is it ok to delete all the files in internal sd card?
i did a factory reset and wipe in cwm but it didint delete the files in sdcard (internal)
so i want to do is delete all files in internal sd card manually
It would be better to delete via settings - storage - erase USB storage
1. Android and .anroid_secure would be kind of important folders in internal SD. It contains the data and stuffs of the apps. But you can delete them off and they will be auto generated when the OS needs them (correct me if I am wrong)
2. A best way to do nice wipe is to use this code *2767*3855# in the stock dialer app in your stock ROM. This will actually make the phone as it was when you opened it from the box.
Harsha Raj said:
1. Android and .anroid_secure would be kind of important folders in internal SD. It contains the data and stuffs of the apps. But you can delete them off and they will be auto generated when the OS needs them (correct me if I am wrong)
2. A best way to do nice wipe is to use this code *2767*3855# in the stock dialer app in your stock ROM. This will actually make the phone as it was when you opened it from the box.
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Correct me if I'm wrong-but no it doesn't.I done that on Sunday and the phone was still on ICS, and I think it still had SUPERSU.I too thought it would be wiped,and it done a great job of deleting my photos and video I hadn't backed up......lol
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So I successfully restored my Vibrant with the shipping rom and it worked great. However, I still have a lot of files left over from applications that were installed. So, what is the best way to get the internal sd area cleaned back to stock? I am not sure enough of which files I can manually delete and which I shouldn't. Is there an "uninstall" program that will remove "orphaned" files etc? An un-installer that would also allow removing of the stock apps would be nice.
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Just goto settings> sd and phone storage> unmount internal sd storage> then format... That should do it.
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So none of those files are "needed" by the stock rom? So you can completly erase all of the data on itand start over with installing apps?
well it will format the sdcard which means you will loose avitar movie and anything else on /sdcard and /sdcard/sd. But you answer is yes, non of those files are needed for the rom.
Thanks for the info!
Avatar is on the external sd card btw.
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Hi everyone,
I just updated my Aria to FR007 and really want to have a 'brand new' phone look + feel.
I would like to delete ALL unnecessary files in the SD card & phone memory cos at the moment, I feel like something is not amiss.
I only have 574mb left out of the stock 2gb SD card. And my internal phone storage have only 132mb available space left.
I would like to save only my nandroid backup in the SDcard and nothing else. So deleting all other datas like saved apps, games, contacts, images, music and others are fine.
Please advice what procedure I need to follow as I am not familiar with what files are safe to delete. Is it safe to just do this:
Settings > SD & Phone Storage >Factory Data Reset ?
Thank you for your advice!
I would like to know this as well because out of a 8GB SD card (7.59GB) i only have 549MB remaining and i only have 1 nandroid back up and 3 GB of music on the phone.
That's a loaded question dependant upon what apps are installed. Many apps create folders and populate the sd card in some form.
Best I can tell you, mount the storage and copy the sd content to your computer. Erase the sdcard content and see what happens after reboot. Should only potentially bother 3rd party apps.
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Thanks for the advice BelacNongaw.
I thought about that too but I was thinking maybe there are some system files or essential files that MUST be in the SD card. And also, wouldn't deleting everything in the SD card also delete my nandroid backup? And Clockwork? <-They do reside in the SD card, yes?
Let me reiterate please: I want a 'brand new' phone while keeping only my last nandroid backup Will a factory reset do?
Thanks again everyone!
I had the same problem and the only thing I noticed was nandroid backups take a lot of space and also apps that have been deleted keep their folders in the sd card
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Okay this is what I did:
1. Back up my SDcard to the computer (plug it in, mount as disk drive, copy all contents to a folder on the desktop).
2. Restart the Aria in Recovery mode (Vol. down while Power up)
3. Go to Recovery > Partitions > Format SD Card
Now I have 1.84gb of SD storage with these folders (viewed in Astro):
1. .footprints / thumbnails / voices
2. LOST.DIR
3. tmp / .astro / astro
Haven't tested everything yet but eBuddy and Market are doing well, downloading and app installation are running fine too.
Now I'm quite concerned about the following:
1. Does this mean that I do not have clockwork anymore? Because there was a 'clockworkmod' folder in the SDcard before I formatted it.
2. Am I screwed?
Thank you for any suggestions/advice. I hope this thread can offer some helpful tips to those who need it in the future.
You are fine. The clockworkmod folder is where rom manager downloads and your nandroid backups are stored. You can just copy it back or rom manager will generate it again next time you nandroid backup.
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Thanks for reminding me BelacNongaw.
I just made a nandroid backup of my bare minimum Aria, and it automaticall created a clockworkmod folder in the SDcard with the md5 file.
Anyways, it's great to have all these space now
Great post guys I was wondering this myself. I recently rooted my inspire 4g to factory restore but all 3rd party apps are still on the sd card and i have no intention of re-installing any of them so i am looking for a safe way to delete unnessesary folders without deleting the vital ones, ill give your suggestions a try.
Technically you can safely delete everything that's on the sd card. Android will automatically create whatever folders it needs. Of course you'll lose any data saved to the sd, but you wont mess up your phone at all.
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i have a g2 but i have the same thoughts i want the space back from sd card not worried about loosing any thing just dont want to mess the phone up
Don't worry. SD card is totally an external of the phone. Delete everything, it doesn't matter. And backup your needed files to any place you like. You can move them back to your reformatted SD card whenever you like.
Hi all,
maybe a very simple question here, but when I move files to SD (using Elelinux/Cyanogen, android 2.3.4), in which folder do they end up, with which file extension? When I had to flash a new ROM, sometimes I had to do a full wipe including factory reset, so all apps vanished from the phone, but did they still persist on SD? and if yes, in which folder, and do I need to delete these files?
I've searched my SD-card, found different folders with app-like names and different extensions, but I don't know which is the correct one.
(example: moved Facebook app to SD to save internal memory space, flashed new ROM -> factory reset, installed FB app again, it says I can copy it to SD again, but is there still a piece of the previous FB app on the SD?)
thanks for your help!
EDIT: did some searching and some say it might me the ".android_secure" folder. Is it safe to just delete everything in this folder? because it's taking up some space...
That's correct, the applications end up in .android_secure. If you do a full wipe (factory reset) it is safe to remove it, since those apps needs to be restored before they can be used anyway.
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Henrik
I was trying to root my HTC One V and i unlocked the bootlocker,however that resulted in factory reset of my phone.Whenever i installed an app on my phone i always moved it to sd card via settings-->apps.I assumed that once my phone restarts after factory reset it will read the apps in the sd card but it is not so.The phone does read songs,pictures and contacts stored on my sd card and the sd card does have the folder of each app but how do i install it from the sd card?
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The stock android move-app-to-sd does not move all app data to the sd card and some data is left on the device on purpose.
I might be wrong (since I never researched this) but I think you cannot restore those apps.
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The stock android move-app-to-sd does not move all app data to the sd card and some data is left on the device on purpose.
I might be wrong (since I never researched this) but I think you cannot restore those apps.
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Okay
But is it possible that if i install the same app again,it reads the application settings from the sd card?Like if i download and install a game,is it possible for the game to read my score from it's folder in the sd card?
If the app is storing this kind of information (settings etc.) on the sd-card as a separate file then I would say that it is very likely that it will be able to read that data.
But not all apps store that kind of information on the sd-card (security reasons etc.).
I am not sure what happens to the parts of the app itself that are still on the sd-card though (I am talking about the app itself). I guess that the app will not care about those if it is stored in the internal storage. Moving the app to the sd card will probably overwrite the data on the sd-card. If the app stores the settings etc. in one of its own files then it might be overwritten as well.
You might want to make a backup of those files, even if you can't use the information in the end. But if they are gone they are gone.
Some really crazy idea would be to download the app, move it to the sd-card and then overwrite the files on the sd with the ones from the backup.
If android has no verification or security methods for this and there was no update to the app there might be a small change that this will work.
But I guess that the chances to get all your settings and user data back are still very slim as those are possibly not stored there.
But if you have the backup and some xda user swings by with a good idea (or more knowledge that me) you can still try that.
Hello guys,
after flashed so many ROMs, I see my internal storage with lots of folders...
Some folders starting with . (dot) and some normal.
I know that some of these folders were created when installed some apps.
But now, I'm very happy with lastest MROM, I want to do a real clean in my internal storage.
And I think the "trash" (not really trash, but maybe old rom configs, etc) are still in my internal storage.
Every folder in internal storage can be removed? If yes, can I just delete them from windows?
Any of these folders are used by android system?
Thank you very much!
Of you just flash the rom then you can go ahead and delete everything I'm the internal storage. Yes there are some needed files but from what I know android with automatic create back the needed files. I usually format my internal storage and add card after I flash a rom I plan to keep. I don't keep anything important on my storage but you get the point.
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The Android system couldn't care less about anything in the user storage. Those are mostly your pictures, videos, music, whatever. Some of them however (including the "dot" ones) are the applications' config or state files, if you delete those the app will just go back to freshly-installed state. In short, there is no way to stop the system itself from working by doing anything to the user storage (unless of course you've modified the system itself).
Thank you guys!
I will clean my internal storage then.
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