why do i have 20 gigs of other being used? i just got the phone recently and have no music and a few apps. i am running android revolution and do have some backups. how the BLEEP do i figure out whats taking up all that space!!
You probably have a few big ass games. The "Games" section only tells you the size of the APKs, not the whole game data that gets downloaded afterwards. For example, The Dark Knight is almost 2GB, and PROBABLY goes into the Other category. I might be wrong though, I don't have the phone with me at the moment
Since you installed ARHD, all your stuff from before was moved from before you installed it to data/media. Use root explorer to go there and delete everything since you probably don't need any of it If you had what you needed backed up already. When I installed ARHD I had over 30gb of other and it was because even though I did a full wipe, it was still all kept and all my music and pictures were moved there.
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xXxG0dzRAgexXx said:
Since you installed ARHD, all your stuff from before was moved from before you installed it to data/media. Use root explorer to go there and delete everything since you probably don't need any of it If you had what you needed backed up already. When I installed ARHD I had over 30gb of other and it was because even though I did a full wipe, it was still all kept and all my music and pictures were moved there.
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hmm i do not have data/media im on AHRD 9.4. i am going to install PAC rom so can someone help me step by step what i should do to fix this?
i am copying my sd card to my mac and its saying that its almost 11 gigs. is this high? i am about to flash PAC rom how should i format sd card properly and do i just copy everything from my mac back to my phone? wouldnt this just put me right back where i am now???
milesjohnson said:
hmm i do not have data/media im on AHRD 9.4. i am going to install PAC rom so can someone help me step by step what i should do to fix this?
i am copying my sd card to my mac and its saying that its almost 11 gigs. is this high? i am about to flash PAC rom how should i format sd card properly and do i just copy everything from my mac back to my phone? wouldnt this just put me right back where i am now???
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and actually for some reason it keeps getting stuck at 10.26 gb and wont finish the rest of the 10.97 file transfer to my computer. what the hell is going on
You need to use something with root access to your files or /data will be empty. I know e's file explorer can do it but you need to enable something. I just bought root explorer and did it. And if you want to flash PAC rom use titanium back up to back up all your apps, then move music and media to your mac. On the PAC rom thread there should be a short list of instructions on how you flash if you are flashing from a sense based Rom to a AOSP based ROM.
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Try using this https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.android.diskusage&hl=en
or just reformat your sd
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I never used a smartphone before and now here i am with a small basic phone trying to figure out how things can be done...but...
I hardly can install 6-7apps in this phone..even though i install the file in SD card it still takes 2-4mb space from internal..
and mine is not rooted but i tried rooting before and it did nothing may be because i really dont know what to be done.
Anyways i just want to know is there anyway i can add few more apps like atleast 10apps in this phone?? i do have few preinstalled apps..and it cant be moved i know but things like GO apps i cant move it to SD..but my friends ACE can n i have no clue why i cant????? it neva show move to SD in mine but in his phone it does..can anybody help me in installing few more apps ..in this thing...i will be so greatful if u can and Thanks in advance.
for your info apps i have downloaded as if now:
twitter, Instagram, some empire game2, pool game, whatsapp, real player, FB messenger, dictionary thats all..
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I never used a smartphone before and now here i am with a small basic phone trying to figure out how things can be done...but...
I hardly can install 6-7apps in this phone..even though i install the file in SD card it still takes 2-4mb space from internal..
and mine is not rooted but i tried rooting before and it did nothing may be because i really dont know what to be done.
Anyways i just want to know is there anyway i can add few more apps like atleast 10apps in this phone?? i do have few preinstalled apps..and it cant be moved i know but things like GO apps i cant move it to SD..but my friends ACE can n i have no clue why i cant????? it neva show move to SD in mine but in his phone it does..can anybody help me in installing few more apps ..in this thing...i will be so greatful if u can and Thanks in advance.
for your info apps i have downloaded as if now:
twitter, Instagram, some empire game2, pool game, whatsapp, real player, FB messenger, dictionary thats all..
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you need a ext4 partition on your sd card and an app which enables you moving apps to sd like "link2sd", "s2e" or similar. And you need to root your phone.
Look a bit around in the ace section here on xda and youll find everything you need
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you need a ext4 partition on your sd card and an app which enables you moving apps to sd like "link2sd", "s2e" or similar. And you need to root your phone.
Look a bit around in the ace section here on xda and youll find everything you need
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addition : if you a user-type that like to remove your sdcard, better to use link2sd instead of any type extended-internal memory
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addition : if you a user-type that like to remove your sdcard, better to use link2sd instead of any type extended-internal memory
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Just switch off your phone before removing sd card.
I won't give up. I'll wait for you.
Mardon said:
you need a ext4 partition on your sd card and an app which enables you moving apps to sd like "link2sd", "s2e" or similar. And you need to root your phone.
Look a bit around in the ace section here on xda and youll find everything you need
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You almost can do a partition with cmw ovbiously with your device rooted and then use s2e is easy i hope that i can help you
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eantonykurien said:
I never used a smartphone before and now here i am with a small basic phone trying to figure out how things can be done...but...
I hardly can install 6-7apps in this phone..even though i install the file in SD card it still takes 2-4mb space from internal..
and mine is not rooted but i tried rooting before and it did nothing may be because i really dont know what to be done.
Anyways i just want to know is there anyway i can add few more apps like atleast 10apps in this phone?? i do have few preinstalled apps..and it cant be moved i know but things like GO apps i cant move it to SD..but my friends ACE can n i have no clue why i cant????? it neva show move to SD in mine but in his phone it does..can anybody help me in installing few more apps ..in this thing...i will be so greatful if u can and Thanks in advance.
for your info apps i have downloaded as if now:
twitter, Instagram, some empire game2, pool game, whatsapp, real player, FB messenger, dictionary thats all..
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you must create ext3 or ext4 primary partition on your sdcard. to create partition, install mini tool partition wizard to your pc. then you can use link2sd to link dalvik caches to your sdcard. or, if you use cm7 as your rom, you can install s2e. to remove system apps, use link2sd
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Thanks alot guys
enzotheresa said:
you must create ext3 or ext4 primary partition on your sdcard. to create partition, install mini tool partition wizard to your pc. then you can use link2sd to link dalvik caches to your sdcard. or, if you use cm7 as your rom, you can install s2e. to remove system apps, use link2sd
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I read most of the threads and found quite interesting and later yesterday night i rooted my phone and when that went on smoothly i thought why dont i try installing a custom rom? So i installed a normal one which had very basic thing to be done to install it..and finally i installed stocklite ..but still im kinda facing the same old internal problem but i will definitely try your reply's and will get back to guys later..Never thought i will get a lot of responses like this..cheers to you all.:good:
Thanks alot everyone
One more question?
eantonykurien said:
I read most of the threads and found quite interesting and later yesterday night i rooted my phone and when that went on smoothly i thought why dont i try installing a custom rom? So i installed a normal one which had very basic thing to be done to install it..and finally i installed stocklite ..but still im kinda facing the same old internal problem but i will definitely try your reply's and will get back to guys later..Never thought i will get a lot of responses like this..cheers to you all.:good:
Thanks alot everyone
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How do i make partitions like you guys said..i do have CWM5 but i dont know how to use these apps And after partition what should i do just install link2sd to move to sdcard? I know im kinda talking like a kid but guess im way too old in techy things sorry for troubling all..
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Just switch off your phone before removing sd card.
I won't give up. I'll wait for you.
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accidentially drop you phone.....memory card accidentially unmounted.....no nandroid backup&&last titanium backup 2 week old.......==:good:
eantonykurien said:
How do i make partitions like you guys said..i do have CWM5 but i dont know how to use these apps And after partition what should i do just install link2sd to move to sdcard? I know im kinda talking like a kid but guess im way too old in techy things sorry for troubling all..
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here's the guide for you (only cm7)
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1477996#
Will try
limxyz said:
here's the guide for you (only cm7)
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1477996#
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I dont have a CyanogenMod ROM im using Stocklite and i tried using link2sd but its no use..even though all the apps are stored in SD few apps has cache on internal storage so it eats all that..and now im in the same situvation but i will try what you said..
But i already did partitioning my SD using link2sd..how can i make my SD back to normal and once i install CyanogenMod ROM should i format my SD??? to take those partition away or should i do something else?
Need help!!!!!
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I dont have a CyanogenMod ROM im using Stocklite and i tried using link2sd but its no use..even though all the apps are stored in SD few apps has cache on internal storage so it eats all that..and now im in the same situvation but i will try what you said..
But i already did partitioning my SD using link2sd..how can i make my SD back to normal and once i install CyanogenMod ROM should i format my SD??? to take those partition away or should i do something else?
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"system/etc/gps.conf"
This is to edit gps setting in a Custom ROM
How to goto this place to edit it in CyanogenMod 7.2 RC3 by vo-1, APOCALYPSE? I installed it but cannot find a way to reach this place. And i cant ask question to the developer because im a new guy here so cant post a question ova there..
eantonykurien said:
I dont have a CyanogenMod ROM im using Stocklite and i tried using link2sd but its no use..even though all the apps are stored in SD few apps has cache on internal storage so it eats all that..and now im in the same situvation but i will try what you said..
But i already did partitioning my SD using link2sd..how can i make my SD back to normal and once i install CyanogenMod ROM should i format my SD??? to take those partition away or should i do something else?
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Are you linking the apk, dex and lib files or just installing (moving) apps to sd? You should create link to free up your internal space.
Take it from my experience. I used stocklite for almost 5 months with link2sd. Linked all apps except for those with widgets or that i needed at boot left on internal. 80 apps, 50 mb free on internal.
If you change to cyanogenmod you won't have more internal space, same space, different rom. When you do the required wipes with cwm (which you should to install cyano roms) it will format and erase the partition. You'll still have your partitioned sd card, but all info in that partition will be gone.
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dxppxd said:
Are you linking the apk, dex and lib files or just installing (moving) apps to sd? You should create link to free up your internal space.
Take it from my experience. I used stocklite for almost 5 months with link2sd. Linked all apps except for those with widgets or that i needed at boot left on internal. 80 apps, 50 mb free on internal.
If you change to cyanogenmod you won't have more internal space, same space, different rom. When you do the required wipes with cwm (which you should to install cyano roms) it will format and erase the partition. You'll still have your partitioned sd card, but all info in that partition will be gone.
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I installed Cyno Mod 7 ROM and it works just fine and i have partitioned again and everything is fine now..but i backuped my stocklite and i dont have the original ROM which i used even before rooting how to get that 'the real one which i had when i bought the phone?' if i have that one ..i can change it to anytime when i want..
Carrier specific roms are harder to find than free roms. Go to sammobile and check if they have the rom that came with your phone.
The stock roms are all installed through your computer with odin and your phone in download mode.
dxppxd said:
Carrier specific roms are harder to find than free roms. Go to sammobile and check if they have the rom that came with your phone.
The stock roms are all installed through your computer with odin and your phone in download mode.
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MMh ok i will check that and i have never used odin to flash a new ROM!!!! i have seen people talking about this s/w i really have no clue what is this all about.
eantonykurien said:
MMh ok i will check that and i have never used odin to flash a new ROM!!!! i have seen people talking about this s/w i really have no clue what is this all about.
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Did the ROM apocalypse had any updates because i still do have some bugs..
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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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
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.
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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.
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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'm running Kitkat 4.4.2 from insertcoin. The Storage space is 25.4gb, and I'm using 16gb of it, but my phone says I'm out of free space. I tried Clearing out all my data from my SD, and it still said my SD had about 10gb in use. I'm thinking maybe its some system data, but what part of the OS could be taking up 10gb?
Also, I've got some sort of audio dump going on under /Data/Audio that I have to keep deleting through android commander. how can I turn off the auto audio dump?
You have any nandroid backups? Each of those, including data, will be around 2-3 gb. In TWRP they are in a folder in the TWRP directory. Don't know about CWM.
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I move all my backups to my PC...
bbmaster123 said:
I move all my backups to my PC...
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This happened to me once. The way I dealt with it was I transferred all of my important files (e.g. pics, vids, nands, etc) to my computer, then formatted the internal storage and installed a fresh ROM.
and its still okay? I tried that about a week ago, but I didn't flash a fresh rom, I just reformatted the storage partition and I gained about 6gb, which has now disappeared.
Try a few storage apps from Playstore.. I can't recommend something but there are a few which will get you a good idea.
reinstalling the ROM seems to have fixed my problem, but now I've got a new problem. I guess I should make a new thread for it though. thanks for the help!
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Try a few storage apps from Playstore.. I can't recommend something but there are a few which will get you a good idea.
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try downloading diskusage from the playstore. it should give you a pretty accurate view of your completely usage and where its coming from and then you can go about clearing space up
Hi all,
I noticed that my internal sd card has two 0 folders, they are like so
Sdcard/0/0/
Everything from internet saves on the first /0/Download for ex., i am now on arhd 51, but previously on archidroid everything saved inside /0/0/Download, is there any way to fix this, or repartition or something without need to wipe all the data in sd? Because everything is messed up and i don't know any more wich uses what folder and so on.
Thx in front.
Edit: posted in i9305 not i9300 Q&A, mods please transfer, sorry for that.
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lsalamun said:
Hi all,
I noticed that my internal sd card has two 0 folders, they are like so
Sdcard/0/0/
Everything from internet saves on the first /0/Download for ex., i am now on arhd 51, but previously on archidroid everything saved inside /0/0/Download, is there any way to fix this, or repartition or something without need to wipe all the data in sd? Because everything is messed up and i don't know any more wich uses what folder and so on.
Thx in front.
Edit: posted in i9305 not i9300 Q&A, mods please transfer, sorry for that.
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can you post some screenshots of the two folders and their content, perhaps i can tell you what to do?
Edit: you can also copy all the files in one of the 0 folders to the other 0 folder and delete the empty one, i asked for screenshots just to make sure if there is any important file in one of those folders that maybe will cause problems with functioning of other apps or system settings if you replace it.
Here is the /0/0/ and i cannot delete archidroid folder or clockworkmod folder (write protected), also if i copy pictures from 0/0/DCIM/Camera to 0/DCIM/Camera, they are not shown, even after reboot when mediascanner is running, when i transfer them back they are imediately shown.
Edit: i can delete archidroid and clockworkmod folder, but via phone, not via pc, but the probem with transfering pictures to now used DCIM still persists.
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I transfered all the pics inside a new folder in sdcard/0/DCIM but they just don't wanna show, they pop up only in sdcard/0/0/DCIM
What can cause this problem? (I can normally view them in file managers.
I noticed that when i force run media scanner it scans storage/emulated/0/0/
It doesnt scan the first /0/ that is used now, can this be fixed?
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Screenshots for proof that 0/0/ works.
P.s. sorry for double post i cannot update pictures via xda premium in edit mode.
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Screenshots for proof that 0/0/ works.
P.s. sorry for double post i cannot update pictures via xda premium in edit mode.
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oke bro, here is what you should do everything personal and important to you like pics./music/documents copy to your external sd card or to your pc if possible both should be safe. format your internal sd card of the phone in recovery mode after everything is restored back put your files back into proper folders and all should be fine again. you are rooted and have custom recovery installed right?
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oke bro, here is what you should do everything personal and important to you like pics./music/documents copy to your external sd card or to your pc if possible both should be safe. format your internal sd card of the phone in recovery mode after everything is restored back put your files back into proper folders and all should be fine again. you are rooted and have custom recovery installed right?
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Yes of course i'm rooted with twrp, i tought there was some other way than getting in all that copy paste, but i'll do that and then it must, just must work.
I think i messed something up in archidroid installation when it asked for EXT4 repartitioning or something like that.
lsalamun said:
Yes of course i'm rooted with twrp, i tought there was some other way than getting in all that copy paste, but i'll do that and then it must, just must work.
I think i messed something up in archidroid installation when it asked for EXT4 repartitioning or something like that.
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yes that must be it, as i had read somewhere on these threads a similar problem like yours its better to avoid changing or setting options from which you dont understand what they do like EXT4 or F2FS partitions unless you know what you are doing. at least thats what i do to avoid any problems with my device
MaHo_66 said:
yes that must be it, as i had read somewhere on these threads a similar problem like yours its better to avoid changing or setting options from which you dont understand what they do like EXT4 or F2FS partitions unless you know what you are doing. at least thats what i do to avoid any problems with my device
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Yes, i know now for future, but, one more question..
It's 'calculating time for copy...' now, i see it'll take ages to 'calculate', so, is there any option to just mount the internal sd card, i remember i could mount it via CWM on my old S2 and everything went quick, but i cannot mount just SD anymore, only as a 'Media device', it seems quite slower..
Do you know an option to do that?
Edit: Disabled indexing, it's flying now
lsalamun said:
Yes, i know now for future, but, one more question..
It's 'calculating time for copy...' now, i see it'll take ages to 'calculate', so, is there any option to just mount the internal sd card, i remember i could mount it via CWM on my old S2 and everything went quick, but i cannot mount just SD anymore, only as a 'Media device', it seems quite slower..
Do you know an option to do that?
Edit: Disabled indexing, it's flying now
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I do recommend using philz touch CWM advanced edition or just the CWM touch version as a recovery choice (especially philz) rather than Twrp, but its all up to you..
I was on philz quite a while, now testing twrp, i did the wipe, everything's perfect now, but i accidentaly deleted my pics coz' they were in the 0/0/ and i deleted the second 0 thinking i don't need it
I got a little shock but i'll recover
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lsalamun said:
I was on philz quite a while, now testing twrp, i did the wipe, everything's perfect now, but i accidentaly deleted my pics coz' they were in the 0/0/ and i deleted the second 0 thinking i don't need it
I got a little shock but i'll recover
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Haha :laugh: allright mate :good: