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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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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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?
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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?
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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.
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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.
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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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Hi guys. I have the 16 GB White one.
I have flashed at least 20 different ROMS since i got this phone. Even though i always wipe all data and cache. I still can see files in the tree that belong to older roms. I have have files that say BACKED, another one that says AOKP and others. Right now i'm running on Liquidsmooth JB v2-RC3.
The major files i have are the backups from CWM. Two back ups: (stock and the present liquid jb) Booth together don't make more that 4GB. Then i have on pictures and videos less that 2 BG. What else could be taking my space? I should have more than 4 GB free and my phone says i only have 500 MB free.
Is there any way to delete everything on the phone to make it clean like when it came out? Buut that i could stil keep the rom i'm using. Or even if i have to do al over again. Can some one explain to me please. Any help with be appreciated. i'LL PUSH THAT THANKS BUTTON AGAIN AND AGAIN.
In recovery format data, system, and internal (and/or) external sdcard. OR get FX file explorer or solid explorer 2 (my favorites) explore the files and delete what u don't want
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Another good app is call DiskUsage.
It will show you in a graphical form what is taking up so much space. It will work on internal and external and obviously you are rooted, so it has those functions too.
What if i delete something that wont let me boot again? Also i noticed that in the internal SD card tree, there are two CLOCKWORKMOD FILES
Clockworkmod
Clockworkmod Copy
Right now i only have one back up because i deleted LIQUID one. So, right now i only have the STOCK Rom backup. Wish is around 1.8 GB.
Why there are two CWM flies and booth have 1.8 GB. ??????????So, The stock rom takes me almost 4 GB ?????????????????????/ Thats crazy.
I'd like to delete everything and start again. But i'm affraid to delete any file that preventes me from booting into recovery at least......Thanks again mate. SORRY MY ENGLISH
Thanks mate. Hey, i tried to download the DiskUsage from the market by Ivan Volosyuk and it says this app is not compatible with me device. WTF??? LOL
T2mo SGS3 16GB
Liquid Rom
KT747 Kernel.
Just delete the old roms from the download folder with a file explorer.
If you've been using Rom manager it puts them in its folder
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Thanks again: Well. I wonder. What would happen if i FORMAT the entire internal card and then drop a rom in it, to flash. Would this make any sense if i want to make a clean FLASH?????
I think i'm missing something here. Has any body done this before? Format the whole card and start from zero again????
Thanks again and i wont forget to hit that thanks to you.
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Thanks again: Well. I wonder. What would happen if i FORMAT the entire internal card and then drop a rom in it, to flash. Would this make any sense if i want to make a clean FLASH?????
I think i'm missing something here. Has any body done this before? Format the whole card and start from zero again????
Thanks again and i wont forget to hit that thanks to you.
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S clean flash is one where yoy have done a factory reset / wipe dalvik, cache and data.
If you reset from the settings menu it should wipe you back to an out of the box state, or a clean fresh rom installed state.
If you factory reset from cwm or twrp it will not wipe the internal sdcard.
Download your rom of choice to External sdcard, backup internal, factory reset ftom settings menu, reboot recovery and flash rom from external sd.
Earlier you were talking about not having enough space, can you not back up your int/ext to your computer?
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Now we are talking. Yes, i have backed up all my files to my computer. I will give this a try and will report to you tomorrow. Thanks again mate
Hi again, Well. I did what you told me: Factory reset from Setting, backup/reset, FACTORY RESET. The phone went into CWM and a blue bar went from left to right in only 5 secondes and then Liquidsmooth jb rom started to boot. I let it finish and then rebooted into cmw and wiped everything posible there, from dalvik to cache pertition and did it 3 times just in case, then i flashe the new JellyFrost JB leak.
When i booted the phone and connected to PC i still have 0.98 BG free.
I wonder if i should format this thing from my computer in FAT 32 ????????
Or what i'm i doing wrong?????? I can see all the old files still there of program i have not installed yet....Crazy mess......Any idea....I feel like a D..k
I'm sorry man! Its because of the recovery. Hitting factory reset just rebbots recovery and uses the factory reset there. If you have cwm or twrp it won't wipe everything. Forgot about that.
Try this instead. I use twrp and in the Wipe menu there is an option to format data. If cwm has the same option try using that instead of factory reset. I think its there in case you do want to wipe everything.
Don't try to format the internal using your computer.
Internal sdcard is actually just part of the /data partition. If you go to /data/media it is the same thing as /mnt/sdcard or /storage/sdcard. The internal sdcard is not a separate partition itself.
Just to clarify from your last post. When you factory reset were your apps gone? When you were referring to parts of your programs left over, were you talking about the folders on the internal sdcard?
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I think I get what you mean OP. I still have folders on my phone from apps I uninstalled weeks ago >.<
It's pretty obnoxious. Especially since most are empty.
You should have an option to format sd card under mounts and storage in cwr. This should do what you're asking. Make sure you have a rom ready to go on your external sd though, because this should wipe everything.
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There's also a super wipe script floating around the dev section somewhere that should do the trick also
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WOW. Now we are really talking. Thank you so much. I found it right were you said. under mounts and storage in cwr. I was able to wipe everything and now i have 11 GB Free.
Thanks again for all the support and to all the guys that jumped to help. I love this forum.
OK, first one is backups to External SD. Is it normally for it to take an exponentially long time to perform the backup to the external SD card? Normal backup takes like, 2-3 minutes. I started a backup to SD card, and after 15 minutes got impatient.
Second: How do I know the proper paths to my internal and external sd card paths? When using ES File Explorer, when I go to the root directory, I see /sdcard, which is the internal storage, I see /externalsd, which is of course the actual sd card, but then there is /storage, and within storage there is /storage/sdcard0 (internal sd) and there is /storage/sdcard1 (external). In any app where store locations are configurable, should I be using the sdcard and externalsd paths, or the /storage/sdcard# paths?
Sub-question in regards to the internal storage, if I perform a wipe of data, will it leave the stuff under the "internal sd card" location alone?
I feel dumb asking as I should probably know this by now since I've been working with CWM and CM since the G1 days... Thanks in advance!
Time for backups depends on how much data you have, obviously. But, and I'm guessing here, I think it usually takes around 4-7 mins for mine to run.
Make sure your using the latest recovery and try TWRP as well. Its personal preference but I like it better than cwm.
Mount points will be different between cm and tw, and I don't use cm so ill tell you what I do know in tw based systems.
The actual location of the internal sdcard is /data/media. It us symlinked to /sdcard, /mnt/sdcard, /storage/sdcard0.
Externals actual location in tw is /storage/extSdCard and linked to /mnt/extSdCard
Chances are the actual locations are the same but they are named differently.
If you do a factory reset while stock recovery is installed it will wipe internal sd. If cwm or twrp are installed it will not.
If you format data it will wipe it though.
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Long backup time to external SD card means it's slow (class 1-4 probably). Buy a class 10 from Amazon.
Proper path to internal and external SDs is /storage/. All others are symlinks for compatibility.
Resetting factory defaults from CWM does not wipe internal/external SD. But from stock recovery, it will wipe your internal SD.
Anyone know why the dates are wrong on the backups on the cwm recovery?
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Anyone know why the dates are wrong on the backups on the cwm recovery?
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That is a known issue with some versions. Newer versions were supposed to fix it. I don't mind. I am running a stable version of cwm and it works for my needs. I had dates in the 1970's. Weird stuff. Look at the properties and size of the backup. I developed my own way of dealing with weirdness.
I've never seen a good answer for the date problem. I use twrp and just rename the backup when I create it.
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I've never seen a good answer for the date problem. I use twrp and just rename the backup when I create it.
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Doc, maybe you can help someone. Are there rules that need to be followed regarding naming backups?
Not sure I know what you mean by rules...
For naming them though, id say just one rule. And that's what best works for you! Short but understandable. Maybe the name of rom, date, or just a simple numbering scheme, bkup1 bkup2 bkup3.....
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Your answer likely gave him what he needed. He was asking can you simply rename the backup to anything you want, and based on your response, it seems the answer is Yes.
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.
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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.
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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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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:
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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
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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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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.
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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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?
I've read everything I can about my issue and not sure what to do. I was no longer able to install apps because internal storage reported it was full. I went through all the normal "fixes" that I read about here and then gave up and did a factory reset. Now my phone reports:
Internal Memory:
Total space: 9.62 GB
Available space 1.01 GB
What are my options?
Thanks, Maren
re: free space
mgk said:
I've read everything I can about my issue and not sure what to do. I was no longer able to install apps because internal storage reported it was full. I went through all the normal "fixes" that I read about here and then gave up and did a factory reset. Now my phone reports:
Internal Memory:
Total space: 9.62 GB
Available space 1.01 GB
What are my options?
Thanks, Maren
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Most likely you have some nandroid backups in your internal storage/memory taking up all that space.
Use a file manager and find a CWM and or TWRP folder, inside those folders you will see nandroid
backups which you have made at one time or another. When you find the backups, just copy it to your
computer if you want to keep them or you can simply delete them .........
Good luck!
Download My Drives from the playstore, it will show you all the big files on your phone....and you can delete them
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Most likely you have some nandroid backups in your internal storage/memory taking up all that space.
Use a file manager and find a CWM and or TWRP folder, inside those folders you will see nandroid
backups which you have made at one time or another. When you find the backups, just copy it to your
computer if you want to keep them or you can simply delete them .........
Good luck!
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(system root)/data/media/clockworkmod is where CWM backups are stored
(internal storage)/TWRP is where the TWRP backups would be.
Misterjunky said:
Most likely you have some nandroid backups in your internal storage/memory taking up all that space.
Use a file manager and find a CWM and or TWRP folder, inside those folders you will see nandroid
backups which you have made at one time or another. When you find the backups, just copy it to your
computer if you want to keep them or you can simply delete them .........
Good luck!
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Thanks for reply. I use TWRP and all those backups (5 right now) are on external card because that is what I choose. Incidentally I did try to restore to the earliest one of those backups and same issue with internal memory.
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Download My Drives from the playstore, it will show you all the big files on your phone....and you can delete them
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Is that the same as Device Storage Analyzer? (My Drives did not show up in playstore.) If so, it's helpful...thanks.
Shows 8.72 GB occupied with the biggest sized file was 501 MB. Next was 52.70 MB. I removed them but don't think all of these will add up to 7GB that's missing.
Yep. I use TWRP and I always choose external memory for backup. Checked anyway, and not there. Thanks for the suggestion.
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Thanks for reply. I use TWRP and all those backups (5 right now) are on external card because that is what I choose. Incidentally I did try to restore to the earliest one of those backups and same issue with internal memory.
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Yes it was ^.^ and glad to be of help. I think your datas were just jacked up lol
Though if all comes to fail, you just have to close your eyes and ODIn if you cannot find the source of the issue. What I did when i first got my GS4 and since than I have been keeping up with the storage and know when its acting funky lol
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Yes it was ^.^ and glad to be of help. I think your datas were just jacked up lol
Though if all comes to fail, you just have to close your eyes and ODIn if you cannot find the source of the issue. What I did when i first got my GS4 and since than I have been keeping up with the storage and know when its acting funky lol
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On the Odin note; being that you have your backups saved to your external SD, download time aside, you should be able to zip right through the stock restore and be back to whatever you're on with all 9GB storage like you'd never restored within 10-15 minutes. Just saying, don't be afraid of it. It's pretty quick, simple, and painless.
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On the Odin note; being that you have your backups saved to your external SD, download time aside, you should be able to zip right through the stock restore and be back to whatever you're on with all 9GB storage like you'd never restored within 10-15 minutes. Just saying, don't be afraid of it. It's pretty quick, simple, and painless.
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I used twrp to recovery back to stock from AOSP and now I am having issues with my apps downloading or saving. Any ideas?
Things I have tried:
Tried uninstalling/reinstall,
wiped the cache in the rom,
wipe the dalvik cache/CACHE in twrp
, and fixing permissions in twrp.
NO LUCK Any ideas besides reflashing the stock rom?
TO THREAD CREATOR: Sorry to jump in on your question and everything man. Don't mean to disrespect or nething.
I have had this problem since 4.4.2 after a restore. I checked in titanium backup and if I try to change the backup location to the internal card it will say that it is not writable. I do not know why but it will do this on stock touch wiz roms after a restore on 4.4.2 and up.
there is hope....
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I have had this problem since 4.4.2 after a restore. I checked in titanium backup and if I try to change the backup location to the internal card it will say that it is not writable. I do not know why but it will do this on stock touch wiz roms after a restore on 4.4.2 and up.
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I had this same problem and solved it using TWRP v2.8.3.0 Wipe/Format Data. I installed a NEW OS (not a backup file) and voila. :laugh: hope this helps.
shelat.