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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MIKEYSAKZ said:
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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I'm wanting to test out another rom, but for some reason I cannot back up my existing rom in cwm. I'm currently on CM7.
Any help is greatly appreciated!
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I choose backup existing rom, then shows the little android guy but there's the huge exclamation mark next to it. No clue what's going on. Never had this problem before.
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The back button is disabled....3 button and reboot back into recovery and try again
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Thank you for your help dman, but I'm not sure what you mean by 3button thing?
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Thank you for your help dman, but I'm not sure what you mean by 3button thing?
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Hold power and both buttons on the volume rocker until the phone reboots. When you see the Samsung logo, let go of power, but keep holding the rocker down. This boots you into recovery.
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Just wanted to make sure I was doing it right. Well still no luck. After the back up says complete, this is the log info.
No/sdcard/.android_secure found.
Skipping backup of applications on external storage.
Backing up cache...
No sd - ext found. Skipping backup of sd-ext
Generating md5 sum...
Backup complete.
so I reboot the phone after that, went into cwm and there's no backup from the back up list. :/
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Just wanted to make sure I was doing it right. Well still no luck. After the back up says complete, this is the log info.
No/sdcard/.android_secure found.
Skipping backup of applications on external storage.
Backing up cache...
No sd - ext found. Skipping backup of sd-ext
Generating md5 sum...
Backup complete.
so I reboot the phone after that, went into cwm and there's no backup from the back up list. :/
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Do you have an external sd card?
Yes I do. Its a 2gb
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Yes I do. Its a 2gb
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didnt mean to click thanks. do you have any room on it?
Total space: 1.86
Available space: 1.85
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Even the internal storage is pretty much open. I have no music/videos/anything. Maybe a couple apps and that's about it.
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Have you recently tried to move any files between your SD card and PC? Sometimes cards can become corrupted, or certain files at least can also become bad and not read. The more you mount and unmount the more degraded it gets. If you tried to delete any files, did you accidentally delete something from your internal SD?
Not that I'm aware of. When I get home ill try transferring a small file over. As far as the internal SD card its fine.
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What is mouted under the mounts and storage menu of CWM?
I'm not sure how I check that?
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@statik.
Mount/system
Unmount/cache
Mount/datadata
Mount/sdcard
Mount/data
Mount/emmc
Mount/usbstorage
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Nothing at all? Sigh. I really wish I could find a solution to this.
I guess ill try out Odin to put it back to stock and then root and unlock it. I just hate the fact I can't back up anything.
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So for some reason 2.3.3 isn't showing the correct files when trying to flash, most folders are empty and everything was unorganized, went to CWM and everything worked fine.
Every time I try to flash 2.3.1 again it won't let me. Is there any other app like goo manager to flash twrp or a way to fix 2.3.3?
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What do you mean most folders are empty/unorganized? Which rom are you on and do you have a /sdcard/0 directory? When you say CWM worked fine, in what way did it work fine?
Beans build 9, it's not 4.2 but I do have 0 folders from previous 4.2 flashes. In a root folder I have all my files there and everything is there, in cwm everything is the same. In TWRP some folders are missing, the download folder for example is empty, and they arentbin the order they're supposed to be.
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Beans build 9, it's not 4.2 but I do have 0 folders from previous 4.2 flashes. In a root folder I have all my files there and everything is there, in cwm everything is the same. In TWRP some folders are missing, the download folder for example is empty, and they arentbin the order they're supposed to be.
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So your filesystem looks like this /sdcard/0/? If so, just move all the folders from /sdcard/0 to the /sdcard path. Basically, if you have this /0 directory with all your data saved to it, this causes havoc when you switch roms or want to restore backups.
I'm not understanding your flashing issue with TWRP. Did you place a rom on /sdcard, boot right into TWRP 2.3.3, and it just wouldn't see that rom zip or is it something else? Or did you put the rom zip on /sdcard/0?
It's actually the opposite, the /0 is showing and not the root of the SD card.
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It's actually the opposite, the /0 is showing and not the root of the SD card.
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Could you screenshot what you're seeing? If you see /0, you can just go up one level and be on /sdcard.
I actually got it fixed but thanks for trying to help, the problem was that it was only showing the /0 folder and not the actual root so the root finally showed after flashing a 4.2.
The first thing on SD card was that 0 folder, weird problem.
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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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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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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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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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tatootie67 said:
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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tatootie67 said:
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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