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How To: Format Droid X to Factory Default

I had to call VZW to find out how to format my Droid X, so I figured I would share the info for whoever needs it down the road.
To Format:
1)Turn off the phone
2)Hold the Power Button and the Home Button. The Moto logo will pop up followed by a triangle with the Android symbol next to it.
3)Press the Search button to display the menu.
4)4 options will pop up, use the Volume Rocker to move the selection up or down.
5)Select “Wipe Data to Factory Default.” Select the option by using the Camera hard key.
6)Confirm choice by using the camera key.
7)It will take you back to the original menu, select "Reboot Device"
You will have to re-program your phone with OTA updates.

1. Thats the recovery window. Not needed for a factory reset.
2. To do a proper factory reset follow these: 1.Go to Settings 2.Scroll to Privacy 3.Click Factory Data Reset 4. Confirm action by clicking Reset Phone.

If i am rooted and have deleted apps like blockbuster ect. Will this interfer with making like it just like it came outta the box???
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Factory reset should make your x just as if you got it brand new bloatware and all. Also remeber this will cause you to loose root. Hope this helps. Thanks!
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Factory Data Reset is a tool used to remove everything that was imported, added or installed on the device.
Factory reset will not bring back any factory apps you've removed or renamed. Basically it clears /data and /cache, it does nothing to /system/apps where the factory apps are installed.
Also if you've removed or renamed Back-Up Assistant and do a reset, you'll end up with a semi-bricked phone.

This is what the verizon tech told me to do, and it put my phone back to the exact same state that it was in when I got it out of the box from vzw.
I figured someone would need this information eventually.
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Riztnack said:
If i am rooted and have deleted apps like blockbuster ect. Will this interfer with making like it just like it came outta the box???
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NO. DO NOT WIPE IF YOU REMOVED ANY BLOAT APPS.
If you do this you can kiss your phone goodbye.
Read this thread to tell you how to put back the apps the RIGHT way before you wipe, otherwise, you will be without a phone.http://www.droidxforums.com/forum/droid-x-hacks/1462-how-put-back-backup-assistant-if-you-removed-but-arent-bootlooping.html

Yourrid said:
I had to call VZW to find out how to format my Droid X, so I figured I would share the info for whoever needs it down the road.
To Format:
1)Turn off the phone
2)Hold the Power Button and the Home Button. The Moto logo will pop up followed by a triangle with the Android symbol next to it.
3)Press the Search button to display the menu.
4)4 options will pop up, use the Volume Rocker to move the selection up or down.
5)Select “Wipe Data to Factory Default.” Select the option by using the Camera hard key.
6)Confirm choice by using the camera key.
7)It will take you back to the original menu, select "Reboot Device"
You will have to re-program your phone with OTA updates.
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Can this work with rooted phone?

Ok kids.
This will remove root if say...all you've done is used z4 to root...and installed some root apps.
DO NOT attempt this if you've removed bloatware or installed a Rom or theme.
Safest bet is to sbf...re-root...flash maderstock...and re-sbf.
That's what I've always done. And I've had best buy fix my phone twice now.
They've never mentioned a thing.
The reason I flash maderstock is some boot animations are kept with just an sbf...
its just a precaution I take.

Yourrid said:
This is what the verizon tech told me to do, and it put my phone back to the exact same state that it was in when I got it out of the box from vzw.
I figured someone would need this information eventually.
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This is true if your phone was completely stock to begin with (other than downloading apps). For those that have modified their phone in any other way, this will not bring your phone to an "out of the box" state. You must sbf for that and then factory reset.
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can one of the moderators remove and/or re-title this thread?
the op is very misleading and potentially harmful...
I think its great that he tried to help the community by creating a how to thread, but... yea...
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yeah i have to agree; the title is really what I expect most people would believe to have an entirely different meaning, ie an sbf or complete removal of all ROMs, bootloaders and most importantly, the super user icon in the app drawer.

Can someone explain what SBF is I have to get a replacement x due to a broken camera button and. Im rooted

Factory Data reset for Droid X running gingerbread.
Reset instructions for DROID X on 2.3 Gingerbread Android:
Turn off phone
Press and hold Power key + Home hard key to power on the phone and bring up a triangle with an exclamation point inside next to a green Android graphic.
Press both Volume buttons down together to show the Android recovery menu.
Use volume buttons to scroll up or down in this menu. Highlight "wipe data/factory reset"
Tap Power button hard key to confirm the selection.
Handset will ask you to "Confirm wipe of all user data"
Select "Yes -- delete all user data"
Tap Power button hard key to confirm the selection and start wipeout of phone, handset will begin to format handset showing progress with multiple lines of ellipses (....)
Handset may take from 5-20 minutes to format.
When format is complete, Tap Power button when prompted to reboot (Reboot system now will be highlighted)
You will see either an open box and the green android graphic when handset is rebooting (or the red DROID eye graphic).
Handset will be cleared of previous personal data, and you will need to start over with initial set-up process.

nice, you couldn't find an older thread, to bring back from the dead?

Need help on factory reset

I tried installing gingerbread keyboard and now x is stuck in force close of multitouch keyboard. Did full reset...nothing. How can I set it back to stock and start over. I recently had to get a new memory card so I have no back up file to restore from.

Wipe data/cache in recovery. If that doesn't work, then break out the ole sbf file.
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where can i find that

Here's what user systemadminx posted on doing a factory reset in another thread....
Power off your phone. Then hold down the home button while pressing the power button. When the little android image shows up, press the search button. Then go down to wipe data/factory reset (move highlighted selection using volume up/down buttons) and select the factory reset option by pressing the camera button.
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Here's a link for a 2.2 sbf
http://rootzwiki.com/index.php/Main-Page/Droid-X-Full-2.2-SBF.html
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I'm not sure that that is the correct .SBF since it was posted in October.. If you are running Android system .320 or .320 then you want to use the full .320 sbf

You're right, here's a link for .320
http://www.mydroidworld.com/forums/droid-x-discussion/5633-droid-x-2-3-32-full-sbf.html
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Zudovex said:
Here's what user systemadminx posted on doing a factory reset in another thread....
Power off your phone. Then hold down the home button while pressing the power button. When the little android image shows up, press the search button. Then go down to wipe data/factory reset (move highlighted selection using volume up/down buttons) and select the factory reset option by pressing the camera button.
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+1 to this guy! not that i'm mentioned in his post or anything...
Good call tho! thnx for posting the info

Ha, sorry I got your user name slightly wrong, I do try to give props where it belongs.
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Clockwork recovery trouble

Whenever I try and boot into clockwork recovery via bootstrapping, once past the "M" screen, the screen goes black. I've re-flashed recoveries via rom manager (yes i am a premium user) I have SBF'ed like 10 times today, in hopes and trying to get a perfect install yet something always goes wrong

Right after the SBF, when phone reboots, reboot back into recovery (home and power) and clear cache/data. See if that helps at all

I've never had much luck with ROM Manager.
Try downloading 'Droid 2 Bootstrapper' from the market.
After installing it press the 'Bootstrap Recovery' button. Press 'ok'.
Now press the 'Reboot Recovery' button and let the phone reboot.
(Be sure to get DROID2 bootstrap not DROIDX bootstrap.)
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ROM manager is not able to do much for the droid x. Use other apps

I am having the same problem. A customer's daughter was using my phone and somehow opened the Rom recovery. When the phone rebooted it now loads to the boot screen says droid and restarts. I can't seem to get it into bootloader to recover the phone. Any ideas?

k04s4 said:
I am having the same problem. A customer's daughter was using my phone and somehow opened the Rom recovery. When the phone rebooted it now loads to the boot screen says droid and restarts. I can't seem to get it into bootloader to recover the phone. Any ideas?
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Try pulling the battery.
Place it back in the phone and hold the power button and home button simultaneously.
When the image of the DROID with an exclamation mark comes up press the search button. When the recovery menu comes up choose to wipe data. Navigate with the volume rockers and select with the power button.
(If you have Gingerbread installed you will press the volume rockers instead of the search button to enter Recovery Mode.)
This should fix your problem.
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I've tried that but when it restarts it just goes through the same process over and over. The only way to stop it is to pull the battery.

k04s4 said:
I've tried that but when it restarts it just goes through the same process over and over. The only way to stop it is to pull the battery.
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So after you wipe data you still bootloop?
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[Q] Let me post

Excuse the lame title, website would refuse to let me make a valid one. Anyways, I bricked my Droid 2 and after following all the steps precisely using RSDLite 4.9 to flash the sbf file numerous times, I am still stuck in a bootloop and I am just facing a large brick wall at this point. What am I doing wrong?

You should probably go here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/forumdisplay.php?f=738
My guess is you flashed a Milestone 2 SBF... which is why it doesn't work.

I actually downloaded all of the necessary files from that forum. Basically RSDLite runs it's course and when it's through it will say "Rebooting Phone." Then when it reaches 100% it just stays in bootloops and says "Reboot phone manually." Which won't work either. Kind of confused at this point.

You can try run recovery. Press POWER KEY + X on start phone -> after start recovery - press "@" key -> select "wipe data/factory reset" and "wipe cache partition" -> "reboot"
I had same problem on M2

http://and-developers.com/sbf:droid2
Are you sure you got a Droid 2 (Verizon/CDMA) and not a Mile 2(T-Mobile/GSM), or the right SBF?
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When i attempt to boot into recovery it's just the triangle exclamation with the lil' green buddy right beside it. Yes I have Verizon CDMA Droid 2. I'm going to uninstall all the files, programs, sbf's and re-download. Thanks for the help guys I'll come back if I fail again.

vaclav.moravek said:
You can try run recovery. Press POWER KEY + X on start phone -> after start recovery - press "@" key -> select "wipe data/factory reset" and "wipe cache partition" -> "reboot"
I had same problem on M2
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Also don't forget to flash the ROM in bootloader mode. Keep VOL DOWN + CAMERA pressed while turning on the device.

w0ndersp00n said:
Also don't forget to flash the ROM in bootloader mode. Keep VOL DOWN + CAMERA pressed while turning on the device.
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You mean the SBF.
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defy in bootloop after RSD Lite flash

Complete History:
The phone started out with a Carrier ROM (can't leave that one on, right?)
so, I flashed this: JRDNEM_U3_3.4.2_179-002_DEBLUR_SIGN_SIGNED_UCAJRDNEMARAB1B80AA03A.0R_PDS03C_USAJRDNFRYORTCEE_P016_A016_HWp3_Service1FF.sbf
and then used SuperOneClickRoot to root it, and pushed a recovery based on the Cyanogenmod Guide.
Installed CM7, it worked well, but I got greedy and wanted CM9.
Installed this: CM9-ICS-MR0-111207-jordan-KERNEL-2.3.4-Quarx.zip
Which worked, but would crash the play store on startup.
Installed this: CM9-ICS-MR0-111213-jordan.zip
Same Error.
Decided to try a CM10.1 Nightly: CM10.1-20130328-NIGHTLY-mb520.zip
This loaded, yet showed me 2 FC's on start up, and would not let me boot into recovery anymore.
Decided to try to go back to Stock to start over, so, I flashed this: JRDNEM_U3_3.4.2_179-002_DEBLUR_SIGN_SIGNED_UCAJRDNEMARAB1B80AA03A.0R_PDS03C_USAJRDNFRYORTCEE_P016_A016_HWp3_Service1FF.sbf
And it got stuck in a Bootloop.
flashed this: JORDN_U3_6.36.0_SIGNED_USAJRDNTMOB1B4B5DE1028.0R_JORDANTMO_P022_HWp3_Service1FF.sbf
Still in a bootloop but with a different animation.
Any Ideas?

Wipe data and cache from stock recovery
All your previous problems are due to the same reason
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thekguy said:
Wipe data and cache from stock recovery
All your previous problems are due to the same reason
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found this:
Note: Some times when rebooting after RSD lite flash your phone stuck in bootloop(M logo or it continously loading in Android menu). It is better to go to stock recovery(Hold the vol - button and then power button and then release it. you will get android logo with exclamatory symbol. Press vol - and vol + button at the same time to get in to stock recovery). Select wipe data/factory and wipe cache.
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in this thread http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1054447
this is exactly my error, though when i press both vol - and vol + button at the same time it doesn't do anything. Simply shows me the tiny droid and the exclamation mark.

heathenasparagus said:
found this:
in this thread http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1054447
this is exactly my error, though when i press both vol - and vol + button at the same time it doesn't do anything. Simply shows me the tiny droid and the exclamation mark.
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OK when you get to the screen with the android figure and the exclamation mark, press you VOLUME UP and VOLUME DOWN keys at the same time. Then navigate the menu using your VOLUME KEYS and once you have highlighted an option, use the POWER KEY to select.

z3ro-grav1ty said:
OK when you get to the screen with the android figure and the exclamation mark, press you VOLUME UP and VOLUME DOWN keys at the same time. Then navigate the menu using your VOLUME KEYS and once you have highlighted an option, use the POWER KEY to select.
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yeah, when I press them, nothing happens.
There is no test or menu that appears.
Should I hold them for a long time ?
Should I press some in some kind of sequence ?

heathenasparagus said:
yeah, when I press them, nothing happens.
There is no test or menu that appears.
Should I hold them for a long time ?
Should I press some in some kind of sequence ?
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There is no sequence, you have to press them at the same time. Else there is a problem with your volume keys. I'll run you through stock recovery just to make sure.
1. Turn your device off.
2. Press and hold the Volume Down button.
3. Whilst holding down the Volume Down button, turn on your device by pressing the Power button.
4. Once the screen turns on and the red 'M' appears, let go of the Power button but NOT the Volume Down button, keep holding that.
5. You'll be greeted by the android with the exclamation mark, now you can release the Volume Down button.
6. Press the Volume Down and Volume Up simultaneously (at the same time).
7. You'll now have a terminal on your screen from which you can navigate with your volume keys and select with your power button.
Hopefully that helps. Other wise I suggest you visit this thread:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=966537
Hopefully finding your stock sbf may help.
If your phone is Defy:
http://sbf.droid-developers.org/umts_jordan/list.php
If your phone is Defy+:
http://sbf.droid-developers.org/umts_jordanplus/list.php

heathenasparagus said:
yeah, when I press them, nothing happens.
There is no test or menu that appears.
Should I hold them for a long time ?
Should I press some in some kind of sequence ?
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Tap the bottom right corner in recovery(android logo), then wipe.
For Froyo recoveries you need to tap bottom right corner a few times. For GB recoveries you need to press vol+ &- simultaneously.
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hackergnome said:
Tap the bottom right corner in recovery(android logo), then wipe.
For Froyo recoveries you need to tap bottom right corner a few times. For GB recoveries you need to press vol+ &- simultaneously.
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ah right, I didn't know that

z3ro-grav1ty said:
ah right, I didn't know that
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Yep, that did the Trick.
Thanks!