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[Q] File System question

I performed a Factory Reset / Wipe and was under the impression this cleared everything off the Xoom that I had added. Upon looking at the /mnt/sdcard folder I see folders of Apps that I had previously installed.
Question
Can the /mnt/sdcard be formatted ? If so how ?
Not super familiar with the whole file system setup so If this is a noob/stupid question could you please explain things for me.

mgabriel2 said:
Can the /mnt/sdcard be formatted ? If so how ?
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There are two ways that I know of that I personally have done just in the last week or so. First you can unmount the SD card from the Xoom and place it in an Android Cell Phone, and go to settings/storage and from there unmount the card and click reformat SD card. Or you can hook the Xoom up via USB and clear it from within the PC/mac. Hope this helped.
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Nope that would be for the micro USB card this is the /mint/sdcard which is part of the internal memory
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mgabriel2 said:
Nope that would be for the micro USB card this is the /mint/sdcard which is part of the internal memory
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Fastboot -w wipes all user data including /mnt/sdcard I lost some pictures of my dog because of it
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The simplest way I know of is thru the Backup/Restore options in CWM, just doing the wipes won't do it. I use the Team Rogue version of CWM tho, i don't remember off hand if it can be done in the other recovery's (i.e. Rom Managers version or the one from solarnz that is most popular).
I just, personally, like the way the menus are laid out with Team Rogue's version and not having like a dozen No's with one Yes when confirming an action, nothing against the others.

Thanks guys I will try the Fastboot -w when at home and able to use it and Team Rogue's Recovery when at work.

Its been awhile but what is the option in Team Rogue recovery I dont see one to wipe the Internal data

mgabriel2 said:
Its been awhile but what is the option in Team Rogue recovery I dont see one to wipe the Internal data
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I believe that its or in the Advance or Mount Storage options....

[Q] Possible for ROM to be applied "half way"?

I'm new to flashing ROMs on the EEE Pad, but not new to flashing ROMs in general...have a Samsung Galaxy Skyrocket that I have flashed probably 50 times alrerady. That being said...I'm confused. I rooted my tab and flashed a ROM. It looks like the flash worked because checking the version in "about" shows the new rom. The strange thing is that all the apps I had installed prior to flashing are still installed. I followed the normal steps...factory wipe, format cache, data, system. Does this make sense to anyone? It feels as if some of the rom flashed and some didn't. Any help would be appreciated.
PS...I would have posted this unter the ROM's thread but since I am new to the forum I can't until I have 10 posts.
Examples of this are pandora (including my login info)...email accounts, facebook accounts, etc

are you positive you wiped your data? if you did, everything should be gone.

Well...I ran a super wipe script that was part of the rom download now that you mention it. I'll give it another go but wipe by hand and see what happens.
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jschuetz said:
Well...I ran a super wipe script that was part of the rom download now that you mention it. I'll give it another go but wipe by hand and see what happens.
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aha! I bet that is it, I have heard people saying not to use the super wipe scripts. I don't know much about it but I'm nearly positive that's the problem.

it may also depend on if you are using the full wipe which does internal memory or the light which i believe leaves your apps untouched

mvmacd said:
aha! I bet that is it, I have heard people saying not to use the super wipe scripts. I don't know much about it but I'm nearly positive that's the problem.
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You cant use superwipe if you got a recovery that only reads from internal memory (/mnt/sdcard/), as superwipe will also wipe your rom file, leaving you with nothing to flash.

Goatshocker said:
You cant use superwipe if you got a recovery that only reads from internal memory (/mnt/sdcard/), as superwipe will also wipe your rom file, leaving you with nothing to flash.
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oh so that's the only reason? not because it doesn't work right or something?
Btw does the Rogue CWM let you backup/restore from a USB External Drive? or just /Remoable/MicroSD/ ?

mvmacd said:
oh so that's the only reason? not because it doesn't work right or something?
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As far as I know, yes thats the only reason.
The version Im using only allows internal (/mnt/sdcard/) and external (/removable/microsd), there might be some version that allows USB as well, but I doubt it tbh.

Thanks for the responses...I figured I would skip the superwipe and just do it all by hand. All good, but ran into a new problem. Apparently I don't have the option for mounting an external SD card. It's installed and when booted into the OS I can see it and everything, but the mount option is missing from clockwork recovery. This is both with the touch version (5.8.1.8) and the non-touch version (5.5.0.4). Luckily the manual wiping didn't clear out the internal SD card so I was able to just restore my nandroid backup.
A - anyone have issues with the "mount sd-card" missing in CWR?
B - Apparently the tablet version of ICS installs apps to the internal SD card so doing a wipe doesn't really clear out all the apps. Does that sound right?

Both those CWM versions does not support external SD card afaik. Only internal.

That would be why then I guess. Doh! I'll check around but I didn't see newer versions that worked with the tf 101. Thanks for the reply!
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I use cwm 5.0.2.7 [via RecoveryInstaller.apk], and I have had no problems, I can mount my MicroSD

How do I wipe EVERYTHING on my internal SD card?

Hi guys.
I want to start from scratch regarding my internal SD card (not using external) because I have a lot of junk that just needs to be gone.
I'm running Synergy's latest nightly and am going to flash a Jelly Bean ROM (don't know which yet) right after wiping everything.
So my question is, what do I do to make sure everything is wiped, and my phone still boots? I'm kind of lost.
I usually use CWM to flash, so what do I press in order to do this?
Thanks a lot.

You have to format the internal card with a filw explorer or in a recovery
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ikr said:
You have to format the internal card with a filw explorer or in a recovery
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Understood, but what happens when I try to reboot back into the phone; will it boot normally?

I ditto this question. I'm also curious about formatting my internal card and starting from scratch. I know factory reset from cwm recovery doesn't do it. I'm afraid to just start doing things and bricking this thing. Even though I was told by my cousin who has flashed many phone its very hard to hard brick a Samsung.
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Blutonic said:
Hi guys.
I want to start from scratch regarding my internal SD card (not using external) because I have a lot of junk that just needs to be gone.
I'm running Synergy's latest nightly and am going to flash a Jelly Bean ROM (don't know which yet) right after wiping everything.
So my question is, what do I do to make sure everything is wiped, and my phone still boots? I'm kind of lost.
I usually use CWM to flash, so what do I press in order to do this?
Thanks a lot.
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section 6 of my guide :good:

Please forgive me but where is your guide?
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Blutonic said:
Understood, but what happens when I try to reboot back into the phone; will it boot normally?
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Yes it should boot fine. The sd just holds your junk and possible some config info for some apps.

piiman said:
Yes it should boot fine. The sd just holds your junk and possible some config info for some apps.
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Ok, I'm just going to boot into CWM, Reformat, and Reboot. Hopefully everything goes well.
I'll get back to this topic to tell you how it went.

Ok, reformatting from CWM, then rebooting worked perfectly!
Going on to JB now, thanks for the help everyone.

Uhhh....right-click + "delete" while connected to your computer. Or from settings.
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Blutonic said:
Ok, reformatting from CWM, then rebooting worked perfectly!
Going on to JB now, thanks for the help everyone.
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After reformatting, the rom was still installed right? but all your apps and clutter was gone?
Just curious cause I also did data/factory reset from cwm and all it did was delete the rom and apps but all the stuff left over from the apps and music/photos/videos were still there.

uf21 said:
After reformatting, the rom was still installed right? but all your apps and clutter was gone?
Just curious cause I also did data/factory reset from cwm and all it did was delete the rom and apps but all the stuff left over from the apps and music/photos/videos were still there.
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Hey buddy they're talking a little different then just data reset. To erase all that other stuff go into cwm under mounts and storage and click format internal SD card. The ROM will still work but it will erase everything on your internal memory so if you have pictures you want back then up
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kintwofan said:
Hey buddy they're talking a little different then just data reset. To erase all that other stuff go into cwm under mounts and storage and click format internal SD card. The ROM will still work but it will erase everything on your internal memory so if you have pictures you want back then up
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I thinks thats what I'm looking for. Last question, if I do that will my system settings stay, will I have to sign into everything again and will all my apps be gone?

uf21 said:
I thinks thats what I'm looking for. Last question, if I do that will my system settings stay, will I have to sign into everything again and will all my apps be gone?
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In all honesty I'm not sure if it will erase settings as well. I don't believe it will but some app settings are stored on the SD card so you may have to sign back into some things.
If you choose to factory reset at the same time then yes you will have to reset everything up.
One thing to keep in mind if you make your backups without selecting external SD card they will ask be erased so you will have no backups
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kintwofan said:
In all honesty I'm not sure if it will erase settings as well. I don't believe it will but some app settings are stored on the SD card so you may have to sign back into some things.
If you choose to factory reset at the same time then yes you will have to reset everything up.
One thing to keep in mind if you make your backups without selecting external SD card they will ask be erased so you will have no backups
If I helped you in some way.... pass on the favor and help the next person!
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I've been asking around since yesterday and no one could give me a straight answer until now, so thanks for your help, much appreciated.

uf21 said:
I've been asking around since yesterday and no one could give me a straight answer until now, so thanks for your help, much appreciated.
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Glad I could help out!
If I helped you in some way.... pass on the favor and help the next person!

kintwofan said:
Glad I could help out!
If I helped you in some way.... pass on the favor and help the next person!
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Quick question, I just went into cwm recover then mounts and storage and the options are
Format /cache
Format /system
Format /data
Format /preload
Format /sdcard
Would sdcard be the internal sd card?
It sounds like that wipes everything (rom and all) and not just internal sd?

uf21 said:
Quick question, I just went into cwm recover then mounts and storage and the options are
Format /cache
Format /system
Format /data
Format /preload
Format /sdcard
Would sdcard be the internal sd card?
It sounds like that wipes everything (rom and all) and not just internal sd?
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You just want to wipe internal? if you want to be safe, take out your external sdcard, then do format /sdcard . This will wipe your internal sdcard.

A twrp wipe

If I use twrp to "wipe" my memory cards is it a true reformat or just erase existing files. I can see no reference to reformatting within the JB rom..just erasing.
Thanks
Stew

stoopendis said:
If I use twrp to "wipe" my memory cards is it a true reformat or just erase existing files. I can see no reference to reformatting within the JB rom..just erasing.
Thanks
Stew
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I can't directly answer your question. I've never read into it that much but twrp has never failed me. Its solid. The dev behind our twrp seems like he's onto every problem we've ever had. Not a single complaint here:beer:
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Yep..for sure! I'm super happy with Twrp. Just wanting to clean up while the phone is "empty".

stoopendis said:
If I use twrp to "wipe" my memory cards is it a true reformat or just erase existing files. I can see no reference to reformatting within the JB rom..just erasing.
Thanks
Stew
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Seems like every other wipe (system, cache, etc) includes a format, so I'm guessing it will format the sd mnts too
SkyRoms Rock!

Clear cache recovery mode won't work?

Hi
When I to wipe my cache in recovery mode (in the Samsung Galaxy-Q (same as the Samsung Gravity Smart))
And it took like half a second, so I figure that there that there's something wrong with it.
There's a picture attached to this page.
If you couldn't read the text, (I was using like a 2 megapixel camera), here's what the important part is:
-- Appling Multi-CSC --
-- Wiping cache...
Formatting CACHE:...
unmount(/cache) attempt 1 (Unknown error: 0) rc=0
Cache wipe complete
Is it because my phone is rooted? No, because I've tried unrooting my phone and trying. It didn't work.
But I think it's because my micro SD card is in it. If that's the problem, will after clearing cache delete my shortcuts?
Thanks for reading,
Drew
Link for Phandroid forums:
http://androidforums.com/samsung-gravity-smart/668108-q-cache-clear-in-recovery-mode-wont-work.html

drew1ind said:
Hi
When I to wipe my cache in recovery mode (in the Samsung Galaxy-Q (same as the Samsung Gravity Smart))
And it took like half a second, so I figure that there that there's something wrong with it.
There's a picture attached to this page.
If you couldn't read the text, (I was using like a 2 megapixel camera), here's what the important part is:
-- Appling Multi-CSC --
-- Wiping cache...
Formatting CACHE:...
unmount(/cache) attempt 1 (Unknown error: 0) rc=0
Cache wipe complete
Is it because my phone is rooted? No, because I've tried unrooting my phone and trying. It didn't work.
But I think it's because my micro SD card is in it. If that's the problem, will after clearing cache delete my shortcuts?
Thanks for reading,
Ddrew
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You can use cwn recovery and try to clear cache.
Hopefully this will work.

Link?
karimkahale said:
You can use cwn recovery and try to clear cache.
Hopefully this will work.
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link?

nvm
drew1ind said:
link?
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nvm

others?
drew1ind said:
Hi
When I to wipe my cache in recovery mode (in the Samsung Galaxy-Q (same as the Samsung Gravity Smart))
And it took like half a second, so I figure that there that there's something wrong with it.
There's a picture attached to this page.
If you couldn't read the text, (I was using like a 2 megapixel camera), here's what the important part is:
-- Appling Multi-CSC --
-- Wiping cache...
Formatting CACHE:...
unmount(/cache) attempt 1 (Unknown error: 0) rc=0
Cache wipe complete
Is it because my phone is rooted? No, because I've tried unrooting my phone and trying. It didn't work.
But I think it's because my micro SD card is in it. If that's the problem, will after clearing cache delete my shortcuts?
Thanks for reading,
Ddrew
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any others?

Try a different sd card.... And try to do the cache wipe... And report
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Ghostfreak NB said:
Try a different sd card.... And try to do the cache wipe... And report
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And thank god my parents got me a 32 gb micro SD card for Christmas :3
Will respond once done!

Didn't work
drew1ind said:
And thank god my parents got me a 32 gb micro SD card for Christmas :3
Will respond once done!
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Ok... I tried it and...
It didn't work :/
It said the same thing; I think I need to partition it.

Then,it's your phone's recovery mode that has the issue not the sd card!
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Ghostfreak NB said:
Then,it's your phone's recovery mode that has the issue not the sd card!
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But other people do it with my same phone and succeed -_-
Maybe I have to put out my SD card?

Do a fresh install of stock Rom through Odin or such program and then install a cwm and try later on!
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drew1ind said:
But other people do it with my same phone and succeed -_-
Maybe I have to put out my SD card?
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Also, here is my system cache directory (w/ subbfolders)
/cache/
/cache/lost+found/(nothing in folder)
/cache/log/
/cache/log/recovery.log/
recovery.log is a file

Ghostfreak NB said:
Do a fresh install of stock Rom through Odin or such program and then install a cwm and try later on!
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First of all, my phone will get bricked if I install cwm recovery
Second of all, I have not installed ANY roms.
Third of all, I am not being mad.

I told to do a clean install of the same Rom you use and installing cwm bricks?? Who told?
.... Do you get me...or not?
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Ghostfreak NB said:
I told to do a clean install of the same Rom you use and installing cwm bricks?? Who told?
.... Do you get me...or not?
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Here's who told me:
Phandroid forums
Youtube
XDA Developer forums
Basically the whole internet
There

Ghostfreak NB said:
I told to do a clean install of the same Rom you use and installing cwm bricks?? Who told?
.... Do you get me...or not?
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Also,
Can you atleast ****ing tell me if I need the SD card out?????????
Jesus I'm tierd...

T589R Recovery Problem
Hi
That's exactly my problem, is there a way to fix?
Please help