Hi, I'm running eos4 nightly #102 with kat 96. I've got a 16gb Asus tf101 and I'm running out of internal space. I've seen on the forum about the 0 folder, but I don't seem to have multiple copies of it. When I check the details of the internal sd folder it tells me it's 6.22gb in size. Yet when check the settings - storage it says I've used 11gb with 1.5gb spare.
Any suggestions would be much appreciated.
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Use the app DiskUsage to see where your space is used.
frederuco said:
Use the app DiskUsage to see where your space is used.
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That is a fantastic app, many thanks.
It tells me I have system data 4425mib.
Is that what the rom is taking up?
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It is most likely a game or some files on the /data/ partition.
/data/media/ is your /sdcard/. Some files are also kept on the /data/ partition. Not exactly sure which ones, but I know some are.
It's weird I only have an empty /data/ folder and no data/media. Any other suggestions?
Many Thanks
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Doh I didn't have root explorer turned on. That's why I couldn't see the folders in data.
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I haven't a clue which files may be the culprits.
If I backup, using twrp, then can I wipe everything and then reinstall?
Any help would be much appreciated.
I got it sorted. I backed up the internal memory, then booted to twrp, formated the internal memory, wiped everything. Then I started from scratch installing the rom. I then reinstalled all my apps and now I have 8gb of space, fantastic.
It took a bit of time but worth it in the end.
Many Thanks
Cool, glad it is sorted.
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I'm having trouble with TB either locking up or rebooting the tablet. It will do this even if its the only non factory program installed. Its doing this about 80% of the time I try to run it. A factory reset makes no difference. Is there a hardware problem that could cause this??
TIA
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PolishPoet said:
I'm having trouble with TB either locking up or rebooting the tablet. It will do this even if its the only non factory program installed. Its doing this about 80% of the time I try to run it. A factory reset makes no difference. Is there a hardware problem that could cause this??
TIA
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Pretty sure its just a software problem. I've never gotten anything like it though but my tab freezes occasionally on tibu.
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PolishPoet said:
I'm having trouble with TB either locking up or rebooting the tablet. It will do this even if its the only non factory program installed. Its doing this about 80% of the time I try to run it. A factory reset makes no difference. Is there a hardware problem that could cause this??
TIA
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Have you tried clearing data /Uninstall /reinstall? Are you restoring from a similar device? Maybe an app causing your issues when TB tries to restore it. Definitely not a hardware issue.
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I am having issues as well. At first I couldn't get past the "All Done" without it rebooting. Reinstalled it without any differences, but read that clearing Google Play cache would help.
I am finally able to use it for a few minutes but the it freezes and I have to reboot.
I am going to try clearing the cache, data, and reinstall one more time.
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Check your µSD Card
I had the same problem with TB, when using my 64 GB microSD for the backup. Once removed and setting the backup to internal storage, everything is fine.
Check your SD Card if you're using it for these backups. My Sandinsk SD Card was so "buggy" i had to send it back to Amazon.
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I had the same problem with TB, when using my 64 GB microSD for the backup. Once removed and setting the backup to internal storage, everything is fine.
Check your SD Card if you're using it for these backups. My Sandinsk SD Card was so "buggy" i had to send it back to Amazon.
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I just moved storage from the microsd to the sd and all is well for the moment. I'll try formatting the micro and see if it helps.
Thanks
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I'm only rooted, and ran TB one time to back things up and had no problem. Never restored or updated backup. When are people having this problem?
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I had the same problem. I was backing up to 32GB external microSD. It was formatted NTFS. After I reformatted to FAT32, no issues. I've read about others having issues with NTFS and exFAT.
My SanDisk 32GB class 4 was exFAT, so I tried NTFS but neither played nice with TB. So, now it is FAT32 and finally working. Unfortunately, I can't put large files on the microSDHC card anymore.
In short: either format to FAT32 or move your backup to the internal memory. Either way I also suggest getting PRO and backing up to Dropbox or Box for added protection.
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Hi all,
I am trying to figure out whats taking all the space on my internal sd card. I switched to twrp recovery and deleted all clockworkmod related things, but it still says theres only 1 gb of free space left. I know for sure I could not possibly have used that much space. I store no music, very little photos.
I have tried using pc programs to visualize the space usage but none of them have been able to read the sd card, only the drives on the computer (spacesniffer for example).
Multiple apps installed (SDcard manager, Slim file manager) state i have 1 gb free space left, while another app (Storage Analyser) says I have 9gb free space.
Anyone have a program that will allow me to see whats taking up my space?
Thank you very much!
How many CWM backups did you have? When using CWM, after deleting your CWM backups did also you select the option to free up the space? How many TWRP backups do you now have?
Do you have any games installed? Have you checked file sizes or tried deleting leftover files under /sdcard/android? A lot of app data resides in the following three file paths:
/sdcard/android
/sdcard/data
/sdcard/Download
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How many CWM backups did you have? When using CWM, after deleting your CWM backups did also you select the option to free up the space? How many TWRP backups do you now have?
Do you have any games installed? Have you checked file sizes or tried deleting leftover files under /sdcard/android? A lot of app data resides in the following three file paths:
/sdcard/android
/sdcard/data
/sdcard/Download
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I had a few cwm backups. When using the "free up space" option in cwm about a week ago, it was such a small amount it said it would free up. I only have 1 twrp backup right now. I deleted all the CWM blob files and the file folder.
I'll take a look at the three file paths and come back. Thanks for your help
EDIT: nothing in /sdcard/data, sdcard/download is minimal, and sdcard/android is fairly minimal too
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I had a few cwm backups. When using the "free up space" option in cwm about a week ago, it was such a small amount it said it would free up. I only have 1 twrp backup right now. I deleted all the CWM blob files and the file folder.
I'll take a look at the three file paths and come back. Thanks for your help
EDIT: nothing in /sdcard/data, sdcard/download is minimal, and sdcard/android is fairly minimal too
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No problem. Roughly 5 GB of data are set aside for the system, so as a reference:
-the 16 Gb GSIII would have at most 11.5 GB of free data
-the 32 GB GSIII would have at most 27.5 GB of free data
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No problem. Roughly 5 GB of data are set aside for the system, so as a reference:
-the 16 Gb GSIII would have at most 11.5 GB of free data
-the 32 GB GSIII would have at most 27.5 GB of free data
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Yeah, the weird thing though is that about a month ago i ran into the same issue of running out of space. and found that the CWM blob files were taking up about 5gb. And i had thought this was the same issue again, so I flashed TWRP and deleted the CWM files, but they arent the ones taking up the space this time
That's weird but like I said those are the main directories where app data resides on /sdcard. Which GSIII do you have 16GB or 32GB?
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That's weird but like I said those are the main directories where app data resides on /sdcard. Which GSIII do you have 16GB or 32GB?
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I have the 16gb version. I thought for sure I used "spacesniffer" last time to view the files on my sd card, which gave me a visual on whats taking up space. But I just cannot pinpoint it this time since no program ive downloaded views the internal sd card
Your best bet may be to copy over all your important files to a pc, nandroid to your external sd, then Wipe data or Factory reset in TWRP (the one that warns that it will format /sdcard. With those folders on your pc, you should be able to see their files sizes then do the math once it's back onto your phone. Maybe even do a screenshot of all the /sdcard folders first then do the above steps. You may be able to see which folder that is missing is the culprit once you put the folders back onto your phone.
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Hello all,
I would like to reflash CROMi-X and the MAX kernel but this time I want to do it as cleanly as possible. What are the steps to do this. I see it referenced all over that it is best to do a clean install but I can't find out exactly how to do it.
Sorry if this is a stupid question or if it is detailed somewhere that I could not find it but I want a good procedure that I can use whenever flashing new ROMS and kernels to be sure there is nothing hanging around that would cause variability in the install.
Thanks in advance for any help
Jeff
gixxer340 said:
Hello all,
I would like to reflash CROMi-X and the MAX kernel but this time I want to do it as cleanly as possible. What are the steps to do this. I see it referenced all over that it is best to do a clean install but I can't find out exactly how to do it.
Sorry if this is a stupid question or if it is detailed somewhere that I could not find it but I want a good procedure that I can use whenever flashing new ROMS and kernels to be sure there is nothing hanging around that would cause variability in the install.
Thanks in advance for any help
Jeff
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Depends on which recovery you have installed -- the most often recommended sequence seems to be "wipe data/factory reset, wipe cache, wipe Dalvik cache, reinstall". Obviously, you may need to remove some apps' data folders from /sdcard by hand.
The opinions are divided as far as wiping the caches is concerned -- some do, some don't.
MartyHulskemper said:
Depends on which recovery you have installed -- the most often recommended sequence seems to be "wipe data/factory reset, wipe cache, wipe Dalvik cache, reinstall". Obviously, you may need to remove some apps' data folders from /sdcard by hand.
The opinions are divided as far as wiping the caches is concerned -- some do, some don't.
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I have TWRP 2.5 installed. Is the above the process for TWRP
Thanks
Jeff
gixxer340 said:
I have TWRP 2.5 installed. Is the above the process for TWRP
Thanks
Jeff
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In TWRP select 'Wipe > Advanced' and then select everything except the external microSD. That'll give you a nice and clean installation.
Just make sure you have the Rom you want to flash afterwards on that microSD, not on the internal where it may get wiped
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[Q=berndblb;43602193]In TWRP MI lect 'Wipe > Advanced' and then select everything except the external microSD. That'll give you a nice and clean installation.
Just make sure you have the Rom you want to flash afterwards on that microSD, not on the internal where it may get wiped
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I dont seem to be able to see my microSD card from TWRP. It is formatted as ntfs, I wonder if that is the issue. What should it be formatted as?
Thanks
Jeff
gixxer340 said:
[Q=berndblb;43602193]In TWRP MI lect 'Wipe > Advanced' and then select everything except the external microSD. That'll give you a nice and clean installation.
Just make sure you have the Rom you want to flash afterwards on that microSD, not on the internal where it may get wiped
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I dont seem to be able to see my microSD card from TWRP. It is formatted as ntfs, I wonder if that is the issue. What should it be formatted as?
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Jeff[/QUOTE]
Yeah, it has to be FAT32. Actually exFAT seems to work too. Just tried it, and TWRP sees the nandroid on a 8gb exFAT fine. Didn't try to restore though...
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berndblb said:
I dont seem to be able to see my microSD card from TWRP. It is formatted as ntfs, I wonder if that is the issue. What should it be formatted as?
Thanks
Jeff
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Yeah, it has to be FAT32. Actually exFAT seems to work too. Just tried it, and TWRP sees the nandroid on a 8gb exFAT fine. Didn't try to restore though...
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Reformatting exFAT right now. Hopefully that will work.
Thanks again,
Jeff
berndblb said:
In TWRP select 'Wipe > Advanced' and then select everything except the external microSD. That'll give you a nice and clean installation.
Just make sure you have the Rom you want to flash afterwards on that microSD, not on the internal where it may get wiped
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Hi, without hijacking this thread - i've installed Cromix and everything is running great, but i can still see folders and files i had created when my 700 was stock. Am i doing something wrong here? I would have thought that wiping everything except for the microsd card would have given me a blank slate to start with but it seems there is a fair amount of data left over after the ROM flash.
Actually as i'm typing this i've just had a thought, is it a case that the documents, pics, wallpapers etc are on a separate partition (for want of a better definition) and they're just visible after the installation?
thanks,
sean
2Droidswalking said:
Hi, without hijacking this thread - i've installed Cromix and everything is running great, but i can still see folders and files i had created when my 700 was stock. Am i doing something wrong here? I would have thought that wiping everything except for the microsd card would have given me a blank slate to start with but it seems there is a fair amount of data left over after the ROM flash.
Actually as i'm typing this i've just had a thought, is it a case that the documents, pics, wallpapers etc are on a separate partition (for want of a better definition) and they're just visible after the installation?
thanks,
sean
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I have noticed that problems a while back when I am using TWRP 2.5.0.0. Therefore, I always prefer to use Format instead of Wipe.
2Droidswalking said:
Hi, without hijacking this thread - i've installed Cromix and everything is running great, but i can still see folders and files i had created when my 700 was stock. Am i doing something wrong here? I would have thought that wiping everything except for the microsd card would have given me a blank slate to start with but it seems there is a fair amount of data left over after the ROM flash.
Actually as i'm typing this i've just had a thought, is it a case that the documents, pics, wallpapers etc are on a separate partition (for want of a better definition) and they're just visible after the installation?
thanks,
sean
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If you wipe or factory reset in TWRP, it erases everything except the /data/media folder, and that is where your data lives.... You have to manually erase those files if you want to get rid of them.
Interestingly, you'll find symlinks to the contents of /data/media in 4!! locations:
/sdcard
/storage/sdcard0
/storage /emulated/0
/storage /emulated /legacy
This crazy structure is due to the multi user support in JB 4.2. I still have a hard time to get my head around it....
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berndblb said:
If you wipe or factory reset in TWRP, it erases everything except the /data/media folder, and that is where your data lives.... You have to manually erase those files if you want to get rid of them.
Interestingly, you'll find symlinks to the contents of /data/media in 4!! locations:
/sdcard
/storage/sdcard0
/storage /emulated/0
/storage /emulated /legacy
This crazy structure is due to the multi user support in JB 4.2. I still have a hard time to get my head around it....
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:good: Thanks, it is good to know.
berndblb said:
If you wipe or factory reset in TWRP, it erases everything except the /data/media folder, and that is where your data lives.... You have to manually erase those files if you want to get rid of them.
Interestingly, you'll find symlinks to the contents of /data/media in 4!! locations:
/sdcard
/storage/sdcard0
/storage /emulated/0
/storage /emulated /legacy
This crazy structure is due to the multi user support in JB 4.2. I still have a hard time to get my head around it....
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How incredibly bizarre....but interesting nonetheless. 23 years in IT and it's time to start learning again. I kept going back to Settings>About and could see that the ROM was flashed, but the sight of the old files was making me think 'maybe it just reinstalled over the top of the stock ROM without deleting any data'....sort of like when windoze does a repair and keeps the data. Now that i understand user data is stored in a separate place away from the ROM itself, it makes it easier to upgrade and mess around. Backups are important, but it's nice to know you don't have to constantly relocate data and files when you're doing an upgrade.
Thanks for the info.....these forums are an absolute boon for people willing to ask questions and i'm amazed at the knowledge base that's been accumulated and is being shared - for the first time in a long time, tech toys are fun again. Now to choose a Kernel!!!!
The rom gets flashed to it's own partition: /system/...
If you watch the script when flashing CromiX, the installer formats the system partition automatically before flashing the rom. So you did not install over the old rom. The Data partition is different.
I'm now backing up data/media and then I will use the "Format Data" option in TWRP. Wanna know what exactly happens
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Just an update...i haven't changed kernels at all and i'm not going to be. This thing is faster and more stable than i could have wished for. Since the ROM was flashed i've stopped messing around with it and it just runs like a dream. It never reboots unless i tell it to, doesn't hang when i have multiple apps open and the battery life is fantastic.
Thanks for the advice berndblb :good:
2Droidswalking said:
Just an update...i haven't changed kernels at all and i'm not going to be. This thing is faster and more stable than i could have wished for. Since the ROM was flashed i've stopped messing around with it and it just runs like a dream. It never reboots unless i tell it to, doesn't hang when i have multiple apps open and the battery life is fantastic.
Thanks for the advice berndblb :good:
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Glad I could help.
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I don't understand what happened. The total space is now 12.05GB and I only have 478MB available.
The 12.05 is right. That's what a 16 GB hard drive is after a format. As for the low Available space how many Nandroids do u have,?
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The 12.05 is right. That's what a 16 GB hard drive is after a format. As for the low Available space how many Nandroids do u have,?
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I don't have any on the internal storage. I'm so confused because I can't figure out where the space is coming from. I've moved all my pictures, backups, and downloads to the external SD card.
Time to nandroid, wipe, and clean install, then restore what you want from nandroid. (Any app that you don't need data for , don't restore it. imo
Check what it looks like after clean install and then again after restore. Apps like Play Store and others can have alot of stuff in cache folders, you might want to chech out something like all-in-one toolbox to clean you cache and see what it says. Good luck, I'm a flash-a-holic so I nand & wipe all the time. Last time I stayed on a rom for a week I cleaned cache and it was 3 or 4 gig.
Cruzin' tha Galaxy SIII via Obsessed Rom / "INAPPROPRIATE" Kernel
Download es file manager and do the SD card analyze. That will show you what folders/files are eating up your space. It could just be a bug in the setup menu.
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I ran the SD card analyzer and it came up with the same breakdown as the settings display. I wish I knew what was causing the problem but I never did find out. I had to do 2 more wipe/restores and the storage returned to normal.
Glad u finally got it right
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Glad u finally got it right
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Thanks, me too
Hi all-
My GS3 internal storage is filling up. When I check with DiskUsage, it says there's 7230 MiB of "System data" and only 1250 MiB of free space. It won't let me click onto the system data to investigate.
Using Storage Analyser, it says I have used 2.2 GiBs and 9.84 GiB is free. But when I click on the little circle chart menu at the bottom it says I only have 1.2 GiBs free. What gives? Which one is right? Will wiping via CWM and reflashing CM 10.2 help? Anyone else have this problem? Thanks!
Do you have a lot of nandriod or Rom backups?
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npro1464 said:
Hi all-
My GS3 internal storage is filling up. When I check with DiskUsage, it says there's 7230 MiB of "System data" and only 1250 MiB of free space. It won't let me click onto the system data to investigate.
Using Storage Analyser, it says I have used 2.2 GiBs and 9.84 GiB is free. But when I click on the little circle chart menu at the bottom it says I only have 1.2 GiBs free. What gives? Which one is right? Will wiping via CWM and reflashing CM 10.2 help? Anyone else have this problem? Thanks!
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I only have this issue with the system/data folder filling up with duplicate apps. Seems like something just isn't quite right however. After I wipe everything and before I flash a rom I have 12gb available. Just checked and out of 16gb total I have 9.96gb still available. The backups shouldn't be on the internal but if by chance they are I would delete all if not most of them
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Do you have a lot of nandriod or Rom backups?
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I was thinking he might have the same issue
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You're simply having duplicate locations for media storage.
If you use a file Explorer, you'll notice the initial location of your files in data/media folder. Then if you click the 0 folder (data/media/0) you'll notice the exact same data is located there.
To get rid of it, you need to move everything you want to save off the phone, format the internal sd, reflash the rom, and move everything you backed up to the data/media/0 folder.
It switched when you moved from 4.1 to 4.3. It's actually reading the same data but twice. So you actually have a lot of space free, but your phone is reporting double the data.
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Ok I'm having the same problem but im running astral and I was wondering will this work for me also. And how do . I go about formatting the internal sd? And why doesn't myn phone use my sd card at all to save files
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I'm really sick of this problem. My phone is again alerting me that my internal storage is filling up, Disk Usage is showing system data of 7.266 GBs and 650 MB of free space. When going into the root folder "/system" it shows 10.36 GBs of free space. I figure its either getting read wrong of something.
Anyway, what would happen if I did "format /data" in CWM? Would I be able to boot back into my rom with a clean slate, or would I have to immediately flash a new ROM? Thanks.
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I'm really sick of this problem. My phone is again alerting me that my internal storage is filling up, Disk Usage is showing system data of 7.266 GBs and 650 MB of free space. When going into the root folder "/system" it shows 10.36 GBs of free space. I figure its either getting read wrong of something.
Anyway, what would happen if I did "format /data" in CWM? Would I be able to boot back into my rom with a clean slate, or would I have to immediately flash a new ROM? Thanks.
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You'd still be able to boot into the same rom. It might not clear it though, to do a full format you need to wipe /data/media.
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