Hello,
So I recently soft bricked my phone by accidentally restoring a backup on cwm that was kind of corrupt. Anyway, I managed to fix it by installing a stick firmware and now my phone is no longer rooted (nor will I want it rooted any more).Now I have my phone back to normal except when I look at my storage I have 7.94 Misc files. I no longer have cwm or rom manager as it's no longer rooted and I can't find what is taking up this much space at all. When I check what it is, It shows me files that are just a mb and couple kb's of stuff. Now all I have left on my phone is 1 gb of storage and I was wondering if anyone was experienced with this.
Model: SGH-1337M (Canadian model)
Could it be the Samsung 'bloatware' copied twice?
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Hello all!
Glad I can report that the towelroot exploit worked successfully on my Verizon Samsung Galaxy S5 phone.
I'm a noob to Android devices, but I think they are awesome
I've spent most the day reading up on Android backup and recovery, differences between rooting and unlocking the bootloader, and I have a couple of questions relating to these topics:
1) I've rooted my Samsung Galaxy S5, and, in the event that I accidentally loaded a virus on my phone, or seriously messed something up with my root access, I'd like to have a way out of it. I've been reading up on the Android Recovery Mode: Wipe Data/factory reset. My question is this: Is it still okay to use this feature after I've rooted my ROM using towelroot? Also, if I use this feature, will it also completely re-install system software (like a Win 7 Reinstall)? Or is this just deleting some user data and leaving the once upon a time read only folders alone?
If method one mentioned above isn't a full OS restore, I think this is my other option...
2) Since I've rooted my phone with towelroot, I know that my bootloader is still locked. I know that another backup option is to use CWM to do a custom backup/recovery, however, I know that unlocking the bootloader right now may not be possible. I can't find any already existing threads relevant to Verizon Galaxy S5 bootloader unlocking since towelroot has been released released, however, I have stumbled upon this website which mentions my phone in the list: (I can't post links yet, please google "samsung galaxy s5 cwm phizl", and click on the second link. What do you guys think of this guide, do you think this will actually work for the unlocked Verizon Galaxy S5?
Thank's for any help with this.
Does this question stump everyone?
If you do a wipe it goes back to how it was when you first installed the rom/ first boot.
shredfast said:
I'd like to have a way out of it. I've been reading up on the Android Recovery Mode: Wipe Data/factory reset.
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This is oversimplified, but the files on your phone are more or less organized like this -
1. User settings, installed apps (data partition) - this is what a factory data reset would erase.
2. System files (most of them) - these read only files don't normally change unless you get an OTA firmware update. If you accidentally delete or somehow corrupt system files, you can reinstall the firmware to fix these. A custom ROM (if your bootloader was unlocked) would replace the files here.
3. Cache. These are temporary files. Some problems can be fixed by deleting these. If deleted, your phone will rebuild the cache when it boots.
4. SDcard. Built in, internal storage space for user files, downloads, etc. If you have a physical SD card, that is seperate and referred to as the external or secondary SD card.
5. Other stuff e.g. the bootloader, modem, etc.
A 100% backup is often referred to as a "Nandroid". Meaning that you backup the entire memory (NAND). You can only do that properly with a custom recovery like TWRP or CWM. The next closest thing would be an app like Titanium Pro.
The system data reset will only default the user settings (data partition). It won't remove most user files (internal SD card) or touch the read only system files (system partition).
I don't know what your second question really pertains to. You should have described it fully, rather than try to get us to replicate your Google search. I'll just say that it's highly unlikely that anyone will figure out how to unlock the Verizon bootloader anytime soon.
Verizon has an unlocked Developer model phone, but it is handicapped by poor firmware updates. If you want the advantages of an unlocked bootloader, change carriers. Most carriers do not lock the S5 bootloader. Just ATT, Verizon and a few US CDMA carriers.
Because your bootloader is locked, you can't use a real custom kernel or recovery. But they can be emulated with Safestrap.
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Hello, i decided today i wanted to go from 4.2.2 to 5.0.2 (mistype in title) on my D802 LG G2. Phone running stock with root but read up on it and people (xda for example) said the only thing that would happen was a loss of root, which didn't bother me that much. Fast forward to update completed and now the majority of my memory space on my 32GB LG G2 is gone. Going in to Settings > Storage it shows "Total space 32GB", and "Available 6.69GB". Looking further into it, going in to "Misc", there "System Data" taking up 21.86GB, which seems way more than it would have too.
I upgraded via the LG Mobile Support Tool from here: http://www.lg.com/uk/support-mobile/lg-D802 and everything is working, expect the storage space issue.
Connecting the phone to my computer it says internal storage is 10.6GB, which leads me to believe somehow i've gotten the 16GB firmware, question is how since i upgraded via the LG Tool? The only weird thing is that the phone says in settings that total storage is 32GB.
So what is there to do now?
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Did you use a file browser to review and delete unnecessary files?
Something went wrong with the LG update, used this guide: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=50790181&postcount=49 and all is working well now.
Hello guys.
I am a happy owner of a Note 4 N910F. Bought it recently and i love it.
Today, i accidentaly deleted some audio files, some rec's i had and they were stored in internal memory. I googled alot and tried some Unroot solutions (since my Note4 is unrooted) and i'm having no luck and what i find is old so i hope i can get help from you guys.
It has Marshmallow and, since it is only 4 months old, i dont want to root it (someone told me i lose warranty if i do it). Is there any way i can search for those deleted audio files without root?
Thanks
Enable USB debugging on your Note 4, connect it to your computer and try running data recovery software on it. If you haven't written any new data onto the internal memory of your Note 4. There is a chance that you can still recover the files this way.
Hi all, as the title says, my efs folder is inaccessible. Firstly let me explain. I bought a phone, it had the Paul pizz rom in it and I didn't like it. So I flashed the resurrection remix rom. It didn't have all the bells n whistles I wanted, so I tried the official res remix rom. Somehow I ended up with an efs problem. I ended up with an efs invalid argument error and from what I read, I did the whole adb efs fix. The error was gone. I ended up flashing a repair firmware back to bog5 and started from scratch. I worked my way back up to installing the modest rom and it works 99% flawlessly and I am happy enough to keep it. Here is the catch, I used kingo root and have ended up with a bad keyboard lag that's driving me nuts. It is unknown to me if the kingoroot caused the efs corruption or if it was just a bad flash going from one rom to another. I have tried several root browsers, made sure they all had root privileges, and no matter what, I can NOT get access to what's hidden in my efs folder. They always say it's empty. Now, here is the kicker, I got another note 4 for my son. Downgraded from 6.01 to 5.01 bog5, then up to 5.11 and flashed the modest rom on his. Instantly his phone has access to the efs folder. My note 4 works, can make calls, text etc. Imei is shown in settings, all info shows in settings as normal except one thing, on my phone it says configuration version not available whereas on my sons phone it gives a configuration version. I just can't figure out how to gain access to the efs folder to try to fix this extremely annoying lag. I DID make a complete backup of my system from when it had the Paul pizz rom, so the efs partitions should be intact there but I don't know if that would help or even where to start. Can someone please help?
Well, I just fixed my phone and thought I would share what happened. It seems that the guy that loaded the paulpizz rom on the phone before I bought it used a different version of twrp. He used a version for n910f, whereas when I began my rom search, I used one for a n910v because thats what the phone is. I was having a hard time with it so I reverted to stock, rooted, installed verizon twrp, and bam! No efs access. The difference in recovery programs is what screwed me up in the first place. I figured it out when I tried to restore his rom backup I made. The efs files were not working when it restored. I remembered what version of rom it was, and tried a twrp for 910f, and voila! So, now I have all functions working as blazing speeds, can actually access the efs folder, and no more damned lag! Big thumbs up button to me!
Hello XDA community,
Im a noobie when it comes to rooting, thats why i need help...
I deleted some files that i want to recover on my Samsung S7 Edge 2-3 years ago, this device has Android 7.0. (Never updated)
There is a lot of apps such as Disk Digger that offer you to recover every single file but the device must be rooted to access 100% on the internal memory.
Right now my Samsung S7 Edge is not rooted but i need to root to recover this files, so my question is, there is anyway of rooting without factory reset, or there is anyway of doing a fully backup of the internal memory of my device without touching the partitions so then i can try recovering my files later with this apps?
I hope someone can help me...
Regards