Hey all, I'm new to the Galaxy Nexus. When you wipe data does that wipe your internal storage as well? As in the mnt/SDcard partition.
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No. Your content is in data/media
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In a custom recovery, no. I believe stock recovery will wipe everything.
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In a custom recovery, no. I believe stock recovery will wipe everything.
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Yup if you're on stock recovery, it'll delete everything except things like ROM and kernel
Swyped on my Galaxy Nexus running AOKP with Franco Kernel
gmap516 said:
Hey all, I'm new to the Galaxy Nexus. When you wipe data does that wipe your internal storage as well? As in the mnt/SDcard partition.
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Just to add some detail:
When you wipe data (or factory reset) using a stock recovery, it wipes the entire userdata partition (which is mounted as /data in Android). The userdata partition is where all your data is stored included anything stored in /sdcard. [It does not touch any other partition. So if you have a custom ROM, doing a factory reset will not magically restore the stock ROM. Same thing for the other partitions.]
When you wipe data (factory reset) using a custom recovery, it deletes all files in /data except the files in /data/media (which is mounted as /sdcard in Android).
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Like the titles says, couldn't find any info on this.
Since all data is on the same partition on GN, do you have to manually pull the nand backup to your computer before doing a wipe? Or does the wipe function leave the /sdcard catalogue unwiped?
Its never touched anything inside the "sdcard"
Your nands will be fine if you wipe in cwm
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Any way to format the internal storage via CWM?
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Not that i know, but you could just lock and unlock your bootloader to wipe everything.
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AZ FadeOut said:
Any way to format the internal storage via CWM?
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Flash stock recovery.
Factory reset device.
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AZ FadeOut said:
Any way to format the internal storage via CWM?
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You can. You just need a script that will do it. If you can't find one, I can make one up for you tomorrow.
The other suggestions made will certainly erase you data/settings, but not the rom.
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But formatting /system will erase the rom, but not the internal storage?
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But formatting /system will erase the rom, but not the internal storage?
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What do you want to erase? Just the data partition? You can easily do that either by locking and unlocking your bootloader or by doing a factory reset, as was mentioned. If you want to wipe your device, you have to do that with fastboot erase or via a script in CWM.
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Basically I just want to make sure that by erasing my system I won't wipe my storage
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Basically I just want to make sure that by erasing my system I won't wipe my storage
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Your rom is on the system partition (along with anything you install on the system partition via root). Your apps and settings and sdcard are stored on the userdata partition. Unlocking the bootloader erases the entire userdata partition. A factory rest in CWM erases the userdata partition EXCLUDING sdcard. A factory reset in the stock recovery erases the entire userdata partition.
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this worked for me:
-in recovery mount data and system
in adb shell type:
cd /sdcard
rm -rf directorynamehere
reboot
Noob question... What will happen when I format system. What will I lose and keep. Will my internal storage get lost? And will I have to push new rom back to phone via usb transfer. I do understand wiping data, both caches, and system, but what does formatting system do.?
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Your ROM is installed on /system. If you wipe system you wipe the os. It doesn't touch the data or internal storage.
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Yes,you have to push new rom back to phone via usb transfer!
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Yes,you have to push new rom back to phone via usb transfer!
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no. no you dont.
wiping /system just erases the /system partition.
Thanx guys... I think I'm good. System wipe/format system will not erase data. But a data format wipe you lose everything. That's what I thought but wanted to double check so I didn't lose important data.
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Before this i am using phone with micro sd extrrnal, so when i full wipe, i know sd not wiped.
So, in gnex, it use internal, so if want to flash new rom, what i need to avoid so data in internal not wiped? Does full wipe erase sd also?
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Both "Wipe data/cache" in CWM and "Wipe data" in TWRP excludes internal media (/data/media), so you should be good to go.
CWM is verified on my Nex4 and TWRP is verified on GNex.
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so in cwm, factory reset still not wipe my storage?
vocyber said:
so in cwm, factory reset still not wipe my storage?
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factory reset will only wipe system and cash partitions.
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factory reset will only wipe system and cash partitions.
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And the data partition minus the media directory (SD card)
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yeah my bad i knew i was missing something
I flashed route 66 4.3 update via Odin last night, however I would like to do a clean install. How can I wipe the internal memory so I can re-flash via odin? I'm trying to remove all apps etc. Any help would be greatly appreciated
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There is a script that can be flashed through a custom recovery that will completely wipe your internal memory clean. I have it on my S3. I'm on my nexus 5 now so I don't have access to it right now. If someone doesn't have a better suggestion I'll share it with you when I can.
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Go into recovery and format /Data. If you are on TWRP, there should be an Erase Internal in the Wipe settings. Not sure about Clockwork.
Boot to recovery.
Wipe /Cache
Wipe /Dalvik-Cache
Factory Reset.
Format /System
Format /Data
Profit!!!
In recovery Format Data =/= Wipe Data
Format is erasing your internal
Wipe is wiping your app data.
Edit: If you want to flash what Jorge said above, just search for XquiziT's Superwipe and you might be able to find it.
superwipe doesn't work, i get an error and reboots back into 4.3
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Go into recovery and format /Data. If you are on TWRP, there should be an Erase Internal in the Wipe settings. Not sure about Clockwork.
Boot to recovery.
Wipe /Cache
Wipe /Dalvik-Cache
Factory Reset.
Format /System
Format /Data
Profit!!!
In recovery Format Data =/= Wipe Data
Format is erasing your internal
Wipe is wiping your app data.
Edit: If you want to flash what Jorge said above, just search for XquiziT's Superwipe and you might be able to find it.
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Guess you'll have to do it the long way then per the instructions above. Let us know how it goes.
Will definitely give it a shot when I have more time! Thank for the help
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