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Installing new rom phone does not seem to wipe..

OK been doing this rom stuff since the captivate. But as I remember (whitch may be wrong) I thought a factory/data reset in CWM wipes the phone. As in every time in install a new rom(latest infuse 2.1) using full version and doing factory data reset all my files on internal memory are still present. I.E. the photos and app. folders..
Yes sorda newb question .
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You need to factory reset your phone,or format your SD card to get that done bro
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Done the factory reset in the phone under privacy.. never removes any files or folders .. just acts like the day I got it with having to run setup. But folders are still present. should I check that box after selecting. Says for external storage.
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In regards to wiping all of the folders and such, you would need to unmount and format the sd card to remove all of that.
Factory Resetting only resets the OS and files related to that, which is why you are able to do it without losing any of your pictures, music, etc.

ZeroIsntTheHero said:
In regards to wiping all of the folders and such, you would need to unmount and format the sd card to remove all of that.
Factory Resetting only resets the OS and files related to that, which is why you are able to do it without losing any of your pictures, music, etc.
Erased!
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I would factory reset and then go into SD card under strings and format then your on clean slate buddy
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ZeroIsntTheHero said:
In regards to wiping all of the folders and such, you would need to unmount and format the sd card to remove all of that.
Factory Resetting only resets the OS and files related to that, which is why you are able to do it without losing any of your pictures, music, etc.
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Yes it does! Ok I tested it for you and yes check the USB storage that will do the trick. Erases all.
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tyshemi said:
Yes it does! Ok I tested it for you and yes check the USB storage that will do the trick. Erases all.
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Thanks just did myself and worked... thanks.. stuck at work and don't need a paperweight for the day..
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chvybeatsford said:
Thanks just did myself and worked... thanks.. stuck at work and don't need a paperweight for the day..
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No problem
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Trap just remembered u can hit thanks now in app. Thanks has been tapped.
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thanks for thanks
chvybeatsford said:
Trap just remembered u can hit thanks now in app. Thanks has been tapped.
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gave you a thanks for a thanks

[TOOL]::DARKSIDE::SUPER::WIPE::[SKYROCKET][ext4][2.8.2012]

*WARNING! I Am Not Responsible For Anything That Happens To Your Device*​​
** PLEASE BE AWARE! THIS SCRIPT IS FOR "T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II" WILL ALSO WORK ON "AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket" ONLY! IF YOU FLASH THIS ON ANY OTHER DEVICE YOU MIGHT HAVE A VERY EXPENSIVE PAPER WEIGHT! YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED! PLEASE CONTACT ME FIRST IF ANY OTHER QUESTIONS **​
:: DARKSIDE.SUPER.WIPE ::​
..A DARKSIDE DEVELOPMENT..​
My Original thread is found [HERE]​​
This is a small script i threw together a while back. I have incorporated in many of my ROMS, usually runs with a installation flag '-wipe'. The script does exactly as the title explains. It is SUPER.WIPE that does the most thorough wipe possible. This exceeds anything that CWM is capable of from the menu options. This will format and erase EVERYTHING on your /system, /data, /cache partions with EXT4 file system. It WILL NOT wipe SD CARD or EMMC... After it is complete with format and earse, it will align all disks partitions properly. This is a great tool to flash right before installing any new ROM on your device. No need to worry if you have wiped properly. Let the script do it for you! ENJOY! ​
Instructions on using DARKSIDE.SUPER.WIPE:
* WILL NOT WIPE SD CARD OR EMMC *
IMMEDIATELY BEFORE FLASHING ROM OF YOU CHOICE, DO THE FOLLOWING...
1. Place on ROOT of your SD card.
2. Boot into Recovery Mode
3. Do a NAND BACKUP!!!
4. Flash DARKSIDE.SUPER.WIPE
5. Stay inside recovery
6. Flash desired ROM.
7. After flashing is complete, Reboot...
8. Done!
​
[DOWNLOAD HERE] [DARKSIDE.SUPER.WIPE 2.8.2012]​md5 : ac3b9c04ad4d8b80b49048c29dab271c​** PLEASE respect my work and ask my permission before posting mirrors or using any parts **​
you underestimate the power of the DARKSIDE

for more???? probably not!

sounds interesting will download and try on my next Rom flash
now i see what it does but what is the ultimate true benefit of using this and not clockmod

bori1030 said:
sounds interesting will download and try on my next Rom flash
now i see what it does but what is the ultimate true benefit of using this and not clockmod
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this will format and erase EVERYTHING on your /system, /data, /cache partions with EXT4 file system. It WILL NOT wipe SD CARD or EMMC... After it is complete with format and earse, it will align all disks partitions properly.
This is not ground breaking material. Just does a more thorough wipe and will align disk properly after formatting partitons.

I used this on my last flash and it worked great! Thanks for bringing it to the skyrocket.
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"and will align disk properly after formatting partitions"
For my own curiosity, why is this important after wiping?

I was just reading about this...Thanks for bringing it over for us Skyrocket users!
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orlandoxpolice said:
"and will align disk properly after formatting partitions"
For my own curiosity, why is this important after wiping?
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If the partition alignment for is "xx" bytes off. It will cause major performance issues. Etc...

Works great been using other version a while im guessing they are the same or close to? i think the one im using is from Tmobile? either way thanks again.

blessedswine said:
Works great been using other version a while im guessing they are the same or close to? i think the one im using is from Tmobile? either way thanks again.
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Yeah the same..
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Im sorry but what do you exactly mean by "It WILL NOT wipe SD CARD or EMMC..."
Is this a good or a bad thing?? do we want this two things mentioned above wiped or not?
Thank you.

r3dp0is0n2012 said:
Im sorry but what do you exactly mean by "It WILL NOT wipe SD CARD or EMMC..."
Is this a good or a bad thing?? do we want this two things mentioned above wiped or not?
Thank you.
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Well I would think you wouldn't. Your SD card and internal SD card aka emmc has all you pictures and other personal junk.. so we don't wipe those
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He means your pics and music from internal or external sd card won't be gone.
Just use this when you are doing clean flash i used it and it works. Not to be an a** but i had idea about creating this wipe.zip but i suck at coding. Tried contacting someone where the idea came from never got pm back but You sir saved us. Thank You.
r3dp0is0n2012 said:
Im sorry but what do you exactly mean by "It WILL NOT wipe SD CARD or EMMC..."
Is this a good or a bad thing?? do we want this two things mentioned above wiped or not?
Thank you.
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So is the 3e recovery wipe process in the fix force close thread still helpful to do too or does this give you the same result?
Also would it be even better to format sd cards along with flashing this? Or is there not really any additional benefit of that?

THis and 3e recovery is completely different. We have problem with CWM not wiping data correctly therefore file corruption happens. By formatting ur sdcard you will lose everything that's in there. No need to do format sd card. Just flash this when you are doing fresh rom installation.
onearmedscissor said:
So is the 3e recovery wipe process in the fix force close thread still helpful to do too or does this give you the same result?
Also would it be even better to format sd cards along with flashing this? Or is there not really any additional benefit of that?
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I've used this script since the day tdj brought it to t-mo version with great results.
Thank you TheDerekJay for sharing this with skyrocket, very cool.
The force is strong in this one
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Why when click dl link it opens up cwm?
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You mean rom manager if yes that's because its .zip file.
nap286 said:
Why when click dl link it opens up cwm?
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thederekjay just wanted to say thank you. Your script worked beautifully, although the pause during the wipe did make my heart skip a beat.
~PsyCl0ne

Yes!!! Finally one for the skyrocket been using superwipe and fullwipe for my desirehd. Glad to see there is one for skyrocket now
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Flashing CM9 on Xoom keeps failing

I've already flashed a custom recovery image of ClockworkMod Recovery 5.8.3.1 and have rebooted into recovery, which works fine.
I have Downloaded the latest version of CyanogenMod and gapps-ics and placed on the root of the sd card in my xoom. I have also tried this by placing this in the root on the internal storage but I am having the same issue here.
I can wipe data/factory reset fine, as well as wipe cache no issues, but then when I go into install zip from SD card, then choose zip from sd card I get the line E:Can't mount /sd/card/ so can't install the zips cm-9.0.0-rc1-wingray or gapps-ics
Any thoughts on what might be the issue here, and why I cant get to the zips. As I said I have tried this both ways, having the zips on the internal storage and on the actual SD card.
HELP! So so fed up with v3.2 I need CM9 on this!

I don't know if the message is caused by the launcher. I would disable the signature check and try again.
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nliu0704 said:
I don't know if the message is caused by the launcher. I would disable the signature check and try again.
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I had the same problem, did a few google searches which indicated there was a problem with that version of ClockworkModRecovery, i ended up reflashing with ClockworkMod 3.2.0.0 (R4c) and all was fine after that.
Hope that helps,
K

Thanks will give that a go and post back later for if it helps others.
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How do I wipe EVERYTHING on my internal SD card?

Hi guys.
I want to start from scratch regarding my internal SD card (not using external) because I have a lot of junk that just needs to be gone.
I'm running Synergy's latest nightly and am going to flash a Jelly Bean ROM (don't know which yet) right after wiping everything.
So my question is, what do I do to make sure everything is wiped, and my phone still boots? I'm kind of lost.
I usually use CWM to flash, so what do I press in order to do this?
Thanks a lot.

You have to format the internal card with a filw explorer or in a recovery
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ikr said:
You have to format the internal card with a filw explorer or in a recovery
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Understood, but what happens when I try to reboot back into the phone; will it boot normally?

I ditto this question. I'm also curious about formatting my internal card and starting from scratch. I know factory reset from cwm recovery doesn't do it. I'm afraid to just start doing things and bricking this thing. Even though I was told by my cousin who has flashed many phone its very hard to hard brick a Samsung.
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Blutonic said:
Hi guys.
I want to start from scratch regarding my internal SD card (not using external) because I have a lot of junk that just needs to be gone.
I'm running Synergy's latest nightly and am going to flash a Jelly Bean ROM (don't know which yet) right after wiping everything.
So my question is, what do I do to make sure everything is wiped, and my phone still boots? I'm kind of lost.
I usually use CWM to flash, so what do I press in order to do this?
Thanks a lot.
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section 6 of my guide :good:

Please forgive me but where is your guide?
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Blutonic said:
Understood, but what happens when I try to reboot back into the phone; will it boot normally?
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Yes it should boot fine. The sd just holds your junk and possible some config info for some apps.

piiman said:
Yes it should boot fine. The sd just holds your junk and possible some config info for some apps.
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Ok, I'm just going to boot into CWM, Reformat, and Reboot. Hopefully everything goes well.
I'll get back to this topic to tell you how it went.

Ok, reformatting from CWM, then rebooting worked perfectly!
Going on to JB now, thanks for the help everyone.

Uhhh....right-click + "delete" while connected to your computer. Or from settings.
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Blutonic said:
Ok, reformatting from CWM, then rebooting worked perfectly!
Going on to JB now, thanks for the help everyone.
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After reformatting, the rom was still installed right? but all your apps and clutter was gone?
Just curious cause I also did data/factory reset from cwm and all it did was delete the rom and apps but all the stuff left over from the apps and music/photos/videos were still there.

uf21 said:
After reformatting, the rom was still installed right? but all your apps and clutter was gone?
Just curious cause I also did data/factory reset from cwm and all it did was delete the rom and apps but all the stuff left over from the apps and music/photos/videos were still there.
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Hey buddy they're talking a little different then just data reset. To erase all that other stuff go into cwm under mounts and storage and click format internal SD card. The ROM will still work but it will erase everything on your internal memory so if you have pictures you want back then up
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kintwofan said:
Hey buddy they're talking a little different then just data reset. To erase all that other stuff go into cwm under mounts and storage and click format internal SD card. The ROM will still work but it will erase everything on your internal memory so if you have pictures you want back then up
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I thinks thats what I'm looking for. Last question, if I do that will my system settings stay, will I have to sign into everything again and will all my apps be gone?

uf21 said:
I thinks thats what I'm looking for. Last question, if I do that will my system settings stay, will I have to sign into everything again and will all my apps be gone?
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In all honesty I'm not sure if it will erase settings as well. I don't believe it will but some app settings are stored on the SD card so you may have to sign back into some things.
If you choose to factory reset at the same time then yes you will have to reset everything up.
One thing to keep in mind if you make your backups without selecting external SD card they will ask be erased so you will have no backups
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kintwofan said:
In all honesty I'm not sure if it will erase settings as well. I don't believe it will but some app settings are stored on the SD card so you may have to sign back into some things.
If you choose to factory reset at the same time then yes you will have to reset everything up.
One thing to keep in mind if you make your backups without selecting external SD card they will ask be erased so you will have no backups
If I helped you in some way.... pass on the favor and help the next person!
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I've been asking around since yesterday and no one could give me a straight answer until now, so thanks for your help, much appreciated.

uf21 said:
I've been asking around since yesterday and no one could give me a straight answer until now, so thanks for your help, much appreciated.
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Glad I could help out!
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kintwofan said:
Glad I could help out!
If I helped you in some way.... pass on the favor and help the next person!
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Quick question, I just went into cwm recover then mounts and storage and the options are
Format /cache
Format /system
Format /data
Format /preload
Format /sdcard
Would sdcard be the internal sd card?
It sounds like that wipes everything (rom and all) and not just internal sd?

uf21 said:
Quick question, I just went into cwm recover then mounts and storage and the options are
Format /cache
Format /system
Format /data
Format /preload
Format /sdcard
Would sdcard be the internal sd card?
It sounds like that wipes everything (rom and all) and not just internal sd?
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You just want to wipe internal? if you want to be safe, take out your external sdcard, then do format /sdcard . This will wipe your internal sdcard.

Unable to detect/read from internal SD card

Hi all, I am posting this on behalf of my friend who has faced a problem with his Galaxy 3. This is the problem as described by him:
"When I look into settings>storage, it shows that the total space of the internal memory is 0, I can't install any apps and it do a factory reset every boot
here is what I have done to solve this problem:
use odin to flash to stock rom
use heimdall to flash to stock rom
wipe data, factory reset
reboot
format /cache, /system, /sd-ext
also, I am unable to clear dalvik cache"
Any ideas how to solve this? I have advised him to mount /SDcard or usb storage but to no avail. The internal SD card can be read from Mini partition wizard and it is formatted to FAT32. Thanks in advance for the help.

ballsofsteel said:
Hi all, I am posting this on behalf of my friend who has faced a problem with his Galaxy 3. This is the problem as described by him:
"When I look into settings>storage, it shows that the total space of the internal memory is 0, I can't install any apps and it do a factory reset every boot
here is what I have done to solve this problem:
use odin to flash to stock rom
use heimdall to flash to stock rom
wipe data, factory reset
reboot
format /cache, /system, /sd-ext
also, I am unable to clear dalvik cache"
Any ideas how to solve this? I have advised him to mount /SDcard or usb storage but to no avail. The internal SD card can be read from Mini partition wizard and it is formatted to FAT32. Thanks in advance for the help.
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Are u sure that although you formatted / system your phone booted
I was under the impression that doing that deleted the /system completely
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Arjav23 said:
Are u sure that although you formatted / system your phone booted
I was under the impression that doing that deleted the /system completely
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If the /system is deleted completely as you said, then is there any solution to it?
(I am the 'friend' mentioned in this thread, just signed up in XDA)

lastingfreedom said:
If the /system is deleted completely as you said, then is there any solution to it?
(I am the 'friend' mentioned in this thread, just signed up in XDA)
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Flash a Rom
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Arjav23 said:
Flash a Rom
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Well if his /sdcard stuff is gone and he can't read the phone from a computer it's not really an option. Any other solutions?

ballsofsteel said:
Well if his /sdcard stuff is gone and he can't read the phone from a computer it's not really an option. Any other solutions?
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when flashing in Odin, I was stuck in the setup connection part, then it failed, the only way to flash is by CWM, if I can flash to stock with CWM, then I think it can solve the problem

ballsofsteel said:
Well if his /sdcard stuff is gone and he can't read the phone from a computer it's not really an option. Any other solutions?
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Computer will read phone even if there is
No sd card
lastingfreedom said:
when flashing in Odin, I was stuck in the setup connection part, then it failed, the only way to flash is by CWM, if I can flash to stock with CWM, then I think it can solve the problem
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Try turning on USB debugging and then flash
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ballsofsteel said:
Hi all, I am posting this on behalf of my friend who has faced a problem with his Galaxy 3. This is the problem as described by him:
"When I look into settings>storage, it shows that the total space of the internal memory is 0, I can't install any apps and it do a factory reset every boot
here is what I have done to solve this problem:
use odin to flash to stock rom
use heimdall to flash to stock rom
wipe data, factory reset
reboot
format /cache, /system, /sd-ext
also, I am unable to clear dalvik cache"
Any ideas how to solve this? I have advised him to mount /SDcard or usb storage but to no avail. The internal SD card can be read from Mini partition wizard and it is formatted to FAT32. Thanks in advance for the help.
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to solve 0 kb problem just flash the zerofill tar by hillbeast. just download the attachment from below, extact the zip file and flash it via odin.Remove your sim card and sd card before flashing.

Arjav23 said:
Computer will read phone even if there is
No sd card
Try turning on USB debugging and then flash
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I am sure USB debugging is on, the computer can read my phone's external SD only, the internal SD can only be read by a software called mini partition wizard
avinash19 said:
to solve 0 kb problem just flash the zerofill tar by hillbeast. just download the attachment from below, extact the zip file and flash it via odin.Remove your sim card and sd card before flashing.
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I have tried your solution already, as mentioned above, I was stucked in the setup connection part of odin and I can just flash with CWM (not even heimdall)

lastingfreedom said:
I am sure USB debugging is on, the computer can read my phone's external SD only, the internal SD can only be read by a software called mini partition wizard
I have tried your solution already, as mentioned above, I was stucked in the setup connection part of odin and I can just flash with CWM (not even heimdall)
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Flash joy OS
See if problem persists
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