I just installed CM 10.1 onto my device. To my surprise, it re-partitioned my internal storage. All of the files that were on my phone, including the backup of the stock rom, are still there somewhere, they've just been moved... When I look at my storage in settings, I can see all the space the files are taking up, I just can't get to them. I searched through all the usual places. Is there any way to get to them? Or at the very least, reformat the device again, and remove the 6 Gigabytes of space they're needlessly taking up?
darthsentinel said:
I just installed CM 10.1 onto my device. To my surprise, it re-partitioned my internal storage. All of the files that were on my phone, including the backup of the stock rom, are still there somewhere, they've just been moved... When I look at my storage in settings, I can see all the space the files are taking up, I just can't get to them. I searched through all the usual places. Is there any way to get to them? Or at the very least, reformat the device again, and remove the 6 Gigabytes of space they're needlessly taking up?
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Is this the 0 folder thing? 4.2 introduces multi-user, and each user is given a folder, folder "0" for the first user. Check if you can find that somewhere. Are you coming from stock rooted?
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XdrummerXboy said:
Is this the 0 folder thing? 4.2 introduces multi-user, and each user is given a folder, folder "0" for the first user. Check if you can find that somewhere. Are you coming from stock rooted?
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I am coming from stock rooted. That's what I was expecting, I've had the issue before with my Galaxy Nexus, but it isn't that. It seems to have added a complete new partition to the internal storage, not just moving things around to new folders. I've checked Storage/Emulated, Storage/sdcard0, Storage/sdcard1, Storage/usbdisk0, and I've turned up with nothing. It just seems to have completely screwed everything up, and at this point, I have no clue what to do.
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I am coming from stock rooted. That's what I was expecting, I've had the issue before with my Galaxy Nexus, but it isn't that. It seems to have added a complete new partition to the internal storage, not just moving things around to new folders. I've checked Storage/Emulated, Storage/sdcard0, Storage/sdcard1, Storage/usbdisk0, and I've turned up with nothing. It just seems to have completely screwed everything up, and at this point, I have no clue what to do.
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Hmm... I guess you could try using root explorer to search for the file names or something, if you remember what they were called...
If you're fine with losing all that, you could go into recovery, clean all the caches and system and all that (there's 3 or 4 things to format/wipe), and reinstall the OS and see if that cleans things up.
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But then again, when I flashed for the first time I think it cleared literally everything and reformatted, which took quite a while compared to when I clean flash now. I just checked my internal storage and it says only 26.something GB out of 32 are available to me, so that might be what happened to you...
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Hmm... I guess you could try using root explorer to search for the file names or something, if you remember what they were called...
If you're fine with losing all that, you could go into recovery, clean all the caches and system and all that (there's 3 or 4 things to format/wipe), and reinstall the OS and see if that cleans things up.
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But then again, when I flashed for the first time I think it cleared literally everything and reformatted, which took quite a while compared to when I clean flash now. I just checked my internal storage and it says only 26.something GB out of 32 are available to me, so that might be what happened to you...
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That's pretty much what happened to me. Wiping the internal storage in recovery did it, though. Thanks, you've been a big help! Now, I just need to research how to re-flash the stock rom... Never done that before on the GS3. But that can wait until tomorrow. Until then, I guess I'm switching back to the good old GNex. Thanks again!
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That's pretty much what happened to me. Wiping the internal storage in recovery did it, though. Thanks, you've been a big help! Now, I just need to research how to re-flash the stock rom... Never done that before on the GS3. But that can wait until tomorrow. Until then, I guess I'm switching back to the good old GNex. Thanks again!
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Yeah, not entirely sure how to do that part, I dunno if there's more to it than just flashing it as if it were any other ROM. Did you not care for CM10.1? I prefer it far more than stock!
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Yeah, not entirely sure how to do that part, I dunno if there's more to it than just flashing it as if it were any other ROM. Did you not care for CM10.1? I prefer it far more than stock!
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I thought it was alright. I'd just like to go back to stock, make a backup as a precaution, copy the backup to my PC as an extra precaution, and then flash ParanoidAndroid. I prefer that to CM10, personally.
Next time you use JB 4.2 roms, go to /data/media and you'll see the entire contents of your sdcard.
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I thought it was alright. I'd just like to go back to stock, make a backup as a precaution, copy the backup to my PC as an extra precaution, and then flash ParanoidAndroid. I prefer that to CM10, personally.
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Yeah, its a good idea to go back and do that!
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I've had the opportunity to play with CWM on a Hercules phone the last couple days and it reminds me how much I like being able to fix permissions and navigate the internal SD card, etc. Things you can't do with CWM for Skyrocket.
Anyone know if this is being worked on at all?
We have a fully functional CWM...
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Our fix permissions doesn't work at all, lol. And I didn't even know CWM can navigate through the internal SD... As far as I know, no... We have CWM, yes, but not all of its functions work properly.
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You can navigate thru internal sd if you choose install zip from internal, or is that not what you mean?
Are you sure fix permissions doesn't work?
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We use the T-Mobile CWM. And it cannot format internal SD card or properly fix permissions. Probably a few other things I can't think of right now.
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We use the T-Mobile CWM. And it cannot format internal SD card or properly fix permissions. Probably a few other things I can't think of right now.
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For some (I guess depending on the ROM) it does fix permissions, for others it doesn't. ROM manager is the same way. For me, ROM manager errored out on the stock (rooted) ROM when trying to fix permissions, but CWM did it fine.
CWM says it's fixing permissions but it doesn't. It's something that should take a few minutes to do. Not a few seconds.
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CWM says it's fixing permissions but it doesn't. It's something that should take a few minutes to do. Not a few seconds.
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When I was on the stock ROM, it did take a while, not just a few seconds. Things don't always work the same way for everyone with this phone. Your experience may not have been the same as mine.
I'm assuming Fix Permissions is working
it takes about 5 minutes and there's a whole lot of scrolling text going on. Something is happening...
I've never had that problem with multiple roms, including TPC, Sky ics and others. Sounds like u only have a partial flash, try reflashing completely though odin
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it takes about 5 minutes and there's a whole lot of scrolling text going on. Something is happening...
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Sounds like it's definitely working for you.
But it doesn't work for a lot of people.
I've flashed multiple CWM's including the Odin version. It's never worked on me, but I never paid attention to which one I've tried it on.
Then there is still the issue with it not working properly with internal SD card.
you may want to check for update on cwm.
fix permission did not work b4 but does now.
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I have made backups fine in the past, but I just tried again 2 times, and it gets to /data and starts going, then stops, and says there was a error backing up /data
What might cause this?
I have 8G free on the SD card
idbl_fanatic said:
I have made backups fine in the past, but I just tried again 2 times, and it gets to /data and starts going, then stops, and says there was a error backing up /data
What might cause this?
I have 8G free on the SD card
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That's just weird usually its no space
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Would the battery being low cause this? I mean mine was at 65%
No this is usually caused by space issues in your sd card. Backup ur sd card to pc and reformat? Maybe that might help.
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chrisram88 said:
No this is usually caused by space issues in your sd card. Backup ur sd card to pc and reformat? Maybe that might help.
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He says that he has 8gb free, reformat might do it though... other then that I have no clue. Battery would have nothing to do with this issue.
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Well that didn't work either, I tried a different SD card, and getting the same thing......it gets about 3/4 of the way through /DATA and then give that error
How many apps/games do you have lol?
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If your trying to do a backup from the app as oppose to booting into cwm recovery you may have freezes.
Pin it to Win it.
I have about 144 apps/games, and I am doing this within CWM
idbl_fanatic said:
I have about 144 apps/games, and I am doing this within CWM
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Holy crap, I have 15 apps no games, it might be that huge... check your other nandroids to see how large they are.
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I have about 144 apps/games, and I am doing this within CWM
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Dam... That's why maybe?
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I have never had any problem up until now with this, I will check the size of the others though
**EDIT** they are about 1 G
idbl_fanatic said:
I have never had any problem up until now with this, I will check the size of the others though
**EDIT** they are about 1 G
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This worked one time for me. Try unmounting and mounting system, data etc.
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Well, I went ahead and installed the new ROM anyway, and restored my apps using titanium and then I went into CWM and mounted everything, and it let me make a backup of the new ROM so, I dunno...........
I have a heard of a rom not allowing people to back up for some reason before. Maybe a google search will help you for a reason? mind sharing what rom you were on?
mt3g said:
I have a heard of a rom not allowing people to back up for some reason before. Maybe a google search will help you for a reason? mind sharing what rom you were on?
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Hellfire Phoenix 2.0
I am currently on cm10 8/31. I tryed the new build of remjb and after flashing my imternal storage wouldnt mount. It shows 0 bytes of 0 bytes in fx file and root explorer says it is not mounted. So i restored nandroid back to the cm10 and it was mounted. Oh well its ok, i like cm10...... I tryed to take a picture a couple days later and it says i have no storage.... Now my internal isnt mounted on cm10 either. Did full wipe and reinstalled and it still wont mount. In recovery it shows up fine......... I guess what im asking is can anyone give me a terminal command the mounts the internal storage. Its just frustrating as i cant take pictures and half of my apps wont function right since they have stuff saved in android/data on the sd card.
Ps. My external works fine and mounts and shows in fx file fine....
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Look at this thread for answer. I think the external you are seeing is really internal. Real external might be /emmc.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1883467
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psal217050 said:
Look at this thread for answer. I think the external you are seeing is really internal. Real external might be /emmc.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1883467
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I am sure its the internal not mounted because external is both emmc and sdcard1 while sdcard0 is internal. And my external is 32gb so that helps further prove its my internal just not mounting right.
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Have you checked the Storage tab under the Settings to see if there is an option to mount it there?
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Have you checked the Storage tab under the Settings to see if there is an option to mount it there?
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.........yup fixed it. Took all of ten seconds....... god, makes me feel SO noobish. THANK YOU SO MUCH!!!!!
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.........yup fixed it. Took all of ten seconds....... god, makes me feel SO noobish. THANK YOU SO MUCH!!!!!
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Not a problem! I'm glad the solution was something easy. =D
It's often easy, especially when we do so much technical tweaking, to overlook the simple answers.
Don't feel bad about it. =P
exactly the same
Hey.
I have the exact same problem, but the "mount SD" in settings won't mount it. It just goes from "calculating" back to the "mount SD" button. Frustrating! It's been worked without problems till now and i haven't installed anything or changed anything!
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Hey.
I have the exact same problem, but the "mount SD" in settings won't mount it. It just goes from "calculating" back to the "mount SD" button. Frustrating! It's been worked without problems till now and i haven't installed anything or changed anything!
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I am having the same issue, was a fix ever found?
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I am having the same issue, was a fix ever found?
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No it wasn't. I just had to keep hitting mount USB in storage. But I switched to an old iPhone for a while then came back to this. Got the jellybean iemi issue and odined back to stock a couple times. That seemed to fix it. No longer have the issue. Weird.
PS I am in the latest Scott cm10 (11/04 with that kernel fix flashed 11/14 I think and latest gapps) fully went to stock and followed every step precisely. If you go back to stock be sure that when you get to the step where you flash an ICS ROM be sure to boot up the ICS rom once before wiping and flashing jellybean. Not doing that step messed up my iemi again haha xP had to Odin yet again.
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Let's take aside the noobish method. What would be the mount command for sdcard0 mounting anyway? So much garbage on the forum, that this simple question is impossible to find a resolution for.
DOes anyone know what would happen if I deleted the 0 folder from my phones internal memory? It looks to be a copy of another folder I already have. Its taking up way too much room on the card.
What ROM are you running?
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putney1477 said:
DOes anyone know what would happen if I deleted the 0 folder from my phones internal memory? It looks to be a copy of another folder I already have. Its taking up way too much room on the card.
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I just did this last night. Was going between a few 4.2.x/4.3 and 4.1.2 TW roms, and I was not liking my messy folder structure. Cleaned it up, and deleted the "0" folder. I backed it up on my pc beforehand, though. Always back up first, then try it. I had no adverse issues, but with everything, try at your own risk!
I went from 4.3 back to Beans 18 (4.1.2 TW), by the way.
I had the same issue but there was 0/0/0/0/0/0/0/0 folders in the internal SD. I backed up as much as I could (waze was making it error so I just deleted all the waze folders I could find) and formatted the internal SD. Got rid of a lot of my funky issues but I feel I have to odin back to stock and start from scratch just in case.
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What ROM are you running?
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I'm running beans 18 with the updated modem
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I'm running beans 18 with the updated modem
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If you're not planning on running AOSP stuff anymore, feel free to delete it.
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Just FYI This happens when going from 4.1.2 to 4.2. The reason fire this is because Google implemented a new feature Called Multi-User. Basically it allows more than one user profile for your phone or tablet (like on a PC). Because of this it makes a Folder on your SD card starting with "0" for each user. So basically if you are planning on just having one user on your device just take everything out of that "0" folder and move it to the root of your SD Card.
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Currently on a TW rom, Jelly Beans 19. A couple months back I had flashed an aosp rom and of course got the "0" folder. After switching back to TW, the folder remained. I flashed the restore SD zip by itself, along with fresh rom install, and it didn't fix it. I also formatted internal storage as well as SD card. For a couple days it was fine and then behold, that stupid folder is there again. Only bad part is, anything I download I have to merge into that folder so recovery will recognize it. I've done the formatting/ wiping several times. Any thoughts?
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dhouston10 said:
Currently on a TW rom, Jelly Beans 19. A couple months back I had flashed an aosp rom and of course got the "0" folder. After switching back to TW, the folder remained. I flashed the restore SD zip by itself, along with fresh rom install, and it didn't fix it. I also formatted internal storage as well as SD card. For a couple days it was fine and then behold, that stupid folder is there again. Only bad part is, anything I download I have to merge into that folder so recovery will recognize it. I've done the formatting/ wiping several times. Any thoughts?
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Back up important stuff to external sd and or computer and format internal memory and say good bye aosp/ 0 folder structure
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Back up important stuff to external sd and or computer and format internal memory and say good bye aosp/ 0 folder structure
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Already did that several times, yet it creeps back in there somehow
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dhouston10 said:
Already did that several times, yet it creeps back in there somehow
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With a file manager go in to each folder of the zero move it out and when it says it's a duplicate there should be am option to merge the file storage and once you are done formatting again
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With a file manager go in to each folder of the zero move it out and when it says it's a duplicate there should be am option to merge the file storage and once you are done formatting again
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Will give that a shot
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Will give that a shot
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I personally did it this way on the advice of the developer of synergy and worked flawless
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the 0 folder is an emulated partition of the internal storage on your phone. i have one too. everyone does.
if you go into es file explorer, and go to the root of you phone, and then hit storage, you will see 3 options, "emulated", "sdcard1" and "0"
the "0" is a fake sd card. the internal storage is partitioned, in case something goes wrong you wont lose all your data.
i found this out the hard way lol forgot to back up and data wipe before flashing a rom once when i was half asleep, and you would think its all gone but no it was still all there. games, apps, contacts, the whole 9.
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