[Q] Rooting with Gingerbreak - Atrix 4G General

I've read that rooting with Gingerbreak works with the latest update, but also might erase the internal storage. Exactly what part of the internal storage might be erased? EVERYTHING, or just installed apps, ringtones, music, etc...?

Anything on internal storage, if u click on app files and go to internal storage anything there, so if u don't put apps on sd ur fine but some of its files it saves will be gone
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So... basically my best bet would be to make a copy of everything i can onto my computer before attempting the root?

Yes
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And..... another question. Is a microSD card actually required for it, or no?

I never remove my sd so I am not sure
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Yes an external SD card is required. You will be prompted to have one when you first install gingerbreak. I had to go out and buy one.

just copy su file in /osh/bin with some name. your root will be preserved.

Not gonna lie sam, what you said means absolutly nothing to me. Care to elaborate a little more for the special needs section of the class?
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totalimmortal363 said:
Not gonna lie sam, what you said means absolutly nothing to me. Care to elaborate a little more for the special needs section of the class?
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I think Sam might be referring to something like this: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=12506713&postcount=88
Sam: Correct me if I'm wrong.

I come from the iphone world, we don't do command line anything. All the adb and stuff literally goes right over my head. Sorry brother.....
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totalimmortal363 said:
I come from the iphone world, we don't do command line anything. All the adb and stuff literally goes right over my head. Sorry brother.....
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Its good to know... Jail break is like beginner mode vs androids insane mode
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I would start getting familiar with ADB. If you know Linux/UNIX at all, you will feel right at home.

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Help! My picz and vidz go poof!

I was messing around with qik app trying to enable live streaming and now all my pictures and videos are gone. When I say all I mean all! Is there anything I can do about it... I've been up all night due to some very important top secret stuff I need back in my possession.
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have you checked qik?
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Yea... There not on my sd card at all. Nor on the qik site. Is there a way I can recover them...
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thats a negative, if they are not on your sd card where they suppose to be, then they definitely lost for ever... sorry bud.
dont give up so quickly... before you do anything to your sd card, download "pandora recovery" its free and i have used it to successfully restore deleted items from usb/sd memory
@dr154.... Your losing the theory of having a droid... "In a world that doesn't... DROID DOES!" downloaded diskdigger 0.8. I was able to recover 89.9% of my pictures and videos. Better than "sorry bud"
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[Q]How to get phone off of read only?

my phone has never been rooted. Randomly one day it said the sd card was set to read only and I don't know to how to take off of read only
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evo4gnoob said:
my phone has never been rooted. Randomly one day it said the sd card was set to read only and I don't know to how to take off of read only
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Same thing happened to my wife's SDcard, in her G2. I have no clue how it happened. I ended up just formatting the whole SDcard i didn't feel like messing with it.
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I believe you have to hook up your phone to the usb and laptop/computer make sure it disk drive. Then your. Computer picks it up, now open it on your computer right click on the folder where your other folders are.. go to properties and I do believe at the bottom you gonna see 2 "read only and hidden" option uncheck the read only. Sorry for the confusions.
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I got it working I put the SD card on my EVO 4g and it got rid of read only and just put it back on my mytouch
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Formatting is another option. But you going to lose all data store on the SD card.
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/osh directory

what is /osh directory on my Atrix?
Its 6.5GB in size FFS, can it be deleted?
thanks
the osh folder is the folder of webtop ^^
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i do not own nor i plan to own a webtop so can it be deleted? And do i get anything with deletion of that folder? Its huge, 700+mb
The webtop can also be accessed via HDMI (hook up to a tv) with a little simple modification. Search for it on the forums. If you are sure you are never going to use it, yes you can delete it, I'm pretty sure it will not effect any other part of the system.
As far as I know it can't be deleted, but in any case if possible it will not increase your storage anyways. Different partition altogether.
Hm, how does work this HDMI thing? just hook it up in TV and run WebTop app from phone?
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Hm, how does work this HDMI thing? just hook it up in TV and run WebTop app from phone?
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yep thats correct
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here is a screenshkt after the mod
this window will pop up and give ya a few options
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Rayan said:
As far as I know it can't be deleted, but in any case if possible it will not increase your storage anyways. Different partition altogether.
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Yeah its not possible to delete. You couldn't boot into recovery go to mounts and storage and wipe the partition....or use fastboot....hey wait...
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Tips on creating more space without rooting

Im getting constant messages now saying I dont have enough space. I've moved everything I can to sd and cleared the cache. Programs like groupon are big but wont let me though, grrr.
Noticed email takes up a lot too, anyway of limiting what is stored?
Deinstall some apps...
Thats not a tip its common sense... What if u didn't want to get rid of the apps... *rolls eyes
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Then root. It's not like you need a Computing PhD for that.
Sorry chris,
The only way to make apps that don't want to be on the SD play nice, is root. And, the only way to remove apps you don't use that are sitting in /system...is root.
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Well actually no root required using adb you can set install location from 0 which is system auto to 2 which allows all downloaded apps to be moved to sd card
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iceman99393 said:
Well actually no root required using adb you can set install location from 0 which is system auto to 2 which allows all downloaded apps to be moved to sd card
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That's good for apps installed after that command. System apps and previously installed apps are untouched, and they're the largest issue.
Can u not save all emails to sd or limit how much is stored
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Just root your phone. Whatever reason you have for not doing so yet is based on misinformation. Download superoneclick and go to it.
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How much internal storage do you have left.
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you can use box.com

[Q] out of space?

My wife just got an M as a replacement for her old Rezound. She has had it for about three weeks and the phone is already telling her she is out of internal storage. However, when I look at her storage it appears that only her "Backup ASSISTANCE Plus" is full. It's unfortunately causing her phone to be worthless. Does anyone know how to fix this? Her phone is completely stock. Thanks in advance.
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txkorm said:
My wife just got an M as a replacement for her old Rezound. She has had it for about three weeks and the phone is already telling her she is out of internal storage. However, when I look at her storage it appears that only her "Backup ASSISTANCE Plus" is full. It's unfortunately causing her phone to be worthless. Does anyone know how to fix this? Her phone is completely stock. Thanks in advance.
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couple of tips:
1.) don't use backup assistance - use google to store your contacts
2.) make sure that your camera settings are set to save pics/vids to the mnt/external1 folder (no sdcard in internal storage)
jco23 said:
couple of tips:
1.) don't use backup assistance - use google to store your contacts
2.) make sure that your camera settings are set to save pics/vids to the mnt/external1 folder (no sdcard in internal storage)
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Might also want to disable Backup Assistant in the Application Settings.
Also, clear the cache and make sure that no leftover OTA updates are stored.
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jco23 said:
couple of tips:
1.) don't use backup assistance - use google to store your contacts
2.) make sure that your camera settings are set to save pics/vids to the mnt/external1 folder (no sdcard in internal storage)
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Thanks for the feedback. I tried to disable it but it wouldn't let me. I'll take another look tonight. I don't want to do a hard reset unless I have to but if I can't disable it, I'll have no other choice.
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Conclusion. This phone sucks if you can't put apps on the SD. 8gb internal hard drive is really only 4 gigs.
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txkorm said:
Conclusion. This phone sucks if you can't put apps on the SD. 8gb internal hard drive is really only 4 gigs.
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If you root, you can easily store apps on external. Also, internal is partitioned into 4gb halves. One for the the ROM and the other for media/etc. Personally, I don't understand how people fill that up so quickly. I use very few apps and all my media gets stored to my external SD. I'm still sitting at about 3.5GB available on my storage side.
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If you root, you can easily store apps on external. Also, internal is partitioned into 4gb halves. One for the the ROM and the other for media/etc. Personally, I don't understand how people fill that up so quickly. I use very few apps and all my media gets stored to my external SD. I'm still sitting at about 3.5GB available on my storage side.
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I understand it's portioned but I've never seen a phone require half of its internal storage. As for media, it's all going to her card. I guess if you use few apps your ok, but that's not the case with a 5 year. You shouldn't have to root for a phone to be functional with a relatively low amount of apps in use.
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Her phone....
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Her phone....
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I've got just over 100 apps. Also, a little more than 1 gig of my internal space is dedicated to music.
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jco23 said:
I've got just over 100 apps. Also, a little more than 1 gig of my internal space is dedicated to music.
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How are you not having the same issue? Very interesting.
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Do you know if the phone was previously rooted? I know that nandroid backups get saved to internal storage if you don't specify and they will eat up the storage space quickly.
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Do you know if the phone was previously rooted? I know that nandroid backups get saved to internal storage if you don't specify and they will eat up the storage space quickly.
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It came straight from Verizon as a replacement phone so all I know is that it's a refurbished phone. I cleaned up the backup assistance so hopefully that will help. I have a theory that triggered the warning and loss of functionality. We'll see. If it pops back up, it's going back to Verizon.
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txkorm said:
How are you not having the same issue? Very interesting.
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gaining root access allowed me to clear out all of the Verizon bloatware.
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gaining root access allowed me to clear out all of the Verizon bloatware.
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Makes sense since this phone is loaded with it. This is our first Motorola smartphone. Is that a Motorola issue with excess bloat? I know all phones have it but this seems like a lot considering the limited amount of internal memory.
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txkorm said:
Makes sense since this phone is loaded with it. This is our first Motorola smartphone. Is that a Motorola issue with excess bloat? I know all phones have it but this seems like a lot considering the limited amount of internal memory.
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bloat is an issue with all Verizon android phones (the bloat helps bring down the costs on the device).
one of the drawbacks to this device is the lack of internal memory. however, the bigger drawback is in the OS that prevents folks from moving apps to their SD Card.
but once I rooted, and installed a "clean ROM", I got a lot more space.
with your wife's phone, I suspect she has the latest OTA baseband (check the phone settings, if the baseband is prior to May 2013, then you are in luck - DO NOT ACCEPT the UPDATE). if the baseband reads May 2013, then your only option is to gain root access and freeze/delete the bloatware.
if space is an issue, I highly recommend to go this route. otherwise, start trimming some of the apps she never uses.

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