Hi all,
I've been trying to flash ROMs on my phone using my external SD card but it always fails with unable to open zip file. I can flash this properly in my internal SD card though.
Thanks!
iRyuzaki said:
Hi all,
I've been trying to flash ROMs on my phone using my external SD card but it always fails with unable to open zip file. I can flash this properly in my internal SD card though.
Thanks!
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Everything I flash is on my external. Sounds like what you use to copy the files isn't doing it properly. I use root explorer to move the files between internal and external before flashing. Double check the file sizes.
I used to use oi file manager. It copies and pastes the file fine but can't move them. You would always get "unable to move some files" but the file would be "moved"
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it works fine for me, I always flash from my external...
I use rootexplorer to move or delete files,
Weird... I used another sdcard and now it works! Thanks for the suggestions!
iRyuzaki said:
Weird... I used another sdcard and now it works! Thanks for the suggestions!
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next time u get a chance, but the other one back in. and format it within the phone. settings, storage, all the way on the bottom.
mdiaz33685 said:
next time u get a chance, but the other one back in. and format it within the phone. settings, storage, all the way on the bottom.
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I'm having a similar issue with a new sdcard that i got (32gb), i have tried to reformat it from the system settings and it fails from there, and then i am trying twrp and it also fails from there?
can someone please help, how can i fix this, i would really like to have the bigger card in the phone!
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Hello everyone, I am new to rooting and accidentally installed a nandroid to my internal sd card while trying to put it on my external sd card. I plugged my phone into my computer and deleted the backup files from the Clockwork folder. For some reason though, it keeps showing on my phone in Miscellaneous files that Clockwork mod recovery is taking up a little less than 2gb. Can someone help me fix this?
Thanks in advance!
logammo said:
Hello everyone, I am new to rooting and accidentally installed a nandroid to my internal sd card while trying to put it on my external sd card. I plugged my phone into my computer and deleted the backup files from the Clockwork folder. For some reason though, it keeps showing on my phone in Miscellaneous files that Clockwork mod recovery is taking up a little less than 2gb. Can someone help me fix this?
Thanks in advance!
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When you plug into the computer you will see:
Phone (This is really the internal sdcard)
Sdcard (This is the external sdcard)
If you want to get them off the internal sdcard you need to delete them from the phone folder and leave them in the sdcard folder.
logammo said:
Hello everyone, I am new to rooting and accidentally installed a nandroid to my internal sd card while trying to put it on my external sd card. I plugged my phone into my computer and deleted the backup files from the Clockwork folder. For some reason though, it keeps showing on my phone in Miscellaneous files that Clockwork mod recovery is taking up a little less than 2gb. Can someone help me fix this?
Thanks in advance!
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I'd familiarize yourself with a file explorer like esfile explorer (best one imo) and you can delete these backups on your phone from your phone, doesn't matter if it's on the internal sd or external sd.
epic4GEE said:
I'd familiarize yourself with a file explorer like esfile explorer (best one imo) and you can delete these backups on your phone from your phone, doesn't matter if it's on the internal sd or external sd.
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I downloaded root browser lite and I cant seem to find CWM in the internal SD folders.
epic4GEE said:
I'd familiarize yourself with a file explorer like esfile explorer (best one imo) and you can delete these backups on your phone from your phone, doesn't matter if it's on the internal sd or external sd.
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I agree, except that my favorite is Total Commander.
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logammo said:
I downloaded root browser lite and I cant seem to find CWM in the internal SD folders.
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I use twrp but I still have my stock rooted rom saved with cwm, unless you deleted the folder it should be in the clockworkmod folder
Ok everyone so it seems that I deleted the backup but CWM is still taking up 1.6gb of internal storage. Is this normal, or is this the nandroid I deleted that is still showing?
Newer versions of cwm also store other data (cont remember the name of the folder) to support incremental backups. Maybe that is still there?
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logammo said:
Ok everyone so it seems that I deleted the backup but CWM is still taking up 1.6gb of internal storage. Is this normal, or is this the nandroid I deleted that is still showing?
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That's too much data to be residual, I'd say your backup is in a folder some place in the internal sd
epic4GEE said:
That's too much data to be residual, I'd say your backup is in a folder some place in the internal sd
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Where should I check?
Idk where it would be if not in the cwm folder, did you try rebooting your phone just to be sure it didn't go tard on you after you deleted it and is now giving you a false reading?
Something I was thinking about is just wiping my internal and external sd card to start fresh. What effect would this have on my root and unlocked bootloader?
OK so I found the problem. I never deleted the blobs files. This is what is taking up so much space. Is it safe to delete these files?
EDIT: I went into CWM recovery and selected free nandroid space and it deleted the blobs not associated with a backup.
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OK so I found the problem. I never deleted the blobs files. This is what is taking up so much space. Is it safe to delete these files?
EDIT: I went into CWM recovery and selected free nandroid space and it deleted the blobs not associated with a backup.
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Ahh good a happy ending
Yup. The blobs. That is the incremental data that I was talking about before. That is what the new version of cwm uses to avoid duplicating data in successive backups.
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So I went back to stock system because I needed to unlock my phone and I placed some files on my Internal SD, then installed PA 2.10 and when i try to access my Internal SD its completely new, my old stuff disappeared. Any suggestions on what i did wrong or how to access my files?
Another thing to mention, on the Internal Storage (when i plug in my phone to my PC) it says I only have 10GB of space out of 12, even though my "new" directory doesn't contain even 100mb of data.
IClassStriker said:
So I went back to stock system because I needed to unlock my phone and I placed some files on my Internal SD, then installed PA 2.10 and when i try to access my Internal SD its completely new, my old stuff disappeared. Any suggestions on what i did wrong or how to access my files?
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This is a great reason why it's a good idea to invest in a $10 micro sd card. Did you format /system and/or /data?
They are stored in a folder call 0 now. Look in there. 4.2 rooms move all your data files there. You can find them all in there and move back if you like
xBeerdroiDx said:
This is a great reason why it's a good idea to invest in a $10 micro sd card. Did you format /system and/or /data?
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yeaa i did, is that why?
hednik said:
They are stored in a folder call 0 now. Look in there. 4.2 rooms move all your data files there. You can find them all in there and move back if you like
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and i checked, i think they were overwritten. Does anybody know a way to access your entire file system through computer other than MTP?
IClassStriker said:
Does anybody know a way to access your entire file system through computer other than MTP?
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AirDroid. It syncs your S3 with your computer via WiFi. It's in the play store.
IClassStriker said:
yeaa i did, is that why?
and i checked, i think they were overwritten. Does anybody know a way to access your entire file system through computer other than MTP?
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You can use adb and navigate to /data/media.
Or you can get a file manager, navigate to /data/media, then move all your files to the 0 folder then do whatever you need to after.
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Rooted and flashed my phone last night and everything works great. However, for some reason I can't see my internal SD (I think this is what it's called) anymore in file explorer. It's weird because in CWM I can view the internal SD just fine and can see the zip files I flashed. Any ideas on how to make this visible again in Astro or File Explorer (PC)?
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I switched to TWRP and I can now see that my entire internal SD folder has now been moved to /data/media (?????). How do I make this visible from PC? Also I'm confused now..where do I place ROM zip files I want to flash? I don't have an external SD card
dinanS52 said:
Rooted and flashed my phone last night and everything works great. However, for some reason I can't see my internal SD (I think this is what it's called) anymore in file explorer. It's weird because in CWM I can view the internal SD just fine and can see the zip files I flashed. Any ideas on how to make this visible again in Astro or File Explorer (PC)?
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I switched to TWRP and I can now see that my entire internal SD folder has now been moved to /data/media (?????). How do I make this visible from PC? Also I'm confused now..where do I place ROM zip files I want to flash? I don't have an external SD card
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I'm guessing you flashed an AOSP ROM? When doing this the system partition creates an emulated folder of your internal memory. You can locate it in any root browser by navigating to /storage/emulated/0/
That is your actual internal sd card. Now you know where to place all your files. Your pc should read this directory by defaut
EDIT: your memory was always in data/media. However flashing an aosp Rom will add a secondary partition and that's the one you wanna go to.
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LuigiBull23 said:
I'm guessing you flashed an AOSP ROM? When doing this the system partition creates an emulated folder of your internal memory. You can locate it in any root browser by navigating to /storage/emulated/0/
That is your actual internal sd card. Now you know where to place all your files. Your pc should read this directory by defaut
EDIT: your memory was always in data/media. However flashing an aosp Rom will add a secondary partition and that's the one you wanna go to.
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The rom I flashed was: [4.2.2][AOKPA:CM10.1] ParanoidKANGdroid 2.32
Navigating to /storage/emulated/0 does show the "current" internal memory and this does show up on PC
I guess what the problem is, I am trying to access the internal memory from my "old" stock ROM. I know it exists still because in TWRP it shows up under data/media. This folder is NOT what is displayed in /storage/emulated/o/.
When I navigate to data/media in astro it shows up as empty (Actually the "data' folder is empty)
Okay so I got access to the folder using Root Explorer. Is it safe to delete everything in "data/media"? Its literally everything from the old ROM and nothing from the new...
dinanS52 said:
Okay so I got access to the folder using Root Explorer. Is it safe to delete everything in "data/media"? Its literally everything from the old ROM and nothing from the new...
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It is safe. deleting everything from /data/media/ is the same thing as formatting you're sd card. So unless you don't care I'd recommend just deleting any old files from your previous ROM that doesn't actually appear in /storage/emulated/0/. It's just taking up space. If you decide to return to a TW ROM, /emulated/0/ will still exist but will no longer be your phone's default memory location until you revert back to aozp. Just keep that in mind.
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So I don't know what I did but I went to my recovery (TWRP) and accidently did something I do not know what, but now I can not view my pics, files, music from both SD/internal..but when I reboot my phone and check on the computer I see everything there and my storage says it's full. I just can't see it on the phone
re: out of space
G1-evolve said:
So I don't know what I did but I went to my recovery (TWRP) and accidently did something I do not know what, but now I can not view my pics, files, music from both SD/internal..but when I reboot my phone and check on the computer I see everything there and my storage says it's full. I just can't see it on the phone
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I think it would be very useful if you can provide a lot more details and specifics about your situation like
which rom are you using, did it ever work properly if so what was the last thing you have done with the
phone before you started having this issue.
If I were you since you can see your internal and external sdcards on your computer I would first create
two new folders on the computer's desktop, one for internal sd and the other external sd.
Then copy all the files and folders from your internal/external sdcard to the appropriate folders on your desktop.
After doing that check how much space is being used in each of your two new folders on your computer's desktop.
See if there are any really large files which look suspicious to you.
After doing that and if the sdcards are either really full or not really full you will have a better idea of what to do to
trouble shoot the issue you are having with the phone.
It's always a good idea in any case to have a backup of both internal and external sdcards on your computer.
Good luck!
It isn't an ROM issue, but I was on PAC Rom. My problem is I did something in the recovery by mistake and pressed something maybe that formatted my memory?? :crying:
edit: Issue seems to be fixed..
re: sdcards
G1-evolve said:
It isn't an ROM issue, but I was on PAC Rom. My problem is I did something in the recovery by mistake and pressed something maybe that formatted my memory?? :crying:
edit: Issue seems to be fixed..
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That's one of the reasons I was suggesting that you copy everything from both internal and external
cards to folders on your computers desktop.
So you could see what you really have. If you get a message saying sdcard full or anything like that
it normally would mean that the sdcard has not been formatted, if it was it would be empty and it would
not give an error message saying that it's full.
Sometimes the PC will see the files after its been wiped by the phone. Copy everything to desktop, hope it actually copies everything, format sd card using Android OS, copy everything back, get a Dropbox account.
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Find a root file manager.
Go to
Data/media.
That's your internal sd card. Some roms create a virtual sd card (sdcard0 or emulated sdcard0), which is android making a a fake one. All your pictures are still on your phone.
Just copy data/media into the virtual sd card an reboot. Your stuff shall appear again. If you have issues just pm me.
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I tried doing the unmount trick, the one with the terminal. Still nothing
The "funny" thing is that I can install free apps without problem, but when I download Swype and Poweramp unlocker (which I bought) i keep getting this error
solutions?
Did you try a Link2SD?
More details please buddy, want to help but need to know as much as you can tell. Rom, flash details, when it first happened, etc.
EmptyArea said:
More details please buddy, want to help but need to know as much as you can tell. Rom, flash details, when it first happened, etc.
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Hello, I have flashed the JellyKat ROM v5 on my NoteII and got a new sd card (ADATA 32GB) from ebay, the card was sealed so I hope I wasn't cheated, but randomly I see these things in my DCIM folder and I can't write to the card and the phone seems to not read the media on it music photos everything, and I can't install any apps on it or update existing app or even create a folder through the default touchwiz My Files.
I tried to format the card on the PC but can only do quick format because it loads and loads and then say windows can't format this, I also formated it via the phone it worked for a while and then stopped working again, now I don't put a card in the phone.
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Hello, I have flashed the JellyKat ROM v5 on my NoteII and got a new sd card (ADATA 32GB) from ebay, the card was sealed so I hope I wasn't cheated, but randomly I see these things in my DCIM folder and I can't write to the card and the phone seems to not read the media on it music photos everything, and I can't install any apps on it or update existing app or even create a folder through the default touchwiz My Files.
I tried to format the card on the PC but can only do quick format because it loads and loads and then say windows can't format this, I also formated it via the phone it worked for a while and then stopped working again, now I don't put a card in the phone.
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Seems like sdcard's memory partitions corrupted.
Try different Sdcard & update info
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Seems like sdcard's memory partitions corrupted.
Try different Sdcard & update info
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I have been using my old card from my tablet all day now and it is working fine I created a new folder and copied some files from internal storage to it to test it and it worked.
Is there a way to fix the corrupted partitions on the other card?
Jerry69 said:
I tried doing the unmount trick, the one with the terminal. Still nothing
The "funny" thing is that I can install free apps without problem, but when I download Swype and Poweramp unlocker (which I bought) i keep getting this error
solutions?
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Yup, I also faced that kind of problem before, simply run KitKat SD fix, grant root and let the app patch the platform.xml. Reboot and try again. It worked for me. :good: