[Q] After flashing, no more internal storage - LG Revolution

I recently rooted my Revolution and decided to flash Gingervolt 2.0. I noticed after flashing, I was getting a low storage space message. When I looked the phone was only registering 1.4gb instead of 16gb. I'm assuming it has partitioned itself somehow. When I connect it to my computer, windows still reads it as 16gb. Any ideas on how to remedy this. I have tried flashing in a stock rom, but I still come up with the same result.

Reformat in clock work should do the trick
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[Q] SIM card not recognized after Revolt ROM install?

I am trying to install the revolt 1.5 rom onto my revolution. Everything seems to go exactly as planned, but then it doesn't read the sim card -- i tried removing and reinserting multiple times. I go back to recovery and reload my backup to my phone and the sim card is read and works perfectly. I tried the revolt 1.4 also just in case it would make a difference. But I have the same issue on both. Anyone able to help?
Can you access files on your SD card through a file manager? I had a problem where my phone wouldn't scan my sdcard for media files so my music program would say no SD card inserted. If you can access files with a file manager, try downloading "rescan media" from the market.
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JohnnyAn said:
Can you access files on your SD card through a file manager? I had a problem where my phone wouldn't scan my sdcard for media files so my music program would say no SD card inserted. If you can access files with a file manager, try downloading "rescan media" from the market.
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well, its not the SD card that is having the problem... it sees the sd card just fine... its the SIM card -- the one that it uses to activate and get afccess to lte.... that is what is not being detected, so it just won't activate because it says no sim is inserted.
Oh, duh, sorry, can't read today. Wish I could help with that :-(
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I am curious though, are you coming from the v6 or v7 update? I believe you need to downgrade to v4 if that's the case to use the revolt roms (someone more knowledgeable than i please confirm that).
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JohnnyAn said:
I am curious though, are you coming from the v6 or v7 update? I believe you need to downgrade to v4 if that's the case to use the revolt roms (someone more knowledgeable than i please confirm that).
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Yeah I have the V7 update... I thought it was supposed to work... but it definitely doesn't. I went ahead and just installed the gingervolt ROM and it works perfectly. I just wish there were some more roms for this model of phone! ha ha.
jtkrav222 said:
I am trying to install the revolt 1.5 rom onto my revolution. Everything seems to go exactly as planned, but then it doesn't read the sim card -- i tried removing and reinserting multiple times. I go back to recovery and reload my backup to my phone and the sim card is read and works perfectly. I tried the revolt 1.4 also just in case it would make a difference. But I have the same issue on both. Anyone able to help?
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Edit: just reread the post. Nevermind. Revolt rom is for froyo. Flash gingervolt if you're on gingerbread. But it seems you got it working.
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no sim card
yeah soo i am rooted i flashed the gvkernel2.0 and gingervolt rom and now my phone will not read a sim card. ive talked to tech support for an hour and went into vzw and even they cant figure it out. i even unrooted and stock recovery and also re rooted and reinstalled cwm can someone help me flash and find the stock rom and kernel for the lg revolution? i cannot find it anywhere
You need to reflash the tot. Your radio firmware and system software are out of sync. Revolt is for froyo.
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Overclocking

So, I've tried several different methods of overclocking and I've run upon an issue with my LG Thrill. Any frequency I run over stock locks my phone up. I can run 1188 for a while but I'll suddenly start getting freeze ups after a couple hours. It gets progressively worse until I eventually go back to to stock. Even if I bring the frequency back down to 800 it will freeze up until I reload an unclocked kernel or remove the OC modules. Ive tried this on every ROM available for the Thrill always ending the same. Anyone else had this issue or do I have a problem with my phone? Maybe some other apps I'm running? Others seem to have no problem running 1188. I can't even run the DOOMED Froyo ROM right now.
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Have you cleared your cache and dalvik ?
Yes, it may help for an hour or so but then goes right back to locking up.
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Have you played around with your kernal at all?
I've tried the different kernels that are installed with different roms, and I have played around with build.prop settings but nothing specific to this problem.
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Anybody else?
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I can go up to 1.21 GHz fine.
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I've been having the exact same problem. I'm currently running CM7 nightly build 37. Any way I try to overclock just messes up my phone. Ugh.
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I don't know for sure, but I may have solved the problem by formatting both SD cards. I'm on doomed froyo overclocked @ 1188. I'll give it a couple days before I call it fixed but right now it seems to be working good.
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How did you format the SD cards? I will also try that to see if it will work or not.
Under Settings go to SD Cards and Phone Storage. BEWARE though... You may lose stuff if you don't back it up somewhere. Formatting erases everything on your SD cards.
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Well we have the lg thrill p925 not the sgs2.
no help to us
its the same on p925g u have to un mount external sd to format it i think
if your on cm7 dont format sd card it will brick your phone!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I don't have the sgs2... I have the Thrill. Formatting both SD cards fixed my phone.
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I'm running cm7. So inn order to overclock correctly I would have to return to stock, format my sd cards and then go back to cm7, and then finally overclock my phone....? is that correct? Is it really worth all the effort?
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I dont know but i was on cm7 and formated my sd card and hard bricked my phone had to take it back and get a new one
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I dont know but i was on cm7 and formated my sd card and hard bricked my phone had to take it back and get a new one
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Thanks for the info can anyone confirm this?
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I didn't brick mine by formatting. Do so at your own risk though.
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I'm just going to switch from CM7 to GB and try out Lestatious BioHazard 1.0 Rom asap.
I might have done the same thing. Had cm7 had phone plugged to a comp. Pulled the plug out... sd error. Formstted sd card then it behaced strangly so did a reboot. Dead. No cmw no recovery nothing. Powerdown. Had to buy a new one. Lestatious 2.9 and it kicks giraffe assss!!
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[Q] Handset wiping question

Hello,
When I got my Note, I must have installed every app going on it, the phone got clogged up and just kept crashing out and being generally rubbish so I thought Id do a hard reset and start over. I booted into the stock recovery menu and just did a factory reset, it worked fine and the handsets fine but Im interested to know if on a stock rom, locked bootloader with no rooting could that affect my handset and mess with the storage capacity?
With me looking at rooting and roms Ive seen a lot of posts where people have rooted and done wipes on their phone and its corrupted the storage, loosing part of it, so I was just interested if the same risks apply to a stock handset?
mozza54 said:
Hello,
When I got my Note, I must have installed every app going on it, the phone got clogged up and just kept crashing out and being generally rubbish so I thought Id do a hard reset and start over. I booted into the stock recovery menu and just did a factory reset, it worked fine and the handsets fine but Im interested to know if on a stock rom, locked bootloader with no rooting could that affect my handset and mess with the storage capacity?
With me looking at rooting and roms Ive seen a lot of posts where people have rooted and done wipes on their phone and its corrupted the storage, loosing part of it, so I was just interested if the same risks apply to a stock handset?
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See your post, I believe you are in GB rom / or on a safe ICS kernel.
Otherwise, I can only say you are damn lucky.
Rooting is not a problem in note. But wiping is a problem if u r on stock ICS kernel.
A lot of thread regarding this one alrd. If you're handphone is fine now, and you don't need root / etc... Just use it as per normal.
But if you want to do more with your handphone, read carefully on all thread that you wish to try to experiment on your handset.
I don't quite understand with what you want. Perhaps you could give your about screenshot, to know more on what stock rom you are now, and which kernel you are now. Then you list out what you need to do.
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No it can't mess with storage capacity, you are on stock recovery and that is safe
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Im just interested in finding out if me resetting my handset could have corrupted the phones storage. Not including my SD card, my note says Ive got 1.97gb of internal storage and then 11gb of USB storage which considering its a 16gb phone means theres about 3gb less. Even my external card (which is 16gb) registers 14.3gb. so I was just interested to find out if this is correct or if it sounds like the reboot has caused an issue?
I've only had the handset a couple of weeks and obviously its all still under warranty so I've got the option to send it back, which is easier the newer the handset.
mozza54 said:
Im just interested in finding out if me resetting my handset could have corrupted the phones storage. Not including my SD card, my note says Ive got 1.97gb of internal storage and then 11gb of USB storage which considering its a 16gb phone means theres about 3gb less. Even my external card (which is 16gb) registers 14.3gb. so I was just interested to find out if this is correct or if it sounds like the reboot has caused an issue?
I've only had the handset a couple of weeks and obviously its all still under warranty so I've got the option to send it back, which is easier the newer the handset.
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Those figures are correct, the rest of the memory is allocated to system. If you'd damaged the emmc you'd know about it cos the phone wouldn't boot. There's an app you can install to check for emmc damage in the play store
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=net.vinagre.android.emmc_check
You need to be rooted to do a full scan.
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SpyderTracks said:
Those figures are correct, the rest of the memory is allocated to system. If you'd damaged the emmc you'd know about it cos the phone wouldn't boot. There's an app you can install to check for emmc damage in the play store
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=net.vinagre.android.emmc_check
You need to be rooted to do a full scan.
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Yeah I saw that,.. thanks for the help, I think Im gonna has to stop being a giant wus now and get this sucker rooted
mozza54 said:
Yeah I saw that,.. thanks for the help, I think Im gonna has to stop being a giant wus now and get this sucker rooted
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It's worth it and nowadays fairly straight forward using pc odin or mobile odin. Look for links in the forum.
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SD Card Issues - HTC Velocity

Hi all,
First time poster; be nice please
I've recently upgraded my HTC Velocity with the CM10 and AOKP mods and both have been working great.
Prior to this, I had the ICS ROM installed which was posted by Leigh Kennedy (if memory serves).
Anyway, the issue I'm having is with both of the JB ROMs above, the SD Card is not detectable at all. When the phone boots, sometimes it will mount, sometimes it won't. When it doesn't mount, I do so manually via Settings > Storage > Mount SD Card.
It will mount successfully, and I can browse through the card via File Explorer (with Root Access), so it's definitely accessible.
However I find that any apps that require SD Card access (ie. Camera, Recording Software, Music even) say that there is no SD Card detected/inserted.
I've tried 3 different MicroSD cards (2GB, 8GB and 32GB (32GB is my main card), and completely wiped them and reformatted to FAT32), no change to the detection issue.
I've also tried to format via CWM in Recovery Mode, which shows to be successful on the format, but no change to the issue.
I initially thought it was the 32GB MicroSD card having the problem, but the same issue replicating on 2 other cards tells me otherwise.
I've completely wiped my phone clean each time (Data, System, Cache and Dalvik Cache), no change to the problem (which funnily enough doesn't make a lot of sense as I can access the SD Card in Recovery Mode perfectly fine?)
Any help with this one is greatly appreciated, as I'm at a loss
NB: My SD Card was working fine on ICS, the issue only started after upgrading to the JB ROMs above.
evakq8r said:
Hi all,
First time poster; be nice please
I've recently upgraded my HTC Velocity with the CM10 and AOKP mods and both have been working great.
Prior to this, I had the ICS ROM installed which was posted by Leigh Kennedy (if memory serves).
Anyway, the issue I'm having is with both of the JB ROMs above, the SD Card is not detectable at all. When the phone boots, sometimes it will mount, sometimes it won't. When it doesn't mount, I do so manually via Settings > Storage > Mount SD Card.
It will mount successfully, and I can browse through the card via File Explorer (with Root Access), so it's definitely accessible.
However I find that any apps that require SD Card access (ie. Camera, Recording Software, Music even) say that there is no SD Card detected/inserted.
I've tried 3 different MicroSD cards (2GB, 8GB and 32GB (32GB is my main card), and completely wiped them and reformatted to FAT32), no change to the detection issue.
I've also tried to format via CWM in Recovery Mode, which shows to be successful on the format, but no change to the issue.
I initially thought it was the 32GB MicroSD card having the problem, but the same issue replicating on 2 other cards tells me otherwise.
I've completely wiped my phone clean each time (Data, System, Cache and Dalvik Cache), no change to the problem (which funnily enough doesn't make a lot of sense as I can access the SD Card in Recovery Mode perfectly fine?)
Any help with this one is greatly appreciated, as I'm at a loss
NB: My SD Card was working fine on ICS, the issue only started after upgrading to the JB ROMs above.
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while the sd not being accessible on your computer is known, you should still be able to access via file browsers and other apps that need access. my camera stores to internal, and Apollo seems to find music on my external without a hitch. Unfortunately it sounds like you've done everything I would suggest, short of trying a Factory Reset
homeslice976 said:
while the sd not being accessible on your computer is known, you should still be able to access via file browsers and other apps that need access. my camera stores to internal, and Apollo seems to find music on my external without a hitch. Unfortunately it sounds like you've done everything I would suggest, short of trying a Factory Reset
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Thanks for the reply homeslice.
I just tried a Factory Reset then, and unfortunately to no avail
I'm surprised that I'm the only person with this particular issue on this phone (I've seen other posts on different handsets with a similar issue, which was deemed to be the SD Card, but in my case all 3 of the ones I've tested have fallen short of fixing the problem).
Got any other ideas? Because I love both ROMs, but the issue with the SD card is more annoying than anything.
EDIT: Ok, just reformatted everything once more, and installed the PAC-Man ROM, still broken.
Whether it's relevant or not, I even partitioned the SD Card to see whether the phone could pick it up via different apps, no chance.
Where did you partition the card and with what software...
I would recommend either using the phone or recovery...
Windows sometimes makes cards unusuable
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I partitioned the SD card via CWM recovery, twice.
Still don't know what is causing it
Anyone else?
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Switch recoveries...
I recommend twrp...
Others like wcxrecovery...
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Really? The recovery could be causing this? Hmm.. not something I considered but happy to try it.
Won't he able to do so till late tonight, early tomorrow morning but I'll let you know how it goes.
Thanks for the advice!
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rignfool said:
Switch recoveries...
I recommend twrp...
Others like wcxrecovery...
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OK, so I managed to flash TWRP Recovery successfully (couldn't do it via the Goo Manager, had to flash it manually via adb which was fine).
Sadly, the SD card issue still exists.
One thing I did notice however, with TWRP every time I tried to clear anything (Data/System/Cache/Dalvik Cache/Factory Reset), it came up 'Unable to mount emmc'.
Now I'm not entirely sure what this is, but the only time I have seen it is when loading Bootloader (as eMMC-boot).
Does this have any relevance to my current problem? CWM never used to error out like that.
NB: Having a hard time trying to find a link for download of WCX Recovery (could just be tired from work, who knows), but I'll keep trying.
I am not sure...
Can you make phone calls if your phone boots...
It sounds like you might have lost your efs partition... where your imei lives...
I am not sure how to fix...
I think there is a thread talking about it
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rignfool said:
I am not sure...
Can you make phone calls if your phone boots...
It sounds like you might have lost your efs partition... where your imei lives...
I am not sure how to fix...
I think there is a thread talking about it
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Hmm, well the IMEI is still available via About Phone, so not sure if that's the same as what you're referring to.
However, I think I've had a development (not a good one though).
After reflashing CWM I tried mounting and/or reformatting emmc, it's unable to do anything with emmc at all.
When the recovery was TWRP, it didn't like emmc either, so something tells me emmc plus my storage issue are related.
I've done as much as I can think of, short of relocking bootloader and reflashing the RUU for the Velocity (which is currently being downloaded).
Can anyone think of anything else? Or is an RUU flash my absolute last resort?
Thanks for help so far guys, much appreciated.
EDIT: Helps if I actually answer your question rignfool.. lol. Yeah I can do absolutely anything I would normally on this phone with the custom ROM, short of apps accessing storage.
Well.. things have now taken a turn for the worst.
5% into my RUU reflash, ROM Utility crashes and now phone is stuck on an RUU bootloop....
Still trying to work it out, but I get the feeling it's not gonna go well..
evakq8r said:
Well.. things have now taken a turn for the worst.
5% into my RUU reflash, ROM Utility crashes and now phone is stuck on an RUU bootloop....
Still trying to work it out, but I get the feeling it's not gonna go well..
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Did you relock the bootloader before running the RUU? This is necessary. Also, were you last running an ICS ROM? If you were, you have an ICS boot loader and you need to run an ICS RUU. Lastly, make sure you are in Fastboot USB mode when running the RUU
homeslice976 said:
Did you relock the bootloader before running the RUU? This is necessary. Also, were you last running an ICS ROM? If you were, you have an ICS boot loader and you need to run an ICS RUU. Lastly, make sure you are in Fastboot USB mode when running the RUU
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Yeah, definitely made sure that bootloader was locked/relocked, as I found the RUU kept crashing when it was unlocked (couldn't read any information off the phone, and the phone auto-booted into Fastboot after relocking the bootloader in any case, as it couldn't load the OS).
And no I wasn't running an ICS ROM at the time (per my initial post of running 2 JB ROMs at different times (CM10 and AOKP)).
After a bit of perseverance I got the RUU to go through successfully, and lo and behold the SD Card issue has miraculously disappeared (which isn't overly surprising considering it's gone right back to Factory Defaults and some).
It seems the PC required the Utility to run in Realtime Priority as opposed to Normal.. lol.
I'll now look into reflashing the relevant JB ROMs and post back shortly with results.
WOOHOO! ..... I mean, yeah, it works now. lol
It seems that during the course of flashing the ROMs previously, my phone lost touch with itself; by that I mean it was unable to access it's own Internal Storage and part of it's External Storage (which seems to be part and parcel of the 'emmc' error I was receiving earlier).
Camera loads, Music loads, it all works! :victory:
Thanks for your help homeslice and rignfool, much appreciated.
Now to enjoy those ROMs to their full potential!
On a side note though, have you ever had an issue reported like this on any other handset homeslice? or rignfool for that matter?
The only time I heard of people not being able to access storage like that... was when their imei got wiped...
From what I understand its a clockwork issue
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The only time I heard of people not being able to access storage like that... was when their imei got wiped...
From what I understand its a clockwork issue
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Yup. Our version of cwm likes to corrupt partitions. Glad you got it sorted
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Thanks a bunch guys, much appreciated.
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NB: Having a hard time trying to find a link for download of WCX Recovery (could just be tired from work, who knows), but I'll keep trying.[/QUOTE]
When you said NB, i thought of grand theft auto IV. lol. damn you Rockstar for corrupting meeee
that is why i've never tried cwm recovery. only tried twrp and wcx and i've always stuck with wcx recovery i like using the capacitive buttons to scroll instead of the volume buttons
XxSHaDoWxSLaYeRxX said:
When you said NB, i thought of grand theft auto IV. lol. damn you Rockstar for corrupting meeee
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Haha, I thought of that too when I posted these issues.
ZeRo2o9 said:
that is why i've never tried cwm recovery. only tried twrp and wcx and i've always stuck with wcx recovery i like using the capacitive buttons to scroll instead of the volume buttons
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Yeah I did manage to find a working recovery image for wcxrecovery eventually, but I find TWRP a lot better to be honest (CWM and WCX are also good though).
I guess it's just personal preference.

Safestrap Not Releasing Free Space?

OK I don't usually post questions on here...I like to be the answer guy, but recently I ran into an issue that I cannot figure out.
I rooted using towelroot and installed "Safestrap-HLTE-3.72-kk.apk". Everything seems to be fine. I made backups and a rom slot but had issues with the X-Note rom booting.
I booted back into recovery and deleted the rom-slot1 then back to android os. Root explorer now only shows 25gb for capacity but under settings it shows 32gb total still.
I have tried looking for a format option for internal storage, which I swore was in twrp somewhere from what I remember from the T-Mobile note3 I recently had.
I also looked through the root and /system/ directories and found some "ss", ".ss", and "safestrap" references, but no system.img, data.img, etc files found or noticed anyways.
The only thing I can think of is to flash the stock rom and pit using Odin and reroot and reinstall Safestrap again and restore my backup to get my full 32gb of storage back.
Any suggestions would be awesome
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25 gb is the actual memory you can use, the phone uses the 7 gb to make your phone run.
Lol...I actually looked at that last night. You're right....it takes a whopping 6.7gb for system. Thanks for the input. Case closed
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