Hi there....I've had my S2 for just over a month, in that time, I've done more ROM flashing, kernel flashing and tweaking than I did to my old phone over the year + that I owned it......
I've read that wiping data, cache and dalvic *can* leave bytes of old ROM etc undeleted.......
I'm beginning to experience some lag during normal daily use, so it's my intention to *completely* format EVERYTHING I can and start fresh (to see if it helps.....can't hurt right?).
So, I boot into recovery, go to mounts and storage and I see options to format.....
1) cache
2) system
3) data
4) preload
5) emmc
6) sdcard
So, I'm familiar with the first three options, but then I see....
Preload
No idea what this is, or even if it's safe to format (a Google search is no help either)
Emmc......whenever I see that, I think BRICKBUG......
Is it safe to format this using CM10.1s CWM.....even though the phone came out of the box running 4.0.4?
Sdcard.......is this internal storage, or is this the removable micro SD card that currently holds all my pictures, music and videos (also this card will be where I download the fresh copies of the rom/gapps to, and where I'll be installing them from).
One final (probably noobish) question. Is there a danger that I might unintentionally erase CWM as a result of formatting these partitions (specifically emmc).........
Thanks in advance.......
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Anybody? 77 views and nobody can help?....
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Preload is used for system apps in stock jb and for dualboot.
Emmc is your internal sd card
sd card is external sd card
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DubAholic said:
Preload is used for system apps in stock jb and for dualboot.
Emmc is your internal sd card
sd card is external sd card
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Thank you DubAholic.....
So none of the above are the removable (in my case 32gb) micro SD card, and all are safe to format? No concerns with emmc and brick bug?.....
No likelihood of erasing the CWM?...
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Sd card is the removable sd card
And normally it should be ok to format, but be sure to backup internal & external sd to pc
Always happy to help
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OK....completed the full wipe and re installed cm10.1 and gapps followed by my apps.......
Made no appreciable difference. Can anybody recommend an app that monitors which apps are the resource hoggers?......
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keithross39 said:
OK....completed the full wipe and re installed cm10.1 and gapps followed by my apps.......
Made no appreciable difference. Can anybody recommend an app that monitors which apps are the resource hoggers?......
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Did you cleaned all that partitions that you texted above? Can I do it by twrp?
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Before I ever started flashing kernels or ROMs my GS2 sees my internal card as the SD Micro card and my SD Card as the internal card?? Anyone else have this or know why this is??
Example, just now I went into CWM to update my SHOstock ROM and had to choose internal card for it to see the update even though I put the update on the SD Card..
same thing happened to me yesterday when i flashed my gs2 for the first time. i thought at first i accidentally loaded the zip onto my internal sd accidentally but i double checked and it was definitely on the external sd.
That's just the way it works on Entropy's kernel. I believe it even says so in his thread.
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Nick281051 said:
That's just the way it works on Entropy's kernel. I believe it even says so in his thread.
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Yup. Someone didn't read the Changelog.
Cyanogenmod labels their partitions differently than Samsung-derived ROMs (Samsungs don't follow the current Android standard).
Right now the CWM binary in Daily Driver is pulled straight from CM7, so I haven't had a chance to recompile and label the external SD as external instead of internal
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Yup. Someone didn't read the Changelog.
Cyanogenmod labels their partitions differently than Samsung-derived ROMs (Samsungs don't follow the current Android standard).
Right now the CWM binary in Daily Driver is pulled straight from CM7, so I haven't had a chance to recompile and label the external SD as external instead of internal
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Hey guys. How do I make the external SD card the default location to where my data goes. I bought 9 MM And it required a full gig of data and it all went on my internal storage
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MysticKing32 said:
Hey guys. How do I make the external SD card the default location to where my data goes. I bought 9 MM And it required a full gig of data and it all went on my internal storage
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No clue - turns out that what the OP was talking about was how CWM reports internal vs. external.
Hello guys,
I have an internal 11gb SD card in my i9100 and its full... my question is 1 how do i format it within my cell options? And if i do this will it affect my phone?
I have an external 32 gb sd card on it too and i can put stuff in it.
Thanks for the help.
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Go into settings. Scroll down to device/storage/usb storage/erase usb storage. Just copy and paste anything you want to keep to your 32gig external storage.
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thanks for the quick reply.. i see inside my internal card a folder called apps if i erase that i would have to download the apps again? I guess that they will crash right?
I dont know if in the internal sd card there is like a system folder or something like it... so if i delete a folder my phone wouldnt crash?
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If you have gone into settings/devices/storage/usb storage, and seen apps there, then more than likely you have made a backup using something like rom toolbox, TB, ultimate backup or mybackup.
If you browse to internal sdcard, you will see where your backup is kept. Copy this to your 32gig card along with photos etc.
You can then safely format it. Just copy the folders back once done.
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Hey man thanks for taking the time to answer such noob question everything turned out just fine on my cell did my back up/format and we cool now!!!
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Your welcome
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I noticed in touch cwm there is a few things to format like:
format /system
format /data
format /cache
format /sd card
format /external_sd
format /data and media and /data/media (/sdcard)
can i format them all EXCEPT format /external_sd then flash Rom?, (because that's where the Death Star Rom will be to flash)
Hey everyone, I'm still getting accustomed to the intricacies of flashing custom ROMs on my S3. On my only other Android device, my Acer Iconia Tab A500, flashing ROMs and creating/restoring backups from the Ext. SD is standard practice. However, I have seen many ROM install instructions specify using the Internal Storage to flash ROMs.
TL;DR: Is it safe to flash ROMs stored on the external SD card? Also, is creating and restoring CWM backups from the Ext. SD a recommended process? My latest backup is 3 GB and I'd really prefer to keep it on my Ext. card rather than internal storage.
Thanks for any help guys
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I am using cwm 5.5.0.4 v1.5
Backup and flashing through ext sd card. Haven't had any issue so far.
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Don't know the exact version of mine, but it's CWM Touch 6.x (for some form of parity with my tablet).
Don't know if it matters, but I'd like to be sure it's safe first.
Thanks for taking your time to reply
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Cwm touch 6.0.1.2 support ext sd card. So it should be fine for you to use ext sd card for backup and flashing.
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Since my SGS III, I never flashed from internal, Everything is working great, so I don't think that flashing from either storage device is harmful. Just be sure not to remove your External SD card whilst flashing. But that speaks for itself, isn't it?
Arsaw said:
Cwm touch 6.0.1.2 support ext sd card. So it should be fine for you to use ext sd card for backup and flashing.
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HKboy92 said:
Since my SGS III, I never flashed from internal, Everything is working great, so I don't think that flashing from either storage device is harmful. Just be sure not to remove your External SD card whilst flashing. But that speaks for itself, isn't it?
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Alright, thanks guys! Now I can reclaim those 3 gigs of space Thanks to one and all!
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Hi everyone,
I just did a clean instal of Jellybeans 16 and clicked on SDswap on the stock Beans kernel. Everything seemed to go OK.
Under Total Space it says 64GB (the size of my card) with 40.96GB free
Under SD Card it says total space 10.33GB, and available space is only 306MB
Now it's telling me I don't have enough storage space and in my notification bar it says storage space is running out.
I installed some applications but they should have installed to the card, and their data too, right? Why am I encountering this error and how do I get it to work properly?
Thanks!
Thank God someone else is having this problem. I couldn't figure it out myself, looks good under settings and storage but doesn't seem to be doing its job.
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Try deleting the Android folder under both SD card and extSDcard and rebooting.
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I ended up wiping the install partition and doing a clean install.
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I ended up wiping the install partition and doing a clean install.
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could you tell me how to wipe the install partition? im having the same problem
I think it was format internal partition. I had the ROM saved on my SD card.
Also take a look at this thread.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1946701
sithjedi333 said:
I think it was format internal partition. I had the ROM saved on my SD card.
Also take a look at this thread.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1946701
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I wiped my system partition if thats what you mean. but still no luck:/ any one know how to fix this????
Weird enough suddenly I found all my external SDCard files have all permissions like:
---rwxr-x
Why !?? This happens to every file I copy onto it.
I needed them like:
rwxrwxr-x
so far, the only rough and long way I found is through Aromafilemanager and PhilzTouch recovery.
Yet I have to change the permissions one file at a time.
Can anybody help?
Sounds like a problem unique to you, I've never heard of it.
Flash the official stock rom, format your sd card in your pc using the industry formatting tool and test.
If the problem disappears then it was probably some combination of your individual setup.
Yep. Also ensure you haven't got any scripts running at startup. Sd permissions are set on boot and cannot be changed afterwards
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Thank you, I'll surely restart from the beginning and report back
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Yep. Also ensure you haven't got any scripts running at startup. Sd permissions are set on boot and cannot be changed afterwards
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Which script could do that?
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Any mods that mount folders or swap storage.
Otherwise, something built into the rom.
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boomboomer said:
Sounds like a problem unique to you, I've never heard of it.
Flash the official stock rom, format your sd card in your pc using the industry formatting tool and test.
If the problem disappears then it was probably some combination of your individual setup.
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@boomboomer
which filesystem do i have to use in formatting extsdcard 8gb via pc? exFAT / FAT32 / EXT4 / NTFS ?
moreover, in this post and following on dev rom thread, it seems it's a normal behaviour... am i missing sth?
https://www.sdcard.org/downloads/formatter_4
Fat32 is the normal filesytem.
If it's common to your rom then your chef is the best one to approach, he may have set a script or mod.
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Any mods that mount folders or swap storage.
Otherwise, something built into the rom.
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I read through about 7 pages of sd card issues on the s3 and thought i cant read anymore, so i thought i would just ask. I've just bought an s3 and i got my 64gb sd card from my old phone to my new one. Problem is i have data from other games in the SD and titanium back up files in the externel sd card. Seems the S3 has its own built in SD card and only reads from that. I copied my TB files from externel to the internel. Now the games still require Extra files although they are in the externel SD. So how in the world do i get it to read my Externel sd instead of my internel? I thought of copying the files but i have 16 gb internel, 64 externel so its not gonna work considering i have 39 gb left in my 64 gb one,