Hello everyone I have been trying for some time now to get twrp (2.8.7.0) and cm (10.2.1) on my Samsung Verizon galaxy S3 about phone . I really don't want to brick my phone considering I'm trying to upgrade my computer and move at the same time so I have very limited cash. I am rooted via towelroot (confirmed via root checker basic) have SuperSU installed, twrp manager installed, Titanium backup installed, Explorer installed, and Busybox free installed. So I installed Titanium backup first to safely backup all of my data to my external sd card, and when I moved the backup destination folder to the external sd card and tried to backup all user apps titanium told me that there was insufficient space . Considering It has 15Gb free and there is altogether 14Gb on my internal I was curious. So upon further research I stumbled upon this and so when I tried to edit my platform.xml in my permissions folder it said it was set to read only. I noticed that my Explorer app isn't in the supersu list (could this be all it is, and if so how do I add it). So I proceeded to open up TWRP manager and it told me it can't write to sd card so it will reboot and patch the platform.xml file. I did that and it reboots and nothing has changed. Any help would be greatly appreciated!
UPDATE: after posting this I tried the twrp platform.xml patch again and when the phone rebooted I checked via Explorer and it had created a back up in the permissions folder named platform.xml.bak and had edited the the write permissions. but TiBU still does not work with same error.
See this post in the other thread in which you posted this kind of question:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=61957710&postcount=4
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i accidentally uninstalled the stock camera app on my samsung conquer 4g.i have a backup for it but i go to restore it, it just freezes in restoring app mode. i have no problems restoring most apps. can someone please help! and im not using any custom roms what so ever
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I do not know
Try installing stock rom again.
u may need to flash your original rom or ask someone who was backup the shock camera.
Beside, u can try other 3rd camera apps
Use root explorer
Go to system directory
Mount partition as r/w
Paste the apk in system/apps
Reboot
I think this will help you. if it does please THANK me.
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Well also don't forget to set full permissions.
Once when I copied the apk file it didn't work later when I set full permissions it worked.
I would use titanium backup to backup the apps you have, then do a factory reset if the AOL fix above doesn't worm.
mount your SD card from your PC transfer a copy of your Titanium Backup folder from SD card to PC the MAin folder and the contents will all be saved. Then reinsert SD in phone uninstall TitBa clearing the data first then uninstall. Then boot into ClockWorkMod then wipe all 3 cache's then do "Fix Permissions" then Reboot phone. Re-Install Titanium back up and transfer your app backups from your PC back into your newly created TB folder that your phone will make on the SD card when you install TB. Then go into Restore/Backup in TB and restore the App.
You need to allow to install apps from unknown sources!
I always used CWM on my other phones and now installed TWRP 2.6.3.3 and have following issue:
Like CWM, TWRP creates its own folder on SD-partition (internal storage on Mini). But the backups are stored in "root/data/media/TWRP/...", not in "SD/TWRP/...", so when backuping my files from phone I have to copy the TWRP-backup first to SD (I don't want to use adb etc. for that).
Why is TWRP not using the standard-folder on SD and can I change the location?
Also mounting internal storage doesn't work in TWRP. Any ideas?
...ok, solved (expect mounting)!
Solution (if you have the same issue): I moved the TWRP-folder from root to sd and now TRWP backups/restores onto/from SD.
Why not use "es file explorer" grant root privileges in settings and then copy to sd. That works for me
Just spotted that you have solved this.
Yes, always copied with ES before, but now it works like it should.
BTW I think TWRP used the root-location because I superwiped the phone a few days ago and there was no SD-partition. And as long the TWRP-folder exists on root it seems that it doesn't use the one on SD.
I know this question has been answered in previous threads, but the solution doesn't work for my device...
I made a backup using CWM recovery in my Galaxy S5, but it is stored within the internal memory (don't remember if I placed it there myself or just agreed to it), which sucks because it takes 5 out of 16 GB of space and now I can't delete it...
I've tried connecting it to the PC but the folder is protected and I can't install CWM ROM manager to delete it either because my device is not supported yet. ROM manager asks me to install CWM Recovery, even though it is already installed, and there is no Galaxy S5 within the list of supported devices
What should I do? Do I have to wait till the S5 is supported by ROM manager in order to delete this backup?
Thank you
PD. This is my first thread, so be gentle
Try deleting the folder using a file manager app such as ES file manager.
You can also delete backups directly with CWM.
If you can't perform any of the above you can always backup you're important data and format the internal storage.
Good luck!
jamesokbo said:
I know this question has been answered in previous threads, but the solution doesn't work for my device...
I made a backup using CWM recovery in my Galaxy S5, but it is stored within the internal memory (don't remember if I placed it there myself or just agreed to it), which sucks because it takes 5 out of 16 GB of space and now I can't delete it...
I've tried connecting it to the PC but the folder is protected and I can't install CWM ROM manager to delete it either because my device is not supported yet. ROM manager asks me to install CWM Recovery, even though it is already installed, and there is no Galaxy S5 within the list of supported devices
What should I do? Do I have to wait till the S5 is supported by ROM manager in order to delete this backup?
Thank you
PD. This is my first thread, so be gentle
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As mentioned by @ido100, you should use ES File Explorer. However, you're going to need Root Explorer turned on, as well as Show Hidden Files turned on. See my posts here and here for instructions on how to do that.
Solved...
Well, the file manager didn't work either... I turned Root Explorer on and show hidden files as well, but everytime I deleted the clockworkmod folder and refreshed it was there again... I got pretty sick and wiped my internal sd card, now I'm affraid that I didn't back up my Link to the Past progress
But the stupid 5GB folder is finally gone...
cant delete cwm backup
jamesokbo said:
Well, the file manager didn't work either... I turned Root Explorer on and show hidden files as well, but everytime I deleted the clockworkmod folder and refreshed it was there again... I got pretty sick and wiped my internal sd card, now I'm affraid that I didn't back up my Link to the Past progress
But the stupid 5GB folder is finally gone...
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how did you ''wipe your internal storage''? i need help, i have the same problem as you! :crying:
Wan t to switch to a new 64g sdcard and do a complete backup on it. Have installed twrp manager, supersu, titanium backup but cant get any of them to back up. Do I need to copy on my pc the old 1g sdcard to the new one and then try backup or what?
Im a lost n00by. I have been trying for 7days to enable my wifi tether via miked63017 process. Cant get past the backup requirement.
Have Sprint s5 g900p....ne5
Thanks for your help.
Google removed sd card write functionality, so if you haven't fixed it that is the problem. Easiest thing to do is download sd-Fix (I think) from the play store. Otherwise, isn't he new card formatted correctly?
HI,
I made an update.zip file with TB for all my apps and data so i could just install it via recovery.
The file is located in root sdcard, and is just about over 4gb but when i flashed the update.zip i keep getting an error?
Can anyone help me with this, i installed titanium and rebooted into recovery and flashed again but still no luck
I can open the zip file on my pc and everything comes up but when i tried to open it in es file explorer nothing shows
Edit: i just read somewhere that TWRP can't flash over 2gbs is that true?
Well, we can't really help if we don't know the exact error message is.