OK so here is a deal, today i flashed my first 4.2 rom tried the latest MiBox 4.2 and first had problems in the rom itself. did a clean flash and now any of songs are showing up along with 0 images and videos? i gotta say my first aosp rom experience on my note 2 has SUCKED so far so i just want to go back to TW 4.1 on the asap. what do i need todo in order to go back to TW safe?? please help have a messed up rom with no way out.
What happened is that all your photos and documents are stored on a different partition. They're still there they just need moved over... Or just save everything on your extSD card.
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Skripka said:
What happened is that all your photos and documents are stored on a different partition. They're still there they just need moved over... Or just save everything on your extSD card.
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how can i return to TW 4.1?
chuko303 said:
how can i return to TW 4.1?
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Just flash back to Twiz. All your stuff is still there where it was and will be when you flash back, it is just locked in a partition that is not accessible inside AOSP ROMs. Move your stuff over to your external SD card, and then enjoy AOSP. The different partitions is due to a changing of naming convention between TWiz 4.1 and AOSP 4.2 etc. Ofc, it depends on how "clean" you flashed and whether you fully wiped the /data/media partition-which shouldn't be wiped unless you tell TWRP to.
There's a flashable zip file somewhere to move stuff between the AOSP and TWiz partitions automagically. I never use it. Putting everything on the extSD is simpler.
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Just flash back to Twiz. All your stuff is still there where it was and will be when you flash back, it is just locked in a partition that is not accessible inside AOSP ROMs. Move your stuff over to your external SD card, and then enjoy AOSP. The different partitions is due to a changing of naming convention between TWiz 4.1 and AOSP 4.2 etc.
There's a flashable zip file somewhere to move stuff between the AOSP and TWiz partitions automagically. I never use it. Putting everything on the extSD is simpler.
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I heard that something can happen and you can loose everything. I would rather flash that zip your talking about but I have no clue
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chuko303 said:
I heard that something can happen and you can loose everything. I would rather flash that zip your talking about but I have no clue
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That "something" only happens if you have an external SD card that is *not* formatted FAT32...which odds are unless you did something out of your way really special-your card is FAT32.
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That "something" only happens if you have an external SD card that is *not* formatted FAT32...which odds are unless you did something out of your way really special-your card is FAT32.
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I have a 32gb. Don't only 64 GB need to be formated to FAT32?
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Found the downgrade zip. Now just charging phone before I flash labrats then the zip after then boot I should be fine.
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So can someone help me with these problem I'm having.
This has been tested on two epics and the results are pretty much the same but I can't seem to understand whyyy.
Ever since FC09 TW ROMs I've always had these problems. I would wipe everything 3x and I would install the ROM and I would have something broken, either music, video, or pictures. This issue has been on different ROMs and different epics. Everytime I install a ROM one of those 3 has to be broken.
I flashed thunderhawk on my phone and videos always fc'ed no mattter what player I used.
I flashed it on my cuzins phone and music was a problem for him. No music players would work
I flashed TPR and I lost video once again.
I flashed stock deodexed on my cuzins phone and video broke for him.
I flashed mortify rom on my cuzins phone and gallery FC'es.
And when I say something breaks it literally will not work whatsoever. No matter what app I download or what I wipe or how I install it, it just will not work.
What am I doing wrong here? This problem is only on TW ROMs.
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Odin back to FC09. Test these features on stock rom. IF they work, then flash CWM and then a select rom. Test again. Make a backup in CWM.
Odin again, test features again. Flash CWM and select rom. Test again. Make backup in CWM.... rinse repeat.
Once you do that, you should have working backups of each rom to work from.
Since videos, music and pix are on your sd card I suspect your card is failing.
nikon120 said:
Odin back to FC09. Test these features on stock rom. IF they work, then flash CWM and then a select rom. Test again. Make a backup in CWM.
Odin again, test features again. Flash CWM and select rom. Test again. Make backup in CWM.... rinse repeat.
Once you do that, you should have working backups of each rom to work from.
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I could try that when I get some time.
kennyglass123 said:
Since videos, music and pix are on your sd card I suspect your card is failing.
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And this may be a reason but I don't think that both of our sd cards are messed up. Unless it has to do with flashing roms and switching sd cards since I have most the roms on my memory card and I flash them and remove the memory card.
I'm gonna try the odin test to see what happens.
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lilajrestnom said:
I could try that when I get some time.
And this may be a reason but I don't think that both of our sd cards are messed up. Unless it has to do with flashing roms and switching sd cards since I have most the roms on my memory card and I flash them and remove the memory card.
I'm gonna try the odin test to see what happens.
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Do you swap the correct card back before booting the ROM for the first time and did you make sure there isn't a .nomedia file in any of the directories giving you trouble?
kennyglass123 said:
Do you swap the correct card back before booting the ROM for the first time and did you make sure there isn't a .nomedia file in any of the directories giving you trouble?
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I flashed a lot of times so I'm not sure which memory card was in the phone at its first boot, but it most likely would be the wrong one.
And yes, there isn't no .nomedia file in any of those.
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Just a little side off-topic quuestion cuz I don't feel like making a new thread. Is there any file explorers that let's me go into data/apps and delete things without having root?
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lilajrestnom said:
Just a little side off-topic quuestion cuz I don't feel like making a new thread. Is there any file explorers that let's me go into data/apps and delete things without having root?
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No. Without root you cannot make system writeable.
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I want to put my phone back to a stock rooted rom, is there one out there?
I've looked through the development forum but can't seem to find one that is just stock.
TIA
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Jim M said:
I want to put my phone back to a stock rooted rom, is there one out there?
I've looked through the development forum but can't seem to find one that is just stock.
TIA
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The first link is the rooted odex stock jellybean release.....LJ7
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1910947
Also, just for good measure, make sure that you download team epic root from recovery zip just in case...so that if you lose root, you can get it back.
And this....
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2017470
Thank you both, I did find them on my own after I posted this.
Somehow I lost the nandroid back up on my wife's phone when I put a 64gb SD card on her phone. It may still be on the internal memory, but I don't have her phone with me at the moment.
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First page in dev:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2017470
Jim M said:
Thank you both, I did find them on my own after I posted this.
Somehow I lost the nandroid back up on my wife's phone when I put a 64gb SD card on her phone. It may still be on the internal memory, but I don't have her phone with me at the moment.
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The GS3 has problems with the 64GB memory card.
cbass15 said:
The GS3 has problems with the 64GB memory card.
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Not really. A 64GB card will work just fine with one exception. The recoveries can not access the 64GB card if it is formatted as exFAT. The ROM will handle it just fine but the recovery can only handle it if formatted to ext4 or FAT32. I still have my 64GB formatted as exFAT but I do not use if for nandroids. I either backup to internal memory or I pop in my 32GB card for recovery use.
Yes I formatted the 64gb card to fat 32 before using it in the phone.
My problem is I don't think I saved her nandroid back up from her old card, and the old one is wiped clean.
Could I use a nand from from my GS3?
I know I couldn't on my EVOs.
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Morning all. Just a quick question. I've read a few posts suggesting before flashing a JB ROM you should Odin back to stock. Is this true or does it not matter? I was always flashing custom ICS ROM's and then just did the usually clean/wiping and started flashing 4.2 ROM's. Will this cause any issues or any benefits to starting fresh?
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I'm on the att version, but I didn't experience any problems either way. Two different handsets (had to exchange due to the black splotches that plague oled screens), but I rooted and flashed to a 4.2.1 ROM from both the ICS and JB stock images. Definitely search some more, but I didn't have any issues whatsoever.
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I'm on the att version, but I didn't experience any problems either way. Two different handsets (had to exchange due to the black splotches that plague oled screens), but I rooted and flashed to a 4.2.1 ROM from both the ICS and JB stock images. Definitely search some more, but I didn't have any issues whatsoever.
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Thanks for the response and info!
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Usually what I do is put titanium backup, rom manager backups, pics and downloads on my ext sd card. Whenever I install cm10 or aokp and go back to touchwiz I format my internal sd and I'm good to go.
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It shouldn't cause any issues flashing a 4.2 rom on your phone. There's no need to go back to stock in order to do it, either. Roms you flash will format and repartition as necessary. Just make sure to do a full wipe and follow instructions to the letter and you'll be fine.
Never had any issues. Just recently been having a strange problem. When I restore my back up there is nothing in my "download" folder or pictures. I know for a fact there were. Now he's the weird part. Plug phone into computer, reboot and do my cleaning then flash my nandroid. Once phone boots back up my computer opens the phones drive up so I can see all my folders on internal. If I quickly open "download" folder from computer, all my files are there for a few seconds then all of a sudden....gone. Hope that made sense
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Never had any issues. Just recently been having a strange problem. When I restore my back up there is nothing in my "download" folder or pictures. I know for a fact there were. Now he's the weird part. Plug phone into computer, reboot and do my cleaning then flash my nandroid. Once phone boots back up my computer opens the phones drive up so I can see all my folders on internal. If I quickly open "download" folder from computer, all my files are there for a few seconds then all of a sudden....gone. Hope that made sense
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4.2 moves them to sdcard/0
Just cut the folders from there and paste back to the sdcard root.
Duffman14 said:
4.2 moves them to sdcard/0
Just cut the folders from there and paste back to the sdcard root.
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Thanks. I know they moved but they are not there.
I decided to try clean RoM which is touchwiz-based. But I'm having some problem with the internal sdcard when using twrp.
I've been using cm10.1/10.2 since day 1 so the internal sdcard is mapped to /storage/sdcard/0. But with android 4.1.x, the internal sdcard is pointing to /storage/sdcard. There is no problem when using the phone normally. But twrp 2.6.0.1 cannot see /storage/sdcard. It can only see /storage/sdcard/0.
Any ideas on how to fix this? Thanks
There's a restore zip to put you back to normal found here:
It's towards the bottom of the post
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=36873319
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OP, did this ^^^^^ advice work?
I thought the difference was due to the multi user feature.
rangercaptain said:
OP, did this ^^^^^ advice work?
I thought the difference was due to the multi user feature.
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It is because of the multi user feature. But it noted to use that to get back to how it was set up in TW based Rom. I just used it when moving from 4.3 back to TW. It just puts everything back in its right place !!
Just my 2¢®
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Okay I know the Galaxy Nexus should have 32GB of internal storage.
So I was installing a new ROM to try it out and decided to clean the phone out and start fresh. So I pulled everything off the phone to my PC. Then flashed the ROM, minimal G-Apps, and the kernel. Then I look at the file manager and I have 5.04 GB free of 28.1 GB. What gives?
I wiped all the caches, prior and there was nothing other than the zip and TWRP on the phone. Is there something else that I should be doing, like formatting the internal memory prior to flashing or something?
Did you come from a 4.1.2 ROM? Sometimes they make an admitting extra folder in emulated.
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Maximinus I said:
Did you come from a 4.1.2 ROM? Sometimes they make an admitting extra folder in emulated.
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Yes, I came from the old 4.1.2 but that was about 7-8 ROM loads ago. I do have a "Legacy" folder in the "emulated" folder. Any ideas on how to re-flash to get rid of these remnants?