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how would you go about unrooting and resetting EVERYTHING?

so I bought this MyTouch 4g from this guy at my job. He rooted and messed up some things (deleted important files i guess), and as I'm using the phone I get random force closes on certain applications. Turning on the phone takes forever, Loading pop up stays up for about 5 minutes before the homescreen is actually completely loaded. Sense Widgets are gone, when I try to load them, htc.RosieUtility.com has to force close. Email app force closes as well. When I try to recovery boot (Volume + Power), I get a ClockWorkMod screen.. which I am 98% sure is not stock.
He admitted himself he messed it up, so I bought it pretty cheap from him , but is there any way to reset EVERYTHING to factory settings, even though he deleted some things when he rooted and got into the system/app?

I could be wrong but try:
Home > Menu > Settings > Factory Data Reset
Unless you are comfortable with flashing a new ROM to the device.

Your right in thinking clockworkmod is nothing to with stock. But this is good. If he has messed up by deleting important apps and files the easiest way to solve this is to flash a new rom. Head over to the my touch 4g forums find a rom you like the look of download it to your memory card. Boot in to recovery, wipe data, wipe cache, install zip from sdcard and flash your new rom. This should solve all your problems and you will have a clean slate to start from.
I wouldnt worry about unrooting, i have heard of people Paying more for second hand phones that have been rooted. How ever if you did want to take it back to stock im sure there will be a guide in the my touch 4g forums
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try this out, there is a link above the 2nd video http://www.droid-life.com/2010/06/14/how-to-root-and-unroot-the-droid-incredible/

G2x rebooting.

G2x appears to be stuck in a boot cycle. After completely draining its battery, it began to happen. Ive tried charging while its off and it still happens. Its gets to the lock screen and it tuns off again. Stock rom, rooted, nv flash. Help..

When I had this problem on the gb leak I had to unlock as soon as it showed up. I switched to bionix as soon as it was released and it hasn't happened since. Might be an app causing the problem though.
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Did you make a backup after you flashed clockworkrecovery? If so than retore it and you should boot fine. If you didnt make a backup then boot into recovery and do a factory reset.

REG, I have clockwordmod and I did a backup of my stock, but I think I did not have sufficient space on my SD card, so when I did the restore it succeeded, but when I rebooted my phone it's stuck on LG logo, do I have to reboot in recovery and do a factory reset?

Things to try
1 Factory reset in cwm
2 Load CWM internal recovery via nvflash (since you seem to have a small microsd)
3 Load another rom or nandroid back to stock again of your internal mem

I don't want to screw it up, would factory reset work for me in cwm?

It'll just wipe all your apps/cache. If that doesn't load correctly, then you got something wonky in either your boot or system.

Okay, so if that doesn't work, how can I get passed the LG reboot?

Mikeglongo said:
Okay, so if that doesn't work, how can I get passed the LG reboot?
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I already told you what to do. Look at what I wrote for options 2 and 3.
Edit: I actually told the OP what to do, but it goes for you too if you are in the same situation.

This happened to me today while I was out getting my car fixed! I was playing the new free game from amazon when it got a little hot so I let it rest, then next thing you know it was stuck doing the rebooting cycle. I was pretty pissed since I really raved earlier about how good this phone was until it struck me all the sudden.
I was at costco when this was still happening and showed it at the kiosk and asked if I could get a new another model since the G2X was making me pull my hair and basically I just have to bring the box in and they will replace it with the phone of my choice. Hoping they have sensation before the end of the month because this piece of brick is going. In the end I had to press down on the volume and power at the same time to LOSE ALL MY DATA to do a hard reset.
I don't care what people say about this phone and how great it is. I literally in the middle of costco curse the crap out of this phone!

Titanium and nandroid backup is definitely your friend.

HELP! G2X will not boot up, will not factory reset

I just got a replacement G2x and ended up one click rooting it. I installed bloat freezer and started freezing programs that I did before. I accidentally froze "launcher" since I am using launcherpro anyways. It seemed to be ok, but then I froze App Pack and it gave me the constant force close like some of the apps do. I pulled the battery and upon starting it up again, it gives me the LG logo at full brightness. It then dims to half brightness and then goes black. (unresponsive)
I try power + volume down and it brings me to the unpacking android like it should for a factory reset. Shortly after, the screen goes black and just sits there unresponsive but with the notification lights lit up. I had not gotten around to doing an nvflash recovery yet and dont have rom manager or clockwork installed yet. I just want to get back to stock or be able to at least boot up.
Please help.

Cyberdan3 said:
I just got a replacement G2x and ended up one click rooting it. I installed bloat freezer and started freezing programs that I did before. I accidentally froze "launcher" since I am using launcherpro anyways. It seemed to be ok, but then I froze App Pack and it gave me the constant force close like some of the apps do. I pulled the battery and upon starting it up again, it gives me the LG logo at full brightness. It then dims to half brightness and then goes black. (unresponsive)
I try power + volume down and it brings me to the unpacking android like it should for a factory reset. Shortly after, the screen goes black and just sits there unresponsive but with the notification lights lit up. I had not gotten around to doing an nvflash recovery yet and dont have rom manager or clockwork installed yet. I just want to get back to stock or be able to at least boot up.
Please help.
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I believe factory reset on stock recovery is volume up + power. Either way, I'm pretty sure you have to hold them until it starts the restore process.

Nvflash CWM recovery, restore the stock nandroid dump.
This should take roughly 10 mins to complete and will get you back to stock (minus the recovery).

GideonX said:
Nvflash CWM recovery, restore the stock nandroid dump.
This should take roughly 10 mins to complete and will get you back to stock (minus the recovery).
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what he said. took the words outta my mouth ahah

Thanks guys, I had done the NVFlash before, I was just worried about bricking my phone if I did it when I wasn't supposed to

Well after doing all that, it still only boots to the LG Logo. I can enter clockwork recovery and even do a factory reset (and the G2X stock nandroid backup) but when I restart the phone it won't bring me past the LG screen.......
Any other suggestions?

Cyberdan3 said:
Well after doing all that, it still only boots to the LG Logo. I can enter clockwork recovery and even do a factory reset (and the G2X stock nandroid backup) but when I restart the phone it won't bring me past the LG screen.......
Any other suggestions?
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Send it back saying they sent you another messed up one, and then again I suggest to you and everyone else to forget about rooting, since there are more negatives that outweigh the benefits to a rooted phone. It's just foolish and it's no wonder that the G2x has a lot of problems, it's because most that do complain of a problem have rooted or tried rooting the phone.

If I send it back and they get it to boot, it will still have superuser which means it was rooted. I don't want them to void any warranty and I am sure they would not have let it out of the warehouse like that.....
Rooting is not the reason the G2X has problems. LG is the problem....
Anyone have anything useful for me to do. I like that I can at least enter recovery and do a factory reset, I just need to get this thing to boot past the LG logo.

Did you do full wipe before restoring. Install a different rom instead of stock....
G2x with CM7 and faux .18 kernel. [email protected] 5091 quadrant.

Cyberdan3 said:
If I send it back and they get it to boot, it will still have superuser which means it was rooted. I don't want them to void any warranty and I am sure they would not have let it out of the warehouse like that.....
Rooting is not the reason the G2X has problems. LG is the problem....
Anyone have anything useful for me to do. I like that I can at least enter recovery and do a factory reset, I just need to get this thing to boot past the LG logo.
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After you did the reset and it would not boot up - have you tried pulling the battery and booting up again? I have had to do that a number of times.

I have pulled the battery so many times. What will flashing a new rom do that a stock rom won't?

After you restored the stock nandroid, did you wipe data, cache, dalvik again?
Wipe before and after restore. It works, I've done it oodles of times.

In addition to what GideonX posted, make sure you format system, format cache, and format data.

I did just as Gideon stated and it still cannot boot past the LG logo. I wiped everything before, flashed Gunmann's stock nandroid backup, then wiped everything again....
What now?

Cyberdan3 said:
I did just as Gideon stated and it still cannot boot past the LG logo. I wiped everything before, flashed Gunmann's stock nandroid backup, then wiped everything again....
What now?
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This same thing happened to me on my second night of fooling around with the phone. I fixed it by reflashing with the nvflasher. Make sure you follow all the steps to the T.

I followed every single step exactly. I ended up just putting the battery in and it booted fully after about 5 hours of sitting there. The battery was at 1% about to die. I don't know what made it boot up near its battery death. Either way, I was able to unroot and the next time I turned the phone off, it wouldn't boot again. It looks like it is an issue with the phone itself

Same problem
Hey, did you fixed the problem??
I'ts happening with my G2x...
Some times, it wont boot up, i leave it alone, and then powers up with 1% or 0% battery.
Today booted up with the right charge. And works flawlessly. But if i power it off i'm shure that the problem will be back.

How
GideonX said:
Nvflash CWM recovery, restore the stock nandroid dump.
This should take roughly 10 mins to complete and will get you back to stock (minus the recovery).
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How do you do that? Pleas tell

Go to the ROM for recovery thread in development section and follow it step by step.
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[Q] Rooted rogers skyrocket, hangs at opening screen?

Good evening everyone.
Going to try to be as concise here as possible.
Rooted my phone as per VINCOM's awesome guide here, everything went well.
Phone was functioning normally.
I proceeded to load superuser/ updated binaries etc.
Downloaded rom toolkit/titanium back up and proceeded to freeze certain apps that were considered bloatware.
after about an hour or so, I was on my browser, went to the home screen, but the browser stayed open, yet buzzed as if the command was heard.
did a battery pull, and since that it has stopped at the S logo opening screen.
I cannot get it to go into recovery at this point either. My phone has periodically shown the sticky power button issue with resets and every 2 second vibrations, but it had not done this for some time.
Upon trying to go into recovery (both volume keys held plus power, I seems to start doing the vibrating every two seconds.
At this point I am lost on what to do.
Any advice would be appreciated.

Me[kk]A said:
Good evening everyone.
Going to try to be as concise here as possible.
Rooted my phone as per VINCOM's awesome guide here, everything went well.
Phone was functioning normally.
I proceeded to load superuser/ updated binaries etc.
Downloaded rom toolkit/titanium back up and proceeded to freeze certain apps that were considered bloatware.
after about an hour or so, I was on my browser, went to the home screen, but the browser stayed open, yet buzzed as if the command was heard.
did a battery pull, and since that it has stopped at the S logo opening screen.
I cannot get it to go into recovery at this point either. My phone has periodically shown the sticky power button issue with resets and every 2 second vibrations, but it had not done this for some time.
Upon trying to go into recovery (both volume keys held plus power, I seems to start doing the vibrating every two seconds.
At this point I am lost on what to do.
Any advice would be appreciated.
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Just an update, flashed stock firmware for ICS 4.04 successfully, managed to get the phone once into recovery, did a factory reset cache wipe twice... everything remains the same. FML

Me[kk]A said:
Just an update, flashed stock firmware for ICS 4.04 successfully, managed to get the phone once into recovery, did a factory reset cache wipe twice... everything remains the same. FML
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managed to get my phone going.
tried flashing odin again with the stock 4.04 provided by VINCOM.
Things seem back to normal.
Still boggled by what bricked the phone.
Thoughts?

[Q] Phone won't boot

I've been having spontanious reboot problems where my charge would reboot and get stuck in a boot loop freezing on the droid eye animation and rebooting. In the past I've been able to clear the delvic cache and regular cache and get the phone to boot and go back to working order. Today however, clearing cache didn't work. Thinking this was a software problem, I connected the phone to oden and flashed the stock software ED1. I was planning to install back to EP5 and redo Tweaked 3.2 since the phone had developed a lot of lag.
Now the phone gets to the droid eyebll and stays there. Every so often the animation freezes for a second or two then continues. Is the phone dead? Can it be brought back to life so that I can use it while I figure out a new phone. I'm asking because this is my only smartphone and I'm now stuck activating my old chocolate flip
Mike

Why all the way back to ED1? Do you have everything backed up in case you need to flash with the pit file?
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beavermjr said:
I've been having spontanious reboot problems where my charge would reboot and get stuck in a boot loop freezing on the droid eye animation and rebooting. In the past I've been able to clear the delvic cache and regular cache and get the phone to boot and go back to working order. Today however, clearing cache didn't work. Thinking this was a software problem, I connected the phone to oden and flashed the stock software ED1. I was planning to install back to EP5 and redo Tweaked 3.2 since the phone had developed a lot of lag.
Now the phone gets to the droid eyebll and stays there. Every so often the animation freezes for a second or two then continues. Is the phone dead? Can it be brought back to life so that I can use it while I figure out a new phone. I'm asking because this is my only smartphone and I'm now stuck activating my old chocolate flip
Mike
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No, the phone is not dead, it is a bit lag.