hi i was wondering how one can detect bot infections and get rid off the stuff.
for example will a full wipe and reflash work?
No, you gotta do a factory restore in the phone settings instead of using CWM full wipe cuz it doesn't really wipe your internal SD card. Also make sure to format for external SD card as well.
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So I went into the recovery console and selected the complete data wipe option. I then reinstalled fresh 1.1 and rebooted.
Then I signed into the phone like I knew I would have to, however after logging in, all my apps are still here!
Google voice recorder is still force closing on me and all the setings have reset.
I thought wiping the data would remove all the apps?
I'm trying to fix the voice recorder crash. I've removed it and reinstalled to no evail.
All of your apps are there because you are using Apps2SD, you'll need to format your SD card agan to get rid of them all.
I don't think I'm using Apps2SD?
I had a stock Sprint Hero, had it for several months, a couple weeks ago I rooted with Fresh Kitchen and installed 1.1. I never moved my apps or did any formating to the SD card.
Now I'm trying to wipe the data and reinstall.
Was Apps2SD installed automatically with Fresh1.1, and my apps moved and my SD Card formmated appropriately without losing my MP3's and audiobooks?
It just doesn't make sense...
Try erasing your SD Card
Backup first ..just in case
Apps2SD is done automatically if your SD card is formated with an EXT partition.
Your SD could have 3 partitions, they wouldn't be formated automatically, you would have to format it from recovery. Apps will be on a different partition than Music/books.
So if it was already partitioned then it would move them over automatically.
It might have been partitioned from when I had my G1.
I can format the extention though, and that will clear the EXT partition right?
I think I'll give that a shot then..
Sirchuk said:
So if it was already partitioned then it would move them over automatically.
It might have been partitioned from when I had my G1.
I can format the extention though, and that will clear the EXT partition right?
I think I'll give that a shot then..
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When you do the partition, just put Swap and EXT to 0 mb. This will make whole card FAT again.
Also I think you will have to clear your Delvic and do Data wipe again after you do this because all of the cached apps won't be there any more.
You could also drop it in the loo, that would wipe everything
Seriously though, just erase your SD card or copy its contents to your desktop and try again. Should be good.
So I'm about to install Tiamat's new ROM (I really want the init.d scripting functionality, plus it can't hurt to get up-to-date) but I can't remember if wiping my user data wipes out the /sdcard/ mount on my xoom. I've got 15gbs in there in all kinds of random stuff and I'd rather not wipe it if I don't have to.
What I THINK is that the Dalvik/Cache/User data wipe that I do before I install the ROM will do what it would on my phone - simply wipe everything that isn't on the /sdcard/ partition. Is this correct? I sure hope so.
Yes, that is correct. It won't touch your SD card.
Just to be certain...
Ok, but to be clear, I don't actually HAVE an sdcard, just the bigass bit of internal memory mounted AS /sdcard/. It won't mess with that right?
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Ok, but to be clear, I don't actually HAVE an sdcard, just the bigass bit of internal memory mounted AS /sdcard/. It won't mess with that right?
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If you are asking about the user data wipe you will have to do I order to flash thetiamat rom,
ummm yes, it will wipe that (internal storage) but not wipe your external/removable sdcard.
Damn. Ok, well, I'll just back all of that up to the computer then. It'll take a while.
You need an sdcard to install the rom though.
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Nope
Ok, so, like I thought, the "wipe data/factory reset" option in ClockWorkMod Recovery does NOT format the /sdcard/ partition, even though it is actually physically located on the internal storage.
Because of this I was also able to use the internal storage to store the tiamat*.zip rom file and flash from the internal storage mapped to /sdcard/. I'm now going to attempt to restore all of my settings and apps via Titanium Backup.
Thanks anyway guys. You did inspire me to do a full backup of my /sdcard/ partition onto my computer at least.
Sorry guys. I was way off. I was even smug about it. Well, as it turns out, you do need an SD card. Check out my post here to see what happened (a lot of dumb bad stuff): http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1152121
Do not do a factory reset with this ROM, unless you want to lose all the data on your SD card.
Nice...
I wouldn't really go blaming them right away. Did you select the factory reset option from the rom itself or from in recovery? Its never a good idea to select factory reset or upgrade from with in the rom if you are rooted. It will just mess everything up. Most sense roms you flash will have those options, just do not use them.
Always do your wiping and resets from with in recovery before flashing a new rom.
If you lost everything on your SD card and haven't done anything else to it yet, look online for some programs that will help you recovery your lost data. Sometimes they work sometimes they don't.
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Most likely this happened because that ROM recognizes the sd card as an internal storage and not as an external sd card. So a factory reset would erase the internal storage. Something to remember on those phones that have 16/32GB of storage built in.
Alrighty
Noted. Thanks Will notify my phonemates
I would like to start over and reinstall CleanROM 4.5 on my phone, and I thought it would be good to also format the SD card while I'm at it so that everything is clean. I've got a lot of junk in there from various ROMs and would just like to start fresh. What is the best way to do this?
Should I just do "Erase phone storage" from the settings menu of the ROM? Or maybe "Factory data reset"? Or should I be doing this from TWRP? What I don't want is to end up with a brick. I need to be able to transfer the CleanROM zip back over to the phone once it erases the SD card. Whats the best way to do this?
Erase phone storage does what you want. I've had bad luck with messing with phone storage in twrp. It rendered my sd card unreadable once.
Alright, that's good to know. Do you know what the difference between "erase phone storage" and "factory data reset" are? Just curious.
Erase phone storage seemed to do the trick. Thanks gunny.
Factory reset wipes the /data directory which is where user installed apps are stored. System wipe from twrp wipes /system also which is where the rom itself is stored.
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Alright, that's good to know. Do you know what the difference between "erase phone storage" and "factory data reset" are? Just curious.
Erase phone storage seemed to do the trick. Thanks gunny.
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Factory Reset just resets the Os like you're starting from the scratch without touching your sd card data.
Erase phone storage wipes the data from your sd card ie. Photo's, music, and anything else you've put on there.
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Good day to all,
this is my first phone that comes with internal storage and not an external SD card so I just wanted to ask if performing a factory reset (via recovery) would erase the internal storage that holds the photos, data, among other stuff.
I did a rough search on Google and found conflicting information (some going by factory reset via Settings would remove everything, /sdcard would not be touched, and so on)
I would like to move on from using the stock ROM to trying out other flavours and based on past experiences with phones with removable SD cards, doing a factory reset will remove everything that is on internal.
Thank you for your time in reading this.
sayatsugu said:
Good day to all,
this is my first phone that comes with internal storage and not an external SD card so I just wanted to ask if performing a factory reset (via recovery) would erase the internal storage that holds the photos, data, among other stuff.
I did a rough search on Google and found conflicting information (some going by factory reset via Settings would remove everything, /sdcard would not be touched, and so on)
I would like to move on from using the stock ROM to trying out other flavours and based on past experiences with phones with removable SD cards, doing a factory reset will remove everything that is on internal.
Thank you for your time in reading this.
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No factory reset won't touch your internal storage
You can check out this thread for some additional info before moving on from stock ROM
http://forum.xda-developers.com/oneplus-one/general/guides-bacon-timmaaas-how-to-guides-t2839471