I did a factory reset and everything got erased from the internal memory, videos,pics,mp3s,....etc.
Is this normal?
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DKM119 said:
I did a factory reset and everything got erased from the internal memory, videos,pics,mp3s,....etc.
Is this normal?
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Yes, perfectly normal. In fact, it's pretty much the definition of "factory reset,' i.e., returning the device to the state it was in when it left the factory.
Well on my G1 and on my vibrant...this didn't happened...i know what a factory reset is and do...and this is really weird...
One thing is to erase the part of the memory that the OS is using...other is to "format" the internal memory all the time I do a factory reset.
Do this mean that I have to transfer my files to the microsd before a factory reset...or I flash a custom Rom?
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DKM119 said:
Well on my G1 and on my vibrant...this didn't happened...i know what a factory reset is and do...and this is really weird...
One thing is to erase the part of the memory that the OS is using...other is to "format" the internal memory all the time I do a factory reset.
Do this mean that I have to transfer my files to the microsd before a factory reset...or I flash a custom Rom?
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Is your G1 or Vibrant running some custom ROM/recovery? Some custom ROM/recovery modified the factory reset to not touch /data/media/, that'll explain why you kept your media when you reset. As for having to backup before factory reset (yes, you have to unless you root and install solarnz's modded CWM and use the factory reset on it (he disabled wiping of /data/media). For flashing custom ROM, you don't need to backup everything if the ROM won't wipe everything (read the desc of the ROM).
I'm using CWM on my vibrant but I guess Honeycomb handles the memory in a different way...like I said I totally understand that the OS is over written when I do a reset or flash another Rom..what I can't understand is why the rest of the available memory get overwritten too.
For example I have some pics and videos that was on the DCMI folder and some ebooks that I transfer from my pc and those got erased...and those were in the internal memory...anyway...got to do some restore now...
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I'm using CWM on my vibrant but I guess Honeycomb handles the memory in a different way...like I said I totally understand that the OS is over written when I do a reset or flash another Rom..what I can't understand is why the rest of the available memory get overwritten too.
For example I have some pics and videos that was on the DCMI folder and some ebooks that I transfer from my pc and those got erased...and those were in the internal memory...anyway...got to do some restore now...
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Like mentioned above, it is probably due to the version of CWM you're running on your Vibrant. If you install solarnz's CWM, it'll keep your media after wipe too.
Your Pics and Stuff that didnt get Erases before Was Probably on an External SD Card. The Transformer Reads The Internal Memory as an SD card too so you probably got confused. Anything on a SD you put in should be fine. Anything in Transformer SD card is erased.
It's a new thing with Honeycomb. Any built in storage is considered when doing a factory reset.
On 2.3 this was not the case (Nexus S for example).
HorsexD said:
Your Pics and Stuff that didnt get Erases before Was Probably on an External SD Card. The Transformer Reads The Internal Memory as an SD card too so you probably got confused. Anything on a SD you put in should be fine. Anything in Transformer SD card is erased.
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Transformer actually wiped my MicroSD when I did a wipe before. Wipers be ware!
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I totally bricked my phone yesterday by modifying some files I shouldnt of. It was my fault, for sure.
I followed the guide for restoring my phone using Odin, im just having one problem. It appears that /system isnt mounting? The phones telling me I have 0 space in internal storage.
Is there something i need to do to get /system to mount? I know its not actually low on space, and I confirmed this with adb -df command. over 86% free still.
Thanks for ANY suggestions!
Use the program adrynalyne created to fix the problem. You will need to search for it here unless someone posts a link.
no luck with the search. any other suggestions?
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rm2011 said:
no luck with the search. any other suggestions?
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Have you tried doing a factory data reset via clearing it in your privacy menu under settings? FYI - I had one of those 0.0 gB space in internal memory due to my inept attempt at disabling voodoo, but had to eventuallyL (1) adb push the original.mbr and (2) do a factory data reset in the privacy menu.
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Have you tried doing a factory data reset via clearing it in your privacy menu under settings? FYI - I had one of those 0.0 gB space in internal memory due to my inept attempt at disabling voodoo, but had to eventuallyL (1) adb push the original.mbr and (2) do a factory data reset in the privacy menu.
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not to steal the topic but with my recent problem, my fascinate decided to basically reboot itself to stock all on its own but was still rooted minus ALL the apps on the phone without the sd card being recognized. Was the sd card holding all these apps and the real question is I went to install quadrant to see if the kernel was still installed internally and it said I didnt have enough disk space internally. Does this mean the kernel is still installed and was causing this? Also since I unrooted to take the phone to verizon to get a new sd card since it faulted...will i have to remove files before I redo the root and everything else, CWM, rom manager, root explorer, etc....
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no luck with the search. any other suggestions?
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You need original.mbr or the program created by adrynalyne to fix your problem. That is the only thing that will help.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=804784
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not to steal the topic but with my recent problem, my fascinate decided to basically reboot itself to stock all on its own but was still rooted minus ALL the apps on the phone without the sd card being recognized. Was the sd card holding all these apps and the real question is I went to install quadrant to see if the kernel was still installed internally and it said I didnt have enough disk space internally. Does this mean the kernel is still installed and was causing this? Also since I unrooted to take the phone to verizon to get a new sd card since it faulted...will i have to remove files before I redo the root and everything else, CWM, rom manager, root explorer, etc....
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make a new post for this if you don't have any luck searching. but search first, PLEASE!
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FIXED!
Thanks everyone! looks like it was cause by having voodoo installed previously. I followed adrenalyn's steps to completely removing it, including a factory reset and pushing the original.mbr (thanks nemesis and durkabane!)
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Ok, so I'm running out of space on my sdcard and I'm wondering if I can erase all the files on my sdcard and not screw up my root and other rooted privileges or my whole phone for that matter?
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I formatted yesterday and everything is fine.
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Be aware, if you start erasing stuff, your apps/system wont work correctly. The OS stores a lot of stuff on there, especially apps that have been moved to the sd card.
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Ok, so I'm running out of space on my sdcard and I'm wondering if I can erase all the files on my sdcard and not screw up my root and other rooted privileges or my whole phone for that matter?
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Good question. At least for this noob. What can I delete? What HAS to stay? This is really good to know being that I have been toying with the idea of formatting so I can use apps2sd.
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What I did was move all my apps back to the phone (if you have some on SD card) and formatted.
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After resetting my phone to stock I formatted my SD Card and did a PGP wipe against it.
Phone didn't seem to notice.
Can someone help me out it would be greatly appreciated. How would I make sure my phone is safe to sell as far as security reasons go? I dont want any of my personal information still on here. I'm running cm7 and i just did a factory reset and connected my phone to my computer and moved everything from mnt/emmc to my computer but when i go under file manager on my phone there seems to still be some files left behind? are these safe to leave? How would i go about preparing my phone to sell. Some of the files in /mnt/emmc are stuff like .spotlight-v100, .Trashes, .adobe, .taggedFriendPhotos, LOST.DIR, and theres some other stuff aswell
You should definitely format the internal storage, use your computer. There's nothing left after that.
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You should definitely format the internal storage, use your computer. There's nothing left after that.
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Okay how do I do that. I'm on mac. And under security>factory reset it told me it would wipe the internal storage but I guess that didn't really do anything. So after I connect it to my computer then what do I do?
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Okay how do I do that. I'm on mac. And under security>factory reset it told me it would wipe the internal storage but I guess that didn't really do anything. So after I connect it to my computer then what do I do?
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Ouch, sorry mate, I never even touched a Mac..
Never touched a mac, but
in windows you open the file manager. find your device , should be listed as a "usb storage" device. Right click and choose format.
ta-da!
H'm it seems like the factory reset should have got rid of these files. Should I worry about them? And would formatting on my computer get rid of these files?
H'm it seems like the factory reset should have got rid of these files. Should I worry about them? And would formatting on my computer get rid of these files?
what kind of files you talking about?
".spotlight-v100, .Trashes, .adobe, .taggedFriendPhotos, LOST.DIR, and theres some other stuff aswell." Folders like these....and there not deleting even after a factory reset
You can always use fastboot and erase userdata, data, cache etc
factory reset doesnt touch your internal storage. it only wipes /data and /system
use the FORMAT sdcard option in the settings....
you could do a fastboot -w and then install a fruitcake, can't you? i've never used -w before, dunno if it deletes everything on the internal storage or not.
I have gone through quite a bit of phones until i got to this one and all you really need to do is restore factory defaults and keep your sd card
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I have gone through quite a bit of phones until i got to this one and all you really need to do is restore factory defaults and keep your sd card
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except that this one has INTERNAL storage where a lot of other phones do not....especially most HTC phones
you have to format internal sd or there will be lots of data left on the phone
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except that this one has INTERNAL storage where a lot of other phones do not....especially most HTC phones
you have to format internal sd or there will be lots of data left on the phone
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Exactly. The Atrix has its internal SD and an external. If you go into Menu > Settings > Storage, you should be able to wipe the memory of your two SD cards.
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except that this one has INTERNAL storage where a lot of other phones do not....especially most HTC phones
you have to format internal sd or there will be lots of data left on the phone
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One problem here though, cm7 doesn't properly format. Once you try doing this you can't mount.
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except that this one has INTERNAL storage where a lot of other phones do not....especially most HTC phones
you have to format internal sd or there will be lots of data left on the phone
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Makes sense that I would think that seeing that my last phone was actually an HTC
Thanks though mate, now I know for when it comes time to sell this phone
Is the only way to wipe the sd card is to use CWM? Is there any other way? Also, will this have any negative effects to the device? Does the system require specific folders to work/run?
First you need to make a backup of your rom using CWR, or i prefer 4ext ( mainly cause i can enable usb mass storage while in recovery once plugged into pc)....
2nd ..You should copy all contents from ur storage by connecting ur phone to pc
3rd. place existing folders from sdcard storage to a backup folder a.k.a Nexus 7 backup folder. This will also include your backup under clockworkmod/backup/xxxx_xx_backup.
4th...format sdcard in recovery(4ext) allows for multiple partitioning options..
5th..once formatted...download any ro and boot up..once booted up compare all folders in sdcard to those of backup on pc u created earlier and copy folders to new formatted sdcard..
6th.. note you created the backup earlier which is housed in the clockworkmod/backup folder on pc. Make sure u copy that folder onto sdcard along with i.e dcim, movies, pictures, gameloft..etc...etc..basically all files from ur pc folder that contains all the sdcard contents explained in step 3.
Hope this helps
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First you need to make a backup of your rom using CWR, or i prefer 4ext ( mainly cause i can enable usb mass storage while in recovery once plugged into pc)....
2nd ..You should copy all contents from ur storage by connecting ur phone to pc
3rd. place existing folders from sdcard storage to a backup folder a.k.a Nexus 7 backup folder. This will also include your backup under clockworkmod/backup/xxxx_xx_backup.
4th...format sdcard in recovery(4ext) allows for multiple partitioning options..
5th..once formatted...download any ro and boot up..once booted up compare all folders in sdcard to those of backup on pc u created earlier and copy folders to new formatted sdcard..
6th.. note you created the backup earlier which is housed in the clockworkmod/backup folder on pc. Make sure u copy that folder onto sdcard along with i.e dcim, movies, pictures, gameloft..etc...etc..basically all files from ur pc folder that contains all the sdcard contents explained in step 3.
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I am not on any custom Rom at the moment. I'm currently running stock and stock kernal.
All I wanted to do was start fresh since my storage has become some what messy and unorganized. I already made a back up using cwm. I just wanted to wipe the sd card in the device. I already have my important files backed up including ePub, mp3, apk files etc
I'm just concerned that if I wipe the sd, the nexus 7 won't run the way it should.
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I am not on any custom Rom at the moment. I'm currently running stock and stock kernal.
All I wanted to do was start fresh since my storage has become some what messy and unorganized. I already made a back up using cwm. I just wanted to wipe the sd card in the device. I already have my important files backed up including ePub, mp3, apk files etc
I'm just concerned that if I wipe the sd, the nexus 7 won't run the way it should.
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Settings>storage>erase USB storage
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DarkhShadow said:
Settings>storage>erase USB storage
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I dont see erase USB storage as an option.
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Use ADB from the CMD :
fastboot erase boot
fastboot erase cache
fastboot erase recovery
fastboot erase system
fastboot erase userdata
Take a look with what I am dealing with in the screen shot. It says the system has 13 GB in the system but only 3 GB left. If you add up all the apps you can easily see there is no way I used 10 GB of storage. It just doesn't add up. Can't really figure out what's going on.
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bustinstugots24 said:
Take a look with what I am dealing with in the screen shot. It says the system has 13 GB in the system but only 3 GB left. If you add up all the apps you can easily see there is no way I used 10 GB of storage. It just doesn't add up. Can't really figure out what's going on.
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I think you have the "Dead Space" that android commonly sees.
Like you already asked you need to reformat your tab etc, that is THE ONLY way to return the dead space back into usable.
Maybe: backup and restore->factory reset, is the option you are looking for?
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Wilks3y said:
I think you have the "Dead Space" that android commonly sees.
Like you already asked you need to reformat your tab etc, that is THE ONLY way to return the dead space back into usable.
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stijndebruin said:
Maybe: backup and restore->factory reset, is the option you are looking for?
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If I do the factory reset, I have a few questions.
One, will it cause me to lose root?
Second, will it also wipe the storage card? ( I would assume so)
Third, I never heard of this dead space issue. Why does this happen?
Don't know about root. But that should be easy enough to get back. I was ballsy enough to press the option thought it would prompt me before wiping and it did .
See screenshot.
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stijndebruin said:
Don't know about root. But that should be easy enough to get back. I was ballsy enough to press the option thought it would prompt me before wiping and it did .
See screenshot.
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Thanks for that. I am currently trying to back everything up at the moment. I'm nervous but I'm going to give it a shot. Let you know how it goes.
I was thinking, maybe if I went in to staples and showed them that the storage card was showing me incorrect info, maybe they would swap it ouf for me for one of the newer 32 gb ones. I'd even pay the $50 difference if the 16gb drops down to $200
Might be worth a shot lol
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Thanks for that. I am currently trying to back everything up at the moment. I'm nervous but I'm going to give it a shot. Let you know how it goes.
I was thinking, maybe if I went in to staples and showed them that the storage card was showing me incorrect info, maybe they would swap it ouf for me for one of the newer 32 gb ones. I'd even pay the $50 difference if the 16gb drops down to $200
Might be worth a shot lol
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Okay, so I reset the tablet and nothing really has changed. It didn't format the storage because pretty much everything I had it in there before is still there except for music and videos etc. i still have root access. I still only have 3 gb available so something is definietely wrong. I'm just not really sure what to do. The system even rebooted in tablet mode which I had it set to before. What does anyone think the next step should be?
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Okay, so I reset the tablet and nothing really has changed. It didn't format the storage because pretty much everything I had it in there before is still there except for music and videos etc. i still have root access. I still only have 3 gb available so something is definietely wrong. I'm just not really sure what to do. The system even rebooted in tablet mode which I had it set to before. What does anyone think the next step should be?
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Anyone that can help?
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Anyone that can help?
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If you've formatted your system you're not a noob so you've probably already done this too, but run ES File Explorer > Manager > SD Card Analyst.
Do you use CWM to backup you roms?
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If you've formatted your system you're not a noob so you've probably already done this too, but run ES File Explorer > Manager > SD Card Analyst.
Do you use CWM to backup you roms?
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I grew the balls to just format the SD card using CWM. I was pretty nervous but it did reboot and it wiped everything.
I now have 13.0 gb free out of 13.2. Pretty pleased. Finally!.
I was also able to keep root as well.
Nice. Thanks for finding this out for the community!
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Nice. Thanks for finding this out for the community!
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No problem. I was really nervous. In all honesty though there has to be another way. I mean I have root access obviously. Lets say you get some regular user who doesn't know much and they just want to wipe their device clean. What exactly are you supposed to do? why isn't a factory reset wiping out the storage card? It is very strange.
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No problem. I was really nervous. In all honesty though there has to be another way. I mean I have root access obviously. Lets say you get some regular user who doesn't know much and they just want to wipe their device clean. What exactly are you supposed to do? why isn't a factory reset wiping out the storage card? It is very strange.
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Because the SD card is where you store pictures, music and other stuff, a factory reset wiping that would be a long process(copying it off then back on) and most of the time not required
and the space not showing up in storage settings menu, it only shows stuff in the default android locations, just a fyi
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I want to wipe my nexus 4 so that's its fresh and has nothing on it how it was when i got it. When I do a factory reset and wipe all it still keeps some files i put on there.
What am I missing?
Do you mean SD files? A factory reset won't touch those. You should format SD in recovery.
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Do you mean SD files? A factory reset won't touch those. You should format SD in recovery.
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Okay perfect what gets formatted? Which files stay
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T89 said:
Okay perfect what gets formatted? Which files stay
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None on your SD.
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do a factory reset and format sd in recovery
If you haven't noticed, there is no physical "SD" - so if I format "SD" right now - will my system still run?
I've asked google and it's not getting me anywhere ;(
T89 said:
If you haven't noticed, there is no SD - so if I format SD right now - will my system still run?
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Yes it will. Don't worry. I formatted my SD the other day.
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Yes it will. Don't worry. I formatted my SD the other day.
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Very helpful, thank you - one more thing - I'm assuming I will lose all nandroid backups, music, photos correct? - Apps will stay?
T89 said:
Very helpful, thank you - one more thing - I'm assuming I will lose all nandroid backups, music, photos correct? - Apps will stay?
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Correct. You'll lose all SD data (pictures, music, Nandroid's, ROM .zips, etc.) but keep your apps and such.
Okay perfect - so if the apps stay im guessing i can just use rom manager to get my rom again etc, does my flashed recovery stay?. Its just wiping physical data ive put on there.
T89 said:
Okay perfect - so if the apps stay im guessing i can just use rom manager to get my rom again etc, does my flashed recovery stay?. Its just wiping physical data ive put on there.
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Yes, your recovery stays.
Thank you, here goes nothing!