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I apologize if this has been answered somewhere else here before. I have been searching for days and have not found the full answers to my questions anywhere.
Recently I updated my GT-P7510 CM9 to an experimental CM10 from by pershoot. After getting it up and running I was looking at my internal storage usage and numbers didn't seem to add up (must have done a dirty flash at some point in the past to cause this). My internal storage in root explorer showed 8.93gb in use and 28.01 total storage. I copied everything to a USB drive to back it up and noticed there was only 7.45gb actually on the internal storage. I have seen this problem before on my S2, and I always just reformat the internal SD card (emmc) to regain the missing space. However, since the tab does not have a micro SD slot, I have no way of wiping the internal sdcard (data/media) without wiping out the rom too from how I understand it. Somebody correct me if I am wrong...
So, does anybody know of a way to successfully wipe/format the sdcard (data/media directory) in CWM or other method that will not wipe out the rom and send the device straight to cwm with no way to install a new rom? Or do I have to revert back to stock to accomplish the format of sdcard like I have read for a few other similar situations? Everything works fine (CM10 & CM9 both run awesome), I just want that extra 1.48gb of missing/phantom storage back. And, without mass storage mode, I cannot perform a disk check in win7. This has really got me frustrated to find a solution without having to start over. I wish this tab had a micro SD slot!
Currently I am running CM9 nightlies (7-31) for p4wifi (gt-p7510). My cwm recovery is version 6.0.1.0. Any help is greatly appreciated, and I do apologize if this has been covered before. Thanks in advance to those of you smarter than I.
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Ok, I seemed to have figured this one out and now feel pretty stupid for not digging a bit further before asking.
After I decided to go ahead with the sdcard format using CWM, I noticed that the space was still being used somewhere. After I started to dig a bit, I noticed that all of my apps still worked after the format. Basically, the extra space is being consumed by the /data/app folder housing all user apps. CWM must be designed to ignore this directory when formatting the internal sdcard which is why there was still some storage being used.
I feel like an ubernoob for asking this, but my S2's internal sdcard is not mapped to data/media, so I had to learn a bit better about how this thing works I suppose. Anyways, I hope this information can be useful to someone out there having similar questions.
bkress said:
I apologize if this has been answered somewhere else here before. I have been searching for days and have not found the full answers to my questions anywhere.
Recently I updated my GT-P7510 CM9 to an experimental CM10 from by pershoot. After getting it up and running I was looking at my internal storage usage and numbers didn't seem to add up (must have done a dirty flash at some point in the past to cause this). My internal storage in root explorer showed 8.93gb in use and 28.01 total storage. I copied everything to a USB drive to back it up and noticed there was only 7.45gb actually on the internal storage. I have seen this problem before on my S2, and I always just reformat the internal SD card (emmc) to regain the missing space. However, since the tab does not have a micro SD slot, I have no way of wiping the internal sdcard (data/media) without wiping out the rom too from how I understand it. Somebody correct me if I am wrong...
So, does anybody know of a way to successfully wipe/format the sdcard (data/media directory) in CWM or other method that will not wipe out the rom and send the device straight to cwm with no way to install a new rom? Or do I have to revert back to stock to accomplish the format of sdcard like I have read for a few other similar situations? Everything works fine (CM10 & CM9 both run awesome), I just want that extra 1.48gb of missing/phantom storage back. And, without mass storage mode, I cannot perform a disk check in win7. This has really got me frustrated to find a solution without having to start over. I wish this tab had a micro SD slot!
Currently I am running CM9 nightlies (7-31) for p4wifi (gt-p7510). My cwm recovery is version 6.0.1.0. Any help is greatly appreciated, and I do apologize if this has been covered before. Thanks in advance to those of you smarter than I.
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1804824 Here's a topic about same problem,could say,U'll finde in replays all the information u need!
Vinchenzo13 said:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1804824 Here's a topic about same problem,could say,U'll finde in replays all the information u need!
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Although that is a similar problem, I asked if there is a way to fix it without going that route? I appreciate your reply, but I already knew it could be resolved by going back to stock (2nd paragraph of my post).
bkress said:
Although that is a similar problem, I asked if there is a way to fix it without going that route? I appreciate your reply, but I already knew it could be resolved by going back to stock (2nd paragraph of my post).
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Ow sorry didnt notice few words,i think u could just flash a cwm via odin wich can wipe/reset all data if im not mistaking,
I'll chek this out is there any cwm'ds who can do that,coz i rememba reading one forum where guy was complaining that he did wipe and everything was formated!
Vinchenzo13 said:
Ow sorry didnt notice few words,i think u could just flash a cwm via odin wich can wipe/reset all data if im not mistaking,
I'll chek this out is there any cwm'ds who can do that,coz i rememba reading one forum where guy was complaining that he did wipe and everything was formated!
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I can accomplish a full format of the internal sdcard on my galaxy s2 without it affecting the rom in any way whatsoever and it is running cwm 6.0.1.0 also. From how I understand it, the partitions are set up differently on the s2 and this device. The s2 has a separate partition for the internal sdcard making it possible to format via cwm. On this device, the sdcard is part of the data partition meaning wiping it will leave you with no rom installed and no storage on the sdcard. I think all versions of cwm can wipe the slate clean, it is just a matter of everything else being wiped clean also. But, if you are aware of a cwm that let's me accomplish this, I would love to find it. Thanks again.
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bkress said:
I can accomplish a full format of the internal sdcard on my galaxy s2 without it affecting the rom in any way whatsoever and it is running cwm 6.0.1.0 also. From how I understand it, the partitions are set up differently on the s2 and this device. The s2 has a separate partition for the internal sdcard making it possible to format via cwm. On this device, the sdcard is part of the data partition meaning wiping it will leave you with no rom installed and no storage on the sdcard. I think all versions of cwm can wipe the slate clean, it is just a matter of everything else being wiped clean also. But, if you are aware of a cwm that let's me accomplish this, I would love to find it. Thanks again.
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I have the same issue .. I was manually formatted using my windows 7 laptop.. flash back to old stock samsung firmware.. still 4.11 GB internal USb storage instead of 11.8 GB.. Any help please..
I think it's possible with adb shell (the android sdk for Windows)
Have you seen that : http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1003645
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Hi,
I also have a question regarding this topic. Does anyone know, what I mustn't do to preserv the content of the internal SD-Card?
I did the following:
1. made a backup copy with the ClockworkMod Recovery (of Android 2.3.6)
2. flashed my Samsung Galaxy S with Android 4.2
3. I forgot something in the old firmware so I tried to recover it.
3a. made a backup of the current firmware with ClockworkMod (I think 5.xx)
3b. tried to restore it (see step 1). this failed.
So - now I try to get a running system on my device. I would like to use the factory rom of samsung, that I downloaded. (last Android 2.3.6)
Can I flash with odin without loosing the data of the internal SDCard? I think I do not have to check "Re-Partition"? Any hints?
Regards,
Georg
Georg.E said:
Hi,
I also have a question regarding this topic. Does anyone know, what I mustn't do to preserv the content of the internal SD-Card?
I did the following:
1. made a backup copy with the ClockworkMod Recovery (of Android 2.3.6)
2. flashed my Samsung Galaxy S with Android 4.2
3. I forgot something in the old firmware so I tried to recover it.
3a. made a backup of the current firmware with ClockworkMod (I think 5.xx)
3b. tried to restore it (see step 1). this failed.
So - now I try to get a running system on my device. I would like to use the factory rom of samsung, that I downloaded. (last Android 2.3.6)
Can I flash with odin without loosing the data of the internal SDCard? I think I do not have to check "Re-Partition"? Any hints?
Regards,
Georg
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Soon as you flashed 4.2 it erased your Internal SD your internal SD card will get wiped always when restoring back to stock and yes you have to check repartician
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ok - so can anyone tell me if I can access the content of the internal SD Card befor I destroy it?
When I upgraded to Android 4.2 (Cyanogan Mod) it didn't wipe my sd card.
Cheers,
Georg
Georg.E said:
ok - so can anyone tell me if I can access the content of the internal SD Card befor I destroy it?
When I upgraded to Android 4.2 (Cyanogan Mod) it didn't wipe my sd card.
Cheers,
Georg
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Cyanogenmod is a different patrician layout it should have wiped it and if it didn't you could have very easily got a brick you always wipe the internal memory when switching rims and no there's no way to get the internal memory you should have a SD card or not even try a ROM how the hell did you flash cyanogenmod anyway? Side load?
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Georg.E said:
Hi,
I also have a question regarding this topic. Does anyone know, what I mustn't do to preserv the content of the internal SD-Card?
I did the following:
1. made a backup copy with the ClockworkMod Recovery (of Android 2.3.6)
2. flashed my Samsung Galaxy S with Android 4.2
3. I forgot something in the old firmware so I tried to recover it.
3a. made a backup of the current firmware with ClockworkMod (I think 5.xx)
3b. tried to restore it (see step 1). this failed.
So - now I try to get a running system on my device. I would like to use the factory rom of samsung, that I downloaded. (last Android 2.3.6)
Can I flash with odin without loosing the data of the internal SDCard? I think I do not have to check "Re-Partition"? Any hints?
Regards,
Georg
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There seems to be some confusion about what you're referring to as your "internal SD card". When you do a backup with CWM, it's written to /sdcard/clockworkmod/backup/date-derived-folder-name/. This is on your removable SD card. The backup you made of your GB ROM should still be there.
If you used cwm4_fixed_for_cm7-CWM.zip to do the backup, chances are that the date used to name the folder is wrong - year 2000 something... Do not rename it! Some older cwm versions use the name in calculating the CRC before you restore.
Anyway to restore that original backup you must Odin back to stock, install the same cwm version used for your backup, and then you should be able to restore.
Good luck with it
You won't be
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Sounds great!
With "Internal SD-Card" I mean that I did not plug in any microSD card. /sdcard/... is not re-partitioned? sure?
I will try to flash back via odin and restore my backup.
Sorry for asking so strupid but I think it is better to ask one more time than making something that I cannot revert. I am no android expert, sorry.
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I flashed it the simple way: rooted my phone, flashed it via CWM (10.1 nightly zip on internal /sdcard) and than rebooted. Everything worked fine as expected. The only thing, thats not working, is the cam - but that is another topic...
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I installed various Android 4.3 ROMs (Carbon, SliemBean, PA, CM), and in all of them the internal and external storage did not work, but I saw that other people it does not happen anymore.
Is there a solution for this?
Is this a common problem for the 4.3 ROMs? Common among xt910 and xt912? Affecting both internal and external storage? Always? At random? Or any rhyme or reason?
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I am also having issues with when I mount my phone as a USB storage device on my PC. The phone abruptly unmounts whenever I start file transfer. I am using PA 3.99 JB 4.3 rom. I will appreciate any help.
I also need help on this thread. Thank you all: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=45217945#post45217945
"insufficient storage" after ROM flash
I just flashed android 4.3 ROM on my phone (phone is Infuse 4g, ROM is CM10.2 - 8/30/2013 - Butter)
after I have restored most of my apps w/ data using Titanium Backup, I don't have any storage left (according to notifications and phone storage information - couldn't update apps, and several apps couldn't be restored (restore process stopped at 94%)
when I go to settings > storage, there's message "Storage space is running out", Total space shown for internal storage is 1.28GB, Available is 9.44MB,
however, when I connect to computer it shows that I still have more then 9GB available on the internal storage.
when I was flashing ROM, I had to go back to ICS ROM, (I've lost root access ), then 4.2 Rom, then 4.3. it warned me that it will re-partition my storage, and I may lose any data - I agreed, as I had everything backed up. now I don't really have a storage
I assume it has something to do with partitioning, but I have no Idea how to fix it, or what is the best way go around it. please help.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2456532
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2464308
I have a xt910 umts_spyder, internal sd card works on first boot
after the second boot the internal sd card stops working, external sd is working normal
happens with every 4.3 ROM, I already tried to reformat the internal Storage using a 4.3 ROM
Also note that they don't mount in /mnt anymore but in /storage as sdcard0 and sdcard1.
kattzenfleisch said:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2456532
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2464308
I have a xt910 umts_spyder, internal sd card works on first boot
after the second boot the internal sd card stops working, external sd is working normal
happens with every 4.3 ROM, I already tried to reformat the internal Storage using a 4.3 ROM
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thanks. I didn't see that same problem was listed already. will try to wipe cache/dalvic cache as it is suggested there. will report results later
it's really weird that nobody mentioned this problem on the developer's forum.
atyusha said:
I just flashed android 4.3 ROM on my phone (phone is Infuse 4g, ROM is CM10.2 - 8/30/2013 - Butter)
after I have restored most of my apps w/ data using Titanium Backup, I don't have any storage left (according to notifications and phone storage information - couldn't update apps, and several apps couldn't be restored (restore process stopped at 94%)
when I go to settings > storage, there's message "Storage space is running out", Total space shown for internal storage is 1.28GB, Available is 9.44MB,
however, when I connect to computer it shows that I still have more then 9GB available on the internal storage.
when I was flashing ROM, I had to go back to ICS ROM, (I've lost root access ), then 4.2 Rom, then 4.3. it warned me that it will re-partition my storage, and I may lose any data - I agreed, as I had everything backed up. now I don't really have a storage
I assume it has something to do with partitioning, but I have no Idea how to fix it, or what is the best way go around it. please help.
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I've been using PACman V06 for a week or so now, no problems whatsoever. ext SD and USB mounting have been flawless.
As for the internal storage issue, when using Stock rom slot, or using a completely unaltered phone, the stock rom recognizes the entire internal storage, as the only partitioning are the internal storage, and the stock system partition. When you create a new slot, that rom only recognizes the partition it was created on as valid storage. This is to prevent changes to other rom slots inadvertently, I believe.
I have this issue only with some apps, titanium backup, root explorer are able to identify my intetnal. Last night I connect my phone to pc and the pc sometimes see my internal and sometimes the pc doesnt recognizes my internal...I use Slimbean for a week now. Its been doing great exept this internal thing. External storage is well recognized
Hello me...its me again...
are there any news on that problem?
kattzenfleisch said:
are there any news on that problem?
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I have wiped cache/dalvic cache as it was suggested before... twice... didn't help at all
also, in the CWM Recovery I saw that sdcard0, sdcard1, datadata, system and data are "unmounted"... I have mounted them all, but it didn't make any difference either (I'm not sure if it would even make any difference, or these mount/unmount setting is only for CWM Recovery, because on the next boot into CWM everything but cache is unmounted again
any other idea on what can be done to fix it?
here's another update.
I've flashed different 4.3 ROM ([ROM][JellyBean][4.3][Official]BeanStalk Build 4.3.1015 - Updated 10/27/2013 - 4.3) - same issue. next day I went back to stock, and formatted everything I could (all but "android secure") - it didn't help either. Now I have Ginger Bread, with same partitioning problem - about 1.2 GB for system and apps, and about 13 GB for everything else (I removed microSD card for now.)
I used to have all apps in one spot, and they would take a lot more space then 1.2 GB... now I cannot restore all of them from backup (Titanium Backup Pro), as there is not enough space.
I don't remember having such partitioning before I flashed it with 4.3 ROM
any suggestion? have I missed anything?
atyusha said:
here's another update.
I've flashed different 4.3 ROM ([ROM][JellyBean][4.3][Official]BeanStalk Build 4.3.1015 - Updated 10/27/2013 - 4.3) - same issue. next day I went back to stock, and formatted everything I could (all but "android secure") - it didn't help either. Now I have Ginger Bread, with same partitioning problem - about 1.2 GB for system and apps, and about 13 GB for everything else (I removed microSD card for now.)
I used to have all apps in one spot, and they would take a lot more space then 1.2 GB... now I cannot restore all of them from backup (Titanium Backup Pro), as there is not enough space.
I don't remember having such partitioning before I flashed it with 4.3 ROM
any suggestion? have I missed anything?
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there seems to be no update on that problem
here's good reply on this problem from another forum:
The Jack of Clubs said:
the infuse is older than the galaxy nexus so theres no datamedia or mtp. the 16gb storage is typically called the internal sdcard (nonremovable) because it acts more like an sdcard and doesnt share partition and storage with the data partition. the data partition is called internal storage, which on the infuse is about 2gb, though a little less on cm10.2 because the system partition was made bigger for newer versions of android. if your having low storage issues on the data partition, youre going to probably have to move some of your apps to the internal 16gb sdcard by going into settings > apps > on sd card and moving some of them over. i would not recommend moving over apps that sync or run in the background, but if you have a lot of games, those typically move fine. i would do that until you have atleast 400mb of the internal storage free. ive talked to araemo in irc how hard it would be to setup datamedia on the infuse to combine the internal sdcard and data partition. long story short, rather difficult and it would be too big a hit on performance.
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to support this, here's my story: I have already went back to Froyo, and saw that internal storage is 1.8 GB, now I'm back to 4.3 ROM, and it's 1.26 again
looks like I always had it all partitioned, but I haven't noticed it until system partition got changed and internal storage became smaller.
it might not be true for all other phones, as they can be partitioned differently, but it's true for samsung infuse, and probably for a number of other samsung phones.
I have tried CM10.2 , PA RC-2 , slimbean , and even carbon 4.3 but none of these roms detect my internal storage
Gautam Padirooted said:
I have tried CM10.2 , PA RC-2 , slimbean , and even carbon 4.3 but none of these roms detect my internal storage
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the problem also appears on CM11 (Android 4.4)
i need to wipe the /cache partition bevore every boot
then it mounts the storages, but if i don't wipe it it won't mount the internal storage
so the problem has to be on the /cache partition?
Hi,
I though this issue was happening only with the 4.3 based ROMs but that still happens even with CM 10.2 ROM.
That failure is not happening all the time, sometimes you just need to wait after the boot and there is the ext-sd again.
yes i think it happens very sporadically
I've got the sdcard unmounted issue with all android4.3 roms that i've tried. Device is XT910 and recovery was BMM 0.3.4. I will use the phone with safestrap 3.65 for a while to check if it's a rom or recovery thing.
Semseddin said:
I've got the sdcard unmounted issue with all android4.3 roms that i've tried. Device is XT910 and recovery was BMM 0.3.4. I will use the phone with safestrap 3.65 for a while to check if it's a rom or recovery thing.
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I've tried SS, but nothing changed.,
I have one big problem. My S3 have 16gb internal memory. Then I flashed rom (4.3), It shows that 6,3 gb is used. So I realized that I flashed rom (4.3) not over old stock rom (4.1.2) but on that old rom(4.1.2). Then I go to cwm recovery, I selected install zip from sd card and I saw all files from old stock rom, but I put file into new one. So the question is: How I can delete old rom and release about 5 gb of space?
Same problem as mine:I'm not sure whether I'm doing something wrong or it's something normal.
I had CM9 on my Galaxy s3 and decided to try another rom (Paranoid). I didn't like the new one I installed and downloaded another (Carbon). But I am noticing that my internal storage is close to being full now. But when I browse the phone from my PC, I'm not seeing anything out of the ordinary.
I copied Carbon zip onto the phone, but clockwork mod is not even seeing it, I am noticing a lot of files from the sd and I'm still seeing the Paranoid zip from clockwork mod, but I cannot see it from my PC.
Did I skip a step somewhere? What should I do?
Ecomo said:
I have one big problem. My S3 have 16gb internal memory. Then I flashed rom (4.3), It shows that 6,3 gb is used. So I realized that I flashed rom (4.3) not over old stock rom (4.1.2) but on that old rom(4.1.2). Then I go to cwm recovery, I selected install zip from sd card and I saw all files from old stock rom, but I put file into new one. So the question is: How I can delete old rom and release about 5 gb of space?
Same problem as mine:I'm not sure whether I'm doing something wrong or it's something normal.
I had CM9 on my Galaxy s3 and decided to try another rom (Paranoid). I didn't like the new one I installed and downloaded another (Carbon). But I am noticing that my internal storage is close to being full now. But when I browse the phone from my PC, I'm not seeing anything out of the ordinary.
I copied Carbon zip onto the phone, but clockwork mod is not even seeing it, I am noticing a lot of files from the sd and I'm still seeing the Paranoid zip from clockwork mod, but I cannot see it from my PC.
Did I skip a step somewhere? What should I do?
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known problem when updating to 4.2 or later due to the revised partition layout. Discussed many many times and answered many many times, there is even a info thread about it
chrismast said:
known problem when updating to 4.2 or later due to the revised partition layout. Discussed many many times and answered many many times, there is even a info thread about it
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I think it could help me, but I lost my root access :/
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I think it could help me, but I lost my root access :/
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then re-root? or is there anything that keeps you from doing it?
another option would be to do a full wipe or even mega wipe and start fresh, whereas this will delete anything from your phone.
I was trying to install a custom rom on my international I9500 with stock 4.4.2 kit kat. I rooted it correctly, installed FTWR, made a backup of my EFS, everything was going fine until i got to the actual step of installing the ROM, I DO NOT have an Micro SD card on my phone, I had placed the .ZIP file of the rom on the root of the device from my windows computer. i went ahead and wiped everything required EXCEPT internal storage (because the ROM file was there) however now I am unable to find the file on the install section of FTWR, what can I do?
Im not giving up, but is it ok if i restore my phone with odin right now? (stock firmware of course) I need to go out in a couple of hours.
Any help will be appreciated.
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I was trying to install a custom rom on my international I9500 with stock 4.4.2 kit kat. I rooted it correctly, installed FTWR, made a backup of my EFS, everything was going fine until i got to the actual step of installing the ROM, I DO NOT have an Micro SD card on my phone, I had placed the .ZIP file of the rom on the root of the device from my windows computer. i went ahead and wiped everything required EXCEPT internal storage (because the ROM file was there) however now I am unable to find the file on the install section of FTWR, what can I do?
Im not giving up, but is it ok if i restore my phone with odin right now? (stock firmware of course) I need to go out in a couple of hours.
Any help will be appreciated.
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If you successfully copied the ROM then it should be there. Try and copy the ROM when you are inside recovery (connect your device to your computer and then mount the internal card).
Yes it's ok to restore your phone if you want.