I recently lost a lot of the data on my external SD card after restoring a CWM 6 backup from the external card. Several folders have had the first letter of their name replaced with μ (mu), the rest capitalized, and contents emptied, others are simply missing. For example "μOWNLOAD." Sadly my clockworkmod folder has become an empty "µLOCKW~1," and I had 3 backups included, most importantly my stock root backup.
I noticed that my LOST.DIR folder had 259 new random number files and is nearly 4 GB, suggesting that the files are stuck in there, but I have no idea how to figure out what is what or even if it is possible to save any of them. I tried the suggestion posted here, but nothing in the clockwork folder was found. I can pick out what I think are the 3 pairs of "system.ext4.tar.a" and "data.ext4.tar.a" files based on them being several megabytes larger than everything else, but I have no idea how to separate them or how to pick out the right "boot.img", "recovery.img", and "cache.ext4.tar.a." I'm assuming that I don't need "cache.ext4.tar,"data.ext4.tar," and "system.ext4.tar," because they all show 0 bytes in the new backup that I made on the internal card.
Does anyone have any ideas on how I might be able to save the backup?
EDIT: Also is it "safer" to keep important things on my internal or external card? I kept all of my backups on the external card specifically to avoid something like this happening during a flash or at some other time, but googling tell me that several people have had seemingly random issues with SD cards and the S3.
From my experience everything in the lost. Dir gets its file extension stripped. I had this happen to my music folder and I had to change all the files to mp3. It may be more of a pain than its worth to change every file back. And because there not all the same type who knows what file is suppose to be what
I would move any data off and reformat the card
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I had everything of import other than nandroids backed up offsite so the remaining data doesn't matter, and I expect that everything is gone, but no harm in trying.
Also, if you ever need to rename a lot of files at once again, you might want to try File Renamer Basic, it is extremely useful for batch operations like that.
Yea I just used the command line built into windows. I was surprised it had the option to do it. Ever since they stopped basing windows off Dos they got rid of some commands. I thought I was gonna have to get a live version of linux. But if there isn't anything wrong with the current rom I would just make a new backup. Format the card first before you move anything back on it
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I was having terrible battery drain when first got the phone, took out my SD-Card and now get nearly 5-6 hours screen on time!
I don't know if it was the SD-Card or the new modem/rpm (I'm still on the OTA ICS one)
but for me I use google play and I keep a copy of all my nandroids on my computer for safe keeping. and keep only the ones I need recently on the internal, and I have plenty of space left, so for me it was better to just keep the SD-Card out, it was making it hard to choose to put on sd-card or internal LOL
Maybe I've been lucky, but coming from the Droid 2 the battery life on this seems amazing (CleanROM), I have had the external card in since I bought it however.
I was mainly worried about stability issues, mainly I was always worried that a factory reset or changing roms would affect the internal card, so it would be safer to keep things on the external card.
I'm sorry if i have mistakes in this text . i'm persian . i don't know english well/
I have a solution for this problem:
I've lost my data twice. first time i thought that it is virus so i format my SD card .
this time I LOST some important data therefore i tried to get them back.
I noticed that LOST.DIR is included my data.
I connect my phone to PC (galaxy s4) then i copied all LOST.DIR files in to my PC.
then i opened one of them with windows photo viewer. ( right click -> open -> choose windows photo viwer) then i saw one of me missing photos (luckly).
however it will take a long time to take back all of your missing photos but still you will get it.
(sorry for mistakes)
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I need help, if this is the wrong place to post this then please send me a link to where I need to be.
Just updated to Bionix-V from stock JI6 using Clockwork Mod. I went by the instructions on their site and all was well... then I noticed that my sdcard was empty, kinda. It only showed one file (named: "Caution!") no matter which filer I used including Root Explorer. However, all my files and folders are still there! I can see them on my pc! The phone's internal settings show that my card is almost full (about 14GB out of 16GB, external, I hardly use the internal sdcard). Also, in the gallery, it shows all my photos from the external sdcard, yet I don't see them in the file system! Errrg. By the way, the real "coup de grace" here is that the "Caution!" folder contains the naughty pics.... Yeah I laughed too
I read somewhere that someone had a problem with double pics in the gallery, and the fix was deleting two data db or something files from the root. Hoping it's that easy.
And yes, I tried reformatting my sdcard and putting it all back on, and did a stock Odin3 (w/partition) and back to Bionix-V, no help.
Please, help me. Thank you all.
Like all tech things in life, as soon as I give up and ask for help, I figure it out.
The filers all had a home setting, I always had it set to the sdcard root (i.e. /sd),
it was set to /sd/caution! even though it was IN the caution! folder it acted like it was outside of it. I reset the home again to the sdcard root, which was /sd, now it is /external_sd. Gotta love the tiny differences that make all the difference in the world. Still not sure why it decided to only show my naughty folder...
Thank you all, I know no one got a chance to reply yet, but I'm sure you'd have all helped!!!
Hello everyone...
I have recently switched from crackberry to android, about 6-8 weeks ago...
Since then I have perm-rooted + s-offed, flashed about 10 roms (sometimes the same ROM more than once) etc...
I have noticed that throughout this "learning how to screw things up" period, my sdcard has become nothing short of a train wreck...
I am going to transfer the files I want to keep over to my PC and format my card...
My question is:
Should I format my card via the PC or through the recovery console?
Additionally, should i reserve some space for swap or does android not utilize swap?
Also, should the card be just one large partition or should i break it down into a few different ones (system/personal/etc)?
Thank you all in advamce for your input!
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KrnlPanic said:
Hello everyone...
I have recently switched from crackberry to android, about 6-8 weeks ago...
Since then I have perm-rooted + s-offed, flashed about 10 roms (sometimes the same ROM more than once) etc...
I have noticed that throughout this "learning how to screw things up" period, my sdcard has become nothing short of a train wreck...
I am going to transfer the files I want to keep over to my PC and format my card...
My question is:
Should I format my card via the PC or through the recovery console?
Additionally, should i reserve some space for swap or does android not utilize swap?
Also, should the card be just one large partition or should i break it down into a few different ones (system/personal/etc)?
Thank you all in advamce for your input!
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As long as the main partition is FAT32 you can format it on an old Windows 95 computer.
Recommend formatting in the computer. A usb card reader is the best way, preferred would be one that only does MicroSD and not a multi- card reader.
One large partition is the right answer, don't try to get too creative, you'll end up outsmarting yourself.
At this time, I don't think there are any apps that need creative partitioning of the sdcard to run, so you should be good.
I also recommend that you see about picking up a class 10 MicroSD card, it will make a noticable difference in speed when accessing the card with the phone. (Playing a movie, game with sdcard files, etc...)
Make sure to always properly eject the MicroSD card from the computer before removing it, especially when you plug the phone into the computer. I've already permanently broken 2 MicroSD cards in the MT4GS by removing prematurely.
When flashing a ROM you will stay with for a while, what I like to do is insert the MicroSD card into the computer with a MicroSD reader, format the card, and put only the ROM install file on it.
Then I put it in my powered-off phone, boot to recovery, then flash the ROM.
This let's the ROM create all the files on the SDcard fresh, and helps keep you from having a mess all over the place.
I'm moving the contents of a storage unit today, and not the driver, so I'll check back here and there while we're on the road.
Hope this helps you get started, what operating system are you using on the computer? That may help to give you advice.
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Wow as usual Blue6IX...
I am running windows 7, Server 2008 r2 and slackware.
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*Thank you for the brilliant ROM Blue6IX
Okay, I haven't moved past windows XP, and i'm moving away from the windows line at this point. I've had some limited experience with win7, but i'm not too interested in investing the time to move forward in that direction.
Besides getting a dedicated MicroSD USB card reader (I have a handful of SanDisk ones) I'd also recommend getting an extra MicroSD card too.
Doesn't have to be big or fast, just a backup.
I carry my phone is a zipper-case that was for a camera. Still slim enough to fit in my pocket nicely, and keeps dirt and dust out of my phone.
It has an outside pocket, and I keep a spare MicroSD card that is freshly formatted, with only the zip for my ROM install and my most recent Clockworkmod backup on it.
I figure this way if something bad happens to my phone in the field, I have an un-corrupted clean "rescue disk" - a rescue MicroSD card.
I can (worst case scenario) power off the phone, put the clean MicroSD card in, then boot to Clockworkmod and either re-flash the ROM itself, or restore my most recent Clockworkmod backup.
(okay, I keep a few other backed-up files on it, like pictures and so forth, but it's an 8 gig card so I have the space)
Something else cool about this practice is it gets you familiar with cycling backups and maintaining a current one. You have to copy the backup to the card, forcing you to stop and deal with it - making you more used to backing up your data and making it a more intuitive process. You also end up with more then one copy of your backup
(usually 3 - one on the phone, one on the memory card, and one on a computer. Bonus points for burning a disk - and I always copy over to a flash drive too)
I'm big on backups, so it's only natural for me but doing something like this is good advice for everyone.
Thank you for the information, Blue... I currently have back ups on my sdcard, a stock Rom on my sdcard as well as my PC and my cloud storage (just in case)...
I think i'll wipe my card today...
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Woohoo! Fresh sdcard... Only an 8gb but I am back to 5.6gb free...
The only other question I have, well 2 actually are:
When performing my nandroid back up I get the following message:
"error backing up sd-ext...not found" (something to that extent)
The second question is in terminal, when I do 'df' all my file system block sizes are 4096, my sdcard block size is 32768...
To me it makes sense that my sdcard block size should match my OS block size, no?
(I'm a complete noob so please, correct me where I'm wrong)
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Sd-ext is a holdover from "app2sd" - nothing to worry about.
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KrnlPanic said:
Woohoo! Fresh sdcard... Only an 8gb but I am back to 5.6gb free...
The only other question I have, well 2 actually are:
When performing my nandroid back up I get the following message:
"error backing up sd-ext...not found" (something to that extent)
The second question is in terminal, when I do 'df' all my file system block sizes are 4096, my sdcard block size is 32768...
To me it makes sense that my sdcard block size should match my OS block size, no?
(I'm a complete noob so please, correct me where I'm wrong)
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We don't have A2SD yet, just buggy symlinks between /data/app and /sdcard/.android-secure.
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I'm not a person that loads up my phone with frivolous apps. In life I try and keep a simple approach, less is more, less clutter, less baggage, use things how they were made instead of weighing them down with accessories and mods, you know? Not that I'm against a few choice mods, but by and large, I keep it simple.
So it is quite shocking to me when my Photon Q displays the following error messages and refuses to even let me down load a 200kb app due to lack of storage space on internal memory.
This happened after I did a CWM backup. But obviously there are other factors at play. First of all, someone dev'ing for this phone should seriously look into the internal/external memory issues and try to break the chains. It is ridiculous.
Second of all, why is CWM taking up so much room on my phone with backups? Can I delete all these "blobs"? What can I keep and what should I delete over time when doing CWM backups?
Notice the 2 different errror messages: Low on volume space (phone space is getting low) and Low on space (phone storage space is getting low)
What are you guys doing personally on a day to day basis to deal with this issue? What do you recommend?
TIA
I've been using TWRP rather than CWM, but backups do take up a lotta space... I have one here that is 804 MB- getting close to a whole GB just for 1 backup. I personally try to keep only one or two backups on my internal storage, i'm not sure if CWM can read backups from the actual sdcard, but you can transfer them there for storage at least. it is a pain tho. I also hate how your whole storage gets erased when you do a full stock restore with RSD Lite.... it was much easier when when all your pics and files were stored on an actual sdcard.
I backup to the external SD card.
And the whole external/internal thing has been addressed in quite a few threads.
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And the whole external/internal thing has been addressed in quite a few threads.
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That's debatable.
matt2k12 said:
That's debatable.
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1887631
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2008517
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1877031
And I know it's not in our section, but it was referenced in our section...
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2231480
I believe I read somewhere not long after the Q was released and we got CWM ported to it that the latest versions now do incremental backups....the 'blobs' are the side effect of that if you will. If you delete them you effectively are deleting your backups. And yeah, you do need to make sure you're backing up to external storage rather than the phone storage given the limited space there unfortunately.
I personally use TWRP and backup to the external SD but i also noticed that the backups are big. I play with different mods and roms all the time so i keep several copies of backups on my computer. you can just copy/move them off the SD for archiving reasons and keep only what you need on the device. I think the same can be said for CWM backups but i havent used it in a while.
Mordannon said:
I personally use TWRP and backup to the external SD but i also noticed that the backups are big. I play with different mods and roms all the time so i keep several copies of backups on my computer. you can just copy/move them off the SD for archiving reasons and keep only what you need on the device. I think the same can be said for CWM backups but i havent used it in a while.
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I moved my backups but still. Google must come up with a remedy for their "Internal Storage Only" deal. Some games are 2 gigs. Install 2 games and you dont even have room for other apps or back ups. Pretty ridiculous. Hopefully CM 10.1 devs can do something about it.
Howdie,
I was wondering if Someone would and could tell me a couple of things about my phone. Or at least point me in the right direction..
- I need to find a way to move or copy the texts from my phone to my computer and have access to the texts, say, as pictures. In the past I have taken screenshots of each person's texts, well, let me tell you, there was a whole heck of a lot of screenshots. I need to find a way to keep them and be able to access them from my computer, in some way. I downloaded the backup and restore, but I do not know how to actually get them onto my computer.
- I was wondering also, if someone could and would tell me how to figure out if and what is on the internal memory of the phone and what is on the SD card. I have no idea how to figure that out.
Thank you ahead of time for taking time to read this and hopefully getting back to me. Thank you again for any and all the assistance you can and will give. K
Bearkins1969 said:
Howdie,
Or at least point me in the right direction..
K
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Please wait until mods will move this thread to the device specific forum.
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As to the first question, there should be some apps to do that, I'll let someone who knows more on that chime in.
As to the 2nd, the Nexus 5 does not have an SD card. Everything is on the internal memory of the phone.
For your text message backup issue, I've used this app in the past with very good results in the past. It backs up your messages to a seperate GMail folder and is also able to restore them. You should be able to see the messages on your PC in GMail.
For your second question, being that the Nexus 5 does not have an SD card slot all of your data is in the internal memory. Now, there is a folder within the memory that acts as an SD card, usually the path for this is /sdcard, and then inside this folder you have all of your other folders with your data.
Another way to look at it is that in the memory inside your phone there are a lot of folders such as data, system, root, config, sdcard, etc. When you plug your phone into your computer, what you see are the contents of the folder 'sdcard'. So if you plug your phone in and you can see whatever it is you're looking for there while your phone is connected, then it's on your "SD card". If you do not, then it's on the "Internal Memory". Things that'll be on your /sdcard folder will be things such as pictures, downloads, music, etc. Things that will be in the other folders that are not directly shown to you would be the OS, apk files, config files, etc.
Let me know if you have any more questions.
I recently had some problems with my SD Card, so I am not sure if it will fail some time soon. I've been in need of a backup plan for some time now so I want to know how you handle your backups.
Right now I'm thinking of automated backups to my NAS when I'm at home, but I'm not sure how to realize that. I don't really need any fancy stuff like multiple revisions, just the most recent version of every file on my sd card backed up while using the least storage space possible.
Is it smarter to use some kind of disk image file to store the files or is just having the whole file/folder structure duplicated better? Which type of backup would be faster or has an app available that's supporting it?
Here you go (I personally use the cable to backup my media but you can try the others if you want)
https://www.wondershare.com/android/backup-sd-card-android.html
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