[Q] Space Issue on my S4 - Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4

Hello,
So I have a rooted 16GB S4 running the latest hyperdrive rom.
for some reason I have like 10 GB of miscellaneous files that i have no idea where they came from. I've completely erased the phone a few times but the files. whatever they are still remain. Can anyone help me with this?
here is a pic of my storage.
Thanks!

iamme216 said:
Hello,
So I have a rooted 16GB S4 running the latest hyperdrive rom.
for some reason I have like 10 GB of miscellaneous files that i have no idea where they came from. I've completely erased the phone a few times but the files. whatever they are still remain. Can anyone help me with this?
here is a pic of my storage.
Thanks!
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is hyperdrive installed in its own rom slot?

decaturbob said:
is hyperdrive installed in its own rom slot?
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How do I check that?

iamme216 said:
How do I check that?
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how did you install safestrap and hyperdive?

decaturbob said:
how did you install safestrap and hyperdive?
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Well I bought my phone already rooted so safestrap i have no idea. I installed hyperdrive through with the clockwork mod recovery menu.

iamme216 said:
Well I bought my phone already rooted so safestrap i have no idea. I installed hyperdrive through with the clockwork mod recovery menu.
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You must have the original build and don't need safestrap. Check and see if you have several backups of your rom (or previous roms) saved on your phone.

iamme216 said:
Well I bought my phone already rooted so safestrap i have no idea. I installed hyperdrive through with the clockwork mod recovery menu.
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You have a mdk build which is awesome for you. I suggest you educate yourself on what you have. Do you have extsd memory card?
safestrap enabled, Hyperdrive driven

Tulsadiver said:
You must have the original build and don't need safestrap. Check and see if you have several backups of your rom (or previous roms) saved on your phone.
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Would I just search the storage or is there somewhere else I should look?

decaturbob said:
You have a mdk build which is awesome for you. I suggest you educate yourself on what you have. Do you have extsd memory card?
safestrap enabled, Hyperdrive driven
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I'll definitely look into that! and yes i do.

iamme216 said:
I'll definitely look into that! and yes i do.
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Do you have all you data going to the extsd card? I have 3 roms loaded and running...safestrap and a 32gb extsd with plenty of memory. I keep all tibu backups and safestrap backups on extsd card.
safestrap enabled, Hyperdrive driven

iamme216 said:
Would I just search the storage or is there somewhere else I should look?
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You can use the app SD Maid to see what your biggest files are and where they are located. I'm sure there's many ways to search and find them, that's just a real easy way. Good luck
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Mistertac said:
You can use the app SD Maid to see what your biggest files are and where they are located. I'm sure there's many ways to search and find them, that's just a real easy way. Good luck
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diskusage is another good app but gotta be careful not delete what you don't understand

decaturbob said:
Do you have all you data going to the extsd card? I have 3 roms loaded and running...safestrap and a 32gb extsd with plenty of memory. I keep all tibu backups and safestrap backups on extsd card.
safestrap enabled, Hyperdrive driven
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I have a few apps running on the SD card. All my music, pictures and videos are on there as well as well as my tibu backups. there's like nothing on the actual phone besides apps I couldn't move, stock apps and the like.

decaturbob said:
diskusage is another good app but gotta be careful not delete what you don't understand
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I'll try out both of these as soon as I get some free time today.

iamme216 said:
I'll try out both of these as soon as I get some free time today.
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Another thing you could try is rootappdelete. It allows you to delete stock bloatware that you *probably* don't use. I used it to uninstall all the Verizon and Samsung bloat. It works, but the menu always says unsuccessful at first. The option becomes available to manually override the process, which allows the removal. I think I free a couple hundred mb using that. Another thing is Clean Master. I freed about 3Gb when I first used it. It can clean a lot of cache data (not harmful) to free up even more space. Hope that helps.
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System Apps

Does anyone have a link to download all the system apps? I moved alot of my system apps to my SD card then 3 days later the phone destroyed the SD card. I lost my backup of all the System apps. Will restoring the phone bring them back?
BTW im on ME7 with safestrap
ponzi314 said:
Does anyone have a link to download all the system apps? I moved alot of my system apps to my SD card then 3 days later the phone destroyed the SD card. I lost my backup of all the System apps. Will restoring the phone bring them back?
BTW im on ME7 with safestrap
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If you made a nandroid of everything before you deleted it yeah it should. You could also download one of the stock images and extract everything you need from it.
Hit thanks if I helped you out. Doing a little bit of reading goes a long way. Sent via tapatalk.
I deleted the apps before I had safestrap so i didnt get chance to make backup. Are there any stock images that work with Safestrap? I thought all images remove all the bloatware.
ponzi314 said:
I deleted the apps before I had safestrap so i didnt get chance to make backup. Are there any stock images that work with Safestrap? I thought all images remove all the bloatware.
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Im using the stock deodex rom of me7 from andybones, it has all the bloatware. It should work with safestrap but like all the other roms youll have to flash the me7 modules.
Hit thanks if I helped you out. Doing a little bit of reading goes a long way. Sent via tapatalk.
Ill try that now. Is it possible to do a factory restore though with the apps missing?
ponzi314 said:
Ill try that now. Is it possible to do a factory restore though with the apps missing?
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Yeah you can still do it with the apps missing.
Hit thanks if I helped you out. Doing a little bit of reading goes a long way. Sent via tapatalk.

Bloatware removal question

I have a mj7 build and i am running the Echoe international rom. It is a great rom other than it is full of bloatware. I don't have room for my apps.
Anyone know how these could be deleted? Since this is based on another device other than the mj7, normal mj7 flashable zips do not work.
Tulsadiver said:
I have a mj7 build and i am running the Echoe international rom. It is a great rom other than it is full of bloatware. I don't have room for my apps.
Anyone know how these could be deleted? Since this is based on another device other than the mj7, normal mj7 flashable zips do not work.
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use a root explorer to delete them
joshm.1219 said:
use a root explorer to delete them
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I tried that but it gives me the message that not everything could be deleted. Do i need to change permissions first?
Tulsadiver said:
I tried that but it gives me the message that not everything could be deleted. Do i need to change permissions first?
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Try using Titanium Backup to remove things.. That way you can also back them up to your external SD card first in case you accidentally delete something you needed. Backup....uninstall.. do a couple reboots and see how your phone is then running... then you can get rid of the backups if u wanted to save space. Just an idea.
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[Q] Major Issues!!!

I have done all the things in this thread here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2632730
Everything "seemed" fine until I tried using WiFi, I actually have to hit the wifi button and then restart my phone for the wifi to actually work, weird...
Besides that, the phone has just been restarting itself and it's happening more and more. And lately, it's wicked slow with just about everything I try to do... its just super glitchy. So I thought that maybe starting from scratch would be the best way to make things right, and then re-root...
But doing this caused many questions while reading through the forum and I'm hoping that someone can help point me in the right direction...
I guess the most important questions are:
Do I wipe the phone and do a clean install, going back to stock first?
If so, because I have followed the instructions in the link above, what are the exact steps so that I don't brick it?
Should I just buy a new phone?
If I did a clean install and then re-root will it run better than it is now?
I have many more questions but I think answering these first will help out a lot...
Thanks to whoever can help me out...
Android Version 4.3
Baseband Version I605VRUEMJ9
Kernel Version 3.0.31
Build Number JSS15J.I605VRUEMJ9
Edit: I installed the new Dodol Launcher and miraculously my WiFi is working again! So I uninstalled the Nova Launcher... I am happy that I can toggle my wifi settings once again =) But I read something extremely upsetting about 2mins ago in regards to the people with unlimited data which I have, and that is, we cannot use third party apps to tether the hotspot if we did the 4.3 update!!!??? Does anyone know if this is true? I thought that I couldn't tether because my phone is somehow screwed up, not because they blocked me from using it...
James Mac said:
I have done all the things in this thread here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2632730
Everything "seemed" fine until I tried using WiFi, I actually have to hit the wifi button and then restart my phone for the wifi to actually work, weird...
Besides that, the phone has just been restarting itself and it's happening more and more. And lately, it's wicked slow with just about everything I try to do... its just super glitchy. So I thought that maybe starting from scratch would be the best way to make things right, and then re-root...
But doing this caused many questions while reading through the forum and I'm hoping that someone can help point me in the right direction...
I guess the most important questions are:
Do I wipe the phone and do a clean install, going back to stock first?
If so, because I have followed the instructions in the link above, what are the exact steps so that I don't brick it?
Should I just buy a new phone?
If I did a clean install and then re-root will it run better than it is now?
I have many more questions but I think answering these first will help out a lot...
Thanks to whoever can help me out...
Android Version 4.3
Baseband Version I605VRUEMJ9
Kernel Version 3.0.31
Build Number JSS15J.I605VRUEMJ9
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I would Odin back to stock.. Just make sure you don't Odin to mj9..BC then you will be locked.. So Odin back to ramc3 and then run casual and reunlock.. Sometimes a clean slate helps.. But it maybe the phone for whatever reason..
Never experienced any issues like that
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lacoursiere18 said:
I would Odin back to stock.. Just make sure you don't Odin to mj9..BC then you will be locked.. So Odin back to ramc3 and then run casual and reunlock.. Sometimes a clean slate helps.. But it maybe the phone for whatever reason..
Never experienced any issues like that
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Thanks lacoursiere18!
After I get back to ramc3 and reunlock do you know how can I stop the OTA from popping up and trying to get me to install it? I want to be able to tether a mobile hotspot, so I need to stay on this one (because of the unlimited data), I think...?
On another note (no pun intended), I was starting the backup process and noticed that the phone has 10.3GB of internal storage, but when I add up all the folders it only amounts to 2.24GB! Does that mean that the OS is taking up 8GB!??? It just seems like a bit much and I can't see anything, there were no hidden folders or system files that I could find either... weird...
To stop the nag on the update use titanium backup to freeze SDM 1.0
TonikJDK said:
To stop the nag on the update use titanium backup to freeze SDM 1.0
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Thank you thank you thank you! This is awesome, I wish I had figured that out before I upgraded to 4.3 just to find out I couldn't tether lol
Alliance Rom build 25 doesn't see my 64gb memory card
I just went from version 22 to 25 of this Rom following all of the steps in the thread. Now my phone doesn't see my memory card at all. All of my apps apks through titanium backup and my music and pictures are on the card. Please help.
Alliance Rom build 25 doesn't see my 64gb memory card
I just went from version 22 to 25 of this Rom following all of the steps in the thread. Now my phone doesn't see my memory card at all. All of my apps apks through titanium backup and my music and pictures are on the card. Please help.
andoubleuar said:
I just went from version 22 to 25 of this Rom following all of the steps in the thread. Now my phone doesn't see my memory card at all. All of my apps apks through titanium backup and my music and pictures are on the card. Please help.
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How much free space do you still have on the sd card?
James Mac said:
How much free space do you still have on the sd card?
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31.5gb
andoubleuar said:
31.5gb
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Try backing up your data and then reformat it through your phone settings. If that doesn't work you might want to reflash the ROM. Or go into the settings and remount it that way. But if it worked fine before you flashed the ROM I would reflash....
James Mac said:
Try backing up your data and then reformat it through your phone settings. If that doesn't work you might want to reflash the ROM. Or go into the settings and remount it that way. But if it worked fine before you flashed the ROM I would reflash....
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Ok. When I flash does it matter if I leave my sd card and simple in the phone? (The last time I took everything out)
andoubleuar said:
Ok. When I flash does it matter if I leave my sd card and simple in the phone? (The last time I took everything out)
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It should matter because the default location flashes to the Internal storage location...
James Mac said:
It should matter because the default location flashes to the Internal storage location...
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Ok Thanks ill try the backup and formatting of the memory card then.
andoubleuar said:
Ok Thanks ill try the backup and formatting of the memory card then.
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I had no luck with the memory card back up because I had to format my sd card as expat for version 22. Do you know of any way I could email the developer of my Rom to see if there is a fix or update on the way to fix this. It says I have to wait to have 10 posts.
andoubleuar said:
Ok Thanks ill try the backup and formatting of the memory card then.
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James Mac said:
It should matter because the default location flashes to the Internal storage location...
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I had no luck with the memory card back up because I had to format my sd card as expat for version 22. Do you know of any way I could email the developer of my Rom to see if there is a fix or update on the way to fix this. It says I have to wait to have 10 posts.
It has to be the something to do with the format of the memory card and the ROM. My twrp recovery reads that all of my stuff is still there. It's just the version of the ROM that doesn't. Any ideas?
andoubleuar said:
I had no luck with the memory card back up because I had to format my sd card as expat for version 22. Do you know of any way I could email the developer of my Rom to see if there is a fix or update on the way to fix this. It says I have to wait to have 10 posts.
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I have been following the thread under the ROM and no one has said anything about having this issue but may even once I can post there I can contact beanstown106 directly. Thank you soo much for the help you have given me
andoubleuar said:
I have been following the thread under the ROM and no one has said anything about having this issue but may even once I can post there I can contact beanstown106 directly. Thank you soo much for the help you have given me
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How do I directly contact the developer of my rom?
andoubleuar said:
How do I directly contact the developer of my rom?
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Private message him/her:thumbup:
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lacoursiere18 said:
Private message him/her:thumbup:
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Thanks soo much I didn't think of that.

[Q] majority of internal memory being taken up by"other files"

Hey guys. So I'm running the current version of hyperdrive, while using safestrap. I understand that the other rom slot takes up "some" space, but this is kind of ridiculous. I just deleted all my pictures, music, and movies, and i still only have 1.69 gigs left on the internal memory! has anyone had this problem and found a solution for it?
m4gkman said:
Hey guys. So I'm running the current version of hyperdrive, while using safestrap. I understand that the other rom slot takes up "some" space, but this is kind of ridiculous. I just deleted all my pictures, music, and movies, and i still only have 1.69 gigs left on the internal memory! has anyone had this problem and found a solution for it?
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Grab the app Disk Usage. It's small and free and can show you where all your space is going. Keep in mind to that if your using ROM slots + stock slot that all the apps you have on the stock slot will take up a lot of space.
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Mistertac said:
Grab the app Disk Usage. It's small and free and can show you where all your space is going. Keep in mind to that if your using ROM slots + stock slot that all the apps you have on the stock slot will take up a lot of space.
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I just downloaded it and can't find anything! I went to the stock slot and deleted all the extra apps and files, and when I got back into hyper drive, it now says 12 gigs of misc files. This is so annoying only have a gig and a half to use -_-
m4gkman said:
I just downloaded it and can't find anything! I went to the stock slot and deleted all the extra apps and files, and when I got back into hyper drive, it now says 12 gigs of misc files. This is so annoying only have a gig and a half to use -_-
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Try tapping on Misc Files in that storage screen and see what pops up and if anything shows up that you are certain you are not needing you can delete it.
I'd also grab SD Maid from play store ( free ) and go through that app and let it scan everything, it has quite a few things it can scan and clean for you. It also has a " largest file" scan that can show you what's eating up your space.
Other than that... You want to have all your music pics and anything else you can to save to your external card and get rid of any apps you don't need.
Another option is to just install Hyperdrive to your stock slot and not run ROM slots if you can't seem to get your space back with how you configure your phone.
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Mistertac said:
Try tapping on Misc Files in that storage screen and see what pops up and if anything shows up that you are certain you are not needing you can delete it.
I'd also grab SD Maid from play store ( free ) and go through that app and let it scan everything, it has quite a few things it can scan and clean for you. It also has a " largest file" scan that can show you what's eating up your space.
Other than that... You want to have all your music pics and anything else you can to save to your external card and get rid of any apps you don't need.
Another option is to just install Hyperdrive to your stock slot and not run ROM slots if you can't seem to get your space back with how you configure your phone.
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I would love to have hyper drive as my stock slot, the partition of safestrap is probably what's causing it. Any advice on how to move it to stock without losing my current settings? Also how if need be I could return it to stock (if problems arise)
m4gkman said:
I would love to have hyper drive as my stock slot, the partition of safestrap is probably what's causing it. Any advice on how to move it to stock without losing my current settings? Also how if need be I could return it to stock (if problems arise)
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I'm not 100% sure this is possible, but you could try making a nandroid backup of your ROM-1 slot, restore it in your stock slot, and then delete your Rom-1 slot, just leaving you with your daily use ROM in STOCK....Just a suggestion
Credit Clown said:
I'm not 100% sure this is possible, but you could try making a nandroid backup of your ROM-1 slot, restore it in your stock slot, and then delete your Rom-1 slot, just leaving you with your daily use ROM in STOCK....Just a suggestion
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That's a good idea. I don't have safestrap so I'm not sure if it works but that's what I would try. Just make sure you have a tar image ready to go for Odin in case it doesn't work
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Mistertac said:
Another option is to just install Hyperdrive to your stock slot and not run ROM slots if you can't seem to get your space back with how you configure your phone.
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have you ever done this?
m4gkman said:
have you ever done this?
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I have before I got this MDK S4.
Like Josh said though just make sure you have the Odin file in case anything goes wrong. Sometimes screwing with the stock slot can get tricky but a lot of people do it without any issues. I'd say just back everything up just in case.
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Mistertac said:
I have before I got this MDK S4.
Like Josh said though just make sure you have the Odin file in case anything goes wrong. Sometimes screwing with the stock slot can get tricky but a lot of people do it without any issues. I'd say just back everything up just in case.
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okay cool ill give this a shot. Anyone know where i can get that odin file?
m4gkman said:
okay cool ill give this a shot. Anyone know where i can get that odin file?
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Here's MK2
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2578209
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cm 11

Trying to flash the latest cm11 and I get stuck on the boot screen. ( boot loop ?)
Any suggestions ?
I followed skeptic's guide...kind of...I flashed straight from Hellybean to CM11. Along the way I had a bootloop. No big deal, hold power + Vol. up for 15-20 sec. then three finger into recovery, flash CM11 again, reboot to recovery, flashCM11 one more time. Profit.
Persistence payed off for me. Flash and reboot recovery till it takes.
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I followed skeptic's guide...kind of...I flashed straight from Hellybean to CM11. Along the way I had a bootloop. No big deal, hold power + Vol. up for 15-20 sec. then three finger into recovery, flash CM11 again, reboot to recovery, flashCM11 one more time. Profit.
Persistence payed off for me. Flash and reboot recovery till it takes.
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I'm on cm9 now. I'll keep trying though. Thankfully I made a nandroid.
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icemanwbs said:
I'm on cm9 now. I'll keep trying though. Thankfully I made a nandroid.
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are you gonna try flashing cm11 through cm9's recovery (aka CWM 5)?
skepticmisfit said:
are you gonna try flashing cm11 through cm9's recovery (aka CWM 5)?
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Well finally got to cm11 kitkat.....using droidstyles guide, I ODINED back to stock.....then flashed up to cm7.....then to cm10....and finally to cm11. However now it says I no longer have root ? Can't move apps to SD card and weirdest of all, can't install the XDA app......strange. Bit I'm working on it ! :thumbup::thumbup:
I thank you sir, and all others for your help and interest ! :beer::beer:
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icemanwbs said:
However now it says I no longer have root ? Can't move apps to SD card
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you might want to try flashing SuperSU http://download.chainfire.eu/452/SuperSU/UPDATE-SuperSU-v2.02.zip
also i had the same issue with the apps not moving to the SD card. there were actually quite a few games i couldnt install. it's an issue, i think, with the original Samsung 16GB class 2 SD cards. kitkat just doesn't like those.
a workaround for that is to install apps with the SD card out of the phone (if you cant install certain apps) and moving apps to the SD card just won't work. you have to upgrade to a newer card (class 6 or higher, i've tried a class 4 and it didnt work)
Well the no apps on the sd card is a kitkat issue, android changed so you can not do this anymore.
You can move their cached data to the sd card which helps some.
Don't know why on the no root, try the update skept linked to. Ya need to upgrade to it anyway regardless...
hhp_211 said:
Well the no apps on the sd card is a kitkat issue, android changed so you can not do this anymore.
You can move their cached data to the sd card which helps some.
Don't know why on the no root, try the update skept linked to. Ya need to upgrade to it anyway regardless...
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the sd card thing blows... i think i can actually do that on my s4 though but i know samsung modified the living hell out of kitkat (they actually did a lot right IMO, touchwiz has gotten a lot better imo)
also i didnt have root issues on the cm11 rom on my fassy. supersu should work though.
Well, I installed SuperSU. That runs (I think) but doing a root check with root checker app, it says I don't have root. Strange. Still can't install the xda app. I do like this Rom though. I'm wondering if the gapps I installed has anything to do with it. "PA GAPPS MODULE 4.4" that was suggested someplace in my reading about the installation of cm11. Oh, also I am using a class 10 32 gig sdcard with plenty of space left now so don't think that is a problem.
icemanwbs said:
Well, I installed SuperSU. That runs (I think) but doing a root check with root checker app, it says I don't have root. Strange. Still can't install the xda app. I do like this Rom though. I'm wondering if the gapps I installed has anything to do with it. "PA GAPPS MODULE 4.4" that was suggested someplace in my reading about the installation of cm11. Oh, also I am using a class 10 32 gig sdcard with plenty of space left now so don't think that is a problem.
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update the binary in supersu. make sure that works, do whatever you need to do get that going.
also, which xda app are you trying to install? the free one or the premium one.. i got the premium one installed just fine

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