I am new to android, am able to flash hack mod etc blah blah blah. In the coarse of all this tinkering, my file system is cluttered, and I want it gone, totally fresh. Clearing data in the recovery menu does nothing, factory reset in the phone does nothing.
Does anyone know how to hard reset this phone? The "Master Clear" option in odin3 does nothing, and I have yet to see someone who said it did something for them. I just want a pure stock sd card, can I open it in windows and just delete everything there? Thanks in advance, and I have searched for hours about this stupid thing.
You can format the sd card by going to settings > sd card and phone storage > scroll to internal sd > press unmount sd card > format sd card > then remount the sd card
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I was trying to test a new rom out and when i finished installing it everything just completely fails. When i connect my USB in, mass storage dosent appear so i cant add a rom that i know that works on my phone (and i dont have a backup) . Anyone knows a way to fix it?
Also, when i try to open settings it just crashes same with messages.
Do u have an externel sd card to put a rom on?
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go to Settings -> SD Card & Phone Storage -> mass storage only
that should enable you to mount the memory as mass storage.
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I tried Titanium backup today and it can't write my Micro SD Card, how do I allow that? Also Airdroid can't write to the Micro SD card as well, I tried their instruction but it didn't work (it open up the default file manager app and it didn't seems to show what the app said...
could it be that while introducing the sd card into ur system, android encrypted the storage? try and completely format the sd card, see if that helps remove the encryption... (beware, that might take a while, so just let it sit there for an hour or so if it seems to be "stuck")
after opening the stock file manager , u have to go to settings and select show advanced storage (don't know if it's the correct name in english) go out of settings and u will see selection on the left side. select ur sd card and then choose "select all" titanium backup isn't working for me on ext card, the same with spotify. it works only if stock file manager is opening at writing access from the app u want to use with ext card
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farmating ext card isn't helping
jbmc83 said:
could it be that while introducing the sd card into ur system, android encrypted the storage? try and completely format the sd card, see if that helps remove the encryption... (beware, that might take a while, so just let it sit there for an hour or so if it seems to be "stuck")
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I don't think so because I simply put my Micro SD card from S4 into Mate 8 and it see the card and it's contents normally right away.
dlorean said:
after opening the stock file manager , u have to go to settings and select show advanced storage (don't know if it's the correct name in english) go out of settings and u will see selection on the left side. select ur sd card and then choose "select all" titanium backup isn't working for me on ext card, the same with spotify. it works only if stock file manager is opening at writing access from the app u want to use with ext card
@jbmc83
farmating ext card isn't helping
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Hmmm, I somehow managed to make AirDroid work... By choosing the select all button at the bottom of the stock file manager after selecting the external card (not in the settings).
hm ok, well its was just an idea anyways
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I got it working.
Going to Setting -> Preferences -> Backup folder location -> Storage provider (click to change) (the white text just below the grey "Browse to the path your backups will be stored..." paragraph) -> Then choose the DocumentProvider storage and then choose your location again. TB prompt if I want to move backup from old folder, I said yes even though it was the same folder. It took only a few seconds.
Now I can back up in my Micro SD .
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I got it working.
Going to Setting -> Preferences -> Backup folder location -> Storage provider (click to change) (the white text just below the grey "Browse to the path your backups will be stored..." paragraph) -> Then choose the DocumentProvider storage and then choose your location again. TB prompt if I want to move backup from old folder, I said yes even though it was the same folder. It took only a few seconds.
Now I can back up in my Micro SD .
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Were you able to find a similar setting for Move to SD? I don't even have that option available to me in TiBu.
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Were you able to find a similar setting for Move to SD? I don't even have that option available to me in TiBu.
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I never try the Move to SD function, sorry.
Hi all...
I updated my Sony Xperia XZ2 to Android 10, and I no longer see any option in the storage settings to format my SD card.
I can unmount/mount it, delete files from it, but I see no formatting option.
Has this option gone away with Android 10? Or with Sony's implementation of it? Anybody know how I can force a format?
EDIT: Nevermind, I found it in the "Storage Settings" menu option when I opened the SD card in settings. The "Format" text looked descriptive, and not a link/button.
In older versions of Android, I'd need to eject or unmount my SD card (portable storage) before removing it. In Android 12 (61.1.A.2.211) I'm not seeing that option in Settings > Storage nor in the "Files by Google" app. Is ejecting no longer necessary?
Probably not a good idea.
However all I can find is to turn off the phone first.
Make sure all critical data is redundantly backed up!!! SD cards are not OTG... fk 12.
I found it. Go to Settings > Storage > open the combo that says "THIS DEVICE" > select "DISK", go to the "⋮" menu in the upper right > Eject.