Hey guys, I just flashed my friends Note 2 last night, after making a backup of it that totaled a whopping 3 gigabytes, I went ahead and flashed TWRP, and Cyanogen Mod.
Well, we decided to go back to stock so we could backup some of his larger apps, and after restoring, it would appear that the phone is rooted stock. It's like the restore didn't even happen.
It's the Verizon Note 2, he has a 16 gigabyte external sd, and I can use adb.
Anyone help me out?
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Everytime I flash a different rom more of phone storage space is taken away.
I am down to 677MB available out of 12.78GB total. Before I flashed the last rom I had almost 3GB available. I notice this everytime I flash a rom.
What do I do to reclaim the space? Is it Nandroid Backups that are taking all the space?
Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks.
If you're making nandroid backup before every rom update and not removing old nandroid backups then i would say that's what taking up space.
I have one backup that i fall back on to go back to mostly all stock and maybe 2nd one that ill fall back on for the more recent configuration. i dont keep more than 2 back ups at a time.
You can use a file manage and locate clockwork in your internal SD card and in the backup folder remove old back ups just keep what you need
Hello!
My wife and I both have Note 2's and she wants to sell hers to get an S4 instead. We are both rooted and running TWRP recovery and JellyBeans. The buyer of her Note 2 wants us to leave it rooted and running the most current Beans ROM, but we of course want all her data removed. Simple question: how does one remove all user data, folders, etc without removing root/custom ROM? Basically return the phone to factory fresh, except for being rooted, with the ROM and recovery installed.
Thanks
UnexplainedBacon said:
Hello!
My wife and I both have Note 2's and she wants to sell hers to get an S4 instead. We are both rooted and running TWRP recovery and JellyBeans. The buyer of her Note 2 wants us to leave it rooted and running the most current Beans ROM, but we of course want all her data removed. Simple question: how does one remove all user data, folders, etc without removing root/custom ROM? Basically return the phone to factory fresh, except for being rooted, with the ROM and recovery installed.
Thanks
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Twrp should have this too, but with cwm you can format sdcard (which is the internal sd)(TO BE SAFE REMOVE EXTERNAL SD BEFORE FORMATTING SD CARD) then wipe data and flash rom from external sd card and it will be a fresh flash with no user info. When you give it to the buyer, they put their sim in, turn it on, enter their gmail and its all good.
UnexplainedBacon said:
Hello!
My wife and I both have Note 2's and she wants to sell hers to get an S4 instead. We are both rooted and running TWRP recovery and JellyBeans. The buyer of her Note 2 wants us to leave it rooted and running the most current Beans ROM, but we of course want all her data removed. Simple question: how does one remove all user data, folders, etc without removing root/custom ROM? Basically return the phone to factory fresh, except for being rooted, with the ROM and recovery installed.
Thanks
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All you have to do is reboot to recovery and do a factory reset. In TWRP its the 2nd on the left. If you plan on turning over sdcard, just go thru and format the sdcard. but i'm sure you plan on keeping your ext-sdcard. After factory reset, just go thru and format the internal sdcard. Your all ready to go.
Oops Boosted already explained.
Thanks for the info guys!
if i backup my apps on my note 2 (just apps) and then bring that sd card to my s4 and restore from there, will there be any problems or should everything run the same? this obviously would save a lot of time
Hey everyone,
I picked up a Note 3 today and I'm trying to prep the Note 2 for Swappa. I reformatted the SD card and did a factory reset in TWRP. It appears all my apps and data are gone, but are they REALLY gone? Am I safe to go ahead and sell the Note 2, rooted with TWRP/Beans 23 installed, so long as it appears all my apps and data are removed? I may sound paranoid, but I know how easy it is to recover data on hard drives, even when supposedly deleted. If there's anything else I need to do before selling it, please help a fella out and let me know!
Thanks
If you want to be secure, don't include the sd card
UnexplainedBacon said:
Hey everyone,
I picked up a Note 3 today and I'm trying to prep the Note 2 for Swappa. I reformatted the SD card and did a factory reset in TWRP. It appears all my apps and data are gone, but are they REALLY gone? Am I safe to go ahead and sell the Note 2, rooted with TWRP/Beans 23 installed, so long as it appears all my apps and data are removed? I may sound paranoid, but I know how easy it is to recover data on hard drives, even when supposedly deleted. If there's anything else I need to do before selling it, please help a fella out and let me know!
Thanks
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That would be good. But if I were paranoid (sometimes I am) I would fill with junk data on your phones internal. Maybe flash roms make twrp backups or whatever then wipe and reformat. This would go for any sd memory. From what i know. You can always research how this storage medium works.
Hey guys
On my SM-N900W8 Note 3, I've had it running a rooted stock rom.
Yesterday I decided to try out Gummy Rom....did a backup in TWRP.....I also backed up all my apps with Titanium just to be safe.. wiped data....installed Gummy Rom....it just wasn't for me.
Wiped data again......restored my stock rooted rom that I've been using this whole time........phone booted up without a problem...SUCCESS! At least I thought success....started to notice some errors with some of the apps I have...
Wasn't able to get any of my snapchats....swiftkey was giving me errors.....then I tired to save a picture and saw that it had failed....strange
I Have several gigs available on my internal and external SD card....
Opening up Titanium....I can see that all folders, internal AND external say "This folder is not writable."
Anyone have any ideas?
Thanks in advance
Update: I've installed SDFix, and I can now save to my external SD card.....however I still can't save to my internal memory.