Hey guys what's up? I been looking and looking. But I can't seem to find the solution. But can't seem to figure out how to get rid of all those "0" files if have to wipe my phone to factory setting. I will. It seems like the that folder is taking up so much space on my phone. I using twrp and I wipe the everything but the SD card and the data. I'm wondering if u wipe the data also would that solve the problem. Then could always reinstall the ROM and my apps. Thanks in advance
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Android create "0" files/folders and put the data of previous ROMs whenever you flash new 4.2 ROMs. It's because of multiple users function.
4.1 ROMs don't do that. A few workarounds are
1) go into those "0" folders and copy what you want and move them to main directory of sd card. Then you can delete those folders.
2) or copy internal SD card data to external before you flash and format internal SD during the flashing process. And move them back later if you wish to do so.
3) or stay with 4.1 ROMs. Hope this help.
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myowin said:
Android create "0" files/folders and put the data of previous ROMs whenever you flash new 4.2 ROMs. It's because of multiple users function.
4.1 ROMs don't do that. A few workarounds are
1) go into those "0" folders and copy what you want and move them to main directory of sd card. Then you can delete those folders.
2) or copy internal SD card data to external before you flash and format internal SD during the flashing process. And move them back later if you wish to do so.
3) or stay with 4.1 ROMs. Hope this help.
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Oh OK thanks for the info bro :thumbup:
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I have been loading all the roms and just realised my sdcard is getting filled.. therefore can format my sdcard?? Will it remove the rom or change the S-off or brick my phone??
Can replace my 8gb sdcard with 32gb sdcard? Should i do anything extra to make sure it remains rooted?
Can force close be caused only by software issues or even hardware?? I ask this coz a month back i had dropped my phone and it did not start for couple of hours. After that i have being having issues with many roms and many apps esp market force closing and the clockwork recovery not flashing properly...
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Your OS is installed in the internal storage of your device, not your SD Card. Formatiing your SD Card does nothing to your ROM at all. Force Closing is most probably a permission issue. Try Fix Permission in ROM Manager.
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Your OS is installed in the internal storage of your device, not your SD Card. Formatiing your SD Card does nothing to your ROM at all. Force Closing is most probably a permission issue. Try Fix Permission in ROM Manager.
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Thanks Armedand...
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MEkANiK said:
I have been loading all the roms and just realised my sdcard is getting filled..
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Do you mean you are keeping the ROM files, and/or nandroid backups on your SD card? After you flash a ROM, you can get rid of the zip file. Or copy it to your desktop computer, if you think you might want it again in the future.
Similar thing with nandroid backups. I usually just keep the most recent one on my SD, and move the rest to my PC.
Some apps save data to the SD card. If you want to upgrade to a larger SD, just copy the files you need (or think you might need) to your desktop computer from the SD, then copy them to the new SD card, and swap the cards out. Upgrading the SD card is that simple.
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Do you mean you are keeping the ROM files, and/or nandroid backups on your SD card? After you flash a ROM, you can get rid of the zip file. Or copy it to your desktop computer, if you think you might want it again in the future.
Similar thing with nandroid backups. I usually just keep the most recent one on my SD, and move the rest to my PC.
Some apps save data to the SD card. If you want to upgrade to a larger SD, just copy the files you need (or think you might need) to your desktop computer from the SD, then copy them to the new SD card, and swap the cards out. Upgrading the SD card is that simple.
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Not the zip files but the original rom which installed.. i asked this bcoz when rooting i had to create gold card change the value and so on.. so i wasn't sure if that would be affected if i formatted the sdcard or deleted all the folders ..
i have trying out many softwares, and now i dont even remember which is ones i have removed and which is need(lots of folders, some where created by some roms i hard tried)... since i always backup imp data on my pc.. i have no worries there..
just wanted to clean up whole thing since i have figured out all most all the sw i will need..
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As I was flashing a new rom [CustoNexus, while I had a 4.2 build rom... if it matters] I noticed practically all of my sd card data migrated into a folder called '0', which is making me unable to access backup data
Why did this happen?
And I thought I'd just cut the data back into the SD card and delete this folder, just want to make sure with you guys that it's safe
SrebX said:
As I was flashing a new rom [CustoNexus, while I had a 4.2 build rom... if it matters] I noticed practically all of my sd card data migrated into a folder called '0', which is making me unable to access backup data
Why did this happen?
And I thought I'd just cut the data back into the SD card and delete this folder, just want to make sure with you guys that it's safe
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Yep, that should work.
SrebX said:
As I was flashing a new rom [CustoNexus, while I had a 4.2 build rom... if it matters] I noticed practically all of my sd card data migrated into a folder called '0', which is making me unable to access backup data
Why did this happen?
And I thought I'd just cut the data back into the SD card and delete this folder, just want to make sure with you guys that it's safe
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I think it happens to everybody with this android version. It happened to me on my one X and tablet. As for if its safe it should work although who knows maybe the filders will appear in 0 again.
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In android 4.2 sdcard handling was changed dramatically. The result is that the root of sd card is no longer where it used to be. For now on it's /sdcard/0/.
CWM has not yet been updated to support this, so it will search for backups from the root of sd.
Simply move the "clockworkmod" folder from /sdcard/0/ to /sdcard/.
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TToivanen said:
In android 4.2 sdcard handling was changed dramatically. The result is that the root of sd card is no longer where it used to be. For now on it's /sdcard/0/.
CWM has not yet been updated to support this, so it will search for backups from the root of sd.
Simply move the "clockworkmod" folder from /sdcard/0/ to /sdcard/.
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CWM doesn't really bug me, it's the applications backup that did
Anyhow, my SD card was formatted when I've just installed a new rom, so no problem anymore ...
Help!
I was running FreeGS3, then flashed LiquidSmooth ... now flashed back to FreeGS3 ... and I have this weird '/storage/sdcard0/0/' folder which is my old internal storage folder? Not sure ... sdcard0/ has the directory structure of internal, but it's empty.
It's as if my old internal was 'backed up' to sdcard0/0/, and now there's a new internal storage at sdcard0 ....
WTF??
The same thing happened to me, you just have to move all the files and folders back to the /sdcard0 folder, you can do it with any file explorer or you can do it in your computer. There's nothing to worry about
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Guide here. If you get confused.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=36959843
[Guide][How To] Fix Sdcard / Find backups after cm10.1 Flash!
Same thing happened to me like deja vu after i decided to sample BlackBean 7. Seems to be a CM10/AOKP thing. Went back to my stock rooted TWiz rom anyways. If it isn't broken, don't fix.
I just used Estrongs File explorer to move everything back to where they were and deleted the /0 folder.
Sorry if this is a total noob question but how do I free the 9 gigs that became sdcard/ 0? Im now running free gs3 which im liking a lot more. The major problem I have is my internal sd is now totally full on my 16gig card. The way I figure is if I'm not gonna use cm10 cant I just delete it from the card and get the space back? I have an external card but its only 8gig and was using that for storage of music and etc. Im on a sprint gs3 flashed to metro and am wondering if I reformat the card can I flash gs3 back on or do I need to flash a stock TW? Im not really too concerned about the other files on the internal sd as I figure might as start fresh
casper916 said:
Sorry if this is a total noob question but how do I free the 9 gigs that became sdcard/ 0? Im now running free gs3 which im liking a lot more. The major problem I have is my internal sd is now totally full on my 16gig card. The way I figure is if I'm not gonna use cm10 cant I just delete it from the card and get the space back? I have an external card but its only 8gig and was using that for storage of music and etc. Im on a sprint gs3 flashed to metro and am wondering if I reformat the card can I flash gs3 back on or do I need to flash a stock TW? Im not really too concerned about the other files on the internal sd as I figure might as start fresh
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If you aren't concerned with the files you can just wipe the internal SD card. However, there is a guide posted a few pages up on how to fix the 0 folder. Wiping the internal SD card will not affect your ROM so you will not need to flash anything.
ChaseBroyles said:
If you aren't concerned with the files you can just wipe the internal SD card. However, there is a guide posted a few pages up on how to fix the 0 folder. Wiping the internal SD card will not affect your ROM so you will not need to flash anything.
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Yeah I saw that guide and was going to try it but then im still stuck with not having any sd card space. As of right now I can download or install anything. Im gonna just wipe it and start fresh. Thanks....
I can't delete the /0 folder, even through adb, even with su ... "permission denied"
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I can't delete the /0 folder, even through adb, even with su ... "permission denied"
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When I went back to TW for a short time mine deleted fine. Try http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1646108 and if that doesn't work, backup your data and wipe the internal SD.
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Man this post made me laugh till I cried!!!! People don't search!!!
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This is the cause of the multiple users feature in 4.2. When a new twrp gets implemented that can handle 4.2 properly, this won't happen. Oh well he didn't Google search! It happens, especially with this kinda thing. Try googleing but we'll always be glad to help.
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Rooted and flashed my phone last night and everything works great. However, for some reason I can't see my internal SD (I think this is what it's called) anymore in file explorer. It's weird because in CWM I can view the internal SD just fine and can see the zip files I flashed. Any ideas on how to make this visible again in Astro or File Explorer (PC)?
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I switched to TWRP and I can now see that my entire internal SD folder has now been moved to /data/media (?????). How do I make this visible from PC? Also I'm confused now..where do I place ROM zip files I want to flash? I don't have an external SD card
dinanS52 said:
Rooted and flashed my phone last night and everything works great. However, for some reason I can't see my internal SD (I think this is what it's called) anymore in file explorer. It's weird because in CWM I can view the internal SD just fine and can see the zip files I flashed. Any ideas on how to make this visible again in Astro or File Explorer (PC)?
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I switched to TWRP and I can now see that my entire internal SD folder has now been moved to /data/media (?????). How do I make this visible from PC? Also I'm confused now..where do I place ROM zip files I want to flash? I don't have an external SD card
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I'm guessing you flashed an AOSP ROM? When doing this the system partition creates an emulated folder of your internal memory. You can locate it in any root browser by navigating to /storage/emulated/0/
That is your actual internal sd card. Now you know where to place all your files. Your pc should read this directory by defaut
EDIT: your memory was always in data/media. However flashing an aosp Rom will add a secondary partition and that's the one you wanna go to.
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I'm guessing you flashed an AOSP ROM? When doing this the system partition creates an emulated folder of your internal memory. You can locate it in any root browser by navigating to /storage/emulated/0/
That is your actual internal sd card. Now you know where to place all your files. Your pc should read this directory by defaut
EDIT: your memory was always in data/media. However flashing an aosp Rom will add a secondary partition and that's the one you wanna go to.
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The rom I flashed was: [4.2.2][AOKPA:CM10.1] ParanoidKANGdroid 2.32
Navigating to /storage/emulated/0 does show the "current" internal memory and this does show up on PC
I guess what the problem is, I am trying to access the internal memory from my "old" stock ROM. I know it exists still because in TWRP it shows up under data/media. This folder is NOT what is displayed in /storage/emulated/o/.
When I navigate to data/media in astro it shows up as empty (Actually the "data' folder is empty)
Okay so I got access to the folder using Root Explorer. Is it safe to delete everything in "data/media"? Its literally everything from the old ROM and nothing from the new...
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Okay so I got access to the folder using Root Explorer. Is it safe to delete everything in "data/media"? Its literally everything from the old ROM and nothing from the new...
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It is safe. deleting everything from /data/media/ is the same thing as formatting you're sd card. So unless you don't care I'd recommend just deleting any old files from your previous ROM that doesn't actually appear in /storage/emulated/0/. It's just taking up space. If you decide to return to a TW ROM, /emulated/0/ will still exist but will no longer be your phone's default memory location until you revert back to aozp. Just keep that in mind.
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For some reason when I install a rom that is 4.2.2 based, it sees the directories in the INTERNAL SD but they are all empty.
HOWEVER. When I revert BACK to a 4.1.2, or 4.1.1 ROMS the files are there, and it sees them and they work fine.
What is it doing this weird behavior??
Furthermore if I try hooking up the phone to the computer it sees that there is a LOT of space taken up on the internal SD card. But again ALL directories are empty. Of course if I reboot into recovery all my files are there. ALl my zips whatever. What the heck is going on?
nafeasonto said:
For some reason when I install a rom that is 4.2.2 based, it sees the directories in the INTERNAL SD but they are all empty.
HOWEVER. When I revert BACK to a 4.1.2, or 4.1.1 ROMS the files are there, and it sees them and they work fine.
What is it doing this weird behavior??
Furthermore if I try hooking up the phone to the computer it sees that there is a LOT of space taken up on the internal SD card. But again ALL directories are empty. Of course if I reboot into recovery all my files are there. ALl my zips whatever. What the heck is going on?
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4.2 AOSP ROMS emulate your internal memory by creating a secondary sd partition. There are many paths to viewing your internal memory but the most common directory is
/storage/emulated/0
"0" is your actual internal sd card.
You can also view ALL existing files in
/data/media/
So if the first path doesn't show you any files then the /data/media directory should do it for you..
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LuigiBull23 said:
4.2 AOSP ROMS emulate your internal memory by creating a secondary sd partition. There are many paths to viewing your internal memory but the most common directory is
/storage/emulated/0
"0" is your actual internal sd card.
You can also view ALL existing files in
/data/media/
So if the first path doesn't show you any files then the /data/media directory should do it for you..
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That's a problem then because titaniumbackup can't read that directory neither can my phone find any of my downloaded songs
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nafeasonto said:
That's a problem then because titaniumbackup can't read that directory neither can my phone find any of my downloaded songs
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It's really not a problem man.. TB can't read that directory cuz you haven't set it to.. You need to move your current TB folder to the path mentioned above then go and change your current backup directory to that or just simply scan the entire device and it will find it. Same applies to your music or any other media files.
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