About a week ago I finally got around to rooting my phone.
Right after root I did a nandroid, then unlocked the boot loader.
Then using droidstyles guide I flashed aokp jb, no issues with the flash.
The thing I noticed after getting my phone at up is that my memory is way lower than when it was stock.
Before I rooted, with all my apps installed my remaining memory was around 9.7 gb, now it's about 5.
I've also tried other roms out, all end up the same. Just wondering what's going on. I noticed in one of the jb rom threads it says something about converting to fat32 is that for the internal memory or external sd card.
Any ideas how to fix this? Thanks
Ok well after cleaning up my internal storage free from junk files, downloads that I don't need and you may roms, I'm almost back to the normal range.....
Using root exp what path is it to nandroid? I have 3 on there and really only want stock root for now.
Thanks
/sdcard/clockworkmod
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/sdcard/clockworkmod
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Found it, I can't tell them apart, the dates are far from being right so I guess they will just stay put incase they are needed.
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At this point I've tried every method of flashing, and every version of cwmr. No matter what version or method I use, after about a week, I lose the ability to flash any roms that I havnt already flashed. I also can only restore certain backups due to.an MD5 mismatch. Has anyone else had these issues?
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hey, unfortunately i cant help you. I havent even been able to flash cm7 once. always boot loop.
md5 sums are giving me mismatch with some the original restore (nandroid) from this post http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1048274
Yea, a guy In the cm7 thread its going to post a dl that worked for him so ill try that one and let u guys know as far as cm7 goes.
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I just want to revert to stock so I can get a replacement lol... maybe if you have one I can try :-/ I just deleted mine by accident (read the dates wrong)
mt3g said:
I just want to revert to stock so I can get a replacement lol... maybe if you have one I can try :-/ I just deleted mine by accident (read the dates wrong)
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Download the stock with root and use one click root to unroot after that use one click recovery and pick stock. Than hard reset your back on tmobile out the box stock
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At this point I've tried every method of flashing, and every version of cwmr. No matter what version or method I use, after about a week, I lose the ability to flash any roms that I havnt already flashed. I also can only restore certain backups due to.an MD5 mismatch. Has anyone else had these issues?
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No issues like this. I reverted back to other roms more than once and it worked everytime. No mismatch error
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charlieb620 said:
Download the stock with root and use one click root to unroot after that use one click recovery and pick stock. Than hard reset your back on tmobile out the box stock
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Ya I downloaded it and everything and tried different ways and it wont let restore, just says md5 sums mismatched tried 2 sdcards and downloading them in root of sd card and directly in the CWM/restore folder. still a no go, but I can restore other backups and flsh roms. just not the one i need.
Probably won't get to it till thursday or so, but im going to try and go back to completely stock, reroot, reflash cwr, flash cm7. Otherwise im getting a replacement...
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The dl posted in another thread for me failed as well. I also had an intense the other day where all my partitions were completely wiped. It took 3 hours to finally get nv flash to flash cwr and flash a rom.
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crx4xharder said:
Probably won't get to it till thursday or so, but im going to try and go back to completely stock, reroot, reflash cwr, flash cm7. Otherwise im getting a replacement...
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I have a feeling im going to return another one thatll make 4
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My SD was bad! Reformatted in cwr, then in settings SD and storage... dl cm7, and flashed. Just remember to copy ALL the contents of your sdcard cause formatting WILL DELETE EVERYTHING!
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Ok if anyone is still having problems, id like to mention that I exchanged my 5 year old 2g simcard yesterday for a new one, and bought a new 16gb class 4 sandisk sdcard, and EVERYTHING is working great! so far maybe only 2 or 3 occurrences of data loss, easily corrected with a battery pull. And I borked some lib files trying to get the camcorder to work. So I installed the kanged version update-cm-7.1.0-RC0-G2x-KANG-signed.zip overtop of my build to get the rom to boot again, and now the camcorder works! Maybe only about 15fps but works nonetheless...
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Running clean lite Rom. Went into recovery to flash the dim button mod and my sd card is wiped... Wasn't when I put it on the sd card two seconds before... I'm pissed. Backups and everything gone... Wtf???
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Are you using CWM by any chance? Also in one of Scott's threads, (I cant remember which one CleanROM DE 2.2 I think) someone used a data recovery program to get it back.
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Are you using CWM by any chance? Also in one of Scott's threads, (I cant remember which one CleanROM DE 2.2 I think) someone used a data recovery program to get it back.
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Yes I'm using cwm... Is it the culprit??? I'm so mad... Everything is gone
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Are you using CWM by any chance? Also in one of Scott's threads, (I cant remember which one CleanROM DE 2.2 I think) someone used a data recovery program to get it back.
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So... CWM was a turd on the OG, and still is? I only gave it one chance to screw me, which it did, then I moved to Amon Ra, and was forever happy afterwards...
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Yup, a lot of people have been having that with cwm. It has been recommended by scott and some others that you use TWRP
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1677447
It still has bugs but no where near as bad as the data loss that seems to be happening on CWM
WOW!!!! i had no idea!!! well twrp is what i will be using from now on, thank you very much for letting me know, i had a couple beers and when this happend... well i was a little dumb founded.... lol gonna flash twrp. thanks a million guys!!
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So... CWM was a turd on the OG, and still is? I only gave it one chance to screw me, which it did, then I moved to Amon Ra, and was forever happy afterwards...
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Amon RA FTW. I loved that recovery. Now I'm in love with TWRP
too bad our twrp have issue with adb
the cwm have.that.fixed
so ifyou use twrp makesure you put.the.rom.onyour.sd.before wipe.system
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Funny I flashed cwm about six times today on six different phones without losing anything , hmmmm... Wow that's amazing
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Funny I flashed cwm about six times today on six different phones without losing anything , hmmmm... Wow that's amazing
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After re-reading your snark, it occurred to me that flashing the recovery wasn't the issue. Flashing the mod was. Weird that it took a few beers to make it clear...
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too bad our twrp have issue with adb
the cwm have.that.fixed
so ifyou use twrp makesure you put.the.rom.onyour.sd.before wipe.system
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TWRP has adb now, the official is right from team win.
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Ive flashed a rom every day for the last week or so and havnt lost any sd card data. Guess Ill switch over to TWRP just in case until CWM is either fixed or confirmed thats its something else.
I had the same problem with TWRP, it was quite the shock :-(
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I had the same problem with TWRP, it was quite the shock :-(
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Same here.
I keep everything in the Android folder I found when it wipes this folder is untouched might want to give it a try..
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I've had this happen on cwm not the entire sdcard but random items or folders. But what I have noticed is that it's not happening after the flash its actually happening after I mount as disc drive then unmount went back and checked before flashing and things were missing.
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Anyway to get back the lost data?? I mounted as usb in recovery, put the file dim button mod. On my isb, unmount and my sd card was wiped, only two folders left on it...
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I doubt this is a CWM problem IMO, I am using TWRP and I have this problem too, for me this has happened 3 times so far, and always after mounting in ubuntu (I always umount and eject). 1st time it deleted few tibu files, later a major part of pics, zips and tibu. Latest yesterday. Lucky I use unison and sync my files...
Wondering what it is?
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Flashed maybe 5 times or so using CWM, various builds of CleanROM, and also rooted deodexed 1.85. Every time was fine, except the latest time where I lost a bunch of random folders and files. All my music was gone, but folder still there. CleanROM mods folder not there. Titanium Backup folder gone. Couple photos and videos were corrupted, but files still there. Lots of stuff ended up in the LOST.DIR folder (randomly renamed).
At some point had mounted to a Windows PC to sync music. Not sure if the corruption/missing files happened before or after that.
Luckily, I had backed up most stuff fairly recently to my PC. Mostly due to the fact that one user on the CleanROM thread had posted that his whole SD card wiped somehow while flashing. I only lost a couple photos, and not anything I was interested in trying to recover.
As the cause is not yet known (and seems to be on TWRP and CWM), I'd recommend backing up anything you don't want to lose, before flashing anything. Especially the Titanium folder, and anything not replaceable and of sentimental value (like photos).
I had this happen, and I too think it is more of an issue with transferring files over USB and then not properly unmounting the device before unplugging or something like that. At any rate, I used Piriform's Recuva software to recover my files. Found everything, all my pics and videos, and zip files, etc... And it is free.
Run the scan ASAP as transferring files over to the device could start to overwrite the "deleted" stuff.
I was on CM10 and i felt like checking out the OTA jelly bean update. I figured the easiest way was through a custom rom. The one i picked was Stock Rally or something like that. Anyway, i flashed it and when it installed the boot.img it wiped my entire internal storage. I knew flashing a boot.img wipes the storage but i didnt know this ROM would flash one. I managed to put everything back the way i had it when my messaging app started to force close. I reinstalled the zip thinking it would restore the default messaging app. When it got to the boot.img part it took unusually long again. Wouldnt you know, it wiped my internal storage again. How does this happen if it was the same boot.img?? Im extremely frustrated because now i have to take another 2 hours to get my phone back to the way it was. Can someone please explain how this could happen and if theres an easier way to go to the official OTA without wiping my internal storage again?
How are you flashing it?
Edit: I just checked it the ROM. I can now explain your problem. You downloaded the THE WIPE VERSION. It clearly says that version will wipe your internal hard drive. To fix it DOWNLOAD THE NO WIPE VERSION.
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Yup. Learn to read more carefully
Thanks dude, I should've noticed that. Not sure why anyone would make a ROM that wipes your storage though lol
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Thanks dude, I should've noticed that. Not sure why anyone would make a ROM that wipes your storage though lol
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Not a problem. Well some people like a clean start. I do if having problems.
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well i attempted to get the phone to stock cause with all the different roms i tried, app data clogged my storages... i used the guide here:http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1088728 turned out that it doesnt delete extra app data
so i decided to do this:http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1590523. it said to flash gb rom first to access sd card. I couldnt find a stock rom so i decided to flash this just for shts and giggles: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1412046
turns out the internal storage isnt accessable so im like ef this and just went to jb:http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1915388.
but just my luck... its not working yet again. the internal storage just doesnt show up. can anyone help me out? I really just wanna put it back because i just got a htc one x and this will eventually go to my sis. any help?
Look here nvflash back to stock all the guides and instructions don't worry about anything else tell you've used nvflash
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=13171419
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I am following this guide:
http://theunlockr.com/2012/05/22/root-samsung-galaxy-s-4g/
When it gets to the part saying it is updating the firmware in Kies, it keeps failing. I have done a few factory resets but I just can't get past this. I know I need to be on GB so I can easily get root and install CWM. Is there a way to install GB via ODIN so I can get this thing rooted+recovery?
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And after this last attempt, it decided to work. lol. Well, it was probably cause I re-installed the Samsung drivers on the same page I downloaded Kies mini.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1500427
Odin oneclick to rooted GB with CWM
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1500427
Odin oneclick to rooted GB with CWM
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Well, I got it rooted with CWM recovery, but I am unable to do a backup. It is unable to mount the SD card. I am following this guide now:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=21953587&postcount=1
I am trying to use the Basic with a twist kernel.
That program doesn't play nice with Odin....
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That program doesn't play nice with Odin....
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I haven't tired the 1 click odin yet, but am downloading now. Hoping that will fix my issue.
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That program doesn't play nice with Odin....
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It's not Heimdall. It's the people using it. I got both on my comp and have no issues.
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It's not Heimdall. It's the people using it. I got both on my comp and have no issues.
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I am just repeating what many others have said. For me both work as well. After about an hour of panic, but they both will work just fine for me.
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I am just repeating what many others have said. For me both work as well. After about an hour of panic, but they both will work just fine for me.
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I guess that link to the guide was misleading. I am not using Heimdall either. I got root using the super one click in that guide, and then used SGS kernel flasher to flash kernel+CWM. Then when I went to CWM it wont mount SD card so I can't do a backup or flash a new ROM.
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I think that part of the problem is CWM wants to mount /sdcard (as it should) but my sdcard is showing up as /mnt/sdcard so how can I fix this?
What do you mean it won't mount? If you go to backup it gives you that error? What version of CWM is it?
Never had that problem before... can I be one of those tech support people and ask if you are sure that you SD card is in. And have you tried putting the desired ROM on the internal phone storage
Edit: can you or can you not access your files on your SD card in cwm?
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Never had that problem before... can I be one of those tech support people and ask if you are sure that you SD card is in. And have you tried putting the desired ROM on the internal phone storage
Edit: can you or can you not access your files on your SD card in cwm?
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No, I am completely unable to access the SD card in CWM. I just ran gremlin remover, so I am going to try again with sgs kernel flasher. I will try the other kernel this time.
Don't know what ROM I want to use yet. I was hoping to find a good JB rom, but looks like there is no wifi on them yet. Any good ICS roms available?
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And yes, the sd card was installed. I was able to access it when I would let the phone boot into android, then it was at /mnt/sdcard but /sdcard was showing the voodoo folder.
Right now I have the red text CWM after flashing with ODIN. Gonna try a backup and then go flash a different kernel.
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Ok, right after the ODIN flash I am still unable to access the SD card in CWM. Maybe I have a bad SD card. I will try another.
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Ok, so this is a SD card problem. I stuck in a blank 1GB SD card and had android format it. Then I put the kernel I wanted on it and rebooted into recovery, I was then able to access the SD Card and run a backup. I will backup my original SD card and then stick it in the phone to have it formatted, and hopefully I will be good to go after that.
OH, and still wondering what a good stable ICS rom might be, or whatever are good stable/fast.
Thanks.
Beastmode's CM9 seemed to work great for me. I am running his slim bean 4.1.2 which has WiFi but not GPS or camcorder.
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There's supposed to be a redirect from /sdcard to /mnt/sdcard that I've noticed when using several apps like Ghost Commander. Your main choices are either to make it yourself or to backup and reformat your SD card, especially if other SD cards work fine...
Well, I decided to go with Valahalla BlackEdition since I need a rom where everything works, and this one looks like all the bugs are worked out.
Thanks for all the help here guys!