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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.
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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.
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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
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Regarding Nandroid and apps I backed up with Titanium, do those remain on the phone when you wipe to install a new ROM or do you have to put those on your computer and replace them after you wipe?
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Bump... Anyone? Please?
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The backups are kept on your SD card, not your internal storage. So as long as you only wipe your internal storage, the backups etc will remain.
Thanks so much!
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Actually, I just looked at my SD card and no backups are there, just the movie that came with the phone.
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The backups are kept on your SD card, not your internal storage. So as long as you only wipe your internal storage, the backups etc will remain.
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He's wrong nandroid backups done in Clockwork are stored in /sdcard/clockworkmod/backup/....
I was actually wondering the same thing...
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The backups are kept on your SD card, not your internal storage. So as long as you only wipe your internal storage, the backups etc will remain.
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They are actually contained in the internal storage card but you can specify a diff directory in your external sd card if you prefer, it can be changed in your settings.
Either way they standard wipe only effects the section off the internal storage used by your phones system/data n apps and will not effect the internal storage you put in the"root" folder /sdcard, more specially in your case /sdcard/titaniumbackups (titanium) or/sdcard/backups/apps (astro) should survive.... Nandroid restores, flashes through clockwork of new roms and manual wipes of system, cache or data shouldn't hurt your astro or titanium backups.
Any full reformat of the card or as I understand it reflashing back to stock 2.1 with odin will kill your nandroid restore points but I don't know what effect that level of reflashing will have on your backups but when in doubt back up to a computer is never a bad idea.
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Thank you!
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Every time I install a rom it says insufficient storage. Please help.
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you need to wipe everything except the SD before you flash the ROM
Yea ive done the wipe correctly x3 everything and still does that
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Is the the system mounted or SD mounted? Also what Rom are u trying to install? Just throwing that out there...
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Are you using dta2sd? And is your SD partitioned.
Ive tried a few roms right now im using mikg 3.11.. its actually kinda random like yesterday I couldn't download anything from google play but this morning it let me download. And im on a fresh install and have plenty of memory. I don't have a ext set up or any apsd set up either
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OK I got it. You need to have an SD ext because the evo can't actually handle a rom that large without one. You need to have the rom apps moved to your SD card. This will give you an insane amount of free space. Your ext must be ext3 for best results. In recovery partition SD then upgrade ext2 to ext3. This will also format the SD so move your contents to a folder on PC. I believe Mik has dta2sd built in so it should move apps on install. This will fix your low memory issue 100%.
Ok will do.. but the Rom has like 300 mbs free. But still will do this and see if it fixes it
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MikG has a2sd baked in, so you need to have the sdext.
Most roms have a2sd enabled by default. Also the phone uses the sdext for dalvik storage as well so you should always have one. Ext3 is highly recommended.
my recommendation would be to move your dalvik cache to sd partition and then see what you need to move app wise. i go by the rule if it doesnt need to be on your sd card then dont put it there. if you are still running out of room after dalvik is moved then damn you got some big apps (lol just messin) but just move a few there is no point in having all this free space on internal storage when its there to be used
Like is the internal sd card act as an external and everything in it will remain safe?
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Yes,
A data wipe doesn't remove anything in the /sdcard directory, it will stay safe.
I have recntly installed CM10 and couldnt be happier!!!
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Ok thanks for answering my question could not find anything on the net about it.
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Ok thanks for answering my question could not find anything on the net about it.
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Yeap, it won't wipe anything but the data partition when you wipe data in recovery, you have to tell it to wipe the internal SD card or wipe everything including SD card to do any damage there, wiping data, cache dalvic cache, and system won't harm your SD card.
However, I think a person should make an exact copy of the internal SD card every week or two, by mounting as a disk drive and copying to the computer.
That way if your internal card gets wiped on accident or you have to do a factory reset or something, when its back up and running you can just copy your backup folder contents right back to it.
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Interesting, does this also mean Nandroid ignores /sdcard contents too for imaging? I've held off making a second nandroid backup because I thought all the tv shows/movies I've put on storage would get imaged. It's good if it doesn't!
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Yes,
A data wipe doesn't remove anything in the /sdcard directory, it will stay safe.
I have recntly installed CM10 and couldnt be happier!!!
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Not exactly true. Before I unlocked and rooted, I had about 10 GB of data on my SD card. After unlock however, I found that the SD card was wiped and I had to put everything back on it.
So, if you are not unlocked, back up first. Then while switching from ROM to ROM, your SD card contents should be safe. But it never hurts to back up every once in a while.
Omega360 said:
Not exactly true. Before I unlocked and rooted, I had about 10 GB of data on my SD card. After unlock however, I found that the SD card was wiped and I had to put everything back on it.
So, if you are not unlocked, back up first. Then while switching from ROM to ROM, your SD card contents should be safe. But it never hurts to back up every once in a while.
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Flashing a ROM won't format the scard folder
Unlocking will...
Sorry if this sounds noob, but when you connect the nexus 7 to the PC, is the "internal storage" the internal sd card? I got a little bit confused when devs say place certain .zips into internal sd card, but i couldnt find the exact folder name when transferring files from PC to the nexus 7.
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Flashing a ROM won't format the scard folder
Unlocking will...
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I unrooted my N7 before getting it replaced, flashed it back to stock, and it formatted the sdcard folder along with everything else
zeiloz said:
Sorry if this sounds noob, but when you connect the nexus 7 to the PC, is the "internal storage" the internal sd card? I got a little bit confused when devs say place certain .zips into internal sd card, but i couldnt find the exact folder name when transferring files from PC to the nexus 7.
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Yes that's considered the internal sd card
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Not exactly true. Before I unlocked and rooted, I had about 10 GB of data on my SD card. After unlock however, I found that the SD card was wiped and I had to put everything back on it.
So, if you are not unlocked, back up first. Then while switching from ROM to ROM, your SD card contents should be safe. But it never hurts to back up every once in a while.
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Unlocking factory resets.
Flashing a rom in recovery doesn't factory reset and implies that the OP is already UNLOCKED, Rooted and has installed recovery.
I wanna Clean up my Storage i even Tried RESTORE FACTORY setting
but still Low on Storage
Plz tell me the method in which i dont loose the Mods/Root
Plug it into your computer and manually delete stuff on your sd. Factory wipe doesn't wipe your sd.
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Check out this little gem, for a nice graphical overview of how your storage is being used...
DiskUsage - http://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.android.diskusage&hl=en.
It can be used in conjunction with a good file manager, to identify and delete extraneous and unneeded content.
Rgrds,
Ged.
PATRICKismyHERO said:
Plug it into your computer and manually delete stuff on your sd. Factory wipe doesn't wipe your sd.
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Well I dunno what to delete what not to ,
Is there chances of messing up system. Files while plugged in PC?
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?
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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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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.