My phone had a problem the other day that I fixed, but unfortunately it deleted my data. Or so I thought. I plugged it in via USB and it turns out EVERYTHING is still there, but my phone isn't registering it. Why is that?
can you be more specific? what data? the data in the data folder, or whatever is in your sd root?
I mean applications. I'm not sure where they're stored.
Unless you backed it up, its gone. Download all your apps again. Go into recovery and make a backup and you should be ok from now on. Gdofwar has a tut out. Search for it. It's a simple procedure
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Also, the reason you are seeing folders for programs is because they are created upon application install for things saved, logged or independently backed up. Once you wipe the phone, it affects the system and not really the sd unless you do something like rfs converter. Lol
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Hi everyone. I just got a replacement cappy from AT&T and I want to complete wipe out everything from the memory. Ive done a reset and in start up with no apps, but all my music and pics are still there. I did the startup into recovery menu and chose to clear data, but again, my pics and music and other files are still there.
Can anyone tell me the best way to completely wipe everything off the phone so its like I just got it stock?
Hook up your captivate to your computer and delete everything off the internal SD card.
Have you tried
Settings, privacy, factory data reset.
Out you can use odin and use master clear
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Hook up your captivate to your computer and delete everything off the internal SD card.
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I wasnt sure if that was ok because I didnt know if there was any systems files that I had to worry about deleting. If not though, I think I will just do that.
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Have you tried
Settings, privacy, factory data reset.
Out you can use odin and use master clear
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I did do that, but all music, pics and videos are still on the memory.
If you hook up to your pc you will not see system files so you will not be able to delete them
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boot into recovery scrol down to delete all user data and select
recovery again and select clear cache
If u have a rooted phone u can reset ur phone to stock u it is called root manager if u have problems get at me
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Thanks everyone. I just ended up deleting all files from the phone once I mounted it to my PC. I appreciate all the responses.
Just curious. There are lots of talk of backing up data. Is it really needed when doing a complete reset of the phone.
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nah, I don't think so, unless you're gonna flash different ROMs. The reason why I did a factory reset is because I backed up all my system data with Titanium backup and no longer had any available space left. So not knowing what to delete, I just did a factory reset and after that still I found the left over traces were still taking up space, so I just reformatted both external and internal memory.
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nah, I don't think so, unless you're gonna flash different ROMs. The reason why I did a factory reset is because I backed up all my system data with Titanium backup and no longer had any available space left. So not knowing what to delete, I just did a factory reset and after that still I found the left over traces were still taking up space, so I just reformatted both external and internal memory.
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Using an ordinary file manager (don't use root explorer if you want to delete all your files manually cause if you don't know what your doing then you can possibly brick your phone) you could of deleted every single file that you don't need. Android won't allow you to delete important files when using a ordinary file manager so you won't harm your device. I've tried deleting files such as "Android Secure" and all it does is create another Android Secure folder.
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Just curious. There are lots of talk of backing up data. Is it really needed when doing a complete reset of the phone.
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No a backup isn't needed, but it is similar to having insurance on a vehicle. Just in case something happens you are covered.
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redishbrown said:
Just curious. There are lots of talk of backing up data. Is it really needed when doing a complete reset of the phone.
g2x rooted stock
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Depends on what you're okay with losing and having to re-download.
Hey guys,
I'm somewhat of a noob here but I'm having a problem. I've been using this rom on my G2x with no problems (more than the normal ones) for a few months. All of a sudden today, it restored all my preferences to default, made me go through the initial android set up screen, and I no longer have a data connection at all. It also deleted all my accounts (google, Facebook, etc). Upon restart each time, it keeps doing the same thing- deleting everything and resetting to default. All of my apps are still there and nothing seems wrong with them.
Also, I regularly make backups of my roms, but they are nowhere to be found (either with ROM manager or in recovery mode).
I haven't downloaded anything new recently and I don't think I did anything out of the ordinary.
Please help!! If I can't figure it out tonight or tomorrow I guess I'll have to reinstall the rom---which is fine, but I wonder if I'll get my data connection back...Do you guys think it'll work or should I figure out how to unroot my phone so I can send it back (don't really want to do this because I had problems rooting it originally).
Any tips would be greatly appreciated. Thanks so much in advance.
First, go to setting then privacy and disable the backup and restore settings. Then use a file manager to explore your internal and external SD cards to find the clockworkmod folder and see if there are any backups there. You might need to move them to the external SD card in order for the recovery to find them
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Also, which guide did u follow to root and flash recovery?
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This may seem like a dumb noob question but I just wanted to check.
I'm about to go from a 10.1 unofficial build to a 10 build. I remember from previous flashes I ended up with the nested /0 folders, so I decided to just start again from scratch, back up all the data on my internal and copy it to my computer.
My question is what is Safe to delete. I'd like to get as close to unused and empty internal storage as possible
Should in just delete everything inside the internal storage folder? Is it safe to do that without screwing everything up...
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What are you using to delete and what are you deleting? Screen shot?
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When you connect your phone to your computer, everything you see can be deleted. You cant see the system partiton when you connect the phone to the computer, so Its safe to delete everything on the phone (That windows allows you to see). Android will automatically create the folders that it needs if it needs them.
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When you connect your phone to your computer, everything you see can be deleted. You cant see the system partiton when you connect the phone to the computer, so Its safe to delete everything on the phone (That windows allows you to see). Android will automatically create the folders that it needs if it needs them.
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Nice thinking!
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OK I don't think this is ROM related, but I am running CM11 M11 (I think) but I have had the issue for a while now. My internal SD card only shows about 600mb available. I have literally gone through every file on there and there is no way it is actually being used. Is there any way to format the interval SD card without wiping the entire system? Some how I think the way the system is reading the space is wrong. Because when I go to the storage tab in settings or will show like 10 goods available for about 3 seconds then it shows full. So it really sounds like there is something Hunny somewhere.
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Here is a screen shot of what I am seeing
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Have you tried using SDmaid by Dark3n? It has a find largest files function. For me this problem was produced by either dropbox or box (can't remember which) saving an additional copy of everything I uploaded to my internal storage.
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I had this issue. I had to "format data" in TWRP. Be careful, you will lose everything! Make sure you back up all of your data, photos, music etc to PC. I made a fresh backup to external SD, and was able to restore that after, then restore photos, etc from PC.
Good luck.
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Here is a screen shot of what I am seeing
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If your recovery is CWM, did you make any backups?
I tried sdmaid and that did not work or find anything.
Ended up having to format my system and that did fix it. I just really did not want to.
As far as backups, no I have not. As my brother in law states I like living on the edge. That and I don't flash add much add I used to, and only 'stable' releases.
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