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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

Can't back up rom

I'm wanting to test out another rom, but for some reason I cannot back up my existing rom in cwm. I'm currently on CM7.
Any help is greatly appreciated!
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I choose backup existing rom, then shows the little android guy but there's the huge exclamation mark next to it. No clue what's going on. Never had this problem before.
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The back button is disabled....3 button and reboot back into recovery and try again
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Thank you for your help dman, but I'm not sure what you mean by 3button thing?
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chuckles_prs said:
Thank you for your help dman, but I'm not sure what you mean by 3button thing?
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Hold power and both buttons on the volume rocker until the phone reboots. When you see the Samsung logo, let go of power, but keep holding the rocker down. This boots you into recovery.
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Just wanted to make sure I was doing it right. Well still no luck. After the back up says complete, this is the log info.
No/sdcard/.android_secure found.
Skipping backup of applications on external storage.
Backing up cache...
No sd - ext found. Skipping backup of sd-ext
Generating md5 sum...
Backup complete.
so I reboot the phone after that, went into cwm and there's no backup from the back up list. :/
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chuckles_prs said:
Just wanted to make sure I was doing it right. Well still no luck. After the back up says complete, this is the log info.
No/sdcard/.android_secure found.
Skipping backup of applications on external storage.
Backing up cache...
No sd - ext found. Skipping backup of sd-ext
Generating md5 sum...
Backup complete.
so I reboot the phone after that, went into cwm and there's no backup from the back up list. :/
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Do you have an external sd card?

Yes I do. Its a 2gb
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chuckles_prs said:
Yes I do. Its a 2gb
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didnt mean to click thanks. do you have any room on it?

Total space: 1.86
Available space: 1.85
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Even the internal storage is pretty much open. I have no music/videos/anything. Maybe a couple apps and that's about it.
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Have you recently tried to move any files between your SD card and PC? Sometimes cards can become corrupted, or certain files at least can also become bad and not read. The more you mount and unmount the more degraded it gets. If you tried to delete any files, did you accidentally delete something from your internal SD?

Not that I'm aware of. When I get home ill try transferring a small file over. As far as the internal SD card its fine.
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What is mouted under the mounts and storage menu of CWM?

I'm not sure how I check that?
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@statik.
Mount/system
Unmount/cache
Mount/datadata
Mount/sdcard
Mount/data
Mount/emmc
Mount/usbstorage
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Nothing at all? Sigh. I really wish I could find a solution to this.
I guess ill try out Odin to put it back to stock and then root and unlock it. I just hate the fact I can't back up anything.
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clearing sd card

Right I have done a factory reset, I have go onto clock work mode and formated the internal memory, I have cleared the cache (both options in clock work mode) and now i have 11.97 GB FREE INTERNALLY and 27 GB FREE EXTERNALLY, and i cannot install application or update anything, even google street map add on as it says "out of space, could not be installed. free yo some space and try again" .........................................................................
can someone PLEASE help me before i blow my tablet up

Did you go into advance and mount the sdcard?
Then format it from there?
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androidjobe said:
Did you go into advance and mount the sdcard?
Then format it from there?
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yes, ive done that as well, just no luck at all....I don't know what to do I can't install anything

If its rooted I'd go back to stock completely and take it back if it still isn't working... If it works on stock rom then try rooting again and see if there's a problem again 1st...

Clear cache recovery mode won't work?

Hi
When I to wipe my cache in recovery mode (in the Samsung Galaxy-Q (same as the Samsung Gravity Smart))
And it took like half a second, so I figure that there that there's something wrong with it.
There's a picture attached to this page.
If you couldn't read the text, (I was using like a 2 megapixel camera), here's what the important part is:
-- Appling Multi-CSC --
-- Wiping cache...
Formatting CACHE:...
unmount(/cache) attempt 1 (Unknown error: 0) rc=0
Cache wipe complete
Is it because my phone is rooted? No, because I've tried unrooting my phone and trying. It didn't work.
But I think it's because my micro SD card is in it. If that's the problem, will after clearing cache delete my shortcuts?
Thanks for reading,
Drew
Link for Phandroid forums:
http://androidforums.com/samsung-gravity-smart/668108-q-cache-clear-in-recovery-mode-wont-work.html

drew1ind said:
Hi
When I to wipe my cache in recovery mode (in the Samsung Galaxy-Q (same as the Samsung Gravity Smart))
And it took like half a second, so I figure that there that there's something wrong with it.
There's a picture attached to this page.
If you couldn't read the text, (I was using like a 2 megapixel camera), here's what the important part is:
-- Appling Multi-CSC --
-- Wiping cache...
Formatting CACHE:...
unmount(/cache) attempt 1 (Unknown error: 0) rc=0
Cache wipe complete
Is it because my phone is rooted? No, because I've tried unrooting my phone and trying. It didn't work.
But I think it's because my micro SD card is in it. If that's the problem, will after clearing cache delete my shortcuts?
Thanks for reading,
Ddrew
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You can use cwn recovery and try to clear cache.
Hopefully this will work.

Link?
karimkahale said:
You can use cwn recovery and try to clear cache.
Hopefully this will work.
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link?

nvm
drew1ind said:
link?
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nvm

others?
drew1ind said:
Hi
When I to wipe my cache in recovery mode (in the Samsung Galaxy-Q (same as the Samsung Gravity Smart))
And it took like half a second, so I figure that there that there's something wrong with it.
There's a picture attached to this page.
If you couldn't read the text, (I was using like a 2 megapixel camera), here's what the important part is:
-- Appling Multi-CSC --
-- Wiping cache...
Formatting CACHE:...
unmount(/cache) attempt 1 (Unknown error: 0) rc=0
Cache wipe complete
Is it because my phone is rooted? No, because I've tried unrooting my phone and trying. It didn't work.
But I think it's because my micro SD card is in it. If that's the problem, will after clearing cache delete my shortcuts?
Thanks for reading,
Ddrew
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any others?

Try a different sd card.... And try to do the cache wipe... And report
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Ghostfreak NB said:
Try a different sd card.... And try to do the cache wipe... And report
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And thank god my parents got me a 32 gb micro SD card for Christmas :3
Will respond once done!

Didn't work
drew1ind said:
And thank god my parents got me a 32 gb micro SD card for Christmas :3
Will respond once done!
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Ok... I tried it and...
It didn't work :/
It said the same thing; I think I need to partition it.

Then,it's your phone's recovery mode that has the issue not the sd card!
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Ghostfreak NB said:
Then,it's your phone's recovery mode that has the issue not the sd card!
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But other people do it with my same phone and succeed -_-
Maybe I have to put out my SD card?

Do a fresh install of stock Rom through Odin or such program and then install a cwm and try later on!
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drew1ind said:
But other people do it with my same phone and succeed -_-
Maybe I have to put out my SD card?
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Also, here is my system cache directory (w/ subbfolders)
/cache/
/cache/lost+found/(nothing in folder)
/cache/log/
/cache/log/recovery.log/
recovery.log is a file

Ghostfreak NB said:
Do a fresh install of stock Rom through Odin or such program and then install a cwm and try later on!
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First of all, my phone will get bricked if I install cwm recovery
Second of all, I have not installed ANY roms.
Third of all, I am not being mad.

I told to do a clean install of the same Rom you use and installing cwm bricks?? Who told?
.... Do you get me...or not?
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Ghostfreak NB said:
I told to do a clean install of the same Rom you use and installing cwm bricks?? Who told?
.... Do you get me...or not?
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Here's who told me:
Phandroid forums
Youtube
XDA Developer forums
Basically the whole internet
There

Ghostfreak NB said:
I told to do a clean install of the same Rom you use and installing cwm bricks?? Who told?
.... Do you get me...or not?
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Also,
Can you atleast ****ing tell me if I need the SD card out?????????
Jesus I'm tierd...

T589R Recovery Problem
Hi
That's exactly my problem, is there a way to fix?
Please help

How to move apps 2 sd card?

Hello everyone,
I have a serious problem here. Before factory reset everything was just fine (except that my phone won't connect to my google account, but i already fixed that) Now after factory reset i can't move some apps/games to my sd card! It's annoying because i have just 160MB internal storage, and now its just less than 50MB free. I heard about all those app2sd apps and so on, but they say that it's can't be movable to sd card, when i was able to do so before the factory reset. And this is a little bit tricky because before factory reset i had this option in my settings->application setting menu, a "preferred install location" and when i pressed that it opened a menu with 3 options:
1.Removable SD card
2.Let the system decide
3.Internal memory.
When i selected external SD card it allowed me to move almost every app (except updates to the pre-installed apps like maps, youtube, facebook etc.) But now there is no option "preferred install location"... So the question is: what i should do, to make this option available again?
My phone is Huawei U8650 sonic with stock-fresh android 2.3.5
I was googling for this problem for 2 days and no answer. I also posted this problem on 2 other forums but nobody knows the answer Please can somebody here help me? I would really appreciate that.
English is not my native language - sorry for mistakes and have a good day!

You could try the app - Link2SD - this app can move almost everything because it replaces the original app with a link.
Apart from that, have u tried to boot into recovery and run repair permissions and cleanded dalvik cache?
Hope I could help.

Feuersprotte said:
You could try the app - Link2SD - this app can move almost everything because it replaces the original app with a link.
Apart from that, have u tried to boot into recovery and run repair permissions and cleanded dalvik cache?
Hope I could help.
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Really, Im not advanced enough in android to understand what you mean, but i think I'll try to do what you said, and i will reply if it worked or not. Oh yeah does this method need root?
EDIT: so i entered the recovery menu and all I got is;
Reboot system now
apply update from sdcard
wipe data/factory reset
wipe cache partition
wipe misc partition
touchscreen firmware update
I wiped the misc and cache partition, gonna try now.
EDIT 2: no luck, wiping cache and misc didn't helped...

Link2SD is an app you can dowload from the play store - yes I think it needs root - but it is simple as simple to use like any app 2 sd - just give it a try :fingers-crossed:

S2E is good one :thumbup:
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You can use apps2sd or android assistant or do yourself
1) goto settings
2) application
3) manage
4) select app
5) click on move to SD card.
That's it.
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bump

But how to move whatsapp to sd card? I mean can you use root explorer?
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Root your device, partition your SD card and then use s2e!
Press the thanks button
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how to move....
vishgupta92 said:
You can use apps2sd or android assistant or do yourself
1) goto settings
2) application
3) manage
4) select app
5) click on move to SD card.
That's it.
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the thru.....

Okay, I didn't wanted to do this but i did. I downloaded SDK tools and with these tools and cmd i changed the install location. more info on google.

link2sd it's easy to me.
it's can move user app to sdcard

jusy click move to sd card

What about using titanium backup?
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