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Root Factory Reset?

I rooted and unlocked my HTC one X I want to do a factory reset on it to clear all setting and files. I do not have clockwork installed just the stock rom.
Can I do a factory reset and not brick my phone?

I would assume so, I cant see what bad would come from it

Factory data reset, selling my phone.

hey guys, so i'm going to sell my Galaxy Nexus, and i want to erase everything on it, should i do the option from backup and restore or from recovery ? i think the option from backup and restore is better because i want to erase apps data and music and photos, etc... i want to stay rooted and still have my custom ROM ( CM 10.1 ). another question, do i have to reflash gapps if i did a factory reset ? thx ^_^

abdane said:
hey guys, so i'm going to sell my Galaxy Nexus, and i want to erase everything on it, should i do the option from backup and restore or from recovery ? i think the option from backup and restore is better because i want to erase apps data and music and photos, etc... i want to stay rooted and still have my custom ROM ( CM 10.1 ). another question, do i have to reflash gapps if i did a factory reset ? thx ^_^
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If you run factory reset from within Android/stock recovery, /sdcard/ will be wiped;
Any CM rom is rooted;
gapps are flashed to the /system/ partition, thus they're not deleted by a factory reset. i believe you can just add a google account again in Settings, first time setup won't show up again (like it did after you flashed gapps the first time)

If you are already rooted it would be easier to just boot into Recovery Mode
Wipe all the data on the phone then reload the ROM and GApps, turn the phone off and it will be ready for the next person.
Make sure when you wipe you also format the /sdcard (this is where most of your data resides)

in my opinion, if you're going to sell your nexus, I think its better flash back to stock, not custom one :fingers-crossed:

[Q] Will Factory Reset erase Flash, Root, etc. ?

I have an HTC One V that was originally on Virgin Mobile. I unlocked the phone, flashed a recovery, rooted it, flashed it to PagePlus, and then flashed a ROM. I have a new phone now and I am giving the One V to a friend. I need to factory reset the phone, but I am worried that doing so will result in the loss of the PagePlus flash or problems with the custom ROM.
Will a factory reset cause any problems? If so, what's the best and quickest way of removing my apps and information from the phone? Flashing another ROM over it?

You can only factory reset from recovery! Do not reset from within your Rom! This will only erase all user data. you will not lose your Rom unless you wipe system.
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[Q] Wanting to do a factory reset on a rooted and bumped VS985

Hey everyone. My phone has been running like crap lately and I have thought about doing a factory reset. I just had a few questions. If I did a factory reset I'm pretty sure I lose root, but what about the custom recovery?
Also, this is what I had in mind to do - but would you mind checking to see if it would be my best route please? I am going to install a custom rom on it. But just wanted to do a factory reset / install stock firmware first before I did it.
Download and install stock firmware. 10B I believe is what it is.
Root it again and put the bumped recovery back on it.
Install CM12 or another rom.
Is that pretty much what I should do?
Thanks!

mikewelch5 said:
Hey everyone. My phone has been running like crap lately and I have thought about doing a factory reset. I just had a few questions. If I did a factory reset I'm pretty sure I lose root, but what about the custom recovery?
Also, this is what I had in mind to do - but would you mind checking to see if it would be my best route please? I am going to install a custom rom on it. But just wanted to do a factory reset / install stock firmware first before I did it.
Download and install stock firmware. 10B I believe is what it is.
Root it again and put the bumped recovery back on it.
Install CM12 or another rom.
Is that pretty much what I should do?
Thanks!
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If you do a factory reset (with the kdz tool, its the best way if you want to reinstall the stock firmware), you lose everything (root, recovery, etc..) because it will flash the phone completely.
I recommend you to take a look at this for all the thing that you need to do: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2785089

And make sure you never do a factory reset from within Android w/ a custom recovery like TWRP installed, otherwise your phone will end up in a continuous boot loop. There's no reason for you to go back to stock anyway, as you're planning on reinstalling CM12 or installing a different ROM. You'll be doing a factory reset (wiping System, Data, Cache, and Dalvik) from within TWRP before flashing anyway, so there's no need to go back to stock beforehand.

mikewelch5 said:
Hey everyone. My phone has been running like crap lately and I have thought about doing a factory reset. I just had a few questions. If I did a factory reset I'm pretty sure I lose root, but what about the custom recovery?
Also, this is what I had in mind to do - but would you mind checking to see if it would be my best route please? I am going to install a custom rom on it. But just wanted to do a factory reset / install stock firmware first before I did it.
Download and install stock firmware. 10B I believe is what it is.
Root it again and put the bumped recovery back on it.
Install CM12 or another rom.
Is that pretty much what I should do?
Thanks!
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If you flash your phone with kdz, yes, like the guy above said you will lose both root and recovery. What I'm curious about is reason you want to do it? You already have custom recovery so if you want to do factory reset (that is wiping data and cache partitions) why not do it manually there?
And what is the point of it? As you said you will flash CM12 or another ROM, so that will basically do a factory reset, you will wipe all (system, data, cache) to install your new ROM...
Of course before flashing or wiping system partition with TWRP I recommend doing a backup just in case.

Thanks for the info everyone. The reason I wanted to do a clean factory install instead of just putting on CM12 is because if I didn't like it, I could just go back to a stock, rooted KK.
Like I said it has been acting up lately, so maybe a clean install of factory can help it. That way, if I don't like CM I can just restore my clean copy.
Where as now, if I didn't like CM I would have to restore my messed up backup.
But I will probably flash back to stock firmware, root it again and put a custom recovery on it again. Make a backup of that, then play around with some ROMS.
But once again, I appreciate the help!

Hard Reset topic

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.