Okay, what does formatting your android do?
does it clear all data, leaving your system files on it?
I've been planning to reset my android phone for awhile now, I just wanna know this before, cause it seems very risky. I want to be able to always factory reset my phone at all times, so yeah.. :]
Just as you said clears data and leaves system files.
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Okay, thanks! I just had to ask to make sure cause I didn't wanna risk anything.
It does not erase the SD card. Your photos, music, ringtones, etc will still be there when you flash a new rom
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Hello. This will seem like a dumb question but I'll ask it anyway.
So, at this time I am running Revolution HD 3.0.3 and have a ton of applications and stuff on the phone. What I noticed, is that my phone has gotten really, really laggy and slow [ don't know why ]. So I'd like to start fresh [ like installing windows on a new HDD ]. My idea was to do a factory reset and then clean the SD card so it's empty. [ I have no original back up, don't think I need it. ]
But, will the factory reset wipe recovery and Clockwork from the phone too? Or will I still be able to install the new ROM?
Oh, I don't really care if I loose all the apps and settings. But I'll do a backup of my files, because those I need.
So, will my plan succeed?
It always good to full wipe before flashing new ROMs to clean up crap. Clearing junk off your SD card can't hurt either since Android puts loads of files there as well.
Just do backup in recovery, full wipe, and restore. Should do the trick
So, factory reset and memory card wipe won't kill Clockwork and all the other things I need to install a new ROM?
No, no, don't do it from menu. Shut phone down, hold -vol key and power up. Then choose recovery and backup. Then wipe, then restore backup.
Tomekks said:
So, factory reset and memory card wipe won't kill Clockwork and all the other things I need to install a new ROM?
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As I am thinking of installing the new Revolutionary HD, I think I can skip this step, because it comes with super wipe script. So, I'll stick to that. BUT, should I delete the stuff from my SD card before or after installing the rom?
Tomekks said:
As I am thinking of installing the new Revolutionary HD, I think I can skip this step, because it comes with super wipe script. So, I'll stick to that. BUT, should I delete the stuff from my SD card before or after installing the rom?
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Nope, unless you want to starc completely clean. There are some files stored on sd, but they get deleted with wipe. Sit back and relax.
I just bought my Nexus S GSM Phone and rooted it, the one problem I'm having with it is the fact that it has no SD card, does that mean that whenever I flash a new ROM I will have no choice but to backup all my pictures and music to my computer and then wipe data? or is there someway to avoid this, thanks in advance for any help.
P.S. any information on the phone and what you would recommend (batteries, cases, whatever to do with the phone) would be greatly appreciated. I'm liking this phone very much, but I'm concerned about the factory wipe everytime I need/want to switch to a new ROM.
Thank you
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subedaman said:
I just bought my Nexus S GSM Phone and rooted it, the one problem I'm having with it is the fact that it has no SD card, does that mean that whenever I flash a new ROM I will have no choice but to backup all my pictures and music to my computer and then wipe data? or is there someway to avoid this, thanks in advance for any help.
P.S. any information on the phone and what you would recommend (batteries, cases, whatever to do with the phone) would be greatly appreciated. I'm liking this phone very much, but I'm concerned about the factory wipe everytime I need/want to switch to a new ROM.
Thank you
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Nope it doesnt wipe your pictures and all. It only wipes the data and system partitons.
You can wipe your sd card by selecting format sd card in CWM/
Hi I feel likes pain with my endless questions, but I was wondering how I could flash a new ROM without wiping my data because it takes forever to copy everything back to my phone
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You dont have to deletr them for every Rom. In some you dont have to
you can back up threw titanium
^This. Back all your necessary stuff up because if you're jumping between roms without wiping, you can run into a slew of other issues. You can. Not saying you will, but this ensures no errors when your new rom is set up.
Not apps
Im not necessarily talking about Apps, I personally love and use Titanium. Im talking about music and stuff on the 16gbs of memory that takes forever to copy over and back.
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Im not necessarily talking about Apps, I personally love and use Titanium. Im talking about music and stuff on the 16gbs of memory that takes forever to copy over and back.
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Flashing a new rom wont effect your sd card. Well, if you formating it in cwm it will Just copy your rom to you sd card, boot into cwm and wipe then flash! Don't format you sd card
try not to format your sd card and face the consequence of fc on some app but in some rom you dont need that just wipe factory and cache and dalvik..
Is it possible to return to gingerbread without wiping sd
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Is it possible to return to gingerbread without wiping sd
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No probs, but wipe the system partition eg: /data, /cache and things
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Is it possible to return to gingerbread without wiping sd
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You don't have to wipe sdcard. I've never wiped it except when unlocking boot loader.
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Ok,, This is what happened
I was in stock 4.1.2 and installed Custom ROM,, since that I felt lost few of photos and videos. I didn't feel good with that Custom ROM so I installed back to stock 4.1.2 and automatically upgraded to 4.2.2. And since that I lost greater than before. I used many recovery software to recover my lost but I had nothing. I decided back to 4.1.2 but something worse happened,, 3/4 of my video and gallery disappear,, :crying::crying::crying:
Perhaps someone know what should I do or anyone had same experience like me?
# Sorry for my bad english :fingers-crossed:
Anyone?
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Anyone?
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some idk about that but in my case I lost all of my data including all the movies i copied in my tab.. After checking sd card throughly using CWM recovery i managed to find out that every thing was there but flashing a new rom mounted a new partition kinda thingy lol old data was saved as SDcard/data but after the flash new data was saved as SDcard/0/data and i couldnt find any way to access the old data.. I had to format the sdcard completely using CWM to get back the space taken by my old data though...
Any one?
Kiyani said:
some idk about that but in my case I lost all of my data including all the movies i copied in my tab.. After checking sd card throughly using CWM recovery i managed to find out that every thing was there but flashing a new rom mounted a new partition kinda thingy lol old data was saved as SDcard/data but after the flash new data was saved as SDcard/0/data and i couldnt find any way to access the old data.. I had to format the sdcard completely using CWM to get back the space taken by my old data though...
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Thanks for your reply.. so, there's no way to get our old data? I'm sure my data was not lost.. but hidden somewhere just like you said. Because my remain storage's memory was not increase (constant) since my data lost.. is it happen in tablet device only? Because I never face this case expect in tablet device
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prince_jihad11 said:
Thanks for your reply.. so, there's no way to get our old data? I'm sure my data was not lost.. but hidden somewhere just like you said. Because my remain storage's memory was not increase (constant) since my data lost.. is it happen in tablet device only? Because I never face this case expect in tablet device
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You're welcome I'm always happy to help.. Well the problem is I couldn't find any way to recover the old data... so was forced to completely format my tab using CWM recovery to get back the space of almost 6 GB taken by my old data.. if you can somehow get back to the old partition then it might be possible to get it back but sadly i wasn't able to find anything on the net though.. BTW it didn't happened again though so far and yes you are right it only happened on my tab... I flashed new ROMs multiple times on HTC desire C and Samsung Galaxy Y DUOS but this never happened..
So... I'm pretty ashamed of posting this, but I am desperate as well. I flashed to stock in order to install CM11 on my Nexus 5 (had to, i don't know why it wouldn't like my bootloader otherwise) but, of course, it deleted my media partition as well.
Is there something I can do to retrieve my backups on /media? I think I can't, but I'd like a final word from someone who's not dumb as me. Thanks.
You're pretty much screwed. But you could try this
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=47623410
You'd have to be real desperate or its not worth the effort
Edit, for the future, just flashing the system and boot image probably would have accomplished what you wanted to do
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jd1639 said:
You're pretty much screwed. But you could try this
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=47623410
You'd have to be real desperate or its not worth the effort
Edit, for the future, just flashing the system and boot image probably would have accomplished what you wanted to do
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I don't think there's anything that can be done. It hurts my nerves so much because it seems I did EVERYTHING wrong: backupping only on SD and not on the cloud, wiping system from TWRP (there was no need of doing this, wiping data would have been perfectly fine), realized that the stock flash would have wiped internal memory as well while it was running but the critical point was not reached yet and didn't have the courage to stop the process before the damage was actually done. I lost a lot of SMS I was really attached to... but I hope I learnt some lessons...
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I don't think there's anything that can be done. It hurts my nerves so much because it seems I did EVERYTHING wrong: backupping only on SD and not on the cloud, wiping system from TWRP (there was no need of doing this, wiping data would have been perfectly fine), realized that the stock flash would have wiped internal memory as well while it was running but the critical point was not reached yet and didn't have the courage to stop the process before the damage was actually done. I lost a lot of SMS I was really attached to... but I hope I learnt some lessons...
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Hate to be cut and dry, but there's nothing you can do; it's unfortunately gone. When I flash a new rom, I wipe everything except internal storage. If you're flashing an update of your current rom, you need to do cache | dalvik only. Though I prefer to always do clean installs.