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[Q] Does flashing from custom ICS to stock GB wipe all internal memory?

Reason I'm asking is:
My Galaxy S had CWM and was running custom ICS and I dropped it and now the display is smashed and touch screen doesn't work. I have a new phone so am going to sell it.
I didn't have debugging activated so I rebooted in download mode and flashed it with a stock ROM using Heimdall.
I'm hoping this would have wiped entire internal memory contents including pics, ebay login, vnc sttings etc.
I think there would be nothing left to identify my on it but wanted to get conformation that it was "clean" of anything identifying me before I sell it.
Thanks

I dont know your phone but after a quick google search I see that it has a internal memory with optional SD card slot. So if its like my g2x then no it wont. When you flash a rom it only wipes the data, system, cache partitions. Not the left over partition(s) which house your user data thats been added per downloads and usb / bluetooth transfers and what not. That wont get touched and needs to be sorted. is the screen not viewable at all? like can read anything at all? I have a few tricks but it is contingent on what you can see or not see.....

No the screen is completely dead.
There was no SD card in the phone when I flashed it if that makes any difference.
Thanks

rough60 said:
No the screen is completely dead.
There was no SD card in the phone when I flashed it if that makes any difference.
Thanks
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so then you may have to adb it... do u have the ability to adb shell to the phone?

Tried that, device wasn't recognized.
There wasnt a sim card in the phone and not sure if debugging is set to on immediately after flashing a new rom?

rough60 said:
Tried that, device wasn't recognized.
There wasnt a sim card in the phone and not sure if debugging is set to on immediately after flashing a new rom?
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um just depends on the dev.. but if u look in the threads u may be able to get a rom that has that setting set on default... or ask a dev to compile a rom with the setting .. or just say eff it turn it on and drop it in a bucket of water.. lol maybe that wouldn't work since your trying to sell it.. hmmm kinda limited with no debugging and no ts...
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I have a captivate, which is the AT&T version of the galaxy s. If you run Odin and put a stock rom on your phone you can completely wipe the phone, internal and all, using the master clear function. I'm sure Heimdall probably has a similar feature but I've only used Odin and know for sure that you can.
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Thanks for your help, I'll look around for rom
Cheers

Thanks gatormatt, I'll check the settings in heimdall
cheers

Try it in CWM?
Adb shell in CWM is possible, right?
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mDroidd said:
Try it in CWM?
Adb shell in CWM is possible, right?
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Is there a menu in CWM I have to be in to do this?
gatormatt said:
I have a captivate, which is the AT&T version of the galaxy s. If you run Odin and put a stock rom on your phone you can completely wipe the phone, internal and all, using the master clear function. I'm sure Heimdall probably has a similar feature but I've only used Odin and know for sure that you can.
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Nope, couldn't find that type of option.
Thanks guys

Phone storage cut in half?

About a week ago I finally got around to rooting my phone.
Right after root I did a nandroid, then unlocked the boot loader.
Then using droidstyles guide I flashed aokp jb, no issues with the flash.
The thing I noticed after getting my phone at up is that my memory is way lower than when it was stock.
Before I rooted, with all my apps installed my remaining memory was around 9.7 gb, now it's about 5.
I've also tried other roms out, all end up the same. Just wondering what's going on. I noticed in one of the jb rom threads it says something about converting to fat32 is that for the internal memory or external sd card.
Any ideas how to fix this? Thanks

Ok well after cleaning up my internal storage free from junk files, downloads that I don't need and you may roms, I'm almost back to the normal range.....
Using root exp what path is it to nandroid? I have 3 on there and really only want stock root for now.
Thanks

/sdcard/clockworkmod
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Jarredw said:
/sdcard/clockworkmod
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Found it, I can't tell them apart, the dates are far from being right so I guess they will just stay put incase they are needed.
Thanks

[Q] Stuck in recovery mode, can't mount sd card

I messed up bad. :crying: I have some idea what I'm doing but I just made a terrible mistake. I was running Viperxl with exernalx kernel and I wanted to try cyanogenmod 10.1. I had a back up of the factory version that was rooted and a back up of viperxl/externalx. I tried flashing the cyanogenmod rom and it was stuck in the loading screen. So I rebooted back into recovery then tried to flash the rooted factory backup I had. Same thing. It was stuck in the loading screen. Here's where I went wrong. I rebooted back into bootloader and tried factory reset without really knowing what it did. Now I have no back up. When I try to mount the sd card my computer says it has to format it first. And to format it, my computer has to clear it. And luckily I didn't just go for that. Any idea of what to do next? I'm stuck lol. Thanks for the help
Edit: Ok it's not really an sd card. All I can describe is it says drive G: and it has 10gb of internal storage(but it it has 16gb total it just says it will wipe about 10gb storage, can someone explain?) that I would have to all wipe out to format. I thought you would just call it an internal sd card but I don't think that's right. I just don't want to wipe anything important

Mr_Staples said:
I messed up bad. :crying: I have some idea what I'm doing but I just made a terrible mistake. I was running Viperxl with exernalx kernel and I wanted to try cyanogenmod 10.1. I had a back up of the factory version that was rooted and a back up of viperxl/externalx. I tried flashing the cyanogenmod rom and it was stuck in the loading screen. So I rebooted back into recovery then tried to flash the rooted factory backup I had. Same thing. It was stuck in the loading screen. Here's where I went wrong. I rebooted back into bootloader and tried factory reset without really knowing what it did. Now I have no back up. When I try to mount the sd card my computer says it has to format it first. And to format it, my computer has to clear it. And luckily I didn't just go for that. Any idea of what to do next? I'm stuck lol. Thanks for the help
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You corrupted sd card doing factory reset from bootloader.. don't ever do that on this phone. After formatting on pc copy Rom to sd and flash. If your on hboot 1.14 or higher you need to flash boot.img from rom.zip you installed. Unless your s-off
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I made the same mistake a few months back. Just RUU back to stock and you're good.

31ken31 said:
You corrupted sd card doing factory reset from bootloader.. don't ever do that on this phone. After formatting on pc copy Rom to sd and flash. If your on hboot 1.14 or higher you need to flash boot.img from rom.zip you installed. Unless your s-off
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Yeah I learned that the hard way lol. I usually check before doing stuff like that but... no excuse, I just went stupid. I thought it would be bad to format the disk since it wipes everything off? Is the important software on the other drive and not the 10gb sd card? Noob question but I just want to make sure before I make this irreversible
Edit: Ok I put more thought into this and I don't think you would call it an sd card. Just internal storage. But I see you have the same phone so I hope your advice is good. I just need to be reassured before doing anything else

RollTribe said:
I made the same mistake a few months back. Just RUU back to stock and you're good.
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I can't mount the sd card though since I factory reset it. Unless I format it on my computer and doing that will wipe everything off. And I'm not sure how that will turn out. So until then I'll keep searching around or hopefully get an answer. Person above said to format it but I'm just not sure yet and would hate to brick it. I'm kinda new to this so forgive my noobish questions on this stupid mistake

Mr_Staples said:
I can't mount the sd card though since I factory reset it. Unless I format it on my computer and doing that will wipe everything off. And I'm not sure how that will turn out. So until then I'll keep searching around or hopefully get an answer. Person above said to format it but I'm just not sure yet and would hate to brick it. I'm kinda new to this so forgive my noobish questions on this stupid mistake
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It will only wipe the sd card photos, downloads, music s**t like that.if you want stock unrooted then ruu... If you want custom Rom follow my instructions..
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31ken31 said:
It will only wipe the sd card photos, downloads, music s**t like that.if you want stock unrooted then ruu... If you want custom Rom follow my instructions..
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And chances are, since you've corrupted the memory, the data will be gone anyway unfortunately.
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timmaaa said:
And chances are, since you've corrupted the memory, the data will be gone anyway unfortunately.
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It's already gone.. I did it once, just to see what it did lost everything. And has anyone noticed the newbies posting strange answers around here lol. Guess u gotta get ur ten posts somehow
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31ken31 said:
It's already gone.. I did it once, just to see what it did lost everything. And has anyone noticed the newbies posting strange answers around here lol. Guess u gotta get ur ten posts somehow
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Oh yeah. My heart skips a beat when I see that lol.
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Just format it... If your that concerned you shouldn't be messing with the phone.. look at it this way it's corrupted and won't boot... No choice anymore..
You should read read read before doing stuff like this... It's easy to brick these phones. When I root and modify phones I'm prepared for something to screw up. But I personally spent days learning what to do before I started..
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31ken31 said:
It will only wipe the sd card photos, downloads, music s**t like that.if you want stock unrooted then ruu... If you want custom Rom follow my instructions..
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Thanks for the quick reply! That's what I thought. I just scared myself away from doing anything else. I don't always f up but when I do, I f up real bad lol. Most profound way to learn imo. And not to jack my own thread but can you run elementalx 6.7 with cyanogenmod 10.1? Can't seem to find answer and I'm not familiar enough with this stuff yet(obviously)

No you absolutely cannot use elemental kernel with aosp based ROMs. It's only for use with sense ROMs. It probably says that in the OP of the kernel thread. You really need to do some reading.
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Mr_Staples said:
Thanks for the quick reply! That's what I thought. I just scared myself away from doing anything else. I don't always f up but when I do, I f up real bad lol. Most profound way to learn imo. And not to jack my own thread but can you run elementalx 6.7 with cyanogenmod 10.1? Can't seem to find answer and I'm not familiar enough with this stuff yet(obviously)
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Elemental x is for sense only
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Yeah, exactly like I said, it's the first line of the kernel thread.
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31ken31 said:
Just format it... If your that concerned you shouldn't be messing with the phone.. look at it this way it's corrupted and won't boot... No choice anymore..
You should read read read before doing stuff like this... It's easy to brick these phones. When I root and modify phones I'm prepared for something to screw up. But I personally spent days learning what to do before I started..
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Didn't see this till now. Is it that easy? I thought it took something more technical and risky than this. I read into this for two days straight before doing anything and everything went smooth. And I did back it up. Not sure what went wrong there when trying to flash it because it worked earlier. There's just a few things I'm not too familiar with like the factory reset. And for some reason I tried it assuming it just reset it back to how it came out of the factory. It's all a learning process

I guess you leaned the hard way huh, just remember never to factory reset in bootloader again, only in recovery. And do some more reading, your question about elemental kernel would have answered itself if you took the time to read properly.
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timmaaa said:
No you absolutely cannot use elemental kernel with aosp based ROMs. It's only for use with sense ROMs. It probably says that in the OP of the kernel thread. You really need to do some reading.
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Elemental x is for sense only
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Ok that makes sense. Idk why I didnt just check the kernel thread. I was just being lazy. Well.. you're definitely right. I got plenty of reading to do. I just always over analyze things and search stuff too specific which makes asking these questions on threads easier

There's nothing wrong with asking questions. But usually the same question has been asked and answered before, so be sure to search effectively first, it's part of xda rules.
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Yeah I understand that lol. I thought about that before asking. I was mostly just wondering if it was ok to wipe the memory to format it. And I explained everything just to check and make sure there was nothing else that could be done. Which I probably could've found the answers myself but it's a bit overwhelming making these mistakes without knowing what to do. Just want to cry out for help. Things always look so much easier retrospectively lol. And they usually are too

All in all I think you did the right thing, you have the right information we need to tackle the problem. You'll find xda to be a great place, it's full of like minded people that are willing to lend a hand when the **** hits the fan.
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Emergency

so i used to use my senny all the time before i bought my s3... well i sold my senny on ebay and i formated all partitions for like a clean wipe and now it's stuck at the boot img...
My sd card slot is broken btw...
can this problem be fixed, like I don't know what to do..

guys please i need help

So what you were trying to do was to factory reset, is that right?
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If you formatted all partitions, then you need to install a ROM.
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anthonyly said:
so i used to use my senny all the time before i bought my s3... well i sold my senny on ebay and i formated all partitions for like a clean wipe and now it's stuck at the boot img...
My sd card slot is broken btw...
can this problem be fixed, like I don't know what to do..
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Simple,
Manage memory card for a short period, push ROM whatever you want ! Flash it via recovery..once done, take memory card out!!
That's it
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Guys, my sd card slot is broken... Like I would hold a sd card in it but it still wouldn't read it can someone teach me how to install a room through adb or something?
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Ahha yah, and I mixed it up with format all partitions
btw i have 4ext recovery... if that even matters
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hunt said:
Simple,
Manage memory card for a short period, push ROM whatever you want ! Flash it via recovery..once done, take memory card out!!
That's it
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wait how do you manage memory? LOL r you talking about your internal memory or somethinf

anthonyly said:
wait how do you manage memory? LOL r you talking about your internal memory or somethinf
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Mate, you haven't mentioned that your SD "slot" had broken !! Now I seen OP, then it was changed.
In your case, you have to repair it by Either HTC or Any local repair stores.
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hunt said:
Simple,
Manage memory card for a short period, push ROM whatever you want ! Flash it via recovery..once done, take memory card out!!
That's it
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hunt said:
Mate, you haven't mentioned that your SD "slot" had broken !! Now I seen OP, then it was changed.
In your case, you have to repair it by Either HTC or Any local repair stores.
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Oh...sigh i sold my phone on ebay and formated everything before i was gonna ship yesterday mistaken wipe with format all partition
i can't push a rom through adb?

anthonyly said:
Oh...sigh i sold my phone on ebay and formated everything before i was gonna ship yesterday mistaken wipe with format all partition
i can't push a rom through adb?
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May be Yes.
But, who gonna accept such device which has Broken SD port !!!
He'll probably return your device.
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hunt said:
May be Yes.
But, who gonna accept such device which has Broken SD port !!!
He'll probably return your device.
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it was written in the description that its broken LOL that's not my fault plus he probbaly knew considering that the final bid was 55$
do you know how to install roms using adb because thats the only method i can see working :crying:

anthonyly said:
it was written in the description that its broken LOL that's not my fault plus he probbaly knew considering that the final bid was 55$
do you know how to install roms using adb because thats the only method i can see working :crying:
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this is your only option
through ruu.exe
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1672425

phone won't connect to pc?

hello, I have a samsung galaxy blaze and a while ago i tried to root my phone but i was ignorant and tried to install a root for the wrong OS, and if it wasn't for your guys' help i probably would have had to gotten a new phone, so thank you again! Anyways today i tried to connect my phone to my PC and it used to work (like when i broke it before i did it throught the PC) but now it just charges it and NOTHING comes up. i re-installed the drivers twice and nothing. The reason I want to do that is i keep getting a low memory notice and I can't open my gallery. I deleted all my music off of it and most of the junk apps and I still can't open my gallery. I have a 16GB external SD card and I want to put all my pictures and music and apps on that but when I move my apps to the SD card it just fills up the USB storage. So my questions are how can i connect my phone to my PC again? it only charges it........How can I clean up my phone and put ALL my music on my SD card? I want to root it. right now everything is stock and its Android 4.4 and I'm thinking I want to root it so I can delete the bloatware and make it run faster. Thank you!
Edit: I have tried everything in the threads i found and nothing is working for connecting it my PC

Okay, I might have a solution .. but first, you say everything is "stock" then you turn around and say it's Android 4.4, I'm assuming you mean ICS?.
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FroBreadCreamJellyPie said:
Okay, I might have a solution .. but first, you say everything is "stock" then you turn around and say it's Android 4.4, I'm assuming you mean ICS?.
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Yeah sorry, Its ICS, but now my phone won't charge at all so i think this phone might be done for. Thank you for replying!

Jamco20 said:
Yeah sorry, Its ICS, but now my phone won't charge at all so i think this phone might be done for. Thank you for replying!
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Are you able to enter download mode still?

Just push the part in the USB on the phone so that the smaller part becomes bigger. Wouldn't recommend this as my USB port broke after weeks of doing this. I replaced it and it works good.
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Hey everyone, The phone was dead but it had an extended warranty so i was shipped another one! and it connects with the USB through the computer! awesome! now to get to rooting....