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Somebody Please Help!!!!!

I'm trying to take off the partition on my sdcard. Can someone please help do this?

What? Elaborate please, what partition and what are you trying to do?
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usually to remove petitions on any sort of storage device, you will have to reformat the data from the petition. so just make a copy of all the files and reformat it

Radio_Dude said:
usually to remove petitions on any sort of storage device, you will have to reformat the data from the petition. so just make a copy of all the files and reformat it
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Ok I will try that. Should I reformat with using the phone or the computer?

assuming you have a custom recovery installed (like clockworkmod), you can re-partition your SD card from there quite easily.

pakraider said:
assuming you have a custom recovery installed (like clockworkmod), you can re-partition your SD card from there quite easily.
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I do but how do I re-partition it so that I have all my memory back on my sdcard. Also but I don't need to have it partition in order for me to be able to install roms and such do I?

ptclik85 said:
I do but how do I re-partition it so that I have all my memory back on my sdcard. Also but I don't need to have it partition in order for me to be able to install roms and such do I?
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Hi,
Use a card reader,and open it on your pc/laptop.
Use Control + A , Control + C .
This will copy all your files folders and hidden files,and paste them into a new folder on your desktop.
Go online and get "G-Parted Live" (google it).
Use this to delete partitions and format your sd card,then put everything back on it.

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

Will erasing Internal Storage in TWRP give me any issues with flashing?

I might have to do this because my files are everywhere, and possibly to have a clean start. I'm backing things up, but if I wipe internal storage, will it give me an issue if I try to flash a rom and gapps?

I believe this will delete your recovery too so you will have to push your recovery back on to your phone using adb.
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Recon0212 said:
I might have to do this because my files are everywhere, and possibly to have a clean start. I'm backing things up, but if I wipe internal storage, will it give me an issue if I try to flash a rom and gapps?
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If you wipe data in twrp it wipes the internal card now.
Learned this the hard way that they fixed it. Thankfully I don't keep anything important on their and keep it on my external card.
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I accidently wiped my internal storage on my S3 and don't have an SD card. Can I flash a new ROM using my PC? Or am I ****ed?

DroidNewbcake said:
I accidently wiped my internal storage on my S3 and don't have an SD card. Can I flash a new ROM using my PC? Or am I ****ed?
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Yes, you can side load a ROM that's downloaded on your PC, or you can push a ROM to your internal storage with ADB. There's definitely a few guides on how to do it in this forum.
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Yeah. Wiping and formatting your /system or any internal directories is lovely for a fresh and stable start... just need to have a ROM on your eternal SD card, haha. I've done this several time, forgetting about having a ROM to flash afterwards. LOL.

Just get an external card, have the ROM and flash it from there. Makes everything way easier!

How do you flash a phone without SD card?

I have been using Samsung Android all my life, if I buy the OnePlus One phone, how will I flash the phone with new ROM since I can't just simply put the .zip file onto external SD card and flash through recovery.

Use adb to push to the internal sd or sideload it from recovery.
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kuromusha38 said:
I have been using Samsung Android all my life, if I buy the OnePlus One phone, how will I flash the phone with new ROM since I can't just simply put the .zip file onto external SD card and flash through recovery.
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You can flash whatever .zip you need through the internal storage.

treChoy said:
You can flash whatever .zip you need through the internal storage.
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How? You suppose to wipe your internal memory clean before flash any rom.

kuromusha38 said:
How? You suppose to wipe your internal memory clean before flash any rom.
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No, you aren't. You don't need to wipe internal memory, only /system, /data, /cache and dalvik partitions.

So wait...
You're saying that everytime you flashed a rom you cleaned out your entire phone beforehand?
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Derpston said:
So wait...
You're saying that everytime you flashed a rom you cleaned out your entire phone beforehand?
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Yes, of course. That's what they say on the instruction.

kuromusha38 said:
Yes, of course. That's what they say on the instruction.
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im pretty sure no rom would make you wipe your internal storage. theres no reason to ever do that.

Most recovery like twrp, cwm etc doesn't wipe your internal memory when you say factory reset. Before flashing new rom most developers prefer you factory reset which wipes your system, data partitions but nothing happens to your internal memory. So you are good.
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That you for the clearing the confusion

kuromusha38 said:
That you for the clearing the confusion
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Your Galaxy Note 2 can flash ROMs like this in the same way. Even if you use Factory Reset/Wipe Data in your recovery, it still wouldn't wipe your Note 2's internal storage. It will wipe /data (but you'll notice it'll say 'wiping /data without wiping /data/media'.
It's been this way for a long, long time.

The Jack of Clubs said:
im pretty sure no rom would make you wipe your internal storage. theres no reason to ever do that.
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Nope. Any package that tells you to wipe /sdcard is from someone who has no clue what they're doing.
On devices with unified storage, it is slightly more complex - in rare cases the filesystem can get corrupted in such a way that requires complete format. This will clobber /sdcard on devices with unified storage (/sdcard is /data/media remapped) - but a normal wipe data/factory reset in recovery on a unified device will remove everything *except* /data/media on /data
Again, it's *very rare* that you need to fully format /data on a device with unified storage - I've only had to do it twice in my life, both times on a Moto G because f2fs sucks rancid donkey balls for data integrity.

http://www.phonearena.com/news/OneP...-card-support-revealed-in-User-Manual_id56033
???????

its clearly a typo. oneplus said specifically that the one will not come with an sdcard slot.

The Jack of Clubs said:
its clearly a typo. oneplus said specifically that the one will not come with an sdcard slot.
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The only reviews I've found are from Android Authority and Engadget, both with the 16gb white model, and neither say a microSD card slot is there. Engadget says there isn't one, and AA pulls the cover off to show the internals - and if there was a slot, surely they would have noticed, right?
OTOH, these seem to be "pre-production" units, with software that still needs some bug fixes. So who knows what's really in store?

Planterz said:
The only reviews I've found are from Android Authority and Engadget, both with the 16gb white model, and neither say a microSD card slot is there. Engadget says there isn't one, and AA pulls the cover off to show the internals - and if there was a slot, surely they would have noticed, right?
OTOH, these seem to be "pre-production" units, with software that still needs some bug fixes. So who knows what's really in store?
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Sorry guys, but there's no SD slot. Mounting data through something like a Meenova works though.

Also, it's worth noting that when you switch to a newer device, you can't mount storage to USB from recovery like you were once able to.
If you don't want to use sideload or adb push, you'll want to put the ROM on your storage using a working ROM first, so that's why you should always have a working ROM zip on your storage at any given time, because if you start bootlooping when you're away from a computer, you're stuck until you can get back to one.

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Also, it's worth noting that when you switch to a newer device, you can't mount storage to USB from recovery like you were once able to.
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You mean like OTG in recovery? The One read my Meenova with a 32GB microSD card in the stock recovery.

Harfainx said:
You mean like OTG in recovery? The One read my Meenova with a 32GB microSD card in the stock recovery.
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Oh, I'd believe it. But if you don't have one or if you forget, you're still screwed. Nothing beats a fully on-device solution

LiquidSolstice said:
Oh, I'd believe it. But if you don't have one or if you forget, you're still screwed. Nothing beats a fully on-device solution
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Absolutely! :good:

[HELP] SD Card Issue

Hello, I have a Samsung J2 2016
I'm having problems with my SD card. I had enabled adoptable storage on my phone before but I had to factory reset my phone because of Viper for Android causing some issues. After the reset I have been trying for a month to use Root Essentials to get my phone to have Adopted storage again but it just fails in the end even though I have flashed the AS plugin zip four times now.
So I just got rid of the adoptable storage and decided that I would shift apps to the portable sd card normally.
Everything worked fine until now. Now when my battery goes below 30% the SD Card stops working and the entire system crashes and reboots. After the reboot it says thar the sd card is unsupported and I'll have to format it. I dont want to format it as it has apps like Snapchat which will require login again which will require me to unroot my phone. The only way to fix it temporarily is to remove the SD Card from the phone during reboot and after it finishes and the phone opens up, put it back in.
I am not sure if formatting the sd card will do any good. I guess the adoptable storage mod by root essentials has something to do with this
Can somebody help me with a permanent fix? I am hoping I won't have to factory reset my phone again
Thank you! And sorry for the long post

darshan1504 said:
Hello, I have a Samsung J2 2016
I'm having problems with my SD card. I had enabled adoptable storage on my phone before but I had to factory reset my phone because of Viper for Android causing some issues. After the reset I have been trying for a month to use Root Essentials to get my phone to have Adopted storage again but it just fails in the end even though I have flashed the AS plugin zip four times now.
So I just got rid of the adoptable storage and decided that I would shift apps to the portable sd card normally.
Everything worked fine until now. Now when my battery goes below 30% the SD Card stops working and the entire system crashes and reboots. After the reboot it says thar the sd card is unsupported and I'll have to format it. I dont want to format it as it has apps like Snapchat which will require login again which will require me to unroot my phone. The only way to fix it temporarily is to remove the SD Card from the phone during reboot and after it finishes and the phone opens up, put it back in.
I am not sure if formatting the sd card will do any good. I guess the adoptable storage mod by root essentials has something to do with this
Can somebody help me with a permanent fix? I am hoping I won't have to factory reset my phone again
Thank you! And sorry for the long post
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Boot to recovery and factory reset then wipe cache and Dalvik/ART cache. Then boot to download mode and try reflashing stock firmware via Odin with the sdcard removed, the root the device again. Format the sdcard on PC then reinsert the sdcard and try adoptable storage again.
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Droidriven said:
Boot to recovery and factory reset then wipe cache and Dalvik/ART cache. Then boot to download mode and try reflashing stock firmware via Odin with the sdcard removed, the root the device again. Format the sdcard on PC then reinsert the sdcard and try adoptable storage again.
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Okay I'll try it and get back to you

Droidriven said:
Boot to recovery and factory reset then wipe cache and Dalvik/ART cache. Then boot to download mode and try reflashing stock firmware via Odin with the sdcard removed, the root the device again. Format the sdcard on PC then reinsert the sdcard and try adoptable storage again.
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Okay so it failed. This the error
Wiping data without wiping/data/media...
Done
Formatting Cache using make_ext4fs...
Updating partition details...
...done
Unable to Mount Storage
My phone went into a boot loop because of this so I just flashed the firmware via odin and opened it up. It completely started from scratch. I will try putting my sd card back in after it finishes the startup procedure

darshan1504 said:
Okay so it failed. This the error
Wiping data without wiping/data/media...
Done
Formatting Cache using make_ext4fs...
Updating partition details...
...done
Unable to Mount Storage
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Don't worry with the wipes then.
Just boot to download, flash stock firmware, after flashing, boot to stock recovery and factory reset and wipe cache. Then format SD card on PC then try the SD card and adoptable storage.
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Droidriven said:
Don't worry with the wipes then.
Just boot to download, flash stock firmware, after flashing, boot to stock recovery and factory reset and wipe cache. Then format SD card on PC then try the SD card and adoptable storage.
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I did it but it didn't erase the internal storage. I have the same internal storage files as I had before. I am downloading all previous apps now. Will get back to you once its done

darshan1504 said:
I did it but it didn't erase the internal storage. I have the same internal storage files as I had before. I am downloading all previous apps now. Will get back to you once its done
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It shouldn't wipe internal when flashing with Odin unless what you flash upgrades/downgrades your bootloader. If what you flash is the same as what you had then it doesn't upgrade/downgrade the bootloader, leaving data untouched.
Factory reset in stock recovery should wipe internal though, did it not do that?
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Droidriven said:
It shouldn't wipe internal when flashing with Odin unless what you flash upgrades/downgrades your bootloader. If what you flash is the same as what you had then it doesn't upgrade/downgrade the bootloader, leaving data untouched.
Factory reset is stock recovery should wipe internal though, did it not do that?
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I did the factory reset and it did wipe it off now

darshan1504 said:
I did the factory reset and it did wipe it off now
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Did this solve your issue? If not I'll try digging deeper for a solution.
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Did this solve your issue? If not I'll try digging deeper for a solution.
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I haven't tried adoptable storage but atleast the SD Card isn't crashing for now. I'll tell you if anything happens when the battery goes below 30%

darshan1504 said:
I haven't tried adoptable storage but atleast the SD Card isn't crashing for now. I'll tell you if anything happens when the battery goes below 30%
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If your device has marshmallow then you shouldn't need a mod to use adoptable storage, it's a built in feature for marshmallow, you should be able to set up adoptable storage in system settings.
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Droidriven said:
Did this solve your issue? If not I'll try digging deeper for a solution.
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Droidriven said:
If your device has marshmallow then you shouldn't need a mod to use adoptable storage, it's a built in feature for marshmallow, you should be able to set up adoptable storage in system settings.
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It's a Samsung so I don't have inbuilt adoptable storage feature. I have to do it through Root Essentials only

Droidriven said:
Did this solve your issue? If not I'll try digging deeper for a solution.
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Sir this problem has started again. The songs and files on my sd card have started crashing abruptly again. I haven't enabled adoptable storage yet but I cleared the data from Google Play Services and this started. Please help

darshan1504 said:
Sir this problem has started again. The songs and files on my sd card have started crashing abruptly again. I haven't enabled adoptable storage yet but I cleared the data from Google Play Services and this started. Please help
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Sounds like a corrupted SD card to me.
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Droidriven said:
Sounds like a corrupted SD card to me.
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How can I check if it is corrupted? I can access it through my PC

Droidriven said:
Sounds like a corrupted SD card to me.
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I did the chkdsk test and it says it doesn't have any problem