I see countless threads on this issue everywhere, but frankly, they are all completely over my head. I have 0 experience in any of this stuff.
I gave my s2 9100 international unbranded version that I bought used from a hacker kid with cyanogenmod on it to my parents after i upgraded to an s3.
I never had any issues with space and had a lot of apps.
my parents have installed solitaire, and not much more, and it's out of space already. wtf.
I did a factory re-set to format the phone before i gave it to my parents. So, i'm guessing the kid i got it from did something to it to not have the app space problem and by doing the reset i ruined it.
I don't know where to start. All this pit, odin, etc etc talk is all completely over my head and i really need a spoon-fed, hand-held guide on what to do explaining everything. like- if i need to put the phone in dev mode, tell me how to do that too because I have NO IDEA what i'm doing. I've tried to follow along a couple threads and i'm just completely lost because they all assume you kinda know what you're doing.
Thanks for any help.
briansol said:
I see countless threads on this issue everywhere, but frankly, they are all completely over my head. I have 0 experience in any of this stuff.
I gave my s2 9100 international unbranded version that I bought used from a hacker kid with cyanogenmod on it to my parents after i upgraded to an s3.
I never had any issues with space and had a lot of apps.
my parents have installed solitaire, and not much more, and it's out of space already. wtf.
I did a factory re-set to format the phone before i gave it to my parents. So, i'm guessing the kid i got it from did something to it to not have the app space problem and by doing the reset i ruined it.
I don't know where to start. All this pit, odin, etc etc talk is all completely over my head and i really need a spoon-fed, hand-held guide on what to do explaining everything. like- if i need to put the phone in dev mode, tell me how to do that too because I have NO IDEA what i'm doing. I've tried to follow along a couple threads and i'm just completely lost because they all assume you kinda know what you're doing.
Thanks for any help.
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Is the whole internal sd card full? Try deleting the lost.dir folder and see what happens. Delete any battery logs and try another factory reset
Where is that file located, and how do i delete it? just through the phone? (i don't have it with me, as it's my parents)
briansol said:
Where is that file located, and how do i delete it? just through the phone? (i don't have it with me, as it's my parents)
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It's a folder located in the internal sd card. You can delete it through es file explorer or other file explorer.
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I have flashed an sbf before to install greyblur and lost all my apps.. i didnt think that was supposed to happen but no big deal. i was able to clean up my apps and got better batt life out of it.
this time i was going to try gingerblur out again since its been quite a few updates. I was on 4.1.57 or whatever rooted and couldnt ota to 1.83. well i tried flashing a .57 sbf and downloading the ota there, couldnt get it to tell me i had an update, so i flashed back down to 4.1.2 that i had from installing greyblur and work my way up through the ota updates. I did so and everything worked perfectly. well i thought...
I just noticed all my internal phone storage has been wiped. completely. no pics no music, no ringtones. i could care less about the music and ringtones, but the pics i really wanted to keep. I have a newborn and quite a few pictures of him that I havent recently backed up. it makes me sick to think they are gone. I have some software to pull data off of bad harddrives and ones that have been formatted over. but i cant seem to get it to read my phone.
first off, is there anyway to recover this? and what the hell could have went wrong to make it do this?
im really starting to feel that this phone is a piece of ****. i already have cracked my screen by dropping it on its side and literally every person i get on the phone with says they cant hear me so i have to yell
/rant
thanks
Yes using a sbf wipes your phone, it is stated many times in the threads. 1.8.3 is the only exception to the rule so far. Also thing like photos of your new born should have been backed up before doing this asthey are too important to lose. I don't know that you will be able to get them back. Sorry.
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Yes using a sbf wipes your phone, it is stated many times in the threads. 1.8.3 is the only exception to the rule so far. Also thing like photos of your new born should have been backed up before doing this asthey are too important to lose. I don't know that you will be able to get them back. Sorry.
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the last time i flashed an sbf it kept all my files.. weird. this time it didnt.
on a side note, i have gotten almost everything back so far and still digging by using getdataback for FAT
flashing SBF wipes your phone clean but doesnt mess with ur internal SD card. if u use ginberbreak to root then thats the problem. Gingerbreak root is known to wipe ur internal/ext sd card. its always recommended to backup all ur stuff before flashing.
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if u use ginberbreak to root then thats the problem. Gingerbreak root is known to wipe ur internal/ext sd card..
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well thats my problem then. damn
sry man.. hate losing pictures of my newborn. been there and done it..lol
There's a guy over at the official Motorola support forum with a sad problem that really could have bitten any of us at some point... he naively saved everything to the internal flash, then his phone got messed up and can no longer boot into Android. Motorola told him he has to do a factory reset, which will reformat everything, including /sdcard and the data in it (hmmm. Will it really? That does seem kind of harsh & extreme, but I can see them doing it.)
I *know* he could almost certainly pull the data off with a little help from a JTAG programmer (if only because he could probably use it to write something like Clockworkmod onto the phone, then boot into it and use THAT to copy /sdcard to an external card's /sdcard-ext), but the Photon seems to be hardcore virgin JTAG territory. I haven't even been able to find so much as a commented teardown pic with an arrow saying, "These are the JTAG testpoints", let alone something like a RIFF box with official support for the Photon. Does anybody have any ideas?
Is this the english language? I don't understand any of that lol. I have a buddy who jtags xbox's but thats it lol. Im limited to cooking roms and compiling from source. No experience to help you but ill be following this thread to learn a thing or 2.
Can you link us to the thread on the official forums?
From what you have told us, I can't figure out much. Is the phone not booting? Or is it hanging at the bootloader? Or is it stuck a the boot animation? Or is it crashing after loading the homescreen?
Basically, how much of the phone is still functional?
If the phone can still get to bootloader, put it in RSD mode. Then run RSD Lite with the same SBF version as the one thats on his phone. This will reflash the system.img, recovery, bootloader, etc, but should allow him to keep his apps and settings.
Oh, and the I believe the lesson learned here is to use Titanium Backup to backup everything on the SD card (the real sd card, not the fake internal one). TB backups everything short of the ROM and recovery/bootloader (you need a NANDroid for that). It will get his contacts, apps, data, wifi points etc.
I have flashed sbf and reset through the privacy menu. It will not clear the internal storage. There is a separate option to clear it. Not sure if they want him to clear it a different way.
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Here's the relevant thread, in case anybody can put him in touch with somebody who has the equipment and expertise to do the job: https://supportforums.motorola.com/thread/59942
According to my research, the Photon 4G uses a MDM6600 (according to posts in various forums). You can find the data sheet for that chip by Googling "80-Vr001-1" (I can't post links yet). It has some JTAG info in it.
If I'm not mistaken, I think the early iPhone unlocks were found by locating the JTAG pins on the radio chip, then following the circuit on the phone's PCB to find where to solder in to.
Wow
I have JTAG routers and those are easy, but a phone is much smaller in size.
All I can say is good luck -
did anyone find the correct jtag points for the board?
Ok, I've gotten the pure stock ICS and installed it. Now, something I have noticed is that no matter what I do, I can never get all of the files in my phones directory be completely stock. There are some that files left over from applications and such. I would just go "willy nilly" deleting everything i thought didn't belong in there except that the last time I did that I hard bricked my Captivate. I love my Note and don't want to hurt it!!! Any advice or screen shots of a truly stock file setup would be greatly appreciated. Thanks. :cyclops:
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Ok, I've gotten the pure stock ICS and installed it. Now, something I have noticed is that no matter what I do, I can never get all of the files in my phones directory be completely stock. There are some that files left over from applications and such. I would just go "willy nilly" deleting everything i thought didn't belong in there except that the last time I did that I hard bricked my Captivate. I love my Note and don't want to hurt it!!! Any advice or screen shots of a truly stock file setup would be greatly appreciated. Thanks. :cyclops:
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I dont understand your question or post. You want to keep your ICS completely Stock? Wouldn't be completely Stock if dont install any apps?
Or you referring to removing all the bloatware? Then you need to be Rooted, and then use a non stock app>Tibu to remove your bloatware?
But to be rooted there are measures to take to get Rooted.
clarification
what i am asking is when you go to applications then my files what does stock setup look like. i install and uninstall so much crap all the time and everything seems to leave folders and files behind. From time to time i'd like to just clear everything thing out that i don't need. In order to do that safely, however, i have to know what i DO need so i don't brick another phone. thanks.
the best way to remove the unwanted items on the internal SD, is to format the emmc in recovery (CWM)
this will "wipe" the internal space of the device, and repopulate only the specific device information pertaining to the rom on reboot.
but i caution you.......(please read this) !!
Although the risk is low, you can possibly delete items that you should not have. I.E.
data that you should back up prior to removal. photo's, documents, data from specific system apps etc.
But i've done this at least a dozen times since owning my note, as it strips all garbage left over from previous roms etc.
Again, you do this at your own risk, and i assume no liability from "your" choice to wipe the emmc partition, or any other partition on your device.
long story short, format emmc from recovery, and your internal storage will be "empty" as in nothing left. then on reboot, the device rom will re-populate the bare minimum file structure to run. So back up anything/everything you want to keep, and place it on PC...then it can be moved back if needed.
Now i dont know your skill level, or your root status etc. so if you are not rooted yet...see the "note everything" thread at the top of the general section. It is the best guide i've ever seen. and it will guide you through any process you want to use. with the exception of the one i just gave you...LOL
this method is no joke...and you "must" be sure that you understand what you are doing, and how to recover the device if something goes wrong.
good luck, and be careful !!!....g
Outstanding Sir! Thank you very much. Worked wonderfully. It's amazing how the little things can really brighten your day.
condork464 said:
Outstanding Sir! Thank you very much. Worked wonderfully. It's amazing how the little things can really brighten your day.
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done already ?
Nice !...........:highfive:
Glad to have helped you......g
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If you dont mind, could you edit your thread title to include the word "SOLVED" ??
It helps users find answers faster, and keeps the sections clean..
Thanks !!....g
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done already ?
Nice !...........:highfive:
Glad to have helped you......g
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If you dont mind, could you edit your thread title to include the word "SOLVED" ??
It helps users find answers faster, and keeps the sections clean..
Thanks !!....g
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:good::good::good::good:
Sorry for probably creating a duplicate thread but I need an answer and FAST, so I don't got time to search for more than 15min and that didn't turn up any real results...
So I have been asked to install CM9 stable on my sisters SGSII, I backed up alot of stuff to the SD card but then noticed that this phone has huge amount of internal storage used and all of that wont fit on the SD card...
So my Q is what exactly does get wiped in CWM on a SGSII ? I remember my internal storage getting wiped on my GNex when performing the OEM Unlock, but after that CWM manages to only wipe system data.
So if I wipe this phone in CWM will the internal storage (which is for some odd reason called "USB Storage" ????? ) also get wiped? If it gets then putting CM9 on this phone will never happen...
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1419102
THX but I said I don't have time to search for a so simple answer as DOES A CWM WIPE ALSO WIPE INTERNAL STORAGE! and linking to a thread with multiple links to multiple FAQs isn't helping when the FAQs don't have my question in them, sorry if I'm sounding like an asshole here but I seriously just need to know YES or NO and typing that here can't be much harder than actually searching for a thread to link me to...
So if anyone actually know the answer to my Q like right now, then please! just post here if the CWM wipe actually wipes the internal storage. thanks!
Also the reason for not having time to search if me being over at my parents house with limited time on this PC to do this, would probably be done with this by now if this info would already been on the CM Wiki, all it tells me there is to backup, it never says what CWM will erase...
Have you read the noob-poof instru ctions.If you go ahead and do stuff without reading then youll end up in trouble.
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When flashing another rom via CWM, internal storage stays intact.
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You didn't need the answer to this quickly at all.
If you're not totally sure of the ins and outs of CM9 and what exactly it entails, then simply don't do it. It's not as if you've got to do it for your sister. She's simply asked you and you've said yes. You could have quite easily said that you weren't too sure how to do it so you'd rather not risk it.
You're a prime example of why these forums have so many rules which might seem pathetic and useless. Too many users simply want a quick fix or an immediate answer to something, without even bothering to out the leg-work in for themselves.
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I am a noob and I am not a developer or even really great at programming or PC's in general.
I've managed to mess up my phone and have been looking all over the web for how to fix it and I am at a loss.
I decided to register and ask for help. Please be patient and understanding if I ask a lot of questions or don't understand things you accept as basic, understood or common. I looked through existing threads for help and couldn't find the answer I needed. Many thanks in advance for the help. Readers digest of the issue below.
Samsung Galaxy S 4G. T-Mobile. T959V5B5-Custom.
I tried the non-mandatory firmware update from T-mobile and it wrecked the functionality of my phone. I tried to go back with a couple new Rom versions and think I more or less ended up with three roms installed on my internal storage which has given me basically no space which was never an issue for me before. I have used a disk viewer to verify there is unmounted data that is taking up space but I can't figure out how to get to it through the phone or my pc to delete it. I assume if I do this that the empty space will be absorbed and fix the internal storage issue.
Again, thank you for taking the time to read and respond. I love my phone and just want it working right again.
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I am a noob and I am not a developer or even really great at programming or PC's in general.
I've managed to mess up my phone and have been looking all over the web for how to fix it and I am at a loss.
I decided to register and ask for help. Please be patient and understanding if I ask a lot of questions or don't understand things you accept as basic, understood or common. I looked through existing threads for help and couldn't find the answer I needed. Many thanks in advance for the help. Readers digest of the issue below.
Samsung Galaxy S 4G. T-Mobile. T959V5B5-Custom.
I tried the non-mandatory firmware update from T-mobile and it wrecked the functionality of my phone. I tried to go back with a couple new Rom versions and think I more or less ended up with three roms installed on my internal storage which has given me basically no space which was never an issue for me before. I have used a disk viewer to verify there is unmounted data that is taking up space but I can't figure out how to get to it through the phone or my pc to delete it. I assume if I do this that the empty space will be absorbed and fix the internal storage issue.
Again, thank you for taking the time to read and respond. I love my phone and just want it working right again.
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The course of action I would recommend at this point is using a tool called Odin to re-flash the stock ROM to your phone. I would recommend taking a look at this guide for the step-by-step procedure on how to do this. Let me know if you still have questions .
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The course of action I would recommend at this point is using a tool called Odin to re-flash the stock ROM to your phone. I would recommend taking a look at this guide for the step-by-step procedure on how to do this. Let me know if you still have questions .
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Hey! Big thanks for the reply. Here come the questions...
I used Odin to put the other OS versions on the phone so I am familiar with the software though its been several months. I also still have the ROM that I flashed to phone. I am curious though that if it didn't wipe the previous partitions last time, what would keep it from doing the same thing this time and really messing me up? Or did I click or not click something in Odin or use the wrong option and doing it differently this time would fix the problem?
I located the files on the phone and have verified they are not mounted and looked at their size using DiskInfo. They are located at "/dev/block". Do you know what this is or why they are there? I can delete them using ES File Explorer with SuperUser. Is it ok to delete these and would I get the benefit of increased storage by doing so? I played around with moving them to the SD card and didn't see an increase in my internal storage but was afraid that a reboot after doing to might be bad.
Can you tell I am a little gun shy?
Here are the names of the files, the set starting with t starts at 0 and goes to 12 and the other 1 to 12.
tsfr0-tfsr12
bml1-bml12
Thanks again!
JBMFT said:
Hey! Big thanks for the reply. Here come the questions...
I used Odin to put the other OS versions on the phone so I am familiar with the software though its been several months. I also still have the ROM that I flashed to phone. I am curious though that if it didn't wipe the previous partitions last time, what would keep it from doing the same thing this time and really messing me up? Or did I click or not click something in Odin or use the wrong option and doing it differently this time would fix the problem?
I located the files on the phone and have verified they are not mounted and looked at their size using DiskInfo. They are located at "/dev/block". Do you know what this is or why they are there? I can delete them using ES File Explorer with SuperUser. Is it ok to delete these and would I get the benefit of increased storage by doing so? I played around with moving them to the SD card and didn't see an increase in my internal storage but was afraid that a reboot after doing to might be bad.
Can you tell I am a little gun shy?
Here are the names of the files, the set starting with t starts at 0 and goes to 12 and the other 1 to 12.
tsfr0-tfsr12
bml1-bml12
Thanks again!
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Using Odin to re-flash the stock ROM will automatically setup the right configuration for. Do Not delete the files in /dev/block these are critical to the phones operation and part of the phones normal partitioning and operation as previously stated deleting these will cause a lot of problems if you delete them. If you really want to free up some internal storage space I would recommend deleting the carrier pre-installed bloatware, before you delete any bloatware makesure to backup the apps you deleted with Titanium Backup or a similar backup or flash Clockworkmod Recovery or Team Win Recovery Project and make a Nandroid Backup which is a complete backup of your phone. And don't worry about being gun shy we are all beginners at some point the only real way to become an expert if practice, practice, practice .
So I am working on the Heimdall One-Click.
Handshaking with loke, got no response. FML.
Help.
Edited: Apparently a low battery is not your friend...
after a little reading around on the net I tried a different one and BAM.
Back to stock. We'll see how this goes.
Being rooted with superuser had me spoiled...so much bloatware.