My phone keeps telling me there's no enough storage memory available eventhough I have almost 3gb free on my /sdcard partition.
Tryed Sammy roms, CM roms, changed bootloader, tryed remounting the /data and /system partitions as R/W with no effect... even tryed "e2fsck" command on ADB to check on my partitions for bad sectors or errors, it just told me that the partitions are clean...
Running out of choices, I'm thinking about reverting the whole phone to "Factory State" but the "hotfile.com" file for the factory reset is just slow to load and not even Resumable and I'm suffering from internet sudden disconnections.. so.... any suggestins?? :crying: :crying:
Jimmy Mossiba Floyd said:
My phone keeps telling me there's no enough storage memory available eventhough I have almost 3gb free on my /sdcard partition.
Tryed Sammy roms, CM roms, changed bootloader, tryed remounting the /data and /system partitions as R/W with no effect... even tryed "e2fsck" command on ADB to check on my partitions for bad sectors or errors, it just told me that the partitions are clean...
Running out of choices, I'm thinking about reverting the whole phone to "Factory State" but the "hotfile.com" file for the factory reset is just slow to load and not even Resumable and I'm suffering from internet sudden disconnections.. so.... any suggestins?? :crying: :crying:
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have you formatted the internal storage completely?? This should not happen even after flashing new firmware and after factory resetting..
No, didn't format the internal storage, I'm making space on my laptop to backup my media on it and then I'll probably format the internal storage
Problem solved, done a full wipe, formated the internal storage, and everything is alright now :/
I think I have the same problem. Do you need to have a pc to format the internal or can you do it using can touch? Any help with the steps you did would be a great help.
My issue came after flashing pacman rom. A format should fix it just never done it on the internal don't want to mess it up.
My I9300 has 32gb internal and 21gb is used up by system data.??
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Sorry dam spell check. Can I format using CWM touch.
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I think I have the same problem. Do you need to have a pc to format the internal or can you do it using can touch? Any help with the steps you did would be a great help.
My issue came after flashing pacman rom. A format should fix it just never done it on the internal don't want to mess it up.
My I9300 has 32gb internal and 21gb is used up by system data.??
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Sorry dam spell check. Can I format using CWM touch.
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Sorry for being late, mate!! well, after all the mess I've been through, the only solution was to copy all my files to my laptop, then a CWM-recovery format (yes I formatted through CWM-Recovery, no need for a PC to format and I don't even know how to format an MTP-device storage ) but you have to know how to push files through ADB to push the ROM's CWM-zip if you want to install a new ROM! Tutorials about how to push files through ADB are everywhere and are really easy to understand!
I hope this will help you out! make me know if you want some deeper explications
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I have been flashing ROMs for a while, but noticed that even a full factory data wipe/reset in recovery still leaves a ton of crap left over from the previous program installations? I know there are settings in mounts and storage but I have only used format system before.
I want to really clean my phones internal memory without losing CWM or root.
Can someone please help?
I ran a few searches but could not find anything this specific?
Thanks.
Format sdcard, shouldn't lose root or recovery but will lose all data on phone
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Format sdcard, shouldn't lose root or recovery but will lose all data on phone
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Thanks. So from recovery, mounts and storage? Format SD?
Below is a copy/paste from one of the guides in my signature:
IF you are real serious, mount to your PC and move all contents of your internal/external cards on your pc.
*especially important if formatting both cards (see below)
If you want a REALLY CLEAN install (get rid of ALL the folders on your SD Cards) you could go to Menu > Settings and unmount and format both internal and external.
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Hi guys. Just recently I've installed a custom ROM on my Galaxy S2. Before i attempted doing anything I've firstly rooted it then installed ROMmanager and installed "ClockworkMod" (to wipe out the data, cahce, and set to factory default) using CWM I installed 'hydrogen rom' on it (Before this i had the original stock kernel and stock rom on it).
My questions is that inside /emmc/ folder i can see my previous junk files left from the stock rom.
Another thing is when i plug my mobile to the PC via USB cable, i select 'mass storage' on my mobile however, i can only see "/mnt/sdcard.". I'm not even sure if its my SDCard or if its my internal. Either one is not showing up on my PC before it was showing both internal and external!! (microSDcard)
on actual root system folder, in the "/" i go into "emmc" folder, its exactly the same as "/mnt/emmc/" folder, are these just duplications can i delete BOTH, as i said earlier those are the things left from STOCK-ROM (It contains folders like DCIM,Data,Android, LOST.DIR,Samsung Apps which is not in use and i want to get rid of)
Same thing again inside "/sdcard/" (the current ROM) its same as "/mnt/sdcard/". I'm guessing the ROM installed it into my SDcard? But what happened to my internal storage? I can't even access it using PC.
can i just get rid of the folders its got all these unnecessary junk files left from original rom.
Also someone tell me if its safe to delete "/mnt/" folder because inside "/" root it contains both "/sdcard/" and "/emmc/"
Looking forward for solutions
Kindest regards
Thanks in advance
-sLy
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Hi guys. Just recently I've installed a custom ROM on my Galaxy S2. Before i attempted doing anything I've firstly rooted it then installed ROMmanager and installed "ClockworkMod" (to wipe out the data, cahce, and set to factory default) using CWM I installed 'hydrogen rom' on it (Before this i had the original stock kernel and stock rom on it).
My questions is that inside /emmc/ folder i can see my previous junk files left from the stock rom.
Another thing is when i plug my mobile to the PC via USB cable, i select 'mass storage' on my mobile however, i can only see "/mnt/sdcard.". I'm not even sure if its my SDCard or if its my internal. Either one is not showing up on my PC before it was showing both internal and external!! (microSDcard)
on actual root system folder, in the "/" i go into "emmc" folder, its exactly the same as "/mnt/emmc/" folder, are these just duplications can i delete BOTH, as i said earlier those are the things left from STOCK-ROM (It contains folders like DCIM,Data,Android, LOST.DIR,Samsung Apps which is not in use and i want to get rid of)
Same thing again inside "/sdcard/" (the current ROM) its same as "/mnt/sdcard/". I'm guessing the ROM installed it into my SDcard? But what happened to my internal storage? I can't even access it using PC.
can i just get rid of the folders its got all these unnecessary junk files left from original rom.
Also someone tell me if its safe to delete "/mnt/" folder because inside "/" root it contains both "/sdcard/" and "/emmc/"
Looking forward for solutions
Kindest regards
Thanks in advance
-sLy
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in latest hydrogen rom emmc is ur internal card and sdcard is ur external card.so it is not safe to delete it. u can make it opposite by flashing a mount fix file from hydrogen rom's thread. to see both internal and external card in ur pc u should use mtp.
Too much confusion ._. Oke
/emmc/ = Internal --> Left over junk files
/sdcard/ = External --> HyDrOG3N-ICS 27.04
.... So i just installed hydrogen into my sdcard? Why wouldn't i be able to delete emmc folder though nothing is using it?
*EDIT*: Also the for the mount fix provided, there are no instructions I've got the mount-fix-patch. I can use CWM to install it, but what and where does it exactly switch to? Do i even need to edit the config batch files?
all imp files will b there so wen u delete emmc ur phone like a blank pc,then u need to install stock rom to make it recognize tht its android ,jus like pc if u format the main drive its blank,an u got to install some os to make it work....don touch if u don kno an read some threads for beginners.
Phone memory is your devices system memory, where all the important stuff is stored, its a partition on your phones intenal memory
mnt/sdcard is your phones internal memory, the 16GB (probably shows up as 11.5 or there abouts in your Storage manager, as some is reserved for the phone memory, OS etc)
mnt/sdcard/external_sdcard is your removable memory card, the one you put in yourself, this is default location on Samsung based roms
emmc Some roms move the contents of mnt/sdcard (internal) to emmc Edit: based on the previous comments LEAVE your emmc folder intact
Wezi said:
Phone memory is your devices system memory, where all the important stuff is stored, its a partition on your phones intenal memory
mnt/sdcard is your phones internal memory, the 16GB (probably shows up as 11.5 or there abouts in your Storage manager, as some is reserved for the phone memory, OS etc)
mnt/sdcard/external_sdcard is your removable memory card, the one you put in yourself, this is default location on Samsung based roms
emmc Some roms move the contents of mnt/sdcard (internal) to emmc Edit: based on the previous comments LEAVE your emmc folder intact
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Thank you for the brief explanation, i understand now, and yes i was using original Samsung ROM provided by Vodafone (android v2.3.5) they kept saying we're going to release ICS didn't want to bother waiting and installed ICS rom myself
The only point i didn't understand is the duplication, if i delete the emmc would the other emmc file be deleted? Same thing goes for my sdcard(internal) which is duplicate folder itself /sdcard/ and mnt/sdcard both contain the files i put via PC I need to know if they working with some sort of auto-synchronization (or maybe one is a shortcut), so if i delete an app from my phone will it still store from the duplicate folder or delete it? What will happen to my storage if i put movies it would be double sized?! i would have storage issues then i wont be able to store properly.
**EDIT** just read your edited post, um but my emmc has like too many junk folders like "GOLauncher, Alienate, Quake3(400~mb),Gameloft(over 1GB), GPsSpeedmeterGPX" I just want to get rid of those junks inside my emmc as its not being used on my newly flashed ROM, i thought when i did "wipe data" i thought it would erase all the stuff and put everything into factory settigns, somehow it saved all the data and placed them into emmc lol!
is there an app or anything that clears everything left from previous ROM, like even the .apks and .pdf and .mp3 are still in my emmc folder. I might actually delete them but how would i tell the difference between a used System file and a regular non-used system file from the current ROM ? As rocky23 stated, that emmc contains important files, im still not sure if those important files such as "android,data" folders are being used from "emmc" folder. they are left overs from the previous ROM. Because in the internal memory "mnt/sdcard" it contains the same android,data, folders
omg, this just got even more confusing. I've installed the patches given in the hydogen ROM thread.
I can now confirm that "mnt/sdcard" is my INTERNAL and "/emmc/" is my external.
I've also used the MTP fix, however I can only now SEE my internal when i plug it to my PC before it was my externalSdCard.
Question: remember those Android, DATA folder i was talking about. left from the previous ROM, now thats been placed into my internal, and i can see all my pictures mp3's that was in the stock ROM. how do i know if the old ROM's Android and data folder is being used or not
Clearly i just want to factory Reset it. Should i do it again?
Oke there is something wrong here. After installing fresh Hydrogen ROM i used "USB to MTP FIX" and "Patch for Switching Mount Points."
After installing them on CWM i just realized i had to TICK the MTP option on USB-settings through the mobile.
Now I can see BOTH internal and External though it takes time to read(process), anyway.
My problem is "Internal Storage" and "SD Card" BOTH have identical folders and files in them, when seen through the PC using MTP "pops out as Portable media Device"
sLy` said:
omg, this just got even more confusing. I've installed the patches given in the hydogen ROM thread.
I can now confirm that "mnt/sdcard" is my INTERNAL and "/emmc/" is my external.
I've also used the MTP fix, however I can only now SEE my internal when i plug it to my PC before it was my externalSdCard.
Question: remember those Android, DATA folder i was talking about. left from the previous ROM, now thats been placed into my internal, and i can see all my pictures mp3's that was in the stock ROM. how do i know if the old ROM's Android and data folder is being used or not
Clearly i just want to factory Reset it. Should i do it again?
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1) Factory reset will not reset the patches you flashed from CWM,
2) If you dont want to restore any applications which you were using from ealier ROM, and you are going to install all the application freshly then you can do the factory reset and delete Android and Data from you SD card. the same will be rebuilt when you do fresh install in your new ROM.
Ok, I'm going to re-install the mod from scratch, should i just delete external SDCard by plugging it into my PC through USB?
How can i wipe previous apps and everything else internally, using CWM i did Wipe data and wipe cache, i dont think that worked.
What else can i do to erase all previous data, i want to start everything from fresh.
This time when i install it i want to install it on my internal not external
sLy` said:
Ok, I'm going to re-install the mod from scratch, should i just delete external SDCard by plugging it into my PC through USB?
How can i wipe previous apps and everything else internally, using CWM i did Wipe data and wipe cache, i dont think that worked.
What else can i do to erase all previous data, i want to start everything from fresh.
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Wipe data factory reset + Format SD card , but makesure before doing format SD, you are able to mount USB and connect to PC to transfer your ROM installation zip to SD card, because by doing farmat all the stuff on the SD card will be wiped.
and freshly install your ROM zip
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But dont forget to backup your required data like movies/picture/music to your PC first
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This time when i install it i want to install it on my internal not external
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I dont get what you mean,
there is no option to select the installation of a ROM...it will automatically install on your system partition. and apps on data partition.
yeah there are none, dont worry about that. Look using CWM recovery i did
-Wipe data/Factory reset
-Wipe cache partition
- -> Advance/ Wipe Dalvik Cache
i DIDN'T do anything else, i was about to install the new rom, but then i said let me just reboot and see the factory files. Guess what i used USB mass storage and allll the files are still there.?! Whats going on.?
*EDIT*: When i installed the Hydrogen ROM it installed it into my SDcard i guess it made a partition or something. 16GB
*EDIT 2*: IN CWM should i go into "Mounts and stoage" --> Format emmc and sdcard?
Factory reset and wiping caches will not clear the contents of your internal or external memory. They only clear the OS or OS related Caches.
If you want to wipe everything from your memory you'll have to fomart
System --> Storage --> Erase USB Storage or Erase SDCard Storage. This WILL Wipe EVERYTHING, including any backups of roms.
Before wiping anything make sure you can mount your internal and external storage via Recovery / CWM incase you need to transfer a rom or backup back to your phone
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sLy` said:
Oke there is something wrong here. After installing fresh Hydrogen ROM i used "USB to MTP FIX" and "Patch for Switching Mount Points."
After installing them on CWM i just realized i had to TICK the MTP option on USB-settings through the mobile.
Now I can see BOTH internal and External though it takes time to read(process), anyway.
My problem is "Internal Storage" and "SD Card" BOTH have identical folders and files in them, when seen through the PC using MTP "pops out as Portable media Device"
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I explained this before, Internal and SD Card will have identical folders in them.
If you install a apk on your phone memory, you'll need the same directories in your external memory if you decided to install those same apks on to your external memory. Same with photos, you can install them on phone memory, or you can have them stored on your external memory, again you'll need the same directories to house them which = same folders on both internal and external memory
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sLy` said:
omg, this just got even more confusing. I've installed the patches given in the hydogen ROM thread.
I can now confirm that "mnt/sdcard" is my INTERNAL and "/emmc/" is my external.
I've also used the MTP fix, however I can only now SEE my internal when i plug it to my PC before it was my externalSdCard.
Question: remember those Android, DATA folder i was talking about. left from the previous ROM, now thats been placed into my internal, and i can see all my pictures mp3's that was in the stock ROM. how do i know if the old ROM's Android and data folder is being used or not
Clearly i just want to factory Reset it. Should i do it again?
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Simple solution regarding your emmc issue. Pull out your memory card, put it in your pc, (back up incase) and erase everything / format. Put it back in your phone. Job done.
If emmc is gone it resided on your external, if its still there its internal. Although in my experience emmc always referred to external storage on CM based roms, but i'm not familiar with hydrogen roms. A previous user posted, hydrogen use emmc as internal. As i'm not familiar with this layout i don't want to comment on it.
I've got CWM-based Recovery v5.5.0.4 at the moment (non-touch) and I try going into mounts and storage then Mount USB storage nothing opens up on my PC
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I've got CWM-based Recovery v5.5.0.4 at the moment (non-touch) and I try going into mounts and storage then Mount USB storage nothing opens up on my PC
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Ok, in recovery go to mounts and storage, FIRST mount your sdcard and then mount your external_sdcard THEN mount USB Storage, WAIT a few seconds and see if that works
(I always unmount all three after i've finished)
There are no 'external'
/efs
/cache
/system
/data
/preload
/emmc
/sdcard
And i did mount /sdcard and went to the USB mass storage device still waiting, im getting nothing.
I've just checked "device managers" and it detects the SAMSUNG mobile, everything seems to be working fine. Still no USB-mass-storage
I just took out my SDcard out of my mobile to reduce the confusion, xD, I've booted my mobile and it works great without the SDcard hence, all my photos pictures, mp3's etc are working and visible still.
If almost afraid to say this, but i think you'll have to mount 'emmc' to see your external
I want to clean format all internal memory and install new custom ROM. The reason to full format is coz lot of garbage in Internal memory in which I am not able to segregate the used app or current app etc.
I have 16 GB internal Memory and 8 GB SD Card.
1. How to wipe all internal memory (tool)?
2. If I wipe, what about CWM? Would it also be deleted? Can I install and run it from External SD Card.
3. After full wipe, will it go in Root mode to install custom ROM.
A wipe using CWM should be fine.
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1) go into recovery and select "wipe data / factory reset", or "format /data"
2) No and no. It won't be deleted and you can't install it on ext. SD
3) Install a custom ROM from CWM recovery. If your current system / ROM is rooted the root will not be affected by the wipe / format.
But WHEN I INSTALLED. Custom rom i did wipe data but the old app data was still in the internal memory. I have s3 and its internal memory is 16 gb and some is allocated to system i guess. So is it only wiping the system space not the total internal memory?
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On the S3, the internal "SD Card" memory is only a subfolder of /data.
And /data will get formatted during a wipe....
You can also initiate the wipe from Settings -> Backup And Restore (IIRC) - that will even tell you that everything on /sdcard will be deleted as well
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So is there anyway i can go and clean total internal memory and then install a backup zip from external SD card. I just want my internal SD Card to be totally wiped and install my backup image (/Data only if I am right). Because my image is only 2.5 GB but the space left on my internal SD card is 2 GB out of 16 Gb. Thanks for the help in advance
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Format data system cache and sd card .
Flash stock rom via Odin flash CF root
Restore Nandroid backup .
Or put the phone in a microwave and delete all storage .
jje
JJEgan said:
Cwm recovery
Format data system cache and sd card .
Flash stock rom via Odin flash CF root
Restore Nandroid backup .
Or put the phone in a microwave and delete all storage .
jje
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He might come back with another thread saying he stuck it in a dock on his car dashboard and said it exploded when really he fancied a fried s3 between his baguette lol
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Thanks Boss
speedyjay said:
He might come back with another thread saying he stuck it in a dock on his car dashboard and said it exploded when really he fancied a fried s3 between his baguette lol
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Thanks.Amazing reply....kudos...... you were very helpful..
Gr8
I've asked this question time and time again and no one has yet given me a answer. I can only assume no one ever cleans there internal memory
Anyway the best way to totally clean your phone Ive found is to flash back to stock then go to recovery (stock recovery) select format/wipe from there Stock recovery wipes all of "/data" unlike CWR
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I stand corrected after a short test selecting reset from the settings menu does in fact format this space :highfive:
Yes you are right. I did the same
It worked... Thanks
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So while I was in TWRP I may have tapped mount twice which I believe screwed up my internal storage. Basically now when starting TWRP it says that it cannot mount /sdcard/. If I try to mount using internal storage on my computer it says it is unreadable and sends me to disk utility. I cannot seem to reinstall from my backup located on my external SD card because the internal storage is not readable. I am on hboot 1.15 and I tried the RUU with this and it seemingly was not working. I would love to take it to sprint but I fear they will turn on the phone and see that it says tampered even though it is s-on. Now if I try to boot up it goes through the boot screens and gets to the final "HTC Beats Audio" screen and then shuts itself down and powers up again. Any help would be appreciated. I have my data backed up so I am not worried about saving that. I just want my phone to work again. Any ideas?
Thanks in advance
TL;DR: Phone's internal storage seems corrupted and TWRP can't access it, neither can my computer. RUU doesn't seem to be working. What do I do?
Wrong thread
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You can try to wipe the card from recovery, it should be a simple fix. Whether TWRP can read it or not, the card has a physical address that TWRP should be able to see
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You can try to wipe the card from recovery, it should be a simple fix. Whether TWRP can read it or not, the card has a physical address that TWRP should be able to see
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Well specifically under the TWRP dialog it says "E:failed to mount /sdcard (Invalid argument)" and "E: Unable to mount /sdcard when trying to read settings file" also "E:Can't mount /cache/recovery/command"
So when I try to wipe internal storage it says
E:tw_format_rmfr: unable to locate volume for device "/dev/block/mmcblk0
* Verifying filesystems...
* Verifying partition sizes
E: Unable to mount '/cache' (tw_mount)
E:failed to mount /sdcard (invalid argument)
E:failed to mount /sdcard (invalid argument)
E:failed to mount /sdcard (invalid argument)
Thoughts on that?
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Wrong thread
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Could you extrapolate on this please? Should I post this somewhere else?
Hey may have just posted in the wrong thread lol
Also ouch, the physical address for internal may be shot if TWRP doesn't recognize it. Try fastboot to wipe cache and then I guess you could try adb to wipe sd though its not something I've ever tried so it may not be possible.
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Hey may have just posted in the wrong thread lol
Also ouch, the physical address for internal may be shot
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So what does that mean?
om4 said:
Hey may have just posted in the wrong thread lol
Also ouch, the physical address for internal may be shot
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no this just happen to me bu ti just fixed it in a retarted way in twrp i mounted and then my computer said format then i put a zip file on the internal sd once it get s done formatting and i went to sd card and i was relieved
Why didn't I think of this earlier, if the physical address is bad you could repartition the phone it should wipe everything and rewrite any corrupt or damaged areas
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I love your enthusiasm to prove me wrong but just because windows recognized a corrupt card and was able to reformat does not mean its physical address isn't corrupt. I've had plenty of SD cards that windows could not read that Linux could and vice versa. Not saying I'm right and you're wrong, just stating no and then offering your solution makes me think you are coming off as hostile
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no this just happen to me bu ti just fixed it in a retarted way in twrp i mounted and then my computer said format then i put a zip file on the internal sd once it get s done formatting and i went to sd card and i was relieved
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Sorry could you please explain this I'm a little lost... thanks
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Why didn't I think of this earlier, if the physical address is bad you could repartition the phone it should wipe everything and rewrite the any corrupt or damaged areas
So how should one go about doing this?
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They are saying to boot to twrp and mount SD card to pc
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They are saying to boot to twrp and mount SD card to pc
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Yea that doesn't work is what I was trying to say. If I mount internal from TWRP I get a prompt saying "You need to format the disk in drive H: before you can use it" with the only two options as "Format Disk" and "Cancel". Should I format it?
Oh, so you were being cautious and searching for other solutions! Finally a user I can admire lol. Make sure it is the right SD card, its OK to format, this is what you have to do when its been corrupted. I misunderstood and thought you said windows would not recognize it at all, I assumed that it was too far gone
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Oh, so you were being cautious and searching for other solutions! Finally a user I can admire lol. Make sure it is the right SD card, its OK to format, this is what you have to do when its been corrupted. I misunderstood and thought you said windows would not recognize it at all, I assumed that it was too far gone
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So should I just press format disk? Or is there something more specific?
thanks for being on top of this too
no just reformat, it will erase all data on the card, all data on the card including apps and any app data will get wiped, but you can easily restore any backed up apps, if you have any further problems with internal like apps fc'ing or the like you can go into recovery and select fix permissions
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no just reformat, it will erase all data on the card, all data on the card including apps and any app data will get wiped, but you can easily restore any backed up apps, if you have any further problems with internal like apps fc'ing or the like you can go into recovery and select fix permissions
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So I take it this gets formatted as FAT (MS-DOS)?
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So I take it this gets formatted as FAT (MS-DOS)?
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you really are cautious, yes reformat as fat32 (fat and fat16 have file size and file name limitations that fat 32 does not) I suggest a quick format just to get the card recognizable again and then reformat the long way, this ensures that anything lingering in the memory that could corrupt the card again is better hidden. I say hidden because each file is given a physical address on the card (hey its written to separate physical parts of the memory right? Are you sticking with me other guy?? Sorry just had to needlessly slam the other guy again) when a file is deleted the information remains but the physical address linking the file is deleted, the information stays on a sector of the memory card until it is overwritten by new data.
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Yea that doesn't work is what I was trying to say. If I mount internal from TWRP I get a prompt saying "You need to format the disk in drive H: before you can use it" with the only two options as "Format Disk" and "Cancel". Should I format it?
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yeah then put a zip file on it and then it should be working fine go to file explorer or install and then you should be able do what you need
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yeah then put a zip file on it and then it should be working fine go to file explorer or install and then you should be able do what you need
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sorry for my rudeness dude, I'm slightly intoxicated as of 7:00pm and right now everyone seems to be verbally attacking me (which they aren't, I'm just a stand-offish drunk)
Edit: the gf made me apologize, but that is not to say I would not have done so myself as I sobered. Again dude I'm sorry. And yes I did wait for her to leave before posting the edit, when it comes to her I'm also a cowardly drunk
Hi everyone,
I have an S2 phone international edition. I made a stupid error of installing clockworkmod on my phone before extracting my photos and music. Now the phone is stuck in boot loop animation. I tried flashing other roms, like cyanogen - same thing, stuck in bootloop. My cwm is 6.0.1.2. The phone can boot into recovery just fine. I backed up my contacts to an sdcard, but I need to get my photos out before doing a factory reset. So now I need to mount the internal storage on my PC via usb and drag out these pictures. The cwm usb mount is not recognised by my computer, but the pc does see the device. I have tried installing kies for drivers - same thing. Can someone advice me on an external way to unblock phone internal memory and mount it on pc? I heard there are ADW browsers, but I don't know how to input commands in them. Thanks for any help offered.
PS: Perhaps there is a way to remove the cwm without wiping all data?
factory reset will not wipe your photos, music, docs etc... so dont worry
Peaceful Droid said:
factory reset will not wipe your photos, music, docs etc... so dont worry
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But just to clarify, the pictures are stored on internal memory. Will they remain safe after doing a wipe data?
yes all int sd and ext sd stuff will be as it is...
and did you wipe delvik cache & cache???
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you will lose only apps, sms, call logs... you may take backup from recovery also
Peaceful Droid said:
yes all int sd and ext sd stuff will be as it is...
and did you wipe delvik cache & cache???
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you will lose only apps, sms, call logs... you may take backup from recovery also
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So after wiping and hopefully installing a new rom successfully - how do i recover calls, sms and contacts backed up to cwm?
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So after wiping and hopefully installing a new rom successfully - how do i recover calls, sms and contacts backed up to cwm?
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You can't. Call logs, sms text messages and apps+data which you haven't backed up with Titanium Backup are lost.
Try to do a full wipe, and then flash a new rom. Pictures, documents etc. will not be touched.
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