When I flash new roms....

[lyingfromyou]

When I flash different roms my phone seems to be creating new "0" directories. (Shown below)

How can I clean this up without loosing root or important files my current rom may be using? I have a recent nandroid backup of samsung's stock rooted firmware and will be flashing a new rom later this week, so I am not afraid of loosing any app data!

Thanks in advance for your time!

 

[Golfdriver97]

When I flash different roms my phone seems to be creating new "0" directories. (Shown below)

http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y280/lyingfromyou2004/address_zps49e91870.jpg

How can I clean this up without loosing root or important files my current rom may be using? I have a recent nandroid backup of samsung's stock rooted firmware and will be flashing a new rom later this week, so I am not afraid of loosing any app data!

Thanks in advance for your time!

I noticed that as well. What I did was pulled all the extra files off my phone and went through one by one making sure all the duplicate files had all the same folders, then deleted them. I only had one extra folder so mine wasn't so bad. I have no idea what causes this, other than something embedded to be another way to show we have modified our devices.

 

[Soundtrack to Chaos]

Tired of explaining this issue, wish Google fixed it, anyway, just copy the stuff you need, meaning your app backups, nandroid, etc, and put it in the sd card directory your phone is currently using, then delete the 0 folder and the legacy folder, and you're done

Sent from my SPH-L710 running Liquid Smooth RC2 4.2.2 stable

 

[meyerweb#CB]

This is only an issue with 4.2 based ROMs, correct?

 

[paintdrinkingpete]

This is only an issue with 4.2 based ROMs, correct?

I believe so, yes, it's due to the multi-user support if I'm not mistaken, which changes some of the default mount points within the system.

 

[Soundtrack to Chaos]

I believe so, yes, it's due to the multi-user support if I'm not mistaken, which changes some of the default mount points within the system.

correct, and you hsould only have this issue once

if in the future, you keep getting recurring duplicate 0 folders, then there is an issue there

 

[lyingfromyou]

Allright. Thanks!

 

[GiantJay]

When I flash different roms my phone seems to be creating new "0" directories. (Shown below)

http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y280/lyingfromyou2004/address_zps49e91870.jpg

How can I clean this up without loosing root or important files my current rom may be using? I have a recent nandroid backup of samsung's stock rooted firmware and will be flashing a new rom later this week, so I am not afraid of loosing any app data!

Thanks in advance for your time!

What recovery and version number are you on? I think this was fixed in the new builds. I know twrp is on 2.5.0

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[GiantJay]

When I flash different roms my phone seems to be creating new "0" directories. (Shown below)

http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y280/lyingfromyou2004/address_zps49e91870.jpg

How can I clean this up without loosing root or important files my current rom may be using? I have a recent nandroid backup of samsung's stock rooted firmware and will be flashing a new rom later this week, so I am not afraid of loosing any app data!

Thanks in advance for your time!

Just give twrp a shot, you must be on cwm if you are having this issue. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=29640195

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[lyingfromyou]

Just give twrp a shot, you must be on cwm if you are having this issue. [RECOVERY] TWRP 2.5.0.0 touch recovery [2013-04-09] - xda-developers

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I am running CWM v5.5.0.4

What's the best way to swap recoveries??

Will the backups I made with cwm work with the new twrp recovery?

 

[meyerweb#CB]

No, the backup files are completely incompatible.

 

[lyingfromyou]

Well, just lost my stock backup... Bah!

 

[meyerweb#CB]

Well, just lost my stock backup... Bah!

Not really. Worst case, if you need to restore from it, you can reinstall CWM.

 

[lyingfromyou]

I already jumped the gun and deleted the cwm directory... I have been at this rooting thing for a couple years now but never had to switch out recoveries and just got comfortable with cwm! Off too noob land to watch a quick tutorial on twrp. haha! Thanks for your help everyone!

 

[GiantJay]

The easiest way to install it or keep it up to date is to use the Goo manager app. Just go to the settings in the app and select install openrecoveryscript

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1809307

http://www.teamw.in/project/twrp2/107

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