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How to format the internal memory?

How to format the internal memory G2?
Cost CM11, CWM format/mtp - does not work.
MTP can not be checked for errors by Windows. So I want to format the drive and then upload their data.

[Q] internal storage & sdcard

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 ?

MuhammedRefaat said:
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
MirXas said:
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

flashing files with adoptable storage

Hi, I'm using Dirty Unicorns on my Redmi2. Since it's marshmallow, I'm using adoptable storage, i.e. using my sd card as internal storage, so I can install apps to the sd card. but since this mode formats and encrypts the sd card, I can't access files that I want to flash with TWRP when booting recovery. I thought TWRP 3 was supposed to support adoptable storage, but even after updating it I can't seem to get it working. Am I forgetting something here?
Thanks in advance.

Where in the Aroma File manager are you Searching for your SD card ? Pls attach a Screenshot of the directory , using root explorer

You must identify where exactly your adoptable SD card mounted to. You can search for it using CM File manager. It should be like /mnt/storage/XXX.

Decrypt internal SD

Hello, when you install custom recovery, internal sd is encrypted.
How can we change that?

Bootloop after full internal storage

Hello Community,
hope to be right here.
My Sony Xperia X Compact starts only in a bootloop after restart with a completely full internal storage.
The phone had about 400MB free internal storage for a longer time.
Yesterday, because of an empty battery, I restarted the phone and it had left 4KB internal storage.
So I rebooted it again, and since then it is in a bootloop. Sony-Screen, Android-screen, black screen, then it reboots again.
The phone is rooted and twrp is installed.
I tried to get access to the internal storage (to delete some data) via adb, the device is not found, only via fastboot detected.
I also tried to get access via twrp-Explorer. In the file system it shows me the Folders sdcard and sdcard1. sdcard1 shows me the file system of the external sd-card correctly, but the Folder sdcard is empty.
Choosing in twrp (backup) the backup-device, I can see the internal storage with 0MB. For the SD-Card is the physical space of the card listed.
I made a backup of the data-partition with twrp. Trying to open this backup on the computer as a .tar-archive runs into an archiv-error.
At this point, i don't know what to do to extract some data from internal storage and make more free space in the internal storage for boot.
Is it only the software which crashed, or is the internal storage defect?
Is it a completely other error?
Do you have any idea?
Thanks in advance
ascore5000