I ran in quite a bad trouble on my Nexus 7.
I a using bruce2728's version of CM11 ( http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2545628 ) which is from my point of view the best around.
Last version got pretty nasty fc when using ART (which is my daily driver). This happens. I rebooted in Recovery (TWRP) and tryied flashing my previous ROM over. Unfortunately I ended up with a screwed up CM11. Notifications don't show up, neither does the top menu with parameters, etc... The home button is not working either. I can boot. I can launch applications (Most of which are ok). #g Network doesn't work anymore either, but Wifi does.
I obviously wiped cache & dalvick, also wiped system just in case. No improvement.
So... I thought to go for a factory reset. However as far as I understand if I do that in TWRP, I will lose my data. Which I don't want...I back up everything with Titanium backup on a regular basis. But I am now in a situation where I cannot access my internal SD card from my PC. Whenever I connect the Nexus to the PC, I can see the device but when I click on it I can't see any data. I tried disabling re-enabling MTP, tried disable-enabling USB debug, wiped all drivers from my PC and then reinstalled... Never works. The Nexus shows up, but always an empty folder.
It's extremely frustrating. The ROM half works (at least enough to access my data) but I just can't move them out
I am left with the possibility to upload my data to Gdrive or DropBox but it will take weeks to upload and then redownload (I am on a slow Wifi)
Is there anyway I can wipe the system data without touching my Internal SD Card? I guess that would be the right solution, then reinstall the ROM. I also thought about backing up with TWRP, but given the size of what is being backed up it very much looks like I am backing up my System data and not my internal SD card.
Aaah it's so frustrating not to have any external SD... Was so simple to fix on my Samsung
Do you have all your data backed up to sd?
Factory reset will wipe only /cache and /data NOT /sdcard with titanium backups
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Ra1nst0rm said:
Do you have all your data backed up to sd?
Factory reset will wipe only /cache and /data NOT /sdcard with titanium backups
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Only the system data and a few stuff. Pics, etc are on my SD card. Don't wanna lose them.
But do you mean my /sdcard is protected from factory reset? I am on TWRP I thought factory reset also takes away the sdcard
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Alcibiade said:
Only the system data and a few stuff. Pics, etc are on my SD card. Don't wanna lose them.
But do you mean my /sdcard is protected from factory reset? I am on TWRP I thought factory reset also takes away the sdcard
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You can just select advanced wipe and choose system,dalvik cache,cache and thats all.then just reinstall your current rom and you shouldnt lose any of your sdcard files
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You can just select advanced wipe and choose system,dalvik cache,cache and thats all.then just reinstall your current rom and you shouldnt lose any of your sdcard files
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That's what I initially did. But unfortunately it didn't fix my ROM at all
Still completely screwed
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Try to boot into recovery - plug phone in pc and start adb. Then use - adb pull /sdcard/ /sdcard
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Try to boot into recovery - plug phone in pc and start adb. Then use - adb pull /sdcard/ /sdcard
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Thanks that was the next think I was considering. Was just a bit busy to reinstall the android dev framework. Will try. Crossing finger for it to work.
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I have flashed a few of the different builds that have recently become available and in doing so I have had some weird happenings with my internal storage. First I had both /sdcard, and /sdcard/o where everything I had prior to flashing was in /sdcard, but now resides in /sdcard/0. I moved everything back over and all was dandy. However now I have /sdcard and in there is nothing. All my stuff is actually in mnt/shell/emulated??
I know that chadouming and the everyone else that are contributing are working hard to get a stable build of CM10.1 out to everyone, and when that happens I want to start fresh.
Now my question is how do you go about formatting your internal sdcard without screwing everything up?? Should I flash ROM, GAPPS, backup's from Nova, and Titanium then format? I just don't want to be left with a phone that won't boot for whatever reason.
typically in the past I have never done this. But contrary to some of the instructions for flashing ROMs in this forum I used too
Wipe system/factory reset
Wipe Cache
Wipe Dalvik Cache
format system, data
then flash rom then flash gapps. There is a lot I still don't understand about this stuff so any help would be appreciated.
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I have flashed a few of the different builds that have recently become available and in doing so I have had some weird happenings with my internal storage. First I had both /sdcard, and /sdcard/o where everything I had prior to flashing was in /sdcard, but now resides in /sdcard/0. I moved everything back over and all was dandy. However now I have /sdcard and in there is nothing. All my stuff is actually in mnt/shell/emulated??
I know that chadouming and the everyone else that are contributing are working hard to get a stable build of CM10.1 out to everyone, and when that happens I want to start fresh.
Now my question is how do you go about formatting your internal sdcard without screwing everything up?? Should I flash ROM, GAPPS, backup's from Nova, and Titanium then format? I just don't want to be left with a phone that won't boot for whatever reason.
typically in the past I have never done this. But contrary to some of the instructions for flashing ROMs in this forum I used too
Wipe system/factory reset
Wipe Cache
Wipe Dalvik Cache
format system, data
then flash rom then flash gapps. There is a lot I still don't understand about this stuff so any help would be appreciated.
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Ah, you didnt said that. You can't simply delete the 0 folder on sdcard. That's how thing work on android 4.2 and it's because of multi-user capabilities. put everything back in 0 folder nad it shoulbe alright. Note that it's zero and not "o"
I can't move things. I am able to select files, but it won't move them. Tried with CM file explorer and with root explorer. Won't work with either. Wouldn't be a problem if I could access them from my computer, but I can only see /sdcard when it comes up, so I can't access mnt/shell/emulated. Frustrating.
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I have downloaded a program called android commander to access internal storage on my phone via pc but I can't get it to work. I can't for the life of me even get the drivers for the phone to install correctly. Grrrr. Don't want to lose this data but I cannot seem to gain access our move it.
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i needed to move my backups from the 0 folder so plugged the phone on to pc and did it through windows.
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i needed to move my backups from the 0 folder so plugged the phone on to pc and did it through windows.
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Yes this is my problem. I can only access the /sdcard portion of the internal memory through my pc. The 0 folder along with the original /sdcard folder is now located in the above mentioned directory /mnt/shell/emulated. It's very strange, and what is more frustrating ifs that I can select the files to move them through root explorer, but when I hit paste nothing happens.
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Yes this is my problem. I can only access the /sdcard portion of the internal memory through my pc. The 0 folder along with the original /sdcard folder is now located in the above mentioned directory /mnt/shell/emulated. It's very strange, and what is more frustrating ifs that I can select the files to move them through root explorer, but when I hit paste nothing happens.
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i actually had to save to my desktop then back to sdcard. took a while but it worked.
gentledroid17 said:
i actually had to save to my desktop then back to sdcard. took a while but it worked.
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That would be fine but I can't access that directory on my pc. Hence the problem.
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is there any way to backup the game sd data ? recently i wanna change my rom, but i don't wanna lose my gta iv and real racing 3 since i've been playing both games for a quite while, the titanium backup won't bckup the sd data...i don't wanna lose it,
Why would you lose the data on your 'sdcard'? Don't wipe /data and make sure you have a copy backed up to your computer
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Pirateghost said:
Why would you lose the data on your 'sdcard'? Don't wipe /data and make sure you have a copy backed up to your computer
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Umm... Galaxy nexus has no sd card sir
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Umm... Galaxy nexus has no sd card sir
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Duh? I know that but there is a symlink to data/media/0 called.... Wait for it.........sdcard, which is what a lot of apps refer to for saved data
So I ask again, why do you think you will lose that?
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Basically, when an app saves data to the phone, it saves it on sdcard/data/ or sdcard/android/data/. In either case the folders within "sdcard" dont get touched when you flash a new ROM. The only way it gets deleted is if you manually delete the contents on your "sdcard". I dont know if a system wipe will delete it but if you are just flashing a ROM, you dont need to wipe the system anyway.
Also, if you are still worried about losing the data, you can just copy those folders to your desktop before flashing
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I dont know if a system wipe will delete it but if you are just flashing a ROM, you dont need to wipe the system anyway.
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A system wipe only wipes the /system partition. Since sdcard data is in /data/media or /data/media/0, it's safe from a system wipe. Also, I believe at this point most authors are writing system wipes into their update scripts in their ROM packages. I still run one manually to be sure, though.
Buy titanium backup pro. Make a backup. Send it on your Google Drive (data use) or back it up on your storage, plug in to your computer, copy the backups to your computer.
Simple. Easy. Titanium backup pro.
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ReAlives said:
is there any way to backup the game sd data ? recently i wanna change my rom, but i don't wanna lose my gta iv and real racing 3 since i've been playing both games for a quite while, the titanium backup won't bckup the sd data...i don't wanna lose it,
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on real racing 3, if you go into android/data/com.ea.games.r3_na/doc take your character.dat and profile.dat and back them up to dropbox or your storage of choice, those are what your game saves to. you can load them up like i do to my nexus 7 or gnex and continue where you left off. don't know about gtaIII.
Please any help on this...
I install several diferents roms, but I noted when I explore my storage, I find I have this folders:
-Sdcard0
-extSdCard ( this its my external sd card 32 gb )
everything its ok, but in my last installed rom ( MSG& Chubbs ) I noted this, in my Device memory ( Phone Memory ) named "Sdcard0" I have differents files... ok, but inside this folder I have ANOTHER folder called "0" and inside this "0" folder I have another files and a lot of them its the same names files ( alarms, android, aokp, application, autodesk, bell cache. dcim, download, etc etc etc ) ..
I try to reinstall any rom and before install the rom, I wipe cache- Dalvik Cache - Factory reset - and wipe System too...but when my phone start and I begin to work on this I see The Device memory its the same.. I have the Sdcard0 folder and inside I have the same "0" folder with a lot of same folders...
please How to clean this memory to only have one root folder? because I don't know if I erase the "0" folder or move the others folders inside the "0" folder or viceverse... maybe I brick my phone?
please any help?
With 4.2 ROMs you need to be wiping data too
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With 4.2 ROMs you need to be wiping data too
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where are that option ? please...
In custom recovery. Do you use twrp or cwm?
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In custom recovery. Do you use twrp or cwm?
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TRWP ....
boni7010 said:
TRWP ....
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If I remember correctly isn't the 0/emulated folder just a symlink and not actually taking up more space? Correct me if I'm wrong but I'm pretty sure that's what I read a while back. If you wipe data just make sure to back your stuff up.
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If I remember correctly isn't the 0/emulated folder just a symlink and not actually taking up more space? Correct me if I'm wrong but I'm pretty sure that's what I read a while back. If you wipe data just make sure to back your stuff up.
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Its take more space because its the same files an same size...
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please How to use securely TRWP to erase all the internal memory and then flash any rom witout brick my cell ?
Did you try formatting internal memory card from within settings?
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please How to use securely TRWP to erase all the internal memory and then flash any rom witout brick my cell ?
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You're not going to brick your phone.
Just backup everything you need to your computer or sdcard. Just wipe everything, but don't wipe system or external storage and you should be fine. The worst case senario if something goes wrong afterwards is to reflash your Rom and gapps, which should be on your sdcard as well before you begin and your phone will be ok.
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So I've been using paranoid android for a while and I've been wanting to go to Slim Bean rom for a while. So i flashed everything correctly blah blah performed full wipe etc. Directly after the full wipe and flashing it says i have 866 MB available.. How is that possible? I just performed a full wipe, every piece of data is gone.. No apps, music, pics, or cached data and have not even a single GB of data available?
Before switching ROMS i deleted all of my themeing data - custom lockscreen and wallpaper data and widgets. They take up a ton of space. But none of that is on my phone anymore.. Why the hell am I only being granted that tiny amount of space?
Just so we're on the same page, where does it say 866mb and what all was wiped in by our full wipe?
It says 866 MB on the storage setting in settings menu and on the internal storage menu on my computer - when i plug the phone in
I would check your nandroid backups as well as your ''0'', see if there are copies of it.
You wiped your internal SD card from recovery? Or did you just wipe data?
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So I've been using paranoid android for a while and I've been wanting to go to Slim Bean rom for a while. So i flashed everything correctly blah blah performed full wipe etc. Directly after the full wipe and flashing it says i have 866 MB available.. How is that possible? I just performed a full wipe, every piece of data is gone.. No apps, music, pics, or cached data and have not even a single GB of data available?
Before switching ROMS i deleted all of my themeing data - custom lockscreen and wallpaper data and widgets. They take up a ton of space. But none of that is on my phone anymore.. Why the hell am I only being granted that tiny amount of space?
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In order to completely wipe the device, you need to wipe the sd card from recovery, or with a file manager.
Try this:
1. Download your favorite root file manager (My favorite is Root Browser Lite)
2. Check to see if your /sdcard folder is empty alternatively you can go to /data/media/0 to check this
3. If it is try navigating to /data/media/legacy/ this will be all of your stored files from before flashing to 4.2
Before deleting make sure you aren't deleting your clockwork folder or TWRP folder because that is likely where any nandroid backups would be located
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In order to completely wipe the device, you need to wipe the sd card from recovery, or with a file manager.
Try this:
1. Download your favorite root file manager (My favorite is Root Browser Lite)
2. Check to see if your /sdcard folder is empty alternatively you can go to /data/media/0 to check this
3. If it is try navigating to /data/media/legacy/ this will be all of your stored files from before flashing to 4.2
Before deleting make sure you aren't deleting your clockwork folder or TWRP folder because that is likely where any nandroid backups would be located
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Ok, so I deleted a few things from my 0 file because it had duplicates of existing files in it. I gained about 1 gb of extra space from that, thanks.
But now when I go redownload an app that I once had ( i.e widget locker ) it says unknown error code during application install : -24
I was searching and I think i may have deleted the widget locker that was located in my "0" folder. Is there a way around this? Can i make a new folder titled Widget Locker or something?
Try format data.
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Try format data.
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I know how to do that but will it erase all of my data?
Rawbster said:
I know how to do that but will it erase all of my data?
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yep it will wipe everything,
so make sure you save all your photo, documents before you format
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yep it will wipe everything,
so make sure you save all your photo, documents before you format
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ok i'll be sure to do so. apps as well?
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ok i'll be sure to do so. apps as well?
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Well if you want, make sure you save the backup on your computer
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i installed a game called contract killer 2 and when i uninstalled it, i noticed that it didn't delete the game data but when i try to delete the folder for the data, it says it deleted but i still see it and i went into that folder and i see three files that are blank, no file names at all...one of them says that it's taking up 2gb but i try to delete it and it's still there. i even tried with adb as root with no luck, does anybody know what's going on? i included a screenshot so you can see what i'm talking about. it makes no sense, LOL if anybody knows how to fix this, that would be awesome! thanks in advance for the help!
Copy your files you want (such as backups/nandroids, photos and music) on the internal storage to your computer, boot into recovery and wipe internal SD card.
In cwm: its under mounts and storage
In twrp: select wipe, then advanced wipe and wiping the internal SD card should be an option
Once you reboot copy all of your files back to the device...then reboot the device once again and everything should be back to normal...minus the unwanted file/files
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Thanks for your help! It worked!
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