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I'm using Clockworkmod 6.0.1 to backup. Is this called nandroid backup ? So it backs up about 10-15mins and it's only 10mb size~?? I was backing up custom rom. I also have copy of my original rom wich is a bit more that 1GB tar file. But why now if only take 10mb with 15min backing time?
I was backing data on external sd card. Before backup it had 9gb free space, but after only 7gb. I went to folder where backup is "Computer\GT-I9300\Card\clockworkmod\backup\2012-08-26.18.42.40" and there is only 16.9 mb total of all the files instead of those 2 gb.
Also what give "free nandroid space" option. I did it and it fried about 2gb on internal memory.
Well, with clockworkmod 6 and up, the first nandroid is always big while future nandroids are incremental. Why? Well, it creates a blobs folder of around 2gb with everything, then folders for each rom which are about 10-20mb each. Every new ROM that's backed up only add what's not already there in the blobs file, i.e. it uses stuff from your previous nandroids if nothing new has been added to conserve space.
Instead of having 10 nandroids with all being 2gb, it now only takes a huge 2gb nandroid and only add what's new from newer nandroids.
Kinda hard to explain as I don't really know how to put it.
There are some issues still with this version of CWM. I'd stick with v 5 until they are worked out. They have to do with the way the internal and external SD structure is for the device and both the SII and SIII are effected by it. If you try to restore, it will probably fail.
Done it myself on my SII. I've since learned and stay with v 5 until 6 is solid, and that might be a while. The incremental update feature with blobs is nice, and I hope it works right. It's never worked right for me yet, however. Maybe things are fixed by now. I'm not sure.
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Well, with clockworkmod 6 and up, the first nandroid is always big while future nandroids are incremental. Why? Well, it creates a blobs folder of around 2gb with everything, then folders for each rom which are about 10-20mb each. Every new ROM that's backed up only add what's not already there in the blobs file, i.e. it uses stuff from your previous nandroids if nothing new has been added to conserve space.
Instead of having 10 nandroids with all being 2gb, it now only takes a huge 2gb nandroid and only add what's new from newer nandroids.
Kinda hard to explain as I don't really know how to put it.
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Wow... Very nice space saver, but i will revert to v5 now. Thanks!
Pickepys said:
Wow... Very nice space saver, but i will revert to v5 now. Thanks!
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It sure is, and would be great if it CWM6 actually worked on our phones.
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It sure is, and would be great if it CWM6 actually worked on our phones.
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One more thing. I just deleted backup folder on external sd card wich was about 1gb with blobs folder (wich was just few kilobaits) and gained 3gb of space back. How i can view those HIDDEN FILES throught pc i always wondered.
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One more thing. I just deleted backup folder on external sd card wich was about 1gb with blobs folder (wich was just few kilobaits) and gained 3gb of space back. How i can view those HIDDEN FILES throught pc i always wondered.
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No idea. Not too familiar with CWN6. I've only used it very briefly.
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There are some issues still with this version of CWM. I'd stick with v 5 until they are worked out. They have to do with the way the internal and external SD structure is for the device and both the SII and SIII are effected by it. If you try to restore, it will probably fail.
Done it myself on my SII. I've since learned and stay with v 5 until 6 is solid, and that might be a while. The incremental update feature with blobs is nice, and I hope it works right. It's never worked right for me yet, however. Maybe things are fixed by now. I'm not sure.
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I've had a couple of hiccups since v6 too. The backups have failed on me and I think it's since I moved the files (backup. and BLOBS) to a different location (ext sd or pc) prior to doing a full system wipe.
Gutted that I lost stuff as a result because I'd used it successfully lots of times and trusted it to work.
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So the past few weeks has been my first experience with safe strap and everything.I have been using only the Hyperdrive rom. After having some issues with the RS14 update, i had to delete the rom slot and make a new one. Ive noticed that i have a ton of hidden files, because i have almost no space left on the internal storage. anybody have any ideas on how to find and delete these files? I would also like to know what you guys set the slot as, as far as given space. this is the only rom im going to be using so i want to maximize my space.
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So the past few weeks has been my first experience with safe strap and everything.I have been using only the Hyperdrive rom. After having some issues with the RS14 update, i had to delete the rom slot and make a new one. Ive noticed that i have a ton of hidden files, because i have almost no space left on the internal storage. anybody have any ideas on how to find and delete these files? I would also like to know what you guys set the slot as, as far as given space. this is the only rom im going to be using so i want to maximize my space.
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If you do format sdcard that should clear up space (factory reset will not clear them). For the space, Safestrap use the internal storage only, so the O/S, boot etc i would need about 900meg, and the data partition is depended on how many apps you planned to install, let say you assign 1gig for data then the total you need is approx 2gb, if you think you're going to have more apps then assign 2.5 or 3..it's all up to you.
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If you do format sdcard that should clear up space (factory reset will not clear them). For the space, Safestrap use the internal storage only, so the O/S, boot etc i would need about 900meg, and the data partition is depended on how many apps you planned to install, let say you assign 1gig for data then the total you need is approx 2gb, if you think you're going to have more apps then assign 2.5 or 3..it's all up to you.
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the hidden files are in the internal storage, not my sd card.
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If you do format sdcard that should clear up space (factory reset will not clear them). For the space, Safestrap use the internal storage only, so the O/S, boot etc i would need about 900meg, and the data partition is depended on how many apps you planned to install, let say you assign 1gig for data then the total you need is approx 2gb, if you think you're going to have more apps then assign 2.5 or 3..it's all up to you.
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i might just have to do a factory data reset, and start from scratch and reroot and start over. I really dont want to have to do that though
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i might just have to do a factory data reset, and start from scratch and reroot and start over. I really dont want to have to do that though
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Factory reset won't clear, you need to format sdcard,
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Factory reset won't clear, you need to format sdcard,
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even though the issue isn't in the ext sd card?
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even though the issue isn't in the ext sd card?
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screenshots taken without sd card in.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/skaterdave/12530759613/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/skaterdave/12530758613/
sorry for the links, the images werent' working
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even though the issue isn't in the ext sd card?
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I don't think you understand the misc files are hidden, there no way you can delete them. When you boot into recovery, do the following:
wipe cache, wipe dalvik cache, wipe system and format sdcard. Format sdcard is formatting your INTERNAL space, not your external sdcard. After done reflash rom.
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I don't think you understand the misc files are hidden, there no way you can delete them. When you boot into recovery, do the following:
wipe cache, wipe dalvik cache, wipe system and format sdcard. Format sdcard is formatting your INTERNAL space, not your external sdcard. After done reflash rom.
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When i hit wipe on safe strap, is it the format data button, or a full advanced wipe? sorry im asking so many questions, still really new to safestrap.
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When i hit wipe on safe strap, is it the format data button, or a full advanced wipe? sorry im asking so many questions, still really new to safestrap.
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Hey, just want to make sure we're on the same page. A 16gb Galaxy S4 only has 6gb available as stock phone. If you assigned 3gb for safestrap, then you should only have 3gb left for storage. So my question is the junk files are on the new rom (3gb safestrap) or from the original O/S? I don't believe safestrap offers the option to "format internal SDcard". If you want to continue to use safestrap, you should be on top of the storage space. Since I don't know all the junks are from, but I suggest you should start clean; Uninstall safestrap, Odin your phone back to stock ROM using PIT file. Now you should have a super clean phone. Record your storage space to see what's the total space, how much in used and how much free. At this point you should also take a look at app to SD, where all the new apps will be install to your external SDcard instead. From now on after you flash new rom or install safestrap, you should check your storage to have an idea what used up the space.
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Hey, just want to make sure we're on the same page. A 16gb Galaxy S4 only has 6gb available as stock phone. If you assigned 3gb for safestrap, then you should only have 3gb left for storage. So my question is the junk files are on the new rom (3gb safestrap) or from the original O/S? I don't believe safestrap offers the option to "format internal SDcard". If you want to continue to use safestrap, you should be on top of the storage space. Since I don't know all the junks are from, but I suggest you should start clean; Uninstall safestrap, Odin your phone back to stock ROM using PIT file. Now you should have a super clean phone. Record your storage space to see what's the total space, how much in used and how much free. At this point you should also take a look at app to SD, where all the new apps will be install to your external SDcard instead. From now on after you flash new rom or install safestrap, you should check your storage to have an idea what used up the space.
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Looks like thats what im going to have to do. Glad i still have bootcamp to use odin, because i didnt use odin, i used safe root. Think it will be the same process?
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Looks like thats what im going to have to do. Glad i still have bootcamp to use odin, because i didnt use odin, i used safe root. Think it will be the same process?
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Do you have Windows? or just MAC?
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Do you have Windows? or just MAC?
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I have a mac, running bootcamp with windows xp as well. But when i rooted this phone i used the mac method of safe root
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I have a mac, running bootcamp with windows xp as well. But when i rooted this phone i used the mac method of safe root
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Ok, doesn't matter which one you pick, but just use Odin to flash stock rom with PIT file found here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2290859, this should put you back to factory and a super clean storage.
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Ok, doesn't matter which one you pick, but just use Odin to flash stock rom with PIT file found here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2290859, this should put you back to factory and a super clean storage.
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unfortunately odin only works on windows, thats the only reason i have bootcamp hahaha. thanks for all your help. ill be back at my main computer on monday so Ill post after i give it a shot.
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So the past few weeks has been my first experience with safe strap and everything.I have been using only the Hyperdrive rom. After having some issues with the RS14 update, i had to delete the rom slot and make a new one. Ive noticed that i have a ton of hidden files, because i have almost no space left on the internal storage. anybody have any ideas on how to find and delete these files? I would also like to know what you guys set the slot as, as far as given space. this is the only rom im going to be using so i want to maximize my space.
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Why are you assuming that it's "hidden files"? It's probably just the bloated stock ROM.
A 16Gb GS4 with just the factory stuff will have at best 8Gb available - the OS and standard applications all use up that internal memory space.
(Just /system alone is 4.2 Gb on my phone, for example. Then there's the /data stuff, including the dalvik cache, etc.)
Re-flashing a full wipe ROM will maximize the available space, but it's never going to have 16 Gb free on a 16 Gb phone.
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Looks like thats what im going to have to do. Glad i still have bootcamp to use odin, because i didnt use odin, i used safe root. Think it will be the same process?
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If you have a Mac, you can use Heimdall to flash ROMs, including factory stock.
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Why are you assuming that it's "hidden files"? It's probably just the bloated stock ROM.
A 16Gb GS4 with just the factory stuff will have at best 8Gb available - the OS and standard applications all use up that internal memory space.
(Just /system alone is 4.2 Gb on my phone, for example. Then there's the /data stuff, including the dalvik cache, etc.)
Re-flashing a full wipe ROM will maximize the available space, but it's never going to have 16 Gb free on a 16 Gb phone.
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If you have a Mac, you can use Heimdall to flash ROMs, including factory stock.
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1) because everytime i clear a rom slot and make a new one in safe strap, i get less and less space. if you look at the images in the links i put up, you can see that there is a lot of Misc files in the system folder, and none of them can be seen. and it shows that even on the hyperdrive rom.
3) heimdall doesn't work for some reason on my computer, and because im on 4.3 already, i have to use safe strap and cant just flash roms
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1) because everytime i clear a rom slot and make a new one in safe strap, i get less and less space. if you look at the images in the links i put up, you can see that there is a lot of Misc files in the system folder, and none of them can be seen. and it shows that even on the hyperdrive rom.
3) heimdall doesn't work for some reason on my computer, and because im on 4.3 already, i have to use safe strap and cant just flash roms
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I don't think this is a case of "Hidden files" - possibly something getting left behind after removing a Safestrap slot, but that's not proven.
You should install a program like "Disk Usage" from the play store. That will tell you where the space is being consumed on your internal storage. The "Miscellaneous files" entry doesn't give you the detail that you need to diagnose this.
I can't help you with Heimdall without knowing why it doesn't work.
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Hey, just want to make sure we're on the same page. A 16gb Galaxy S4 only has 6gb available as stock phone.
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That is not correct. On launch day (May 23rd) my S4 had 9.51gb free space before i put anything on it.
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That is not correct. On launch day (May 23rd) my S4 had 9.51gb free space before i put anything on it.
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Well, I'm not exact on the number, but basically it took about +/- half of the total...) don't be too technical )
My apologies in advanced if this is an ignorant question. Is it OK to delete the stock ROM slot on safestrap and replace it with a custom ROM? If so how is the precise way to go about doing so?
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theErock said:
My apologies in advanced if this is an ignorant question. Is it OK to delete the stock ROM slot on safestrap and replace it with a custom ROM? If so how is the precise way to go about doing so?
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I've done it, and it's running great.
I first made a backup of the stock slot (I have a 64GB SD card, so plenty of room for backups ). Then, I also made a full backup of Slot 1, where I had CM installed, then wiped it so I would have more internal space. Then, with Stock slot selected, I simply went to install and picked the latest downloaded version of CM and gapps, installed just like it was on Slot 1, and things have worked great since!
Here's a bit more precise:
If you want to make backups
Boot into safestrap, select boot options and make sure the slot you're currently using (not stock!). Then, back to the main menu, choose backup. A bit more than halfway down, you'll see "Storage: " - I'd make sure your external card is selected - simply tap on storage to see which one / change it. Then, just swipe to back up.
Next, select boot options and select Stock, then repeat the next steps to back it up.
If you want more space
Next, go to boot options, select slot 1 (or where you have it installed), and delete it. (Make note of the size - I might be wrong, but if you ever want to restore the slot 1 backup, you'll want the same size created later).
Overwrite stock
Back in boot options, select Stock Rom, return to main menu and select Install. After this, just continue as if you're installing on a different slot. Assuming you've downloaded the latest CM and gapps (can't post full links ... grrr ... https [...] download [dot] cyanogenmod [dot] org [slash] ?device=spyder and saved it to your SD card, navigate to the rom zip file, select it, then add the gapps file.
If you have any trouble, post a reply. It was actually several months ago that I did this, so I actually don't remember if there was anything I had to do afterwards, but I believe it went smoothly.
Good luck!
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I've done it, and it's running great.
I first made a backup of the stock slot (I have a 64GB SD card, so plenty of room for backups ). Then, I also made a full backup of Slot 1, where I had CM installed, then wiped it so I would have more internal space. Then, with Stock slot selected, I simply went to install and picked the latest downloaded version of CM and gapps, installed just like it was on Slot 1, and things have worked great since!
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Thanks for all the details! I have to give this a try when I have an SD card with more memory (only have a 16gb internal sim card which is what was partitioned with safestrap, and only a 2gb external).
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theErock said:
Thanks for all the details! I have to give this a try when I have an SD card with more memory (only have a 16gb internal sim card which is what was partitioned with safestrap, and only a 2gb external).
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Backups are optional, of course - you could always try it without
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Backups are optional, of course - you could always try it without
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If safestrap was installed originally on stock ROM do I have to install it on ROM slot 1 where my custom is on? I don't have the zip anymore that I used the flash the custom on. What I really want to do is replace the stock with something smoother and different features. I'm perplexed because if I delete the Stock does that delete my recovery that boots my custom?
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theErock said:
If safestrap was installed originally on stock ROM do I have to install it on ROM slot 1 where my custom is on? I don't have the zip anymore that I used the flash the custom on. What I really want to do is replace the stock with something smoother and different features. I'm perplexed because if I delete the Stock does that delete my recovery that boots my custom?
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Shouldn't have to worry about that at all. I didn't do anything special. Internal storage is actually separate from the system level - people can correct me if I'm using the wrong terminology, but the point is, if it wipes your internal storage, it's actually not wiping the system level - it will overwrite stock, but you won't lose the recovery.
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Shouldn't have to worry about that at all. I didn't do anything special. Internal storage is actually separate from the system level - people can correct me if I'm using the wrong terminology, but the point is, if it wipes your internal storage, it's actually not wiping the system level - it will overwrite stock, but you won't lose the recovery.
At least, I didn't ...
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Also, if it makes you feel more comfortable, I recently made a full backup of the stock slot w/ CM11 on it, restored the original stock I had and booted it just fine in order to do some stuff with the verizon voicemail app (maybe I could have installed it in CM11, but I didn't want to), then rebooted to safestrap, restored CM11 to stock, rebooted and everything worked fine.
Yeah something is making me reluctant & apprehensive about doing if. On scared I'm might brick it.
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Thanks forth this I really need to do this myself.
karll123 said:
Thanks forth this I really need to do this myself.
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Tell me how it goes cause I'm scared to death of bricking my device I'd I do so. Good luck!
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karll123 said:
Thanks forth this I really need to do this myself.
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The primary drive for me was storage. Basically, with caching music offline and photos, the slot image basically just kept filling up. I tried multiple things, even going with a symbolic link method that I found ... somewhere on this forum ... but that still didn't work.
Since then, I haven't had any issues.
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Tell me how it goes cause I'm scared to death of bricking my device I'd I do so. Good luck!
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I've messed up several things in the past through the learning process, including flashing a build for the 910 instead of the 912 onto my phone, and I was able to recover from that. But, replacing stock w/ CM actually went very smoothly.
Feel free to message me directly with any questions - but continuing on the thread will probably be helpful for others.
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The primary drive for me was storage. Basically, with caching music offline and photos, the slot image basically just kept filling up. I tried multiple things, even going with a symbolic link method that I found ... somewhere on this forum ... but that still didn't work.
Since then, I haven't had any issues.
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I've messed up several things in the past through the learning process, including flashing a build for the 910 instead of the 912 onto my phone, and I was able to recover from that. But, replacing stock w/ CM actually went very smoothly.
Feel free to message me directly with any questions - but continuing on the thread will probably be helpful for others.
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Do you use bootloader or a recovery system like Safestrap or bmm (I think)
When I proceed to do so on safestrap it gives me a warning in red signifying not to install or wipe.
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When I proceed to do so on safestrap it gives me a warning in red signifying not to install or wipe.
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I use SafeStrap and yes it warns you with the red lettering about wiping/installing to stock because you're losing the safety net of having the stock ROM still installed on your phone.
I ran ROMs in slot 1 for several weeks to make sure it was stable before flashing to the stock slot.
I made sure my backup of the stock rom was in a safe place and made a fresh backup of my slot 1 install.
With the stock slot active, I went into Wipe then Advanced Wipe and selected everything except Internal Storage and Micro SDCard.
Then, Installed my ROM zip, GApps, and other zips that I use.
Then, I restored only the data partition (not system) from slot 1 backup I'd just made.
Rebooted and profited!
Keep in mind that the stock slot system partition is only 636mb, so something like the PA Stock GApps won't fit.
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I use SafeStrap and yes it warns you with the red lettering about wiping/installing to stock because you're losing the safety net of having the stock ROM still installed on your phone.
I ran ROMs in slot 1 for several weeks to make sure it was stable before flashing to the stock slot.
I made sure my backup of the stock rom was in a safe place and made a fresh backup of my slot 1 install.
With the stock slot active, I went into Wipe then Advanced Wipe and selected everything except Internal Storage and Micro SDCard.
Then, Installed my ROM zip, GApps, and other zips that I use.
Then, I restored only the data partition (not system) from slot 1 backup I'd just made.
Rebooted and profited!
Keep in mind that the stock slot system partition is only 636mb, so something like the PA Stock GApps won't fit.
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Thanks for the details. So using stock wouldn't take use of the 16gb that your SIM comes w/? Where does all that storage go?
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Thanks for the details. So using stock wouldn't take use of the 16gb that your SIM comes w/? Where does all that storage go?
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The stock 16gb is split in half, 8gb is the Internal SD storage available for any use, the other 8gb is used by the system including what SafeStrap calls the stock slot.
In SafeStrap, when you set up a ROM slot, the partition defaults are a usable 688mb for system, 1968mb for data, and 295mb for cache.
Motorola allocated the following usable in the stock slot, 636mb for system, 3078mb for data, and 1007mb for cache. So that is almost 5gb of that 8gb used by the system. Then the Webtop partition uses close to another 1gb. None of this can be changed.
If you flash to the stock slot, you will have your full 8gb of original internal storage since nothing is needed for ROM slots. You will also have a 3gb data partition which is loads of room for whatever apps you might want to install. The 1gb for the cache will help if you do video or audio streaming.
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The stock 16gb is split in half, 8gb is the Internal SD storage available for any use, the other 8gb is used by the system including what SafeStrap calls the stock slot.
In SafeStrap, when you set up a ROM slot, the partition defaults are a usable 688mb for system, 1968mb for data, and 295mb for cache.
Motorola allocated the following usable in the stock slot, 636mb for system, 3078mb for data, and 1007mb for cache. So that is almost 5gb of that 8gb used by the system. Then the Webtop partition uses close to another 1gb. None of this can be changed.
If you flash to the stock slot, you will have your full 8gb of original internal storage since nothing is needed for ROM slots. You will also have a 3gb data partition which is loads of room for whatever apps you might want to install. The 1gb for the cache will help if you do video or audio streaming.
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OK that makes sense thanks for elaborating on that :thumbup:
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Just got home need to fully charge battery then try to do this, wish me luck.
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Just got home need to fully charge battery then try to do this, wish me luck.
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Good luck!
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Just got home need to fully charge battery then try to do this, wish me luck.
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Like wise tell me how it goes. :thumbup:
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Just got home need to fully charge battery then try to do this, wish me luck.
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Success?
Not yet need new SD card I guess backed up stock, cheched to make sure everything was there and SD was empty. I won't replace stock enless I have the backups.
Hello.
My Father has a Galaxy S II , and he is always complaining that his phone is low on space.
The phone is 16GB and has another 16GB MicroSD card.
Most of his on-board integrated 16GB is free, and his MicroSD card is almost completely empty, the problem is that this phone has a very small Android OS 2GB partition, and every time he installs an app it always leaves something on the OS partition (even after manually moving every possible app to SD using the built in Move To SD, and placing all photos and videos on MicroSD). So even with very few Apps installed his phone is always begging for space since essentially he can only make use of 2GB of his 32GB of storage.
So I have considered maybe the best way to fix this his issue, is to install a Custom ROM on his phone, which only contains 1 Single Partition for the integrated 16GB of storage space, and another partition for the 16GB of MicroSD storage.
Thus eliminating the limited 2GB OS partition. (basically make it like every new Android phone since the galaxy S2)
I have never used a custom Android ROM so this is new to me ( i am more familiar with PC's).
So my primary question before I start looking for info and procedures on rooting and custom roms for this phone is as follows:
IS it possible to even install a new android OS on this phone which will have only one primary partition, or is this phone forever destined to only work as it is now with a small 2GB OS partition? In other words is there a hardware limitation which prevents this phone from addressing more than 2GB for its OS partition?
Thanks for any help you can provide.
mr_interested said:
IS it possible to even install a new android OS on this phone which will have only one primary partition, or is this phone forever destined to only work as it is now with a small 2GB OS partition? In other words is there a hardware limitation which prevents this phone from addressing more than 2GB for its OS partition?
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You can repartition the phone using a modified PIT file. You will be able to increase the Data partition to avoid the "out of space" when installing or updating apps. The tradeoff is to have a smaller internal SD partition.
I have done it to my S 2.
There is a thread with clear instructions on how to do it. You will have to learn to use Odin, but that will be very useful as long as you have Samsung phones.
Here is the link: [MOD][GUIDE]Partition your internal memory for better App management (Pit Files)
svbarbosa said:
You can repartition the phone using a modified PIT file. You will be able to increase the Data partition to avoid the "out of space" when installing or updating apps. The tradeoff is to have a smaller internal SD partition.
I have done it to my S 2.
There is a thread with clear instructions on how to do it. You will have to learn to use Odin, but that will be very useful as long as you have Samsung phones.
Here is the link: [MOD][GUIDE]Partition your internal memory for better App management (Pit Files)
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Thanks for the info.
Would it not be easier to just format the phone and start from scratch by installing a new custom Android OS ?
Will starting from scratch with a new OS allow me to set my partitions (just like on a PC) ?
Thanks again.
mr_interested said:
Thanks for the info.
Would it not be easier to just format the phone and start from scratch by installing a new custom Android OS ?
Will starting from scratch with a new OS allow me to set my partitions (just like on a PC) ?
Thanks again.
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No. You must use the Odin / Pit file to modify partition sizes.
And yes, that assumes you will flash a new rom.
svbarbosa said:
No. You must use the Odin / Pit file to modify partition sizes.
And yes, that assumes you will flash a new rom.
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Don't forget to mention that re-partitioning your phone will delete all data so do a backup!!!!!
gsstudios said:
Don't forget to mention that re-partitioning your phone will delete all data so do a backup!!!!!
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Well said.
I did not mention it because it is the first step in the instructions.
But it is never too much to repeat. Backup! Backup! Backup!
Hello all. Recently i installed Liquid Smooth 3.2 on my droid razr maxx and i have been having a great time. My only issue is the limited app data (i was limited to 3GB at creation due to the version of safestrap i was running). I just upgraded to the most recent version of safestrap which allows higher than 3GB data partion. If i were to backup my ROM, delete the rom slot, recreate it with a bigger data partion and then restore via backup would that work or would there be issues due to the change in partion size?