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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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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Total space says 12.05 and when I add up what it shows me in storage it adds up to 2 gb used
I also plugged in my phone to Computer and it added to the same and I didn't see any hidden folders
Did you flash a aosp rom lately?
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Most likely you have double of the same space of your contents, might want to check all your folders and navigate to your 0 folder or your original touchwiz folder.
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How do I do a full wipe and get all my space back I formatted system before and had to gain root again is that the only way
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How do I do a full wipe and get all my space back I formatted system before and had to gain root again is that the only way
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Make sure you have everything backed up... pics and stuff. Reboot into recovery, format data. I just had to do it, for the same reason. Just remember to format all. No need to reroot.
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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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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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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 don't understand what happened. The total space is now 12.05GB and I only have 478MB available.
The 12.05 is right. That's what a 16 GB hard drive is after a format. As for the low Available space how many Nandroids do u have,?
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The 12.05 is right. That's what a 16 GB hard drive is after a format. As for the low Available space how many Nandroids do u have,?
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I don't have any on the internal storage. I'm so confused because I can't figure out where the space is coming from. I've moved all my pictures, backups, and downloads to the external SD card.
Time to nandroid, wipe, and clean install, then restore what you want from nandroid. (Any app that you don't need data for , don't restore it. imo
Check what it looks like after clean install and then again after restore. Apps like Play Store and others can have alot of stuff in cache folders, you might want to chech out something like all-in-one toolbox to clean you cache and see what it says. Good luck, I'm a flash-a-holic so I nand & wipe all the time. Last time I stayed on a rom for a week I cleaned cache and it was 3 or 4 gig.
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Download es file manager and do the SD card analyze. That will show you what folders/files are eating up your space. It could just be a bug in the setup menu.
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I ran the SD card analyzer and it came up with the same breakdown as the settings display. I wish I knew what was causing the problem but I never did find out. I had to do 2 more wipe/restores and the storage returned to normal.
Glad u finally got it right
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Glad u finally got it right
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Thanks, me too
Hello.
Can someone please help me out? Awhile ago I flashed rage rom, and it placed a folder called HD rage extras onto my SD card. I have since then been using other roms, and wiped everything except internal SD card multiple times. I cannot seem to delete that rage folder, or the 5 files inside it
YES, I have used root file explorers, multiple ones, and all of them will not allow me to delete them.
Even tried changing permissions but they still will not delete.
Any ideas?
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Hello.
Can someone please help me out? Awhile ago I flashed rage rom, and it placed a folder called HD rage extras onto my SD card. I have since then been using other roms, and wiped everything except internal SD card multiple times. I cannot seem to delete that rage folder, or the 5 files inside it
YES, I have used root file explorers, multiple ones, and all of them will not allow me to delete them.
Even tried changing permissions but they still will not delete.
Any ideas?
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The next time you flash a ROM, wipe data and it will be gone.
I've done that at least 5 times, currently running cm nightlies I have wiped everything except internal SD.
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I've done that at least 5 times, currently running cm nightlies I have wiped everything except internal SD.
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You need to wipe or format internal.
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You need to wipe or format internal.
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If I did that, wouldn't I lose my backup, recovery, or new rom download? Would I have to adb with a PC after?
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If I did that, wouldn't I lose my backup, recovery, or new rom download? Would I have to adb with a PC after?
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Wiping data doesn't touch your recovery, but it will get rid of everything else. I always save my backups, etc. to my external SD. That's what it's there for.
Yeah, my ex card stopped working awhile ago. Still can't believe there isn't another way to delete a file that's not even being used any other way
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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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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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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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