So I was getting ready to flash a new rom, and decided to delete some un-needed files off my sdcard. Well i guesed it was a slip of hand, but somehow everything on my sd card got deleted.
I'm worried, is my Safestrap still usable?! My phone didnt crash or anything, but i'm too afraid to reboot incase safestrap cant launch and it bricks or something. Does any critical safestrap data get installed on the sdcard?! I checked the safestrap app (3.11) and it said I was installed, and I hit installed again just to be sure.
Am I safe? (no pun intended)
Safestrap does not store any files on your micro SD card. You're totally fine to reboot the system, or reboot to recovery. Sorry to hear about your SD card :/
Pull the card, put it in a laptop, use handy recovery. Its free and found all my files when I did the same thing.
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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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mistawolfe said:
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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mistawolfe said:
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, I need some serious help. I Have to clue what happened. Have a lg Revolution, I rooted it and put gingervolt 1.3. Was working fine, then I was starting so have some issues so I thought that I would do a factory reset. Ok Im starting to think that wasnt such a good idea because now the phone wont boot past CWM. Hell I plug phone in to charge and CWM opens up. Any thoughts. What the hell do I do. At this point I would like to just go back to froyo/Gingerbread.......STOCK!!!!
believe you have same issue as this....
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1412422
download and flash that exit-recovery zip, hope it fixes it for you!
Do I have to put that on my sd card and run the zip file. If I do how the hell do I do it if I cant get past cwm
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Do I have to put that on my sd card and run the zip file. If I do how the hell do I do it if I cant get past cwm
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Simple take your sd card out of your phone and put it into a card reader or something else that you can move it from you computer to that sd card then after you move it put the sd back in your phone and boot into cwm flash the exit recovery zip
also thanks for using the search feature
Beamer9408 said:
Simple take your sd card out of your phone and put it into a card reader or something else that you can move it from you computer to that sd card then after you move it put the sd back in your phone and boot into cwm flash the exit recovery zip
also thanks for using the search feature
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Or just mount the sd while in cwm
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I haven't had Safestrap since they switched to TWRP, I haven't had a rooted Bionic with a custom ROM in months due to some issues I won't get into. Now I'm lost. I don't know how to activate safe system. And the recovery won't let me Install anything, I'm guessing because I'm not in Safe System. I went through all the Recovery Menus but can't figure out how to actually activate Safe System. I have a ROM that I really want to install and can't. Can anyone point me in the right direction and give me any tips on Safestrap with the TWRP interface?
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I haven't had Safestrap since they switched to TWRP, I haven't had a rooted Bionic with a custom ROM in months due to some issues I won't get into. Now I'm lost. I don't know how to activate safe system. And the recovery won't let me Install anything, I'm guessing because I'm not in Safe System. I went through all the Recovery Menus but can't figure out how to actually activate Safe System. I have a ROM that I really want to install and can't. Can anyone point me in the right direction and give me any tips on Safestrap with the TWRP interface?
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To get into the safestrap system you have to do the folllow steps.
1. Create a rom slot
2. Activate rom slot
3. Install custom rom
4. Then boot into the rom slot that you created.
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Is this slot created on the sdcard instead of sdcard-ext? because I went to make a rom slot and I didn't have enough free space. It said I was wanting to use 1924 mb and only had 1724 available, I went and deleted a bunch of stuff from sdcard-ext, and moved some stuff to sdcard, went back to safestrap to make the ROM slot, and now its saying I have 995mb instead of the previous 1724mb
I don't think its setup for SD storage yet just device storage. I thought I heard hash was working on it though. Also all I use is 1 gb per slot and that seems to be sufficient.
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lemonoid said:
Is this slot created on the sdcard instead of sdcard-ext? because I went to make a rom slot and I didn't have enough free space. It said I was wanting to use 1924 mb and only had 1724 available, I went and deleted a bunch of stuff from sdcard-ext, and moved some stuff to sdcard, went back to safestrap to make the ROM slot, and now its saying I have 995mb instead of the previous 1724mb
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The rom slot is created on the internal sd card. You need to move all apps, videos, pics and music to your ext SD and also delete "lost.dir"
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got it working. thanks.Try Wizzed ROM, it is sick. And works as a daily driver. I been using it since last night and I absolutely love it. The only problem I have had was a little data issue earlier today where I could only get 1x in a 4G area
I recently rooted my phone using the Chinese vroot tool and then installed SuperSU to remove the Chinese su. After that I installed busybox, pimp my rom, system cleaner and no bloat free to remove all the crap Samsung put on this phone. Now think I might have gone a bit overboard with my cleaning... The problem I have is that i can take a few photos, then close the app, re-open the photo app and then if I try to take a photo it won't save it to the sd card until I unmount and remount the sd card. Any ideas what could be causing this?
Thanks for your help
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Olivier V said:
I recently rooted my phone using the Chinese vroot tool and then installed SuperSU to remove the Chinese su. After that I installed busybox, pimp my rom, system cleaner and no bloat free to remove all the crap Samsung put on this phone. Now think I might have gone a bit overboard with my cleaning... The problem I have is that i can take a few photos, then close the app, re-open the photo app and then if I try to take a photo it won't save it to the sd card until I unmount and remount the sd card. Any ideas what could be causing this?
Thanks for your help
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The problem is more complicated than i thought. The phone recognizes the extrenal SD but only in read-only mode. I can only briefly write to it before it gets back at read-only mode
I reflashed the stock firmware with Odin but the problem is still there.
It goes so far that if I connect the phone to my PC with USB the external SD Card is found but it doesn't show any folders or files when I select it.
And after a little further investigation I found that I can take pictures as normal (save to external SD) untill i open the file explorer, then the external SD card only gets read-only!! Frustrating!
Update: looks like the sd card itself is the problem. I put in a different one and everything seems normal.
I'll try to do a chkdsk on the old one.
It was a corrupted file system. Fixed it and everything is back to normal.
I got this problem after installing viral, listening to music, and some things i don't know what exactly causing it.
So i just restart my phone, and ext sd card is not detected on CM11, the storage doesn't show if i have a ext sdcard. Gallery force closing, File Manager stuck, and any app that need access to sdcard is failing. File Manager only show that i have sdcard0 (internal), when i open sdcard1, it fails.
But somehow, my sdcard is detected on TWRP, i can mount it, and even access it on TWRP, seeing files inside it.
Is there any way to fix it? or should i do a clean install?
I'm Using Novafusion's CM11 09/09/2014
Restore your nandroid backup (if you have one). Anyway, you can post your issue in the original thread, here. Good luck.
mauam said:
Restore your nandroid backup (if you have one). Anyway, you can post your issue in the original thread, here. Good luck.
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now firing up TWRP to do clean install of CM11, hoping it can restore the sdcard access. Unfortunately, i don't have any nandroid backup, since i usually just back up my apps using Titanium..
blacky2198 said:
now firing up TWRP to do clean install of CM11, hoping it can restore the sdcard access. Unfortunately, i don't have any nandroid backup, since i usually just back up my apps using Titanium..
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If the problem is sdcard you can use Eraser to Erase the sdcard chip and try
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pang34 said:
If the problem is sdcard you can use Eraser to Erase the sdcard chip and try
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The chip is clean enough (I've trying to clean it for couple times, but it seems didin't help), The ext SDCard can't be read by android system, altough my computer can read the sdcard (using card reader) and TWRP can read that too.
I assume that the my ext SD Card format is damaged, by trying it on my tab, it says it's damaged.
So, I backed up all files on my ext SD Card using card reader on my computer, and format it on my computer, and it works again...