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My previous phone was a myTouch 4G, and I just transferred the sd card over to my G2x, but when I look to download a new ROM, it shows me MT4G ROMs. I erased the app data from titanium, but it still does the same thing. What's the fix for this?
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Uninstall Rom manager from the manage apps menu, restart phone and reinstall RM. when you first start the app, it will ask you to select your phone model.
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Awesome, I'll try that and get back with you. Thank you
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Same thing. I uninstalled it and did a cold boot, then reinstalled. It didn't ask me to choose my device either.
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Delete clockworkmod folder on sdcard. Also don't use rom manager to flash cwm, user nvflash.
tahahawa said:
Delete clockworkmod folder on sdcard. Also don't use rom manager to flash cwm, user nvflash.
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^This
ROM Manager isn't the best tool for flashing ROMs on the G2X, or even for exploring new ROMs. It is mostly late with updates, and doesn't hold a candle to the NVFlash/CWM method of flashing. The XDA Dev forum is the best place for this.
The op said it I transferred over my sdcard from my MyTouch 4g lol. Put the pieces of the puzzle together. Definitely do not use rom manager foe anything but checking for roms and renaming your nandroids, everything else you do with it may be harmful to your phone.
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Format your ad card and you should be fine although I used my sd card from my old Mt4g on my g2x without problem
Worst case scenarios, format sd and phone and start fresh
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I put 2 and 2 together and deleted the data and settings files from the ad card, but nothing. I'll copy my downloaded g2x ROMs out and erase the folder and try again.
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I wasn't trying to be an ass sorry if I came across that way. Its just funny to me cause I've done that with many things school phones any solution to a problem, I have fixed while talking about it. But did you format completely or just delete certain files?
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I didn't format completely because I need the files on my SD card. There's no way around it?
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That's odd. My best advice is to just not use RM, causes more problems than does good IMO.
Since RM doesn't even work well for the G2x to begin with, I'm assuming you just use RM to DL the ROM's?
Yeah, and to rename backups. It shows me ROMs I didn't know about
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plug your phone into the computer copy your files to the desktop in a backup folder and then format through your computer...
Good idea I have absolutely no idea why I didn't think of that myself
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It worked after I went back in after formatting my sd card and deleted the data. Thank you.
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My HTC One S somehow got wiped or factory reset. All my pics, docs, etc are gone now. Anyone have a way to recover from this device? If damn HTC would have had an external SD Card this would not have happened!!
Unless you did a backup, then no, there is no way to recover them. Sorry. This is a lesson to ALWAYS have a backup of everything important to you on hand!
dapopa9 said:
My HTC One S somehow got wiped or factory reset. All my pics, docs, etc are gone now. Anyone have a way to recover from this device? If damn HTC would have had an external SD Card this would not have happened!!
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HTC does have an external SD card. Its called Dropbox
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I only get 2gb supposed to be 25
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invasion2 said:
Unless you did a backup, then no, there is no way to recover them. Sorry. This is a lesson to ALWAYS have a backup of everything important to you on hand!
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Or you can learn how to get around it....
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=26680139
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Or you can learn how to get around it....
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=26680139
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Oh yeah I did that after I deleted an essay for school!
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Yeah try the utilities from the thread villainhalf linked, don't think file recovery will work differently on the One S mounted as USB mass storage compared to if you could unplug an sdcard and move it to your PC... Always important when hoping to recover stuff after accidental delete or format is never write new stuff to your sdcard/HDD until you're done.
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Yeah try the utilities from the thread villainhalf linked, don't think file recovery will work differently on the One S mounted as USB mass storage compared to if you could unplug an sdcard and move it to your PC... Always important when hoping to recover stuff after accidental delete or format is never write new stuff to your sdcard/HDD until you're done.
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Also, to increase your chance of success, recover the file to another hard drive. Being you're recovering from your phone have the files saved to your desktop or an SD as suggested above.
I tried these utilities so far with no luck. They all see items that I have deleted(which is only a couple pics) since the format was performed however they don't see any items that were deleted from the format. I had about 15GB of items on the phone and now I only have couple hundred Meg. So I'm pretty sure that all of those deleted items have not been overwritten, but these utilites don't seem to be able to read the items prior to the format.
Any other ideas?
Here are the Utils I have tried so far:
- Recuva
- Stellar Photo Recovery
- Aid File Recovery
- Photo Retrival
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There are many software that could recover your photos. I found this one - http://www.cardrecovery.com/photo-recovery/recover_photos_from_phone.asp. It is trial version. Who knows, you my get lucky. Try some forensic recovery software.
nicojoe22 said:
For me, I had success with this HTC phone data recovery guide. So I suggest that you have a try.
good luck!
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Thanks for the info i needed
I tried these utilities so far with no luck. They all see items that I have deleted(which is only a couple pics) since the format was performed however they don't see any items that were deleted from the format. I had about 15GB of items on the phone and now I only have couple hundred Meg. So I'm pretty sure that all of those deleted items have not been overwritten, but these utilities don't seem to be able to read the items prior to the format.
Any other ideas?
Here are the Utils I have tried so far:
- Recuva
- Stellar Photo Recovery
- Aid File Recovery
- Photo Retrival
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Recuva and Steallar are mostly for hard drive recovery on desktop or pc. So it's not a good choice for mobile phone data recovery. However, there are tons of such apps when searching on Google and hard to find a good one. it took me hours to locate the android data recovery app. I have been with this app for months and it helped me recover a lot of accidentally deleted files.
Please leave a message if you need further assistance on this. Good luck
...when it comes to their rom flashes.
What I mean is does anyone else seem to do a whole wipe of their phones, including internal memory and SD card?(making necessary backups first) Then after doing so, flash the rom of their choosing and install some apps one by one making sure not to get any FCs or bad freezes?
It seems as though for my case, I am very selective/picky about my flashing & installing apps that if something goes wrong I need to reflash just to make the "perfect" phone.
Am I alone?
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*GENESIS!*
Freakthis08 said:
...when it comes to their rom flashes.
What I mean is does anyone else seem to do a whole wipe of their phones, including internal memory and SD card?(making necessary backups first) Then after doing so, flash the rom of their choosing and install some apps one by one making sure not to get any FCs or bad freezes?
It seems as though for my case, I am very selective/picky about my flashing & installing apps that if something goes wrong I need to reflash just to make the "perfect" phone.
Am I alone?
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*GENESIS!*
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I don't know if your alone but I like to keep it dirty. At best I wipe internal data. All seems to work pretty well. Also I don't get how backing up your sd card then formatting it and then restoring it helps any. Since all the files will be the same then it won't have any negative or positive effects to what you're running
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Well I don't keep every file or folder from my backups. I keep the data folder for TiBu for restoring my settings quickly. Sometimes I feel a cleaner slate is better. Mostly I'm just getting annoyed I've had 2 random freezes while rebooting and had to battery pull and when I restart the phone the date turns to Dec. 2006.... and I'm doing whatever I can to learn how to prevent that annoying ________(whatever it is).
I try and flash on a clean slate to make sure I get as few errors as possible, but it seems as though the harder I try to make things perfect something has got karma against me screwing me up one way or another.
Nope! Too much work. i do just the basic flash/wipe and flash and enjoy
Well I use my internal SD for all my ROMs and my external SD Card has my music and photos. I keep both of the SD cards organized. When flashing I always wipe data, cache, and dalvik twice before flashing. Dirty flashing is something I don't want to deal with. xD
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I'm one of them but I don't restore anything from SD. I start from a clean slate. I d/l absolutely needed apps (maps, gtasks, voice) and as the days go by and I need something I d/l at that time. I've never had any issues on any rom (GB, ICS, JB) other than the ones outlines by the OP.
I'm the same as OP.. however I do seem to have some OCD. That may be it.....
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Xura08 said:
I'm the same as OP.. however I do seem to have some OCD. That may be it.....
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**** and I was trying to deny my OCD. FML pwned fail
Yeah now I'm waiting for my 32gb SD card (class 10!) To come in the mail and I may end up doing another flash... upgrading from my 8gb class 4.
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I wipe everything when switching ROMs. I don't like restoring apps from backup, either. I just re-install my apps one by one from the Play Store. And if I lost progress in a game or something, then too bad for me, at least my phone is "clean."
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I wipe everything when switching ROMs. I don't like restoring apps from backup, either. I just re-install my apps one by one from the Play Store. And if I lost progress in a game or something, then too bad for me, at least my phone is "clean."
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Well someone is a necro.....philiac... damned dude
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I have a really noob question. I deleted a couple nandroids but my SD is still the same size. Could I safely delete the clockwork mod folder on my SD. I thought about doing this and making another backup in hopes of making space. I figured my storage would have increased some deleting two cyanogenmod backups?
I don't know what's in that folder and not sure if I'll screw my recovery up. I don't think so but not 100% certain? Any help would be greatly appreciated!
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You can delete everything in that folder, it won't hurt you. FWIW I think some asop roms misreport the free space on sdcards, so if youre running cm10 you may have more than you think.
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Thanks! I hope so. Will hit the thanks when I get on my phone. Tablet app is buggy?
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Download the app Disk Usage. Let it run. Will show you what is using your memory. Breaks it down. Far left is broad break down. As you go right it breaks each larger group into smaller things. all the way at the right is the files themselves. So left might say System, Media, Apps, etc. Next column will break that down further.
Also are you using Blobs with CWM, the default option now? That saves everything, then every back up after it only saves what has changed since the last save, to save space and time. So if not much has changed since you last flashed, deleting those two saves might not affect much. You might be better blowing the whole folder away and starting fresh like you said. So the base Blob info is your current state.
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From what I understand, you can delete backups (through cwm, rom manager, etc) but the space won't be cleaned up all the way until you boot through recovery again and CWM does the reclaim space process. I'm assuming that actually goes through and delete appropriate blobs, etc.
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From what I understand, you can delete backups (through cwm, rom manager, etc) but the space won't be cleaned up all the way until you boot through recovery again and CWM does the reclaim space process. I'm assuming that actually goes through and delete appropriate blobs, etc.
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After deleting backups you must go to backups/restore and choose (clear unused data) or something close to that. This freed up a ton of space for me
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Hello, I know this question has been asked before but it has been for other phone models and some years ago so the advice given may no longer be the best. Pretty much I have flashed many roms in the past, but I always erase the downloads when I am going to no longer use it. My vzw s3 has 12.05GB of total space available. I have only 1.3GB left to use. I don't know what is causing the space to be used up because my apps only take up 1.2gb, pics 1.2gb, downloads only 1gm and the rest only takes up about another 2 gigs. I only have one backup as well. So I should have atleast 4-5 GB of space free. Is there anyway I can just wipe all the files that are taking up space? Or any suggestions? I don't mind wiping everything off my phone as long as it doesn't ruin my root and brick my phone. Thanks in advanced
Dmavs3113 said:
Hello, I know this question has been asked before but it has been for other phone models and some years ago so the advice given may no longer be the best. Pretty much I have flashed many roms in the past, but I always erase the downloads when I am going to no longer use it. My vzw s3 has 12.05GB of total space available. I have only 1.3GB left to use. I don't know what is causing the space to be used up because my apps only take up 1.2gb, pics 1.2gb, downloads only 1gm and the rest only takes up about another 2 gigs. I only have one backup as well. So I should have atleast 4-5 GB of space free. Is there anyway I can just wipe all the files that are taking up space? Or any suggestions? I don't mind wiping everything off my phone as long as it doesn't ruin my root and brick my phone. Thanks in advanced
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Since you don't mind wiping everything format /sdcard in recovery. Just make sure to have a rom on the external sdcard if you plan on just starting everything over.
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Oh, what exactly does format SD card do?
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Dmavs3113 said:
Oh, what exactly does format SD card do?
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It deletes everything from /sdcard which is your internal storage. I'm unsure if it wipes the rom as I never use it so I suggest you put one on the external sdcard just in case. You could even pull your external sdcard format sdcard and boot up. If it removes the rom, pop the external sdcard back on and flash that.
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Hey so it worked just great. The ROM is untouched although I did an external backup. I got all my 11gb back. The only thing I wasn't expecting was my pictures being deleted. I thought those would be saved
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Dmavs3113 said:
Hey so it worked just great. The ROM is untouched although I did an external backup. I got all my 11gb back. The only thing I wasn't expecting was my pictures being deleted. I thought those would be saved
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Glad you got the storage space back. Not fun hearing about the photos being gone but formatting /sdcard wipes everything on internal (without discrimination) like I posted.
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Yeah, tomorrow I'm going to try reverting back to the backup to see if my pics are back then save them elsewhere and rewipe again.
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Yeah, tomorrow I'm going to try reverting back to the backup to see if my pics are back then save them elsewhere and rewipe again.
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Don't think it will. But one can certainly hope.
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Pictures won't be in that backup. But you should be using Google's backup options to prevent this sort of thing. Google will backup ask your photos, videos, contacts, apps, etc if you let it. Also set your camera app to save to external sd.
I have the same issue as you with regards to space, I wonder if there's a space sniffer type app for phones that will show you where all your space is being eaten up.
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If you've switched between 4.1.2 and 4.2+ ROMs you may have caused some accidental shuffling in how /sdcard is organized.
In Android 4.2 they changed the internal structure to where /sdcard data is actually located. If you use a file browser you may have noticed a mysterious folder at /sdcard/0 which is where 4.2+ stores everything.
It's important to know this so that /sdcard data can be moved back and forth depending on the Android version of the ROM you're using.
I would use es file explorer. It is awesome for browsing the folders on your phone as well as moving files to and from your internal storage. I also always use my external SD for pictures, music and videos I always go into es file explorer before I wipe internal storage to make sure I won't lose something important. Or you can use Google to back up. Google plus will backup photos as well as Drive. Although I've found the auto backup on Google plus to be easier and more convenient.
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