So I decided to go from Cataclysm to Dirty Unicorn ROM. I used to swap roms constantly and retain all data between swaps but it'd been a long while and I was out of practice.
I rebooted to recovery and was about to selectively wipe /system, /data, cache and dalvik but saw on the default wipe screen that i could just wipe data cache and dalvik in one go by swiping to confirm. So I did becasue I was reassured on the same screen:
Wipes Data, Cache, and Dalvik
(not including internal storage)
Most of the time this is the only wipe you need
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So i thought, "Great, let's do this one and I won't wipe all the photos i've taken of my first born since the day she was born."
I was wrong. Everything got wiped from internal storage.
what the actual F. What exactly happened? I know its my own fault but what technically am I missing?
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EDIT: A restore brought everything back. My pics and all. Who knew that the sdcard contents was included in a nandroid - not me. Still though. WTF.
scirio said:
So I decided to go from Cataclysm to Dirty Unicorn ROM. I used to swap roms constantly and retain all data between swaps but it'd been a long while and I was out of practice.
I rebooted to recovery and was about to selectively wipe /system, /data, cache and dalvik but saw on the default wipe screen that i could just wipe data cache and dalvik in one go by swiping to confirm. So I did becasue I was reassured on the same screen:
So i thought, "Great, let's do this one and I won't wipe all the photos i've taken of my first born since the day she was born."
I was wrong. Everything got wiped from internal storage.
what the actual F. What exactly happened? I know its my own fault but what technically am I missing?
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first.. questions do not go in the general section, they go in q&a. thats where you should post to find out if youre screwed.
secondly, you want to press that advanced wipe menu button, and then pick what exactly you want to get wiped.
scirio said:
So I decided to go from Cataclysm to Dirty Unicorn ROM. I used to swap roms constantly and retain all data between swaps but it'd been a long while and I was out of practice.
I rebooted to recovery and was about to selectively wipe /system, /data, cache and dalvik but saw on the default wipe screen that i could just wipe data cache and dalvik in one go by swiping to confirm. So I did becasue I was reassured on the same screen:
So i thought, "Great, let's do this one and I won't wipe all the photos i've taken of my first born since the day she was born."
I was wrong. Everything got wiped from internal storage.
what the actual F. What exactly happened? I know its my own fault but what technically am I missing?
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It never wiped the internal storage with the 100+ times I've used it.
simms22 said:
first.. questions do not go in the general section, they go in q&a. thats where you should post to find out if youre screwed.
secondly, you want to press that advanced wipe menu button, and then pick what exactly you want to get wiped.
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Can this be moved?
And yeah that's exactly what I typically do (advanced wipe) but dunno, just went with this for some reason. i felt secure when it told me internal storage would remain intact. is scard not in "internal storage"?
I backed up before teh swap and just finished restoring and everything came back! But even that shocked me because I didn't realize my backups were backing up my sdcard. I am very confused. I'm not new at this i swear
Letharqy said:
It never wiped the internal storage with the 100+ times I've used it.
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Right. I figured I was safe.
scirio said:
Can this be moved?
And yeah that's exactly what I typically do (advanced wipe) but dunno, just went with this for some reason. i felt secure when it told me internal storage would remain intact. is scard not in "internal storage"?
I backed up before teh swap and just finished restoring and everything came back! But even that shocked me because I didn't realize my backups were backing up my sdcard. I am very confused. I'm not new at this i swear
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its moved by a mod already
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scirio said:
Can this be moved?
And yeah that's exactly what I typically do (advanced wipe) but dunno, just went with this for some reason. i felt secure when it told me internal storage would remain intact. is scard not in "internal storage"?
I backed up before teh swap and just finished restoring and everything came back! But even that shocked me because I didn't realize my backups were backing up my sdcard. I am very confused. I'm not new at this i swear
Right. I figured I was safe.
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just as you can chose what you want backed up into your backup
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I backed up before teh swap and just finished restoring and everything came back!
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1. I'm glad you got the photos back.
2. Please learn from this. Back up your photos. If they're as important as newborn pics, use redundant backups. Let Google upload them to the cloud automatically. Manually upload them to another cloud. Put them on an HDD. Your phone could fall and shatter in a million itty bitty pieces at any moment. You could lose it. Drop it in water. Accidentally erase internal storage when switching ROMs. Stuff happens. Those are precious memories. Make sure you keep the pictures that remind you of them.
Johmama said:
1. I'm glad you got the photos back.
2. Please learn from this. Back up your photos.
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You're so right. They're on google plus but they're not the original quality. videos especially, i think they get scaled down to 720.
I may have completely panicked way too much. When I connect to the Android File Transfer app on desktop I see no files. But when I open, say, Solid Explorer on the Nexus i still see everything. So maybe the filesystem is mapped differently in this rom? Can anybody shed light on that?
scirio said:
You're so right. They're on google plus but they're not the original quality. videos especially, i think they get scaled down to 720.
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That's actually a good point I didn't realize. Thanks for the info.
scirio said:
I may have completely panicked way too much. When I connect to the Android File Transfer app on desktop I see no files. But when I open, say, Solid Explorer on the Nexus i still see everything. So maybe the filesystem is mapped differently in this rom? Can anybody shed light on that?
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I'm not sure what the Android File Transfer application is, can't help you use that. It should be simpler than that. Can you see your phone with Windows Explorer when you plug it in? Just go to Computer\Nexus 5\Internal storage\DCIM\ and everything should be in there. Specifically, in the Camera folder for anything captured with your camera - both pictures and videos.
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EDIT: A restore brought everything back. My pics and all. Who knew that the sdcard contents was included in a nandroid - not me. Still though. WTF.
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I don't think it wiped your sdcard. I don't think the Nandroid restored it either. Maybe it did something like change the mount point or something which was changed back when you restored.
Unless you're saying that ONLY your photos were wiped and restore?
...because if you think about it logically, if you have filled 9 GB of your 11.35 GB sdcard with data, where would that backup go? You certainly can't fit 9 GB of data and 9GB of backup on a 11 GB partition...in fact, a Nandroid backup is at least 2.5 GB anyway, with high compression. To be able to backup your Rom, data and sdcard onto your sdcard, the maximum used space on your sdcard you could have is maybe 4 GB
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rootSU said:
I don't think it wiped your sdcard. I don't think the Nandroid restored it either. Maybe it did something like change the mount point or something which was changed back when you restored.
Unless you're saying that ONLY your photos were wiped and restore?
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Right, I think the mount point is what changed, sending me in to a panic. Android File Transfer (AFT) is the application required to browse the sdcard from OS X.
Alternatively, I can run my windows vm to browse it directly in Windows Explorer, and in fact sometimes I do but it's a bit heavy for just reading the card. After some time (re-indexing?) the files showed up in AFT.
You were safe the whole time. It wiped what it said. Next time just read twrp log. It will show what it deletes and you can figure out what happens.
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Just want to add that you can choose whether the photos that are backed up to G+/Drive are compressed or are the original image.
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Help...no matter which rom i try i cant get any downloads to work...sorry, let me clarify...my market downloads work fine but any downloads form the web fail.
Any thoughts on what to change to fix this? it wasnt always this way...i dont know whats changed that crosses roms.
Solved:
It appears two be a two part issue, some of it is the Download Manager and at least part of the issue was with the Calibre App i was trying to DL from. Specifically, I was accessing the Calibre net share component. When a password is set on the share the gtab download manager is unable to correctly request downloads. I removed the uid/pwd and downloads work again. With the uid/pwd in place logs show an http 401 error.
Now to determine why...
In recovery are you wiping everything? Cause that was my issue at first and I was crossing roms lol
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I had the same issue when I tried the notion adam browser.
I just reapplied my rom.
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~BAM~ said:
I had the same issue when I tried the notion adam browser.
I just reapplied my rom.
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That's what i tried first...no joy. Then i wiped caches and stuff and now i've compunded the issue...titanium doesn't see any apps or OS componets...i cant restore what i had.
Darkeyce said:
That's what i tried first...no joy. Then i wiped caches and stuff and now i've compunded the issue...titanium doesn't see any apps or OS componets...i cant restore what i had.
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When you say you wiped cache and stuff, did you wipe user data as well? If so, then that would explain why Titanium can't see your previous backup (It stores it in internal storage by default).
If that is the case, and you have wiped the data partition, your best bet would be to start over and reload your ROM from scratch.
BigJohn
BigJohn89 said:
When you say you wiped cache and stuff, did you wipe user data as well? If so, then that would explain why Titanium can't see your previous backup (It stores it in internal storage by default).
If that is the case, and you have wiped the data partition, your best bet would be to start over and reload your ROM from scratch.
BigJohn
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As long as Darkeyce didn't perform a NVIDIA flash or repartition the drive, the backup data should still be there. I've loaded many custom roms by wiping cache and data (factory reset), and all I had to do was reinstall Titanium Backup and restore my apps.
I had the same problem yesterday on my Vegan GTab. GMail wouldn't work either, and my Nook app wouldn't sync with my online account. I didn't try any fix but after shutting down the device last night, I fired it up this morning and everything was working fine.
BigJohn89 said:
When you say you wiped cache and stuff, did you wipe user data as well? If so, then that would explain why Titanium can't see your previous backup (It stores it in internal storage by default).
If that is the case, and you have wiped the data partition, your best bet would be to start over and reload your ROM from scratch.
BigJohn
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Fixed the TB issues...that was related to the Keramides file...deleted it and all teh TG data came back...but i STIll have the download issue.
All the cache wipes were done, including the user data but that didnt impact the backups.
Noob here!!!!
I'm running out of storage space on my Xoom. I have tons of files and folders on there that I believe aren't even being used. Even though I've done a full wipe in the past, it still seems to leave a bunch of data I am no longer using. What's the best way to back up what I have now, wipe it out "completely" and then restore the backup? Can this be done without losing root?
Edit: Sorry Mods, I had two windows open and thought that I was posting this in the General Thread. Can you please move this and not delete. Thank you.
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nattygirl said:
Noob here!!!!
I'm running out of storage space on my Xoom. I have tons of files and folders on there that I believe aren't even being used. Even though I've done a full wipe in the past, it still seems to leave a bunch of data I am no longer using. What's the best way to back up what I have now, wipe it out "completely" and then restore the backup? Can this be done without losing root?
Edit: Sorry Mods, I had two windows open and thought that I was posting this in the General Thread. Can you please move this and not delete. Thank you.
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Moved.
Please be more careful
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nattygirl said:
Noob here!!!!
I'm running out of storage space on my Xoom. I have tons of files and folders on there that I believe aren't even being used. Even though I've done a full wipe in the past, it still seems to leave a bunch of data I am no longer using. What's the best way to back up what I have now, wipe it out "completely" and then restore the backup? Can this be done without losing root?
Edit: Sorry Mods, I had two windows open and thought that I was posting this in the General Thread. Can you please move this and not delete. Thank you.
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Instead of wiping everything, install "disk usage" from the market. When you run it it will list the folders that are using the most space.
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Had similar issue not so long ago and used these custom recovery build
http://www.xoomforums.com/forum/ics...cial-recovery-twrp-2-2-0-screen-keyboard.html
It is sceen touch compaible so no more volume +/- and you can do many things here
Like
Installing up to 10 apps in one go (while updating)
factory reset wiping internal sdcard
android backups restoring /data/media (creating LARGE backups)
restoring /data
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I know what your thinking. The Holidays aren't for another 4 months! Yes, but isn't this the time of year that goes by quickest? Shouldn't you have a quick phone for the quickest time of year? Eh, you don't have to get the logic, just the guide.
Section 1: The obvious stuff
1. Uninstall unused apps (Haven't touched an app in 1-2 months? You should consider uninstalling it)
2. Download 99 tools or android assistant (Both good). Clear your cache and history.
(TIP: I don't suggest clearing your cache too often, as typically they make your apps load faster and keeps your phone from always having to access it from the SD/Internal storage.
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1. If you haven't already, download an antivirus program from the market. Some good ones are Lookout, avast!, or AVG.
2. Virus scan your phone, and set it to do so every morning (like 3-4am).
3. This ensures that your phone is virus and malware free!
Step 3: Clean your home screen
1. Get rid of any icons or widgets you never look at or use. You can always access them from the app drawer.
2. If you want, put in some fresh icons and widgets, this will give you a fresh feel.
3. If you want, you can download a new launcher for more performance and customization. (I reccomend GO Launcher or Launcher Pro)
Section 4: Clean your SD (if applicable)
MAKE SURE YOU READ ALL 6 STEPS BEFORE PERFORMING
1. Move all your apps to the internal phone memory (if you have any on the SD card). You can use 99 toolkit or android assistant for this.
2. Plug your phone into your computer, and enable usb storage mode.
3. Backup your music, pictures, and anything else you want to keep on your sd card.
4. Format your SD card (or just erase everything).
5. Put your music, pictures, and anything else you backed up back on your SD card.
6. You now have a clean SD without a bunch of random folder's apps tend to create over time. (ex. openfient, certain browsers.)
Step 5: Finishing things up.
1. If your phone still seems sluggish or just messy, try factory resetting it. All your music, pictures, and app data are all on your SD card. Backup your apps with titanium backup. YOU WILL LOSE YOUR APPS, BUT IF YOU PUT THEM ON THE SD CARD (after you clean up your sd card) YOU WILL NOT LOSE YOUR APP DATA (levels, settings) AND ALL YOU HAVE TO DO IS RE-DOWNLOAD THEM.
2. If your looking for a new look to your phone check out my guide to making you feel like your running ICS.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=31230439#post31230439
I hope you liked my guide, and if you did don't hesitate to click the thanks button. If I am not clear on some parts, or you think I should add something, please tell me.
I know all of these steps however gave thanks for taking the time to help others.
ingenious247 said:
I know all of these steps however gave thanks for taking the time to help others.
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Thanks I kinda knew the more experience people would know all this already just the ones who are new to android.
I don't know if this is even a serious question xD but you move all your apps to internal storage because you wanna do a clean-up of these random-created folders or there is more into it ? And also about factory reset, I think you should mention the effects of it for example when you do factory reset you also lose all the settings that you may have modified don't you ?
mojito0 said:
I don't know if this is even a serious question xD but you move all your apps to internal storage because you wanna do a clean-up of these random-created folders or there is more into it ? And also about factory reset, I think you should mention the effects of it for example when you do factory reset you also lose all the settings that you may have modified don't you ?
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Factory reset clears the /system partition, and rebuilds it from the recovery partition, therefore you lose the following:
settings
apps (if not backed up)
homescreen setup
You will NOT lose the following:
Music
Pictures
app data (levels beat, preferences)
contacts (auto backed up to SIM)
and no if you move apps to internal storage, you will not lose anything upon SD format
Thanks for your feedback I will make that more clear in my guide
Factory reset from the settings menu will erase everything on the internal sd, including pictures and music.
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ingenious247 said:
Factory reset from the settings menu will erase everything on the internal sd, including pictures and music.
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If you do not have an SD, yes it will erase those things, but if you have an SD then unless you tick "erase SD contents" while factory resetting, it will not erase those things.
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jBL.Qc said:
Thanks
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No problem glad you found this helpful
Thanks.
Yoyomah20 said:
Factory reset clears the /system partition, and rebuilds it from the recovery partition, therefore you lose the following:
settings
apps (if not backed up)
homescreen setup
You will NOT lose the following:
Music
Pictures
app data (levels beat, preferences)
contacts (auto backed up to SIM)
and no if you move apps to internal storage, you will not lose anything upon SD format
Thanks for your feedback I will make that more clear in my guide
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Actually. Factory reset wipes everything except for the system partition. It wipes the data and cache partitions.
Unless you have a phone that has a hidden backup partition, which I am unaware of such device, any modifications you have made in the system partition will stay untouched during a reset.
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I'm a little new to rooting and this is my 2nd device that I have rooted and first without an external Sd card. I currently have the ViperXL rom on my HTC One X and I want to try a AOSP Rom. I backed up everything with Titanium Backup but what I was wondering is when I factory reset my phone won't the backup get wiped too? I'm sorry if this is a noob question but I don't want to advance without confirming this because i need to know if I have to copy my backup over to my computer. And I think that the backup is in the SD Card, which i'm not entirely sure about. So also does the SD card get wiped? I'm sorry if this question has been asked already and I will delete this thread if anyone asks.
Factory reset from recovery doesn't touch your "sd card" at all. All of your stuff on your sd card will be fine, including your backups.
However, factory reset from bootloader will completely bork your sd card, and it would need to be formatted to be usable again. So, don't ever factory reset from bootloader.
Hope this helps.
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Its a fair question, since it is a little confusing that the "SD card" is not a distinct card per se, but a partition on a larger flash memory chip. But as mentioned above, it will not get wiped unless you specifically select the option in recovery to wipe the SD card.
Also, there is the rare event of some files on the SD being corrupted when flashing ROMs. Its happened to me and others in the past. So its not a bad idea to make a copy of your Titanium Backup folder on your computer "just in case".
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redpoint73 said:
Its a fair question, since it is a little confusing that the "SD card" is not a distinct card per se, but a partition on a larger flash memory chip. But as mentioned above, it will not get wiped unless you specifically select the option in recovery to wipe the SD card.
Also, there is the rare event of some files on the SD being corrupted when flashing ROMs. Its happened to me and others in the past. So its not a bad idea to make a copy of your Titanium Backup folder on your computer "just in case".
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timmaaa said:
Factory reset from recovery doesn't touch your "sd card" at all. All of your stuff on your sd card will be fine, including your backups.
However, factory reset from bootloader will completely bork your sd card, and it would need to be formatted to be usable again. So, don't ever factory reset from bootloader.
Hope this helps.
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Thanks to both of you guys and thanks Redpoint for that one message you sent me on the at&t website that the One X WAS rootable. You helped me alot.:laugh:
Another Titanium Backup Question
Hey guys I know that this isn't the same question that my topic asks but I have another problem. I used titanium Backup and saved everything in my ViperXL rom for my HTC One X Att. Then i switched to a Sense 5 rom and whenever i try to restore my data my phone seems to freeze and when i reboot it doesn't show any applications or anything. It says that the titanium backup is restored but it doesn't show anything except a notification in the status bar saying a reboot is recommended. So then I go and reboot and the only thing i can do is access the apps in my lockscreen. When i boot up and try to open the app drawer nothing is in it and there is only blinkfeed and my other screen nothing seems to work. I know that i should post this in the Rom Thread and i would but as a junior member with only 8 posts including this one i can't post in Android Development yet. The link for the thread with the rom is here in case anyone wants to know what rom i'm trying this on and my backup is made from a viperxl rom. If anyone needs more details i can provide more. And on a side note whenever i factory reset it takes me back to the rom and it is working but none of my apps that i had in my backup are there. It just seems to go back to when i originally flashed the zip. thanks a lot and here is the sense 5 rom link im using.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2293032
Is there any way for me to get titanium backup to work or would i have to download each app manually? And in case its necessary i do have a full backup of the entire viperxl rom in case i have to make more titanium backups.
It sounds to me like you're restoring system data yeah? It's not a great idea to restore system data from a different ROM, as it most likely is not compatible. So if you're changing ROMs the idea is to only restore user apps.
The reason it was still playing up after you did a factory reset is because factory reset does not wipe the system partition, and that's the partition you messed up by restoring system data using Titanium.
My advice would be to reflash your ROM. Do a full wipe (cache/dalvik/factory reset/system) first. Then boot into the ROM and use the "restore missing apps with data" option in Titanium.
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Thanks
Thanks I thought that, that was the problem or something similar because i was wondering how some of my Venom apps would work on my non Venom One X. I'm loving my Sense 5 rom but it's a shame that i can't restore all data. I would love to be able to see my call logs, sms history, and have my phone set up in the same way but obviously that one would be a problem because of compatibility and other things like lack of apps or widgets.
As mentioned, you should only use Titanium to restore user apps (and their corresponding app data), not system data. Restoring system data across different ROMs is a nearly surefire way to cause issues (as you have found), as the different ROMs tend to handle the system data differently (store them in different locations, etc.).
There are various ways to backup and restore call longs and SMS. I personally use the app SMS Backup+, which syncs your SMS to your GMail. But there are other solutions that work fine, as well.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.zegoggles.smssync
As far as settings and configuration, I've always just done it manually, after flashing a new ROM. Trying to restore this across significantly different ROMs (such as Sense 4+ to Sense 5) is probably not feasible. Doing it manually doesn't take much time at all.
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soloflyer12 said:
thanks Redpoint for that one message you sent me on the at&t website that the One X WAS rootable. You helped me alot.:laugh:
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Your very welcome. Nice to see you here!
Thanks again
You guys have been very helpful and with this post I now have 10 posts, so now i can post in android development with my other rom related problems.
Do I have to do anything special to flash back to Hyperdrive? I'm sick of using all these 4.4.2 roms that have so many issues. I just need to go back to Hyperdrive. It ran so smooth and I do not understand why I switched in the first place anymore.
GlitchMob said:
Do I have to do anything special to flash back to Hyperdrive? I'm sick of using all these 4.4.2 roms that have so many issues. I just need to go back to Hyperdrive. It ran so smooth and I do not understand why I switched in the first place anymore.
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I would do a normal clean wipe, but add in format sd card to get rid of your 0 folder. Transfer everything you need to off of your internal sd card, and move it back after a flash.
Wipe cache, wipe dalvik cache, factory reset, format system, format internal sd card, flash rom.
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BadUsername said:
I would do a normal clean wipe, but add in format sd card to get rid of your 0 folder. Transfer everything you need to off of your internal sd card, and move it back after a flash.
Wipe cache, wipe dalvik cache, factory reset, format system, format internal sd card, flash rom.
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I'm going to back up everything now, but is this something you've done before? or are you speaking from a theoretical stance?
Also, you say transfer everything off SD Card then you refer to internal SD card. Are you suggesting I flash the internal SD? I dunno about that.
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I'm going to back up everything now, but is this something you've done before? or are you speaking from a theoretical stance?
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Never done it because I've always been on 4.1.2. I can't speak from experience.
But basically the way 4.1 and 4.3 or above hold files are different. Since you already 4.4, you have a folder in data/media/0 that has all of the data you are currently using. 4.1 uses data/media to hold all of your data.
Theoretically, if you don't use titanium backup to restore your apps and data you shouldn't have any issues, but you will begin to accumulate duplicated data from apps over time because the data will be stored in a completely different location. If you use titanium backup to restore data, you may get app conflicts because you really have the exact same app information in 2 different places.
If you wipe your sd, you're starting on a clean slate and should avoid any conflicts. People constantly report lag, app conflicts, and miscellaneous files that take up all the storage on their device that they can't account for. All of those problems is due to this issue.
Edit: additionally, I would also use this same procedure to move from 4.1 back to 4.3, it has the same issues associated with it.
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BadUsername said:
Never done it because I've always been on 4.1.2. I can't speak from experience.
But basically the way 4.1 and 4.3 or above hold files are different. Since you already 4.4, you have a folder in data/media/0 that has all of the data you are currently using. 4.1 uses data/media to hold all of your data.
Theoretically, if you don't use titanium backup to restore your apps and data you shouldn't have any issues, but you will begin to accumulate duplicated data from apps over time because the data will be stored in a completely different location. If you use titanium backup to restore data, you may get app conflicts because you really have the exact same app information in 2 different places.
If you wipe your sd, you're starting on a clean slate and should avoid any conflicts. People constantly report lag, app conflicts, and miscellaneous files that take up all the storage on their device that they can't account for. All of those problems is due to this issue.
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Oh ok. I never use titanium. I just backup my SMS and redownload my apps. I only use a few. As for everything else I let google restore my data.
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Also, you say transfer everything off SD Card then you refer to internal SD card. Are you suggesting I flash the internal SD? I dunno about that.
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I don't get what you're saying here, if you wipe your internal SD then you have to have your rom on an external SD card.
Formatting your internal SD card will wipe everything off of it. Once you flash a rom, it'll repopulate all the folders you need in the locations it needs to, but your app data, pictures, and anything else you have on there will be gone. If you back up stuff, I'm just saying backup important stuff you don't want to lose like pictures or music. You can always put them back after the flash.
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GlitchMob said:
Oh ok. I never use titanium. I just backup my SMS and redownload my apps. I only use a few. As for everything else I let google restore my data.
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Then just try to do a normal clean wipe, if you have issues it's likely due to those issues.
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