TWRP where is the document folder? - Galaxy S 4 Mini Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

hi I mistakenly copied the gapps and lineage zip in the documents folder on my s4 mini. When i start the twrp I cant found the zips. There are many folders, but i do no, where to search. The system is whiped so i cant start the phone. pls help to find the folder.
Razz

Razzmatazz0r said:
hi I mistakenly copied the gapps and lineage zip in the documents folder on my s4 mini. When i start the twrp I cant found the zips. There are many folders, but i do no, where to search. The system is whiped so i cant start the phone. pls help to find the folder.
Razz
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you put it in internal sd or external sd?
Tap install & internal sd should show with documents folder a few lines down.
If not tap select storage to change to external (or internal if you were in external already) again documents folder should be a few lines down.
Note: as you are in install option it will only show .zip files, if you extracted it before nothing will show up (same if you created img file)

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how to uninstall android

i got the latest build but nothing of the improvements are working on my tilt 2 i want to know how to uninstall it so could install again. thanks
goto remove programs itll be on the list and when ur done with that goto ur storage and delete the andboot folder
cant find anboot folder
If there is a folder called Android, delete that. If the andboot and android folders don't exist, you're going to have to delete the files manually.
Delete the following files and folders from the root of your microSD card (if they exist): HaRET.exe, default.txt (or startup.txt depeding on your setup), data.img, rootfs.img, zImage, system.sqsh, any of the FSCKxxxx.REC files, "AndroidApps" , the "conf" folder, the "cache" folder, the "download" folder, the "media" folder , the "startups" folder, and the "wallpapers" folder. That should be most or all of the files used by Android.
thanks master
andriod storage?
hi i just wanna know if any files of andriod are stored on my main memory (not my sd card thanks
tazsob said:
hi i just wanna know if any files of andriod are stored on my main memory (not my sd card thanks
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nope, they are all on your SD
FOR THOSE OF USE with issues..
IF youy are getting the the file "haret" or "clrcad" cannot be opened. message on your HD2. reset your phone to factory settings in the settings tab.. it works.

Cab editing to install on SD Card

How can I edit my cabs to change their default installation folder to SD/program files, for example, instead of their default installation folder which is usually somewhere on the device memory ?
I have got an app on my PC called WinCE Cab Manager. I used it to edit a cab file, changed the installation folder to \StorageCard\program files......but what it did was created a folder & subfolder on the device memory & named them StorageCard\program files
yassero said:
How can I edit my cabs to change their default installation folder to SD/program files, for example, instead of their default installation folder which is usually somewhere on the device memory ?
I have got an app on my PC called WinCE Cab Manager. I used it to edit a cab file, changed the installation folder to \StorageCard\program files......but what it did was created a folder & subfolder on the device memory & named them StorageCard\program files
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Should it not be "Storage Card" - with a space?
go in the CAB information properties,
edit installation directory,
add folder "Storage card" on root
add program files there or whatever.
for files then keep "install dir"
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remember that installing on sd is not standard install.
papo said:
go in the CAB information properties,
edit installation directory,
add folder "Storage card" on root
add program files there or whatever.
for files then keep "install dir"
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remember that installing on sd is not standard install.
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Yes. I did that & the result was that it has created a folder on the device memory called Storage Card & installed the app in a subfolder in that folder.
It neglected the physical Storage Card completely. My objective is to change the default install dir of all my cabs so when I use XDA_UC, it automatically install them to the SD Card. What XDA_UC currently does is semi-auto install whatever I put in XDA_UC/SD, meaning that it runs the installer & asks me to select where to install the app.
oh.. And other thing is, if your card is not plugged in/initialized when UC will start, it may just create a folder Storage Card and then initialize SD as "Storage Card2" ... happened to me pretty messy.
You can make cabs which don't ask to ask:
wceload.exe "%1" /askdest
but there is no param. for default=SD
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=5090353&postcount=74
I reckon you need a wceload.exe replacement, or to make a mortscript to click on SD option every time for you.
Anyway advice on that link above, that SD apps usually don't need re-installing is right too
Other option would be forgot the cab. make a zip file of all files and reg file and use mortscript to import them.
papo said:
oh.. And other thing is, if your card is not plugged in/initialized when UC will start, it may just create a folder Storage Card and then initialize SD as "Storage Card2" ... happened to me pretty messy.
You can make cabs which don't ask to ask:
wceload.exe "%1" /askdest
but there is no param. for default=SD
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=5090353&postcount=74
I reckon you need a wceload.exe replacement, or to make a mortscript to click on SD option every time for you.
Anyway advice on that link above, that SD apps usually don't need re-installing is right too
Other option would be forgot the cab. make a zip file of all files and reg file and use mortscript to import them.
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It is easy to zip all my cabs in one zip file. How do I create a reg file & how do I import them with mortscript & what do I do after importing them ?
yassero said:
It is easy to zip all my cabs in one zip file. How do I create a reg file & how do I import them with mortscript & what do I do after importing them ?
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you got it wrongly, the last option was not using CAB at all.
I don't know what you are trying to do. Hard to guess. Why would you want to install on SD on the first place?
In my case, I am placing maps and files which programs can only use from SD, I have them in zip and unzipping with 7zip which accepts plenty of arguments.
You know that CAB is something like zip. You don't need to use CAB and can have the same results. And if you creating those cab yourself, why not just create zips. And you have it compressed better too.
- what is reg? file containing registry entries. if you don't have any you don't need that.
- nothing to do after
- for files:
you place all files in folders in this zip file, starting with "Storage Card"
this will check SD card, if it's present and then unzip file "file.zip"
I have this file and 7zG.exe files in ROM-windows folder, but you can change that below.
for this script to run you need mortscript.exe and 7zip programs, they are free
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SetMessageFont(17, "Tahoma" )
While( not DirExists("\Storage Card"))
SleepMessage( 99, "Insert SD card", "SD card missing", false, DirExists("\Storage Card"))
EndWhile
RunWait("\windows\7zG.exe"," x \windows\file.zip -y")
I am not that knowledgeable technically. I do not not create Cabs. All I am trying to do is figure out a way to have the cabs I have installed silently on the SD after I flash any new ROM. I place all my cabs on Storage Card in folder XDA_UC/SD. This is not a silent installation. It needs user intervention as on each cab installation, it prompts me to select where to install to (device or SD Card). I am very humble when it comes to reg files & stuff like that. I do not know how to write them or how to use them afterwards.
I have always wanted my settings saved aswell to be applied on the next ROM installation. Thanks to NRG, his ROMs come with Settings Export app that simplifies things but exporting all settings to Storage Card in folder XDA_UC & accordingly it is applied at new ROM installation.
why do you want to install to SD card?
What pda you have? Are you low on internal memory?
I only put an app on SD if I had less then 5MB internal free.
You should use your internal memory for programs as it's faster and better protected against lost clusters and unfinished writes.
And to use SD for personal data, as pictures, mp3 as it's easier to make backup of it and access speed doesn't matter there so much.
There is no reason keeping more then 5MB free of internal memory.
A time ago I put update of opera on SD, once when it crashed, it damaged file structures and I lost half of my data on SD.
You can have silent installs to internal memory.
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Other thing is, as someone wrote before, for most of the apps you don't need to install again on SD card if they are still there. Before you reflash, backup
folder \windows\Start Menu and after reflash, copy it back.

[Q] How to clean wipe?

Hey guys wanted to know how can i clean wipe all the data folders on my phone except the new ROM file i want to flash
i have done normal formats and wipes but got so many dead/duplicated folders on it with the 0/0 and some other stuff
for exmple with root browser i got the SDCARD folder and then i got the STORAGE/SDCARD0 folder again
also got STORAGE/EMULATED/0/ and here ALSO all the files
and also on STORAGE/EMULATED/LEGACY
what am i missing guys?
The SDCARD folders are in fact only links to the real sdcard folder.
I think these links are needed because android used to have another folder structure and older apps wouldn't be able to accept the sdcard.
For a completely clean wipe you can select wipe internal data in TWRP. Maybe you can push the ROM you want to flash via ADB push. But I'm not sure about that.
Cliff666 said:
The SDCARD folders are in fact only links to the real sdcard folder.
I think these links are needed because android used to have another folder structure and older apps wouldn't be able to accept the sdcard.
For a completely clean wipe you can select wipe internal data in TWRP. Maybe you can push the ROM you want to flash via ADB push. But I'm not sure about that.
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Ok thanks bud, its just that i know that the /0/ folder is a shortcut to the real folder yet the other 2 i wrote down are old files that i had with other ROMS i have used back in the day

cant find my CWM Nandroid backups ?!

Ok so I just rooted my S3, 4.4.2 Boost Mobile phone. Worked fine. No problem rooting it. Made a backup using CWM and then I installed Philz recovery and also made another back up. In recovery it shows BOTH backups, and says they are located in
/sdcard/clockworkmod/backup
then in individually named folders of the backups.
HOWEVER, when I look using ES File Explorer, I only have the clockworkmod folder, and it does NOT contain any other folders, no "backup" folder at all.
Ok, so let me try the Aroma File manager. Same thing if I go to /sdcard/0/clockworkmod/ there are two very small files:
".last_install_path", and ".recovery_version".
HOWEVER, I am able to navagate to /sdcard/clockworkmod/ and THERE I find the backup folder with my two backups.
Why can I not find this folder from android? Even when I use STORAGE ANALYZER and tell it to look at the system parttions and even when I use ES FILE MANAGER and tell it to do an SD CARD ANALYSIS, it doesn't show these backups. So I have copied a backup to the download folder of the sdcard and am hoping to copy it over to my PC before flashing a new ROM.
NOTE: I do NOT have an external SD Card installed yet.
I just thought this is super strange. ?? Anyone have any idea? Thanks.
Now after booting into Android and looking into the folder I copied to /Download, the folder is empty.. !?!? I'm SO LOST right now....
It SHOWS that space is missing on my device so these files DO EXIST SOMEWHERE but SOMEHOW it's as if they are being hidden... is it knox???
Ok if I use "MY FILES" I can see the folder that I copied to /Download and the files in it, but NOT if I use ES File Manager, and NOT if I use Root Explorer. However even MY FILES still shows clockworkmod dir as empty!?
Ok so it turns out it has something to do with a permissions issue. Why is that? I run Storage Analyzer and when I try to click on the recoveries I copied to /Download it tells me that I don't have permission for that folder. Do I need to run some kind of FIX PERMISSIONS on this? Is there such a thing for the S3?
I found someone else talking about this same thing and looks like they solved it. here is the link:
http://forums.androidcentral.com/google-nexus-7-2012-rooting-roms-hacks/229739-where-my-rom-manager-backups-android-4-2-a.html

Xposed Installer Help

So I can't seem to figure out how to do this I download the proper files and everything I go into TWRP and go to flash the zip file only problem is the zip file is nowhere to be found I have a Samsung Galaxy S3 Tri-Band (model #L710T) (Running Oct Os) Anyway moving on every time i go into recovery mode my storage option at the top is stuck on internal storage I can't change it every time I try to change it to micro SDcard nothing happens then the file path is just this icon ---> (/) then the folders available are boot, cache, data, dev, etc, external_sd, license, proc, recovery, res, root, sbin, sdcard, sideload, supersu, sys, system, tmp, twres, and usb-otg but when I go into any of those none of them have zip files in them as well as the file path is not the same from the one where my downloads folder is in es file explorer and the one in TWRP then i get this file path with storage/emulated/0 or something I honestly can't figure this out for the life of me and all I want is xposed so anyone who can help me I honestly do appreciate it I will be willing to post any photos or anything you need for more info and fyi my S3 is running Android Marshmallow 6.0.1 if that helps as well (mods sorry if I posted in the wrong section just signed up today as of posting this)
Try looking here.
/data/data/com.android.providers.downloads/cache
Still Did Not Work
Still did not work any other suggestions oh but I did manage to be able to select micro SD card its not stuck on just internal storage anymore but yeah that did not work.
If it downloaded its gotta be on your system somewhere. Use a good file explorer with root privileges that has a search function.
I had to search for it on mine, too. I don't remember exactly where it was, but I can narrow it down to data, sdcard, sys, or system. I am very much a noob, so I checked every subfolder in ever folder to find it. I hope that helps
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