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I sent an MMS to about 15 people that initially failed. Now for some reason it resends the MMS every week or so to the 15 people. I have a rooted inspire and I am running Inspired Ace Rom.
I have completely wiped my device a few times and deleted the entire contence of my SDCard but this d*mn thing keeps resending the same picture message to everyone. Is there a lower level format that will wipe everything out so this thing is purged from my phone, because clockwork's Recovery Wipe Data/Factory Reset does not get rid of this.
Side note, Also when I use the Wipe Data/Factory Reset and reflash the zipped rom, It doesnt get rid of everything because the custom background I downloaded still stays
I just reformated again, this time I did the factory restore/data wipe, cache wipe, then I went into advanced and wiped the davilk cache. After that I went into mounts and unmounted everything and wiped them all in there including the system.
I then reflashed a new copy of Inspired ACE I downloaded from the zip and when I turned the phone back on it still had the custom background I had downloaded.... Is there no way to truly wipe a phone?
You have wiped the phone. If you have synced to google, it will load your background image when you reset the phone.
mudknot2005 said:
You have wiped the phone. If you have synced to google, it will load your background image when you reset the phone.
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Okay that makes sense now. I thought I was losing my mind.... Thanks for the reply... hopefully it will solve the text issue now too.
And here I thought only Microsoft was that insidious: fdisk, dump 2 partitions, create single new partition, format partition, install XP, see ALL of my "favorites" survived the process.
Nexus 5 here and tried both CWM and TWRP and each have the same issue. It just sits there and does nothing when doing a wipe cache. I have seen others having the same thing and the answers are it much be your device. Then if you power it off it loses the IMEI and anything network related and has to be reverted all the way back to stock. Very annoying really and more that this gets ignored and the threads closed.
GrandMstrBud said:
Nexus 5 here and tried both CWM and TWRP and each have the same issue. It just sits there and does nothing when doing a wipe cache. I have seen others having the same thing and the answers are it much be your device. Then if you power it off it loses the IMEI and anything network related and has to be reverted all the way back to stock. Very annoying really and more that this gets ignored and the threads closed.
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It takes around 5min to wipe cache, dont interrupt it.
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I've noticed that now, should be a sticky or something. I myself am not used to it taking more than a few seconds on any other device.
Anyone know why it takes so long to wipe cache on this? I'm like Grand and seeing it only take a few seconds.
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Yup, this should be in the sticky guide. I am on android since the days of G1, and even I was stumped for a bit. Thankfully I did not loose anything. But yes, I did not boot into Android. I just rebooted into bootloader by long pressing power to reset and again wiped cache. This time I decided to wait it out, and there it was. Took much longer than usual to wipe cache with CWM.
Oh crap, I tried wiping the cache from the stock recovery and it just sat there forever, so I powered it down and rebooted it before reading this thread (I've done this on many Android devices and it never took this long...). I encountered problems with Google Play Services when it started back up so I decided to do a factory reset, but it didn't seem to start when doing it through the settings so I started it in recovery (format data/cache). And now it is just sitting here, as it has for the last 10 minutes... I'm starting to get worried. What should I do?
EDIT: right after I wrote this, the factory reset finished. Am rebooting now.
EDIT 2: booted up fine, with everything working. Wiping took an ungodly amount of time compared to previous versions of Android.
I had the same problem.
The wipe cache procedure (from stock recovery) took forever and I powered off my phone (big error).
Since then it has started behaving in a crazy way.
I re-entered the stock recovery mode and selected the factory reset option, but it didn't succeed signalling "can't access /cache partition".
Evrything followed by eternal bootloops.
I repeated the procedure many times and at last everything was OK (after many attempts, the factory reset procedure worked, even if it took SO long)
Remember: be patient. Or you will screw your phone.
Indeed, patience is the key
TeoLinuX said:
I had the same problem.
The wipe cache procedure (from stock recovery) took forever and I powered off my phone (big error).
Since then it has started behaving in a crazy way.
I re-entered the stock recovery mode and selected the factory reset option, but it didn't succeed signalling "can't access /cache partition".
Evrything followed by eternal bootloops.
I repeated the procedure many times and at last everything was OK (after many attempts, the factory reset procedure worked, even if it took SO long)
Remember: be patient. Or you will screw your phone.
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I started the cache wipe, thought the phone got hung up, and powered it off. Powered on and all network-related settings were missing, /sdcard partition was empty. Then I went searching and found this thread. Based on what I read, I decided to try the wipe cache again and this time I waited for it to finish. Rebooted the phone and all is back to normal.
For me it's takes on wiping cache only few seconds on CWM touch latest version recovery.
i was frightened when i found this thread, after my n5 seemed to be stuck flashing cache....but after a very long time (about 10 minutes, not sure) phone finished wiping....i was so relieved!!phewwwww
TeoLinuX said:
I had the same problem.
The wipe cache procedure (from stock recovery) took forever and I powered off my phone (big error).
Since then it has started behaving in a crazy way.
I re-entered the stock recovery mode and selected the factory reset option, but it didn't succeed signalling "can't access /cache partition".
Evrything followed by eternal bootloops.
I repeated the procedure many times and at last everything was OK (after many attempts, the factory reset procedure worked, even if it took SO long)
Remember: be patient. Or you will screw your phone.
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In future if you face the same issue kindly,don't powered it off, then it will take more time in factory settings. I tried without switching it off and its all done in flash of time. might be i was luckey:fingers-crossed:
joannn said:
In future if you face the same issue kindly,don't powered it off, then it will take more time in factory settings. I tried without switching it off and its all done in flash of time. might be i was luckey:fingers-crossed:
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This is the worst thing I have ever heard. I have had plenty of devices and for some reason the nexus line have the weirdest issues.
But I do love this devices. Well will wait and see if my stuff works again.
Waited like 4 minutes on second attempt and yes it came back. Wow!!!
TeoLinuX said:
The wipe cache procedure (from stock recovery) took forever
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Remember: be patient. Or you will screw your phone.
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Agreed! It took mine about 7-10 minutes (much longer than I expected) -- those who are waiting hours must have some other problem.
dangerzone said:
Agreed! It took mine about 7-10 minutes (much longer than I expected) -- those who are waiting hours must have some other problem.
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I ran into the same problem today - gave up after 20 minutes and rebooted the phone. Now /cache could not be mounted and thus no sdcard either.
Unzipped the latest factory image (KTU84P) and did a
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fastboot flash cache cache.img
which was successful.
rebooted into recovery and now wipe cache took seconds.
So the cache partition can become corrupt, but this seems to fix it.
Luckily I had an unlocked bootloader - otherwise factory reset would have been the only option.
It can take up to half an hour (maybe more)
gian569 said:
i was frightened when i found this thread, after my n5 seemed to be stuck flashing cache....but after a very long time (about 10 minutes, not sure) phone finished wiping....i was so relieved!!phewwwww
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On my phone, it took nearly half an hour. Plug it in, and be very very very patient.
Ha! Well I'm glad I found this thread. Was stuck on it for 10 min and almost powered down. Waited another 5 min and it finished.
Soooooo looooooong
My /cache wiping took about 30 mintues. Luckyly, i found this post and wait until it ended.
I just experience the same thing, only then with my Note 3. I was waiting for about 15 minutes and I thought it was stuck at formatting the cache CWM. Luckily I found this thread and I waited before I rebooted. It finished in about 20 to 30 minutes.
I just had to thank you.
GrandMstrBud said:
Nexus 5 here and tried both CWM and TWRP and each have the same issue. It just sits there and does nothing when doing a wipe cache. I have seen others having the same thing and the answers are it much be your device. Then if you power it off it loses the IMEI and anything network related and has to be reverted all the way back to stock. Very annoying really and more that this gets ignored and the threads closed.
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I just had to thank you for even making this thread. LOL. My HTC One M7 took so long when I was wiping cache. So i rebooted and went into all sorts of bootloops. Tried it again after reading this thread and after about 20-25 mins it finished. Thanks once again. :good::good::good::good:
Everything was going so well. I received my perfect phone a couple days ago...unlocked it, installed cwm 6.0.4.4, and rooted it. Kept it stock and only flashed franco and Drummerjed's volume boost. Life was swell.
I decided I wanted to try the Dalvik optimization mod and in preparation booted into recovery to make a nandroid. I always wipe the cache/dalvik cache before making nandroids because they're made faster when I do this. Never had an issue. This time, however, after clicking to wipe the cache partition the system seemed to freeze, which was weird because on my N4 it clears the cache in a matter of seconds. I held the power button down to reboot the phone and immediately knew something was wrong when I was greeted by 3 warning signs in the notification bar. I then discovered that I have no cell service. I am also unable to access internal storage.
I imagine that I'm going to have to flash the factory image and start over, but I'm wondering if there's any way to avoid that? I'm also wondering why this happened so I can avoid reproducing this in the future. Does cache wiping take considerably longer on the N5, and did I interrupt the process by rebooting the phone?
Thanks so much for your help.
I think you did interupt the process by rebooting the phone. Wiping dalvik/cache does seem to take a lot longer on this phone than on other devices (the only other device I have to compare to is the Nexus 7 though). I would say to just let it sit while it does it's thing next time.
I did have a problem with not having cell service once after wiping dalvik/cache though. I just rebooting into recover and wiped again and my cell service was back. Give that a shot and see what happens.
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I think you did interupt the process by rebooting the phone. Wiping dalvik/cache does seem to take a lot longer on this phone than on other devices (the only other device I have to compare to is the Nexus 7 though). I would say to just let it sit while it does it's thing next time.
I did have a problem with not having cell service once after wiping dalvik/cache though. I just rebooting into recover and wiped again and my cell service was back. Give that a shot and see what happens.
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Thanks, ramdyc, wiping again worked. After rebooting, everything was back to normal (seemingly). Cache wipe on my N5 takes waaayyy longer compared to what I'm used to on N4...just gotta be patient with it!
If you are using TWRP, go into the settings and enable rm -rf and it will wipe instantly. (or something like that - forgot teh exact setting name)
If anyone reads this and wiping it again DOESN'T work, you can flash the stock cache.img via fastboot and you'll be good to go.
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If you are using TWRP, go into the settings and enable rm -rf and it will wipe instantly. (or something like that - forgot teh exact setting name)
If anyone reads this and wiping it again DOESN'T work, you can flash the stock cache.img via fastboot and you'll be good to go.
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I'm using cwm. I actually just flashed the recently released touch version of it and wiping cache with it took mere seconds like it does on my N4. Thanks for your help, guys!
So, got the 4.4.2 update , downloaded it and then it asked for a reboot. I did reboot. I am completely stock , no root nothing. Now the update was installing but in the end I got error :/ the image was robot kinda looking like he had heart attack... anyways, it gave me 4 options, so i cliked volume button .. I don't know all the options but from the 2 of them, one was reboot and other was clear cache or something. I thought clearing cache may **** up something on phone so I tried scrolling back on the top.. but to my surprise from volume buttons phone didn't let me go up at all :/
I didn't had any choice but to choose clear cache.. I thought it may help. But it didn't... so I forced reboot it with power button hold for 10 seconds.. Now phone is working but no sim on it starts.. no signal whatsoever. If I try to open my gallery, it doesn't open. says "No storage, no external storage available" .. when I try to connect usb to phone and try to backup my pics and stuff from pc it doesn't open anything. PC does show "Internal memory" but there's nothing in it. My phone doesn't let me even use wifi. So I thought it was time to factory reset, but to my surprise when I click erase everything, it does nothing. So, I thought of rebooting and clicking "power+volume down" , still nothing.. it shows the same robot pic having heart attack... I doesn't have knowledge of root and stuff for now, I am a simple user of nexus 5 who is still on stock. Any help please? I am worried here now
Think you're gonna need to follow one of the guides to flash stock system again
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nevermind. Working again.
What did you do to get it Woking I got mine in a box ready to RMA if you got a suggestions I'm open to try one more time beforrv I be without my phone for s long time
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How did you get it working?? F**k mine has no signal at all too! Damn I am really pissed!
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I did a factory reset and its working now. What a headache Google!
Mistake 1: not allowing the phone adequate time to clear the cache when finished installing the ota. If you force the phone to restart during this process, it will corrupt your cache which causes all of those issues listed above (loss of signal, no baseband info, loss of access to mountable storage, etc).
Cache clearing takes considerably longer than on any other device I've owned prior to this phone, so messing with the phone during that important cache clearing process is the issue.
Mistake 2: reflashing the entire phone to stock. In the event you become impatient and decide to force your device to restart, you DONT HAVE TO revert to stock to get the phone working. What you have to do is restore functionality to the cache portion of the phone. All of your files are in fact still on the phone and accessible, you just have to unbreak your phone. You do this by procuring cache.IMG from the stock image of the phone (available on googles websites), and then you fastboot flash the file in the boot loader (look up adb commands to do this). Once this is done, reboot the phone and everything should be hunky dory after your applications cache is rebuilt and android boots.
Note: you might need to check for root again. Also if you corrupted your cache you will have to set all of your ringtones and notifications again because this cache corruption process unlinked the ability of yours apps that use notifications to "see" the sound files you have on your SD card.
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What a savior ... wiped the cache again , gave adequate time this time and it booted again fine
I had the exact same problem! Cleared cache in recovery mode in 4.4.4 and then thought it stalled because it was running for 1 minute (which normally took 2 seconds in previous devices) so I forced a restart. Then I had all sorts of errors: couldn't connect with my SIM card, couldn't download our see my pictures, screen rotation but working, constant Google Playstore crash popups, and more.. I thought I'd bricked it. A few more attempts to clear cache in recovery mode, still took longer than 1 minute (also the same errors in my recovery mode like stated above: "E: failed to mount /cache" ... that sort of things)
A few days later I'd had it. My steps for the SOLUTION:
1. Cleared cache in my settings: settings -> storage -> cache (don't know if this has influenced the outcome but I did it).
2. Went back to recovery mode, errors still displaying, but tried again to clear cache. The only difference now was that I left it running without touching my Nexus 5 for about 10 MINUTES(!).
..........To my surprise it ended with "clearing cash complete" WOW! So I rebooted and everything worked fine again! The only thing was that I had to set some notification sound again. That wasn't too hard
Let me know if it helped in your case
xybur said:
Mistake 1: not allowing the phone adequate time to clear the cache when finished installing the ota. If you force the phone to restart during this process, it will corrupt your cache which causes all of those issues listed above (loss of signal, no baseband info, loss of access to mountable storage, etc).
Cache clearing takes considerably longer than on any other device I've owned prior to this phone, so messing with the phone during that important cache clearing process is the issue.
Mistake 2: reflashing the entire phone to stock. In the event you become impatient and decide to force your device to restart, you DONT HAVE TO revert to stock to get the phone working. What you have to do is restore functionality to the cache portion of the phone. All of your files are in fact still on the phone and accessible, you just have to unbreak your phone. You do this by procuring cache.IMG from the stock image of the phone (available on googles websites), and then you fastboot flash the file in the boot loader (look up adb commands to do this). Once this is done, reboot the phone and everything should be hunky dory after your applications cache is rebuilt and android boots.
Note: you might need to check for root again. Also if you corrupted your cache you will have to set all of your ringtones and notifications again because this cache corruption process unlinked the ability of yours apps that use notifications to "see" the sound files you have on your SD card.
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I did that. The fastboot flash cache.img and still have the error...
Try flashing a stock rom, including the userdata.img file. Flash the userdata file last, right after flashing, boot into recovery and perform a factory reset.
. You do this by procuring cache.IMG from the stock image of the phone (available on googles websites),
where to get the cache.img from.
i have searched the folder of the stock rom after extraction,couldn't find one.
and my phone is soft bricked.
also its a asus zenfone 5(501 cg) with 4.4.2 not a nexus but with similar problem(rebooted phone without waiting for cache wipe to finish )
please reply asap
thanks
I had a bug on my S7 where it would say "No apps running" when in fact there were apps running - I read that the solution to this was to wipe the cache. I booted into recovery mode and wiped the cache - but I guess I must've accidentally selected "factory reset" (they really shouldn't have them right next to each other) and wiped my phone. I'm running stock Android, the phone isn't rooted.
Since starting over, my phone is now VERY VERY slow. Just trying to wake it up can take up to 6 seconds to get the screen to come back on. I have no idea what's causing it.
What I've tried doing to fix the problem:
* I've uninstalled almost every app except what it comes with
* I've tried disabling the stock bloatware apps
* I've tried clearing the cache again (making sure NOT to accidentally hit factory reset this time)
I'm at a loss. Any ideas? BTW, I don't have an SD card in my phone.
Thanks!
Piornet said:
I booted into recovery mode and wiped the cache - but I guess I must've accidentally selected "factory reset" (they really shouldn't have them right next to each other)
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When you select an option in recovery, it's very easy to see which one is highlighted before you press select, if you selected factory reset instead of clear cache, it's your own fault for not looking what you were doing, not because they are next to each other, you've been too quick and not watching the screen properly
Not only that, but when you do select it, (Haven't been into the S7 recovery yet to check, but usually) you have to scroll down a list of empty lines before you reach the Yes option to actually perform the action
That said, I would try (considering the phone is now empty) another factory reset, see how you get on after that
Not sure if FRP lock would cause any problems?
Piornet said:
I had a bug on my S7 where it would say "No apps running" when in fact there were apps running - I read that the solution to this was to wipe the cache. I booted into recovery mode and wiped the cache - but I guess I must've accidentally selected "factory reset" (they really shouldn't have them right next to each other) and wiped my phone. I'm running stock Android, the phone isn't rooted.
Since starting over, my phone is now VERY VERY slow. Just trying to wake it up can take up to 6 seconds to get the screen to come back on. I have no idea what's causing it.
What I've tried doing to fix the problem:
* I've uninstalled almost every app except what it comes with
* I've tried disabling the stock bloatware apps
* I've tried clearing the cache again (making sure NOT to accidentally hit factory reset this time)
I'm at a loss. Any ideas? BTW, I don't have an SD card in my phone.
Thanks!
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Have you restarted your Phone and sure that you not have any "Cleaner" on your device (except Sammys)?