn't work?
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Im saying that im stuck in a bootloop and i wana get the data off of my internal storage. I can only get to CWM recovery. I also wana just go back to stock ICS but if i can fix cyanogen without wiping my phone that would be great! i tried to plug in my phone and get my computer to read it so i can browse my phone's internal memory and get the pictures off of the internal storage but it wont recognize my phone. I tried checking all of the things in CWM but none of them worked.

i_is_surf said:
In the CM9 thread it says to ensure you download/install a CWM Touch recovery - if you don't you're guaranteed to get a boot loop. Their "fix" was to download and flash darkside-wipe-cache-only.zip via recovery and that will fix the problem.
I ended up having the same issue and that's how I fixed it.
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so your saying that i didnt download/install a CWM Touch Recovery so thats why im in the boot loop and that to fix it i can download and flash a darkside Wipe Cache Only and the phone will get out of the bootloop and Cyanogen will work?

[Q] Can't mount SD card from recovery

I've tryed reading other forums but I'm not familiar with some terminology. I seem to have wiped all data on my phone including internal storage and just want to get my phone back into working order. There are no roms I can flash that are on the phone and can't seem to figure out how to mount the SD card to put a rom on the phone. No idea what to do from here. Any and all help would be greatly appreciated!!!

You'll have to fastboot flash a stock Google ROM now.
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How does one fastboot flash?

geoffcorey said:
You'll have to fastboot flash a stock Google ROM now.
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uh no. thats an option, but not the only option
OP,
you need to have ADB setup so you can push the rom in CWM.
adb push nameandlocationofzipofromfrompc /data/media/

Okay. How exactly do I go about doing that?

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1814266
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Okay I've attempted setting up ADB but when I type in adb devices under the directory C:\Andriod\andriod-sdk-windows\platform-tools> it does not find my phone. I've tryed watching and looking at a few tutorials but everything leads me to a dead, confusing end. Please help

is your phone in cwm and do you have the adb driver installed?

temperature omisten
I have Team Win Recovery but yeah when I search for devices its in Recovery. I'm double checking on the drivers

Zepius said:
uh no. thats an option, but not the only option
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From what the op said, he's fully wiped /data including /data/media. And he'll need to reboot a ROM to rebuild the sdcard stuff (at least that's how it's seemed from my experience) and I'm assuming he's wiped /system. So he's pretty hosed for the adb method.
If he just flashes a system.IMG, he should be able to fix his issue.
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geoffcorey said:
From what the op said, he's fully wiped /data including /data/media. And he'll need to reboot a ROM to rebuild the sdcard stuff (at least that's how it's seemed from my experience) and I'm assuming he's wiped /system. So he's pretty hosed for the adb method.
If he just flashes a system.IMG, he should be able to fix his issue.
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custom recoveries have ADB built into them, so no he's not hosed for adb.

How exactly do I flash a system.IMG?

Zepius said:
custom recoveries have ADB built into them, so no he's not hosed for adb.
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But the sdcard structure is erased, and at least from my experience, you need to boot into a ROM to properly fix sdcard. Unless twrp allows you to flash zips not located in /data/media then pushing a zip to /data is useless.
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Help please?

geoffcorey said:
But the sdcard structure is erased, and at least from my experience, you need to boot into a ROM to properly fix sdcard. Unless twrp allows you to flash zips not located in /data/media then pushing a zip to /data is useless.
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That is true IFF the userdata image is completely erased/formated, which I don't think can happen by using a custom recovery.
Regardless, it seems like he lost all his data, so he might as well flash it back to stock entirely.
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Look here.

Need help A.S.A.P. please. WIPED phone

Call me a noob. I was on a CM10.1 ROM, and wanted to try out a new TW ROM. I installed TWRP 2.4.1.0 last week, where as before was running CWR recovery.
So this is my first time using TWRP. I rebooted from CM10.1 into recovery, was always told to wipe data, factory reset, wipe cache, wipe davlik. I always do those three things, but also read going from CM10 back to TW is good idea to wipe internal as well. I did that.
Now I go to flash my ROM, that I downloaded and put on sd/card earlier today at the office. I go to install, and there is nothing on the sd/card, it's empty ? WTF did I do ? :crying:

Zorachus said:
Call me a noob. I was on a CM10.1 ROM, and wanted to try out a new TW ROM. I installed TWRP 2.4.1.0 last week, where as before was running CWR recovery.
So this is my first time using TWRP. I rebooted from CM10.1 into recovery, was always told to wipe data, factory reset, wipe cache, wipe davlik. I always do those three things, but also read going from CM10 back to TW is good idea to wipe internal as well. I did that.
Now I go to flash my ROM, that I downloaded and put on sd/card earlier today at the office. I go to install, and there is nothing on the sd/card, it's empty ? WTF did I do ? :crying:
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If your down grading from 4.2.1 to 4.1 you have to flash the sd card fix. all TW roms are JB 4.1 I forgot where the file is posted

spawn50ak49 said:
If your down grading from 4.2.1 to 4.1 you have to flash the sd card fix. all TW roms are JB 4.1 I forgot where the file is posted
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Thanks, I know about that file, put that on my sd/card too. My problem is, nothing seems to be left on my sd/card ? After I wiped everything in TWRP, there seems to be nothing left to install ? WTF ? :crying:
I am new to TWRP, I have always used CRW for recovery, even rooted my Note 2 with CRW recovery, an flashed all my ROM's lately with CRW recovery, just installed TWRP this week, first time trying it.

Zorachus said:
Thanks, I know about that file, put that on my sd/card too. My problem is, nothing seems to be left on my sd/card ? After I wiped everything in TWRP, there seems to be nothing left to install ? WTF ? :crying:
I am new to TWRP, I have always used CRW for recovery, even rooted my Note 2 with CRW recovery, an flashed all my ROM's lately with CRW recovery, just installed TWRP this week, first time trying it.
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if you do a data wipe it only wipes internal sdcard not external. so if you have all your stuff on external it should be there. unless you wiped external by accident.
here is the link for sd card fix file is at bottom of first post. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=36873319&postcount=1

you wiped your internal sd card
so the only thing you can do now is using odin to flash a stock rom and start from stratch (root and flash new rom again)
or if you made a nandroid in your external sd, restore it in recovery.

What you did was format data with your sd card on the phone that will definitely will wipe everything. And I hqve the same experience that you had so next time I recommend you take out your sd card out

pcshano said:
you wiped your internal sd card
so the only thing you can do now is using odin to flash a stock rom and start from stratch (root and flash new rom again)
or if you made a nandroid in your external sd, restore it in recovery.
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Uh, OK. Uh...
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Now what you can do its download the room to.a computer plug in your sd card and transfer the files to sd card. You dont have to start from scratch I did that way. Download all files that you are goind to need and your still rooted and have twr
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Come on why you tell him to start from the beginning just do why I didi and you will be fine don't worried we all make mistakes and from does mistakes we learn

pegapega02 said:
Now what you can do its download the room to.a computer plug in your sd card and transfer the files to sd card. You dont have to start from scratch I did that way. Download all files that you are goind to need and your still rooted and have twr
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Come on why you tell him to start from the beginning just do why I didi and you will be fine don't worried we all make mistakes and from does mistakes we learn
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I have the ROM downloaded on my PC now. How do I transfer that onto my phone ? I plugged in phone USB to computer, but the computer doesn't see it now in recovery ?
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Get your sd card out from your phone. I don't what kind of computer you have but if it doesnt suport your sd card because of the size you have tou used a card adaptor its like the ones the ise on camera's

I am screwed.
#1 I don't have an external sd/card, only what the phone came with. #2 If I go buy one, what type of adapter do they make, where an sd/card fits into a portable USB stick ?
My computer is my custom built gaming rig, no sd/card adapter on that beast, I don't think ? Unless on my motherboard ?

Best buy or any store can help you out. But you said you have only the one that came with the phone if you have a secon phone or any think that you can put it and just to open it and put the files inside that will help you or do the odin file

It appears that you are posting from a Galaxy Nexus. The major problem with an external SD is that the Galaxy Nexus does not have one.
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ksizzle9 said:
It appears that you are posting from a Galaxy Nexus. The major problem with an external SD is that the Galaxy Nexus does not have one.
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That was a reply, due to phone being down. I have an old Verizon Galaxy Nexus, I just use at home on WiFi.

pegapega02 said:
Best buy or any store can help you out. But you said you have only the one that came with the phone if you have a secon phone or any think that you can put it and just to open it and put the files inside that will help you or do the odin file
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I might have an old external card from my EVO 4G days, if I can find it. But what do i do with that little card ? I don't have any adapter for something that small, never even seen anything like that before.

Other option. Get a cheap mini SD. Flash cwm recovery. mount ext SD in cwm and transfer file from computer to ext SD through cwm. Wish twrp had that option.
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I am shocked there is no option once in Recovery, to mount the phone to the computer, with USB cable, and download ROM's onto the sd/card while in Recovery.

Ones you put your sd card back you nedd to restar your phone to recovery again for the phone van read the sd vard again

pegapega02 said:
Ones you put your sd card back you nedd to restar your phone to recovery again for the phone van read the sd vard again
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How do I do that ?

pegapega02 said:
Ones you put your sd card back you nedd to restar your phone to recovery again for the phone van read the sd vard again
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Also you need to format the sd card before putting in to the galaxy note reason is that sd card was in another phone. Formate or delete which ever option you may have
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If your using Twr in the home page in the button said reboot you go there and then recovery

Storage issue...

Hey guys! Its been a while since I've rooted a phone (HTC Inspire 4G) but last night I rooted my S3. Today I was checking storage and it says I have 2.62GB left on my internal SD card. I run the numbers on apps, downloads, etc. and it just doesn't add up to using 9GBs of space. I'm running LiquidSmooth with gapps (which downloaded my previous apps from stock via my account). Can someone help me out with this? Even if I have to completely wipe the storage space to get the room back, I'm fine with that. I just don't like not having space especially when there should be way more since there are no pictures or music on the phone. Thanks everyone and its good to be back flashing!
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I'm also running into an issue finding flashable .zips that are in my /download folder in Astro but not found when using CWM. Weird...
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Disregard not being to find them... Apparently I have a separate folder labeled /sdcard/0 that I have no idea how it was made... Is there a .exe to full wipe/format my sdcard so I can start with a clean slate and then simply restore my current ROM/Kernel? Factory reset, format system, wiping cache and dalvik cache then restoring backup isn't working.
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You know if you posted this in the right forum you might get some help.
It's not hard to realize that if you're asking a question it should probably be in the forum labeled questions and answers. Think before you post.

TeknoGodz said:
You know if you posted this in the right forum you might get some help.
It's not hard to realize that if you're asking a question it should probably be in the forum labeled questions and answers. Think before you post.
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His question is in the Q&A
Read before posting
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His question is in the Q&A
Read before posting
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It is now that I reported it for being in the wrong section and a mod moved it.
Think before you post.
Anyways, the internal SD card is always going to have much less space then as advertised on the phone. My phone is a 16GB and out of the box I think it had like 13 or so.
You can install TWRP from Goo Manager and use that recovery to make a backup, format your internal storage, then restore data from a backup if you really think you're missing space, but honestly you probably arent.

Thank you for noticing that it was in the wrong forum Tekno.... And for getting that fixed. I understand I have less than advertised but before I rooted it, I backed up all the pictures onto my computer. My phone has no pictures or music on it so I'm trying to figure out where 10GBs have gone.
I will look up TWRP and hopefully that will help...
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Well if you've already backed up that you may as well just backup your contacts and anything else you may need and start clean. And by that I mean do a full wipe before flashing a ROM and don't restore data after.
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TeknoGodz said:
Well if you've already backed up that you may as well just backup your contacts and anything else you may need and start clean. And by that I mean do a full wipe before flashing a ROM and don't restore data after.
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Well, I'm a little too late for all of that now. I soft bricked the phone. Using CWM, I managed to erase everything from the sdcard. All files, all folders, everything. Now when the phone boots it hangs at the "Samsung Galaxy S III" screen. I can, however, get into Download Mode and Recovery Mode. Unfortunately for me though, I do not have the stock ROM .tar and cannot download it due to workstation restrictions. I can also get to Recovery Mode but I have absolutely no files on the sdcard at all and I can't figure out a way to force push LiquidSmooth onto the phone. I receive recognition of connection via ODIN but that program only uses .tar/.gz/.img/etc. and I can't put the LiquidSmooth .zip on that way. Hopefully someone can bring me a copy of the Stock ROM in to work tomorrow as I'm on duty and won't be able to leave work for a while (days).
Oh, it's been a while since I've bricked a phone also. Those days I don't miss...
Are there any other options that I may not have exhausted?

dmeans2 said:
Well, I'm a little too late for all of that now. I soft bricked the phone. Using CWM, I managed to erase everything from the sdcard. All files, all folders, everything. Now when the phone boots it hangs at the "Samsung Galaxy S III" screen. I can, however, get into Download Mode and Recovery Mode. Unfortunately for me though, I do not have the stock ROM .tar and cannot download it due to workstation restrictions. I can also get to Recovery Mode but I have absolutely no files on the sdcard at all and I can't figure out a way to force push LiquidSmooth onto the phone. I receive recognition of connection via ODIN but that program only uses .tar/.gz/.img/etc. and I can't put the LiquidSmooth .zip on that way. Hopefully someone can bring me a copy of the Stock ROM in to work tomorrow as I'm on duty and won't be able to leave work for a while (days).
Oh, it's been a while since I've bricked a phone also. Those days I don't miss...
Are there any other options that I may not have exhausted?
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Well heres a few things you can try:
1) ADB to push the rom to the phone
2) Use a proxy service to download original firmware (not sure if your workplace would like that though), Heres a link to the stock ATT firmware, not rooted, pure stock from sammobile http://www.hotfile.com/dl/182319352/b8d55a6/I747UCDLK3_I747ATTDLK3_ATT.zip.html
3) Ask to borrow a co-workers phone to download the file

Thanks Tekno. Finally back online...
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