My phone is rooted, yet I don't seem to be able to access my root folder anymore to see my files, etc.
When I plug my phone in, the computer doesn't recognize it anymore. When I try to use the Storage tool under settings,
it just says calculating forever and doesn't tell me what's taking up what.
I only have 2gb left on my phone, and I have no idea what's taking up so much space.
Where can I find the clockwork mod folder to delete old backups? How do you guys manage your space?
You could try Totalcommander .
Backups sit in /data/media/clockworkmod/backup/ (if you made your backups to the internal sd).
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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
So, I rooted my new S3 today and was seemingly successful.
Now, I want to restore all of the applications that were on my Droid 2 (SD card is transferred into my S3).
When I connect the phone to my PC and look at the SD contents, I see all of my old apps and data.
However, when it's disconnected and I open Root Explorer or attempt to restore with Titanium Backup, all of the folders appear blank. I mean ALL of them. Music, DCIM, Tit Back ... seems to think there's nothing in anything.
Can someone clue me in?
RobinDean said:
So, I rooted my new S3 today and was seemingly successful.
Now, I want to restore all of the applications that were on my Droid 2 (SD card is transferred into my S3).
When I connect the phone to my PC and look at the SD contents, I see all of my old apps and data.
However, when it's disconnected and I open Root Explorer or attempt to restore with Titanium Backup, all of the folders appear blank. I mean ALL of them. Music, DCIM, Tit Back ... seems to think there's nothing in anything.
Can someone clue me in?
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In TiBU hit menu, select preferences, and there will be an option to select backup folder location. Then hit detect, and choose "whole device". It will find your backup folder. when it does, select the folder, and then hit use current folder.
... and there we go.
Thank you!
Same but bigger problem
I thought the same issue here, when I clicked on the scenario calculations tick, all the figures were 0.. then i did as per what u said, still same problem.. i even installed superuser again.. pls help..
*SORRY PROBLEM SOLVED! FILTER ISSUE* my bad...
Hi, I just deleted the camera folder in gallery (dcim folder on internal sd).
Does anyone know a working recovery app or pc tool that works on internal sd?
I tried several ones, but no luck.
Thanks in advance!
I'm not sure about apps, but some of the desktop software may help. There's a company called Active that has a couple options that may help, such as UNDELETE or File Recovery. The main problem is the fact that this is flash memory. If you've written to the card any since you deleted the folder you dramatically reduce your chances of being able to recover those files.
Also, it depends on how new the card is as the more data has been written and rewritten to it, the lower your chances of being able to recover. That goes for all re-writeable storage. Hopefully that helps ... good luck.
If you're unfortunate enough to not already updated to Jellybean, you can use USB Mass Storage mode and try using PhotoRec to recover files.
THIS is why we need USB mass storage mode... MTP just doesn't cut it.
There are a bunch of folders and files on my phone that may be leftovers from apps I once tried and uninstalled. They seem to just be taking up space in my sdcard folder. Most are empty folders. What are these and can I safely delete them? I need the sdcard space.
sdcard/.chartboost
sdcard/.CM_Cloud
sdcard/.mmsyscache
sdcard/.quickdial
sdcard/.SIc-yJMAhEcjs6wmSi9Uhdeyr_M=
sdcard/catlog
sdcard/Tencent
Any help appreciated
Sorry, too early in the morning... I initially read your question as being about external SD cards - duh...
Your best bet is to copy them all - to a hard drive or Dropbox/Google Drive/OneDrive - and delete them from your SD card. Then if something fails you can restore them one by one if an app fails until you find the one that it needs.
Since none of them are in /system/ it's probably not a big risk, but take a full TWRP backup before you do anything.
That's what I was planning to do but was trying to find out what they were about first. Guess I'll need to go that route.....
on a computer, deleted files can be still be recovered via tools like recuva or disk digger. Not unless you use a program to overwrite fee space a number of times. Is it the same with android devices?
i have another scenario though, i have a tablet that i plugged a micro sd card to to view files. I dont save those files to the tablet, just view them. Then just eject the card when done. If someone were to somehow gain possession of my tablet, can they find out what the file is and somehow get a copy of that file via the temporary folder or something?
I would appreciate it if experts can answer and give advice on my rather uncommon questions.
Thanks
t-rayms said:
on a computer, deleted files can be still be recovered via tools like recuva or disk digger. Not unless you use a program to overwrite fee space a number of times. Is it the same with android devices?
i have another scenario though, i have a tablet that i plugged a micro sd card to to view files. I dont save those files to the tablet, just view them. Then just eject the card when done. If someone were to somehow gain possession of my tablet, can they find out what the file is and somehow get a copy of that file via the temporary folder or something?
I would appreciate it if experts can answer and give advice on my rather uncommon questions.
Thanks
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Files deleted in android are not actually deleted, the space the file is in is marked as free space but the data remains there ignored by the system until that space is overwritten or is formatted.
When viewing files from sdcard, some data that was viewed is cached and can be found/recovered later possibly if cache is not cleared but the data recovered might not be enough to tell them anything.
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