Hey there
I use my P5100 since about a half a year. I've rooted it and have CM10.1 installed.
Since the begining I don't like the behaviour of my tab when I performe a backup. In compare to my Nexus 4, the SGT backups all my music, pictures and userdata in a Nandroid. My Nexus 4 only backups my Apps and the ROM and Kernel.
This behaviour really annoys me, because I have to delete everytime my music and pictures. Otherwise the backup gets a size of about 10 GB.
Now my question: Is this behaviour normal? Is there a way to format the internal storage card in a way that only the ROM and the apps get backuped? Or have I done something wrong while rooting? Sadly I don't remember how I rooted my device.
I'm open for any advice. If necessary I wipe my whole Device and root it once more. Thanks in advance for your help.
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I installed cm9 on my samsung galaxy tab 2 7 and am really digging it. I'm really new to the whole cyanogenmod and android tablet thing. I have performed a factory reset, but there seems to still be things on the device taking up space.
With only 8 gigs of space to start with space is at a premium, so is there anything i can do to safely wipe the whole thing and start from a fresh install? Is this even possible?
Any space saving advice is welcome.
Brandon
btmullins said:
I installed cm9 on my samsung galaxy tab 2 7 and am really digging it. I'm really new to the whole cyanogenmod and android tablet thing. I have performed a factory reset, but there seems to still be things on the device taking up space.
With only 8 gigs of space to start with space is at a premium, so is there anything i can do to safely wipe the whole thing and start from a fresh install? Is this even possible?
Any space saving advice is welcome.
Brandon
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I guess you could try before installing, do a factory reset in Stock ROM, that will format your Sdcard and give you more space... Don't forget to do a TB backup...
I have only 1.5 gigs on my Fascinate, but I am only using about 800mb. Android apps do not take up very much space at all. Also, forgive me if I misinterpret your question, but the space is taken up by your /system and /data partitions, which eat into the 8 gb.
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I guess you could try before installing, do a factory reset in Stock ROM, that will format your Sdcard and give you more space... Don't forget to do a TB backup...
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Um... In my haste I did neglect to do a backup. Fortunately everything seems to be in working order. I am using CWM to do a backup now.
Is there a reason I should use TB to do a backup instead of CWM?
I'm still really new to this, I'm just glad I didn't screw anything up on my first try.
As long as you use it only, TB backup should be functionally equivalent to a CWM NAND backup. But if you upgrade to another TAB, only TB backup could be easily transferred to thew new TAB. CWM NAND backup could note be used on the new TAB.
Hello Everyone, I have a fairly simple question, I have done searching but have not found a sufficient answer to my question. It is possible I overlooked it so if so I apologize. I want to format my internal SD. I have never done it before and have a billion folders and what not and it bugs me to see them all. So I actually have two questions.
What folders do I NEED to keep on here
Best way to format
I am running Sky jellybean 4.1.2 and as for my recovery it is CWMR Touch v6.0.0.7 by sk8erwitskil
In my experience, I move all my pics and music to external, then backup my appa with Titanium Backup.
In TiBU, I have it configured to back up apps and app data to external as well.
Then when I wanna try a new ROM, I wipe everything, including internal, load the ROM and restore from TiBU.
Never an issue.
To more directly answer your question, much of your installed app data is there, and you'll likely hose them by clearing out the drive.
If its not causing a problem for you and you're not out of space, leave it be. Otherwise, do a backup, nandroid, and wipe it and see what happens. Format in Windows as a fat32 drive.
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Hi, noob here, recently rooted my tab and tonight I decided to make a backup in rom manager. Everything went fine, backup made, saved to computer, went into rom manager and deleted the backup, problem is the space for this backup (1.2GB) still seems to be taking up space in internal storage leaving me with hardly any space left. Anyone had this issue before or got any tips on freeing up this space? Thanks.
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Hi, noob here, recently rooted my tab and tonight I decided to make a backup in rom manager. Everything went fine, backup made, saved to computer, went into rom manager and deleted the backup, problem is the space for this backup (1.2GB) still seems to be taking up space in internal storage leaving me with hardly any space left. Anyone had this issue before or got any tips on freeing up this space? Thanks.
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It should be in a directory named clockworkmod/backups/date(where date is an actual date), if i remember correctly, but i haven't used it in awhile .
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edingal said:
Hi, noob here, recently rooted my tab and tonight I decided to make a backup in rom manager. Everything went fine, backup made, saved to computer, went into rom manager and deleted the backup, problem is the space for this backup (1.2GB) still seems to be taking up space in internal storage leaving me with hardly any space left. Anyone had this issue before or got any tips on freeing up this space? Thanks.
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need more information about device You are using and os.
Using galaxy tab p3110, running 4.2.2, cyanogen mod 10.1.
Tried checking the clockworkmod directory but there's nothing there.
In the end I just flashed a new rom and formatted internal memory so issue closed
Well, just to answer your question. Since you are running cyanogenmod 10.1 with its multi user function you have to access it in a different way.
Grab a file explorer and go to /data/media and then go to the clockworkmod folder and this delete the backup.
Thanks for the reply, will keep that in mind for the future
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Luigi2012SM64DS said:
Well, just to answer your question. Since you are running cyanogenmod 10.1 with its multi user function you have to access it in a different way.
Grab a file explorer and go to /data/media and then go to the clockworkmod folder and this delete the backup.
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Thanks buddy!:good::good:
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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Hei guys, I own a Chinese handphone. Tweaked it so much, soft bricked it numerous times, but I got the stock rom at my disposal anyway so it doesn't matter much. It's cheap so I can actually do some experiments or tested non Play Store, or even suspicious apps on it.
However, going back and forth to stock then reconfigure everything is rather tedious task to do.
I did installed a CWM recovery and did a full nandroid backup. But it's seem that CWM backup didn't overwrite the old one so when I do a second one it failed, saying I'm out of space? I still got about 2 GB on internal storage, and 8 GB on external storage. It's said my folder (I forgot which, it's /data if I'm not mistaken) don't have space left. This is one funny thing about my phone, it doesn't use the internal storage at all. I cannot move the apps to the internal storage as well, only to the external SD card.
I'm out of space probably also because I move so many app as system. This way when I do a factory reset I got all my updated apps within, without the need to reinstall it.
So, the questions :
Is there any way to make CWM to actually update a backup, instead of creating a new one? Which partition I should wipe from CWM if I want to create an updated backup? It is convenient to do the restore directly from CWM, but I cannot update the backup, with that space problem.
How about creating a full custom ROM flashable image of my phone on which I can save to my PC instead?
How about going on fetching the nandroid backup CWM generated? Is it flashable using SP Tool? But I can't find the files anywhere in my system.
Any help would be appreciated.
Thank you!
Found some stuffs on CWM backup.
I'll update this thread when I've worked it out.
I'm an idiot. I can actually save the CWM backup into the internal SD. It's visible on any file manager within the folder "clockworkmod".
Sorry I did have experience with CWM, but never use it for backup, only to flash patches.