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Hey All,
I was hoping for some help.
I did a nandroid backup of my mikfroyo setup. I only selected the default settings when doing the backup, should I have selected anything else?
When I went to restore, I wiped cache, dalvik, and data reset, and then did the nandroid restore. When I rebooted I got to the first mikfroyo screen where but it never made it to the second where the letters light up one at a time, it just looped on the first screen with the "flame" type effect comes out, over and over.
I tried a battery two times pull but it did the same thing.
Any thoughts???
chefdrew said:
Hey All,
I was hoping for some help.
I did a nandroid backup of my mikfroyo setup. I only selected the default settings when doing the backup, should I have selected anything else?
When I went to restore, I wiped cache, dalvik, and data reset, and then did the nandroid restore. When I rebooted I got to the first mikfroyo screen where but it never made it to the second where the letters light up one at a time, it just looped on the first screen with the "flame" type effect comes out, over and over.
I tried a battery two times pull but it did the same thing.
Any thoughts???
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What recovery are you using? I'vei swear I've heard that with Amon Ra 2.3 deleting the android.secure folder from you'r sd card will alleviate that problem. I've never had an issue, but I'm almost positive I've read that somewhere around here. Also, maybe try wiping both dalvik cache and cache right after you restore your backup, but before you boot.
I am using AmonRA. I do have an .android_secure folder but there is never anything in it.
might not help much but, for next time you do something like that, everytime i do a nandroid with amon ra i select everything there is to backup, worked flawlessly every time, if you backed up your apps and data with TB or myback up you should try reflashing your rom again
Make sure you have at least 500 MB free on your SD card when you back up a rom
i don't provide soluution here just sharing my nandroid experience :
i once nandroid backup my warm z rom (sense 2.0)
ater it finish i got bootloop and made me use the nandroid backup i just create (lol)
boku_baka said:
i don't provide soluution here just sharing my nandroid experience :
i once nandroid backup my warm z rom (sense 2.0)
ater it finish i got bootloop and made me use the nandroid backup i j
Something like that happened to me before because I ran out of space on my SD card
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chefdrew said:
I am using AmonRA. I do have an .android_secure folder but there is never anything in it.
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Try deleting it. See if that makes any difference. I know I read that somewhere, I'm not losing it..haha.
intel i7 quad said:
Something like that happened to me before because I ran out of space on my SD card
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i didn't run out my sd card space though.
another nandroid story :
i did nandroid restore, and everything's fine, except i lost my keyboard (touch input).
no keyboard was shown when it's needed! other input method is available normally (swipe) .
but just no normal keyboard.
funny.
Thanks for the replies. I have about 18 G left on my SD card so it is not a space issue. Maybe I will delete and backup everything???
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chefdrew said:
Thanks for the replies. I have about 18 G left on my SD card so it is not a space issue. Maybe I will delete and backup everything???
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Don't rule out the possibility that the backup could be corrupted. I just found the post I was referring to, about deleting the android.secure folder. The recommendation was to wipe sd-ext and delete the android.secure folder from the sd card. If you really, really need to restore that backup, and don't want to start fresh, you got nothing to lose by trying that. I'm actually not sure if wiping sd-ext formats the entire card or not, so as a precaution, I'd back up the contents of your card. Although I'm sure it wouldn't delete the entire card, because then there'd be no nandroid backup left to restore!
emcp422 said:
might not help much but, for next time you do something like that, everytime i do a nandroid with amon ra i select everything there is to backup, worked flawlessly every time, if you backed up your apps and data with TB or myback up you should try reflashing your rom again
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So in the options, there is...
Boot
System
data
cache
recovery
wimax
sd-ext
.android_secure
So from what I have gathered from you all, I should...
1) delete the .android_secure folder.
2) Boot into recovery, select nandroid backup, select EVERYTHING there is to select, except for .android restore
When I might want to flash back from a different ROM back to my mikfroyo setup, I would
1) wipe cache, wipe dalvik, factory reset.
2) select nandroid restore
3)Reboot system
Do I need to do a Caulkins Format all before I do the restore?
chefdrew said:
So in the options, there is...
Boot
System
data
cache
recovery
wimax
sd-ext
.android_secure
So from what I have gathered from you all, I should...
1) delete the .android_secure folder.
2) Boot into recovery, select nandroid backup, select EVERYTHING there is to select, except for .android restore
When I might want to flash back from a different ROM back to my mikfroyo setup, I would
1) wipe cache, wipe dalvik, factory reset.
2) select nandroid restore
3)Reboot system
Do I need to do a Caulkins Format all before I do the restore?
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I have never backed up sd text or android_secure, and I have never had a problem restoring a nandroid. The android_secure is for the apps on your sd card, you can save those with titanium or mybackup.
And to answer your question about flashing/restoring to a different rom. Yes, wipe data/factory reset, dalvik/cache, and cache. You can use the format all before/after if you choose to just, just to be sure it all gets erased. Then do your restore
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I have never backed up sd text or android_secure, and I have never had a problem restoring a nandroid. The android_secure is for the apps on your sd card, you can save those with titanium or mybackup.
And to answer your question about flashing/restoring to a different rom. Yes, wipe data/factory reset, dalvik/cache, and cache. You can use the format all before/after if you choose to just, just to be sure it all gets erased. Then do your restore
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Do you still have your .android_secure folder on your sd card?
I was told to delete it from the card.
Do you select "recovery", as well, when you ar doing a backup?
chefdrew said:
Do you still have your .android_secure folder on your sd card?
I was told to delete it from the card.
Do you select "recovery", as well, when you ar doing a backup?
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Yes. It will automatically create a new android_secure folder when you begin downloading apps And yes I choose recovery. And listen to K2Buckley also. Guy is genius.
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jayharper08 said:
Yes. It will automatically create a new android_secure folder when you begin downloading apps And yes I choose recovery. And listen to K2Buckley also. Guy is genius.
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Yea, a new one will be created, and yea, k2buckley is the man.
Sounds good to me, I will give it another shot. Also, in ASTRO mrg, I do not see a folder for sd ext, should it be there? I did the sd partition before I actually flashed anything, was that supposed to create the sd ext?
chefdrew said:
Sounds good to me, I will give it another shot. Also, in ASTRO mrg, I do not see a folder for sd ext, should it be there? I did the sd partition before I actually flashed anything, was that supposed to create the sd ext?
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Nah. Sd ext won't be there. Never has been for me anyway.
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Ok, tried to delete it in astro and it says error deleting files, even though there are no files in it...
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Astro doesn't have permission to delete that folder.
THE FIX IS BELOW (it's the quote)
My description of my problem is below but, first off I want to say that I have made several searches on google, androidcentral, and xda about this issue and have found no solution. I have also attempted to trouble shoot the problem myself by fixing permissions, wipes, flashing backups, deleting really old backups, etc. I even purchased SD Maid Premium and deleted duplicates and ran the appcleaner.
I am running CM10. I use Titanium Backup and Clockwork Recovery Mod to backup my system and apps regularly. I was running CM10 with KT Kernel (and used KTweeker to undervolt my processor) but recently flashed a new CM10 nightly (with a fully factory data, cache, and davilk cache wipe) and kept the "baked-in" Cyanogen Kernel.
I got a notification that my internal storage was close to full (this happened right after making a backup using CWM, I was running CM10 and KT kernel at the time and had 4 additional older nandroid backups). So I went through my apps, pictures, videos, old backups etc and deleted a bunch of stuff. But I still had the storage full notification. I then wiped data, cache, and davilk cache, and flashed the latest CM10 d2att nightly and gapps4.1. Before installing any apps I went to check my storage in Storage Settings, Apps Settings, and SD Maid . In App Settings and SD Maid it showed 7.5gb used and 4.5gb free, but in Storage Settings it showed 0.4gb used and 11.6gb free. (In my research I found that this may be because my ROM (CM10) is odexed). I have done some exploring using Root Explorer and found that my /data file is 7.5gb, i have a file /storeage/sdcard0 that is also 7.5gb and a /storage/sdcard1 that is 2.3gb.
I have come to the point where I just want to fully wipe my phone and start over; i think it is called a hard reset. It would be more than a Factory Data Wipe, which I have done several times in Clockwork Recovery Mod and it always leaves behind 7.5gb of data in my storage. I dont mind loosing all my data, media, etc. It would be nice if there was a solution that did not require a "hard reset" but I am willing to do it if that is my only option. I am familiar with download mode and odin in case that needed for the hard reset.
Thanks in advance for all the help.
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Fixed.
First I took all my media and files I wanted to save and transferred them over to my external sd card. Then I downloaded the zip files for the latest CM10(any rom will do) , gapps, and ktoonz kernel and transferred those over to my external sd card.
Then I rebooted into recovery. I went to mounts and storage and formated /system /data /cache and /sdcard
After that I flashed the zip files I downloaded earlier from my external sd card.
Rebooted and took this screen shot.
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You can go to mounts and storage in cwm and format everything. That pretty much wipes you clean. Fixed a similar problem I was having.
I didn't do my external sd though
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ineversl33p said:
You can go to mounts and storage in cwm and format everything. That pretty much wipes you clean. Fixed a similar problem I was having.
I didn't do my external sd though
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Will this delete a ROM (.zip) (that I would flash after the formating) from my /sdcard?
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It's an issue between our GSIII and rom manager, go to settings, then storage, then miscellaneous, wait for it to load, select rom manager, hit the delete key. This will not un install the program it will however delete your nandroids backups.
From now on only make your nandroids while in recovery and always choose ext-sd for output.
This is what fixed it for me. Please let me know if it works for you.
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I'm curious if you figured it out or not
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lostboy702 said:
It's an issue between our GSIII and rom manager, go to settings, then storage, then miscellaneous, wait for it to load, select rom manager, hit the delete key. This will not un install the program it will however delete your nandroids backups.
From now on only make your nandroids while in recovery and always choose ext-sd for output.
This is what fixed it for me. Please let me know if it works for you.
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When I go to Settings / Storage Misc pops up and says calculating... Then disappears a second later. When I try to click it during that spit second nothing happens
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Have you looked into clearing the data from rom manager?
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lostboy702 said:
Have you looked into clearing the data from rom manager?
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Couldn't find an option to clear data in Rom Manager
EDIT: LOL I'm dumb. You mean the clear data in Settings/Apps/Rom Manager?
pdelponte said:
Couldn't find an option to clear data in Rom Manager
EDIT: LOL I'm dumb. You mean the clear data in Settings/Apps/Rom Manager?
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Cleared Data in Settings, Apps, Rom Manager. Backups are still there, I have one recent backup and a backup called "blobs" that I never made. Come to think of it, blobs showed up around the time the problem started. I read somewhere not to delete it though. What is blobs?
Also I'm still looking into formating /system /data /cache etc. Will that possibly brick my phone? Any tips?
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I'm at work now but I'll look into it and respond later today
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I'm trying to figure out the blobs as well.
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Take a look here. http://forum.xda-developers.com/archive/index.php/t-1793706.html
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I'm going to format /system /data and /cache soon but before I do I would love some feedback on if formating /system /data or /cache will unroot, brick, delete the zip I plan to flash after the formating (the zip is on my external sd) or any other pitfalls I could encounter by formating.
Thanks and I'll let you know how it works.
Edit: changed "tonight" to "soon"
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I would also very much appreciate some info on what /storage/sdcard0 and /storage/sdcard1 is. I think those are possibly what's causing me to show 7.5 gb full even after a factory reset wipe
Thanks
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You're on cyanogenmod 10 right.
0 is the phones internal storage and 1 is the ext-sd
Btw why are you should probably ditch rom manager in favor of rom toolbox pro-if you do you'll get rid of those pesky blob files
I love rom manager for its ease of use but had to ditch it because it's blobs take up so much space on my gs3, at least until they update it to allow backups to be sent to the ext-sd. again.
pdelponte said:
I would also very much appreciate some info on what /storage/sdcard0 and /storage/sdcard1 is. I think those are possibly what's causing me to show 7.5 gb full even after a factory reset wipe
Thanks
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Fixed.
First I took all my media and files I wanted to save and transferred them over to my external sd card. Then I downloaded the zip files for the latest CM10(any rom will do) , gapps, and ktoonz kernel and transferred those over to my external sd card.
Then I rebooted into recovery. I went to mounts and storage and formated /system /data /cache and /sdcard
After that I flashed the zip files I downloaded earlier from my external sd card.
Rebooted and took this screen shot.
THANKS EVERYONE.
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pdelponte said:
Fixed.
First I took all my media and files I wanted to save and transferred them over to my external sd card. Then I downloaded the zip files for the latest CM10(any rom will do) , gapps, and ktoonz kernel and transferred those over to my external sd card.
Then I rebooted into recovery. I went to mounts and storage and formated /system /data /cache and /sdcard
After that I flashed the zip files I downloaded earlier from my external sd card.
Rebooted and took this screen shot.
THANKS EVERYONE.
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Is there any reason to think that this won't work on the verizon version with cm10.1
i had an 8gb legacy folder after doing a full wipe and reflash.. just deleted it and everything works
I didn't notice this 0 folder issue until today. Up until now I was wondering why some files seemingly disappeared etc. Then I noticed too much space unavailable. This copy this over there and all that was not working so here's what I did:
Copy what you want to keep from internal sd to external sd
Get zip of your current rom and copy to external sd
Nandroid to external sd
Remove external sd from phone
Boot into recovery
Wipe everything, data, cache, dalvik 3x for good measure
Insert external sd
Reboot recovery (ignore no OS warning)
Flash rom (creates a clean file system and installs rom)
Reboot into rom and let it load
Reboot into recovery
Factory wipe, cache, dalvik
Restore your Nandroid backup
Reboot
Tada
/storage/sdcard0 is the mount path for your internal sd card. /storage/sdcard1 is your external. /storage/emulated is the location used for the emulated card in Android 4.2 for multi user support
I need your expert advice please, about the safe way formatting or cleaning
internal memory of my ROGERS S3, somehow I think I have a lot
of leftover files and folders, from previous different ROM flashing.
which folders are safe to delete without corrupting my providers settings,
or if there are better ways of cleaning, please advice
Thank you
I think u can just go to or storage setting and for mat internal storage from there and that it will for mar the inter SD card and all should be fine.
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FNM
You could use the app SD Maid as a other option.
Another option would be to wipe everything next time you flash a new ROM. You can move everything important off your Internal SD and in Recovery flash the ROM then go to mounts and storage>format /sdcard and when you reboot only the needed folders will be left.
Best way is to use a full wipe flashable zip. Upndwn4par has a thread called flashing tools. Basically just put the ROM on the ext sd card. Flash Tue wipe zip which will clear system, format, and wipe data. Flash ROM and you are at square one
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Using android for last 3 years but it has to be the worst day today. Wanted to upgrade rom. Went to recovery (TWRP) and then selected wipe> cache, delvik cache and format data. Bang it has removed all what I had in the internal storage. What the F is that. Now if I go to install, it doesn't show any folder in sdcard
I have only 1 question, can I get back all my data??? I had vcf files, TB data and sms data I will throw my phone away How can I make such a big mistake. I made efs backup but it doesn't exist too. I always used CWm recovery and it never formated whole sd card when I selected format data, how can this recovery do. Please Please help me
sohebq said:
Using android for last 3 years but it has to be the worst day today. Wanted to upgrade rom. Went to recovery (TWRP) and then selected wipe> cache, delvik cache and format data. Bang it has removed all what I had in the internal storage. What the F is that. Now if I go to install, it doesn't show any folder in sdcard
I have only 1 question, can I get back all my data??? I had vcf files, TB data and sms data I will throw my phone away How can I make such a big mistake. I made efs backup but it doesn't exist too. I always used CWm recovery and it never formated whole sd card when I selected format data, how can this recovery do. Please Please help me
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Sorry to hear that. So far I know there is no way to recover them now. You have to start a new life.
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Hey guys I have been trying back up my data so can flash a new ROM but titanium backup will only back up to my phone not my SD card so when I wipe through cwm I'm going to lose my backups can anybody please help with this
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Go to preferences and change backup folder location. Click "detect"/search entire device and navigate to your sd card.
Not sure about cwm, but twrp won't format your internal sd storage unless you specifically target it. I always wipe data, system, and cache prior to flashing a new rom. I leave the sd partition alone unless I want to clear it for whatever reason.
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