I tried searching for the answer/ solution but I don't know how to phrase it.
So here goes: Whenever I install a CM, AOSP, or AOKP ROM (basically anything other than touchwiz), my phone memory does a weird thing where it only has the default folders, which are empty, or it makes a root "0" folder and puts all my data (android data, pictures, etc) in there. But it's not like it's deleting the data; the memory usage is still the same, 5ish gigs. But I can't access it, because like I said, it only shows the default folders without anything in them.
Please help
The aosp ROMs are 4.2.2, it has a different directory structure.
Your data from /storage/sdcard0 is still there, it's in /data/media.
art0605 said:
I tried searching for the answer/ solution but I don't know how to phrase it.
So here goes: Whenever I install a CM, AOSP, or AOKP ROM (basically anything other than touchwiz), my phone memory does a weird thing where it only has the default folders, which are empty, or it makes a root "0" folder and puts all my data (android data, pictures, etc) in there. But it's not like it's deleting the data; the memory usage is still the same, 5ish gigs. But I can't access it, because like I said, it only shows the default folders without anything in them.
Please help
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Aosp bases handle the file paths different than TW. I think it's an android 4.2.x thing. That is why there is a flash able zip posted with some of the aosp ROMs for downgrading back to tw to fix the folders. If you are running aosp now you're old internal stuff might be in data/media
pool_shark said:
The aosp ROMs are 4.2.2, it has a different directory structure.
Your data from /storage/sdcard0 is still there, it's in /data/media.
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Awesome! I found it through Root Explorer. Is there a way to go to that directory on a PC?
JBeXX said:
Aosp bases handle the file paths different than TW. I think it's an android 4.2.x thing. That is why there is a flash able zip posted with some of the aosp ROMs for downgrading back to tw to fix the folders. If you are running aosp now you're old internal stuff might be in data/media
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That's what thought. But wasn't 100% sure.
pool_shark said:
The aosp ROMs are 4.2.2, it has a different directory structure.
Your data from /storage/sdcard0 is still there, it's in /data/media.
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Ninja'd!
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art0605 said:
Awesome! I found it through Root Explorer. Is there a way to go to that directory on a PC?
That's what thought. But wasn't 100% sure.
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Use root explorer to copy or move the files to a recognized folder on internal or ext sd
JBeXX said:
Use root explorer to copy or move the files to a recognized folder on internal or ext sd
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Ahh damn that's going to take forever. Thanks though!
Hey guys,
I about to jump from TW to AOSP, and I am glad I stumbled upon this thread before I did. I just backed up the contents of my internal "phone" storage and the "card" storage (as labeled in Android File Transfer) to my computer. I believe this is only the contents of /storage/sdcard0 and /storage/extSdCard. I am thinking about flashing CarbonRom soon. I will make a backup in TWRP before I flash. If I happen to not like AOSP and want to come back to TW (I am currently on Beans 10) using the backup I made, how would I go about doing that? If I just restore from the backup, will that take care of these file management issues that are listed in the thread?
I just want to make sure that if I miss TW, then I can come back without problems.
AlphaNoble said:
Hey guys,
I about to jump from TW to AOSP, and I am glad I stumbled upon this thread before I did. I just backed up the contents of my internal "phone" storage and the "card" storage (as labeled in Android File Transfer) to my computer. I believe this is only the contents of /storage/sdcard0 and /storage/extSdCard. I am thinking about flashing CarbonRom soon. I will make a backup in TWRP before I flash. If I happen to not like AOSP and want to come back to TW (I am currently on Beans 10) using the backup I made, how would I go about doing that? If I just restore from the backup, will that take care of these file management issues that are listed in the thread?
I just want to make sure that if I miss TW, then I can come back without problems.
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There is a downgrade folder zip in a couple of the aosp threads(one is linked below) that you would flash after flashing or restoring a tw ROM.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2129787
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Hey guys,
So I have this AOSP 4.2.1 JB ROM running on my phone now.
But the thing that i'm defenitely missings is the photosphere in the Camera app.
Can i donwload and flash it myself, and does anyone have a link for me?
And another thing i'm concerned about is my backups.
Are my TWRP and Titanium backups automatically placed in the right folder to maintain them or do i need to copy them to another place on my phone?
0godfather said:
Hey guys,
So I have this AOSP 4.2.1 JB ROM running on my phone now.
But the thing that i'm defenitely missings is the photosphere in the Camera app.
Can i donwload and flash it myself, and does anyone have a link for me?
And another thing i'm concerned about is my backups.
Are my TWRP and Titanium backups automatically placed in the right folder to maintain them or do i need to copy them to another place on my phone?
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You definitely can get photosphere yourself. I am on HTC Sense 4.1.1 and I have photosphere along with my stock 4.2 camera. I have a zip file sitting on my computer with it and it is working great for me, but you might like to find your own by a simple Google search (also apparently the file size is too large for me to attach here regardless) for "4.2 camera apk" or something of the sort.
I'm not quite following your second question. If you make an additional, more recent backup, they are all stored in specific folders on your "SD card" (phone memory) under those apps that were created for that purpose. If you wipe your phone, however, I'm not sure they will stay, so you might try finding those backups and storing them elsewhere (I think the premium version of Titanium has some way to let you not have to do that, but I'm not sure. I also do not know about TWRP's backups. Sorry).
ProfLayton said:
You definitely can get photosphere yourself. I am on HTC Sense 4.1.1 and I have photosphere along with my stock 4.2 camera. I have a zip file sitting on my computer with it and it is working great for me, but you might like to find your own by a simple Google search (also apparently the file size is too large for me to attach here regardless) for "4.2 camera apk" or something of the sort.
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Well i have found some zips on other sections for different phones. Does it matter that i don't have that specific phone or can I just flash the zip?
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I'm not quite following your second question. If you make an additional, more recent backup, they are all stored in specific folders on your "SD card" (phone memory) under those apps that were created for that purpose. If you wipe your phone, however, I'm not sure they will stay, so you might try finding those backups and storing them elsewhere (I think the premium version of Titanium has some way to let you not have to do that, but I'm not sure. I also do not know about TWRP's backups. Sorry).
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Well the question is about the profile thing. When you flash a 4.2 ROM you get profiles (a android jb 4.2 function) and your SDcard gets formatted to: sdcard/0/.... with all your files in there. So the question is like: how do i make sure my backups and files maintain when i flash (and wipe data) something on my phone?
I used this I believe: /s/zr7zvb16nc03b4f/4.2Camera_t04.zip (Add dropbox.com in front of it because I have not reached the qualified anti-spam threshold to post URLs).
For your latter question, I'm going to say try saving the backups to an external source.
I found a FAQ for Titanium Backup: "So you can use Titanium Backup to restore applications and system settings on top of a new ROM. Or, if you copied your Titanium Backup folder, you can restore to a new phone." I'm going to guess your case is along the same vein.
ProfLayton said:
I used this I believe: /s/zr7zvb16nc03b4f/4.2Camera_t04.zip (Add dropbox.com in front of it because I have not reached the qualified anti-spam threshold to post URLs).
For your latter question, I'm going to say try saving the backups to an external source.
I found a FAQ for Titanium Backup: "So you can use Titanium Backup to restore applications and system settings on top of a new ROM. Or, if you copied your Titanium Backup folder, you can restore to a new phone." I'm going to guess your case is along the same vein.
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Thanks man, I'm trying that zip-file in an minut when i made a complete backup!
For the backups, I just copied it to my pc so i can always try it later. Ill keep searching till i found my answer, thanks for your reply!
edit: the photosphere zip works like a charm, thanks a lot!
Hey could you repost the Photosphere app, doesnt seem to exist on the link provided before.
The google edition cam app doesnt work on the one x +, well the photosphere doesnt i mean.
Thanks!
0godfather said:
Thanks man, I'm trying that zip-file in an minut when i made a complete backup!
For the backups, I just copied it to my pc so i can always try it later. Ill keep searching till i found my answer, thanks for your reply!
edit: the photosphere zip works like a charm, thanks a lot!
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Well the question is about the profile thing. When you flash a 4.2 ROM you get profiles (a android jb 4.2 function) and your SDcard gets formatted to: sdcard/0/.... with all your files in there. So the question is like: how do i make sure my backups and files maintain when i flash (and wipe data) something on my phone?
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The SD card does not get 'formatted' to 0 folder. It just a folder that can be accecessed by JB 4.2.. The files etc that were previously in the SD Card remain intact, you just can't access it...
i.e. SDCARD\ becomes unaccessible and SDCARD\0 becomes to root folder...
Hello everybody, new user here. I've been lurking for quite a while now, and decided to register since I need a question answered.
So anyway, to the question.
I want to install a custom ROM, LiquidSmooth to be exact, and I want to know, do I need to keep the previous system, the stock system, from Samsung, or can I delete it, and install my ROM? Problem is, I've got no external SD card, and I'm kind of OCD about spacing, I've noticed that when I installed it over the stock ROM, it worked perfectly, only thing that bothered me is that the system emulates a folder for all files, the folders called 0 in a normal file browser, and emulated in others.
Any help would be greatly appriciated.
-RCencelj
RCencelj said:
Hello everybody, new user here. I've been lurking for quite a while now, and decided to register since I need a question answered.
So anyway, to the question.
I want to install a custom ROM, LiquidSmooth to be exact, and I want to know, do I need to keep the previous system, the stock system, from Samsung, or can I delete it, and install my ROM? Problem is, I've got no external SD card, and I'm kind of OCD about spacing, I've noticed that when I installed it over the stock ROM, it worked perfectly, only thing that bothered me is that the system emulates a folder for all files, the folders called 0 in a normal file browser, and emulated in others.
Any help would be greatly appriciated.
-RCencelj
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Custom rom
it worked perfectly, only thing that bothered me is that the system emulates a folder for all files, the folders called 0 in a normal file browser, and emulated in others.
Yes that is correct
You can delete previous system
jje
flashing a rom wipes system automatically
That's good and all, but how do I go about doing that? Since I don't own or have an external SD card, and I would preferably delete (wipe) everything with TWRP, problem is, if I do that, I delete the file that's on the phone, the .zip file that you use to install the actual ROM, so, where do I put the file so that it doesn't get deleted when I wipe everything off the phone?
*Edit*: Well, if it wipes the system automatically, how can I make it, so that the 0 or 'emulated' folder doesn't exist, and it just stores everything like the default ROM from Samsung? If that's possible.
RCencelj said:
That's good and all, but how do I go about doing that? Since I don't own or have an external SD card, and I would preferably delete (wipe) everything with TWRP, problem is, if I do that, I delete the file that's on the phone, the .zip file that you use to install the actual ROM, so, where do I put the file so that it doesn't get deleted when I wipe everything off the phone?
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Flashing roms wipes system not whole internal SD card.
You won't loose all files in the internal SD card unless you choose to format internal CD card in the recovery (not needed to flash new rom).
Regards
RCencelj said:
*Edit*: Well, if it wipes the system automatically, how can I make it, so that the 0 or 'emulated' folder doesn't exist, and it just stores everything like the default ROM from Samsung? If that's possible.
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Firstly it overwrites system rather than wiping so sometimes you can end up with residual files causing problems, hence most devs recommend you format system before flashing.
Secondly the 0 folder is the equivalent on 4.2 roms of the root folder on older roms. You can delete everything outside of the 0 folder, or so I believe but if you successfully delete the 0 folder it will be recreated on the next boot.
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ghostofcain said:
Firstly it overwrites system rather than wiping so sometimes you can end up with residual files causing problems, hence most devs recommend you format system before flashing.
Secondly the 0 folder is the equivalent on 4.2 roms of the root folder on older roms. You can delete everything outside of the 0 folder, or so I believe but if you successfully delete the 0 folder it will be recreated on the next boot.
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So, just so I know I understood you, the 0 folder is the actual system for 4.2.x Android systems, and it can't be deleted/replaced?
If so, can I delete everything in the previous folder, except the 0 folder, like the DCIM, music, etc. folders, and I'm assuming those were used by the previous system, the default Samsung ROM.
Also, to be sure, if I just do a factory reset and install the LiquidSmooth ROM, it should delete the previous system and all files should work correctly on the new ROM?
RCencelj said:
So, just so I know I understood you, the 0 folder is the actual system for 4.2.x Android systems, and it can't be deleted/replaced?
If so, can I delete everything in the previous folder, except the 0 folder, like the DCIM, music, etc. folders, and I'm assuming those were used by the previous system, the default Samsung ROM.
Also, to be sure, if I just do a factory reset and install the LiquidSmooth ROM, it should delete the previous system and all files should work correctly on the new ROM?
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if you revert back from 4.2.1 / 4.2.2 to 4.1.2 and below
make sure you download the megawipe from below link then flash any ROM you want
flash the megawipe zip file totally clear all your content in internal storage = just like format windows
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1832326
Thanks everyone, I got it sorted out now.
Has anyone had issues where they could place zips on their internal storage and then when you go to flash in my example, a new kernel, i cannot see it in TWRP. When i have CM10.1 flashed i dont have issues. Im currently on NOS sense 5. when i look at my twrp, its almost like its an old version.
ryclegman said:
Has anyone had issues where they could place zips on their internal storage and then when you go to flash in my example, a new kernel, i cannot see it in TWRP. When i have CM10.1 flashed i dont have issues. Im currently on NOS sense 5. when i look at my twrp, its almost like its an old version.
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Its the same old 4.2 vs 4.1 folders issue. 4.2 uses /0 which twrp uses by default. The other folder is /data/media, where your 4.1 stuff will be. Put your stuff in /0 or delete it when you use 4.1 ROMs and use /data/media instead. Or browse to either one depending on what you want to flash and which ROM it was downloaded on.
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pio_masaki said:
Its the same old 4.2 vs 4.1 folders issue. 4.2 uses /0 which twrp uses by default. The other folder is /data/media, where your 4.1 stuff will be. Put your stuff in /0 or delete it when you use 4.1 ROMs and use /data/media instead. Or browse to either one depending on what you want to flash and which ROM it was downloaded on.
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Got it. thanks man
Had the same problem with CWM recovery. Scared me pretty good because I thought I lost some important nandroid backups. CM 10.1 put all my new stuff in /data/media/0/ and left my old stuff in /data/media. CWM only looks for backups in the original one (/data/media/Clockworkmod/backup) so TWRP might do the same.
Cobra04 said:
Had the same problem with CWM recovery. Scared me pretty good because I thought I lost some important nandroid backups. CM 10.1 put all my new stuff in /data/media/0/ and left my old stuff in /data/media. CWM only looks for backups in the original one (/data/media/Clockworkmod/backup) so TWRP might do the same.
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Twrp is opposite, it looks in /0 first.
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I am in need of freeing up space on my device. Out of the 16Gb I only have 2.xGb available now. I do have at least 2 backups on my phone, and 2 helium backups. Looking at the math, they should not take up that much room:
Stock.zip 1.7G
slim.zip 1.6G
Helium1 642MB
Helium2 733MB
= 4.65G
So that really doesn't make any sense to me. I reviewed my apps and I had a lot of google play cached, but I deleted all of that data through app management. So I can't figure what is taking up all of this space.
1. if I delete my backups from the device, which I have transferred to my computer, and then paste them back in, will they work? Will they work if I format the phone?
2. In reality I would have no problem formatting the phone to wipe everything and flash a rom again via OTG cable through CWM. However, I am at a loss as to what selection(s) in CWM I make to fix my problem.
1) there is actually only 11-12G actually available to the user, on all DNA's, on all ROMs
2) you can move back ups around. i keep a copy of mine in dropbox and on my computer, but never on my phone.
3) you have to have apps, app cache, music, pics, ect to have such little space. you need to look at your /data partition and your /sdcard partition when calculating space.
4) wth is helium?
Helium used to be carbon backup. But I'll look at my directories and review the space used
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Ok. So I was able to free up a bunch of space and removed a single backup, leaving stock.zip on board in case of crashing and need of assistance with Verizon though 99% unlikely to happen. I was having major issues finding where helium stored its data because it is blocked from the user. But luckily the Storage option in >Settings>Storage in slimbean is much greater in depth than I'm used to. So I was able to detect where a lot of my data was coming from which was various sources, but some were helium/Carbon, and also old DL files of CM that were sitting around.
But for the sake of knowing, If I did want to wipe everything through CWM and format, would I choose everything? or just a single option.
rockfreak101 said:
Helium used to be carbon backup. But I'll look at my directories and review the space used
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Ok. So I was able to free up a bunch of space and removed a single backup, leaving stock.zip on board in case of crashing and need of assistance with Verizon though 99% unlikely to happen. I was having major issues finding where helium stored its data because it is blocked from the user. But luckily the Storage option in >Settings>Storage in slimbean is much greater in depth than I'm used to. So I was able to detect where a lot of my data was coming from which was various sources, but some were helium/Carbon, and also old DL files of CM that were sitting around.
But for the sake of knowing, If I did want to wipe everything through CWM and format, would I choose everything? or just a single option.
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well its been a while since i've used CMW, and im on TWRP. but it depends on how far down you want to format. if you want to just do a regular wipe, and reload a new rom then the usual wipe is your /system, /data, /cache, /dalvik, and /boot. im not sure what CWM calls them, but those are the usual partitions. just make sure you have a new rom ready or a backup. if you wanted to reformat even FURTHER than that, you could flash the stock rocovery and do a fac reset. but thats only if you are have major issue across all roms.
OK. Thanks for the response. I'm going to research why so many people tend to prefer twrp now.
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rockfreak101 said:
OK. Thanks for the response. I'm going to research why so many people tend to prefer twrp now.
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i think one of the main factors was that it works with some ROMs OTA functions, especially Viper roms, which are very popular. myself, i just wanted to try it out lol
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OK. Thanks for the response. I'm going to research why so many people tend to prefer twrp now.
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If u came from a Rom that was on 4.1.1 or 4.1.2 to a Rom that is 4.2.2 then check the /sdcard directory.. not sdcard0. I think its also in data/media. Not sdcard/data/media but striaght data/media. Use a root file manager and if u still have files in there, then delete everything except the 0/ folder. Happened to me a couple times and I freed up around 2-4 gb everytime
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If u came from a Rom that was on 4.1.1 or 4.1.2 to a Rom that is 4.2.2 then check the /sdcard directory.. not sdcard0. I think its also in data/media. Not sdcard/data/media but striaght data/media. Use a root file manager and if u still have files in there, then delete everything except the 0/ folder. Happened to me a couple times and I freed up around 2-4 gb everytime
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I looked into that and saw what you were referring to. My only concern is that data/media is where my stock.zip recovery is saved. I'm not sure if I'm quite ready to remove that from my device yet. Also, do I need any of the CWM stuff found in data/media still? I am not referring to data/media/0.
rockfreak101 said:
I looked into that and saw what you were referring to. My only concern is that data/media is where my stock.zip recovery is saved. I'm not sure if I'm quite ready to remove that from my device yet. Also, do I need any of the CWM stuff found in data/media still? I am not referring to data/media/0.
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Update: I'm glad I checked. I performed a backup of my current rom and CWM placed it in /data/media/clockworkmod. So this is an active directory that CWM is using for my backups. So I don't believe I'll be deleting the /data/media/clockworkmod directory. But will then anything else be impacted if deleted?
rockfreak101 said:
Update: I'm glad I checked. I performed a backup of my current rom and CWM placed it in /data/media/clockworkmod. So this is an active directory that CWM is using for my backups. So I don't believe I'll be deleting the /data/media/clockworkmod directory. But will then anything else be impacted if deleted?
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Oh if you still have your backups there then dont delete that cwm folder.. but try and delete anything else that seems useless. What Rom are you on now?
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Oh if you still have your backups there then dont delete that cwm folder.. but try and delete anything else that seems useless. What Rom are you on now?
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On slimbean. The remaining 4.1 files are from stock. All roms i have used are 4.2.
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rockfreak101 said:
On slimbean. The remaining 4.1 files are from stock. All roms i have used are 4.2.
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Alright I'm pretty sure its the data/media/android folder that has a pretty good chunk of memory. Try and delete that. It wont mess up your current setup because your android folder is on the sdcard 0
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Also if you took pictures, downloaded stuff, or have music when you were on stock, then dont touch folders like dcim, download, music, pictures, ect. I personally move all my files when I switch between 4.1 to 4.2 fro. Sdcard to sdcard0. If you want to do that use a computer to make sure it transfered right because I used es filemanager once and it said it transfered but instead all of it was lost. I think someone made a .zip file that could transfer everything but I can't remember
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Alright I'm pretty sure its the data/media/android folder that has a pretty good chunk of memory. Try and delete that. It wont mess up your current setup because your android folder is on the sdcard 0
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Also if you took pictures, downloaded stuff, or have music when you were on stock, then dont touch folders like dcim, download, music, pictures, ect. I personally move all my files when I switch between 4.1 to 4.2 fro. Sdcard to sdcard0. If you want to do that use a computer to make sure it transfered right because I used es filemanager once and it said it transfered but instead all of it was lost. I think someone made a .zip file that could transfer everything but I can't remember
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Sounds good. In regards to the pictures. I believe you posted about that somewhere else before, or someone else did. I saw the issues. I use dropbox and don't have any music on my device other than google music cache. So I cleared a lot of that stuff up. thanks for your help.
[Q] Very Weird "Symptoms" Internal+External Storage deleted files instantly reappear
orbital_71 said:
It call magic
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For real though what's going on. Whether I use ES file explorer or root explorer, Even TWRP's built in file manager. The first two mentioned will delete the file and say "File Successfully Deleted" and the Storage for Internal/External (which ever it's located in) Reflects the correct change as if it was actually deleted. Yet once you back out of the folder the storage changes right back and I go back in the folder and the file is back...
Another example is moving files,
Just a few minutes ago I downloaded the Latest BeanStalk. I proceeded to move it to my External SD Card. And I deleted several files as well(Several Movies and a Nandroid), I then reboot to TWRP. I get ready to do a backup and notice that the damn storage sizes are back to the same sizes they were before I downloaded the ROM and deleted files. And the ROM is gone, not on Internal where it was downloaded to and moved from. Nor in the External Storage in the folder I moved it to.
Doesn't matter if I delete 17kb or 25GB the storage goes right back to what it was. And what ever files are there no matter if I delete/move/alter. It all goes back to identically the same...
Another odd thing, I made a Nandroid to my internal SD and once I booted back into the system it was gone. Even though it said backup successful. And before rebooting I checked the restore tab and the backup was there
What in the hell could cause that?
Tw1sted247 said:
For real though what's going on. Whether I use ES file explorer or root explorer, Even TWRP's built in file manager. The first two mentioned will delete the file and say "File Successfully Deleted" and the Storage for Internal/External (which ever it's located in) Reflects the correct change as if it was actually deleted. Yet once you back out of the folder the storage changes right back and I go back in the folder and the file is back...
Another example is moving files,
Just a few minutes ago I downloaded the Latest BeanStalk. I proceeded to move it to my External SD Card. And I deleted several files as well(Several Movies and a Nandroid), I then reboot to TWRP. I get ready to do a backup and notice that the damn storage sizes are back to the same sizes they were before I downloaded the ROM and deleted files. And the ROM is gone, not on Internal where it was downloaded to and moved from. Nor in the External Storage in the folder I moved it to.
Doesn't matter if I delete 17kb or 25GB the storage goes right back to what it was. And what ever files are there no matter if I delete/move/alter. It all goes back to identically the same...
Another odd thing, I made a Nandroid to my internal SD and once I booted back into the system it was gone. Even though it said backup successful. And before rebooting I checked the restore tab and the backup was there
What in the hell could cause that?
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Make sure u are on freezas latest kernel. And twrp linked in my op. Issues with sd otherwise...
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JoshBeach said:
Make sure u are on freezas latest kernel. And twrp linked in my op. Issues with sd otherwise...
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It's internal and external though.. And on multiple ROM's
Tw1sted247 said:
It's internal and external though.. And on multiple ROM's
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Did you update ES File Manager? One of the updates turned on the recycle bin by default, so a bunch of stuff, and space, started appearing (stuff I'd deleted) and depleting (space) until I deselected that option from settings.
Worth a shot.
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Unfortunately I checked and that option is not enabled on ES file explorer.
Tw1sted247 said:
Unfortunately I checked and that option is not enabled on ES file explorer.
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Well that sucks.
Might be time for a full wipe and restoration of your rom of choice.
I'm unclear if killing the internal USB storage is a good idea, but at least the default wipe in recovery (system, data, dalvik) makes sense, though you may end up having to do everything.
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micmars said:
Well that sucks.
Might be time for a full wipe and restoration of your rom of choice.
I'm unclear if killing the internal USB storage is a good idea, but at least the default wipe in recovery (system, data, dalvik) makes sense, though you may end up having to do everything.
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Everytime that I switch ROM's( with the exception to when I am upgrading a build number from the same ROM) I always go to Advanced and check Cache, System, Dalvik Cache .... I then proceed to back up one menu and swipe the "Factory Reset" Wipe option built into TWRP.
I can't even make Nandroids at this point, they just Disappear after I Reboot. So I went side door on this pesky little bastard. And brought in my OTG and 64GB Thumb Drive. And these Nandroids are sticking. Although the current ROM I am running atm (BeanStalk) isn't recognizing OTG inputs. As it's built off of CyanogenMod, and this is one of the known bugs ATM.
Anywasy One of the Kind fellows on the International N3 forum notified me of a certain Build.prop edit that may tackle this issue. So off I go
**Fingers CRossed:good:
Tw1sted247 said:
Everytime that I switch ROM's( with the exception to when I am upgrading a build number from the same ROM) I always go to Advanced and check Cache, System, Dalvik Cache .... I then proceed to back up one menu and swipe the "Factory Reset" Wipe option built into TWRP.
I can't even make Nandroids at this point, they just Disappear after I Reboot. So I went side door on this pesky little bastard. And brought in my OTG and 64GB Thumb Drive. And these Nandroids are sticking. Although the current ROM I am running atm (BeanStalk) isn't recognizing OTG inputs. As it's built off of CyanogenMod, and this is one of the known bugs ATM.
Anywasy One of the Kind fellows on the International N3 forum notified me of a certain Build.prop edit that may tackle this issue. So off I go
**Fingers CRossed:good:
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OK, this sounds bloody awful.
I am way unfamiliar with AOSP roms (I have clean rom on my Nexus 7 2013, however, so I get the simplicity of it), just isn't my cup of tea for this phone.
I am wondering if you switching between the 2 platforms hasn't caused some issues. I've wondered this before with other major issues, different from this but similar movement (AOSP to TouchWiz KitKat and back).
I'd like to see some definitive input on properly moving from one to the other.
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I've found the culprit and its Permissions. Going to the AOSP ROM which was a KitKat ROM set the Permissions on my SD Card to read only. And I don't have the "authority" to change the permissions back.
I've tried editing the platform.xml to no avail. It's starting to get pretty damn frustrating. Even now when I go back to 4.3 ROM's following a clean wipe(dalvik, system, cache... Then factory reset) my permissions remain the same.
I have been having the same problem. I decided to order a new sd card and change my buildprop using ROM Toolbox Pro. I modiified "ro.securestorage.support" from "true" to "false". I will be receiving my new card either today or tommorow. I have had some bad luck with SanDisk and I am going to try lexar. I'm really considering reformatting back to the tried and true FAT32.
Tw1sted247 said:
Everytime that I switch ROM's( with the exception to when I am upgrading a build number from the same ROM) I always go to Advanced and check Cache, System, Dalvik Cache .... I then proceed to back up one menu and swipe the "Factory Reset" Wipe option built into TWRP.
I can't even make Nandroids at this point, they just Disappear after I Reboot. So I went side door on this pesky little bastard. And brought in my OTG and 64GB Thumb Drive. And these Nandroids are sticking. Although the current ROM I am running atm (BeanStalk) isn't recognizing OTG inputs. As it's built off of CyanogenMod, and this is one of the known bugs ATM.
Anywasy One of the Kind fellows on the International N3 forum notified me of a certain Build.prop edit that may tackle this issue. So off I go
**Fingers CRossed:good:
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I was having similar issues for awhile, not sure if this is what fixed it or if it was something I did unintentionally but here's what I think may have worked: flashed my modem with MI3 once without auto reset on odin and then again with it then I changed my permissions on my external storage with root file explorer, i went into system/etc/permissions/platform.xml and added <group gid="media_rw" /> under the write_external_storage. I wasn't sure if that was the issue so for good measure I used triangle away and reset the flash counter, id been flashing a lot so I thought maybe that had something to do with it. idk. anyways, I haven't had the problem since. aside from APNs, still cant get custom apns to stick for some reason.
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Tw1sted247 said:
I've tried editing the platform.xml to no avail. It's starting to get pretty damn frustrating. Even now when I go back to 4.3 ROM's following a clean wipe(dalvik, system, cache... Then factory reset) my permissions remain the same.
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what twrp are you running?