Anyone seeing two Data folders in their android folder on the sdcard. One is labeled "data" other one is "Data". only see this viewing the folder on the phone via root explorer. seems that there are files used by the system in both folders.
Hello everyone,
I have a rather annoying problem: I have one empty directory on my GNs "sdcard" (a leftover from dropbox) which I can't delete using root explorer/es file explorer, it just says can't be deleted (0 files inside, 0b size)
When I mount the device to a computer, I can delete the folder, but when i unmount, it's back again....
I'm rather helpless now since I can't take out the card and just format it like I would have done....
What can I do? Help would be gladly appreciated.
edit: sorry for topic, it's actually an empty folder, not a file
solved it, if someone else has similar problems:
backup everything you want to keep from sdcard first.
then fastboot oem lock and then unlock again - voila, everything wiped.
as mentioned, everything on the device is wiped, so be prepared to restore.
For those who have the same problem (as I had) this old post helped.
Only note is that OEM lock was not necessary. Just flashing stock and unrooting did the trick for me.
Hi all:
I got a new galaxy nexus that i'd like to use as my main phone, but I don't want to go through the trouble of setting it up again, my current gnex is just perfectly setup. They both have the same version of android (4.0.4).
I was going to to a clockwork mod backup of the current phone, move it to the new phone and restore there, but I think I'll mess up the IMEI if I do that?
What additional steps do I need to carry out to preserve the phone's IMEI?
Thanks in advance.
pcbroch said:
Hi all:
I got a new galaxy nexus that i'd like to use as my main phone, but I don't want to go through the trouble of setting it up again, my current gnex is just perfectly setup. They both have the same version of android (4.0.4).
I was going to to a clockwork mod backup of the current phone, move it to the new phone and restore there, but I think I'll mess up the IMEI if I do that?
What additional steps do I need to carry out to preserve the phone's IMEI?
Thanks in advance.
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If both have absolutely the same ROM, restore just the data backup, not the system backup, and you should be fine.
You can copy the IMEI on the original nexus to the other? Wouldnt that be best?
Is so follow these steps (it may look much, but i dont think it would take long if u want to keep your original imei number!
You must have:
-Root
-Root explorer for copying files to and from EFS folder
-Android SDK for the ADB tools or Terminal in your phone.
IMEI is stored in ".nv_data" file in ORIGINAL SHIPPED EFS folder too, so you just have to do these:
1) make a copy of your EFS folder to your sdcard using root explorer and then make a backup of the folder to your computer [ to have another copy if you had to format sd card sometime ]
2) delete the EFS folder (BE SURE YOU HAVE BACKED IT UP IN A SAFE PLACE AS SAID IN STEP 1) from the root of your phone using root explorer.
3) reset the phone, after that, go to the root, and you can see that the EFS folder is still there, don't make any mistake, this EFS folder is new and generated by the android OS.
4) go to EFS folder using root explorer, and delete "nv_data.bin", "nv_data.bin.md5".
5) go to your backed up EFS folder on your sdcard, copy the "imei" folder to the EFS folder at the root of your phone, then again go to the backed up EFS folder at yout sdcard and copy the " .nv_data " file to your EFS folder at the root of your phone using root explorer, NOTE: the dot in first of nv_data is not a mistake, copy the ".nv_data" file.
6) make another copy of the ".nv_data" file in EFS folder in your phone, so you would have 2 copies of ".nv_data" in EFS folder
7) rename one of ".nv_data" files to "nv_data.bin" and another one to "nv_data.bin.bak"
8) at your PC open CMD at the ADB tool path, or run Terminal at your phone enter these commands:
adb shell ( use this command of you use ADB, if you're using terminal, skip this line )
su ( ALLOW THE MESSAGE CAME AT YOUR PHONE's DISPLAY BY SUPERUSER PROGRAM )
chown 1001:radio /efs/nv_data.bin
9) reset your phone.... after that you have your original IMEI. you can check your IMEI by dialing *#06#.
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HinotoriBR said:
If both have absolutely the same ROM, restore just the data backup, not the system backup, and you should be fine.
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Thanks for the suggestion. Unfortunately, it doesn't seem to work, my IMEI gets clobbered to some generic IMEI when I do this.
Off to trying try sikiduck's suggestion.
Sikiduck said:
IMEI is stored in ".nv_data" file in ORIGINAL SHIPPED EFS folder too, so you just have to do these
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Stupid question... there is no efs folder. Do you mean /factory? There are nv_data files in /data/radio as well.
I'll play with these a bit and see.
You got root?
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You got root?
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Yes, I do. I tried playing with the nv_data files, but I can't get the original IMEI to come back no matter what I do.
Hi all
Can I delete these files from my phone using windows explorer?
Sure you can. But you could as well use the stock file explorer.
Just be aware that you're dealing with more than one folder here (don't recall all of them: images, demovideo, ...)
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