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Help me salvage my Android Data :(

Hi everyone,
I had great success with the Android on Wave. Thanks to All the Devs and ShadowAS1 for the tut!
But Today, while I was transferring some files to it my PC gave a BSOD.
Then I crossed my fingers and started Android, it started but then shutdown so I hook it up to Ubuntu and see to my horror, the 'data' folder was missing!
So I 'checked' with Gparted and thankfully I managed to recover all the folders from 'Lost+Found'
but I am a bit stuck on where to put all the .apks I have recovered
(they are the apps that I had installed),
but what folder do they go in?(app-private?? or apps?)
and what Shall I name them??
Also I found that "data/apps/" folder originally contained 7 apps like Titanium Backup and SGS Toolbox and .etc. but those apps are nowhere to be found in the L+F folder...??
So I will really appreciate if any of you can help me with renaming and replacement of these apps..(please refer to your data folder )
Here are the apps that I had installed...
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I have figured out which one is which...just tell me what to name then and where do I put them,
also can I just copy back the missing apps like preinstalled sgstools and titanium backup, etc?
Apps I had installed
PSX4DROID, NES. EMU, POWERAMP MP3,MOBO PLAYER, load monitor, Dolphin HD, ANGRY BIRDS RIO, Google Earth, Moon Reader Pro,SNES9X EX, Picsel Smart Office, ES file Manager,Musical Pro w/t piano,ROOT explorer, Wifi Explorer pro,
my other folders that I renamed..

Well I'm not 100% sure but i thought it differs per app.
The best thing you could do is intall every app seperatedly via ADB (cause copying the files to their folders wont install the apps)
I think this might be a pretty good idea how to do this: http://www.brighthub.com/mobile/google-android/articles/37151.aspx

thanks for the reply ShadowAS1!
I managed to install a couple of apps successfully by copying their settings folder name from "data/data" folder and adding a '-1.apk' next to it. but the diamond key is not working and wifi is showing 'unable to scan'...I thin I will just try once by checking with gparted or otherwise reinstall..

NHS2008 said:
thanks for the reply ShadowAS1!
I managed to install a couple of apps successfully by copying their settings folder name from "data/data" folder and adding a '-1.apk' next to it. but the diamond key is not working and wifi is showing 'unable to scan'...I thin I will just try once by checking with gparted or otherwise reinstall..
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sounds like you have android filesystem damage, your probably better off redoing the whole lot

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sounds like you have android filesystem damage, your probably better off redoing the whole lot
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Yep I deleted all the stuff in the partition and recopied the files. but now it gets stuck at first B&W boot screen! I know If I format the whole card and repartition it will work just fine. But do you know any other way? cause it a P-I-A to recopy all my files in FAT32 Partition. Is there any particular folder that needs to be deleted from FAT32 partition so I can just recopy the files on EXT3 part and have a new install while retaining my other files on fat32?

[Q]ROM Manager default location?

Is there a way to get ROM MANGER to default to the Internal "SD" card for backups? It always goes to my external card.
I know I can manually launch clockworkmod and select "internal SD" but I would rather do it from within the O/S so I can name the files.

you can always rename the files however you like with any file editor to rename them
and you can move the zip files around to either Internal SD or External SD
personally i like them on the External SD better to safe space on my Internal SD

I do that but like the convenience of doing it from the O/S. I thought I preferred the external as well until yesterday. The reason I want to do that is because when I tried doing a restore from the external it kept crashing. Seems my 32GIG card is flaky (as these cards can be) and I couldn't restore. I know it's the card because it restored fine from the internal SD. The internal ram, not being a "card" is much more reliable and now I am too skittish to use the external MicroSd for backups.

PM Koush or sent him an email for a feature request on his CWR
to let user pick where the backup are kept

I think I'm missing something!?
It looks like it's included already?
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^^^^^^
Well I'll be a son of a b .......... I tried MENU everywhere except from the main screen! Dohhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!
Thanks for making me look foolish, I deserved it! But I don't feel that bad since Allgamer didn't recall either,

not exactly, i was thinking more in the area of Letting you select a Folder you like.
i do know of the internal vs. external option
that's why i said i like it to be on the external by default a few messages above
ideally we should be able to pick a folder to keep all that stuff, i'll like to point it to a folder called "ROMs" for example in the root of /sdcard/
instead of the default
(titanium backup just recently added that feature, well more like they improved it)

[Q] System Data taking 2.5 GB on SD Card

Ok, so somehow I did something that caused my SD card to fill up. When I look at DiskUsage, it shows that the system data folder is taking up all of my space.
Has anyone else had this problem, and can you fix it?
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I really need help...

I don't know what you did.... I compared my unit using the same tool and I don't even have a System Data section on my /sdcard
If you have TWRP loaded, you might be able to wipe your data etc... but I have no idea.
Perhaps someone else has an idea

Well, I dont have a system data folder, atleast in my SD card.
I am thinking maybe it is somehow attatched to the SD partition, but...
Anyway, is it normal to have 200,000 + files in your "sys" directory?

The tool you are using doesn't output very clear info and the graphics by themselves don't give you details on what it is really finding...
Below is what mine looks like. This appears to be the same setting you used, but as you can see, there is no System Data listed.

Are there tools that are more presise I can look for?

Ok, so I found a file inside LOST.DIR called 1048578. It is taking up 2.3 GB. Can I delete it safely?

yes you should be able to do that.
You most likely had a crash and the file was lost from where it was actually pointing.

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krelvinaz said:
yes you should be able to do that.
You most likely had a crash and the file was lost from where it was actually pointing.
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its because of three things that regularly happen
1) Because of Browsing the internet System data gets increased.
Try clearing your browser cache and reboot(e.g chrome, mozilla, the one u use the most)
2) Because of opening gallery your /DCIM/.Thumbnails folder gets loaded whit lots of bytes. delete the /DCIM/.Thumbnails folder
3) Also because of transfering files from your pc to your phone one more folder gets loaded.. delete it its the /nomedia/
Plz Hit Thanks............. :good: :good: :laugh:

The same thing also happened to me. Using the Android tool DiskUsage, after deleting many large media files via the PC, all of a sudden a System data of 22 GB was indicated. After I restarted the phone, the size was reduced to 2.3 GB.

BluNitya said:
The same thing also happened to me. Using the Android tool DiskUsage, after deleting many large media files via the PC, all of a sudden a System data of 22 GB was indicated. After I restarted the phone, the size was reduced to 2.3 GB.
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You do realise that this thread is nearly 6 years old...

[Q] Help freeing up Internal Storage (nandroid backups)

I'm currently low on space on my internal storage and I believe the problem is old nandroid backups from back when I used CWM. I now use TWRP and it doesn't see my old backups. Where can I find the backups so that I can delete them?

If all you wanna do is deal with the nandroid backups on your device, I use Nandroid Manager (from Google Play store, its free). It finds the paths where any and all backups on the device may be stored, and lists them for you. You can then go and delete them or browse them if you want...

I've tried that, but it only shows my most recent backup that was made with TWRP. It doesn't show any of my old backups that I made when I was still using CWM

Drisc0 said:
I've tried that, but it only shows my most recent backup that was made with TWRP. It doesn't show any of my old backups that I made when I was still using CWM
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Download Rom Manager in the play store from Clockworkmod and go to Manage and Restore Backups and then delete them.

Drisc0 said:
I've tried that, but it only shows my most recent backup that was made with TWRP. It doesn't show any of my old backups that I made when I was still using CWM
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Use a file browser and go to sdcard-clockworkmod and they should all be there. Cut and paste them to a computer if you need to save them. You can always use titanium back as well as app from above to extract anything you need.

Sorry for the late response, I've been busy with school and just got around to attempting to fix this issue to no avail. I tried reflashing CWM to see if it could see old recoveries but I couldn't see any. I'm beginning to think it's not actually old nandroid files, but something else taking up all the storage instead. I've used diskusage and root explorer to try and find something that was taking up lots of room, but nothing was taking up much space. I don't have many apps, and there's no way the rom should be taking up this much room. This thread over at androidcentral shows other people having the same problem. This is getting pretty bad as I can't update or install any apps.
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After doing some digging around in diskusage I finally found the culprit. All of the old recoveries had been moved into /data/lost+found. Deleting the contents fixed all my problems! Hopefully this will help someone else out, it has been driving me crazy.

Problem with space running out. And no large files present

i have not had any internal memory issues since my HTC Desire Z some years ago. And now with my Note 2, 16 GB i am suddenly only on 500 MB left. I have around 140 apps all in all, non of them games with large downloads. i have cleared out everything in goomanager, DCIM, now using the external SD card for photos and videos. Cleared out downloads, looked through every folder and i can't find any single files above 100 MB really. Even the Android/data folder only takes up 250 MB.
i have noticed something that puzzles me a bit. That the internal storage comes up as /storage/emulated/0/ and not /sdcard/
When navigating to /sdcard/ in a file explorer with root access. The same files i find in /storage/emulated/0/ is present.
From the root of my Note 2. i can navigate to the same internal memory directory in the following paths:
mnt/sdcard/
mnt/shell/emulated/
sdcard/
storage/emulated/o/
storage/emulated/legacy/
storage/sdcard/
Do i have several copies of the same internal memory or what ?
If no one has a good idea about why this non existing data can be found and dealt with, what would be the best way to completely wipe the device?
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Check
Settings ... storage. ... miscellaneous files look out for cloud image files. In my case I run in to same issue where I found cloud images were taking about 4gb of space....
Good luck
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koalauk said:
Check
Settings ... storage. ... miscellaneous files look out for cloud image files. In my case I run in to same issue where I found cloud images were taking about 4gb of space....
Good luck
Sent from my GT-N7100 using xda app-developers app
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thanks.
i ended up formatting the internal SD card through CWM, and then flashing a ROM.
Now i have 8 GB free with the same apps installed. That's more like it.
i think that a MIUI ROM created a mirrored emulated storage space that ended up doubling the amount used of internal memory

Clean Data folder
Download ES Explorer
and go into the /data/media folder.
the troublesome files are there. For myself I had old remnants from another ROM and the entire rom zip file.
Don't forget the thanx button.

Adjetey Boye said:
Download ES Explorer
and go into the /data/media folder.
the troublesome files are there. For myself I had old remnants from another ROM and the entire rom zip file.
Don't forget the thanx button.
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I knew there was a backup file somewhere after stupidly backing up my rom to the internal sd accidentally but couldnt find it as it is in clockwork folder on my external.
but yes, for some reason it was in media, which I didnt check because I dont keep anything on my internal personally.
anyway thanks, It got me 6 gig of space back.