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Format SD

Hi all
Does format internal sd deletes the rom too??Or just cleans the sd from all the apps and their files,?
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Just formats the mass storage part of your internal sd(where you put music and movies), it won't delete apps unless you have used apps2sd

So there is no way to get rid of all the old files that are left overs from unistalled apps???
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If you format your internal SD you will lose all your app data, if you want to clean it up, open the internal SD on your pc or using root explorer and delete folders relating to apps you have deleted. In future when installing apps make sure you delete data and cache first in order to minimize any footprint remaining. Hope this helps
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factory reset will do that, if you want a complete restore, flashing a 3 file firmware with pit will do that.

I'm not really sure what you mean. If you format the SD all the things on your SD card will be erased, not the apps as they kept in a different partition of your internal SD which isn't accessible without root. E.g On my phone it has an 8GB internal storage, 2GB of that is partitioned for apps, so when I plug my phone into my pc I have 6GB to put music and movies on-the partition used for mass storage. Does that explain it?

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factory reset will do that, if you want a complete restore, flashing a 3 file firmware with pit will do that.
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No way,i have done that 20 times by flashing many custom roms but still as soon i reistalled e.g. Angry birds,i had all the levels back.All o want to do is get back those 5.75 gb of free space i had when i bought the phone.I have only 1.4 now with almost nothing installed on it.the rest is occupied by thousands of files that are left overs from uninstalling apps...
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use the other method then, flashing with a pit file. thats gotta do it !!
whenever i do factory reset i lose my saved game data unless i restore from TB

[Q] switching between roms

Hi,
I have started with some android app development and would like a good way to switch back and forth between roms on my galaxy s?
I use titanium backup pro so I have backups of apps and my user data.
Should I do a factory reset prior to using odin to go back to an older rom i.e. 2.2?
If I do a factory reset will that just wipe the ~2GB internal memory and leave the ~6GB internal SD / usb memory alone, definitely leave the external micro sd card alone, right?
Thanks in advance

have you tried rom manager?

I advice you to do a factory reset but if you use Odin it will be done automatically.
If you wipe only the internal memory(2GB),sd-card and external-sd are safe
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Make one partition

Guys I love the new cyanogenmod 10 made by RC but I have a question... Is there a way to have the internal sd with just one partition instead of two? Thanks!
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No.

And a way to resize partition? I find a nonsense to have two partition on internal memory!
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You want to merge /data and internal sd partitions?
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What I want is to have more space in order to use all internal memory for apps. If it means that I have to merge those partition, yes I want do that
I find weird that if you move apps to sd, you will have part of data app of one partition, and the other part on another partition. Isn't it? I believe of course there are some reasons behind that, but I find very confusing and useless to have data divided into 3 partition (2 internal + external sd)
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It might be possible, as you also have to disable mounting internal sd, so system will only see phone's memory and as card.
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How? Or any other solutions?

You have to repartition throuht ADB Bridge, and in rom you have to disable mounting for internal sd (sure in vold.fstab, but maybe also somewhere else).
There's a chance to get big /data partition then as android must have it.
P.S that's only theory but if ADB is capable in partitioning it might work. Also note that partitions might lose their data.

Internal storage getting full by updates

It seems that whenever I install application updates for my installed applications the ram, or internal storage is consumed, until the point that all is used and doesn't allow me to download more updates, nor install more applications. Moving some applications to SD just leads to the same result: the ram is eventually saturated again.
And it seems to happen either with stock rom and Cyanogenmod. I'm with CM right now.
What a friend did was uninstalling all apps, leave those really useful and avoiding updates at all, but I don't think that as a solution.
What can I do? Thanks.

Try using scripts like Cronmod to increase your internal memory by creating an ext partition in your SD card. That should solve it. Here is the link
[SCRIPTS]CronMod-INT2EXT

What I tried to mean is, why are updates consuming always additional amounts of ram? Aren't they supposed to work by replacing old files with new ones?

First of all what your are talking about is storage, not RAM.
And in most of the cases it doesnt need more storage. The reason why it's consuming more is because it downloads the whole application and then replace the old apk. After a reboot you'll have your old amount of storage.
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In most cases it doesn't need more storage...
I tried what you suggested, and I seem to have my free storage again, or almost. After updating my apps and rebooting I have about 2 extra Mb consumed. Is it common?

Over 29gb of internal memory used by system. Help!

Yesterday I flashed Resurrection Remix and since the device wwas encrypted I decrypted using Op3t toolkit and wiped all my data and I installed the zip again and I noticed this now.
My system is using more than 29gb space and I have only 25gb left in my device. I have nothing in my internal memory except 2 screenshots and barely 20 apps installed I need a solution for this asap. Thanks

I never encrypted my device. That **** is not good
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desolator143 said:
Yesterday I flashed Resurrection Remix and since the device wwas encrypted I decrypted using Op3t toolkit and wiped all my data and I installed the zip again and I noticed this now.
My system is using more than 29gb space and I have only 25gb left in my device. I have nothing in my internal memory except 2 screenshots and barely 20 apps installed I need a solution for this asap. Thanks
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The toolkit probably uses fastboot to format the data and fastboot can't do it properly for some reason. Wipe data with stock recovery or twrp

I think you might have made a backup, check that as well, and as stated clear cache
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Even I'm facing the same problem....What am I supposed to do? Please help... Thankyou
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desolator143 said:
Yesterday I flashed Resurrection Remix and since the device wwas encrypted I decrypted using Op3t toolkit and wiped all my data and I installed the zip again and I noticed this now.
My system is using more than 29gb space and I have only 25gb left in my device. I have nothing in my internal memory except 2 screenshots and barely 20 apps installed I need a solution for this asap. Thanks
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i have the same issue what i did is after changing my file system from f2fs to ext 4 in recovery MTP i copied files of 10GB the backup i have taken previously after i flashed the rom and booted my that data was not visible to my but when i checked the storage it has taken 10GB of space under other in storage settings

Same issue
I encountered the same issue after decryption. Worse thing was that my original internal memory was reduced from 119 GB to 24 GB. Once I fixed the problem by flashing the full stock rom and it turns out that recovery was not replaced by the stock one and the storage is surprisingly decrypted as well. Currently, I tried the same method to get the missing storage back but it doesn't work any more since the cryption was forcingly done by the latest stock rom. I guess there's somewhere stuck in the mounting period or the format is recorgnized as system partion.

babysergio said:
I encountered the same issue after decryption. Worse thing was that my original internal memory was reduced from 119 GB to 24 GB. Once I fixed the problem by flashing the full stock rom and it turns out that recovery was not replaced by the stock one and the storage is surprisingly decrypted as well. Currently, I tried the same method to get the missing storage back but it doesn't work any more since the cryption was forcingly done by the latest stock rom. I guess there's somewhere stuck in the mounting period or the format is recorgnized as system partion.
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images (png, jpg, jpeg, tiff, bmp, raw, gif...)
videos (mkv, mp4, avi, mpeg, 3gp...)
audio (flac, ogg, mp3, wma...)
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