Hi there,
I'm selling my DHD in a weeks time, making the dreaded move to the iPhone 4. I'm a bit apprehensive seeing as i started off on a Samsung Galaxy S and moved to the DHD and have always enjoyed my Android phones, but its time to try something different.
Would this be the safest way to get rid of all my personal data etc on this phone before selling?
1. Remove SD card (as i wont sell the phone with this included)
2. Factory reset on phone.
3. Clockwork mod wipe phone clean and clear cache
4. Clear Dalvik cache
Anything else i'm leaving out that i should do?
wipe data/factory reset
format sdcard
?
l.lai said:
Hi there,
I'm selling my DHD in a weeks time, making the dreaded move to the iPhone 4. I'm a bit apprehensive seeing as i started off on a Samsung Galaxy S and moved to the DHD and have always enjoyed my Android phones, but its time to try something different.
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Good luck with Apple. You'll be back here soon
I'd recommend not only wiping with your recovery, but also resetting the phone back to a stock ROM by running the RUU.
This will fully wipe recovery and restore the phone to as it was when it first came out of the box.
If the buyer wants a rooted phone, you could then just root it for them or the chances are they will have a good enough idea of what to do and will be able to do it themselves.
Guide: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=864054
RUUs: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=841207
Hope this helps
Here is what I did, and here is what I want to do(presumably)
What I did:
-Installed CWM, did all of the fancy backups, etc. Tried installin g CM7 and it failed, the zip from the CM site keeps failing to install (aborted)
-I then gave up on it and tried installing Eaglesblood ROM which did install correctly. I didn't know that it hasn't been used or updated for a while, but one issue came up.
--Issue: My SD card wouldn't mount(external)? I couldn't recover my contacts or apps that were backed up on my SD card, and searching for it just showed "unavailable" and no option top mount.
-After this failure, I decided to try the Juggernaut ROM and the install failed, because the SD card just wouldn't mount. Nothing on my SD card is usable.
NOW: I want to start over from scratch, and then install a ROM, or just completely delete everything. I don't even want any of the backups on my phone, just a fresh start over again.
Question: What should I do? What would you do as a Noob if you could do it over again the right way?
1.) Clear the phone back to stock again?
2.) Install something more stable?
3.) Find a way to mount SD?
what do I do?!
ps. Merry Xmas
Try formatting the sdcard and see if that makes a difference. I had a sdcard go bad in my wife's phone and it wouldn't mount at all. Swapped in another card and she was golden.
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darock159 said:
Try formatting the sdcard and see if that makes a difference. I had a sdcard go bad in my wife's phone and it wouldn't mount at all. Swapped in another card and she was golden.
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doesn't give me the option to do so on my phone. I'll do it on my backup phone and see if it works.
No Go, it reformatted in the other phone, but amazingly all of the files were still there?
Someone help me solve this mystery, this isn't making sense?!
Try formatting on a computer not a phone if you have a card reader. Go to my computer right click on the sdcard and select format. Then select fat32 option. Back up your stuff if it still reads on the computer. If this doesn't fix try a new sdcard. That's what I had to do for my wife's phone. It wouldn't mount in the phone but worked.fine in a card reader.
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darock159 said:
Try formatting on a computer not a phone if you have a card reader. Go to my computer right click on the sdcard and select format. Then select fat32 option. Back up your stuff if it still reads on the computer. If this doesn't fix try a new sdcard. That's what I had to do for my wife's phone. It wouldn't mount in the phone but worked.fine in a card reader.
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I tried putting it in my nokia N900, and reformat it from the PC using the N900 as a reader. Unfortunately I don't know where my adapter is.
It wont format that way, it lets me see the SD card and select format, but no go. Tried Fat32 and NTFS, but no format would work.
Possible that the card is fried some how, but still readable? The properties show no information on if the SD card is on read-only or not, so I can't figure this out.
Formating it from the N900 says it formats, but all the files are still there after the format.
Mind=Blown
Well it looks like it was the sd card afterall, new card and everything works...... For now of course.
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best way to start over from scratch is to ODIN the factory ROM, (check INDEX sticky)
then you'll be back to original, and use oneclickroot to root it again, then install CWR and go wild with whatever ROM you choose
Goliath27 said:
Here is what I did, and here is what I want to do(presumably)
What I did:
-Installed CWM, did all of the fancy backups, etc. Tried installin g CM7 and it failed, the zip from the CM site keeps failing to install (aborted)
-I then gave up on it and tried installing Eaglesblood ROM which did install correctly. I didn't know that it hasn't been used or updated for a while, but one issue came up.
--Issue: My SD card wouldn't mount(external)? I couldn't recover my contacts or apps that were backed up on my SD card, and searching for it just showed "unavailable" and no option top mount.
-After this failure, I decided to try the Juggernaut ROM and the install failed, because the SD card just wouldn't mount. Nothing on my SD card is usable.
NOW: I want to start over from scratch, and then install a ROM, or just completely delete everything. I don't even want any of the backups on my phone, just a fresh start over again.
Question: What should I do? What would you do as a Noob if you could do it over again the right way?
1.) Clear the phone back to stock again?
2.) Install something more stable?
3.) Find a way to mount SD?
what do I do?!
ps. Merry Xmas
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Goliath27 said:
What I did:
-Installed CWM, did all of the fancy backups, etc. Tried installin g CM7 and it failed, the zip from the CM site keeps failing to install (aborted)
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In order to prevent bad installations in the future, only attempt to flash roms that you obtained from the Developer section of the T-Mobile Galaxy SII T-989 forum. Our phone will not run roms developed for other versions of the Galaxy SII due to hardware differences. You could easily brick your phone flashing something that wasn't specifically designed for it.
AllGamer said:
best way to start over from scratch is to ODIN the factory ROM, (check INDEX sticky)
then you'll be back to original, and use oneclickroot to root it again, then install CWR and go wild with whatever ROM you choose
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Ok well I think I started from scratch again when I updated my firmware using Kies. I lost SU and Root access.
AmbroseAI said:
In order to prevent bad installations in the future, only attempt to flash roms that you obtained from the Developer section of the T-Mobile Galaxy SII T-989 forum. Our phone will not run roms developed for other versions of the Galaxy SII due to hardware differences. You could easily brick your phone flashing something that wasn't specifically designed for it.
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Got it, but I tried it both ways. I think what I really should be asking is:
What roms would you download if this were you?
I really want something in the ICS department but can't really find any roms that are stable enough to download. Anything you recommend?
there are no ICS alpha/beta for our model yet
wait until the ICS sources has dropped from Samsung, then we'll get lots
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there are no ICS alpha/beta for our model yet
wait until the ICS sources has dropped from Samsung, then we'll get lots
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well, ICS isn't really a big deal. I just want to try out these ROMs everyone is raving about, but there are so many!
Like I said before, I tried installing a rom that just didn't work. And I'd like to try some of the most stable roms out and see which ones I could use comfortably.
This way I don't set up my phone the way I like, just to do it all over again repeatedly.
edit: I see you're running Juggernaut 3.7 + Bullet 2.9 (just like CM7)
Stable enough to try in my n00b state? I understand the risks as well, just wondering how good it is. I know it had some MMS issues but if that's all than I'll survive.
Edit 2: Just installed Jug v4.1 and it's awesome. So I finally got the idea of what I need to do in order to install correctly. Not going to try anything else for a while now lol
I think you're getting confused... there are a lot of variants of the Samsung Galaxy S II, but they are very different inside. It sounds like the ROM you were trying to install was for the international version, which could easily wreck your phone completely. There are no ICS roms whatsoever for the T-Mobile version of this phone, nor are there any complete CM7 roms. You can safely install any of the roms on the "T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II Android Development" section of these forums, and that's about it.
skjoldbaerer said:
I think you're getting confused... there are a lot of variants of the Samsung Galaxy S II, but they are very different inside. It sounds like the ROM you were trying to install was for the international version, which could easily wreck your phone completely. There are no ICS roms whatsoever for the T-Mobile version of this phone, nor are there any complete CM7 roms. You can safely install any of the roms on the "T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II Android Development" section of these forums, and that's about it.
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Right, which is what I was aware of. The rom that messed me up was one that was labeled as a Tmobile S2 rom, but I think the error was a User error(me).
Now that I did it all from scratch, I have it all running well and I'm now avoiding the use of Rom Manager, and only using CWM.
And of course, I wouldn't think of installing a rom from another forum for another phone, I will be sticking to the t989 section here.
I have been having problems with apps like titaniumbackup and other tools stopping during prosseces they start to run but but slow way down then get real laggy and stop i am running stock rootid 2.3
6 becuse its the only way to fix the problem i have tried all roms for the t989 and diffrent kernals but i still have the problem the only thing i have noiced i that when i pull info about my phone it often give me diffrent read outs about my prossesor IE diffrent ram read out and names like neon and snapdraggon i hope this info can lead to some ideas i have been playing with androids long enough to understand all the lingo and gargan but have not tried to develop anthing because my computer sucks
I have hade a criket zio
Samsung galaxy II
And now a beautifull white 16gig samsung galaxy s Ii
laniclamoore said:
I have been having problems with apps like titaniumbackup and other tools stopping during prosseces they start to run but but slow way down then get real laggy and stop i am running stock rootid 2.3
6 becuse its the only way to fix the problem i have tried all roms for the t989 and diffrent kernals but i still have the problem the only thing i have noiced i that when i pull info about my phone it often give me diffrent read outs about my prossesor IE diffrent ram read out and names like neon and snapdraggon i hope this info can lead to some ideas i have been playing with androids long enough to understand all the lingo and gargan but have not tried to develop anthing because my computer sucks
I have hade a criket zio
Samsung galaxy II
And now a beautifull white 16gig samsung galaxy s Ii
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I have a similar issue when TB freeze when restoring my apps, for example it freeze when trying to restore ''Samsung apps'' so I quit the process
and try to restore my apps again but without ''Samsung apps'' and it works
gypsy214 said:
I have a similar issue when TB freeze when restoring my apps, for example it freeze when trying to restore ''Samsung apps'' so I quit the process
and try to restore my apps again but without ''Samsung apps'' and it works
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I'll look in to it. But it is more of a global phone problem almost like the phones cpu is going to "sleep" when doing processes.
ROM mannager wont finish fix permissions.
Titanium wont finish any processes longer that one or 2 apps at a time.
Sd maid wont finish scaning to clean apps,system, or chache.
ROM tool box half runs actions.
Even games,movies slow down and stop after about 15 min.
I can't multi-task at all.
I'm thinking the problem is some how linked to MIN frees.
I think phone is possibly changing them or build.prop,int or service.jar is corrupted some how.
do you have en ext micro sd card installed? have you ever tried another micro sd on it? you mentioned that you tried all other roms before, guess that's not a software problem. tried format every thing from scratch, make sure you format your emmc from recovery, use darkside super wide after it, and then flash a new rom. make backups before doing so. take off micro sd card from yr phone during the whole process and see how it goes.
always use odin to flash back stock rom, if problems persist, restore it back to unrooted stock rom, send back for service.
It's ALIVE!!!!!!!!!
skyfolly said:
do you have en ext micro sd card installed? have you ever tried another micro sd on it? you mentioned that you tried all other roms before, guess that's not a software problem. tried format every thing from scratch, make sure you format your emmc from recovery, use darkside super wide after it, and then flash a new rom. make backups before doing so. take off micro sd card from yr phone during the whole process and see how it goes.
always use odin to flash back stock rom, if problems persist, restore it back to unrooted stock rom, send back for service.
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Hay I did what you said I work out really well my phones running custom roms very well now thanks all for the help.....
I LOVE ANDROIDS.
where a good place to learn the in's and out's of custom ROM building for this phone???????
Honestly, to get some background, your pc, 7zip, apktool & notepad++ & here
I recently flashed a rom onto my sgh m919 that I didn't like, so I attempted to return it back to a stock rom from this thread: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2267895. After flashing the rom from this thread onto my phone I have been having various syncing issues, lagging, battery problems, and it says my phone memory is filled (which I know for a fact it isn't).
How can I fix these problems?
Should I reflash?
Where can I find some nice custom roms and a solid stock rom?
CauseICan1234 said:
I recently flashed a rom onto my sgh m919 that I didn't like, so I attempted to return it back to a stock rom from this thread: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2267895. After flashing the rom from this thread onto my phone I have been having various syncing issues, lagging, battery problems, and it says my phone memory is filled (which I know for a fact it isn't).
How can I fix these problems?
Should I reflash?
Where can I find some nice custom roms and a solid stock rom?
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That is not necessarily a "rom" i mean its not really custom.
look through here to find "some nice custom roms and solid stock roms"
http://forum.xda-developers.com/forumdisplay.php?f=2283 Sio!
I would Odin back to stock. Also have you tried wiping data, cache and dalvik cache?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2336392
Make sure your backups are NOT being stored in device storage. same thing happened to me then I realized cwm recovery sends backups directly to devive storage UNLESS YOU specify for them to be sent to external sd card. Once I realized this I deleted my backups and ALL my device memory came back.then I backuped and directed it to go to external sd card NOT internal storage where it goes by default. So make sure this is not happening to you. If you suspect it might be the reason your internal storage reads full simply delete your backups and then check your internal memory. If that's what is happening next time you backup direct the backup to external sd card.hope this helps solve your issue.i know when my internal storage read full this is what was happening to me. best wishes
So I have a Samsung Galaxy Note II from T-Mobile (SGH-T889). I have had it rooted for some time. I haven't been able to successfully flash a new rom onto it though. During the install process I get an error towards the end. Thus it never does a clean install of the ROM (generally goes into a boot loop). My main goal would be to have a clean, fast, functional rom with the ExtSD2InternalSD so I can get some more memory on my Note II. You use the Perseus Kernel to get functionality of the EXT2INT. Another issue that came up was the index of my Ext SD card itself. It took a lot of toying around just to get it to show up, but it changed it to EXTSD(0). Now when I want to get into my SD on my computer to back it up, non of the data is actually showing up on my computer.
So 2 main questions?
1. How do I get a clean install of a ROM? (I've followed using Clockwork Mod, deleting everything before flash etc.)
2. How can I change the index of my SD so it can show up on both my phone and PC with all the data that is there?
Sorry if my ?'s have been answered before, just new here and wanted to start out with a thread myself. Thanks!