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[Q] Data reset does not do a complete reset.

Hi i recently got a samsung nexus S, and i have not did any modifications to it like flashing custom roms on it or anything. So its straight up as original as it is.
But i seem to be having a problem with it now as it does not do a clean data wipe even if i do it with a hard reset? The one where u press and hold the power button and volume up. After that i tried doing a reset from the Settings section, it rebooted and came back on with everything still on my phone ! Nothing was deleted at all!
Anyone has any solutions to this?

tensetsu said:
Hi i recently got a samsung nexus S, and i have not did any modifications to it like flashing custom roms on it or anything. So its straight up as original as it is.
But i seem to be having a problem with it now as it does not do a clean data wipe even if i do it with a hard reset? The one where u press and hold the power button and volume up. After that i tried doing a reset from the Settings section, it rebooted and came back on with everything still on my phone ! Nothing was deleted at all!
Anyone has any solutions to this?
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Just go to settings -> privacy settings -> factory data reset.

yeah i did that, and it rebooted up, and everything was still there lol

Apps, contacts, and some settings like wifi info will automatically come back when u log into your Google account.
Sent from my Nexus S 4G using Tapatalk

tensetsu said:
yeah i did that, and it rebooted up, and everything was still there lol
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I've NEVER seen that happen before, I honestly think you're somehow doing it wrong.
Sent from my Nexus S 4G using XDA App

ok first a factory reset thru the settings option.
i went to settings > Privacy > factory data reset i dun think i can get that wrong.
when i do that it shuts off my phone. Reboots up, and i was expecting a clean phone. But everything is still there...
Nxt is hard reset, i shut off my phone, i press and hold the power and volume up until the recovery screen comes up, i select recovery, when the exclamation mark appears beside the android i press the power and volume up button again to bring up the menu and i select wipe data/factory reset. It says wiping...and when its done i select reboot system now, and it loads back to my phone ... with everything still there! hahah xD

unlock the bootloader, thatll automagically wipe the phone(and everything in storage).

hello, my friend just helped me with root/flash my phone, and the system supposedly did a factory reset.
But everything is still there =( im starting to think its a virus?
Im gonna scan it, but does anyone has any experience with these type of problems?

tensetsu said:
hello, my friend just helped me with root/flash my phone, and the system supposedly did a factory reset.
But everything is still there =( im starting to think its a virus?
Im gonna scan it, but does anyone has any experience with these type of problems?
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Like someone said before, if you don't uncheck it Google will automatically install apps from your market account after putting in your account data.

yes i unchecked it already, and i doubt google will put back all my mp3 and pictures even after i did a factory reset? I don't really think thats possible...
But anyways, yes i unchecked the automatic restore box.
sorry for the troubles im causing =(
*EDIT*
Do u guys think i would be able to format my phone by using my computer to format it like any other hard disk?

Factory reset doesn't wipe the (fake) SD card by default. Did you check the box for that?
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mp3's and pictures are not affected by a factory reset. to get rid of that stuff, do Menu > Settings > Storage > Erase USB storage.

i did that too, i even did the hard reset which supposedly wipes all data? But i reboot back in and my pattern password screen comes back up along with my usual wall paper. All my widgets still there and its like i've nvr done a reset before.

tensetsu said:
i did that too, i even did the hard reset which supposedly wipes all data? But i reboot back in and my pattern password screen comes back up along with my usual wall paper. All my widgets still there and its like i've nvr done a reset before.
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you're either not doing it right or restoring data from google... try doing it without logging back into google

i did not log back into anything, i even switched to a prepaid card to make sure i had no connections to the outside world at all lol xD
anyways derek can u please tell me what im doing wrong? I am sure i followed all the steps correctly. And the screen prompted me to make sure i wanted to erase all data, i clicked yes, and it proceeds to the "wiping data" but then when i reboot it back, everything is still there.
EDIT* I found a thread mentioning a factory format code *2767*3855# in this forum, i tried it, and it tells me connection problem or invalid MMI code. Anyone knows what gives?

please download the stock images for your phone and flash them with fastboot.
fastboot flash data data.img
fastboot flash system system.img

Think I may be bricked...

Hi guys,
firstly, I KNOW this is pretty much the most frequently asked question on here (apart from the old ICS Camera one) but I really could do with some help.
My signal has always been abysmal, and 3g/data connections never stayed connected. So after much research and deliberation, I decided to install a new Radio.
And now I can't get past the HTC logo, nor enter recovery.
I used the method in this post http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1186401
and the radio I flashed was 20.4801.30.0822U_3822.10.08.04. Everything was fine in HBOOT, and it seemed to be successful. But now I can't access it - holding down Vol- and Power just resets the device.
I'm sat here waiting for the power to die, though I don't know what I'll do then! I'd really appreciate any advice, I know it gets asked all the time, but there we are...

I had the same problem but managed to solve it by getting into recovery. Does the three key reboot work? If it does, wait for the phone to go off and pull the battery before it comes on again. Then volume down + power. See if it works
Sent from my HTC Desire S

Three Key reboot worked, I did what you said and am in Recovery! had to format cache to get out of safe mode. What should I do now, Reboot or go back to a Nandroid backup?
Owe you bigtime already!

outsidetown said:
Three Key reboot worked, I did what you said and am in Recovery! had to format cache to get out of safe mode. What should I do now, Reboot or go back to a Nandroid backup?
Owe you bigtime already!
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You can try to wipe dalvik as well and flash your rom without wiping anything else.
Reboot afterwards.
The bootloop could be related to a incompatible ril.
If it doesn't help, go back to recovery and make the nand restore.
Sent from my Desire S using Tapatalk 2

Aaaaand we're back. Thanks so much guys, Really appreciate the help in a panicky late night moment!
Now, about this ICS camera...

I solved it by just wiping cache. Forgot to mention that
Sent from my HTC Desire S

[Q] Cannoy Unlock after ICS Update

I updated my htc sensation to ICS yesterday. There were no errors in the update process.
But once it was completed , i tried to unlock the phone by clicking the ring type unlock. It was not moving at all like the whole screen was not responding.Then i have done a hard reser/soft reset , but no luck.
Even in this condition The phone gets charged when connected to the PC & the time runs perfectly.
I tried all resets by removing the battery & re inserting.
Please help

kgmundigala said:
I updated my htc sensation to ICS yesterday. There were no errors in the update process.
But once it was completed , i tried to unlock the phone by clicking the ring type unlock. It was not moving at all like the whole screen was not responding.Then i have done a hard reser/soft reset , but no luck.
Even in this condition The phone gets charged when connected to the PC & the time runs perfectly.
I tried all resets by removing the battery & re inserting.
Please help
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Did you do a full wipe and install of the rom? Did you do any system data restores or by chance have noLed installed? Can you revert back to your prior build from a backup?

Cannot unlock after ICS Update
kpjimmy said:
Did you do a full wipe and install of the rom? Did you do any system data restores or by chance have noLed installed? Can you revert back to your prior build from a backup?
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Yes, I did a hard rest.Even to do a data restore I cannot go to any options in the phone.Please let me know whats noLed.
If possible let me know how to revert back as I wish to do the same.

factory reset from the recovery ? tried it ?
go to bootloader ...select recovery ..then press vol +, vol - and power together (or just vol + , power dont remember well)
from there you will get some options ..do a factory reset there
and then reboot and see

[Q] Wifi will not connect. Stucking in off mode

Hi, last night my wifi seemed to cut off while using my tablet. I tried to cut it back on and it got stuck in the "trying to connect to wifi" stage. I cant press the button and it wont turn back on. I was running Chromi X 4.6.6 at the time. Today, I flashed 4.6.8, hoping it would reset and fix the problem, but the problem still is there. I am really nervous I broke my wifi chip or something. Here is a screenshot of what is happening. I hope someone can help me.
Thank you.

wl123 said:
Hi, last night my wifi seemed to cut off while using my tablet. I tried to cut it back on and it got stuck in the "trying to connect to wifi" stage. I cant press the button and it wont turn back on. I was running Chromi X 4.6.6 at the time. Today, I flashed 4.6.8, hoping it would reset and fix the problem, but the problem still is there. I am really nervous I broke my wifi chip or something. Here is a screenshot of what is happening. I hope someone can help me.
Thank you.
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Is the WiFi icon greyed out in the bottom right? If so try removing your Google account from settings and the readd it. I think Google have been having some DNS issues recently.

sbdags said:
Is the WiFi icon greyed out in the bottom right? If so try removing your Google account from settings and the readd it. I think Google have been having some DNS issues recently.
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I removed my Google account and tried to re add it. I get to the part where I need to be connected to wifi and I get this. Something seems to be horribly wrong.

wl123 said:
I removed my Google account and tried to re add it. I get to the part where I need to be connected to wifi and I get this. Something seems to be horribly wrong.
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Do you have a back up nandroid to go back to? Try a clean wipe as well to eliminate software issues.

sbdags said:
Do you have a back up nandroid to go back to? Try a clean wipe as well to eliminate software issues.
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Yes I have a backup from like chromi 4.5. I am trying to restore right now. If I clean wipe it, wont it delete the nandroid backups?

wl123 said:
Yes I have a backup from like chromi 4.5. I am trying to restore right now. If I clean wipe it, wont it delete the nandroid backups?
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Just do a factory wipe. As long as you don't do a full data wipe you will keep your nandroids if they are on internal.

This :http://www.transformerforums.com/fo...h-will-not-turn-asus-say-start-over-help.html
is exactly the same problem I am having.

sbdags said:
Just do a factory wipe. As long as you don't do a full data wipe you will keep your nandroids if they are on internal.
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How long does it usually take to Restore Data when restoring a nandroid backup? It seems to be taking a long time

wl123 said:
How long does it usually take to Restore Data when restoring a nandroid backup? It seems to be taking a long time
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15 mins... ish
BTW you don't need to wipe when restoring as it does that for you automatically.

sbdags said:
15 mins... ish
BTW you don't need to wipe when restoring as it does that for you automatically.
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**** me. Restored back to 4.6.4. Wifi is still broken. Gets to the the "Turning Wi-Fi- on..." screen and never turns on. I am freaking out.
Do you think doing this will work? And if so, how do I start a terminal session?
I've had the Bluetooth not turning on issue four times on my TF101 - the first two times a hard reset (no data loss) fixed it - have you tried this, as opposed to a restart? - and the next two times I just waited and eventually BT turned on. I've never encountered this with WiFI (yet).
In case anyone else encounters this, on a rooted tablet the following might also help:
Open a terminal session and -
su - <enter>
cd /system/bin <enter>
stop bluetoothd <enter>
start bluetoothd -n <enter>
This will force stop and then restart the Bluetooth daemon. I haven't yet worked out (mainly because I haven't need to) what the equivlent process is for WiFi.

wl123 said:
**** me. Restored back to 4.6.4. Wifi is still broken. Gets to the the "Turning Wi-Fi- on..." screen and never turns on. I am freaking out.
Do you think doing this will work? And if so, how do I start a terminal session?
I've had the Bluetooth not turning on issue four times on my TF101 - the first two times a hard reset (no data loss) fixed it - have you tried this, as opposed to a restart? - and the next two times I just waited and eventually BT turned on. I've never encountered this with WiFI (yet).
In case anyone else encounters this, on a rooted tablet the following might also help:
Open a terminal session and -
su - <enter>
cd /system/bin <enter>
stop bluetoothd <enter>
start bluetoothd -n <enter>
This will force stop and then restart the Bluetooth daemon. I haven't yet worked out (mainly because I haven't need to) what the equivlent process is for WiFi.
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I got that problem before. I believed that this was what I did if you want to try it out:
1. Wipe both Caches and data
2. Restart your system
3. Shut it off again
4. Go to recovery and select the Android for a cold boot
5. Restart it again and it work for me
I don't know why I had to go through that sequences but I seem to work for me, good luck.

LetMeKnow said:
I got that problem before. I believed that this was what I did if you want to try it out:
1. Wipe both Caches and data
2. Restart your system
3. Shut it off again
4. Go to recovery and select the Android for a cold boot
5. Restart it again and it work for me
I don't know why I had to go through that sequences but I seem to work for me, good luck.
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Thanks im about to try.
Q1: How do you wipe cache and data without reset?
So, Wipe, Restart, Turn back off. Restart into recovery and select android for a cold boot? What do you mean by that?

wl123 said:
Thanks im about to try.
Q1: How do you wipe cache and data without reset?
So, Wipe, Restart, Turn back off. Restart into recovery and select android for a cold boot? What do you mean by that?
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1. Restart into your recovery, assuming TWRP, and select Wipe option in your recovery
2. When you boot into recovery, there are 3 icons, the middle icon is the android that I am talking about
Hope that helps

LetMeKnow said:
1. Restart into your recovery, assuming TWRP, and select Wipe option in your recovery
2. When you boot into recovery, there are 3 icons, the middle icon is the android that I am talking about
Hope that helps
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Everytime I restart to recovery, it loads TWRP. I see a little android icon as it is booting, but its not like I can click on him. When I wiped using TWRP, it did a factory reset. I restarted to system, but the damn wifi is still not working. I am so frustrated.
Thank you for your help. I am going to eat and drink a beer and try again later.

wl123 said:
Everytime I restart to recovery, it loads TWRP. I see a little android icon as it is booting, but its not like I can click on him. When I wiped using TWRP, it did a factory reset. I restarted to system, but the damn wifi is still not working. I am so frustrated.
Thank you for your help. I am going to eat and drink a beer and try again later.
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Hehe, I have been there so many times before. You can use the volume up to select and volume down to confirm. Any way, did you tweak your device before the problem? Did you use D2SD? Maybe you explain a little more details what you did so that people have better understanding of your problem. The worse case is you have to flash the rom again .

LetMeKnow said:
Hehe, I have been there so many times before. You can use the volume up to select and volume down to confirm. Any way, did you tweak your device before the problem? Did you use D2SD? Maybe you explain a little more details what you did so that people have better understanding of your problem. The worse case is you have to flash the rom again .
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I was not running Data2SD (at least I dont think). I just figured out how to cold boot android. Do you think this could be a hardware issue with my wireless card? It seems to me like it has to be some sort of software bug

wl123 said:
I was not running Data2SD (at least I dont think). I just figured out how to cold boot android. Do you think this could be a hardware issue with my wireless card? It seems to me like it has to be some sort of software bug
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I had that problem before. Therefore, I am very sure that it is a program bug. Do you use Micro SD in your tablet? When I tweak my tablet, there are all kinds of problems that I have encountered. If you give me some more details, I might be able to help you out.

LetMeKnow said:
I had that problem before. Therefore, I am very sure that it is a program bug. Do you use Micro SD in your tablet? When I tweak my tablet, there are all kinds of problems that I have encountered. If you give me some more details, I might be able to help you out.
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OK. I was running Chromi-X 4.6.6 ODEX at the time it happened. I used to use a micro sd card but it was acting weird and I took it out. I have been using only the internal SD for the last ~3 months. I use _that/ stock modded kernel variant based from ASUS Stock that comes with the ChromiX mod. I run Apex launcher. Android version 4.2.1.
Using TWRP 2.5 on 10.6.1.14.4 via goomanager.
So far I have tried:
- Flashing ChromiX 4.6.8
- Recovering an old nandroid backup (4.6.4)
- Clearing cache and data via TWRP and restarting with cold boot

wl123 said:
OK. I was running Chromi-X 4.6.6 ODEX at the time it happened. I used to use a micro sd card but it was acting weird and I took it out. I have been using only the internal SD for the last ~3 months. I use _that/ stock modded kernel variant based from ASUS Stock that comes with the ChromiX mod. I run Apex launcher. Android version 4.2.1.
Using TWRP 2.5 on 10.6.1.14.4 via goomanager.
So far I have tried:
- Flashing ChromiX 4.6.8
- Recovering an old nandroid backup (4.6.4)
- Clearing cache and data via TWRP and restarting with cold boot
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If you don't mind, you can try a clean install.
1. Boot back into twrp and select wipe, use format option instead of wipe
2. Install cromi x, prefer 3.6.5
3. After the installation is completed, restart your tablet and leave it there for a few minutes
4. Make sure that you must SHUT IT OFF COMPLETELY for a few seconds and turn it back on
Hope it will solve your problem, good luck.

LetMeKnow said:
If you don't mind, you can try a clean install.
1. Boot back into twrp and select wipe, use format option instead of wipe
2. Install cromi x, prefer 3.6.5
3. After the installation is completed, restart your tablet and leave it there for a few minutes
4. Make sure that you must SHUT IT OFF COMPLETELY for a few seconds and turn it back on
Hope it will solve your problem, good luck.
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Regarding #2. Where would I find a download of chromix 3.6.5?
Holy ****.
I just rebooted into TWRP before formating, and then rebooting back to system to save my pictures, and all of a sudden the WiFi is working again. Going to flash the latest Chromi X and see what happens

[Q] parental control password lost !!!!

hello
I have a problem with my tf300t tablet. I just try to use the parental control from asus. But i have lost the password and actually i can't connect to the wifi during few hour in the days. Can you help me?
I have to go to the states next month and i want to use my tf300 during my trip.
Is it necessary to root the tablet?
Best regards
Jacques

vigourouxj said:
hello
I have a problem with my tf300t tablet. I just try to use the parental control from asus. But i have lost the password and actually i can't connect to the wifi during few hour in the days. Can you help me?
I have to go to the states next month and i want to use my tf300 during my trip.
Is it necessary to root the tablet?
Best regards
Jacques
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If you're stock, a factory reset would probably be a lot easier for you (and rooting the tablet wouldn't really help you besides, especially if you're being blocked from using the device at all).

Parental lock password forgotten
I also have the Parental Lock app set up on my tablet, and I cannot remember the password for the life of me. It doesn't give me the option to reset the password, and it also will not let me factory reset the tablet...not sure what to do. Can someone please help me??

jhawthorne316 said:
I also have the Parental Lock app set up on my tablet, and I cannot remember the password for the life of me. It doesn't give me the option to reset the password, and it also will not let me factory reset the tablet...not sure what to do. Can someone please help me??
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you boot to your stock recovery and rest it fron there. as long as you are stock. hold volume down and power button. that puts you into stock recovery. from their couldn't guide you. as ive been unlocked and rooted since out the box.

Parental lock password forgotten
kaos420 said:
you boot to your stock recovery and rest it fron there. as long as you are stock. hold volume down and power button. that puts you into stock recovery. from their couldn't guide you. as ive been unlocked and rooted since out the box.
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I tried the whole power + volume button, I did a wipe on it. Nothing wiped though, I still have all my information, photos, music...everything. I'm not sure what you mean by stock recovery. Do I need to select a different option other then the wipe when I get to that screen?

jhawthorne316 said:
I tried the whole power + volume button, I did a wipe on it. Nothing wiped though, I still have all my information, photos, music...everything. I'm not sure what you mean by stock recovery. Do I need to select a different option other then the wipe when I get to that screen?
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like i said unless your unlocked and rooted idk how to help you. maybe download the latest update your on and relfash it from sd card?

Help?
Did you ever find a solution to this?