When I enter red recovery I have options for mounts. I'm a little unclear as to what is the default / most beneficial mounts in terms of system, data, sdcard etc. What do they mean and what should I set it to?
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I understand that in order to flash a ROM you need to select the wipe data/factory reset button in CWM recovery. But I can't find any thread that answers various questions:
1) Does the phone need to be plugged in during this?
2) Does the battery need to be at a certain level? (obviously not near dead, but maybe 100% or closest possible mandatory?)
3) What needs to be set on the phone before turning it off and going into recovery? debugging turned on? mount or unmount anything?
4) While in recovery, should I select to have my data, cache, sd card mounted or unmounted?
5) Some threads say to use the format options in recovery. Should I format /sdcard and-or /system ?
6) USB storage is the External SD card, correct?
7) If I have CWM located on the Ext. SD card, do I need to mount it via CWM recovery screen or do anything else differently before I begin flashing a ROM?
Thanks!
el buho said:
I understand that in order to flash a ROM you need to select the wipe data/factory reset button in CWM recovery. But I can't find any thread that answers various questions:
1) Does the phone need to be plugged in during this?
2) Does the battery need to be at a certain level? (obviously not near dead, but maybe 100% or closest possible mandatory?)
3) What needs to be set on the phone before turning it off and going into recovery? debugging turned on? mount or unmount anything?
4) While in recovery, should I select to have my data, cache, sd card mounted or unmounted?
5) Some threads say to use the format options in recovery. Should I format /sdcard and-or /system ?
6) USB storage is the External SD card, correct?
7) If I have CWM located on the Ext. SD card, do I need to mount it via CWM recovery screen or do anything else differently before I begin flashing a ROM?
Thanks!
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It was recommended to me to have it unplugged before entering into CWM. I read the battery "should" be over 50% because JUST IN CASE, you don't want to run out of battery in the middle of a flash...but with this phone, flashing is so quick anyway...but still, personally, I make sure it's over 50%. I haven't messed with any mounting/unmounting features in CWM during flashing. Whether to format your sdcard or not should be obvious to you...it has nothing to do with flashing a rom or kernal...it's for setting up a new sd card for putting apps, storage, and/or swap. As far as CWM being located on the external sd card, I don't really understand. You should use NVFlash to flash CWM to your phone (with external support)...if you dig around these threads, you'll see a One Click NVFlash tutorial and software. I hope this helps. I"m new too...I've learned all this by reading these forums this past week.
I already did the NVFlash etc. But at one point in the recovery procedure you have to press a button saying Flash CWM to External SD card or Flash CWM to Internal SD card and the forums said it really doesn't matter, so I went with external.
That meant that when you load up CWM, it will allow you to browse in your external card for the roms, kernals, mods, etc. that you wanna flash...so that's where you'll store that stuff that you'd like to flash. If you had selected "internal", then CWM would only allow you to browse your internal card.
el buho said:
I understand that in order to flash a ROM you need to select the wipe data/factory reset button in CWM recovery. But I can't find any thread that answers various questions:
1) Does the phone need to be plugged in during this? No
2) Does the battery need to be at a certain level? (obviously not near dead, but maybe 100% or closest possible mandatory?) No, but you don't want it to be at 5%.
3) What needs to be set on the phone before turning it off and going into recovery? debugging turned on? mount or unmount anything? Nothing
4) While in recovery, should I select to have my data, cache, sd card mounted or unmounted? Don't touch anything in regards to mounting.
5) Some threads say to use the format options in recovery. Should I format /sdcard and-or /system ? Just /system usually.
6) USB storage is the External SD card, correct? Correct
7) If I have CWM located on the Ext. SD card, do I need to mount it via CWM recovery screen or do anything else differently before I begin flashing a ROM? No
Thanks!
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On CM Recovery 5.0.2.0. Trying to figure out definitively which wipes/formats to perform before new ROM/kernel... there are several options, some of which seem to be redundant.
Main Menu (these are the only two I've done in the past I think):
wipe data/factory reset
wipe cache partition
Mounts and Storage Menu:
format /sdcard
format /system
format /cache
format /data
format /boot
format /wimax
Advanced Menu:
wipe Dalvik cache
Most instructions I've seen say to "wipe" system/data/cache/dalvik/boot 3x each. The 3x seems funny to me, but whatever, it doesn't really take much longer. So I'm guessing I want to do just about every option above, minus my SDcard obviously. What about the /wimax option though? I never have heard that one mentioned...
Thanks!
The111 said:
On CM Recovery 5.0.2.0. Trying to figure out definitively which wipes/formats to perform before new ROM/kernel... there are several options, some of which seem to be redundant.
Main Menu (these are the only two I've done in the past I think):
wipe data/factory reset
wipe cache partition
Mounts and Storage Menu:
format /sdcard
format /system
format /cache
format /data
format /boot
format /wimax
Advanced Menu:
wipe Dalvik cache
Most instructions I've seen say to "wipe" system/data/cache/dalvik/boot 3x each. The 3x seems funny to me, but whatever, it doesn't really take much longer. So I'm guessing I want to do just about every option above, minus my SDcard obviously. What about the /wimax option though? I never have heard that one mentioned...
Thanks!
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Wipe data/factory reset, flash morfic dalvik-wiper.zip.
No need to do 3 times or silly things like that.
The111 said:
On CM Recovery 5.0.2.0. Trying to figure out definitively which wipes/formats to perform before new ROM/kernel... there are several options, some of which seem to be redundant.
Main Menu (these are the only two I've done in the past I think):
wipe data/factory reset
wipe cache partition
Mounts and Storage Menu:
format /sdcard
format /system
format /cache
format /data
format /boot
format /wimax
Advanced Menu:
wipe Dalvik cache
Most instructions I've seen say to "wipe" system/data/cache/dalvik/boot 3x each. The 3x seems funny to me, but whatever, it doesn't really take much longer. So I'm guessing I want to do just about every option above, minus my SDcard obviously. What about the /wimax option though? I never have heard that one mentioned...
Thanks!
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When installing a new custom rom & not just updating it to a newer version it's advisable to, 1: Advanced menu: wipe dalvik cache. 2: Mount & Storage menu: format system,cache,data & boot! You're riight about the minus sdcard wipe obviously, & usually in my experiance if you're just updating to a newer version of your existing custom rom, usually just wiping your dalvik cache & a reboot will surfice! No idea about the wimax part so don't bother, but I've never seen a dev instruct anyone to go through the process of wipng 3x???
I have a Motorola Triumph from VM. I want to load CM7 but when I went into the recovery mode the only options are:
reboot system now
apply sdcard:update.zip
wipe data/factory reset
wipe cache partition
Download nb0 from sdcard
After wiping data the instructions tell me to navigate to "Mounts and storage" I can't navigate anywhere. These are still my only options. I tried the 2nd and 5th menu items but the files are not found. I'm such a noob I don't even know what these would have done anyway.
At present I am stuck with the factory default -- which I HATE. Can anyone explain like you would to a child how I can find the menus to install the ROM I have sitting on the SDCARD?
On a side note, I have seen it demonstrated people using the menu softkey to select but on this phone that softkey is useless, the back button selects and the home button goes back.
Have you installed a custom recovery?
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Are you rooted?
Device using Xda Premium
Hey guys,
My work switched to Google Apps for their email so i wanted to test it out on my phone. Doing so required them to encrypt my phone. What this appears to have done is encrypt the data partition. So now when i go into (TWRP) recovery and try to do a backup / wipe / or anything else, it says it is "Unable to mount /sdcard" I'm unable to do a factory reset of any kind so i'm essentially stuck on this rom (ARHD) until i can figure out how to wipe data and get the /sdcard to be not encrypted. Does anyone have any ideas? I'm imagining that with the modified recovery not being able to access the data partition that i'm going to have to do some adb type stuff?
Please help! I want to keep flashing new roms!
-HTC One
Hi everyone,
I have been thinking of selling my Infinity but I need some confirmation in some things with regards to wiping the device clean.
I am currently running the latest CROMI-X. So what I wanted to do is wipe everything in my internal storage (all the datas or any kind of prints that shows my usage) and then flash back the latest CROMI-X.
So a couple of things in wipe. I am using TWRP 2.5 as of the moment. So if I wanted to achieve the one I mentioned above which kind of wipe should I do?
If I go to Advanced Wipe: I can see that Dalvik Cache, System, cache, Data and Micro SDcard is present there... If I go ahead and check all of these (except for the Micro SD Card) I believe that I this would also delete the OS itself. Am I correct? If this does it, will I still be able to install a ROM for my infinity? There's also the option of Format Data,which I think wipes clean my internal storage (pictures, videos, etc). This won't affect the System, right?
If you guys have a better suggestion on how to actually do this, please let me know as well. I apologize if there's a lot of question here... I just wanted to make sure that I am doing this right as I don't want to brick my device before actually selling it. Thanks.
To delete all user data, format /data. This automatically includes dalvik-cache and /data/media aka /sdcard. You don't need to format /system as it contains only the ROM.
If you are paranoid that a potential buyer could use "undelete" tools and piece together fragments of your data on the block level, then before formatting /data, you can completely overwrite the data partition from the recovery with the following command (in the "advanced" menu or via adb shell): "dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/block/mmcblk0p8 bs=256k".