Hey guys, I just did a factory reset because I was told that it may help with some battery issues. I did a backup in CWM and also one through Titanium. I wanted to use Titanium to restore but it kept hanging so I did a restore through CWM instead. Everything seems fine except that it can't seem to recognise my fingerprint anymore. I can still unlock the lockscreen with my backup password. However, when I try to use the backup password to edit my fingerprint in the settings, it says that my backup password is invalid! How can that be when I JUST used it to unlock the screen? Any advice would be much appreciated.
By the way, if it's true that a factory reset might help with the battery life, would restoring from CWM make any difference or did it just return it to its previous state?
For a while ago i did restore too and fingerprint did not work. As i know the restore whipes fingerprint data. So only solution is to flash whole rom angain or do factory reset and start at the begining.
As i heard, the factory reset might help with battery life. But if you do a reset, then your fingerprint broblem is solved.
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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.
Yes I know this is a stupid thing to do but the factory reset has lost all my pictures. I have tried to go down the root of Rooting the device and then running some recovery software but not very successful hence my other thread of restoring. Is there any easier way to get the pictures restored after factory reset ?:cyclops:
The internal storage is encrypted by default anyways, there's absolutely no way to recover anything from it after a factory reset.
(with stock android backup, i mean the default andorid recovery tool, which is preinstalled)
Hey there.
Im totally lost on this one... and also not so skilled with Android....
The Device is a ASUS Zenfone MAX 3 - X008 (ZC520TL) with the latest Official Firmware.
No mods, no nothing.
So my bottom microphone broke a few days ago and ASUS Support told me to try a Factory Reset.
But since i dont wanna brick my Phone or loose my Guarantee (because the Microphone is broken),
i was very limited with the Backup method. So i backed up all my User Data with Android Stock Recovery.
This created "UserData_w454387564835693.backup" Files without a Problem.
Then i did the Factory Reset and tried what ASUS suggested me.
But it didnt work and so i wanted to recover my just backed up files.
Booted to Recovery and recovered the Files without Problem.
Then started the Phone and after the BootLogo and a little time it displays me an error:
"Decryption unsuccesfull! Yout Password is correct, but your Data is corrupted, please Reset your Phone"
..... and now i dont know what to do.... but my userdata backup is very important.
i dont even know what format it is with ending at *.backup....
PLEASE HELP!
*edit*
i did the recovery via my sd card and when i reset the phone again it works (with factory reseted stock firmware)
but as soon as i succesfully recover my backup files, it gives me that error...
Ok, so ASUS Support just replied me that they do not support Backup and Recovery via the Stock Android Recovery. Its just for resetting the Phone.
And the Reason why its not supported is that Android Auto-Activates the Encryption which breaks the Backup, they saied.
Well ok... Luckily i did backup the most important Data via Google Sync,
but many things like my Photos are only in this Backup File.
Is there any way i can access this *.backup Files and extract Data to my PC?
Please help!
I backed up my data and then tried to root my S7 to recover lost photos. It got into a bootloop with the Samsung word on the screen and I eventually factory reset it. The phone seems to work fine and I restored my data. However, it now has a constant error saying that, "Unauthorized actions have been detected. Please restart your phone to undo these actions." Would appreciate some help on how to fix this. Thanks.
Hello Guys, i recently had some problems with battery life and was adviced to do a factory rest. It seemed like a good idea to me...well at least untill now. I did factory reset just minutes ago after making sure the phone is backed up: calls,apps,messeages and device settings. To my surpise Google found only 8 apps from back up and NOTHING else. Im left with nothing. I've found back up folder in google drvive that contains all the data backed up correctly (that seemed to not be use after reset) alsi it seems thati cant do anything with it, just delete the files. Also i've noticed that now in the "backup" setting all active backups are on "waiting to backup" mode. :crying: Is there anyone that had a similar problem or maybe know how to fix it? Probably important information: Im on newest version of Android P Beta. The only idea i have now is to factory reset phone again and see if it helps..