What is the right way to do a factory reset in a P970 rooted ICS O3D?
I read I can´t do with the ICS setup menu, or I will be in a loop reboot
So, must I do it from the recovery? I will loose the root?
I don´t know why (well, I imagine I installed too much apps, and there is any bug with them) but I can´t expand down the upper notification bar, and maybe a restoring to factory will fix it.
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I've had a great experience so far with my xoom! I had it rooted and overclocked since the first day I had it!
Its starting to get sluggish and things are beginning to go a little wonky, so I'd like to reflash to either the stock honeycomb 3.1 installation, or one of the roms that I've seen floating around.
The trouble is that the minute I saw the 'encryption' feature, I used it. I did that before ever rooting or overclocking it.
I am now unable to reset to factory defaults. Here is what I've tried:
- using the menu option from inside of the settings area to reset the tablet to factory defaults: When I do this, it reboots and gets to a screen with a little android logo and a progress indicator - however within several seconds the progress indicator goes away and is replaced by that nasty little triangle with the exclamation point saying something isn't right.
- Booting into clockwork mod and formatting everything available to be formatted from CWM: This actually broke the tablet and I had to reflash things to get it working properly. However all of my user stuff and all the settings remained intact.
Does anybody know how to reset the tablet to factory default after its been encrypted? You guys know 50x more than Verizons support team will.
My only other option is to back up all of my data, "break" the tablet, then go use my warranty at the store to get another one. I'd really like to avoid that if at all possible.
What version CWM do you have? Flash the newest recovery if you flashed the recovery from ROM manager. If that doesn't work then flash stock software.
What version Xoom do you have? This is for 3g http://www.xoomforums.com/forum/motorola-xoom-hacking-guides/2788-how-return-stock-3g-4g-hr166.html
You don't have to do the last step of locking if you want to reroot. That should also remove encryption. If it doesn't do a factory reset from settings. And verify CWM works as well.
what is the difference between factory reset and hard reset??
will my phone lag go away if i do a factory reset?
what all will remain in the phone, like which apps(pre installed or all?)
i'm using a motorola defy (running 2.2)
A factory reset makes your device just like it was when you first took it out of the box brand new. It is done from with in the Android OS it self via Settings/SD & phone storage/Factory data reset. Any apps you have installed, your contacts, bookmarks, any personal settings you have will be removed. If you go into Settings/Privacy and check backup settings your settings will be backed up to google. It is also a has a Automatic restore option there that will automatically restore your settings for you if you have backup settings checked.
A hard reset does the same thing a factory data reset does, but you have to use the external buttons to do it. Each device has it's on combination of buttons to preform a hard reset. Some devices have it as a option in the Hboot/Recovery screen. Some say a hard reset does a little bit more thorough or deeper cleaning, but I have found no one that can answer this for 100% positive.
you can also preform a factory reset using Clockwork Mod Recovery by choosing the factory data reset option in the main menu of Clockwork Mod Recovery.
As for it solving your issue with lagging. I can not say proof positive it will as I do not have a device like yours and do not exactly what is causing the device to lag. But a factory reset has been know to help solve a lot of issues, one is laggyness. I suggest you do it as it is no risk involved in doing it. Plus with Android it is easy to restore your device to the way you had it. The market keeps track of the apps you had and you just open the market, press yhe menu button and then my apps. this will let you get your apps back.
Ive been running a GTN7000 on rooted ICS for some time without any errors however today I decided to remove Chainfire 3D, after the compulsory reboot my phone shows no display after the initial logo. The normal jingles and vibrations take place and the buttons are lit but there is no screen output.
Does anyone know how to fix this without wiping my phone? thanks
It seems like you have a soft brick. Try a reset via Samsung Kies or look for a soft brick undo guide or something.
I am sorry I cannot help any further as I do not own a note myself and therefore have minimal experience with the device.
Would like to hope you can fix it.
Hit thanks if I helped.
i think you should try to soft reset it. you can use any reset method you already know....
sorry if i couldnt help you any further too. but as for me, when i face some error like that, i've always reset my phone (coz i already backup my data with titanium backup)
Hi guys, sorry for the delay.
I've finally managed to fix it.
After fighting through a whole heap of errors and reflashing the device at least 10 times I now have my phone back to a fully working rooted ICS state. I did however loose all my data.
Hello
I recently bought a Samsung Galaxy Note 10.1 3G, 16 G which is not available in the US so I bought it from abroad
It was going well until I recently tried to open the contacts
White screen appears for some minutes and then a note appear saying: contacts not responding, want to close or wait
I tried to restart the note, tried to backup and restart but still nothing
I don't know whether to format or try another software than mine (ICS 4.0.4) or should I return the tablet?
Please advice
Never heard of JB 4.0.8... JB is 4.1.1, 4.1.2 or 4.2.1...
Sounds like you may have a knockoff tablet....
4.0.4 is ICS but never heard of 4.0.8...
ultramag69 said:
Never heard of JB 4.0.8... JB is 4.1.1, 4.1.2 or 4.2.1...
Sounds like you may have a knockoff tablet....
4.0.4 is ICS but never heard of 4.0.8...
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Sorry for that
it is ICS 4.04
edited that
Try a factory reset first, Go into recovery - Hold power button and volume up until samsung logo appears then release power. Keep holding volume up until recovery menu appears.
Go to data/cache clear and do that. You will need to backup anything you don't want to loose as this resets to factory, clears all data.
If this doesn't fix then take back but not until you factory reset inside settings and then do the above again. This should clear out everything and reset to factory...
ultramag69 said:
Try a factory reset first, Go into recovery - Hold power button and volume up until samsung logo appears then release power. Keep holding volume up until recovery menu appears.
Go to data/cache clear and do that. You will need to backup anything you don't want to loose as this resets to factory, clears all data.
If this doesn't fix then take back but not until you factory reset inside settings and then do the above again. This should clear out everything and reset to factory...
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Did a factory reset
Everything went back to normal, contacts working
Thank you
So today my droid started messing up, home and recents button didnt work. Google play store and whatnot couldnt access data, the signal status bar at the top was just grey.
So i factory reset it. During the reset it just sat there on the little screen with the spinning hexball thing for like an hour so i shut the phone off. Now every time the phone boots it just tries to wipe it again unless i go into the boot menu and hit normal boot.
Running stock rom and whatnot, but im rooted.
I know that theres a flag somewhere that it reads on boot saying to wipe it, but dang if i know what to change.
Thanks in advance
Well i unrooted my phone and tried to let it redo the factory reset again, and it still just wont do anything.
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home and recents button didnt work
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When this happens to me, it's because of a bad flash and a factory reset won't fix it. I would suggest reflashing stock...
coolloser said:
When this happens to me, it's because of a bad flash and a factory reset won't fix it. I would suggest reflashing stock...
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I dont have a custom recovery or an unlocked bootloader.
I managed to get the problem sorted out through some unrooting and some non stock system file deletion. Installed safestrap and got blurry hd running on it now.
Thanks.