I am looking to remove all applications (other than ROM stock) and all personal data. I cannot find how to do this.
Any ideas?
I worked it out.
Hit Home when powering on and then there is a wipe menu!
Cheers
yup thats recovery... you could also have done a factory reset under settings, as well as formatted sd card there as well glad you figured it out tho
I've done too much crap to my phone since I bought it and I want to just kind of start over now that I know what I'm doing (somewhat).
Does "wiping" the phone prior to installing a ROM actually reformat everything? Just curious. I want to go back to factory and kind of set up my system again. (Preferably without unrooting? That might be impossible)
Thanks for any advice.
Settings > Privacy > Factory data reset
I have a Verizon Galaxy Tab SCH-I800 and I woke up today and it was missing some programs that I had installed the night before. Launcher pro keeps crashing so I had to put the Samsung Launcher back on. Now random programs all keep crashing and locking up the device. I performed a factory reset through settings -> privacy -> perform factory reset.
It restarts and goes to the samsung bootloader and I performed wipedata/factory reset.. It says it does it but when it restarts its in the same condition as before.
I've booted directly to the bootloader and tried it too (volume up and power key). I've also tried to wipe cache with no luck..
Any ideas? Can I root it and put a custom rom on it? I saw that there really aren't any roms for the Verizon tabs.. Any reason why?
Thanks for any help..
I just did a restore with all the stock verizon firmware using heimdall and it flashed and everything went through properly..
I booted into recovery and wiped data/cache and restarted...
SAME THING! It will NOT wipe out my existing data.. It restarts with all of my old programs installed and NOTHING will work.. The OS is hosed. How can I wipe this thing back to factory??
kgelso said:
I just did a restore with all the stock verizon firmware using heimdall and it flashed and everything went through properly..
I booted into recovery and wiped data/cache and restarted...
SAME THING! It will NOT wipe out my existing data.. It restarts with all of my old programs installed and NOTHING will work.. The OS is hosed. How can I wipe this thing back to factory??
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Any luck with this? I'm having the same issue and don't have ODIN setup for it.
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Same Issue
I changed my passwords on Facebook, Twitter and Gmail. After about 30 minutes the tablet finally stopped bringing up my information.
Need help!
Same to me...
I've tried to uninstall some apps several time, GTab automatically rebooted and these apps are still there...
Could anyone solve this issue?
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I'm in the same boat..half my apps crash when you try to open them. I've wiped the data partition 3 times, and the cache as well..not avail. Apps are still on the device after a master reset!
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I'm in the same boat..half my apps crash when you try to open them. I've wiped the data partition 3 times, and the cache as well..not avail. Apps are still on the device after a master reset!
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I had that problem, and I wound up sending it back to Samsung. It appeared to be a bad part on the board, so they replaced it and it's on its way back now. Not the answer you want, I'm sure, but call it in and get your RMA number.
student.driver said:
I had that problem, and I wound up sending it back to Samsung. It appeared to be a bad part on the board, so they replaced it and it's on its way back now. Not the answer you want, I'm sure, but call it in and get your RMA number.
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On your new Tab can you perform a hard reset and have it actually work?
my sprint Tab seems to be in the same boat
I have never rooted or modified my Atrix, bit I have been having some problems with a couple of apps lately, and I wanted to totally wipe my phone and start from scratch.
I went to "factory data reset" and performed a reset, but when it came back there were a few apps remaining that I had previously installed.
Is there another way to do this?
Thanks for your help.
kbanes
kbanes said:
I have never rooted or modified my Atrix, bit I have been having some problems with a couple of apps lately, and I wanted to totally wipe my phone and start from scratch.
I went to "factory data reset" and performed a reset, but when it came back there were a few apps remaining that I had previously installed.
Is there another way to do this?
Thanks for your help.
kbanes
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You could always do a SBF Flash. Search the forum for the links and how-tos
aside from the factory reset i suggest formatting the internal
settings > sdcard and phone storage settings > unmount internal storage > format internal storage
your OS stays intact.
My phone was behaving weirdly after may security update. So I decided to factory reset it hoping it would solve the problem. I had no idea my internal storage would be wiped out as well. As some of the files were important is there any way I can recover those files. After erasing there was a screen "encrypting data".
Any kind of help would be appreciated.
I'm afraid that your files are definitely lost and there is no way how to recover them. You would have to somehow get raw data of internal SD and previous encryption key to be able to "undelete" at least some data.
saurav_xdadev said:
My phone was behaving weirdly after may security update. So I decided to factory reset it hoping it would solve the problem. I had no idea my internal storage would be wiped out as well. As some of the files were important is there any way I can recover those files. After erasing there was a screen "encrypting data".
Any kind of help would be appreciated.
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Even if you had a backup of previous encryption key the partition have been reformated
I'm sorry but no you can't