After I flashed SlimKat ROM onto my Galaxy Tab P6200(16gb) the space available is only 4 gb and other 8gb is used by something.Before flashing I messed around with Titanium Backup and I backed up all user apps+data but when I did that I only had like 1 gb left,the backup terminated saying I had to free up space well I didn't try to back up again and my space was full.After that I tried to flash and yeah 8gb is being used by something I don't know,it's hidden somewhere I guess.
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Hi all. Here is my situation.
I was running Ninja716 rom. A fellow xda member had some questions about gingerbeast so i made a backup of my setup and restored my old gingerbeast backup. Later that day(yesterday) i flashed back my backup to Ninja. Noticed that i there was an update for an app and tried installing it. it failed so i went in to manage applications and cleared market cache and that fixed it. But while i was there i noticed that my storage use was higher normal. it was a 70mb difference.
Normally i have about 90mb of internal storage use out of the 1 gb. After restoring the backup it was up to 165mb in use. today i flashed back my same gingerbeast backup to test something checked the storage use and its up even more now up to 182mb. Anyone experience this?
I have tried full wiping before the restore and no difference. I saw this happend a while back with a previous restore but it wasnt a big deal as dill released a new version of gingerbeast and i like clean installs so that took care of it. Its not really a big issue as i still have lot of space left but just wanted to know if anyone has experienced this.
Here is my setup:
current rom:
Ninja 716
Lordmod 6.0.1 BFS kernal
4.11.m2 radio
Gingerbeast 2.1.2
default kernal
CWR-3.0.2.6
I installed cm9 on my samsung galaxy tab 2 7 and am really digging it. I'm really new to the whole cyanogenmod and android tablet thing. I have performed a factory reset, but there seems to still be things on the device taking up space.
With only 8 gigs of space to start with space is at a premium, so is there anything i can do to safely wipe the whole thing and start from a fresh install? Is this even possible?
Any space saving advice is welcome.
Brandon
btmullins said:
I installed cm9 on my samsung galaxy tab 2 7 and am really digging it. I'm really new to the whole cyanogenmod and android tablet thing. I have performed a factory reset, but there seems to still be things on the device taking up space.
With only 8 gigs of space to start with space is at a premium, so is there anything i can do to safely wipe the whole thing and start from a fresh install? Is this even possible?
Any space saving advice is welcome.
Brandon
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I guess you could try before installing, do a factory reset in Stock ROM, that will format your Sdcard and give you more space... Don't forget to do a TB backup...
I have only 1.5 gigs on my Fascinate, but I am only using about 800mb. Android apps do not take up very much space at all. Also, forgive me if I misinterpret your question, but the space is taken up by your /system and /data partitions, which eat into the 8 gb.
focasam said:
I guess you could try before installing, do a factory reset in Stock ROM, that will format your Sdcard and give you more space... Don't forget to do a TB backup...
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Um... In my haste I did neglect to do a backup. Fortunately everything seems to be in working order. I am using CWM to do a backup now.
Is there a reason I should use TB to do a backup instead of CWM?
I'm still really new to this, I'm just glad I didn't screw anything up on my first try.
As long as you use it only, TB backup should be functionally equivalent to a CWM NAND backup. But if you upgrade to another TAB, only TB backup could be easily transferred to thew new TAB. CWM NAND backup could note be used on the new TAB.
I am going to make a nandroid backup so need some help:
1.do nandroid backups only rom/os or whole system including apps and data???
Because i have only 2gb memory card installed on tab.will it be enough to hold nandroid???
Mine internal memory occupied is 11gb.
2.and please difference between twrp and cwm...
3.do it backs up and restore kernal also???(becoz when i tried to restore nandroid on my galaxy y it didnt restored kernal)
THANX A LOT......:beer::beer::beer::beer:
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Nandroid backups, backs up everything! The space needed depends on the Amount of apps installed!
There is no difference between twrp and cwm. Twrp is touch based and cwm has both touch and non touch based uis. What you want to use is completely up to you!
In my experience both recoveries backs up the kernel too!
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Nandroid backups, backs up everything! The space needed depends on the Amount of apps installed!
There is no difference between twrp and cwm. Twrp is touch based and cwm has both touch and non touch based uis. What you want to use is completely up to you!
In my experience both recoveries backs up the kernel too!
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So this means i will require a 16gb memory card to create current system back up if i have 11gb of space occupied???
And what would be expected size if i backup after clearing data/formatting???
I think a 8gb card will be enough!
11gb is occupied, but how much is occupied by the apps alone that you've installed? Because that's what will be backed up! Other data that you've in your internal memory will not be backed up!
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Hei guys, I own a Chinese handphone. Tweaked it so much, soft bricked it numerous times, but I got the stock rom at my disposal anyway so it doesn't matter much. It's cheap so I can actually do some experiments or tested non Play Store, or even suspicious apps on it.
However, going back and forth to stock then reconfigure everything is rather tedious task to do.
I did installed a CWM recovery and did a full nandroid backup. But it's seem that CWM backup didn't overwrite the old one so when I do a second one it failed, saying I'm out of space? I still got about 2 GB on internal storage, and 8 GB on external storage. It's said my folder (I forgot which, it's /data if I'm not mistaken) don't have space left. This is one funny thing about my phone, it doesn't use the internal storage at all. I cannot move the apps to the internal storage as well, only to the external SD card.
I'm out of space probably also because I move so many app as system. This way when I do a factory reset I got all my updated apps within, without the need to reinstall it.
So, the questions :
Is there any way to make CWM to actually update a backup, instead of creating a new one? Which partition I should wipe from CWM if I want to create an updated backup? It is convenient to do the restore directly from CWM, but I cannot update the backup, with that space problem.
How about creating a full custom ROM flashable image of my phone on which I can save to my PC instead?
How about going on fetching the nandroid backup CWM generated? Is it flashable using SP Tool? But I can't find the files anywhere in my system.
Any help would be appreciated.
Thank you!
Found some stuffs on CWM backup.
I'll update this thread when I've worked it out.
I'm an idiot. I can actually save the CWM backup into the internal SD. It's visible on any file manager within the folder "clockworkmod".
Sorry I did have experience with CWM, but never use it for backup, only to flash patches.
Hi all, I've been having an issue with TWRP in that my backup size is huge. The data partition takes up about 8gb compressed and over 14 uncompressed. This is an absurdly large amount, does anyone know why it is this big? I tried clearing a lot of apps and space but the difference was negligible.
Also, managed to get just enough space to run a backup but deleting more than I'd have liked to, but then the backup keeps failing because i get the "createTarFork() process ended with ERROR=255".
Can anyone help me address my issues? This is the last step i have before flashing a new rom.
I'm running TWRP 3.0.0 on my D850 with CloudyG3 2.2
My backup is also above 8 gb.that's normal.
Try to create at least 10 gb before restoring.use otg to have backup on flash drive.it would help you.