Can I perform a factory reset when I have root user? It was suggested by a Google store representative to fix my WiFi connection dropping problem and then if it doesn't work, I can return. Just need to know if anything will break if I factoryreset/ will I still have root after the reset?
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Yes. You always need to do a factory reset anyway when upgrading or changing roms too. And that's done in recovery.
First tho: wifi drops were common when I upgraded the GNex from 4.0 to 4.1. Try cycling airplane mode on & off. Usually worked in that case. Also you may try: "Forget" the wifi source, leave wifi on & reboot. Let the device search for wifi again & then sign back in. But, the airplane mode cycle gave me the best results in my situation. You can also try installing a different rom and/or kernel
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Definitely you will have root even after factory reset, but all data will go and market apps needs to be re-installed. But if you still have wifi issues and return the device, not sure if you'll get warranty on a rooted device.
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I've got a bit of a problem with my Nexus 10, I want to do a factory reset to remove encryption, but the factory reset fails every time. I've tried the stock one via the menus, and the clockwork one via recovery, but neither works. I thought I'd have a go at re-rooting it to see if I could force the issue, but the recovery isn't able to mount the SD, so I can't get to the file to flash. The unit is spoofing a Galaxy Nexus for SkyGo purposes, which seems to be causing the adb drivers to not work on my PC, as it's obviously not seeing it as a Nexus 10 when I connect. I can't remove the spoofing, as it needs to be rooted, which brings me full circle.
It's a right pickle!
Any ideas what I might be able to do to get the unit rooted again?
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I've got a bit of a problem with my Nexus 10, I want to do a factory reset to remove encryption, but the factory reset fails every time. I've tried the stock one via the menus, and the clockwork one via recovery, but neither works. I thought I'd have a go at re-rooting it to see if I could force the issue, but the recovery isn't able to mount the SD, so I can't get to the file to flash. The unit is spoofing a Galaxy Nexus for SkyGo purposes, which seems to be causing the adb drivers to not work on my PC, as it's obviously not seeing it as a Nexus 10 when I connect. I can't remove the spoofing, as it needs to be rooted, which brings me full circle.
It's a right pickle!
Any ideas what I might be able to do to get the unit rooted again?
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Custom recoveries don't deal with encryption, if I'm remembering things correctly. If your stock recovery's not working either, then that's a serious cause for concern (and is likely why factory reset isn't working for you). To be honest, you may be kind of hosed on this install around. I'd recommend that you boot up, back up your data using Titanium Backup, offload it (connect it to a PC/cloud service while device is on), then plonk into fastboot and just reinstall (or RUU).
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Custom recoveries don't deal with encryption, if I'm remembering things correctly. If your stock recovery's not working either, then that's a serious cause for concern (and is likely why factory reset isn't working for you). To be honest, you may be kind of hosed on this install around. I'd recommend that you boot up, back up your data using Titanium Backup, offload it (connect it to a PC/cloud service while device is on), then plonk into fastboot and just reinstall (or RUU).
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Therein lies the problem though, for whatever reason my PC won't recognise the nexus 10, despite the drivers being installed from the ADK etc.
Because of that, I can't use fastboot or anything PC based. I suspect it's because the device is spoofed as a Galaxy Nexus.
The device is currently unrooted too, so that also limits my options.
My data isn't really a problem, I'm happy to wipe everything, it's all backed up on my NAS anyway.
Isn't there any sort of physical reset button anywhere that will force a factory reset?
Managed to get the drivers working on my gf's laptop, not sure why my PC wasn't playing ball, but this is all fixed now.
Ta!
Due to complications involving the Rom Toolkit from the Playstore, I had to factory reset my rooted Nexus 4 (only had xposed installed, no other roms or kernels). After having gone through all of that drama I thought I finally solved my problems by factory reseting my phone, but, of course, there was yet another problem. When I got to the screen where it asked me to pick a wifi connection, it couldn't turn the wifi on. The text "turning wifi on" was stuck there. It was't frozen, it just wouldn't turn on. So I went through the other steps of preparing my newly reset phone and then once set up, I went to the settings to try the wifi again, but the same message was displayed. So, I factory reset my phone once again, but I had the same issue. Also, it factory reset to android version 4.2.2 instead of kitkat for some reason, I don't know if that's relevant.
If you need more information about how I got to this point, I posted this thread on Reddit: wwwreddit.com/r/nexus4/comments/27n0jg/rom_toolbox_put_my_n4_into_a_bootloop/ (add a dot after www, since I'm a new user, they won't let me post urls)
Any help is very much appreciated.
Install the lastest factory image to your nexus 4, there are a lot of guides of how to do it.
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Folks,
Strange one. Just upgraded to Lollipop 5.0 and now when I move out of range from a WIFI access point, my phone DOES NOT automatically switch to mobile data. Previously on KitKat 4.4.2, where this would occur automatically.
Strange thing is that when I manually switch off the WIFI transmitter on my phone, it then switches to mobile data.
Don't want to have to do this all the time when I'm out of range!
Any advice would be great.
Thanks in advance.
Mine did that once, clearing cache from recovery and rebooting the phone fixed it
Turn off smart network switch too from wifi settings
Cheers.
Will give this a try.
Also remember that after upgrading from KK to LP, leaves a load of rubbish files behind from KK that cause all sorts of problems, it is highly advised to factory reset after upgrading, you'll find most people here have done that and it solves a majority of problems
Ok cool.
Looks like I might have to do this.
Have tried clearing cache from recovery and have also disabled autoswitching - still getting the same issue.
Will try a factory reset.
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?
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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?
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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.
Just updated my Galaxy S7 to Nougat this morning, now I can't get a mobile data connection or send/receive text messages.
I've tried restarting, removing the SIM, turning data on/off, and airplane mode. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Have you gone into recovery and wiped cache?
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Worse comes to worse, factory reset if clearing cache doesn't do it.
As long as you set everything to back up to the cloud, you should be good. But make sure you have done this before you do a FDR. I usually copy stuff down to my PC just in case though before doing an FDR.
I've had no issues with the Nougat update. I'm really pleased with it. Phone is just as smooth and snappy as it was under MM. Could be the euphoria of having Nougat, but it seems as if it's even smoother than before.
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Have you gone into recovery and wiped cache?
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Trying to do this, just getting a bluescreen with a yellow triangle and dead android icon. Says "No Command" or "Error"
From that screen press PWR and Volume up
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Trying to do this, just getting a bluescreen with a yellow triangle and dead android icon. Says "No Command" or "Error"
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If you can still boot into the desktop, I'd copy down whatever you can to your PC or some external drive and then do a factory data reset. That might be your only option now if you're getting the Dead Andy.
BTW, you weren't rooted or had any other customizations done to the phone's image? Usually, OTAs won't work with modified/rooted phones, but I've seen some cases where the OTA goes ahead and applies itself and then the phone is rendered useless until they either flash back to a stock image (when they've rooted or customized) or factory reset if they didn't customize it.
In this post (https://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=71321950&postcount=15), the user I believe had disabled some stock apps that were required for the update and that caused some issues. He used the Verizon software repair tool and it apparently either re-enables those apps, or if you removed some, it puts them back on. Once he did that, he was able to accept the update and it worked for him. So, if you had disabled some apps, that might be part of your issue, especially if it's an app that is required by the stock system.
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From that screen press PWR and Volume up
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Got it, was able to wipe but still no network connection. Any other ideas?
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If you can still boot into the desktop, I'd copy down whatever you can to your PC or some external drive and then do a factory data reset. That might be your only option now if you're getting the Dead Andy.
BTW, you weren't rooted or had any other customizations done to the phone's image? Usually, OTAs won't work with modified/rooted phones, but I've seen some cases where the OTA goes ahead and applies itself and then the phone is rendered useless until they either flash back to a stock image (when they've rooted or customized) or factory reset if they didn't customize it.
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Trying to avoid having to do this, but if I have to I will. Was able to get past the dead andy screen though.
No root.
ndzynes said:
Trying to avoid having to do this, but if I have to I will. Was able to get past the dead andy screen though.
No root.
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What build were you on previously?
Try downloading the Samsung repair assistant and go into download mode. This will wipe your device so you might want to back it up using smartswitch.
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