So. Got my new phone from the insurance. So...how should I securely erase my old one so there's none of my data on it? Suggestions for a good app or program to wipe it?
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Factory reset
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Is it rooted?
janjannsen99 said:
Factory reset
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Doesn't overwrite data. It's still recoverable.
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Yes.
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GN2Rabbit said:
Doesn't overwrite data. It's still recoverable.
Yes.
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Is it possible it is still recoverable? Maybe.... Likely? No.... If in doubt do it a few times.
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Flash and odin stock rom. It wipes th3 internal sd and all. It's the most complete wipe.
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kintwofan said:
Flash and odin stock rom. It wipes th3 internal sd and all. It's the most complete wipe.
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Thanks. Probably doing that a couple times will do it. Thanks.
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Doesn't overwrite data. It's still recoverable.
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These things aren't like hard drives. You should understands the differences between the two before replying like that. Where deleting from a hard drive the data can be recovered. Deleting from ssd and flash drives really does delete the files not just the directory of where those files. .....oh what am I even wasting my time for.
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These things aren't like hard drives. You should understands the differences between the two before replying like that. Where deleting from a hard drive the data can be recovered. Deleting from ssd and flash drives really does delete the files not just the directory of where those files. .....oh what am I even wasting my time for.
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I do know the difference between the two. Quite well. I work in IT. So...with that out of the way.
Data is still recoverable after a factory reset. Just cause you press delete on a flash memory based device or do a factory reset doesn't mean it's gone. Go take a few pictures with your digital camera, delete them, and use some SD card recovery software. They'll be there. You can recover data from a factory wiped device. I've done it. It is still there until it's overwritten.
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Hi I might have erased something on my phone. I have flashed roms before but something must have gone wrong. I flashed a cm10 rom and it messed my folders up by creating a folder on the phones memory (I forgot what it was called)I tried moving the folders out of it because my files looked ok and something happened where it erased my external 64gb and crashed my phone( it became unresponsive when trying to move the data to my pc. I flashed the stock rom using odin and it took ok I rerooted and installed twrp and tried to flash different roms but they all stay at the boot screen. Wierd thing is I can restore/backup just fine. i just can't install custom roms. I also saw something that i never noticed before in my folders on the phones internal memory I will provide a pic. Are those usb folders normal ? I can't access them though. Someone please help what can I do to be able to flash roms again? Also before anyone mentions it I tried with clockwork same issue.
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Here is the photo
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Flash new ROM. Factory reset.
Yeah, I think I know what's happening, enter the sdcard folder, and if you see a folder in there called "0", all of your stuff should be there. This happened to me while using CM10.
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That's what happens on cm10.1 just look in your 0 folder.
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BaconStep said:
That's what happens on cm10.1 just look in your 0 folder.
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Ugh its so annoying
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Ugh its so annoying
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Doesn't happen on aokp 4.2.1 tho... not with Twrp at least... in case u wanna give it a try
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Doesn't happen on aokp 4.2.1 tho... not with Twrp at least... in case u wanna give it a try
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Nice... but actually I had another problem with all AOSP based roms, the wifi wont connect for some reason
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Nice... but actually I had another problem with all AOSP based roms, the wifi wont connect for some reason
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Mine does. Automatically whenever I get home it connects to my network
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Thanks for the help guys yes i'm Puerto Rican and I already knew about the 0 folder issue and the work around (i do look at this site quite frequently but don't post much because i look before posting) but the problem happened when i tried to move the items from that folder to my pc. The fact is it just stopped transfering files completely my phone shut off it erased my external 64gb sd card and it pretty much corrupted the internal storage thank god i was able to factory reset with odin. However even after i factory reset with odin i couldnt flash roms. Thats why i posted this thread, and also to make sure that those usb folders were normal (which i found out were normal to see) Reflashed Odin factory rom 3 times in a row and that seemed to clear up the issue. Like i said thanks for all the help and sorry if it seemed like i was noobing. :good:
I thought DCIM folder in the internal storage is untouched...
So frustrating!
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Wipe data factory reset shouldn't touch internal storage when using a custom recovery. Are you using stock recovery?
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Wipe data factory reset shouldn't touch internal storage when using a custom recovery. Are you using stock recovery?
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This is correct. Back up anything you do not want to lose externally.
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Drop Box
i think you also have 50 gig of drop box available to you...use it?
It can be set up to automatically upload your pictures to drop box after you take a picture.
Don't wipe data. Factory reset and wipe system. Data is where pics and other user data is kept.
Don't panick
I have ways to restore deleted pics from the phone,
PM me for the solution as it's a fairly long process..
hi
tian105 said:
I have ways to restore deleted pics from the phone,
PM me for the solution as it's a fairly long process..
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Hi dear.., I have Note 2.. i did factory setting though play store was not working... but it erased all my pics... plesa let me know how to restore. my mail id is [email protected]
thanks...
mrg84 said:
Hi dear.., I have Note 2.. i did factory setting though play store was not working... but it erased all my pics... plesa let me know how to restore. my mail id is [email protected]
thanks...
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Pm the user...g
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gregsarg said:
Pm the user...g
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Always helping as usual g!! :thumbup:
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gillian07 said:
Factory reset will reset phone to factory settings, all customer data will be erased.
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Ya apps and app data. Settings. Not pics
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Hey guys, so I've seen many people with the 0 folder problem... Many people keep asking how to deal with it... A simple way would be just to backup your apps, pics and etc on to your computer. Then finally wipe your system and wipe your whole internal storage... After that just install another Rom and restore everything... Took me 20 min....
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Or you could follow my guide...
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Whiplashh said:
Or you could follow my guide...
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Link? sorry never saw it
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Link? sorry never saw it
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Lol I was just messing with you. It would be nice if you could add to mine though. Great way to do it.
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Whiplashh said:
Lol I was just messing with you. It would be nice if you could add to mine though. Great way to do it.
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Yeah sorry, many threads get lost in time.... This is a simple way
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Yeah sorry, many threads get lost in time.... This is a simple way
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Mind if I add this to mine? As option #2? Yours works very well.
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So just wipe internal storage? What about formatting data?
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So just wipe internal storage? What about formatting data?
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Nope, /0 is made on internal not data, so it wouldnt help either way
Mind if I just ask here what formatting data in recovery actually does? Also if I wipe internal data I lose anything on my sd right. I'm just s little hazy on this and there's no post to explain this
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Select all files including .hiddens and move them back to the root of sd, then rename to 0 to .0 be happy.
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how do you keep it from coming back when flashing new roms? always get new 0 folder when flashing or restoring.
That folder is created on all 4.2+ roms because they repartition your sdcard that way
Don't keep anything that you want to save on the internal sd card and re format it every time before you flash a new rom. But that means the rom or anything you are flashing or don't want to loose must be stored on your external SD card.
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I've tried that and the folder always comes back. I've erased internal memory and used an old restore from before using a 4.2 ROM. Doesn't matter what I do it comes back. Even my stock restore will create it. Do I need to reboot after clearing internal memory?
harry46222 said:
I've tried that and the folder always comes back. I've erased internal memory and used an old restore from before using a 4.2 ROM. Doesn't matter what I do it comes back. Even my stock restore will create it. Do I need to reboot after clearing internal memory?
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Did you miss the part that if you use a 4.2 rom you will have it no matter what! It's the way 4.2 roms work designed like that by Google. All you can stop is creating multiple O folders. The only way your going to eliminate it is going back to a 4.1 rom.
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Hey guys so when in my storage options it does not adequately reflect my storage availability I'm wondering if this is normal. This only represents about 4-5 gigs being used but only 700mb available. Is this normal? I honestly don't have that much on my internal but it is running low faster than it should be. Just wanted to know if this is normal.
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I would venture to say that's not normal... Try an app called "Disk Usage" and see what exactly is taking up the space.
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I would venture to say that's not normal... Try an app called "Disk Usage" and see what exactly is taking up the space.
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Im having the same problem and I used that app and its saying for me that system data is 7.2gb is that normal?
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Julianmgn said:
Im having the same problem and I used that app and its saying for me that system data is 7.2gb is that normal?
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No thats not normal. mine is at 523mb
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No thats not normal. mine is at 523mb
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Any suggestions?
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Any suggestions?
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No, I really dont have any. Sorry. Are you sure that is the amount of storage that the system data folder is using?
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No, I really dont have any. Sorry. Are you sure that is the amount of storage that the system data folder is using?
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Well I guess im not really sure. Thats what the app said.
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Well I guess im not really sure. Thats what the app said.
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Yeah, seems correct. Do you have a Galaxy S4 or are you on a different device?
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Yeah, seems correct. Do you have a Galaxy S4 or are you on a different device?
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Yeah I have galaxy s4 from tmobile.
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Now what exactly could cause the system data to soar to 7GB? Have you tried exploring around the directories to see exactly what files or directories are abnormally large?
Op-is your device rooted
Backups may be the issue then.
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Thanks for all the responses I just got a chance to look at this I'll take a look at that app and see what I get. What kinda backups are we talking? Because I haven't intentionally backed anything up. And I am rooted yes
Edit: currently running wicked v4 but have had a few before that with same circumstances. I always factory reset, wipe cache, dalvik cache.
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Thanks for all the responses I just got a chance to look at this I'll take a look at that app and see what I get. What kinda backups are we talking? Because I haven't intentionally backed anything up. And I am rooted yes
Edit: currently running wicked v4 but have had a few before that with same circumstances. I always factory reset, wipe cache, dalvik cache.
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I havent looked through my directory but I will today.
And im also running wicked v4 and have also had this problem before.
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I've looked through everything, and using the disk space app, showed about 5.7 gigs to system. Went through system couldn't find specifics as the culprit or what I could remove to make space. Is there any type of reset that'd clean it up, like a Odin flash? I'm usually better with these things but this is just odd and outta character for me.
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I think I found the problem I was wondering wtf was going on... Everything has been different folder setup in cwm than before when I go to flash from SD card I get 0, legacy, and one other folder. Well... I found a folder in my system called emulated... It's basically two extra copies of my entire internal system. Anyone know where this came from? And how to prevent it from reoccurring? It shows updated today. Please correct me if this is not the issue... Gonna try deleting it will post after
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Well... That only deleted everything on my internal SD... Wtf so strange. My internal SDcard showed like 2.7 gigs taken up the 'emulated: legacy and 0' folders were exactly 2.7 gigs each... Leading to the theory these were copies of the internal SD but when deleted they took the internal with them, now it shows I have 3.3 gigs avail and one being used... Outta 9+ gigs... Wtf ha
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Ok so I figured out that its was my nandroid backups that where taking up all the space. Especially my nandroid of stock.
Its under data/media/clockwork
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Ok so I figured out that its was my nandroid backups that where taking up all the space. Especially my nandroid of stock.
Its under data/media/clockwork
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Idk if it's my es file explorer but there's nothing in the data folder, I checked the 'show hidden files' too let me know if any other jnfo
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Idk if it's my es file explorer but there's nothing in the data folder, I checked the 'show hidden files' too let me know if any other jnfo
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I used root explorer, I got the paid version
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Figured it out... Wish I'd have waited 5 min before deleting all my internal storage haha I wonder if there's an easy way to restore that crap...
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So I did a fresh install of a tw rom and its saying I have used 5.4 gb Ive factory rest like 3 times already ... whats the deal thanks.
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Your system and recovery partitions use a portion of the 16gb that the phone has. Kind of like if you do a fresh install of Windows on you PC, the system files take up part of the hard drive. There's no real way around that.
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What's on your internal sd card?
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nothing. This is a fresh install and I deleted everything and I'm using 5.4 GB....
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nothing. This is a fresh install and I deleted everything and I'm using 5.4 GB....
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Are you saying the device shows total available internal memory to be ~9GB? If that is the case, that's the way it is with the way it's partitioned. If you mean there's 5.4GB missing out of the ~9GB it's supposed to have, then there's a problem.
your backup is in the external, can't see it unless you're in recovery. I figured out the hard way.
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Are you saying the device shows total available internal memory to be ~9GB? If that is the case, that's the way it is with the way it's partitioned. If you mean there's 5.4GB missing out of the ~9GB it's supposed to have, then there's a problem.
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OK it says I have 9.62 GB then out of those I have 3.95 GB left to use but under what I'm using I'm only using about 1gb or less 900mb why is it saying I'm using about 5.4 GB I connect it to my PC I look under all the folders nothing in them plus fresh install factory rest 2 times. ....
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OK it says I have 9.62 GB then out of those I have 3.95 GB left to use but under what I'm using I'm only using about 1gb or less 900mb why is it saying I'm using about 5.4 GB I connect it to my PC I look under all the folders nothing in them plus fresh install factory rest 2 times. ....
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If you are using CWM and have made a backup (or two) check /data/media/clockwork. It's the root of the phone, not of the internal memory partition or SD card.
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If you are using CWM and have made a backup (or two) check data/media/clockwork.
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I have but on my SD card let me go check .... Sorry guy might even be my own fault thanks though.
EDIT: so I deleted 2 back ups in cwm smh had no idea they were saved in internal but thank you guys !
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I have but on my SD card let me go check .... Sorry guy might even be my own fault thanks though.
EDIT: so I deleted 2 back ups in cwm smh had no idea they were saved in internal but thank you guys !
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Good to know! Glad you got that resolved!
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I have but on my SD card let me go check .... Sorry guy might even be my own fault thanks though.
EDIT: so I deleted 2 back ups in cwm smh had no idea they were saved in internal but thank you guys !
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Thought you said there was nothing on your internal sd card?
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