In the Pimproid thread, there is a step that I need clarification.
"5. Only factory reset from twrp - NEVER data or system you will loose important stuff!!"
I have looked around to find exactly what "factory reset" means, but have found none (maybe I am not looking in the right places). My version of TWRP (2.6.1.0) does not have the option of "factory reset". I think maybe older version did, but I am not 100% sure.
[Q] So with that, and given that I have I think six options under Advanced Wipe, what would I select to accomplish a "factory reset"?
As always, I appreciate any assistance that I may receive, and I will thank you in advance.
I believe that means do the factory wipe that twrp provides. I think it is the default anyway. You can custom select different settings.
I guess that is my problem. My version, 2.6.1.0, does not have the option Factory Wipe, or Factory Reset, or anything with the word Factory. The default recovery program in an unroot SGT 3 has a factory reset, as does CWM. But I do not like CWM.
Try 2.6.3.0. That's the one I've been using; it's also compatible with kitkat. Maybe there's a newer version now, should check.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2619518
Yeah, I downloaded it yesterday. I think it is actually 2.7 and not 2.6.3.0. At least that is what I think I read in the thread talking about the new TWRP.
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Ive read a couple of the guides and they confuse me a little bit. A lot of the guides were written in July or earlier and people in the threads say they are out of date.
I want to flash a different rom on my phone.. id like to save everything I have now.
I rooted my phone with unrooted and it has the newest firmware on it.
What do I need to do to flash a rom on it? I know I need to do a nand backup and use clockwork recovery but this is the part that im lost on.. any updated steps would be great.
boot in to recovery ( volume dog button+powerbutton)
if using clockworkmod, go down to nandroid
back up your currrent rom.
After backup, return to main clockwork menu and then wipe data/factory reset.
then back to main menu and select install zip from sdcard.
next menu click, choose zip for sdcard and find where you stored your zip file at, once you find it, highlight it and select it.
a bunch of nos
and one yes will show, scroll down to yes, and it will install.
after it installs, return to the main menu and click reboot system now. and your rom should start!
PS, if you get caught in a boot loop where the boot animation or splash screen keeps restarting, yank the battery and get back into recovery. wipe data/factory reset again to get rid of the non-working rom. then nandroid and restore your rom.
AGAIN ONLY IF YOU GET A BOOT LOOP
do what bmxerkid954 said. But I include a Dalvik cache wipe as well. I haven't seen this option from Rom Manager but if you're in the recovery menu--it can't hurt. my .02
I wrote a pretty thorough guide/walkthrough to flashing your first rom in this short thread;
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=9100239
That whole thread is a good read, it explains and links to some if the basic terms and concepts you should know. Make sure you back up with amon ra at least once. And don't forget do go through the common misconceptions sticky.
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Clockwork doesnt wipe dalvik property, thats why i left it out. Just wipe and if you flash a full wipe zip, it will wipe dalvik... and most roms, now, run an intergraded command to correctly wipe dalvik as in new damagecontrol. Sorry if my guide was a little misworded. I was in class and was trying to reply to you as quick as possible. If you have any questions or need me to clearify anything, just post back.
blasted this post with my limited edition evo!
Hi,
I recently rooted my htc desire, unrevoked method, flashed default recovery. Before flashing the stable CM for Desire, I wiped dalvik cache, wiped all data, wiped cache partition. After the installation, I logged into my google account. Problems started when going into settings resulted in going to blank settings page. Same goes for any settings window (system, play store settings). Whats more, after every single CM I install, the phone gets stuck on CM loading screen, after installing the rom, setting everything up and rebooting for the first time. The phone is S-ON. I'll try to upload logs from debugger soon.
Thanks in advance for any help.
http://pastebin.com/Zy6jKANt Log from exact loop during loading
Disregard those settings part above, its non existent now, just the loop.
macolour said:
Hi,
I recently rooted my htc desire, unrevoked method, flashed default recovery. Before flashing the stable CM for Desire, I wiped dalvik cache, wiped all data, wiped cache partition. After the installation, I logged into my google account. Problems started when going into settings resulted in going to blank settings page. Same goes for any settings window (system, play store settings). Whats more, after every single CM I install, the phone gets stuck on CM loading screen, after installing the rom, setting everything up and rebooting for the first time. The phone is S-ON. I'll try to upload logs from debugger soon.
Thanks in advance for any help.
http://pastebin.com/Zy6jKANt Log from exact loop during loading
Disregard those settings part above, its non existent now, just the loop.
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You should s-off before installing any custom rom. Did you make a backup before installing cm7?
abaaaabbbb63 said:
You should s-off before installing any custom rom. Did you make a backup before installing cm7?
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Wow, really? Some custom gb seemed to work just fine with s-on. I think I have a backup but I wouldn't count on it, it may have some files missing. I'm not sure now whether unrevoked did s-off on that phone, will check as soon as I get back to it.
macolour said:
Wow, really? Some custom gb seemed to work just fine with s-on. I think I have a backup but I wouldn't count on it, it may have some files missing. I'm not sure now whether unrevoked did s-off on that phone, will check as soon as I get back to it.
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You don't have to s-off to install custom Rom, only a custom recovery.
However it is much more useful to have s-off than not so it's thoroughly recommended.
For instance, you can change hboot to use your internal memory partition layout and have more space. Currently you are on stock hboot with 250MB /system but your Rom system size is much less, so you are wasting space.
Changing hboot will give you smaller system and more internal memory
S-off will also allow you to change recovery to something like 4ext (see my sig), allowing more reliable and easier partitioning of sdcard.
Regarding your specific problem, not sure you did a proper full wipe before installing? Need to use the wipe data/factory reset option within recovery as a minimum before installing new rom
eddiehk6 said:
Regarding your specific problem, not sure you did a proper full wipe before installing? Need to use the wipe data/factory reset option within recovery as a minimum before installing new rom
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Every single install, wiping data, cache, dalvik cache as well. Everything done from within recovery. Logs indicate a problem with hw audio decoding, though I might be wrong.
macolour said:
Every single install, wiping data, cache, dalvik cache as well. Everything done from within recovery. Logs indicate a problem with hw audio decoding, though I might be wrong.
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did you specifically use the "wipe data/factory reset" option within recovery, or only the "format data" option under mounts and storage?
the "wipe data/factory reset" also formats the /system partition, which is just as important /data. cache and dalvik are just temporary files, should get wiped anyway on fresh rom install, but no harm in manually wiping.
haven't had time to look at the logs, not an expert in them anyway. you could try to install a different ROM to see if you have the same issues, or restore a nandoid (hope you made one, you should always do this before wiping/flashing).
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did you specifically use the "wipe data/factory reset" option within recovery, or only the "format data" option under mounts and storage?
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Wipe data. I'll try to make other roms work.
I have been playing around with the nexus 7 installing apps and adding a different recovery.
I would now like to perform one final wipe of the device, reset it, and then make my pristine backup. I'm currently using Clockworkmod recovery. What is the best way to return the 7 back to stock?
Should I just reset/erase using Clockworkmod recovery? Also, will I need to delete my old Clockworkmod backup if I do not want it anymore?
Any advice would be much appreciated.
Rick
C5Longhorn said:
I have been playing around with the nexus 7 installing apps and adding a different recovery.
I would now like to perform one final wipe of the device, reset it, and then make my pristine backup. I'm currently using Clockworkmod recovery. What is the best way to return the 7 back to stock?
Should I just reset/erase using Clockworkmod recovery? Also, will I need to delete my old Clockworkmod backup if I do not want it anymore?
Any advice would be much appreciated.
Rick
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reset from recovery only resets the user data and depending on recovery, also the virtual sdcard.
It doesn't touch the /system files. You might have installed tweaks to the system. You might have installed root, changes to the slimport resolution, USB-OTG like stickmount may have made changes to debuggerd. None of these get reset with the reset from recovery.
The factory image blasts a factory image back onto the device, bootloader, recovery, kernel, rom, resets user data, etc.
So in your case if you really want to get back to stock before making a pristine backup, factory image is the better choice.
sfhub said:
reset from recovery only resets the user data and depending on recovery, also the virtual sdcard.
It doesn't touch the /system files. You might have installed tweaks to the system. You might have installed root, changes to the slimport resolution, USB-OTG like stickmount may have made changes to debuggerd. None of these get reset with the reset from recovery.
The factory image blasts a factory image back onto the device, bootloader, recovery, kernel, rom, resets user data, etc.
So in your case if you really want to get back to stock before making a pristine backup, factory image is the better choice.
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Thanks, the new image is exactly what I want to do. I'm still a little confused about the relationship between the recovery and the image though. If I flash the image again, will I lose my custom recovery and just return to the stock recovery? Is it just like a computer that the image is going to configure the tablet exactly back to the stock image or will I still have the Clockworkmod recovery? I know I can easily reflash the Clockworkmod recovery so not a big deal.
Thanks again for the help.
Rick
C5Longhorn said:
Thanks, the new image is exactly what I want to do. I'm still a little confused about the relationship between the recovery and the image though. If I flash the image again, will I lose my custom recovery and just return to the stock recovery? Is it just like a computer that the image is going to configure the tablet exactly back to the stock image or will I still have the Clockworkmod recovery? I know I can easily reflash the Clockworkmod recovery so not a big deal.
Thanks again for the help.
Rick
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Factory image flashes stock
1) bootloader
2) radio (for deb/LTE)
3) recovery
4) boot/kernel
5) system/ROM
6) wipes user data / virtual sdcard
7) wipes cache
So your custom recovery would be replaced with stock recovery.
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Factory image flashes stock
1) bootloader
2) radio (for deb/LTE)
3) recovery
4) boot/kernel
5) system/ROM
6) wipes user data / virtual sdcard
7) wipes cache
So your custom recovery would be replaced with stock recovery.
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Great, thanks. This is exactly what I'm going to do.
Hi guys and gals,
I'm kind of new to this, so this issue may be trivial for most. I have successfully rooted to tab pro 10.1, have flashed TWRP, and have loaded custom ROM zips on my external SD. My problem is that when I try to flash most rooms, it ends up saying failed. The one that does actually show successful(ProPlusV1), will allow me to boot but then shows processes force stopping, and then sends me into a boot loop.
Is there something i'm doing wrong or missing. I searched the forums(maybe not as well as most), and was not able to find anyone with the same issue.
Any help is appreciated!!
Camron
Did you do an advanced wipe before you installed the roms? Advanced = wipe system, data, cache, dalvik cache. Then factory reset. This is my standard mode and I don't have problems. Which rom in particular are you trying to install?
Did you try wiping everything except external sd in TWRP? I tried that rom for my 12.2 and ended up with the Samsung logo followed by a black screen and ended up restoring my backup. It's still a test version for the 10.1 and 12.2 so I wasn't expecting much. Maybe try this one: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2776206
based on the stock rom that comes with US tablets. The last time I tried downloading, it kept failing at about 75%. I think I'll try again tonight.
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k8108 said:
Did you do an advanced wipe before you installed the roms? Advanced = wipe system, data, cache, dalvik cache. Then factory reset. This is my standard mode and I don't have problems. Which rom in particular are you trying to install?
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Just saw your post after submitting mine. What is the factory reset doing after wiping everything? I'm still fairly new to this.
I have a very similar problem, though I don't consider myself new to flashing.
I did advanced wipe (system, dalvik, cache, and data), though TWRP was complaining about being unable to mount /cache. I also had to select "use rm -rf instead of formatting", because formatting didn't work (recovery would reboot). Then I tried flashing the ROM linked (the GigaWatts Pro), but it would not boot (gets stuck on black screen after boot logo).
Since I had a backup of the stock ROM, I figured this wouldn't be a problem. But now TWRP can't mount /system and therefore I can't restore my backup - it just says "failed".
Deusdies said:
I have a very similar problem, though I don't consider myself new to flashing.
I did advanced wipe (system, dalvik, cache, and data), though TWRP was complaining about being unable to mount /cache. I also had to select "use rm -rf instead of formatting", because formatting didn't work (recovery would reboot). Then I tried flashing the ROM linked (the GigaWatts Pro), but it would not boot (gets stuck on black screen after boot logo).
Since I had a backup of the stock ROM, I figured this wouldn't be a problem. But now TWRP can't mount /system and therefore I can't restore my backup - it just says "failed".
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Try a factory reset? I'm not sure what it does after you've already wiped everything. I've soft bricked my tablet in a similar fashion with the same symptoms as you except TWRP wouldn't even load after a couple mounting failures. Here's what worked for me. I downloaded the stock firmware for my tablet from here: http://www.sammobile.com/firmwares/
Enter your model # where it says "search device here..." and download for your region. If you're in the US you'll want Cellular south. Extract the .tar.md5 file then run Odin 3.09 as admin and install using the AP button. If using Odin 3.07 use the PDA button. I'm pretty sure I had to re root and reinstall TWRP after that. I was then able to restore my backup. I've soft bricked my tablet a few times playing with custom roms. Hope this helps.
I'm fairly new to this, so if I've made any mistakes, someone please chime in b4 Deusdies reads this.
thanks for this. you should also mention the unbelievably long download time of over 2 hours if you're not a premium member of sammobile.
I had the same problem.
Mount data partition in recovery, and flash the zip from Internal SD.
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Does hard reset uninstall the custom recovery being installed? Just wanted to revert it back to original like a newly bought phone. Also wanted to locked to bootloader. Wanted to do these things because it went buggy when I started experimenting to root my phone thus it was all failures. Hoping for a informative or maybe a step by step guide reply to this. Thankyou
If you mean factory reset, that will not return you to the stock ROM. All a factory reset does is wipe user data.
Or if you're talking about the WIPE section in TWRP, if you select "system" it will just wipe the OS, and not leave anything in its place. Meaning you will no longer be able to boot into OS.
You should make a TWRP backup of the stock ROM before rooting. That way, you can easily restore to the stock unrooted ROM.
Otherwise, there are guides in this (M8s) section about how to return to the stock ROM.