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So, I was looking at my SD Card info through settings and I only have 2.43gb free. I only have 7 songs, not many photos, videos or anything else. I went through my SD and cleaned it up, but nothing changed.
I am running SC 2.5v no theme, and nothing really on my SD card for roms, themes or anything like that. I know this is a stretch, but what could be taking so much memory on the SD. I don't have titanium, i have cleaned my back ups and don't back up my apps... I know. Crazy. Anyone have any ideas. I know you don't know what is on my SD but, anyone have this issue as well?
gotsflat4love said:
So, I was looking at my SD Card info through settings and I only have 2.43gb free. I only have 7 songs, not many photos, videos or anything else. I went through my SD and cleaned it up, but nothing changed.
I am running SC 2.5v no theme, and nothing really on my SD card for roms, themes or anything like that. I know this is a stretch, but what could be taking so much memory on the SD. I don't have titanium, i have cleaned my back ups and don't back up my apps... I know. Crazy. Anyone have any ideas. I know you don't know what is on my SD but, anyone have this issue as well?
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Did you partition your sd card?
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No. Should I? I have never ran across anyone doing that on a Fascinate...
gotsflat4love said:
No. Should I? I have never ran across anyone doing that on a Fascinate...
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That could probably explain why.
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Mount the SD card on your computer and then select all the files in explorer (turn on show system files and hidden files first!), and check their total size (size and size on disk). If the size on disk for all the files is far lower than the amount reported as being used for the volume, something odd is probably up.
If the 'size on disk' is actually about the same as the amount of used space on the volume, you can then start checking the folders/files to see what's taking up the space.
@Jason Black: Why'd you want to repartition it? Or did you mean reformat it?
Another thing you could do is look for hidden files on windows when u open up removable drive then on the upper the upper left hand side hit tools then view then scroll down and hit the bubble that says show hidden files and see if thats what's taking up space
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KitsuneKnight said:
Mount the SD card on your computer and then select all the files in explorer (turn on show system files and hidden files first!), and check their total size (size and size on disk). If the size on disk for all the files is far lower than the amount reported as being used for the volume, something odd is probably up.
If the 'size on disk' is actually about the same as the amount of used space on the volume, you can then start checking the folders/files to see what's taking up the space.
@Jason Black: Why'd you want to repartition it? Or did you mean reformat it?
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Non of that. I was simply asking of the sd card was partitioned.
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Do you use ROM Manager, or have you used it? Also, do you have/use Titanium backup to create backups or have you done any nandroid backups in CWM? Also, if you download things on your phone, that would be another thing to check and clear out.
imnuts said:
Do you use ROM Manager, or have you used it? Also, do you have/use Titanium backup to create backups or have you done any nandroid backups in CWM? Also, if you download things on your phone, that would be another thing to check and clear out.
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This
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imnuts said:
Do you use ROM Manager, or have you used it? Also, do you have/use Titanium backup to create backups or have you done any nandroid backups in CWM? Also, if you download things on your phone, that would be another thing to check and clear out.
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Yeah you can try clearing download cache in rom manager and also, those nanbackups take up a good amount of space if you have a lot of apps and data. I also have 2.40g left. Thats a lot of space unless you are downloading movies lol.
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I recently had that issue and went through my sd card and deleted unnecessary files. Old Roms such as superclean 2.1-2.3 I found in multiple places each taking up about 150MB. The main culprit was the nandroid backups. I had 4 backups each took up about a gig. They were in the clockwork mod folder. Im now limiting myself to 1 backup at a time.
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I had a lot of lost space on my card a while back. I suspect from removing the card/inserting the card while still mounted and losing clusters.
I simply put the card in my PC. Backed it up to my hard disk (hidden files and all). Formatted the card. Copied the files back. This restored the lost space. (and gave me a backup too which is handy)
Thanks everyone for the replies. I only have 3 nandroid back ups so far. I have rom manager, but the one adrynalyne posted with fix permissions. I have titanium, but dont use it.
I will mount my SD card to my comp and take a look at it. See if I can find hidden files.
Ok. I figures it out. I use a PC for rooting purpose stuff, but put a bunch of files on my SD card from a mac. Well I found out that when you delete files on your sd card from a mac.
It creats a hidden folder call .trash where it stores everything you delete. I used stock "My Files" hit menu when open, click more, setting then select show hidden files. You can delete all .trash or whatever .(folder) there. That is the hidden files mac create.
I hope this can help someone. Once i deleted those folders, I wernt from 1.8gb to 12.58 gb.
gotsflat4love said:
Ok. I figures it out. I use a PC for rooting purpose stuff, but put a bunch of files on my SD card from a mac. Well I found out that when you delete files on your sd card from a mac.
It creats a hidden folder call .trash where it stores everything you delete. I used stock "My Files" hit menu when open, click more, setting then select show hidden files. You can delete all .trash or whatever .(folder) there. That is the hidden files mac create.
I hope this can help someone. Once i deleted those folders, I wernt from 1.8gb to 12.58 gb.
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Macs also create other dot files when coping data, including a dot file for every file you copy over (it's to store the file's metadata... that's really not useful), as well as some others. Some poster around here has a link in his sig with a 'guide' on disabling those things...
In my /sdcard/clockworkmod/backup folder i have 9 backups. I'm guessing I might want to keep the oldest one in case it has a backup of my stock phone (I'm rooted now) and the latest one. The rest can be deleted, right?
Zacisblack said:
I recently had that issue and went through my sd card and deleted unnecessary files. Old Roms such as superclean 2.1-2.3 I found in multiple places each taking up about 150MB. The main culprit was the nandroid backups. I had 4 backups each took up about a gig. They were in the clockwork mod folder. Im now limiting myself to 1 backup at a time.
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eibbed0001 said:
In my /sdcard/clockworkmod/backup folder i have 9 backups. I'm guessing I might want to keep the oldest one in case it has a backup of my stock phone (I'm rooted now) and the latest one. The rest can be deleted, right?
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TBH I haven't made a back-up since december 2010 and have deleted all mine long ago. With odin/TiBkup I find it to be an error free process. Restores always seem to have their own issues so I just gave up on them. But yes you can delete all older ones and keep the most current.
good day.
^^ same here. Haven't done a nandroid since November. Nandroid backups are a pain. It only takes like 10 minutes to get all your settings back the way you want them after a good ol' clean odin. Plus titanium backup, of course
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Agreed. Delete all your old backups. I had about 10 on mine at one pint. They eat about 1gb each
I've been KANGBANGED!!!!!
I've done a Nandroid restore a couple of times now and it went smoothly. A couple of cache and Dcache clears before, wipe data, clear caches again, install ROM, clear caches a couple of times, boot to make sure the ROM functions, then recovery, cache clearing, then advanced restore and restoring just data works for me. I used to use TiBu to restore everything but this has been working out fine, although I'd heard some people had problems with it. Although now that I think about it, I've only done this when re-flashing the same ROM as before. Maybe with different ROMS some things don't play nicely.
Still, I don't need 9 backups just sitting there taking up space, so thanks for the go ahead on deleting them. And I still do TiBu and MyBu backups because I've found you can never have too many resources when things go bad!
I have a Nabi 2 that was rooted almost a year ago to gain access to the Google Play store.
My needs have changed since then and I wanted to restore it to factory settings.
The original root was performed by a friend that I am no longer in contact with.
If I boot normally the Nabi is stuck here:
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I have managed to get it to boot to TRWP by pressing the power and + keys. I see this:
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There are no images to "restore" under the restore tab. This is what I see:
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I am hoping someone can provide me with a kernel file or some tips on how to restore the machine to it's 'out-of-the-box' configuration.
I want to donate this device to a young child and need to get it back into a kid friendly mode.
Any help really appreciated.
There is a lot of info here that can help get you going .
http://forum.xda-developers.com/wiki/Fuhu_nabi_2
after you get it going make a back up and STORE the back up on the pc would be my suggestion .
Parts you might have questions about feel free to post
include as much info as you can as this can help make it easier to understand the problem
IE,
TWRP Recovery installed 2.xx
I am on Version 2.3.xx release keys
ect
hth
Eric Karz said:
There is a lot of info here that can help get you going .
http://forum.xda-developers.com/wiki/Fuhu_nabi_2
after you get it going make a back up and STORE the back up on the pc would be my suggestion .
Parts you might have questions about feel free to post
include as much info as you can as this can help make it easier to understand the problem
IE,
TWRP Recovery installed 2.xx
I am on Version 2.3.xx release keys
ect
hth
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I think if I understand correctly, I should be able to restore the factory image using the restore function of TWRP.
In my case there is no backup there for me to utilize.
I put some files on a 16Gb sd card to see if the restore function would see them but it still shows up blank.
I checked the box that says "mount SD card" but I do not see the files.
I am sure it it something I am doing wrong.
I have posted pictures of what I see.....just in case I am not describing it correctly.
Thanks!
see if you have a system folder
in twrp -under mount, put a check in system
then back out of mount
now click on Advanced/file manager/
Scroll down to Sytem - tap it to enter it .
IF you can see that its still in tact then try factory reset
Factory Reset is under the WIPE menu .
Eric Karz said:
see if you have a system folder
in twrp -under mount, put a check in system
then back out of mount
now click on Advanced/file manager/
Scroll down to Sytem - tap it to enter it .
IF you can see that its still in tact then try factory reset
Factory Reset is under the WIPE menu .
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Thanks for your help...
I found the folder SYSTEM and clicked on it.
I do not see any files on the right side and I only another folder called LOST+FOUND on the left side.
If I enter LOST+FOUND I also see no files on the right.
Can I copy the required files into the SYSTEM folder from a SD Card?
generatorlabs said:
Thanks for your help...
I found the folder SYSTEM and clicked on it.
I do not see any files on the right side and I only another folder called LOST+FOUND on the left side.
If I enter LOST+FOUND I also see no files on the right.
Can I copy the required files into the SYSTEM folder from a SD Card?
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in Twrp restore you can pick just system to restore
just make sure that "SYSTEM' is the only thing with a checkmark
Eric Karz said:
in Twrp restore you can pick just system to restore
just make sure that "SYSTEM' is the only thing with a checkmark
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When you say use TWRP RESTORE you are talking about the button on the home screen labeled RESTORE right?
If I go into RESTORE as described above I have the option of using EXTERNAL SD or INTERNAL STORAGE.
No matter which I choose there is nothing showing up in the PACKAGE TO RESTORE area.
The last picture in my original post shows exactly what I see when I go into RESTORE.
It is like the a backup was never done or somehow got erased.
Any ideas?
Thanks Eric
generatorlabs said:
When you say use TWRP RESTORE you are talking about the button on the home screen labeled RESTORE right?
If I go into RESTORE as described above I have the option of using EXTERNAL SD or INTERNAL STORAGE.
No matter which I choose there is nothing showing up in the PACKAGE TO RESTORE area.
The last picture in my original post shows exactly what I see when I go into RESTORE.
It is like the a backup was never done or somehow got erased.
Any ideas?
Thanks Eric
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what I was saying is that if you download something from the wiki like 1937 put that TWRP back up on your External SD card inside of the TWRP folder
then use the Restore function in TWTP.
it will show up along with data boot system etc.
you can just Restore system .
use your pc. place the back up on ext sd card .when finished place the external sdcard back in to nabi.
then boot in to twrp /use Restore and you should see it.(just checkmark system ) swipe to do the function
exit and reboot nabi
hth
Eric Karz said:
what I was saying is that if you download something from the wiki like 1937 put that TWRP back up on your External SD card inside of the TWRP folder
then use the Restore function in TWTP.
it will show up along with data boot system etc.
you can just Restore system .
use your pc. place the back up on ext sd card .when finished place the external sdcard back in to nabi.
then boot in to twrp /use Restore and you should see it.(just checkmark system ) swipe to do the function
exit and reboot nabi
hth
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I am sorry I sound like such a tool. A lot of this stuff is very unfamiliar territory for me.
Here is where I at:
I downloaded 1937stock.zip
I placed a copy on the SD card and copied that to the SYSTEM folder.
Went into RESTORE and did not see anything pop up.
Then I unzipped the file and copied those individual files to the SYSTEM folder and the same result.
Then I looked at your post again and it said put it in the TWRP folder.
Where is the TWRP folder? Should it be in the root folder?
The only place I saw a TWRP folder is within another folder called SDCARD. That folder can be seen from the root folder. However the contents of that folder change depending on what mount options are selected.
I am a little confused here about mounting and the folders named EXTERNAL_SDCARD and SDCARD.
Can you enlighten me a little on the difference between these two?
Should the 1937stock.zip file remain zipped or do I have to break the files out individually when restoring them?
And finally where should the TWRP folder you mentioned be located?
Thanks!
Think of Twrp restore function as a windows restore point
think of internal sd as widows primary hard drive(main OS is here)
think of External sd as a windows hard drive 2
you do not want to copy anything to system. you want to let TWRP do it for you .
1st thing you want to do is Extract the zip to the pc desktop in its own folder
then take the folder from the desktop and place it on the External sd card
then place the EXT.sd card in to the nabi2
Boot nabi in to twrp
click on Restore
here is a example of how it should look on the External sd
/twrp/backup/FOLDER TO RESTORE HERE
if you look in restore you will see the option for twrp to look at internal or xternal sd card for the back up .
Eric Karz said:
Think of Twrp restore function as a windows restore point
think of internal sd as widows primary hard drive(main OS is here)
think of External sd as a windows hard drive 2
you do not want to copy anything to system. you want to let TWRP do it for you .
1st thing you want to do is Extract the zip to the pc desktop in its own folder
then take the folder from the desktop and place it on the External sd card
then place the EXT.sd card in to the nabi2
Boot nabi in to twrp
click on Restore
here is a example of how it should look on the External sd
/twrp/backup/FOLDER TO RESTORE HERE
if you look in restore you will see the option for twrp to look at internal or xternal sd card for the back up .
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I did exactly as you spelled out above. Unzipped 1937stock and put the files in a folder on the SD card that looked like this /twrp/backup
I verified the contents of the SD card while in my PC. It had 9 files in it. 2 boot* files, 2 data* files, 3 recovery* files and 2 system* files.
I put the SD card in the Nabi, made sure SD card was mounted and again verified contents of EXTERNAL_SDCARD with File Manager.
The files were all visible with the File Manager.
When I go to RESTORE it still shows up blank. If I click either internal or external storage, it makes no difference.
It is almost though RESTORE is looking for the files in a completely different path.
The only options in the RESTORE function are the sort buttons on the bottom of the screen and the two radio buttons on the top for internal or external storage.
Can I move the folder from the SD card to internal storage?
Would it make a difference?
What is the default path TWRP uses if internal storage is selected?
Or is the box on RESTORE screen supposed to populate with a tree that I can navigate to a specific folder?
For me it is just plain blank no matter what I press.
Similar to the picture in my first post.
Your instructions seem pretty straight forward. I double checked my steps but no dice.
Any ideas?
Thanks
generatorlabs said:
I did exactly as you spelled out above. Unzipped 1937stock and put the files in a folder on the SD card that looked like this /twrp/backup
I verified the contents of the SD card while in my PC. It had 9 files in it. 2 boot* files, 2 data* files, 3 recovery* files and 2 system* files.
I put the SD card in the Nabi, made sure SD card was mounted and again verified contents of EXTERNAL_SDCARD with File Manager.
The files were all visible with the File Manager.
When I go to RESTORE it still shows up blank. If I click either internal or external storage, it makes no difference.
It is almost though RESTORE is looking for the files in a completely different path.
The only options in the RESTORE function are the sort buttons on the bottom of the screen and the two radio buttons on the top for internal or external storage.
Can I move the folder from the SD card to internal storage?
Would it make a difference?
What is the default path TWRP uses if internal storage is selected?
Or is the box on RESTORE screen supposed to populate with a tree that I can navigate to a specific folder?
For me it is just plain blank no matter what I press.
Similar to the picture in my first post.
Your instructions seem pretty straight forward. I double checked my steps but no dice.
Any ideas?
Thanks
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lets try this
check an make sure that the External SD card is formatted in fat32
you can use the pc to do this
now place the External SDcard back in to the nabi
boot in to Twrp and choose the BACKUP function make sure that it is going make the backup to the external s card.
(the goal is to see if twrp is working)
IF this works then you should see a new TWRP folder on the external SD card
now go back in to RESTORE to see if you can see the back up you just made to your External sd card.
ps: yes you can move the TWRP folder to the internal sdcard if you wanted
Twrp will work from both Sdcards
Eric Karz said:
lets try this
check an make sure that the External SD card is formatted in fat32
you can use the pc to do this
now place the External SDcard back in to the nabi
boot in to Twrp and choose the BACKUP function make sure that it is going make the backup to the external s card.
(the goal is to see if twrp is working)
IF this works then you should see a new TWRP folder on the external SD card
now go back in to RESTORE to see if you can see the back up you just made to your External sd card.
ps: yes you can move the TWRP folder to the internal sdcard if you wanted
Twrp will work from both Sdcards
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Ok you are 'da' man....good plan of attack.
I formatted the card, fat 32, just to be sure.
Put card in Nabi booted and mounted SD Card
Ran backup and it did create files on the card.
It also created a timestamped folder
I assume you want me to replace all those files with the file from the stock zip package correct?
I did replace all the files in that backup folder with the files from the stock package in preparation.
I do not want to proceed until you let me know if I can pull that trigger.
I am only committing the SYSTEM files?
Do I leave DATA & BOOT unchecked?
Does this process remove TWRP and make it completely stock? That was my goal.
If I do get back to stock will I then be able to participate with the regular OTA updates that I read will bring the Google Play store on the device natively?
Thanks for your continued and rather quick responses! :highfive:
generatorlabs said:
Ok you are 'da' man....good plan of attack.
I formatted the card, fat 32, just to be sure.
Put card in Nabi booted and mounted SD Card
Ran backup and it did create files on the card.
It also created a timestamped folder
I assume you want me to replace all those files with the file from the stock zip package correct?
I did replace all the files in that backup folder with the files from the stock package in preparation.
I do not want to proceed until you let me know if I can pull that trigger.
I am only committing the SYSTEM files?
Do I leave DATA & BOOT unchecked?
Does this process remove TWRP and make it completely stock? That was my goal.
If I do get back to stock will I then be able to participate with the regular OTA updates that I read will bring the Google Play store on the device natively?
Thanks for your continued and rather quick responses! :highfive:
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1st I would want you to keep a copy of that back up you just made on your pc <just incase we need something from it in the future>
Also keep it on the SDCARD
on your pc find that TWRP folder you just made
and add the folder you first tried to it
Example TWRP/BACKUP/BACK UP UP I MADE
TWRP/BACKUP/The one I downloaded
put card back in nabi boot to twrp
go in Restore and look for "the one I diownloaded" folder
uncheck all except system
swipe for the function to work
then it should ask you to REboot
Fingers crossed GOOD luck ..lol
Edit We will want it to update by its self
As of now you have a ICS(ice cream sandwich version of android) Currently we are up to jellybean 4.1.1
the tricky part for me was going from ICS to JB because I had missing Files that it wanted to update
also the Boot and Recovery is Diffent between the 2.
Eric Karz said:
1st I would want you to keep a copy of that back up you just made on your pc <just incase we need something from it in the future>
Also keep it on the SDCARD
on your pc find that TWRP folder you just made
and add the folder you first tried to it
Example TWRP/BACKUP/BACK UP UP I MADE
TWRP/BACKUP/The one I downloaded
put card back in nabi boot to twrp
go in Restore and look for "the one I diownloaded" folder
uncheck all except system
swipe for the function to work
then it should ask you to REboot
Fingers crossed GOOD luck ..lol
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Dude your killing me....I did what you said above and rebooted and BOOM!
IT WORKS AGAIN!
It went through the OUT OF THE BOX setup. Yes!!!......BUT there is one big problem.
It will not see my wifi card.
If I try to turn on wifi via the nabi control panel it just stays off. The on screen switch appears to work but if I navigate to another screen and then back the switch is marked OFF again. No AP's show up in the access list.
Do I have to install a patch?
I noticed that TWRP is still installed.
And Thank you a million times over for getting me to this point!
before We mess with the wifi - some things to try
Are you broadcasting SSID? Wifi protected set up ?
Un power your router wait 1 minute then Repower it.
If that's not it then
Reboot in to TWRP
go in to wipe
only wipe*
cache and dalvik cache -* Nothing Else *.
Reboot nabi
Eric Karz said:
before We mess with the wifi - some things to try
Are you broadcasting SSID? Wifi protected set up ?
Un power your router wait 1 minute then Repower it.
If that's not it then
Reboot in to TWRP
go in to wipe
only wipe*
cache and dalvik cache -* Nothing Else *.
Reboot nabi
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No success. I have a number of AP's beside my own in this area that I can usually see.
I even turned on the hotspot on my phone and placed it very close and it could not pick that up either.
The on screen wifi switch behavior is still the same.
Did the two cache wipe things as well and no luck.
Should I have chosen a different stock***.zip? I see the Wiki has about 10 different flavors under the STOCK section.
generatorlabs said:
No success. I have a number of AP's beside my own in this area that I can usually see.
I even turned on the hotspot on my phone and placed it very close and it could not pick that up either.
The on screen wifi switch behavior is still the same.
Did the two cache wipe things as well and no luck.
Should I have chosen a different stock***.zip? I see the Wiki has about 10 different flavors under the STOCK section.
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ok one more thing to try .
in TWRP go in Restore
and only Choose "Boot"
swipe to restore that function.
Reboot the nabi
check if wifi is working
Eric Karz said:
ok one more thing to try .
in TWRP go in Restore
and only Choose "Boot"
swipe to restore that function.
Reboot the nabi
check if wifi is working
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Sorry man, no dice
It is doing the same thing. When you go to switch the radio on, a dialogue box come up that says "Please wait while loading", with a round swirly thing spinning. It looks like it is trying to initialize something but when the dialogue box closes I don't see AP's. Funny thing is the bluetooth radio switch stays on while the wifi switch will not.
ok Reboot to TWRP
go to mount
choose data - then back out
go in to Advanced/filemanager
then click on data then misc
then go to wifi
on the right you will see wpa_supplicant.config
tap it
on next screen choose Rename File
on next screen type .bak
so it looks like this
wpa_supplicant.config.bak
hit enter on the screen keyboard
next screen
Swipe to confirm
Reboot the nabi .
check to see if wifi works
Hey all, Actually the problem arise after installing custom roms. Now after installing basics apps like whatsapp, Facebook, instagram, and others (8-9 apps) the phone gives me notification of Not enough memory. While My friend with same model (XT1506) have installed 15-19 apps (Lineage OS).
Can anyone help me? :crying:
shaktiman01 said:
Hey all, Actually the problem arise after installing custom roms. Now after installing basics apps like whatsapp, Facebook, instagram, and others (8-9 apps) the phone gives me notification of Not enough memory. While My friend with same model (XT1506) have installed 15-19 apps (Lineage OS).
Can anyone help me? :crying:
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You should've wiped the internal storage too. Sometimes, what happens is that on flashing a new rom without wiping the internal storage, the contents of internal storage move to some other directory. So, when you'll browse the root of internal storage ( /0 ), you won't find the data there, nor the pics and videos will be shown in gallery or some video player; but the files are still there on internal storage.
So there's two things you can do:-
1) Use any root file manager, like ES explorer, to manually locate the folder. I think its somewhere in the /storage or in the /mnt/user or any other directory. But, its confirmed that it will be in mnt or storage directory only. If found, you can delete the data or copy it back.
OR
2) You can boot into twrp. Make a backup of current rom. Wipe everything including internal storage. And then restore the backup. This is much easier but time consuming, i guess.
sasukay said:
You should've wiped the internal storage too. Sometimes, what happens is that on flashing a new rom without wiping the internal storage, the contents of internal storage move to some other directory. So, when you'll browse the root of internal storage ( /0 ), you won't find the data there, nor the pics and videos will be shown in gallery or some video player; but the files are still there on internal storage.
So there's two things you can do:-
1) Use any root file manager, like ES explorer, to manually locate the folder. I think its somewhere in the /storage or in the /mnt/user or any other directory. But, its confirmed that it will be in mnt or storage directory only. If found, you can delete the data or copy it back.
OR
2) You can boot into twrp. Make a backup of current rom. Wipe everything including internal storage. And then restore the backup. This is much easier but time consuming, i guess.
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Actually after last flashing (cm12.1), I wiped the internal storage (and sdcard too). But still I can't install a single app after the counting of 9. I tried the same thing I do (flashing without wiping internal) but still he can install 10-15 apps from play store (20+ from side loading). And actually I was fed up with all this
shaktiman01 said:
Actually after last flashing (cm12.1), I wiped the internal storage (and sdcard too). But still I can't install a single app after the counting of 9. I tried the same thing I do (flashing without wiping internal) but still he can install 10-15 apps from play store (20+ from side loading). And actually I was fed up with all this
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Maybe your size of data partition have changed. I thibk there's an option in twrp to resize the partitions. But, I can't suggest you doing it, since I haven't performed it myself. You can try in your own risk though.
sasukay said:
Maybe your size of data partition have changed. I thibk there's an option in twrp to resize the partitions. But, I can't suggest you doing it, since I haven't performed it myself. You can try in your own risk though.
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OK I'll try.... And give you feedback
sasukay said:
Maybe your size of data partition have changed. I thibk there's an option in twrp to resize the partitions. But, I can't suggest you doing it, since I haven't performed it myself. You can try in your own risk though.
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See no "User" folder in \mnt
shaktiman01 said:
See no "User" folder in \mnt
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I told you, the data has got to be somewhere in the /mnt or /storage directory. It has many sub-directories and you have to check all of them.
And, btw, I have this path /mnt/user/0/ which has some symlink to internal memory.
sasukay said:
I told you, the data has got to be somewhere in the /mnt or /storage directory. It has many sub-directories and you have to check all of them.
And, btw, I have this path /mnt/user/0/ which has some symlink to internal memory.
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Which file explorer/browser you are using?
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Which file explorer/browser you are using?
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Its SOLID EXPLORER. Well, I prefer a two year old version of es explorer but that doesn't seem to get root permissions on Nougat, don't know why.
sasukay said:
Its SOLID EXPLORER. Well, I prefer a two year old version of es explorer but that doesn't seem to get root permissions on Nougat, don't know why.
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I am using that on cm12.1
I've just tried to do a backup on my NT running AOSP 7.0. I have TWRP 3.0.2-0 in emmc.
The first attempt I tried to go to the "external SD" card since there is lots of room there. Everything seemed to go just fine although I thought the backup size was a bit small, just over 2 gb. On reboot I could not find the backup anywhere. I tried ES File Explorer and the native File Explorer. No sign of anything like "/external_sd/TWRP/Backups/" etc., and no sign in ES File Explorer that another 2 gb chunk was occupied by something.
So I went back into TWRP and looked at the File Manager there. Not only could I not find evidence of the backup but every folder listed showed as empty! Well, I think TWRP is often very squirrely, so I was not too worried about that. I went to try another backup and saw that by the mysterious accounting of TWRP, I had about 2 gb less storage space on the "micro SD card" than before I tried the first backup. Hmm..... When I tried a second backup, it failed, stating there was no space (despite there being over 13 gb). Finally, I decided to try a backup to internal. This went just fine, but the folder for storage of the backup was supposed to be something like "/emmc_unused/TWRP/Backup/" etc., and--you guessed it, was not visible in any file manager of any sort.
After a reboot I went back into TWRP and to my horror now the internal storage shows about 2 gb less!!!!!! ARGH! Where are these files that are taking up space but nowhere to be found?!
Edit: AHA! Is there a manual somewhere for TWRP? This time I tried "Mount" for internal. Very strange. There is a screen to select what to "mount", but not a button or something to say "now do it!". Anyway, once I did that, I was able to see both of the mysterious locations mentioned above and delete both backups, freeing up the 2 gb in each "location". But I still have no idea how to make a backup and put it somewhere I can actually get at it. I generally off-load backups and store them on my PC.
nmyshkin said:
I've just tried to do a backup on my NT running AOSP 7.0. I have TWRP 3.0.2-0 in emmc.
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But I still have no idea how to make a backup and put it somewhere I can actually get at it. I generally off-load backups and store them on my PC.
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Have you tried using a PC sdcard reader to read the sdcard?
I have had problems finding/accessing from my PC some of the files on my HD+ that I had created while I was using terminal emulator (which I suspect having to do with file ownership and access permission setting but which I have not found a solution for), but I have always been able to read and copy CWM/TWRP backup files on sdcard by using a card reader.
digixmax said:
Have you tried using a PC sdcard reader to read the sdcard?
I have had problems finding/accessing from my PC some of the files on my HD+ that I had created while I was using terminal emulator (which I suspect having to do with file ownership and access permission setting but which I have not found a solution for), but I have always been able to read and copy CWM/TWRP backup files on sdcard by using a card reader.
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The OS warns that the SD card will become encrypted and unreadable by external means if you choose to extend the memory rather than using the card in the traditional format. So, no, you can't just pop it out and read it on a PC.
The really confounding part is that even a backup saved to internal cannot be copied off. The directory seems to be invisible to everything but TWRP.
Really feeling buyers remorse on that decision but I'm afraid of the damage if I revert the card. I can backup content I've stored there but there's no way to know how much the OS has placed there. All that would be lost and some apps might be messed up. Ugh.
I can copy/move files from internal storage to SD Card if I use the built-in file manager. However, if I use any 3rd party file manager, the operation will fail. It is as though the SD Card is read-only. I can copy from the SD Card to internal storage just fine.
I've tried ES File Explorer, File Manager Pro, Solid Explorer and they all failed. I've given grants to write to the root of SD-Card. Does anyone have any idea how to fix this?
Try with a real file manager like
https://labs.xda-developers.com/store/app/com.mixplorer
Earthkeeper said:
I can copy/move files from internal storage to SD Card if I use the built-in file manager. However, if I use any 3rd party file manager, the operation will fail. It is as though the SD Card is read-only. I can copy from the SD Card to internal storage just fine.
I've tried ES File Explorer, File Manager Pro, Solid Explorer and they all failed. I've given grants to write to the root of SD-Card. Does anyone have any idea how to fix this?
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I have exactly the same problem. I tried with solid, mix without success.
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Mixplorer works great. Root Explorer also works.
Thank you for your recommendation!
I really don't get it. At first, nothing works. Then when I install Root Explorer and grant storage access to the root of the SD-card, it immediately works.
Then I tried MiXplorer and it also works. Now when I return to Solid Explorer and it is working now.
What's going on? Does Root Explorer unlock something which makes it "click"? I don't get it at all. I only hope it is reliable in the long run and not switching "on" and "off" randomly.
Earthkeeper said:
I really don't get it. At first, nothing works. Then when I install Root Explorer and grant storage access to the root of the SD-card, it immediately works.
Then I tried MiXplorer and it also works. Now when I return to Solid Explorer and it is working now.
What's going on? Does Root Explorer unlock something which makes it "click"? I don't get it at all. I only hope it is reliable in the long run and not switching "on" and "off" randomly.
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Root Explorer has been the ultimate for me. I bought the paid version when it first came out years ago. It always acomplishes whatever task I need it to do.
Not Working
Not working for me.. I am using Honor V10... recently, I installed the android 10 (EMUI 10) update via ota (over the air). I have tried Root Explorer, ES file manager pro, but no file manager is able to write to external card except default file manager (which is pre installed)
PS: My phone is not rooted.
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Not working for me.. I am using Honor V10... recently, I installed the android 10 (EMUI 10) update via ota (over the air). I have tried Root Explorer, ES file manager pro, but no file manager is able to write to external card except default file manager (which is pre installed)
PS: My phone is not rooted.
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Go to developer settings and enable the option allow apps to write to external card... Have fun
JustChris20 said:
Go to developer settings and enable the option allow apps to write to external card... Have fun
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This option is already enabled but still not working... pls see tge attached screenshot for your reference.
Any other workaround?
I still have the same problem...
I have a new P30 Pro and Nano SD card Just arrived.
I can write (and read) the card by external reader, connecting the phone via USB to a PC, etc. etc.
But when the card is on the phone I can only use Heawei file manager!!!
I have enable the option allow apps to write to external card.
I've just update on EMUI 10 build 10.0.0186
I can't beleive I tried a lot file manager and also some alternative app like quickpic and no one works good!!!!
Fix the problem...
After enable the option allow apps to write to external card, I tried to disable developer settings.
Also tried to active some app I've disable before... 2 app, default browser and HiCare!
That's all and now I have no problem writing Nano SD card with all of my app!!!
I also rebbot the phone sveral time...
JustChris20 said:
Go to developer settings and enable the option allow apps to write to external card... Have fun
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Under what heading is this...only option I have relating to external memory is force allow apps to external memory.
Issue resolved by installing FX file commander
Hi there.
I have the exact same problem.
None of those steps helped me
I tried installing every single Root Explorer there is in the Play Store, but none worked.
Earthkeeper said:
I really don't get it. At first, nothing works. Then when I install Root Explorer and grant storage access to the root of the SD-card, it immediately works.
Then I tried MiXplorer and it also works. Now when I return to Solid Explorer and it is working now.
What's going on? Does Root Explorer unlock something which makes it "click"? I don't get it at all. I only hope it is reliable in the long run and not switching "on" and "off" randomly.
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Which one of the Root Explorer apps that we can find on Play Store did the trick for you ?
Tedo said:
I still have the same problem...
I have a new P30 Pro and Nano SD card Just arrived.
I can write (and read) the card by external reader, connecting the phone via USB to a PC, etc. etc.
But when the card is on the phone I can only use Heawei file manager!!!
I have enable the option allow apps to write to external card.
I've just update on EMUI 10 build 10.0.0186
I can't beleive I tried a lot file manager and also some alternative app like quickpic and no one works good!!!!
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Tedo said:
Fix the problem...
After enable the option allow apps to write to external card, I tried to disable developer settings.
Also tried to active some app I've disable before... 2 app, default browser and HiCare!
That's all and now I have no problem writing Nano SD card with all of my app!!!
I also rebbot the phone sveral time...
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I enabled the default browser and the HiCare app (actually they were not disabled, so I just opened them to complete their setup) but this did not help either.
I even formatted the memory card (using my phone "format card" option) and then reset my phone to factory defaults and set it up again from the beginning without restoring backups.
I still have not found a solution to thus issue, though.
Any ideas anyone?
LostEchoes said:
Hi there.
I have the exact same problem.
None of those steps helped me
I tried installing every single Root Explorer there is in the Play Store, but none worked.
Which one of the Root Explorer apps that we can find on Play Store did the trick for you ?
I enabled the default browser and the HiCare app (actually they were not disabled, so I just opened them to complete their setup) but this did not help either.
I even formatted the memory card (using my phone "format card" option) and then reset my phone to factory defaults and set it up again from the beginning without restoring backups.
I still have not found a solution to thus issue, though.
Any ideas anyone?
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I had to instal FX file commander to get SD card write permission....I can't make it stick, every time I reboot I have to reset the sd card write permission.
I have similar problems relating to this thread on my mate 20 pro after updating to Android 10 (EMUI 10). I've tried all the methods mentioned here and it worked briefly before restarting the phone. After restarting the phone, it went back to being unable to copy files to External Storage.
I noticed that i was able to delete and rename files on the external storage but i just can't seem to copy anything into it.
I can copy files from the external card to internal storage but not the other way around.
Tried using MiXplorer, the only way i can copy files into the external card is by this method:
i copied the file and it shows error, but there's an image of the file created on the external card with 0 kb. Then i overwrite the file and replacing the '0 kb' file and it worked. And another method to just to use the built-in file manager which is a pain to use and the UI are crappy.
It was a lengthy method and therefore I decided to downgrade to Android 9 for now.
I also noticed i can't change the download directory of my Ttorrent app to any folder of my choice in external storage.
anyone can suggest a better method to overwrite this external drive issue? Thanks in advanced.
malshadows said:
I have similar problems relating to this thread on my mate 20 pro after updating to Android 10 (EMUI 10). I've tried all the methods mentioned here and it worked briefly before restarting the phone. After restarting the phone, it went back to being unable to copy files to External Storage.
I noticed that i was able to delete and rename files on the external storage but i just can't seem to copy anything into it.
I can copy files from the external card to internal storage but not the other way around.
Tried using MiXplorer, the only way i can copy files into the external card is by this method:
i copied the file and it shows error, but there's an image of the file created on the external card with 0 kb. Then i overwrite the file and replacing the '0 kb' file and it worked. And another method to just to use the built-in file manager which is a pain to use and the UI are crappy.
It was a lengthy method and therefore I decided to downgrade to Android 9 for now.
I also noticed i can't change the download directory of my Ttorrent app to any folder of my choice in external storage.
anyone can suggest a better method to overwrite this external drive issue? Thanks in advanced.
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This this the "official" reply at the Huawei forums:
https://consumer.huawei.com/en/comm...-disabled-for-3rd-party-apps-!/topicId_90489/
Now, what I've come to notice is the following:
- All Huawei and Google apps I have tried, do have access to the memory card (e.g. Google Maps is allowed to save its offline maps on the SD card, the same for Google News and the articles it downloads)
- Some 3rd party apps do have access. E.g. Here We Go maps can save its maps on the external card. ASR Voice Recorder can save its recordings to a specific memory card folder, the one that is automatically created -on the card- by the app when it is installed on the phone. Maybe there are other app that we will find they can, too.
- So it seems that the rule is not general, as Huawei implies at that thread I have posted above.
My biggest concern was that MixPlorer has now limited use, and this is kind of sad as it was my favorite explorer.
Huawei Files manager is not bad, it's actually quite OK, but it bothers me that you cannot add 3rd party clouds on it. If it had that option I would be happy with it. I like it that it has that "favorites" option. For now I have created a folder "My Archives" on the internal memory and I initially save almost everything there (e.g. my Nova Launcher backups). Then I use Huawei Files manager to move them to the external memory card on the folders I want.
LostEchoes said:
This this the "official" reply at the Huawei forums:
https://consumer.huawei.com/en/comm...-disabled-for-3rd-party-apps-!/topicId_90489/
Now, what I've come to notice is the following:
- All Huawei and Google apps I have tried, do have access to the memory card (e.g. Google Maps is allowed to save its offline maps on the SD card, the same for Google News and the articles it downloads)
- Some 3rd party apps do have access. E.g. Here We Go maps can save its maps on the external card. ASR Voice Recorder can save its recordings to a specific memory card folder, the one that is automatically created -on the card- by the app when it is installed on the phone. Maybe there are other app that we will find they can, too.
- So it seems that the rule is not general, as Huawei implies at that thread I have posted above.
My biggest concern was that MixPlorer has now limited use, and this is kind of sad as it was my favorite explorer.
Huawei Files manager is not bad, it's actually quite OK, but it bothers me that you cannot add 3rd party clouds on it. If it had that option I would be happy with it. I like it that it has that "favorites" option. For now I have created a folder "My Archives" on the internal memory and I initially save almost everything there (e.g. my Nova Launcher backups). Then I use Huawei Files manager to move them to the external memory card on the folders I want.
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Hey that's a good idea of creating a temp folder on your internal drive before using Huawei file manager to transfer everything out to your external card. However it requires additional steps to get it done but it's a good idea nonetheless. Thanks for that suggestion. For me i'm so used to be using solid explorer to do all my file operations as it has google drive integration which makes it easy n fast to transfer between drives. So i guess my best bet is to downgrade to android 9, it's just much more comfortable to work with and in my opinion, android 10 is not that big of a deal and not much substantial changes anyway. Hehe.
Every reboot I always have this facing problem!
Sometime I must reboot because my smartphone switch off for low battery....
When I reboot try to disable and re-enable the special option in developer menù, also try to uninstall and after install again the memory card (from setup/memory menù).
After that try to copy some file to memory card with default file manager an default Gallery...
Sometimes it is enough sometimes I have to try more and more... But after several time it works!
Xplore
Try xplore by lonely cat games. It's working on my mate 20 pro and survived reboots.