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Factory Reset after Upgrade?

I own a GT-P6200L and upgraded to the Samsung GT-P6200 Austrian ICS via Odin. Everything including wi-fi works well except for the occasional random reboot.
I've connected to Kies to see what would happen and it says that my unit "cannot be upgraded via Kies", so it doesn't like my upgrade via Odin.
What happens if I need to "factory reset" for any reason? How about if an "official" upgrade comes for my 6200L? Can I factory reset and then upgrade? Or should I just leave well enough alone?

If you would like to make a "factory reset"there are no problems..... Finally, in order to be able to update without problems with the tool journal Samsung there is a requirement that many neglect themselves and to which do not lend themselves never attention.
Kies allows you to install updates only if the firmware currently installed on the device coincides with the one provided for your Product Code...Another fundamental element in order to complete the procedure for updating the Galaxy is to have a firmware entirely original.
If you have on your phone a test version, root permissions enabled or a modified kernel installed (e.s. , CF-Root) will be unable to update.
Kies in fact, in these cases will not be able to recognize the correct version of the software installed on the Galaxy.

devid801 said:
If you would like to make a "factory reset"there are no problems..... Finally, in order to be able to update without problems with the tool journal Samsung there is a requirement that many neglect themselves and to which do not lend themselves never attention.
Kies allows you to install updates only if the firmware currently installed on the device coincides with the one provided for your Product Code...Another fundamental element in order to complete the procedure for updating the Galaxy is to have a firmware entirely original.
If you have on your phone a test version, root permissions enabled or a modified kernel installed (e.s. , CF-Root) will be unable to update.
Kies in fact, in these cases will not be able to recognize the correct version of the software installed on the Galaxy.
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Thanks for your response. Why do I hear about folks bricking their units on a factory reset? Is it just rooted machines only? Because I have not rooted, simply upgraded to the "incorrect" version of ICS...

I performed a factory reset and I have not bricking my tablet......ICS 4.0.4

I wonder if samsung really detects if we have control of root permissions or if it marks our firmware as "dirty“ after manual flashing any kind of zip package using recovery(as our method for rooting).
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devid801 said:
I performed a factory reset and I have not bricking my tablet......ICS 4.0.4
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So, you had Honeycomb as standard on the tab, then you upgraded to ICS via Odin, then you did a factory reset to Honeycomb? And everything went well going back to your original Honeycomb?
Is that correct?

scottb4u said:
So, you had Honeycomb as standard on the tab, then you upgraded to ICS via Odin, then you did a factory reset to Honeycomb? And everything went well going back to your original Honeycomb?
Is that correct?
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It will not reset the device back to Honeycomb. It just resets the device with ICS still installed.

k_t_b said:
It will not reset the device back to Honeycomb. It just resets the device with ICS still installed.
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what does it reset to? when upgrading to ICS via Odin, it kept my apps, etc. So what does it reset to?

[Warning] Ice Cream Sandwich OS Bricks

This thread is now irrelevant as Jellybean is available for the device.​
The old post can be found below:
As of right now be sure that you all are extemely cautious when trying to flash any type of ICS package (be it firmware, a ROM, or any type of system running it). Our tablet may have an issue with ICS as many other galaxy devices have. A bug currently exists that corrupts the mounting of the data partition on the device which *MAY* lead to a permanent hard bricking of your device.
This is currently a very RARE issue, however, those who are not well educated in Android development and that do not know how to 100% reset their tablet should refrain from flashing any type of ICS ROM or ODIN package.
If you have already flashed an ICS ODIN package or are running CM9 safely and have been for a good amount of time, then my guess is that this issue will not effect you, BUT it may strike you at any given time!
For those of you who insist on upgrading to ICS, *PLEASE* backup your entire ROM and make sure that you have the stock HC ODIN package. Although it probably won't help having them if you are hard bricked.​
A quote from an effected user:
ringnutz said:
I also had the can't mount data problem, I tried for 3 days to get it to work. I ended up sending it back to Samsung after reverting everything to stock. I was on cm9 though and one night it just started bootlooping while i was asleep. I.e. it would fully boot then restart after 5 seconds or so. So I tried reverting to stock and trying again, which is when I got the can't mount data issue. I literally tried every combination of wiping, recovery, Odin/heimdall, and the only thing that would get past the Samsung logo was cm9, which would just stick at the boot animation forever. I got tired of messing with it and thought it could have been a hardware problem, so I sent it back under warranty
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A quote from an effected user:
daviddavid123 said:
i installed cm9 and ics 4 then my tab hard bricked and internal memory damaged
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A quote from an effected user:
krbabb said:
I dont have posting privleges in the developer forums but i thought i would let you know whats up with my tab.
Rooted it, got cwm on it and flashed cm9. Worked for about a week without issue then started the bootlooping issues. I couldnt even wipe the data in recovery.
Used odin to go back to stock HC according to your instructions. Then i thought it bricked cause it just got stuck on the default screen showing galaxy tab. Tried installing HC a few more times but it never booted.
Tried one more time but now with the stock ics. Still nothing so i gave up.
Only thing is i couldnt power off. I planned to let the battery die. So it just sat on the default gakaxy tab screen and about 30 minutes later it showed the samsung boot animation.
I let it sit for another half hour with samsung pulsing. Nothing. So i reboot into recovery (stock) which i couldnt even get to before now, wipe everything like 5 times then reboot the device.
Booted up and works like a charm. I thought this thing wad gone.
Not sure if the stock ics tar file did the trick but let everyone know that mine came back to life. It possible other devices could be bricked but maybe there is a chance for some people.
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If you have flashed ICS and you have bricked your device I am sorry. I know there are a few people out there who have....
To conclude, everybody please be careful about tinkering with your device. I know ICS has great speed enhancements and all, but as of right now your box of ice cream sandwiches may or may not be poisoned.​
For the daredevils:
CM9 [View thread]
Guide to flashing ICS [View thread]
EDIT: Our case is not the same as the other galaxies.... Ours effects the data partition while theirs effects their emmc... I'm assuming ours may be a bug with the firmware installation / recovery as it was with theirs however I'm not sure why it is effecting users on CM9....
EDIT 2: We should all be cautious and NOT wipe at all using Samsung's ICS Recovery. I was chatting with aorth and he suggested that that may be the cause of the issue. His recovery (or the one I posted in my guide) are safe to wipe on.
EDIT 3: I guess we also have reports of the emmc being corrupted as well...

Just don't wipe data/factory reset using recovery ICS (RECOVERY 3e). Use recovery 5.5.0.4 or 6.0.x.x......only you wipe for up new rom, everything will be OK.
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Yeah, i experienced this type of total brick. I flashed p6200 ics firmware with mobile odin and than did factory reset in ics recovery mode. I think this was the reason of hard brick. After some time tablet did shut down and didn't turn on. Service fixed the problem, they said that main board died.

Ignore this post.

StrumerJohn said:
That's not the case I afraid...
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I really don't think it was a problem with upgrading. I had been on cm9 for over a month, then I woke up one morning and it was bootlooping. I got all the can't mount data errors afterwards, so it's either a hardware problem or cm9 is somehow magically corrupting the /data partition. I hadn't even installed anything recently
EDIT: Samsung just sent me the email that the repair is finished, they replaced the main board, so it definitely was a hardware problem.
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This issue was brought up a couple months ago by aorth, I think its in his CM9 thread or in one of the rooting or CWM threads. I don't think it is an issue that will be going away any time soon as Samsung isn't in any hurry to fix it, that is if they even can or want to.

Using stock ICS for almost 3 weeks now.
I was backing up and restoring all of the partitions via CWM 6.0.1.0 two times.
Nothing weird happening for the moment.

I use the ics wipe/factory reset and I don't have any problem, I have 6210 .

Well, aorth entioned sth like this before, here his post:
aorth said:
Maybe you guys have heard, but some early ICS ROMs for Galaxy Note and other similar Galaxy S II variants have triggered hard bricks due to faulty MMC firmware handling erase commands improperly. I never bothered to read up about the issue until now, but it looks like we should also be careful.
Chainfire just released a tool to print out whether your device has a known-bad firmware revision, Got BrickBug?. As you can see, my device has firmware revision 0x19. This revision has been known to cause hard bricks on other devices using Samsung ICS ROMs.
CM9 is safe (Entropy512 haxx0red the kernel), but we should be careful.
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I got this bad firmware revision too, but iam still safe after 2 months
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Bad2hold said:
Well, aorth entioned sth like this before, here his post:
I got this bad firmware revision too, but iam still safe after 2 months
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I'm not sure if I had the bad one, but mine worked fine for months too. Then out of the blue it bootlooped and when I tried to fix it by reverting to stock, I got the error. Hopefully when it comes back it will have a different firmware revision (if that's what the problem was)
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I flashed my tab with 'P6200OXALQ1_P6200XXLQ1_P6200XXLQ1' on 19th July - so far nothing has happened.... and it is working much faster than the 3.2 Honeycomb it came with.:fingers-crossed: Using Stock kernel/recovery... only rooted using temporary touch recovery.

02xda2 said:
I flashed my tab with 'P6200OXALQ1_P6200XXLQ1_P6200XXLQ1' on 19th July - so far nothing has happened.... and it is working much faster than the 3.2 Honeycomb it came with.:fingers-crossed: Using Stock kernel/recovery... only rooted using temporary touch recovery.
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If you flashed it using Mobile Odin that's normal because it uses its own recovery.

Ok, so what's the verdict? This bug sounds very scary.
Given that I'm running a stock ICS flashed via ODIN, should I be running:
-Stock recovery
-CWM
-Something else
to avoid bricking while factory reset?

I also use mobile Odin to flash ics and no problem. So, could you say that with Mobile Odin are safe from this problem?

Just read this http://www.reddit.com/r/Android/comments/xj2hd/i777_superbrick/, seems some of the things said could be relevant for us.

I have a galaxy note and Entropy who is dealing directly with samsung on this issue has a thread over on the galaxy note page. Lots of information over there.
I use the free emmc bug check app by vinagre https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=net.vinagre.android.emmc_check&hl=en to check my samsung devices on ics. Not entirely sure that the same case applies for the note and the tab plus though but it does give me peace of mind.
Just to err on the side of caution, I always odin flash back to gingerbread to wipe cache and other stuff before upgrading. This seems to have worked for me so far. *fingers crossed*
Check out that app above, its free and have a read of entropy's thread http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1698977 but beware they don't take kindly to noob questions. I just mainly read entropy's updates and replies and ignore most of the rest of the stuff there.

Is there any chance to bring my tab to life has the repair center hasen't repaired mine

hi,
i have flashed the stock ICS, the Austrian version using ODIN3. i have been running it since july 18th.
so far i dont see any problem with my tab..
just to say, i have flashed the firmware atleast 3 times, just as an exercise. and have factory reset it after ICS flash atleast like 5 times now.
everything so far works fine. i use the stock recovery for factory reset.
after the 1st flash, i had root.. then thought of unrooting, so flashed the firmware 2 more times.
and in between the flashes, i have factory reset a lot of times.
so far, the bootloop problem which i used to have when on HC, is not there. hopefully, it wont occur in ICS.
hope, this helps developers.

Zarvox said:
Is there any chance to bring my tab to life has the repair center hasen't repaired mine
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Use pit file (tab 7.7) in topic of hg42 - galaxy note this forum.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1667886
Or use this method:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1661590
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giangp1 said:
Use pit file (tab 7.7) in topic of hg42 - galaxy note this forum.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1667886
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Thanks with manual method described in this thread I've confirmation that my data partition became corrupted.
Yes it is alive !!!
I've deleted mmcblk0p9 (DATAFS on my P6210) and recreate one with smaller size (3 GB) than normal (15.2 GB).
When the tablet boot I realise I've 1.68 GB of storage
Now I may increase the size of data but previous tries told me if data reach 5 GB in size the creation of partition fail.

Safest way back from ICS (UK) to ICS (US)

Like many others, I have installed ICS (UK), no root, or other mod,. and would like to change to stock ICS (US); however, now KIES does not recognize my 6210 (WiFi) as an "eligible" tablet. Evidently it may be necessary for me to go back to stock using a factory reset (do not like to do that but apparently must) and then use KIES to upgrade.
For those of you that have been in the same boat, and have successfully reverted to stock ICS (US); I (and I am sure others) would like your advice on the best way to revert back to stock.
In that regard I have the following questions;
If I do a "Factory Reset" will it reinstall HC (US) and not HC (UK) ?
Would a better course be to install "Cellular South" (US) with Odin, or would this still be non-stock?
The only thing that makes me hesitant about doing a "Factory Reset" is the potential for the "Brick Bug".
Your comments and advice are appreciated.

I was still on Honeycomb and installed the cellular south firmware using Odin. Everything works including IR and KIES shows my tablet has the latest firmware update. Hope this helps.
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A factory reset will reset it to ics with all data wiped. To go back to honeycomb u are going to have to use odin and flash the honeycomb firmware.
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No need to go back to HC or factory reset, just flash the US ICS over the existing UK using ODIN. Once you reboot your device you not notice the difference with the exception of being able to setup OTA and Kies with once again recognize your device.

ColMustard said:
No need to go back to HC or factory reset, just flash the US ICS over the existing UK using ODIN. Once you reboot your device you not notice the difference with the exception of being able to setup OTA and Kies with once again recognize your device.
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This
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Thanks to those who helped
Thanks for the input guys. Based on what I am hearing it sounds like Cellular South via Odin is the best way forward. I really do not want to lose all my data if not necessary. Thanks again.

cbill702 said:
Thanks for the input guys. Based on what I am hearing it sounds like Cellular South via Odin is the best way forward. I really do not want to lose all my data if not necessary. Thanks again.
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I can confirm this is what I did...just flash it over the UK version. worked fine for me :good:

I was able to flash from UK to US ICS via mobile Odin without wiping anything and am running just fine. Just make sure that you unfreeze any apps beforehand.

[Q] DXLP8 issue + flash back to stock ROM DXLP7

Hi,
I bought a P6800 (came with DXLP7 ROM, Singapore version) one month ago. Its WIFI worked great in my work place but wifi could not connect to my router at home. I received OTA updates(~20 MB) few days ago which updated the ROM to DXLP8. DXLP8 solved my wifi connection issue at home but wifi connection is much slower now when I use it in my work place. I’d like to flash it back to stock ROM DXLP7 (found on sammobile.com) since I mainly use the p6800 at work.
Here is the status of the P6800:
• Stock ROM ICS 4.04 DXLP8
• Rooted using this method (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1849235)
• Factory reset using “setting”->”backup and reset”-> factory reset
• Factory reset in recover mode (hold volume up and power button->Select wipe cache, Select wipe data/factory reset)
If I flash ROM to stock ROM DXLP7 using odin, will that brick the P6800? Please help.
Many thanks
John

The dangerous part was the factory reset on stock kernel.
If it survived that you should be ok to flash.
You can always install and run the emmc brick bug test app from play store
since you are rooted, just to be sure.
Anyway, avoid to factory reset the P6800 it can kill your device anytime.

friedje said:
The dangerous part was the factory reset on stock kernel.
If it survived that you should be ok to flash.
You can always install and run the emmc brick bug test app from play store
since you are rooted, just to be sure.
Anyway, avoid to factory reset the P6800 it can kill your device anytime.
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Thanks friedje,
I'm a newbie to Android. I will do emmc brick bug test to check it. and I will not do factory reset again.
Thanks again!

Not so much to do with being newbie, samsung screwed up the Galaxy note and the P6800 (amongst others) , by putting faulty emmc chips inside. Under Gingerbread or Honeycumb there is no problem, but with ICS a factory reset can hard brick your Tab.
Since I own both, I need to betwice as careful

Thread moved to Q & A section, post in the relevant section next time.

friedje said:
Not so much to do with being newbie, samsung screwed up the Galaxy note and the P6800 (amongst others) , by putting faulty emmc chips inside. Under Gingerbread or Honeycumb there is no problem, but with ICS a factory reset can hard brick your Tab.
Since I own both, I need to betwice as careful
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Hi friedje,
I checked the emmc bug it showed no issue. I successfully flashed the ROM to DXLP7.
BTW, I have a note too, looks we have the same interest on those gadgets.
Many thanks for your help!

You may try the SkyHigh version of LP8.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1978573
It has some tweaks to the rom.
Goodluck!

daniel_hk said:
You may try the SkyHigh version of LP8.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1978573
It has some tweaks to the rom.
Goodluck!
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Thanks daniel!

[Q] JB update via Kies - Any precautions?

Hello,
I have an ATT Skyrocket on ICS (I727 UCLIC3). It's all stock and not rooted.
When I connected to Kies, I get a notification stating Android 4.1.2 I727 UCMC1 is available
1. I wanted to check if this update any known issues? and if i should take any precautions?
2. If I don't like this JB, is there an option to revert back to stock ICS? or is it point of no return?
If yes to question #2, How do I do a full back up before update? Should install CWM or TWRP for that?
And then I have to factory reset before JB update so the custom recovery won't interfere with JB upgrade?
Thx

Best advice is for you to read all of the stickies in the Skyrocket sub forums. Also, read the threads that have already been started about the update. The answers to all of the questions you asked and much more are there. It will also help you to learn ways to prevent hard or soft bricks, and what to do if you encounter issues. Good luck.

If you install CWM, you need to be rooted. If your rooted, you can't update to JB. Also, there is a thread with issues of JB. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2230909
I am pretty sure there is a way to do a backup on stock. Forgot though. Search though. The answer could be there.

Thx.
One more question: Should I reset factory reset my skyrocket? (before I let Kies update it to JB)?
I may have uninstalled or disabled some at&t bloatware... hence wondering it's better to factory reset before JB update...

gcretro said:
Thx.
One more question: Should I reset factory reset my skyrocket? (before I let Kies update it to JB)?
I may have uninstalled or disabled some at&t bloatware... hence wondering it's better to factory reset before JB update...
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Not necessary to revert to factory settings before you update using kies, sure all the settings of your currant rom will be lost once you're on JB, but data on your internal sdcard should be left intact like pictures and music..Better to back it up some where before you proceed..

I didn't do anything at all before updating (I use the standard AT&T firmware) and all I really lost was my home screen layouts; all my apps were still there, settings intact, still logged on as applicable. I did have a moment of panic when the phone first started up when it brought up the AT&T app that sets up a new phone from scratch. I thought that meant that it had done a full factory reset, but after getting out of that everything was there except for the re-initialized home screens.

I did the JB update via kies. So far all good. yes, I had to resetup my app shortcuts.
I read that this update should provide skyrocket users with the "Smart Stay" feature... but i don't see it anywhere under settings.
Btw, should i factory reset my phone now AFTER JB update? in case something is still not activated or something

gcretro said:
I did the JB update via kies. So far all good. yes, I had to resetup my app shortcuts.
I read that this update should provide skyrocket users with the "Smart Stay" feature... but i don't see it anywhere under settings.
Btw, should i factory reset my phone now AFTER JB update? in case something is still not activated or something
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If everything seems to be working, don't factory reset. With factory reset you will lose your apps and settings.
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