Content disappeared after ROM install? - Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III

I tried installing CM 10.1 from the newest Synergy ROM today, and all of my gallery stuff is gone, plus all of my Titanium backups. I assume this is because it isn't seeing my internal storage. Help please?
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Look under /data/media or even under /0. It's all been moved there bud, due to the multi-user functionality of JB 4.2

Do I move those files somewhere or something?
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corey1031d said:
Do I move those files somewhere or something?
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Sorry, your "old" data is under /sdcard/0. Pretty sure you want your internal storage data that you intend to actively use under /sdcard for JB 4.2 roms. It should be under /sdcard/0 which makes it appear as though its inaccessible on AOSP roms.
More info here and here.
I'm using a TW rom so I'm not looking at this directly in front of me btw.

Not having much luck with this unfortunately.
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I moved the files with root explorer as that link says to do, and now there's nothing in the 0 folder, and also nothing in the sd card folder. I don't understand what I did wrong.

Which is weird because I just tried flashing back to Synergy, and then downloading and installing a clean CM Rom and wiping from Rom Manager, and the files still are not there. But they are there in Synergy.

Screenshot where your internal storage data is located presently OR post the exact file path where it's located. And are you sticking with AOSP or TW? For TW, leave your data in /sdcard.
Moving from TW to AOSP 4.2, /sdcard gets moved to /sdcard/0. Simultaneously, it recreates new folders so you'll have empty folders in /sdcard that were rebuilt once you boot into the 4.2 rom. Cut and paste the "old" data in /sdcard/0 to that newly recreated directory once you verify that's where your "new" data is saving to. You can verify by taking a random picture then looking where it's saved to in the file system
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Everything was in the 0 folder until I moved it to the root of the sdcard. Now everything is empty.
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Hopefully this works. But this is as of right this second on the Synergy rom.
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So in /sdcard, do you now have all your folders containing photos, Titanium Backups, and etc? As in, can you access them with the file manager?
Also, does every folder in /sdcard have a "." in front of the name?

I have them, but can only see them in Synergy, and not in CM
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This is what it looks like now.
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That's what it looks like in CM anyway.
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corey1031d said:
That's what it looks like in CM anyway.
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Aight, give me like twenty minutes to flash an AOSP 4.2 rom and look at this first hand. Maybe I'm just not understanding how to resolve your problem due to file paths.
But do you want to stick with AOSP 4.2 or stick with TW?

This is my current setup, I'm just trying to go over to the newest nightly build of Cyanogen and this is my only issue. But as I think I mentioned before, I'm pretty sure I moved all of the files in the 0 folder over to the sdcard root this morning, and now everything is gone.
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corey1031d said:
This is my current setup, I'm just trying to go over to the newest nightly build of Cyanogen and this is my only issue. But as I think I mentioned before, I'm pretty sure I moved all of the files in the 0 folder over to the sdcard root this morning, and now everything is gone.
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Hmm, did you wipe the internal storage when flashing going from CM to Synergy? Cuz it wouldn't disappear when moving to a TW rom from AOSP since recovery doesn't wipe /data/media unless the internal storage is wiped.
If I'm understanding you, none of your pics/TB backups/etc are in data/media or /sdcard or /sdcard/0 or /data/media/0? It's just empty folders whenever you look in those places?

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Hmm, did you wipe the internal storage when flashing going from CM to Synergy? Cuz it wouldn't disappear when moving to a TW rom from AOSP since recovery doesn't wipe /data/media unless the internal storage is wiped.
If I'm understanding you, none of your pics/TB backups/etc are in data/media or /sdcard or /sdcard/0 or /data/media/0? It's just empty folders whenever you look in those places?
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That is exactly the issue. No problems in Synergy, but CM doesn't see any of it.

How about under /storage do you see an folder titled "emulated"

Screenshot taken from CM and these folders are empty as well.
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How to wipe internal storage without wiping cwm?

I want to wipe everything off my storage but if I do that then cwm will be deleted too. I remember seeing topics for formating but I can't seem to find them anymore.
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rasdabess said:
I want to wipe everything off my storage but if I do that then cwm will be deleted too. I remember seeing topics for formating but I can't seem to find them anymore.
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Use the G2x Batch Cleanup Toll (search the Dev section). It does a complete cleaning and pushes CWM
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Thanks I'll check i t out and will check back if I've got any problems
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wouldn't formatting emmc in settings of cwm do the job?
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I took everYthing to mean...ev-uh-re-thing...
But it definitely would if he only meant internal storage i.e. apps and data, etc...
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Use the tool in my sig. Just do a dual-wipe with the Nullifier and you're good as new (so to speak at least).
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Well, I just succesfully did the cleanup batch thing, but Im inside cwm now, I can't access my internal storage, says E:can't mount /emmc/, if I try to mount usb storage it says
E:Unable to write to ums lunsfile (No such file or directory)
Should I reinstall cwm? Re-root? Pretty confused here
edit: I reinstalled cwm, working fine now, will come back if ive got any more problems
Don't forget to install a GB based ROM before you install anything ICS
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I didn't do that, flashed a jb ROM before anything else, no obvious problems have appeared yet.
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I didn't do that, flashed a jb ROM before anything else, no obvious problems have appeared yet.
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is your internal storage working properly? That was the problem with flashing a non GB ROM first, if I remember correctly
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Ya, I just had to go into vold.fstab and change 2 numbers so I can make internal storage my main storage cuz I don't have a sdcard but ive always had to do that on ICS/jb ROMs.
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Do cm10 nightlies use a lot of space?

Should I be flashing every nightly? Not sure how it works. I can update it via my settings but idk where it saves to and how much space its taking up.
Thanks
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Someone please help D:
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I'm not running CM10 but I can say that ROM is probably at least 150MB. Every nightly you download and don't delete is taking up space on one of your SD cards.
The updater app should tell you where it is downloading the files to.
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Thanks so much for the reply. Its not giving me an option to install them to my external CD card and keeps defaulting It to my internal. Hmm
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logammo said:
Thanks so much for the reply. Its not giving me an option to install them to my external CD card and keeps defaulting It to my internal. Hmm
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Just delete them after installing the next one and keep the current one on your card
Neverendingxsin said:
Just delete them after installing the next one and keep the current one on your card
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OP doesn't know where they are, tho I believe the CM10 updater allows you to pick and choose to delete files.
OP: I'm not positive but I believe there's a directory made on the internal sdcard called cmupdater or something to that effect. I haven't been on CM10 for almost a month.

Titanium backup question

I was never prompted to create an account when I downloaded titanium backup. How does it work when I wipe and flash a new a rom? Or get a new device?
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It saves the apk & data on a file on your sd. Just put the backup in your new phone sd and tb will recognize it.
Cool thanks for the reply.
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I was never prompted to create an account when I downloaded titanium backup. How does it work when I wipe and flash a new a rom? Or get a new device?
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Just restore that app in your new Rom or phone
In it there's an option for restore, etc etc likewise many other options
Choose whatever you wanna do from there!
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It just restore from your SD card right or off your computer?
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From your sd card!
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My nexus 7 doesn't have the cannot store in sd card since it doesn't have a slot, so when i flash a new rom how can I restore my apps?
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I just flashed a rom today. Went to the store downloaded titanium backup and it instantly started loading and restoring my apps. As long as you have titanium backup restored of course
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Although for some reason it didn't restore my gta3 data which I was a little pissed... but ohwell. Everything else went smooth as butter once I remembered to flash gapps with the rom I flashed lol
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Although for some reason it didn't restore my gta3 data which I was a little pissed... but ohwell. Everything else went smooth as butter once I remembered to flash gapps with the rom I flashed lol
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It probably restored the data on the SD. Use a file explorer and try to paste and replace it in root.
You would have to find the file in the phone data I think. Can't rmb.
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Well I did move it to SD card. Then I got a new SD card. Tried to see the files from my old card on my computer and was going to transfer them but there didn't seem to be anything on it important?? If that makes sense. And in titanium backup I had all my user apps on SD card buut nothing showed on my computer.
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Well I did move it to SD card. Then I got a new SD card. Tried to see the files from my old card on my computer and was going to transfer them but there didn't seem to be anything on it important?? If that makes sense. And in titanium backup I had all my user apps on SD card buut nothing showed on my computer.
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move titaniumbackup folder tehy are compressed
snx413 said:
move titaniumbackup folder tehy are compressed
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I don't understand what you're saying.
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Hi.
Can I make a backup of WiFi settings - passwords from one Rom and restore them to another?
I used to have problems backing system data up from different ROMs. But you can try it, should be under backup system data in TiBu. WiFi settings maybe?
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files NOT displaying from internal SD?

Running carbon ROM 1.3 my internal sdcard is not showing my anything that I have downloaded anymore on to my phone. The downloaded folder has disappeared and my music is not showing in es explorer. Though I can still play the files that I cant find, searches turn up negative when I connect it to the computer also. Only the external downloads show. Out of nowhere I'm now seeing Samsung apps and all share flees that weren't there before.
I also have multiple storages I can choose from that lead me to the same place ( see attached). I've used as rescan with no help coming from it. Any way i can go in and fix this error? Or even find out what's causing it?
Any help appreciated. Thanks much
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People don't seem to be getting it. 4.2.2 ROMs will put a 0 folder on your internal SD. This will render everything outside of the folder "gone". Its all due to 4.2's multi user thing. I would recommend flashing back to 4.1.2, then using the file explorer move your music inside that 0 folder if you're planning on using 4.2.2 for any length of time. Either that or just start putting all your important stuff into your external then you don't have to worry about any of it
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I'm aware of .2 and cwm /0 issue. The thing is this was not there before. This just started today. Been on the ROM for a while and this happened out nowhere. There was never anything more than SD card /0. Now unknown files are displaying and familiar files have disappeared. I'll try regardless though
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Odin back to stock and start over
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Are there still issues with large micro sdcards with exFAT formatting in ASOP based ROMs?
When I was reading the forum I heard someone complaining that it wasn't supported.
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bajasur said:
Odin back to stock and start over
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Looks like a possibility
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A folder named 0 keeps multiplying in my files and it's annoying!

Any idea how to get these to go away and keep my files? My actual files are stored on the last sub folder named 0. This always happens whenever I flash a new ROM and it freakin sucks!
I even lost my nandroid backup! This is infuriating! I'm lucky that I only use this for entertainment and nothing important was lost.
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Please inform me your recovery version. One of Google result for "/data/.layout_version": http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=34231316.
"In Android 4.2 multi user accounts is introduced. The first time you update to 4.2 data of the first account is moved from*/data/media*to*/data/media/0. Let's call this process migration. A file is written in this process as well:*/data/.layout_version*This file is important. It holds information that the migration has been completed and should not take place during other factory resets in the future). But during a factory reset this file is removed. Effectively stating that the migration has not occured, hence the reoccuring migration (data/media/0,*data/media/0/0,data/media/0/0/0*etc) after consecutive factory resets."
CWM says it's version 6.0.1.1
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I just formatted the internal sd and it fixed itself. Any tips on how to avoid this again when flashing a new ROM?
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Update your recovery to the latest CWM, TWRP, or PhilZ.
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CWM says it's version 6.0.1.1
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blagginspaziyonokip said:
I just formatted the internal sd and it fixed itself. Any tips on how to avoid this again when flashing a new ROM?
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Did you even read his post?
Its the new multi users thing in android 4.2.X
Luigi2012SM64DS said:
Did you even read his post?
Its the new multi users thing in android 4.2.X
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But if you are not careful when flashing ROMs, you can end up with extra 0 directories, because custom recoveries do not usually format data/media by default when doing a factory reset. Formatting the internal sdcard, before flashing will fix the multiple 0 directories, which can be a nuisance.
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By formatting /data, if recovery can not handle it well, then this problem will be reproduced. You also can reproduce this problem by removing /data/.layout_version :laugh: I knew about this problem because my work on dual booting kernel, when CM 10.1 refused to boot. Resolved by "echo -n 2 > /data/.layout_version"
Dual booting kernel?
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Dual booting kernel?
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Still in development inside my "Single kernel..." thread, WIP but confirmed works

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