Hi, Im updating from custom rom every other day.
But Im having problems when I reinstall apps. 1 problem I encountered are force closes or not responding.
Im thinking of there are data on my internal memory/SD that are not deleted when Im installing new rom.
Are there any safe way to format to clean internal memory? Before I flash again to a new rom. Thank you.
Wipe data will not touch your SD card. Your data under sdcard will remain intact...
Just wipe data, wipe cache, dalvik
Install latest ROM, gapps and reboot. So many force closes are fixed with clean install...
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Im having a trouble reflashing a ROM. During my efforts to fix my horrible battery life problem by doing Odin back to stock and reflashing DK ROM something else has gone wrong.
I go to to Recovery and I tried to wipe data and Reset to Factory
it says
Formatting / data......
Formatting / Cache....
Formatting / sd-ext....
E:format_Volume: make_extf4fs failed on on dev/block/mmcblk1p2
Formatting/sdcard/.android_secure....
Data wipe Complete.
It also says, sd-ext.img not found when I restored my Nandroid backup. Not sure whats going on here...
When it restarts, its still the same old rom with everything still there, just with user data wiped like my google login. How do I fix this? I have already Odin back to stock, rerooted and CWM and am still getting this issue. Could this be contributing to my terrible battery drain?
Nothing wrong, that's normal.
ROMs on phones that didn't have enough local space to install any real number of apps, etc (think Nexus One, or HTC Evo 4G) used to create a second partition on the SD card. This partition was formatted to ext4 and mounted in place of stuff like /system/apps or /data, etc..
Nandroid simply tries to format the partition if it's there, and obviously it isn't. I doubt anyone here has that partition. The sd-ext.img would be the image file nandroid would create if you did have the partition and you backed it up.
But the problem is I cant flash another ROM without doing the factory reset, and when I do factory reset I get that error and the new ROM isnt flashed.... I have never had this error before when I flashed DK originally, or on my last Blaze phone. I need to fix this issue so I can flash a different ROM, or next newest update to this ROM.
You've got some other problems then, because I get that error all the time and have for some time on all sorts of phones.
Once the /data partition is formatted, your wipe is complete. The /cache is good stuff too... once you see those two lines, you are all resetted.
If you nandroid restore, you're going back to what you had.
So why wont it factory reset then? Everytime I do factory reset in recovery, it shows all my files and stuff still on the phone. It never completely wipes my phone. I dont know what to do or what the problem is...
Is there a certain way everything is supposed to look in mounts and storage? Whats supposed to be mounted or unmounted? And what should be formatted?
Factory reset doesn't wipe your sd card. For that you have to format it from the settings menu.
dr4stic said:
Factory reset doesn't wipe your sd card. For that you have to format it from the settings menu.
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Can you explain how to do that?
I beilive he means in CWM, under mounts and storage, format /sdcard
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No, I meant in android. I'm sure a quick Google search would turn it up, but here goes: Settings -> Storage... you'll want to unmount first, then format.
SD card = removable card
USB Storage = internal storage
Just remember, this will destroy ALL your data on whichever you choose to format. Everything, your pictures, music, etc...
Hi,
My Galaxy SL i9003 suddenly lost all my personal settings like contacts and data.
I flashed the stock rom to see if the issue is resolved. It didn't help. Resulted in a boot screen loop.
Flashed with Cyanogenmod 7.2 now the phone boots. But the data partition stays temporary, it clears on every boot.
When i try to use Clockworkmod to format data, it fails and internal memory isn't working either. I have seen few posts to overcome the internal memory failure. But none refer to corrupted data partition.
I think this is a hardware failure of data and internal memory and my phone is already out of warranty and i don't want to spend money on my already aged phone.
Is there a way i can force the system to mount data partition from sd card in cyanogenmod 7.2.
I tried mounting data after the system boots using terminal in my phone and phone crashed immediately. Tried mounting data/data partition alone, the phone does not crash but doesn't pick the data from the newly mounted data/data partition.
Is there a way i can mount data partition from sdcard, before the actual boot process begins
Thanks in advance
Bala.
try to factory reset your phone. settings - backup and reset - factory data reset.. and do a full factory reset..it saved mine.. hope this saves your phone too..
maxs8007 said:
try to factory reset your phone. settings - backup and reset - factory data reset.. and do a full factory reset..it saved mine.. hope this saves your phone too..
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I tried that a lot of times... Flashed with odin too.. didnt help.. Think my data partiton hardware is gone
Hello.
I just updated to Lollipop and have noticed something strange with my storage. I have a 32GB Nexus 5, but the storage says I have on 12.55GB of total space.
Since I have wiped the phone to flash it, I have no pictures or other media on the phone. Installed apps are taking up 2.68GB of space. Does that mean Lollipop takes up nearly 20GB on the phone?
Any help with this would be grateful.
Thanks
Wipe cache and factory reset / wipe data and storage. We answer this question twice a day.
OK. Thanks for your reply.
How do I wipe cache and factory reset / wipe data and storage?
Will I have to go into fastboot to do this?
Recovery
Thanks for your help. That worked.
Hello,
I am currently triying to make a clean installation of CM12. I wiped cache, dalvik..., data and a format via TWRP. Then installed current nightly. After first boot I get dozens of error messages that processes stopped. And: "unfortunately, Setup Wizardstopped." I am not able to us the tablet because of those error messages...
What did I wrong? Thought a wipe cache, dalvik... data and a format is enogh to make a clean installation?!
Now it seems to work. Could it be, that data (like folder Android) on my SD Card caused the problems? I removed the android folder on my card and wiped it again....