The TWRP backup sizes are huge in comparison to let's say...my GNex's backups. They both have the same amount of storage but I'm down to 9GB of space left on my new G2. Will the size of backups get smaller when the G2 is De-Odexed?
Grady said:
The TWRP backup sizes are huge in comparison to let's say...my GNex's backups. They both have the same amount of storage but I'm down to 9GB of space left on my new G2. Will the size of backups get smaller when the G2 is De-Odexed?
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As long as we are backing up the stock rom. They will be HUGE backups.
Wesley32 said:
As long as we are backing up the stock rom. They will be HUGE backups.
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Ah,okay. Thanks for confirming!
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According to SD card Analyst I have
Clockworkmod: 1.99GB
TWRP: 1.12GB
TBU: 383MB
As you can imagine, that is a BIG chunk out of my 6GB total!
I have flashed lots of ROMs in the last couple of weeks but I have now settled on one. AFAIK all I need to keep is the current bakup in TWRP in case anything happens.
I would be glad for some advice as to what I can safely delete. I don't want to make a mistake as my system is running brilliantly right now.
Many thanks for any help!
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According to SD card Analyst I have
Clockworkmod: 1.99GB
TWRP: 1.12GB
TBU: 383MB
As you can imagine, that is a BIG chunk out of my 6GB total!
I have flashed lots of ROMs in the last couple of weeks but I have now settled on one. AFAIK all I need to keep is the current bakup in TWRP in case anything happens.
I would be glad for some advice as to what I can safely delete. I don't want to make a mistake as my system is running brilliantly right now.
Many thanks for any help!
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As you already said, you should keep the TWRP backup as a safety net... The dated folders in the Clockworkmod can be deleted if you don't need to use them any more. Just leave the main folder but delete the sub folders.
TBU backups are just your apps + data... if you don't need data restored (since you probably have them in your TWRP backup) you can delete the contents there as well.
StrangerWeather said:
According to SD card Analyst I have
Clockworkmod: 1.99GB
TWRP: 1.12GB
TBU: 383MB
As you can imagine, that is a BIG chunk out of my 6GB total!
I have flashed lots of ROMs in the last couple of weeks but I have now settled on one. AFAIK all I need to keep is the current bakup in TWRP in case anything happens.
I would be glad for some advice as to what I can safely delete. I don't want to make a mistake as my system is running brilliantly right now.
Many thanks for any help!
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I agree with cvcduty, but I just wondered if there was a reason you use both TWRP and Clockworkmod, especially on an 8GB N7 with limited space. I've always just used CWM, so I was curious
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RockNrolling said:
I agree with cvcduty, but I just wondered if there was a reason you use both TWRP and Clockworkmod, especially on an 8GB N7 with limited space. I've always just used CWM, so I was curious
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Well, to be honest the answer is a bit silly: I am not aware of having used CWM, I didn't even know I had it!
Can I uninstall it altogether? And if so, how?
In CWM, there is a folder called Blobs with 1.78GB worth of folders. Is it safe to delete it?
If you don't use cwm then yes you can delete it.
I removed mine aswell as I have a nandroid backup on my PC which I can adb push if worst comes
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The clockworkmod APK
and
The clockworkmod RECOVERY
both use that same folder. Every time you flash a cyanogen Rom it had the apk installed by default. So that's where it's coming from.
In the folder back up the Nandroid folder or the one with data system recovery files (140-250mb) to your computer and then delete the whole dang folder if you do not use clockwork recovery.
As for titanium you can use the cloud storage feature and save another 500mb
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I want to free up a bit more space on my 16gb nexus 4. Right now the system portion is taking about 3.5 GBs. I was wondering if custom ROMs use a smaller system area. Looking at unexpanded install files for different ROMs and comparing them to the stock install tar file, it does look like the stock is a bit bigger than custom ROMs (cyanogenmod's install tar was about 107mb while stock was about 330mb). Its hard to tell though since those install packages/files are compressed tar. Could some of you with custom ROMs post your system area size?
not really. maybe a rom like slim bean might be a little bit smaller but not that big of size difference. and btw the stock rom is an image (.img) and cyanogenmod is most likely a zip (.zip), which is more compressed, so zips are usually smaller files than images
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I want to free up a bit more space on my 16gb nexus 4. Right now the system portion is taking about 3.5 GBs. I was wondering if custom ROMs use a smaller system area. Looking at unexpanded install files for different ROMs and comparing them to the stock install tar file, it does look like the stock is a bit bigger than custom ROMs (cyanogenmod's install tar was about 107mb while stock was about 330mb). Its hard to tell though since those install packages/files are compressed tar. Could some of you with custom ROMs post your system area size?
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Welling looking at Titanium Backup it says CM10.1 Jellybo is taking up 867mb with basic Gapps. It says i have 440mb free. So to me by going off that info the system part is only about 1.4gb. Most of my gapps like gmail, maps that kind of stuff is on the data part.
No matter what ROM you flash the space you have available to you is the same.
Smaller ROM just will give you more free space in the /system partition. Which you can't access without root anyways.
albundy2010 said:
No matter what ROM you flash the space you have available to you is the same.
Smaller ROM just will give you more free space in the /system partition. Which you can't access without root anyways.
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Yeah space is already reserved for the system so it doesn't matter. Just flash whatever ROM you feel most suites your needs.
zephiK said:
Yeah space is already reserved for the system so it doesn't matter. Just flash whatever ROM you feel most suites your needs.
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From my understanding what the OP is asking is if other roms will have more free space on the system part most likely because he wants to install more apps on the system part to free up space on the data part. Titanium Backup allows you to do this. I do it on my wife's Gravity Smart to free up space on the data. Not really sure what all you are going to move since there is so little space there.
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From my understanding what the OP is asking is if other roms will have more free space on the system part most likely because he wants to install more apps on the system part to free up space on the data part. Titanium Backup allows you to do this. I do it on my wife's Gravity Smart to free up space on the data. Not really sure what all you are going to move since there is so little space there.
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First off, why would you want to install apps into the /system/app/ folder? It makes no sense, it's not going to free up significant space that every body has to use. This phone isn't the G1 where we had limited storage and people had to install apps to the sdcard (apps2sd). It logically makes no sense.
Restoring system apps via Titanium Backup is also not a good idea and tends to leads you to trouble upon flashing ROMs and restoring system apps. Then people wonder why their phone is having force closures or acting funky. This is the Nexus 4, a highend phone not a Gravity Smart, a phone I never even heard of. No offense.
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First off, why would you want to install apps into the /system/app/ folder? It makes no sense, it's not going to free up significant space that every body has to use. This phone isn't the G1 where we had limited storage and people had to install apps to the sdcard (apps2sd). It logically makes no sense.
Restoring system apps via Titanium Backup is also not a good idea and tends to leads you to trouble upon flashing ROMs and restoring system apps. Then people wonder why their phone is having force closures or acting funky. This is the Nexus 4, a highend phone not a Gravity Smart, a phone I never even heard of. No offense.
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You bring up bad memories. It was so complicated just to have all your apps, you would need to jump thru all the loops. At least now storage is easy to come by.
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A little OT, but are there any custom MTD partitions mods for the N4, so that unused /system space could be made available for /data
Root - put stuff wherever you want.
Hi guys, i bought my nexus 4 almost 1 month.
But i still confuse about the actual storage size of my nexus 4.
If i check with system>storage and ES File Explorer, it show total 12.92GB.
But if i check with Titanium Backup it show System Rom with 867MB, Internal and SD card is the same 13.8GB.
13.8GB is it mean 12.98GB+0.85GB(867MB), or there is some hidden storage?
I had try to delete CWM rom backup, it just release about 50MB. Is that CWM taking some storage to backup?
Maybe GB->GiB
crossrt said:
Hi guys, i bought my nexus 4 almost 1 month.
But i still confuse about the actual storage size of my nexus 4.
If i check with system>storage and ES File Explorer, it show total 12.92GB.
But if i check with Titanium Backup it show System Rom with 867MB, Internal and SD card is the same 13.8GB.
13.8GB is it mean 12.98GB+0.85GB(867MB), or there is some hidden storage?
I had try to delete CWM rom backup, it just release about 50MB. Is that CWM taking some storage to backup?
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No, 12.92 is correct. Storage is used for the OS, formatting, etc.
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Maybe GB->GiB
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I agree, some people count a GB as 1000MB, some count it as 1024MB.
How big will a nandroid backup be if I only got 2-3 gb left on my storage? I have the 16 gb version
Will 2-3 gb be enough for the backup? if not can I directly back it up to a computer?
I did an adb backup before, i got a 7-8 gb file, is this going to be the same as the nandroid? by size? thanks guys
mine usually around 1.5gb, i got around 100 apps in my nexus 4. that include system apps.
BelzIgoh said:
mine usually around 1.5gb, i got around 100 apps in my nexus 4. that include system apps.
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How much free space do you have in the storage?
My 8gb is using 5gb. My twrp compressed nandroid is 900mb.
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HeyyMyNameIs said:
How much free space do you have in the storage?
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around 4gb free space
enable compression when doing backup will shrink the size.. takes a bit longer...
It depends on how much content you have on your device such as applications. When you perform the backup, there's a little note stating the require space it will occupy for the backup. (You can find it via recovery mode)
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Hello,
I was going to install a new ROM with CWM (6.0.3.6) when I got this error message "Cant mount external_SD".
Since my zip file was on my SDCARD, I had to restore my just made backup so I could move the .zip file (the ROM) on the internal memory.
The only things I made at that time were a backup and a "wipe + factory reset".
So I restore my backup and reboot and first thing I see is the lost 5 Gig of space on my internal memory and of course, I cant find the files/directory of what ever take all that space.
Any idea ?
Thanks.
Check how much space your cwm backups are taking. Each one probably runs about 1.5 GB. It's not the 5 you're seeing but a big chunk of it.
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jd1639 said:
Check how much space your cwm backups are taking. Each one probably runs about 1.5 GB. It's not the 5 you're seeing but a big chunk of it.
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only made 1 backup, but Ill check anyway
the stock TW ROM is, uh, not small when backed up with CWM. like 2.5-3.5 gb big.