Hello everyone, I am new to rooting and accidentally installed a nandroid to my internal sd card while trying to put it on my external sd card. I plugged my phone into my computer and deleted the backup files from the Clockwork folder. For some reason though, it keeps showing on my phone in Miscellaneous files that Clockwork mod recovery is taking up a little less than 2gb. Can someone help me fix this?
Thanks in advance!
logammo said:
Hello everyone, I am new to rooting and accidentally installed a nandroid to my internal sd card while trying to put it on my external sd card. I plugged my phone into my computer and deleted the backup files from the Clockwork folder. For some reason though, it keeps showing on my phone in Miscellaneous files that Clockwork mod recovery is taking up a little less than 2gb. Can someone help me fix this?
Thanks in advance!
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When you plug into the computer you will see:
Phone (This is really the internal sdcard)
Sdcard (This is the external sdcard)
If you want to get them off the internal sdcard you need to delete them from the phone folder and leave them in the sdcard folder.
logammo said:
Hello everyone, I am new to rooting and accidentally installed a nandroid to my internal sd card while trying to put it on my external sd card. I plugged my phone into my computer and deleted the backup files from the Clockwork folder. For some reason though, it keeps showing on my phone in Miscellaneous files that Clockwork mod recovery is taking up a little less than 2gb. Can someone help me fix this?
Thanks in advance!
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I'd familiarize yourself with a file explorer like esfile explorer (best one imo) and you can delete these backups on your phone from your phone, doesn't matter if it's on the internal sd or external sd.
epic4GEE said:
I'd familiarize yourself with a file explorer like esfile explorer (best one imo) and you can delete these backups on your phone from your phone, doesn't matter if it's on the internal sd or external sd.
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I downloaded root browser lite and I cant seem to find CWM in the internal SD folders.
epic4GEE said:
I'd familiarize yourself with a file explorer like esfile explorer (best one imo) and you can delete these backups on your phone from your phone, doesn't matter if it's on the internal sd or external sd.
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I agree, except that my favorite is Total Commander.
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logammo said:
I downloaded root browser lite and I cant seem to find CWM in the internal SD folders.
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I use twrp but I still have my stock rooted rom saved with cwm, unless you deleted the folder it should be in the clockworkmod folder
Ok everyone so it seems that I deleted the backup but CWM is still taking up 1.6gb of internal storage. Is this normal, or is this the nandroid I deleted that is still showing?
Newer versions of cwm also store other data (cont remember the name of the folder) to support incremental backups. Maybe that is still there?
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logammo said:
Ok everyone so it seems that I deleted the backup but CWM is still taking up 1.6gb of internal storage. Is this normal, or is this the nandroid I deleted that is still showing?
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That's too much data to be residual, I'd say your backup is in a folder some place in the internal sd
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That's too much data to be residual, I'd say your backup is in a folder some place in the internal sd
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Where should I check?
Idk where it would be if not in the cwm folder, did you try rebooting your phone just to be sure it didn't go tard on you after you deleted it and is now giving you a false reading?
Something I was thinking about is just wiping my internal and external sd card to start fresh. What effect would this have on my root and unlocked bootloader?
OK so I found the problem. I never deleted the blobs files. This is what is taking up so much space. Is it safe to delete these files?
EDIT: I went into CWM recovery and selected free nandroid space and it deleted the blobs not associated with a backup.
logammo said:
OK so I found the problem. I never deleted the blobs files. This is what is taking up so much space. Is it safe to delete these files?
EDIT: I went into CWM recovery and selected free nandroid space and it deleted the blobs not associated with a backup.
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Ahh good a happy ending
Yup. The blobs. That is the incremental data that I was talking about before. That is what the new version of cwm uses to avoid duplicating data in successive backups.
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I was trying to move my nandroid backup files off my phone's onboard memory btu everytime I attempt to do so windows explorer freezes and crashes, anyone know what the issue could be?
Have you installed KIES?
Yeah, unless it somehow became un-installed since I rooted... I will try when I'm back at my computer.
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Also, are you transferring these files to external or internal? If external, have you formatted the card?
Hi there,
Two days ago I was using a rom with the external storage script, and everything was working pretty good - just a few problems, such as SwiftKey language packs not recognized after boot and stuff.
Now I flashed a new base rom and decided not to install the script.
All my application backups stored on the external sd card.
Now, when I am trying to start a game, it says to me that I need to download the data files even that it is stored on my external sd card.
Is there any possible way to make that the system would recognize that the data file is stored already on the external storage?
Thanks in advance!
Best regards,
Boris
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you can use folder mount or directory bind to make it appear like the data is in your internal storage.
Thanks!
Where can I find an apk for directory bind?
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Hello Everyone i used so many things to root my note 2 4.3 jellybean but failed to root.
Yesterday i tried using Dr.Ketan Multi tool and i dont know what happened after that my ext sd card drive is lost from my phone as well as all the files are also lost.
I connected my phone through USB and still it is only showing phone memory and in phone only showing phone memory.
All my apps which i moved to sd card are also not opening now.
What has happened can anyone help me out to restore it back.
please guys i need help. m external storage shows /storage/emulated/0
try to use ES File Explorer and choose sdcard, it happened to me also it moves alone to emulated but sdcard is visible
so go to /device/storage/
and here it is
pd:edited due to missread(9 am morning, u know... ajajaj)
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aka_sirok said:
try to use ES File Explorer and choose sdcard, it happened to me also it moves alone to emulated but sdcard is visible
so go to /device/storage/
and here it is
pd:edited due to missread(9 am morning, u know... ajajaj)
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Bro in my case its different i cant see storage/device or even in gallery i cant see pictures from storage card.
All my videos and songs are not there.
What has happened i am so worried
i think It will be better if i downgrade it to 4.1.2 as now i am having so many problems with this jellybean
I downgraded to 4.1.2 but still in My files of android i cannot see my external SD card
I want my phone same as it was i have messed up with so many things.
How can i reset everything delete all the files and get it like a new phone from shop
Please someone Help ???
I recently had to factory restore my M8 due to it constantly rebooting. After my factory restore, I can no longer move files (pictures and videos) to the external SD card. I had the ability to do that prior. I also lost the ability to transfer files from my internal SD to my computer. Can anyone help? . The transfers just hang and then fail. I am stock. No root. I should also note that I tried reformatting the SD card. I moved all the pictures and videos to the internal storage so I wouldn't lose them and could not move them back after reformatting.
You can only do it with root
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EddyOS said:
You can only do it with root
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I've never been rooted and I did it before
Anyone?
Have you tried to move files to another computer?
Give more information. How are you trying to move files to your externalSD? Using your computer or using a file explorer.
You shouldn't be able to write files to your external Sd because of Kitkat's new permissions.
There is a workaround if you have root