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I downloaded Google Books today just to play around with it and now I cannot uninstall it. I don't want to root my phone just to get rid of it. Will a hard reset help?
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Not sure bout a hard reset. When i got my phone, this was already preinstalled. Your phone might think its a system app and not clear after a hard reset.
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Hmm.. that sucks.
By the way, is there any difference between a factory reset done via the settings menu and the hard reset done by booting into the special menu?
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athani said:
I downloaded Google Books today just to play around with it and now I cannot uninstall it. I don't want to root my phone just to get rid of it. Will a hard reset help?
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All Nexus Ss come with Google Books preinstalled after the 2.3.1 or 2.3.2 ota. So nothing can remove it unless you root. Why so annoyed by it? you never noticed it being installed on the phone before and it doesn't take any resources if you disable books syncing from Accounts and Sync under the system settings.
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My phone did not have google books preinstalled. I installed it yesterday just to see what it was and now I'm stuck with it.
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Pretty sure it's still the same as it use to be
Soft reset is like rebooting
Hard reset is like unplugging something while its on( removing battery without turning phone off first).
Factory rest wipes it to stock, or original rom that you may have flashed. All setting revert to default.
Don't quote me though
athani said:
Hmm.. that sucks.
By the way, is there any difference between a factory reset done via the settings menu and the hard reset done by booting into the special menu?
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pierre1321 said:
Pretty sure it's still the same as it use to be
Soft reset is like rebooting
Hard reset is like unplugging something while its on( removing battery without turning phone off first).
Factory rest wipes it to stock, or original rom that you may have flashed. All setting revert to default.
Don't quote me though
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Actually, I wanted to know if there is any difference between the two methods of performing a factory reset -
1. Settings> Privacy> Factory Data Reset
2. Power off phone. Power on while pressing the volume up button. And then reset.
Does the latter method perform a "deeper" reset?
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Its a preference thing.
If I'm on stock, prolly do it through settings.
Or through bootloader if i can't get it to boot.
If rooted and unlocked and custom rom, i do it through recovery. Cause i can flash and clear stuff in 1 shot.
athani said:
Actually, I wanted to know if there is any difference between the two methods of performing a factory reset -
1. Settings> Privacy> Factory Data Reset
2. Power off phone. Power on while pressing the volume up button. And then reset.
Does the latter method perform a "deeper" reset?
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I want to "root" my phone only for the purpose of getting rid of some pre-installed stuff. I do not want to have a custon ROM, at least not now.
I've seen this thread which explains rooting the Nexus S, giving 4 steps in which to do it.
At what step can I stop if I want just a simple root as stated above? Or will I have to go through the whole process?
Will the procedure erase anything from my phone? If yes, how do I backup?

I believe both reset methods do the same thing, which is format the /data partition (and maybe a bit more?).

matt2053 said:
I believe both reset methods do the same thing, which is format the /data partition (and maybe a bit more?).
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Thanks for the reply but I'm just as clueless as before.
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athani said:
I want to "root" my phone only for the purpose of getting rid of some pre-installed stuff. I do not want to have a custon ROM, at least not now.
I've seen this thread which explains rooting the Nexus S, giving 4 steps in which to do it.
At what step can I stop if I want just a simple root as stated above? Or will I have to go through the whole process?
Will the procedure erase anything from my phone? If yes, how do I backup?
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The process will wipe your data, and you need to do the whole thing.
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I just checked, it only takes up 4M, which is nothing. I wouldn't worry about it so much.
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No system updates option

Hi,
Does anyone know why I don't have the SYSTEM UPDATES option in > about phone?
I am on version 4.2

Did you try rebooting or doing a factory reset?
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Problem fixed. After I unlock the boot loader and root it.
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Unlocking and rooting would have absolutely no effect at all on what you're describing.

But it does wipe the phone, which is probably what fixed it.

Wiping doesn't effect the ROM installed that way either.
Wiping your user data has no effect on the actual framework of the ROM. Nothing you can as a user can make it go away

Rooted and encrypted phone. How do I unencrypt?

I have a Nexus 4 and I'm running the stock ROM, but I am rooted. I encrypted my phone and have tried a factory rest in recovery and in the settings on the phone. It simply restarts and it's still encrypted. In recovery I'm using CM and it errors stating it can't load a file. What is going on and how do I make my phone work?
I'm trying to run Nexus Root Tookit v1.6.2 and it also still encrypted.
Is their any way to hard reset this phone? I tried fixing permissions in CM and it still won't let me wipe and do a factory reset

What do mean by "encrypted", do you mean you re-locked the bootloader ?
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mobileboost said:
I have a Nexus 4 and I'm running the stock ROM, but I am rooted. I encrypted my phone and have tried a factory rest in recovery and in the settings on the phone. It simply restarts and it's still encrypted. In recovery I'm using CM and it errors stating it can't load a file. What is going on and how do I make my phone work?
I'm trying to run Nexus Root Tookit v1.6.2 and it also still encrypted.
Is their any way to hard reset this phone? I tried fixing permissions in CM and it still won't let me wipe and do a factory reset
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Your name is "mobileboost", you are new, and you are trying to figure out to hack and encrypted phone?
Hmmmm smells a bit fishy...
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Can someone tell me what he means by encrypted.
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No known way to decrypt. If you want to decrypt you'll need to erase the user data partition in recovery. Which will wipe any user information.
If that fails you'll need to flash back to the stock using the methods in the android development.
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steviewevie said:
What do mean by "encrypted", do you mean you re-locked the bootloader ?
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There is a encryption option in security section, requires a pin you created to decrypt every time you power on the phone.

mobileboost said:
I have a Nexus 4 and I'm running the stock ROM, but I am rooted. I encrypted my phone and have tried a factory rest in recovery and in the settings on the phone. It simply restarts and it's still encrypted. In recovery I'm using CM and it errors stating it can't load a file. What is going on and how do I make my phone work?
I'm trying to run Nexus Root Tookit v1.6.2 and it also still encrypted.
Is their any way to hard reset this phone? I tried fixing permissions in CM and it still won't let me wipe and do a factory reset
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ibegary said:
No known way to decrypt. If you want to decrypt you'll need to erase the user data partition in recovery. Which will wipe any user information.
If that fails you'll need to flash back to the stock using the methods in the android development.
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I can confirm ibegary's statement. When you encrypt your phone it warns you that the ONLY way to decrypt it is to wipe all data from your SD card.

Demonic240 said:
I can confirm ibegary's statement. When you encrypt your phone it warns you that the ONLY way to decrypt it is to wipe all data from your SD card.
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How can you erase all data?
Factory reset doesn't work. It reboots, but all is still there.
What can I do?
To connect to my company I had to encrypt data. But I want to start over.
I have no problem to erase all, but I don't have an idea how to do it.

Now days a lot of companies have a BYOD (Bring your own device) policy that requires users to install Google Apps Device Policy from the play store. This then enables you to get in to your company emails and what not. You have to complete a set of procedures, encrypting the device is one of them. You also need to have a decrypytion PIN that allows you to use the device. Furthermore, your companies admins can access your device remotely.
I tried it on my backup Nexus S and when I wanted to go back to stock, I had to uninstall Google Apps Device Policy first. Then I did a factory reset. Of course, you need your PIN to begin.
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ehtoeh said:
Now days a lot of companies have a BYOD (Bring your own device) policy that requires users to install Google Apps Device Policy from the play store. This then enables you to get in to your company emails and what not. You have to complete a set of procedures, encrypting the device is one of them. You also need to have a decrypytion PIN that allows you to use the device. Furthermore, your companies admins can access your device remotely.
I tried it on my backup Nexus S and when I wanted to go back to stock, I had to uninstall Google Apps Device Policy first. Then I did a factory reset. Of course, you need your PIN to begin.
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Google Apps Device Policy first isn't installed on my Nexus

mobileboost said:
I have a Nexus 4 and I'm running the stock ROM, but I am rooted. I encrypted my phone and have tried a factory rest in recovery and in the settings on the phone. It simply restarts and it's still encrypted. In recovery I'm using CM and it errors stating it can't load a file. What is going on and how do I make my phone work?
I'm trying to run Nexus Root Tookit v1.6.2 and it also still encrypted.
Is their any way to hard reset this phone? I tried fixing permissions in CM and it still won't let me wipe and do a factory reset
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I came across this (just now) and discovered the only way to do a factory reset was to flash the original stock recovery and do a factory reset from there. You can flash the factory recovery using the toolkit.

Factory Reset worked for me
j0ff said:
I came across this (just now) and discovered the only way to do a factory reset was to flash the original stock recovery and do a factory reset from there. You can flash the factory recovery using the toolkit.
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I have a Nexus 4 My BYOD policy made me encrypt my phone, and I have my phone rooted running stock.
A simple factory reset worked for me.
Everything I have read said it shouldn't but it did. I am running android 4.3
Maybe an update fixed this issue.

(Q) how do i deletete EVERYTHING from my n4

Im gonna sell it and dont wanna leave nothing on it. I wanna delete all of it withouth messing it up or loosing root.
Thanks
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Go into custom recovery and factory reset then format data. If you have stock recovery just do a factory reset
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Raul69.atl said:
Im gonna sell it and dont wanna leave nothing on it. I wanna delete all of it withouth messing it up or loosing root.
Thanks
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I think "Factory Data Reset" under Settings >> Backup & Reset will help. Or, just flash the device and re-install the ROM you are using.

Follow the 'back to stock' guide and it will reload the stock ROM and wipe all data on the phone as well. You can then relock the bootloader and sell it

Wipe userdata partition through fastboot.

[Q] Factory Reset/OTA Update Question For D800

Recently my at&t d800 has been acting up (freezing then automatically rebooting, horrible battery life) so I have decided to see if a factory reset fixes the issue. My only questions are...I am rooted with TWRP installed, now do I factory reset through the phone's settings, or through TWRP? and i am assuming i will lose root..correct?
Any insight would be appreciated.
Jelly
EDIT:Ignore the OTA update part of the title.

If u have not taken the ota update you can do it from twrp and no you won't loose root as factory reset does not touch system partition
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lingarajug said:
If u have not taken the ota update you can do it from twrp and no you won't loose root as factory reset does not touch system partition
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I did not take the OTA update. So what do I click in order to factory reset through TWRP? I have seen people say they have wiped their rom from their phones using factory reset in TWRP and i want to make sure i do not do that.

Once you go into wipe section the box on the bottom which says swipe to perform factory reset that's all you need.
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lingarajug said:
Once you go into wipe section the box on the bottom which says swipe to perform factory reset that's all you need.
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Thank you very much.