I feel that I am running on borrowed time. Every time I upgrade to a new version of cyanogenmod, I do a full Nandroid backup. I've done this several times without any problems.... until now. Here's what is going on.
1) Boot into recovery mode, run Nandroid Backup and it performs backup, adding dots, ENDLESSLY. I allowed it to run for 20 minutes straight and no change.
2) When I boot the phone normally and check the nandroid folder on the SD Card, I find that it started by creating a file and FILLING THE REMAINDER OF MY CARD! (2.2 gig).
3) After running fix_permissions, and FSCK on both the EXT3 and FAT partitions, is get the same result.
4) I went ahead and did the newest cyanogenmod update anyway and the update took without a problem, but the backup issue still is present.
This seems to be similar to this thread. Anyone here with some possible solutions?
EDIT- SOLUTION:
I went into Manage Applications and cleared out all the various caches. I noticed that "Browser" was reporting a very large NEGATIVE size for its data and total size. I'm guessing that that was the problem.
It feels so much better to have a good backup completed.
I know cliq users have that problem if they try to run nand with the phone plugged into USB. Was your phone plugged into USB by any chance?
borodin1 said:
I know cliq users have that problem if they try to run nand with the phone plugged into USB. Was your phone plugged into USB by any chance?
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Yes. Every time a do anything firmware related, I connect to USB for that redundant power. I'll try without and let you know what I find.
Thanks!
Just tried again without the cable and waited till the screen was completely filled with dots (over 14 minutes) and it was still going. Had to pull the battery to restart it.
BTW... is there a more graceful way to terminate this without pulling the battery?
Did the Cliq users have to do anything after they encountered this problem besides unplugging?
Any log files I should check?
What recovery image are you using? Thought about upgrading it or just reapplying the image?
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What recovery image are you using? Thought about upgrading it or just reapplying the image?
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Just updated the recovery to RA-dream-v1.5.2 and it did the same thing. Also tried with a different SD card. No change.
Actually I just found out that the backup doesn't fill the card, it stops at the FAT32 2gb filesize barrier.
EDIT: Additional info: It is the data.img portion of the backup that grows to an insane size.
BART backup ended up failing also.
I've never mounted an .IMG file before. Could someone help me do that perhaps to see what file inside the data.img is exploding?
Try dropping to the console, enter umount /sdcard. Then run nandroid from the console.
Did I do what you wanted?
Booted to recovery, to console, umount /sdcard (wasn't mounted), /sbin/nandroid-mobile.sh -b
It went through and hung on data.img.
PROBLEM SOLVED!!!! Thanks all who helped out.
I went into Manage Applications and cleared out all the various caches. I noticed that "Browser" was reporting a very large NEGATIVE size for its data and total size. I'm guessing that that was the problem.
It feels so much better to have a good backup completed.
Congratulations!
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PROBLEM SOLVED!!!! Thanks all who helped out.
I went into Manage Applications and cleared out all the various caches. I noticed that "Browser" was reporting a very large NEGATIVE size for its data and total size. I'm guessing that that was the problem.
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Hi,
I had *exactly* the same problem today. While searching for a solution, I tried similar things to solve the the never ending backup problem.
I read your solution a few minutes ago, checked my entries under "Manage Applications" and found the K-9 mail application with a size showing a large negative number. Deleting the cache was not possible, I had to uninstall the whole application.
After that, the nandroid backup works (and I think faster than ever... only about 2 lines of dots on screen).
Thanks for your solution!!!!!
Martin
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Guys, need some help here
I'm generally ok at fixing these sorts of problems but this one has got me well and truly stumped.
Been trying without much luck to flash a working fw onto i9000 since updating to rom with voodoo and forgetting to disable lage fix before flashing non voodoo rom. Even flashing back with voodoo rom doesnt help.
I think I've finally managed to ascertain the root cause of the issue seems to be that either the internal sd card is somehow write protected or the current journalling on the ext4 partition is undoing and changes to that partition (where does journal reside?). I seem to be in a viscious circle as well. I cant mkfs a new ext2 partition as it complains that it wasnt unmounted cleanly, If I ignore I get a segmentation fault. If I e2fsck the partition it complains it cant write to the superblock, If I use alternate superblock it complains there is data in the journal, trys to replay the journal and complains it cant write the superblock. If I tunefs to disable the journal it complains that the needs_recovery flag is set so need to e2fsck the filesystem first :-S.
I've flashed kernel that has recovery option to disable lagfix. If I choose this and reboot it just sits at Galaxy S boot screen indefinite (over an hour waited). If I mount USB using same recovery mode, I can see the files in the partition, I can (through windows) delete the files so folder shows no files however disk still shows a percentage used. If I eject and remount all the files are back. I have formatted the partition as fat32 and re-labeled the drive. Format completes succesfully (done this both using cmd line and right click format). on eject and remount, label change has remained but files are back again. Partition still shows up as ext4 when looking via adb shell.
Have tried to use parted, but despite all parted functions giving success indicator, no changes are ever made.
I'm now at a loss on how to proceed?
Anyone any ideas on what next steps could yield any further results?
I had a similar issue... what solved it was to flash Darky's ressurection rom. Had to flash it 3 times in a row.. Flashed with Odin 1.7.
Hope it helps, i know how frustrating it is.
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I have tried Darkys res rom, It wouldnt boot, just stuck at Galaxy S boot screen so didnt persue it. I'll try doing it multiple times as you suggest and let you know. Ta
EDIT: Nope tried it 4 times, same result, boots to Galaxy S screen, I get the voice prompt saying its coverting system, will take approx 2 mins, then another voice prompt about restore, then it sits there indefinetly (waited about 20 mins each time). Whilst its in this state adb devices shows device in recovery, and I can get an adb shell, however there seems to be no commands accesible, cd, ls, mount etc
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I have tried Darkys res rom, It wouldnt boot, just stuck at Galaxy S boot screen so didnt persue it. I'll try doing it multiple times as you suggest and let you know. Ta
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I have a way that may fix your bricked phone. If it gets to the SGS logo boot animation, I would try flashing CM7. Try it out and then try reverting back to a stock rom.
Here are the instructions:
http://forum.cyanogenmod.com/topic/15275-gt-i9000-cyanogenmod-7-we-love-bugs-version-20110211/
You MUST follow the instructions to the letter though. Do not deviate from them!
How do I know this may work? Because it happened to me. My phone was bricked, then I flashed CM7 and now it works again. I've tested going back to stock rom and it works. Give it a try. It may be tough reverting back to stock since CM7 gingerbread is awesome! lol
If that doesn't work try flashing one of the earlier Froyo ROMs, I used XXJP2, and then moving on from there. The key is to ensure that whatever ROM you use has all three files (PDA, Modem, & CSC) and tick Re-Partitioning on Odin.
Again this is what worked for me and my device was restored to great working order.
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I have a way that may fix your bricked phone. If it gets to the SGS logo boot animation, I would try flashing CM7. Try it out and then try reverting back to a stock rom.
Here are the instructions:
http://forum.cyanogenmod.com/topic/15275-gt-i9000-cyanogenmod-7-we-love-bugs-version-20110211/
You MUST follow the instructions to the letter though. Do not deviate from them!
How do I know this may work? Because it happened to me. My phone was bricked, then I flashed CM7 and now it works again. I've tested going back to stock rom and it works. Give it a try. It may be tough reverting back to stock since CM7 gingerbread is awesome! lol
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Thanks for the suggestion but this wont work, as I said above, the root of my problem is that the internal SD card wont keep any changes I make to it. Once I upload the zip file and the phone reboots into download mode in order to flash with Odin, the files I would have put on the internal SD card will no longer be there. It seems to me that the FS cant set the recovery_flag to clean and therefore keeps replaying the journal and overwriting any changes on reboot.
I sort of proved this earlier, by managing to flash JP4 with speedmod kernel. This allows the phone to boot, but it has major force close issues. I can take a photo, see it in images, I can even mount it via USB and see it on my laptop. When I reboot, the photo is gone and anything I've deleted is back again.
Fundamentally I need someone who maybe has some experience fixing the filesystem, I cant see any Roms working until this manages to get resolved
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If that doesn't work try flashing one of the earlier Froyo ROMs, I used XXJP2, and then moving on from there. The key is to ensure that whatever ROM you use has all three files (PDA, Modem, & CSC) and tick Re-Partitioning on Odin.
Again this is what worked for me and my device was restored to great working order.
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Ive tried JP2, but no joy. Also tried
JFF,JS5,DDJG4,Darkys Res,JP4,JM8,JS3,EUGENE373,JPC,JP3,JM5 & Finally JPU, All with a mixture of partitioning and not.
got an ext-sd card? if so remove it, format sd, then try factory reseting,
edit : flash an old rom, like jm2, ascertain its function then yell again (missed a line *doh*)
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got an ext-sd card? if so remove it, format sd, then try factory reseting,
edit : flash an old rom, like jm2, ascertain its function then yell again (missed a line *doh*)
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Yep tried all that, tried formating via recovery mode, says successful, but all data still exists on reboot. Have tried formating using windows, via command line, via adb shell, they all say they are succesfull but on reboot, same problem exists and all data is still there :-S
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Ive tried JP2, but no joy. Also tried
JFF,JS5,DDJG4,Darkys Res,JP4,JM8,JS3,EUGENE373,JPC,JP3,JM5 & Finally JPU, All with a mixture of partitioning and not.
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I am sorry, not sure where to go from there. Keep Googling and maybe you'll come across something helpful.
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Hi. Has anyone come across a solution to this problem. Any changes to the data on my internal SD card are lost on reboot, and many of my apps are not working.
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Hi. Has anyone come across a solution to this problem. Any changes to the data on my internal SD card are lost on reboot, and many of my apps are not working.
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Try editing the void.fstab to swap the internal sd card and external sd card. --- it won't address issues with internal card, but it may get you up and going again..
fooman123 said:
Try editing the void.fstab to swap the internal sd card and external sd card. --- it won't address issues with internal card, but it may get you up and going again..
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Thanks fooman123. Can you tell me where I can find the void.fstab file?
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Thanks fooman123. Can you tell me where I can find the void.fstab file?
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see this tread:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1088474&page=14
use the correct void.fstab for your phone (i9000 and i9003 are different)
backup the original and compare the new and old void.fstab file..
I recently updated my cappy from Phoenix rising to Continuum following all instructions in the first couple posts except for flashing back to stock. "Including enabling lagfix"
Everything seemed to be running perfect. Rebooted a couple times to see how it behaved, plugged it in and turned in for the night. Seemed to be fine in the morning while I surfed the web, played games, etc. I ended up losing data service (a constant problem I get with custom ROMs that I've never been able to shake) so I rebooted, which normally solves the problem.
Instead, this time appears that all the apps installed in the internal SD card are missing... Weird but whatever. Titanium time and troubleshoot after school. Well, titanium says that there's no backups. Slight panic. Then I think about all my 3 stars from the angry bird series... MAJOR PANIC!
I can access my phone just fine via root explorer but my TiBU folder is empty, I have no games on my SD cards but a lot of other stuff is there including my dropbox and download folders as well as my ROM .zips. It's almost as if random stuff was removed.
Reboot into recovery to fix permissions and delete caches, etc. While I there I checked my backups (Nandroid?) and my lastest one (the one I did prior to flashing) was missing! Even more panicked!
Checked my phone... No luck. So I think that maybe I'll try some sort of undelete program when I get home. Plug the phone into compy and the mount cards options doesn't appear... Reboot to recovery and reflash ROM. No luck. Try to update back to TiBU pro and I notice a new problem. I can't install anything from the market, they just don't download. Tried to install .apks I have stored locally, no luck.
At this point I just want a working phone, screw dem birds, I can always redo all the levels and put music back on. Goto reformat SD cards. The format external is greyed out. Trying to reformat the internal one goes through the motions but there's no update in the available storage.
Flash to Firefly since I had a copy of it on the internal SD. Same issues listed above but with a pretty new interface.
So... Anyone have a suggestion aside from go back in time and buy titanium media sync or for me to suck less? I'm pretty much out of ideas
my first captivate was deleting files on the internal sd (mostly my music folder), returned for exchange. no problems since. hardware issues are fixed by the hardware manufactures!
And if you have other problems NO MATTER what rom you use, then its probably not the rom...
Oops! Sorry, I meant to stress that in the original post: I by no means hold any ROM responsible for the shenanigans my phone is currently experiencing, I originally omitted mentioning any names but decided to include them so I could be as explicit as possible in describing the issues and the steps I took.
Update 1: Attempted Odin3.
Since I'm apparently mentally handicapped, I clicked on "Master clear" instead of "Start". Yellow android guy has been digging a hole on my phone's screen for the last 10-15 minutes with no change.
Don't think that it's suppose to take this long and worried that whatever the SD card issue is may be affecting the master clear but currently too scared to unplug the phone.
Currently chain smoking nervously
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Update 2: Revenge of the unborking
Unplugged phone and removed battery since master clear was clearly not working
Powered it back up and Odin -> Flash to stock
Stock working but unable to load SD cards
Rebooted a couple times -> problem solved
Mounted SD as USB card
Recurva -> Recovered TiBU folder.
Rooted phone
Reinstalled Clockwork mod
Reflashed Firefly
Installing stuff from the market is still a bit wonky with a custom ROM which is odd since I could install stuff with a stock rom but at least things are progressing
That's cool you got your stuff back. Now make a copy of it on your computer!! Now its just a call to att to get it replaced cause it's a hardware issue for sure.
Oh I'm sure you figured this out but master clear doesn't do anything in download mode, that works when the phone is actually booted.
master clear works booted with debugging on!
Yep, looks like installing stuff from either the market or from the SD card is hit or miss depending on time of day, prevailing winds, or the phase of the moon. Got some stuff installed but now nothing will go on the phone.
Going to complain to Samsung directly to see where what that gets me. Bought the phone used after my last android bit the dust while I was still on contract. Ended up getting a cappy since you could unlock it manually and was unaware that you were stuck on edge service. Wish me luck!
Boot into recovery
Onix Speed Features
LAGFIX options
Enable lagfix: Convert Data to Ext4
Convert SYSTEM to Ext4 /RFS
YES
Go back twice
Reboot System Now
EXT4: Convert to EXT4 (wait for the conversion to complete)
After reboot choose YES (for the rest of partitions to be converted)
Wait for the welcome screen and from the power menu reboot to Recovery
ONIX Speed features
ROOT / install superuser
Simple: Install busybox
Scrool to Yes - apply root to device and select it
Go back twice
Reboot system now
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I think that I may have borked up my phone when doing this. I used the onix recovery to set everything back to rfs to no avail. I am still unable to install any apps or format the SD cards. Any advice? Currently on hold with Samsung support but apparently I am having a hard time convincing them that Hawaii is part of the United States and that we do in fact have UPS on this island.
Hi all
My Galaxy S went nuts. Something is very wrong with it. I will try to provide as much details as possible.
Today i was using it as usual, sending messages on facebook, reading email... and suddenly my mail client freaked out and force-closed. This has never happened before (i use K9 mail), so i just restarted it, only to see that there is no more messages in inbox. Trying to "load more" got force close again.
So i thought, OK, **** happens - clear data, uninstall, reinstall. However, when i cleared the data something weird begun to happen. Apps started force closing one by one.
OK, i thought, **** happens - rebooting the phone should help. Only that it didn't help - apps still force closed.
OK, i thought, **** happens - clear data of every app, uninstall and reinstall. I got backups anyway. So i cleared all the data, uninstalled all i had and rebooted. However, apps still force closed, and when i went to app manager - surprise surprise! - all the apps i uninstalled a cluple of minutes ago were still there.
Now this was already kinda freaky, but OK, **** happens - i rebooted into clockwork (i have voodoo lagfix) and wiped the hell out of my phone. Rebooted - but the apps i uninstalled were still there, even after full wipe! Now i escapes me how exactly ANY app (let alone all apps) could survive wipe to factory defaults.
Just to be sure that i'm not dreaming, i rebooted to clockwork once again, wiped everything two times and restored a backup from a month ago. The apps were still there.
I am going to try disabling lagfix as a last resort, but for now i am out of ideas, as this is clearly way out of line with what could be considered normal.
Now to the details of what i have installed - froyo, voodoo lagfix, superuser, busybox blablabla, some common apps like skype, facebook, astro, poweramp player, launcher pro, k9 mail, newsrob, blogaway, easyprofiles, pansi sms, mapdroyd, google shopper, qr droid. That's pretty much it. I have one of the custom battery icon mods that could be found here on boards.
Any ideas about what is wrong and how to make it right?
I cant help you with all the poltergeist sh*t on your phone but if it were mine id copy stuff to pc then full wipe and reflash.
regards
id recommend to flash Eclair 2.1 with partition check than to Froyo so that ud have a "clean" rom to play with
cheers
Problems never walk alone - i would, but my laptop has died a week ago...
However, i think i found the cause - looks like for some reason, some of the partitions (including, apparently, internal sd card and data partition) mount as read only. This could explain all that is happening. Is there a way to correcr this without reflashing?
Burillo said:
Problems never walk alone - i would, but my laptop has died a week ago...
However, i think i found the cause - looks like for some reason, some of the partitions (including, apparently, internal sd card and data partition) mount as read only. This could explain all that is happening. Is there a way to correcr this without reflashing?
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go into recovery and fix permissions , if that doesnt work then as said before
I have tried all possible solutions - from restoring from backups i made earlier, and down to flashing back to different ROMs - namely JPM, JPC, JM8. With repartitioning and without repartitioning.
Moreover, when i mount the SD card on the PC - i can delete files (well, it looks that way) but then when i reboot and mount again - everything is back to the state it was before.
Now i can't even boot my phone. Sometimes it can't mount stl10, sometimes it can't mount stl11. I went through all the solutions that were mentioned in the threads related to these errors. Also, when i format all the partitions (with voodoo's clockwork) it says everything went OK - i "can" reformat everything including internal SD card, repartition it etc. but then it goes back to what it was, and phone doesn't boot any ROM.
Any ideas? Can this be a hardware problem?
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i tried to flash latest stock gingerbread ROM, and after installing a clockwork from here it boots but still doesn't work - starts force closing, can't load anything.
Formatting partitions with clockwork does not induce any errors, nor there are any errors mentioned at boot. however, even unmounting, formatting and mounting internal SD card doesn't affect it.
after flashing stock rom it says it cannot mount /data partition
EDIT 2: still no luck. i can't do anything with SD card. maybe there is some hardcore way with adb that i can try? like manually fscking up partitions so that i force reformat or something like that?
i have been tinkering with my phone and now i am certain that the root of the problem is that the internal SD card went into read-only mode - and it doesn't get fixed with any sort of permission fixing, repartitioning or flashing ROMs. i've searched some more on this topic (now that i know what the problem is) and found that on one was ever able to successfully fix this problem. i just hope that the samsung guys fix it for free because it doesn't look like a user problem...
thankssssss
Samsung accepted it on warranty, and they agreed it is a hardware problem.
What is alarming is that this is not the first time (as i said i found a bunch of threads with similar problems), and apparently it can also happen on galaxy tab (i seem to remember stumling upon a similar thread in tab section, and IIRC galaxy tab has hardware similar to SGS). This means that it can easily happen again.
So whoever is reading this thread - save yourself some time, don't bother fiddling around with odin and go straight to samsung customer service, they'll fix it for free provided you bought your phone less than 2 years prior.
.... okay nvm
Hey guys, I need some advice please. Have had a number of odd happenings with my i9000 in the last 24hrs and not sure if some of them are the fault of the phone, or my fault! Apologies up front too for the long post – didn’t know how to put it all more succinctly!
First things first – it’s a Galaxy i9000M Bell vibrant. Came as Éclair 2.1, upgraded recently via Kies to Froyo 2.2, Build UGKC1. Then rooted with SuperOneClick, successfully without drama. Can get into recovery and download modes no problem via 3-button method.
Bit of background info – int SD 16GB, inserted 16GB ext SD. Before any upgrade to the phone had some issues where some photos taken with camera on the phone would show up in gallery as a corrupted/damaged icon. Pretty sure this occurred on default int SD so changed save location to ext SD but same deal now and then. Formatted ext SD – still happened from time to time. Actually replaced ext SD (exchanged at shop with brand new one), but same thing happened again. Figured I’d learn to live with it as only happened now and then.
So, phone rooted last week. Had been doing reading on ROMs/kernels before trying to flash anything. Only root-type things I’d done were to get TiB (and do full backup), Root Explorer, Terminal Emulator and Wireless Tether. Y’day I noticed after taking a few pics that one of the ‘corrupt’ icons that had previously been in place of an older photo, was now in the spot of one of the pics I had just taken (and strangely, the older, apparently corrupted photo was now fine).
I tried to delete a few of the photos but the phone just got stuck trying to delete. Had to force close it with task manager. Same deal if I tried 1 or many photos. Did this a number of times but no joy. Eventually just took ext SD out, put it into PC and deleted them that way, then put back into phone. Now it took AGES to complete the media scan on ext SD – like 5-10 mins! This happened a couple of times if I tried to do anything with the SD eg. save a file to it. So reformatted the SD card (on PC) but same prob when put back in phone.
Figured it might finally be time to try a new kernel in hope it may fix this bug. Had speedmod all ready to go (but hadn't been brave enough yet to try my first flash) so flashed K13E-500Hz via Odin. It worked fine, but “media scanning” problem was still there. Figured I might as well go the whole hog so factory reset the phone via recovery 3e. Did this ok, and “media scanning” was no longer a prob when I put the ext SD card in, just took a couple of seconds – hooray!
Restored apps + system using TiB which also appeared at first to work fine. Put a few pics and ringtones on the ext SD and all seemed fine. Then some app icons disappeared from the Applications pages. They appeared ‘crossed out’ in TiB and when I went to restore them again the phone spazzed out saying (sorry can’t recall exact wording) there was not enough memory and to delete some things to try to fix this. A red SD-like icon appeared in the top bar. I tried rebooting the phone via recovery 3e and it went into a cycle of vibrating, flashing up the turn-on screen/display then shutting off, but vibrating occasionally and lighting the soft touch keys but nothing else. This did this for about 5 mins and in order to try to save battery/stop the whole process I ended up factory resetting yet again via recovery.
Today it works 'ok'. Have not braved putting an ext SD in yet! Got Tib off the market but have also not dared to try to restore any thing yet. Oddly, in TiB it shows “System ROM” as almost fully taken up ie. Full green bar (289MB, only 6.06MB free) – this can’t be right can it?
Internal, DB data and SD card all show as ~99% free.
Deleted Dalvik cache in case that was the RAM problem but it didn’t do anything much (freed up about 6MB only).
So, my questions!
1. is this all because of the ‘corrupt/damaged’ issues before I’d done anything to my phone?
1b) How do I find out what RAM is available and what is using it all up? RAM manager is showing 197MB/339MB used but is this what the 'memory' problem would be? Clearing memory doesn't seem to do anything.
2. I never installed any kind of lagfix (knowingly anyway) – could this be a reason - have seen lots of threads/posts about disabling lagfix before flashing roms or kernels
3. I thought factory reset would wipe everything – but it obviously kept the int SD info ok (I’d copied Tib backup to ext SD and also to dropbox just in case) –should I maybe reformat the int SD and factory reset again?
4. If the issue is the phone itself (with prior corrupt file problem) – would it be worth flashing back to stock kernel and unrooting phone to try to bring back and get fixed/replaced under warranty?
Thanks in advance for any help anyone can offer!!!!!!
Read your hole post its really long. Can't answer to all questions. But did you try to put your phone as massage storage to your pc and mark everything thats on int sd and just erease it. When turn your phone off, put it in download mode and flash a stock rom (with 3 files) from samfirmware.com with repartition enabled? Maybe that works. Good luck! Before i forgot ext 4 is the better filesystem. Rfs getting laggy after a while cause its not the correct filesystem for sgs. Thats why ext4 is the main format on sgs2.
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hey thanks for the reply.
i know it was a super-long post, apologies again.
didn't try deleting the ext SD whilst connected via usb. got fed up with the phone not being able to delete & freezing when i tried that way so just took SD out and deleted them with card plugged directly into laptop.
as it happens, since 2nd factory reset, i've been cautious about what i do. no ext SD yet (though might try that tomorrow). didn't do full restore of missing apps and system files as i did the first time. so far have only restored about 6apps via TiB and wifi locations. Phone working ok...for now.
next steps:
1. try taking loads of photos to see if 'corrupt'-style icons occur again with int SD only;
2. maybe try an ext SD again after reformatting it and see how the media scanning goes and how it goes having music/vid/pic files on it etc;
3. gonna look more into the speedmod kernel ie. the tweaks which i think i need to access via recovery mode.
not quite ready to try and flash a custom rom with that little scare!
...but would like to try a custom rom at some point when i feel more educated about all this
Just look at the search function on xda or google. There enough guides about flashing. Know how you feel. The first time i flashing it was very scary for me. Got a heartbeat like a technosong. If you want i can write you a guide for every step. Trust me it is easier as it sounds. Just pm me and i will help you out.
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I was tinkering round this morning and looked into my devices storage and saw that 27gb of 32gb were being used.
Did some math on my own:
Apps: 2.82gb
Music: 3.23gb
Photos: 1.12gb
Other: 19.85gb:
-Nandroids: 9gb
-Titanium Back up 1gb
2 roms: 1.5gb
Somewhere in the "Other" category something is eating up 9gb of space. I used my file explorer and couldn't pin anything that big down. I am going to offload my nandroids but I shouldn't have to.
Anyone else run into this or know what this 9gb "other" hog could be
Is there an app or system setting I am missing to ID this?
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Your 'other' is really suspicious. Mine is ~7GB. I'd do a factory reset, easiest way IMO.
If you're flashing roms or doing backups with any other apps (CWM or something). I'm guessing they would go there. Check your download folder as well if you do a lot of downloading.
You may also try installing airdroid and using the desktop filemanager to whittle down your list as well.
Download Disk Usage. It shows you visually whats taking up space. It's amazing.
Thanks for advice using disk usage. I don't know why I didn't reinstall that sooner.
I did some digging and searching around the interwebs and found out this is a known issue. Other people have noticed it in droves. From my early intel: when you delete files you lose data blocks and they are marked as bad. If you ran dsk chk they would come up as corrupt. People are losing more storage space than I did.
2 solutions came up:
1. Reformat your SD: Copy everything to PC>reformat>copy everything back....time consuming but worked from what I could tell
2. There is an update that has been released overseas(asia, india, etc) that seems to fix this issue. It's a known HTC ONE issue so maybe someday I will see an update that will fix it.
If you are experiencing the same thing you can do some light reading:
Here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1630914
or
Here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1632999
Thanks for your help...
tdubbs27 said:
Thanks for advice using disk usage. I don't know why I didn't reinstall that sooner.
I did some digging and searching around the interwebs and found out this is a known issue. Other people have noticed it in droves. From my early intel: when you delete files you lose data blocks and they are marked as bad. If you ran dsk chk they would come up as corrupt. People are losing more storage space than I did.
2 solutions came up:
1. Reformat your SD: Copy everything to PC>reformat>copy everything back....time consuming but worked from what I could tell
2. There is an update that has been released overseas(asia, india, etc) that seems to fix this issue. It's a known HTC ONE issue so maybe someday I will see an update that will fix it.
If you are experiencing the same thing you can do some light reading:
Here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1630914
or
Here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1632999
Thanks for your help...
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I'm definitely going to check on this
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Also check if you are using Google play music and have a lot of playlists pinned. I believe that and movies actually show there in other.
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I couldn't just let this rest. I like to flash roms and knew I would need strorage space for some nandroids in the future. Here are somethings I tried and had issues with.
Formatting the SD card: I could not for the life of me get this done.
-Nothing in TWRP
-Couldn't do it in windows
-Couldn't mount the sd in TWRP or regularly and get it to show up in windows file explorer as a drive to format
Eventual solution:
I formated the data in TWRP using the format data option. I copied everything over before I did it. When I came back I flashed a new rom and was still missing 7 gb. No apps, no music, nothing. SD card was empty still only showed 25 gb available.
Conclusion: I think I have some bad sectors in their somewhere. I read that I could go back completely to stock and try to star this whole process over.
One question: Can I unlock using HTCdev as many times as I want or is it a one time thing?
Anyone else in the same boat?
help...
tdubbs27 said:
I couldn't just let this rest. I like to flash roms and knew I would need strorage space for some nandroids in the future. Here are somethings I tried and had issues with.
Formatting the SD card: I could not for the life of me get this done.
-Nothing in TWRP
-Couldn't do it in windows
-Couldn't mount the sd in TWRP or regularly and get it to show up in windows file explorer as a drive to format
Eventual solution:
I formated the data in TWRP using the format data option. I copied everything over before I did it. When I came back I flashed a new rom and was still missing 7 gb. No apps, no music, nothing. SD card was empty still only showed 25 gb available.
Conclusion: I think I have some bad sectors in their somewhere. I read that I could go back completely to stock and try to star this whole process over.
One question: Can I unlock using HTCdev as many times as I want or is it a one time thing?
Anyone else in the same boat?
help...
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If you go back completely to stock, your bootloader will probably still be unlocked (unless you relock and use an RUU). The code you got to disable your bootloader the first time around will work however many times you want. To be honest though, I wouldn't be surprised if that 7GB were used by the system ROM/frameworks and I'd be even less surprised if you still found files on your SD card in a .Trashes folder or something from earlier. Formatting data tends to leave weird remnants all over the place.
Also, +1 to the Google Music thing. Definitely shows up in other for me.
Rirere said:
If you go back completely to stock, your bootloader will probably still be unlocked (unless you relock and use an RUU). The code you got to disable your bootloader the first time around will work however many times you want. To be honest though, I wouldn't be surprised if that 7GB were used by the system ROM/frameworks and I'd be even less surprised if you still found files on your SD card in a .Trashes folder or something from earlier. Formatting data tends to leave weird remnants all over the place.
Also, +1 to the Google Music thing. Definitely shows up in other for me.
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Thank you. It gives me more options and more to think about.
-Can't find anything substantial in a .trashes folder
-Dont use any Google Music services
Really wish I could truly reformat/check for bad sectors to find out if it's corrupt or just buggy...
tdubbs27 said:
Thank you. It gives me more options and more to think about.
-Can't find anything substantial in a .trashes folder
-Dont use any Google Music services
Really wish I could truly reformat/check for bad sectors to find out if it's corrupt or just buggy...
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Do you have a custom recovery? If so, try running Fix permissions. It'll tell you for one if it hits any errors (because it finds files it can't change perms for), and may help with the issue (or use the Fix permissions tool in ROM Manager if you'd rather not use recovery).
Rirere said:
Do you have a custom recovery? If so, try running Fix permissions. It'll tell you for one if it hits any errors (because it finds files it can't change perms for), and may help with the issue (or use the Fix permissions tool in ROM Manager if you'd rather not use recovery).
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-Ran fix permissions in recovery: no errors everything went as it should
-Ran fix persmissions in viper rom: terminal settings: no errors everything ran as it should
Is there a way to reformat the SD card/partition? I don't think the TWRP method really reformatted it. Just erased everything.
Clockwork gives you the ability to set a swap partition but not a true reformat
tdubbs27 said:
-Ran fix permissions in recovery: no errors everything went as it should
-Ran fix persmissions in viper rom: terminal settings: no errors everything ran as it should
Is there a way to reformat the SD card/partition? I don't think the TWRP method really reformatted it. Just erased everything.
Clockwork gives you the ability to set a swap partition but not a true reformat
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Have you tried TWRP's advanced wipe? If you haven't, it's worth a shot, but I cannot stress enough that you should be careful. This is exactly the kind of problem that you can bork your phone trying to fix for no good reason.
Rirere said:
Have you tried TWRP's advanced wipe? If you haven't, it's worth a shot, but I cannot stress enough that you should be careful. This is exactly the kind of problem that you can bork your phone trying to fix for no good reason.
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Your exactly correct on the last point. I am going to keep listening and looking. I think/hope/pray the update the internationals got can be applied some way in the future and may help out a bit. Just going to have to utilize some cloud storage a little better.
it's not totally/technically broke and I am not going to do more harm.
Thanks for all your help and suggestions
I've been having the same problem, but notice something interesting. My phone said I had almost 20GB in the other category, and I didn't know why.
I downloaded disk usage to get a detail view of what's going on in my storage and I was able to clear 12GB with just deleting old downloads, TWRP backups, Titanium Backups. Still cleaning house.
Also after doing some research, the data that's stored by your apps (ext. PS3 Trophies is a 8mb download, buts it's total size is 31mb on the phone) is counted in the Other section and not part of the app data. So the more apps u have like this installed, the more likely the Other section will balloon in size.
Remember, when u remove and app, it's stored data is still in the phone storage.
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mprunty said:
I've been having the same problem, but notice something interesting. My phone said I had almost 20GB in the other category, and I didn't know why.
I downloaded disk usage to get a detail view of what's going on in my storage and I was able to clear 12GB with just deleting old downloads, TWRP backups, Titanium Backups. Still cleaning house.
Also after doing some research, the data that's stored by your apps (ext. PS3 Trophies is a 8mb download, buts it's total size is 31mb on the phone) is counted in the Other section and not part of the app data. So the more apps u have like this installed, the more likely the Other section will balloon in size.
Remember, when u remove and app, it's stored data is still in the phone storage.
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I use disk useage but it doesn't even show my max storage space as 32gb. It shows 26gb. See Screenshot: So I have 6gb that aren't even registering as available storage. I was trying to clean out some old app storage but the space they use is so small. Would they be worth it? I think the fact I am missing 6 gb is more troubling.
I could be wrong, but doesn't the phone only have 27GB of formatted space?
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any device with internal memory will lose some. this is the exact reason i havent gotten one yet bc im praying that sprint will get the 64gb version. i will say that if they are going to advertise a device at xyz gb then they should build in the extra needed for system so we actually get what we pay for. cloud storage and otg are there but still a slight pain in the butt.
guess ill be holding on to my evo lte for another yr or so.
xanmanz31 said:
cloud storage and otg are there but still a slight pain in the butt.
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Is OTG standard in Android? Does the One need to be rooted?