Hi,
I just flashed my phone, using CM 11 to KitKat 4.4.4. Everything went smooth. However, I left 1 GB for data partition and the default size for system and cache. After installing a few apps I found that I have no more space, so I'm gonna repeat the procedure increasing the space for these partitions. My question is how big these partitions (data, cache and system) are in the stock ROM (in my case JellyBean 4.1.2? If I return to the stock ROM do I have to determine the partitions, or it is automatically?
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Hey guys, I have one quick question here.
Today I updated my Vanilla RB from 2.8 - > 2.9. All went ok until I updated DorimanX from 7.0 -> 7.1.
Now I'm unable to get past the boot animation.
Normally I would just wipe/factory reset and install a fresh rom. But this time I don't have a backup of my recent appdata.
I am nearly at the point of wiping anyway but then I thought if I could format /system or /data without harming my apps and appdata?
TL;DR: Does formatting /system or /data affect application data?
SynGates said:
Hey guys, I have one quick question here.
Today I updated my Vanilla RB from 2.8 - > 2.9. All went ok until I updated DorimanX from 7.0 -> 7.1.
Now I'm unable to get past the boot animation.
Normally I would just wipe/factory reset and install a fresh rom. But this time I don't have a backup of my recent appdata.
I am nearly at the point of wiping anyway but then I thought if I could format /system or /data without harming my apps and appdata?
TL;DR: Does formatting /system or /data affect application data?
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1. /system does not have anything to do with your data, so formatting it wont affect your data. However, if you format /system, then you have to flash a ROM, hence, your device wont boot.
2. /data contains all your application data, settings, messages etc. formatting it will sure delete the same.
I'll advise you to format /system and flash ROM again. Your data will be intact and your device should boot now.
yesyes that was my intention; to format /system and flash the ROM again.
Thank you
edit: not working, guess I'll just wipe
Hi,
In order to solve my problem of low storage on my HTC Desire, I have a question about Link2SD in relation to MIUI ROM and Android 4.1.2
To increase the available storage, in my previous ROM (CM7.1 on Android 2.3.7) I used Link2SD in order to move to the SD-EXT partition either apk, libs and dalvik cache.
I installed Link2SD even on my new MIUI ROM on Android 4.1.2.
I'm able to move either apk, libs and dalvik cache to SD_EXT as expected BUT (!) as soon as I restart the phone I'm prompted with a screen saying "optimizing apps" and if I open again Link2SD I see that:
- apk and libs are still on the SD-EXT partition
- dalvik cache has been moved back to internal memory.
Sincerely I don't know if this has to be addressed to Android 4.1.2 or MIUI ROM.
If not Android, this question can be removed from this section.
Any suggestion about how to actually move dalvik cache to EXT ??
Thanks in advance for your support
Hi everyone, new to the forum and I hope that my (likely) simple question is easy to answer!
I have a Samsung Galaxy Note 2, that was running the stock ROM at 4.1.2. I rooted the phone using the Odin tool, which worked first time, and I then proceeded to use ClockWorkMod (latest version I think) to flash a custom 4.3 Rom to the device (after taking a backup of the EFS folder to SD Card and my PC).
That has worked perfectly. I am loving 4.3.
The issue I have is internal storage.
When I did the custom rom install, I did:-
Wipe Data/Factory Reset
Wipe Cache Partition
Wipe Dalvik Cache
Format System
I then installed the custom ROM and latest GApps and all is good.
What is curious, and I just cannot seem to explain, is that the internal storage when I was on the stock ROM, reported I have over 6GB free, and now that I have gone over to the custom ROM, I have around 2GB free.
For me, that seems strange that I have lost 4GB of internal storage just for this ROM update.
I had assumed that the Data/Factory Reset and Format System would clear out all the rubbish ready for a clean install of the Custom ROM - but that does not appear to be the case.
How do I go about resetting my device so that I can clear down the internal storage to the extent that I can regain the lost space?
Any help is really appreciated.
Mark.
markwalsham said:
Hi everyone, new to the forum and I hope that my (likely) simple question is easy to answer!
I have a Samsung Galaxy Note 2, that was running the stock ROM at 4.1.2. I rooted the phone using the Odin tool, which worked first time, and I then proceeded to use ClockWorkMod (latest version I think) to flash a custom 4.3 Rom to the device (after taking a backup of the EFS folder to SD Card and my PC).
That has worked perfectly. I am loving 4.3.
The issue I have is internal storage.
When I did the custom rom install, I did:-
Wipe Data/Factory Reset
Wipe Cache Partition
Wipe Dalvik Cache
Format System
I then installed the custom ROM and latest GApps and all is good.
What is curious, and I just cannot seem to explain, is that the internal storage when I was on the stock ROM, reported I have over 6GB free, and now that I have gone over to the custom ROM, I have around 2GB free.
For me, that seems strange that I have lost 4GB of internal storage just for this ROM update.
I had assumed that the Data/Factory Reset and Format System would clear out all the rubbish ready for a clean install of the Custom ROM - but that does not appear to be the case.
How do I go about resetting my device so that I can clear down the internal storage to the extent that I can regain the lost space?
Any help is really appreciated.
Mark.
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I would say, try to establish if the rom had 4GB of extra data or not initially. How much bigger was the custom rom compared to the stock rom?
If you have busybox or TerminalIDE installed ( hope you have!) , try running "du -a / | sort -n -r | head -n 30" and see if you can find any particularly large files, or directories that seem extremely bloated and compare them to the stock rom.
What are you using to determine how much disk space you have free? Windows via usb? df via terminal?
Prof
I recently upgraded to Kitkat 4.4 Cyanogenmod 11 from stock 4.1.2 touchwiz rom and im now missing a lot of storage as you can see i only have 863mb of storage left and ive used like an 1/8th of 11.35GB on the phone any clue as to why this is and how i can fix it?
Ive tried booting into recovery (CWM 6.0.4.4) and factory restting device, wiping cache and dalvik cache but no luck if anybody has any ideas i would be greatful! thanks
Hi, i'm just wondering why we don't repartition system partition etc. instead of trimming note 2 rom to fit our system partition. I've edited my partitions yesterday and have 1.5 gb on system, 4gb on data. That way we could have everything from that rom.
best regards
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