hi guys,
I would like to know if one of the two factory reset option (the one in bootloader and the one in stock recovery) will preserve my external data or they will be wiped for sure.
Running on stock HOX 4.2.2
thanks in advice
On stock both wipe it external data, if your bootloader is unlocked flash a custom recovery to preserve your external data, if ur bootloader is still locked, be aware unlocking it will wipe ur data too.
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Hey guys i have an random question...
What would happen if i would do a (settings>sd card & storage>) > Factory Reset? to my phone...
will it have any efect on my current radio,s-off,root,etc?
No. Radio, s-off, root will remain.
So it will only revert my phone's rom to Stock?
No, it'll just wipe the data - won't touch the ROM
Got it,tnx
Last week i was running stock 1.26 with unlocked bootloader and rooted and i tried to flash a battery mod from a custom rom. After flashing, my device was stuck on the htc screen.
To recover from this, i relocked the bootloader and ran the appropriate ruu for my device.
I am now running 1.28 and the ruu for this is not yet available. What are my options to recover from a situation as above.
1/ Nandroid? I have never used this before (never needed to). Is this a backup that i can store on my phone to use to restore my device in this situation?
2/ Would storing a 1.28 custom rom on my device storage to flash suffice for this situation?
3/ Is there any simpler way to recover my device?
Any advice would be much appreciated.
Do a complete nandroid, tis backs up everything on your phone do it when it's fully working and all set up saves having to set it up again, so any time you have a boot loop issue, go into CWM and just restore your backup after doing a factory reset, wiping data cache and dalvik cache.
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:
Hello!
I have rooted my 8.4 wifi and have a custom recovery, and iam wondering what will happen if i do a factory reset. Will i brick it or will i lose root?
As long as you do a normal factory reset that doesn't wipe your system partition you will only lose your data, wipe your caches and maybe what's on your sd card (when you do a factory reset from the samsung's settings menu I believe).
Not sure about root though, but since you have a custom recovery you can flash supersu.zip from Chainfire and have root again afterwards.
Should you wipe your system partition download the stock firmware and flash it through Odin. But you will have to root and install custom recovery again after this.
A factory reset should not brick your device. If you erase the system partition, you will have to reinstall your rom again. As far as rooting goes, you said you had a custom recovery installed, so you should be able to flash a SuperSU.zip to regain root.
It has been a long time since I have installed roms and when I did in the past my HTC incredible had a sd card so it was easy to get data on/off the device.
I have noticed that several ROM installs for the HTC One m7 require a full wipe which would wipe my restore backups as well. But I wanted to maintain my TWRP backup so I can revert if the ROM doesn't work or if I don't like it's features.
Can I maintain the backup and install or do I have to full wipe ?
Can I pull the backup off and then put it back on. I am sure I could get it off but once I have a bad install not sure how I could put it back on the device.
I have S-Off and Unlocked Bootloader on Verizon device.
rgps said:
It has been a long time since I have installed roms and when I did in the past my HTC incredible had a sd card so it was easy to get data on/off the device.
I have noticed that several ROM installs for the HTC One m7 require a full wipe which would wipe my restore backups as well. But I wanted to maintain my TWRP backup so I can revert if the ROM doesn't work or if I don't like it's features.
Can I maintain the backup and install or do I have to full wipe ?
Can I pull the backup off and then put it back on. I am sure I could get it off but once I have a bad install not sure how I could put it back on the device.
I have S-Off and Unlocked Bootloader on Verizon device.
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Full wipe means BOOT, CACHE, DALVIK CACHE, DATA, & SYSTEM....
NOT INTERNAL STORAGE! NO rom install requires wiping internal storage, as THAT'S where all your TWRP BACKUPS, pics, videos, Roms, etc. Are all stored on your devicw.
So in a nutshell, NEVER WIPE INTERNAL STORAGE. IT ISN'T NEEDED FOR ANY ROM INSTALL
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Full wipe means BOOT, CACHE, DALVIK CACHE, DATA, & SYSTEM....
NOT INTERNAL STORAGE! NO rom install requires wiping internal storage, as THAT'S where all your TWRP BACKUPS, pics, videos, Roms, etc. Are all stored on your devicw.
So in a nutshell, NEVER WIPE INTERNAL STORAGE. IT ISN'T NEEDED FOR ANY ROM INSTALL
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OK Thanks that makes more sense. Some instructions say to do exactly that "Wipe Cache,dalvik,data,system" and some say "Must perform Full Wipe" and the later was making me think I needed to wipe the whole device.