Hey everyone,
I just got a Verizon Galaxy S4 and have been playing around with rooting and ROMS. I just did a clean restore to factory settings, but it shows I only have 3GB of space available. Misc files is using 6.57gb, downloads 116kb, audio 152kb, pictures 5mb, and application 349mb. It seems like I am missing 8gb. Any ideas of what I should do?
Thanks,
andrx471
FIXED
Hey everyone,
I fixed the problem. I flashed to a stock Verizon S4 image, then did a factory reset. I had done one or the other, but not both. I guess this raises the question, why am I losing 6GB of space when I root my phone?
Thanks again,
andrx471
andrx471 said:
Hey everyone,
I just got a Verizon Galaxy S4 and have been playing around with rooting and ROMS. I just did a clean restore to factory settings, but it shows I only have 3GB of space available. Misc files is using 6.57gb, downloads 116kb, audio 152kb, pictures 5mb, and application 349mb. It seems like I am missing 8gb. Any ideas of what I should do?
Thanks,
andrx471
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Do you have a custom recovery? If so, when you make a backup with CWM it will be several gigs and will be in a hidden directory. I had the same issue with only one backup of the stock rom. I had to place my backups on the external card and now I have a few more gigs on the internal card. Remember that CWM will not work on an external card over 32 gig. I had to sell my 64 and buy a 32 for that reason.
skiddingus said:
Do you have a custom recovery? If so, when you make a backup with CWM it will be several gigs and will be in a hidden directory. I had the same issue with only one backup of the stock rom. I had to place my backups on the external card and now I have a few more gigs on the internal card. Remember that CWM will not work on an external card over 32 gig. I had to sell my 64 and buy a 32 for that reason.
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Thanks for getting back to me skiddingus. I have a 32GB SD card coming in the mail today, so hopefully there wont be anymore issues with storage. I do have a couple questions before I do this, though.
1. I see some people using CWM and others using TWRP. Are there any advantages to one or the other. or is it just a matter of preference?
2. When I make a backup or install a new ROM using either CWM or TWRP, are there specific options I should be selecting to backup or install a new ROM to my SD card?
Thanks a lot for your help!
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Do you have a custom recovery? If so, when you make a backup with CWM it will be several gigs and will be in a hidden directory. I had the same issue with only one backup of the stock rom. I had to place my backups on the external card and now I have a few more gigs on the internal card. Remember that CWM will not work on an external card over 32 gig. I had to sell my 64 and buy a 32 for that reason.
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Hi skiddingus,
Any chance you could share your method for navigating to/accessing that hidden directory? I made backups and now my phone memory is almost all chewed up. I also did a backup (or two if the chunk of memory that's been eaten up is any indication) on the SD Card and would like to clear up that space as well.
I've been using TWRP for a while now, but unless it's been changed, all CWM backups were stored under a directory called Clockworkmod."
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I've been using TWRP for a while now, but unless it's been changed, all CWM backups were stored under a directory called Clockworkmod."
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Cool, thanks for the confirmation. I was able to find that one, seemed the logical place for CWM backups to live, and I erased the contents after making sure I had a reserve copy on my laptop and a stock backup as well. However, I'm still seeing an abundance of used space and no explanation for where it's gone just by looking at the directory names. I do recognize that "miscellaneous files" is also where "System Memory" lies, taking up just under 6.4 Gb.
Any other thoughts?
See attached pic for reference.
onearmsysiphus said:
Hi skiddingus,
Any chance you could share your method for navigating to/accessing that hidden directory? I made backups and now my phone memory is almost all chewed up. I also did a backup (or two if the chunk of memory that's been eaten up is any indication) on the SD Card and would like to clear up that space as well.
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I never did find the directory that CWM stores the backups. On Android 4.2 and up I believe it stores them in a secure hidden directory. I used the applications to delete the backups. I installed ROMmanager and used its "manage backups" option to clear my CWM backups. I used TWRP to clear its backups as well. I currently use CWM for my backups and I backup to and external sd card (32gb or less of course). My internal card has neary 7gb free and shows a total space of 9.62Gb. I have almost 2gb of apps.
andrx471 said:
Thanks for getting back to me skiddingus. I have a 32GB SD card coming in the mail today, so hopefully there wont be anymore issues with storage. I do have a couple questions before I do this, though.
1. I see some people using CWM and others using TWRP. Are there any advantages to one or the other. or is it just a matter of preference?
2. When I make a backup or install a new ROM using either CWM or TWRP, are there specific options I should be selecting to backup or install a new ROM to my SD card?
Thanks a lot for your help!
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Hey Andrx,
UNtil Skiddingus gets back to you, I can offer some semi-n00b impressions:
1. I've used both CWM and TWRP through my process of backing up the stock system, rooting, flashing Synergy ROM, and then de-bloating, and I can say that from a purely subjective perspective, I prefer TWRP. Mostly bc of the GUI - it's a little easier to navigate IMO. From what I understand, they basically do the same thing when it comes to recovery and flashing. I'm sure there are some technical differences that more experienced users can explain, but for a base user like me, TWRP seems to take care of my needs
2. AFAIK, If you're using TWRP, the partitions that are preselected when you choose the "Backup" tab - Boot, System, and Data - are all you need to choose for a backup of your current system. However, I think you may be either using the terms incorrectly or have an incorrect impression of how to flash a ROM. From what I understand, a custom ROM is not flashed (installed) to your SD card. You can designate your SD card as a place to store your backups of said roms or your stock ROM, but flashing a ROM sends that to your phone's internal storage to take up space in "System Memory".
Hope this helps clarify a bit, and my apologies in advance if I've botched any of this explanation. Senior members, please correct anythign I've said that may lead Andrx astray.
Cheers!
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I never did find the directory that CWM stores the backups. On Android 4.2 and up I believe it stores them in a secure hidden directory. I used the applications to delete the backups. I installed ROMmanager and used its "manage backups" option to clear my CWM backups. I used TWRP to clear its backups as well. I currently use CWM for my backups and I backup to and external sd card (32gb or less of course). My internal card has neary 7gb free and shows a total space of 9.62Gb. I have almost 2gb of apps.
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Awesome, this is definitely helpful. I'll work with those apps to clear it up and report back. Thank you!!
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skiddingus said:
I never did find the directory that CWM stores the backups. On Android 4.2 and up I believe it stores them in a secure hidden directory. I used the applications to delete the backups. I installed ROMmanager and used its "manage backups" option to clear my CWM backups. I used TWRP to clear its backups as well. I currently use CWM for my backups and I backup to and external sd card (32gb or less of course). My internal card has neary 7gb free and shows a total space of 9.62Gb. I have almost 2gb of apps.
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So!! Using TWRP, I chose: "Advanced" --> "File Manager" and then navigate to /data/media/clockworkmod/backup/xxxxweirddaterangexxx
Then press "Select" (from within the "xxxweirddaterangexxx" directory) and deleted an un-needed backup file that seemed to be almost 3GB in size.
REMEMBER TO STORE YOUR BACKUP ELSEWHERE IF YOU WANT TO KEEP A COPY.
Once I did this, my phone storage showed 7.1 GB available, whereas before it showed 4.3. W00t.
Thanks again for your help skiddingus!!
skiddingus said:
Do you have a custom recovery? If so, when you make a backup with CWM it will be several gigs and will be in a hidden directory. I had the same issue with only one backup of the stock rom. I had to place my backups on the external card and now I have a few more gigs on the internal card. Remember that CWM will not work on an external card over 32 gig. I had to sell my 64 and buy a 32 for that reason.
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OH No! This explains why I can not NANDROID with CWM to my 64 GB SD card.
I have a 64 GB SD card in my newly purchased S4. Is there any work around for this or hope of an update to fix this limitation?
swieder711 said:
OH No! This explains why I can not NANDROID with CWM to my G4 GB SD card.
I have a 64 GB SD card in my newly purchased S4. Is there any work around for this or hope of an update to fix this limitation?
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Not that I have found. I think I remember reading somewhere that it is a licensing issue with the ex-fat support. CWM does not want to pay for it. Is this correct anyone?
Does Team Win have the same issue?
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I switched from cwm to twrp and can create a nandroid on my 64gb card.
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swieder711 said:
OH No! This explains why I can not NANDROID with CWM to my 64 GB SD card.
I have a 64 GB SD card in my newly purchased S4. Is there any work around for this or hope of an update to fix this limitation?
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Yes there is. I have a SanDisk 64gb micro SD card and when I purchased it for my note 2 I had the same problem. What I did is format it to fat32 instead of ex fat using ease us partition the free version here's the link
http://www.partition-tool.com/personal.htm after doing that i have had no problems it works in CWM just fine and for all other tasks in my note 2 and my s4. I tried a different program before I found easeus and it seemed to work but every time I did it after it my backups would just disappear.
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I have just bought an 8GB card and need to swop everything across from my 4GB. I'm rooted with apps2sd and MCR ROM installed.
Now the questions are:
What is the best way of doing this the right way?
Do i need to partition the new card, or does MCR do this i cant remember!
If i drag and drop everything from my 4GB to my 8GB will it work?
Will it pick
Anyone else had to do this?
Any help will be very much apreciated...
Just been thinking if i install the modded recovery image on my new card will i be able to create partitions with that?
I take it no one has done this then?
are you using windows or linux? for windows, make a backup of your apps with some app on your phone. mcr3.0 contains "backup", which should do the job. after that copy everything from the old sdcard to the new one, which you already partitioned according to your needs. it is probably best to do this from recovery image or in an external card reader. after that restore your apps and you're done.
if you are using linux you can skip the backing up of apps, just copy everything from the two partitions you have on your sdcard (one ext2/3/4, one fat32) to the according partitions on the new card and you're done.
Cool thank you i will try that.
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are you using windows or linux? for windows, make a backup of your apps with some app on your phone. mcr3.0 contains "backup", which should do the job. after that copy everything from the old sdcard to the new one, which you already partitioned according to your needs. it is probably best to do this from recovery image or in an external card reader. after that restore your apps and you're done.
if you are using linux you can skip the backing up of apps, just copy everything from the two partitions you have on your sdcard (one ext2/3/4, one fat32) to the according partitions on the new card and you're done.
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Where is backup on MCR3.0?
Goose247 said:
Where is backup on MCR3.0?
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in the menu?
kendong2 said:
in the menu?
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I can't see anything in menu/apps or anything else that looks like backup
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I can't see anything in menu/apps or anything else that looks like backup
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ok, i am seriously confused now. there was this app called "backup for root users". my understanding was, that it was renamed "backup" on paul's request, and was then included in modaco's custom rom. so far i can not find it in the zip of 3.0... so i guess i got something mixed up there, i apologise.
anyway, you can download it from the market.
edit: phew, i am not crazy
http://android.modaco.com/content-p...-featuring-wavesecure/page/1520/#entry1089440
I can't seem to get cwm to make a nandroid backup to the external SD with my att gs3. Other people seem to be able to do it but I can't figure it out, any suggestions?
+1, i cant seem to get my sg3 to mount extsd...i tried to install zip from extsd, and im getting an error, cant mount extsd...help...thanks in advanced...
Hello.
You need to make sure that the external sdcard is using FAT32 as it's file system, as CWM doesn't support exFAT or NTFS.
Thanks, now on to my next problem...my card was formatted to exFat...and when I'm trying to format it with my computer, it's only giving me the option to format it to exFat and NTFS...how do I format it to fat32? Thanks in advanced...
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You could probably do it with third party software or within CWM recovery consol. I am able to format my 64Gb card to FAT32, but according to Microsoft, 32Gb is the maximum volume size for FAT32 file system.
What is it listed as in cwm? I dont see extsdcard.
If I recall, there are two different versions of CWM 5.5.0.4. The first version of the that came out before the tool kit for US SGS3 was released and it didn't have the option to save a backup to the extsccard. I believe that the CWM in the tool kit has been modified to allow backing up to the extsdcard.
After reflashing the CWM recovery to my suprise the version number is still the same but now it the backup and restore options there is listed as follows. (I don't recall these additions to the earlier version of CWM 5.5.0.4)
The changes I noticed will be marked with asterics.
backup
restore
advanced restore
*backup to internal sdcard
*restore from internal sdcard
*advanced restore from internal sdcard
I don't recall seeing the options before to backup to internal sdcard. Did you install CWM from the Tool kit?
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FYI. I have been an iPhone user since the first iPhone simply because I didn't know about Android at the time. I was getting very sick of apple's control over the whole user experience so I decided to look at the Android system. The SGS3 is actually my first Android phone and while I'm not new to jail breaking the iphone, I am new Android jail breaking - if you will, and I find it far superior to iOS.
There is so much to learn things of wich that have been learned over the years, it's a little hard to figure out where to start.
I hope you have success as I did. Nandroid backups and restore to the extsdcard seem like a must.
Okay guys thanks for all the help...what I had to do was d/l a 3rd party app, and that did the trick...and now cwm recovery is able to mount my extsdcard...Thanks...remember to back up all of your data to your computer before re-formatting...
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Okay guys thanks for all the help...what I had to do was d/l a 3rd party app, and that did the trick...and now cwm recovery is able to mount my extsdcard...Thanks...remember to back up all of your data to your computer before re-formatting...
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what 3rd party app did you use
I seem to be having the same problem. I can't see it in cwm. However, I can go into partitions, mount it (still doesn't show), and format it. After I boot up it does show that it's formatted.
Ihave formatted using a3rd party app on my pc. I have formatted using fat32.
But sure what I am missing to get it to work in cwm. I did flash using the kit. Didn't know there was a different version....
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If I recall, there are two different versions of CWM 5.5.0.4. The first version of the that came out before the tool kit for US SGS3 was released and it didn't have the option to save a backup to the extsccard. I believe that the CWM in the tool kit has been modified to allow backing up to the extsdcard.
After reflashing the CWM recovery to my suprise the version number is still the same but now it the backup and restore options there is listed as follows. (I don't recall these additions to the earlier version of CWM 5.5.0.4)
The changes I noticed will be marked with asterics.
backup
restore
advanced restore
*backup to internal sdcard
*restore from internal sdcard
*advanced restore from internal sdcard
I don't recall seeing the options before to backup to internal sdcard. Did you install CWM from the Tool kit?
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Do you have the zip file you can give us or a link to the updated one.
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I got my cmw from this thread. It was the link in the op.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=27940320
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I got my cmw from this thread. It was the link in the op.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=27940320
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Is it the one refered in post #7? Which one did you use? There is one that is 7,000kb and one that is 556kb (this one says it is version 0.87 whereas the one I have says v3.0.7 on the zip file).
Thanks
It's the link in the first thread. The one to the rootsprint.zip file. In that zip contains the cmw for rooting the tmobile s3.
porthole said:
It's the link in the first thread. The one to the rootsprint.zip file. In that zip contains the cmw for rooting the tmobile s3.
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Thanks but I need the Sprint. I know this says it is for the Sprint Siii but the root method I used said to use CWM v3.0.7. Not sure if this version will work. Don't want to risk it.
so, if you watch the video in that thread it says it is the same one for the sprint. Anyway, does anyone have a link to the "good" cmw that will see my sd card?
I don't think I can link to anything yet, but the CWM version I am using is from the US Toolkit for AT&T, which is hosted in this very website.
the backup and restore options will backup directly to the extsdcard, you'll know if you have the right version becuase you will have the option to back and restore to the internal sdcard too.
For those of you that are wondering what 3rd party app i used to format to Fat32, i used easeUs partition. i dont have the link but i know that google should give the results your looking for...hope this helps...
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I don't think I can link to anything yet, but the CWM version I am using is from the US Toolkit for AT&T, which is hosted in this very website.
the backup and restore options will backup directly to the extsdcard, you'll know if you have the right version becuase you will have the option to back and restore to the internal sdcard too.
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OK I wasn't sure of that. When I just try the "backup" option it says "can't mount backup path". I'm assuming its because my 64gig card is formatted to exFat instead of Fat32? Does the "format sdcard" option format the internal or external SD and if it is for the external will it format it to Fat32? Sorry for the noob questions.
thanks.
found cwm v4 now all is fine.
so windows explorer says i've got 11.3 gigs total, okay that's understandable.
so i have 3.65 free, but when i highlihgt EVERYTHING, it's only 6.28 gigs...
that's a total of 9.93 gigs.
where's the other 2 gigs? any ideas?
All the stuff in the / directory. As opposed to the /sdcard/ directory
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I found with TWRP, my backup is 2GB that is not listed in the file folders. I had 3 backups taking up 6+ Gigs. I actually got to the point where I couldn't download apps. I deleted the 2 old ones through TWRP and have plenty of space now.
I used to have the 32GB external card on my Incredible so I never realized how much space those backups took.
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All the stuff in the / directory. As opposed to the /sdcard/ directory
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and this is only visible via like ES File Explorer, right? because windows explorer doesn't see this.
what kinda stuff would be listed here? (i'd check but i'm nandroiding an dflashing right now)
That got me thinking. Where's the rest of the advertised 16gb then? I know formatted capacities are less, but a 16gb sd card formatted for me shows up as 14.9gb.
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That got me thinking. Where's the rest of the advertised 16gb then? I know formatted capacities are less, but a 16gb sd card formatted for me shows up as 14.9gb.
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The pre installed apps, sense and android itself all take up a significant amount of space.
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and this is only visible via like ES File Explorer, right? because windows explorer doesn't see this.
what kinda stuff would be listed here? (i'd check but i'm nandroiding an dflashing right now)
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Everything not on the sdcard. System, data (except media because /sdcard is a symlink of data/media), account, cache config, firmware etc. And then the other partitions like boot and recovery, splash1, etc.
There's a lot of partitions if you pull the list of mountpoints and a lot more directories I only listed a few I remembered.
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superchaos said:
I found with TWRP, my backup is 2GB that is not listed in the file folders. I had 3 backups taking up 6+ Gigs. I actually got to the point where I couldn't download apps. I deleted the 2 old ones through TWRP and have plenty of space now.
I used to have the 32GB external card on my Incredible so I never realized how much space those backups took.
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It should be listed in sdcard/twrp or sdcard/0/TWRP
You can compress your TWRP backups and reduce the size a lot its a lil box you check in the twrp menu before swiping to start the backups.
If you like to save nandroid backups or lots of media, I would consider spending a couple of bucks on an OTG adapter and using an external USB drive or your 32 GB ext sdcard or an external drive. Its real easy to flash roms over OTG with TWRP too.
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Everything not on the sdcard. System, data (except media because /sdcard is a symlink of data/media), account, cache config, firmware etc. And then the other partitions like boot and recovery, splash1, etc.
There's a lot of partitions if you pull the list of mountpoints and a lot more directories I only listed a few I remembered.
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It should be listed in sdcard/twrp or sdcard/0/TWRP
You can compress your TWRP backups and reduce the size a lot its a lil box you check in the twrp menu before swiping to start the backups.
If you like to save nandroid backups or lots of media, I would consider spending a couple of bucks on an OTG adapter and using an external USB drive or your 32 GB ext sdcard or an external drive. Its real easy to flash roms over OTG with TWRP too.
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ohh, i thought everything dealing with the rom etc was what was between 11.3 gigs and 16gigs..hence why there's only 11.3 storage free.
wait i'm confusing myself. lol
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I found with TWRP, my backup is 2GB that is not listed in the file folders. I had 3 backups taking up 6+ Gigs. I actually got to the point where I couldn't download apps. I deleted the 2 old ones through TWRP and have plenty of space now.
I used to have the 32GB external card on my Incredible so I never realized how much space those backups took.
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Move the backups to your computer to save space.
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I know I could compress it but if it was better compressed, TWRP would have compressed it automatically, right? I would rather leave it on the phone just in case one of the wonderful updates breaks the mounting option. I guess I just feel safer leaving it in the raw form on the phone.
Thanks for the advice though. I didn't see the option in TWRP until I started digging around looking for the elephants in my storage.
Hello. I was wondering if anyone has restored a backup of their phone which was using the sd swap. If so, could you share whether you're using CWM or TWRP and post screenshot of files in your backup?
Thnx!
grimloktt said:
Hello. I was wondering if anyone has restored a backup of their phone which was using the sd swap. If so, could you share whether you're using CWM or TWRP and post screenshot of files in your backup?
Thnx!
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I have with Jedi 14. Restored while trying to get JBSmooth to do some things with loading Sammy Apps. Eventually because I could not get some functions to work because of the swap, went back and turned it off. ( also pictures that i was taking while on swap for some reason would be corrupted) My opinion i'd just leave the cards the way they are. Which sucks since i have a 32gb class 10 card and figured it would run way faster then stock memory.
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I have with Jedi 14. Restored while trying to get JBSmooth to do some things with loading Sammy Apps. Eventually because I could not get some functions to work because of the swap, went back and turned it off. ( also pictures that i was taking while on swap for some reason would be corrupted) My opinion i'd just leave the cards the way they are. Which sucks since i have a 32gb class 10 card and figured it would run way faster then stock memory.
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So, it sounds like you restored from sd swap back to non sd swap? Forgive my wording but I'm trying to see if anyone restored a sd swap backup? So from sd swap or from regular to sd swap? I'm wondering if it's possible.
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So, it sounds like you restored from sd swap back to non sd swap? Forgive my wording but I'm trying to see if anyone restored a sd swap backup? So from sd swap or from regular to sd swap? I'm wondering if it's possible.
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Yes you can go from a swapped installation to a normal installation. When you re-flash another rom, the data is untouched. meaning all of your pictures stay, all of your downloads stay, everything stays. The only difference is how the rom treats each storage system.
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Yes you can go from a swapped installation to a normal installation. When you re-flash another rom, the data is untouched. meaning all of your pictures stay, all of your downloads stay, everything stays. The only difference is how the rom treats each storage system.
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Thank you for your response but I was asking about going from either a sd swap or regular operating system and had success restoring a previous back-up of an sd swap? So, in the end after the restore is complete, you're running a sd swap configuration.
Bottom line: I'm running sd swap and am wondering if I ever had to restore a backup that I made (an sd swap running backup) could I successfully restore to a still sd swapped running system? Is it possible?
Is this clear as mud? :cyclops:
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Thank you for your response but I was asking about going from either a sd swap or regular operating system and had success restoring a previous back-up of an sd swap? So, in the end after the restore is complete, you're running a sd swap configuration.
Bottom line: I'm running sd swap and am wondering if I ever had to restore a backup that I made (an sd swap running backup) could I successfully restore to a still sd swapped running system? Is it possible?
Is this clear as mud? :cyclops:
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Haha a bit cumbersome to read but that's ok. What I was explaining is that the sd card swap changes nothing other than the way the Rom views it's storage devices. If the Rom is changed, so will it's sd swap configuration.
Meaning that if you have an sd card swap configuration for your current rom, and you restore a nand backup that you made, from a different rom with an sd swap configuration, nothing will change.
If you go from an sd swapped rom to a backup of a regular rom, you will no longer have that swapped configuration, because, again, that configuration is exclusive to the rom it came with.
The answer to your bottom line question is yes. You will still have your sd card swap after you backup.
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The answer to your bottom line question is yes. You will still have your sd card swap after you backup.
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Thnx. With the nandroid backup utilities designed prior to sd swap functionality, I just wasn't sure whether everything would work the same as regular configuration, i.e. sd swapped configuration would correctly back-up and correctly restore--if needed.
Thnx!
grimloktt said:
Thnx. With the nandroid backup utilities designed prior to sd swap functionality, I just wasn't sure whether everything would work the same as regular configuration, i.e. sd swapped configuration would correctly back-up and correctly restore--if needed.
Thnx!
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Anytime! Just understand that a nandroid backup is like taking a snapshot of your rom and all of the configurations and settings and apps etc...the sd swap is just like any other configuration, in that it is part of the snapshot taken by the recovery manager in the form of a nandroid backup.
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Attached is the picture from my storage page. Prior to this I deleted a few apps and I thought I had enough space to download GTA Vice City. Halfway through is stopped and had an available space error. What was downloaded was still appearing in memory so I went into recovery and wiped both the cache and delvik cache. I also wiped the play store app and google services framework data and caches so I could try to reset the issue. Since then other apps have been unable to update or download due to "insufficient space", and google music won't play because of it. How can I get this cleared up?
I am running stock android rooted with clockworkmod touch recovery.
Thanks
Try folder mount app in market to free up all that space. I haven't tried it personally but I heard it works for some.
Moves big apps to sdcard and link them as if they were installed on phones memory.
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Tada10 said:
Try folder mount app in market to free up all that space. I haven't tried it personally but I heard it works for some.
Moves big apps to sdcard and link them as if they were installed on phones memory.
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My issue is I can't install any apps without the insufficient memory warning. Last night I was trying to install SD Maid to no avail
titan71 said:
My issue is I can't install any apps without the insufficient memory warning. Last night I was trying to install SD Maid to no avail
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If I were you I would flash back to stock after you first clean out the phone then reinstall everything and use that app.
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I found the issue. There was a lot of space tied up in /emulated. I've deleted those files and I can install things again. Unfortunately the storage screen still isn't adding up but it's a start
Okay I don't mean to intrude to this post but I am having the same problem with memory and I was wondering if someone could help me.
Now I still have. Zip files on my phone now once I flash them could I delete them or how's that work. Someone please help.
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Ok I have 2 16gb sd cards 1 formated extsd with 4gb free out of 16gb and the 2nd card is fat format with 15.1gb free out of 16gb. I have a vzw gs4, and I use SafeStrap, I waqnted to do a back, so I installed the fat32 with 15gb available and it was trying to make the back up on the internal which didnt have enough memory, So then I put the exfat sd with 4gb available, and I was able to make the backup on that sd, I thought that fat worked on every gs4 and the exfat was the buggy one, Is it just a loki safestrap thing? TIA
Hope I get an answer, Its been a while since anyone has posted in here, Thanx again...
ciabatoni said:
Ok I have 2 16gb sd cards 1 formated extsd with 4gb free out of 16gb and the 2nd card is fat format with 15.1gb free out of 16gb. I have a vzw gs4, and I use SafeStrap, I waqnted to do a back, so I installed the fat32 with 15gb available and it was trying to make the back up on the internal which didnt have enough memory, So then I put the exfat sd with 4gb available, and I was able to make the backup on that sd, I thought that fat worked on every gs4 and the exfat was the buggy one, Is it just a loki safestrap thing? TIA
Hope I get an answer, Its been a while since anyone has posted in here, Thanx again...
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exFAT is a newer format that's Microsoft proprietary. The primary advantage over FAT32 is that it allows files greater than 4 Gb.
So, the likely problem is that your backup was bigger than 2Gb and couldn't be stored on FAT32.
Just a guess since you didn't say exactly what you used for the backup.
And exFAT isn't buggy, it's just less frequently supported.
Hope this helps.
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exFAT is a newer format that's Microsoft proprietary. The primary advantage over FAT32 is that it allows files greater than 2Gb.
So, the likely problem is that your backup was bigger than 2Gb and couldn't be stored on FAT32.
Just a guess since you didn't say exactly what you used for the backup.
And exFAT isn't buggy, it's just less frequently supported.
Hope this helps.
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4gb*
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4gb*
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Thanks. I fixed my post to have the right size, in case anyone is wondering what joshm is on about.