Hi all,
I wanted to try out Ubuntu Touch by UBPorts so I went ahead and installed it. After a while, when I wanted to switch back to Android I tried to flash the stock image from the official website, anything newer than 5.0, (6.0.1 was the first one I tried) got stuck on a bootloop. 4.4.4 seemed to be working but my device started nagging about low free space, as I only had 128 mb of total storage. I looked it up and it said somewhere that the hardware is basically fried and my phone is done for. After this point there was nothing I could lose so I reinstalled Ubuntu Touch, but then it started working normally and I now have 11.5GB of free storage? Does this mean that my device isn't fried? Is there a way I can go back to Android?
UPDATE: I flashed TWRP with fastboot and installed the ROM of my choice from there. Everything works like a charm now. Kudos to Aron from the Telegram group!
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Hello,
I've had a rooted t-mobile g1 and mt3g for many months now without any problems, except one. My mytouch was really slow when trying to bring my home screen up, it would stay black for 1-2 min until the home screen would finally show up. I knew it wasn't right, because my g1 acted quite normal.
To fix this, I re rooted my device by installing drc83 base defanged.zip from the boot screen, then installed cyanogen 4.2.1.14.1. After both files were installed, I rebooted the device.
The real problem: now my phone is quite snappy, but I cannot open any google apps like market, gmail, and sync. I have searched the web, and posted elsewhere, but no help.
Please help!!
Thanks in advance.
-Blake
I forgot to mention, my device also reboots by itself now, like 3 times a day.
pkssauce said:
Hello,
I've had a rooted t-mobile g1 and mt3g for many months now without any problems, except one. My mytouch was really slow when trying to bring my home screen up, it would stay black for 1-2 min until the home screen would finally show up. I knew it wasn't right, because my g1 acted quite normal.
To fix this, I re rooted my device by installing drc83 base defanged.zip from the boot screen, then installed cyanogen 4.2.1.14.1. After both files were installed, I rebooted the device.
The real problem: now my phone is quite snappy, but I cannot open any google apps like market, gmail, and sync. I have searched the web, and posted elsewhere, but no help.
Please help!!
Thanks in advance.
-Blake
I forgot to mention, my device also reboots by itself now, like 3 times a day.
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unroot your device, root it with the latest amon ra recovery for the MT3G. Use the recovery image to format your sd card to your liking. Then just enable usb in the recovery image and drag over the defang base and the latest cyanogen. just flash then both (first the base then cyanogen) without wiping. Change your ext2 into ext3 (not ext4 since some ROMs don't support it yet).
Also for your sd card I recommend at least 96 mb swap and a 512 ext3 partition.
Ive got a very big problem, i tried to install cyanogen 11 on my moto g and i accidentaly marked internal storage too and now it says no os installed, PLEAAASSSSEEE HEEEELLPPP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
my phone has 16gb but when i see the storage it says 12gb so there must be installed the old android somewhere right??
ive backuped before swiping but i cant restore cause it seems like if there is nothing, did i swiped that too??
PLEASE HEELLLPPPPP, Im really new to android so im a totally noob, Please help me guys
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Hello,
I bought a N5 today as my N4 broke. I unlocked the bootloader, flashed CWM, rooted, flashed stock Android 5.0.1 (as the phone was shipped with Android 4.4.2 or something).
Now all my apps are installed I recognized by looking into the app "DiskUsage" that "System data" accounts for 7gb. How is this possible? I only made one backup after all installations of the apps finished.
EDIT: Sorry, please ignore the following question as I already found threads about this issue
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Also, how can I check what my phone's storage really is? When I look into the settings (storage) it says that it's 16gb but I actually bought the phone with 32gb and I'm not sure how to see whether the sales person gave me the wrong phone?
Was it a mistake to install Android 5.0.1 onto the shipped version 4.4.2? Was I supposed to install Android 5.0 first and then 5.0.1? If I made this mistake, how can I solve this?
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Thank you very much!
sklation1987 said:
Hello,
I bought a N5 today as my N4 broke. I unlocked the bootloader, flashed CWM, rooted, flashed stock Android 5.0.1 (as the phone was shipped with Android 4.4.2 or something).
Now all my apps are installed I recognized by looking into the app "DiskUsage" that "System data" accounts for 7gb. How is this possible? I only made one backup after all installations of the apps finished.
Also, how can I check what my phone's storage really is? When I look into the settings (storage) it says that it's 16gb but I actually bought the phone with 32gb and I'm not sure how to see whether the sales person gave me the wrong phone?
Was it a mistake to install Android 5.0.1 onto the shipped version 4.4.2? Was I supposed to install Android 5.0 first and then 5.0.1? If I made this mistake, how can I solve this?
Thank you very much!
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How did you flash 5.0.1 and did you do a factory reset after flashing it? Not doing a factory reset is the most likely reason you're showing the wrong amount of memory. Do a factory reset and it should show the correct memory. If it doesn't then maybe you did not get a 32 Gb device. And, yeah, it's a pita to do that now.
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just switch phone in bootloader mode and you'll see your phone variant - 16 or 32 GB
thanks for your help guys!
I just re-did all the procedure (flash stock factory image, CWM and root) and now it seems to be all fine. Storage is up to 32gb and before finishing to install all my apps my free storage seems to be fine too.
Thanks again!
Dear fellow TF300 users,
This tablet of mine was holding onto STOCK rom until I couldn't take its lagginess and poor loading of images even when using my company email. So I decided to take on the route to ROOT, UNLOCK, Install new custom ROMs...
My tablet AsusTF300TL has been successfully UNLOCKED, Root and even installed a new ROM (KatKISS 4.4.4) . Its recovery was TEAMWIN - TWRP. The tablet even had its encryption data (due to my company email policy.)
Even with all this, it still behaved very sloppy, laggy. I really cherish this piece of IT equipment. Untill I downloaded the recent OUTLOOK Preview App and the app asked me to perform encryption again. This went hay wired as the encryption wasn't succesful and I had to enter into recovery mode. Best of all, I backup my ROM only in my SD Card but in recovery mode, it couldnt restore successfully. I can't copy the backup file from SD card to Storage.
So I took some advise from the forum here to unbrick my tablet. It was successful, and I tried it again with Outlook Preview app. This time I was on stock ROM and still encrypton had issues. Interrupted halfway, going into TWRP recovery... and use the same UNBRICK method all over again.
I believe now, my tablet is on Stock rom, and nor ROOTed and I reckon I will need to reinstall back TWRP recovery. Definitely, for sure it is UNLOCKED as I tend to restart the tablet and I do see a short liner, tablet is unlocked..
But with stock rom installed, after being UNbricked, the tablet still behaves very poorly, laggy .
Tried to check on storage details, it is newly formatted, barely 5% of space being used. RAM used always tend to be hovevrying about 65% to 70% usage.
I wish to find out if there's anything else to improve this situation, should I try out new custom ROMs? Further to that, this tablet has been with me for almost 4 yrs, and its ON OFF button has been very insensitiev... it requires a harder force.
Very troubled...
NIKEIAN
Hello, first of all, im a new user and I do not know if I'm in the right place to post this message. I am also French so excuse my English.
Here is my problem: I recently installed CyanogenMod 13 on my Nexus 5X, I have too much hassle because of the error on 7 TWRP. By reinstalling the factory image from the Google site, I managed to install CyanogenMod (I had not booted my phone, I dirctement installed CyanogenMod). To my surprise the installation is installed, but when I turned on my phone, I realized that I had that I had only 10 GB of storage while I have the 32GB version Nexus 5X. I thought it was a bug in CyanogenMod, so I reinstalled the factory image of Nexus 5x. So I now stock the version of my phone with the latest updates, but I still have 10 GB of storage ... I do not know what to do !! if you have any solutions I'm interested.
I thank you in advance.
factory reset from settings
ok thanks you, it's good. Have you an idea for what i have this bug ?
then as your technique works on android stock, I said I would try on CyanogenMod but I still have the memory in less ... in fact it is the sdcard partition that is not created or evil, and therefore I have more than 10GB of storage and it annoys me a bit ...
Here is the forum for the 5x: http://forum.xda-developers.com/nexus-5x