Hi,
I recently did a backup of my current rom through Rom manager. I had 9GB of free space before I did it. After the backup I'm left with 7GB of the internal space. I copied the backup folder from Clockworkmod folder to my pc. But the space still doesn't add up? Where is the 2gb occupied? How can i get it back? Please help
Ok, I went ahead and deleted the entire ClockworkMod folder. That seems to get back the 2Gb space.
If you are using a newer cwm the backup method is different, it compares old backups to new backups and shared components are only stored once as "blobs".......hence you may now have an incomplete nandroid stored on your pc
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Everytime I flash a different rom more of phone storage space is taken away.
I am down to 677MB available out of 12.78GB total. Before I flashed the last rom I had almost 3GB available. I notice this everytime I flash a rom.
What do I do to reclaim the space? Is it Nandroid Backups that are taking all the space?
Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks.
If you're making nandroid backup before every rom update and not removing old nandroid backups then i would say that's what taking up space.
I have one backup that i fall back on to go back to mostly all stock and maybe 2nd one that ill fall back on for the more recent configuration. i dont keep more than 2 back ups at a time.
You can use a file manage and locate clockwork in your internal SD card and in the backup folder remove old back ups just keep what you need
Hey guys, i have been writing and re writing different Rom to my phone for about a year now. But last night the worst thing that could happen happened. I did a backup of my external sd card and a titanium backup before writing the rc3 Rom final gingerbread clone to my phone. Well after writing it i decided i did not want it. So as any other time i just booted into recovery and looked for my nandriod backup and none of my backups were under restore. I realize now
that my backups including my titanium backups must have been on my actual phone and had been wiped. How can i avoid this problem in the future. I thought overtime i wiped my phone
and restored it, it was because i had my stuff on my sd card. I have a nandriod folder backed up from my external sd card but that seems to be worthless at this point. Any advice would help. Thanks, signed starting over.... Lol
you are correct in that all of your backups are originally stored in your phone memory (/sdcard) not your external sd card (sdcard/external_sd) unless you physically move them yourself or re-set the destination in each program. For example my nandroids are in (sdcard/clockworkmod/backup), TB in(sdcard/TitaniumBackup), and sms/mms in (sdcard/SMSBackupRestore
Usually flashing a new ROM will not wipe my internal or external sdcard. If anything it will wipe the INTERNAL sdcard not your external.
In any case backing up your backups is a good idea. Simply move them from their location to your PC. Voila! now you have all your backups stored on your PC.(aren't i smart) Now heres a little TOP SECRET tip..... ever since i started having mount to PC issues on random ROM/kernel combination's I keep a hidden nandroid backup in my external sdcard I always move my last nandroid there heres my path (sdcard/external_sd/backup/TOPSECRET/hiddenfile/poop/)... this makes it easy to pull your last nandroid just in case your internal does get wiped. Hope this helps
thank you for your reply...
Hi,
I backed my sd card contents to my pc, my rooted incredible was a mess it was running CM7. I wiped the card flashed PB31IMG, a stock+ ROM then flashed MIUI now how do I get my backup onto the phone? So my apps + all the information and upgrades are like they were. Ie. all the money and levels I have got to in a app such as drag racing, my Handcent settings messages etc.
I am not sure how to copy the just the names of all the folders so you can see them if that would be more helpful to you please let me know how. If I could get my backed up removeable disk on here without the files I dont need I would be so grateful. Thanks
If you made a backup before you flashed you will have to restore to the backup and backup the apps using titanium backup. If not, sorry, all is lost...
ok, so i am on an s4, twrp for recovery and cleanrom 1.5, and i only have 4gb of available space in device memory. could that be correct? or is something screwed up?
applications - 647mb
pics & vids - 36kb
audio - 152kb
downloads - 1.18mb
misc. files - 11.04gb (wtf?)
available space - 4gb
when i tap misc files, it shows me:
system memory 6.38gb
twrp - 3.49gb
titanium backup - 1.17gb
.face - 8kb
can someone let me know what i can do to free up some storage space?
thanks!
anyone? bueller? bueller?
Seems about right. Nandroid backups can take up a lot of space.
If you want to free up space, save backups and whatnot to your external SD card instead of internal memory. That, and you can Folder Mount to symlink some items and move them to your sd card.
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Yeah, I just did that, thanks for the help! Got almost 8GB free now.
I've been trying to backup my stock ROM as I theme more and more as well and understand that I can move the file to the ext sd card, but when trying to restore in recovery, it says "file not found". I know it's there, since I moved it there, but will not seem to work. Also, when trying to restore through rom manager, I am getting a md5 mismatch. Anyone else seeing this out there?
I'm trying to create an image of my device, but the memory of the device is way more than half full.
Since ClockWorkMod is trying to backup to the DEVICE memory, and not the SD card memory, it obviously doesn't have enough room to do so.
How can I change the location of where it does the backup?
I'm using ClockWorkMod recovery v4.0.1.5 with CF root, and I'm quite a newbie when it comes to ROM changing and everything, never done that.
Thanks
In the backup/restore settings in CWRecovery, you should have the option to backup to internal/external storage. Choose external if you don't have enough space in internal.
MistahBungle said:
In the backup/restore settings in CWRecovery, you should have the option to backup to internal/external storage. Choose external if you don't have enough space in internal.
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I do not see any "settings" in the backup/restore.
Also - I cleared about 700MB from my device memory, leaving it with 10GB used space and 2GB free, and it seems like it did a backup which its size is about 2GB leaving me with about 100 free MB. How does it make sense? doesn't it backup the data like images and videos?
Will still prefer to try and backup to SD.
Thanks
CWM will make an 'image' of the phone at the time you make the backup minus the modem & external SD card (if you have one). If you have photos/videos/whatever stored in the usual place on the internal storage these will be backed up. That backup size is normal.
Do you have an external/separate SD card, or are you talking about the two separate parts of the internal storage; you have the part that's used by the 'system'; & the 'userspace' which is normally referred to as 'sdcard' ? If you are using an external/separate SD card, there's definitely an option in the backup & restore settings to backup to external SD card (I'm looking at that menu right now).
I have a feeling the version of CWM you're using may have something to do with you not having these options; 4x is ancient, I don't even remember what options are in the menus of that; we're now using 6x.
Perhaps you might want to use a kernel that has a more recent version of CWM if that's the case & it's not allowing you do what you want ?
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CWM will make an 'image' of the phone at the time you make the backup minus the modem & external SD card (if you have one). If you have photos/videos/whatever stored in the usual place on the internal storage these will be backed up. That backup size is normal.
Do you have an external/separate SD card, or are you talking about the two separate parts of the internal storage; you have the part that's used by the 'system'; & the 'userspace' which is normally referred to as 'sdcard' ? If you are using an external/separate SD card, there's definitely an option in the backup & restore settings to backup to external SD card (I'm looking at that menu right now).
I have a feeling the version of CWM you're using may have something to do with you not having these options; 4x is ancient, I don't even remember what options are in the menus of that; we're now using 6x.
Perhaps you might want to use a kernel that has a more recent version of CWM if that's the case & it's not allowing you do what you want ?
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I did mean the external storage, yes.
I tried to update to 6x but it stayed the same version.
Anyway, if you're sure it makes sense that 10GB became 2GB after backup, then I'll trust that and will use the backup it created in the internal storage.
What I meant was, you said the backup size was ~2GB; that is indeed normal. If you attempt to update CWM independently of the kernel, you will revert to whatever version is baked into the kernel when you next reboot. If you want to update to a permanent later version of CWM, you'll need to flash a kernel that has said version of CWM.
if you're on PhilZ kernel, you can choose to compress the backup file. (low, medium or high compression)
You can also get a smaller file size, by uninstalling apps you certainly dont need. You can clear off cache files.
For cleanup i recommend Clean Master - search playstore