Hi I feel likes pain with my endless questions, but I was wondering how I could flash a new ROM without wiping my data because it takes forever to copy everything back to my phone
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You dont have to deletr them for every Rom. In some you dont have to
you can back up threw titanium
^This. Back all your necessary stuff up because if you're jumping between roms without wiping, you can run into a slew of other issues. You can. Not saying you will, but this ensures no errors when your new rom is set up.
Not apps
Im not necessarily talking about Apps, I personally love and use Titanium. Im talking about music and stuff on the 16gbs of memory that takes forever to copy over and back.
dandog96 said:
Im not necessarily talking about Apps, I personally love and use Titanium. Im talking about music and stuff on the 16gbs of memory that takes forever to copy over and back.
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Flashing a new rom wont effect your sd card. Well, if you formating it in cwm it will Just copy your rom to you sd card, boot into cwm and wipe then flash! Don't format you sd card
try not to format your sd card and face the consequence of fc on some app but in some rom you dont need that just wipe factory and cache and dalvik..
Is it possible to return to gingerbread without wiping sd
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dandog96 said:
Is it possible to return to gingerbread without wiping sd
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No probs, but wipe the system partition eg: /data, /cache and things
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Is it possible to return to gingerbread without wiping sd
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You don't have to wipe sdcard. I've never wiped it except when unlocking boot loader.
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Okay, what does formatting your android do?
does it clear all data, leaving your system files on it?
I've been planning to reset my android phone for awhile now, I just wanna know this before, cause it seems very risky. I want to be able to always factory reset my phone at all times, so yeah.. :]
Just as you said clears data and leaves system files.
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Okay, thanks! I just had to ask to make sure cause I didn't wanna risk anything.
It does not erase the SD card. Your photos, music, ringtones, etc will still be there when you flash a new rom
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Rooted and installed humble 5.0 a month or two ago and its been good but lately lots of freezing pulling batteries and the battery is dying fast so just wondering if anyone recommends anything else? I am thinking its not really humble but maybe something i installed so i plan on wiping everything back to normal but hey its a good time to try something else too
Danalo's Rooted ep4d is solid.
thats humble isnt it
It's not really Humble, just a slightly tweaked version of the factory EP4D release.
You can also try the InfinityROM and TweakStock versions of EP4D.
I just installed TweakStock on my wife's phone and it's pretty nice.
I'm not crazy about the clock tweak, but my wife could care less.
FYI: I've been running Humble 5.0 for about as long as you have, and I haven't had any issues with lock ups, or the battery.
Yeah I may just restore humble can i just do wipe data or do i need to reflash it
jfl14609 said:
Yeah I may just restore humble can i just do wipe data or do i need to reflash it
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I'd download the CWR version of 5.0, wipe data and cache, then just install the CWR version from your SD card. Easier than using Odin. If you don't have Titanium Backup Pro, it's worth the money. Makes reinstalling your apps (including any launchers you might use) a snap.
This ROM with this THEME is a great combo..new and fresh
I actually just spoke with verizon and there is an issue with the phone itself so they are going to replace it. is there a way to restore to stock yet?
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I actually just spoke with verizon and there is an issue with the phone itself so they are going to replace it. is there a way to restore to stock yet?
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Yes, in the dev section are stock odins. Wipe the data from your sdcard so they don't see root related apps.
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xdadevnube said:
Yes, in the dev section are stock odins. Wipe the data from your sdcard so they don't see root related apps.
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I believe you keep your sd card when doing fru's.... just going back to stock should be good enough.
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mikehal38 said:
I believe you keep your sd card when doing fru's.... just going back to stock should be good enough.
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You SD card will have whatever extra stuff you had on it whether you flash a factory ROM or not. Some of the folders on the SD card are system folders which most of the content will be replaced with the factory Odin. If you want your phone to be completely stock, wipe your SD card and then Odin the stock ROM.
You can also delete the information from the SD card manually. Folders like "Voodoo" and "clockworkmod" are a dead giveaway that the phone was rooted.
As long as the phone can read the SD card, then its fine to go ahead and either wipe or format the SD card before Odining the factory image. Or just delete the obvious stuff manually, or whatever...
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You SD card will have whatever extra stuff you had on it whether you flash a factory ROM or not. Some of the folders on the SD card are system folders which most of the content will be replaced with the factory Odin. If you want your phone to be completely stock, wipe your SD card and then Odin the stock ROM.
You can also delete the information from the SD card manually. Folders like "Voodoo" and "clockworkmod" are a dead giveaway that the phone was rooted.
As long as the phone can read the SD card, then its fine to go ahead and either wipe or format the SD card before Odining the factory image. Or just delete the obvious stuff manually, or whatever...
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I think I understand what you're saying now. Do this before taking your phone into vzw for them to look at it. I always call them and they over night a refurbished unit so I don't worry about the sd card.
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Seconded on TweakStock. It's the most stable rom I have ever used (as in not one issue whatsoever while still lightning fast with excellent battery life). I flashed the one with the experimental kernel so I don't know how it works with anyone else's, though.
I'm not a fan of the clock placement either, but dwitherell posted a flashable fix that I was going to try out sometime.
what stock rom should I use i see a few I would guess bloated but one says if your on epdm4 you wil have issues etc
jfl14609 said:
what stock rom should I use i see a few I would guess bloated but one says if your on epdm4 you wil have issues etc
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If true stock is what you want... Odin the stock froyo rom, let it ota update to the latest gingerbread, odin cwr and flash superuser through cwr. Than use titanium to freeze whatever you don't want.
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i want just straight stock no root or anything. if i go froyo is it gonna matter what radio or kernel I have now?
Infinity ROM is a good one- also I found that the TweatStock is great on battery life and you can use the ICS themes.
Really? Just flash on top of it? Seems like there would be conflicts.
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i want just straight stock no root or anything. if i go froyo is it gonna matter what radio or kernel I have now?
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When you odin the froyo rom it will put stock radio and kernel on it. Let it update to the new gingerbread. If you are coming from a lagfix kernel make sure you disable lagfix. When you odin the froyo rom I would recommend odin the pit file also to make sure your partitions are accurate.
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I was thinking about just using this. do you see any issues
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1380430
I just bought my Nexus S GSM Phone and rooted it, the one problem I'm having with it is the fact that it has no SD card, does that mean that whenever I flash a new ROM I will have no choice but to backup all my pictures and music to my computer and then wipe data? or is there someway to avoid this, thanks in advance for any help.
P.S. any information on the phone and what you would recommend (batteries, cases, whatever to do with the phone) would be greatly appreciated. I'm liking this phone very much, but I'm concerned about the factory wipe everytime I need/want to switch to a new ROM.
Thank you
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subedaman said:
I just bought my Nexus S GSM Phone and rooted it, the one problem I'm having with it is the fact that it has no SD card, does that mean that whenever I flash a new ROM I will have no choice but to backup all my pictures and music to my computer and then wipe data? or is there someway to avoid this, thanks in advance for any help.
P.S. any information on the phone and what you would recommend (batteries, cases, whatever to do with the phone) would be greatly appreciated. I'm liking this phone very much, but I'm concerned about the factory wipe everytime I need/want to switch to a new ROM.
Thank you
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Nope it doesnt wipe your pictures and all. It only wipes the data and system partitons.
You can wipe your sd card by selecting format sd card in CWM/
I recieved the OTA update for the G2x to the latest v21y firmware and Gingerbread 2.3.4 OS. Everything seems to have gone fine, except that now in Google Play apps it gives me the following error when trying to install or update *any* app:
'Error downloading "xxx". There is insufficient space on the device.'
Of course, I have an additional 8 GB micro SD card that is almost totally empty, and the internal phone storage has 3.2 GB available. The phone memory lists 0.94 GB available as well.
I followed the usual advice of clear data / clear cache for both Google Play and Download Manager. I unmounted/mounted both phone and SD cards. I turned off the phone, pulled the battery for a bit, took out the external SD card, put the battery back in, and booted back up. I rebooted a bunch of times. I put the external SD card back in. I cleared off extra crud from phone storage via a file manager, and I cleared caches on all installed apps.
This has never happened before, and directly after the update it has happened 100% of the time I have tried.
Any ideas? Is this happening to anyone else who got the update? (I'm completely on stock, btw, still not out of warranty.)
Clear market apparently cache/data
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kwes1020 said:
Clear market apparently cache/data
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mikefarny said:
I followed the usual advice of clear data / clear cache for both Google Play and Download Manager.
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Isn't that it? Is there something more that constitutes clearing market cache/data?
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Isn't that it? Is there something more that constitutes clearing market cache/data?
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Oh reading fails me sometimes. Try wiping cache and dalvik in cwm maybe.
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kwes1020 said:
Oh reading fails me sometimes. Try wiping cache and dalvik in cwm maybe.
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Does that require rooting? I haven't installed CWM yet, as I was holding off on all the experimentation until my year was up.
If there's no other usual thing to try, if T-mo doesn't come back with a reasonable response I suppose that's the next step.
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Does that require rooting? I haven't installed CWM yet, as I was holding off on all the experimentation until my year was up.
If there's no other usual thing to try, if T-mo doesn't come back with a reasonable response I suppose that's the next step.
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No it requires Nvflashing cwm. But that will ruin your "warranty" on a end of life phone
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Or a factory reset beofre rooting, although if you factory reset might as well root the phone lol.
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Or a factory reset beofre rooting, although if you factory reset might as well root the phone lol.
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You can factory reset without root. That's what T-Mobile will tell you to do anyways. I've went through six g2x in the past two weeks...that's their answer to everything lol
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I'm aware of that, just saying that's an option.
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I'm aware of that, just saying that's an option.
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I root everything I get on day one. Nothing stock and limiting my user options appeals to me. You can always revert to stock or if you hard brick no one could tell anyways.
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So a factory reset fixed it. I didn't have to wipe the phone and external SD, and so I'm just reinstalling apps and setting up a few of them. This was a good time for some spring cleaning anyway, I suppose.
It was probably some stupid permissions thing, but without root I can't even fix that.
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So a factory reset fixed it. I didn't have to wipe the phone and external SD, and so I'm just reinstalling apps and setting up a few of them. This was a good time for some spring cleaning anyway, I suppose.
It was probably some stupid permissions thing, but without root I can't even fix that.
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U got the ota? Nandroid it, and send it to kwes
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What is this update supposed to accomplish anyway? I'm rooted and trying ROMS pretty much every week (since no ICS rom works for me as a daily driver). Should I / can I do the update to 21y?
V21y 2.3.4 Rooted Touch Key lights
so everything else works fine when it comes to rooted app root request, but for some reason when a touch key light app request permisson it can do the job of adjusting the touchkey brightness, however the screen becomes very unresponsive, to the point where you cant slide left and right... I have run out of ideas as to why this is? has anyone else experienced this? I like to be able to turn that brightness down
Ok,, This is what happened
I was in stock 4.1.2 and installed Custom ROM,, since that I felt lost few of photos and videos. I didn't feel good with that Custom ROM so I installed back to stock 4.1.2 and automatically upgraded to 4.2.2. And since that I lost greater than before. I used many recovery software to recover my lost but I had nothing. I decided back to 4.1.2 but something worse happened,, 3/4 of my video and gallery disappear,, :crying::crying::crying:
Perhaps someone know what should I do or anyone had same experience like me?
# Sorry for my bad english :fingers-crossed:
Anyone?
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Anyone?
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some idk about that but in my case I lost all of my data including all the movies i copied in my tab.. After checking sd card throughly using CWM recovery i managed to find out that every thing was there but flashing a new rom mounted a new partition kinda thingy lol old data was saved as SDcard/data but after the flash new data was saved as SDcard/0/data and i couldnt find any way to access the old data.. I had to format the sdcard completely using CWM to get back the space taken by my old data though...
Any one?
Kiyani said:
some idk about that but in my case I lost all of my data including all the movies i copied in my tab.. After checking sd card throughly using CWM recovery i managed to find out that every thing was there but flashing a new rom mounted a new partition kinda thingy lol old data was saved as SDcard/data but after the flash new data was saved as SDcard/0/data and i couldnt find any way to access the old data.. I had to format the sdcard completely using CWM to get back the space taken by my old data though...
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Thanks for your reply.. so, there's no way to get our old data? I'm sure my data was not lost.. but hidden somewhere just like you said. Because my remain storage's memory was not increase (constant) since my data lost.. is it happen in tablet device only? Because I never face this case expect in tablet device
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Thanks for your reply.. so, there's no way to get our old data? I'm sure my data was not lost.. but hidden somewhere just like you said. Because my remain storage's memory was not increase (constant) since my data lost.. is it happen in tablet device only? Because I never face this case expect in tablet device
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You're welcome I'm always happy to help.. Well the problem is I couldn't find any way to recover the old data... so was forced to completely format my tab using CWM recovery to get back the space of almost 6 GB taken by my old data.. if you can somehow get back to the old partition then it might be possible to get it back but sadly i wasn't able to find anything on the net though.. BTW it didn't happened again though so far and yes you are right it only happened on my tab... I flashed new ROMs multiple times on HTC desire C and Samsung Galaxy Y DUOS but this never happened..