I want to do this as more of a starting new kind of thing. I know you can clear the sd cards and factory reset, but does that truly erase everything? And i understand theres also some options to clear delvik cache and others in CWM. Are these caches erased w/ factory reset? thx brah
Odin maybe?
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yeah ive used odin a bunch to flash eugenes roms and stock rom if i get a soft brick. But weird thing is it doesnt wipe my internal sd. BTW this ISNT like a serious issue and i NEED to erase everything...but ive flashed so many roms over each other i thought it would be good to give my phone a breath of fresh air. haha
okay so just about an hour ago i was trying to install the 2825 radio. i flashed it onto the phone in recovery mode and now my phone wont go past the boot screen. (tmobile g1) i can still get to recovery and fastboot and all of that but even when i tried to restore it, it still wont go past the boot screen!!!!! what did i do wrong, and is there any hope for me?? please help!
roguly said:
I want to do this as more of a starting new kind of thing. I know you can clear the sd cards and factory reset, but does that truly erase everything? And i understand theres also some options to clear delvik cache and others in CWM. Are these caches erased w/ factory reset? thx brah
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Hopefully you will not accomplish your objective. "Everything" includes the Primary Boot Loader, in which case your phone will be permanently bricked, for all intents and purposes.
You will not be able to access the phone by any means other than an expensive tester after you delete USB drivers from the phone.
To erase everything...you need to go settings.phone & sdcard.umount...under phone storage.format....it will mount back on its own
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To erase everything...you need to go settings.phone & sdcard.umount...under phone storage.format....it will mount back on its own
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Will this hurt anything if I do this while running a custom rom? Just wondering.
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ZachLL88 said:
Will this hurt anything if I do this while running a custom rom? Just wondering.
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you'll lose everything on the rom including apps that the dev added. only thing you wont lose is stock apps, but no it shouldnt matter what rom your running.
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you'll lose everything on the rom including apps that the dev added. only thing you wont lose is stock apps, but no it shouldnt matter what rom your running.
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Great! Thanks for the info!
Appreciate the fast response.
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When you copy your ROM to your SD card, be sure to leave it on there after you flash. If you somehow manage to brick your phone, go into recovery, wipe data, wipe cache, and wipe dalvik cache. Flash the saved ROM that was on your SD card. Boom. Simple.
I had a personal experience that made me post this. Though It's obvious to most, it probably isn't to noobs.
Sure saved me a trip to the Sprint store
Sorry if this was already posted before by somebody else.
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Actually, I think if you brick your phone there isn't much of anything you can do. When the phone is bricked it will not power up, into recovery charge anything. Now, bootloops on the other hand this works for.
Isn't boot loop soft bricking? If so, that's what I meant.
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Jardicel said:
Isn't boot loop soft bricking? If so, that's what I meant.
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No it is not, you can get a loop just by placing a mismatch file on your phone. I get bootloops if my phone dont like framework apk's I change. I think you should remove the work "brick" from the heading. Alot of people get confused about bricking. Now in all honesty if you brick your phone you are generally S.O.L....
Also the ability alone to go into recovery means its not bricked...
From what I've learned on different threads, there are three types of bricking. Including soft brick, where you cannot load the system UI and are stuck somewhere before. You could access recovery.
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This is very basic stuff.. I wouldn't consider boot loop to be soft brick.
Deck's + SZ + SuperCharger script + ViperMod script.
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From what I've learned on different threads, there are three types of bricking. Including soft brick, where you cannot load the system UI and are stuck somewhere before. You could access recovery.
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ok but really bricking is not good and a boot loop is not a big deal my friend.. Just saying don't throw that word around in my opinion unless its really over for you... like not booting up at all
Edit; why not change titile Just in case you Bootloop your phone... Use this method
I agree that people use the term brick a bit too often. A brick is nothing less than a paper weight of a phone. No booting, no recovery, and won't charge.
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Bricked is a state, like being dead, there are no shades of grey it is a binary, it is either bricked or it isn't. It is bricked because you can't bring it back to life.
Mine is so dead the Jig doesn't even phase it. It is graveyard, doornail dead. Dead as dead gets.
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When you copy your ROM to your SD card, be sure to leave it on there after you flash. If you somehow manage to brick your phone, go into recovery, wipe data, wipe cache, and wipe dalvik cache. Flash the saved ROM that was on your SD card. Boom. Simple.
I had a personal experience that made me post this. Though It's obvious to most, it probably isn't to noobs.
Sure saved me a trip to the Sprint store
Sorry if this was already posted before by somebody else.
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my phone very well
hi all.
after (one click root), (unlocking bootloader), (installing rom manager and CWM), (flashing CM7) ... and realizing the full potential of this device, (previosly on (2.3.4 4.5.91 AT&T) - i find in settings/sound/phone ringtone list every ring tone is triple. is this something normal? or i have done something wrong. it was my first time flashing a rom.
any idea?
and something else... how do i uninstall apps that came with CM7. actually all those apps are amazing. but some of them i dont use. like "torch"
a big thank you for devs.
and sorry if this is posted in the wrong thread.
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hi all.
after (one click root), (unlocking bootloader), (installing rom manager and CWM), (flashing CM7) ... and realizing the full potential of this device, (previosly on (2.3.4 4.5.91 AT&T) - i find in settings/sound/phone ringtone list every ring tone is triple. is this something normal? or i have done something wrong. it was my first time flashing a rom.
any idea?
and something else... how do i uninstall apps that came with CM7. actually all those apps are amazing. but some of them i dont use. like "torch"
a big thank you for devs.
and sorry if this is posted in the wrong thread.
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Did you do a wipe? Mine is fine!
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Did you do a wipe? Mine is fine!
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what do you mean by "a wipe"? i wiped cashe and dalvik before install of CM7. is that what you mean? after install of CM7 i have not clean anything. should i?
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what do you mean by "a wipe"? i wiped cashe and dalvik before install of CM7. is that what you mean? after install of CM7 i have not clean anything. should i?
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Factory reset, when going from a factory rom to cm it is best to factory reset, I do and everything seems good, but of course when upgrading cm version you won't need to factory reset. Be sure to back up all your apps, factory reset then restore your apps. When I restore apps I restore app only and not the data. If you restore the data and get problems factory reset again and restore app only.
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I have a quick question. When switching ROMs should I also in addition to factory reset, also perform a system/wipe to wipe the already installed custom ROM? Thanks.
It is generally unnecessary, but not a bad idea to do so. Most devs have their updater script format /system, but you'll find the occasional one that omits that one line.
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Alright. So I shouldn't worry about performing system wipe?
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Alright. So I shouldn't worry about performing system wipe?
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I think it's better to wipe the system. As I've faced many kind of froblem because of a dirty flash. And I've seen many bug reports on several ROM thread and it just came out that it's not the ROM but the dirty flash is causing the problem. It will probably take 1-2hr to get back to the previous position so what's the big didfference??
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I think it's better to wipe the system. As I've faced many kind of froblem because of a dirty flash. And I've seen many bug reports on several ROM thread and it just came out that it's not the ROM but the dirty flash is causing the problem. It will probably take 1-2hr to get back to the previous position so what's the big didfference??
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OK. So when switching ROMs I should perform factory restore, wipe all caches, as well as system/wipe to erase the ROM currently installed. I have done it that way before but I always get nervous when I wipe system, cause now it has no ROM installed at all and I don't want anything to happen in that case. But thanks for the quick reply
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OK. So when switching ROMs I should perform factory restore, wipe all caches, as well as system/wipe to erase the ROM currently installed. I have done it that way before but I always get nervous when I wipe system, cause now it has no ROM installed at all and I don't want anything to happen in that case. But thanks for the quick reply
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What could happen?? Hardbrick?? A little chance..... Here's what I think when I do something risky. Just Think like I don't have any device if I can get this device back it's bonus for me.
You can always flash a rom whatever it has one or not untill your device can be booted into fastboot. So don't be afraid if something bad(!?) happens and you can boot into fastboot mode. Once I even had no boot just the fastboot it took less than 5 min to get a system on it.
And dirty flash is always an option. I myself had and seen many people having problems with it.
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Don't just say thank, there is a button for thnking.
Clean is always the best! But always make a backup before the wipe process!
Wipe:
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Okay, so I was listening to a YouTube video via Popup Browser BETA. When the song finished, I tried closing the window, but it wouldn't let me interact with the window. Not sure why. I just figured since the app was in beta it was just confused, so I went to the settings->running applications->I force closed the app. But for some reason, the little window still wouldn't go away. So I decided to reboot my device. Bad idea, apparently...
Now whenever I boot up my phone it'll vibrate, display the Google logo for a few seconds, and then... it goes to a blank black screen. Not a clue why. I've tried:
- Leaving it to charge and rebooting
- Leaving it in the blank black screen
- Booting into recovery, then trying to reboot the device from there
- Clearing cache partition
Nothing works. I still can't boot up my phone again.
I'm running Slimbean 4.2.1 (not the latest version). There really isn't anything that might have triggered this. I can still charge my phone (the charging animation still occurs) and I can still go into CWM Recovery. I'd really rather not have to install a new ROM or anything... but if I have to, is there a way to extract the data I have on my phone now while in recovery or something?
Any suggestions?
EDIT: This has been FIXED. Moderators, if you see this, you can close this thread. If anyone else has this problem, try reflashing your current version of your ROM, that's how I fixed mine. I'm not responsible for damage to your device.
Why haven't you tried reflashing your rom without wiping data?
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Why haven't you tried reflashing your rom without wiping data?
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I could try that.. but isn't there a chance it'll corrupt the data for certain apps or no? I'd just really rather not loose all of that.
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I could try that.. but isn't there a chance it'll corrupt the data for certain apps or no? I'd just really rather not loose all of that.
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It's not going to hurt anything. Make a CWM backup of your data if you want.
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I could try that.. but isn't there a chance it'll corrupt the data for certain apps or no? I'd just really rather not loose all of that.
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No way of corrupting your data, as long as you don't select to wipe data partition or data is already corrupted. But this is strange that your phone gone crazy like this. Try to reflash your rom without wiping data and see if your phone will boot up
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It's not going to hurt anything. Make a CWM backup of your data if you want.
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I've not got enough free space on my phone I don't think (it's only 16GB, I got about 2GB free).
Unless I'm mistaken the backup will take more than that, yes? Considering I've got a few games apps that probably equate to about 4GB.
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No way of corrupting your data, as long as you don't select to wipe data partition or data is already corrupted. But this is strange that your phone gone crazy like this. Try to reflash your rom without wiping data and see if your phone will boot up
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Should I reflash with a newer version of the ROM or should I reflash the old one that I'm running?
EDIT: Woops sorry about double post.
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Should I reflash with a newer version of the ROM or should I reflash the old one that I'm running?
EDIT: Woops sorry about double post.
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Reflash the same version you were running before this accident, as the newest version requires clean flash. If you want to run the latest version and have your data back, reflash the same version you were running before, then backup your data, wipe phone, flash the latest version and restore your data
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gallardo5 said:
Reflash the same version you were running before this accident, as the newest version requires clean flash. If you want to run the latest version and have your data back, reflash the same version you were running before, then backup your data, wipe phone, flash the latest version and restore your data
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Okay I'll give that a go, thanks for the help and I'll report back my results. :good:
EDIT: Tried downloading the Zip from their site and now it's saying I've got to log in, but no place to register... grr. I might be a bit longer..
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Okay I'll give that a go, thanks for the help and I'll report back my results. :good:
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Good luck then and if you will have any problem, just write here and don't forget to quote my post so I will get an email notification
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Good luck then and if you will have any problem, just write here and don't forget to quote my post so I will get an email notification
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WOO! Thanks a lot! Booted up perfectly, and no loss of data or anything like that. Only odd things is it seems to have changed my DPI... but I can change that easily so it's not really a bother. It also made me have to update the Virus Definitions on Avast!, not sure why either.
I shall now proceed to thank all of your posts.
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WOO! Thanks a lot! Booted up perfectly, and no loss of data or anything like that. Only odd things is it seems to have changed my DPI... but I can change that easily so it's not really a bother. It also made me have to update the Virus Definitions on Avast!, not sure why either.
I shall now proceed to thank all of your posts.
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Great to hear it worked for you now comes the best part, flashing the latest rom
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Great to hear it worked for you now comes the best part, flashing the latest rom
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Yes either that or perhaps switch to a new one, I've been with semi-stock Android for quite a while now I'm really liking the port of MIUI V5...
help me i tried reflashing stock rom from samsung and wipe data stuck also at wipe data i cant boot always stuck
my mom is gonna kill me im puking right now cause of nervousness
Try wipe cache&Dalvik partitions
Method 2
full factory reset then reboot
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Spitwista said:
Try wipe cache&Dalvik partitions
Method 2
full factory reset then reboot
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i triedd that also stuck
M4GEN28 said:
help me i tried reflashing stock rom from samsung and wipe data stuck also at wipe data i cant boot always stuck
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Take your battery out, then re-enter recovery, clear cache and reboot. If it doesn't work, simply reflash via Odin to correct it.
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my mom is gonna kill me im puking right now cause of nervousness
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In future, read a lot more, or don't mess around with your device. The amount of people that go on about "puking, Sick etc" is unreal. If you don't know what you are doing. don't do it. It's that simple.