This has been going on for about 6 months.
Every time I flash a new rom the following things happen. This is the rule and not the exception.
1. The notification tone is always comes out preset to the first tone on the list, generally "Alpha.mp3". You can try to change it all day but it will not take a different tone. The only way to change it is to delete the first tone. Then your gtg.
2. The stock wallpaper from the previous rom becomes the wallpaper of the new rom.
Using CWM 5.0.2.0
Factory reset x3
Cache x3
Dalvik cache x3
Battery Stats x1
VR Superwipe x1
Mounts:
Boot x3
System x3
Cache again x3
Data/data x3
Data x3
SdCard ext partition x1
I wipe the phone until it gets a rash but these conditions remain??? The only cure I have ever found is to wipe/reformat the SD card. I can live with this but I just find it odd.
Dou have data backup checked?
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Hi, i am currently using Kyrillos Rom V 7.0 Non OC.
Yesterday,my phone battery drained to the end (not a problem until here).
When i arrived home i turned it on after charging for a while,but them,all my apps were gone. I can still see them at the Aplications Manager,but i cant "move to phone" (the box is hidden).
I got my SD card formated using a swap and a Ext4 partition so i can use Apps2SD+ and it was working fine for like 1 Month.
Also, my Market can't install any app anymore,since it shows "File Package is not Valid" message.
What i've tried :
1 - Setting / Storage / unmount - > mount Sd Card
2 - Recovery Mode -> Mount and Storage -> Mount Ext , Mount Sdcard , rebooted.
Nothing Worked,
I hope someone can help me.
Thanks.
try wiping cache and dalvik cache
RafayelG said:
try wiping cache and dalvik cache
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Will this Wipe all my apps on Sd ?
I dont want to wipe my Sd card data by any means : (
Since i cant backup it using Titaniun Backup because i can't install it from market,i dont want to wipe my SD.
What exactly this "Wipe Cache and Dalvik Cache" does ?
EDIT : Ok, Seems it doesn't destroy any piece of user data.
Wipping it now,and will be back to tell what happened
Didn't worked.
Any other help ?
This same thing happened to one of my very good friends Jinxskore. He then had to wipe data, cache and dalvik. All three. Then it was normal again. Your data will be lost I am afraid.
dhirend_6d said:
This same thing happened to one of my very good friends Jinxskore. He then had to wipe data, cache and dalvik. All three. Then it was normal again. Your data will be lost I am afraid.
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Fack.
Well,i am still looking for a non hardcore solution,hope i find it .
Thanks anyway.
Anyone else ?
I'm starting to lose my faith : (
Try to use Titanium Backup, install it from your pc!
I have the same thing every time I boot up. After my media scanner is finished it just doesn't show my apps. Only sometimes when I wait very long it shows them. So I try to keep my phone on as long as I can. But I can't install apps from the market either. I touch for example 'free' press accept and it just doesn't start downloading anything! But a reboot fixes the install problem most of the time for a while...
Btw what kinda sd card are you using? I have a 16gb class 2.
So I blame my problems to that.
I have an idea
Hey about Contacts and SMS backup use relavant apps. Contacts can be backed up on Sd card and copied to pc, I dont think sms backup needed you can let them go if they are important PM me to tell you a method. I hope you have root explorer. If no download it from a PC file sharing website and simply install it. Go to /-->data-->app Copy all apks of your installed apps to sd.
Now you wont lose your apps. Backup SD. I would recommend to use *2676*3855# and Hard Reset/ Factory Format your phone. Format SD after complete backup and re partition do all again, set up phone enjoy it again.
My wife just sold her acer tablet what do I need to format in recovery to make sure all our personal data and files are completely deleted?
Wipe data(factory reset)
Wipe cache
Wipe dalvik
And if u have a memory card installed make sure u delete evrything off of it
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Even when I do that when I install a new rom photos and videos stay in the memory. I need all that gone as well. No external sd card is used only when I flash to a new Rom I use one
gmfeny said:
Wipe data(factory reset)
Wipe cache
Wipe dalvik
And if u have a memory card installed make sure u delete evrything off of it
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Unfortunately that won't get photos, and other media off the internal sdcard.
OP could try a factory data reset, located in privacy settings.
Just format your system and flash a stock rom, this ensure nothing is left on it . Than format your sd card if youre going to be including that when you sell it.
Hmmm, pictures of your wife? Could use that as a selling point, charge extra.
(j/k of course)
I'm thinking about wiping my Nook since I can't get WiFisleep to work anymore. But what will happen to all my books and comics stored on the EMMC then? I'm running cyanogen 7 from the internal memory with no traces of BN(the first thing you get when you boot is a small cyanogen logo). Do I have to back all those files up?
If you wipe data and Dalvik you most likely lose those files (depending on where you have stored this files to save). I would suggest backing them up to your uSD to be safe for now.
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If you wipe data and Dalvik you most likely lose those files (depending on where you have stored this files to save). I would suggest backing them up to your uSD to be safe for now.
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Wiping Davlik will not delete those files. I wipe it every time I upgrade to a higher nightly. In fact, it is all that I wipe. The real question is will an update or reflash solve the problem? If it were me, I would flash an update using ROM Manager, wiping Davlik and including gaaps in the update. If that does not solve the issue I would then start from scratch since a system wipe will be needed. However, backing up the apps first using Titanium Backup (but not system settings) will get you back after the new flash.
pat is right, wipe Dalvik doesn't touch files but skeeter also right as wipe /data, everything most likely gone with the wind
votinh said:
pat is right, wipe Dalvik doesn't touch files but skeeter also right as wipe /data, everything most likely gone with the wind
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Wiping /data will indeed wipe all downloaded applications and their associated settings but I think the OP is referring to media files stored on the emmc partition and this will not be touched by a data, system or cache wipe, just like SD card contents won't be touched.
I store some basic media files on internal emmc making use of about 4GB spare capacity. This gets scanned as well as the stuff stored on SD.
Noob question here. I've seen several ROMs that say factory rest, wipe cache, wipe dalvik, which I've done many times on my GS3 and ROM'd over and over. I see on some of the N7 ROMs that say the same, but they add format data and format system before installing. Before I switch ROMs I just want some clarification. Would formatting data and system not wipe the ROM I've downloaded as well as all other data on the device? Am I incorrect in my assumption that formatting will completely wipe everything clean?
Thanks for any help from those that know.
Factory reset is just fine. It wipes data while leaving data/media intact. Formatting data, IIRC, will also wipe data/media, which will erase your virtual sd card. As for system, that is generally taken care of by the install script, although I personally opt to wipe it prior to flashing just to err on the side of caution.
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+1 najaboy's response
You generally do NOT want to "wipe data", as that destroys the pseudo- SD card, which is where you've got all your device backups. Got those backups elsewhere?
"wipe dalvik" or "wipe cache" are superfluous because:
(a) the dalvik-cache area is in the portion of the /data partition that gets wiped by the "Factory Reset" selection. *1
(b) the /cache partition also gets wiped with the "Factory Reset" *1, *2
A lot of the "wipe this, wipe that" instructions persists in ROM installation instructions for cargo cult reasons, and also because devs for prior generations of Android releases may have provided customizations such as symlinking to move the dalvik cache onto ext partitions of external SD cards and so forth. (In that case if you wiped /data first before dalvik-cache, the symlink would disappear, and if the freshly-installed ROM also used the same trick... you would be restarting a new ROM with an old dalvik-cache from a different ROM).
If you want to know what a particular ROM or other flashable .zip file is going to do, unzip the contents of folder
./META-INF/com/android/metadata/
from that ROM/flashable .zip and have a look at the updat*-script file from that folder. It's a plain text file - open it in wordpad or notepad.
Even if you are a non-programmer, you will be able to immediately see what wipes are being performed.
In general, the installer script for full ROM installs will wipe the /system partition explicitly, whereas add-on or update packages will not.
Since there is no guarantee that a inexperienced ROM developer won't do something like wiping (all of) /data, it's not unreasonable for you to look at installer scripts before you use them. You will find that some devs are sloppier than others with things like missing assert() conditions and so forth.
*1 For TWRP anyway; I haven't used CWM for the N7 yet, so I won't vouch for that one.
*2 Note that if a Stock recovery is in use, iirc the "Factory Reset" procedure wipes all of /data - including your pseudo-SD card. So it's definition of "Factory Reset" is different from that of TWRP. Beware; Make backups!
bftb0 said:
+1 najaboy's response
You generally do NOT want to "wipe data", as that destroys the pseudo- SD card, which is where you've got all your device backups. Got those backups elsewhere?
"wipe dalvik" or "wipe cache" are superfluous because:
(a) the dalvik-cache area is in the portion of the /data partition that gets wiped by the "Factory Reset" selection. *1
(b) the /cache partition also gets wiped with the "Factory Reset" *1, *2
A lot of the "wipe this, wipe that" instructions persists in ROM installation instructions for cargo cult reasons, and also because devs for prior generations of Android releases may have provided customizations such as symlinking to move the dalvik cache onto ext partitions of external SD cards and so forth. (In that case if you wiped /data first before dalvik-cache, the symlink would disappear, and if the freshly-installed ROM also used the same trick... you would be restarting a new ROM with an old dalvik-cache from a different ROM).
If you want to know what a particular ROM or other flashable .zip file is going to do, unzip the contents of folder
./META-INF/com/android/metadata/
from that ROM/flashable .zip and have a look at the updat*-script file from that folder. It's a plain text file - open it in wordpad or notepad.
Even if you are a non-programmer, you will be able to immediately see what wipes are being performed.
In general, the installer script for full ROM installs will wipe the /system partition explicitly, whereas add-on or update packages will not.
Since there is no guarantee that a inexperienced ROM developer won't do something like wiping (all of) /data, it's not unreasonable for you to look at installer scripts before you use them. You will find that some devs are sloppier than others with things like missing assert() conditions and so forth.
*1 For TWRP anyway; I haven't used CWM for the N7 yet, so I won't vouch for that one.
*2 Note that if a Stock recovery is in use, iirc the "Factory Reset" procedure wipes all of /data - including your pseudo-SD card. So it's definition of "Factory Reset" is different from that of TWRP. Beware; Make backups!
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Wow. Thanks for the very informative response. I will start looking deeper into the ROMs I'm interested in. :good:
crjjr said:
Wow. Thanks for the very informative response. I will start looking deeper into the ROMs I'm interested in. :good:
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Here's one of the ROMs that says to format system and data. It's the MMuzzy ROM....
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2043869
najaboy said:
Factory reset is just fine. It wipes data while leaving data/media intact. Formatting data, IIRC, will also wipe data/media, which will erase your virtual sd card. As for system, that is generally taken care of by the install script, although I personally opt to wipe it prior to flashing just to err on the side of caution.
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i don't know but correct me if im wrong, coz last time on my sgs captivate days, i used to flash all kinds of rom, then there is this rom that i tried to flash that requires to format system, so i tried that rom and format system in cwm.. then when it bootup my imei messed up! i do not know if thats the reason but after that incident, i never format system anymore, just playing with wipe cache/dalvik factory reset and format sdcard in cwm works fine..
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Perhaps this is already obvious for everybody but thought I'd share it anyway as I only realised/discovered this (after years of android and flashing).
I have the 32GB version of the S6 and usually have about 2 nandroid backups on my device, I noticed that the size of my compressed backups was about 2.6-3GB which is pretty damn big for this phone (in the past I always had phones with sd-cards so plenty of space and never really bothered with it). Checking out if I could delete some temp and unnecessart stuff I found out that by deleting app cache manually and using (in my case TWRP) to delete dalvik and cache I managed to get this down to 1.6GB! So that means ~2.5GB if you have 2 backups on your device (this is with the xtrestolite v1.5 rom btw).
My steps (from now on)?
( 0. Install DiskUsage to identify main culprits: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.android.diskusage )
1. Install App Cache Cleaner from the market: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=mobi.infolife.cache
2. Run app cache cleaner and delete cache from apps where desired (I found out that my browser and the playstore had about 1GB of cache combined, so I cleared all app cache)
3. Reboot to recovery (TWRP) and clear cache and dalvik cache in there (in my case there was about 2.5GB of cache files)
4. Make a nandroid backup
The only downside (afaik) is that the first boot takes quite a bit longer because it's rebuilding a lot of (dalvik cache) stuff. But for me that is just a small price to pay for the increased remaining size
Hope this is usefull to some others as well!
I used SD Maid app, the paid version, on my rooted Oneplus One to do the cleaning before nandroid backup. My S6 is still stock and unrooted.
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