Ok, so here it is: tried CM11 and decided it was a little too buggy for me. Went into recovery and did a factory reset a couple times and also SYSTEM, CACHE, and DALVIK. From there i restored my Odex Blue backup w/o incident.
However, i noticed that Swiftkey suddenly said it couldnt d/l the language pack. Tried uninstalling and reinstalling. Nothing. Google searched the problem and read numerous posts. Cant figure it out.
I then wanted to test another app that needs to download data. My weather/clock app has the same problem. Wont d/l any new skins. My alternate app market same issue... D/L will start but will never get past 0%.
This is clearly relates to resoring TW after flashing CM11. There must be a step i missed or something.
What would happen if i went into TWRP and chose to FORMAT DATA (clears internal data) and then attempted to restore my Odexed blue backup? I have the feeling that we are bot supposed to wipe internal data but i have no idea how to sort out this problem
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Ok, so here it is: tried CM11 and decided it was a little too buggy for me. Went into recovery and did a factory reset a couple times and also SYSTEM, CACHE, and DALVIK. From there i restored my Odex Blue backup w/o incident.
However, i noticed that Swiftkey suddenly said it couldnt d/l the language pack. Tried uninstalling and reinstalling. Nothing. Google searched the problem and read numerous posts. Cant figure it out.
I then wanted to test another app that needs to download data. My weather/clock app has the same problem. Wont d/l any new skins. My alternate app market same issue... D/L will start but will never get past 0%.
This is clearly relates to resoring TW after flashing CM11. There must be a step i missed or something.
What would happen if i went into TWRP and chose to FORMAT DATA (clears internal data) and then attempted to restore my Odexed blue backup? I have the feeling that we are bot supposed to wipe internal data but i have no idea how to sort out this problem
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It's the symlinks that point to your internal storage that b need to be restored. You can use ADB command lines to reconnect those, or take a more drastic measure that will get you to where you want.
I'll paste the options of which I'm aware momentarily...
--------Begin guidance from @freeza, posted over the weekend in his stock rooted MJ4 thread---------
" please try these commands in adb or terminal emulator... make a backup of your internal storage just to be safe.
chown -R media_rw:media_rw /data/media/
find /data/media/ -type d -exec chmod 775 {} ';'
find /data/media/ -type f -exec chmod 664 {} ';'
PS: I'd run these in recovery... "
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--------Begin alternative method, provided to me by a forum member uncomfortable with ADB and reporting it working-----
"What I did was just wipe everything and started from scratch and everything seems to be normal again..."
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My guess is the latter method was a wipe of everything from within TWRP.
I hope this helps.
Good luck.
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GDI, i knew i shouldnt of flashed CM11. I knew something stupid like this would happen! Im ADB illiterate so please break it down for me a bit.
Thanks for the reply Mic!
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SantinoInc said:
GDI, i knew i shouldnt of flashed CM11. I knew something stupid like this would happen! Im ADB illiterate so please break it down for me a bit.
Thanks for the reply Mic!
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See above. You can do it without ADB and still be up-and-running, though it's a bit more work on the backend.
If going the command line route, you'd have your phone in recovery, be running the latest version of Android SDK and Eclipse, and running from the subdirectory of where the Android SDK is installed labeled "platform tools." You'll need to run them from a command prompt within Windows, and be at that directory from within the command window.
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Mic, if i choose the format data option in TWRP will i be able to restore nandroid on my external sd card? Im afraid once i wipe internal sd card TWRP will not function properly and i wont have a chance to restore a backup from external sd card
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Mic, if i choose the format data option in TWRP will i be able to restore nandroid on my external sd card? Im afraid once i wipe internal sd card TWRP will not function properly and i wont have a chance to restore a backup from external sd card
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I'm sorry bro, I haven't done either, though I suspect it's one of the wipe options from within TWRP. If you copy a TWRP backup to your external storage, you will likely be able to put it back after the wipe. Nothing is ever gone if you reset the pointers to your storage.
Let me try to get you some assistance; I believe @Goddly can provide guidance.
OK, here's your update (not from Goddly), you should restore nothing from a prior backup from a previous TouchWiz rom if you have gone from CM11 to TW4.3. I believe it's square one for ya (either Odin or Mobile Odin tar file flash). Just advice from two whom would know.
Or...if you did flash the Skunk Ape1 rom, reinstalled TWRP and re-rooted, you should be able to flash a new TouchWiz rom and could try to restore a prior backup. I don't see why that wouldn't work. I still think starting over is your best call.
Edit: Here are the steps that make the most sense to me if you don't use ADB and are having issues with a TW 4.3 ROM after flashing an AOSP 4.4.2 build:
1. Flash Full Stock (no root or recovery) ROM of MJ4, tar file flashed from Mobile Odin or Odin (tar can be found here)
2. Inject root using Chainfire method using tar.md5 file here,
3. Install TWRP 2.6.3.7, tar.md5 file here, IMG file here,
4. Flash your heart out
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Man, you are thorough! Thanks so much for your time once again! I used skunks file in traditional Odin. When that was done I did a Factory Reset. Then I went back to Odin to flash TWRP recovery. Finally, I restored my good ole SS Odexed. Definitely not worth the hassle IMO. You really can't beat a stock based rom IMO.
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I had the same problem so what I did was transfer all my important files to my sdcard since I'm rocking a 64 GB card then I wiped everything but my sdcard and finally reinstalled TW.
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I have been scouring the forums to find a detailed set of instructions to flash a gingerbread ROM and radio. There are a lot of part explanations but I cannot find one single post which gives you the step-by-step from start to finish.
It would be nice if there were a simple set of instructions for all gingerbread ROMS on the thunderbolt. However, if there is not, here is what I personally would like to do:
I am running The Perfect Storm v1.4 and Imoseyon's LeanKernel 2.6.0.
I want Gingeritis and Imoseyon's GB LeanKernel.
I am sure that someone has covered this somewhere, but I can't find it. Sorry for the classic noob question. Any help would be appreciated.
First you want to download your rom and kernel to your sdcard (duh )
You also want to find the thread in the Dev section titled "obligatory radio thread" or the thread that has MR2 or MR2.5 radios and download one of those. It should be named PG05IMG.zip, so verify that. Place this file on the root of your sdcard (not in a folder), and then reboot into recovery. Wipe data and cache,as well as Dalvik under advanced. Now that you have wiped, install your rom and your kernel. After this, don't reboot, but pull your battery. Put the battery back in the phone and hold the volume down button. While holding volume down, hold the power button and you should see the HTC bootscreen. If you're still holding both buttons it will take you to the bootloader. From here follow the instructions to flash your radio (this is all you can do if the PG05IMG.zip file is on your sdcard. After the phone does its business it will prompt you to reboot, so be sure to do so. There you go
Make sure to hook your phone to your computer and delete the PG05IMG.zip file when you're done
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The only thing I'm shaky on is how to handle renaming the files between flashing the radio and the rom while in recovery.
Also, with regards to backups, I have two questions.
1 - after I use clockwork to do a nandroid backup, do I need to move it from the card. In other words, will flashing effect the nandroid backup such that I should copy it on to my computer.
2 - If I use titanium backup to back up my apps, will I need to do anything before flashing to be able to restore them when I'm in the new rom?
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The only thing I'm shaky on is how to handle renaming the files between flashing the radio and the rom while in recovery.
Also, with regards to backups, I have two questions.
1 - after I use clockwork to do a nandroid backup, do I need to move it from the card. In other words, will flashing effect the nandroid backup such that I should copy it on to my computer.
2 - If I use titanium backup to back up my apps, will I need to do anything before flashing to be able to restore them when I'm in the new rom?
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To address the re-naming of files whilst in recovery, you can mount your SD card from clockworkmod recovery by going to mounts and storage > mount USB storage. After you've mounted, just use your Windows/MAC/Linux interface to organize and re-name files.
Regarding your last two questions, no and no. Nandroids, Titanium Backups, SMS+ backups, etc. all save to your SD card in one place or another. So unless you plan on partitioning and/or formatting your SD card before you restore your various backups, then you're fine. However, if you do wipe your SD card at any point, either accidentally or purposely, it is always good to have a copy of it somewhere, so I always like to make sure my SD card is on my computer somewhere with at least one nandroid on it Hope this helps! If you want step-by-steps for going from Froyo to GB, I can help you out with that, just holler.
LAST QUESTIONS (I hope)
After I've flashed the new rom, I've read that you can restore user apps, but not system apps. So the first question is, if reinstall titanium from the APK, will titanium find the backup information that's on the SD card? Second, can you restore the user data as well or will I lose all of that information. If so, can I get it back?
You guys rock. I'm pretty sure this will be a helpful thread for a lot of people like me who need a little reassurance that they won't brick their phone.
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LAST QUESTIONS (I hope)
After I've flashed the new rom, I've read that you can restore user apps, but not system apps. So the first question is, if reinstall titanium from the APK, will titanium find the backup information that's on the SD card? Second, can you restore the user data as well or will I lose all of that information. If so, can I get it back?
You guys rock. I'm pretty sure this will be a helpful thread for a lot of people like me who need a little reassurance that they won't brick their phone.
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Yes, reinstalling titanium backup and using the restore feature is exactly the intended use. Unless you've manually changed the default backup location, it will find it on its own and you can restore both the apps themsevles and the user data (but only if you've backed that up within titanium as well!) However, I don't think titanium backs up sms/mms messages, so you'll have to grab smsbackup+ or a similar application to do that (its free ) Best of luck!
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May I also recommend titanium backup pro? Haha I'm not related to the Dev I promise but if you have a lot of apps the pro version saves a lot of time because you don't have to push install for each iindividual app goodluck!
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joshnichols189 said:
May I also recommend titanium backup pro? Haha I'm not related to the Dev I promise but if you have a lot of apps the pro version saves a lot of time because you don't have to push install for each iindividual app goodluck!
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I couldn't agree more, for us crackflashers it is a must +1!
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On the subject of pulling battery while in recovery. For me at least, an easier option is to reboot into bootloader using adb. After flashing your Rom and kernel just type adb reboot bootloader in your command prompt, and no battery pulling required.
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On the subject of pulling battery while in recovery. For me at least, an easier option is to reboot into bootloader using adb. After flashing your Rom and kernel just type adb reboot bootloader in your command prompt, and no battery pulling required.
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This is what I prefer, but I noticed a lot of people like to flash when they're not near a computer
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joshnichols189 said:
May I also recommend titanium backup pro? Haha I'm not related to the Dev I promise but if you have a lot of apps the pro version saves a lot of time because you don't have to push install for each iindividual app goodluck!
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Actually using TB root (free) you can also batch restore apps rather than individually restore., you just click on menu after clicking on backup/restore, and then select batch and it'll show you all your options.
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Actually using TB root (free) you can also batch restore apps rather than individually restore., you just click on menu after clicking on backup/restore, and then select batch and it'll show you all your options.
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You can batch in both versions of Titanium, what he was saying is that with premium you can batch restore your apps and not have to click install and ok on each one after they install - it skips that step, which for me was annoying.
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This is what I prefer, but I noticed a lot of people like to flash when they're not near a computer
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Sounds like bootloader reboot option would be a good addition to CWR.
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Can you restore user app DATA or just the apps themselves?
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Can you restore user app DATA or just the apps themselves?
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You can restore both the application data and the actual .apk
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I just flashed from VirusRom (froyo) to Das BAMF 2.1 Remix. I have tried both the 2 and 2.5 Radio I found in the forums here and I can never connect to 4g. 3g seems to be fine, but I can never get 4g and I am in a very strong 4g area (normally have full bars). Any suggestions as to how I can fix this?
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I just flashed from VirusRom (froyo) to Das BAMF 2.1 Remix. I have tried both the 2 and 2.5 Radio I found in the forums here and I can never connect to 4g. 3g seems to be fine, but I can never get 4g and I am in a very strong 4g area (normally have full bars). Any suggestions as to how I can fix this?
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I myself had some issues with radios as well. I'm not sure if you are having the same problems as I was but here is how I fixed it:
1. Reboot into recovery, wipe cache, wipe dalvik (3 times each, just in case...), re-flash your kernel (here's a shameless plug if you don't already have a favorite kernel - Imoseyon's LeanKernel is killer).
2. Once flashed, make sure your radio of choice (MR2 has been very good for me so far) is on your SD root named as PG05IMG.zip (you can rename or copy the radio by mounting the SD card in recovery by selecting mounts & storage -> mount usb and doing your business there), either pull the battery and power up holding the volume button as described above in this thread or use adb (I found using adb more simple). For adb, type "adb reboot bootloader" - once in hboot, select bootloader and your radio will flash. Once done reboot.
See if that helps as it did for me. If it doesn't, there are plenty of other very clever folks with their eyes on this thread who can help you better.
Best of luck...
It all started when I tried to update busybox and it told me that multiple versions were present. I reflashed KH3 (which brought me back to basic busybox) and the problem still persists. I can download FINE over 3G. Never had this problem before.
Factory reset the only solution? I've read online that it works, but I'd like to avoid it.
I've decided to go for the hard reset, but I'm worried that I won't clean everything that's necessary.
I think busybox may be installed in /sbin which is outside of /system. I was planning on flashing the leaked KH3 (NON FRANKENSTEIN), but doesn't that only wipe /system?
How can I restore the absolute root of my device to stock? By that I mean the parent "directory" (if you can call it that) of /system.
Thanks!
So I wiped absolutely everything, have basic busybox installed, and I'm still getting the issue. Sometimes I can get an app to install, but more often than not the download fails to start on wifi.
No one else experiences this? Anyone have any idea why this might be happening? I'm so frustrated!
I also think that the wipes may not have worked properly because somehow PowerAMP remembered my settings and Tasker didn't revert to the default notification icon. I can't figure out how this is possible if /system and /data were wiped.
Does flashing a stock ROM not wipe all of /system?
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Clean wipe via CWM recovery mounts and storage format system data and sd card .
jje
Aside from SD card and USB storage, doesn't all of that happen when flashing stock ROM?
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Hello? Someone confirm please.
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What can I do to reset the whole phone?
I tried many many ROMs from here since the last 10 months.
But now I would like to start from scratch with a new clean phone.
There are so much old files, unused directories and so on.
The last directory named "0" is the the tip of the iceberg. In that directory is my whole android system, but also one directory level up is an android system from the last install. ???
So really want to get rid of all files.
The factory reset doesn't helped.
A full wipe from another rom also didn't clean my internal card.
In Windows I can't format C: while I'm running the system nor delete the windows directory so I don't think that this is possible with an active phone.
Can I clean/format it with Odin?
You can do a simple factory reset or use mega wipe. But be careful, it will erase anything, only leaves your external sd, hence have a flashable rom there.
You can find it here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1832326
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You can do a simple factory reset or use mega wipe. But be careful, it will erase anything, only leaves your external sd, hence have a flashable rom there.
You can find it here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1832326
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Many thanks!
I tried "MegaWipe" and it works perfect.
Finally after months I have no lags no errors nothing what makes me angry with my phone.
Great! :victory:
I am in need of freeing up space on my device. Out of the 16Gb I only have 2.xGb available now. I do have at least 2 backups on my phone, and 2 helium backups. Looking at the math, they should not take up that much room:
Stock.zip 1.7G
slim.zip 1.6G
Helium1 642MB
Helium2 733MB
= 4.65G
So that really doesn't make any sense to me. I reviewed my apps and I had a lot of google play cached, but I deleted all of that data through app management. So I can't figure what is taking up all of this space.
1. if I delete my backups from the device, which I have transferred to my computer, and then paste them back in, will they work? Will they work if I format the phone?
2. In reality I would have no problem formatting the phone to wipe everything and flash a rom again via OTG cable through CWM. However, I am at a loss as to what selection(s) in CWM I make to fix my problem.
1) there is actually only 11-12G actually available to the user, on all DNA's, on all ROMs
2) you can move back ups around. i keep a copy of mine in dropbox and on my computer, but never on my phone.
3) you have to have apps, app cache, music, pics, ect to have such little space. you need to look at your /data partition and your /sdcard partition when calculating space.
4) wth is helium?
Helium used to be carbon backup. But I'll look at my directories and review the space used
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Ok. So I was able to free up a bunch of space and removed a single backup, leaving stock.zip on board in case of crashing and need of assistance with Verizon though 99% unlikely to happen. I was having major issues finding where helium stored its data because it is blocked from the user. But luckily the Storage option in >Settings>Storage in slimbean is much greater in depth than I'm used to. So I was able to detect where a lot of my data was coming from which was various sources, but some were helium/Carbon, and also old DL files of CM that were sitting around.
But for the sake of knowing, If I did want to wipe everything through CWM and format, would I choose everything? or just a single option.
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Helium used to be carbon backup. But I'll look at my directories and review the space used
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Ok. So I was able to free up a bunch of space and removed a single backup, leaving stock.zip on board in case of crashing and need of assistance with Verizon though 99% unlikely to happen. I was having major issues finding where helium stored its data because it is blocked from the user. But luckily the Storage option in >Settings>Storage in slimbean is much greater in depth than I'm used to. So I was able to detect where a lot of my data was coming from which was various sources, but some were helium/Carbon, and also old DL files of CM that were sitting around.
But for the sake of knowing, If I did want to wipe everything through CWM and format, would I choose everything? or just a single option.
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well its been a while since i've used CMW, and im on TWRP. but it depends on how far down you want to format. if you want to just do a regular wipe, and reload a new rom then the usual wipe is your /system, /data, /cache, /dalvik, and /boot. im not sure what CWM calls them, but those are the usual partitions. just make sure you have a new rom ready or a backup. if you wanted to reformat even FURTHER than that, you could flash the stock rocovery and do a fac reset. but thats only if you are have major issue across all roms.
OK. Thanks for the response. I'm going to research why so many people tend to prefer twrp now.
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OK. Thanks for the response. I'm going to research why so many people tend to prefer twrp now.
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i think one of the main factors was that it works with some ROMs OTA functions, especially Viper roms, which are very popular. myself, i just wanted to try it out lol
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OK. Thanks for the response. I'm going to research why so many people tend to prefer twrp now.
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If u came from a Rom that was on 4.1.1 or 4.1.2 to a Rom that is 4.2.2 then check the /sdcard directory.. not sdcard0. I think its also in data/media. Not sdcard/data/media but striaght data/media. Use a root file manager and if u still have files in there, then delete everything except the 0/ folder. Happened to me a couple times and I freed up around 2-4 gb everytime
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If u came from a Rom that was on 4.1.1 or 4.1.2 to a Rom that is 4.2.2 then check the /sdcard directory.. not sdcard0. I think its also in data/media. Not sdcard/data/media but striaght data/media. Use a root file manager and if u still have files in there, then delete everything except the 0/ folder. Happened to me a couple times and I freed up around 2-4 gb everytime
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I looked into that and saw what you were referring to. My only concern is that data/media is where my stock.zip recovery is saved. I'm not sure if I'm quite ready to remove that from my device yet. Also, do I need any of the CWM stuff found in data/media still? I am not referring to data/media/0.
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I looked into that and saw what you were referring to. My only concern is that data/media is where my stock.zip recovery is saved. I'm not sure if I'm quite ready to remove that from my device yet. Also, do I need any of the CWM stuff found in data/media still? I am not referring to data/media/0.
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Update: I'm glad I checked. I performed a backup of my current rom and CWM placed it in /data/media/clockworkmod. So this is an active directory that CWM is using for my backups. So I don't believe I'll be deleting the /data/media/clockworkmod directory. But will then anything else be impacted if deleted?
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Update: I'm glad I checked. I performed a backup of my current rom and CWM placed it in /data/media/clockworkmod. So this is an active directory that CWM is using for my backups. So I don't believe I'll be deleting the /data/media/clockworkmod directory. But will then anything else be impacted if deleted?
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Oh if you still have your backups there then dont delete that cwm folder.. but try and delete anything else that seems useless. What Rom are you on now?
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Oh if you still have your backups there then dont delete that cwm folder.. but try and delete anything else that seems useless. What Rom are you on now?
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On slimbean. The remaining 4.1 files are from stock. All roms i have used are 4.2.
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On slimbean. The remaining 4.1 files are from stock. All roms i have used are 4.2.
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Alright I'm pretty sure its the data/media/android folder that has a pretty good chunk of memory. Try and delete that. It wont mess up your current setup because your android folder is on the sdcard 0
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Also if you took pictures, downloaded stuff, or have music when you were on stock, then dont touch folders like dcim, download, music, pictures, ect. I personally move all my files when I switch between 4.1 to 4.2 fro. Sdcard to sdcard0. If you want to do that use a computer to make sure it transfered right because I used es filemanager once and it said it transfered but instead all of it was lost. I think someone made a .zip file that could transfer everything but I can't remember
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Alright I'm pretty sure its the data/media/android folder that has a pretty good chunk of memory. Try and delete that. It wont mess up your current setup because your android folder is on the sdcard 0
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Also if you took pictures, downloaded stuff, or have music when you were on stock, then dont touch folders like dcim, download, music, pictures, ect. I personally move all my files when I switch between 4.1 to 4.2 fro. Sdcard to sdcard0. If you want to do that use a computer to make sure it transfered right because I used es filemanager once and it said it transfered but instead all of it was lost. I think someone made a .zip file that could transfer everything but I can't remember
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Sounds good. In regards to the pictures. I believe you posted about that somewhere else before, or someone else did. I saw the issues. I use dropbox and don't have any music on my device other than google music cache. So I cleared a lot of that stuff up. thanks for your help.
Guys I made a dumb mistake. After trying to install Pinky and the Brain rom coming from another rom, I wiped my internal sd card. Well I downloaded the pinky and the brain rom and put it on an external sd card. the rom shows when I go to install but it shows all the folders, but it doesn't see the rom.zip file. I don't think this is something I have to flash with odin and Casual is out of the question since im rooted, unlocked, and on a custom rom. I am currently have TWRP. do I have to manipulate the pinky and the brain rom. Im sure im missing a step. I don't want to odin back to a stock rom then using casual to get back. is there an easier way.
I use my droid as my main internet source. Now im stuck with a POS sony Erickson experia just to have a working phone and im connecting via 3g..sucks for me lol..seriously what am I doing wrong that my phone is not showing the zip file to install via TWRP.
Again I have no rom on the phone at this point...just to be clear
Did you make a nandroid backup before attempting to flash anything?
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No..I thought I had previous backups ..
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Bad idea. ALWAYS nandroid. Download a rom on your comp and use a card reader to transfer it to SD. Then flash it. Idk what else you can do other wise.
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Seems you still have access to TWRP correct?
I would then load into it, under advanced, go to sideload. Connect it to a computer with a functioning adb and sideload the zip of the rom you want to flash over.
teamw.in /ADBSideload (that's a URL, I can't put them in posts yet, too new)
I have saved a phone in a similar situation this exact way.
Hope this helps.
I do still have twrp...I'm gonna try to download Scotts rom and put it on sd card and hopefully twrp will see the zip
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