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[Q]wiping data clockworkmod

Does selecting the "wipe data" via clockworkmod recovery also wipes my stored pictures and music or does it only wipe all the OS data?
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Nothing will wipe your stored pictures / music or SD card unless you partition your SD card.
Wiping factory settings is the ONLY one that would wipe your OS data.
If you want a full wipe.. wipe dalvik / factory / cache.
Wiping dalvik / cache won't do anything but if you're experiencing slowness, wipe those.. you dont really lose anything

When flashing, what option wipes my internal memory?

Hi guys, I've been flashing my new Galaxy S3 lately and have started to migrate my music library onto my internal 32GB. It's a healthy 15GB of music.
I run SynergyROM r66, and would like to load up r71 fairly soon, bu would not like to lose my music, as it is a pain to resync for me.
How do I do so without it reformatting my internal memory? I'm sticking with Synergy so I don't think I need to do a "clean wipe" right?
Is it as simple as Wipe Cache/Wipe Dalvik, then Install from SD, then reboot? No factory reset?
Any help is appreciated, thank you.

Blutonic said:
Hi guys, I've been flashing my new Galaxy S3 lately and have started to migrate my music library onto my internal 32GB. It's a healthy 15GB of music.
I run SynergyROM r66, and would like to load up r71 fairly soon, bu would not like to lose my music, as it is a pain to resync for me.
How do I do so without it reformatting my internal memory? I'm sticking with Synergy so I don't think I need to do a "clean wipe" right?
Is it as simple as Wipe Cache/Wipe Dalvik, then Install from SD, then reboot? No factory reset?
Any help is appreciated, thank you.
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data wipe/ factory reset from stock recovery formats internal memory. data/wipe factory reset from Cwm recovery only wipes system data and does not reformat internal sd, unless you manually do it thru mounts/storage menu in cwm...although you should be fine with just a cache wipe going to r71.

droidstyle said:
data wipe/ factory reset from stock recovery formats internal memory. data/wipe factory reset from Cwm recovery only wipes system data and does not reformat internal sd, unless you manually do it thru mounts/storage menu in cwm...although you should be fine with just a cache wipe going to r71.
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Cool, what about the Dalvik cache, what does that do?

Blutonic said:
Cool, what about the Dalvik cache, what does that do?
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I always wipe dalvik cache to be safe.

Blutonic said:
Cool, what about the Dalvik cache, what does that do?
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The Dalvik virtual machine deals with your apps. Whenever changing apps it's a good idea to clear it's cache so you don't have cached data for a different version of an app - this could confuse the machine and lead to problems.

Perfect. thanks for the help guys.

Wiping through cwm recovery in recovery (not the app itself) will not wipe your media or pictures or downloaded files etc. Your Music will be intact, but something not mentioned here yet, do you have an external sd card? Always a good idea to put that important stuff on it,or at least copies of it to be safe, including titanium backups. Though cwm won't wipe your media, if something goes wrong and you have to do a stock recovery, you may forget that cwm is NO LONGER there, and accidentally wipe your media like I did once bricking my galaxy player 5.0!
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annoyingduck said:
Wiping through cwm recovery in recovery (not the app itself) will not wipe your media or pictures or downloaded files etc. Your Music will be intact, but something not mentioned here yet, do you have an external sd card? Always a good idea to put that important stuff on it,or at least copies of it to be safe, including titanium backups. Though cwm won't wipe your media, if something goes wrong and you have to do a stock recovery, you may forget that cwm is NO LONGER there, and accidentally wipe your media like I did once bricking my galaxy player 5.0!
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Yea, I got it all backed up to one of the Hard Drives on my computer. This should go smoothly.

internal storage has a lot off O folders now?

I dont know wich rom caused it but...
My storage is now:
storage/emulated/o/o/o/o....
why do i have all those O folders?
The only thing in it is another O folder!
Somehow it got like this, i cant remember when.
How to change to normal?
Can i complete wipe/format when i am in recovery on a installed rom?

From costom recovery wipe internal storage. ... (it deletes everything so backup important data before wipe) wipe cache, delvic cache and boot up

Internal storage wipe in TWRP?

Hi guys. I want to install new custom rom via TWRP. I don't want to lose my media files such as my photos, my musics and my download files. But the loss of apps is not important. Can i don't wipe the "internal storage"? By doing this, my previous rom, will be completely erase or not? What i should wipe in "Advanced wipe" for install custom rom and delete all things except my media files?

Ali_sfpr said:
Hi guys. I want to install new custom rom via TWRP. I don't want to lose my media files such as my photos, my musics and my download files. But the loss of apps is not important. Can i don't wipe the "internal storage"? By doing this, my previous rom, will be completely erase or not? What i should wipe in "Advanced wipe" for install custom rom and delete all things except my media files?
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You don't necessarily have to use the advanced wipes, what you are trying to do can be done with the default wipes, the default wipes are: wipe data, wipe cache and wipe dalvik cache. The default wipe can be done just by selecting the "Wipe" option, then, on the next screen" at the top it will say "wipe data, wipe cache and wipe dalvik cache", at the bottom, there will be a slider, just swipe the slider to perform the default wipe. You can do the same wipes by choosing the "advanced wipe" option, then select the data partition, cache partition and dalvik cache partition, then perform the wipe. Custom recoveries are designed to wipe /data but not /data/media, /data/media is where all your stuff in internal is located, that does not get wiped unless you choose the advanced wipe and then select the internal storage partition when performing the wipe.
Your /data/media will survive through any wipes or flashing that you do in TWRP, it will never wipe your personal data unless you specifically instruct it to.
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Format or wipe in TWRP with stock rom for factory reset?

Hi,
Fist time, my apologies if this doubt or question is "stupid"...
I'm new in twrp...
I want use the stock rom, Iwas installed TWRP , root the device, change some files for VoLTE and all works fine.
But I want made a full factory reset (also for calibrate battery).
I was go to TWRP and presh Wipe (no advanced wipe), this made a reset but I view that aren't full factory reset (some files continue in internal storage...etc...).
I view that, are a Format option in TWRP-Wipe-Advanced options, if use format, format my rom? I question this because, also, I want decrypt my phone, and after read in google and some posts I view some posts with the option for format, but like indicate, I want use my stock rom of HTC u11 but I'm not sure if format delete my o.s./rom and then need install stock rom.
If the format option isn't for decrypt and factory reset, are wipe, wipe data, cache and davilk cache, options for full factory reset?
Again, sorry if this question is...rookie question...I search in google, in this forum, but I don't view exact how made and I have very afraid of doing it wrong.
Thanks and regards.
PS: Sorry my english

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First, format data.
Then, advanced options in wipe, check Dalvik / ART Cache, Cache and Data, then wipe.
With this, hard reset.
The first time I made the wipe with not format data, not made wipe for decryption, for this reasson, first we need format data, then, we can check this options and wipe works fine.
Regards.