Ive always flashed roms from my extsd, but the one I had died, cant get a new one till mon. Can I flash from the phone sd, Without causing problems? If so what should I wipe?
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Yes you can flash from internal sd card. Same procedure as if flashing from ext sd card.
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Hi there. You would in cwm touch choose install zip from internal instead of install zip from external sd card option. Cwm touch is pretty straight forward. Follow the choices. Also make sure you do your nandroid backup before flashing anything. You would want to save that backup to your external sd card when you get it to save device memory. A few backups on internal storage will eat up ALL your internal storage space on the phone so sd card is important to have. If your using cwm you MUST in settings specify for backups to go to EXTERNAL sd card other wise by default they go to internal storage.word of warning this will quickly use all your device storage so make certain once you get your sd to fix the settings so it will go by default to EXTERNAL sd card rather than internal device storage. Hope this helps you out. Best wishes
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I want to format (delete) my internal SD. Will this delete my current ROM? Is there a better way to do this? Thanks for any help...
Make sure you back up your info onto your computer. Your from is already installed as a daily driver. So if you format your internal memory, it will still be operational. But if you go into CWM and factory reset, then it may go back to stock or just be stuck in a boot loop, I've had both things happen to me.
So what if I were just to hook up to pc & delete all files on that drive? Would that be better?
I do that so I could have control and better view of my files. So that is a decent option to do too.
In CWM, go to mounts & storage, and then you can format whatever. The internal sd is called sd card, and external sd card is called emmc, pretty sure.
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In CWM, go to mounts & storage, and then you can format whatever. The internal sd is called sd card, and external sd card is called emmc, pretty sure.
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This info is correct. This is the other route you could go also to format your internal SD card.
ok for some reason all the roms i put on my external sd card isnt showing when i go into cwm but i take out my sd card and put it in my computer the roms are there. How do i fix this?
Just put any ROM your going to flash on your INTERNAL SD and all should be well
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Just put any ROM your going to flash on your INTERNAL SD and all should be well
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is my phone not reading my SD CARD?
In cwm, go to mounts and mount external SD card.
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When you go to "install from sd card" are you seeing two options(should be first and last) for install from card or install from phone storage? I ask because there are two different CWMs out there.
What he means is that the new versions of cw would not support External SD even when u try to mount then.
For flashing Rom I recommend internal SD if that's what you are trying to do.
CW Touch 5.8.4.9. No ExSd
Last time just to see the difference I flash back to 5.8.4.6 and it those show both sd with out the need to mount then.
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Thanks guys for the help i do notice i have ver. 5.8.4.9. I did go to mounts and mount external sd card and it showed the roms i have on it.
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I have looked over and over. And I see articles mentioning how to backup your device before Flashing ROMs. They even show how to do it. One of the articles said it could be done and how to do it. I did it and just like the other ways I tried the backup is stored on the Internal Storage.
I have all this room on my SD card available. My internal storage is almost completely filled with me not being able to store games or any apps for that matter on my SD card. Right now I have about 4GB left for my Internal Storage. After the backup I had 1GB left (I deleted the backup on the Internal Storage).
Is everyone else just storing the backup(s) on your Internal Storage? Your computer? SD Card?
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I have looked over and over. And I see articles mentioning how to backup your device before Flashing ROMs. They even show how to do it. One of the articles said it could be done and how to do it. I did it and just like the other ways I tried the backup is stored on the Internal Storage.
I have all this room on my SD card available. My internal storage is almost completely filled with me not being able to store games or any apps for that matter on my SD card. Right now I have about 4GB left for my Internal Storage. After the backup I had 1GB left (I deleted the backup on the Internal Storage).
Is everyone else just storing the backup(s) on your Internal Storage? Your computer? SD Card?
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Well you can backup to the internal sd card a d once you made a nandroid you can move the folder "clockworkmod" to your external sd card. And once you need to backup just move it back like a storage kind of thing. Tbh I'm not sure if you can make a backup to your external but I would always save it on your computer if anything happened to your phone
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Thanks. I think I am going to go ahead and do it the way you said. Have a good one.
I do it this way but would prefer to backup directly to the sd card.
TWRP can do nandroids on the external sd.
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davidstech11 said:
Thanks. I think I am going to go ahead and do it the way you said. Have a good one.
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Happy to help!
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TWRP can do nandroids on the external sd.
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I had to look up what TWRP was. LOL
Anyway, I looked it over, decided to try it and it worked! I now have my device backed up on the SD card instead of my internal memory.
I want to thank you and the other person for the helpful info. Each of you helped point me in the direction I wanted to go. Have a good one.
My cwm automatically backs up to external sd card. I'm pretty sure most versions do this now but can't verify. Also when I flash zips it will look in external unless I choose install zip from internal sd card
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Doesnt work with the newest version of cwm. It worked with the 5.5.0.4 one though.
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I can see my 64g sd card and I can transfer files from it to my phone's internal memory and vice versa but when I download a file or back up my apps with titanium backup or back up my Rom it goes to my internal hard drive. I have rom manager and titanium back up set up for my sd card but it still goes to the internal memory.
Because of this my phone memory fills up and I get a message saying I'm running out out memory. I have a Samsung 64g sd card and its fat 32 formatted. Does any one know how I can fix this?
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I can see my 64g sd card and I can transfer files from it to my phone's internal memory and vice versa but when I download a file or back up my apps with titanium backup or back up my Rom it goes to my internal hard drive. I have rom manager and titanium back up set up for my sd card but it still goes to the internal memory.
Because of this my phone memory fills up and I get a message saying I'm running out out memory. I have a Samsung 64g sd card and its fat 32 formatted. Does any one know how I can fix this?
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For Titanium Backup - go to preferences and make sure your backup directory is /storage/extSdCard/{whatever_directory_you want}
For Downloaded files - make sure whatever browser you use downloads by default to a folder within /storage/extSdCard/
Remember, /sdcard/ and /storage/sdcard0/ are both pointing to internal memory, NOT the memory card slot.
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For Titanium Backup - go to preferences and make sure your backup directory is /storage/extSdCard/{whatever_directory_you want}
For Downloaded files - make sure whatever browser you use downloads by default to a folder within /storage/extSdCard/
Remember, /sdcard/ and /storage/sdcard0/ are both pointing to internal memory, NOT the memory card slot.
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I have titanium backup set up to save to ExSd card, rom manager is set up to save to external memory but they both still save to the phone's internal memory. I use Google chrome and I went to setting but I don't see where it gives an option where to download to.
I also have k9 mail and I have it also set for sd card but it also saves to the phone memory. I guess what I'm saying is that it saves to the phone memory by default, what am I doing wrong
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Hello,i did a cwm backup and i cant find it with root explorer or when i connect my phone to the computer.If i try to restore cwm recovery shows me backup in /sdcard/cwm/....
Why is that?
It's in internal sd card, not in external. Next time you need to choose backup to external sd card.
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It's in internal sd card, not in external. Next time you need to choose backup to external sd card.
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I dont have external sd card.I'm guessing odin can help me restore my memory.
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I dont have external sd card.I'm guessing odin can help me restore my memory.
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If you want to restore, just go to recovery and choose restore. Then you can choose one of your backups. If you dont have external sd card, then the backup is in internal memory. Your backup will have aprox. 1.5GB, I recommend you to buy an external sd card, because soon you will have space problems, specially if you perform more backups in CWM recovery.