When deleting files from your android devices do the files go to a hidden recycling bin that empties it self after so many days or are the files instantly and completely erased from the device?
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ronlsjr said:
When deleting files from your android devices do the files go to a hidden recycling bin that empties it self after so many days or are the files instantly and completely erased from the device?
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Erased from the Device.
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If I delete the files on my phone when plugged into the computer will it ruin my phone or if I reset android it will create all those files again?
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Hey ladies and gents I rooted my atrix and even learned how to change the splash boot animations and now I am ready to use root explorer to clean my phone of junk files and left over files left over from un installed files. Do you have a list or for way of telling which files to delete without messing up my ATRIX?? Thanks
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Hey ladies and gents I rooted my atrix and even learned how to change the splash boot animations and now I am ready to use root explorer to clean my phone of junk files and left over files left over from un installed files. Do you have a list or for way of telling which files to delete without messing up my ATRIX?? Thanks
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Get SD Maid.
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After the ICS update, we now have a "vendor" directory within our system folder.
This folder seems to hold duplicates of folders found within the "system" directory (which includes the "app" directory, containing bloatware and copies of apps from "system/app").
My questions are:
What is the purpose of the "vendor" directory?
And, can the "vendor" directory be safely deleted all together? (I did give this a go, and up to now, do not seem to be experiencing any side effects.)
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Vendor directory is there since gingerbread. That is where sony put all miscellanous files. For example all apk's inside the vendor/app are only being used by setup guide. If setup guide is launched for the 1st time it copies all the contents inside vendor directory and being copy pasted to it's respective directories.
It was mainly made for the use of the factory reset in the settings app in the phone. Wherein if you do a factory reset the phone delete's all the data it contains and return back the 3rd party files back in case you uninstalled it.
Oh, I never noticed it while I was on GB. The only reason I noticed it this time was because I had bloatware running from the vendor dir (such as Lets Golf).
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Yes. If you were a ROM developer and want to integrate some optional apps(let users have the right to uninstall it if they want to) then the best place to put it is in the vendor directory.
How does that work then? As with the bloatware I had, I had to use root explorer to remove it from the vendor directory to stop it from being available on the device, the option to uninstall in the settings menu wasn't available.
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I'm not sure if it was a bug or what but that's not the case on GB. Probably sony intended it to be like that or they have done some minor errors.
Anyways I don't see any good reason why the likes of let's golf be considered as a system app. It won't even work unless you download it's game data.
Ah I see.
Yeah, I'm with you on that one, totally not cool of them to make a game a system app .
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Due to vendor app partitions.
We get very less space around 40 kb in system partitions
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To get rid of this f***** use less partition .
Flash arc s fw.
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Is there no other way of completely removing the partition without having to flash an S rom?
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92jacko said:
Is there no other way of completely removing the partition without having to flash an S rom?
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No there is no other method
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This is a Question Thread! [Q & A]
MOD ----> Move or Delete
Why he ask 4 questions in 1 thread and put it to General...
The answers are also questions so move!!!
Anyone knows where can the backup folder be? I searched on CWM folder but it's not there. I'm trying to move the backup files to my computer.
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Anyone knows where can the backup folder be? I searched on CWM folder but it's not there. I'm trying to move the backup files to my computer.
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/data/media/clockworkmod/backup
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nbeebe24 said:
/data/media/clockworkmod/backup
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Not there either. I've searched every folder. It's only shows when I go into recovery.
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theedon323 said:
Anyone knows where can the backup folder be? I searched on CWM folder but it's not there. I'm trying to move the backup files to my computer.
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Mount>shell>emulated>cwm>backup
nbeebe24 said:
/data/media/clockworkmod/backup
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my data folder on root is empty
heat361 said:
Mount>shell>emulated>cwm>backup
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Mnt>shell is empty on my stock ROM
I had cwm made many backups and just changed to twrp but my internal storage is all filled up and I cannot field the previous backups to delete... Any help?
I am having this same problem too and am searching for solution... I have asked all over the forum and also googled but to no avail. Help please....
Need to search harder...
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=38857026&postcount=18
But my /data folder is empty. I use root explorer and couldn't find anything in /data folder. Was previously looking for WPA_supplicant for my ap list also....
I am currently using root explorer and es explorer v3. ES explorer v3 doesn't have the root settings. I'll download the stable version from play store and try.
Update : I've got it working. This means only es explorer can see CWM backup and wpa_supplicant
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Need to search harder...
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=38857026&postcount=18
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Yes it does as I'm using it! Seriously, follow EVERY instruction on my post and look at the pictures
I did some testing on my own. Root explorer works too. Just need to toggle r/w from root location. Data folder populated after that. As for the latest es explorer v3, toggling root explorer will enable data folder contents to be viewed.
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Hi, i have galaxy s4 i9500 rooted.
i accidentally copied .nomedia file into /storage/emulated but after i deleted it i still cant see any pictures or music in gallery or any other app, how to fix this ?
Thanks before hand
Rescan your SDcard. Either reboot your phone, or download rescanSD app from the play store.
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pardoned said:
Rescan your SDcard. Either reboot your phone, or download rescanSD app from the play store.
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it did not help..
i tried Rescan SD from "sTOOPIDfiG" and "Kevinpr007"
it still not working
but, i did use the camera to capture new pictures,
the new ones i can see in the gallery, but the old ones still cant, all the picture in the same folder !!
1. Copy them (not the parent folder) to another file or off device
2. Reboot
3. Copy back to device original folder
4. Reboot
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1. Copy them (not the parent folder) to another file or off device
2. Reboot
3. Copy back to device original folder
4. Reboot
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thanks, it did worked, but i would be more thankful if you can tell me what was the problem ?
khalilman said:
thanks, it did worked, but i would be more thankful if you can tell me what was the problem ?
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Sorry, without actually seeing the folder before, I would only be guessing
Glad its sorted
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