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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.
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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....

[TOOL]::DARKSIDE::SUPER::WIPE::[SKYROCKET][ext4][2.8.2012]

*WARNING! I Am Not Responsible For Anything That Happens To Your Device*​​
** PLEASE BE AWARE! THIS SCRIPT IS FOR "T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II" WILL ALSO WORK ON "AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket" ONLY! IF YOU FLASH THIS ON ANY OTHER DEVICE YOU MIGHT HAVE A VERY EXPENSIVE PAPER WEIGHT! YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED! PLEASE CONTACT ME FIRST IF ANY OTHER QUESTIONS **​
:: DARKSIDE.SUPER.WIPE ::​
..A DARKSIDE DEVELOPMENT..​
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This is a small script i threw together a while back. I have incorporated in many of my ROMS, usually runs with a installation flag '-wipe'. The script does exactly as the title explains. It is SUPER.WIPE that does the most thorough wipe possible. This exceeds anything that CWM is capable of from the menu options. This will format and erase EVERYTHING on your /system, /data, /cache partions with EXT4 file system. It WILL NOT wipe SD CARD or EMMC... After it is complete with format and earse, it will align all disks partitions properly. This is a great tool to flash right before installing any new ROM on your device. No need to worry if you have wiped properly. Let the script do it for you! ENJOY! ​
Instructions on using DARKSIDE.SUPER.WIPE:
* WILL NOT WIPE SD CARD OR EMMC *
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1. Place on ROOT of your SD card.
2. Boot into Recovery Mode
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you underestimate the power of the DARKSIDE

for more???? probably not!

sounds interesting will download and try on my next Rom flash
now i see what it does but what is the ultimate true benefit of using this and not clockmod

bori1030 said:
sounds interesting will download and try on my next Rom flash
now i see what it does but what is the ultimate true benefit of using this and not clockmod
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this will format and erase EVERYTHING on your /system, /data, /cache partions with EXT4 file system. It WILL NOT wipe SD CARD or EMMC... After it is complete with format and earse, it will align all disks partitions properly.
This is not ground breaking material. Just does a more thorough wipe and will align disk properly after formatting partitons.

I used this on my last flash and it worked great! Thanks for bringing it to the skyrocket.
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"and will align disk properly after formatting partitions"
For my own curiosity, why is this important after wiping?

I was just reading about this...Thanks for bringing it over for us Skyrocket users!
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orlandoxpolice said:
"and will align disk properly after formatting partitions"
For my own curiosity, why is this important after wiping?
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If the partition alignment for is "xx" bytes off. It will cause major performance issues. Etc...

Works great been using other version a while im guessing they are the same or close to? i think the one im using is from Tmobile? either way thanks again.

blessedswine said:
Works great been using other version a while im guessing they are the same or close to? i think the one im using is from Tmobile? either way thanks again.
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Yeah the same..
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Im sorry but what do you exactly mean by "It WILL NOT wipe SD CARD or EMMC..."
Is this a good or a bad thing?? do we want this two things mentioned above wiped or not?
Thank you.

r3dp0is0n2012 said:
Im sorry but what do you exactly mean by "It WILL NOT wipe SD CARD or EMMC..."
Is this a good or a bad thing?? do we want this two things mentioned above wiped or not?
Thank you.
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Well I would think you wouldn't. Your SD card and internal SD card aka emmc has all you pictures and other personal junk.. so we don't wipe those
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He means your pics and music from internal or external sd card won't be gone.
Just use this when you are doing clean flash i used it and it works. Not to be an a** but i had idea about creating this wipe.zip but i suck at coding. Tried contacting someone where the idea came from never got pm back but You sir saved us. Thank You.
r3dp0is0n2012 said:
Im sorry but what do you exactly mean by "It WILL NOT wipe SD CARD or EMMC..."
Is this a good or a bad thing?? do we want this two things mentioned above wiped or not?
Thank you.
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So is the 3e recovery wipe process in the fix force close thread still helpful to do too or does this give you the same result?
Also would it be even better to format sd cards along with flashing this? Or is there not really any additional benefit of that?

THis and 3e recovery is completely different. We have problem with CWM not wiping data correctly therefore file corruption happens. By formatting ur sdcard you will lose everything that's in there. No need to do format sd card. Just flash this when you are doing fresh rom installation.
onearmedscissor said:
So is the 3e recovery wipe process in the fix force close thread still helpful to do too or does this give you the same result?
Also would it be even better to format sd cards along with flashing this? Or is there not really any additional benefit of that?
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I've used this script since the day tdj brought it to t-mo version with great results.
Thank you TheDerekJay for sharing this with skyrocket, very cool.
The force is strong in this one
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Why when click dl link it opens up cwm?
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You mean rom manager if yes that's because its .zip file.
nap286 said:
Why when click dl link it opens up cwm?
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thederekjay just wanted to say thank you. Your script worked beautifully, although the pause during the wipe did make my heart skip a beat.
~PsyCl0ne

Yes!!! Finally one for the skyrocket been using superwipe and fullwipe for my desirehd. Glad to see there is one for skyrocket now
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[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

Will erasing Internal Storage in TWRP give me any issues with flashing?

I might have to do this because my files are everywhere, and possibly to have a clean start. I'm backing things up, but if I wipe internal storage, will it give me an issue if I try to flash a rom and gapps?

I believe this will delete your recovery too so you will have to push your recovery back on to your phone using adb.
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Recon0212 said:
I might have to do this because my files are everywhere, and possibly to have a clean start. I'm backing things up, but if I wipe internal storage, will it give me an issue if I try to flash a rom and gapps?
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If you wipe data in twrp it wipes the internal card now.
Learned this the hard way that they fixed it. Thankfully I don't keep anything important on their and keep it on my external card.
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I accidently wiped my internal storage on my S3 and don't have an SD card. Can I flash a new ROM using my PC? Or am I ****ed?

DroidNewbcake said:
I accidently wiped my internal storage on my S3 and don't have an SD card. Can I flash a new ROM using my PC? Or am I ****ed?
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Yes, you can side load a ROM that's downloaded on your PC, or you can push a ROM to your internal storage with ADB. There's definitely a few guides on how to do it in this forum.
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Yeah. Wiping and formatting your /system or any internal directories is lovely for a fresh and stable start... just need to have a ROM on your eternal SD card, haha. I've done this several time, forgetting about having a ROM to flash afterwards. LOL.

Just get an external card, have the ROM and flash it from there. Makes everything way easier!

Formating data question

Why do i have to it wen changing roms? And wat does it do? I just do factory reset. But dev. Ask to format data
would it erase my whole internal memory?

twistedillutions said:
Why do i have to it wen changing roms? And wat does it do? I just do factory reset. But dev. Ask to format data
would it erase my whole internal memory?
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It depended on the rom you're flashing and the state you're in. If you have no issue and just flash a rom factory reset (same as wipe data) is good enough, but in some case where you have issue with the OS, you may need to wipe data and format SD to get rid of all the corruption and bad residuals left behind by other roms.

buhohitr said:
It depended on the rom you're flashing and the state you're in. If you have no issue and just flash a rom factory reset (same as wipe data) is good enough, but in some case where you have issue with the OS, you may need to wipe data and format SD to get rid of all the corruption and bad residuals left behind by other roms.
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Ok thanks clearing it up for me. Should i move some of my stuff ftom internal to external to be on the safe side wen formating?

twistedillutions said:
Ok thanks clearing it up for me. Should i move some of my stuff ftom internal to external to be on the safe side wen formating?
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If they located on the internal memory then you should, no doubt, if you store your data on sd card then you're OK.

buhohitr said:
If they located on the internal memory then you should, no doubt, if you store your data on sd card then you're OK.
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Ok.
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twistedillutions said:
Ok.
Off topic ur all over the place helping ppl.. Thats i like this place ppl helping ppl
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