Hello everyone, I wanted to ask if you can format the sd of OnePlus 2 recovery, thanks to those replies.
With the "SD" I suppose you actually mean the internal memory as it's called on our phone since it doesn't have any SD-slot. But yes, you can format the internal memory using advanced wipe option in TWRP backup.
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Hello everyone! I installed the Srom 2.2.1 V3 earlier. Everything is working very good and stable. But i noticed a problem. When i was on 2.1, i installed link2sd to have my apps on the sd. So i partitioned my sd card. When i installed the new rom today, i didn't do anything to the sd card, and when i started to install applications i saw that they were going to the ext2 partition, despite the fact that they were marked as installed on phone memory. Then i tried the option "move to sd" (through application manager) and the apps moved to another location of the sd card. So what can i do to use my phone memory? (which has 180MB free space!)
Thank you very much in advance!
delete and format the ext partition in SDcard
If i backup the apps that are installed there using titanium, and then after formatting the sd i restore them, will they be installed on the internal memory, or will there be any problems?
1st you need to use minitool partition checking is it your SDcard creat a ext2 partition. if you just format the sdcard it doesn't mean delete your ext2 partition. so that after you update to 2.2 ROM, is still will recognized ext2 partition as your system storage
P/S sorry my bad English.
I've just deleted the partition and formatted the whole sd card. Then i wiped cache and did a factory reset because i had some install issues. So ext2+android 2.2 don't get along well!!! Thank you for your interest and replies
Just got my N4 today. I have a question regarding formatting the sd partition. On my previous devices (galaxy note 2, galaxy nexus) I could format the sd card in clockworkmod recovery and it would not touch my personal files (music, pictures, T Backup). However, upon experimenting with the same process, formatting the same partition on the N4 wipes away all my personal data. I am just trying to get ensure that this is the intended behavior and there is no way to circumvent this. Thanks for your responses.
CWM should have a factory reset option that doesn't touch the SDCard, I know TWRP does
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DarkhShadow said:
CWM should have a factory reset option that doesn't touch the SDCard, I know TWRP does
Sent from my Jelly Nexus 4
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Thank you for your response and yes i noticed that, but i was inquiring about the option under mount and storage, if I format sd card it formats all of my sd card and does not save my personal files like my galaxy nexus and note 2 did.
ballaz said:
Thank you for your response and yes i noticed that, but i was inquiring about the option under mount and storage, if I format sd card it formats all of my sd card and does not save my personal files like my galaxy nexus and note 2 did.
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So then don't use that option?
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ballaz said:
Thank you for your response and yes i noticed that, but i was inquiring about the option under mount and storage, if I format sd card it formats all of my sd card and does not save my personal files like my galaxy nexus and note 2 did.
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Format /data wipes all data including SDCard, factory rest wipes data aside from SD Card, so don't wipe /data >.>
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Also remember the Nexus 4 has no sdcard, its all internal storage and I don't believe partitoned so personal data wouldn't be safe if you formatted it again, it wipes it all. Your other devices had actual sdcards separate from the internal storage so you can format one without affecting the other.
Hi guys,
I've got a lot of junk folders on my INTERNAL storage that have been left by old apps etc.
What is a safe way to format the internal storage?
When the internal storage is formatted, will I have to reflash recovery/ROM etc?
Cheers
Why not use the Wipe function in recovery? It securely formats your internal storage. It means all your app data will be gone, though, and you'll get a clean phone, as if you've just got it.
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Go under mounts and storage in Philz, you will see option to wipe internal sd there. It's called format data as far as I know.
cined said:
Hi guys,
I've got a lot of junk folders on my INTERNAL storage that have been left by old apps etc.
What is a safe way to format the internal storage?
When the internal storage is formatted, will I have to reflash recovery/ROM etc?
Cheers
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in recovery go to mounts and strorage and select format -data sd card- not sdcard1 (this is ext sd card)
you dont have to flash the rom again.
Into the abyss.
Also, does formatting remove all partitions that may have been made on the disk? If you are flashing roms they change what on the system, and the card(s) are left alone, correct? I'm just getting an SPH-710 the S3, but they use Philz Touch too. I came from a Transform Ultra, which was tough to manage keeping things off the Internal storage. Kinda lost on how to handle all the options on the SG3. Or, should I just leave it all alone?
??? Thanks, as always for shepherding us newbs across to the promise land.
I want to know the whole criteria of Lenovo-A3000 storage, I mean it has an Internal Storage, also an SD card, So:
1- is SD card included inside the Internal Storage?
2- is SD card separated by accessed through the Internal Storage?
3- is SD card totally separated?
and Now, if I choose to wipe data/ factory reset from some recovery tool like CWM, is that will wipe all data including SD card data?
and at last, why the device reads the SD card as it's at /data/media directory while this is not obvious when accessing the Internal storage through some file manager or through the PC usb ?
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I want to know the whole criteria of Lenovo-A3000 storage, I mean it has an Internal Storage, also an SD card, So:
1- is SD card included inside the Internal Storage?
2- is SD card separated by accessed through the Internal Storage?
3- is SD card totally separated?
and Now, if I choose to wipe data/ factory reset from some recovery tool like CWM, is that will wipe all data including SD card data?
and at last, why the device reads the SD card as it's at /data/media directory while this is not obvious when accessing the Internal storage through some file manager or through the PC usb ?
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Internal SD card is just an emulated storage. This means, that the INTERNAL STORAGE (not accessible without root privilegies) is /data and INTERNAL SD CARD is /data/media. When you wipe data/cache using recovery, it wipes /data and /cache EXCEPT /data/media. When you wipe INTERNAL SD CARD, it wipes ONLY /data/media
Great Info
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Internal SD card is just an emulated storage. This means, that the INTERNAL STORAGE (not accessible without root privilegies) is /data and INTERNAL SD CARD is /data/media. When you wipe data/cache using recovery, it wipes /data and /cache EXCEPT /data/media. When you wipe INTERNAL SD CARD, it wipes ONLY /data/media
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many thanks for these great info :good:
Great topic from TWRP
I found also this great topic from TWRP team which declares clearly the Data/Media behavior
Hello.
I have a Moto G4 and it has SD card formatted as internal and so some of the apps and data is physically on the SD card. The total system+apps+data storage is approximately 15GB and the internal memory of the phone is less than 15GB, hence I have the SD card formatted as internal.
I am currently running LineageOS 14.1 on the device. My questions is that if I backup the ROM and all its apps and data in TWRP recovery and later restore it on the same device but with SD card not formatted as internal, would this work? where would the apps+data which exceed phone's internal memory be saved?
Thanks
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