So I just put on ICSSGS and im trying really hard to resist the urge to have sex with my phone. I don't think i've ever gone WOW to any rom that i've loaded. I literally said wow about 3 or 4 times when playing around with it. anyhow moving on...
I wanted to know what you guys think is the best way to remove old folders that get trapped in my file explorer. I wiped everything like the installation methods say but i'm left with a bunch of folders from old apps with actual files in them that i'm afraid to just say delete all..why isn't my phone fresh? theres a lot of stuff stuck on my internal sd card.
secondly, what is the best way to get your facebook friends pictures into the people app? should i suck it up with the facebook for android app which is garbage, friendcaster? or haxsync?
Dunno about the book of faces thing...
but all of the stuff on your sdcard should be intact, that's normal, the instructions had you wipe, then flash ROM from sdcard, if that wipe erased the sdcard the ROM you were about to flash (not to mention any thing else you wanna keep) would've been gone..that wouldn't have gone too well.
Fastest way to just wipe the whole sdcard would just be to boot into recovery, go to mounts and storage, and format sdcard. That will erase everything. So make a copy of all of it somewhere aha move back the stuff you wanna keep.
wows
I also had my wows when couldn't find speed dial in ICS...
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I updated my phone to Android 1.6 (It only just appeared today for me) and now the stock google browser, as well as two ones I downloaded won't work at all.
The stock google one freezes then crashes, the other two reset my phone.
I'm not going to Cyanogen until I can afford a 8Gb/16Gb SDCard, unless its easy to put my swap, etc stuff on the new SD Card. What can I do to fix it?
So no root? Try to clear the data and cache for the browser first. If that doesn't work, it's probably time to wipe.
u dont need a large mem stick for cyanogen mod. I mean it will make it faster and all but its not required. I suggest u wipe as in do a Factory reset and see if that helps. I would do a nandroid backup first just to save all ur apps and seetings.
It's more that I'd rather have the SD Card at the size I want in the first place rather than having to partition this one, etc, then partition a new one later on and hope it works without screwing my phone up as happened to a friend of mine.
Seems to have fixed itself, although I can't download apps off Marketplace, I can live with that.
One thing though, I have a build number of "DRD20" and when I go to flash the DREAMING.NBH file (I tried a while back) I got a "Not Allow" error, what do I do if I try to flash it again?
Guys excuse this maybe stupid question but searching arround didnt help me much.
My problem is this:
I have made 3 Firmware update,1 from Kies and 2 from odin,and in all cases things went wrong and had to make factory resets.This kept so many files in my sd and now everytime i start the phone it takes about 5 minutes to scan the cards.
I m currently on JPX and very happy with it,and dont want to change,but want to get rid of all those files in the sd card that do nothing.What should i do then?
If you mean /mnt/sdcard, backup all the files you want to save and do a format in the sdcard settings. No important system files get saved there. So it should be safe.
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i m not sure what you mean bu saying mnt/sdcard....i meant the pace where programs use to store some files,i ve got thousands since i have installed many many programes,but unistalled them cuz i didnt like them...
so you think going in recovery and wipe sdcard will keep my syste as t is but clear all the programms and the unused files???
So I had BusyBox on my phone, and deleted it.. Then going through my SD card to delete a folder for something else I noticed a file called BusyBox, so I went to delete it.. Then it started to delete the entire internal SD slot, and from what it looks like formatted the drive.. Now I've lost all my music and any game files that were on there. WTH happened?
Have you tried a reboot
yea, rebooted and everything was gone..
might be usefull to note that I'm running the leaked 2.2 and rooted..
It showed int eh notifications that it was deleting everything, if I tried to intterupt it, it did nothing.. So I forced a restart before it finished and it was all gone..
Can't say i know what to tell you
ooops!! that's what backups are good for. Hopefully you had one.
For the most part I did, I just had to re-dl game data which wasn't a problem looks like the saves were on the phone memory and not the sd.. Had most of my pictures on my comp, and music was easily put back on.. So I didn't really lose to much, just a few pictures.. Just found that odd is all..
So I know when flashing roms sometimes it will erase the SD Card, Okay well I forgot about 5 pictures I had taken and was like oh well, so when I went to go load all my stuff back on it, My SD card is empty but it says 6GB is being used, which is about right what it was but there are NO files on it... Where are the files??? Using Root explorer and show hidden stuff on the computer still dont know where the files are at....
did you flash a 4.2 rom?
I wanted to try out cm mod. Then went back to stock 4.2.2 I don't care if I lost some stuff. But its Stikl there but I can't see it.
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i know that your suppose to wipe before flashing a 4.2 rom.
the file system is in a different spot so it leaves the old system there.
I do not know how to get back the free space beside formating and reflashing the system.
xile6 said:
i know that your suppose to wipe before flashing a 4.2 rom.
the file system is in a different spot so it leaves the old system there.
I do not know how to get back the free space beside formating and reflashing the system.
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Ive already formatted system and it still shows stuff stored there.
Not to sure then.
Only had the phone for a week so haven't gotten use to the file system yet.
I just know it's set up different from other phones.
I had the same experience also... what I did was I went to CWM recovery and format /sdcard and I did wipe user data/factory reset...
This was happened when I flashed 4.2.2 onto 4.1.2 without wiping anything....
transfer everything from your sdcard to your computer then format sdcard in cwm and transfer your files back and they should be in the right place
Ive got the same problem. Stock rom never rooted, "OTHER" in storage taking up 6.7GB.
I have looked at clearing junk files with CLEAN MASTER app but my cache files only takes up 33mb.
Did anyone look what "OTHER" in storage was when they got their brand new phone? Does Sense 5 really takes up over 6GB?
EDIT:
A few people confirmed that the phone have about 26GB of space out of 32GB brand new, so yeah Sense 5 DOES take about 6GB of space!
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2265598
I've been wanting to ask this question forever, but havent and just dealt with it. Never experimented either.
When using TWRP to flash a new rom do i have to wipe my internal storage? Does that really ruin the flash? Again, never tried it id just rather ask. Its annoying to transfer my music and large files. Every time i flash a new rom i wipe everything and have to move the 12 gigs of files i enjoy using on my phone pretty often. So if i dont have to wipe them out every time that would be awesome to know.
Nope.
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I've been wanting to ask this question forever, but havent and just dealt with it. Never experimented either.
When using TWRP to flash a new rom do i have to wipe my internal storage? Does that really ruin the flash? Again, never tried it id just rather ask. Its annoying to transfer my music and large files. Every time i flash a new rom i wipe everything and have to move the 12 gigs of files i enjoy using on my phone pretty often. So if i dont have to wipe them out every time that would be awesome to know.
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I've never wiped my internal storage when flashing a new rom
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I've never wiped my internal storage when flashing a new rom
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+1 never wiped my internal storage
It's definitely not needed to wipe internal storage, nor do I recommend so; at least not every time. Some folks like to wipe it once in a while, to get rid of extraneous folders and files created by some custom ROMs, old (no longer used) apps, etc. Some folks might even do it frequently, but that is just their obsessiveness. But it's definitely not a requirement to do so.
I've flashed dozens and dozens (maybe hundreds) of ROMs on various Android devices over the years. I've never once wiped internal storage when doing so, that I can recall.
Think about it, on this device the internal storage is the only place TWRP can create a backup (since there is no removable SD slot). So if you made a backup before flashing a ROM (which I highly recommend), then wiped internal storage (to flash the ROM) you would be wiping out the backup you just made. Sure, you can copy a TWRP backup to your computer, than move it back to the phone after you wipe. But that is just a lot of hoops to jump through for little reason, and really not how the TWRP backup/restore feature is intended to be used.
If you look at the TWRP wipe screen, the default wipe just consists of user data (apps and settings ... /media is not touched), cache and Dalvik. And it says right there on the screen that most of the time, this is the only wipe you will need. It says that for a reason. Some folks may choose to go above and beyond, but that is just their choice (again, not a requirement).
On the other hand, it is good to routinely backup any files on your internal storage (that are important to you) to an off-phone location like your computer or cloud. Just in case something gets wipe unintentionally. But you can for the most part, save yourself the steps of wiping internal data and moving those files back to your phone every time you flash a ROM.