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Stuck during root (can't see SuperSU.zip)

So...I've been following Shabby's thread in the dev forum, but can't post there yet due to being new. Everything works fine to the point where he says to flash the SuperSU zip from recovery.
Basically, there's nothing seen on the SD card in recovery mode. I've verified the file is there from the Terminal in normal mode, and the permissions are a mix of 777 and 755 in there. Only the DCIM and bug2go directories appear in recovery. What am I doing wrong?
Thanks in advance to anyone who replies. I am a happy lady with this phone but want to finish the root job!

internal sdcard or external sdcard?

shabbypenguin said:
internal sdcard or external sdcard?
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Wow, I was not expecting you to answer personally
Er...it's a 16GB microSD card i purchased and put into the SD slot. I suppose that makes it external...? At any rate I know the recovery flash is looking at it because I see the same directory structure in Android's terminal at /sdcard/, just almost nothing in it shows up in recovery.

Azuma Hazuki said:
Wow, I was not expecting you to answer personally
Er...it's a 16GB microSD card i purchased and put into the SD slot. I suppose that makes it external...? At any rate I know the recovery flash is looking at it because I see the same directory structure in Android's terminal at /sdcard/, just almost nothing in it shows up in recovery.
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I think there is a selection somewhere that you can tell it what to see as the SDCard, internal or external. Read it somewhere. Or maybe that doesn't apply here, just trying to help

If you downloaded it with your phone it is saved in a folder on the internal storage, use the files app to copy it to external 1, which is ur sd card. Cwm doesn't see internal storage, everything is saved to and pulled from the sd card when in recovery.
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fallnSaint said:
If you downloaded it with your phone it is saved in a folder on the internal storage, use the files app to copy it to external 1, which is ur sd card. Cwm doesn't see internal storage, everything is saved to and pulled from the sd card when in recovery.
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It worked! I feel derpy lol, lol. Thanks, everyone

i need to track down internal storage so i can add it to cwm before submitting it

shabbypenguin said:
i need to track down internal storage so i can add it to cwm before submitting it
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It's probably my only real complaint about this phone. Internal storage showing up as /sdcard is just stupid, but I understand why they did it.

I hit this bug while rooting mom's phone. I grabbed the microSD from my tablet and it worked great

shabbypenguin said:
i need to track down internal storage so i can add it to cwm before submitting it
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Think I found it in data/media, that what u were lookin for? Guess that makes sense, a data wipe clears it.
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whoa what?!
a factory reset wipes out internal storage?
does it do it on stock or just cwm?
and yes i need to know a bit more info if it is /data/media as its home

Haven't done a stock reset yet, workin on figuring out how to. Confirm wipe data/ factory reset in cwm wipes the internal sd.
There is a shortcut in the root of system dir, as well as in /mnt, to sd card (internal). Both have the sd icon next to them, data/media location shows as a folder. Idk what all you want on this, lemme know what I can get for you. I will figure out how to stock reset to confirm.
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Found it, looks like it will wipe internal sd.
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Ran it and confirmed; internal sd is wiped.
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fallnSaint said:
Found it, looks like it will wipe internal sd.
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Ran it and confirmed; internal sd is wiped.
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internal storage isnt internal sdcard. that is talking about /data
either way since i cant find what partition internal sdcard is i made the unnecessary changes to cwm source ill be building a newer build tomorrow

Sorry Shabby, I misunderstood. Didn't mean to waste your time.
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fallnSaint said:
Sorry Shabby, I misunderstood. Didn't mean to waste your time.
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wasnt a waste i got internal sd mapped now, a factory reset will wipe all teh stuff listed above, however it very well could have been wiping the internal sdcard. so if that was teh case its cuz of you it was avoided

How to move apps 2 sd card?

Hello everyone,
I have a serious problem here. Before factory reset everything was just fine (except that my phone won't connect to my google account, but i already fixed that) Now after factory reset i can't move some apps/games to my sd card! It's annoying because i have just 160MB internal storage, and now its just less than 50MB free. I heard about all those app2sd apps and so on, but they say that it's can't be movable to sd card, when i was able to do so before the factory reset. And this is a little bit tricky because before factory reset i had this option in my settings->application setting menu, a "preferred install location" and when i pressed that it opened a menu with 3 options:
1.Removable SD card
2.Let the system decide
3.Internal memory.
When i selected external SD card it allowed me to move almost every app (except updates to the pre-installed apps like maps, youtube, facebook etc.) But now there is no option "preferred install location"... So the question is: what i should do, to make this option available again?
My phone is Huawei U8650 sonic with stock-fresh android 2.3.5
I was googling for this problem for 2 days and no answer. I also posted this problem on 2 other forums but nobody knows the answer Please can somebody here help me? I would really appreciate that.
English is not my native language - sorry for mistakes and have a good day!

You could try the app - Link2SD - this app can move almost everything because it replaces the original app with a link.
Apart from that, have u tried to boot into recovery and run repair permissions and cleanded dalvik cache?
Hope I could help.

Feuersprotte said:
You could try the app - Link2SD - this app can move almost everything because it replaces the original app with a link.
Apart from that, have u tried to boot into recovery and run repair permissions and cleanded dalvik cache?
Hope I could help.
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Really, Im not advanced enough in android to understand what you mean, but i think I'll try to do what you said, and i will reply if it worked or not. Oh yeah does this method need root?
EDIT: so i entered the recovery menu and all I got is;
Reboot system now
apply update from sdcard
wipe data/factory reset
wipe cache partition
wipe misc partition
touchscreen firmware update
I wiped the misc and cache partition, gonna try now.
EDIT 2: no luck, wiping cache and misc didn't helped...

Link2SD is an app you can dowload from the play store - yes I think it needs root - but it is simple as simple to use like any app 2 sd - just give it a try :fingers-crossed:

S2E is good one :thumbup:
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You can use apps2sd or android assistant or do yourself
1) goto settings
2) application
3) manage
4) select app
5) click on move to SD card.
That's it.
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bump

But how to move whatsapp to sd card? I mean can you use root explorer?
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Root your device, partition your SD card and then use s2e!
Press the thanks button
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how to move....
vishgupta92 said:
You can use apps2sd or android assistant or do yourself
1) goto settings
2) application
3) manage
4) select app
5) click on move to SD card.
That's it.
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the thru.....

Okay, I didn't wanted to do this but i did. I downloaded SDK tools and with these tools and cmd i changed the install location. more info on google.

link2sd it's easy to me.
it's can move user app to sdcard

jusy click move to sd card

What about using titanium backup?
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[Q] HELP! Insufficient Storage Space...11.24 GB Though

Hi all,
I already searched around and could not find anything close to a solution. I have a huge ANNOYING problem. I haven't had this issue until recently. Or rather, I haven't noticed it until now. I flashed a new ROM coming from CM10 thinking it was the ROM, but I have tried two different ROMs and still the same problem. WTF!? I keep getting the message "Insufficient Space available" error when trying to install programs from Google Play or trying to side-load.
For some reason I have two internal storages when I look under storage in system settings. One is 1.97GB and the other is 11.24GB. In the smallest one, I have 209MB available. WTF!? Yet the other has 11.17GB. It's to the point where I have only 9 progrmas installed! 9!! Something's got to be wrong here, Please help!
What's the deal!? Anyone have a solution. I have done a factory reset and cleared everything. Still nothing. Any help is greatly appreciated.
*temporary fix*
OK, so I went in and cleaned out the folder /system/lost+found
It had 1.6gb of used space. Deleted it all and now I have that space available.
The main reason for this being a temporary fix is because I still have two internal storages. So eventually the 2gb where all the programs are being installed into, will run out again. So then phone is not taking advantage of all 14 GB available for storage.
-Carlos

Did you wipe data and caches?
I had this problem before, where I had gigabytes of files in the lost+found folder, which would take up the internal storage where apps are installed. When I went to another ROM, I did a clean flash, and even though I restored all apps from Google, I had much more space available.
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I did all that. Just like always. Even before I flashed the new ROM, I cleared cache and wiped data. Even did Dalvik cache wipe. Still nothing.Where is this lost+found folder you speak of. Maybe go into it manually. But still doesn't explain all that available space.
-Carlos

hondalude89 said:
I did all that. Just like always. Even before I flashed the new ROM, I cleared cache and wiped data. Even did Dalvik cache wipe. Still nothing.Where is this lost+found folder you speak of. Maybe go into it manually. But still doesn't explain all that available space.
-Carlos
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Look in /system/lost+ found.

hondalude89 said:
I did all that. Just like always. Even before I flashed the new ROM, I cleared cache and wiped data. Even did Dalvik cache wipe. Still nothing.
-Carlos
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Wipe data from google play services, google play, and google services frameworks. Clearing the data also wipes the cache for you. To do this go to Manage apps>all and pick those apps. It'll take some time to resync all your google info but after that you should be good.

So I just had this problem yesterday and what worked for me is to wipe Everything, except for the sd cards. That should clear out the data that is from your last rom.

bonkieash said:
So I just had this problem yesterday and what worked for me is to wipe Everything, except for the sd cards. That should clear out the data that is from your last rom.
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Actually the way to fix it is set "use rm-rf" options in settings in TWRP while flashing. I don't know why but make_ext does not work sometimes

epapsiou said:
Actually the way to fix it is set "use rm-rf" options in settings in TWRP while flashing. I don't know why but make_ext does not work sometimes
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I'll try that. Actually I got it to where I can actually install other rpogrmas. But the phone still has a 2gb internal storage and 11.4gb internal storage. Which is pretty frustrating. Buddy's S3 only has one internal storage. Sondoea another Buddy's note2. So I'm lost as to why I have 2 internal storages. Wtf!?
For right now, see first post for my "temporary fix"
-Carlos

hondalude89 said:
I'll try that. Actually I got it to where I can actually install other rpogrmas. But the phone still has a 2gb internal storage and 11.4gb internal storage. Which is pretty frustrating. Buddy's S3 only has one internal storage. Sondoea another Buddy's note2. So I'm lost as to why I have 2 internal storages. Wtf!?
For right now, see first post for my "temporary fix"
-Carlos
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Have you figured out a solution (and not just a temp. fix) to your 2 internal storages issue? I'm having that problem right now after flashing official CM 10.2.
Please let me know asap.

bonkieash said:
So I just had this problem yesterday and what worked for me is to wipe Everything, except for the sd cards. That should clear out the data that is from your last rom.
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Did you wipe internal sd card as well or did you mean you wiped everything except both the internal and micro sd card?
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My solution was to disable Sync App Data in my google account as I logged into a factory wiped phone. I had Despicable Me 2 installed on my tablet, but even though it wasn't installed on my phone it was still syncing the 600 (SIX HUNDRED) MB of App data (videos I assume?!). There is no easy way to know which apps are doing this(abusing data sync), especially if you have multiple devices using the same account but different app sets. Wiping /data and making sure not to sync app data was the only thing that worked for me. Once you are in, you may be able to delete that app data by delteing the app from the 'My Apps' 'All Apps' section, but there should really be a better way to manage this data.

Did anyone come up with a permanent fix for this? I have tried flashing several roms several times and always end up with the split storage.

vegantacodrone said:
Did anyone come up with a permanent fix for this? I have tried flashing several roms several times and always end up with the split storage.
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I haven't found a permanent solution, but you can install apps on the external SD card. I think there is an Xposed module that will force apps onto the sd card as well.

[Q] Disappearing storage memory after CWM

ROM 4.4.3
Just updated via OTA, rerooted and wanted to do full backup via TWRP which was gone (boot to stock recovery) despite showing installed in rom manager.
So i installed CWM recovery via rom manager and started backup (3,5gb storage free) - backup was stopped due to low storage so I rebooted.
No backup files at all but all 3,5gb is gone.
I removed other files to have another 2gb free and repeated procedure - same result, no backup files, storage 600kb.
none of the software shows where is all missing memory: sd maid, clean master, duplicate files, storage analyser.
What the hell hapened here?!
Please help - but not by saying do hard/factory reset as i need full backup first.
Is there any option to do full rom backup straight to the cloud (dropbox, goolge drive, box, onedrive)?

first off, stop using rom manager! its been messed up for nearly 2 years. to flash a recovery you should do it via fastboot. if not fastboot, try the app flashify. but surely, remove rom manager from your phone asap.

simms22 said:
first off, stop using rom manager! its been messed up for nearly 2 years. to flash a recovery you should do it via fastboot. if not fastboot, try the app flashify. but surely, remove rom manager from your phone asap.
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can do that once get back missing storage but that does not solve my present huge problem.

mtodak said:
can do that once get back missing storage but that does not solve my present huge problem.
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did you delete whatever the recovery left for the backup? seems like thats what will be taking the space. i dont know where cwm places the files(i use twrp) but you should look for it and delete it.

simms22 said:
did you delete whatever the recovery left for the backup? seems like thats what will be taking the space. i dont know where cwm places the files(i use twrp) but you should look for it and delete it.
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none of the software shows where is all missing memory: sd maid, clean master, duplicate files, storage analyser.
There is nothing more to delete, i have over 7gb missing, like non-existent

Go to Settings > Storage. It shows you everything in there.

Aerowinder said:
Go to Settings > Storage. It shows you everything in there.
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first thing i have done...man, i will paste it again:
none of the software shows where is all missing memory: sd maid, clean master, duplicate files, storage analyser.
There is nothing more to delete, i have over 7gb missing, like non-existent

The answer is in this thread
[info] Storage: Nexus 5 Data (info / loss / recovery / prevention)
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2534010
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rootSU said:
The answer is in this thread
[info] Storage: Nexus 5 Data (info / loss / recovery / prevention)
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2534010
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"Storage menu doesn't show where all my data is
Please note, rooted users with clockworkmod recovery will find that their backups to not go to /data/media/0/clockworkmod as it is supposed to. The reason for this is CWM has not been updated to this location, instead it uses the legacy location of /data/media/clockworkmod. The Storage menu can see that the space is used but it cannot include it in it's breakdown. Please check this location. You'll need to move it to 0 if you want to access it on a computer
A handy app is "Disk Usage" on Play. It can help identify exactly where this data is...."
If you mean that than thats not the answer as no software (also disk usage) can see my lost 7gb of disk space.

So what happens when you use a file manager with root access to browse /data/media?
Please screenshot both /data/media and disk usage
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Problems after Rebooting

After doing a hard reboot, there is a 50% chance the phone will soft reboot again within 5 minutes if I don't clear the cache/dalvik. After doing a soft reboot, my SD card is not recognized and then I have to hard reboot... You see my problem. Do you have any suggestions on what to do so I don't have to clear my cache/dalvik every time I need to reboot? Thanks!
I am running CM 13 Nightlies

Try to reboot your Phone without your SD Card. Maybe your SD is faulty. If your Phone is working ok without SD, then Backup your Data on your SD in PC, format it to FAT32 and try again to reboot with SD Card.

Sorry I forgot to mention Im using my SD card as adoptable storage. Am I able to still format is as FAT32 and also use it as adoptable?
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thekuom said:
Sorry I forgot to mention Im using my SD card as adoptable storage. Am I able to still format is as FAT32 and also use it as adoptable?
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You can still try rebooting your phone without the SD card to test it. Some of the apps may not appear but that's about it. Be sure and turn your phone off before removing or inserting the SD card. I would suggest using the phone to change the card back to a removable media card before putting it in the PC to format.

Just a few questions before I do anything. Will reformating my SD card wipe all its data? Can a FAT32 formatted SD card be used as adoptable storage? Will a FAT32 formatted card be able to have a swapfile on it? I use a ram expander
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thekuom said:
Just a few questions before I do anything. Will reformating my SD card wipe all its data? Can a FAT32 formatted SD card be used as adoptable storage? Will a FAT32 formatted card be able to have a swapfile on it? I use a ram expander
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Yes, formatting the SD card will wipe all data on the card.
No, a FAT32 card cannot be used as adopted storage, only a card adopted by the device can be, that process formats the file system as an encrypted ext4 system.
Maybe, but I'm not sure Android normally use a swap file, so you might have to make some manual changes which would be overwritten every time you flash a nightly build.
TBH, the RAM Expander is probably your whole problem, the low processing power and I/O speeds of the device plus using an SD card are probably causing delayed writes and extreme lag and cache corruption. You should have at least a UHS3 card, even then I would suspect the RAM Expander is the root cause of your problems.
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acejavelin said:
Yes, formatting the SD card will wipe all data on the card.
No, a FAT32 card cannot be used as adopted storage, only a card adopted by the device can be, that process formats the file system as an encrypted ext4 system.
Maybe, but I'm not sure Android normally use a swap file, so you might have to make some manual changes which would be overwritten every time you flash a nightly build.
TBH, the RAM Expander is probably your whole problem, the low processing power and I/O speeds of the device plus using an SD card are probably causing delayed writes and extreme lag and cache corruption. You should have at least a UHS3 card, even then I would suspect the RAM Expander is the root cause of your problems.
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Ive had this rebooting problem shortly after i flashed CM and didnt get the ram expander for a few weeks after that. Ideally, I wouldnt have to flash another ROM.
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thekuom said:
Ive had this rebooting problem shortly after i flashed CM and didnt get the ram expander for a few weeks after that. Ideally, I wouldnt have to flash another ROM.
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Try another rom then... CM is hardly the only option, and some devices do better with different ROMs.
Otherwise, give us something concrete like a logcat or something.
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acejavelin said:
Try another rom then... CM is hardly the only option, and some devices do better with different ROMs.
Otherwise, give us something concrete like a logcat or something.
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Ok I'll upload a logcat as soon as I get it to break again.

Here is a logcat I got. I'm not sure if I caught the first failed reboot but it soft rebooted a good 3-4 times so hopefully there's something worth looking at. Thanks for your help!
BTW - it's in a zip because it's exceeds the file limitations for .txt files on xda.

thekuom said:
Here is a logcat I got. I'm not sure if I caught the first failed reboot but it soft rebooted a good 3-4 times so hopefully there's something worth looking at. Thanks for your help!
BTW - it's in a zip because it's exceeds the file limitations for .txt files on xda.
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I did a quick glance though the file, I'm at work and will look through it more later, but two things stuck out to me... there seems to be a lot of package errors, and the theme is not happy.
When is the last time you did a clean install, and then reinstalled your apps from the Play Store (not restored from TB or similar app)? Also, does the problem still occur when you use default theme?

acejavelin said:
I did a quick glance though the file, I'm at work and will look through it more later, but two things stuck out to me... there seems to be a lot of package errors, and the theme is not happy.
When is the last time you did a clean install, and then reinstalled your apps from the Play Store (not restored from TB or similar app)? Also, does the problem still occur when you use default theme?
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I did a clean install about a week ago (and reinstalled my apps from the Play Store). I haven't tried it with the default theme but I can do that this afternoon.

Just rebooted with the default theme and it booted up fine but then i rebooted with my previous theme and it also booted up ok so basically idk if its the theme yet.
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Update: Im fairly certain it was the theme now. I have since replaced it and my phone is much more stable. Thanks for your help! Now whenever I reboot, it will probably soft reboot once and then it works fine.