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Okay...maybe it's not the stupidest question, but it's gonna be right up there.
I bought an Aria today. Let it be know that I've had HTC phones for 5 years and was very active in Windows Mobile ROM development. I'm not daft. But I feel like I've been dropped into the middle of Bangkok with Android, so please forgive me.
I've rooted and have Clockwork installed. I'm attempting to install ATTN1's Liberated Aria (Eclair) ROM.
And here's the stupid question:
How the FORK do I copy the downloaded ZIP file to my SD card?
I know, I know...it's stupid. But I can't seem to find it anywhere. My phone has USB debugging turned on. It's running in Disk Drive mode. But when I navigate to it, there's no folder for the SD card, no hint of the SD card anywhere. What am I supposed to do? Go buy one of those adapters so I can stick this microSD card into my card reader and THEN copy it?
If anyone feels like convincing me of exactly how idiotic I am, I'm ALL EARS!
benjaminstarr said:
Okay...maybe it's not the stupidest question, but it's gonna be right up there.
I bought an Aria today. Let it be know that I've had HTC phones for 5 years and was very active in Windows Mobile ROM development. I'm not daft. But I feel like I've been dropped into the middle of Bangkok with Android, so please forgive me.
I've rooted and have Clockwork installed. I'm attempting to install ATTN1's Liberated Aria (Eclair) ROM.
And here's the stupid question:
How the FORK do I copy the downloaded ZIP file to my SD card?
I know, I know...it's stupid. But I can't seem to find it anywhere. My phone has USB debugging turned on. It's running in Disk Drive mode. But when I navigate to it, there's no folder for the SD card, no hint of the SD card anywhere. What am I supposed to do? Go buy one of those adapters so I can stick this microSD card into my card reader and THEN copy it?
If anyone feels like convincing me of exactly how idiotic I am, I'm ALL EARS!
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So I'm just guessing that this is what you're confused about. I apologize if I'm telling you what you already know.
When you put the phone in disk drive mode, the folder that comes up for the disk drive IS the SD card. Disk drive mode is the same as taking the SD card out and putting it in your computer, just without the hassle. You can't access the internal memory through this method.
I'm no expert either, but doesn't it download to downloads folder in the sdcard. You could use something like astro to check the folders. Or are you trying to copy it from pc? Try downloading on the phone.
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Hmmmm... I suppose it would make sense that the drive I see on my laptop as the phone is actually the SD card. And when I went into Recovery to install the ROM, I did see an option to install SDcard/update.zip. However, I don't think that was the ROM because I still got the AT&T animations. So I guess I'm back to square one. I'll attempt to download the file directly on the phone....
Perhaps...just perhaps...I have succeeded! I had to download from the browser on the phone. Copying from my laptop to the SD card did not work. (Or, at least it did not provide me with the option to install the zip file from the SD card until I had downloaded the file directly onto the phone using its browser.)
If you use the option to install update.zip, keep in mind that your rom must actually be named 'update.zip.' Once you put the rom on your SD card, you should have selected the option that allows you to choose the zip file you want to flash. Just for future reference.
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Ha Ha! Now you know what it like to be a noob. Sometimes things are so obvious and routine to us that we forget that it can be confusing to others just starting out. You have to be patient and sensitive to peoples questions.
I will give some background to begin with. I had installed the Kies mini update to the 2.2 software on my Captivate. I then rooted with super one click. I have the drivers for the Captivate installed in Windows XP and I have USB debugging enabled. It recognizes the drive and will show me the contents on the computer, but it doesn't allow me to copy from the computer to the drive. I know I can use dropbox for some things, but for other things like installing a custom rom, I would like to be able to copy to the drive. It does show as mounted and mass storage is enabled on the phone. Any ideas?
If you are rooted just go into cwr and mount sd card there. if not i have no idea as i haven't kept a phone stock since a week after i got my old Moto Droid, as soon as i found out it was possible.
Well apparently the version of Clockwork Mod Recovery that I have doesn't give the option to mount the SD card. I have 2.5.1.2. I did find a way using SGS tools to download a custom rom to the root of the SD card. I was going to reinstall Debian Linux at some point on my computer so I may have better luck with using that to write to the SD card then I am having with XP.
Yeah
Make sure that the SD card isn't locked. Also, back up everything on it to your computer and do a complete format as well. And if you're wanting to write ROMs to your SD (or CWM, etc.) in Linux, you're going to have to use dd in the terminal, and most like will be writing to "sdb".
Here's a simple walkthrough just in case you don't know how to use dd:
Become root by typing "su" and following it with your password. If you don't have a root password, type in "sudo passwd" and set it.
Next you have to unmount your microSD. To see what you have mounted type in "mount". Your SD card will most likely be called "/dev/sdb" or "/media/sdb" or something along those lines (not sdb1, that is the partition on the card). Once you know what your SD is called and where it's located, type in "umount /dev/sdb", placing '/dev/sdb' with the actual location and name of your SD card.
Now we get to use dd. Type in: dd if=<insert location of IMG here without the tags I included> of=<location of your sd without the tags I included> bs=1M
Be patient, because it usually takes a while, depending on what you're writing. Good luck mate.
I was looking for an answer to this myself. Me and my girlfriend both have the same phone, galaxy S. We both put andromeda rom on it and are now going to switch to FireFly (I did, she's trying to).
Well, mounting her USB storage ends up with the internal SD card being recognized as a CD ROM and the external as a usb storage device.
Anything we try to do to her internal says there's write protection and to disable it or use something else every time we do anything.
Only even trying this because we're getting some weird "Error at line 17: symlink with SU..." blah blah....
Completely stuck here. Doesn't make any fracking sense.
same to me. what should i do? I'm trying to install Andromeda. But I can't even copy ROM file to internal SD card. HELP ME ASAP!
I somehow have two directories for sdcard and my Apps are only reading the one thats not even the actual card.
I have one folder that says Removable/MicroSD.... That one is exactly the correct directory
Then I have another that says sdcard and its just using the tablets storage.
Any idea what happened?
A lot of new devices that have a large amount of built-in have taken to mounting the internal storage as the SD card. If you don't, that space won't be used by apps, especially those that need to download extra files and you would -need- to buy an SD card.
So, it's functioning as designed.
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Thats the way honeycomb works. You get 16 or 32 GB internal at /sdcard and your actual sd card is mounted at /Removable/MicroSD/. Get use to this because this is the way google's gonna handle storage moving forward.
Okay I'm just used to my phone. So I use titanium backup to backup my Apps, it stores them in that folder. So when I have to do a factory reset it won't touch that directory will it?
omgitswes said:
Okay I'm just used to my phone. The So I use titanium backup to backup my Apps, it stores them in that folder. So when I have to do a factory reset it won't touch that directory will it?
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if wiping with cwm it wont.
Yeah that's what I use. Thanks, I had no idea what was going on
That's how ASUS has it setup. Android requires an SDcard to be present to install applications and store files on. So because you either bought the 16GB or 32GB ASUS the directory is created for that reason to store your pictures, music, etc.
Hello everyone,
First of all, I created a new thread yesterday to ask my doubts about stock firmware flashing, and now I am creating this new thread...I know I should not create threads constantly like this, but I dont by any mean to spam...this is the question I stumbled upon now while taking a backup with ClockWorkMod 4.0.0.2 on my Galaxy R and as this is not much related with flashing stock firmware, I created this new thread...Moderators please, please don't consider it as spamming...
Now to my question,
Here is all I came accross since last month...I rooted the device by flashing ardatdat's rooted kernel on my device using ODIN. Later I also installed ClockWorkMod 4.0.0.2 on my cell using ODIN. Then, I backed up the device using CWM. The backup procedure was completed successfully. After reboot, I faced a seriously low sdcard storage space. Unable to find and delete the Backup files, I uninstalled some big space consuming games and then moved on...
Yesterday, I decided to flash ICS stock ROM on my cell, asked on XDA about that, some of its replies suggested me to take a CWM backup instead of just Titanium Backup. So, even though I recalled my condition a month ago, I took the backup again. Before backing up, there was 0.99 MB/3.75G space available on USB storage (which I believe is /sdcard). Guys told me that backups are stored in external SD, so I need not worry about SD card space. External SD had 5 GB of free space. I ran CWM Backup, and rebooted the cell.
After reboot, It again showed critically low USB storage space... (3.73G/3.75G) and I wasn't able to open gallery,camera and music player due to lack of free memory.
I decided to find whereever those big backup files are!
I connected the device to laptop using USB storage connection, and then opened the /sdcard folder of it. It had a 'clockworkmod' folder, but it was empty. On my external SD card, there wasn't any folder named 'clockworkmod'.
Then, I decided to copy all the /sdcard folder to my laptop. I am running Ubuntu. While copying the folder, it gave the error in copying file from source path : '/media/8619-BFA/external_sd/clockworkmod/backup/2013-01-27.05.36.29/system.img' and the phone's USB connection mode got closed automatically!
That was one of the backup files I was trying to find...and now I got their location : '/external_sd/clockworkmod/backup'
Please note that '/external_sd' folder was not related to my External SD card anyway, It was simply a folder in my /sdcard/ path. And while browning the /sdcard on phone, the external_sd folder was used to show me my External SD card files!
Now, I can see the backup files in /sdcard/external_sd folder when viewed from my laptop, but /sdcard/external_sd shows my External SD memory card files when viewed from my cell file explorer.
Any attempt to copy the backup files in /sdcard/external _sd when connected to laptop results in disconnection of USB connection mode...
Please help...thanks a lot!
Sorry for being rude.
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Buddy what do you exactly want.
Do you want the backups or.what?
Delete them via PC if you dont need them.and be done with it?
Why do.you want to copy them??
Install ICS..it will be simpler for you.
Trust me.
Plus one strict warning.
DONT ASK SAME QUESTIONS OVER AND OVER AGAIN BY MAKING THREADS.
WE SEE AND ANSWER YOUR POSTS.
WE KNOW THE LEVELS OF PATIENCE CROSS LIMITS WHILE FLASHING SOMETHING FOR THE FIRST TIME.
BUT PLEASE UNDERSTAND!
WE REPLY..WE ANSWER..WE HELP.
NOTHING GETS AWAY UNANSWERED.
AND BE BRIEF..MOST OF US STILL DONT KNOW WHAT DO YOU WANT.
U can delete it using ur mobile or pc. Just choose ur backup location. And delete it.
BTW, there is no need to create a whole thread when we have q/a sticky thread. I have seen that ur also asking questions in other thread regarding the same issue. Buddy, pls b clear while asking the thing instead of whole big story.
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I wanted to take CWM backup before flashing anything on my cell...but as the backup was eating my sd card space, I first wanted to know where the backup files are...
Anyways, I found them. Clockwork mod made a new folder named external_sd in my /sdcard, and created backup files there, instead of actually creating them on my external SD. So, I unmounted the external sd from settings, and then I was able to see the backup folder in /sdcard/exernal_sd.
I told the whole story because I wanted to make sure I don't miss anything important while explaining, sorry..
I would be thankful if I get to know any way with which the backups will get actually written on my external sd card and not on the external_sd folder in my internal memory only!
shaaraddalvi said:
I wanted to take CWM backup before flashing anything on my cell...but as the backup was eating my sd card space, I first wanted to know where the backup files are...
Anyways, I found them. Clockwork mod made a new folder named external_sd in my /sdcard, and created backup files there, instead of actually creating them on my external SD. So, I unmounted the external sd from settings, and then I was able to see the backup folder in /sdcard/exernal_sd.
I told the whole story because I wanted to make sure I don't miss anything important while explaining, sorry..
I would be thankful if I get to know any way with which the backups will get actually written on my external sd card and not on the external_sd folder in my internal memory only!
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make sure you have at least 2 GB space on Ext SD Card and take CWM Backup....
mj.vikram said:
make sure you have at least 2 GB space on Ext SD Card and take CWM Backup....
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I have... I have 5 GB space on external sd...
But I think the thing is...CWM is not detecting my external sd and it is just making a folder named external_sd and storing the backup files in the internal memory itself...
Do I need to manually mount the external sd card in CWM or something similar so that it will detect it??
shaaraddalvi said:
I have... I have 5 GB space on external sd...
But I think the thing is...CWM is not detecting my external sd and it is just making a folder named external_sd and storing the backup files in the internal memory itself...
Do I need to manually mount the external sd card in CWM or something similar so that it will detect it??
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which rom you are using and you are using CWM 4.0.0.2 right....
mj.vikram said:
which rom you are using and you are using CWM 4.0.0.2 right....
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I am using the stock ROM I got with the cell a year ago...Gingerbread 2.3.5...Yes, I am using ClockWorkMod 4.0.0.2
shaaraddalvi said:
I am using the stock ROM I got with the cell a year ago...Gingerbread 2.3.5...Yes, I am using ClockWorkMod 4.0.0.2
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then i will directly dump the backup into Ext SD Card only ....
mj.vikram said:
then i will directly dump the backup into Ext SD Card only ....
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I don't know, but it's not doing that...if I flash ICS stock rom or any other custom rom, my /sdcard will be formatted? because CWM is currently storing backups into /sdcard only...
shaaraddalvi said:
I don't know, but it's not doing that...if I flash ICS stock rom or any other custom rom, my /sdcard will be formatted? because CWM is currently storing backups into /sdcard only...
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Flashing Rom will not format sd card ....
Exact place of backup u can see it in screen shot that's not sd card its eeternal sd card..
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Yes, the place where the backups are is same as your image,
/sdcard/external_sd/clockworkmod/backup
But, they are not actually on external memory card...its just a folder named external_sd....but it is actually on my internal memory only!
Whenever I mount my external memory card, whatever I see in the external_sd folder is the contents of my external memory card...which doesn't have a clockworkmod folder.
Whenever I unmount my external memory card,what I see in the external_sd folder is above path and the backup files...
This is the image when I mount the external memory card...
For Deleting previous one. Flash V6 of CWM & remove previous backup using CWM.
I currently have an issue with the camera. It states that I've run out of space on my sdcard and that I should delete some files. Though this may be true of internal memory, I have a 32GB external sdcard with only 9GB used. I can't find anyplace in the camera's settings to use my external sdcard. When I do look at the files using efs manager it seems it melds the internal sdcard and external sdcard. Not sure if this has something to do with it.
Can anyone please help me with this issue? I would like to be able to take pictures and have 20GB of space left.
well if you tried changing it in settings and its not there i recommend you use a camera app which can be downloaded thru Gplay..
HIt thanks if i helped.... :good:
Downloaded and installed CameraMX and got the same error and found no settings to us the sdcard instead of the internal storage. Uuuuugh! I'll try other camera apps but I think it's going to be the same issue.
I'm using Linaro's CM10 on a Samsung T679 Exhibit II 4G with a 32GB sdcard.