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Hey guys I was just wondering my last sd card busted and I had to get another one so I don't have the nandroid backup from the beginning when I first rooted my phone is this ok?
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Its fine you can just flash to stock and backup that
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You mean I downgrade make a nandroid backup
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does your phone still boot up properly without any issues? i'm assuming since you had backups prevoiusly that clockworkmod is already installed on your phone. you can just boot into recovery and make another backup. it isn't necessary to have your original backup.
Maybe a good time for a reminder that SD cards fail and accidents happen. It's always a good idea to periodically copy the entire contents of the SD card, which will include your nandroid backups, to an empty folder on your desktop/laptop. Just be sure and enable viewing of hidden and system files & folders.
cHarley04 said:
Maybe a good time for a reminder that SD cards fail and accidents happen. It's always a good idea to periodically copy the entire contents of the SD card, which will include your nandroid backups, to an empty folder on your desktop/laptop. Just be sure and enable viewing of hidden and system files & folders.
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I've been doing this, but I never thought about the hidden files. Thanks!
I have always restored my apps using titanium backup after flashing a rom. Now when I open titaniumbackup, I dont see the name of the app anymore.. I see "com.blabla.blabla.blabla" + when I try to restore my 95 apps, it restores in 3 seconds, and nothing happends.. I have installed busybox (click on the "problem" button)
Any fix for this ?
yz.hd said:
I have always restored my apps using titanium backup after flashing a rom. Now when I open titaniumbackup, I dont see the name of the app anymore.. I see "com.blabla.blabla.blabla" + when I try to restore my 95 apps, it restores in 3 seconds, and nothing happends.. I have installed busybox (click on the "problem" button)
Any fix for this ?
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Hi,
Did you delete the Titanium Backup zip from your sd card?
malybru said:
Hi,
Did you delete the Titanium Backup zip from your sd card?
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yes, had to format my sd card.. but I copied all of the files..
You know how to flash the apps from cwm or something ?
yz.hd said:
yes, had to format my sd card.. but I copied all of the files..
You know how to flash the apps from cwm or something ?
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Not from cwm,but just replace the titanium backup zip to the root of your sd card,and the app will be able to find it...
malybru said:
Not from cwm,but just replace the titanium backup zip to the root of your sd card,and the app will be able to find it...
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.zip ? it's an .apk
actually.. it's not kinda apk.. its apk.gz
exmpl:
com.anddoes.fancywidget.pro-38ac4964313034e9cb560a0cd11cd623.apk.gz
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.zip ? it's an .apk
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I've got a folder and a zip called Titanium Backup on my sd card.
I am presuming that this is where the app saves its files.
If they are not there,it cannot restore anything.
Someone also had the same problem when they formatted their sd card,but didn't make a backup...
I have a folder called titaniumbackup on the root of my sd card, and all of the apps are inside there, but it still wont restore.. + it would usally recognize the name of the app.. but now it is showing "com.anddoes.fancywidget.pro-38ac4964313034e9cb560a0cd11cd623.apk.gz" ..
yz.hd said:
I have a folder called titaniumbackup on the root of my sd card, and all of the apps are inside there, but it still wont restore.. + it would usally recognize the name of the app.. but now it is showing "com.anddoes.fancywidget.pro-38ac4964313034e9cb560a0cd11cd623.apk.gz" ..
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Have you also got the titanium backup zip ,because I think they work as a pair?
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Have you also got the titanium backup zip ,because I think they work as a pair?
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ohh, no, I have :
Titanium Backup 3.6.8.apk
and
TitaniumBackup (folder)
yz.hd said:
ohh, no, I have :
Titanium Backup 3.6.8.apk
and
TitaniumBackup (folder)
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Mine says titanium backup(folder)
and titanium backup ZIP.
When I formatted my sd card these were the two that I restored,and everything works.
I am suggesting that if you didn't restore both to your sd card,therein lies the problem.
malybru said:
Mine says titanium backup(folder)
and titanium backup ZIP.
When I formatted my sd card these were the two that I restored,and everything works.
I am suggesting that if you didn't restore both to your sd card,therein lies the problem.
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I still have all the folders backed up on my computer.. and I don't have any titaniumbackup.zip.. never had it though :/
yz.hd said:
I still have all the folders backed up on my computer.. and I don't have any titaniumbackup.zip.. never had it though :/
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In which case ,I am sorry ,but I am out of ideas...
malybru said:
In which case ,I am sorry ,but I am out of ideas...
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found it out I think.. I looked at some older backups.. they do all have a properties file.. while in this folder.. there are no properties file.. now I'm wondering how I am supposed to make a properties files out of them..
I guess I will restore that old backup, and put the apk.'s inside the apk.gz from the new backup and install them .. confusing lol
yz.hd said:
found it out I think.. I looked at some older backups.. they do all have a properties file.. while in this folder.. there are no properties file.. now I'm wondering how I am supposed to make a properties files out of them..
I guess I will restore that old backup, and put the apk.'s inside the apk.gz from the new backup and install them .. confusing lol
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Good luck...
Take a look at my screenshot, if you add up all my usage + free space, it comes out to about 11.42GB. Subtract that from Total space of 12.92GB and you have about 1.5GB of space that's not being reported.
Now what made me notice this was, the other day I made a backup in TWRP, which according to TWRP, will use 1.4+GB of storage. Today I wanted to restore this backup, but TWRP shows that I don't have any backups. I booted back into Android and used file explorer to browse the TWRP folder, and it was empty. I made another backup in TWRP just now to make sure it was backing up properly, and everything seems fine.
Does this look normal? How much unreported spaced is being used on your device?
Edit: So it turns out to be an issue with TWRP. For some reason, the first backup ends up in /data/media/TWRP.
You should try a free app in the app store called storage analyser. It gives you a clear picture of where all you data is being stored. I found a few gb of data that where being used up by things I had installed previously and then left data behind when un installed.
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nelomen said:
You should try a free app in the app store called storage analyser. It gives you a clear picture of where all you data is being stored. I found a few gb of data that where being used up by things I had installed previously and then left data behind when un installed.
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Interesting. Storage Analyzer is reporting 7.97GB of free space, while Android is reporting 5.33GB.
shilent said:
Interesting. Storage Analyzer is reporting 7.97GB of free space, while Android is reporting 5.33GB.
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TWRP save backups to the wrong location occasionally.
Using a root explorer. check your mnt/shell/emulated folder. you should find a TWRP folder either in shell or in emulated.
Move it to mnt/shell/emulated/0, or delete it if you need to.
Edit: when the backup folder not in these folder, android system will think it to be "system data"
/sdcard
/data/media/0
mnt/shell/emulated/0
/storage/emulated/0
KyraOfFire said:
TWRP save backups to the wrong location occasionally.
Using a root explorer. check your mnt/shell/emulated folder. you should find a TWRP folder either in shell or in emulated.
Move it to mnt/shell/emulated/0, or delete it if you need to.
Edit: when the backup folder not in these folder, android system will think it to be "system data"
/sdcard
/data/media/0
mnt/shell/emulated/0
/storage/emulated/0
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I don't see a TWRP folder in /mnt/shell, and /mnt/shell/emulated does not exist. Anywhere else I should be looking?
shilent said:
Interesting. Storage Analyzer is reporting 7.97GB of free space, while Android is reporting 5.33GB.
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Difference in mine also
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It never showed correct for me, especially cuz it wouldnt read a lot of files that i just dragged into my phone like a usb storage...
You would think the android team would get these kind of small things fixed...
long shot but If you use linux and delete a file, some put it into a hidden folder .Trash-1000 rather than actually deleting it.
Alright, the same exact thing just happened on my girlfriends phone. She saw my phone and liked how my colors looked, so I flash Franco's kernel onto hers. Before I flashed, I created a back up in TWRP. Again, this backup is no where to be found, and her phone just lost 1.6GB of free space.
Maybe I'll post in the TWRP thread.
So it turns out to be an issue with TWRP. For some reason, the first backup ends up in /data/media/TWRP.
shilent said:
So it turns out to be an issue with TWRP. For some reason, the first backup ends up in /data/media/TWRP.
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Omg thank u so so much I just got back almost 1gb of storage back. You are da man seriously.
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Where should we move the backups to? I'm afraid if I move them, they won't show up in recovery.
I'm using CWM and it looks like backups are saved in /mnt/shell/emulated/clockworkmod/backup
I'm having a heck of a time with the internal storage on my S4. What I have done so far: Rooted -> Flashed with Xousos v1.0 (no problem) -> Backup to SD card with CWM -> Flashed with Xousos v2.0 -> Flashed Theme Reverepats ICS (MF9) -> Flashed ComaDose = No Space
I moved all my apps to my SD card and even deleted dropbox and all documents sync to free up space. Before I do a rom flash I clear data/cache/davilik cache and format system. I know the S4's 16GB is really an 8GB - but to only have a few hundred megs left after a fresh flash and TiBackup restore of a handful of apps is not right.
I figure I must have copies of the previous installs somewhere on the internal storage, I just dont know where to look. So if anyone could point me in the right direction as to what directories I can delete or any steps to help free up some space, I would really appreciate it.
Thanks in advance
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Check the "MISC" folder and check to see what are the folders that take up the most space. I have a feeling you are going to have a nandroid on there that is taking up about 3-4gbs
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Wipe system/and factory reset then flash ROM will fix it. Make sure the ROM and everything else you need is on your external SD first.
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Check the "MISC" folder and check to see what are the folders that take up the most space.
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^^^^ that.
daniel4653 said:
Check the "MISC" folder and check to see what are the folders that take up the most space. I have a feeling you are going to have a nandroid on there that is taking up about 3-4gbs
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I apologize for the dumb question in advance, but do you know the location of that folder?
I went to storage/emulated/0 in root explorer and the file structure looks the same as the phone folder explorer but no large files - screen shot attached (largest file first)
GiantJay said:
Wipe system/and factory reset then flash ROM will fix it. Make sure the ROM and everything else you need is on your external SD first.
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This will be my last resort, I just did the wipe/flash and would like to try and solution the problem before I do the wipe
Get disk usage app and poke around the filesystem. It will graphically show you what folders are storing large amounts of data. It will be a lot faster using that tool with finding large files than going through each folder with a file browser app.
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I apologize for the dumb question in advance, but do you know the location of that folder?
I went to storage/emulated/0 in root explorer and the file structure looks the same as the phone folder explorer but no large files - screen shot attached (largest file first)
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In the storage screen (from your original post, where it showed the breakdown), just tap on miscellaneous and it should show you the folders that make up that 7.52GB
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Get disk usage app and poke around the filesystem. It will graphically show you what folders are storing large amounts of data. It will be a lot faster using that tool with finding large files than going through each folder with a file browser app.
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Thanks, this is a handy little app, especially with root access.
I attached a screen shot - it looks like the system data folder is dominating the space - is it possible there is still an old rom on there or possible a backup (like was mentioned earlier) and if so, how do I get to it?
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In the storage screen (from your original post, where it showed the breakdown), just tap on miscellaneous and it should show you the folders that make up that 7.52GB
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That was my last screen shot - when I tap miscellaneous the biggest folder in there is 3.69 MB - which is why I am so confused
I'd probably just make a nandroid backup, move any files from internal to external that I wanted to keep, turn off phone, remove SD card, boot phone back up, go into SD card in menu settings, format the card then go into accounts and do a full factory reset. I would think that would get rid of any unknown bloat from the internal storage. Yes you'll have to set the phone up again but it might fix your running out of space problem. A nandroid restore might throw the crap back in there. I don't know.
GiantJay said:
Wipe system/and factory reset then flash ROM will fix it. Make sure the ROM and everything else you need is on your external SD first.
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oscarthegrouch said:
I'd probably just make a nandroid backup, move any files from internal to external that I wanted to keep, turn off phone, remove SD card, boot phone back up, go into SD card in menu settings, format the card then go into accounts and do a full factory reset. I would think that would get rid of any unknown bloat from the internal storage. Yes you'll have to set the phone up again but it might fix your running out of space problem. A nandroid restore might throw the crap back in there. I don't know.
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Wiping the internal sdcard did the trick. Reloading everything was not what I wanted but it did solve the problem
Thanks to everyone who helped in this thread, I appreciate it :good:
Mine started giving me the low storage space warning once the MF9 update downloaded. I had to wipe the internal sd card completely. What a PITA.
mich0020 said:
Mine started giving me the low storage space warning once the MF9 update downloaded. I had to wipe the internal sd card completely. What a PITA.
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that makes a lot of sense because mine did the same and the update notification wouldnt go away until I flashed the update. I guess next time I need to format the internal sd before I flash
Hi everyone i searched but i didn't find a solution to my problem
(i wanted to format my internal sdcard because it had a lot of stuff from old aplications etc) so I made a backup, then downloaded to my computer, after that i Formated my sdcard
now i instaled rom manager, i puted my backupp on sdcard again but rom manager can't find it, how do i do?
thanks for help
Cwm backups up in /mnt/shell/emulated/clockworkmod. If you only backed up /sdcard you may be hosed.
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jd1639 said:
Cwm backups up in /mnt/shell/emulated/clockworkmod. If you only backed up /sdcard you may be hosed.
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sorry the dumb question but i cant find that location, how do i do to get there?
Blestud said:
sorry the dumb question but i cant find that location, how do i do to get there?
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You need to be rooted, are you rooted?
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jd1639 said:
You need to be rooted, are you rooted?
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I already rooted my phone and i have the dirty unicorns rom
but i can see the directory you said to me on room manager options, but with the root explorer i can't go there or find
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EDIT: that backup you see on screenshot is not the one i want to restore, but other that i made after format to search for the file on root explorer so i can put the other on that folder, bit i didn't found it
If you didn't backup /mnt/shell/emulated/clockworkmod before you formatted the sdcard you're not going to find it now. You're screwed
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If you didn't backup /mnt/shell/emulated/clockworkmod before you formatted the sdcard you're not going to find it now. You're screwed
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Problem solved, i was using an Explorer and not a root one, and i couldn't put the backup file in a .zip but the folder
thanks anyway