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I did a factory reset and everything got erased from the internal memory, videos,pics,mp3s,....etc.
Is this normal?
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DKM119 said:
I did a factory reset and everything got erased from the internal memory, videos,pics,mp3s,....etc.
Is this normal?
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Yes, perfectly normal. In fact, it's pretty much the definition of "factory reset,' i.e., returning the device to the state it was in when it left the factory.

Well on my G1 and on my vibrant...this didn't happened...i know what a factory reset is and do...and this is really weird...
One thing is to erase the part of the memory that the OS is using...other is to "format" the internal memory all the time I do a factory reset.
Do this mean that I have to transfer my files to the microsd before a factory reset...or I flash a custom Rom?
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DKM119 said:
Well on my G1 and on my vibrant...this didn't happened...i know what a factory reset is and do...and this is really weird...
One thing is to erase the part of the memory that the OS is using...other is to "format" the internal memory all the time I do a factory reset.
Do this mean that I have to transfer my files to the microsd before a factory reset...or I flash a custom Rom?
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Is your G1 or Vibrant running some custom ROM/recovery? Some custom ROM/recovery modified the factory reset to not touch /data/media/, that'll explain why you kept your media when you reset. As for having to backup before factory reset (yes, you have to unless you root and install solarnz's modded CWM and use the factory reset on it (he disabled wiping of /data/media). For flashing custom ROM, you don't need to backup everything if the ROM won't wipe everything (read the desc of the ROM).

I'm using CWM on my vibrant but I guess Honeycomb handles the memory in a different way...like I said I totally understand that the OS is over written when I do a reset or flash another Rom..what I can't understand is why the rest of the available memory get overwritten too.
For example I have some pics and videos that was on the DCMI folder and some ebooks that I transfer from my pc and those got erased...and those were in the internal memory...anyway...got to do some restore now...
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DKM119 said:
I'm using CWM on my vibrant but I guess Honeycomb handles the memory in a different way...like I said I totally understand that the OS is over written when I do a reset or flash another Rom..what I can't understand is why the rest of the available memory get overwritten too.
For example I have some pics and videos that was on the DCMI folder and some ebooks that I transfer from my pc and those got erased...and those were in the internal memory...anyway...got to do some restore now...
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Like mentioned above, it is probably due to the version of CWM you're running on your Vibrant. If you install solarnz's CWM, it'll keep your media after wipe too.

Your Pics and Stuff that didnt get Erases before Was Probably on an External SD Card. The Transformer Reads The Internal Memory as an SD card too so you probably got confused. Anything on a SD you put in should be fine. Anything in Transformer SD card is erased.

It's a new thing with Honeycomb. Any built in storage is considered when doing a factory reset.
On 2.3 this was not the case (Nexus S for example).

HorsexD said:
Your Pics and Stuff that didnt get Erases before Was Probably on an External SD Card. The Transformer Reads The Internal Memory as an SD card too so you probably got confused. Anything on a SD you put in should be fine. Anything in Transformer SD card is erased.
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Transformer actually wiped my MicroSD when I did a wipe before. Wipers be ware!

Wipe the SD card

Is the only way to wipe the sd card is to use CWM? Is there any other way? Also, will this have any negative effects to the device? Does the system require specific folders to work/run?

First you need to make a backup of your rom using CWR, or i prefer 4ext ( mainly cause i can enable usb mass storage while in recovery once plugged into pc)....
2nd ..You should copy all contents from ur storage by connecting ur phone to pc
3rd. place existing folders from sdcard storage to a backup folder a.k.a Nexus 7 backup folder. This will also include your backup under clockworkmod/backup/xxxx_xx_backup.
4th...format sdcard in recovery(4ext) allows for multiple partitioning options..
5th..once formatted...download any ro and boot up..once booted up compare all folders in sdcard to those of backup on pc u created earlier and copy folders to new formatted sdcard..
6th.. note you created the backup earlier which is housed in the clockworkmod/backup folder on pc. Make sure u copy that folder onto sdcard along with i.e dcim, movies, pictures, gameloft..etc...etc..basically all files from ur pc folder that contains all the sdcard contents explained in step 3.
Hope this helps
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r1tesh said:
First you need to make a backup of your rom using CWR, or i prefer 4ext ( mainly cause i can enable usb mass storage while in recovery once plugged into pc)....
2nd ..You should copy all contents from ur storage by connecting ur phone to pc
3rd. place existing folders from sdcard storage to a backup folder a.k.a Nexus 7 backup folder. This will also include your backup under clockworkmod/backup/xxxx_xx_backup.
4th...format sdcard in recovery(4ext) allows for multiple partitioning options..
5th..once formatted...download any ro and boot up..once booted up compare all folders in sdcard to those of backup on pc u created earlier and copy folders to new formatted sdcard..
6th.. note you created the backup earlier which is housed in the clockworkmod/backup folder on pc. Make sure u copy that folder onto sdcard along with i.e dcim, movies, pictures, gameloft..etc...etc..basically all files from ur pc folder that contains all the sdcard contents explained in step 3.
Hope this helps
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I am not on any custom Rom at the moment. I'm currently running stock and stock kernal.
All I wanted to do was start fresh since my storage has become some what messy and unorganized. I already made a back up using cwm. I just wanted to wipe the sd card in the device. I already have my important files backed up including ePub, mp3, apk files etc
I'm just concerned that if I wipe the sd, the nexus 7 won't run the way it should.
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bustinstugots24 said:
I am not on any custom Rom at the moment. I'm currently running stock and stock kernal.
All I wanted to do was start fresh since my storage has become some what messy and unorganized. I already made a back up using cwm. I just wanted to wipe the sd card in the device. I already have my important files backed up including ePub, mp3, apk files etc
I'm just concerned that if I wipe the sd, the nexus 7 won't run the way it should.
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Settings>storage>erase USB storage
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DarkhShadow said:
Settings>storage>erase USB storage
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I dont see erase USB storage as an option.
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Use ADB from the CMD :
fastboot erase boot
fastboot erase cache
fastboot erase recovery
fastboot erase system
fastboot erase userdata

Take a look with what I am dealing with in the screen shot. It says the system has 13 GB in the system but only 3 GB left. If you add up all the apps you can easily see there is no way I used 10 GB of storage. It just doesn't add up. Can't really figure out what's going on.
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bustinstugots24 said:
Take a look with what I am dealing with in the screen shot. It says the system has 13 GB in the system but only 3 GB left. If you add up all the apps you can easily see there is no way I used 10 GB of storage. It just doesn't add up. Can't really figure out what's going on.
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I think you have the "Dead Space" that android commonly sees.
Like you already asked you need to reformat your tab etc, that is THE ONLY way to return the dead space back into usable.

Maybe: backup and restore->factory reset, is the option you are looking for?
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Wilks3y said:
I think you have the "Dead Space" that android commonly sees.
Like you already asked you need to reformat your tab etc, that is THE ONLY way to return the dead space back into usable.
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stijndebruin said:
Maybe: backup and restore->factory reset, is the option you are looking for?
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If I do the factory reset, I have a few questions.
One, will it cause me to lose root?
Second, will it also wipe the storage card? ( I would assume so)
Third, I never heard of this dead space issue. Why does this happen?

Don't know about root. But that should be easy enough to get back. I was ballsy enough to press the option thought it would prompt me before wiping and it did .
See screenshot.
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stijndebruin said:
Don't know about root. But that should be easy enough to get back. I was ballsy enough to press the option thought it would prompt me before wiping and it did .
See screenshot.
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Thanks for that. I am currently trying to back everything up at the moment. I'm nervous but I'm going to give it a shot. Let you know how it goes.
I was thinking, maybe if I went in to staples and showed them that the storage card was showing me incorrect info, maybe they would swap it ouf for me for one of the newer 32 gb ones. I'd even pay the $50 difference if the 16gb drops down to $200
Might be worth a shot lol

bustinstugots24 said:
Thanks for that. I am currently trying to back everything up at the moment. I'm nervous but I'm going to give it a shot. Let you know how it goes.
I was thinking, maybe if I went in to staples and showed them that the storage card was showing me incorrect info, maybe they would swap it ouf for me for one of the newer 32 gb ones. I'd even pay the $50 difference if the 16gb drops down to $200
Might be worth a shot lol
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Okay, so I reset the tablet and nothing really has changed. It didn't format the storage because pretty much everything I had it in there before is still there except for music and videos etc. i still have root access. I still only have 3 gb available so something is definietely wrong. I'm just not really sure what to do. The system even rebooted in tablet mode which I had it set to before. What does anyone think the next step should be?

bustinstugots24 said:
Okay, so I reset the tablet and nothing really has changed. It didn't format the storage because pretty much everything I had it in there before is still there except for music and videos etc. i still have root access. I still only have 3 gb available so something is definietely wrong. I'm just not really sure what to do. The system even rebooted in tablet mode which I had it set to before. What does anyone think the next step should be?
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Anyone that can help?

bustinstugots24 said:
Anyone that can help?
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If you've formatted your system you're not a noob so you've probably already done this too, but run ES File Explorer > Manager > SD Card Analyst.
Do you use CWM to backup you roms?

johnnyvol said:
If you've formatted your system you're not a noob so you've probably already done this too, but run ES File Explorer > Manager > SD Card Analyst.
Do you use CWM to backup you roms?
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I grew the balls to just format the SD card using CWM. I was pretty nervous but it did reboot and it wiped everything.
I now have 13.0 gb free out of 13.2. Pretty pleased. Finally!.
I was also able to keep root as well.

Nice. Thanks for finding this out for the community!
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stijndebruin said:
Nice. Thanks for finding this out for the community!
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No problem. I was really nervous. In all honesty though there has to be another way. I mean I have root access obviously. Lets say you get some regular user who doesn't know much and they just want to wipe their device clean. What exactly are you supposed to do? why isn't a factory reset wiping out the storage card? It is very strange.

bustinstugots24 said:
No problem. I was really nervous. In all honesty though there has to be another way. I mean I have root access obviously. Lets say you get some regular user who doesn't know much and they just want to wipe their device clean. What exactly are you supposed to do? why isn't a factory reset wiping out the storage card? It is very strange.
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Because the SD card is where you store pictures, music and other stuff, a factory reset wiping that would be a long process(copying it off then back on) and most of the time not required
and the space not showing up in storage settings menu, it only shows stuff in the default android locations, just a fyi
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[Q] Cannot Install Any Custom Rom's

I can no longer install any of the custom roms on my AT&T S4. This is both on OUDHS 1.034 & 1.035 and TWRP 2.5.0.2 The files all fail. OUDHS says the files are bad. This only began today. Anyone have any ideas of what I might try. I have a 64 GB external SD card in the phone.

If it were me, I would start over period, quit wasting time, odin back to stock and root, and so on. You could be done in 30min or so, or wait and try things that are probably not going to work.

I forgot to mention I have Odin'd back 3 times restarted root & etc. I thought my SD card might've corrupted but all my pic files & videos are all fine.

Did you reset to factory after you odin?
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C13v3r0n3 said:
Did you reset to factory after you odin?
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Yes. Always.

Pull the extsdcard and see whats up. Houston, we may have a problem here.

TheAxman said:
Pull the extsdcard and see whats up. Houston, we may have a problem here.
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It is in the SD card somehow. I copied one of the roms & a Gapps file to the internal and it installed fine. What can be up with my SD card?

Hmm, bad download? Which roms are you trying to flash?
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C13v3r0n3 said:
Hmm, bad download? Which roms are you trying to flash?
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It was all of them today. CM 10.1 Nightly, Task650's, Bean Stalk, Slim & Pac Man & Paranoid. I put Task650's 6-18 & Gapps 6-12 on my Internal drive and then it installed perfectly.

Backup the card and do a full format with sdformatter. No quick format. Then reload card.
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rugmankc said:
Backup the card and do a full format with sdformatter. No quick format. Then reload card.
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Thanks. I'll give it a whirl tomorrow. What format type should I use?

Sorry missed your reply. It is in the sdformatter instructions. Haven't used it for awhile. But, believe you want Full Erase On and Size Adjustment ON. It will do fat32. No quick format. May take awhile--
Back Up phone and sdcard first and put a copy of each on pc also--

rugmankc said:
Sorry missed your reply. It is in the sdformatter instructions. Haven't used it for awhile. But, believe you want Full Erase On and Size Adjustment ON. It will do fat32. No quick format. May take awhile--
Back Up phone and sdcard first and put a copy of each on pc also--
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I formatted it the slow way. I'm going to let my wife try it awhile on her Razr HD. I found a new 32 GB in my desk that I'm going to try.

where can i get that desk lol

Exd sd card foramted!!!!

WHAT?!?!?!?!? WHAT HAPPENED?!?!?
I WAS ON CM 10.2 AND WANTED TO INSTALL CM 11 AND WHEN I FACTORY RESET IT DELTED EVERYTHING IN MY EXT SD CARD!!!!!!!
Why?!?!?!? WHY?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!??!?!?!?!?!?!?!??!?!?!?!?!?!?!? WTF do I do now?! OMGGGGGGGG

Happened with me twice including the internal storage. Nothing can be done now. And yeah wrong section
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Calm down, accept the fact that there's no way to get stuff back now. And jeez, spellcheck, every browser has that integrated now.
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lukasspro777 said:
...... accept the fact that there's no way to get stuff back now. .....
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WROOOONG, still recoverable.
Lots of programs(like get data back, advanced file recovery... etc) can recover the data. Do NOT write any data on extSdcard and scan at computer with revovery programs. If sdcard had fat32 file system most easly recoverable, ntfs is harder than fat32. If had exfat file system i dunno
Again Do NOT reformat or write any data to extSdcard(microsd i assume) and scan with programs.
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Bei60 said:
WTF do I do now?! OMGGGGGGGG
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Commit seppuku?

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accidentally wiped my data

hi all
i was flashing a new rom using twrp v2.8.3.1 and i accidentally left the data option checked and now i lost everything
please help i don't know what to do?

atsamoon said:
hi all
i was flashing a new rom using twrp v2.8.3.1 and i accidentally left the data option checked and now i lost everything
please help i don't know what to do?
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Restore a nandroid or push a rom.zip onto your phone through recovery and flash that or flash the factory image with fastboot
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jd1639 said:
Restore a nandroid or push a rom.zip onto your phone through recovery and flash that or flash the factory image with fastboot
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i did restore the system i know hot to do that
its that i lost all the data that i had pics docs pdfs apps everything
and some of those are very importanat

atsamoon said:
i did restore the system i know hot to do that
its that i lost all the data that i had pics docs pdfs apps everything
and some of those are very importanat
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Try disk digger from the play store. But most likely you're sol.
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jd1639 said:
Try disk digger from the play store. But most likely you're sol.
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tried it ,didn't work

download Recuva for your PC, connect your phone and then try to scan your internal memory and maybe you will recover something... but many files may be corrupted

atsamoon said:
hi all
i was flashing a new rom using twrp v2.8.3.1 and i accidentally left the data option checked and now i lost everything
please help i don't know what to do?
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Wiping data should leave media and internal storage alone. So pics and stuff I believe should still be there.
You not coming from a really old ROM to new are you and the path has changed ?
As in the emulated sdcard/0 or whatever it is.

pops106 said:
Wiping data should leave media and internal storage alone. So pics and stuff I believe should still be there.
You not coming from a really old ROM to new are you and the path has changed ?
As in the emulated sdcard/0 or whatever it is.
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I don't really know what was the emulated sdcard
I was on kitkat 4.4 purity and i upgraded to LP through flashing a zip file
and now my phone is wiped clean ,nothing on it ,I have tried some recovery apps and non has been successful
i lost all hope
anyway thnx all for replaying :good:

parkourz said:
download Recuva for your PC, connect your phone and then try to scan your internal memory and maybe you will recover something... but many files may be corrupted
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recuva couldn't detect my device and i already tried it with USB debugging on and off and storage set to as camera and mass storage