Im mulling over doing a factory reset to see if that will cure my GPS issues before I send the phone back for replacement.
http://www.knowyourcell.com/samsung...6/how_to_hard_reset_the_samsung_galaxy_s.html
There's the old power up, volume down, home key, select between fastbook, recovery, clear storage and simlock.
Then there's the code, *2767*3855# whih some say as well as obliterating everything, also reinstalls the firmware.
What I don't want to do, is brick the device, and I don't want to kill the firmware on there - because I just don't have any official firmware from Samsung, and I don't care about the stuff from samsung-firmwares, that's not "officially released" afaics.
So, what's the difference between fastbook, recovery, clear storage and simlock? does *2767*3855# really reflash the firmware?
Which option would you recommend?
Cheers
Simon
I used the code the other day... Everything reset. Haven't a clue if that means it firmware was reinstalled, and it felt a bit fast for that (though the boot time was in the minutes).
I didn't have any issues with the reset... and also reset to see if some of my problems including the GPS issue went away.
No avail on any of my problems... GPS is still being a pain and battery life is still lower than expected.
Having said that, looks like new firmwares are starting to pop up... so these issues could be resolved quite soon!
crabby
That code will wipe the whole phone included built in storage to factory.
I used it once to wipe my phone, had no problem but make sure you back up any data as it does full wipe.
I would like someone to explain in detail the difference between "factory data reset" and "factory format"
You can do a factory data reset via the phone itself, or by using this code
*#*#7780#*#*
I've done this before, but it seems like a soft reset, I want something more hard. Something to totally swipe the phone clean, and reinstall everything fresh.
So I found this "factory format" code *2767*3855#
This totally wipes the phone, and reinstalls the firmware.
My question is, will using this second option reinstall stuff like avatar, and stock programs, or does it totally wipe everything off.
can someone explain the benefits and downfalls of the two.
yea you can go to settings/privacy/Factory data reset dirrecty from the phone if you want to hard reset/Wipe your Vibrant.
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yea you can go to settings/privacy/Factory data reset dirrecty from the phone if you want to hard reset/Wipe your Vibrant.
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that didn't answer the question, I already said the first code is the same as doing the instructions you gave.
I was inquiring on a factory format, which is different.
Have you tried it(through the # command)? Or is that just what it says it does? Unless it downloads the firmware, theres no place that its stored on the phone, so I doubt it reflashes the firmware over again. I initially though maybe it would reformat and setup the /system partition, but it would need an img stored somewhere to flash it, and I doubt it does.
What it probably is, is just Androids naming vs Samsungs naming, and wouldn't reinstall any bloatware that was removed.
SamsungGalaxySVibrant said:
I would like someone to explain in detail the difference between "factory data reset" and "factory format"
You can do a factory data reset via the phone itself, or by using this code
*#*#7780#*#*
I've done this before, but it seems like a soft reset, I want something more hard. Something to totally swipe the phone clean, and reinstall everything fresh.
So I found this "factory format" code *2767*3855#
This totally wipes the phone, and reinstalls the firmware.
My question is, will using this second option reinstall stuff like avatar, and stock programs, or does it totally wipe everything off.
can someone explain the benefits and downfalls of the two.
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I did that last week, but booting the phone to recovery mode:
1. Turn off your phone.
2. Hold down the volume up and down buttons while turning the Vibrant on, which will bring you to the recovery mode.
3. Choose "delete all user data"
Once the phone boot up, you should have factory stock phone.
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I did that last week, but booting the phone to recovery mode:
1. Turn off your phone.
2. Hold down the volume up and down buttons while turning the Vibrant on, which will bring you to the recovery mode.
3. Choose "delete all user data"
Once the phone boot up, you should have factory stock phone.
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Thank you. I don't think people understand my question though.
What you are describing is the same as doing a data reset via through the phones settings, or using the first code I provided.
However, a "Factory format" is different. I'm trying to figure out what a factory format using the second code does.
again i'm asking about data factory reset vs factory format.
I believe what your after would involve one of 2 methods and no neither is a factory format or reset.
To completely reset the phone to stock all parts including radio and os files you need to use odin a pit file and a rom image.
If your ONLY needing to restore apps to factory/stock you can use the posted nandroid backups to restore.
Both methods are well documented but if you need help drop me a line or a pm.
SamsungGalaxySVibrant said:
Thank you. I don't think people understand my question though.
What you are describing is the same as doing a data reset via through the phones settings, or using the first code I provided.
However, a "Factory format" is different. I'm trying to figure out what a factory format using the second code does.
again i'm asking about data factory reset vs factory format.
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How can you tell people that they are wrong, without knowing yourself. Chances are that the factory format does exactly the same thing as they described. Why don't you try it and if it does something different let us know.
I think there is a difference between the two, can factory format reinstall firmware?
Well i tried the factory format, and it did start out differently than the facory data reset did, and it seemed to be faster, but in the end my phone looks exactly as it did with a factory data reset, so i dont know what its doing differently
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Well i tried the factory format, and it did start out differently than the facory data reset did, and it seemed to be faster, but in the end my phone looks exactly as it did with a factory data reset, so i dont know what its doing differently
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oh really? you did the factory format? interesting, your phone is fine?
Yeah my phone is fine, everything works... i mean as well as you can expect, still having same issues as before but it wipes everything including the sd card so you might want to backup any nandroid or titanium backups to your computer because it will erase everything from the phone and the sd card, and put it back to how you got the phone.
fred8785 said:
Yeah my phone is fine, everything works... i mean as well as you can expect, still having same issues as before but it wipes everything including the sd card so you might want to backup any nandroid or titanium backups to your computer because it will erase everything from the phone and the sd card, and put it back to how you got the phone.
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So it appears this Factory Format is a TRUE hard reset, compared to the soft data reset. I have a question, does it erase avatar? Does it put avatar back on? What about all the other "stock" programs... does it put them back on?
thank you
Wanna try factory format, I'm scared.
Avatar is stored on the 2GB SD card. Simply remove the card before doing a factory format and you're safe.
Anyone tried the factory format?
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Just did a factory format and it deletes everything on the internal phone memory except the stock bloatware programs. It didn't touch my SD card as Avatar is still there. Seems to be a true hard reset.
I did the format and my 3G was gone. Everything else worked and it seemed the same as the factory reset. No problems with Avatar,etc. Any files I had previously altered did not revert back to factory. I could not figure out the 3G issue, though. All of my settings seemed correct but I had no data connection (no 3G, Edge, ...) Wifi worked luckily and I was able to do a nandroid restore.
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Thanks for this thread, good information to have.
I'm new to android, coming from BB. I've had my phone for a month now and have rooted, gps fixed, flashed vibrant 4, tried the lag fix, flashed gps fix, flashed back to stock, un-rooted, rooted again, flashed stock.... un-rooted....
In the end I wondered if I was getting in over my head here (I was) and maybe I needed to just enjoy my phone for what it is and stop worrying about all of this experimental stuff. I'm no developer.
So I just flashed back to stock using the nandroid backup linked on this forum, un-rooted and did a soft reset.
I noticed it doesn;t truly wipe the phone though, so now, any time I get any type of glitch I constantly worry that maybe there's some sort of residual settings hanging around... my GPS flakes out and hangs, or shows my location as "accurate within 2 meters" yet map location shows me over 3 blocks away? I start worrying, is this residual effects from flashing the gps fix?
I really don't know, and I was wondering if there was a way to truly hard reset, wipe everything and go back to exactly the way the phone was when I took it out of the box so I can stop worrying that I've jacked my phone up.
It looks like this is the way and I may give it a go once I hear more success stories (worried about the poster above missing data connections).
I'm content to wait for an OTA update, or something really solid like CM6, till then stock with launcher pro is more than enough customization for me.
OK, thanks again to the OP and all subsequent posters, sorry for the long response, taking a break from some work here.
peace,
smutek
andryga said:
I did the format and my 3G was gone. Everything else worked and it seemed the same as the factory reset. No problems with Avatar,etc. Any files I had previously altered did not revert back to factory. I could not figure out the 3G issue, though. All of my settings seemed correct but I had no data connection (no 3G, Edge, ...) Wifi worked luckily and I was able to do a nandroid restore.
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I can confirm my 3G came back and the phone looks EXACTLY like it did when I took it out of the box. Surprisingly, it's still rooted, at least it still has the app. Will update as I progress.
EDIT: No problems at all. Got Voodoo running just fine after my fiasco with OCLF. Market stored all the apps I downloaded so it's just a matter of time now. XD
I have flashed Super Clean to my Fascinate and set everything up how I want it. Then used Titanium Backup to save it. However when I power the phone off and back on it goes back to the way things were set up before... is that normal/ I assumed it would stay the way I set it until I flashed another rom?
I have seen that on my phone and have seen lots of people in the forums having the same issues. I have done so much work on my phone the passed couple of days I couldn't tell you exactly what fixed mine, but here is what I believe did it.
Settings > Privacy > Factory Reset
After restart go into clockwork recovery mode. Wipe cache partition and wipe data/factory reset.
Start up phone. Setup one thing. Wireless, email, whatever as a test. Power down. Start up. Did it save? If so then add a few more things and power down again. If its still saving you are golden.
Nothing pisses me off more then setting everything up and finding out that it still is not saving settings.
Last night, my wifi just stopped working, it won't enable. When I go to advanced I am sometimes able to turn on the wifi, but it just continuously says turning on but won't enable, and sometimes it's just totally greyed out. I also had some problems today connecting to mobile data services as well, and I don't know if that's related.
I've tried a hard reboot (but it just comes up saying no command...), I've tried restarting it a million times... The only thing I haven't tried is a factory reset, because I am abroad using google fi and I am worried that I will have to set up my project fi again and I can't connect to a tower in the USA. (I am not sure if that will even happen, but I won't be back in the USA for a good few months so I don't want to risk it)
My phone says it updated yesterday, which I assume has caused this wifi problem (or a really big coincidence), but I can't find any information online about it.
I run the stock rom, it's not rooted, I have had no problems with any other things besides this.
Is anyone else experiencing this, or has experienced this before? Do you have any suggestions on how to resolve it?
It sounds like you are experiencing the same problem as everyone who forgot to update their vendor image after flashing the OTA. Had you been rooted, the simple fix would have been to flash the the MTC19X vendor image. With unrooted phone, I got nothing. The only possible solution would be a factory reset and to download and install the OTA again.
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It sounds like you are experiencing the same problem as everyone who forgot to update their vendor image after flashing the OTA. Had you been rooted, the simple fix would have been to flash the the MTC19X vendor image. With unrooted phone, I got nothing. The only possible solution would be a factory reset and to download and install the OTA again.
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I don't touch anything or mod anything on my phones. The phone updates itself and as long as I am not running any custom roms I don't see why they wouldn't have a complete update that basically just spoon feeds my phone. Do you know if factory reset would reset my project fi?
RoseBunny87 said:
I don't touch anything or mod anything on my phones. The phone updates itself and as long as I am not running any custom roms I don't see why they wouldn't have a complete update that basically just spoon feeds my phone. Do you know if factory reset would reset my project fi?
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I believe factory resets wipe the /data and /cache partitions of the device. All apps installed in /data are deleted, while apps in /system like project fi will have all its setting reset.
It's easy to resolve the iasue if your rooted, but since you aren't the next to last step you may try would be doing a network settings reset. Go to Settings>Backup and Reset>Network Settings reset. Just make sure that you are aware of your cellular data settings so you can set thing back up after the reset.
I factory reset it and it stay pops up constantly!
Does anyone have a solution to this problem?!? Im willing to try anything. Ive tried all the ones on youtube with the "solution" but it does not work.
I am also running stock too
I also have this problem. Phone is stock, no mods
Is there a way to restore the phone without the built in factory reset?
I think the recovery files built into the phone may be corrupt...
Tried a factory reset and it didn't work
gtmaster303 said:
I also have this problem. Phone is stock, no mods
Is there a way to restore the phone without the built in factory reset?
I think the recovery files built into the phone may be corrupt...
Tried a factory reset and it didn't work
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Hey there! I fixed this problem by actually rooting my phone! It went away right when I rooted it. It seems that it cleared the cache.