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[Q] Warning TWRP factory reset will wipe your internal memory(Music, backups, photos)

I loved TWRP recovery, but then I did a factory reset. TWRP completely wiped my phone beyond what was needed and no I did not do a custom reset but the default one. I have a nexus 4 and the reset wiped all my data. Music, photos(even the nandroid backup that TWRP created!) CMW does NOT clean the internal data such as music and other folder, it leaves them. Why TWRP wipes it all is beyond me. Thank you for this great custom recovery however I lost a lot of data that cannot be ever replaced and lost hours and hours of time restoring everything since Titanium backups were deleted. This should not have happened. Have others experienced the same?

You probably selected internal memory by accident, I dont recognize the problem.

21plays said:
I loved TWRP recovery, but then I did a factory reset. TWRP completely wiped my phone beyond what was needed and no I did not do a custom reset but the default one. I have a nexus 4 and the reset wiped all my data. Music, photos(even the nandroid backup that TWRP created!) CMW does NOT clean the internal data such as music and other folder, it leaves them. Why TWRP wipes it all is beyond me. Thank you for this great custom recovery however I lost a lot of data that cannot be ever replaced and lost hours and hours of time restoring everything since Titanium backups were deleted. This should not have happened. Have others experienced the same?
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Choose "advanced wipe" then exactly which partition to wipe
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MasterLinuxer said:
Choose "advanced wipe" then exactly which partition to wipe
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First of all, I checked out their site and here is why I shouldn't have to do that. When reading this http://teamw.in/whattowipe Notice the quoted "These options are there for convenience. For instance, if you're getting ready to sell your device, then it's a good idea to wipe everything on the device so that the new owner doesn't get your private data."
I'm just saying that the standard wipe that TWRP provides should not delete my internal mem.

21plays said:
First of all, I checked out their site and here is why I shouldn't have to do that. When reading this http://teamw.in/whattowipe Notice the quoted "These options are there for convenience. For instance, if you're getting ready to sell your device, then it's a good idea to wipe everything on the device so that the new owner doesn't get your private data."
I'm just saying that the standard wipe that TWRP provides should not delete my internal mem.
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I do it all the time. The "standard wipe" has never wiped my internal memory. In fact, they've made it more difficult to accidentally wipe it than it used to be.

How come mine deletes
estallings15 said:
I do it all the time. The "standard wipe" has never wiped my internal memory. In fact, they've made it more difficult to accidentally wipe it than it used to be.
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Weird! Btw, when I do a standard wipe, it even gives me a warning of deleting something and blah(dont remember) Do you get that warning too?

21plays said:
Weird! Btw, when I do a standard wipe, it even gives me a warning of deleting something and blah(dont remember) Do you get that warning too?
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I believe so. Should be a standard confirmation message.

When I factory reset via TWRP my internal storage does not get wiped.
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Have done a factory reset three times last week through TWRP 2.6.0.0 and it always left /data/media alone. Maybe you accidentally toggled a full wipe?

Salty Wagyu said:
Have done a factory reset three times last week through TWRP 2.6.0.0 and it always left /data/media alone. Maybe you accidentally toggled a full wipe?
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Maybe, but i'm sure i just used the default wipe. Either way I am using CWM touch and dont have to worry about that. Thank you all for your support)

Just wiped my phone last night to install Paranoids latest. Using latest TWRP I selected wipe, it stated that it was a factory reset and showed everything that would be touched, afterwards I booted up and restored 5 different backups all from my internal storage so it didn't wipe it lol
You sure you selected the right thing?
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Well, I guess I did something wrong and it cost me big time. Maybe I will give TWRP another try, some other time, will definitely back everything to my pc or DB before I do
Thanks to all who replied
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I have the same problem with TWRP
I did a factory reset and it deleted my backup created with TWRP as well as the ROM I was about to flash along with everything else in the "virtual SD card". Maybe I am missing something since I am new to phones without an SD card.

No, I think you either did a Format DATA (which explain what it is and force you to type "yes" to continue) or you went in advance wipe and selected the Internal Storage to wipe. Factory Reset does not delete the internal memory.

eksasol said:
No, I think you either did a Format DATA (which explain what it is and force you to type "yes" to continue) or you went in advance wipe and selected the Internal Storage to wipe. Factory Reset does not delete the internal memory.
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You have no idea how much I love you and how stupid I feel right now. For some reason I wasn't seeing the swipe to factory reset and you made me realize that. Thanks for helping a noob.

I accidentally formatted my internal storage a before using Advance Wipe, I think they made it too easy to accidentally check the Internal Storage box. It usually goes something like this: F#$%@#$^@$#%^#$%@#%@#%!!!!!!

I also have wiped my entire phone, how on earth do i get it back online to install OS again?

CWM is better i think.
21plays said:
I loved TWRP recovery, but then I did a factory reset. TWRP completely wiped my phone beyond what was needed and no I did not do a custom reset but the default one. I have a nexus 4 and the reset wiped all my data. Music, photos(even the nandroid backup that TWRP created!) CMW does NOT clean the internal data such as music and other folder, it leaves them. Why TWRP wipes it all is beyond me. Thank you for this great custom recovery however I lost a lot of data that cannot be ever replaced and lost hours and hours of time restoring everything since Titanium backups were deleted. This should not have happened. Have others experienced the same?
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Yeah Man Happened to me too just now. Cryiing. Literally crying all my media gone awayyy.
I liked twrp more but now
I think cwm is better than twrp because of this format it did to me.

Cwm was good but it has not been updated for quite some time" while twrp continues to improve imho.

Well even i prefer cwm or philz from cm11 but people still love twrp.
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I can not enter camera, storage, or connect to a pc.

After rooting and getting different ROMs. Something happened and I get all these error messages on different things. It is most likely a corrupt file, but when I factory reset, it is still the same. How do I fix this? I factory reset and didn't even restore anything. I am on basically a new phone. I also still have all my app data though.

egasseMneddiH said:
After rooting and getting different ROMs. Something happened and I get all these error messages on different things. It is most likely a corrupt file, but when I factory reset, it is still the same. How do I fix this? I factory reset and didn't even restore anything. I am on basically a new phone. I also still have all my app data though.
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You need to do a full wipe, meaning everything (except the sdcard), especially the system.
How are you doing the factory reset btw? If you're doing it via the recovery, you're good to go. After doing the factory reset, go into the advanced wipe section and wipe the system also. If you are using TWRP, you can select system on the first screen after choosing wipe.
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Berrydroidcafe said:
You need to do a full wipe, meaning everything (except the sdcard), especially the system.
How are you doing the factory reset btw? If you're doing it via the recovery, you're good to go. After doing the factory reset, go into the advanced wipe section and wipe the system also. If you are using TWRP, you can select system on the first screen after choosing wipe.
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I am using Clockwork. Thank you. Don't think I will do it today though. I have already spent too much time.

egasseMneddiH said:
I am using Clockwork. Thank you.
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Since I don't have cwm installed, I'd be doing you a disservice, but try wiping everything from the recovery and try again. Most roms will wipe system and so forth, but not all of them does a good job of it and end up leaving bits and pieces lying around.
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KITKAT 4.4.2 NEE deleted all my files..

Hi! i recently updated my Note 3 SM-N9005 to KITKAT. with kies. and now all my files on the sd card is gone.. i did a factory reset but i didnt think that could delete them.. i only use internal sd.. could that be the problem?.. i need them.. so any solution or gone forever?

Anyone?

You have lost all your files, simple as that. Sorry to say but always backup your stuff before doing something like this.
Probably the firmware you installed also had an other csc. This almost always wipes your system to a new phone.
Sent from my SM-N9005 beast of a phone.

Streykatorato said:
Hi! i recently updated my Note 3 SM-N9005 to KITKAT. with kies. and now all my files on the sd card is gone.. i did a factory reset but i didnt think that could delete them.. i only use internal sd.. could that be the problem?.. i need them.. so any solution or gone forever?
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Factory reset will delete all internal memory. Factory reset will delete everything, not external SD.

Sammath said:
You have lost all your files, simple as that. Sorry to say but always backup your stuff before doing something like this.
Probably the firmware you installed also had an other csc. This almost always wipes your system to a new phone.
Sent from my SM-N9005 beast of a phone.
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brochs said:
Factory reset will delete all internal memory. Factory reset will delete everything, not external SD.
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Soo.. all hope is gone?..

Streykatorato said:
Soo.. all hope is gone?..
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I would say so. There might be somone that maybe could get som deleted files back, but my guess is it would be very expencive, and maybe also destroy the phone (not sure about this).

brochs said:
I would say so. There might be somone that maybe could get som deleted files back, but my guess is it would be very expencive, and maybe also destroy the phone (not sure about this).
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Hmm.. note to self then.. factory reset deletes everything..

Recover all my internal sd data ?!

Hey guys , so last night i've messed up my phone and the only solution was to fix it by kdz and after i had to do a factory reset to make the phone boot
So i knew that after that factory reset all my datas will be lost , so i've been looking for fews software to recover all my datas but i can't find none to work out....
does any of u have any suggestions ? or if u used a software to restore ur data from the internal sd ?
Thanks and hope i'll get ll my data back :finger-crossed:

Christian Nothing said:
Hey guys , so last night i've messed up my phone and the only solution was to fix it by kdz and after i had to do a factory reset to make the phone boot
So i knew that after that factory reset all my datas will be lost , so i've been looking for fews software to recover all my datas but i can't find none to work out....
does any of u have any suggestions ? or if u used a software to restore ur data from the internal sd ?
Thanks and hope i'll get ll my data back :finger-crossed:
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Hello, I used LG Backup to to restore my data, but I'm afraid that since you did a factory reset on your device, you have no data of to restore, UNLESS you backed up some data on your computer and unless your Google account backed up some of your data, but other than that, you have lost all your data.
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TechGirl90 said:
Hello, I used LG Backup to to restore my data, but I'm afraid that since you did a factory reset on your device, you have no data of to restore, UNLESS you backed up some data on your computer and unless your Google account backed up some of your data, but other than that, you have lost all your data.
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yeah i had few lg backups made but unfortunately they were on my internal sd ofc
what i want to recover is my internal sd , i dont care about the apps or those , i always take recovery backups on my otg stick .
thx for reply btw :good:

Christian Nothing said:
yeah i had few lg backups made but unfortunately they were on my internal sd ofc
what i want to recover is my internal sd , i dont care about the apps or those , i always take recovery backups on my otg stick .
thx for reply btw :good:
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If all your backups were on the internal storage and you completed a factory reset, I'm afraid you've lost it all.

Christian Nothing said:
yeah i had few lg backups made but unfortunately they were on my internal sd ofc
what i want to recover is my internal sd , i dont care about the apps or those , i always take recovery backups on my otg stick .
thx for reply btw :good:
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Sorry, but unfortunately, the Internal Storage on your phone has been rewritten during the factory reset, it can't be recovered, I'm sorry[emoji20]
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prowsterz said:
If all your backups were on the internal storage and you completed a factory reset, I'm afraid you've lost it all.
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i dont need backups or so ...
all i need is my music and photos and etc... whatever i had in my intsd
TechGirl90 said:
Sorry, but unfortunately, the Internal Storage on your phone has been rewritten during the factory reset, it can't be recovered, I'm sorry[emoji20]
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oh bummer
maybe one of those apps to recover files will work ?
but since our phones cant make an usb mass storage connection , only mtp or lg software , the ussual apps i use to recover my deleted files doesn't see my phone

Christian Nothing said:
i dont need backups or so ...
all i need is my music and photos and etc... whatever i had in my intsd
oh bummer
maybe one of those apps to recover files will work ?
but since our phones cant make an usb mass storage connection , only mtp or lg software , the ussual apps i use to recover my deleted files doesn't see my phone
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Next time if anything goes wrong with your device again, backup all your music,photos,videos, etc using LG Backup app on the LG G2, and heres what I did, once LG Backup completed the backup I've made, I go to my computer and plug in my device and set the method to MTP, then I look for a folder called "LG Backup" I copy this file and paste it onto my desktop, and so that once I've factory reseted my device, I can just go to my computer again, plug in my device as MTP, copy the LG Backup file, and paste it into the LG Backup folder that's inside my device, and my personal files will be restored.[emoji4]
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TechGirl90 said:
Next time if anything goes wrong with your device again, backup all your music,photos,videos, etc using LG Backup app on the LG G2, and heres what I did, once LG Backup completed the backup I've made, I go to my computer and plug in my device and set the method to MTP, then I look for a folder called "LG Backup" I copy this file and paste it onto my desktop, and so that once I've factory reseted my device, I can just go to my computer again, plug in my device as MTP, copy the LG Backup file, and paste it into the LG Backup folder that's inside my device, and my personal files will be restored.[emoji4]
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i'm sorry if i may sound rude !
but how could i use lg backup if the phone partitions was corrupted and i couldn't boot the rom ?
i had accessible the internal storage via twrp recovery but as u know u cant mount a usb connection while in recovery ...
the only way i could make it boot again was to wipe all , and i thought(i will never thought this thing again) that i could use a software to recover my files but it seems any softwares doesnt sees the mtp connection
and i didnt had planned to corrupt my system partition while working on my port
and i'm sorry again if i am rude , but the exhausting and the nerves i had last few hrs kinda makes me a bad person
and thx for all the help ure trying to give me :angel:

Christian Nothing said:
i'm sorry if i may sound rude !
but how could i use lg backup if the phone partitions was corrupted and i couldn't boot the rom ?
i had accessible the internal storage via twrp recovery but as u know u cant mount a usb connection while in recovery ...
the only way i could make it boot again was to wipe all , and i thought(i will never thought this thing again) that i could use a software to recover my files but it seems any softwares doesnt sees the mtp connection
and i didnt had planned to corrupt my system partition while working on my port
and i'm sorry again if i am rude , but the exhausting and the nerves i had last few hrs kinda makes me a bad person
and thx for all the help ure trying to give me :angel:
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I'm sorry that this has happened with your device, I wish there was another way to restore your personal files, but there's not.[emoji20]
PS: you wasn't rude
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twrp has an internal file manager (under advanced menu)...
so if you didn't wipe/format sd card but only system partition you can copypaste folders/files to external usb otg stick directly from twrp
or did you wipe absolutely everything?

Christian Nothing said:
yeah i had few lg backups made but unfortunately they were on my internal sd ofc
what i want to recover is my internal sd , i dont care about the apps or those , i always take recovery backups on my otg stick .
thx for reply btw :good:
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If I read you right and you have a nandroid backup on your OTG stick restoring that will restore all your photos etc (at least those that were on your device at the moment you made the backup)
Sent from my LG-D802 using Tapatalk

TechGirl90 said:
I'm sorry that this has happened with your device, I wish there was another way to restore your personal files, but there's not.[emoji20]
PS: you wasn't rude
Sent from my LG-LS980 using Tapatalk
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offff bummer
thanks for understanding tho :good:
60nine said:
twrp has an internal file manager (under advanced menu)...
so if you didn't wipe/format sd card but only system partition you can copypaste folders/files to external usb otg stick directly from twrp
or did you wipe absolutely everything?
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at that moment i didn't thought that i'll have to wipe even the internal to brig the phone alive again
only after flashing the kdz firmware and ended up in a new bootloop but this time i got in the logs that the rom was booting only that the internal was detected corrupted too , and i had no other option since i had no recovery left after kdz to perform a factory reset
corrsea said:
If I read you right and you have a nandroid backup on your OTG stick restoring that will restore all your photos etc (at least those that were on your device at the moment you made the backup)
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i had a nandroid backup which i restored of my previous working rom build with all my apps and data but since that nandroid backup didn't included the internal sd files those weren't restored

well i'm sorry then
it seems we all learn the hard way...
i hope someone knows the other way to recover (or even try)...
i.e. if only phone could be recognized on PC as an usb storage device and then trying to point some recovery program to that partition (don't know if this is possible at all with our phone)

60nine said:
well i'm sorry then
it seems we all learn the hard way...
i hope someone knows the other way to recover (or even try)...
i.e. if only phone could be recognized on PC as an usb storage device and then trying to point some recovery program to that partition (don't know if this is possible at all with our phone)
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Agree.
If our phone would have a way of setting the connection to pc as mass storage i might be able to restore or recover some data , but since there isn't, all I'm just saying is "screw u lg software" ?
Sent thru my beastly LG G² using Tapatalk⁴

@bender_007 - do you have any ideas here?

60nine said:
@bender_007 - do you have any ideas here?
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I hope ??
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I do but I'll send them via pm because posting it here breaks xda rules.

bender_007 said:
I do but I'll send them via pm because posting it here breaks xda rules.
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Thank you mate for the help.
I'll try to do that method as soon as I'll be home from work.
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[Q] Does the 'sdcard' folder survives an hard reset?

Hi. Just got the 60P. I was wondering if I have to backup my files everytime I need to hard reset the phone. I have the 64GB version and it would be a pain. Thanks.

I'm assuming you're talking about the internal storage and that by resetting you mean restore to factory default via settings. Then yes, you'll have to back up your files to a separate location before you reset. The internal storage gets wiped when you do so. You'll also get a warning stating that stuff like photos, videos and apps etc. get wiped.
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This comes as a surprise, really. No sense to bother to test roms then. What a pain.

Well, lets clarify this. When I had my gnex with only the internal storage, and would wipe in between roms, I wouldn't loss the files and roms I had downloaded. But would lose everything else like in a normal factory reset. Not sure how or why. Hopefully someone else can chime in. I mean cause what would be the point of creating nandroid backups if they just get deleted every time you wipe and flash a new rom.

Exactly. I had a previous nexus (nexus 3 maybe) and it kept my files.

Yeah so we need some clarification. Cause I'd like to flash some roms to but not if everything just gets deleted, including my roms and backups.

Okay so figured it out. When in twrp and wiping data, just make sure internal storage is not ticked. Then all your backups, roms, and whatever else will remain.

A factory reset will not touch your SD card. If you go in advance wipe in twrp you have the option to check internal storage but it isn't checked by default. If you check this it will wipe everything but there is no need to do this to clean flash ROMs.

tu3218 said:
Okay so figured it out. When in twrp and wiping data, just make sure internal storage is not ticked. Then all your backups, roms, and whatever else will remain.
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murphyjasonc said:
A factory reset will not touch your SD card. If you go in advance wipe in twrp you have the option to check internal storage but it isn't checked by default. If you check this it will wipe everything but there is no need to do this to clean flash ROMs.
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This. TWRP leaves /sdcard untouched when you do a Factory Reset. /sdcard is where all of your pics, video, downloaded files reside. This is stated on the TWRP screen above where you swipe to perform a Factory Reset.
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Root and twrp it is then! Thanks guys!

Yes In TWRP you have Safe External SD card + Only Device Memory Reset