I was removing files to free up my device when suddenly everything got deleted!
at max i remember there was a file with something like storage/sdcard0/. i think that must have been the some sdard shortcut or something but i was already inside the sdard! and i didnt even create it! it automatically came up!
vinayakagarwal1996 said:
I was removing files to free up my device when suddenly everything got deleted!
at max i remember there was a file with something like storage/sdcard0/. i think that must have been the some sdard shortcut or something but i was already inside the sdard! and i didnt even create it! it automatically came up!
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First you need to calm down, and give some more details of what happened and exactly what did you do for it to happen, what software do you use (e.g Root Explorer) etc..
/storage/sdcard0 is the mount point for internal strorage on the root file system, it is always there.
Are there any files inside /storage/sdcard0?
ChikeD said:
First you need to calm down, and give some more details of what happened and exactly what did you do for it to happen, what software do you use (e.g Root Explorer) etc..
/storage/sdcard0 is the mount point for internal strorage on the root file system, it is always there.
Are there any files inside /storage/sdcard0?
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i was using solid explorer
it didnt have an extension n probably wasn't supported by the explorer and so it showed the white icon. and i didnt try to open it. i just deleted it.
also i didnt ever see it before
vinayakagarwal1996 said:
i was using solid explorer
it didnt have an extension n probably wasn't supported by the explorer and so it showed the white icon. and i didnt try to open it. i just deleted it.
also i didnt ever see it before
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What have you deleted, /storage/sdcard0?
Is it still there? If not create
All files are probably gone if you done so, but there are file recovery apps you can try, search Google Play
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I cannot get folder mount tovmove my Google Access music. In fact when I use it to browse my SD card, it never populates folder sizes or anything else.
I used this for the sane purpose on my Razr, with success. Has anyone got this app to work on their S4?
jeepguy_1980 said:
I cannot get folder mount tovmove my Google Access music. In fact when I use it to browse my SD card, it never populates folder sizes or anything else.
I used this for the sane purpose on my Razr, with success. Has anyone got this app to work on their S4?
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I'm also having the same problem. Are the files stored somewhere else, because they don't appear to be in com.google.android.music.
EDIT: I think I figured it out! The location for the music is actually /data/data/com.google.android.music. Happy listening!
First kill play music app so it is not running
Then (I used solid explorer, but I am sure you could use a terminal app. adb shell, or any other app you prefer to use.
In Solid Explorer by deleting the music folder located in /data/data/com.google.android.music/files/music and then I created a symlink from /storage/extSdCard/files/music to /data/data/com.google.android.music/files which makes a music folder that points back to the external sdcard.
Last reboot your phone
It works very very well and all the music I want to cache from what I have stored in google works well.
Hope this helps you out.
Does it still let you write new music to this location?
It has for me. I have cached about 400 songs offline after doing the symlink
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Ainvar said:
First kill play music app so it is not running
Then (I used solid explorer, but I am sure you could use a terminal app. adb shell, or any other app you prefer to use.
In Solid Explorer by deleting the music folder located in /data/data/com.google.android.music/files/music and then I created a symlink from /storage/extSdCard/files/music to /data/data/com.google.android.music/files which makes a music folder that points back to the external sdcard.
Last reboot your phone
It works very very well and all the music I want to cache from what I have stored in google works well.
Hope this helps you out.
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symlinks are the way to go. do it with my solid state hard drive to a bigger drive, works great
This worked for me. But every time I reboot I get a "Google Music has stopped working" error. It onky does it once, right as the OS loads back up.
Ainvar said:
First kill play music app so it is not running
Then (I used solid explorer, but I am sure you could use a terminal app. adb shell, or any other app you prefer to use.
In Solid Explorer by deleting the music folder located in /data/data/com.google.android.music/files/music and then I created a symlink from /storage/extSdCard/files/music to /data/data/com.google.android.music/files which makes a music folder that points back to the external sdcard.
Last reboot your phone
It works very very well and all the music I want to cache from what I have stored in google works well.
Hope this helps you out.
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It worked. Thank you.
Fixed the error. Now it's 100%
jeepguy_1980 said:
Fixed the error. Now it's 100%
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How'd you fix it? Or did it just stop?
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I assume the problem was because I had converted Play Music to a use app. I just reinstalled my Rom and then recreated the symlink and it seeme to be working now.
darek65 said:
It worked. Thank you.
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Anytime!
Ainvar said:
Anytime!
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Is this really working or is it just duplicating your device folder on your sdcard? Since our phone's file system doesn't support symlinks, I don't understand how this is working! I've read many threads and no one can get this to work on the verizon version. Just curious!
Working for me! Symlink does work... thats what folderMount does.
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Is this really working or is it just duplicating your device folder on your sdcard? Since our phone's file system doesn't support symlinks, I don't understand how this is working! I've read many threads and no one can get this to work on the verizon version. Just curious!
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I did not symlick the folder from the phone to the sd card. I actually deleted the cache and files folder located in /data/data/com.google.android.music and then I created a symlink from the cache and files folder I created on the sdcard to the system root partition.
So look at it like this. I created shortcuts inside the system root folder from the source located on the sdcard. So when Google Music go to place content in the cache and files folder in the system root partition it is actually placing this content on the sdcard.
This has been keeping my internal storage from diminishing and is using the sdcard.
I would say why not try it out yourself and test it out. You will be able to see everything for yourself.
This is doing exactly what FoulderMount does from internal storage to sdcard, but for the system root. I actually got the idea to try this when I got an error from FolderMount stating it cant be done from within the app.
Hope this answers your questions and concerns on this.
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chewwy420 said:
Working for me! Symlink does work... thats what folderMount does.
I am actually using FolderMount to do this for AmazonMP3 folder, DCIM, Downloads, Wallbase, and quite a few other apps. Specially with the beta setting os excluding the duplicate folders from being scanned into the media apps. The folder I have the files and cache in I have a .nomedia file in the rot folder to keep duplicate files from showing up in the media apps.
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Exactly, it is what made me try it for Google Music. I was thinking of doing this for the space time studios games but they don't hit over 50 megs each when you download the content.
i did try folder mount. And that's why I'm asking how yall two got it working. Our phone's, GS4's, does not support symlinks. Google it. There is no one else on the net with a verizon phone that has this working. Yes, there are tutorials on the net about using folder mount and various other ways, but they don't work for our verizon model. There are many many threads on the verizon gs4 forums about people asking about foldermount. When most verizon gs4 users use foldermount, it just makes a duplicate folder on the sdcard, both the device folder and the sdcard folders just mimic each other, not gaining you any space on the phone itself.
krazykevin76 said:
i did try folder mount. And that's why I'm asking how yall two got it working. Our phone's, GS4's, does not support symlinks. Google it. There is no one else on the net with a verizon phone that has this working. Yes, there are tutorials on the net about using folder mount and various other ways, but they don't work for our verizon model. There are many many threads on the verizon gs4 forums about people asking about foldermount. When most verizon gs4 users use foldermount, it just makes a duplicate folder on the sdcard, both the device folder and the sdcard folders just mimic each other, not gaining you any space on the phone itself.
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I am guessing you did not read what I have said in this thread. I did not use foldermount for this one but I did list the ones I did use foldermount for. I did state however that I did a "symlink" for google music folders. I never stated that I used foldermount for that. But no matter what I have said in the past few posts you dont want to listen or even try it out for yourself. I am very happy to know there are so many threads stating this cant be done.
Here is some information about symbolic links as I think you should read more about it.
Also you can create a symlink on an ext4 FS which is where the link resides and its target is on a fat32 FS. I never stated that I created the target on a fat32 you assumed this.
Also googling around about this I found an actually XDA thread that talked about yet someone else who was able to do this back in Nov 2012....
More links for your reading pleasure.... link 1, link 2, and last but not least one about the space usage which seems pretty clear that it does not do double space. Depending on how the software reads it, it may think it is using that space but it really is not. Read a little more next time. Google is not a hard thing to use when searching for answers. Also it is not hard to accept something works when others in this thread and others have plainly stated that it works.
Also just a little more information just in case you aren't sure about everything you read
Screenshot of files symlink and screenshot of cache symlink
Screenshot of files folder on the SDCARD and now for the screenshot of the cache folder on the SDCARD
I removed some songs to see if the device would record different storage use on the system root folder and it did not.
All in all believe what you want and do what you want, this works for me and it has worked for others on this thread and another thread I found earlier tonight.
Now....
You must be rooted....
Force Stop Google Music
In Solid Explorer (this is what I used)
go to system root and /data/data/com.google.android.music/ and delete files and cache (cache if you want to)
go to sdcard and make a folder called Google Music (or anything you want to name it...) create a folder called files and cache in this folder.
now right click and chose properties on files and chose create a symlink and give the path of the "/data/data/com.google.android.music/files This will be the target that is created.
now right click and chose properties on cache and chose create a symlink and give the path of the "/data/data/com.google.android.music/cache This will be the target that is created.
Now you are done. This is exactly what I did and it works very very well........
I'm man enough to admit when I'm wrong. I should have dug some more on the symlinks. I got even more confused when chewy said he made symlinks, that's what folder mount does. How do you have your sd card partitioned and formatted if you don't mind answering?
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krazykevin76 said:
I'm man enough to admit when I'm wrong. I should have dug some more on the symlinks. I got even more confused when chewy said he made symlinks, that's what folder mount does. How do you have your sd card partitioned and formatted if you don't mind answering?
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Not a problem, I just wanted you to be able to see the info.
My sd card FS is fat32 formatted by winbloze 7. Now my real test will be to replicate all of this once I get my 64gb sd card which will be formatted in exFAT.
I use foldermount for everything else though. It does well from my usage so far for the base few days and I dont have to remember which folders I use symlinks on. I just know from reading either on here or on the app page that the app does not make links in the system root. So I just tried to do a symlink and it worked well. Googling tonight actually showed me someone else did it before me.
Since you are having issues can I ask what type of sdcard do you have and what fs is on it? Also what app are you using to do the symlink? is it an app or are you doing it from a terminal emulator or through adb shell?
Ainvar said:
Now....
You must be rooted....
Force Stop Google Music
In Solid Explorer (this is what I used)
go to system root and /data/data/com.google.android.music/ and delete files and cache (cache if you want to)
go to sdcard and make a folder called Google Music (or anything you want to name it...) create a folder called files and cache in this folder.
now right click and chose properties on files and chose create a symlink and give the path of the "/data/data/com.google.android.music/files This will be the target that is created.
now right click and chose properties on cache and chose create a symlink and give the path of the "/data/data/com.google.android.music/cache This will be the target that is created.
Now you are done. This is exactly what I did and it works very very well........
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Just wanted to say thanks for this! I ended up buying Folder Mount thinking it would do it but I couldn't seem to access root folders. I didn't realize Solid Explorer could do it too and I already own it. The steps made it a snap
Hi,
I wanted to see the whole file system of my phone. I have already rooted it.
This is what I want to do :
I have installed an app. by the name "Printershare". It is, as the name says, for printing. When I connect a printer to the phone, it downloads some driver pack from the internet. I want to check what it downloaded (All the files everything in the 'Driver Pack'). But when I connect my phone to my system, using samsung kies, I can only access the phone data and not the data internal to the apps.
Is there any way of accessing everything on the phone?
NOTE: Phone is already rooted.
Thanks
-Sahil
Download a file manager on your phone like ES File Explorer or something similar. Those usually allow you to browse to root directory after gaining superuser privileges.
Or if you want to just view them you can install terminal emulator and do a
Code:
cd /
Well via a pc I dont think there is a method to access system partitions...but if you use ES file explorer ..you will be able to access all your system files through your phone itself....but be careful not to delete any important files in the system good luck
hope this helped
use adb shell
sadeshmagic said:
Well via a pc I dont think there is a method to access system partitions...but if you use ES file explorer ..you will be able to access all your system files through your phone itself....but be careful not to delete any important files in the system good luck
hope this helped
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Thanks for ur reply
That really helped..
One more question...Where would the application data be stored, I mean in which folder??
I explained the problem in more detail in my first post on this thread.
Thanx
sahilh14 said:
Thanks for ur reply
That really helped..
One more question...Where would the application data be stored, I mean in which folder??
I explained the problem in more detail in my first post on this thread.
Thanx
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If the app you installed is a normal apk file....and I mean if you installed it like normal....some of the app data will be in the data folder of your root ....that means you need to go back up to the root folder...then you will see a folder called data....go into that folder and you will see many folders....there are two important folders....one again is named data...the other is named app....but please if you dont know what you are you better not go in...as there maybe risks to the system....
/data/app
/data/data
these are the two pathways of the folders
good luck...hope this helps
SIII data folder
SIII application data folders are here
/sdcard/Android/data
and
/sdcard/Android/obb
obb is common used by large HD games like those from gameloft.
tigerporc said:
SIII application data folders are here
/sdcard/Android/data
and
/sdcard/Android/obb
obb is common used by large HD games like those from gameloft.
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no. that's external data. app data is in /data/data
I have flashed a sony based rom some time ago and I have noticed that the sony sample pictures cannot be deleted from the gallery, even using root explorer or file explorer fails to remove them from the system. If anyone has a suggestion or solution please let me know.
alaska_ryder said:
I have flashed a sony based rom some time ago and I have noticed that the sony sample pictures cannot be deleted from the gallery, even using root explorer or file explorer fails to remove them from the system. If anyone has a suggestion or solution please let me know.
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just a thought, when using root explorer did you mount the system as Read/Write before deleting pics?
lakshan_456 said:
just a thought, when using root explorer did you mount the system as Read/Write before deleting pics?
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Yes, I mounted system as Read/Write and tried other file managers. Root Explorer is the only one that says it cannot complete action, the others says they are deleted but the thumbnails remain. In the gallery they can be deleted but they reappear the next time it is opened.
alaska_ryder said:
Yes, I mounted system as Read/Write and tried other file managers. Root Explorer is the only one that says it cannot complete action, the others says they are deleted but the thumbnails remain. In the gallery they can be deleted but they reappear the next time it is opened.
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I'm sorry, but I'm not really familiar with your device so, I cannot further suggest anything specific.
don't know if this'll work, how about placing a .nomedia file in the folder which contains those pictures?
The folder labeled "root" , I enabled Root Explorer in File Browser. Browsed to "root" folder and still no files are visible. Says 0 bytes/files in properties. Other folders eg... \data and system I can view and modify the files. Just nothing visible in root. Is there really noting in there?
This is my first time rooting so don't scold me if I missed something here. Yes I did a quick search and nothing immediately came up directly related to this.
Android 4.3
THE-COPS said:
The folder labeled "root" , I enabled Root Explorer in File Browser. Browsed to "root" folder and still no files are visible. Says 0 bytes/files in properties. Other folders eg... \data and system I can view and modify the files. Just nothing visible in root. Is there really noting in there?
This is my first time rooting so don't scold me if I missed something here. Yes I did a quick search and nothing immediately came up directly related to this.
Android 4.3
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What is it you're trying to do though? That folder on my phone is also empty even with " show hidden files" enabled.
Maybe confusing what's called the "root" of the SD card for an actual folder that's there labeled root?;
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My S4 isn't rooted, but like Mistertac said I've never seen anything in the "root" folder on any device. That goes back to the Samsung Epic and through the Galaxy Nexus I guess.
Just trying to view files. Nothing special. Thought the phone being un-rooted was always the reason the ROOT folder showed no files, as in they were hidden. I had always thought that the ROOT folder was like the WINDOWS folder on your comp. The source of the Android OS. ?
THE-COPS said:
Just trying to view files. Nothing special. Thought the phone being un-rooted was always the reason the ROOT folder showed no files, as in they were hidden. I had always thought that the ROOT folder was like the WINDOWS folder on your comp. The source of the Android OS. ?
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The root of our SD cards is just the main storage area that pops up when you say view the contents of it.... Then from there are all the folders. In this case that "root" folder we were talking about earlier is just a folder, similar to the " download" folder.. Both folders are seen from the root of said SD card.
I actually don't know much about the folder you mentioned, I know it's always been empty for me. Not sure why it's there though, I'm sure someone on here would know
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The folder labeled "root" , I enabled Root Explorer in File Browser. Browsed to "root" folder and still no files are visible. Says 0 bytes/files in properties. Other folders eg... \data and system I can view and modify the files. Just nothing visible in root. Is there really noting in there?
This is my first time rooting so don't scold me if I missed something here. Yes I did a quick search and nothing immediately came up directly related to this.
Android 4.3
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/root is empty for a stock ROM. There's nothing that normally stores any data there.
Edit: it's there because it's the home directory for the root user.
Hi all,
I have my Onda V972 for about a year now and it works great but since yesterday I cannot make new folders or copy other folders to my internal sdcard.
I was working with "Ofline Browser" and on a given moment he just stopped copying webpages and said "Cannot find .....".
I checked the r/w permissions with ES File Explorer and all is well.
I can make a new file or copy one to an existing folder but I cannot make new folders or subfolders.
Anyone knows how to fix this?
John
specs:
Onda V972 Core 4
4.2.2
Firmware v3.2.1_v2
Kernel 3.3.0 [email protected] #1 2013/7/25
shoppy said:
Hi all,
I have my Onda V972 for about a year now and it works great but since yesterday I cannot make new folders or copy other folders to my internal sdcard.
I was working with "Ofline Browser" and on a given moment he just stopped copying webpages and said "Cannot find .....".
I checked the r/w permissions with ES File Explorer and all is well.
I can make a new file or copy one to an existing folder but I cannot make new folders or subfolders.
Anyone knows how to fix this?
John
specs:
Onda V972 Core 4
4.2.2
Firmware v3.2.1_v2
Kernel 3.3.0 [email protected] #1 2013/7/25
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Have you tried any other file explorer?
Or trying to make new folders from your PC?
UltraWelfare said:
Have you tried any other file explorer?
Or trying to make new folders from your PC?
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Yes, I tried several file managers.
I can make new folders on it from the PC.
Just to be clear: It is about my internal sdcard, my external sdcard works fine!
John
shoppy said:
Yes, I tried several file managers.
I can't even make new folders from the PC because I cannot access it anymore.
Just to be clear: It is about my internal sdcard, my external sdcard works fine!
John
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Are you sure you are not on KitKat version?
UltraWelfare said:
Are you sure you are not on KitKat version?
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Yes I am sure, it just happened without a reason.
The stupid thing is that everything works fine but when an app tries to make a new folder or subfolder it says that it can't find the file.
Thats because he couldn't make the folder.
Strange huh?
shoppy said:
Yes I am sure, it just happened without a reason.
The stupid thing is that everything works fine but when an app tries to make a new folder or subfolder it says that it can't find the file.
Thats because he couldn't make the folder.
Strange huh?
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Try to Factory data reset
UltraWelfare said:
Try to Factory data reset
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I was considering this but I couldn't make a copy or backup from this disk so I would loose everything on it.
Finally after a few days trying I managed to connect to the PC and I simply repaired the disk from within Explorer.
All works well again now.
Thanks for the help and thinking.
shoppy said:
I was considering this but I couldn't make a copy or backup from this disk so I would loose everything on it.
Finally after a few days trying I managed to connect to the PC and I simply repaired the disk from within Explorer.
All works well again now.
Thanks for the help and thinking.
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If only you could press the "Thanks" button located under my post I would be better than happy .