I have a Hero H7300 (Chinese Clone HTC HD7). Never did like the Chinese programming but the phone itself is great. The only problem with this phone is the lack of internal memory and the original programming.
I found someone that offered to "root" this phone. He gave me a 75% success result. The first time I got it back, it worked find for a week until one day it refused to come out of the start up screen. The tech took it back for a few weeks and it was clear he made some improvements but I ended up paying more than I first intended. After a total of about $70 invested in memory upgrade and the rooting itself, he added a restore file and better stability. The problem came about the same time as the first time. After restoring the backup file, all I had lost was what I installed after receiving the phone. The problem I have now is, after restoring the back up file, somehow the partition went back to it's original size. Much of my internal memory went back to the external.
So, out of the 13.91GB total space. I have 12.53GB available in external and only 21.61MB available after basic programming. Originally after the second rooting, I had about 1.5GB available on the internal side of the SD card that is sharing the external and internal memory.
Being that I am in the Philippines, it is very difficult to find anyone that even knows what rooting is so there does not seem to be any way I am going to find someone that could possibly fix this. I know nothing about rooting myself but it seems to me that something happened to the partition. Is there a program that will allow me to set the partition myself?
Model number H7300 Android 2.3 MTK6573
Android Version 2.3.5
Baseband Version MAUI.11AMD.W11.37.SP.V6,2011/10/29 13:22
Kernel Version 2.6.35.7
Build number VitMod_Lite 2.1.fullodex Bunta V8 Edit
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EDIT: simplified and updated with more questions. Over 100 views and so many unanswered questions!
UPDATE:
1- What is it that you backup when you backup your phone? Is it the content of the internal and SD card in one file? Or multiple files? Is this what's called a ROM?
Because last time I checked ROM means Read Only Memory, and my internal and Sd card are read and write.... ssssooooooooooo confusing.
1.1 Where's the OS (Android) installed? On the internal memory and on another partition?
2- I got my phone over at Koodo mobile. It's got their company name on the home screen. To avoid warranty problems:
2.1 Is this going to be copied over if I make a backup of the phone?
2.2 So many people suggest to just download a ROM of the stock version I got in my phone... would I have to find a Koodo ROM for the Optimus One or will any android 2.2 ROM do the trick.
2.3 Does putting a custom ROM or android 2.3 leave traces somewhere on the phone, even of you put back the original backup ROM?
3- How do you know if you made a proper backup and the size it should be?
Many thanks.
22vin:
- yes, the backup will store all your data, including apps, settings, everything
From the internal and SD card? All into one file?
- yes, you can restore everything, including unroot (if you want to be very sure you can flash the rom via kdz and the phone will be just like out-of-the-box)
Does KDZ make backups images of the phones, or is it only used to update?
- the "bios" is called custom recovery and it will void your warranty but you can go back to the stock recovery by flashing an image of a stock recovery or by flashing a whole rom via kdz (wich will erase everything as I said earlier)
So.... Custom recovery is ran from the phone and used for flashing KDZ is ran from Windows and used for flashing too?
- you will overclock the CPU, gpu tweaking means hw acceleration and other things wich can be disabled.
I take that as a GPU overclocking YES.
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Hi everyone,
I recently bought a wonderful Optimus One and I love it!
I spent the last hour reading all over the internet, and especially here, about how to root and use custom roms... (faqs, guides, the dictionary...)and some things are still not clear. I just like it when I want to get into doing touchy operations like updating firmwares and such and I get my facts straight.
(FYI, total android and smartphone noob, advanced windows user)
- I know my phone has internal memory and SD memory, and apps I download go on the internal or SD memory, but what about the OS itself? What is stored and where?
- I read a lot about using custom ROMs, but I couldn't find a reliable, confirmed answer to the following question: can I make a 100% image/backup of my phone before starting anything and if so, how?
Also, can I use this backup to revert the phone back to its original state and make my phone carrier believe nothing ever happened to it in case I need to? Is this image going to include stuff from the internal and SD and refer to question #1 everything stored in memory on the phone?
I know I can run some sort of bios to do so, but I feel like just installing the bios program and running it might put my phone at risk for a warranty void
- Last but not least: can you overclock the CPU only? Or both the CPU and GPU?
I've had difficulties reading about all these things because almost all posts and articles seem to be written by advanced android users for advanced android users.
Thanks in advance.
MQ
MoonQuake said:
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Hi everyone,
I recently bought a wonderful Optimus One and I love it!
[Updated poster N00b level: 3/10]
I spent the last hour reading all over the internet, and especially here, about how to root and use custom roms... (faqs, guides, the dictionary...)and some things are still not clear. I just like it when I want to get into doing touchy operations like updating firmwares and such and I get my facts straight.
[Updated poster N00b level: 4/10]
Here are the questions: (FYI, total android and smartphone noob, advanced windows user)
- I know my phone has internal memory and SD memory, and apps I download go on the internal or SD memory, but what about the OS itself? What is stored and where?
[Updated poster N00b level: 7/10] WARNING! N00b warning! Proceed carefully.
- I read a lot about using custom ROMs, but I couldn't find a reliable, confirmed answer to the following question: can I make a 100% image/backup of my phone before starting anything and if so, how?
Also, can I use this backup to revert the phone back to its original state and make my phone carrier believe nothing ever happened to it in case I need to? Is this image going to include stuff from the internal and SD and refer to question #1 everything stored in memory on the phone?
I know I can run some sort of bios to do so, but I feel like just installing the bios program and running it might put my phone at risk for a warranty void
[Updated poster N00b level: 8/10] WARNING! Critical level! Prepare your N00b bio suit if you dare answer!
- Last but not least: can you overclock the CPU only? Or both the CPU and GPU?
[Updated poster N00b level: 10/10] ALERT! Shutting down the app to prevent lack of knowledge damage from noobish user. Exiting...
I've had difficulties reading about all these things because almost all posts and articles seem to be written by advanced android users for advanced android users.
Thanks in advance.
MQ
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- yes, the backup will store all your data, including apps, settings, everything
- yes, you can restore everything, including unroot (if you want to be very sure you can flash the rom via kdz and the phone will be just like out-of-the-box)
- the "bios" is called custom recovery and it will void your warranty but you can go back to the stock recovery by flashing an image of a stock recovery or by flashing a whole rom via kdz (wich will erase everything as I said earlier)
- you will overclock the CPU, gpu tweaking means hw acceleration and other things wich can be disabled.
Thanks for the answers 22vin.
The overly careful person that I am asks:
- How do you call the backup of the whole phone data?
- When you do this backup, does it create 1 file, or multiple files? I ask this because I still don't understand how these phones work. Are they like gaming roms and emulators where you get a rom (copy of the cartridge) and you can also add other roms to change the way it works? Like a mod?
I got about 50 other questions, but it's mainly because I don't exactly know what ROMs are in smartphones.
It would be awesome if somebody could point me towards a "Everything you need to know about android phones and custom ROMS" for dummies. I understand how to use it, but not how it works in the inside so that I can safely go ahead with flashing and stuff...
Does this make sense? Tech stuff about the way the OS works and what is a ROM and a kernel... so that I know what I'm doing.
OP updated.
100 views later and just one reply (thanks to 22vin btw) made me wonder if my questions were clear enough.
*ahem* http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=900905
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1152306
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Thanks for the links, terra. I actually read all these pages already.
Finally re-read the whole dictionary page, and in addition to some other info I read, I could make sense of a lot more info.
The general info page uses terms that is not covered in the dictionary/terms page so a lot of info I can't understand.
Like the info about what the kernel does and why change it. Leads to a wikipedia generic kernel page.
NAND actually allows for creating a 1:1 copy of the phone's content. Probably a copy of the internal memory. Another guess is that the OS is also on that partition but I can't find that info.
About the SD card, it seems to allow the copy of some native apps.
Only thing that's not clear is if it leaves ANY traces on the phone after a recover from a backup.
The Os is no stored in the internet memory and sdcard, it's somewhere else you don't need to know about.
Yes, a Nandroid backup restores your settings before you flash a new ROM. You need to unroot it to make your carrier believe nothing has happened. Another way, you can flash kdz which will completely reset your phone back into into the state you bought it(minus the carrier installed apps).
You only can overclock CPU, not GPU.
Thanks for taking the time to answer, terra.
@ terratrix
Since when modding phones can void warrenty?
I send my htc wildfire with the cm7 and the screen is in deep cracked situation(display still showing)... So I send it for servicing but they saw my os is cyanogenmod... But they never void my warrenty lol... And so more, I gor free repair BUT in may... My phone cracked again, worst... It bends!
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dax4182 said:
@ terratrix
Since when modding phones can void warrenty?
I send my htc wildfire with the cm7 and the screen is in deep cracked situation(display still showing)... So I send it for servicing but they saw my os is cyanogenmod... But they never void my warrenty lol... And so more, I gor free repair BUT in may... My phone cracked again, worst... It bends!
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It varies from country to country, carriers to carriers, phone manufacturer to phone manufacturer . Just a precaution.
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Hi all, I think that none of you have ever had a problem like this.
Then I point out that fortunately this is not my phone but a friend ...
let's go S2 firmware 2.3.3 Tim
BASEBAND VER I9100XXKDJ
VER KERNEL-2.6.35.7-CL186662 dpi @ I9100AIKE1 ANDROIDBUILDERDELL # 2
NUM BUILD GINGERBREAD.AIKE1
In short, the problem is this impossible to do a factory reset, do not wipe data factory reset, can not change firmware via Odin I tried various versions of both Tim that no brand, nothing to do.
regarding the various attempts to make the root nothing to do does not see the sd card and then can not upload files to sd and perform root through recovery.
The strangest thing, and that if something in the internal memory gate manually after rebooting everything back then all this me angry.
I gave up so I hope your a real help ...
Thanks in advance to anyone who can help me ..
Marcello
also
Meanwhile, many thanks to the one person who gave me help, but I must say that I could not solve my problem.
We try to do a bit of clarity on the issue, I have basically a Galaxy S2 in the hands of a friend, the problem is as absurd and that if I try in any way to format the internal memory, the one that you do not format usb to speak ....
Tried all the various methods found on the net that is factory wipe data then format memory by connecting PC, reset to factory settings, I even tried to install a rom updated Brand Tim is that no brand via odin, tried updating via Kyes ...
Nothing I even tried to delete pictures and various files installed one by one, each time you restart back to business as usual.
The thing that impresses me and that if I try to format the memory cell via the usb on the internal management of the settings from just after the formatting immediately returns to the space that was occupied before formatting ...
I do not know what to do, ask for a help from those who know best the language of Android, so you know if there is a possibility that you have created an auxiliary memory in the form of protection to prevent the loss of important data.
Of course, since fortunately the cell is not my friend but as I said before I riportaglielo at least in the same situation that it took, so I can operate, but with a certain amount of risk because the cell is no longer covered by warranty .
To aid you in advance thank you very much to all of you ...
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Guys nothing to do, I can not in any way to fix this damn s2 I tried to install more rom via Odin I also tried installing pit csc pda. With. Flag of re-partition.
All times Odin has regularly completed all ok but when you restart the cell and as usual, the usual photo usual programs etc etc..
I think this is really a mystery, as if there is a program that can create an image file of the operating system and every time you start the restore.
I forgot one important thing if you go into recovery, I do not compare external memory or external storage true.
Especially because of this I can not do the fundamental root to try a cooked rom ...
I hope in a help of a wizard once and for all to solve this puzzle.
Thank you all.
At the moment I'm on the original stock rom, rooted, and i keep getting the low storage warning, but i don't even have very many apps on the phone. I've deleted much of verizons bloat, at least anything i see as safe and dont use, but it still keeps popping up, I havent tried a different rom yet, but plan on it, just havent been able to get a nandroid to stick and work right yet for some reason, but working on it at the moment. Does anyone find that any particular roms help more with the memory issue than others? I had the 16gb s3 and never had this problem. Ive looked for ways to put apps to the sd but havent found any yet unless im missing something. Does anyone have any tips on the best way to work around this? Ive gone through the entire internal storage and there doesn't even seem to be much on it. Once i get a nandroid to work i'm going to try messing around a bit more, but any advice is helpful as im sure im not the only one to come across this.
Might wanna check to see where these nandroid backups that you've attempted are being stored. They do go towards internal memory unfortunately until you can move over to external sd. I'm in the same boat as you. Stock rooted, but afraid to flash a custom ROM since my backups seem to have a md5 mismatch when trying to restore (on CWM)...havent tried on TWRP...Honestly don't really see a whole lot out there as far as custom ROM's that seem that great...yet. I've modded my stock rom to suit my needs just fine...
there might be something still lingering when you remove some softwares. Check system/app or data/app and see if something that still needs to be remove.
Removing system apps (ie, bloat) will not gain you any usable space.
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I think my problem may be that all my pictures are saving to both my external sd and internal for some reason...no idea why though...it also keeps taking my music off the sd and copying it to internal mem...I finally got a good nandroid using cwm, seems the touch version want working but the reg one has and I deleted all my bad nandroids...now that I have that I'm going to a deodexed Rom n hopefully that helps being I've never had issues on the s3 with them
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For those who have the same problem, you can try checking the log files in /data/log
I had the same problem and found hundred of RIL dump files (each about 1 MB size).
Deleting these files help to solve my problem and increase the available space in Internal Storage.
Where's my storage...?
I understand that Samsung is getting grief for how much memory they use, but I just wanted to post my storage up here to see how it compares to other S4 users. Does the OS/partitions used for things like cache take up memory in addition to the 7 GB of "system information" ?
I've got 1.55 GB to Applications, 191 MB to photos, nothing in downloads or audio, and 6.85 in "Miscellaneous files"
Now I consider myself above average on pc/tablet/phone blah blah knowledge. This is my second tablet and my first I unlocked and rooted and my iphone is jailbroken so I have some knowledge. Now the problem I am having is my secondary tablet is a Ultratab Jazz C925 android 4.0 baseband 1.5 build number 98v2-z1-h1-h01-2659.20121012(version1). One day I am not sure what I did(this was a while ago and this is why this one is my secondary tablet) my tablet restarted and all the memory was gone. Now I don't mean I installed to many apps. It was factory reset and the total space now shows 0.00b with the apps taking 37.32. Now I should have somewhere around 700-1000 Megs with no apps installed. I have tried doing a factory restore clearing the cache and I have recently even tried to say screw it and making the default app installation location the SD card but I can't get anything to work. I have also tried installing a couple custom Roms to see if this would like reset everything. I have a feeling this might have all happened when I tried to change the partitions due to the fact the memory was set to have half internal memory and half internal SD card(was very inconvient). Does anybody have any ideas on how to fix it.
Thanks.
silverrain21 said:
Now I consider myself above average on pc/tablet/phone blah blah knowledge. This is my second tablet and my first I unlocked and rooted and my iphone is jailbroken so I have some knowledge. Now the problem I am having is my secondary tablet is a Ultratab Jazz C925 android 4.0 baseband 1.5 build number 98v2-z1-h1-h01-2659.20121012(version1). One day I am not sure what I did(this was a while ago and this is why this one is my secondary tablet) my tablet restarted and all the memory was gone. Now I don't mean I installed to many apps. It was factory reset and the total space now shows 0.00b with the apps taking 37.32. Now I should have somewhere around 700-1000 Megs with no apps installed. I have tried doing a factory restore clearing the cache and I have recently even tried to say screw it and making the default app installation location the SD card but I can't get anything to work. I have also tried installing a couple custom Roms to see if this would like reset everything. I have a feeling this might have all happened when I tried to change the partitions due to the fact the memory was set to have half internal memory and half internal SD card(was very inconvient). Does anybody have any ideas on how to fix it.
Thanks.
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Have you tried installing the 4.2 update for it? It may restore the partitions to the correct size.
Well I got it woking
lovestospooge said:
Have you tried installing the 4.2 update for it? It may restore the partitions to the correct size.
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I couldn't install the official 4.2 update because the company is slack and they never sent even the 4.1 OTA upgrade. No I did however use livesuite and install and new 4.2.2 ROM after trying a couple it worked I used FAAAAST JB V2 at first i tried v2.5 and touchscreen didnt work and the touchscreen fist didnt work either but all is good now.
Model number: LG Optimus G (LS970)
CyanogenMod version: 11-20140916-SNAPSHOT-M10-ls970
Android version: 4.4.4
Kernel Version: 3.4.0-CM+
Hello all,
First time poster, long-time lurker. I've been using Android for years now, trying out different ROMs. Consider myself pretty much an amateur still though. I usually find all the answers and guides by searching either this forum or finding other sources on Google. I can't really find anything that's helping me with what I'm dealing with here, so post I will.
I decided that I was tired of Jelly Bean on my Optimus G, so I found CM11 M10. I flashed it through CWM Recovery. I followed all the steps I found on True Android (I can't post external links). It flashed, boots and runs just fine. Soon after installing some of my apps, and putting some of my music back on, my phone very soon alerted me that it's internal storage was full. I should have 25GB total space, and I only put less than 1GB of stuff on it. As I analyze my storage usage, though, it says 24GB used. But when it breaks it down into storage usage by category, it only adds up to a couple of gigabytes. I tried to see what Clean Master would do for me, but it only said that around 2GB worth of data could be cleaned or removed. As I use the file manager to see what's on my phone, there's really nothing there that should fill up my internal SD card. When I boot into recovery and select the option to install from zip, it looks like all of my old folders and files are there from before flashing CM11. When I reboot the phone though, I can't find those old files anywhere int he file manager. It's almost as if CM11 was installed on a different partition or something (hopefully I'm suing the right terminology there). It boils down to this: Why is all my data still there, but not accessible at all? Why wasn't everything wiped when I went through the steps? I followed them to a T.
Am I missing something fairly simple?
UPDATE: I've found the data from before flashing in Root Browser. It is stored in data/media, while the new ROM seems to be stored in storage/emulated/0. Any tips on where to go from here, and how to prevent this in the future?
Hopefully this screenshot helps to illustrate my problem.
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