I don't have an SD card in my phone, but when I go to an app like Aldiko(book reader) and try to access a file, I'm able to explore higher level directories than normal. When I first browse for a file I'm in the area that my phone calls internal storage, but if I go one level higher I see that its actually mounted under the name SD card... What's going on? Why does this app see it as an SD card and why is it mounted as an SD card?
just like the samsung galaxy s phones, the 16gb internal storage is considered 'sdcard' to the system. your external sd is called sd-ext i believe
Wait, so if a tutorial says something will be written to your SD card, should you assume internal storage if you don't have one and external if you do have one? I was looking at the tutorial here: [it won't let me post the link because I'm a new user... google this and its the first result: "how to fully backup and restore your android"]
and it said "This image will be written to your SD card which you are then free to copy around and back up on your computer."
well. this phone isnt like a lot of other android phones. like the galaxy S line, there is more onboard storage than what prior phones had. a lot of the older phones came with 512mb/1gb/2gb/4gb of onboard storage that the OS resided on, and you had to add an sdcard to give yourself enough storage for music/pictures/backups/etc
i suspect you will see a lot more of this same thing in the future as flash memory gets cheaper and cheaper, and manufacturers begin putting more and more storage on board.
as for your link, you do realize that the atrix isnt like ANY of those other phones listed as examples?
nandroids dont work quite the same with the atrix
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as for your link, you do realize that the atrix isnt like ANY of those other phones listed as examples?
nandroids dont work quite the same with the atrix
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I did not realize that. I'm an expert with apple but a n00b with android. So you're saying I shouldn't use that guide? Any other suggestions to backup then?
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I did not realize that. I'm an expert with apple but a n00b with android. So you're saying I shouldn't use that guide? Any other suggestions to backup then?
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you cannot flash CWM recovery on the atrix like you can a lot of other devices (for which that article was written for)
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1019143
I'm having some trouble with that. I'm going to continue with this question in this thread even though the topics changed, let me know if you want me to make a new thread.
The first thing I did after installing the CWM recovery for the atrix app was click the install recovery button. It said install successful. I assume this made a backup image of my phone's ROM. Then I clicked recovery mode and I tried booting holding the down key and selecting fastboot. I also tried some other options like RSD... I think I'm missing something though because the screen just got stuck on the "starting fastboot" line and I had to remove the battery each time it gets stuck to reboot it.
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I have CWM v5 newly installed. I immediately ran a backup with it and all went well. Now, a little later, I've been looking into CyanogenMod and wanted to tiny baby steps so I was nice and confident with things.
I tried to do another backup from CWM and it said it couldn't mount /sdcard. I tried to restore and the same error. Rebooted a few times and it's the same still.
I booted normally and checked with a standard file manager and /sdcard was fine. I haven't changed anything since the time it was working but I still seem to have broken things
What can I do?
EDIT: Actually, since getting CWM on the device, I have played a little with ADB commands and replaced the bootanimation.zip. Everything works when the phone is booted normally so that can't have caused it. Can it?
You really like new threads eh?
I presume you don't have a physical micro SD card, and you've changed kernels again at some point. Now the sdcard mentioned in newer CWM recovery is the external_sd, which you don't have. Use the internal SD card option.
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You really like new threads eh?
I presume you don't have a physical micro SD card, and you've changed kernels again at some point. Now the sdcard mentioned in newer CWM recovery is the external_sd, which you don't have. Use the internal SD card option.
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I love them I do search before hand to see if there are similar threads relating to my device but because there aren't, I thought making a new thread per issue would be helpful. I can keep it all in this thread though if that's the etiquette around here though.
I used kTool to flash the zImage from the link you pointed out in my last thread, that gave me CF-Root v5 and CWM. I haven't changed anything since that point so if it worked once, I don't understand why it won't work again. You have confused me about the sdcard/external_sd. I have a card in the device, and everything normally saves to /sdcard but there's also /sdcard/external_sd which is always empty. I also see /sdcard/usbStorage where I have put some files too, but I don't really understand the naming conventions.
As I said, look for the "internal sd card" option in CWM recovery.
I'll add a bit more in the hope you don't need to keep posting.
If you don't have a physical micro SD card in your phone and you try to use any of the "install/backup/restore to/from sdcard" in newer versions of CWM recovery, it will give an error about being unable to mount /sdcard. Also, as far as I know, /sdcard/usbStorage refers to USB OTG, so unless you've got a USB OTG cable and a memory card/HDD plugged in, you shouldn't be writing files to that location.
Backed up successfully to internal sdcard, although I wasn't able to restore from it first which I don't understand because there should be the original one from earlier somewhere.
Turns out I was wrong, I don't appear to have a card in that SD slot even though I could swear there was one. And I can create files/folders in /sdcard/external_sd/ so I give up, lol.
EDIT: Nope, just the normal USB that came with the phone. I created the files/folders directly in the phone when I tested it.
I'm sorry if I posted this in the wrong forum. My SD card won't save anything correctly (pictures, apks, Roms, etc.) since it was partitioned. The oddest thing is that some things will save correctly, but very few. Everything will save, but when you try to open something, the phone says it can't be opened. When I rooted my Motorola Atrix 4g, it forced me to partition my SD card. I don't know anything about modding and I just followed online instructions to root my phone. I don't remember exactly what was going on, but my phone wouldn't work until I partitioned. I used ROM manager to partition. Anyway, I was thinking about formatting my card, but I'm afraid my phone won't work without the car being partitioned. So, I was also thinking about partitioning again. What should I do, and why is the card acting this way?
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I'm sorry if I posted this in the wrong forum. My SD card won't save anything correctly (pictures, apks, Roms, etc.) since it was partitioned. The oddest thing is that some things will save correctly, but very few. Everything will save, but when you try to open something, the phone says it can't be opened. When I rooted my Motorola Atrix 4g, it forced me to partition my SD card. I don't know anything about modding and I just followed online instructions to root my phone. I don't remember exactly what was going on, but my phone wouldn't work until I partitioned. I used ROM manager to partition. Anyway, I was thinking about formatting my card, but I'm afraid my phone won't work without the car being partitioned. So, I was also thinking about partitioning again. What should I do, and why is the card acting this way?
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Well if you don't have any important data on the card then you could try to format it (maybe with a computer). How did you partition the card (I mean 1 partition, or more)?
I'm sorry. I really have no knowledge about these things, but I assume it has 1 partition. I partitioned it with ROM manager to make a space for apps. Which I don't use and never have, so I don't know why it forced me to do it.
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Well if you don't have any important data on the card then you could try to format it (maybe with a computer). How did you partition the card (I mean 1 partition, or more)?
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So, I'm going to format the card. I need it for my Atrix HD, which has NO space on it. Why is my Atrix 4G a much better phone than my Atrix
HD? It had tons more space and it is much quicker. But the HD has a bigger HD screen that looks awesome and that's why I prefer using it. I can't wait to get a new phone so I can root the HD and use the SD card for apps. Sorry. I went on a rant. Anyway, if anybody knows anything about the partitioning issue let me know. Thanks.
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I'm sorry if I posted this in the wrong forum. My SD card won't save anything correctly (pictures, apks, Roms, etc.) since it was partitioned. The oddest thing is that some things will save correctly, but very few. Everything will save, but when you try to open something, the phone says it can't be opened. When I rooted my Motorola Atrix 4g, it forced me to partition my SD card. I don't know anything about modding and I just followed online instructions to root my phone. I don't remember exactly what was going on, but my phone wouldn't work until I partitioned. I used ROM manager to partition. Anyway, I was thinking about formatting my card, but I'm afraid my phone won't work without the car being partitioned. So, I was also thinking about partitioning again. What should I do, and why is the card acting this way?
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Hi,
another forum recommended I register and ask my question here. I am not a techie. I don't know what I'm doing. This is probably a basic question, but with all the googling I've done, I can't find the answer!
Here goes, and please be easy on me:laugh:
My GS3 was running really slow, running down the battery, just in general not running as well as I remembered from a year before buying it. I decided to back it up, reset it and start from scratch. The phone has run AWESOME! One problem though; when it updated, it installed 4.3. Ever since, I can't do anything with my SD card. I get an error that the SD card is full, and if I look in the settings, it shows zero space on the SD card. If I plug it into my mac, it shows like 12gb of space.
I used to use Android File Transfer and that doesn't work anymore. I recently tried Airdroid, which works great for the internal storage, but tells me that my SD card is full.
Help!
PS I tried to post a link to a screenshot of what storage on my phone looks like, but since I'm a noob, I'm not allowed
When you upgrade to android 4.3 it will change your storage partition from sdcard0 to emulated/0 ... simply it will change its partition so all your old files will not be visible there but they are still in your memory... I suggest you find your old files and move them to new directory... There are many threads on how to find your old files.. Search
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Wanted to pull this out of the newbie thread, not because it doesn't belong there (i'm certainly still an XDA newb) but because hold IRC-chat is it hard to keep up with all those posts...guess I'm too much of a noob for the newbie post?
TL;DR:
My TF700T has TWRP functioning, but no Android OS installed. Unfortunately TWRP doesn't seem to recognize anything in the USB/SD card ports. See below for what I've tried.
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I was trying the whole new ROM on my tablet (ASUS TF700T) thing. I have the recovery part setup just fine TWRP, but I made the foolish mistake of wiping the ENTIRE internal storage, including my backup.
Certainly not a good start, but easy enough to put the new image (I was going for crombie-kk) on an SD card & load from that, except for my problem.....
TWRP doesn't seem to notice my SD Card (or USB) storage devices. It lists "external storage" as one would expect, but it's always 0MB and no files, regardless of whether a device attached. I know the devices are good, and I know the USB & SD card ports were working the day I started the rooting/romming process--so i'm reluctant to think they coincidentally died that exact day.
I've tried SD cards (both full & micro) in both SD card slot & USB port, as well as USB sticks of varying sizes. I've even tried various file formats on these storage devices, but I can't get anything other than 0MB.
Any advice on how to get SOMETHING, ANYTHING, on my device? Obviously a custom ROM is the goal but even if I could go back to a stock device--at least the external storage would work and I could go from there!
Thanks for the help in advance
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Wanted to pull this out of the newbie thread, not because it doesn't belong there (i'm certainly still an XDA newb) but because hold IRC-chat is it hard to keep up with all those posts...guess I'm too much of a noob for the newbie post?
TL;DR:
My TF700T has TWRP functioning, but no Android OS installed. Unfortunately TWRP doesn't seem to recognize anything in the USB/SD card ports. See below for what I've tried.
Full Story:
I was trying the whole new ROM on my tablet (ASUS TF700T) thing. I have the recovery part setup just fine TWRP, but I made the foolish mistake of wiping the ENTIRE internal storage, including my backup.
Certainly not a good start, but easy enough to put the new image (I was going for crombie-kk) on an SD card & load from that, except for my problem.....
TWRP doesn't seem to notice my SD Card (or USB) storage devices. It lists "external storage" as one would expect, but it's always 0MB and no files, regardless of whether a device attached. I know the devices are good, and I know the USB & SD card ports were working the day I started the rooting/romming process--so i'm reluctant to think they coincidentally died that exact day.
I've tried SD cards (both full & micro) in both SD card slot & USB port, as well as USB sticks of varying sizes. I've even tried various file formats on these storage devices, but I can't get anything other than 0MB.
Any advice on how to get SOMETHING, ANYTHING, on my device? Obviously a custom ROM is the goal but even if I could go back to a stock device--at least the external storage would work and I could go from there!
Thanks for the help in advance
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If I understand your problem corectly you have to go into Recovery and mount your sd card first.
I'n not sure where in the TWRP recovery exactly is but there is surely a menu 'mount'.
In there you have to mount your sd card first.
Hope it solve your problem.
XlapatsaS said:
If I understand your problem corectly you have to go into Recovery and mount your sd card first.
I'n not sure where in the TWRP recovery exactly is but there is surely a menu 'mount'.
In there you have to mount your sd card first.
Hope it solve your problem.
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I should have mentioned that. I have tried mounting (under the "mount" menu), it lists "Micro SDcard" as an option, but won't select (it just flashes & stays unchecked) when I attempt to select it.
Thanks for pointing that out though.
See if you can adb push a rom zip to the internal storage.
es0tericcha0s said:
See if you can adb push a rom zip to the internal storage.
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Sorry, not entirely clear what you mean, could you explain in a little more detail or link to a guide or something? Thanks!
coatmaker618 said:
Sorry, not entirely clear what you mean, could you explain in a little more detail or link to a guide or something? Thanks!
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Read these about adb push:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1598027
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1667929
XlapatsaS said:
Read these about adb push:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1598027
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1667929
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I don't think I can, "adb devices" or "fastboot devices" does not seem to see my table, when it is attached to the computer. I went to "Mount" --> "ADB Sideload" so the tablet is "listening" for the adb push....but as I said, adb.exe cannot see my tablet
So did I brick this tablet beyond repair?
Is there anything I can do?
What about factory reset?
HALP!
And thanks, for everything I've gotten so far and hopefully everything to come.
Factory reset won't help in this situation at all.
http://www.transformerforums.com/fo...irmware-tf700-tf300-tf101-possibly-tf201.html
I recently purchased this beast of a budget phone, and I am pleasantly surprised! Seeing as how this is a rather capable budget phone (and a ZTE to boot), I am hoping someone can help find a root method!
I know ZTE phones (at least older ones) have a special boot mode, known as disemmcwp, which boots the device into a less secure mode which allows system writing through certain root programs.
I also noticed that this device supports adb side loading from recovery, which is usually locked down, and if I'm not mistaken, this can also be used to exploit system writing if used properly.
Thank you if you can help! This phone is wonderful, but its specs are sorely let down by its usage of Marshmallow instead of Nougat.
The z986dl is now on Nougat. I still would like to get into bootloader myself. I know how to get to recovery mode but that's it.
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The z986dl is now on Nougat.
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I find that hard to believe, as the ZTE Max Blue (aka Z986DL) is sold only at Wal-Mart stores under the Straight Talk name - which means that, unless you're mistaken, I should be getting said update as well. A software update query along with a quick google search shows no signs of this model ever receiving an actual nougat update.
Really, no one's rooted this yet? Come on people I miss lucky patcher!
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Help root!
Yes PLEASE some one root this.. i need to save apps on my SD card and cant until root, i am running out of space and cant make the sd card internal backup.. 16GB device and 32GB SD card. i am at 15 GB on device! cant get updates due to no space.. have to delete things.. This sucks
You can always format an SD card to an internal drive, then you should be able to move stuff to the SD card.
I've the same phone also on marshmallow, I just recently decided that I need more storage for it. I went on the hunt to find ways to moves apps to the sd card for android phones in general, I did as the tutorials said but got to the parts that said to tap move to sd card and didn't see that button on my phone, so I went on to see how to format the sd card as internal storage. The tutorials assumed that after you tap format that it would pull up a screen that says something like format as internal storage, but mine says format as external storage. Seeing as that is the case I went on to see how to root it and came to this thread to see that there is no method of rooting yet.
I saw that soozin81 said to format the sd card as internal...well like I said, "The tutorials assumed that after you tap format that it would pull up a screen that says something like format as internal storage, but mine says format as external storage."
Cubeholic said:
I've the same phone also on marshmallow, I just recently decided that I need more storage for it. I went on the hunt to find ways to moves apps to the sd card for android phones in general, I did as the tutorials said but got to the parts that said to tap move to sd card and didn't see that button on my phone, so I went on to see how to format the sd card as internal storage. The tutorials assumed that after you tap format that it would pull up a screen that says something like format as internal storage, but mine says format as external storage. Seeing as that is the case I went on to see how to root it and came to this thread to see that there is no method of rooting yet.
I saw that soozin81 said to format the sd card as internal...well like I said, "The tutorials assumed that after you tap format that it would pull up a screen that says something like format as internal storage, but mine says format as external storage."
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Yeah it totally sucks, we need a ROOT ASAP! no way to move the apps and there is no way to switch to Internal storage for SD card with out a root!!!
I know this is quite the necro bumo, but is there any update at all on rooting this phone at all??? also according to everything I have read, this phone runs on nougat now however Im still on android 6 and OTA says Im current, is there a way to manually download the ROM and put it on the hard way?
cant i get the firmware for this phone pls