Hey all,
Got my HTC One last week, been loving it. Previously I had a SGS3 I9300, and am happy I moved away from Samsung on this generation, for sure. Since I began flashing ROM's and kernels to my SGS3, I was looking for a way to clean up the internal SD card. The solution I found was an Aroma-powered script called Megawipe by zoot1. It worked great, removing all folders and crap from the internal sd card that doing a 'factory' reset won't accomplish... Free'd up 3.7 additional GB's.
Anyway, I was wondering, because I plan on flashing ROM's for the HTC One as they start rolling out, if there was a similar tool/script that accomplished the same thing? If not, could his script be modified to accomplish a similar goal? Any ideas or alternatives would be greatly appreciated, just trying to think ahead for scripts I'm sure people will value. Thanks again guys.
its all the same. superwipe/megawipe is just one app that wipes everything you need if your flashing a new rom. just do a factory reset flash and wipe cache and dalvik and its the exact same thing. and pretty much every custom rom out there now based on AROMA has a built in function to wipe for you if you came from a different rom.
There are plenty of roms and kernels you can flash over on the international ONE forum section. I'm running ordroid 4.2.0 with se7en kernel from there. They have already rebased all their roms on the 1.29 and have intergrated TMO wifi calling and icons into their setups so it should basically feel like stock TMO rom without the bloat lols.
Thanks for the info. It is the same, appears to do the same as CWM / Advanced / Format /data (last option). Thanks again.
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Hi, i'm going to be trying the new ICS ROM that was posted today and i'm currently running Mirage. because of all the framework changes in the new ROM along with some other weird stuff that's come up, i'm going to do a full wipe.
now i already learned the hard way not to choose "wipe data" in recovery because it wipes the sd-ext. so i'll just choose the format options in mount/storage.
my question is, do i still need to back up the apps in TB, or will they all still be technically installed once i mount the sd-ext after installing link2sd.
just hoping someone that uses it can offer advice of the cleanest way to go about this.
thanks!
Gentlemen,
I am going to root my phone monday next week, but want to be sure all my ducks are in a row before I go shooting.
I will be using Revolution to S-Off,
then install busy box and titanium backup.
My understanding is I don't need a radio since I am on 2.3.4, but I do need a kernal?
I am looking into (and this is where you all come in) one of 4 ROMS:
CM7
Liquid Thunderbread
BAMF Forever
BAMF SoaB.
I like sense 3.5, but heard it slowly starts to bog down the system? Anyone else hear that? Whats your opinions on either of those ROMS, and what is the best Kernal for them?
Finally (will I ever stop asking questions?), I know I have to wipe the phone, but does that include the SD card? Should I move as many of the apps off my phone onto the SD card?
Thanks everyone! Wish me luck!
You will enjoy the freedom rooting will grant you.. I know what your going through now, just want to make sure that it is a one time deal and smooth process.
Revolutionary will install busybox during the root process. So no need to do a separate install.
You are correct about the radio your should be fine. Most roms will tell you in the notes if any specific radio is required.
Some roms come with a custom kernel baked in, while others leave the stock kernel alone. You do not need to mess with kernel until your comfortable overclocking and tweaking processor settings.
Roms are all totally up to what you want. I personally love sense 3.5 and have had no issues with the bog down you mentioned. I do not care for AOSP, the few I tried I ended up going back to a sense based rom.
Currently I'm running InfectedRoms Eternity Sense 3.5. Smooth as silk and lightning fast! Eternity includes Ziggy471s Kernel.
I've heard TeamBamf has a good sense 3.5 as well. Never tired so I can not give you any information on that rom.
Your SDcard does not need to be wiped. Everything you have on there is fine where it is. Prior to install of your first rom you will Wipe Data, cache, and dalvik cache. Then install from zip and GO!
Enjoy
Just a few questions I've had come up while doing my first bit of flashing on the I9300...
1. I come from phones that didn't have internal/virtual SD cards. How do I ensure that the WHOLE phone is wiped when I try a new ROM? I'm seeing elements from previous ROMs.
2. Someone explain to me WHY the default for cameras isn't to save to my external SD card. The stock Samsung asks you which you want to use for photos but every other app wants to save on the internal SD (which by the way makes no sense, why not just call it internal memory???) What's the point of having an external card if the phone's system won't use it?
3. Sooo... CM based ROMs are buggy still and won't be optimal for the I9300. And Sammy ROMs will be built on the base ROM that was actually meant for this hardware but will never have the Vanilla JB look. Is that about it? If so, it would seem that getting JB "themes" of some kind for Samsung ROMs makes more sense than bothering with AOSP at all for the time being. Is that a fair assessment? I love the gallery integration in the AOSP camera, but every AOSP ROM I try has FC issues and crashes with the gallery, camera, and/or browsers.
Thanks to anybody who can give me some input on these questions.
1. Go here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1832326&highlight=super+wipe there is 4 simple options for wiping all with a clear explanation of what they do, all built into a nice aroma installer.
2. Can't tell you why that is, ask the dev's of the app is the best thing I can recommend.
3. That is about it as far as I know. Sounds like a fair enough assessment, but like always just try out different roms to find the one you like the most. There is no best rom as far as the forum is concerned.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=840040
Under the Download Section you can find a .zip file called Super Wipe. It will make a full wipe of your internal storage. (inclusive personal data)
There's this one annoying situation I got myself into. Trying out mods on one ROM, I ended up with some newer gallery with spinning pictures, etc. But I flashed to another ROM, wiping everything, assuming that it would "wipe" everything but I still have the gallery and can't get rid of it because I've already left that ROM.
Any chance of finding the stock gallery somewhere that I can flash?
That's the Galaxy Note II gallery.
Have you did a full wipe or just the normal wipe from the CWM?
In Recovery I did a wipe, a cache wipe and a dalvik cache wipe. But I'm seeing these wipe applications and thinking I should use one to clear out the internal/virtual SD?
Yes if you do the full wipe it will delete everything on your internal storage.
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Well I did a full wipe and it didn't touch my internal SD card
I think I may have just gotten lucky with this based on a couple of the forums I've read, but I wanted to know how this effects your phone. I've flashed the PAC-man Rom then went back to JellyBean Rom. I've read that you are suppose to flash something to do the downgrade between flashing roms like this.
What is it that you are suppose to flash?
What happens if you don't?
Any feedback is greatly appreciated!
there is a return to stock zip in sbrissens cm10 thread that your suppose to flash before returning to touchwiz. have not ran any latest 4.2.2 roms so im not sure exactly why that needs to be done.
4.2 adds multi-user support which changes the directory structure in the /data/media folder and makes your user storage unavailable to 4.1.x and prior. The restore script moves it back to the single user style so the older ROMs can see it.
Preciate the responses. I'll go look for that zip to flash.
I must have got lucky then because I haven't had any issues going between roms like that.
shrike1978 said:
4.2 adds multi-user support which changes the directory structure in the /data/media folder and makes your user storage unavailable to 4.1.x and prior. The restore script moves it back to the single user style so the older ROMs can see it.
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Just out of curiosity, would doing a complete wipe, dalvik, factory reset, data and then wiping internal storage after backing up do the trick in lieu of flashing the restore script? Wouldn't that fix the structure once a TW rom is installed? Again, I'm just curious.
So I'm pretty new to the world of custom roms and started with the galaxy s3 (so had an external sd card slot). I upgraded to the s4 and recently traded for a HTC one. The HTC one already had cleanrom 1.6 installed along with twrp recovery.
Today I decided to install android revolution 10.1. All went well other than having a very large "other storage" usage, about 10 Gb. So I did a system wipe within twrp hoping that I would not brick the phone or something. It worked to a point but is still utilizing 6.5 Gb.
My question is am I doing good this correctly? Is there a way to create a secondary partition that would allow me to complete format the primary partition? Many of the tutorials online stated to put the zip to root of virtual sd; but since I did not get the phone completely stock and only had one partition, I do not know if there is a way to create or re-create it.
Any help would be greatly appreciated and hope this is where I am supposed to posting this question. Thanks for all the hard work in making these roms great.
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Jmarv said:
So I'm pretty new to the world of custom roms and started with the galaxy s3 (so had an external sd card slot). I upgraded to the s4 and recently traded for a HTC one. The HTC one already had cleanrom 1.6 installed along with twrp recovery.
Today I decided to install android revolution 10.1. All went well other than having a very large "other storage" usage, about 10 Gb. So I did a system wipe within twrp hoping that I would not brick the phone or something. It worked to a point but is still utilizing 6.5 Gb.
My question is am I doing good this correctly? Is there a way to create a secondary partition that would allow me to complete format the primary partition? Many of the tutorials online stated to put the zip to root of virtual sd; but since I did not get the phone completely stock and only had one partition, I do not know if there is a way to create or re-create it.
Any help would be greatly appreciated and hope this is where I am supposed to posting this question. Thanks for all the hard work in making these roms great.
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You gotta pull everything off, format the sd, reinstall the rom and then replace everything. That's what happened to me and it's because htc/Google changed up the file system in order to make multi user work.
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