Database Users

[SOLVED]4.3 messed up my internal storage

So after spending a whole afternoon flashing 4.3 onto the N7 via fastboot and finally getting root to work, I connect my N7 to the PC and get the shock of my life to see my internal storage has shrunk to 6GB...it currently says I only have 5GB free out of 6GB...is there any way to fix this ? My N7 is the 3G, 32GB model running 4.3 with stock kernel, twrp and rooted.
Solution : http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2033692
Just edit the steps to adapt to our Nexus 7 PM me if you need help with that

Anyone ?

We've had that with the first custom roms. The only way to fix that, that I know know of, is to flash back to older stock rom, verify the storage is right, and try again.
I would download the 4.3 rom from another source and/or verify the MD5 package.
Just for laughs, perhaps you could try to reflash the kernel (which is what I think gives the reading).
That or you are the only person with a 6gb N7.

Well, I talked to two other people and they said this is bound to happen with flash happy morons like me who go straight for the IMGs...will try re-doing from step 1, or else I'll go back to 4.2.2...oh and 1 more piece of info...as I was done with flashing 4.3, my sd was formatted as well...

This has also happened to me on more then one occasion when flashing back to stock would show only 6/27.5GB available. Rebooting into recovery and reformatting fixes it.

Username invalid said:
This has also happened to me on more then one occasion when flashing back to stock would show only 6/27.5GB available. Rebooting into recovery and reformatting fixes it.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
i got that once...formatted all in Philz recovery...DONE..no problem..

[Q] My nexus 7 went down from 16gb to 8gb

Hello to all,
I have a big problem. I own Nexus 7 (2012) version with 16gb, but when I flashed KitKat 4.4.2 (KOT49H) via Wug's Nexus Root Toolkit v1.7.9, my Nexus went down to 8gb version (actually, I got only 5.9gb free space).
How is this posible? To went from 16gb model to 8gb model and most important, how do I get back to original 16gb of storage?
edit:haha, I don't know how but solution was this: I did full wipe and format data via cwm. Then it said that I dont have OS installed. So, again I used Wug's Nexus Root Toolkit v1.7.9, only now I flashed 4.4 KRT16S. And on my biggest surprise, now I got 27gb free space. I loaded it with movies and it's real space.
I thought that I know something about android, but now I'm confused very much. Merry Christmas to me with this extra gift
P.S. And to all of you ofcourse.
P.P.S. Would somebody like to try this also? Maybe you get extra 16gb, too!

Screen shot?
Sent from CAMACHO, my Verizon G2 (VS980) running PAC ROM 4.3.

Do a search. This isn't a new phenomenon; it only happens to rooters. Somehow, an undersized ext4 filesystem gets created in the userdata partition (which is substantially larger).
The exact origin of the problem is not clear, but is probably a bug in the bootloader.
The solution is always the same - to backup the entire tablet and recreate the /data filesystem (either by having the bootloader do it via a fastboot command or using "mke2fs" with a custom recovery).
While it is technically possible for a device to come from the factory this way, I highly doubt that is what occurred. And no, this isn't some kind of voodoo magic - if you can build a 29 GB filesystem on your device, that's only because there is a 32 GB flash chip in there.
In any event, if you look in the kernel log (search for messages with "mmc" in them) shortly after the tablet has booted, youll see the kernel identify the chip and it's capacity. That's a whole lot easier than speculatively unloading and reloading many GB of files.

Vepaot said:
Screen shot?
Sent from CAMACHO, my Verizon G2 (VS980) running PAC ROM 4.3.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
I'll hope that I will get screenshots available during this evening, because tablet is not with me for the moment.
bftb0 said:
Do a search. This isn't a new phenomenon; it only happens to rooters. Somehow, an undersized ext4 filesystem gets created in the userdata partition (which is substantially larger).
The exact origin of the problem is not clear, but is probably a bug in the bootloader.
The solution is always the same - to backup the entire tablet and recreate the /data filesystem (either by having the bootloader do it via a fastboot command or using "mke2fs" with a custom recovery).
While it is technically possible for a device to come from the factory this way, I highly doubt that is what occurred. And no, this isn't some kind of voodoo magic - if you can build a 29 GB filesystem on your device, that's only because there is a 32 GB flash chip in there.
In any event, if you look in the kernel log (search for messages with "mmc" in them) shortly after the tablet has booted, youll see the kernel identify the chip and it's capacity. That's a whole lot easier than speculatively unloading and reloading many GB of files.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
I'll try this voodoo method with friend's nexus 7 which is 8gb version and post results. It is really very strange that I manage to do this. I know that somebody much smarter then me will already came up with this findings, but I live in a hope :laugh: I hope that I accidentally somehow unlocked disc space. I already got theory that all nexus 7 (wifi) devices are the same in hardware and that they are only with software locked to 8, 16 or 32gb :laugh:

from pre-loaded 4.4.2 to CM11

Dear all,
I'm coming from Galaxy Nexus, got a great deal for an LG G2 D802 so here I am!
I've rooted a number of devices, so I know how it works in general. I'm running only linux or Mac, I can't access windows machine easily, and unfortunately I noticed already that LG tools (for downgrading to 4.2 for example) are mostly for windows.
I honestly dislike LG UI, it's a shame how kitkat have been distorted on this phone, I've forced myself to try the UI and have an honest judgment, and now that's it. I really dislike it... especially compared to plain AOSP. I would just save the knock knock feature.
In my experience I already bricked devices unfortunately, and I know how hard and scary can be revive them... if it's even possible in some case. In particular, I know for experience that messing the partition table is one of those things that can screw a device up for good.
So bottom line: my phone is coming with 4.4.2 pre-loaded out of the box, I want to get rid of it and jump to CM11, or at least have the possibility to install a custom ROM not running LG software.
Reading the LG G2 forum I've learned that the partition table is different from 4.2 to 4.4, and 4.4 partitions can't be used as-it-is if I want to run a custom ROM/recovery... is that true?
I already rooted my LG G2 with IOroot25 -that worked OK at least-, I've tried to install TWRP and I was facing to "change partition table".
I can't understand what is the status of the things, since there are post contradicting each other, and I don't want to touch the partition table unless it's super safe.
I might be spoiled by coming from a Nexus, but I found really confusing all this options just to root and be able to install custom roms.
I expect many of you to reply "can't you just read the forum!", but I did, and it was just really, as I mentioned, confusing!
If I would go to 4.2 stock, what I would lose/gain (remember I don't give a damn of LG software, I'm talking about radio, bootloader and so on.)
Why it's not possible to just unlock the bootloader and deal with it like any other device?
Thanks and be patient with an old man who does not understand!
Cheers

79bass said:
Dear all,
I'm coming from Galaxy Nexus, got a great deal for an LG G2 D802 so here I am!
I've rooted a number of devices, so I know how it works in general. I'm running only linux or Mac, I can't access windows machine easily, and unfortunately I noticed already that LG tools (for downgrading to 4.2 for example) are mostly for windows.
I honestly dislike LG UI, it's a shame how kitkat have been distorted on this phone, I've forced myself to try the UI and have an honest judgment, and now that's it. I really dislike it... especially compared to plain AOSP. I would just save the knock knock feature.
In my experience I already bricked devices unfortunately, and I know how hard and scary can be revive them... if it's even possible in some case. In particular, I know for experience that messing the partition table is one of those things that can screw a device up for good.
So bottom line: my phone is coming with 4.4.2 pre-loaded out of the box, I want to get rid of it and jump to CM11, or at least have the possibility to install a custom ROM not running LG software.
Reading the LG G2 forum I've learned that the partition table is different from 4.2 to 4.4, and 4.4 partitions can't be used as-it-is if I want to run a custom ROM/recovery... is that true?
I already rooted my LG G2 with IOroot25 -that worked OK at least-, I've tried to install TWRP and I was facing to "change partition table".
I can't understand what is the status of the things, since there are post contradicting each other, and I don't want to touch the partition table unless it's super safe.
I might be spoiled by coming from a Nexus, but I found really confusing all this options just to root and be able to install custom roms.
I expect many of you to reply "can't you just read the forum!", but I did, and it was just really, as I mentioned, confusing!
If I would go to 4.2 stock, what I would lose/gain (remember I don't give a damn of LG software, I'm talking about radio, bootloader and so on.)
Why it's not possible to just unlock the bootloader and deal with it like any other device?
Thanks and be patient with an old man who does not understand!
Cheers
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
well not all phones can just unlock bootloader (have you seen the galaxy s4 it has a locked bootloader) the reason we need mixed partitions(only one partition need to be changed) on kk to have recovery is because we use loki to bypass the locked bootloader and flash custom roms/recoveries, sadly the exploit we were using to install loki was patched in kk and we aren't sure if there is some other vulnerability, so the awesome developers found a loophole which is we downgrade the bootloader to the jellybean bootloader(plus a modified kk kernel which allows kitkat to boot off of the jb bootloader) and now we have recovery, the best way to do this is to use an app called AutoRec and you want to flash cm then keep in mind the kk baseband doesn't play well with aosp so you will need a kk baseband for your specific g2 that has been modified for aosp or the jb baseband or things will be broken when you flash cm(touch, rotation, radio, etc)
hopefully my little rant explains things to some extent, if you have any other doubts than ask

Wow! That's was easy. I usually don't trust this kind of approach, I prefer to do all by adb on a terminal.
But I was feeling brave and luckily AutoRec didn't brick my device!
With cm11 is a whole new phone, now I'm really happy with it. Two tab on/off works out of the box, which was the only feature I wanted from lg stock.
Only thing: I've noticed that the sdcard size is not the much:
I have the 16Gb model. The storage size is ~10Gb... and the app are saved on it!?
That's mean that cm11 is installed on a non-writable /system partition of 5gb.. Mostly empty, and there is a real /data partition... Isn't this a waste? Am I missing something?
Sent from my LG-D802 using Tapatalk

79bass said:
Wow! That's was easy. I usually don't trust this kind of approach, I prefer to do all by adb on a terminal.
But I was feeling brave and luckily AutoRec didn't brick my device!
With cm11 is a whole new phone, now I'm really happy with it. Two tab on/off works out of the box, which was the only feature I wanted from lg stock.
Only thing: I've noticed that the sdcard size is not the much:
I have the 16Gb model. The storage size is ~10Gb... and the app are saved on it!?
That's mean that cm11 is installed on a non-writable /system partition of 5gb.. Mostly empty, and there is a real /data partition... Isn't this a waste? Am I missing something?
Sent from my LG-D802 using Tapatalk
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
well you have to remember that out of the 16gb about 14bg is usable on the phone and then there's the os/system partition which take about 2.5-4 gb also there is no /data partition on the phone(I should know I've extracted g2 kdz/tot files and know all the partitions on it)

[Q] ROM/Module & Other Question about my GS4

Hi guys, have a few questions...
For starters, I have a Samsung Galaxy S4 / AT&T
Running Android 4.4.2 Rooted with Towel Root
Connected on Straight Talk
~NC1
SafeStrap 3.72 (TWRP v2.7.0.0) Installed.
Im new to all this ROM/Modules and Rooting stuff.
Last time i fully customized stuff was on my Motorola RZR ages ago
making my keypad/ LED light blink with calls, and replacing the Cingular Logo
with a Pirate/2 Swords Logo. hah... good times.
I mean there was jail-breaking and whatnot but...that's easy stuff.
Any who, Im a quick learner so on to the subject.
My original idea was to FULLY customize this phone and install ROMS/other OS, thats
what im all about, customization. Sadly, i realized im on a NC1 which its Boot loader is
locked if im understanding correctly preventing me from installing other? ROMS?
However if i understood correctly, we still can install certain ROMS? Whats the difference?
Is there any ROM i can install that is clean? no bloatware? but with everything I need?
Whats the best, fastest and best looking ROM i can get? or they dont look different because the
boot loader thing? Or they can only be Samsung/AT&T roms? This stuff can be confusing. lol
Module wise, why do i need them? why arent they included in the actual ROM?
Also, is there any App/or way for me to know what causes my phone to randomly crash/reboot?
A few months ago I was at the GYM and my phone randomly shut off. It didnt want to turn back on.
After a while it turned back on, then it would randomly reboot. That eventually went away.
Last night, i was with some friends in a bar and my phone just turned off again. Didnt wanna turn
on...then the same reboot thing happened again.
Today, is working fine. I thought maybe it was an overheat issue but, i wasnt doing anything on my
phone and on top of that im using a CPU tempt program installed through xPosed and according to the
readings it wasnt hot, as it was in the 50-55c (or is that too hot?) Im at home now and its reading
36c but i dont have its case on (if that makes any difference)

There are 3 kind of "ROM"s :
1- Official ones. made by samsung. flashable via odin exclusively. not rooted
2- A bit modified (maybe more than a bit) Official ones, modified by people, flashable via odin or recovery (1), usually already rooted
3- Completely rewritten ROMS, almost made from scratch (Cyanogenmod, MIUI for exemple...), installable via recovery. already rooted
Now, your phone can be in two states : Rooted or not rooted.
From factory, your phone is not rooted (you can compare it to jailbreak)
with root, you become a "super user", which means you have rights on almost every single aspect of your phone, and you give authorisations to apps so they can act on system files (for exemple, they can get hidden informations, they can automatically install apps etc... infinite possibilites there are.)
As for the best rom there is, is like asking what is the best music ever, it depends on the user, you have to try by yourself to find the one that satisfies you the most.
For random reboots, i personally think that it is comparable to windows Blue Screen of Deaths. you maybe messed up something while installing something. your phone can't handle the bug, so it restart or shut down itself. so the safest way to get rid of this problem is to factory reset your phone (via the recovery)
if you are looking for stableness, don't opt for completely remade ROMS, they are usually experimental. but personally i use MIUI and i didn't have any problem and i love this ROM.
Hope i answered every question.

Thanks a lot for the reply.
I understand a bit better now...
That MIUI looks interesting... Reminded me of DreamPassport for my Sega Dreamcast, hah...
I'm guessing I cant install that one huh? Lol

well since you already have a custom recovery you can... just download a miui rom (one for your phone version (be carefull about the model) ) then put it on the root of your sd card, go to the custom recovery and flash zip from sdcard and choose it... but i advice you to factory reset your phone first in order to fix your reboot problem.
also, make sure you have installed the right android version before installing the equivalent miui version (for exemple if you want to install miui that requires 4.2, install an official 4.2 rom first) via odin.

Gotcha. Thanks.
One last question....
If I want my phone with the original OS it came with. But with all the bloatware removed...
which rom would be the best? , since I want the stock experience but no bloatware.
Also...
I noticed when you click to see how much ram is being used, it says
800/1.77GB
Isnt my phone suppose to have 2GB? Can I do something to get that back? is it cause the bloatware?
I appreciate the help.

Raging Tiger said:
Gotcha. Thanks.
One last question....
If I want my phone with the original OS it came with. But with all the bloatware removed...
which rom would be the best? , since I want the stock experience but no bloatware.
Also...
I noticed when you click to see how much ram is being used, it says
800/1.77GB
Isnt my phone suppose to have 2GB? Can I do something to get that back? is it cause the bloatware?
I appreciate the help.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
I don't think the above information is correct.
From what I know the AT&T has a locked bootloader. So you can run custom roms, just not all of them. I think only custom roms that match the version you are using.
You could better read in the section for the AT&T (this section is for a different model).
http://forum.xda-developers.com/galaxy-s4-att

LG G2 Flash help?

I have a D802 with 32GB. I previously flashed ROMs on my LG G2 years ago, decided to move away from the custom ROMs after I semi-bricked it last year, it's now updated with fresh firmware, Lollipop 5.0.2.
However when plugged into my PC it says: Used Space: 1.02 GB Free Space: 10.6 GB
Should it not be closed to 32GB free??
Is there any software I can use to find/delete/free missing partitions?
I'm a little out of the loop at the moment, any help appreciated.

Don't rely on the pc for this - the MTP protocol can be weird at times.
What does Settings->Storage say on the phone?

runekock said:
Don't rely on the pc for this - the MTP protocol can be weird at times.
What does Settings->Storage say on the phone?
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
It says
Total Space: 32GB
Available: 9.60GB
Then there is a huge part of the bar in red which represents Misc: 21.40GB......

Doesn't sound good. On my 32 GB phone, misc is only 7.69 GB.
Maybe you flashed a 16 GB rom at one time? It has been known to resize the data partition.
There is a fix in this thread: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2470207&page=34
However, the fix is a bit dangerous. Ask yourself: are you feeling lucky?

runekock said:
Doesn't sound good. On my 32 GB phone, misc is only 7.69 GB.
Maybe you flashed a 16 GB rom at one time? It has been known to resize the data partition.
There is a fix in this thread: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2470207&page=34
However, the fix is a bit dangerous. Ask yourself: are you feeling lucky?
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Not only am I not feeling lucky but I have nothing to lose. That looks complicated, surely there's an easier way?
So first I need to downgrade from Lollipop to KitKat (tutorial?).

I'm sorry, I don't know more than that. I never had the problem myself.