My phone is pretty much maxed on space internally and externally.
I delete things I dont want anymore and replace with the new.
I was thinking to myself... "what would happen if I deleted everything off the internal card?"
My first guess is the phone wouldnt boot because it needs files to load the os.
Is there a program or a special way to delete everything that is NOT needed to start fresh?
I think it will be tedious and time consuming going through each folder and deleting things you dont need.
What should stay? What should go?
Anybody have any insight to this? I would appreciate it.
Thanks!!!
Formatting the SD card doesn't delete your partitions silly
I've done it before
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Nice! So I made a backup of the whole drive. When I format, will I be able to replace certain folders to get apps to work again or just restore what I want from titanium backup and that should do the trick? Whats the best way to format? Through recovery or straight from computer?
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Ahhh I could go under storage and format that way too... that the way to go?
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Yea, you can restore whatever you want from titanium and formating the SD card through recovery is the best way to do it
Just make sure that your titanium backup is somewhere else
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deviouskind said:
My phone is pretty much maxed on space internally and externally.
I delete things I dont want anymore and replace with the new.
I was thinking to myself... "what would happen if I deleted everything off the internal card?"
My first guess is the phone wouldnt boot because it needs files to load the os.
Is there a program or a special way to delete everything that is NOT needed to start fresh?
I think it will be tedious and time consuming going through each folder and deleting things you dont need.
What should stay? What should go?
Anybody have any insight to this? I would appreciate it.
Thanks!!!
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While the post above mine is true, let me give you a fair warning. Formatting will delete EVERYTHING, pics, music, etc... Make sure you have anything you want to keep backed up prior to formatting, same for external sd card. Also, if you're looking to get back to a "fresh" phone, you can always run a One Click Restore file linked in the stickied threads in development or at www.rwilco12.com
Just be sure to follow the links to get the appropriate file for this device, and read any and all instructions for anything you flash, now and in the future.
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Got it! Thanks! I have all files internal and external on computer. I will format, copy over TB files and restore some things. I will format through recovery.
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Has anyone totally cleaned out their phone storages, sd card and emmc? If so, what is the best way to do this without messing up any nandroid backups, or restores? My folders seem to be getting out of control and I'm not sure what is needed anymore. I've been a crack flasher lately, and I just think some of my problemshave to do with remnants and such left over from other ROMs. Thanks for any help.
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countryfolk07 said:
Has anyone totally cleaned out their phone storages, sd card and emmc? If so, what is the best way to do this without messing up any nandroid backups, or restores? My folders seem to be getting out of control and I'm not sure what is needed anymore. I've been a crack flasher lately, and I just think some of my problemshave to do with remnants and such left over from other ROMs. Thanks for any help.
Sent from my ADR6300
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You can wipe them thru recovery. But if you do you wilk wipe out nandroids, photos, etc. Your best bet would be to use a file explorer and manually delete files and folders you dont want or need.
Hey guy's just figured id copy and paste this article I read about recovery backups and blob folder within..
If your like me you probaly wondering what this new blob folder is and why is it consuming alit of space...so I was gonna delete it but decided not too and read first this is what I found:
ClockworkMod Recovery now deduplicates files between builds. This results in way smaller backups.
Don't delete /sdcard/clockworkmod/blobs
Overview
I've gotten a few questions about how this works, so I figured I'd make a post on it.
https://plus.google.com/103583939320326217147/posts/L5aVZe7C9vg
Basically, here's what happens:
The files being backed up are hashed (sha256, not that it matters). Then it checks for a file with the name of the hash in
/sdcard/clockworkmod/blobs
So, if the hash of the file was*c5273884b90d490134e7737b29a65405cea0f7bb786ca82c6337ceb24de6f5ed, it looks for /sdcard/clockworkmod/blobs/c5273884b90d490134e7737b29a65405cea0f7bb786ca82c6337ceb24de6f5ed
If the hash file is found, it continues on to the next file. Otherwise, it copies the file to the blobs directory with the file name being the hash.
ROMs and user data, for the most part, do not change too much between builds and backups. So, your APKs, system files, etc, are generally only stored once. This saves a ton of space. Especially between incremental backups.
Some of you may be thinking "well, how do I delete a backup?".
First, never delete the blobs directory. This would actually delete all your backups by rendering them unusable.
Simply delete the usual backup directory, and the next time you run a backup, all the unused hash files will be automatically delete (a process known as garbage collection). The recovery will show "Freeing space..." while this is happening.
Thank you for the info! I was just looking for this today as my blobs was about 4gb large
Question:
If I wanted to free up space and backup my backups to my PC, could I just move the backup folders with the entire Blobs folder and be good to go?
Thanks.
msherman123 said:
Thank you for the info! I was just looking for this today as my blobs was about 4gb large
Question:
If I wanted to free up space and backup my backups to my PC, could I just move the backup folders with the entire Blobs folder and be good to go?
Thanks.
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Yeah personally that's what I did to save my backups i needed in case of anything...since the new system deletes your old one when making a new backup..it cleans or so called "unused space" now....what I did is save the whole clockwork folder and placed it on my computer and save them as according to what ROM now...this new setup I don't like....I had 4 GB in my blob folder too...what a waste of space. for a new idea..I understand there method of a full proof backup system..but why change something that wasn't broke in the first place right?...
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Yeah personally that's what I did to save my backups i needed in case of anything...since the new system deletes your old one when making a new backup..it cleans or so called "unused space" now....what I did is save the whole clockwork folder and placed it on my computer and save them as according to what ROM now...this new setup I don't like....I had 4 GB in my blob folder too...what a waste of space. for a new idea..I understand there method of a full proof backup system..but why change something that wasn't broke in the first place right?...
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I am not sure, but doesn't cwm have an option to backup to single file like it used to?
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I'm not sure man..if you see it let me know..I'd love the old setup. This new way is horrible... Lol
wish777 said:
I'm not sure man..if you see it let me know..I'd love the old setup. This new way is horrible... Lol
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In theory this should be a much more efficient use of space. Im sure each backup contains a lot of files/data that is already backed up in a previous backup basically wasting space on redundant data. This is kinda like backup cubing sorta...at least the way Im thinking of it. This method saves nothing ONLY if every single backup is absolutely unique which would make your blob huge. I like the idea....but I use twrp so it doesnt affect me.
wish777 said:
I'm not sure man..if you see it let me know..I'd love the old setup. This new way is horrible... Lol
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I don't have cwm installed, but check settings, I am confident you'll find an option for tar or whatever format it was before.
Have you tried twrp? I heard great things about it.
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sonny21 said:
I don't have cwm installed, but check settings, I am confident you'll find an option for tar or whatever format it was before.
Have you tried twrp? I heard great things about it.
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You know I been flashing roms for so many years that I guess im old school. .lol I never tried twrp..I guess I should try it from alot of people giving it such postive reviews..I guess im just stuck in my ways ibshould be more openmined about recovery....lol....thank you
wish777 said:
You know I been flashing roms for so many years that I guess im old school. .lol I never tried twrp..I guess I should try it from alot of people giving it such postive reviews..I guess im just stuck in my ways ibshould be more openmined about recovery....lol....thank you
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Yeah no problem, usually I like to stick to what works for me as well.
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wish777 said:
You know I been flashing roms for so many years that I guess im old school. .lol I never tried twrp..I guess I should try it from alot of people giving it such postive reviews..I guess im just stuck in my ways ibshould be more openmined about recovery....lol....thank you
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Have found that TWRP and CWM have there specific needs and functions. I usually try both when settleing on a dailu driver. Kinda odd but they handle data slightly different and bugs turn up on a install depending on one or the other. (Under controlled conditions and data that you can reference) . I have just had to accept that some things work well with TWRP and others with CWM.
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Thank you guys for the info ..
wish777 said:
Hey guy's just figured id copy and paste this article I read about recovery backups and blob folder within..
If your like me you probaly wondering what this new blob folder is and why is it consuming alit of space...so I was gonna delete it but decided not too and read first this is what I found:
ClockworkMod Recovery now deduplicates files between builds. This results in way smaller backups.
Don't delete /sdcard/clockworkmod/blobs
Overview
I've gotten a few questions about how this works, so I figured I'd make a post on it.
https://plus.google.com/103583939320326217147/posts/L5aVZe7C9vg
Basically, here's what happens:
The files being backed up are hashed (sha256, not that it matters). Then it checks for a file with the name of the hash in
/sdcard/clockworkmod/blobs
So, if the hash of the file was*c5273884b90d490134e7737b29a65405cea0f7bb786ca82c6337ceb24de6f5ed, it looks for /sdcard/clockworkmod/blobs/c5273884b90d490134e7737b29a65405cea0f7bb786ca82c6337ceb24de6f5ed
If the hash file is found, it continues on to the next file. Otherwise, it copies the file to the blobs directory with the file name being the hash.
ROMs and user data, for the most part, do not change too much between builds and backups. So, your APKs, system files, etc, are generally only stored once. This saves a ton of space. Especially between incremental backups.
Some of you may be thinking "well, how do I delete a backup?".
First, never delete the blobs directory. This would actually delete all your backups by rendering them unusable.
Simply delete the usual backup directory, and the next time you run a backup, all the unused hash files will be automatically delete (a process known as garbage collection). The recovery will show "Freeing space..." while this is happening.
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what if you just want to backup your nandroids to an external hard drive. I just copied most of my nandroids from the phone to my hard drive. and deleted them from the phone.
i didn't touch the blobs folder.
So now my backups I copied to my hard drive are useless without the blobs? And on top of that, if I understand correctly, the blobs needed to make those backups functional will be automatically deleted the next time i do a backup?
this sounds horribly horribly wrong. how do i copy functional nandroids from my phone to my hard drive?
mistermojorizin said:
what if you just want to backup your nandroids to an external hard drive. I just copied most of my nandroids from the phone to my hard drive. and deleted them from the phone.
i didn't touch the blobs folder.
So now my backups I copied to my hard drive are useless without the blobs? And on top of that, if I understand correctly, the blobs needed to make those backups functional will be automatically deleted the next time i do a backup?
this sounds horribly horribly wrong. how do i copy functional nandroids from my phone to my hard drive?
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Good question, I made 3 backups one of the stock rom, which I stored to my mac.
The most recent back up the blobs are still on my phone, does that mash my mac backups are defunct now?
Cheers.
Great post wish777. I wondered about deleting a CWM backup when I read about the blob system, so it's great to have the garbage collection clarified.
Still, I agree with the other posts, the blob system makes moving a backup off the phone and back again unreliable. I am also old school - I ghost everything. That's why I'm using TWRP instead. I'm happier just dealing with image files that stand on their own.
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I accidentally deleted the contents of my SD card when installing a rom, and then I reverted back to CM 10.1. This obviously deleted all of my data, backups, ect but I had TB set up to sync with dropbox, so I had the backups. I wiped the phone and installed TB. I put the backups back onto the SD card and set the location in TB preferences. Now it will only detect a few of the backups. I've tried everything that I can think of or that I found on line but to no avail. Does anyone know a fix for this? I really don't want to lose all of my data.
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Did you install the Dropbox app and then enable Dropbox in TB's preferences?
Edit: Nevermind, I misunderstood. Usually when something like this happens to me it's do to apps being filtered out somehow. Make sure you have "All" selected for all the "Filter by..." options.
goodtimes50 said:
Did you install the Dropbox app and then enable Dropbox in TB's preferences?
Edit: Nevermind, I misunderstood. Usually when something like this happens to me it's do to apps being filtered out somehow. Make sure you have "All" selected for all the "Filter by..." options.
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Thanks for the reply! Yeah, that was the first thing that I checked. There are no filters on. I even tried to reinstall TB and delete the settings file on the SD card, but it still won't recognize the backups.
I'm also gonna try to install CM 10 and see what happens. I don't have much hope though.
Ok, more info. I tried installing CM10, but it didn't do anything. When I set it to the backup directory, it only finds 13 backups, but there are well over 100 in the folder.
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I'm running out of hope, but bump.
Sorry man, but you gotta bite the bullet.
Grab a drink, go to play.google.com and reinstall the apps you want.
Has happened to me twice... makes a quick, simple flash on Sunday night turn into a tired lug to work/school on Monday morning.
My guess would be that the Dropbox sync in TB was never able to complete. Uploading gigs of files can take some time, even on a decent connection.
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Greycloak42 said:
My guess would be that the Dropbox sync in TB was never able to complete. Uploading gigs of files can take some time, even on a decent connection.
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I had something like this happen. I put a new rom on and even though I didn't do anything to my backups now in Ti backup it says im missing a ton of them. There more backups then it claims I have apps.
Anyway I deleted all the history for the app, clear all pref , reinstalled and its working now use Ti backup to uninstall its self lol
Seeeveral months later, but I had the same problem. No version of my backups would be detected, etc. Happened after an incident while redoing a ROM. And this is the only thread anywhere that seemed to say anything about the issue.
What ended up working, for whatever reason: I cleared everything from my SD, probably not entirely necessary, just remove TB and it's folder. Reinstall, update TB. Do a new backup of everything. Then I hooked the phone to the computer, copied my old stuff into the folder, overwriting the many that asked for it. When I went back to TB and did a batch restore, it picked up all the previous programs.
Unfortunately, I did have to sit with my phone, and most applications would ask if I wanted to install it, click Install, then Done, then it would move on to the next. Or if it was a system application, just hit cancel and it would skip it.
But it fixed it. So, I'm not complaining too much.
Next step is to delete all backups, do NEW backups, then go forward from there. Will probably see about doing a full wipe and TB backup, which I sure hope works.
My fix
I logged in through adb as root and found that the external SD card was being hidden from Titanium. So I just copied the files as root onto a directory next to the existing Titanium back up (the one just created that it could see) via bash command
Code:
jfltexx:/ # cp -a /storage/6163-6233/TB_orig/ /mnt/sdcard/
I think each new release the Google people decide to move around the SD card and generally make it hard for old data to be seen by Apps on the new system in the name of security or some fancy new feature.
Painful but as I could see the SD card when plugged into my laptop I knew it was really there.
basically whats happening is im currently on fre3 rom and i want to try out liquid, but when i flash liquid my internal sd is wiped? everything from downloaded items, backups from titanium, to my twrp backups and anything in the internal sd is gone
now i suspect it has something to do with the way 4.2.2 roms deal with the users and that whole 0 folder thing, but my question is, is there any way to keep the contents of my sd card so liquid will see it?
because when i pop it into my pc, theyre gone gone, its not like they were overlooked (happened when i tried another rom)
any ideas?
therenegadenail said:
basically whats happening is im currently on fre3 rom and i want to try out liquid, but when i flash liquid my internal sd is wiped? everything from downloaded items, backups from titanium, to my twrp backups and anything in the internal sd is gone
now i suspect it has something to do with the way 4.2.2 roms deal with the users and that whole 0 folder thing, but my question is, is there any way to keep the contents of my sd card so liquid will see it?
because when i pop it into my pc, theyre gone gone, its not like they were overlooked (happened when i tried another rom)
any ideas?
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No matter what, when you wipe your phone, it wipes internal memory....... At least I'm pretty sure..
Joe0113 said:
No matter what, when you wipe your phone, it wipes internal memory....... At least I'm pretty sure..
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yea but to an extent no? i mean i always am able to restore things from titanium with no issue, also it erases twrp backups? thats never happened before
also i cannot delete that 0 folder at all, in phone or plug to computer, theres a folder in it, anbech? and in that theres a backup file? an sh file? it wont let me delete it at all
therenegadenail said:
yea but to an extent no? i mean i always am able to restore things from titanium with no issue, also it erases twrp backups? thats never happened before
also i cannot delete that 0 folder at all, in phone or plug to computer, theres a folder in it, anbech? and in that theres a backup file? an sh file? it wont let me delete it at all
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Download ES File Explorer and you can delete it. Just make sure you don't delete important folders/files.
Joe0113 said:
Download ES File Explorer and you can delete it. Just make sure you don't delete important folders/files.
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i have es file explorer, and it still wont let me
if i restore back to my tw rom which is 4.1.2 the 0 folder is there, and its the only folder in there, and every time i try, it says i cant
Joe0113 said:
No matter what, when you wipe your phone, it wipes internal memory....... At least I'm pretty sure..
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This is not true. I've been installing custom ROMs for a long time and I've never had this. If you're restoring a 4.1.2 ROM (like FRE) and all your files are gone then you may have accidentally wiped your internal memory somehow. You are correct in saying that when you flash a 4.2.2 ROM, a new directory gets created called "0" but when flashing back to a 4.1.1 your old files should reappear, only with a new directory called "0.". The best way to avoid this problem all together is, whenever flashing from a 4.1.2 to a 4.2.2 ROM, before doing so copy all the contents of your internal SD card to your desktop (or external storage if you have the space), then when doing your wipes (just b4 flashing your new ROM), wipe your internal memory. Once you're all booted into your new ROM, go back to where ever you copied your internal SD card and copy them back to your internal SD directory. Again you only need to do this when going from a 4.1.x ROM to a 4.2.x ROM (or vice versa).
Good luck!
Hello my name is George and I'm a flashoholic.
EDIT: BTW, for future reference you should put your twrp backups on external.
External sd card doesnt get wiped when the upgrade from 4.1.1 to 4.2.2 as i have my backups stored on internal but should move them to external sd .
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I know there is a ton on sdcard/0 problems or questions, but I can't find anything on my problem. When i try to delete anything on sdcard/0/whatever it says delete failed. I will try to delete a mp3 and it won't delete . Also not sure if this is normal,but my twrp and superuser are in the /0 folder too. I know it's for multiusers, but I should be able to delete certain files out of it. I can out of twrp but not anything else. Any ideas?
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I know there is a ton on sdcard/0 problems or questions, but I can't find anything on my problem. When i try to delete anything on sdcard/0/whatever it says delete failed. I will try to delete a mp3 and it won't delete . Also not sure if this is normal,but my twrp and superuser are in the /0 folder too. I know it's for multiusers, but I should be able to delete certain files out of it. I can out of twrp but not anything else. Any ideas?
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same thing happened to me, and i couldnt get it to work until i formatted my sd card/internal mem and started fresh :-\
hapticxchaos said:
same thing happened to me, and i couldnt get it to work until i formatted my sd card/internal mem and started fresh :-\
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Damn, when you did that did you go back to stock ? Then have to re root? My recovery and super user would then get deleted
Well, if you have a nandroid of a tw Rom, you can restore that, then wipe your internal sd. And, if you restore a nandroid instead of flashing stock it shouldn't bork your gps. Just make sure to pull everything off your internal sd that you want to keep.
mrhaley30705 said:
Well, if you have a nandroid of a tw Rom, you can restore that, then wipe your internal sd. And, if you restore a nandroid instead of flashing stock it shouldn't bork your gps. Just make sure to pull everything off your internal sd that you want to keep.
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K thanks, I don't have a nandroid of stock. So I might have to flash one of the stock PDAs . Or maybe I'll live with it and just go buy a 32 gb ext sd lol