I have a question that needs an answer
I installed VU on my inspire 4g. i have all my contacts on it and such . however i am giving that phone to my wife now. can i do a factory restore and it will restore it to the way VU was originaly installed without my apps and my contacts?
thanks !
Yes you can, just either do the wipe user data option from clockworkmod recovery, or do a factory reset from the options.
thank you !
Joshp406 said:
Yes you can, just either do the wipe user data option from clockworkmod recovery, or do a factory reset from the options.
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No don't do that. Custom roms install things that will be deleted if you factory reset. Then it will bootloop or be missing apps do a master clear and then reflash the rom
what is the master clear? how do you do that? and you say flash the ROM, do you mean the stock ROM from HTC?
Duffmantp said:
what is the master clear? how do you do that? and you say flash the ROM, do you mean the stock ROM from HTC?
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That depends on which rom she wants. If its her first android rom and you want to shoot for a stock feel then yes do the stock HTC rom. If she is comfortable with a custom rom then do a full wipe and then reinstall VU. Custom roms install things to the data partition which gets wiped when you do a factory reset causing apps to force close or not be there and depending on the custom tweaks it can also cause a bootloop at times.
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Hello,
I just flashed Vahalla-BlackEdition 2.3.6.
Everything looks great. I have not tested everything though.
I thought that flashing a new ROM would remove all of my installed apps. In fact, it doesn't.
How do I get rid off all of my installed apps while flashing a new custom ROM ? The reason I want to remove all of my installed apps is because I have too many apps (games) and just want to start something new.
I thought about doing "CWM: wipe data/factory reset" before I flash a new ROM using CWM. Does "wipe data/factory reset" remove all of my installed apps ?
Thanks in advance.
Tukang Libas.
tukanglibas said:
Hello,
I just flashed Vahalla-BlackEdition 2.3.6.
Everything looks great. I have not tested everything though.
I thought that flashing a new ROM would remove all of my installed apps. In fact, it doesn't.
How do I get rid off all of my installed apps while flashing a new custom ROM ? The reason I want to remove all of my installed apps is because I have too many apps (games) and just want to start something new.
I thought about doing "CWM: wipe data/factory reset" before I flash a new ROM using CWM. Does "wipe data/factory reset" remove all of my installed apps ?
Thanks in advance.
Tukang Libas.
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yes, the factory data reset will wipe the apps. Not all ROMs will remove them as you found out. It really depends on what you flash.
Good luck
After my last flash of Beans13 ,I messed up my contacts import.can I factory reset without losing the rom?do I need to reflash the rom?
Have you tried wiping your caches. I would try that first also try deleting you google account and setting it up again. If those don't work I would just reflash the rom. I'm not sure but I think factory reset doesn't erase the rom but I would just reflash to be sure it works correctly. I hope this helps I am not very experienced but I flash a lot of roms. I just recently got the S3 so getting used to sammy phones.
Desertburn said:
After my last flash of Beans13 ,I messed up my contacts import.can I factory reset without losing the rom?do I need to reflash the rom?
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Factory reset/cach/dalvic wipe is considered a dirty flash. You will not lose the rom but all apps. A clean flash requires formatting system. You will lose rom as it is in the system partition. You need to reflash rom to try to reimport or you can try going back through setup menu if there is a setup app in the drawer.
Xperia P lt22i
Rooted
Locked bootloader
I'm a noob and yes, I am retarded (You'll know why).
So, I've changed some stuff in my phone:
Status bar, boot and shutdown animation, themes, CWM recovery, xperia Z lockscreen, a custom feature for the camera, and so on.
I didn't do a backup for all those things (I didn't know how, and I still don't), I tought I could wipe data or factory reset my phone and all these thing would be gone and my phone would be totally "factory reseted".
The question is simple, how can I reset COMPLETELY my phone? Is there any method to do it?
(sorry for my english)
CheyTac-12 said:
Xperia P lt22i
Rooted
Locked bootloader
I'm a noob and yes, I am retarded (You'll know why).
So, I've changed some stuff in my phone:
Status bar, boot and shutdown animation, themes, CWM recovery, xperia Z lockscreen, a custom feature for the camera, and so on.
I didn't do a backup for all those things (I didn't know how, and I still don't), I tought I could wipe data or factory reset my phone and all these thing would be gone and my phone would be totally "factory reseted".
The question is simple, how can I reset COMPLETELY my phone? Is there any method to do it?
(sorry for my english)
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just do a full wipe and reflash the rom you are using.
chromium96 said:
just do a full wipe and reflash the rom you are using.
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I have the stock rom right now, how can I reflash it? and what do you mean by full wipe?
CheyTac-12 said:
I have the stock rom right now, how can I reflash it? and what do you mean by full wipe?
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it might me a hassle to find your stock rom, so i would reccommend installing a custom rom. There much better.
Check out your phones dev forum here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/forumdisplay.php?f=1729
Download a rom that you like (read some comments and see if its good), and place it on your sd card
To install a rom you must do a full wipe. To do this boot into recovery and choose: wipe data/factory reset , wipe cache partition, then go to advanced and wipe dalvik cache.
Then choose install zip from sd card, and find the rom you downloaded and install it.
chromium96 said:
it might me a hassle to find your stock rom, so i would reccommend installing a custom rom. There much better.
Check out your phones dev forum here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/forumdisplay.php?f=1729
Download a rom that you like (read some comments and see if its good), and place it on your sd card
To install a rom you must do a full wipe. To do this boot into recovery and choose: wipe data/factory reset , wipe cache partition, then go to advanced and wipe dalvik cache.
Then choose install zip from sd card, and find the rom you downloaded and install it.
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Yes, i also think that it's the way...with one thing to do also , to format /system in /mount and storage.
Thanks, I fixed it.
Glad you did, mate!:laugh:
I'm having an issue with an app and I've tried everything I can think of to troubleshoot it, Uninstall/re-install. Turn phone off/on, restart phone.
I was thinking of trying a reset on my phone, but it's currently rooted/unlocked.
Will doing the reset under settings give me any issues?
Any help is greatly appreciated.
Thank you
If you have a custom recovery installed like twrp or cwm you can do a full wipe from there and it will essentially do the same thing.
sent from my VenomOne M8
No it wont.
I also have the same question. Did you do the reset? Lose root? What happened?
Sent from my HTC One
Roque13 said:
If you have a custom recovery installed like twrp or cwm you can do a full wipe from there and it will essentially do the same thing.
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x_V.I.P.3.l2_x said:
No it wont.
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Yes it will. And if you think it won't a little more elaborate post would be helpful...... ?????
I would not do a factory restore from Settings with a custom recovery installed. I have never tried this on the M8 but on the Transformer tablets that can get you into a nasty "forced reboot to recovery" loop.
If it's an app causing the problem, just do a Factory Wipe in recovery. In TWRP the Factory Wipe will wipe all your apps and their data (not your personal files in data/media though) and also cache and dalvik. Not sure how CWM handles that option....
Read the recovery log while it's running or save the log from the Advanced option and check afterwards which partitions the recovery wiped.
For good measure re-flash the rom and you should be good to go.
I have rooted may htc 816g.flashed custome recovery.removed few boltwares.
not istalled any custome rom.
now,how can i factory reset my phone.doing it from phone settings cause any problems since i removed boltwares?
innaamalvk said:
I have rooted may htc 816g.flashed custome recovery.removed few boltwares.
not istalled any custome rom.
now,how can i factory reset my phone.doing it from phone settings cause any problems since i removed boltwares?
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Your phone won't be factory reset because some system apps are not there and you don't have stock recovery....
Newyork! said:
Your phone won't be factory reset because some system apps are not there and you don't have stock recovery....
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how can i get system recovery back?
(In case i get any ota updates)
innaamalvk said:
I have rooted may htc 816g.flashed custome recovery.removed few boltwares.
not istalled any custome rom.
now,how can i factory reset my phone.doing it from phone settings cause any problems since i removed boltwares?
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If you have recovery i think you can do a Wipe Data. I guess this is the same as doing a factory reset, but you will keep every change on system level.