Sorry for asking so easy question but I am really not sure and I do NOT want to screw the things up:
So I have done everything up until :wipe all , factory reset , format !!(installing Flexreaper)
Unfortunately I do not see wipe all option and format options under Mounts & Storage are 6.
Could you please tell me 1,2,3 what EXACTLY to do in order to wipe my device the right way right before I flash the .zip FR ROM. I want to point out that I do NOT have an Micro SDHC card. I could buy one tomorrow if necessary or just temporary take the one from my SGS i9000.
P.S. I have just wipe/factory reset my a100 and I am literally waiting in the CWM -based Recovery v5.5.0.4 for you to tell me what to do.
Please help
When they say wipe all it usually means "wipe data/factory reset" and "format /system". I believe that the FR install script already format /system for you and wipe cache partition.
For Flexreaper, you should be okay to flash after "wipe data factory reset" since the script takes care of formatting /system. You can choose "format /system" from mount and storage if you want to make sure its wiped.
After you flash its usually a good idea to "wipe Dalvik cache" and "fix permission" under the advanced menu to get rid of any old ghosts from the previous rom.
THANK YOU!!!
what about the sd card. I have copied the .zip file in my 8gb a100 but after all those wipes is it lost?
I could add the sd card from my SGS just for the FlexReaper but I am not sure if it will recognize it now when I am already in CWM?
Thank you for your HELP!!!
GREAT
I DID IT!
It booted and now I am signing in to GooGle ACC
GPS Fail
Unfortunately as before I have a problem with the GPS. It just does not see even 1 satellite?! I do not know how to be sure if the device is defect.
Could somebody help?
I have just left it outside. I am going to wait 20min...if nothing it has to be broken/defect somehow
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Hey all XDA members
Im sorry to ask any of you this but please help me !!
I had no problems rooting my phone with unrevoked and just left it at that but knowing me i downloaded a app on android market place called... ROM MANAGER - clockworkmod or whatever .. it seemed ok i went to backup my phone to my sd card and it said i had 897mb of storage left ... so i thought great ill back it up now so i wont brick my phone and if i ever did i could back up it said it finished succesfully or what not turns off my phone then every time it boots i get telstra next G boot logo then after abit it re F$#cking starts.. excuse my french i can access recovery menu and even clockworksmod recovery tryed formating the cache and everything
ATM im paying for a brick per month and it just seems so easy to fix but im obviously mistaken .. I really dont know what to do i wanna send it to htc but dont know how they would respond if they found clockworkmod in the recovery menu I dont even care if i have to pay them just so i can get my desire back ...
FAQS that ive learnt about this issue so far
#1 it makes a bootloop because i didnt have enough storage on my sd card so im puting the blame atm with the guys at clockmod for not giving users a clear warning that if you dont have enough memorey it will cause a boot loop ... and they make you pay for the app ... go figure >.>
There is no one to blame but you, you should know what you are doing with a rooted phone. Also your paying argument is stupid, who pays for a app you don't know before trying the free alternative?
Now to your problem:
Pull the battery.
Hold VolDown+POWER.
Go to recovery.
Go to backup and restore.
Restore.
Find the file of your backup. (either a data and time or a name you gave)
Click it.
Wait till it's done.
Reboot system now.
In recovery use the trackpad to navigate and confirm and in hboot, i think, volume up and down to navigate and power to confirm.
If there is no backup file at step 6, wipe dalvik cache under advanced (also in recovery), reboot and see if that fixed it. If not do a full wipe in recovery, data/factory reset, cache and dalvik cache under advanced. Keep in mind this will wipe everything of your phone. Sd card is not affected.
Thanks for the reply first off i know its my fault i program computers for a living and find it quite frustrating when i cant get a linux based phone to boot..
also to recovering the backup in clocksworkmod ... it didnt work, but it is probably corrupted from not being able to do a full backup of my phone.... if you or anyone else here who has a back on a htc desire please feel free to send me it
also to factory restore, formating cache still a no go im starting to lose hope already the phone hardware sense it fine its just the operating system thats bonkers
and finally i can understand you defending clocksmod and they have done a very good job but maybe next time they should warn us about this big bug thats in the backup process because this little piece of software has proberly bricked my phone from a tiny bug in the software
Well almost 900Mb is enough to back up your entire phone, unless you have a massif ext partition. So I doubt that is the problem but whatever.
If both the above steps didn't work (and you also clear dalvik cache) I suggest you just install a custom rom. If you don't know what you want or where to start, I suggest you start with Leedroid. If you have a ext partition on your sd card use the A2SD version, if you don't use NoA2SD version.
To install:
Download the rom.
Boot in to recovery.
Connect the phone to the pc.
Go to mounts and mount the sd as mass storage (or whatever it's called, should be the last option in the list if I remember correct)
Copy the rom to the sd. (not in any folder, just on the sd card)
Safely remove and unmount again.
Wipe data/factory rest, cache and dalvik again just to be sure.
Go to install zip form sd.
Chose zip form sd
Find the zip you just transferred and flash it.
Wait till it's done.
Reboot system. (this can take up to 10 minutes)
This should give you a booting phone again.
TheGhost1233 said:
Well almost 900Mb is enough to back up your entire phone, unless you have a massif ext partition. So I doubt that is the problem but whatever.
If both the above steps didn't work (and you also clear dalvik cache) I suggest you just install a custom rom. If you don't know what you want or where to start, I suggest you start with Leedroid. If you have a ext partition on your sd card use the A2SD version, if you don't use NoA2SD version.
To install:
Download the rom.
Boot in to recovery.
Connect the phone to the pc.
Go to mounts and mount the sd as mass storage (or whatever it's called, should be the last option in the list if I remember correct)
Copy the rom to the sd. (not in any folder, just on the sd card)
Safely remove and unmount again.
Wipe data/factory rest, cache and dalvik again just to be sure.
Go to install zip form sd.
Chose zip form sd
Find the zip you just transferred and flash it.
Wait till it's done.
Reboot system. (this can take up to 10 minutes)
This should give you a booting phone again.
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Thanks again for the fantasitic help I will get right on it.. havent got much to lose now haha sorry for the late reply I was called to work I will post a video here to show some what the issue is before i install a custom rom thanks again
Oh and do you have paypal cause if it works i will pay you 20-50 or somthing LOl
Doing a full wipe with the first wipe option in Amon is what should he done correct? It wont erase my sdcard will it? Ive always just wiped cache, data, and dalvik because i wasnt sure if the others needed wiping...so boot and android secure should be wiped with a new flash? I think the first option in Amon is "Wipe All" or something like that, is that what i should be doing? I just want my sdcard wiped
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str8chillin1805 said:
Doing a full wipe with the first wipe option in Amon is what should he done correct? It wont erase my sdcard will it? Ive always just wiped cache, data, and dalvik because i wasnt sure if the others needed wiping...so boot and android secure should be wiped with a new flash? I think the first option in Amon is "Wipe All" or something like that, is that what i should be doing? I just want my sdcard wiped
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Correct. That is what you want to do, and no it won't erase your sd card. I also wipe boot and system a couple extra times, just because I like to! If your sd card is partitioned, you'll see it wipes the sd ext which is your partition, so don't worry...it won't touch the FAT32 partition when it does that. If your card isn't partitioned it'll skip the sd ext wipe.
hi guys i have had a rooted wildfire since january. yesterday i flashed a rom called devilbread-v1.0 and all was going well until i tried to use the torch, my phone froze and restarted ever since this if i put my sim card in it, it reboots as soon as it connects to vodacom pls help oh and it works fine if i take the sim out
Perform a full wipe (Go to Clockworkmod Recovery, here, select "Data Wipe / Factory Reset". Then, go to "Mounts and Storage", select "Format /system, Format /cache and Format /data")and install another ROM. (If you had read the last few pages of the topic, you would have known it was unstable)
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Perform a full wipe (Go to Clockworkmod Recovery, here, select "Data Wipe / Factory Reset". Then, go to "Mounts and Storage", select "Format /system, Format /cache and Format /data")and install another ROM. (If you had read the last few pages of the topic, you would have known it was unstable)
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ok guys its fixed all i really did was flas utmost and all was fixed dont know y other roms didnt work and it seems to fix most problems ive had
Will wiping the phone in CWM delete files on the "SD" space of the phone? I've read it is all apart of the same partition, so I wanted to make sure before awkwardly deleting the ROM I am about to install..
I have wiped tons of times in CWR and it hasn't touched the /sd yet. All my files are safe and sound.
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Grims said:
Will wiping the phone in CWM delete files on the "SD" space of the phone? I've read it is all apart of the same partition, so I wanted to make sure before awkwardly deleting the ROM I am about to install..
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Yes, it clears *all* internal storage.
So...which is it?
Maybe I misunderstood but are you talking about wiping /data and /cache? Because when I do this it does NOT wipe the /sd but does wipe all other user data, just like on every other android phone I have had.
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So...which is it?
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Wipe data/factory reset on CWM wipes your WHOLE phone, including "SD" card. I advise you to use the Super Wipe Lite script from the Android Revolution ROM, get it here. This will do a complete wipe, except SD card.
A bit of more info, in case you're interested: the SD card is the folder /data/media mounted as /sdcard. When you wipe in CWM, the data folder is emptied as well.
EDIT: i havent actually tried to do a normal full wipe from CWM, im stating the above just from reading other reports here. Maybe the last version from CWM has fixed this, i dont know
EDIT2: You can wipe cache and dalvik as usual from CWM without any problems.
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Wipe data/factory reset on CWM wipes your WHOLE phone, including "SD" card. I advise you to use the Super Wipe Lite script from the Android Revolution ROM, get it here. This will do a complete wipe, except SD card.
A bit of more info, in case you're interested: the SD card is the folder /data/media mounted as /sdcard. When you wipe in CWM, the data folder is emptied as well.
EDIT: i havent actually tried to do a normal full wipe from CWM, im stating the above just from reading other reports here. Maybe the last version from CWM has fixed this, i dont know
EDIT2: You can wipe cache and dalvik as usual from CWM without any problems.
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I figured that was how it was setup, but didn't know if CWM had any logic built into it to filter out the folder. I'll take a look at the script, thanks.
The built-in factory reset in Android will also wipe everything.
I did data,cache,dalvik wipe and formatted system going from 4.0.2 to 4.0.3.
I did NOT lose my SD card
The default wipe in ICS clears *all* internal memory. The default Factory Reset feature of CWM does the exact same thing. I've done it twice and it wiped fully both times.
Very interesting direct contradictions going on in here..
Wiping data in CWM DOES NOT WIPE THE VIRTUAL SDCARD. People need to stop saying it does.. it is all one partition but the virtual SD card is not wiped when you wipe data in cwm.. Factory resets in settings will wipe your virtual SD card but cwm WILL NOT.
Edit: sorry I had a long night, but I will leave the caps so people actually read it.
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It is quite troubling to read how many people are saying that wiping in CWM will erase the SD card.
It 100% DOES NOT. I have wiped in CWM dozens of times already. I can not say the same for Factory Reset in Android...but in CWM wiping data DOES NOT wipe your SD.
I tried to wipe everything off my phone. I booted into Clock recovery. This is what I did: Wipe data/factory reset
wipe cache partition
Wipe Dalvik cache
Format /data
format /system
format /cache
format /emmc
format /sdcard
Because I want to get rid of everything inside my phone and then I sell it to someone.
I downloaded some roms and put it into my sd card. But obviously, what I get is "Couldn't open directory. No files found"
I tried backup and restore and install zip from sdcard. But the result is the same.
My phone(Galaxy s2 t989) is rooted
I think I screw everything up
Please help I would really appreciate it.
READ READ READ is your best friend! I think what you are looking for is http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1513359
Good luck
When you formatted /system you wiped your Android os files. You need to flash back to stock...follow the instructions doormankenneth posted.
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