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[HELP] Can not write any custom roms.

I can no longer write any custom roms to my N6. Started with PURE 3.5 but now effects any rom i try to flash. I have brought my N6 back to factory state multiple times even relocking it. Only thing I can do is Fastboot flash N6 image from google manually piece by piece. I do have working 5.01 and phone works. Roms either hang or have errors. or just write the boot.img file. TWRP works other wise i can backup and restore, I am using 2.8.3.1. I have searched all over for a fix....

There used to be some weird mounting stuff that would make roms not boot. Thought that was worked out in pure shamu 3.1 ish.
Where do the roms hang? Did you ever fix permissions using twrp? Any kind of log you can pull?

dipstik said:
There used to be some weird mounting stuff that would make roms not boot. Thought that was worked out in pure shamu 3.1 ish.
Where do the roms hang? Did you ever fix permissions using twrp? Any kind of log you can pull?
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I had no problem updating Pure for over a month from like 2.0 to 3.4.
they all hang when writing to system as far as i can tell. happens regardless of Pure....from a fresh clean image of 5.0 or 5.01 i can not flash any roms. driving me nutzo....i can no longer flash pure 3.4 either but i can restore the phone from a nandroid backup i had on my pc and run Pure 3.4 just fine.

Did you wipe everything except internal storage first? I had this issue earlier until I realized that I forgot to do that when coming from the stock ROM.

Pilz said:
Did you wipe everything except internal storage first? I had this issue earlier until I realized that I forgot to do that when coming from the stock ROM.
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yes and both cache.....
also made sure system not mounted.
very frustrating.

Bignoze73 said:
yes and both cache.....
also made sure system not mounted.
very frustrating.
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That is very odd, did you try reflashing TWRP or using a different version.

Pilz said:
That is very odd, did you try reflashing TWRP or using a different version.
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mutiple times......tried all versions of TWRP too.
I can write a custom kernal like elementalx no problem.....just not roms.

Bignoze73 said:
mutiple times......tried all versions of TWRP too.
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It doesn't make sense considering you also flashed back to stock. Have you also tried to flash a ROM from your PC rather than from your phone? There has to be some reasonable explanation for why it's not working.

Pilz said:
It doesn't make sense considering you also flashed back to stock. Have you also tried to flash a ROM from your PC rather than from your phone? There has to be some reasonable explanation for why it's not working.
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how do you do that? the custom roms dont have system.img file like N6 image. The Pure 3.92 is in .dat format, another rom is folders. I also get checksum errors when extracting.
I also noticed in the last 24 hours there are 2 other threads with people have almost the same issues flashing roms. I think it has something to do with TWRP but no matter becuase no version works for me.

Bignoze73 said:
how do you do that? the custom roms dont have system.img file like N6 image. The Pure 3.92 is in .dat format, another rom is folders. I also get checksum errors when extracting.
I also noticed in the last 24 hours there are 2 other threads with people have almost the same issues flashing roms. I think it has something to do with TWRP but no matter becuase no version works for me.
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If you restore your stock recovery on your phone you could try this.
Make sure TWRP is not installed on your phone and that the stock recovery is installed and working:
Have TWRP in your platform tools folder named however you want
Then use "fastboot boot recovery 'whatever you named TWRP' "
This will boot TWRP without installed it. Then try to flash the ROM using TWRP. You can also use the"adb push" to sideload the ROM onto your phone so you can find it via TWRP.

nope did not work.....roms just hang or flash new boot.img only.
i even tried erasing recovery partion and reflashing stock than twrp 2.8.3.1......that did not work either....something is stopping TWRP from writing to system.
thanks for your help

Bignoze73 said:
nope did not work.....roms just hang or flash new boot.img only.
i even tried erasing recovery partion and reflashing stock than twrp 2.8.3.1......that did not work either....something is stopping TWRP from writing to system.
thanks for your help
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You're welcome, have you tried to contact some of the devs here to see if maybe they could help? I think the worst case scenario would be to RMA the phone.

Pilz said:
You're welcome, have you tried to contact some of the devs here to see if maybe they could help? I think the worst case scenario would be to RMA the phone.
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RMA the phone??? ?What are you gonna tell them?? ? That you can't flash any custom Roms through TWRP?? ?

laureanop said:
RMA the phone??? ?What are you gonna tell them?? ? That you can't flash any custom Roms through TWRP?? ?
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No obviously not look, but if you have other issues (in assuming you might if you can't flash a ROM) then that's the worst case scenario option.

Pilz said:
No obviously not look, but if you have other issues (in assuming you might if you can't flash a ROM) then that's the worst case scenario option.
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This is a tough one cause if his factory image works without issues they're gonna have no reason to send him a replacement

laureanop said:
This is a tough one cause if his factory image works without issues they're gonna have no reason to send him a replacement
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That's true, but there must be something wrong if he can't flash anything else so I'm sure he could find some issues.

Pilz said:
That's true, but there must be something wrong if he can't flash anything else so I'm sure he could find some issues.
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Is there a tool or command to do a full memcheck of both ram and storage

rgraville said:
Is there a tool or command to do a full memcheck of both ram and storage
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I'm not sure I've never had the need to do one from adb or fastboot

Pilz said:
I'm not sure I've never had the need to do one from adb or fastboot
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yeah its pretty nuts....how can I return a phone that works fine other than the fact it wont flash a custom rom?
Must be another way to write a rom but TWRP......
thanks!

Bignoze73 said:
yeah its pretty nuts....how can I return a phone that works fine other than the fact it wont flash a custom rom?
Must be another way to write a rom but TWRP......
thanks!
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I assume you are also out of the return window. Well if you are unlucky or lucky (depending on how you view it) you could have an issue eventually. They will RMA for burn in, camera issues etc... The camera issue was common in the earlier production models that I had. There should be another method, I would look into it if you have time.

Cant restore please help!

Please if someone can take the time to help me save a lot of time.
So I had to restore my Nexus 6 back to stock from CM12 to unlock the phone so I could start using Project Fi. So I went back set it up and was ready to restore back to cm12. Well every time I try to go back to one of my updates it runs for maybe a min and then the phone restarts and then just stays on start up screen without starting up.
this has nothing to do with the unlocking of the phone because 2 months ago when I needed to restore from cm12 it did the same thing!
So why cant I restore using twarp on my device and what do I have to do to get back my restore.
also when I try to just reload cm12 it fails .
PLEASE HELP ME SOMEONE! LOL

CM is your first problem. LOL All that aside. Usually when it stops on startup screen the kernel is borked. Try fastbooting/flashing a compatible kernel.

Try wipe cache and dalvik from recovery. If it still doesn't boot, wipe data, then restore apps using titanium

Can you guys please look at clip I made of the issue. Thanks so much!
https://youtu.be/3C8LtPu9LsA
<iframe width="420" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/3C8LtPu9LsA" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>

No need. Follow our advice

enzosly said:
Can you guys please look at clip I made of the issue. Thanks so much!
https://youtu.be/3C8LtPu9LsA
<iframe width="420" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/3C8LtPu9LsA" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>
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To start I would actually wipe. Dalvik and cache is not a wipe. This only affects apps saved in ram.. Wipe system. Your flashing over old system and data. It is different flashing images than it is flashing restores. Can have files that are not overwritten. Basically a full dirty flash. Can't go stock and then dirty flash rom over the top. Especially CM. Too much doesn't match. Your flashing different bases over the top of each other. This is why people need permission fixes. The UID's don't match between the different bases. Have never used fix permissions unless testing and then shows us need to fully wipe.

prdog1 said:
To start I would actually wipe. Dalvik and cache is not a wipe. This only affects apps saved in ram.. Wipe system. Your flashing over old system and data. It is different flashing images than it is flashing restores. Can have files that are not overwritten. Basically a full dirty flash. Can't go stock and then dirty flash rom over the top. Especially CM. Too much doesn't match. Your flashing different bases over the top of each other. This is why people need permission fixes. The UID's don't match between the different bases. Have never used fix permissions unless testing and then shows us need to fully wipe.
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ok so do a full wipe is what your saying then? Ill give it a try

enzosly said:
ok so do a full wipe is what your saying then? Ill give it a try
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Yes. Also make sure boot is checked when make a backup. If restore doesn't contain kernel CM won't boot with stock kernel.

prdog1 said:
Yes. Also make sure boot is checked when make a backup. If restore doesn't contain kernel CM won't boot with stock kernel.
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Ok so I did a full wipe and still same thing. I also went into fixing permissions and nothing.
what should I do next I guess? again thank you for taking the time

enzosly said:
Ok so I did a full wipe and still same thing. I also went into fixing permissions and nothing.
what should I do next I guess? again thank you for taking the time
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Backup may be bad. Wipe everything and flash a full image/rom. Stopping on the splash usually means corrupted kernel. Rom not booting. If get to boot animation it is rom related. Need to start fresh. Google saves your apps so it no big deal. Rather have clean working rom than worry about apps and resetup.

enzosly said:
Ok so I did a full wipe and still same thing. I also went into fixing permissions and nothing.
what should I do next I guess? again thank you for taking the time
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NEVER fix permissions.
Download the rom and flash it. Then use titanium to restore apps.extracted from.your nandroid.backup, if it can.

danarama said:
NEVER fix permissions.
Download the rom and flash it. Then use titanium to restore apps.extracted from.your nandroid.backup, if it can.
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I agree if have to fix permissions rom is borked. Still looks like corrupted backup. Wipe all and fastboot stock or flash clean rom.

danarama said:
NEVER fix permissions.
Download the rom and flash it. Then use titanium to restore apps.extracted from.your nandroid.backup, if it can.
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fix_permissions works, but not via recovery. i use stericsons fix_permissions app. it goes through and fixes permissions, per each app, when you are fully booted.

simms22 said:
fix_permissions works, but not via recovery. i use stericsons fix_permissions app. it goes through and fixes permissions, per each app, when you are fully booted.
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It fixes mismatched UIDs which means you have a corrupt install. LOL

simms22 said:
fix_permissions works, but not via recovery. i use stericsons fix_permissions app. it goes through and fixes permissions, per each app, when you are fully booted.
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Thing is they can't know what permissions everything is supposed to have, so its guess work and can lead to more problems l. Besides, permissions should never need fixing anyway

prdog1 said:
It fixes mismatched UIDs which means you have a corrupt install. LOL
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whatever.. last time i installed anything was when m came out. honestly, ill use that app maybe twice a year, but it does work.
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danarama said:
Thing is they can't know what permissions everything is supposed to have, so its guess work and can lead to more problems l. Besides, permissions should never need fixing anyway
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na, it doesnt ever need fixin', its just something ill do every once in a while. kind of a habit leftover from the older android days.

simms22 said:
whatever.. last time i installed anything was when m came out. honestly, ill use that app maybe twice a year, but it does work.
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Just saying after years as a tester and thousands of builds. Was a big thing when they were porting roms to a different device. UIDs were broke all over the place. See the same thing if dirty flash different bases like Lolli over KitKat or a complete base change as an example ( L to M). Don't see mismatched UID's on updates made on same base.

prdog1 said:
Just saying after years as a tester and thousands of builds. Was a big thing when they were porting roms to a different device. UIDs were broke all over the place. See the same thing if dirty flash different bases like Lolli over KitKat or a complete base change as an example ( L to M). Don't see mismatched UID's on updates made on same base.
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im very known as a dirty flasher btw :angel:
(and i did dirty flash m over terminus)

simms22 said:
im very known as a dirty flasher btw :angel:
(and i did dirty flash m over terminus)
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Some have the luck. Apparently this poster don't.

prdog1 said:
Some have the luck. Apparently this poster don't.
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its not luck, its all about doing it properly

Rooting Android 6.0!

Hey guys! So I heard that Android Marshmallow now requires a custom kernel to have SuperSU binaries installed and working! Is there ever going to be a way around this? Or is this just the way rooting is going to be from now on? Also, is it true that Android 6.0 now gives an error and doesn't boot if the system is changed for security reasons? And if that's the case, what's a really good kernel to use that doesn't force encrypt and supports root? Just as basic ad possible, not to crazy about ridiculous kernel mods! Thanks!
Sent from my Nexus 6

Use ChainFire's modified boot image and SuperSU 2.5*.

JimSmith94 said:
Use ChainFire's modified boot image and SuperSU 2.5*.
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Wow! Didn't know chainfire made that kernel! Does it force encryption? Or give the option? I just wanna know because I wanna know if I need to format my userdata or not for this. I'm 100% stock right now.

H4X0R46 said:
Wow! Didn't know chainfire made that kernel! Does it force encryption? Or give the option? I just wanna know because I wanna know if I need to format my userdata or not for this. I'm 100% stock right now.
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It's just a modified boot.img. It doesn't do anything with encryption and you don't need to format userdata. From what I remember, it just allows rooting, makes system writable, and disables the corrupted device message.

I'd just flash a rooted rom

I've had roms on this phone before, but I've always wiped the data and never formatted, do most custom roms not force encrypt?

H4X0R46 said:
I've had roms on this phone before, but I've always wiped the data and never formatted, do most custom roms not force encrypt?
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roms have nothing to do with it. its kernels, most custom kernels dont force encrypt. but.. you have to actuvely decrypt manually to be decrypted. thats done by formatting user data, which will wipe your phone clean.

simms22 said:
roms have nothing to do with it. its kernels, most custom kernels dont force encrypt. but.. you have to actuvely decrypt manually to be decrypted. thats done by formatting user data, which will wipe your phone clean.
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But all custom roms have kernels in them don't they?
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After unbrick system use 29gb storage

Hello xda,
so after i unbrick my phone and flashed again a custom rom the system storage use 29 GB anyone know how to fix this problem or has the same ?

CroW_D said:
Hello xda,
so after i unbrick my phone and flashed again a custom rom the system storage use 29 GB anyone know how to fix this problem or has the same ?
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Have you unbricked from Oneplu 3T unbrick tool and guide..? If Yes Then Redownload that tool and follow the guide carefully.
Because Once the same issue aoccured on my Oneplus 3. I used Mini Tool. I fixed that after download full tool from their forum. So follow the guide carefully.

can you post the contents of /proc/partitions on your phone?

OK guys just an update i fixed it for myself thanks anyway for ya help !

CroW_D said:
OK guys just an update i fixed it for myself thanks anyway for ya help !
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Would you like to share how you did it? I'm pretty sure someone somewhere is currently having the same problem

inSaN1Ty_X said:
Would you like to share how you did it? I'm pretty sure someone somewhere is currently having the same problem
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Sure but I am not really sure how I did it to manage. Just redone the unbrick process. I think about it the last 2 days I run in so much problems that I had to fix...

I had the same problem . I wiped my data partition and changed it to ext4 in twrp and fixed that way

Because I have a similar problem to topic starter, I would like to know if I really need to wipe my data partition and change it to ext4.
My problem is about to reserved storage. I have reserved 39,25gb reserved space of 53,63gb. Actually I have: 9,49gb for apps, 2,41gb for photos, 11,55mb for videos, other 8,12gb and nothing else.
As the second phone I am using a Nexus 6 with the almost similar files and the reserved space is 27,36gb.
I am not sure but I think that this happened after unsuccessful restored to freedomOS (ver 1.0) from nandroid backup.
Is it something I need to do?

juggamonkey said:
I had the same problem . I wiped my data partition and changed it to ext4 in twrp and fixed that way
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This works!
Thank you

Honor 4x low memory

Someone help to solve low internal memory of honor 4x. I am totally frustrated with it, there is no file and app in internal memory. I have installed all apps in SD card even then i have only 400-500mb free space i internal.

Neerajmorwal said:
Someone help to solve low internal memory of honor 4x. I am totally frustrated with it, there is no file and app in internal memory. I have installed all apps in SD card even then i have only 400-500mb free space i internal.
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Did you installed them on the SD-card native android way or did you use app like Apps2SD to do it?

keikari said:
Did you installed them on the SD-card native android way or did you use app like Apps2SD to do it?
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i moved all apps manually, there is no native way to install apps on SD-card on honor 4x

Neerajmorwal said:
i moved all apps manually, there is no native way to install apps on SD-card on honor 4x
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This might be stupid question but did you move them like going into App info -> move to SD or have you partitioned your SD-card to ext4 and FAT32 partitions and moved apps to ext4 partition. Or did you do it some other way?

keikari said:
This might be stupid question but did you move them like going into App info -> move to SD or have you partitioned your SD-card to ext4 and FAT32 partitions and moved apps to ext4 partition. Or did you do it some other way?
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I have attached screen shots how i move apps internet to SD-card
Setting>>Apps>*.apk>>Storage>>Shange>>Internal to SD-card or SD-card to Internal

Neerajmorwal said:
I have attached screen shots how i move apps internet to SD-card
Setting>>Apps>*.apk>>Storage>>Shange>>Internal to SD-card or SD-card to Internal
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Yeah that is the native way. I think it doesn't move whole app only some parts(very small parts). If you want to move whole app to SD-card you'll need rooted device and SD-card with 2 partitions (ext4 and FAT32).

keikari said:
Yeah that is the native way. I think it doesn't move whole app only some parts(very small parts). If you want to move whole app to SD-card you'll need rooted device and SD-card with 2 partitions (ext4 and FAT32).
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i tried many times to root it but unable to root

Neerajmorwal said:
i tried many times to root it but unable to root
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Maybe I can help(atleast I can try)
Which model you have? (Che2 or some other)
Which android version do you have?
Do you have unloked bootloader?
****If yes to last one****
Have you been able to flash any custom recovery?

keikari said:
Maybe I can help(atleast I can try)
Which model you have? (Che2 or some other)
Which android version do you have?
Do you have unloked bootloader?
****If yes to last one****
Have you been able to flash any custom recovery?
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sometime back i unblocked bootloader and changed Rom then faced so many issues with 4G network so i rolled back it, now bootloader is blocked. if is there any other way to move whole app using third party app? then let me know. I don't want to unblock bootloader again cause don't have time to handle issues after rooting.

Neerajmorwal said:
sometime back i unblocked bootloader and changed Rom then faced so many issues with 4G network so i rolled back it, now bootloader is blocked. if is there any other way to move whole app using third party app? then let me know. I don't want to unblock bootloader again don't have time to handle issues after rooting.
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You must be rooted to move whole apps to SD-card. Btw which rom you changed to?
Also if you just think what you are doing and have a backup, rooting shouldn't cause any problems on stock firmware.
(Well, some apps have been made so that they won't work if device is rooted)

This is weired behaviour on 4X and reported by many users. Haven't came across solutions yet
This is one of the reason i am still with KK and haven't updated my phone even once.

keikari said:
You must be rooted to move whole apps to SD-card. Btw which rom you changed to?
Also if you just think what you are doing and have a backup, rooting shouldn't cause any problems on stock firmware.
(Well, some apps have been made so that they won't work if device is rooted)
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I changed to linage, CM and Mokee. if you have solution apart of rooting will be better and easy.

Neerajmorwal said:
I changed to linage, CM and Mokee. if you have solution apart of rooting will be better and easy.
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Nah, sorry root is only method I think. (There is also adopted storage for android 6.0, but you might still need root make it available).
Also I guess you have Qualcom snapdragon version, so I probably couldn't help anyway. (But all things should work better on snapdragon version than on kirin 620 version).

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Nah, sorry root is only method I think. (There is also adopted storage for android 6.0, but you might still need root make it available).
Also I guess you have Qualcom snapdragon version, so I probably couldn't help anyway. (But all things should work better on snapdragon version than on kirin 620 version).
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yes it's Qualcom see the attachment.

I'm assuming that you have che1-l04 variant. Upgrade to marshmallow or rooting your phone only will do the job. I was also frustrated with low storage so I switched to custom roms and now using SD as internal storage, marshmallow's adoptable storage was good but still I wasn't able to install more than 45-50 apps(system apps aren't included).

you are right i'm using che1-L04 with marshmallow. i can root it but don't wanna switch the rom

Neerajmorwal said:
you are right i'm using che1-L04 with marshmallow. i can root it but don't wanna switch the rom
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Any reason to stick with current rom? If you could confim.
I mean he has given a good solution to switch rom and solve problem.

shashank1320 said:
Any reason to stick with current rom? If you could confim.
I mean he has given a good solution to switch rom and solve problem.
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if switch rom will lost 4g network. I have done is few months back. see the below link
https://forum.xda-developers.com/ho...installing-t3615859/post72614569#post72614569

Neerajmorwal said:
if switch rom will lost 4g network. I have done is few months back. see the below link
https://forum.xda-developers.com/ho...installing-t3615859/post72614569#post72614569
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Thats sad brother. but seeing the post was started in June. We may have few roms which support 4G now. atleast MM based ROMs should have this for sure.

shashank1320 said:
Thats sad brother. but seeing the post was started in June. We may have few roms which support 4G now. atleast MM based ROMs should have this for sure.
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I understand there must be more ROMs but i don't wanna take risk again. As you know it takes too much time to manage new Rom and it's not possible there will be no bugs after installing MM based rom.