[Q] Scared to go to 4.2 - T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII

Im on 4.1.2 right now and i went to a 4.2 rom, had everything moved to storage 0 and somewhere along the line, i basically lost everything because my storage card wouldnt work on the 4.2 rom anymore. i know, its still in storage 0 but for some reason it was corrupted. even after I formated it 3 times. so i switched back and the sd card worked again.
Do i still have anything to worry about? because i want to flash a new rom. 4.2...

It will still do it, nothing has changed. I always back everything up onto my computer then flash then format again to fat32 then move stuff over.
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It is not recommended to go back and forth between 4.1.x and 4.2.x ROMs. 4.2 handles storage differently. What 4.2 ROM did you flash? Here's a link explaining the storage structure in 4.2.
http://teamw.in/androidmultiuser
I had one occasion (and that wa the only time it happened) where AOKP 4.2 reported my external sdcard was corrupted. I took the sdcard out, tried it on my tablet and laptop, both worked fine. I cleared cache/dalvik cache, reinserted the sdcard, rebooted AOKP and it worked fine again since.

Going between 4.1.x and 4.2.x can result in some pretty weird stuff, but as long as you backup your files, wipe /data and /system or format them it should be fine

Pretty sure its only 4.2.2 also.
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I too had the 4.1.x > 4.2.x freak out with my files. Nothing has ever been deleted though. Just transferred to data/media/0 for AOSP (4.2.2) you should back up the entire SDcard as everyone before me said. Its nice to have a back up all the time cause weird things do happen.
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re: 4.2.2 rom
TonytheLiger said:
Im on 4.1.2 right now and i went to a 4.2 rom, had everything moved to storage 0 and somewhere along the line, i basically lost everything because my storage card wouldnt work on the 4.2 rom anymore. i know, its still in storage 0 but for some reason it was corrupted. even after I formated it 3 times. so i switched back and the sd card worked again.
Do i still have anything to worry about? because i want to flash a new rom. 4.2...
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Just for your information, the storage "0" folder only contains the LINKS(shortcuts) to your files and folders.
The actual files and folders are not located there at all so unless you really formatted the internel /sdcard all
your files and folders are intact and still on your internal sdcard.
The 4.2.x roms work the same way as the 4.1.2 after flashing the 4.2.2 rom you will again have a folder called
"0" and it will contain shortcuts to all you files and folders which are on your internal scdard /sdcard
It is safe to delete the "0" folder if you want to flash and use a stock or stock rooted Samsung v4.1.1 Touchwiz based rom.

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Can't access/format/mount Internal SD - any suggestions?

I was using the AOKP 8/23 ROM release and did a full wipe EXACTLY like the instructions say before installing the 3rd 9/1 release (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1766684). I refrain from updating ROMs and always do a fresh install following ALL instructions. Somehow this last version messed up my internal SD and I can't access my files properly. They are all still in the internal SD, but the phone acts like it has 2 separate partitions. When I connect the phone to the computer, There's only a 7GB empty "partition" and I can't format it. On the phone, Astro shows me my files normally. ES Explorer shows all the files just like Astro. On CWM recovery, I can't mount or format /sdcard at all. It says "error mounting /sdcard." Then I tried installing another ROM (Slim Bean [AOSP] - http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1865262) and the error continues. I assume it's not ROM-specific.
I think all I need is to completely format my internal SD, but I can't figure out how to do it on the phone or on the computer. I have backed up all my files and there's nothing important on the phone. Any idea how I can format the internal SD and start all over?
Gaúcho comedor said:
I was using the AOKP 8/23 ROM release and did a full wipe EXACTLY like the instructions say before installing the 3rd 9/1 release (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1766684). I refrain from updating ROMs and always do a fresh install following ALL instructions. Somehow this last version messed up my internal SD and I can't access my files properly. They are all still in the internal SD, but the phone acts like it has 2 separate partitions. When I connect the phone to the computer, There's only a 7GB empty "partition" and I can't format it. On the phone, Astro shows me my files normally. ES Explorer shows all the files just like Astro. On CWM recovery, I can't mount or format /sdcard at all. It says "error mounting /sdcard." Then I tried installing another ROM (Slim Bean [AOSP] - http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1865262) and the error continues. I assume it's not ROM-specific.
I think all I need is to completely format my internal SD, but I can't figure out how to do it on the phone or on the computer. I have backed up all my files and there's nothing important on the phone. Any idea how I can format the internal SD and start all over?
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Have you tried using Odin to go back to stock?
xThe Enforcer said:
Have you tried using Odin to go back to stock?
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I haven't. I was afraid to do that because I burned 3 Motocrap Atrixes doing that in the past. I was lucky I did it before the 30 days of the first purchase. Since they couldn't even turn it on, they would just give me a new one. The third one didn't burn.
I restored a Nandroid backup with an ICS rom and the computer could see all files on the phone. The phone itself could too. The AOKP Jelly Bean rom I had before worked fine until I updated it. That's when it messed up. Now all JB roms show that problem. I'm hoping this is just a bug and will be worked out eventually, but it sure freaks me out. I don't want to be stuck with ICS just because of a random error.
I went to system settings --> backup and reset to do a factory reset and it couldn't clear my internal SD. The rom would go back to a fresh install like a full wipe, but nothing happened do the storage. Isn't there another way to completely reset the phone?

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
"0" :good:
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
"0" :good:
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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.

TWRP Wiping & Another Question on Safe to Delete???

I'm wondering if within it I wiped cache (All by itself, not dalvik) if it would delete all my installed app's or just set them back to default freshly installed as if I'd never opened and set them up yet?
Also I applied this mod http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2036796 on another rom and later on decided not to use it anymore, but ever since removing it I am always getting on the very root base of the phone
extSdCard (Same as storage/sdcard1 )
sdcard (Same as storage/sdcard0 )
storage / emulated / sdcard0 and sdcard1
Which of those "sdcard0 and sdcard1" is safe to delete? I suspect this is from the mod I had before...
But I wiped my internal storage before flashing PAC-man 4.2.2, but now I keep getting a insufficient storage available on certain apps.and I have 7.19Gb's of space left on the internal sd. So I believe one of those questionable sdcard directories is making stuff go there then thinking I'm out of space of stuff.
Wiping cache would not do any of that to your apps. I'm not sure about your second question. On 4.2.2 roms, sdcard0 is internal and sdcard1 is external
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n1nj4Lo said:
I'm wondering if within it I wiped cache (All by itself, not dalvik) if it would delete all my installed app's or just set them back to default freshly installed as if I'd never opened and set them up yet?
Also I applied this mod http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2036796 on another rom and later on decided not to use it anymore, but ever since removing it I am always getting on the very root base of the phone
extSdCard (Same as storage/sdcard1 )
sdcard (Same as storage/sdcard0 )
storage / emulated / sdcard0 and sdcard1
Which of those "sdcard0 and sdcard1" is safe to delete? I suspect this is from the mod I had before...
Ok concerning the sdcard0 folder! If you went back to a TW Rom, and you now have that folder still there! Sdcard0 you can move everything (pictures, etc) from there over to the original sdcard folder. And then you can delete that other folder. And your apps shouldn't say anything about insufficient storage!
Same thing happen to my friend on here. And he had to do the same thing.
Because those 4.2.2.Rom's create, that folder?? and you know that already!!
Hope that helps you...
Just my 2¢®
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Bajanman said:
n1nj4Lo said:
I'm wondering if within it I wiped cache (All by itself, not dalvik) if it would delete all my installed app's or just set them back to default freshly installed as if I'd never opened and set them up yet?
Also I applied this mod http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2036796 on another rom and later on decided not to use it anymore, but ever since removing it I am always getting on the very root base of the phone
extSdCard (Same as storage/sdcard1 )
sdcard (Same as storage/sdcard0 )
storage / emulated / sdcard0 and sdcard1
Which of those "sdcard0 and sdcard1" is safe to delete? I suspect this is from the mod I had before...
Ok concerning the sdcard0 folder! If you went back to a TW Rom, and you now have that folder still there! Sdcard0 you can move everything (pictures, etc) from there over to the original sdcard folder. And then you can delete that other folder. And your apps shouldn't say anything about insufficient storage!
Same thing happen to my friend on here. And he had to do the same thing.
Because those 4.2.2.Rom's create, that folder?? and you know that already!!
Hope that helps you...
Just my 2¢®
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Do ya mean after I move it I can delete the whole storage folder and everything in it or what? Just clarifying don't wanna mess anything up majorly...
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TWRP Format Data
Ooopsy crapola!!! Accidentally deleted my whole external sd card somehow. When I didn't even touch Wipe - External SD in TWRP...
Trying to hopefully recover all my files on my external sd card with MiniTool Power Data Recovery. -fingers crossed!-
Well now that the external sd card is gone what does Format Data do? Does it just format the internal sd or both external and internal?

Need help understanding SDCard

So when I was on stock my sdcard was located in /sdcard.
I then moved to CM and somehow my sdcard moved to /sdcard/0
I returned to stock because I was in need of taking 13MP picture, so my sdcard was then moved to /sdcard
Now, I moved to Unofficial geehrc4g_spr_us Vanilla RootBox [4.27.13] and all of my previous sdcard was missing (not lost, just replaced to a different folder /data/media) and my new sdcard is now /sdcard
Is /sdcard the same as /data/media ?? if it isn't, would it be safe to delete all the contents of /data/media? Or would that be wiping my sdcard?
I am pretty new to this device so my word is not law by any means; I think that the files in data/media are nothing more than a mirror of /sdcard. Otherwise, you would have blown through all available memory trying to store doubles of all data(at least it would for me, I has this badboy 25 gigs full the first day.......)
Actually my /data/media and my /sdcard have totally different files.
Here is an example : my /data/media has all my downloaded roms and mods and my /sdcard has no downloaded roms
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If you go back to a stock rom and take everything in /sdcard and put it in /sdcard/0 then go to an AOSP rom, it'll all be where you expect
does anybody know a quick way to format the sdcard (without wiping the rom)?
I just want to start fresh with the sdcard, I believe that my sdcard has duplicated many times since flashing stock, CM10, and rootbox.
It has been replicated on "/data/media", "/storage", and "/sdcard" and in those folders a "/0" folder has been created as well. I now only have 6GB of space.
Whereas, before the multiple sdcards I had 16-18GB available.
stevek216 said:
If you go back to a stock rom and take everything in /sdcard and put it in /sdcard/0 then go to an AOSP rom, it'll all be where you expect
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OKayy so will doing this stop the duplicating and mirrored folders and enable stock and aosp to share and get along (as fas as this situation goes) using the same directory?

Question regarding wiping internal sd card

Everytime I flash a ROM I seem to lose internal memory. In the past week of flashing and testing, I went from 9GB to 5GB, all with the same applications. So I'm looking to do a full internal wipe. However, I'm not sure if it will delete the ROM currently installed on my phone. Will be using this MOD http://http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2097359 to wipe the internal but I don't want to screw anything up and have to ODIN back to stock because I didn't understand something. If I use the MOD to wipe the internal, will it delete my ROM? Can I simply restore a backup? I'm probably looking more into this then it actually is, but I don't want to wipe the internal and be surprised with something I wasn't prepared for.
EXV said:
Everytime I flash a ROM I seem to lose internal memory. In the past week of flashing and testing, I went from 9GB to 5GB, all with the same applications. So I'm looking to do a full internal wipe. However, I'm not sure if it will delete the ROM currently installed on my phone. Will be using this MOD http://http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2097359 to wipe the internal but I don't want to screw anything up and have to ODIN back to stock because I didn't understand something. If I use the MOD to wipe the internal, will it delete my ROM? Can I simply restore a backup? I'm probably looking more into this then it actually is, but I don't want to wipe the internal and be surprised with something I wasn't prepared for.
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It could be that flashing the ROM is backing up all the previous data in another folder.
All of your current ROM data is stored in the main folder labeled sdcard or sdcard0 (or sometimes 0). You might see another folder labeled 0 within that folder with the data from the previous flashing. With each subsequent flash, the new ROM might make yet another 0 folder to store all the previous stuff, including the data prior to that one.
So then, the directory would look something like ROM inception, i.e., directory looking like sdcard\0\0\0\.... Those additional 0 would be the data from all your previous flashes.
Get back to us if that's what you see lingering in your phone's internal SD.
Well from what I see under "storage", I have an "emulated" folder that has the "0" directory and a "legacy" directory which both show all the folders in my internal. Also under storage, it shows "sdcard0" and "sdcard1" (my external sdcard). So i don't know if they are backups or not.
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EXV said:
Well from what I see under "storage", I have an "emulated" folder that has the "0" directory and a "legacy" directory which both show all the folders in my internal. Also under storage, it shows "sdcard0" and "sdcard1" (my external sdcard). So i don't know if they are backups or not.
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Those are folders you will need to keep. Do you have any 0 labeled folder in the sdcard0?
KunoMochi said:
Those are folders you will need to keep. Do you have any 0 labeled folder in the sdcard0?
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Nope, just shows the folders in my sdcard.
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EXV said:
Nope, just shows the folders in my sdcard.
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I see, it's something else then...
What recovery do you use to backup your phone? TWRP or CWM? Also, when you create a backup, do you have it saved to your external or internal SD?
KunoMochi said:
I see, it's something else then...
What recovery do you use to backup your phone? TWRP or CWM? Also, when you create a backup, do you have it saved to your external or internal SD?
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CWM and I usually save right to my external. I already made a backup so I think I should be good if something goes awry.
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That is quite weird... I've pretty much ran out of ideas to try. lol
Sorry I couldn't be of anymore help. Maybe someone else will have a better idea of what's going on instead.
Also, that mod you linked to seems to just make wiping partitions easier and do things you can normally do yourself in CWM already.
KunoMochi said:
That is quite weird... I've pretty much ran out of ideas to try. lol
Sorry I couldn't be of anymore help. Maybe someone else will have a better idea of what's going on instead.
Also, that mod you linked to seems to just make wiping partitions easier and do things you can normally do yourself in CWM already.
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You even answering questions was plenty of help! Thanks for trying.
I'm aware that I can usually wipe away data and caches but I had no idea I could wipe the entire internal SD card from CWM. interesting. Giving it a shot now anyways, hoping it just does what I need it to do!
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Mske sure you are using the latest version of cwm.
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Ran it successfully and now my internal is all cleaned up. Thanks for the tips guys!
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