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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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.
ok so i just flashed to hyperdrive and all is well , except i lost my contacts...I thought no big deal Ill just load verizon backup assistant plus but when i click on it under settings it just crashes settings. I have an old TWRP folder with my mk2 rooted backup which had all of my contacts but I didnt save the stock rom in a slot. I thought I would be able to just drag and drop TWRP folder with my old stock system from pc to phone and boot the old system from the backup folder but I havent been able to do that.. Is there any way to load my old stock in a slot and get my contacts back? Or a way to load backup assistant plus into hyperdrive so it will actually function?
To get my contacts back I just sign into my Google account on my phone......that easy
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Triscuit said:
To get my contacts back I just sign into my Google account on my phone......that easy
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thanks but that didn't work for me.
Nevermind I figured it out....what I had to do was drag and drop old mk2 backup into twrp folder create a new rom slot and then restore using old mk2 twrp backup in case anyone else ran into a similair issue.
Quick question, when flashing using safestrap do you lose all your apps and have to re install from play store, or if you have a backup on SD card and you easily just get them from there.
ickray said:
Quick question, when flashing using safestrap do you lose all your apps and have to re install from play store, or if you have a backup on SD card and you easily just get them from there.
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When you flash a ROM using Safestrap, it's a clean install. After you're done, you'll have to log in to your Google account and let it restore all of your applications.You may also be able to restore from backup (let's say, from Titanium) if they're compatible with the new ROM.
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When you flash a ROM using Safestrap, it's a clean install. After you're done, you'll have to log in to your Google account and let it restore all of your applications.You may also be able to restore from backup (let's say, from Titanium) if they're compatible with the new ROM.
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Thanks k1mu
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.
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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.
Cheers
***Update***
After flashing a custom rom the problems seemed to worked themselves out. Mods you can delete.
Hey guys,
So I rooted my phone using the towel one click and custom installed twrp. However, now that I am trying to backup apps and the original rom I'm getting insufficient space errors. If I change the directory from extsd to just as titanium is able to recognize it.
I know the card is fine because i pulled it directly from my note 2 and was able to backup on it there.
Anyone having a similar issue or knows how to fix it?
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have u tried this yet?
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=nextapp.sdfix
koolboyztn said:
have u tried this yet?
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=nextapp.sdfix
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No, but after flashing a new rom it all worked again. Not sure what it was, but thanks for posting.
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Hi,
I am currently rooted and froze all verizon updates so it didn't break root a while back. However, I haven't updated my and currently on andriod version 4.2.2.
I would like to finally update my phone to 4.4.2 but not sure how to go about it. If I take the verizon update, will I lose root still? Or what is the best method to update?
Thanks in advance
Best method is a matter of taste... And also depends on your base. mdk? Me7? Mdk sell phone buy a new one ..
I prefer using the no wipe tar files to update with. Benefit is that you keep your data, and in one shot you go straight to the most current update. Downside is you must download some software and use a PC. Others prefer to take each OTA one at a time. It's slow but "official" so if your on MDK you would download and update about 5 times.
Yes you will loose root,.. But towelroot works for NC5
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Batttie said:
Best method is a matter of taste... And also depends on your base. mdk? Me7? Mdk sell phone buy a new one ..
I prefer using the no wipe tar files to update with. Benefit is that you keep your data, and in one shot you go straight to the most current update. Downside is you must download some software and use a PC. Others prefer to take each OTA one at a time. It's slow but "official" so if your on MDK you would download and update about 5 times.
Yes you will loose root,.. But towelroot works for NC5
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Thanks for the quick reply Batttie... What data will I lose? and is there anyway to keep my set-up? I have titanium backup as well as safestrap.
If you're on Verizon and MDK baseband, maybe you should flash this:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2721118
Looks a lot easier to me - what does everyone else think? Personally I wouldn't give up my MDK baseband for anything!
usualsuspec said:
Hi,
I am currently rooted and froze all verizon updates so it didn't break root a while back. However, I haven't updated my and currently on andriod version 4.2.2.
I would like to finally update my phone to 4.4.2 but not sure how to go about it. If I take the verizon update, will I lose root still? Or what is the best method to update?
Thanks in advance
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if you're on MDK you NEED TO KEEP IT. I can't stress enough how important that bootloader is. NEVER TAKE AN OTA ON MDK.
If you're on ME7 or newer then yeah you could OTA. you'll lose root but your data will be salvaged. i think you have to go to 4.3 before 4.4 so that's a thing
skepticmisfit said:
if you're on MDK you NEED TO KEEP IT. I can't stress enough how important that bootloader is. NEVER TAKE AN OTA ON MDK.
If you're on ME7 or newer then yeah you could OTA. you'll lose root but your data will be salvaged. i think you have to go to 4.3 before 4.4 so that's a thing
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Right now I am 4.2.2 ME7 so what you are saying is that I can take the OTA, lose root but not lose data? And easily re-root using towelroot?
usualsuspec said:
Right now I am 4.2.2 ME7 so what you are saying is that I can take the OTA, lose root but not lose data? And easily re-root using towelroot?
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yup
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yup
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Hope someone can answer this as well, I believe I froze the OTA updates through tibu but I cannot figure out what I did. Does anyone know what file would have been frozen to stop receiving updates?
usualsuspec said:
Hope someone can answer this as well, I believe I froze the OTA updates through tibu but I cannot figure out what I did. Does anyone know what file would have been frozen to stop receiving updates?
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Look to see if these two files are frozen/disabled: FWUpgrade.apk and SDM.apk
This one could be frozen as well: fota.client.apk
Joe_6pak said:
Look to see if these two files are frozen/disabled: FWUpgrade.apk and SDM.apk
This one could be frozen as well: fota.client.apk
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I like seeing people that ask a lot of qurations come back and help other people out. It's far too rare in the xda community these days. :thumbsup:
First I wanted to thank everyone for their responses, I was able to unfreeze the OTA. However, I am now currently on MI1 and every time I try and update via OTA , I get a "failed" message with the Android guy on his back.
Any idea how I can get this update?
Same thing hapenned to me. I fixed this by unrooting and factory reseting my s4 and it updated without any problems
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UnlinkedEnergy said:
Same thing hapenned to me. I fixed this by unrooting and factory reseting my s4 and it updated without any problems
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Did you lose everything when doing a factory reset?
Yup, factory resetting deletes user data and the internal memory. If you have an sd card then you can transfer your files onto there so it is not lost in the process
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usualsuspec said:
First I wanted to thank everyone for their responses, I was able to unfreeze the OTA. However, I am now currently on MI1 and every time I try and update via OTA , I get a "failed" message with the Android guy on his back.
Any idea how I can get this update?
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Same issue many of us have had with ota.
Some where along the line, and a system app has changed. If all the system apps aren't perfect, it will fail during ota.
Since you don't really know which app is causing it, the only way to update via ota is by doing a factory reset.
This will restore all the system apps back to normal, and then you can ota. It will wipe everything.
Use Tibu to save your apps and data, change the back up location to the extsdcard. Backup your texts and call logs using Smsbackup from the play store. And move anything on the emulated sdcard0 slot of the phone back to the extsdcard.
If your using a custom launcher like Nova, you can save your home screens to the sdcard as well and fully restore after you reroot.
If you don't have a custom launcher, and just take screen shots of your home screens, you can use those to remind you of your layouts.
Its not as complicated as it seems, and shouldn't take very long over decent wifi.
But a factory reset (through the phone, and not a custom recovery) will wipe the internal storage, so make sure everything is on the external sdcard.
May I ask which "Smsbackup" you recommend?
ymDroid said:
Same issue many of us have had with ota.
Some where along the line, and a system app has changed. If all the system apps aren't perfect, it will fail during ota.
Since you don't really know which app is causing it, the only way to update via ota is by doing a factory reset.
This will restore all the system apps back to normal, and then you can ota. It will wipe everything.
Use Tibu to save your apps and data, change the back up location to the extsdcard. Backup your texts and call logs using Smsbackup from the play store. And move anything on the emulated sdcard0 slot of the phone back to the extsdcard.
If your using a custom launcher like Nova, you can save your home screens to the sdcard as well and fully restore after you reroot.
If you don't have a custom launcher, and just take screen shots of your home screens, you can use those to remind you of your layouts.
Its not as complicated as it seems, and shouldn't take very long over decent wifi.
But a factory reset (through the phone, and not a custom recovery) will wipe the internal storage, so make sure everything is on the external sdcard.
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Hi & Thanks for the quick step-by-step,
May I ask which specific "Smsbackup" app from the play store you recommend? (a link? Or name the developer or whatever?) I want to jump up from 4.2.2 rooted as well and I already have Titanium Backup PRO, but when I searched the Play Store for "Smsbackup" I got a load of results
(Actually, unless I'm incredibly dense and have missed a memo, I practically ALWAYS have trouble selecting apps from Google Play. I find the search results to be rubbish and even knowing the app name unhelpful because of the copy-cat namers who seem to flood the store with wannabe crap that just sounds like what you're looking for. Hope I'm wrong about this and there's actually a correct way to find what you want there. Would hate to think Google is suddenly incapable of conducting simple search functions well. *lol*)
Anyway, thanks in advance if you can help me backup my txts and call logs. That really would be a great assist. BTW, do you know, will the resulting backups contain attached pictures, and etc., for the txt threads?
Best regards,
Joe C.
TiBu can backup and restore all your SMS and MMS messages complete with the pictures as well as your call log.