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Wiping cache and dvalik in twrp

Is it just my phone or does it take absolutely ages?
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Nope it's not just you.
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Good! Lol. Cus on my Xperia its a few seconds of a process!
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Same for me! Takes a good few minutes :/ On my Nexus 4 it would be a couple seconds!
Must be something to do with Android 4.4 I assume?!

Every time I do it, wipes my imei and I have to flash the factory image...I'm actually looking for a twrp flashable cwm file if that makes any sense
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mrakifa said:
Every time I do it, wipes my imei and I have to flash the factory image...I'm actually looking for a twrp flashable cwm file if that makes any sense
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Haven't seen a zipped cwm for the N5 yet. Why not just flash the .img in fastboot?

I just load up fastboot in my computer and
Code:
fastboot format cache
takes 3 secs
and format data separately in recovery mode....

george241312 said:
I just load up fastboot in my computer and
Code:
fastboot format cache
takes 3 secs
and format data separately in recovery mode....
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Lol. Not with my laptop! It takes half a day to turn on
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MattyPW said:
Same for me! Takes a good few minutes :/ On my Nexus 4 it would be a couple seconds!
Must be something to do with Android 4.4 I assume?!
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It took several minutes also for me. Really awkward. With my previouse phone, LG p880, it was a matter of few seconds.

Probably the best part of 10 minutes to wipe cache/dalvik for me today!

Its a know issue with the N5. I believe its hardware related. TWRP devs will figure it out.

eep2378 said:
Its a know issue with the N5. I believe its hardware related. TWRP devs will figure it out.
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Yes, it is. And there is a workaround for that issue: Go to the TWRP settings and activate "format rm - rf", so your wipe takes normal time as known.
You can find more about that in the TWRP Nexus5 main thread here .
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Koetermann

For me personally, wiping the cache entirely deletes my internal storage so I would avoid it at all costs until there is an update..

Ben36 said:
Is it just my phone or does it take absolutely ages?
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It takes my device a little while to wipe via TWRP.

scottdouglasdick said:
For me personally, wiping the cache entirely deletes my internal storage so I would avoid it at all costs until there is an update..
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Such thing never happened to me. Formatting cache takes like 3 minutes for me, but it doesn't do any awkward. Unless you reboot while formatting ofc.

I'm avoiding wiping cache in TWRP at the moment...
first time i did that it borked something and i couldnt even switch airplane mode off or open play store when i got wifi on etc...wasnt that nice

Koetermann said:
Yes, it is. And there is a workaround for that issue: Go to the TWRP settings and activate "format rm - rf", so your wipe takes normal time as known.
You can find more about that in the TWRP Nexus5 main thread here .
Regards
Koetermann
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Yep. Everyone should use this advice.
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mrakifa said:
Every time I do it, wipes my imei and I have to flash the factory image...I'm actually looking for a twrp flashable cwm file if that makes any sense
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Which factory image do you use? I just ran into this issue and it's driving me nuts.
I wish I would have found this thread sooner. I just wiped my internal storage and IMEI doing this. I have a backup of my IMEI, but restoring it with TWRP doesn't seem to do anything.
Will restoring the factory image fix this, or do I need to do that and restore this backup?

SO if you change it to rm-rf it doesn't bork your cell connection? I know it'll wipe faster but still leary on cell connection. Or is it that this only happens if you make the mistake of rebooting instead of waiting???? I'm wanting to jump on SlimKat and coming from an Evo LTE the procedure to clean wipe I'm familiar with is wiping system/data/cache/davlik cache so I've been holding off worried about the cache part. I've been using 2.6.3.2

Why would wiping cache screw up your cell connection? And how does this wipe your entire phone?
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[Q] Problem with 32 gig only saying it has 16 gigs of memory after factory restore

I was having some major issues with my nexus 5 today, so I decided to flash completely back to stock using the google factory images in fastboot. After I restarted my phone, I noticed that my phone is only displaying 16 gigs of memory available when my model is the 32 gig model. Is there any way to restore the phone back to being a 32 gig? Or a way to reformat it? Thanks!

You're going to have to go into the stock recovery and clear cache and do a factory reset

jd1639 said:
You're going to have to go into the stock recovery and clear cache and do a factory reset
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Wiping cache should fix it. Factory reset wipes cache anyhow.

overlord727 said:
I was having some major issues with my nexus 5 today, so I decided to flash completely back to stock using the google factory images in fastboot. After I restarted my phone, I noticed that my phone is only displaying 16 gigs of memory available when my model is the 32 gig model. Is there any way to restore the phone back to being a 32 gig? Or a way to reformat it? Thanks!
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Try following this guide posted in the Nexus 4 forums, posted by @El Daddy with helpful shortcut provided by @dellenrules in this post. Basically clear cache/factory reset using the stock recovery image, not a custom one. Of course, use the recovery image for the Nexus 5 instead of the Nexus 4.

Okay, I will try it and let you all know what happens! Thanks for the help! Luckily I flashed everything back to stock including recovery, so no extra steps hopefully!
Edit:
This fixed it! Thank you everyone!

[Q] Easiest, safestvway to backup phone

I am probably going to have to return my N5 due to issues with the GPS not working all the time. My phone is not rooted. What then is the safest and easiest way to backup everything? And will a factory reset afterwards be enough to protect my data from being accessed while the phone is in for repair? It is an unroofed phone.

simon12 said:
I am probably going to have to return my N5 due to issues with the GPS not working all the time. My phone is not rooted. What then is the safest and easiest way to backup everything? And will a factory reset afterwards be enough to protect my data from being accessed while the phone is in for repair? It is an unroofed phone.
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Helium backup (available in Play) is good for backing up user apps and its data, can be used on rooted and not rooted devices.

I would just copy your SD card using GDriveSync to Google Drive. It can sync which folders you choose.

That's a couple of great ideas. Thanks.
Just checking,if I do a factory reset will that be enough to protect my data from being seen?

simon12 said:
That's a couple of great ideas. Thanks.
Just checking,if I do a factory reset will that be enough to protect my data from being seen?
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If you do it through the Settings app, I think so, yes.
But don't quote me on it, haven't tried it personally.
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Settings app uses recovery to factory reset. And stock recovery wipes everything in /data
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Sorry, I don't quite understand. If I go Settings>Backup and reset>Factory Data Reset. Is that enough? What is the Stock recovery?

Yes.
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Ah, sorry, just re-read your reply and it makes sense now! Thanks!

[Q] [Q} please help in restoring nexus 5

can someone tell me that how can i help one of my friend in restoring hos nexus 5 after someone accidently factory reset his nexus 5
is it possible to make it as it was before factory reset will all media files and apps and games that he installed and downloaded
please help it is very urgent
thanks in advance

aditya rathee said:
can someone tell me that how can i help one of my friend in restoring hos nexus 5 after someone accidently factory reset his nexus 5
is it possible to make it as it was before factory reset will all media files and apps and games that he installed and downloaded
please help it is very urgent
thanks in advance
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Factory reset wipes all his files, apps, and data. You will have to reinstall all of them. Any photos he had on the phone are gone There is no way to recover them
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If he had back up set, Google will restore some stuff when starting phone up and entering Google account.
Apps at least.
Good luck.
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jd1639 said:
Factory reset wipes all his files, apps, and data. You will have to reinstall all of them. Any photos he had on the phone are gone There is no way to recover them
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thanks for helping sir

[Q] [Missing Storage] Updated Nexus5 to Lollipop, 32GB Nexus 5 now only shows 12.55GB

Yesterday I use the lollipop factory image to flash my nexus 5 to lollipop, coming from Slimkat 4.4.4. Now, my 32GB Nexus 5 only shows 12.55GB Storage. What happened? How do I fix this?

Flash stock recovery, wipe all data / factory reset. Just happened to me too.
Post #2 here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/google-nexus-5/general/tutorial-how-to-flash-factory-image-t2513701

Izviral said:
Yesterday I use the lollipop factory image to flash my nexus 5 to lollipop, coming from Slimkat 4.4.4. Now, my 32GB Nexus 5 only shows 12.55GB Storage. What happened? How do I fix this?
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there have been quite a lot of threads facing the same issue. to resolve it do factory data reset (which wipes everything on the phone storage)

nexus.freak said:
there have been quite a lot of threads facing the same issue. to resolve it do factory data reset (which wipes everything on the phone storage)
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My nexus 5 16gb shows 12.55gb. Is it normal or I need a factory reset?

antimo84c said:
My nexus 5 16gb shows 12.55gb. Is it normal or I need a factory reset?
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You need to factory reset your phone and it will solve this issue