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Wow, wiping cache through recovery fixed 2 big issues for me...

Issue 1 - Ever since going from FRF50 to 72, I noticed that my soft keys weren't as responsive. My fingers had to roll over onto the actual screen to get them to register.
Issue 2 - Pinch-zooming in the gallery worked oddly. Once I set two fingers down without moving, the image would start shifting away from me. And when I spread my fingers, the image never zoomed into the area between my fingers.
I finally rooted and used amon_ra's recovery to wipe cache and dalvik cache, and both those issues are fixed! I don't know which cache wipe did it, but either way I'm glad it worked.

How to wipe cache with stock phone (no root, no updates)?
Is there any way to do it without third apps?

Yes, boot into recovery (turn off the device, then hold down the trackball while powering on the device)... then follow the instructions to navigate to the recovery window)... I believe when you get to recovery you get an android with an exclamation point.... press volume up, volume down, and power button all at the same time to access the submenus. Wipe should be in there. Works for non-rooted and locked phones. It's the same way I did my manual 2.2 update.

Atento said:
How to wipe cache with stock phone (no root, no updates)?
Is there any way to do it without third apps?
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From stock recovery you can select wipe cache partition and see if that helps.

Just to be sure, all my data will still be there after the cache wipe, right? Coz it's only a cache wipe and not a phone wipe...
Sorry for my noob question, my phone is still stock and I m not familiar with the recovery yet, I will try when cm6 is out
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lou2s said:
Just to be sure, all my data will still be there after the cache wipe, right? Coz it's only a cache wipe and not a phone wipe...
Sorry for my noob question, my phone is still stock and I m not familiar with the recovery yet, I will try when cm6 is out
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This I'm not sure about.... I haven't wiped yet, though I'm about to. I'm not entirely sure what the system stores in the cache partition, so I'm nervous about doing it. I did backup my SMS messages (using SMS Backup & Restore) and my Apps (using AppMonster) just in case I decide to see how it works and it does remove my apps and sms messages. My contacts are all stored with google and on my macs address book so I'm not worried about that. And my photos and music are on the SD card so it won't lose those either.

im having problems with the keys too, and also with my gps...
im wondering, what kind of wipe you did to your N?

I just used amon ra's recovery to wipe the caches.

erikikaz said:
Issue 1 - Ever since going from FRF50 to 72, I noticed that my soft keys weren't as responsive. My fingers had to roll over onto the actual screen to get them to register.
Issue 2 - Pinch-zooming in the gallery worked oddly. Once I set two fingers down without moving, the image would start shifting away from me. And when I spread my fingers, the image never zoomed into the area between my fingers.
I finally rooted and used amon_ra's recovery to wipe cache and dalvik cache, and both those issues are fixed! I don't know which cache wipe did it, but either way I'm glad it worked.
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Thanks for the heads up. I wiped my cache and although I never had any issues with pinch zoom in the gallery, it completely fixed my soft key issue. They are now very responsive and register in the correct spot now!

lostinbeta said:
This I'm not sure about.... I haven't wiped yet, though I'm about to. I'm not entirely sure what the system stores in the cache partition, so I'm nervous about doing it. I did backup my SMS messages (using SMS Backup & Restore) and my Apps (using AppMonster) just in case I decide to see how it works and it does remove my apps and sms messages. My contacts are all stored with google and on my macs address book so I'm not worried about that. And my photos and music are on the SD card so it won't lose those either.
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OK. I did it and no prsonal information deleted after that and I should say that the problems I had with keyboard and freezing seems to be fixed. I just worked with phone for 15 minutes. Hope it remains like this.
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lou2s said:
Just to be sure, all my data will still be there after the cache wipe, right? Coz it's only a cache wipe and not a phone wipe...
Sorry for my noob question, my phone is still stock and I m not familiar with the recovery yet, I will try when cm6 is out
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No you wont lose any data/settings. I know because i just wiped cache partition on my N1 few minutes ago and all my stuff are still intact.

So if you do the OTA, does it wipe the caches for you?

I just did the Wipe Cache Partition, all my things are fine. Stock Froyo with stock recovery. I was hoping to get a better response from the buttons, I'd say it might be better. It's hard to tell, but it doesn't feel like I have to hunt for them as much now.
For anyone wanting to try it, once you get into the recovery menu you'll see it's save. There's a Wipe Data/Factory Reset option and then the last one is Wipe Cache. Just use the trackball to do a Wipe Cache. Mine took about 2.4 seconds to do this. I rebooted (which is nice and quick anymore) and everything seems fine.
I don't know what the cache is or what is in it. It may have just kicked a dog, I don't know.

I do this every few days.
I'm in the same boat, I have no clue if I'm kicking a dead dog or if it helps but I like to think it helps (LOL).
All personal data is intact. Nothing (I notice) is lost.

uoY_redruM said:
I do this every few days.
I'm in the same boat, I have no clue if I'm kicking a dead dog or if it helps but I like to think it helps (LOL).
All personal data is intact. Nothing (I notice) is lost.
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So this means it is safe to do even though you are not reinstalling an update?

erikikaz said:
Issue 1 - Ever since going from FRF50 to 72, I noticed that my soft keys weren't as responsive. My fingers had to roll over onto the actual screen to get them to register.
Issue 2 - Pinch-zooming in the gallery worked oddly. Once I set two fingers down without moving, the image would start shifting away from me. And when I spread my fingers, the image never zoomed into the area between my fingers.
I finally rooted and used amon_ra's recovery to wipe cache and dalvik cache, and both those issues are fixed! I don't know which cache wipe did it, but either way I'm glad it worked.
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You are a star...
Just sorted my own gallery problems by doing this - it never occurred to me to try it before...
I used to wonder why people went on about the gallery animations...

Lots of FC's after restore using CWM

First question: I notice that a fair % of the time when I try to do a restore from CWM, it tells me there's a MD5 mismatch. Is this just a symptom of a bad SD card -- that the backup did not save properly to the card?
Since it's no good to find out the backup is bad when I actually need it, I came up with a work-around, which was to try and immediately restore from the backup immediately after making it. If it gives me an MD5 error, then I make a new backup. Eventually I don't get an MD5 error and the restore works, and in theory it should be restoring the phone to the state it was in just a few minutes earlier -- i.e. nothing is changed.
However, after a successful restore and reboot, I tend to get a slew of FC's at startup from background apps. I'm wondering what I'm doing wrong -- is there some extra step I need to do after a restore using CWM?

Sounds like when you backd up you had some data issues that are being restored too your phone each time you restore. Bite the bullett reflash your rom don't restore. But before you do that try fixing permissions in cwm.

I would clear cache and dalvik before doing the backup...
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If you're using SRF, just reflash srf 1.1.1 right over it. It will repair your framework but save your personal data.

MD5 bmismatch is a result of renaming backups incorrectly or using ROM manager or Quick Boot to get into recovery. ONLY use 3 finger method.

Did not know that. You get a thanks.

I tried clearing cache and davik cache before backup. When I restored, it gave me a FC on Google framework or whatever that's called. I rebooted and did another restore from the same backup, then cleared cache and dalvik cache before rebooting, and that time it booted with no FC's.
kennyglass123 said:
MD5 bmismatch is a result of renaming backups incorrectly or using ROM manager or Quick Boot to get into recovery. ONLY use 3 finger method.
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Is "quick boot" when you don't power-down and then power-up with 3-fingers, but just do the 4-finger reboot? That would make sense that it would be causing the MD5 problem... good to know. Is that also what's causing the FC's when I restore?

Nerva said:
I tried clearing cache and davik cache before backup. When I restored, it gave me a FC on Google framework or whatever that's called. I rebooted and did another restore from the same backup, then cleared cache and dalvik cache before rebooting, and that time it booted with no FC's.
Is "quick boot" when you don't power-down and then power-up with 3-fingers, but just do the 4-finger reboot? That would make sense that it would be causing the MD5 problem... good to know. Is that also what's causing the FC's when I restore?
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if you arent properly shutting down you will almost always get FCs on reboot if you have a no journal rom...

Wow, I had no idea that was an issue (I'm quite new to Android and was thinking of the phone as being more like a digital watch than a personal computer). Will pulling the battery cause the same problems?
How do I fix the FC problems when that happens?

ummmm
Nerva said:
Wow, I had no idea that was an issue (I'm quite new to Android and was thinking of the phone as being more like a digital watch than a personal computer). Will pulling the battery cause the same problems?
How do I fix the FC problems when that happens?
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that would be not shutting down properly like pulling the power cable out of your comp and turn it back on not goood to do alot wil be ok in light doses

Corrupt data is 100% the cause. The only problem now is trying to determine where the problem came from. It can be from many things, but to be safe, i'd reformat the SD card (backup all ur data first on a computer). And recreate a backup from the rom previously. I use "my backup root" from the market and it works like a charm when switching from rom to rom.
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yep
i use the very same thing........... i read that somewhere lol

Nerva said:
I tried clearing cache and davik cache before backup. When I restored, it gave me a FC on Google framework or whatever that's called. I rebooted and did another restore from the same backup, then cleared cache and dalvik cache before rebooting, and that time it booted with no FC's.
Is "quick boot" when you don't power-down and then power-up with 3-fingers, but just do the 4-finger reboot? That would make sense that it would be causing the MD5 problem... good to know. Is that also what's causing the FC's when I restore?
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The 4 finger will cause corruption on ROMs without journaling, so yes. There is also a Quick Boot app that boots into recovery, same thing can happen. So for backups and restores, always power down then 3 finger into CWM.

boot loop

Hey Guys,
About two weeks ago, I left to go out of the country. I left my phone powered on and sitting on my desk.
I come home, and my wife said she plugged it in to use the alarm on it, however it just looped over and over at the Sprint 4G animation.
I have tried replacing the battery, cooling it down, and other random things, but nothing seems to unstick it.
The phone is stock un-modded phone.
When i try to go to recovery mode, first time it just hung at the HTC logo, last time I tried, it gave a small picture of a phone, with a red triangle and an exclamation mark.
I can run a crc check using the 'image crc' option from the bootloader, and after a minute, it comes back with:
hboot: 0xFBDE7777
boot: 0xE4841560
recovery: 0x3F342ECF
system: 0x98F9E14F
I have tried with and without the SD card, and with/without being plugged in.
SPEEDY XE SHIP S-ON
HBOOT-0.93.0001
RADIO-1.07.00.1129
eMMC-boot
Nov 15 2010, 13:19:54
The only other thing I can think of, is that I saw a low memory error a few hours before I left.
I have some really important data on the phones built-in memory. Any ideas or suggestions are most appreciated!
Thanks!

Actually, I just found in recovery mode, to hold the power button and vol+ button to get details.
E:Can't open /cache/recovery/command
E:Error in DATA:data/recovery/log
(No space left on device)
So I am guessing it is stuck looping due to being out of internal memory space.
I have the following options:
Reboot system now
Apply sdcard:update.zip
Wipe data/factory reset
Wipe cache partition
I am worrid that even wiping the cache partition might cause some sort of data loss?
Can anyone confirm that for me?
Any ideas or suggestions on how to get in to free some space up otherwise?
Thanks!

Do not wipe anything yet. If you have a way of Fully charging the Battery without the device, do so. Let the battery fully charge, then put it back in the phone. Power it up and see if it will boot normally.

Wiping cache will not cause data loss, and it may be your only option to try and get it booting, if you call Sprint their gonna go a whole factory data reset and that clears all
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strapped365 said:
Wiping cache will not cause data loss, and it may be your only option to try and get it booting, if you call Sprint their gonna go a whole factory data reset and that clears all
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I know you said no data loss for wiping the cache, is there any reason that I shouldn't just go ahead and try wiping the cache? Just wanna check things before I do something
Thanks a bunch!

Narkain said:
I know you said no data loss for wiping the cache, is there any reason that I shouldn't just go ahead and try wiping the cache? Just wanna check things before I do something
Thanks a bunch!
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Sorry buddy took a nap LOL give it a shot, if all lease fails a full wipe is needed
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Just wipe cache. What it will do will force your phone to re-creat all of your dalvik-cache. It will take a really long time to boot depending on how many apps you have installed for it to load up in the boot proccess. Give it time to boot, it's not a bootloop unless your bootanimation keeps restarting with a blank screen inbetween. If that doesn't work most likely your data got corrupted some how and you'll have to wipe data.

sparksco said:
Just wipe cache. What it will do will force your phone to re-creat all of your dalvik-cache. It will take a really long time to boot depending on how many apps you have installed for it to load up in the boot proccess. Give it time to boot, it's not a bootloop unless your bootanimation keeps restarting with a blank screen inbetween. If that doesn't work most likely your data got corrupted some how and you'll have to wipe data.
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Completed the cache wipe no problem. Phone boots up, loads the sprint animation, and then just sits looping sprint animation like usual.
Is there a custom bootloader that would let me browse the internal file system?
Mebbe delete something?

Without going into much detail just in case it's of a private nature. What kind of Data are you trying to retrieve? Contacts, SMS, Emails,...? The reason I ask is because it sounds like you may have to wipe the all the Data in order to get it to Boot.

prboy1969 said:
Without going into much detail just in case it's of a private nature. What kind of Data are you trying to retrieve? Contacts, SMS, Emails,...? The reason I ask is because it sounds like you may have to wipe the all the Data in order to get it to Boot.
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SMS, random note & app data and some other stuff for legal reasons. I checked the sd card, none of what I need is on it.
Is there really no way to access the internal memory from any custom bootloader?
Or a way to insert some sort of script to erase some crap log file on the internal memory?
The phone stills has the default AmazonMP3 app and some other crap that I could script a deletion for to easily free up memory safely.
Also, I noticed under recovery options it also says "E:Can't open /cache/recovery/command" in yellow at the bottom.
I really don't want to wipe the phone
Thanks

Narkain said:
SMS, random note & app data and some other stuff for legal reasons. I checked the sd card, none of what I need is on it.
Is there really no way to access the internal memory from any custom bootloader?
Or a way to insert some sort of script to erase some crap log file on the internal memory?
The phone stills has the default AmazonMP3 app and some other crap that I could script a deletion for to easily free up memory safely.
Also, I noticed under recovery options it also says "E:Can't open /cache/recovery/command" in yellow at the bottom.
I really don't want to wipe the phone
Thanks
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I mean you could try to adb pull items from recovery, but you need the sdk for that, and you also have to know exactly where the info is.
I don't think it will pull like the actual sms messages or anything but you should be able to pull some things from system or data
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Q: Reset phone but keep root

I am not sure where things started to go fubar (I moved to the Windows phone for a while but now I am back), but things on my rooted note 3 dont work like they should. For example, I cannot setup my work email (enterprise) or school email (microsoft exchange webmail) because it keeps on crashing. I have to reinstall the gmail email app every now and again because that goes haywire and the system update check crashes. I have frozen a few apps but I unfroze and it still doesnt work.
Well to my real question if all that was just mumbo jumbo, how can I reset my phone back to stock (like apps, settings, etc) without losing root? Is it as simple as just selecting factory reset in the settings menu?

Well since your rooted how about flashing a stock rom,but make a backup and I'd your content with the stock rom then make a backup of that.
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Doing a factory data reset will reset the phone back to what it was like out of the box. However It won't make you lose root.

Yes, you can factory reset. Root is in /system files, where when you wipe you only lose /userdata and /cache

Reboot into Recovery mode, select Wipe /data and /system and /cache and dalvik cache if you can, or make a selection similar to "Factory Reset". Be sure to not wipe your SD Card(s)
When you reboot your phone, it will be OOBE(out of box experience) so be sure to backup any call logs, texts, and user apps ahead of time. DO NOT backup/restore "system" apps as it will cause problems

lmike6453 said:
Reboot into Recovery mode, select Wipe /data and /system and /cache and dalvik cache if you can, or make a selection similar to "Factory Reset". Be sure to not wipe your SD Card(s)
When you reboot your phone, it will be OOBE(out of box experience) so be sure to backup any call logs, texts, and user apps ahead of time. DO NOT backup/restore "system" apps as it will cause problems
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Actually, do not wipe system unless you have a rom to flash on your ext sd. If you do, the only way to use your phone again is by using odin.
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LeftyGR said:
Actually, do not wipe system unless you have a rom to flash on your ext sd. If you do, the only way to use your phone again is by using odin.
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Good catch, sorry about misleading info there...always have your custom ROM on your SD Card

Thanks guys. I would have done the same mistake.
I have frozen some of the files, do I need to unfreeze them before I do this?

bump

Bumps allowed only once a day per forum rules. You're new, so we won't beat you...this time. lol
To answer your question, I don't think it would matter. I believe the settings that hold an app as frozen get wiped when you factory reset. If I'm wrong, it really shouldn't matter. What apps are frozen?
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A lot was frozen but I did it anyways. I'm now hunting for what can safely be frozen so I don't fubar my phone
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Need help with system not mounting

Ok need some help is there any way to fix this problem. .....
The system doesn't mount and comes up with a whole bunch of errors or is it past help.

Can you tell us (or show us) what the errors are?
A prinscreen/photo of the errors would be great

CuBz90 said:
Can you tell us (or show us) what the errors are?
A prinscreen/photo of the errors would be great
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This is problem

It looks like you've installed TWRP and not wiped data. /data is encrypted and therefore TWRP cannot read it.
If you go into TWRP and choose wipe, then select format data, then type yes. This will wipe data and remove the encryption. Although this will wipe all data, the same way a factory reset would.
This will now allow you to access data in TWRP.

CuBz90 said:
It looks like you've installed TWRP and not wiped data. /data is encrypted and therefore TWRP cannot read it.
If you go into TWRP and choose wipe, then select format data, then type yes. This will wipe data and remove the encryption. Although this will wipe all data, the same way a factory reset would.
This will now allow you to access data in TWRP.
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Yep just tried that and didn't do anything still cant mount data.....i have a feeling it may be a dead device it needs a screen replacement any way i have came across this b4 but cant remember what i did to fix it it was a long time ago.....

stinka318 said:
Yep just tried that and didn't do anything still cant mount data.....i have a feeling it may be a dead device it needs a screen replacement any way i have came across this b4 but cant remember what i did to fix it it was a long time ago.....
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When pressing Wipe, make sure you're not swiping to factory reset. Press 'Format Data' and then on the next screen type yes.

CuBz90 said:
When pressing Wipe, make sure you're not swiping to factory reset. Press 'Format Data' and then on the next screen type yes.
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99%sure this fixed it but with a cracked screen it is hard will get back later with a response on this thanks very much.