Hello.
I have 4.4.2, install TWRP recovery, and backup all partitions (not internal storage). Next wipe partitions with internel storage, and load LL via Odin. LL is not good to me, so I want back to KK. I restore backups, but bootloader still is from LL. Phone working ok, but I have no acces to internal storage /mnt/sdcard. I can read, but I cannot write (apps too). What I need to do now?
edit: Solid Explorer say - no permissions.
Ok, I find solution:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=56750467&postcount=16
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Well, first day I got my tab i rooted and such.
Tried a rom (wich wiped everything obviously)
installed a couple of apps then made a backup with Titanium.
decided to go back to stock rom for the time being (wait for more bugless roms)
When i tried to restore my Backups, everything was gone.
question is, Does the backup just go in general internal storage, wich is not calculated as a SD card, so gets formated everytime we wipe??
Im used to backup and wipe, on my phone wich has internal and external SD, so no problems there.
Any input ?
If I understand right, there is no separate storage on the N10. I think /sdcard is basically just an emulated folder sitting on the data partition, so anything that wipes data, will wipe the sdcard. Might want to wait for someone else to give their input on this though.
As for backups, at the most I usually just backup app's (apk files) and put them in a folder on my computer, then just reinstall all of them with Android Commander.
Hi
I wasn't able to find a thread for deleting and formatting for dummies.
I have lots of junk in my internal phone memory, including a TWRP recovery that I can't delete. I tried with many explorers, I made many resets, I wiped everything and formatted the memory in recovery (TWRP and CWM). Even the option "delete backup" in CWM showed success, but after reboot it was still there.
What I have to format? What precautions I have to take?
this is with twrp, i know you tried that. but it has good info on internal layout
main thing is remove ext card and have bu of internal and a nandroid on sdcard and pc
at work can't research further atm
hello people, i need to know a thing, not a major bug or high damage stuff.
when i boot into recovery (twrp) and format everything, including internal, i need to reboot again into recovery to get internal memory access via MTP mount. thats ok, the thing is, after i reboot, get access, move my new rom to internal and flash it.
after first boot, when i go on internal memory i didnt see my ROM.ZIP file there, but the space that it ocuped is there, in other words, when i format internal i get all my ~10GB internal, after first boot into the rom i can see my internal memory as ~8GB free, but the ~2GB ROM.ZIP file isnt there.
is it a mapping/partition table bug? where can i find my file again?
hi folks,
i have an i9505 running stock rooted 4.4.2. i noticed that under device storage it is telling me that of the 9.95gb available internal memory, only about half is free. it says "applications" is using about 3gb. however all the files on the internal storage only add up to about 800mb. i have used es file explorer's sd card analyzer to look at all the files on the internal storage, and it confirms only 800mb or so is there. where is the 4gb or so other data?
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You're rooted. Do you have a custom recovery installed?
yes i have CWM installed. i just used it to wipe the cache partition and davlik cache. didn't make any difference.
You made nandroid backups however, right? Two things you need to know.
1. CWM by default protects the internal storage where nandroid backups are stored. You need to delete the backups and delete protected storage to get the space back.
2. CWM is no longer supported. Switch to TWRP as certain ROMs will not install with CWM. In addition, TWRP does not protect the storage like CWM, and it allows nandroid backups to be stored on the MicroSD.
yes i have several CWM full backups but they are on the ext SD card. no backups on the internal memory. what is the protected storage you're referring to? CWM is supported for a stock kit kat 4.4.2 rom isn't it?
In CWM the location where the nandroid backups are made is on the internal storage, and is protected from being modified by the user outside of the recovery. This is because of how CWM makes backups. The default backup format is to take incremental backups. The space is allocated so that the end user cannot randomly delete backups outside of the recovery, because in an incremental backup only the changes between the last backup and the current ROM state are backed up. Deleting a backup between the earliest and latest backups screws up all backups following the deleted date. It is possible to change the way CWM does backups, but most end users don't dig deeply enough into the recovery to find these things out.
CWM's protected storage space is on the internal storage, and it is the biggest reason your internal storage isn't reading the correct amount. You need to head into the backup menu and free all unused storage to get that storage back. Once you do that, you really want to install TWRP, because it avoids this problem altogether.
Well I did not think this through lol
I had Adopted Storage set up on my 2017 16 Gb Shield and I had to re-flash some partitions, so I used Flashfire to create a backup, and silly me saved it on the external USB drive. Now that I'm done with all the flashing, the shield is back to being set up to use the actual internal storage again, but it can't read the encrypted USB.
Trying to set it up as either portable or internal storage warns that it will be reformatted, so haven't done either, the USB is just as it was before any flashing.
Is there any way for me to get my /data partition back with all the apps/settings i had? I guess either:
1) somehow access the Flashfire backup, then "adb push" it to my laptop, set up adopted storage again and wipe the USB and recover the data partition from the backup?
2) maybe somehow reactivate internal storage to use the /data partition from the usb drive?
Any help would be appreciated, thanks!
(if it makes any difference, I was on full android nougat, flashed nvidia 5.0.1 recovery with flash-all.bat, did the OTA to 5.1, then flashed system/vendor of an updated full android nougat, and rooted it. now im back at full android but blank, hoping i can restore. if not, i guess i'll just have a few hours of reinstalling haha)
The only way to read an encrypted card is with the key. Keys are stored in /data/misc/vold. If you don't have a copy of your key then you're out of luck, sorry.
Yea you're screwed
Dang it. /data/misc/void is empty, the wipe took care of that.
Thanks anyways.