Hi guys, this is my first post on this forum ( Actually I have benn here for a long time without account )
Alright, This is my problem, I usually flash back to stock by RUU, my Pico has over 100MB free space. A few days ago, I flashed the same RUU, but this time I have 70MB space only, I have cleaned all partitions by recovery and flash again, still.
Oh wait, I just use Disk Usage and check the storage, it's say there are some data(not system) on the internal storage, wow.
Does anyone have ideas?
My Pico cid is Taiwan(621), so I flash TW RUU.
Thanks
before flashing, did you wipe system partition too?
Affangta said:
before flashing, did you wipe system partition too?
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yeah, I did, everything wiped before flash back by RUU, actually before this, I never wipe by myself but has no problems,
AA181891 said:
yeah, I did, everything wiped before flash back by RUU, actually before this, I never wipe by myself but has no problems,
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why not sd-ext partition for apps?
Affangta said:
why not sd-ext partition for apps?
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I know that and it's convenience, but this smartphone now is just my secondary phone.
And for a odd reason, I prefer not to creat a partition on my SD card, just like to keep it simple and clean.
Looks like I'm stubborn...
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Hello!
I just noticed today that my sdcard partition is only 2gb (see screenshot). Even when I mount it on my computer, it still shows up as 2gb. How can I change it back to the full 10gb?
Thanks for your help!
Cordially,
Dariel Dato-on
Well, thats odd... Changing the partition size requires S-OFF - something we dont have on the S yet.
I would try reinstall whatever ROM youre on, and if that fails - format data, system, cache, dalvik-cache and try another ROM.
Thanks for the reply! I tried reflashing the ROM, but that did not help. I'll try to find time to do a full wipe this weekend and see what happens.
What does windows say about its size?
U sure you don't have a Chinese clone? Lol could be a possibility
OK. Did a full wipe and reflashed the ROM. Now I have the full 10gb back. Strange how that happened.
Yes... Very odd indeed. Well, good thing it got resolved
Odd-rationale said:
Hello!
I just noticed today that my sdcard partition is only 2gb (see screenshot). Even when I mount it on my computer, it still shows up as 2gb. How can I change it back to the full 10gb?
Thanks for your help!
Cordially,
Dariel Dato-on
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This is actually a bug in the recovery TWRP. I found out it was a bug by looking at the changelog for TWRP 2.4.1.0 and one of the changes was a fix for accidentally making the SD card partition 2gb.
Just for the people wondering what it was.
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Odd-rationale said:
OK. Did a full wipe and reflashed the ROM. Now I have the full 10gb back. Strange how that happened.
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Where did you do a full wipe from? Bootloader? the regular settings? TWRP, if so which option?
Hi guys I was wondering how does TWRP handle devices with no SD card ? Everytime I want to flash a ROM I have to wipe data does this wipe everything on your phone ? Do I make backups after every flash ?
The phone has a internal storage eMMC 5.0 of 16GB/64GB.
No it does not wipe your internal storage.
naruto.ninjakid said:
Hi guys I was wondering how does TWRP handle devices with no SD card ? Everytime I want to flash a ROM I have to wipe data does this wipe everything on your phone ? Do I make backups after every flash ?
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Yes it treats the virtual sdcard as an actual sdcard, and will not format it.
It works this way even with devices with external sd cards. Internal memory is not touched.
What you're actually working on is only system partition.
/data/media is where your personal storage is. It's symbolically linked to /sdcard as well for old apps the need it. When you factory reset (format /data) it excludes /data/media. Nothing is lost. You also don't need to wipe every time you flash a ROM. At least you don't unless you are changing to a different ROM just not when updating, though it's probably advisable to at least wipe dalvik cache.
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Thanks guys I was a little confused! Never had a phone without an SD card.
zephiK said:
The phone has a internal storage eMMC 5.0 of 16GB/64GB.
No it does not wipe your internal storage.
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vladashram said:
Yes it treats the virtual sdcard as an actual sdcard, and will not format it.
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DuckMcQUack said:
It works this way even with devices with external sd cards. Internal memory is not touched.
What you're actually working on is only system partition.
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The Jack of Clubs said:
/data/media is where your personal storage is. It's symbolically linked to /sdcard as well for old apps the need it. When you factory reset (format /data) it excludes /data/media. Nothing is lost. You also don't need to wipe every time you flash a ROM. At least you don't unless you are changing to a different ROM just not when updating, though it's probably advisable to at least wipe dalvik cache.
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naruto.ninjakid said:
Thanks guys I was a little confused! Never had a phone without an SD card.
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If your using twrp there is wipebwhich does a factory wipe which wipes the data and cache. Doesnt touch your actual data. If you go to advanced wipe in wipe you can choose whatever your want. And wipe whole phone. But if you do that you will need to backup and then sideload or use USB otg to flash a ROM back....
Hi guys, maybe I am a noob talking about the Moto G, I used to have a Xperia Z1 and everytime I wanted to flash a new rom I had to put the zip into the SD card...
Now with my Moto G is the same process, "save the zip in the SD (internal storage), wipe data, cache, system and flash the rom" my question is, If I deleted the data also the zip will disappear right? and my CWM backup too.
Any help here please. I am confused:silly:
regards
PS sorry for my english
No, it wont disappear, because CWM wipes /data partition, not /sdcard so all stuff inside /sdcard wont get deleted
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Hi guys, maybe I am a noob talking about the Moto G, I used to have a Xperia Z1 and everytime I wanted to flash a new rom I had to put the zip into the SD card...
Now with my Moto G is the same process, "save the zip in the SD (internal storage), wipe data, cache, system and flash the rom" my question is, If I deleted the data also the zip will disappear right? and my CWM backup too.
Any help here please. I am confused:silly:
regards
PS sorry for my english
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Actually first you install the ROM zip and then wipe the things and thus the zip is not deleted since it has already been flashed
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Meuuks13 said:
Actually first you install the ROM zip and then wipe the things and thus the zip is not deleted since it has already been flashed
Please hit thanks if I helped!
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eddydc1 said:
No, it wont disappear, because CWM wipes /data partition, not /sdcard so all stuff inside /sdcard wont get deleted
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So, Do I have to flash the zip before the wipes or after that? Because if the CWM does not delete the data info, only the partition means that I will acumulate a lot of unnecesary data, like folders, thumbnails, etc etc
thanks
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So, Do I have to flash the zip before the wipes or after that? Because if the CWM does not delete the data info, only the partition means that I will acumulate a lot of unnecesary data, like folders, thumbnails, etc etc
thanks
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I think the senior member got it wrong.
Wiping through cwm deletes everything. So you gotta install the zip first.
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I think the senior member got it wrong.
Wiping through cwm deletes everything. So you gotta install the zip first.
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I think he does
one last question my friend.
The CWM backup will be deleted right? So i Have to download the backuo to my computer just in case
regards
juliospinoza said:
I think he does
one last question my friend.
The CWM backup will be deleted right? So i Have to download the backuo to my computer just in case
regards
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Ohh yup.. The backup will be deleted!.. But I don't think that copying the backup to a pc would do any good since if something went wrong and you bricked your phone you will most probably need to restore to stock firmware to unbrick your phone.
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I think he does
one last question my friend.
The CWM backup will be deleted right? So i Have to download the backuo to my computer just in case
regards
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Actually Senior member got the impression you are using clockworkmod(cwm) recovery to flash a new ROM in Moto G, thats why he said that. If you are using stock recovery, then Meuuks13 is perfectly correct otherwise eddydc1 would have been right.
If you have cwm, wiping data won't wipe your internal storage. Am I right?
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If you have cwm, wiping data won't wipe your internal storage. Am I right?
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Yes you are right.
But if you have the stock recovery it also wipes /sdcard.
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vhngu930 said:
If you have cwm, wiping data won't wipe your internal storage. Am I right?
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Cases have been noted that if you use wipe data/factory reset option in cwm, it will wipe your internal storage. But thankfully this option doesn't wipe the data in external storage(like one's in Moto G 4G/LTE)
Since i own XT1033 and don't have the luxury of external SD card, i use TWRP Recovery so that when i do factory reset, it leaves my internal storage data alone. Giving me the option whether to use leftover data or delete it.
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Cases have been noted that if you use wipe data/factory reset option in cwm, it will wipe your internal storage. But thankfully this option doesn't wipe the data in external storage(like one's in Moto G 4G/LTE)
Since i own XT1033 and don't have the luxury of external SD card, i use TWRP Recovery so that when i do factory reset, it leaves my internal storage data alone. Giving me the option whether to use leftover data or delete it.
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This never happened to me before...
rohitthe1 said:
Cases have been noted that if you use wipe data/factory reset option in cwm, it will wipe your internal storage. But thankfully this option doesn't wipe the data in external storage(like one's in Moto G 4G/LTE)
Since i own XT1033 and don't have the luxury of external SD card, i use TWRP Recovery so that when i do factory reset, it leaves my internal storage data alone. Giving me the option whether to use leftover data or delete it.
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XT1032 owner here , and user of CWM , flashed tons of ROMs and Kernels and such and never did I lose anything on the SDCard partition .
I'm thinking it probably depends more on the phone model (not sure if carrier too ...)
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This never happened to me before...
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Hir0xM said:
XT1032 owner here , and user of CWM , flashed tons of ROMs and Kernels and such and never did I lose anything on the SDCard partition .
I'm thinking it probably depends more on the phone model (not sure if carrier too ...)
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Probably or may be due to some manufacturing defect. But suppose if we live in the ideal world, like i mentioned earlier in Post #8, use of wipe data/factory reset option in cwm should/will not wipe your personal data from internal storage.
I clean-flashed the stock release version of Android L that just came out, and I noticed that my phone doesn't detect the correct amount of storage on the device. This is a 32GB Nexus 5, yet the storage page in Settings only lists 12.55GB of total space (screenshot). Windows (10) also lists only 12.5GB of total space (screenshot). What's wrong here?
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I clean-flashed the stock release version of Android L that just came out, and I noticed that my phone doesn't detect the correct amount of storage on the device. This is a 32GB Nexus 5, yet the storage page in Settings only lists 12.55GB of total space (screenshot). Windows (10) also lists only 12.5GB of total space (screenshot). What's wrong here?
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If flashing userdata results in your device's internal storage being downgraded to 16GB according to the OS, just do a full wipe in recovery, that should fix it. This is a bug caused by the userdata.img file being distributed by Google.
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What a launch for the N5!
RVDigital said:
What a launch for the N5!
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So... I have to completely wipe my phone and start from scratch AGAIN?
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So... I have to completely wipe my phone and start from scratch AGAIN?
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Apologies, that quote assumes everyone knows what a Full Wipe is (that's not sarcasm, its a silly assumption). Wipe the data partition in recovery is what is being suggested here. In some recoveries, a full wipe is data and cache.
I will tell you that doing this in TWRP didn't solve the problem. I ultimately just formated via fastboot, as follows.
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fastboot format userdata
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Apologies, that quote assumes everyone knows what a Full Wipe is (that's not sarcasm, its a silly assumption). Wipe the data partition in recovery is what is being suggested here. In some recoveries, a full wipe is data and cache.
I will tell you that doing this in TWRP didn't solve the problem. I ultimately just formated via fastboot, as follows.
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fastboot format userdata
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Is there a way I can back up the contents of userdata then restore them back once the partition is the correct size? I'll go through the process of reinstalling everything again if I have to, but I'd really like to avoid that if at all possible. Can I MTP to it from TWRP?
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Is there a way I can back up the contents of userdata then restore them back once the partition is the correct size? I'll go through the process of reinstalling everything again if I have to, but I'd really like to avoid that if at all possible. Can I MTP to it from TWRP?
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Why not do a TWRP Backup of /data then restore it when you're finished?
I will say I was having the same issue, and I couldn't create a nandroid backup via CWM. Backs up boot image OK. Backs up recovery image OK. Backs up system OK. "Runs out of" storage space when backing up data. GRRR. SD card space free: 0 MB. False!
Wiped data partition in CWM. Started setup again. STILL 16GB.
Formatted using the Minimal ADB and Fastboot tool found here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2317790
(Code: fastboot format userdata)
Rebooted
THAT worked!!! I am just raging that I spent ~8 hours setting up and customizing everything last night, down to the last email account and icon and NOW it's all gone.
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Why not do a TWRP Backup of /data then restore it when you're finished?
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Ah, I thought a nandroid backup was a full partition backup, so doing that would just restore the entire partition with the incorrect size. I took a TWRP backup of data, wiped data, then restored the nandroid backup and all is well. Thank you!
Hey, I've been using a bunch of ROMs for a while, and recently this has become a problem.
Basically, when using Project Elixir or a MIUI ROM, everything works fine.
But, for example, when using crdroid, Evolution X or AncientROM, after rebooting the device, it just doesn't boot, it bootloops.
This might be related to something about Magisk, but not sure.
Also, this only happens after doing the setup.
Can anyone help, and is anyone else facing this problem?
wipe /data ? I'm almost sure that's the step yo're missing.
aurocha said:
wipe /data ? I'm almost sure that's the step yo're missing.
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Before or after flashing?
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Before or after flashing?
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If you are changing ROMs you should format (note: format - not wipe) the data partition after flashing the new ROM. Of course this will also delete the contents of your internal storage, so you should backup your internal storage before formatting data.
DarthJabba9 said:
If you are changing ROMs you should format (note: format - not wipe) the data partition after flashing the new ROM. Of course this will also delete the contents of your internal storage, so you should backup your internal storage before formatting data.
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I always use the instructions provided by the ROM developer, so I don't think I'm doing anything wrong...
DarthJabba9 said:
If you are changing ROMs you should format (note: format - not wipe) the data partition after flashing the new ROM. Of course this will also delete the contents of your internal storage, so you should backup your internal storage before formatting data.
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Just tried it, didn't seem to work
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Just tried it, didn't seem to work
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Then it seems to me that the problem may be with something that you are installing after installing the ROM.
Perhaps start with a clean flash, setup the ROM, and do not install Magisk.