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Hey all silly question but when nexus 7 is rooted and a nandroid backup taken what happens when you really format the data partition from cwm does that wipe out the backup? Only ever had one device and it has a SD slot which stores the backups. Sorry for the newbie question.

It places the backups on the internal memory
/sdcard partition
It will not be erased if you format data from recovery
It will be erased if you do factory reset or fastboot erase userdata
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bagofcrap24 said:
It places the backups on the internal memory
/sdcard partition
It will not be erased if you format data from recovery
It will be erased if you do factory reset or fastboot erase userdata
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Ok thanks. After a bit a research I found that twrp will backup and restore straight from otg usb storage so will use that.

blucmal said:
Ok thanks. After a bit a research I found that twrp will backup and restore straight from otg usb storage so will use that.
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I decided to do the same: what's worth a backup on a device you probably cannot access any longer?
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AndDiSa said:
I decided to do the same: what's worth a backup on a device you probably cannot access any longer?
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wondering what you would do to be not able to access a nexus device...

kendong2 said:
wondering what you would do to be not able to access a nexus device...
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Are you backing up your hard disk on itself? What do you do, if there is a hardware failure? Or even simpler: a 'wrongly' programmed install script which is formatting the data partition ...
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use the cloud.

If you can live with that, do it. I for myself prefer to have a copy near to me accessible all the time.
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[Q] When you wipe your data

When you wipe your data do you lose your backup as well?
Recently got a Nexus 7 and I'm kind of new to this stuff.

UP +1000
I have the same question.
I use TWRP recovery and in fact I figure out that wiping data is wiping your virtual sdcard also, I can't understand why and ca't find any viale workaround.
It 's due to new feature of android 4.2: Multi user
If someone knows how to wipe data without wiping sdcard

I just use my drop box fit all my back up stuff
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The only way it will delete your sd card is if you choose to delete internal storage.
Wiping data/factory reset doesnt delete whats on the internal sd card.
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[Q] Question about nexus 10 factory reset and virtual SD card.

I was wondering... If you do a factory reset in cwm, will it remove the contents of the virtual SD card? I would hope it wouldn't, but want to make sure.
Also wondering if it would erase the contents of the cwm backup folder, since that's been separated out now.
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hinxman said:
I was wondering... If you do a factory reset in cwm, will it remove the contents of the virtual SD card? I would hope it wouldn't, but want to make sure.
Also wondering if it would erase the contents of the cwm backup folder, since that's been separated out now.
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No if you do a factory reset in cwm it wipes only the /data and cache partitions so you can then flash a rom which overwrites /system, so everything but /sdcard gets wiped.
And what about the cwm folder? I haven't heard of it changing.
It's always been /sdcard/clockworkmod/
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With the nexus 10, the clockwork mod backup folder is in /mint/shell/emulated/clockworkmod
Thanks for the heads up, I appreciate it.
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hinxman said:
With the nexus 10, the clockwork mod backup folder is in /mint/shell/emulated/clockworkmod
Thanks for the heads up, I appreciate it.
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weird, I went to find my clockworkmod folder and it's not in my sdcard. =O
I also can't find "/mint/" maybe you meant /mnt? but even then it's still not there. I did a nandroid backup, but I cannot find the folder.

Mistype, /mnt/
I know that alot of apps can't see that directory, thats "by design" from what i've seen... i'm using ES File Manager, have it set to root permissions, and have it set to up to root, and i'm able to see it there.
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Ah you're right..root browser shows them.
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[Q] Internal Sotrage Problems

Ive been fooling around with my phone, by that i mean rooting and such. But really recently ive noticed that my internal storage is almost completely full no matter if i factory reset my phone and wipe all caches. The sizes don't even add up, the biggest thing is clockwerk recovery at 2gb but somehow there is another 7gb of something that i can't see. Is there files hidden somewhere that are causing this huge usage of space?
HELP

Use ES file explorer, enable to show hidden files. That should answer your question.
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I see a lot of **** in lots of folders all over my device but im afraid to delete stuff. Would it let me delete important files?

chairstorm said:
I see a lot of **** in lots of folders all over my device but im afraid to delete stuff. Would it let me delete important files?
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Use clean master from the play store, it will detect what is not needed and ask if you want to delete it.
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[email protected] said:
Use clean master from the play store, it will detect what is not needed and ask if you want to delete it.
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even that doesn't help there is still 80% of storage taken up by something, could my CWM backups somehow be ending up on my internal storage instead of my SD because it seems that way

Use es file explorer to move any important files from internal storage to external storage (like cwm backups or photos) then wipe internal storage. After that you should have about 9 GB free on your 16 GB s4.
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The nandroid backups were what was causing the huge space problems, I moved them to my sdcard and deleted them off my internal sdcard and I now have all my space back.

Rooting nightmare

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.

smurfkilla said:
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.

smurfkilla said:
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