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Is the only way to wipe the sd card is to use CWM? Is there any other way? Also, will this have any negative effects to the device? Does the system require specific folders to work/run?
First you need to make a backup of your rom using CWR, or i prefer 4ext ( mainly cause i can enable usb mass storage while in recovery once plugged into pc)....
2nd ..You should copy all contents from ur storage by connecting ur phone to pc
3rd. place existing folders from sdcard storage to a backup folder a.k.a Nexus 7 backup folder. This will also include your backup under clockworkmod/backup/xxxx_xx_backup.
4th...format sdcard in recovery(4ext) allows for multiple partitioning options..
5th..once formatted...download any ro and boot up..once booted up compare all folders in sdcard to those of backup on pc u created earlier and copy folders to new formatted sdcard..
6th.. note you created the backup earlier which is housed in the clockworkmod/backup folder on pc. Make sure u copy that folder onto sdcard along with i.e dcim, movies, pictures, gameloft..etc...etc..basically all files from ur pc folder that contains all the sdcard contents explained in step 3.
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First you need to make a backup of your rom using CWR, or i prefer 4ext ( mainly cause i can enable usb mass storage while in recovery once plugged into pc)....
2nd ..You should copy all contents from ur storage by connecting ur phone to pc
3rd. place existing folders from sdcard storage to a backup folder a.k.a Nexus 7 backup folder. This will also include your backup under clockworkmod/backup/xxxx_xx_backup.
4th...format sdcard in recovery(4ext) allows for multiple partitioning options..
5th..once formatted...download any ro and boot up..once booted up compare all folders in sdcard to those of backup on pc u created earlier and copy folders to new formatted sdcard..
6th.. note you created the backup earlier which is housed in the clockworkmod/backup folder on pc. Make sure u copy that folder onto sdcard along with i.e dcim, movies, pictures, gameloft..etc...etc..basically all files from ur pc folder that contains all the sdcard contents explained in step 3.
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I am not on any custom Rom at the moment. I'm currently running stock and stock kernal.
All I wanted to do was start fresh since my storage has become some what messy and unorganized. I already made a back up using cwm. I just wanted to wipe the sd card in the device. I already have my important files backed up including ePub, mp3, apk files etc
I'm just concerned that if I wipe the sd, the nexus 7 won't run the way it should.
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bustinstugots24 said:
I am not on any custom Rom at the moment. I'm currently running stock and stock kernal.
All I wanted to do was start fresh since my storage has become some what messy and unorganized. I already made a back up using cwm. I just wanted to wipe the sd card in the device. I already have my important files backed up including ePub, mp3, apk files etc
I'm just concerned that if I wipe the sd, the nexus 7 won't run the way it should.
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Settings>storage>erase USB storage
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Settings>storage>erase USB storage
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I dont see erase USB storage as an option.
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Use ADB from the CMD :
fastboot erase boot
fastboot erase cache
fastboot erase recovery
fastboot erase system
fastboot erase userdata
Take a look with what I am dealing with in the screen shot. It says the system has 13 GB in the system but only 3 GB left. If you add up all the apps you can easily see there is no way I used 10 GB of storage. It just doesn't add up. Can't really figure out what's going on.
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Take a look with what I am dealing with in the screen shot. It says the system has 13 GB in the system but only 3 GB left. If you add up all the apps you can easily see there is no way I used 10 GB of storage. It just doesn't add up. Can't really figure out what's going on.
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I think you have the "Dead Space" that android commonly sees.
Like you already asked you need to reformat your tab etc, that is THE ONLY way to return the dead space back into usable.
Maybe: backup and restore->factory reset, is the option you are looking for?
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I think you have the "Dead Space" that android commonly sees.
Like you already asked you need to reformat your tab etc, that is THE ONLY way to return the dead space back into usable.
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Maybe: backup and restore->factory reset, is the option you are looking for?
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If I do the factory reset, I have a few questions.
One, will it cause me to lose root?
Second, will it also wipe the storage card? ( I would assume so)
Third, I never heard of this dead space issue. Why does this happen?
Don't know about root. But that should be easy enough to get back. I was ballsy enough to press the option thought it would prompt me before wiping and it did .
See screenshot.
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Don't know about root. But that should be easy enough to get back. I was ballsy enough to press the option thought it would prompt me before wiping and it did .
See screenshot.
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Thanks for that. I am currently trying to back everything up at the moment. I'm nervous but I'm going to give it a shot. Let you know how it goes.
I was thinking, maybe if I went in to staples and showed them that the storage card was showing me incorrect info, maybe they would swap it ouf for me for one of the newer 32 gb ones. I'd even pay the $50 difference if the 16gb drops down to $200
Might be worth a shot lol
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Thanks for that. I am currently trying to back everything up at the moment. I'm nervous but I'm going to give it a shot. Let you know how it goes.
I was thinking, maybe if I went in to staples and showed them that the storage card was showing me incorrect info, maybe they would swap it ouf for me for one of the newer 32 gb ones. I'd even pay the $50 difference if the 16gb drops down to $200
Might be worth a shot lol
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Okay, so I reset the tablet and nothing really has changed. It didn't format the storage because pretty much everything I had it in there before is still there except for music and videos etc. i still have root access. I still only have 3 gb available so something is definietely wrong. I'm just not really sure what to do. The system even rebooted in tablet mode which I had it set to before. What does anyone think the next step should be?
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Okay, so I reset the tablet and nothing really has changed. It didn't format the storage because pretty much everything I had it in there before is still there except for music and videos etc. i still have root access. I still only have 3 gb available so something is definietely wrong. I'm just not really sure what to do. The system even rebooted in tablet mode which I had it set to before. What does anyone think the next step should be?
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Anyone that can help?
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Anyone that can help?
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If you've formatted your system you're not a noob so you've probably already done this too, but run ES File Explorer > Manager > SD Card Analyst.
Do you use CWM to backup you roms?
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If you've formatted your system you're not a noob so you've probably already done this too, but run ES File Explorer > Manager > SD Card Analyst.
Do you use CWM to backup you roms?
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I grew the balls to just format the SD card using CWM. I was pretty nervous but it did reboot and it wiped everything.
I now have 13.0 gb free out of 13.2. Pretty pleased. Finally!.
I was also able to keep root as well.
Nice. Thanks for finding this out for the community!
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Nice. Thanks for finding this out for the community!
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No problem. I was really nervous. In all honesty though there has to be another way. I mean I have root access obviously. Lets say you get some regular user who doesn't know much and they just want to wipe their device clean. What exactly are you supposed to do? why isn't a factory reset wiping out the storage card? It is very strange.
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No problem. I was really nervous. In all honesty though there has to be another way. I mean I have root access obviously. Lets say you get some regular user who doesn't know much and they just want to wipe their device clean. What exactly are you supposed to do? why isn't a factory reset wiping out the storage card? It is very strange.
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Because the SD card is where you store pictures, music and other stuff, a factory reset wiping that would be a long process(copying it off then back on) and most of the time not required
and the space not showing up in storage settings menu, it only shows stuff in the default android locations, just a fyi
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I want to wipe my nexus 4 so that's its fresh and has nothing on it how it was when i got it. When I do a factory reset and wipe all it still keeps some files i put on there.
What am I missing?
Do you mean SD files? A factory reset won't touch those. You should format SD in recovery.
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Do you mean SD files? A factory reset won't touch those. You should format SD in recovery.
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Okay perfect what gets formatted? Which files stay
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T89 said:
Okay perfect what gets formatted? Which files stay
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None on your SD.
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do a factory reset and format sd in recovery
If you haven't noticed, there is no physical "SD" - so if I format "SD" right now - will my system still run?
I've asked google and it's not getting me anywhere ;(
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If you haven't noticed, there is no SD - so if I format SD right now - will my system still run?
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Yes it will. Don't worry. I formatted my SD the other day.
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Yes it will. Don't worry. I formatted my SD the other day.
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Very helpful, thank you - one more thing - I'm assuming I will lose all nandroid backups, music, photos correct? - Apps will stay?
T89 said:
Very helpful, thank you - one more thing - I'm assuming I will lose all nandroid backups, music, photos correct? - Apps will stay?
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Correct. You'll lose all SD data (pictures, music, Nandroid's, ROM .zips, etc.) but keep your apps and such.
Okay perfect - so if the apps stay im guessing i can just use rom manager to get my rom again etc, does my flashed recovery stay?. Its just wiping physical data ive put on there.
T89 said:
Okay perfect - so if the apps stay im guessing i can just use rom manager to get my rom again etc, does my flashed recovery stay?. Its just wiping physical data ive put on there.
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Yes, your recovery stays.
Thank you, here goes nothing!
Just wondering where you guys keep your backups and roms. Usually I keep mine on usb drives to save storage on my device. But seeing as the nexus 4 doesn't support that I was wondering if anyone had better idea.
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Alaris said:
Just wondering where you guys keep your backups and roms. Usually I keep mine on usb drives to save storage on my device. But seeing as the nexus 4 doesn't support that I was wondering if anyone had better idea.
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don't really keep them anywhere.. I just keep a copy in my phone and delete the older ones. I only do a nandroid when I know I might flash something that fks **** up and I only backup when I know everything's fine.
I only backup when I need to flash something as well.
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you should always keep one nandroid backup in your storage, it could save you hours of anguish later on. the more recent, the better.
Speaking of nandroids, I JUST had to restore one. Flashed PA and some mods that gave me a bootloop. Luckily it was only 2 days old.
I keep my backups on my computer. I have a Mac so with Android File Transfer it's easy to copy onto my computer or back onto my phone. Easy as pie.
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None. I prefer just keeping a latest titanium backup and I'm fine with starting from scratch. Only takes me five minutes max
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I ALWAYS keep a bare minimum system backup just in case anything goes wrong. I tend to back up dat once a week, and especially before I flash anything. It's a good habit to implement, trust me lol
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I always keep one nandroid backup on my pc.
Titanium backup is never 100%, especially on system stuff....
I have lots on my PCs 2nd hard drive along with lots of android stuff.
I always keep at least 1 on my phone.
I keep my favourite ( stock, slimbean and mokee ) zipped and uploaded onto dropbox.
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Usually I keep mine on usb drives to save storage on my device. But seeing as the nexus 4 doesn't support that I was wondering if anyone had better idea.
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I guess I am missing something. What is so hard about keeping your backups on a USB drive? I do a Titanium full backup and a TWRP full backup. I then copy and paste the backups via Windows to my USB drive. Finally I delete them from my phone to save space.
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I guess I am missing something. What is so hard about keeping your backups on a USB drive? I do a Titanium full backup and a TWRP full backup. I then copy and paste the backups via Windows to my USB drive. Finally I delete them from my phone to save space.
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Transferring back a nandroid when you only have fast boot and recovery is... Annoying.
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Transferring back a nandroid when you only have fast boot and recovery is... Annoying.
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I see. Sorry, my misunderstanding of the topic. I only keep the backups for disaster recovery so I don't lose all my settings and app installs; I never had to use them. Also, I never did a nandroid backup.
hi guys
today my friend installed cm10.1 on my galaxy S4 I9505
after which, my internal storage available on the device is a total of 9.25gb and only 1gb is left free
can anyone help me figure out how to make the entire 16gb(minus the size of the CM10.1 software) available?:crying:
ad346 said:
hi guys
today my friend installed cm10.1 on my galaxy S4 I9505
after which, my internal storage available on the device is a total of 9.25gb and only 1gb is left free
can anyone help me figure out how to make the entire 16gb(minus the size of the CM10.1 software) available?:crying:
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Did you make a backup of the stock rom? It uses a LOT of storage.
Anibaaal said:
Did you make a backup of the stock rom? It uses a LOT of storage.
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See there is a folder called 0 in ur internal memory delete that folder and then factory reset and thats it
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See there is a folder called 0 in ur internal memory delete that folder and then factory reset and thats it
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Only do this if you want to delete your nandroid of your stock ROM. If you want to keep that backup, move it to the SD card or your computer first.
Sent from your phone. You should be careful where you leave that thing.
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Only do this if you want to delete your nandroid of your stock ROM. If you want to keep that backup, move it to the SD card or your computer first.
Sent from your phone. You should be careful where you leave that thing.
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whats nandroid? sorry for the noobish question did you mean the stock 4.2.2?
ad346 said:
whats nandroid? sorry for the noobish question did you mean the stock 4.2.2?
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Yes. The backup of your stock ROM.
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Yes. The backup of your stock ROM.
Sent from your phone. You should be careful where you leave that thing.
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i had deleted that this morning, there was nothing important on it, but if i ever wanna go back to it, is it available for download online?
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i had deleted that this morning, there was nothing important on it, but if i ever wanna go back to it, is it available for download online?
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You can always get it as n odin flashable .tar file that will restore almost everything to its original state.
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Y ou could download one of the many pre-rooted (de)odexed stock roms here if you want to go back to official..
Or just do a complete wipe (system,data,cache) and install CM 10.1 again.
For the last few weeks I am unable to restore backed-up apps. I have tried on three different clean-flashed ROMs. TruePureX, AICP, and PureNexus. When I flash a new ROM, install TiBU (I have pro key), set the backup directory on my sd card, it says there are no apps to restore. It sees there are 61 backup files but I can't batch restore or manually one-by-one. I have also tried deleting the existing backups and creating new ones. Also tried moving the backups to the internal sd card. Anyone else seeing this?
I can't get it to delete system apps anymore. My guess is that its something to do with "systemless" root. Try another app, I found one that in my case. Although it stinks cause TB has ALWAYS been a must have app.
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I can't get it to delete system apps anymore. My guess is that its something to do with "systemless" root. Try another app, I found one that in my case. Although it stinks cause TB has ALWAYS been a must have app.
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I don't have systemless root. TiBu is vital. This really sucks. I think I'm going to try reformatting my sd card this weekend.. I have a trouble ticket in the with the devs but I have not heard anything from them.
Reformatting the external SD didn't change anything. It was worth a shot. I took screenshots of what I see when I try to restore with TiBu. In the first shot you can see with a manual restore the restore button is missing for a backed up app that is not installed. And the second is from the batch restore that shows no apps to restore, there should be one.
I noticed the same problem across multiple roms as well. I wasn't able to figure out why or how to fix it though.
Any chance you're using a knock-off SD card? I ran into this when I purchased a purported Samsung SD card that was a fake. After two days of odd errors trying to restore a TiBu backup, someone from XDA asked me the same question. There are videos online to find out whether you got a real or dud SD card.
[I was able to return the fake card and complained about the Seller.]
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Any chance you're using a knock-off SD card? I ran into this when I purchased a purported Samsung SD card that was a fake. After two days of odd errors trying to restore a TiBu backup, someone from XDA asked me the same question. There are videos online to find out whether you got a real or dud SD card.
[I was able to return the fake card and complained about the Seller.]
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I'm pretty sure it's a real Samsung card. All other backup and restores work. I keep my TWRP backups on it too. Only TiBu has the problem.
If backup and restore works to internal memory, then try another card to eliminate the card being an issue. If backing up to internal memory doesn't work then it is software/app related.
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If backup and restore works to internal memory, then try another card to eliminate the card being an issue. If backing up to internal memory doesn't work then it is software/app related.
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Yep. I've tried using the internal sd with the same result. I'm pretty sure it's not my external sd because sms backup and restores work and so does TWRP. From what I can tell TiBu sees the backups. It reports there are 61 files. And, since this has started, I've let google restore the apps at setup and then I am able to restore the data with TiBu (not a preferred method).
Can someone tell me what the permissions are on the TitaniumBackup folders and then the backup files within (someone with a working TiBu of course)? I want to check those.
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Can someone tell me what the permissions are on the TitaniumBackup folders and then the backup files within (someone with a working TiBu of course)? I want to check those.
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IDK on the permissions, checked in Solid Explorer & it doesn't show them where it normally does... I do know that TiBU works though, I restored apps this morning & everything worked seamlessly.
Have you tried enabling installation of apps from unknown sources? Not sure if that'll fix it, but it's worth a shot.
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Can someone tell me what the permissions are on the TitaniumBackup folders and then the backup files within (someone with a working TiBu of course)? I want to check those.
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Is this what you're looking for? I'm on 5.1.
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IDK on the permissions, checked in Solid Explorer & it doesn't show them where it normally does... I do know that TiBU works though, I restored apps this morning & everything worked seamlessly.
Have you tried enabling installation of apps from unknown sources? Not sure if that'll fix it, but it's worth a shot.
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Yes. TiBu warns you of that when you open it.
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Is this what you're looking for? I'm on 5.1.
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Yes. Thank you!
So my permissions are different on my external sd card but I can't change them. So I moved my backups to my internal sd card (again), checked permissions, tried different storage (file system & document), and no change. I still haven't heard anything from the TiBu developers. Could it have something to do with the device id? When you flash a new ROM it asks if you want to keep the new id or restore the old one. I always just keep the new one but is that an issue? They think I'm putting it on multiple devices? Stray arrows, I'm just trying to figure it out.
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So my permissions are different on my external sd card but I can't change them. So I moved my backups to my internal sd card (again), checked permissions, tried different storage (file system & document), and no change. I still haven't heard anything from the TiBu developers. Could it have something to do with the device id? When you flash a new ROM it asks if you want to keep the new id or restore the old one. I always just keep the new one but is that an issue? They think I'm putting it on multiple devices? Stray arrows, I'm just trying to figure it out.
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Can you change permissions on other files and it's just tibu you can't? Or try other file manager? I tried both root explorer and mixplorer and were able to make changes easily. Otherwise I'm guessing it's because of mm vs lp?
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Can you change permissions on other files and it's just tibu you can't? Or try other file manager? I tried both root explorer and mixplorer and were able to make changes easily. Otherwise I'm guessing it's because of mm vs lp?
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I am using root explorer as well. Weird, I was able to change permissions on the TiBu folder this time. No change in results. I am on MM but it has been working forever. Just in the last 2 or so weeks this started.
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I am using root explorer as well. Weird, I was able to change permissions on the TiBu folder this time. No change in results. I am on MM but it has been working forever. Just in the last 2 or so weeks this started.
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I've seen your issue somewhere on one of the other threads I'm following. At least I think so. And I believe there was at least a temporary fix. Let me dig a little.
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I've seen your issue somewhere on one of the other threads I'm following. At least I think so. And I believe there was at least a temporary fix. Let me dig a little.
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I thought it might have been a permissions and/or a non-writable external sd card problem but I was able to change the permissions on the TiBu folder on my card.
Also tried setting selinux to permissive. Nada.
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I thought it might have been a permissions and/or a non-writable external sd card problem but I was able to change the permissions on the TiBu folder on my card.
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I've looked but can't find it. Not gotten any updates on tibu lately, so that isn't it. Hopefully I'll find post at some point. Other stuff aside, just another reason I'm staying on lp. Not sure if you can revert back and see if things work as expected.
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