My phone before this one was the RAZR Maxx HD and one of the nice things about it was that you could flash a rom and the internal storage at storage/emulated/0 would not be cleared. Does the M8 act the same way or do you need to backup stuff on the internal SD? May be a noob question, but the RAZR was the first android I had that treated the internal memory like a true SD card.
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animez said:
My phone before this one was the RAZR Maxx HD and one of the nice things about it was that you could flash a rom and the internal storage at storage/emulated/0 would not be cleared. Does the M8 act the same way or do you need to backup stuff on the internal SD? May be a noob question, but the RAZR was the first android I had that treated the internal memory like a true SD card.
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Yes, unless if you intentionally or accidentally wipe storage.
animez said:
My phone before this one was the RAZR Maxx HD and one of the nice things about it was that you could flash a rom and the internal storage at storage/emulated/0 would not be cleared. Does the M8 act the same way or do you need to backup stuff on the internal SD? May be a noob question, but the RAZR was the first android I had that treated the internal memory like a true SD card.
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Yes, when you do a factory reset in TWRP it does NOT wipe internal storage. If you read the TWRP script while it's wiping it says "wiping data without wiping data/media". Data/media is where your emulated internal storage is stored. The only way you will wipe your internal storage is if you deliberately check the internal storage box in the TWRP wipe menu.
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Hi,
I just bought a used Nexus S 9023. Bootloader remains locked. I want to use EFSPro to backup the EFS folder. I can't do this without rooting. Reading through the root instructions, using fastboot oem unlock wipes all data. My question is:
If you root with fastboot oem unlock, it states all data is wiped. Does this include the EFS folder?
Obviously this is a catch-22. Anyway around this or am I reading this all wrong?
Thanks.
hi..
no its not, its only wipe your external storage...
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endtoosee said:
hi..
no its not, its only wipe your external storage...
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Nice. I guess I was confused about the on-board memory since the phone technically doesn't have an SD Card slot. From what I read, the 16gb is partitioned as 1gb of internal memory and 15gb of "usb storage." So it's only the 15gb that is wiped?
It wipes ALL personal data. This means:
/data partition (all apps and their data)
/sdcard
/cache
The android OS won't change, neither will /efs.
Hey!
I just want to thank you for mentioning EFSpro!
With so many people losing their IMEI lately, I've being looking for a way to back up my EFS folder and this totally did the trick!
Thanks!
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Nice. I guess I was confused about the on-board memory since the phone technically doesn't have an SD Card slot. From what I read, the 16gb is partitioned as 1gb of internal memory and 15gb of "usb storage." So it's only the 15gb that is wiped?
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yes it is, sorry for being late...
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I'm wanting to format my internal SD card and completely erase every single thing thats on it to start from scratch. I see in TWRP there is a section for partitioning SD. If I use this feature it should wipe my sd card and I can install a fresh rom right? What should I set the partion to? 2048? And use ext4?
I have a lot of junk on my sd that I no longer want and have been getting extremely annoying insufficient space errors when trying to install apps. I have a ton of space and am still getting errors. Just want to wipe it all, format the card correctly, and start over.
Please help I have tried seaching but nothing mentions TWRP or ext4.
Anyone? I don't have a personal PC right now as I'm building a new one, so I have to use my work comp. I have all of my info backed up at work and woud like to start restoring asap.
I am only here for another hour
Hey mate, there's no need to partition the SD card and format it for ext3 or ext4.
Just go into wipe and choose external sd card and that will wipe it for you.
Edit: You can also do it from within Android just go into settings > storage > erase phone storage
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thejosh86 said:
Hey mate, there's no need to partition the SD card and format it for ext3 or ext4.
Just go into wipe and choose external sd card and that will wipe it for you.
Edit: You can also do it from within Android just go into settings > storage > erase phone storage
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do that... even twrp.has a function to wipe.sd
also....mount in windows or linux
select all and delete
dont forget the hidden files...
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Ok, so I unlocked the phone, flashed the new touch recovery. I put SU on the internal storage. I mount system and flash and it fails. Any help would be much appreciated.
No ideas?
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BAleR said:
Ok, so I unlocked the phone, flashed the new touch recovery. I put SU on the internal storage. I mount system and flash and it fails. Any help would be much appreciated.
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You mount system? You don't need to mount anything manually from within recovery. Simply boot to recovery, flash SU, be done.
Any error message? That could help us help you!
BAleR said:
Ok, so I unlocked the phone, flashed the new touch recovery. I put SU on the internal storage. I mount system and flash and it fails. Any help would be much appreciated.
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You put the su zip in the internal memory? It belongs in the external memory, also known as USB storage or sdcard storage. From there, you can select install zip from SD card then, choose zip. No mounting required.
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p1gp3n said:
You put the su zip in the internal memory? It belongs in the external memory, also known as USB storage or sdcard storage. From there, you can select install zip from SD card then, choose zip. No mounting required.
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OK well I didn't know about it needing to be on the sdcard. But after trying 3 different recovery and 4 different superuser zips I got root now. All were on internal. But its a old version. And I cant get it to update through market. Gonna retry on the SD. Thanks for the help
Also, am I not supposed to flash anything from the internal storage? Or is that just for su?
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I'm sorry, when I said internal storage, I didn't mean internal phone memory I ment the internal SD memory, or internal USB memory. Sorry for the confusion
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BAleR said:
I'm sorry, when I said internal storage, I didn't mean internal phone memory I ment the internal SD memory, or internal USB memory. Sorry for the confusion
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Use the su zip from this thread
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1811491
Everything you want to flash goes on your sd card/usb memory
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BAleR said:
I'm sorry, when I said internal storage, I didn't mean internal phone memory I ment the internal SD memory, or internal USB memory. Sorry for the confusion
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ohh.. thanks for clearing out, you got everyone confused. Things lost in translation haan
BTW no external memory card in Nexus S anyways... Its 16GB Memory partitioned into internal memory and sd card, 1GB : Remaining 13.5GB
Everything through recovery is done from SD-Card, and put in root of the card.
Regards
Hey all.
I'm going to be coming from an optimus g with an external SD. Made it easy to do clean flashes without losing backups, etc. With no external card in the N5, how do people handle clean flashing without losing data? Move everything to a PC and then copy it back after the flash?
Thanks.
A
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Alpione said:
Hey all.
I'm going to be coming from an optimus g with an external SD. Made it easy to do clean flashes without losing backups, etc. With no external card in the N5, how do people handle clean flashing without losing data? Move everything to a PC and then copy it back after the flash?
Thanks.
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phones with no sd card emulate an sd card space that doesnt get wiped during normal wiping to flash a rom. it's essentially a different partition. you'd have to go out of your way to wipe the emulated sd card space to harm any data there. other than that it acts just like having an sd card with a ROM on it that you navigate to via recovery and flash.
Good to know. This is even doing a "factory reset" in CWM/TWRP?
Thanks.
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Alpione said:
Good to know. This is even doing a "factory reset" in CWM/TWRP?
Thanks.
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Yes.
By design, since jelly bean, internal user space aka internal sdcard is in fact a folder in /data partition mounted as a drive through fuse.
All recoveries can deal with that. Factory reset always respect 'internal card'.
Doesn't touch your SD unless you use the wipe ext SD.
Personally I don't miss SD Cards at all. Flash based storage give way better transfer speed as well. And with cloud storage it is pretty much a done deal.
Those complaining running out of space are to lazy to clean out their phones.
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Alpione said:
Hey all.
I'm going to be coming from an optimus g with an external SD. Made it easy to do clean flashes without losing backups, etc. With no external card in the N5, how do people handle clean flashing without losing data? Move everything to a PC and then copy it back after the flash?
Thanks.
A
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Is this Meenova MicroSD reader helpful for you?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2493824&page=2
Hi
i saw that im can incrase phone internal memory by a partition
how can i'm do it?
beacause im saw a tutorial on cm11 post
and how much partiton size i can choose?
because im saw that im can do 512mb partiton
and 1024 mb partiton
and if i making partiton the apps will removed?
If you create a partition all the stuff on you SD card will be removed.
512 MB should be enough for most people IMHO.
You can create a partition by using Partition Manager.
Regards,
akiratoriyama
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akiratoriyama said:
If you create a partition all the stuff on you SD card will be removed.
512 MB should be enough for most people IMHO.
You can create a partition by using Partition Manager.
Regards,
akiratoriyama
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Hi
im want to make a partiton because im installed cm11 on lg p500
and cm11 has not enough mb in internal memory
im found that tutorial http://www.noypigeeks.com/android/tutorial-a-guide-to-link2sd/
if im do it, im can install many apps?
sorry about the english, im from israel
eran32 said:
Hi
im want to make a partiton because im installed cm11 on lg p500
and cm11 has not enough mb in internal memory
im found that tutorial http://www.noypigeeks.com/android/tutorial-a-guide-to-link2sd/
if im do it, im can install many apps?
sorry about the english, im from israel
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No probs
XDA is a global community and as long as your English is understandable you're good to go
That guide should work and yes a partition will allow you to install many apps.
Regards,
akiratoriyama
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No probs
XDA is a global community and as long as your English is understandable you're good to go
That guide should work and yes a partition will allow you to install many apps.
Regards,
akiratoriyama
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thanks man, im try it
From my experience if you want to partition your SD Card, it's best if you first backup all you SD Card data to other storage, and then partition it using Partition Manager or Recovery like CMW, and than you copy back your data to the SD Card. On some occasion (twice to be exact) I found that partitioning you SD Card using Partition Manager without backup and clean up/delete all partition before creating second partition will reasult in read only second partition on android.
ayrus02 said:
From my experience if you want to partition your SD Card, it's best if you first backup all you SD Card data to other storage, and then partition it using Partition Manager or Recovery like CMW, and than you copy back your data to the SD Card. On some occasion (twice to be exact) I found that partitioning you SD Card using Partition Manager without backup and clean up/delete all partition before creating second partition will reasult in read only second partition on android.
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I noticed that too.It rendered my SDcard unreadable on CM11.I had to use other phone running JB to format it.
Also doesn't partitioning memory card formats SD card before partitioning (Except gParted)
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eran32 said:
Hi
i saw that im can incrase phone internal memory by a partition
how can i'm do it?
beacause im saw a tutorial on cm11 post
and how much partiton size i can choose?
because im saw that im can do 512mb partiton
and 1024 mb partiton
and if i making partiton the apps will removed?
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You meant external (sdcard-ext2) memory? Then follow @akiratoriyama suggestion. Internal memory /data partition is fix, 200MB. And it's dangerous to repartition, AFAIK.
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sorry for the up
but im need help
i want to do it on my lg p500
but someone can give me tutorial that work?
because cm11 have not enough space in internal memory
Which ROM did you intent to use? And what version of android do u use?