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I formatted my internal and external sdcards today by mistake, now my download folders are gone, I was tolded this is normal since formatted deletes all data on card which is why my download folder is gone. I've tired downloading rom and modded recovery all day but I cant find them in root exploror anywheres, than I Google a random picuture and tried to save the picture but the download was uncuccessful. Can I fix this?
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nash2000 said:
I formatted my internal and external sdcards today by mistake, now my download folders are gone, I was tolded this is normal since formatted deletes all data on card which is why my download folder is gone. I've tired downloading rom and modded recovery all day but I cant find them in root exploror anywheres, than I Google a random picuture and tried to save the picture but the download was uncuccessful. Can I fix this?
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It sounds like this should be fixable, but could you please provide more information on your current setup (Android version, if it's a custom ROM, etc).
As far as getting ROMs and CWM to your phone, you may want to try downloading the roms/modded recovery on a PC (if one is available), then move them over to your phone. If everything was formatted and you're having trouble using root explorer, it might just be easier to do it that way.
Before today my phone was fine, it displayed downloads that I've done etc. I was trying to install a downloaded rom thru cwm but it didn't display "install from sdcard" with in cwm. I than clicked format sdcard for some dumb reason and It put me in my current state.
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Before today my phone was fine, it displayed downloads that I've done etc. I was trying to install a downloaded rom thru cwm but it didn't display "install from sdcard" with in cwm. I than clicked format sdcard for some dumb reason and It put me in my current state.
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I see that you're on your phone now, which answers the question of whether or not you can boot, so that's good. If you've formatted your Internal SD card (which it sounds like you did - did it get rid of all your files on the phone?), you could probably just do a Titanium backup of what you still have and reinstall your ROM (assuming you're on a custom rom). That would likely correct the issue.
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I see that you're on your phone now, which answers the question of whether or not you can boot, so that's good. If you've formatted your Internal SD card (which it sounds like you did - did it get rid of all your files on the phone?), you could probably just do a Titanium backup of what you still have and reinstall your ROM (assuming you're on a custom rom). That would likely correct the issue.
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Yea, the phone has never stopped working in that reguard, just wont download. But now that you mention it, I did make a titanium back up of all apps and data before I did all of this.
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nash2000 said:
Yea, the phone has never stopped working in that reguard, just wont download. But now that you mention it, I did make a titanium back up of all apps and data before I did all of this.
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Assuming that it wasn't deleted in the format, I'd recommend reflashing whatever rom you're on and restoring your apps from Tibu.
the tibu backup is no more it would have been deleted when he formatted. look in your browsers settings for the default download directory. or make a folder on your sdcard called downloads and set it to there as default....
studacris said:
the tibu backup is no more it would have been deleted when he formatted. look in your browsers settings for the default download directory. or make a folder on your sdcard called downloads and set it to there as default....
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Yep, my back up is gone. I went to the download directory and all downloads in there say download unsuccessful, I than went to sdcard in root exploror and created a folder named download. I tried saving a few Google pics and they still come up download unsuccessful, I even tried downloading a file from xda and its not in my new download folder. I didn't set it as default since I don't know how to set it, I didn't see any options. Getting very frustrated.
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Settings>applications> manage applications>all> browser> clear data.
if that doesn't work try a 3rd party browser from the market. I use and prefer dolphin hd.
studacris said:
Settings>applications> manage applications>all> browser> clear data.
if that doesn't work try a 3rd party browser from the market. I use and prefer dolphin hd.
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That appeared to work, I saved a random picture and it was saved in my new download folder. But when I try and download the modded e3 signature file (which is what I've been trying to do) I see a quick download meter start and finish, after its done I can select close or open, if I click open I'm brought to rom manager with an install prompt were I can select or de-select a few things, than I'm put into recovery but it dkesnt show any place to install from sdcard. When I had to do this on my infuse once I downloaded the modded recovery it was listed in my downloads, id extract, copy and paste over original recovery but I don't see it anywhere in my captivates files.
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Hmm It should be in the download directory...
You could always dl the recovery file to your pc and copy it over to the phone.
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Hmm It should be in the download directory...
You could always dl the recovery file to your pc and copy it over to the phone.
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I know, I'm at a loss. If I can't figure this out or have it fixed than I may not be able to flash. I'm just glad it's my back up phone.
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Hmm It should be in the download directory...
You could always dl the recovery file to your pc and copy it over to the phone.
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Would I have to take sdcard and place it in one of those adaptors, download recovery and drag/drop in sdcard?
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nash2000 said:
Would I have to take sdcard and place it in one of those adaptors, download recovery and drag/drop in sdcard?
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If the phone isn't showing up in any way when you hook it up to the computer (i.e. you can't select to mount the phone from the notification drop-down), that would be your option.
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If the phone isn't showing up in any way when you hook it up to the computer (i.e. you can't select to mount the phone from the notification drop-down), that would be your option.
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Cool, when I get a minute ill try it out and report back.
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Ok, I was able to install the recovery to phone from pc, I unzipped it than extracted it, but after I copied the recovery I tried to paste over the old recovery in system/bin but I got a message saying I can't do that read only.
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Before I say more - do you currently have the android default recovery or some version of CWM installed on your phone?
You're pasting in the modded 3e recovery I assume, that's in a place usually mounted read only. Using root explorer, there is a little button on the top right that says mount r/w press that THEN paste in.
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You're pasting in the modded 3e recovery I assume, that's in a place usually mounted read only. Using root explorer, there is a little button on the top right that says mount r/w press that THEN paste in.
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Yes,. That is the recovery I'm trying to so. I thought I already clicked the mount tab, ill try it again. Wasn't this difficult on my infused.
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Ok, that worked but now nothing with flash, i give up. Ill download the rom from rom manager, once it finishes i get an install prompt, i select wipe data and cache. Im than put into cwm but the flash is aborted, says sonething about no such directory. And if anyone wants to know there isnt an install from sdcard option in cwm.
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this is not my work , so I will only share the link
but I hope some great dev will take a look @ it and see what e can do with it
maybe by increasing the system partition we can have enough space to dualboot 2 roms?
http://android.modaco.com/topic/347...-partitions/page__gopid__1821791#entry1821791
fine, working great !
only system partition didn´t change for me, but i set same value as for cache ... strange...
after NVFlash, i directly restored my CM backup. (formatted all partiotions first ...)
included cwm-5.0.2.6 recovery in NVFlash, worked like a charm. no need for SuperOneClick, just restore backup. Baseband 0823 was kept !
thanks for sharing.
Hurmm.. might miss some responses, will it work on stock mod? and can i mod it so that extsd become the main sdcard?
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Hurmm.. might miss some responses, will it work on stock mod? and can i mod it so that extsd become the main sdcard?
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Seems to work on Stock mod.
Making the ext SD the main SD card is a kernal change I think
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Well, if anything goes wrong, we can still divert back to original right? Hee3x..
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75markus said:
fine, working great !
only system partition didn´t change for me, but i set same value as for cache ... strange...
after NVFlash, i directly restored my CM backup. (formatted all partiotions first ...)
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now i installed new cm .170, and system partition size changed to 492 mb ...
working perfect!
Goooood !
Perfect here too...
What type of rom? Stock or mod?
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ghadap said:
What type of rom? Stock or mod?
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Topogigi 1.9 with HP kernel from Spica.
ghadap said:
What type of rom? Stock or mod?
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i´m using cm ...
it will work on ANY ROM, with NVFlash you flash orig. stock Froyo ROM to your phone, just with (your) changed partition sizes ...
when you are now flashing a new ROM from recovery, it will change your system, but will keep partition sizes ...
but as i posted before, the first restore of my cm backup worked fine, but system size wasn´t increased ( i set same values for system & cache partition) ... the next reflash of CM .170 today corrected this ... dunno why, perhaps cwm backup includes partitionsize of system, but not for data, cache, etc ??
but as mankian tested, don´t increase /data to more than 1,75 GB, or it will break CWM ...
Here is pre-build Partitons File & quick Guide in my MediaFireShareFolder :
Your Partitions will change to the following ->
System : 0.50 GB
Cache : 1,0 GB
Recovery : 50 MB
Data : 1.75 GB
in this folder is everthing you need :
http://www.mediafire.com/75markus#kzno9z45so5sj,1
Edit.. www.mediafire.com/myfiles.php#kzno9z45so5sj,1 errrrrrr... cant see the uploaded files.. :-?
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Edit.. www.mediafire.com/myfiles.php#kzno9z45so5sj,1 errrrrrr... cant see the uploaded files.. :-?
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sorry, link corrected :
http://www.mediafire.com/75markus#kzno9z45so5sj,1
edit : reworked QuickGuide, you´ll find everything in my folder
From my understanding.. now im using v20e.. in nvflash, i can just replace boot.img and recovery.img from my rom, right?
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From my understanding.. now im using v20e.. in nvflash, i can just replace boot.img and recovery.img from my rom, right?
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just boot.img :i think : NO
boot.img is just kernel, system.img is complete ROM ...
to make it work on first flash, you also need system.img of your v20e ROM.
but you can put your prefered recovery in folder (rename to recovery.img first)
but no problem, just run NVFlash and afterwards restore your backup in CWM Recovery...
I had a look in my CWM backup, but system backup is noth stored as .img, but as "system.ext4.tar" ... so you can´t directly replace it with the system.img in NV Flash ...
just follow my quick guide, works fine !
Just afraid that might total brick my o2x.. need assurance if something goes wrong, i can unbrick using smartflash..
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Just afraid that might total brick my o2x.. need assurance if something goes wrong, i can unbrick using smartflash..
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as posted in my guide, i tried too high value for system (0,75 + 1,0 GB) ...
phone did boot up, but couldn´t mount internal storage... (the rest of the memory)
a simple reflash with NVFlash with lower values (system : 0,5 GB) solved it ...
i posted prebuild file with stable values in my guide.
i´m pretty sure a reflash with standard "android_fastboot_emmc_full.cfg" file will get your phone back to normal if anything is not working right...
values that seem to be the max :
system : 0,5 GB
data : 1,75 GB
this is my actual configuration - my prebuild file (everything working fine, recovery, mount internal storage ...)
Ok.. is it possible to make /data max at 8GB? and make extsd as primary sd? This is what im trying to accomplish act..
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After installing 6/30 update on nook hd+ i get this odd path and what seems to be duplicate files.
I see it if i for example browse to change the mail notification sound. Or any app that presents an option to load a file.
I had accidentaly tried to flash hummingbird version That failed of course, and id already done clearing steps in cwm
So i had to restore my backup of 6/24 rom first, then booted up, copied ovation then rebooted to cwm and did 6/30 update.
It seems to be my sdcard path.
ANy way to fix this?
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After installing 6/30 update on nook hd+ i get this odd path and what seems to be duplicate files.
I see it if i for example browse to change the mail notification sound. Or any app that presents an option to load a file.
I had accidentaly tried to flash hummingbird version That failed of course, and id already done clearing steps in cwm
So i had to restore my backup of 6/24 rom first, then booted up, copied ovation then rebooted to cwm and did 6/30 update.
It seems to be my sdcard path.
ANy way to fix this?
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That is a default path when on Android 4.2.2. It is just a symlink of your files that exist on the internal storage. If you delete a file in that path, it gets deleted in sdcard as well, and vice versa.
It is setup that way for the multiple users that are available to be setup in the newer Android versions.
0 - first user, 1- second user, etc.
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I did some reading and heard about that.
But it usually happens as a result of upgrading an installation which is exactly when it started showing up.
I tried to disable multi-user in settings...that did nothing.
It's a bit of an annoyance as any apps that access the folder structure default to that
instead of the /sdcard/ alias.
Does anyone know if there is a setting or a file that can be modified so at least apps
default to /sdcard/ instead of /storage/emulated/0 ?
I suspect if I re-formatted my nook HD+ and did a clean install of CM 10.1 6/30
then I wouldn't be having this, but I've already got it all setup the way I like it lol.
I was having a similar issue on mine. I couldn't find my dang files I had downloaded when looking to flash them in CWM. It kept telling me I couldn't mount /sdcard, but I finally found the same data in the /emulated/0 path you referred to above. So at least now I know where to look. I'm debating moving my default download directory to the ext_sdcard, so I'll at least know where it is, and my ROMS won't eat up all my internal memory.
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I did some reading and heard about that.
But it usually happens as a result of upgrading an installation which is exactly when it started showing up.
I tried to disable multi-user in settings...that did nothing.
It's a bit of an annoyance as any apps that access the folder structure default to that
instead of the /sdcard/ alias.
Does anyone know if there is a setting or a file that can be modified so at least apps
default to /sdcard/ instead of /storage/emulated/0 ?
I suspect if I re-formatted my nook HD+ and did a clean install of CM 10.1 6/30
then I wouldn't be having this, but I've already got it all setup the way I like it lol.
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Even with a clean install and format, you'll have that folder, its meant to be there.
My HD+ has the folder and I did a full wipe when I got the tablet to install CM10.1. Same when I installed a custom 4.2.2 ROM on my HTC One, the folder will exist. The only thing you can do if files keep showing up doubled in selection screens is to try to see if there's a setting to specify path selection. Failing that, try another clean install. You can backup settings and apps with Titanium Backup or another backup app.
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Even with a clean install and format, you'll have that folder, its meant to be there.
My HD+ has the folder and I did a full wipe when I got the tablet to install CM10.1. Same when I installed a custom 4.2.2 ROM on my HTC One, the folder will exist. The only thing you can do if files keep showing up doubled in selection screens is to try to see if there's a setting to specify path selection. Failing that, try another clean install. You can backup settings and apps with Titanium Backup or another backup app.
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I'm totally fine with it's existence, just prefer apps default to /sdcard/ alias
if possible. Comes in handy when you have to manually type the path...much less typing!
pdx1138 said:
I'm totally fine with it's existence, just prefer apps default to /sdcard/ alias
if possible. Comes in handy when you have to manually type the path...much less typing!
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Apps should default to sdcard, mine do...
Sounds like you'll need to just do another clean install with a full wipe.
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Just got my HTC1. rooted and flashed twrp 2601. back upped the stock rom. flashed venom and after getting it where I'd like, made a backup of that. now when i go to es explorer i can see my stock backup in the twrp folder but not the venom backup. when I go to twrp recovery, I can only see the venom backup but not the stock backup.
Any ideas on what the issue is?
There will be a backup folder in data/media and data/media/0, the folder in data/media needs to be merged with the other one.
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thanks cory. wierd how the directory switched like that. that's a first. is there an option to change the directory back to sdcard/twrp? couldn't find anything
killerb777 said:
thanks cory. wierd how the directory switched like that. that's a first. is there an option to change the directory back to sdcard/twrp? couldn't find anything
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That's due to the change in file structure between 4.1 and 4.2+
Don't know about TWRP, but for CWM recovery you can create a symlink, here's how: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1991657
Though it seems the newer version of the recoveries have already been corrected.
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thanks cory. wierd how the directory switched like that. that's a first. is there an option to change the directory back to sdcard/twrp? couldn't find anything
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Yah, it's because 4.2 added multi-user support.
So user data would be,
Data/media/0
Data/media/1
And so on...
I'm not sure about the option in twrp, I just formatted my SD and started fresh.
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i need help getting my root back. i've updated to 4.3 but in the process all my pictures/music/personal stuff is gone. in the storage section it's saying that 27gb is still being used so i'm assuming the data is still there but i can't do anything until i get my root back. i've tried to flash a custom recovery through fastboot but i'm getting a reported max download size error. can anyone help out?
I'm new to HTC one, but maybe structure of 4.3 differ from 4.1.
So connect phone to computer, copy all files and search folder/files there.
Data/media/0
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anhtuanpro said:
I'm new to HTC one, but maybe structure of 4.3 differ from 4.1.
So connect phone to computer, copy all files and search folder/files there.
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Already tried that and everything was missing.
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flomexico said:
Data/media/0
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Is where all the folders/files were moved during upgrade?
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Is where all the folders/files were moved during upgrade?
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Sounds like you have been flashing a lot of 4.2.2 roms so you may have a bunch of /0/0/0 folders that could be why you have so little space left
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Sounds like you have been flashing a lot of 4.2.2 roms so you may have a bunch of /0/0/0 folders that could be why you have so little space left
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I haven't flashed any roms on this phone. I've been stock since day one. I want to try some data recovery software but I need root to utilize it. I can't get root until I install recovery but I can't do that because I keep getting an error.
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Data/media/0
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well thanks to this fine user i found all of my missing data. i have another quick question however...
i noticed in data/media (which is where all my lost data was located) there is a 0 folder that houses the current contents of the "sdcard". i noticed that /sdcard and data/media/0 are linked together but i'm not sure which is the emulated folder and which is the proper folder. basically what i'm trying to do is restore the contents of the data/media folder to it's proper location. i read that the "0" folder is created for a second user? if that's the case if i move the contents of the "0" folder to the the data/media folder would the "sdcard" folder reflect those changes or would i have to move data/media to "0" instead?