I'm just curious how to delete ALL of the information that I've added to the phone. I've installed/changed/updated/removed mods and applications for over a year now and it's a bloody mess! I don't know what I can and cannot delete manually so I'm hoping that there is a nice and easy method for resetting the phone back to the way it came.
I've tried factory reset, but all of my data is still there.
Thanks!
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Hello,
I'm hoping you guys can give me some pointers.
Ever since I started to update to Froyo builds, the only thing that doesn't work is the gallery. It ALWAYS locks up the phone tight, I have to pull the battery.
I have tried formatting the SD card (the one that came in the box with the N1, btw on Tmo, unlocked, non rooted), doing a factory reset before each update. Then I simply copy my photos into the phone. I don't copy the .thumbnails folder.
I'm now distressed because FRF85B is out and it's supposed to be the OTA update, and I tried it last night and got the same lockups.
Does this mean I can't use froyo on my n1? it's seems impossible to fathom that my phone would be different.
I'm out of things to try, besides a factory reset and a formatted SD card, I don't know how to troubleshoot this. Eclair works fine with the gallery never had a problem.
I've seen people complain about this on the net but never seen a solution.
Best Regards
I have found some ways to make the Gallery crash, like by getting info on certain files, but no lock-ups!
What about clearing the Application's data from the Settings menu?
(Applications--> Manage Applications--> All--> Gallery--> Clear Data)
Thanks for the tip. I haven't quite done that clear data, I've just been deleting crap off the SD card.
I ordered a 16GB class 10 SD card (can't find the 32gb anywhere heh heh and when I get it I'm going to do a factory reset and then flash to froyo and start over.
It is very possible that my SD card (the stock one out of the box) is too slow or otherwise has problems.
I will post back here just in case other people are seeing similar problems.
cheers
reapur said:
Thanks for the tip. I haven't quite done that clear data, I've just been deleting crap off the SD card.
I ordered a 16GB class 10 SD card (can't find the 32gb anywhere heh heh and when I get it I'm going to do a factory reset and then flash to froyo and start over.
It is very possible that my SD card (the stock one out of the box) is too slow or otherwise has problems.
I will post back here just in case other people are seeing similar problems.
cheers
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hi there
did you come right with this?
So I got the 16GB class 10 card, and had the same problems.
I had to do a wipe from the bootloader and format the SD card.
Now the phone is stable. I was able to copy my photos and music.
But when I try to put too much on the card, like Brut maps or just copy the app specific folders from the old sd card, I still get lockups.
I'm pretty sure now that it's not really gallery related but SD access, seems 2.1 handled it much better than 2.2
Still waiting for the exchange HTC setup for me.
I keep getting an error this has stopped. Any ideas?
Did you try clearing it's data? Manage applications -> All -> select the media process and force stop it then clear data. Hopefully with a fresh start on collecting data it will stop crashing.
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Thanks.I tried your suggestions but the error just came back.
Is anyone else seeing this error.
Take a look here to see if it help
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1500580&
Thanks.
I am stock not rooted. took a look at the other thread but not sure if it applies to me being on stock.
tonyz3 said:
Thanks.I tried your suggestions but the error just came back.
Is anyone else seeing this error.
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Odd. That's all it took for me to get it to behave. Force stop then clear cache and data. I restarted and used my tablet for about 4 hours last night and never had the error.
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Take a look here to see if it help
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1500580&
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Interesting as I've been using zep's script for months and immediately added it when I first got my tablet. I didn't need to bulletproof anything just the force stop and clear data. But I did use the OOM groupings and minfrees it calculates. For those not using the script give it some consideration. It does wonders on lower end phone which are lacking memory but still makes a noticeable difference, to me at least, on current higher end devices like the Transformer or my HTC flyer.
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thanks,
Also i just now rebooted my tf to find the micro sd card is not being read by the tf, it shows in the notifications and has all the music files etc still on it but is not recongnized by any apps.
Is this connected to the media process fail issue?
any idea how to fix.
Update:
I tried reformating the sd card putting some music and photos back on it.
Force stopping media from app list than wiped data from media, rebooted with new formated sd card but still shows sd card in the notifications and can access it from the sd card menu in notifications-seeing all the files on it, but none of the apps recongnize it- can go into any music app but does not see music on the card.
Any suggestions to try
I had this problem for 2 weeks, and then after upgrading to ICS, it persisted. So I did a reset to factory defaults, and that fixed it.
I'm sure there's a way to fix it without taking the reset sledgehammer to it, but I figured now was a good time, since I had just got ICS running, and other folks said a factory reset seemed to help fix other problems and make things faster. Plus I had tons of apps installed, many of which i didn't need, and uninstalling them would take time.
Just backup all your stuff! I ended up backing up files, and then rooting so I coudl backup apps and app data with titanium backup.
Hi all, I have had my S8+ for several months now, everything was fine until this morning when I woke up to unlock my phone, it unlocked as per normal. I enabled wifi and opened google chrome and checked the weather. The, the phone shutdown and within a few seconds the blue screen appeared with a message (erasing). It took a while for the phone to boot up and go through the initial setup like a brand new phone.
Now, all the data on the phone and my 32GB micro SD card are gone. I have tried half a dozen recovery software on my PC but none can see any files on the micro SD.
I have no idea what happened and why it has wiped the micro SD card. I have lost images and videos of the last few years, I know silly not to have them backed up.
Any help will be greatly appreciated.
Wow, that is a great disappointment losing all that personal info. I suspect you are running a recovery software app from a PC or a Mac? If you are not getting any meaningful results from the data restore apps, and you know those apps to be of good/high reputation, then I am wondering of your phone uses a type of 'wipe' function that performs a military/DOD sort of erase?
If that is the case, that stuff is likely gone forever. If that is not the case, hopefully you can find another app to try and restore your stuff.
Now, on the other note, that's an odd behavior for your phone to just reboot and do it's thing, wiping your system. Do you have any type of security going where it might have thought the phone had been stolen, and performed a wipe as protection for the owner. . . (you)?
Good luck.
I do have company email on my phone and I have agreed to their security policy which wipes all your data. This could be one of the reason, however could they erase data from SD card?
I had over 60GB of personal files on it and I thought the SD card will not get wiped in any case.
I have been reading around but can't find any solution. Stuffed to the max.
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You can check the phone's memory - sometimes it has a "SD RESTORE" folder if it backed up anything.
By chance is this a company phone, or had a company e-mail on it? Sometimes those e-mails require device administrator and can be remotely wiped.
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Good info.
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You can check the phone's memory - sometimes it has a "SD RESTORE" folder if it backed up anything.
By chance is this a company phone, or had a company e-mail on it? Sometimes those e-mails require device administrator and can be remotely wiped.
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Thanks, where would I find this folder? I have checked by can't find it.
Hello,
I am a noob so feel free to point me if anything is already there as I could not find it.
I have new Samsung Note 10 Plus. Yesterday it got factory reset while being in my pocket due to enforcement of my corporate email account policy. Maybe due to accidental touches - I'm guessing. I could restore most of the stuff from the backups but the SDcard a micro 128gb has gone bad as well. Phone asks for it to be formatted and no data can be found. Tried multiple recovery softwares from stellar, recuva, Trying ZAR now as I write. Nothing seems to work. None of the software found anything.
My questions:
1. Does this kind of factory reset wipe out the sdcard as well?
2. Is there a way to recover the files on my sd card in this situation as I've lot quite a lot there.
Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks,
Any luck?
Hi, any luck with your attempts? Could you recover your data? I am facing the same issue.
Well, this is rather vexing.
I've been hard at work trying to backup / transfer data from my extremely old Samsung Galaxy S5 that seems to be coming to the end of it's useful lifespan. The S7 was next, but aside from running out of internal storage, I thought I still had time on that one (I wasn't experiencing a lot of slowdown or any crashes).
I went out for a couple hours (taking my newer phone), and when I came back, I saw my S7 on the insert the pin code screen. When I put the correct pin code in, the "unlocked padlock" stays on the screen for ages, before the phone restarts and I am shown the pin screen again (if I insert the wrong pin, it says so, so I am sure that I am not inserting the wrong pin).
So for the first time in my life, I am dealing with a spontaneous boot loop. This device has never been rooted, had a custom recovery installed or even the bootloader unlocked (it's the Exynos version, so presumably it would have been possible, but I decided that I wanted *one* unrooted device just in case, and given Knox, I decided that this was the device that will remain unmodded).
Anyway, that's for the story, but the question is, is there anything that I can try before the nuclear option (factory reset etc.).
Fortunately most of the photos are on the MicroSD. There are perhaps two or three apps that I would have liked to backup (they did not have a convenient built-in backup system) but I am just wondering if there is anything I might be able to do at this point? For instance, would wiping the cache be an option? Or is there anything I might be able to do with adb?
(Note: The device is running on Android 7)
Thanks.
Don't set security passwords for device access as you are the one most likely to be locked out.
If the boot loop wasn't caused by a hardware failure it's likely a app you loaded. Launchers and power management apps are prime candidates. Leave at least a couple gb of headroom on internal storage.
A factory reset is the easiest solution. Be careful what you load next time... take out the trash.
Use the SD card as a data drive, all critical data and everything you need for a reload goes here. No apps. Only apps, and the temporary download folder go on the internal memory.
The DCIM folder can be set to the SD card as well, but there can only be one DCIM folder and don't change its name. If a second backup folder is used on the SD card instead do not name it DCIM.
ApkExport can be used to make installable copies of apps for transfering them and added the data drive as well, no Playstore needed.
Do not use Kies or SmartSwitch when going between different type devices or OS versions. It can cause issues.
Cut/paste critical data, verify the data is readable and all there. Don't trust Kies or SmartSwitch with critical data.
Never clone data drives.
Never encrypt data drives.
Regularly redundantly backup the SD card data drive to at least 2 hdds that are physically and electronically isolated from each other and the PC.
Thanks for the reply.
1. No app was recently installed (past couple of weeks)
2. Hardware failure? Maybe, but it is rather out of the blue. Phone has not displayed any unusual behaviour, it hasn't been taken out of the house for a week or so (it is really in the process of getting retired). And I would like to ascertain it.
3. I am aware I can just nuke the whole thing with a factory reset, but before taking that easy option and effectively lose some data I'd like to retrieve if possible, I would like to other options.
And rather than tips on what I should've done or can do next time (much of which I am already doing), I am looking for advice on anything I might be able to try -before- nuking the whole thing.
For instance, could the log-files (there are quite a few of them) provide hint in what went wrong? Any option of re-installing the OS without wiping the data partition? Since I am on a fairly old version of Android I may also have the option of doing a minor update. That kind of things. I am thinking that there might also be the possibility that the system files somehow got corrupted and perhaps a re-install or system update might be worth trying.
I am basically looking for options that will not, for the time being erase the data partition. If it comes down to it in the end, then fine, but that is the last option not the first.
It sounds like it got spontaneously corrupted. Perhaps a flash memory cell failure. If so it may or may not be "self healing" with a factory reset or a reflash.
If you have ADB access you may be able to fix it.
Otherwise your options are limited to what's on the boot menu.
Try doing a hard reboot (simulates pulling battery).
If you try booting it a bunch of times it may go into go safe mode. I've seen that behavior in Android 9.
That's extent of my skills, sorry.
The reason why I posted how to prevent data lose is because sometimes that's all you can do.
Internal memory data I consider expendable, the SD card data... potentially expendable.