[Q] SeraphimSlim 1.5 questions (Please be gentle) - AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note I717

Given I cannot post into the dev forum and following the instructions/reasons why(under 10 posts, post in Q&A forum etc) I am doing as stated.
First Thing:
This rom is fantastic, wanted to give props to the dev who created this.
Now one or two questions:
1.) I noticed when clicking on "about phone" the baseband version is showing as "unknown". Everything works though(calls, internet, wifi etc). Should I be concerned about this? I did the jump from Gingerbread after wiping delvik, cache, and data.
2.) I had to re-install this rom after my initial attempt as I thought I did something wrong, but I was getting the SDCard error(no SD card or cannot find SD Card) when in camera or using Root Explorer/ES Explorer. Turns out unlike GB and Touchwiz the \SDCard path isn't the main directory anymore, but the \emmc directory is. I take it this is due to the stock ICS implementation(AOSP/AOKP?).
3.) I do not have an SD card yet(just got the phone last week) but it was a little confusing having two (2) storages called "Internal Storage". My first mistake was clicking the checkbox in settings -> storage to use Internal Storage(which uses the 2GB partition reserved for the OS). I wiped and reloaded after that and moved my apps to the other "Internal Storage"(10+GB). Was it my doing that they are both called Internal Storage? Can I "change" that for label it myself in a better way?
Again, great rom, and I've been lurking for quite some time just a few things I needed to understand. Mods, I am truly sorry if this in anyway violates any rules(i hope i followed them correctly) and I did try searching but a wide array of different answers or part answers came up.

Answers:
1) You shouldn't be concerned at all.
2) The ROM is based off of the unofficial CM9 so its going to have bugs in it. And currently, that is a known bug. Rebooting the device usually does the trick tho.
3) not really sure what you're trying to ask here. sorry.
Hope this helped alleviate some of your doubts. Good luck and continue to read and learn!

Thanks for the response babymatteo!
For number 2, I actually did try rebooting, still got the errors, but have since fixed it(still using the \emmc directory).
Number 3, I guess I am asking if its normal for the storage partitions to be called the same thing?(I can't remember if it was under GingerBread or any other ICS rom i installed. Basically the Galaxy note came with 16gb(more like 12GB) of internal space, 2GB was reserved for system use and the remainder for apps/storage. Both are called Internal Storage and it kind of confused me when snooping around settings. Just want to know if I can rename a storage label/partition(if I should call it that)?

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[Q] Ringtone/Alert/notification storage

I recently upgrade to the latest 4.1.83 and am using gingerblur 3.1
When I first got my phone I found that every time the phone re-booted it would forget custom alert/notification/ringtones. I fixed it once but I dont remember how and my internal memory was deleted by gingerbreak(not complaining, just explaining why its deleted).
It seems like the internal SD memory is not loading in time for the apps to find the sounds they need and so are listing them as unknown.
Is there somewhere else I can move them to (internal phone) where they will not be forgotten. It seems like before I was able to copy them in with the other ringtones.
I am still new at this and tried searching the forums but didnt find anything really helpful.

[Q] SD card is full (but, its not)

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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[Q] SD card is full (but, its not)

Sorry for the double post. I just realized, I should have posted this in this section. Mods can delete the other if needed.
Thanks
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
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
Download the sd formatting tool and use it on your pc to format your extremal sd card.
If you meant your internal storage the go read the sticky thread in general, about the changes 4.3 makes.
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[Q]Can you format your internal Storage wrong?

Hey Guys,
after 3 years of lerking and searching my problems in XDA, this is my first Thread and I hope i put it in the right forum.
After all these years of flashing I always had minor issues with custom roms but I lived with it because I thought it is simply a part of Custom Roms. But now with Android 4.4.x I found a big barrier which I can't handle alone and ask for your help.
Now to my Issues:
I wanted a completly wipe. So I took this thread:
[GUIDE] Android deep clean-up / wipe
Now at the Part for formating your internal Storage, I only had storage/sdcard0 and /storage/sdcard1. I took the sdcard0, then I got to choose which format I want to use. At first I used ext4, installed the ROM (Beanstalk 4.4.4007 with PA G-apps).
At first everthing looked fine. The ROM booted with no issues. But After all this the first thing I wanted to check, how my storage looks now. So I tooked the Beanstalk Explorer App and boom!
First Issue, the app crashed.
Yeah great so I downloaded ES Explorer and looked up my storage. Now on the sdcard0 are only two folders: 'clockworkmod' and 'lost+found'. I think this doesn't look right?
Then Second Issue:
I wanted to try the camera but it don't work. The gallery tells me that there is no external storage. I have in my mind that camera problems are a thing but I believe it has something to do with my internal Storage.
So I tried again the deep wipe and this time I used default as format which I guess is FAT32 because it wasn't a option.
That are now my main Problems, I have some other issues too but I think before I go further I think I have to get my internal Storage right to continue asking questions.
I hope I didn't do so bad as a newbie with my question.
many, many thanks for reading, and i hope someone has an answer for me.
AETeK

Physical vs Emulated Storage, and is it backward compatible...

Hi all / @linusdan,
I wondered if any kind soul could just briefly offer their knowledge please... I've been happily flashing roms to the i9100/i9100P, N7000 for some time now, and all has been great... :good:
However my dads phone went a little screwy the other day, and so I said I would re-do it. Upon looking at it, he had a couple of storage areas of 0MB (zero) MB's and nothing could download or write to the internal storage.
I've since STOCK rom'd it, returning to the original PIT files, and tried to reset it up again. (Storage is back to normal, all fully accessible again) I've been looking at the newer roms. However in TWRP, I notice I have a SDCard0 and SDCard1 (and that's without removal storage added yet).
So I think I may a Frankenstein build of storage at moment, so re-read Linusdan's instructions, and going to totally annihilate the filesystems and start again, following the instructions.
My question is this....
Once I have done this, and moved over to fully Emulated Storage. Will this work for older roms, say KitKat / Lollipop era, or do I have to prep for stock / physical storage again? Failure to do so, would I end up with double confused storage again??
Or would simply flashing an old rom, make use of the emulated storage??
Thanks, Lister
@listerofsmeg
These days I was wondering how to do this and looking for a way to reverse the conversion.
Maybe so, but so far I have not found how.
For now, the only way to use the old ROMs is to install the stock and TWRP without emulated storage.

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