I went from 4.2.1 back to a TW rom, and was able to repair the filesystem by copying everything in the 0 folder and merging it with the SDCard0.
However, now I want to go back to 4.2.1 and flash the latest AOKP build. When I did it, it did not recognize anything that was on my internal sd card. In fact, it only thought that I had 12gb of storage on my internal sdcard instead of 16gb. Why is this happeneing? I restored my TW rom and saw that AOKP had created the new 0 folder with nothing in it (which I know is normal), but why doesn't the 4.2.1 rom recognize anything I have on my device's internal storage? Why didn't it transfer everything to this new 0 folder like it did last time?
Do I need to rename the Sdcard before flashing back to 4.2.1?
Any help would be great. I've searched around and was unable to find a solution that solved this, however I could just be confused.
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I finally tried to update from 4.1.2 to 4.2.1 build 5 the other day, and was outraged when my internal sd (/sdcard) appeared blank. That's right, all my pictures, videos, downloads, everything, gone.. Even after restoring back to 4.1.2, nothing.
However, when booting into TWRP and going to the file explorer, and navigating to /sdcard, all my old files appear there.. Thanks to TWRP I was able to copy over my old internal SD card files to my external. However, I can't seem to find the place that AOKP now seems to think is my internal SD. Somehow /mnt/sdcard is pointing to a different place in my internal storage now and I cannot determine where.
Does anyone know what happened? Why does TWRP and AOKP find two complete different locations for \mnt\sdcard? How to I make AOKP point to where it used to?
if im understanding correctly this is completely normal.
youre stuff is moved to somewhere else. cant remember the file path. hopefully someone can psot it up.
check the OPs of the 4.2.2 threads and do a search its orobably pretty easy to find.
Its not moved. When you flash a 4.2.2 ROM it makes a "0" folder on your internal. It will only read from there. Anything not in that 0 folder will not be read. It has to do with the multi user support in 4.2.x from what I've read.
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Thanks guys. With your responses I was able to find this:
http://teamw.in/androidmultiuser
It explains the situation. I completely skipped over the 0 folder. It just looked like some stupid temp directory. Case closed.
Alrighty, so I know that going from ics to a jb rom it moves your internal storage to /0/ or /emulated(I don't have my phone in front of me right now, so I don't know exactly what it is)
But I was wondering if there was a way to move everything to where it is normally on a jb rom
Reason behind this question is because if I go to /0/ there's another /0/0/ etc...
It's just getting confusing.
Maybe a script that moves everything?
Or would it be easier to back everything up and just to a complete internal wipe etc.. on it?
Thanks!
If it's just for convenience, then you could just move the folder, change the owner and permissions back to default and rename it. On my GS3, the location is /storage/sdcard0, but it's not a big deal because I have /sdcard linked to /storage/sdcard0.
I have a p5113 galaxy tab 2 originally running jb 4.1.1. I upgraded to cyanogenmod 10.1 jb 4.2.2....i don't know much about how the sd card setup works but when I use root explorer I can see my sd card and my external sd. When I was flashing the rom again I notices that what is usually the highest level of the file system isn't really the highest level. in other words what is usually /system is actually /0/system and there are other files at the same level as the /0 file. The files appear to me to be the left over bits from the previous os... In other words they are the /sdcard/android/ and sd/card/pictures type files.... I'm concerned that they are taking up space... How do u get access to these files and is if safe to remove them?
I know this want the most articulate explanation of the problem but I hope I explained it well enough..... It's like I have an sdcard directory containing my root directory. If that's the way the rom works that's fine, but I would like to remove the extra files to get more space
kemmycupid said:
I have a p5113 galaxy tab 2 originally running jb 4.1.1. I upgraded to cyanogenmod 10.1 jb 4.2.2....i don't know much about how the sd card setup works but when I use root explorer I can see my sd card and my external sd. When I was flashing the rom again I notices that what is usually the highest level of the file system isn't really the highest level. in other words what is usually /system is actually /0/system and there are other files at the same level as the /0 file. The files appear to me to be the left over bits from the previous os... In other words they are the /sdcard/android/ and sd/card/pictures type files.... I'm concerned that they are taking up space... How do u get access to these files and is if safe to remove them?
I know this want the most articulate explanation of the problem but I hope I explained it well enough..... It's like I have an sdcard directory containing my root directory. If that's the way the rom works that's fine, but I would like to remove the extra files to get more space
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I have a Sprint Galaxy s3. I was on a touchwiz based ROM. I flashed over to a CM. 10.2 ROM. I knew that my internal storage would be wiped so i put all my goods on the external sd card. When I booted up into the CM rom,I went to my file manager. I went to the "Storage" folder and saw a folder called Emulated, as well as the sdcard0 and sdcard1 folders. I noticed that the emulated folder had the "0" folder inside of it. I deleted it, not knowing the tragedy that would happen. Then I noticed the real ExtSdcard was empty. I died when this happened. Why did this happen? I tried downloading a file recovery, Recuva to be exact, but it couldn't recover anything as well as Recover files, Stellar Phoenix and Dumpster, .Are there better file recoveries that anyone can recommend? Am I SOL ? If anything had to be recovered first, it would be my music. I haven't put anything on the ext Sdcard since it would possibly overwrite the data of my precious files. Is there anything else I can do to get them back?:crying:
Edit- I found another recovery tool that worked at least for my music. I'm so glad it worked.
Strange thing happened when I did the Marshmallow OTA upgrade on my AT&T H900. The phone is stock, no root, all AT&T OTA updates installed. After I let the OTA marshmallow upgrade happen, All apps that were using the external SD for storage, (not running from, just storage) no longer saw the external SD. Using ES File Explorer, I found that the path name had changed! In 5.1.1, it was /storage/external_SD, after the marshmallow upgrade it is /storage/3164-3930. Anyone know why? Can I get the path back or is this normal and I should go through ALL my apps and change the storage location? That would be a pain in the ass.
I also noticed:
/storage/emulated is empty and it wasn't before.
/mnt has an 'sdcard' directory in it, which is the internal storage, but nothing for the external SD.
Thanks for any help!
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buzzra said:
Strange thing happened when I did the Marshmallow OTA upgrade on my AT&T H900. The phone is stock, no root, all AT&T OTA updates installed. After I let the OTA marshmallow upgrade happen, All apps that were using the external SD for storage, (not running from, just storage) no longer saw the external SD. Using ES File Explorer, I found that the path name had changed! In 5.1.1, it was /storage/external_SD, after the marshmallow upgrade it is /storage/3164-3930. Anyone know why? Can I get the path back or is this normal and I should go through ALL my apps and change the storage location? That would be a pain in the ass.
I also noticed:
/storage/emulated is empty and it wasn't before.
/mnt has an 'sdcard' directory in it, which is the internal storage, but nothing for the external SD.
Thanks for any help!
buzz
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It changed on my phone also. I've been trying for days to figure out what the new path was. Seems really odd they would change it to something harder to remember.
I am pretty sure this is a fundamental change to Marshmallow and not specific to just the LG V10 version of MM. So, no other help, sorry.