Hi,
today i did an hard reset to the phone,i removed the sd card, i booted on the recovery menu with volup+home+power, then i did chose the factory settings/hard reset option (coz i wanted to clear the phonebook), then after that the clear cache one. When i started the phone it had all my contact list on the phone, with email info, etc etc... i think the sim card can't store mails, just numbers, so how can the android have the numbers and full names after a factory reset? (no sync since i haven't configured that yet, was just after restarting).
Sorry for being a bit noobish but i came from a touch pro 2, don't know android very well.
hmm okay i checked and the hard reset havent cleared the internal SD (i was talking about the external SD on the last post), cleared internal SD, but still after hard reset the contacts remain.
Ok, so now i tried:
- Hard Reset
- Format Internal SD
- Clear Cache
- Remove SIM card and microSD
and still the problem remains, it keeps my contact list dont know where, but after hard reset it still remains after booting, it says the contacts are stored on phone.
P.S.: Ok solved.... seems the recovery hard reset does not clear contact data, it was only cleared after i went to the phone settings and cleared it there, the recovery console didn't worked.
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I've already CID-unlocked, SIM-unlocked my T-mobile MDA last month. I've flashed my ROM with the xelencin ROM that I found in the forums, as I thought it had most of the initial tweaks that I was looking at. Since then, I've installed a whole bunch of new programs to test out, but now it feels like my phone is bogged down.
I'd like to clean my phone of all its memory and go back to the state when I just flashed my rom with xelencin. Do I have to go and use the RUU again or can I just go to my settings -> clear storage -> 1234 and reset? Will this delete all the programs that I had installed on my storage card as well or will the files stay there?
Hard reset
Yes, a hard reset will clear everything. You do NOT need to reflash the ROM.
thanks
thanks for the heads up. i'm assuming the memory card can stay in without any problems...otherwise i can just take it out until it restarts.
i've flashed the radio rom to 2.47.11 since the ROM was made (started with 2.25.11). Is it safe to assume it'll stay with the 2.47.11 after a hard reset?
memory
I never bother taking the memory card out but then I back it up to my PC occasionally. There are certainly reports of memory card problems.
The radio rom will persist through a hard reset.
If you have created short cuts, it is a good idea to copy them to the SD card for easy reinstallation.
storage card not effected
ok, just an fyi, I did the clear reset with 1234, ok. storage card isn't effected by it...only the regular phone memory is wiped...it seems everything, including the files that I had changed in the \windows director for foreign language (asukal's wince.nls) files...
Hi everyone,
I have a major problem with my Vogue. I restarted the phone last night and after it rebooted the data on my storagecard was missing. If I check the storage card on the Vogue it still says that 4.6 gig out of 8 is used however the files can't been seen from total commander, file explorer, or windows XP. What is the problem? Is there anything to recover the lost/unseen data? Your help would be greatly aprechiated!!!
Boss428man said:
Hi everyone,
I have a major problem with my Vogue. I restarted the phone last night and after it rebooted the data on my storagecard was missing. If I check the storage card on the Vogue it still says that 4.6 gig out of 8 is used however the files can't been seen from total commander, file explorer, or windows XP. What is the problem? Is there anything to recover the lost/unseen data? Your help would be greatly aprechiated!!!
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I just had the same problem, switch the view to folder view, see if you can view it that way.
I've seen that happen too... and I just soft reset again. Usually works.
You could also try removing the card, soft reset, and replacing the card.
I tried the soft reset, and soft reset with out the micro sd card with no luck. I found some free data recovery software called PC Inspector File Recovery. Its scanning now and should be done in a couple hours. I'll let you know if there is any luck.
infected!!
your card is infected by virus "system.exe", memory status is shown but no data.
you r going the right way, recover data using recovery software and after that u will need to format u r card with a low level formatting tool...
......this is all my experience....am not an expert.......
Do you think I should do a hard reset to my Touch or am I ok with just recoevering the data and formating the SD card?
yes, you should hard reset ur device....
Bummer.. I wish I logged all the system reg edits I did... Well I guess in the end a hardreset will probaly speed up the device anyway.
hello,
just a little question. I have a HD2 with all datas (photos+contacts) into internal memory (not sdcard). The HD2 doen't start (It shutdown after one vibration and the white first screen with the HTC logo). I try a soft reset without success.
Have you an idea to retrieve the internal data before trying a hard reset ?
thanks for your help
This is to share my experience that i encounter yesterday. I'm running on Stock Rooted Gingerbread 2.36.405.8.
Setting > SD & phone storage > Factory data reset
That 'Factory data reset' will also format/delete your SD card!
Spend nearly the whole night in trying to retrieve all the data that have being lost especially the photos taken. Also found out that the "HTC Sense" sync able to restore all my sms.
But still sad that some of the photos are not able to be retrieve....
EDIT: Thanks to Faugusztin for the info. Take Note: There is a check box if enabled/check, will erase the SD-Card too, in the Factory Reset.
never use that one.. always use from CMW
its just a sharing of experience. nothing is perfect, even CWM can 'c0ck' up too.
just to head up ppl abt the situation, cuz on Froyo, the same function didn't format/delete the SD card.
Maybe you didn't noticed, but there is a "Erase SD card" checkbox on the Factory data reset page. The card will be of course erased when you request it. But if you don't have that option checked, then the SD card will be left as is.
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Maybe you didn't noticed, but there is a "Erase SD card" checkbox on the Factory data reset page. The card will be of course erased when you request it. But if you don't have that option checked, then the SD card will be left as is.
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Yeah, you are right! I try it one more time without the checkbox, check, and yes the SD card is not formatted.
Maybe during my last time Factory Reset, i was too 'Gusto' to enable my battery to last 4 days, that i bull through without reading.
Anyway, thanks again!
Hello every one,
I have galaxy s4 gt-i9500 with android 4.3 and I encrypted my phone some time ago.
What happened yesterday is my BIG problem. Because of an app my phone was frozen and then it made factory reset by itself. After I turned it on and got into the phone I was not able to see any previous data (which is normal after factory reset) everything was deleted, but... not exactly.
I checked the storage and now I have the same free space which I had before the reset. So basically my encrypted data is on my phone, but there is no way to access it or at least I don't have the skills.
The device showed me that my phone is still encrypted, but it did not make sense, because everything disappeared and I did not have my data.
What I did last night is to decrypt the phone, but it was strange, because I had to make new password in order to continue the process, instead of typing my old one. So I made the new password, which is my old one, and I decrypted the device. Still I could not access any previous data.
I don't have a SD card, the internal memory is encrypted only. So I am missing around 5.2gb of more free storage, which is the exact amount of my data - photos, docs, etc. These 5.2 gbs are shown as "Miscellaneous files", but of course when I open the ""m. files" the biggest thing in the list is the cloudagent with only 4.86mb
So as far as I can understand my files are still on the phone (hopefully) and the android shows so, but I cannot recover them.
Is there any way to recover these files or at least to delete (if there is no hope of recovering) the 5.2gb on my phone.
Thank you for your time!