Quick question. Will doing a factory reset in CWM wipe my internal SD card? My phone has been horribly buggy since the update. Tethering app is acting really flaky. I think I need to wipe it and just start anew. I just don't know if when i do that if it will wipe the internal SD too. Cause i don't want that. I have no idea if ill keep root either. But I can always find a way to get that back I hope. I'm at work for 6 more hours. Would love to just wipe it and have it keep SD intact and root and I could be back in action in 20 minutes. But I'm afraid it will wipe internal SD too and then I'd be borked
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Doing a factory data reset will not affect the SD card. It will affect the internal memory on the phone however.
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Yes internal SD card is wiped. External aka actual SD card safe
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Thank you for the reply. I ended up just wiping my cache and davilk cache and now everything seems to be running smoothly. The stock tether app now functions fine without needing to reboot it. My cache must have been really over loaded. It took like 7-10 seconds to clear. Usually takes 1/3 the time. I'm happy now stuff works again.
If i do end up wiping later now I know I have to back it up first on my laptop. Thanks again.
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Internal sdcard is not touched. Factory reset affects the data and partition and if in cwr you might also wipe system. You can wipe. Sdcard with an option but it doesn't by default.
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I had to do a factory reset from stock recovery awhile back and my internal card was not touched.
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Ya I totally mispoke my b. Internal card not touched. Sorry!
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Well I ended up wiping because it was still acting funky. Now my phone is worse off. Ended up wiping 3 times. Forgo to make a clockwork backup. The titanium backup I made failed miserably and any apps I tried to restore it would hang up on. End up force closing after 20 min of trying tto restore the first app. Wiped again because it wouldn't boot. Sat there for 30 min, booted but still showing boot animation. Wouldn't show normal screen until I powered it down.
Now I have 7he bare bones apps on that I need. However tether it totally broken. Nothing can connect to it now. Not my xoom or 4 other laptops. None can get an IP address. Rebooted everything. I'm incredibly ticked off. Wiping it made the phone function worse. How does that happen?
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Been running the Nook Color after using ManualNooter 4.5.25 for a couple of weeks now.
No problems at all.
All of a sudden today, the NC freezes while using it and I had to do the hard boot (power + N key) and when rebooting, I get the bootloop where it keeps showing Nook Co.... then stops and repeats that.
Anything I can do other than completely wipe and start over?
I know I can do the 8 reboot thing and start clean, but I don't currently have a backup of my apps and app data!
What else can I do?
you could use cwm to mount your system and data partitions and then connect it to usb and use the android's adb to pull the files from it then reflash and push the old files back on.. only way i can think of
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you could use cwm to mount your system and data partitions and then connect it to usb and use the android's adb to pull the files from it then reflash and push the old files back on.. only way i can think of
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Any instructions for that?
That almost seems like more work than wiping and starting over.
Any idea why this happened?
There's no way to recover from it other than doing a factory wipe with the 8 failed boots?
If u have the rom running off emmc rather. Then sdcard. Perhaps remove sdcard n try booting up. Slim chance but I faintly recall early on there was potential for corrupt sdcards.
Other then that just do a wipe n start over. Simplest n quickest fix. Might lose some if not all apps but worth a shot....
Remember always do a backup when going going from rom to rom for when stuff like this happens!
Good luck
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I wasn't installing any rom or anything when this happened. Very weird.
And yes, I did try booting without the SD Card in.
Oh well, I guess it's a wipe and reinstall all apps and lose all my app data.
It's not that big of a deal.
Note: This is a long one, theres a tl;dr at the bottom of the page.
So, yesterday I bought the XDA Premium app from the market. I installed it, used it for a few hours, rebooted my phone, tried to open it back up, "Failed to load activity" error or something along those lines.
So then I looked it up on the market, it wasn't recognizing that it was installed, so I reinstalled it again. Used for a few hours. Rebooted my phone, same issue. This has happened a few times.
So I figured maybe some data was corrupt. So I installed it from the market, uninstalled it, tried to reinstall it again and it said not enough storage space on my phone. I looked and I have 2.77GB free space on internal storage.
So I figured I'd move some apps to the SD card anyways. Started moving all apps from my phone to SD using the App2SD app (Which I think just redirects to the application's page in settings). Everything seemed to work fine.
Rebooted my phone, and some icons on my screens in LauncherPro didn't load. Tried opening several of them.. all of them "failed to load activity". I'm talking about at least a dozen different programs here that had somehow gotten corrupted? Rebooted again, they didn't come back. Reinstalled a few of them and rebooted and one still wouldn't open.
So I'm restoring from a CWM backup I did just before I went to bed last night. Any opinions on what might have gone wrong or what I could do differently? Is 2.77gb reserved space for texts/cache/etc or was the "not enough storage" error incorrect?
tl;dr: xda premium was corrupting/wouldn't install because I *only* had 2.77gb free internal storage? Tried moving things with app2sd and many, but not all, corrupted after a reboot. Rebooted a second time, didn't solve any issues.
Don't use apps2sd with this phone. Go to settings, applications, media area, click on everything with a check mark, move to phone. This will solve your problem.
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Don't use apps2sd with this phone. Go to settings, applications, media area, click on everything with a check mark, move to phone. This will solve your problem.
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So, as I mentioned above, I performed a recovery using an image I had created in CWM late last night.
Just for kicks I tried moving a single app to SD to see what happens.. Google+ went from 28mb on internal memory, to 8mb on SD. Restarted, it was corrupted and not even showing up in application list.
So whats the deal with our phones? They can't move anything to SD card without corrupting? Hopefully this is patched as I appear to be hitting the artificial 2.77gb cap on apps?
So.. my experiment with JUST moving Google+ to SD failed more miserably than I originally thought. Not only did G+ corrupt as I mentioned above, but my phone also started freezing again and VNC Viewer also corrupted itself.
So I had to perform a second recovery on my phone this morning. Ugh. Having way too many issues with this phone considering I only bought it maybe 2 weeks ago.
One more update.. hope someone can help me with this.
So I performed a recovery with CWM. Since then I have not done ANY App2SD attempts or anything. This is a recovery from before I ever did any of that.
Now, whenever I uninstall any app, when I reboot my phone several apps will corrupt. These are apps that I had used App2SD on before I had done the recovery. Its like, when I uninstall an app it finds some data from prior to the recovery and that corrupts the app...
Any way to fix this? I looked at my SD card and the only data on there is Titanium Backup data, CWM backup data, and a few zip files that I had put on there. I told ES File Manager to show hidden files and there is nothing on my SD that I see that could be making Android corrupt these files...
Any help would be greatly appreciated.. I'm starting to thing I'm going to have to do a fastboot recovery to completely stock and start over again..
If you restored a recovery, wasn't that recovery with apps2sd as well? Does that make sense?
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If you restored a recovery, wasn't that recovery with apps2sd as well? Does that make sense?
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Here, I'll lay it out a bit more clearly:
1) Midnight last night I performed a backup with CWM. Everything was working fine, I hadn't done any changes or App2SD things yet.
2) Woke up at 10AM today and this was when all of the issues covered in this thread started. After 10AM today was when I first attempted to use App2SD Pro to move apps around.
3) I recovered using the recovery from part 1 of this message
4) I'm still having issues with programs corrupting even though I'm using an image from Midnight yesterday.
How can I completely wipe my phone then restore with Fastboot? Wipe SD, internal, everything.
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So it appears I fixed my problem.. even though I have run two complete restores using a backup from prior to my issues, some apps were still set to go on my SD card. So I guess a CWM backup doesn't store all file system data.
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Also some apps try to load on SD card watch out amazon apps. I've put 300plus sized various apps on my phone and didn't crack 2gb. And really 200apps or more your not going to have time for them.
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Yea, the XDA Developers app tries to load on the SD card by default. That was the entire root problem that caused all the above posts...
Hopefully Motorola fixes this SD card issue in the next patch.
Ok so I've posted this elsewhere and there was no resolution, but I have new info.
So I know there are several others experiencing this problem. Today I flashed every one of the current 4.2.2 roms. I figured I'd install my apps a few at a time to try to determine which app was causing the internal SD to stop mounting. Strangely though when I would boot into the ROM for the first time it did not mount. So I went back farther and only installed the ROM zip and no gapps. Bam it mounted. Rebooted several times, both into recovery and into the system. Each time it mounted. Then I would get excited and install the gapps. Bam no internal SD mount. I tried all the current gapps on here and the insomnia forums. I even downloaded the 03/01 gapps from goo .im.
So obviously this is not all conclusive, but I flashed and wiped and flashed about 25-30 times today trying to figure this out. I confirmed this in my mind for the latest BBB and linereo 10.1.
Those of you wondering I used cwm and tw(the awesome custom insomnia version). My procedure is factory reset/ROM wipe, then I wipe, system, cache, dav cache, internal SD, and Android secure...2 times each. Then I reinstall the ROM.
After install fixing permissions does not fix the problem either.
Also I'm not really expecting any developers to work on solving this since it is also caused by the goo gapps, just thought it might help some of us struggling with this problem.
Swap sd is currently solving my problem, it mounts the internal as external, but it mounts.
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I'm haviing the same problem with rootbox 4.2
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Using twrp , wipe everything 2x including internal SD, flash ROM and fix permission. Make sure yp back up what you need
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Using twrp , wipe everything 2x including internal SD, flash ROM and fix permission. Make sure yp back up what you need
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Did it but nothing, same problem
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Did it but nothing, same problem
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what exactly is your problem? cant mount on phone or on the computer
On the phone
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I don't think it's really a ROM issue as much as a compatibility issue with some hardware variance with some exhibits. I know we've had other issues that only some people have and no amount of wiping and flashing fixed those.
I bet if we opened up my exhibit, which is only 4 months old, and say camcory or tims we could find differences when we compared them component by component...I believe this is the reason for the varied compatibility.
Hope that helps!
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Using twrp , wipe everything 2x including internal SD, flash ROM and fix permission. Make sure yp back up what you need
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That's the steps I described above and it didn't solve my problem.
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Hey, try this......
I swear to you it works guy and I hope it helps:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=41958928#post41958928
This solution is easier than replacing the system board...
Connect the phone to your computer via USB (this works on tablets with USB as well). When it pops up to ask you to turn on USB storage for the computer, do it. Give it a minute or two to mount the SD and one internal user partition to the computer desktop, then unmount/eject the drives from the computer and turn off USB storage. The other internal partition will be mounted, and will remain so until the next phone reboot.
I've hooked my T679 to both my Hackintosh laptop and my TF101 in this manner, and it works every time.
Thank you red_five_1976 so much for your help. I followed your instruction and voila, it worked !! I like many others, am scratching my head on how exactly to get my external micro SD card to work after installing Android 4.2.2, you method worked for me and I'm a happy man !!
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Connect the phone to your computer via USB (this works on tablets with USB as well). When it pops up to ask you to turn on USB storage for the computer, do it. Give it a minute or two to mount the SD and one internal user partition to the computer desktop, then unmount/eject the drives from the computer and turn off USB storage. The other internal partition will be mounted, and will remain so until the next phone reboot.
I've hooked my T679 to both my Hackintosh laptop and my TF101 in this manner, and it works every time.
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I've also found that if it didn't mount on a reboot, if I reboot to recovery and wipe davlic and cache, then reboot back into ROM that solves the problem.
Btw I'm using the 6/3 AIOP at the moment, best this phone has ever been in every way.
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So my last phone was a galaxy S2 and I was obsessive about flashing. Bleeding edge, constantly trying new ROMs out of boredom, and it was fun. I absolutely adore this phone, (the one) but it was hard for me to get over not having an external card slot. Is there a simple way to flash new ROMs without losing your titanium backups or nandroids or anything else which is obviously on your sd card? Or is it alright to flash with wiping the entirety of your memory? Just clearing /data and /system and such
? I'm admittedly new to HTC. It's annoying to have to be near a computer to have a external backup. Any help for a noob?
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So my last phone was a galaxy S2 and I was obsessive about flashing. Bleeding edge, constantly trying new ROMs out of boredom, and it was fun. I absolutely adore this phone, (the one) but it was hard for me to get over not having an external card slot. Is there a simple way to flash new ROMs without losing your titanium backups or nandroids or anything else which is obviously on your sd card? Or is it alright to flash with wiping the entirety of your memory? Just clearing /data and /system and such
? I'm admittedly new to HTC. It's annoying to have to be near a computer to have a external backup. Any help for a noob?
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If you use your recovery's factory reset option, it will not wipe the internal storage. It won't cause any issues with roms if you do this. This is basically what you've been doing all along, except the "SD Card" is actually an internal partition instead. Otherwise functionally identical.
Or just download the superwipe zip in the dev section. It wipes everything but your internal sd.
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To no avail I have sought a definitive order of operations for the housekeeping tasks to perform post ROM install. Specifically, at what point should one move apps to the external micro SD card and at what point should one get into the Buildpropeditor to change the SD0 to SD1 for the swap SD procedure?
Here is my usual order of operations on the bunch of ROM installs that I have done.
I make a nandroid of my current ROM (using TWRP).
I make a Titanium backup of all my apps and data, saved to my microSD card.
I make a Titanium backup update.zip (I am still not totally sure what the heck this is but I do it each time and then restore it for good measure -- somebody educate me).
Since I use LauncherPro, I make a backup of my LauncherPro settings, also to my microSD card.
I install the new ROM and GAPPs and update.zip to my microSD card.
I reboot to recovery using TWRP.
I wipe cache, dalvik, factory reset and system wipe. I do those wipes a couple more times for good measure.
I boot into recovery.
I flash the ROM.
I flash the GAPPS
I flash the update.zip
I go to ADVANCED
I fix permissions
I reboot.
I lot into my Google account.
Google starts downloading all my apps.
When that is done, I restore my Titanium backups. I restore missing apps and data and system apps and data, and all the restorable things listed under the restore category.
I reboot.
Now, at this point, what comes next? Do I move all my apps to the microSD card and then go into buildprop and swap the SD?
What is the order of operations for the whole ROM flashing process? Are the steps I showed correct? And how about the very end? When to move the apps to the microSD card and when to swap the SD card in buildprop?
Once first boot is done and after google restores my apps, then before I open or setup any apps i edit build.prop 0 to 1,reboot then set all my settings
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Swapping 0 to 1 makes my apps disappear
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Once first boot is done and after google restores my apps, then before I open or setup any apps i edit build.prop 0 to 1,reboot then set all my settings
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Hmm. I just found out that if I flash the new rom and GAPPS, move all the apps to the microsd card, and then do the buildprop change from 0 to 1, all my apps disappear.
So is it conclusively true that one must make the buildprop change from 0 to 1 before moving each app to the external microsd card?
I don't move apps
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I don't move apps
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Why don't you move apps to your microSD card? The popular wisdom seems to be that you want to keep the very limited internal memory as free as possible. Is that a misconception? I have always been curious about this.
I don't move them simply because I have never needed to, once the 18 apps I use are installed and build.prop is edited and rebooted the folders appear on my sd card, so I'm guessing that the app data is stored on the SD card, i have never came close to running out of space, i average 500mb + free on internal storage
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Hey guys I have a secret, after first boot and you log in, shut of the phone back to recovery and flash the update.zip it put all your apps and data back on the phone. Eliminating the need to go back into titanium, and you can go to gplay and stop it from falsely trying to download apps
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Hey guys I have a secret, after first boot and you log in, shut of the phone back to recovery and flash the update.zip it put all your apps and data back on the phone. Eliminating the need to go back into titanium, and you can go to gplay and stop it from falsely trying to download apps
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Nice secret, since I don't use titanium, will it still work?
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tazmaniondvl said:
Hey guys I have a secret, after first boot and you log in, shut of the phone back to recovery and flash the update.zip it put all your apps and data back on the phone. Eliminating the need to go back into titanium, and you can go to gplay and stop it from falsely trying to download apps
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Is it necessary to boot back into recovery after flashing and first boot and log-in? Is it possible in TWRP to set up three consecutive flashes, first the rom flash then the gapps flash then the update.zip flash? Or is it necessary to flash the rom and gaps, reboot and log in and then reboot to recovery to flash the update.zip?
Yes you have to reboot, if. Not it gives a failed and tells you to boot ROM first. And if you have an update zip you are happy with, then twrp really is only needed to keep up with updates and such for your update zip.
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