Hello,
I have a rooted N8010 that's running stock. I'd like to factory reset this tablet because it's acting buggy with some lag and intermittent random reboots. I've owned it about 4 years and have never reset it.
My question is, since it's rooted, do I have to do anything other than booting into recovery and resetting? I'm asking in case I'm supposed to unroot or flash factory or something, even though it's still running stock.
Thanks for some advice! :good:
Factory reset .
Then root again if you actually need root .
Easy enough, thank you!
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Looking to gift my 7+ to my sister by doing a factory reset to return to unrooted stock. Flashed the European ICS a while back from HC via Mobile ODIN, Been reading about the Superbrick Bug on some Samsung devices has me a tad leery.
Probably know the answer but thought I'd ask regardless. Any instances of problems with reset given the above 7+ profile? Now that US ICS is out would quite probably update to US ICS afterwards.
Suggestions? Thoughts? Idle ramblings?
thanks
skeeterpro said:
Looking to gift my 7+ to my sister by doing a factory reset to return to unrooted stock. Flashed the European ICS a while back from HC via Mobile ODIN, Been reading about the Superbrick Bug on some Samsung devices has me a tad leery.
Probably know the answer but thought I'd ask regardless. Any instances of problems with reset given the above 7+ profile? Now that US ICS is out would quite probably update to US ICS afterwards.
Suggestions? Thoughts? Idle ramblings?
thanks
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As of right now be sure that you all are extemely cautious when trying to flash any type of ICS package (be it firmware, a ROM, or any type of system running it). Our tablet may have an issue with ICS as many other galaxy devices have. A bug currently exists that corrupts the mounting of the data partition on the device which *MAY* lead to a permanent hard bricking of your device.
This is currently a very RARE issue, however, those who are not well educated in Android development and that do not know how to 100% reset their tablet should refrain from flashing any type of ICS ROM or ODIN package.
If you have already flashed an ICS ODIN package or are running CM9 safely and have been for a good amount of time.
For those of you who insist on upgrading to ICS, backup your entire ROM and make sure that you have the stock HC ODIN package. Although it probably won't help having them if you are hard bricked.
My personal experience is positive, from honeycomb , i am past to CM9 , then with ODIN to flashing ICS , I do not have locked the device , there were problems with bootloop ,but solved by using a wipe data , factory reset from the recovery..
skeeterpro said:
Looking to gift my 7+ to my sister by doing a factory reset to return to unrooted stock. Flashed the European ICS a while back from HC via Mobile ODIN, Been reading about the Superbrick Bug on some Samsung devices has me a tad leery.
Probably know the answer but thought I'd ask regardless. Any instances of problems with reset given the above 7+ profile? Now that US ICS is out would quite probably update to US ICS afterwards.
Suggestions? Thoughts? Idle ramblings?
thanks
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If you need to reset it, DO NOT FACTORY RESET FROM ICS RECOVERY. Flash back to hc with Odin, then do a factory reset there, or install cwm recovery and reset it from there (probably the route I would take, as it is far easier)
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as per what i did, i have done factory reset from within the settings menu, which rebooted my device to stock recovery.
the initial reset was fine, but when i flashed the new asian ICS firmware, i did a reset from the stock recovery itself, which have bricked my tab.
so, be careful with factory reset, as it also uses the default recovery (correct me if i understand it wrong).
Recently I unlocked bootloader, installed twrp and succesfully rooted my device, but while I was tinkering with my device I accidentally wipe all data, partition, etc in TWRP now I guess I wiped out everything including OS !!!
How can I restore ? Do I need to flash new hammerhead image ?
Right now I'm following this tutorial
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2513701
It'll be great if anyone of you can point me right way.
You can just flash any custom rom using this
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2575150
Or
Follow the thread you posted to restore a factory image..
But restoring a factory image will unroot your device..
You have twrp so the first thing you did was make a nandroid, right? Live and learn.
Thanks for the help, I just flashed new image. Everything works good except wifi, random drops + slow speed.
I contacted google for replacement and they send me RMA form. Unrooted the phone, bootlocker locked + flag reset.
Thanks for the help, I just flashed new image. Everything works good except wifi, random drops + slow speed.
I contacted google for replacement and they send me RMA form. Unrooted the phone, bootlocker locked + flag reset.
Huh? You're doing an RMA why?
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albertpaulp said:
Thanks for the help, I just flashed new image. Everything works good except wifi, random drops + slow speed.
I contacted google for replacement and they send me RMA form. Unrooted the phone, bootlocker locked + flag reset.
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Why are you rma'ing it. Was wifi messed up before you erased everything?
jd1639 said:
Why are you rma'ing it. Was wifi messed up before you erased everything?
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Before rooting wifi problem was rarely occur now after rooting problem arise more frequently, now even after unrooting wifi is super slow sometimes not even connecting. I hate RMAing but seems like no other way.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2586410
jd1639 said:
You have twrp so the first thing you did was make a nandroid, right? Live and learn.
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Awesome advice. I made a nandroid of my N5 first thing after getting all my apps straight. Playing with flashing a rom in TWRP I did a manual "wipe data" which proceded to wipe out the entire SDCARD in the process including my nandroid. Sooooo.... Yes, make a nandroid but also back it up to your computer or dropbox right away.
albertpaulp said:
Before rooting wifi problem was rarely occur now after rooting problem arise more frequently, now even after unrooting wifi is super slow sometimes not even connecting. I hate RMAing but seems like no other way.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2586410
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Don't RMA it, there's nothing wrong with the hardware. All you have to do is reflash the factory image. If you didn't know what you were doing, you shouldn't have been messing around with your phone in the first place. Reflash your phone back to its factory state and next time do your homework before you start tinkering. People like you are going to cause Google to change their return policy so that returns are much more heavily scrutinized.
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Don't RMA it, there's nothing wrong with the hardware. All you have to do is reflash the factory image. If you didn't know what you were doing, you shouldn't have been messing around with your phone in the first place. Reflash your phone back to its factory state and next time do your homework before you start tinkering. People like you are going to cause Google to change their return policy so that returns are much more heavily scrutinized.
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Before rooting wifi problem was rarely occur now after rooting problem arise more frequently, now even after unrooting wifi is super slow sometimes not even connecting. I hate RMAing but seems like no other way.
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You know how to read right ? also I did reflashed to stock image and unrooted + locked bootloader but problem persists, what do you propose I do now ? I started loving my phone now I'm getting new one, it's hard for me too, it's like adopting a son.
So I have a Motorola Droid Ultra, rooted, running 4.4 Kit Kat, on Obake 12.5.3, with SafeStrap installed. I have recently started to get random UI reboots and I have no idea what could possibly be causing these random UI reboots. Can someone please tell me, if I want to factory reset, should I use SafeStrap recovery to factory reset? and would I lose root? Or do I have to reflash my phone? (I'd prefer an easy fix while, at the same time, not have to reflash). Can someone help me troubleshoot my issue here? It would be much appreciated
Edit: In addition to the reboots, I also have another problem that has never happened before, when I go to storage settings in the settings menu, everything is stuck on "calculating"...
Here's a screenshot:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/sol9b13o3zkywil/Screenshot_2014-06-26-10-12-47.png
This is often caused by the cache being broken. I don't know how to rebuild the cache if you're just rooted and not unlocked. If you can find a way to clear it, then try that.
Factory reset can do this, but you might lose root (not sure).
Okay, so I am about to perform a Factory Reset through SafeStrap right now. I will give an update post after I do the reset.
Problem solved!
I did the factory reset with SafeStrap, I am still rooted, and the problem is solved!
My 3 year old S3 SCH-I535 is getting a bit slow and buggy. I used Odin to update to 4.4.2. I haven't taken any OTA Updates since rooting. I was thinking of doing a factory reset. I 'think' that I could do a factory reset to clean things up then re-root with Towelroot. I would do a backup with TB Pro first then do the factory rese.t. Towelroot. Re-Install SuperSU and other apps..
Was wondering if what I plan will work like I expect it to or am I missing something. If anyone has an opinion on this I would appreciate hearing from you. Even better, if someone has done this I would really like to hear how it went.
I rooted my Xperia L 2-3 months back. Recently the phone has been getting stuck at screen off very often. I have a hunch that a factory reset will solve the problem (as it has happened once already).
However, I'm worried that since it is rooted, a factory reset might cause problems. Is it safe to do a factory reset? Has anyone tried this? I don't want to backup any apps or anything, I'm fine with losing app data. I just want a fully functional phone.
Also, I'm still using Android 4.1. Can I update to 4.2 on a rooted phone?
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I rooted my Xperia L 2-3 months back. Recently the phone has been getting stuck at screen off very often. I have a hunch that a factory reset will solve the problem (as it has happened once already).
However, I'm worried that since it is rooted, a factory reset might cause problems. Is it safe to do a factory reset? Has anyone tried this? I don't want to backup any apps or anything, I'm fine with losing app data. I just want a fully functional phone.
Also, I'm still using Android 4.1. Can I update to 4.2 on a rooted phone?
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Yea you can factory reset your rooted phone !