A few days ago I entered phone hell. At the time, the phone was on the last stock upgrade from AT&T, wasn't even rooted and didn't have a custom recovery. Short story is that it soft bricked out of nowhere for no apparent reason. I finally gave up on fixing it, installed TWRP recovery, did a Nandroid backup, wiped everything twice and reinstalled stock through Odin. Fortunately the Nandroid backup recovered my data and my apps, so I was able to selectively restore through Titanium.
Now that even though both the internal and external SD cards are more than 50% empty, I can't do anything like update apps or sync gmail because of insufficient storage. When I connect it to my PC, Windows Explorer recommends that I scan and fix the card. I suspect that whatever Windows is seeing caused my brick and the lack of space issues.
Is it okay to let Windows do the scan and fix?
Long story short? No...
Enable hidden files and folders in explorer and find the directory that is eating up the space.
Either that or USB connect it, copy everything over, disconnect and wipe from phone (settings > storage > erase) and then reconnect and copy everything back
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Hello, I had the Unknown reason -18 error from Android Market. I read that one possible fix was to delete the .android_secure folder. I did that but I backed it up to my laptop.
After that I realised that this removed all my apps from my SD so I moved the backup to the sd back in order to restore all apps. But then the problem started. Now I'm supposed to have all the files exactly same as before but, for some reason my phone get stucked when I have to enter the PIN. It does not respond at anything, I thought It was checking the SD files again but it has passed about 30 minutes and still the same. Tried to reboot ( i have to remove battery because the switch off button does not respond) and everytime I'm getting stucked when the SD card seems to be checking files.... What can I do to restore my phone like before? I know one fix is to completely delete .android_secure folder but I would have to reinstall all my sd apps, (thats about 90 apps!!) and probably I'd lost all app's data...
Than you for your help,
Cheers!
(My mobile device is a Nexus One)
Ok, I did a Windows Scandisk over my SD card and it fixed some problems, after that, the mobile did started and all my apps were recovered... What's more after removing the smdl2tmp1.asec file from .android_security folder solved the -18 problem issue.
Everything it's good now =)
I was deleting crap on my sd card to free up some space. I cant remember everything i deleted but now i can not get the card to read in the phone. It says it it not mounted. I have tried to remount it in settings but nothing happens it just says i can remove the sd card. I can not plug it in to the computer because the phone will not enter disk drive mode. I tried a nandroid back up but it says something about md5 sums mismatch.
I am running ARHD xd 3.6 with the kernal that comes with it as well as the preferred radio.
Htc said to do a factory reset of the phone. Which i would rather not do. Is there a way to reformat the SD card there is little on there that i really care about. Reformatting would be my last resort but if that is the only fix then sure. Thanks guys!
I would not reformat it unless you take the files to your computer. See if you can get a hold of an as card adaptor for your pc and transfer your files so you can transfer them back. Reformatting will completely erase everything and I don't know how your device will react to you having your custom Rom removed.
It won't have anything to go off of I would think. I've never had this problem but I'm giving you my heat advice. But reformat before you factory reset.
First you can try and use an sd card reader and reformat the sd card. If you dont have that you can do nandroid backup through recovery to save your system data and apps. Then do a factory restore, maybe even a EXT4 reformat. after that you can reflash your rom and restore your backups.
PS If you dont want to use recovery backups for any reason you can always use titanium backup for apps (I wouldnt recommend backing up system data), make sure your accounts are synced, and even use an sms backup app for your text messages.
I was scared the actual phone was not reading the sd card or that the ROM had stopped it from reading correctly so i grabbed my wifes 2gig card threw it in there and the phone read it no problem at all. I just put my card back in and did a wipe of it was clear of any errors and worked perfectly. Immediately after i made a nandroid backup.
I could restore a nandroid backup because they are stored on the SD card and since it was connected i was getting a md5 checksum error. I looked up the error and tried to push the back up through adb shell but once again with out the sd card reading correctly no restore could be done. All my contacts are saved through gmail, photos are all uploaded the gogole+ as soon as they are taken so really the only stuff i lost was my nandroid backup from the stock rom.
thanks for the help guys.
Ya it happens some times it sounds like your weren't too attached to anything on the card so that's good.
I've said it before make a back up of your back ups. Put em ib a safe folder on your pc if you can. Hope. You can get back to normal good luck.
Hi. I was going to update from Elegancia 1.4.3 to 1.4.4. As usual, I make a nandroid backup before flashing. And also backed up all my apps.
After I took the nandroid backup, I syncronised my phone with HTC Sync to save my contacts, pictures music etc. Then I deleted one of my old backups, since I need a little more space on my SD card. I had around 3 GB.
After I deleted it, now my phone says I have 1,2 GB. Everything on my SD card is gone, then I mean pictured and music, also rom manager keeps FC, Titanium backup wont give me busybox checked (got premium installed)
I also can't get my pictured and music back when I sync my phone with HTC Sync..
WHAT IS WRONG? And why does it say I have 1,2 GB left on my SD card when nothing is on my phone anymore. It does work, but this is making me frustrated..
Nothing wrong with the phone, run smoothly, but it is just the thing I have mentioned that irritates me.
Thanks in advance.
By chance, did you delete everything using an Ubuntu or other Linux computer?
If so, the trash files could still be there. You can fix it by remounting the SD card to the computer and emptying the trash.
If you did this through the phone or via Windows....then I dunno.
But you could always try saving the contents of the card to a computer, formatting the card from within the phone, and copying the saved files back. That might fix you up.
Skipjacks said:
By chance, did you delete everything using an Ubuntu or other Linux computer?
If so, the trash files could still be there. You can fix it by remounting the SD card to the computer and emptying the trash.
If you did this through the phone or via Windows....then I dunno.
But you could always try saving the contents of the card to a computer, formatting the card from within the phone, and copying the saved files back. That might fix you up.
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I deleted the nandroid trough es file explorer.. I didnt quite understand how to do the last u said
Just installed O2 OS and when I went to do an app restore with Titanium I noticed it didn't recognize the SD partition.
If I go to Settings>Storage it says 27gb free (out of 64gb, so everything is still on the device), and lists where memory is being used but that only adds up to about 3gb
If I boot to twrp > Mount > enable MTP
Then plug into my laptop, everything is there, all my songs, pictures, backups, etc from when I was running CM11S under SDcard/0
In TWRP if I try to restore (I have two twrp CM11S backups) the screen is blank, and I can't change the restore directory so sdcard/0 where they are now located
When reboot and I plug the phone in on my laptop the phone storage is blank. I can't copy anything to the phone (says "The device has either stopped responding or been disconnected.") So I can't copy the TWRP backup and/or Ti Backup I saved to my computer
So I went back into TWRP > Mount > Enable MTP
Then tried copying my Ti Backup folder to the main device folder. Transfer seemed fine, so i rebooted. Same thing as before, it doesn't show any files on the sdcard
What's going on with the internal memory? Basically what I need to be able to do is do a restore back to CM11S and I'll try to start with a fresh Oxygen flash.
mooseknuckles1 said:
Just installed O2 OS and when I went to do an app restore with Titanium I noticed it didn't recognize the SD partition.
If I go to Settings>Storage it says 27gb free (out of 64gb, so everything is still on the device), and lists where memory is being used but that only adds up to about 3gb
If I boot to twrp > Mount > enable MTP
Then plug into my laptop, everything is there, all my songs, pictures, backups, etc from when I was running CM11S under SDcard/0
In TWRP if I try to restore (I have two twrp CM11S backups) the screen is blank, and I can't change the restore directory so sdcard/0 where they are now located
When reboot and I plug the phone in on my laptop the phone storage is blank. I can't copy anything to the phone (says "The device has either stopped responding or been disconnected.") So I can't copy the TWRP backup and/or Ti Backup I saved to my computer
So I went back into TWRP > Mount > Enable MTP
Then tried copying my Ti Backup folder to the main device folder. Transfer seemed fine, so i rebooted. Same thing as before, it doesn't show any files on the sdcard
What's going on with the internal memory? Basically what I need to be able to do is do a restore back to CM11S and I'll try to start with a fresh Oxygen flash.
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Similar problem with oxygenOS.
While in TWRP with MTP enabled, I tried to copy my most recent TWRP backup (put it on my laptop this morning just in case) that I have on my laptop to the SDcard, everything copies over and shows up in TWRP restore except the Data files, it says they are too big to copy, each is around 1.5GB
Am I ok to do a restore without the Data files?
Well I seem to have solved it.
In TWRP I did a complete format
Rebooted into TWRP
Plugged into laptop with Mount>MTP Enabled
Transfered ROM onto device
Flashed
Rebooted to system
Everything seems to be back to normal. Phone is rooted, local memory reads and writes fine. Just have to transfer my Titanium backup from laptop to phone and do an app restore.
mooseknuckles1 said:
Well I seem to have solved it.
In TWRP I did a complete format
Rebooted into TWRP
Plugged into laptop with Mount>MTP Enabled
Transfered ROM onto device
Flashed
Rebooted to system
Everything seems to be back to normal. Phone is rooted, local memory reads and writes fine. Just have to transfer my Titanium backup from laptop to phone and do an app restore.
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what rom have you flashed? Cm or oxygen or other?
eternasparta said:
what rom have you flashed? Cm or oxygen or other?
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Oxygen
I have a new problem, when I try to pull down the notification tab, the second swipe down doesn't open the setting and quick toggle menu. If I restart the phone it lets me do it for about the first 10 seconds but then something must load that prevents it.
'back' is the only haptic button that works too. The others vibrate indicating they've been pushed but no action is performed. I check in Button Settings to insure they have tasks assigned to them
In Gmail, links also don't open
If I search with the Google search bar and try to open one of the results, i just get a grey-white screen that says "google apps", if i go back it usually opens the result to Chrome
Wiped Dalvik to see if that had any effect, it didn't.
Hello!
I was hoping that someone here could help on this annoying problem that I've had for almost 3-4 days now. I've been searching and searching and I've almost tried everything that I could find on the internet.
I recently encrypted my phone and, quite quickly afterwards, realized that, that was a mistake and I decided to "decrypt" by basically hard resetting my phone via TWRP (I rooted my phone a while back). Prior to the hard reset I had backed up everything on my phone via Titanium Backup and then moved all the files from my phone onto my computer (Ubuntu 14.04). If you click on the Titanium Backup files it's filled with .apk.gz, .tar.gz and .properties.
Since I was being completely impatient and didn't really understand what or how to do a nandroid backup, I decided that those two "backup" steps were enough and I should go ahead with the hard reset. Since I resetted via TWRP my phone was still rooted even though everything on the phone was wiped clean.
I redownloaded Titanium Backup, moved the backup files from my computer back onto the SD Card and waited to restore my apps. Nothing. It recognized that there were 284 files moved into the SD Card but only picked up about 44 restores (the majority of those 44 being system apps that I've deleted off my phone via another rooted app). I've tried everything from changing the backup folder preferences, to actually going down the list to redownload everything and nothing. My phone is not recognizing my old backups nor will it redownload them with the previously stored data.
I really would like to restore my phone instead of setting it up all over again so, please help!