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[Q] How to check what phone is backed up on from cwm?

I use the tmo sgs2 and i have experience flashing roms. i know how to backup, flash and restore roms. its not rocket science. today i flashed the ics beta for my dad on his sprint epic 4g(sgs1). his sd card only had like 100mb free so i used my 32gb sd card with more than 15gb free so that i could download the zips needed and backup his current rom. i flashed his ics beta flawlessly without any problems at all. i backed up his og rom and everything was dandy. the problem started when i got home and decided to transfer his rom backup to my laptop's hard drive so that i wouldnt have that 1gig+ filling my sd card. when i mounted my phone storage and went into my cwm folder and into backups however i dont see any folders with today's date on it. so im not sure if its a backup from my sgs2 or my dads sgs.
My question is... is there a way that i can go into the file and maybe see which device the folder is from? like if theres a sgs2 specific SOMETHING that'll help me identify which one is which?
i tried being thorough so you guys know exactly what happened so you can help me with this.
thanks in advance

Can't you just go by the file date on the contents in the backup folders?

Archer said:
Can't you just go by the file date on the contents in the backup folders?
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that was actually what i did originally to see which one it was. i also went into the folder info and none of them had today's date.
is there any possibility that it'll be on the phone's internal storage?

anyone?

[Q] Internal storage FULL? (from roms, how do I fix?)

Hello, I have been installing a great deal of roms on my phone and every time I do I see less and less internal storage left. Now I am left with just around 1 GB. I would go in and delete everything on the phone from the computer but I think that would be a very bad idea, can you help me increase my storage?
(I do not have any pictures/videos/music on the phone and clockworks is installed on the internal storage with 2-3 backups)

pclever1 said:
Hello, I have been installing a great deal of roms on my phone and every time I do I see less and less internal storage left. Now I am left with just around 1 GB. I would go in and delete everything on the phone from the computer but I think that would be a very bad idea, can you help me increase my storage?
(I do not have any pictures/videos/music on the phone and clockworks is installed on the internal storage with 2-3 backups)
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You probably have the zip files of the ROMs themselves. Delete those off the phone and just store them on a computer unless you need them.

Sccrluk9 said:
You probably have the zip files of the ROMs themselves. Delete those off the phone and just store them on a computer unless you need them.
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I have a few but that isnt the problem (~1.5gb)

The play store has a useful app called DiskUsage
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.android.diskusage
which will give you a graphical representation of what's using space.

Clockworks
x-y-no said:
The play store has a useful app called DiskUsage
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.android.diskusage
which will give you a graphical representation of what's using space.
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THank you very much, this app is great. It shows that CW has 7gbs on my phone. Can i SAFELY delete the blobs folder(and keep backups)?

pclever1 said:
THank you very much, this app is great. It shows that CW has 7gbs on my phone. Can i SAFELY delete the blobs folder(and keep backups)?
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No. The blobs folder holds all data for the backups. Delete backups not needed and blobs folder should decrease at the same time. Blobs was to save space. A normal backup is 2-2.5 GB. Most backup to external sd card to avoid this problem.

^ what he said, just use CWM Recovery to do the deleting of the backups(or ROM manager if that's what you're using) That way corresponding blobs get deleted too.

One question I have about deleting the backups is once I delete the backups I had on my phone, before I formatted my SD to FAT32, the blobs folder never disappears even though I have deleted all of my backups off on my phones internal storage. Is that normal? The blobs folder also stayed the same size even after the backups had been deleted.
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shangrila500 said:
One question I have about deleting the backups is once I delete the backups I had on my phone, before I formatted my SD to FAT32, the blobs folder never disappears even though I have deleted all of my backups off on my phones internal storage. Is that normal? The blobs folder also stayed the same size even after the backups had been deleted.
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Did you delete them thru recovery or a file manager? If thru a file manager then that's why.

Brian Gove said:
Did you delete them thru recovery or a file manager? If thru a file manager then that's why.
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Glad you got that one. I haven't used CWM/Rom Manager since the Tbolt. TWRP rocks. :laugh:

I may have deleted a few backups through a file manager when I first started flashing the many ROMs I have gone through.is there a way to tell if there are still blobs saved that I don't need. My last few deletes have been through CWM would that of got rid of the unnecessary blobs. Also how do I get the backups to save to ext.SD and not the internal SD.

mikeman45 said:
I may have deleted a few backups through a file manager when I first started flashing the many ROMs I have gone through.is there a way to tell if there are still blobs saved that I don't need. My last few deletes have been through CWM would that of got rid of the unnecessary blobs. Also how do I get the backups to save to ext.SD and not the internal SD.
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Not 100% sure if the recent deletes thru cwm would've made all the necessary deletes of the unused blobs.
In CWM there's an option to save backups to the extsd.... you have to do it manually thru recovery. I believe all apps like ROM manager and Goo only let you select the internal.

pclever1 said:
Hello, I have been installing a great deal of roms on my phone and every time I do I see less and less internal storage left. Now I am left with just around 1 GB. I would go in and delete everything on the phone from the computer but I think that would be a very bad idea, can you help me increase my storage?
(I do not have any pictures/videos/music on the phone and clockworks is installed on the internal storage with 2-3 backups)
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^ happened to me - was Picasa sync grabbing my 50GB of photos even though as you said "I do not have any pictures on the phone..."

pclever1 said:
Hello, I have been installing a great deal of roms on my phone and every time I do I see less and less internal storage left. Now I am left with just around 1 GB. I would go in and delete everything on the phone from the computer but I think that would be a very bad idea, can you help me increase my storage?
(I do not have any pictures/videos/music on the phone and clockworks is installed on the internal storage with 2-3 backups)
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I've been having the same problem. I started deleting old backups using a file manager first, then found this post and deleted the rest of my backups directly from CWM.
I found that the "Free unused backup data" option under the backup and restore menu helped get rid of the blob files that were left over from the first deletes i made using a file manager. (freed up around 6gb of space total)

[Q] Recovering Applications on the samsung galaxy tab 2 10.1

Please bare with me since I am still learning about android and so my question is, how can I recover my applications from my tablet after I have rooted it.
I flashed cyanogen 9 to my SGT2.10.1 and it was successful, although I am stuck on trying to recover my applications from the partition internal memory. Of course I have done a variety of steps to recover them and some of the steps I took are:
1. I tried using the spk tool - I really do not know how to use it and I am having a hard time figuring it out
2. Trying to delete and reformat the internal memory - was not successful since it only erased of what I currently had on the rooted and partitioned memory, thus my original/stock application are still within the internal memory.
3. I tried using applications such PC36IMG-AmonRA-3.07-gnm.zip - I changed the name to PC36IMG but flashing it lead to installation fail/aborted
4. I tried recovering them with titanium back up - but the application couldn't see my original/stock applications
5. Also tried using Astro File manager - Same results as TBU
6. Deleting the files from my pc via usb- it does not give me an option to reformat it
Any suggestions? this is the final step that I need to complete to finally enjoy my retarded galaxy tab 2

Hi. I always use titanium backup and never had problems with it - what do you mean by "couldn't see my original applications"? Did you make a backup of the applications prior to flashing CM? If you did so and you didn't format the sdcard (the "TitaniumBackup" folder" resides by default on the internal sdcard), you should still have all your backups there, and you should be able to restore them.

Are you trying to get the same apps you had on stock prior to flashing CM9? If so, did you back up prior to flashing?
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it is recommended that you dont use titanium back up to restore your apps. you will have to reinstall from scratch. that is on the cm9 instructions.
just for future reference, you will need to download tbu from the market, install it then try to use the back up to reinstall your apps. or you can create a zip file from within tbu which you can install using cwm but do it after your rom is working

behemot24 said:
Hi. I always use titanium backup and never had problems with it - what do you mean by "couldn't see my original applications"? Did you make a backup of the applications prior to flashing CM? If you did so and you didn't format the sdcard (the "TitaniumBackup" folder" resides by default on the internal sdcard), you should still have all your backups there, and you should be able to restore them.
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I did not back it, I also did not delete them before flashing CM which i truly regret. Since my stock applications/original applications take up 8 gigs of my internal memory out of 13. The 8 gigs of memory/apps, I have no access or whatsoever.... I succesfully rooted and flashed CM and GAAP the only thing is left for me is to restore this applications or delete them so I can finally utilize my tablet.
Please help me
any suggestions are all welcome as long as my tablet not end being brick.

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sloosecannon said:
Are you trying to get the same apps you had on stock prior to flashing CM9? If so, did you back up prior to flashing?
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yes sir that is exactly what i am trying to do. Although I did not back up prior to flashing...i really really wish i did. I miss that part since it did not mentioned on the instructions that I read it from on flashing CM9.

KMoracle said:
yes sir that is exactly what i am trying to do. Although I did not back up prior to flashing...i really really wish i did. I miss that part since it did not mentioned on the instructions that I read it from on flashing CM9.
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Hmm... Well I hate to say this but I think they're gone... You sure those 8 gigs aren't something else?
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Impossible
sloosecannon said:
Hmm... Well I hate to say this but I think they're gone... You sure those 8 gigs aren't something else?
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Impossible, im pretty sure those 8 gigs can only be my stock applications? what else can it be? I mean you do not actually think cyanogen 9 is worth 9 gigs? I have nothing in my current OS.
They cannot be good since I can fully see the memory being occupied, I am just having a difficult time accessing and recovering those stock applications.
I can't believe no one knows how to do this in this thread....

Fixing folders from 4.2

I flashed a 4.2 ROM. PA 3.10 to be exact. And it did the thing with the 0 and legacy folders it needed to do for the multi-user feature. I didn't like it and I'm back on 4.1. My ROM is really confused because the folder structure is still on 4.2. Anyway to get the folder directory back to normal 4.1?
I thought I put this in Q&A, I do apologize. If a mod comes along could you move it?
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I recently went through the same thing. There may be a better way, but I formatted the Internal SD card through TWRP and then ran my backup app restore and everything is back to normal. Make sure you copy anything on your Internal SD that you want to save before doing the format...

bowen873 said:
I recently went through the same thing. There may be a better way, but I formatted the Internal SD card through TWRP and then ran my backup app restore and everything is back to normal. Make sure you copy anything on your Internal SD that you want to save before doing the format...
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So format the internal? Do you need to reflash the ROM? Could I just restore from a back-up after the wipe?
Thanks for your reply.
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I got impatient and ran it through anyway. Went off without a hitch. Thanks for your help!
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No problem, glad it worked. I didn't have to change anything with the ROM I was on, I just needed to restore my apps since some of were on the Internal SD. I had also read that you could keep the Internal SD and delete the 0 folder, but I got an error every time I tried deleting it.

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[Q] Help! (Need to remove roms)

Hello, I am fairly new to rooting and everything that has to do with it. Long story short, I have only about 2gb left of internal storage on my GS3 yet I have installed CM 10.1 (nightly) and then went back to the normal 'stock' root but obviously backed everything up with Titanium Backup, but then later on I ALSO installed CM 10.1 (Stable), but now my problem is, how may I delete or REMOVE those roms to free up my internal storage? & MOST importantly, is there a way I can do it and STILL keep ALL my backed up apps/app data and what not with titanium? I basically just want to get rid of the roms and stay with just one (CM nightly, the one with 4.2.2) but also keep all my apps/saved backup data from titanium? some please please help! :l

There is only one ROM that is boot able at a time (unless we are talking about multiboot bootloaders but I doubt it) just move all your backups to PC or to the cloud and delete them from internal storage
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In which fild folder(s) should I check to find the roms and delete them?

The root of SD or internal memory unless you installed them elsewhere. If your not sure why don't you connect phone to PC, pull all files to PC, erase all on SD, then just put back what you need for now. Then dig through PC to see what else is there
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