OK been doing this rom stuff since the captivate. But as I remember (whitch may be wrong) I thought a factory/data reset in CWM wipes the phone. As in every time in install a new rom(latest infuse 2.1) using full version and doing factory data reset all my files on internal memory are still present. I.E. the photos and app. folders..
Yes sorda newb question .
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You need to factory reset your phone,or format your SD card to get that done bro
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Done the factory reset in the phone under privacy.. never removes any files or folders .. just acts like the day I got it with having to run setup. But folders are still present. should I check that box after selecting. Says for external storage.
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In regards to wiping all of the folders and such, you would need to unmount and format the sd card to remove all of that.
Factory Resetting only resets the OS and files related to that, which is why you are able to do it without losing any of your pictures, music, etc.
ZeroIsntTheHero said:
In regards to wiping all of the folders and such, you would need to unmount and format the sd card to remove all of that.
Factory Resetting only resets the OS and files related to that, which is why you are able to do it without losing any of your pictures, music, etc.
Erased!
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I would factory reset and then go into SD card under strings and format then your on clean slate buddy
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ZeroIsntTheHero said:
In regards to wiping all of the folders and such, you would need to unmount and format the sd card to remove all of that.
Factory Resetting only resets the OS and files related to that, which is why you are able to do it without losing any of your pictures, music, etc.
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Yes it does! Ok I tested it for you and yes check the USB storage that will do the trick. Erases all.
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tyshemi said:
Yes it does! Ok I tested it for you and yes check the USB storage that will do the trick. Erases all.
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Thanks just did myself and worked... thanks.. stuck at work and don't need a paperweight for the day..
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Thanks just did myself and worked... thanks.. stuck at work and don't need a paperweight for the day..
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No problem
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Trap just remembered u can hit thanks now in app. Thanks has been tapped.
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thanks for thanks
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Trap just remembered u can hit thanks now in app. Thanks has been tapped.
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gave you a thanks for a thanks
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I wanna clean my phone and get a fresh rom install and I wanted to know is there effective way of cleaning the internal SD card from all the junk that accumulated over the time with a command or I'll have to do it manually?
I format emmc in cwm, that's how i do it before rom flashes.
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I thought that was the way but I googled it and everything that came up said never to do it.
I just noticed in the settings>storage theres an option to format usb storage will that do the trick?
I wipe from recovery. Under mounts and storage I believe
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Tried wiping sd card from recovery last time, it wiped my external one and then I had to restore it ><
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I wipe from recovery. Under mounts and storage I believe
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Yes
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kishke said:
Tried wiping sd card from recovery last time, it wiped my external one and then I had to restore it ><
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It's called emmc
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kishke said:
I wanna clean my phone and get a fresh rom install and I wanted to know is there effective way of cleaning the internal SD card from all the junk that accumulated over the time with a command or I'll have to do it manually?
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You can factory data reset from settings, and you can format usb storage from settings.
Bealzibooze said:
You can factory data reset from settings, and you can format usb storage from settings.
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Never do that on ics, though
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xcrazydx said:
Never do that on ics, though
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I actually tried it said it formatted but nothing was missing from internal or external.
I used cwm emmc format, had troubles because installing from sd card didnt get passed the samsung logo even after downloading the rom again.
Had to do a nandroid and copy the installation to the internal and then flash.
Connect phone to PC
In CWM , mount USB storage...
When the phone storage is dispalyed on PC explorer , wipe everything you see (ctrl+a then del)
Do you have a PC ?
Actually I'm usually using my mac because it's nicer to do it from the bed. But I'll remember it for next time everything is already working great, well almost(see my other thread if interested).
Hi guys.
I want to start from scratch regarding my internal SD card (not using external) because I have a lot of junk that just needs to be gone.
I'm running Synergy's latest nightly and am going to flash a Jelly Bean ROM (don't know which yet) right after wiping everything.
So my question is, what do I do to make sure everything is wiped, and my phone still boots? I'm kind of lost.
I usually use CWM to flash, so what do I press in order to do this?
Thanks a lot.
You have to format the internal card with a filw explorer or in a recovery
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ikr said:
You have to format the internal card with a filw explorer or in a recovery
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Understood, but what happens when I try to reboot back into the phone; will it boot normally?
I ditto this question. I'm also curious about formatting my internal card and starting from scratch. I know factory reset from cwm recovery doesn't do it. I'm afraid to just start doing things and bricking this thing. Even though I was told by my cousin who has flashed many phone its very hard to hard brick a Samsung.
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Blutonic said:
Hi guys.
I want to start from scratch regarding my internal SD card (not using external) because I have a lot of junk that just needs to be gone.
I'm running Synergy's latest nightly and am going to flash a Jelly Bean ROM (don't know which yet) right after wiping everything.
So my question is, what do I do to make sure everything is wiped, and my phone still boots? I'm kind of lost.
I usually use CWM to flash, so what do I press in order to do this?
Thanks a lot.
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section 6 of my guide :good:
Please forgive me but where is your guide?
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Blutonic said:
Understood, but what happens when I try to reboot back into the phone; will it boot normally?
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Yes it should boot fine. The sd just holds your junk and possible some config info for some apps.
piiman said:
Yes it should boot fine. The sd just holds your junk and possible some config info for some apps.
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Ok, I'm just going to boot into CWM, Reformat, and Reboot. Hopefully everything goes well.
I'll get back to this topic to tell you how it went.
Ok, reformatting from CWM, then rebooting worked perfectly!
Going on to JB now, thanks for the help everyone.
Uhhh....right-click + "delete" while connected to your computer. Or from settings.
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Blutonic said:
Ok, reformatting from CWM, then rebooting worked perfectly!
Going on to JB now, thanks for the help everyone.
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After reformatting, the rom was still installed right? but all your apps and clutter was gone?
Just curious cause I also did data/factory reset from cwm and all it did was delete the rom and apps but all the stuff left over from the apps and music/photos/videos were still there.
uf21 said:
After reformatting, the rom was still installed right? but all your apps and clutter was gone?
Just curious cause I also did data/factory reset from cwm and all it did was delete the rom and apps but all the stuff left over from the apps and music/photos/videos were still there.
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Hey buddy they're talking a little different then just data reset. To erase all that other stuff go into cwm under mounts and storage and click format internal SD card. The ROM will still work but it will erase everything on your internal memory so if you have pictures you want back then up
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Hey buddy they're talking a little different then just data reset. To erase all that other stuff go into cwm under mounts and storage and click format internal SD card. The ROM will still work but it will erase everything on your internal memory so if you have pictures you want back then up
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I thinks thats what I'm looking for. Last question, if I do that will my system settings stay, will I have to sign into everything again and will all my apps be gone?
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I thinks thats what I'm looking for. Last question, if I do that will my system settings stay, will I have to sign into everything again and will all my apps be gone?
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In all honesty I'm not sure if it will erase settings as well. I don't believe it will but some app settings are stored on the SD card so you may have to sign back into some things.
If you choose to factory reset at the same time then yes you will have to reset everything up.
One thing to keep in mind if you make your backups without selecting external SD card they will ask be erased so you will have no backups
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In all honesty I'm not sure if it will erase settings as well. I don't believe it will but some app settings are stored on the SD card so you may have to sign back into some things.
If you choose to factory reset at the same time then yes you will have to reset everything up.
One thing to keep in mind if you make your backups without selecting external SD card they will ask be erased so you will have no backups
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I've been asking around since yesterday and no one could give me a straight answer until now, so thanks for your help, much appreciated.
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I've been asking around since yesterday and no one could give me a straight answer until now, so thanks for your help, much appreciated.
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Glad I could help out!
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Glad I could help out!
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Quick question, I just went into cwm recover then mounts and storage and the options are
Format /cache
Format /system
Format /data
Format /preload
Format /sdcard
Would sdcard be the internal sd card?
It sounds like that wipes everything (rom and all) and not just internal sd?
uf21 said:
Quick question, I just went into cwm recover then mounts and storage and the options are
Format /cache
Format /system
Format /data
Format /preload
Format /sdcard
Would sdcard be the internal sd card?
It sounds like that wipes everything (rom and all) and not just internal sd?
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You just want to wipe internal? if you want to be safe, take out your external sdcard, then do format /sdcard . This will wipe your internal sdcard.
Hi
When I to wipe my cache in recovery mode (in the Samsung Galaxy-Q (same as the Samsung Gravity Smart))
And it took like half a second, so I figure that there that there's something wrong with it.
There's a picture attached to this page.
If you couldn't read the text, (I was using like a 2 megapixel camera), here's what the important part is:
-- Appling Multi-CSC --
-- Wiping cache...
Formatting CACHE:...
unmount(/cache) attempt 1 (Unknown error: 0) rc=0
Cache wipe complete
Is it because my phone is rooted? No, because I've tried unrooting my phone and trying. It didn't work.
But I think it's because my micro SD card is in it. If that's the problem, will after clearing cache delete my shortcuts?
Thanks for reading,
Drew
Link for Phandroid forums:
http://androidforums.com/samsung-gravity-smart/668108-q-cache-clear-in-recovery-mode-wont-work.html
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Hi
When I to wipe my cache in recovery mode (in the Samsung Galaxy-Q (same as the Samsung Gravity Smart))
And it took like half a second, so I figure that there that there's something wrong with it.
There's a picture attached to this page.
If you couldn't read the text, (I was using like a 2 megapixel camera), here's what the important part is:
-- Appling Multi-CSC --
-- Wiping cache...
Formatting CACHE:...
unmount(/cache) attempt 1 (Unknown error: 0) rc=0
Cache wipe complete
Is it because my phone is rooted? No, because I've tried unrooting my phone and trying. It didn't work.
But I think it's because my micro SD card is in it. If that's the problem, will after clearing cache delete my shortcuts?
Thanks for reading,
Ddrew
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You can use cwn recovery and try to clear cache.
Hopefully this will work.
Link?
karimkahale said:
You can use cwn recovery and try to clear cache.
Hopefully this will work.
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link?
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others?
drew1ind said:
Hi
When I to wipe my cache in recovery mode (in the Samsung Galaxy-Q (same as the Samsung Gravity Smart))
And it took like half a second, so I figure that there that there's something wrong with it.
There's a picture attached to this page.
If you couldn't read the text, (I was using like a 2 megapixel camera), here's what the important part is:
-- Appling Multi-CSC --
-- Wiping cache...
Formatting CACHE:...
unmount(/cache) attempt 1 (Unknown error: 0) rc=0
Cache wipe complete
Is it because my phone is rooted? No, because I've tried unrooting my phone and trying. It didn't work.
But I think it's because my micro SD card is in it. If that's the problem, will after clearing cache delete my shortcuts?
Thanks for reading,
Ddrew
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Try a different sd card.... And try to do the cache wipe... And report
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Try a different sd card.... And try to do the cache wipe... And report
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And thank god my parents got me a 32 gb micro SD card for Christmas :3
Will respond once done!
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And thank god my parents got me a 32 gb micro SD card for Christmas :3
Will respond once done!
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Ok... I tried it and...
It didn't work :/
It said the same thing; I think I need to partition it.
Then,it's your phone's recovery mode that has the issue not the sd card!
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Then,it's your phone's recovery mode that has the issue not the sd card!
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But other people do it with my same phone and succeed -_-
Maybe I have to put out my SD card?
Do a fresh install of stock Rom through Odin or such program and then install a cwm and try later on!
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But other people do it with my same phone and succeed -_-
Maybe I have to put out my SD card?
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Also, here is my system cache directory (w/ subbfolders)
/cache/
/cache/lost+found/(nothing in folder)
/cache/log/
/cache/log/recovery.log/
recovery.log is a file
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Do a fresh install of stock Rom through Odin or such program and then install a cwm and try later on!
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First of all, my phone will get bricked if I install cwm recovery
Second of all, I have not installed ANY roms.
Third of all, I am not being mad.
I told to do a clean install of the same Rom you use and installing cwm bricks?? Who told?
.... Do you get me...or not?
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I told to do a clean install of the same Rom you use and installing cwm bricks?? Who told?
.... Do you get me...or not?
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Here's who told me:
Phandroid forums
Youtube
XDA Developer forums
Basically the whole internet
There
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I told to do a clean install of the same Rom you use and installing cwm bricks?? Who told?
.... Do you get me...or not?
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Also,
Can you atleast ****ing tell me if I need the SD card out?????????
Jesus I'm tierd...
T589R Recovery Problem
Hi
That's exactly my problem, is there a way to fix?
Please help
hi there I am new here,
I got custom rom in infuse 4g last few months and working fine always.
yesterday my phone freeze and I did a hard reboot, after that my phone some features is lost, listed below features that lost:
- home button no longer functioning, i only can use back button to close my apps
- i setup my power button function list but it will not work
- receive sms from friends, show the notification, but when i tap in the messaging, the message gone
- search button fail to use as well
- do not get incoming message notification from apps , e.g. whatsapp / wechat
- usb connected to pc but not able to view folders in phone (only tried on 1 pc, may be need to double confirm after access to several pc)
I am using PAC build 22, anybody has idea how to fix this without doing re-flash?
By hard reset, do you mean you went into recovery and then did "wipe data/reset"?
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By hard reset, do you mean you went into recovery and then did "wipe data/reset"?
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nope, just pull battery and reboot
Wow...I don't think it should be doing that. I guess I would just say try another reboot or go into recovery and wipe cache and dalvick cache, then reboot. If that doesn't work, you may have to reflash. I've never seen that problem before, sorry.
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omar71693 said:
Wow...I don't think it should be doing that. I guess I would just say try another reboot or go into recovery and wipe cache and dalvick cache, then reboot. If that doesn't work, you may have to reflash. I've never seen that problem before, sorry.
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thanks for your suggestion but now i cant move my data to my pc i worry full wipe will cause my data gone (photos...)
No, full wipe in recovery doesn't wipe photos or music or anything on internal or external SD card.
Edit: if you're really worried move everything to your external SD and then remove it when you flash a rom....but you honestly don't need to.
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omar71693 said:
No, full wipe in recovery doesn't wipe photos or music or anything on internal or external SD card.
Edit: if you're really worried move everything to your external SD and then remove it when you flash a rom....but you honestly don't need to.
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ok i'll take ur advice.
which is the exact one?
wipe data/factory reset?
wipe cache partition?
Go into recovery...Wipe "cache" partition and go down to advanced and wipe "dalvick cache", then reboot
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Go into recovery...Wipe "cache" partition and go down to advanced and wipe "dalvick cache", then reboot
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thanks your guide but too bad Omar it don't works...
now I plugged usd to my PC it unable to allow me access to the storage and backup my data to do re-flash...
i found another option to wipe only cache partition, should i proceed?
wksagr REFORM
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Go into recovery...Wipe "cache" partition and go down to advanced and wipe "dalvick cache", then reboot
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do you available?
Hey all. Is there a way to recover deleted photos? I'm running Alliance ROM Build 22. I've been Googling like a mad man, but all the methods require enabling USB mass storage which isn't possible on 4.3. Is there any other way? Or am I screwed Please they are irreplaceable pictures that I meant to back up. :'(
Were those pictures on phone memory or on external card....??
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Shrewdy said:
Were those pictures on phone memory or on external card....??
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external
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external
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well if that is the case then you can simply pull out your sd card, plug that into your computer and use any recovery software to recover your data ..
not sure what data it will recover but sure it will ... i have been through same ...
Thanks