I've got about 2 GB of free space locked up in the /system folder on my G2 VS980. I'm running CM11. Shouldn't I be able to reallocated this data? Is there an app or tool that helps me do this? Or maybe some adb command?
Sshort version. No, you cannot.
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tdevaughn said:
Sshort version. No, you cannot.
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So you don't really have full access over the phone? You can't realign the partition for the emulated SD card storage?
Correct. And the .tot and. Kdz files used to restore require the partitions to be standard
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As the title says, is there a way to change partitions
using recovery? or from the phone?
for e.g. using terminal or flashing an update zip?
Thanks.
androidboss7 said:
As the title says, is there a way to change partitions
using recovery? or from the phone?
for e.g. using terminal or flashing an update zip?
Thanks.
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Don't think there is, but I need it!
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liamwli said:
Don't think there is, but I need it!
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i saw a thread where some devices can do this.
Hey, I am a samsung galaxy fit s5670 user, and we have partition on sd card available in various custom roms...I myself have a 1gb partition on my 16gb card...
however, one of my friend owns this device and he also wanted to do the same...so is it possible on this device???
Maybe we can download mbn file then use flash_image command to flash it using terminal emulator But i didnt tried
You can change partitions via fastboot flashing property mbn file
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Hey, I am a samsung galaxy fit s5670 user, and we have partition on sd card available in various custom roms...I myself have a 1gb partition on my 16gb card...
however, one of my friend owns this device and he also wanted to do the same...so is it possible on this device???
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yes we can create partitions but only to move
apps onto the partition.
I keep getting not enough space error whenever I take a backup. Can anybody please tell me how to get around the error?
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stivelio said:
I keep getting not enough space error whenever I take a backup. Can anybody please tell me how to get around the error?
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How much space do you have left on your phone
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stivelio said:
I keep getting not enough space error whenever I take a backup. Can anybody please tell me how to get around the error?
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Also how many backups do you have on your phone
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Go into a file browser and find on ur SD card twrp or cwm whichever u use and delete ur old backups
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bearsblack said:
Go into a file browser and find on ur SD card twrp or cwm whichever u use and delete ur old backups
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stivelio said:
I keep getting not enough space error whenever I take a backup. Can anybody please tell me how to get around the error?
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You can also copy your backups from your sdcard using adb.
Synatax:
C:\Program Files (x86\android\android-sdk\platform-tools>adb pull /sdcard/clockworkmod/backup/ ./clockworkmod/backup
This will copy all backups in tour clockworkmod/backup/ directory to the currently open location on your pc with the correct paths for organization sake.
Then just delete all or some of the backups on your sdcard using root explorer (definatly easier than using shell) to make the amount of free space you desire.
Ready for more backups and you have the backups in case you need to perform disaster recovery.
It's easy enough to just do it through the USB connection to your computer. Cut and paste to a backup folder on your computer. I only keep two backups (at the most) on my phone.
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I rooted my phone just yesterday. It has 0 backups, 500 mb internal storage and 13 gb USB available. I think twr recovery is trying to save the backup in internal storage and I can't find any option to save it to USB storage
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It's easy enough to just do it through the USB connection to your computer. Cut and paste to a backup folder on your computer. I only keep two backups (at the most) on my phone.
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I perfer to take the Long Way Home...
stivelio said:
I rooted my phone just yesterday. It has 0 backups, 500 mb internal storage and 13 gb USB available. I think twr recovery is trying to save the backup in internal storage and I can't find any option to save it to USB storage
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Try CWM recovery.
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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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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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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I rooted my device. I want to swap internal with external.I try adb shell command. But it does not work. Can you tell me how to move app to external sd? Or any app can do that
thx
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miniimpz said:
I rooted my device. I want to swap internal with external.I try adb shell command. But it does not work. Can you tell me how to move app to external sd? Or any app can do that
thx
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I think Directory Bind can do it
miniimpz said:
I rooted my device. I want to swap internal with external.I try adb shell command. But it does not work. Can you tell me how to move app to external sd? Or any app can do that
thx
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Titanium Backup app is a must if you rooted phone you can erase bloatware and move stuff to sd card.
Thx both of you,I wil try tonight
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Hello, I made a backup in twrp and its 3GB large. I even deleted my music and it is still that large. How can I make smaller nandroids?
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It will remain that large no matter what until you delete it since disk images can build up there own size which will make them empty but the recovery uses a tool to write to this image file and has to leave some unused space to the nearest Gigabyte or Megabyte.
Deleting stuff on your SD will NEVER shrink a file in size unless your editing the text or code.
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It will remain that large no matter what until you delete it since disk images can build up there own size which will make them empty but the recovery uses a tool to write to this image file and has to leave some unused space to the nearest Gigabyte or Megabyte.
Deleting stuff on your SD will NEVER shrink a file in size unless your editing the text or code.
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I mean I deleted my music before I made the backup.
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I mean I deleted my music before I made the backup.
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Well the music is gone now, TWRP does not backup contents of your internal storage.
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Well the music is gone now, TWRP does not backup contents of your internal storage.
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Nope I backed it all up on my pc. But there is no way to make backups smaller? On CWM they are a lot smaller I thought?
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Nope I backed it all up on my pc. But there is no way to make backups smaller? On CWM they are a lot smaller I thought?
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Well the backup does backup the data partition, system partition, dalvik cache, cache and .android_secure from the internal storage.
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Hello, I made a backup in twrp and its 3GB large. I even deleted my music and it is still that large. How can I make smaller nandroids?
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Your backups will always be large, but if you make sure compression is enabled when you are going through the backup process then it should shrink it down a little, I get around 1.4GB for a twrp nandroid
Hope this helps
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