after installing a clean rom, how do i get rid of all the random files left over from programs and what not on my internal sd?
Im wondering the same thing, maybe restoring?
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you mean in /sd? i usually mount the storage on pc and go to town deleting crap.
Go to settings, sd and phone storage, then unmount and forgot your sd, external or internal
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Regarding Nandroid and apps I backed up with Titanium, do those remain on the phone when you wipe to install a new ROM or do you have to put those on your computer and replace them after you wipe?
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Bump... Anyone? Please?
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The backups are kept on your SD card, not your internal storage. So as long as you only wipe your internal storage, the backups etc will remain.
Thanks so much!
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Actually, I just looked at my SD card and no backups are there, just the movie that came with the phone.
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The backups are kept on your SD card, not your internal storage. So as long as you only wipe your internal storage, the backups etc will remain.
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He's wrong nandroid backups done in Clockwork are stored in /sdcard/clockworkmod/backup/....
I was actually wondering the same thing...
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The backups are kept on your SD card, not your internal storage. So as long as you only wipe your internal storage, the backups etc will remain.
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They are actually contained in the internal storage card but you can specify a diff directory in your external sd card if you prefer, it can be changed in your settings.
Either way they standard wipe only effects the section off the internal storage used by your phones system/data n apps and will not effect the internal storage you put in the"root" folder /sdcard, more specially in your case /sdcard/titaniumbackups (titanium) or/sdcard/backups/apps (astro) should survive.... Nandroid restores, flashes through clockwork of new roms and manual wipes of system, cache or data shouldn't hurt your astro or titanium backups.
Any full reformat of the card or as I understand it reflashing back to stock 2.1 with odin will kill your nandroid restore points but I don't know what effect that level of reflashing will have on your backups but when in doubt back up to a computer is never a bad idea.
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Dont mind the skidmarks...
Thank you!
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Looking go back to scratch JFD using odin, but I have a ton of folders pertaining to random apps etc.
Once my phone is mounted can I select all and delete everything?
Some are obvious while others I am not too sure...
Ex: DCIM, Data, Android, .android_secure, Lost.dir
yeah thats fine. the necessary files will pop back up when you reinstall the os.
Do you want your sd to start from scratch too? if yes, then just format your sd card.
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nice, i was looking for this as well. thanks~
Whenever I try to do a nand backup, I get a message saying there was an error in backing up my /data folder.
Does anyone know why this is happening and what I can do? I'm on Virtuous.
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Whenever I try to do a nand backup, I get a message saying there was an error in backing up my /data folder.
Does anyone know why this is happening and what I can do? I'm on Virtuous.
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How much space do you have free on you SD card? I like to have 2GB free for doing Nandroids.
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Well, I don't use it for media and I frequently dump out my pictures to my computer. Is there anything left behind when you uninstall an app? I have 2 nandroid backups. And a my backup pro backup I made once. Is there an app that will tell you all the large sized files on your phone's sd card?
No, app uninstalls don't generally clean up data that they save on the SD card. You can check your available SD card space under Settings--> Storage. If it is under 2GB and you don't need both existing Nandroids online, you can copy one off to your computer. They are located in individual folders under:
/clockworkmod/backups
You can copy them back as needed or even from within recovery through the mount options. I keep a library of Nandroids on my computer and generally only keep 1 or 2 on the SD card.
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Every time I install a rom it says insufficient storage. Please help.
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you need to wipe everything except the SD before you flash the ROM
Yea ive done the wipe correctly x3 everything and still does that
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Is the the system mounted or SD mounted? Also what Rom are u trying to install? Just throwing that out there...
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Are you using dta2sd? And is your SD partitioned.
Ive tried a few roms right now im using mikg 3.11.. its actually kinda random like yesterday I couldn't download anything from google play but this morning it let me download. And im on a fresh install and have plenty of memory. I don't have a ext set up or any apsd set up either
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OK I got it. You need to have an SD ext because the evo can't actually handle a rom that large without one. You need to have the rom apps moved to your SD card. This will give you an insane amount of free space. Your ext must be ext3 for best results. In recovery partition SD then upgrade ext2 to ext3. This will also format the SD so move your contents to a folder on PC. I believe Mik has dta2sd built in so it should move apps on install. This will fix your low memory issue 100%.
Ok will do.. but the Rom has like 300 mbs free. But still will do this and see if it fixes it
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MikG has a2sd baked in, so you need to have the sdext.
Most roms have a2sd enabled by default. Also the phone uses the sdext for dalvik storage as well so you should always have one. Ext3 is highly recommended.
my recommendation would be to move your dalvik cache to sd partition and then see what you need to move app wise. i go by the rule if it doesnt need to be on your sd card then dont put it there. if you are still running out of room after dalvik is moved then damn you got some big apps (lol just messin) but just move a few there is no point in having all this free space on internal storage when its there to be used
Sorry in advance if i've posted this in the wrong place.
Can anyone help. I am wanting put Android 4.4 kitkat on my Lg g2 D802 (which i think was on EE, T-mobile) . I've tried cynamod as it's the most popular and a couple of others, but they all seem to want use the SD CARD of the phone. The G2 has not got a slot for that and from what i've read on some models there is a partition type thing on the fixed memeory. I don't have that and can't find a way round it. Does anyone know of an alternitive i can use.
Thank you
I thinks it's just the internal memory card. The one that shows up when you connect to pc
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TheHaso said:
I thinks it's just the internal memory card. The one that shows up when you connect to pc
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It just show INTERNAL STORAGE on my comp. The problem i've got is if i put the needed files for the rom on the memory where i know where they are. When i go to do the upgrade it deletes them as part of the upgrade. Rooting the phone was easy. it's trying to upgrade thats driving me nuts.
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It just show INTERNAL STORAGE on my comp. The problem i've got is if i put the needed files for the rom on the memory where i know where they are. When i go to do the upgrade it deletes them as part of the upgrade. Rooting the phone was easy. it's trying to upgrade thats driving me nuts.
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dont wipe internal storage
Lol not done that........yet
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you MUST be wiping the internal storage aswell when "updating", there is no way the ROM.zip will wipe from your storage unless you accidentally wipe it. Just stick it in the root directory of your storage and when wiping...if you are using TWRP, do not select the option to wipe data as it will wipe your internal storage aswell. To wipe data before the flash, go into wipe, advanced and then tick every partition apart from "internal storage"
"Internal Storage" is equivalent to "SD Card". No access to root or system partitions from Windows Explorer. Just me, but I always copy ROMs and other flashable zips to the "download" folder.
I'm agreeing with MalignantQuechnitlan. I haven't used ROM Manager or Clockwork Recovery in at least a year, but it seems you must be electing to wipe your SDCard partition at some point during the installation.
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Lol not done that........yet
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from CWM go to install zip-->choose zip from /sd card-->0/ anything you've put on the sd card should be there
gonna give these a go now. Thanks for replying