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[Q]SD Card/Partion [Solved]

Ok, so I went to do a backup today and got an error and noticed not enough space to backup. I plugged it into my PC and it showed that I only had 1.5 gb of free space out of a possible 13.3 gb. So I started looking for a folder/file that was taking up room on the "sd card" and could not find anything out of the ordinary. So I downloaded an app from the play store called storage analyzer and it is showing 6.4 gb of free space in storage/emulated/0. Is there something I am missing with this? All my other phones had a physical SD card and I could just clean it up if I had issues. I am a bit nervous formatting the SD card on my GN so can someone shed some light on why there would be such a discrepancy between what my PC, Recovery, and an analyzer app would see or the best way to format/clean my SD card. Any tips/help/advice will be greatly appreciated.

The same problem i had a while ago. The thing is that your data that is missing is in /sdcard/emulated/ (my recovery was only doing backups there) and your phone while booted reads only /sdcard/emulated/0 . At least that was my problem. Try reflashing the whole phone again. That means backup of sdcard reflashing to newest recovery, wipe all including sdcard and install from sideload whatever rom you want.
It did the trick for me.
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KekeJr said:
The same problem i had a while ago. The thing is that your data that is missing is in /sdcard/emulated/ (my recovery was only doing backups there) and your phone while booted reads only /sdcard/emulated/0 . At least that was my problem. Try reflashing the whole phone again. That means backup of sdcard reflashing to newest recovery, wipe all including sdcard and install from sideload whatever rom you want.
It did the trick for me.
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Thank you for the reply, glad to know that I am not crazy or alone. :silly:
I may give this a try soon, I would like to give some of the 4.4 roms a try but want to get my storage lined out before I try one.

ThePhantom97 said:
Thank you for the reply, glad to know that I am not crazy or alone. :silly:
I may give this a try soon, I would like to give some of the 4.4 roms a try but want to get my storage lined out before I try one.
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Alright, more help needed. Damn its been too long since I have used ADB and I am using an new laptop so bear with me. Also I have searched for several hours on this and just not coming up with a solution. Ok, I managed to get TWRP v. 2.6.3.2 installed on my GN via fastboot. And my goal is to format/wipe my SD card and sideload a 4.4.2 rom. I have a good understanding of the process and have found several videos on the subject. Now here is where my problems begin. First off I have Android SDK installed and have the google drivers installed and I have downloaded the drivers from Samsung again on this laptop. I have backed up my SD card and am ready to begin, but I wanted to verify I could open sideload in TWRP and now the frustrations start. When I try to open sideload under "Advanced" I get the following text:
"Updating partition details...
Starting ADB sideload feature..."
And nothing else happens, even after waiting several minutes, and this happened on v. 2.6.3.1 and that is why I updated to the newest version of TWRP. I have a feeling it has something to do with the drivers but I have not figured out which drivers are needed with TRWP. Is it the Samsung drivers or the Google drivers from SDK. I have unistalled the drivers via Device Manager and let windows install the drivers automatically, and I have uninstalled and re-installed manually using the Google USB drivers. So if anyone has ran into this or knows how to assist me I would greatly appreciate the help. Also keep in mind that I am not a complete noob when it comes to my android phones, but I am a bit out of practice. I am just having some issues locating an answer via these forums and many other searches.
Also, if I format my SD card would it be possible to push a rom to my phone via ADB? I am willing to try an alternate method just want to be able to install a 4.4 rom after formatting my SD card. Anyway any assistance would be awesome at this point. Thanks for reading my long explanation.

One of the other issues was that when I started sideload in TWRP and then typed ADB devices in terminal no devices were present (why I thought could be a driver issue). However, for some weird reason beyond my understanding it is working fine today. I plugged in my phone to begin my trials again today and tada it works, I typed "adb devices" in terminal and now it shows up with a sideload status and I am able to sideload a rom. Sometimes I hate computers/electronics and I chose a career in them.

ThePhantom97 said:
One of the other issues was that when I started sideload in TWRP and then typed ADB devices in terminal no devices were present (why I thought could be a driver issue). However, for some weird reason beyond my understanding it is working fine today. I plugged in my phone to begin my trials again today and tada it works, I typed "adb devices" in terminal and now it shows up with a sideload status and I am able to sideload a rom. Sometimes I hate computers/electronics and I chose a career in them.
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Most probably you did not have the proper drivers for fastboot installed since i had the exact same problem on Win 8.1 x64 . Now i hope you got your phone fixed. Be just very careful when it comes to /factory partition as that one holds your IMEI and if you erase that only a backup will save you or some mobile service. I know i have to fix mine since i formatted that and did not do a backup before

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Most probably you did not have the proper drivers for fastboot installed since i had the exact same problem on Win 8.1 x64 . Now i hope you got your phone fixed. Be just very careful when it comes to /factory partition as that one holds your IMEI and if you erase that only a backup will save you or some mobile service. I know i have to fix mine since i formatted that and did not do a backup before
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I know what you mean, I am so nervous when it comes to erasing/deleting/formatting with all the that is why I spend a lot of time reading up and researching and hitting up the folks here at XDA before I commit to something. I have been addicted to android and flashing all the cool roms uploaded by all the great devs around here. I would not know how I would spend my time if this place wasn't here...lol. But yes, I was able to wipe/format my internal SD card and side load a rom and get most of my storage space back. I have came to the conclusion that the actual rom takes up some of the internal storage because after formatting the internal storage and flashed a rom and gapps there was 1.5gb used. I did not move a single file into the storage, but there was still that much used.

Note 2 Stock: Phone won't boot properly /data issues

Hello,
Happy Christmas Eve all,
I'm having a nightmare of a time with my Note 2. It was installing an app update from the play store earlier and I noticed the phone had powered off (assumed battery had died).
On powering up the phone after the Samsung boot screen I'm presented with the set up screen and continuous pop ups informing me system processes have crashed although phone was fully set up before the issue.
I then tried to enter stock recovery and saw a message regarding error when trying to mount /data.
Rather stupidly I have no backup of the internal data which includes a lot of holiday photos I'd like to save.
My question is are there any means I could use to try and recover the data?
I can enter stock recovery and download mode which I'm hoping will improve my chances.
Also when hooked up to the PC, Kies doesn't recognise the device and tells me to use Smart Switch, also when the PC did eventually reognise the phone it showed internal storage as 107mb with 0 free and shows no folders or files within.
Has anyone come across this before or have any advice on how I can try and recover my data?
Many thanks,
Galaxydude1

Galaxydude1 said:
Hello,
Happy Christmas Eve all,
I'm having a nightmare of a time with my Note 2. It was installing an app update from the play store earlier and I noticed the phone had powered off (assumed battery had died).
On powering up the phone after the Samsung boot screen I'm presented with the set up screen and continuous pop ups informing me system processes have crashed although phone was fully set up before the issue.
I then tried to enter stock recovery and saw a message regarding error when trying to mount /data.
Rather stupidly I have no backup of the internal data which includes a lot of holiday photos I'd like to save.
My question is are there any means I could use to try and recover the data?
I can enter stock recovery and download mode which I'm hoping will improve my chances.
Also when hooked up to the PC, Kies doesn't recognise the device and tells me to use Smart Switch, also when the PC did eventually reognise the phone it showed internal storage as 107mb with 0 free and shows no folders or files within.
Has anyone come across this before or have any advice on how I can try and recover my data?
Many thanks,
Galaxydude1
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Anyone?

in recovery you can mount internal storage, but I'm affraid, that it's SDS

yaro666 said:
in recovery you can mount internal storage, but I'm affraid, that it's SDS
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Thanks for the reply yaro,
The phone was completely stock so no custom recovery installed. Do you know if there is anyway for me to recover the photos that were on the /data partition?
I've seen a few posts for other devices mentioning reflashing certain files via Odin to then allow recovery of files in /data but nothing definitive.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
Galaxydude.

Galaxydude1 said:
Thanks for the reply yaro,
The phone was completely stock so no custom recovery installed. Do you know if there is anyway for me to recover the photos that were on the /data partition?
I've seen a few posts for other devices mentioning reflashing certain files via Odin to then allow recovery of files in /data but nothing definitive.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
Galaxydude.
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try flashing twrp via odin and then mount internal storage in recovery or use adb to access files on pc

yaro666 said:
try flashing twrp via odin and then mount internal storage in recovery or use adb to access files on pc
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Thanks for the reply yaro I'll give that a try,
Cheers,
Galaxydude.

Soft Bricked Asus Nexus 7 2013 Tablet

Hi everyone,
I screwed up the OS of my tablet and am now stuck in a bootloop.
After a lot of trouble due to my inexperience, I managed to get a rooted but otherwise unaltered Android 6.0.1 on my tablet working correctly.
I also managed to get Clockworkmod Recovery 6.0.4.7 installed which seems to have overwritten my OEM recovery. I did this so I could install SuperSu 2.65 on there so I could root my device.
The reason I rooted was to get Sixaxis controller app working on my tablet so I could use the Dualshock 4 to play games that did not support that controller, like I did on an older tablet.
Unfortunately, it does not work in Android 6.0 due to some bluetooth protocols or something being changed and the app not being updated, so I wanted to flash a rooted but otherwise unaltered Android 5.1.1 rom. I don't really need this tablet on a day to day basis so I wanted to turn it into a gaming machine.
Stupidly I forgot to enable USB debugging. Or make a backup on the internal SD card. I selected restore from the settings within Android to clear all data, caches etc and ended up in a bootloop.
I have no external SD card slot.
I have no backup on the internal SD card.
I am now stuck in a bootloop, but can boot to Clockwordmod recovery and bootloader.
I can't sideload because I don't have USB debugging enabled.
OTG USB does not work in my version of clockworkmod, even though it says the USB disk is mounted, there is no option to install/restore the zip file from there unless you have an unofficial version which I don't have.
I have the Anriod SDK developer stuff installed like the Google Drivers, Fastboot, Adb, etc.
In short, I need some way to get a damn zip file onto my interal SD card, I don't care what rom if it's rooted or not, stock or modded, Android 4.x or 6.x, because at least with a working OS I can go from there.
Any help would be appreciated...

Barbarian Roman said:
Hi everyone,
I screwed up the OS of my tablet and am now stuck in a bootloop.
After a lot of trouble due to my inexperience, I managed to get a rooted but otherwise unaltered Android 6.0.1 on my tablet working correctly.
I also managed to get Clockworkmod Recovery 6.0.4.7 installed which seems to have overwritten my OEM recovery. I did this so I could install SuperSu 2.65 on there so I could root my device.
The reason I rooted was to get Sixaxis controller app working on my tablet so I could use the Dualshock 4 to play games that did not support that controller, like I did on an older tablet.
Unfortunately, it does not work in Android 6.0 due to some bluetooth protocols or something being changed and the app not being updated, so I wanted to flash a rooted but otherwise unaltered Android 5.1.1 rom. I don't really need this tablet on a day to day basis so I wanted to turn it into a gaming machine.
Stupidly I forgot to enable USB debugging. Or make a backup on the internal SD card. I selected restore from the settings within Android to clear all data, caches etc and ended up in a bootloop.
I have no external SD card slot.
I have no backup on the internal SD card.
I am now stuck in a bootloop, but can boot to Clockwordmod recovery and bootloader.
I can't sideload because I don't have USB debugging enabled.
OTG USB does not work in my version of clockworkmod, even though it says the USB disk is mounted, there is no option to install/restore the zip file from there unless you have an unofficial version which I don't have.
I have the Anriod SDK developer stuff installed like the Google Drivers, Fastboot, Adb, etc.
In short, I need some way to get a damn zip file onto my interal SD card, I don't care what rom if it's rooted or not, stock or modded, Android 4.x or 6.x, because at least with a working OS I can go from there.
Any help would be appreciated...
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If you can get into the bootloader, there's no reason why you cannot unlock it through fastboot command (fastboot oem unlock) or Skipsoft AIO. If you succeed in doing so, you can just flash a stock rom or any rom you download though Skipsoft. Good luck.

Have you not tried the Nexus Root Toolkit by Wugfresh?

Tmzdroid said:
Have you not tried the Nexus Root Toolkit by Wugfresh?
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Actually I have and it worked like a charm. Thanks everyone for your help.

Wiped Internal Everything, External SDcard won't mount (Showing 0mb) no adb detected

So I was trying to clean flash CM13. I wiped everything and went to maneuver to my external sdcard and lo and behold it isn't mounting. I take it out, back it up, format it. It still isn't showing up. Help. I have no OS installed, I can't push anything in download mode through adb. Please please please I feel stupid as can be.

DerangedLoofah said:
So I was trying to clean flash CM13. I wiped everything and went to maneuver to my external sdcard and lo and behold it isn't mounting. I take it out, back it up, format it. It still isn't showing up. Help. I have no OS installed, I can't push anything in download mode through adb. Please please please I feel stupid as can be.
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I take it you are you talking about no ext SD in TWRP?

stajam said:
I take it you are you talking about no ext SD in TWRP?
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Yes, my Ext SD won't show in TWRP even though I was just fine transferring files right before booting to recovery.

DerangedLoofah said:
Yes, my Ext SD won't show in TWRP even though I was just fine transferring files right before booting to recovery.
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I had the same exact problem. after I Unlocked the BL and SuperSu and TWRP through Odin I had no access to mine either. It started bootlooping due to kernel panic. I couldn't ABD push or ABD sideload. I just flashed N910VVRU2BPA1_N910VVZW2BPA1_N910VVRU2BPA1_HOME.tar through Odin and redid the Unlock process over again. there is also a kind of One Click method by jrkruse. I've not tried it yet myself. I did use his method on my GS5 though and it worked great.
A quick tip that I learned the hard way is to put any files you will need on your internal storage on your device. once you get all this done and get back to unlock BL and root i can help ya with the ext SD problem.
Good luck...

stajam said:
I had the same exact problem. after I ynlocked the BL and SuperSu and TWRP through Odin I had no access to mine either. It started bootlooping due to kernel panic. I couldn't ABD push or ABD sideload. I just flashed N910VVRU2BPA1_N910VVZW2BPA1_N910VVRU2BPA1_HOME.tar through Odin and redid the Unlock process over again. there is also a kind of One Click method by jrkruse. I've not tried it yet myself. I did use his method on my GS5 though and it worked great.
A quick tip that I learned the hard way is to put any files you will need on your internal storage on your device. once you get all this done and get back to unlock BL and root i can help ya with the ext SD problem.
Here is a link to get ya back up and running.
https://www.androidfilehost.com/?fid=24459283995307947
Good luck...
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I don't know why that didn't work last night. Ugh. Odin connected right up, flashed the file and I feel like I just walked through the pearly gates. Thanks man!

DerangedLoofah said:
I don't know why that didn't work last night. Ugh. Odin connected right up, flashed the file and I feel like I just walked through the pearly gates. Thanks man!
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Not a problem. Glad it all worked out for you. :good:

stajam said:
Not a problem. Glad it all worked out for you. :good:
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Alright, so how do I get the SDcard to show up in TWRP?

The next step will only work if you have installed Xposed Framework.
NOTE:
If you are someone who does not like or just doesn't choose to have Xposed installed, then this step will not work.
Lets go,
1.) Install Xposed Framework
2.) Download and install Wanap Xposed module
3.) Activate the module and reboot.
4.) Open Wanam and go to security hacks and check the box for SDcard RW permission, then reboot.
There may be other ways of going about the sd write/mount fix, but this method worked for me.

So..... what is the fix for the SD problem? And what is the next step? ....

I have the same issue, SD Card works fine while booted, but TWRP cannot mount it. It doesn't even see it. I'm confused, because DerangedLoofah acted as if it worked XD and then suddenly asks how to get it to show up ._.
Apparently I'm very confused.
EDIT: Seems doing the same thing I originally did (Reformating my SD card) worked. It just needed to be formatted again.. What even?

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lpowilliams said:
So..... what is the fix for the SD problem? And what is the next step? ....
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spy9000 said:
I have the same issue, SD Card works fine while booted, but TWRP cannot mount it. It doesn't even see it. I'm confused, because DerangedLoofah acted as if it worked XD and then suddenly asks how to get it to show up ._.
Apparently I'm very confused.
EDIT: Seems doing the same thing I originally did (Reformating my SD card) worked. It just needed to be formatted again.. What even?
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DerangedLoofah said:
Alright, so how do I get the SDcard to show up in TWRP?
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The next step will only work if you have installed Xposed Framework.
NOTE:
If you are someone who does not like or just doesn't choose to have Xposed installed, then this step will not work.
Lets go,
1.) Install Xposed Framework
2.) Download and install Wanap Xposed module
3.) Activate the module and reboot.
4.) Open Wanam and go to security hacks and check the box for SDcard RW permission, then reboot.
There may be other ways of going about the sd write/mount fix, but this method worked for me.
��If anyone helps, plz give thanks��
N910V �� BL / KYUBI ROM

I had the same problem. What I did was using my computer, reformat my SD card to exFAT, and then back to FAT32. I could then flash CM13 from the SD through TWRP.

Question, Galaxy a50 broke internal storage after flashing TWRP

Hey there,
I have the Galaxy a50 SM-A505Fn and I just broke my internal storage by flashing TWRP and Multidisabler.
First, I should note that I am completely blind, so I use TWRP with ADB in CMD.
First I tried to root my phone with a patched boot image, using Magisc, but that didn't work, so I switched to TWRP.
After flashing it with Odin and booting into the recovery, my pc saw it as Galaxy A50 and the folders inside it were literal giberish and I couldn't paste anything in it, so I switched to a micro SD to flash Disabler and that worked surprisingly well.
Note, I did the wiping before that.
After the disabler worked, I rebooted into TWRP and used the command to reboot into recovery, as I was instructed, then the phone booted up just fine.
I set it up, and gained root with Magisc manager, but after connecting it to the PC to get the sound files I wanted to change it was still giberish and didn't let me make folders or paste anything into it.
The card also looked like it had the internal storage files like you would see on any phone, it had like 256 KB used on it from 2 gb it is formated at since I used it for a pi before and didn't have time to fix the capacity on it back to 64, but again you can't put anything onto it while in the phone.
Any help on how to make it work like normal?
Also apps don't see the storage properly either, so I can't use it for the reasons I rooted it for.
Thanks a lot.

After reading about it, it seems that the storage is encripted.
I managed to flash Infinity os on it, but the thing doesn't talk since it is missing text to speech, so I wanted to flash a zip to make it talking.
After rebooting into twrp, again, still encripted.
Got the zip onto my card, but doesn't flash, which is fine since that can be fixed, but I can't really do anything to fix it.
Does anyone know the command to format data?
twrp format data doesn't work like in the TWRP guide.
Any ideas?

you need to install multidisabler

yamen_tn said:
you need to install multidisabler
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Did that already, that is how I flashed a rom on it, but was still encripted.
The rom said that there is a problem with my device, but it set up just fine.
I am back on ful stock right now and it decripted, I might try it again in some time.
The only things I want from root is to be able to change system sounds, to add haptic feedback which I already did and tweak it so it works faster.
If I could change the sounds without root and without event sound that would be awesome and would let me stay on stock.

Dragos597 said:
Did that already, that is how I flashed a rom on it, but was still encripted.
The rom said that there is a problem with my device, but it set up just fine.
I am back on ful stock right now and it decripted, I might try it again in some time.
The only things I want from root is to be able to change system sounds, to add haptic feedback which I already did and tweak it so it works faster.
If I could change the sounds without root and without event sound that would be awesome and would let me stay on stock.
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Good thing you got it decrypted back again, i have had kind of the same issue with internal storage decreasing drastically multiple times, as far as i understood it happens when i install patched AP with magisk then install multidisabler and reboot it without formatting the whole device, maybe try that when your root next time to get past the internal storage issue. Note that mine was in android 9 and device storage was not encrypted unlike yours.
And as a suggestion, if there's someone near you who can help you with actually rooting your device with magisk rather than TWRP it will be much easier.
Regards

SuizShaw said:
Good thing you got it decrypted back again, i have had kind of the same issue with internal storage decreasing drastically multiple times, as far as i understood it happens when i install patched AP with magisk then install multidisabler and reboot it without formatting the whole device, maybe try that when your root next time to get past the internal storage issue. Note that mine was in android 9 and device storage was not encrypted unlike yours.
And as a suggestion, if there's someone near you who can help you with actually rooting your device with magisk rather than TWRP it will be much easier.
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I've got the patched image for AP from a friend, also patched TWRP, but it did that after flashing auto disabler and wiping everything, so I still don't get it.
Anyway, it is back for now and I will have to see if it breaks next time I install twrp on it.