Plan on installing the JB Goodness v.8.0.5 ROM coming from Team Sonic. Have to do a factory reset & wipe. What will I lose from my phone's internal storage. Will i lose downloaded pics, gifs, documents etc?
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cperkins0 said:
Plan on installing the JB Goodness v.8.0.5 ROM coming from Team Sonic. Have to do a factory reset & wipe. What will I lose from my phone's internal storage. Will i lose downloaded pics, gifs, documents etc?
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All your apps will have to be re-downloaded from the play store and you lose all progress in games, etc. But no none of your pictures or music is affected (I'm 99% sure). I save my pictures to my SD Card though..
Factory data / wipe reset is only for the rom itself, as Joe said everything is lost EXCLUDING your internal / external storage.
But if your planning on literally cleaning your phone id suggest backing up all of your important stuff thats in your intSdCard
and exSdCard move the important stuff to your PC/Mac/Linux and then do an internal + external storage wipe just to
remove the left over stuff from apps that save files / temp files into your sdcards.
However you can backup your apps using Titanium Backup Root and move the TitaniumBackup folder to your PC
to backup your apps + data. I've been jumping roms as well and doing full blown wipes for everything ( Data / Cache / Davlik / internal
/ external ) and titanium backup is a MUST if you want to keep most of your apps with data.
However if those apps get buggy ( FC, won't start etc ) then you'll need to wipe the apps data .
All in all, that should be it. Hope this helps, and i hope you enjoy using the JB Goodness rom
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Since the is no sd card on this phone to save stuff on (i.e. pictures music, etc), when we flash a rom and have to do a wipe , do we lose all of our stuff?
Before you install a custom ROM, make a backup of your current ROM in Recovery. The phone uses built in storage instead of an SD card, but the process for backing up and restoring is the same.
sn0warmy said:
Before you install a custom ROM, make a backup of your current ROM in Recovery. The phone uses built in storage instead of an SD card, but the process for backing up and restoring is the same.
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ok do a backup in CWM ? so when I flash after the new rom is on , my folders and files will still be on the built in storage ?
Create a CWM backup and backup the apps you want on titanium. My suggestion for titanium, after you wipe let the market automatically restore your apps and use titanium to restore your data from the apps you want. Most everything like pictures and what's on your internal storage should still be there after wipe, but I would throw them on your laptop or wherever just in case.
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The phone does have a "sdcard." Just think of it as a irremovable 16 GB sdcard.
Everything else is the same.
Making a backup is optional, you can do it if you want. Or not do it.
You can always restore yourself back to stock using the stock images provided by Google (google it if you wish to find it).
I flashed 4.1.2 OTA and am seriously disliking the dip in battery performance. Before reverting to 4.1.1 I will try a factory reset.
Is it safe/advisable to copy the internal storage (sdcard0) over to my external sd card, factory reset, and then copy/replace everything back to sdcard0? Would apps load user data correctly?
I don't have root nor titanium backup, prefer to keep this device stock.
Thanks!
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Yes you can
But this data is extra data which requires to download after installing aplication.
like in case of Gameloft game or sygic map you need not to download data again but it won't restore aplication data like level you have completed on game etc.
I flash a lot of roms on my phone. Recently I noticed that there was a lot of left over programs and apps on my internal memory. I have nothing on the phone I want to keep that is not already backed up via TitaniumBackup.
What I would like to do, is wipe everything that I can without messing up partitions or Mount points or the needed stuff in ./data/media so I can flash a new room on a totally clean phone (except for the nessasary files needed like the data/media stuff and recovery stuff ect..)
Normally when I flash I do this: (in TWRP)
1. Nandroid backup
2. Wipe/factory restore
3. Wipe data and system again
4. Flash new ROM
5. Wipe devlik/cache
6. Reboot
When I finally get to the desktop I start up root explorer and look around my internal memory. This is were I still see a lot of old apps still sitting there. I want them gone. I'm afraid to wipe/format internal memory while in TWRP because I will lose everything right ? Even the stuff that is needed to boot the phone to recovery.
Any suggestions ?
Thanks
T-Mobile Samsung G S4
SGH-M919
TWRP v6.x.x.x
16 gig micro sd-card
Go in twrp and click wipe, advanced, and click everything. after wiping Mount the phone to PC via twrp and move the rom and kernel to sd card. Unmount then do the steps you usually do to install a ROM, including wipe.
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Thibor69 said:
I flash a lot of roms on my phone. Recently I noticed that there was a lot of left over programs and apps on my internal memory. I have nothing on the phone I want to keep that is not already backed up via TitaniumBackup.
What I would like to do, is wipe everything that I can without messing up partitions or Mount points or the needed stuff in ./data/media so I can flash a new room on a totally clean phone (except for the nessasary files needed like the data/media stuff and recovery stuff ect..)
Normally when I flash I do this: (in TWRP)
1. Nandroid backup
2. Wipe/factory restore
3. Wipe data and system again
4. Flash new ROM
5. Wipe devlik/cache
6. Reboot
When I finally get to the desktop I start up root explorer and look around my internal memory. This is were I still see a lot of old apps still sitting there. I want them gone. I'm afraid to wipe/format internal memory while in TWRP because I will lose everything right ? Even the stuff that is needed to boot the phone to recovery.
Any suggestions ?
Thanks
T-Mobile Samsung G S4
SGH-M919
TWRP v6.x.x.x
16 gig micro sd-card
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If you have your TiBu backups, nandroids, and ROM zips, pictures, videos, etc already on your SD card; there is no harm in formatting your internal memory. You won't lose recovery, you won't have a problem with booting, nothing of that sort.
When I was running SynergyRom on my S3, wiping Internal memory was usually Always suggested because of the reasons you mentioned.
Move your Nandroid and files you want to flash to your extSdCard card for obvious reasons.
I have TWRP 2.5.0.2 as my Recovery, which has been running without issues for months.
Enter Recovery:
Press -
Wipe
Format Data
As a safety valve, you'll be asked to Type in Yes to continue this Internal wipe.
You'll retain the partitions you mentioned.
I think the above will get you to where you want to be.
You can always double check afterward as you've already done before.
Biker1 said:
When I was running SynergyRom on my S3, wiping Internal memory was usually Always suggested because of the reasons you mentioned.
Move your Nandroid and files you want to flash to your extSdCard card for obvious reasons.
I have TWRP 2.5.0.2 as my Recovery, which has been running without issues for months.
Enter Recovery:
Press -
Wipe
Format Data
As a safety valve, you'll be asked to Type in Yes to continue this Internal wipe.
You'll retain the partitions you mentioned.
I think the above will get you to where you want to be.
You can always double check afterward as you've already done before.
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Just wanted to say good question and responses. Helpful.
Ok, this might sound like a noob question but before deleting any files on the internal storage I want to make sure to not delete the wrong ones
I flash roms almost on a weekly basis, try tons of apps which all leave files on my internal storage so now when I look at it I see lots of garbage that I'm pretty sure I can delete - so here is my question:
When flashing a new rom I wipe data and cache and after that can I safely delete every folder on the internal storage? I guess that the only ones that I should keep are:
- clockworkmod
- data
- DCIM
- android
Or is there a way to wipe the phone without losing root? (I just don't want to go through the hassle of rooting again..)
Thanks
Seek and you shall find. :good:
Simply go into Mounts and Storage in the Recovery menu and select "format /data and /data/media (/sdcard)" - that does the trick. It deletes everything on the internal memory but leaves the external SD card untouched --> success!
Use with caution though: before this always do a nandroid backup to the external SD and above all don't do all of this if you are not sure about what you are doing
i usually
i) wipe data/factory reset
ii) wipe dalvik cache
iii) format /system
And always after this there are so many unused and uneccesary directories & files left in my internal sd card.
So you propose that after also runningformat /data and /data/media (/sdcard) everything in internal sdcard is deleted?
the thing is that most probably i have the ROM file and gapps etc in internal sdcard in order to flash the phone.if i run this and if i understood correctly that it deletes everything, then it will also delete those ROM files right?
so please clarify this if you can or propose the best way i guess other aditional steps (that im missing out) in order to have the cleanest possible phone.
Hello,
I'm running the latest stable CM, and took a CWM backup. I wanted to revert back to stock to try a bunch of GPS fixes (not that any of them helped). Afterwards, I restored the backup, but all my photos and music are gone (there were not stored on the external SD card). Does CWM back up internal storage? Any ideas on what to do next?
Thanks.
If you wiped internal storage to flash AOSP, then your pictures are gone, If you used a full wipe odin oneclick, that has removed and wiped internal storage as well. You'll need use special tools to recovery data from internal, hopefully you didn't wipe the device like 1-3 times as people do that to fully make sure the device is wiped properly.
thetuber said:
Hello,
I'm running the latest stable CM, and took a CWM backup. I wanted to revert back to stock to try a bunch of GPS fixes (not that any of them helped). Afterwards, I restored the backup, but all my photos and music are gone (there were not stored on the external SD card). Does CWM back up internal storage? Any ideas on what to do next?
Thanks.
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If it was lollipop cm you tried, to go back to KitKat you have to wipe internal storage (data/media) or that will happen. Cwm does not backup internal SD, but it also does not wipe it unless you specifically wipe it. Wiping data does not wipe internal SD nor does a factory reset done in recovery.