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What's the best way to wipe Nexus S

I have the nightly on my Nexus S and going to be selling my good old Nexus S, because I picked up the SGII. I tried to to do the wipe resotre, but doesn't work just gets stuck. I powered off again and restored to the first back up I had before applying the Nightly ROM, but don't want to run the Factory Data Restore unless I know this won't mess anything else.
I am leaving the phone rooted so not worry about removing this.
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Fastboot will allow you to easily erase data and userdata.
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Restore to a factory nandroid and wipe after that relock / unlock bootloader
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OK thanks for the info will give that a shot.
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to factory reset rooted Samsung galaxy y running on stock Rom

hi my friend have Samsung galaxy y recently rooted only rooted no custom Rom he uses stock Roms now he gets so much hangs so he decided factory reset it. i want to know is it safe or he will brick it?? please help we both are noobs
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With the information provided i think it is unlikely that you will brick the device by factory reseting it.

thanks.. here someone said me that never factory reset a rooted phone running on custom Rom.. so i little afraid but mine friends one is still on custom Rom so is it safe right?
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Maybe if the custom rom was using somekind of partition , but generally i would say reseting a custom rom won't brick a device.
Reseting a custom rom does not restore the factory rom, but reset the custom rom to its install state.
Its virtually im possible to really BRICK (a real BRICK is something that needs a JTAG device in order to get it working again) a device by reseting it, the worst case scenario is that you have to reflash the rom.

but i have stock Rom so what happened if i factory reset? what i will get after reset a rooted phone or unrooted phone? please help
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shivam1688 said:
but i have stock Rom so what happened if i factory reset? what i will get after reset a rooted phone or unrooted phone? please help
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The device should still remain rooted since the su binary was placed in the system area which factory resetting does not affect (you will just have to re-install the Superuser app). See here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=17348395&postcount=2.

thanks
so in other words you mean we should not to play with system file right?
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by d way where is thanks button? i don't see it in my official app
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Sadly its not in the free version of the xda app.

i have other query! in our unrooted phone apps can't access root.
so if i root it so it is possible that after rooting i make my phone more damageble by malware coz now they can change my system setting also!
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is somebody there for help???
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Theoreticly yes, but the SuperUser app is there to prevent that.

thanks if any malware crashes my system than what should i do? factory reset or anything else?
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Safest would be to flash new ROM / same ROM again.

thanks if i factory reset does it automatically flash ROM Also? please don't angry i.m just a little curious and want to learn something better from a master like you!
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shivam1688 said:
thanks
so in other words you mean we should not to play with system file right?
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Unless you know what you are doing.
shivam1688 said:
i have other query! in our unrooted phone apps can't access root.
so if i root it so it is possible that after rooting i make my phone more damageble by malware coz now they can change my system setting also!
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You could say so, but you have control over what gets root access and what doesn't. Apps can only use root access if you allow it (you have to grant it Superuser permission).

can someone answer my last question?
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[Q] soft bricked

I don't have much time have to ship back my phone to verizon soon. I rooted my phone and installed a cwm so i can transfer my game data to my replacement and i unrooted and i was trying to flash a stock verizon rom so that everything was factory before shipping it and now its stuck on bootload loop. I need some help quick.

Pull battery then boot into stock recovery and perform factory reset.
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Now it's asking me for a SIM card and won't let me do anything else
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Thanks I got my situation under control.
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Any help with unrooting?

Need to unroot my galaxy note 2!! Bought it last night tried to watch sky go and it's not letting me because the phones rooted!! I love watching football at work now I can't!!! Any help please!!
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denny1970 said:
Need to unroot my galaxy note 2!! Bought it last night tried to watch sky go and it's not letting me because the phones rooted!! I love watching football at work now I can't!!! Any help please!!
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here's what you can do
-> flash stock ROM using Odin
-> wait for an ota if you're on stock (OTA update breaks root access)
-> go here http://www.wikihow.com/Unroot-Android
Experimental (not recommended)
-> delete Su binary using root explorer

U can try a factory reset it working for me
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Sorry to be a pain but is there a certain way to do a factory reset??
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Backup all data delete the super user app n su binary then factory reset
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Sorry to be a pain back up how do I do that I don't need nothing off my phone so would it be OK just to delete everything
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Wifi

My Samsung Galaxy Mega SGH-i527 after i rooted it when iam not using wifi it turns on by itself and when im connected to a wifi it turns off any solution for this?
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Have you tried to reset factory yet?

suolfeat said:
Have you tried to reset factory yet?
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I dont lol i have to many stuff on it for a factory reset
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-_-JERRY-_- said:
I dont lol i have to many stuff on it for a factory reset
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You can back up with titanium recovery. After factory reset root with kingo. But I don't think a factory reset fixes this, you will also neet to flash the stock rom again.

This sucks -_- ima unroot and upgrade to kitkat anyways i dont get nothing with the root thingy
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