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[Q] Cyanogen Wiping Incorrectly

I don't know whats going on with my slide. Whenever i do a wipe in recovery and install a cyanogen mod. It will still have the gapps installed even though i know it shouldn't since i have to flash them separately. Not sure why it doesnt seem to be wiping the phone correctly...any ideas?

yajinni said:
I don't know whats going on with my slide. Whenever i do a wipe in recovery and install a cyanogen mod. It will still have the gapps installed even though i know it shouldn't since i have to flash them separately. Not sure why it doesnt seem to be wiping the phone correctly...any ideas?
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Why are you trying to wipe gapps?
Gapps are in /system/app. When you wipe, you're wiping /data and /cache. Therefore, even though you flashed them separately, they are still there.

Thank you for that bit of info. I want to wipe everything as much as possible because i am having trouble getting a theme to work. when i apply it it just causes my phone to loop. When i would reflash 6.1.1 on my phone i assumed it would remove the gapps. When i would reflash cyanogen on my G1 it would do that making me have to reflash gapps, so i assumed my slide would do the same...
This was the theme i was trying to give a try:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=865638
VatExpresso
Also just to double check. Because we dont have S-Off we cant use metamorph?

yajinni said:
Thank you for that bit of info. I want to wipe everything as much as possible because i am having trouble getting a theme to work. when i apply it it just causes my phone to loop. When i would reflash 6.1.1 on my phone i assumed it would remove the gapps. When i would reflash cyanogen on my G1 it would do that making me have to reflash gapps, so i assumed my slide would do the same...
This was the theme i was trying to give a try:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=865638
VatExpresso
Also just to double check. Because we dont have S-Off we cant use metamorph?
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You cant use MM b/c of no S-OFF and you can use the wipe option in clockwork by going to partitions...From there you can wipe /system and other parts.

Also, you can't just use themes for other devices, because the framework-res.apk is device specific, which is why you're having issues.
All you have to do is reflash CM, and then Gapps, and you'll be fine. You don't even have to wipe.
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rooted/format phone

So since my coming here, i got the phone rooted and added a sense rom to it from virtous version 1.0.1, also its over clocked a lil bit
now the phone was never right since the get go with this... but what im wondering is if i do a factory reset, what will happen? since i didnt save any image before, and have nothing to revert back too.... will it revert back to the stock htc desire z rom, or will it just reset back to a proper version of the virtous rom??
i only ask , cause so far my internet still doesnt work well, my bluetooth is always dropping calls, my market still doesnt work etc.....
any help/info would be great
Cheers all

If you wipe data/factory reset it will revert back to.... nothing. And stay and the HTC screen. Just DLa new ROM and flash through recovery(CWM). After you wipe data/factory rest... before you reboot.
I'm really digging meXdroidMod right now give it a try. (No sense though)
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Don't forget to wipe your dalvic cache aswell.
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Actually, I thought a factory reset simply wiped your data and cache partitions (so you lose all of your downloaded apps as well as all phone settings). Everything else should be left untouched (as in the phone will boot back to Virtuous 1.0.1 as if it were freshly installed).
Also, the dalvik-cache is stored on the data partition (unless you or the ROM you are using decided to move it), so wiping data will wipe it anyway.

ummm ok so which is the correct one here... i was under the impression that the last post here is what would happen... it would revert to a fresh installed Virtuous rom....
I know the problems im having must be from me not doing a full wipe when i installed it... i just needed to back up some stuff before i was able to do that,
but since i have done all that, I can clean the phone and start fresh, to hope all my stuff will work...
but can someone pls confirm which is the right information here

On my g2 when I did a wipe it went back to the stock rom that's on the g2 perm rooted I can't say for your phone though the best thing is to download a new rom system and cache wipe and then install a new rom
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Factory reset only wipes the applications/personal data. The system partition (whatever rom you installed) stays there and it'll just reboot as if it was the first time ever.
So if you have a rooted stock rom, it'll go back to how you got it (probably non-rooted) and if you have any version of virtuous that'll still be there etc and will boot like the first time.
Factory reset also DOESN'T touch the bootloader, radio, radio, s-on/s-off or anything else, just the user data. Hope this helps to clarify!

yes it does, im hoping this will fix all the problems im having with my phone....
and just to confirm, a factory reset with the virturous rom installed, will reset my phone to the way the rom is ment to me, with zero possible overlaps from not doing a wipe when i upgraded??
So a "fresh" copy of the virtuous rom will be in place, and it will be like a brand new phone again.... then i just re add everything i need too/want too

Man, I'm stuck in a boot loop.

Ok, So I wanted to change my ROM and I thought I did it right, but obviously that was not the case lol.
Pretty much I flashed the clockwork recovery, had it set to wipe the two things you want to wipe and then once it came back I installed zip from sd card, however, when I thought I was done and restarted my phone it just continuously loops back and forth back and forth.
I know there's a way to fix it since I have a micro sd reader, but how? I've got something REAL important to do tomorrow and not having my phone will be a huge mess.

d3athb4dishonor said:
Ok, So I wanted to change my ROM and I thought I did it right, but obviously that was not the case lol.
Pretty much I flashed the clockwork recovery, had it set to wipe the two things you want to wipe and then once it came back I installed zip from sd card, however, when I thought I was done and restarted my phone it just continuously loops back and forth back and forth.
I know there's a way to fix it since I have a micro sd reader, but how? I've got something REAL important to do tomorrow and not having my phone will be a huge mess.
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What ROM were you on and what ROM are you going to?
What did you wipe?
How did you wipe?
How did you flash?
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OriginalGabriel said:
What ROM were you on and what ROM are you going to?
What did you wipe?
How did you wipe?
How did you flash?
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I was on the stock rom and I was trying use the update-cm-7.0.3-vision-signed
I used Clockwork Recovery to wipe and it already had two options checked to wipe, Pavlik cache and wipe data or whatever it says... Then I flashed into clockwork recovery and I went to install from ZIP, I went and found the rom file on my sd card and pressed install, it took a few moments and was done. I also added the googlepack using the same method right after. Then when I thought I was finished I rebooted my device and its been stuck in a loop ever since.

Appreciate you trying to help, I guess I figured it out with a good ole fashioned guess hahaa.
I went and wiped my phone and data to factory, wiped the Pavlic (which I think I'm saying wrong lol) and then I installed the ROM again and it worked this time.

d3athb4dishonor said:
I was on the stock rom and I was trying use the update-cm-7.0.3-vision-signed
I used Clockwork Recovery to wipe and it already had two options checked to wipe, Pavlik cache and wipe data or whatever it says... Then I flashed into clockwork recovery and I went to install from ZIP, I went and found the rom file on my sd card and pressed install, it took a few moments and was done. I also added the googlepack using the same method right after. Then when I thought I was finished I rebooted my device and its been stuck in a loop ever since.
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I would recommend flashing the superwipe from this thread. there are 3 downloads, Try the standard superwipe first. and use superwipe+ if you have GPS problems.
Super wipe automaticly wipes system, data and cache partitions. Flash the ZIP in recovery as you would flash a ROM.
And it is recommended not to use ROM manager for flashing and to always to it manually in CWM.
So download superwipe, flash superwipe, flash ROM, flash GAPPS and reboot.

I would also recommend flashing cm 7.1 because its an outrageously HUGE upgrade over the one you just flashed.
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cwm recovery and jellybean

Dont know if anyone else has experienced this but i have been using jellybean port for sprint the past few days and today i decided to revert back to cm9. Im using stock cwm recovery which means not touch recovery or twrp just plain stock cwm recovery. well i wiped data and wiped cache and flashed cm9 rom i had on my sd card and it boot3d fne but i got the jellybean setup wizzard and i couldnt get past it it force close as soon as i touch anything so i went back into recovery and tried again same thing. i have a nandroid backup so i restored that and of course that works because i dont have to go thru setup wizzard. i dont know if this is just my phone or what so im placing this thread here to find out if anyone else has experienced this or if this is happening to me only. if this is an issue with cwm then im sure the devs of cwm would want to know this because if cwm is not wiping correctly then we have a problem. anyways please if anyone can try this and post back results im sure the cwm recovery devs would appreaciate it very much. thanks!

The cm9 installer may not have wiped the system partition. It's usually a good idea to do that before flashing to something new just in case.

xHausx said:
The cm9 installer may not have wiped the system partition. It's usually a good idea to do that before flashing to something new just in case.
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i did tht! wipe data, wipe cahce, go to mounts/system format system, flash rom and still the same **** man.

maddoggin said:
i did tht! wipe data, wipe cahce, go to mounts/system format system, flash rom and still the same **** man.
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One thing you could try is "fix permissions" in CWM.

Galaxy Note II Rogers Bootloop (HELP!!!)

I tried installing a rom last week on my Galaxy Note II (Rogers), i followed orders (this isn't my first time flashing roms), and it has been stuck in a constant boot loop.
I've tried everything, wiping cache, factory reset, tried to flash different roms, etc....
I am a mac user (which means Odin isn't an option).
If you guys have any suggestions on how to fix this it would be greatly appreciated.

What rom were you on and what rom were you trying to flash originally? Also what recovery are you using? Need a little more info because usually wiping caches dies the trick. Provide a link to the rom you were trying to flash of your can.

jethro650 said:
What rom were you on and what rom were you trying to flash originally? Also what recovery are you using? Need a little more info because usually wiping caches dies the trick. Provide a link to the rom you were trying to flash of your can.
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1986893
This is the rom, i was using CMW to flash it, then it made me switch to TWRP (think its called that)......hope that helps.

Sorry I can't be of more help aside of redoing the installation of your recovery and redownloading the rom ( bad downloads happen) and making sure you do all the wipes (cache, dalvik cache and factory reset). If none of that works I'm sure someone more knowledgable than myself will chime in.

I've never run into a bootloop problem myself, but this might help you out :
hxxp://galaxynote2root.com/galaxy-note-2-tutorials/how-to-unrootunbrick-galaxy-note-2-with-stock-firmware/
Good luck

Have you had any luck with this yet? I've been unable to get my phone back up.

QuantumPSI said:
Have you had any luck with this yet? I've been unable to get my phone back up.
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No luck, but then again i am a Mac user, so its a little more difficult for me to solve this problem.

Anirchy said:
I tried installing a rom last week on my Galaxy Note II (Rogers), i followed orders (this isn't my first time flashing roms), and it has been stuck in a constant boot loop.
I've tried everything, wiping cache, factory reset, tried to flash different roms, etc....
I am a mac user (which means Odin isn't an option).
If you guys have any suggestions on how to fix this it would be greatly appreciated.
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Put another ROM on an sdcard. Take your battery out then press the button combo for recovery mode before you slip your battery back in. Then it'll force download mode. Reflash the new ROM after full wiping and you should be good.
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Definitely a bad ROM. Run a MD5 checker against it prior to copying to the SD card. Note: your SD card could be the culprit.
If you have a recovery installed, ensure you WIPE everything, Fix permissions (i'm on CWM) and reflash the modem and carrier files POST rom install.
I experienced my first boot loop yesterday but I was able to recover from it thanks to a little common sense and patience. :fingers-crossed:
Good luck!

first of all, don't freak out, a bootloop isn't the end of the world. Sounds like it was a bad flash.
ppl above have obviously told you to wipe caches, and all that stuff and if it hasn't worked then you are still down and out.
I would suggest you get yourself into recovery - not going to explain that here as you said you were able to flash other roms and it didn't work and try flashing your nand backup - hopefully you have a nice clean backup from before you flashed. if so, clear caches, etc and then try flashing it it should be back to at least working.
your nand backup will have all your stuff in it as you would have had to backup from recovery, which means you'll at least still be rooted. you can then go ahead and get another rom - check the md5 and flash it