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[Q] Restored backup - phone slower

Hey guys, I posted this in the general forums but didn't get much help, so I'll throw it here, in case it's a phone-specific problem.
Using ROM manager, I flashed CWM Recovery and made a backup. I wiped data and cache, flashed CM10, messed around and decided that I liked Touchwiz better. So I wiped my data and cache (not sure if that was necessary but I guess it couldn't hurt) and restored my ROM. the first thing I noticed was that my blank home screens that I deleted were back. No huge deal, I just got rid of them (but shouldn't a backup keep all my settings?)
The next thing I noticed was some lag when I press buttons in the settings menu. Now, the phone was still very new to me before I flashed CM10 so maybe that's just my mind playing tricks on me, but on my old Droid 3 after flashing back to recovery I remember my gallery loading noticeably slower.
Has anyone else encountered this problem before? And sorry if I broke any rules about posting twice/if this is the wrong section, I looked around but didn't find anything. Thanks in advance!

Might need time to settle in? Placebo?

try clean wipe and then restore i also encountered a problem when restoring as it didnt restore my sd-ext

If you use Titanium Backup, then backing up and restoring your apps on a clean install may result in better performance.

It's trying to collect all the previous data. I had the same issue. I had to wipe data to make it faster again.. good luck.
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[Q] Resetting device encryption

Hello, I am in a bit of a jam and am trying to find the best way out.
My device is encrypted using the native Android feature. I have Lean Kernel and CleanROM on the device. So it is rooted/unlocked. I was trying to clean the device further by uninstalling some useless apps with Titanium Backup. Turns out I messed up on something..
When the phone boots to the encrypted device screen, the keyboard doesn't show up! I am not able to get into the phone to do anything!
I have the latest CWM recovery installed. I tried a factory reset and such, but it says it fails to mount the internal SD card. /:
Anyone know how I can fix this and flash a new CleanROM? Data wiping is not a problem for me, but CWM refuses to mount the SD card to do it..
Any advice? I am relatively new to the Android scene, so try not to make things too complicated.

Odin?
EatonZ said:
Hello, I am in a bit of a jam and am trying to find the best way out.
My device is encrypted using the native Android feature. I have Lean Kernel and CleanROM on the device. So it is rooted/unlocked. I was trying to clean the device further by uninstalling some useless apps with Titanium Backup. Turns out I messed up on something..
When the phone boots to the encrypted device screen, the keyboard doesn't show up! I am not able to get into the phone to do anything!
I have the latest CWM recovery installed. I tried a factory reset and such, but it says it fails to mount the internal SD card. /:
Anyone know how I can fix this and flash a new CleanROM? Data wiping is not a problem for me, but CWM refuses to mount the SD card to do it..
Any advice? I am relatively new to the Android scene, so try not to make things too complicated.
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This probably wouldn't work, but have you tried reflashing with Odin?

budzylikessoup said:
This probably wouldn't work, but have you tried reflashing with Odin?
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I am looking at this thread:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1984436
I am downloading the very first package. Since that seems to wipe everything, which is what I want at this point.
Will flashing that work?

I'm not sure if it will work, as I don't encrypt my device. What it will do is wipe your system, data, etc. partitions, but it won't touch your internal SD. This will probably be fine; it will install a keyboard and you should be able to enter your password, that is, if it can flash the ROM properly.

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budzylikessoup said:
I'm not sure if it will work, as I don't encrypt my device. What it will do is wipe your system, data, etc. partitions, but it won't touch your internal SD. This will probably be fine; it will install a keyboard and you should be able to enter your password, that is, if it can flash the ROM properly.
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I'm still trying to understand how Android storage works, so I may sound like a noob here haha..
All I have is an internal SD card. I don't have an external one or anything. Are system, data located on another internal flash chip or something? If they are on the internal SD, I would imagine everything would be formatted and reset once this is flashed.

Sorry, I read the linked post wrong...So this will wipe everything, system, data, and internal SD.
As for the difference, the system and data are different partitions than the internal SD.. so normally when you factory reset in CWM, it just wipes the data, not your internal SD or system. What this means is that it won't touch some files, like ones you download from the internet, but it will get rid of all of your apps and appdata, as you know, and these are stored in the data partition.

I got it sorted. Thanks for the help.

Glad I could help!

EatonZ said:
I am looking at this thread:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1984436
I am downloading the very first package. Since that seems to wipe everything, which is what I want at this point.
Will flashing that work?
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Just wanna say this thread was a lifesaver, and I'll just leave my experience here for fellow noobs, like myself, stumbling into this issue.
I CMod'd my S3 with Clockwork (following very detailed instructions) and tried out encryption (knowing ahead of time that a factory reset would be in order if I didn't like it). As you all know Clockwork has trouble mounting the encrypted /sdcard/ directory, and won't do the factory reset. I was afraid that since Clockwork couldn't deal with the encrypted data, so too might Odin, leading to the risk of bricking. This thread gave me enough courage to give it a go. Following the above linked instructions solved the problem. Odin had no problem wiping and writing over the encrypted data. after I was back to stock I ran through installing Clockwork and CMod again. And just like that, the problem's fixed.
Thanks a bunch everyone!
EDIT:
I just got a response on twitter from a friend who ran into the same issue with clockwork. According to him, apparently TWRP doesn't have this flaw. My phone's working now and I don't want to monkey around with it anymore, but maybe a more experienced user out there could comment on/confirm this, and maybe add the info to the tutorials (if it's correct).
Thanks again!

SpoonlessCorey said:
Just wanna say this post was a lifesaver, and I'll just leave my experience here for fellow noobs, like myself, stumbling into this issue.
I CMod'd my S3 with Clockwork (following very detailed instructions) and tried out encryption (knowing ahead of time that a factory reset would be in order if I didn't like it). As you all know Clockwork has trouble mounting the encrypted /sdcard/ directory, and won't do the factory reset. I was afraid that since Clockwork couldn't deal with the encrypted data, so too might Odin, leading to the risk of bricking. This thread gave me enough courage to give it a go. Following the above linked instructions solved the problem. Odin had no problem wiping and writing over the encrypted data. after I was back to stock I ran through installing Clockwork and CMod again. And just like that, the problem's fixed.
Thanks a bunch everyone!
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Yeah, I was worried I might have created a $200 paper-weight!
I'm glad that my question ended up helping you as well!:good:

[Q] Clearing all data????.

Hi all,
I have installed and uninstalled loads of apps/games since buying my Note a month or so ago which has left loads of un-needed/unused files. I wanted to have a clear out but as I don't know which file is for which app etc I didn't want to just start deleting files to find out that I needed some of them. So I decided to do a factory reset as it says it erases everything. I ran through the set up again of my Note, went to MyFiles and see that all the data is still there. How do I totally clear everything so it is as though I have just bought it?. I did think about flashing stock rom from Sammobile to see if that did it, but that would mean having to root it again afterwards+ I have had the stock rom downloading for the last hour and it is only at 0.5/1.1GB. Seems very, very slow from sammobile.
Anyone have any ideas??
UPDATE:
Once the rom had downloaded from Sammobile I flashed via Odin but all the old files are still there!. Now I'm really confused....

If ou have CWM installed go to recovery, mounts and formatting and format sdcard(could be called emmc) DON'T format the ext card or you will loose everything, in fact, its a good idea to remove it so you don't accidently wipe it.

ultramag69 said:
If ou have CWM installed go to recovery, mounts and formatting and format sdcard(could be called emmc) DON'T format the ext card or you will loose everything, in fact, its a good idea to remove it so you don't accidently wipe it.
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That worked a treat Thanks. Can't understand why that didn't get formatted when I did a factory reset or an odin Flash.

No problem mate...

Updated to the latest CM 12.1

So i updated to the new CM just now. I did a complete wipe, even the recovery was gone. Just to be clear, no backups were made, root was gone etc.
after installing the rom, i flashed AK kernel, and supersu. So no other app was flashed to the phone.
I booted into the phone after i was done flashing supersu and all of my apps, wifi passwords etc were still there. i made sure to wipe the cache, internal storage, etc before flashing the rom but they were still there. I get its kind of a good thing but im just afraid that it will cause issues eventually.
anybody have any ideas if im just worrying over nothing or maybe i should wipe it again?

Jamesr1292 said:
So i updated to the new CM just now. I did a complete wipe, even the recovery was gone. Just to be clear, no backups were made, root was gone etc.
after installing the rom, i flashed AK kernel, and supersu. So no other app was flashed to the phone.
I booted into the phone after i was done flashing supersu and all of my apps, wifi passwords etc were still there. i made sure to wipe the cache, internal storage, etc before flashing the rom but they were still there. I get its kind of a good thing but im just afraid that it will cause issues eventually.
anybody have any ideas if im just worrying over nothing or maybe i should wipe it again?
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You might have restored/ reinstalled app from your google account.. That's the only thing I can think of at the moment.

i thought that, but theres apps on my phone that arent on playstore that were there. still think i should wipe again :*(

Jamesr1292 said:
i thought that, but theres apps on my phone that arent on playstore that were there. still think i should wipe again :*(
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Use the phone as it is now. If you face issues, clean flash.

Nexus 5 internal storage problem

My nexus 5 keeps telling me I have used 10gig out of the available 12gig even though I have no data on it, I tried reseting to factory settings but to no avail, I need help

I'm guessing that you have a 16GB model and it shows only a small amount of free space? This is a known problem after flashing, but normally a factory reset fixes it. What have you just done to discover this? Have you just flashed a new ROM?
Do a Google search for "nexus 5" missing storage and you should find the answer in XDA. I've suffered this myself, but such a long time ago that I can't remember the exact fix, and I'd rather you discovered the right way than for me to give you misleading info.
Edit: Though having said this, I may as well start you off...
http://forum.xda-developers.com/google-nexus-5/general/sdcard-problems-upgrading-android-t2938749
3) 32 GB device shows the storage of 16 GB version
Cause: Unknown. This has actually been happening since the Nexus 5 was released
Fix: Wipe cache and data
(Credit to danarama).

If nothing else works, you could try using fastboot commands to erase userdata. If that doesn't work, try flashing a stock ROM including the userdata.img file.

It's actually the 16gig model. I just noticed the problem yesterday, I have never flashed or rooted it before. But I'll try what you guys said and I'll give the feedback. :good:

The article I mentioned just happens to refer to the 32GB model, but I think it probably applies also to your 16GB one. Good luck - let us know if you get a result.

I found the solution!!
Okay so i finally fixed it. I had to flash cwrm on it then i wiped data/factory reset from cwrm then i rebooted and it solved it.:good: