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[Q] think i broke gf's phone

so i have a sgs4g, the sd card that came with my phone is a 16gb, i have rooted and installed multiple roms on my phone and has worked fine, gf just got a sgs4g today and hers came with a 8gb sd card and i cant seem to get anything to work, i have it rooted and none of the roms in install seem to work.
in CWM recovory it wont mount the cache on hers but will on mine, it will mount the cache when i insert my 16bg sd card to her phone... any help? also i have odin'ed the kd1 deodexed and it will not download and install apps off the market on her 8gb card keeps saying download unsucessful... any help or word of advice?

ninjavampire said:
so i have a sgs4g, the sd card that came with my phone is a 16gb, i have rooted and installed multiple roms on my phone and has worked fine, gf just got a sgs4g today and hers came with a 8gb sd card and i cant seem to get anything to work, i have it rooted and none of the roms in install seem to work.
in CWM recovory it wont mount the cache on hers but will on mine, it will mount the cache when i insert my 16bg sd card to her phone... any help? also i have odin'ed the kd1 deodexed and it will not download and install apps off the market on her 8gb card keeps saying download unsucessful... any help or word of advice?
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Is "Settings > Applications > Unknown sources" checked? If not, that's probably your problem.
If anything, you could always just Odin KC1 instead. As what everyone has been saying, KD1 has a faulty system partition.
As for the 8GB sd card, Samsung decided to cheap out on the newer phones. All of them come shipped with 8GB sd cards now.

I would recommend odining kc1 for a fresh start plus you will have root. Then grab cwm final by krylon 360. Once you have all that up and running make a backup of the 8gb sdcard on your pc and format it inside the phone ,replace all the files you want plus the update.zip. reboot into recovery and see if you can adjust the mounts. If so now try flashing a rom. Most roms need the ext4 converter to install properly should it require this it should be stated in the op of the rom you intend to install if not read through the post a little to see if anyone else has had similar issues or had to use the ext4 converter. Hope this helps and you get things going for you girls phone.
Edit: also do not use rom manager as it is not for our phone yet.
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trying to odin kc1 now, thanks for help, ill let you know if i need anymore help

ninjavampire said:
trying to odin kc1 now, thanks for help, ill let you know if i need anymore help
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Hope things come together for ya. Gonna hit the hay its getting late. Ill check back upon waking that is if one of the other folks cant help.
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i odin'ed kc1 and still cannot mount cache, didnt use CWM used the update.zip and reinstalled via stock recovery... its starting to anger me
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nvm im retarded and was odining the wrong file...
status update in a sec

If you can't use the 8gb card, why don't you just flash the phone using the 16 gb card and then put the 8gb back when its done?
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jager555 said:
If you can't use the 8gb card, why don't you just flash the phone using the 16 gb card and then put the 8gb back when its done?
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i have tried and that wont work flashed kc1, i can now download and install apps but cant get in to recovery now

ok odin'ed KC1 cant seem to get into recovery, i have tried to root explorer push the recovery file into system>bin wont work, i have also tried to reinstall via update.zip from the stock recovery and that wont work either.... very frustrated atm... going to sleep if anyone could help it would be very much appreciated, thanks

What do you mean it won't work? did you make sure to press the mount r/w button before pasting the file? If there is an extension in the filename, remove it. And you don't install the update.zip, you just place it in the root of your sd and leave it there.
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ninjavampire said:
ok odin'ed KC1 cant seem to get into recovery, i have tried to root explorer push the recovery file into system>bin wont work, i have also tried to reinstall via update.zip from the stock recovery and that wont work either.... very frustrated atm... going to sleep if anyone could help it would be very much appreciated, thanks
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Is your recovery file named "recovery.bin"? If it is, you have to rename it to just "recovery". It won't overwrite properly if you don't do it that way. Maybe you should try using another root explorer. I use Super Manager and it works perfectly. Be sure to enable root function and r/w mode though.
What do you mean that you tried to reinstall via update.zip?
EDIT: Seems like jager555 beat me to it.
Also, you could redownload the recovery file and update.zip. Who knows, something might've happened during the download process and messed it up.
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bkoon1218 said:
Is your recovery file named "recovery.bin"? If it is, you have to rename it to just "recovery". It won't overwrite properly if you don't do it that way. Maybe you should try using another root explorer. I use Super Manager and it works perfectly. Be sure to enable root function and r/w mode though.
What do you mean that you tried to reinstall via update.zip?
EDIT: Seems like jager555 beat me to it.
Also, you could redownload the recovery file and update.zip. Who knows, something might've happened during the download process and messed it up.
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thanks for all the tips, while using root explorer it was in r/w mode and the update.zip i use so CWM works, on my phone sometimes it will go into the stock recovery (blue in color) i got to the second option reinstall pakages and it will do a quick flash and boot into CWM recovery (yellowish in color) im now running CWM red on my phone so its not an issue but cannot seem to get it to work on the GF phone, i have tried everything i can think of and followed all the tips here and still cannot get it to work

leave your sd card and sim card out of the phone and odin to kc1. when it is complete, let the phone sit for 10-15 minutes. put the sd card in and then redownload krylons cwm final and move the two files to the right locations, making sure they are named properly and you OVERWRITE the files that are already there. once it is done, power off the phone, remove your sd card and do a full format. when this is done, put back the update.zip on the root of the sd card, put on the ext4 converter, as well as icbinb. these are the only 3 files you will need right now. start up the phone by pressing the 3 button combo and go into the orange cwm final. wipe cache and factory reset. check mounts, flash ext4 converter and then flash the rom and reboot. im not sure why your cache is the problem. you can try to odin to kb5 and see if that gives you different results. but if that doesnt work, i dont know what to tell you.

[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] I screwed up (Solved)

I was trying to update a friends transformer to ICS (revolver) and I forgot that you have to put the zip on the internal storage (at least that's the only way I know how to do it) I'm using roach CWM based 5.5.0.4, I was playing around in there and, this is where I really screwed up, wiped /system. I have adb access and I'm in recovery but there's no rom installed on the tab because of me wiping /system. The rom is on the sd card (not the internal storage labeled as sdcard, an actual sd card). I tried pushing it from adb but I was probably doing it wrong. I was looking for a way to mount the internal storage but I didn't see any. I've tried several options but none have worked so any help would be appreciated. Thanks.

so why don't you just install the rom from the microSD?
You have a 5.xxx recovery, and that allows you to install zips from microSD. Just pop that into a PC and copy the rom file on it. Select install from microsd and there you go...
PS: wiping /system doesn't format the internal storage...

zdalin2003 said:
so why don't you just install the rom from the microSD?
You have a 5.xxx recovery, and that allows you to install zips from microSD. Just pop that into a PC and copy the rom file on it. Select install from microsd and there you go...
PS: wiping /system doesn't format the internal storage...
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I have the rom on the external sd card. I tried the flash from sd and it was looking at the internal "virtual" sd card. I didn't see an option to switch to the external sd and I think there are some recoverys that use the external sd as default but I haven't been able to find one. If I did find one it would have to be an image so I could flash it through bootloader.
I was looking for a .img file to flash through bootloader but couldn't find one of those. I tried adb push to get the .zip onto the internal storage but, and I'm sure I was doing something wrong, that didn't work.

wait wait wait... just to clarify, are you using the full size sd card on the dock?
LE: what's your sbk version? if you're sbk1, you can also use nvflash

zdalin2003 said:
wait wait wait... just to clarify, are you using the full size sd card on the dock?
LE: what's your sbk version? if you're sbk1, you can also use nvflash
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I think the guy said MicroSD up there, the one you inserted on the side. But the onboard CWM only detect the internal virtual SDcard.
Now he screwed because of the full wipe prior flashing while the intended Rom was placed in the MicroSD..
Yea, if the transformer comes with B70 or below, then you can use Flash to do the magic.
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zdalin2003 said:
wait wait wait... just to clarify, are you using the full size sd card on the dock?
LE: what's your sbk version? if you're sbk1, you can also use nvflash
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no, no dock. I'm using the external micro sd.
So I finally got it to push, I renamed the file ics.zip because I didn't feel like typing out the whole file name and because I used .zip at the end the file was actually ics.zip.zip, that's why it couldn't find it.
cmd says:
C:\Transformer>adb push ics.zip /sdcard
1333 KB/s <268182367 bytes in 196.431s>
It pushed but now I just tried "choose zip from sdcard" and I got "couldn't open directory. No files found"
Edit: For some reason nothing was showing up at all on the internal storage so I rebooted back into recovery and all the files that were there before returned. I didn't see my ics.zip in there though which was odd but in searching through the folders i found an older version of a rom I flashed on there when I first rooted it. It's on the welcome screen right now.

Thanks for your input, you were most helpful.
BTW, I did research and the problem is solved now, you'd have noticed if you read.

horndroid said:
I posted at 8:27
You edited your post at 8:28
I can't read the future.
And no you didn't research anything.
Any ADB guide would tell you to push files to /data/media for internal storage, not /sdcard
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Once again, thanks for your assistance /sarcasm

horndroid said:
Any ADB guide would tell you to push files to /data/media for internal storage, not /sdcard
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Hm interesting... Why wouldnt you be able to push to /sdcard/ (notice the extra slash)?
Is that folder not mounted correctly while in recovery? Ive never tried ADB in recovery, only in android and push to /sdcard/ works just fine.
pushing anything to /sdcard does not work though (notice the lack of the extra slash). Might be my rom but doubt it since its the same on my phone and other tablet...

Like you said, /sdcard is wrong.
The correct paths are /sdcard/, /data/media, and /data/media/.
Most ADB guides posted on this forum use /data/media(/) though.

horndroid said:
So much fail in this thread.
1. Because his version of CWM doesn't support microSD
2. Since when does 5.xxx recovery support installing from MicroSD?
3. wiping /system doesn't format internal storage but it wipes out the OS so there is no OS to boot into.
The correct path for pushing files to internal storage on TF101 is /data/media
Do some friggin research before you do things, wow.
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1.&2. his version might not support it and since i'm using Rogue XM Recovery v1.3.0 (CWM-based Recovery v5.0.2.7), i just thought being v5 it would. It was just a fast answer, no need for your superiority complex.
3. *you don't say meme*

Your sarcasm doesn't work because I wasn't trying to assist.
I was just pointing out what an idiot you are.
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I think the thread would eventually solved even without your intervention.
Don't help if you don't feel to.. With your high in moron wouldn't do good for the public seeking for assistant here.
There's alot others intelligent guys around with good manner will come forward..
I respect your knowledge level but you too come from zero at some point way before in the past..
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farsight73 said:
I think the thread would eventually solved even without your intervention.
Don't help if you don't feel to.. With your high in moron wouldn't do good for the public seeking for assistant here.
There's alot others intelligent guys around with good manner will come forward..
I respect your knowledge level but you too come from zero at some point way before in the past..
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There are a lot of people like him in all the forums, it's best just to walk away. I'm not new but I wasn't thinking clearly due to lack of sleep. Also the tf101 wasn't mine, I forgot how Asus had the storage set up, and I was thinking it would have the same path whether you were booted or through ADB. I knew I screwed up, that's why I said it right in the title. Oh well, it's fixed now. The problem is that a lot of people turn developers and newbies away by acting like that.

[SOLVED] Can't mount SD Card in red or blue CWM

I'm new to the SGS4G (been rooting for years since the early CM days on my G1), so please pardon my ignorance here. I'm unable to mount my SD Card with CWM. Yes, my card is formatted as FAT32 and is known-good in other devices.
If I boot into GB (VUVKJ6), then it has no problems accessing the SD Card locally or in Mass Storage mode via USB to my PC.
To get to the point where I'm at now, I followed this (to make sure I was fully stock KJ6) and then followed this beginning at step 6 (to get CWM on there so I can flash ROMs) but I get stuck at step 11 since I can't mount SD-Card.
I've tried at various stages with both red and blue CWM without luck. I've tried simply letting it mount it itself by trying to choose an update.zip from the SD Card and I've also gone into the Mounts menu to try and manually mount it.
Any thoughts?
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UPDATE: Solution was to format the SD Card within Android and on this specific device. I had cards formatted within Android on 3 different devices and they all had this same problem.

When you are in cwm and look under mounts what does it look like...ex, ummu?
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twisted03 said:
When you are in cwm and look under mounts what does it look like...ex, ummu?
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I just went to Red CWM (which I thought handled this but I've also tried manually adjusting it). By default (when I first boot into CWM), it displays:
- unmount /cache
- mount /data
- mount /sdcard
- unmount /system
It doesn't work this way. When I go to choose my update.zip to flash, it errors:
"E:Can't mount /sdcard"
I've tried to select "mount /sdcard" in the mounts menu and it errors:
"Error mounting /sdcard!"

Jaxidian said:
I just went to Red CWM (which I thought handled this but I've also tried manually adjusting it). By default (when I first boot into CWM), it displays:
- unmount /cache
- mount /data
- mount /sdcard
- unmount /system
It doesn't work this way. When I go to choose my update.zip to flash, it errors:
"E:Can't mount /sdcard"
I've tried to select "mount /sdcard" in the mounts menu and it errors:
"Error mounting /sdcard!"
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Not to sound rude or anything but ice never ran an update.zip...are you trying to flash something?
If so try just flashing it without messing with the update.zip...
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Where does it say mount sd card in the guide or anything about update.zip? Tell us what you are trying to accomplish.

twisted03 said:
Not to sound rude or anything but ice never ran an update.zip...are you trying to flash something?
If so try just flashing it without messing with the update.zip...
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Sorry, old terminology. "An update.zip" essentially means any zip flashable in CWM whether it's a ROM, gapps, a kernel, etc.

lumin30 said:
Where does it say mount sd card in the guide or anything about update.zip? Tell us what you are trying to accomplish.
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Step 11 of this guide says: "11) Flash the GB rom you put on your sd card". When I select "install zip from sdcard" -> "choose zip from sdcard", it tells me "E:Can't mount /sdcard". I don't even get a directory structure to go find a .zip file in.
My goal: I'm simply trying to flash a ROM + GApps at this point.

Oh ok... I'm sorry never had that problem before... Then only thing I can suggest is probably start from scratch again or get and us a different sd card
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Jaxidian said:
Step 11 of this guide says: "11) Flash the GB rom you put on your sd card". When I select "install zip from sdcard" -> "choose zip from sdcard", it tells me "E:Can't mount /sdcard". I don't even get a directory structure to go find a .zip file in.
My goal: I'm simply trying to flash a ROM + GApps at this point.
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That same thing happened to me. To fix it I had to run the gremlin remover.
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Jaxidian said:
Step 11 of this guide says: "11) Flash the GB rom you put on your sd card". When I select "install zip from sdcard" -> "choose zip from sdcard", it tells me "E:Can't mount /sdcard". I don't even get a directory structure to go find a .zip file in.
My goal: I'm simply trying to flash a ROM + GApps at this point.
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Weird. I wonder if it would help if you copy all of the files from the SD card to your computer, go into Settings, SD card and phone storage, Unmount SD card, and Format SD card, if it would then read it in CWM?

falcons2 said:
That same thing happened to me. To fix it I had to run the gremlin remover.
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This will probably work the best but isn't this done with odin... If I read correctly the Op used heimdall
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Apples to apples. You mention gapps. Are you trying to get CM7 flashed? Or a custom GB ROM flashed? Gremlin Remover is a one-click odin and will work with what steps you have mentioned you took thus far.

twisted03 said:
This will probably work the best but isn't this done with odin... If I read correctly the Op used heimdall
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Yes but when you download the gremlin remover it comes with Odin all in one zip
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falcons2 said:
Yes but when you download the gremlin remover it comes with Odin all in one zip
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Ok, makes sense...i had to do the gremlin remover when cm7 gave me trouble and it worked perfect for me so i would say...nike...

For everybody mentioning gremlin, can you please hit me up with a link? I want to make sure I pull the most up-to-date one and I've not seen one recently but could have missed it.
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lumin30 said:
Apples to apples. You mention gapps. Are you trying to get CM7 flashed? Or a custom GB ROM flashed? Gremlin Remover is a one-click odin and will work with what steps you have mentioned you took thus far.
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At this point, I'm just trying to get CM7 + GApps. Doesn't matter what I'm trying to flash - Recovery can't mount the SD Card whether manually or automatically. That's the problem.
twisted03 said:
This will probably work the best but isn't this done with odin... If I read correctly the Op used heimdall
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I used Heimdall to get to stock and then was using Odin to get CWM + CM7 on there. I'm at the point where I have CWM but cannot get CM7 because of the SD Card issue.
twisted03 said:
Oh ok... I'm sorry never had that problem before... Then only thing I can suggest is probably start from scratch again or get and us a different sd card
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I have tried a few different SD Card. Same problem.
stephen_w said:
Weird. I wonder if it would help if you copy all of the files from the SD card to your computer, go into Settings, SD card and phone storage, Unmount SD card, and Format SD card, if it would then read it in CWM?
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Not tried this yet. Will try this now with a couple of the cards I've tried.

By the way, thanks everybody for trying to help me! I really do appreciate it!

stephen_w said:
Weird. I wonder if it would help if you copy all of the files from the SD card to your computer, go into Settings, SD card and phone storage, Unmount SD card, and Format SD card, if it would then read it in CWM?
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And what do you know? Of all things, this was the problem and I verified it with all 3 uSD cards I've tried! They've all been formatted via my old TBolt, a Fascinate, and Droid X and worked just fine in those devices.
Thanks for suggesting such an obvious and simple thing to try!

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1500427&highlight=thomas+raines+gremlin+remover
here is a link fir the gremlin remover

Jaxidian said:
And what do you know? Of all things, this was the problem and I verified it with all 3 uSD cards I've tried! They've all been formatted via my old TBolt, a Fascinate, and Droid X and worked just fine in those devices.
Thanks for suggesting such an obvious and simple thing to try!
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No worries; glad it worked

Please help. Same problem here. Cant mount sd card it says. What can i do?

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
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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!

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Glad I could help out!
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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.