How do I wipe everything from Internal and External memory?
Do you have a custom recovery installed?
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skeamznz said:
Do you have a custom recovery installed?
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Yes, Philz Touch Recovery
i would have a full backup saved on external sd and/or the new rom you want to install. Do the normal wipe data/reset wipe cache/dalvikl. I have CWM so may be different. Go to mounts and storage and format /system and /sdcard, there may also be an full internal wipe button. As i said make sure you have external sd with a backup on it.
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Regarding Nandroid and apps I backed up with Titanium, do those remain on the phone when you wipe to install a new ROM or do you have to put those on your computer and replace them after you wipe?
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The backups are kept on your SD card, not your internal storage. So as long as you only wipe your internal storage, the backups etc will remain.
Thanks so much!
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Actually, I just looked at my SD card and no backups are there, just the movie that came with the phone.
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ArbitrageMan said:
The backups are kept on your SD card, not your internal storage. So as long as you only wipe your internal storage, the backups etc will remain.
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He's wrong nandroid backups done in Clockwork are stored in /sdcard/clockworkmod/backup/....
I was actually wondering the same thing...
ArbitrageMan said:
The backups are kept on your SD card, not your internal storage. So as long as you only wipe your internal storage, the backups etc will remain.
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They are actually contained in the internal storage card but you can specify a diff directory in your external sd card if you prefer, it can be changed in your settings.
Either way they standard wipe only effects the section off the internal storage used by your phones system/data n apps and will not effect the internal storage you put in the"root" folder /sdcard, more specially in your case /sdcard/titaniumbackups (titanium) or/sdcard/backups/apps (astro) should survive.... Nandroid restores, flashes through clockwork of new roms and manual wipes of system, cache or data shouldn't hurt your astro or titanium backups.
Any full reformat of the card or as I understand it reflashing back to stock 2.1 with odin will kill your nandroid restore points but I don't know what effect that level of reflashing will have on your backups but when in doubt back up to a computer is never a bad idea.
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When you wipe your data do you lose your backup as well?
Recently got a Nexus 7 and I'm kind of new to this stuff.
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I have the same question.
I use TWRP recovery and in fact I figure out that wiping data is wiping your virtual sdcard also, I can't understand why and ca't find any viale workaround.
It 's due to new feature of android 4.2: Multi user
If someone knows how to wipe data without wiping sdcard
I just use my drop box fit all my back up stuff
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The only way it will delete your sd card is if you choose to delete internal storage.
Wiping data/factory reset doesnt delete whats on the internal sd card.
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How am I supposed to back up my apps?
Supposedly titanium backup can't be used since it causes problems
Do I also have to wipe my SD card internal storage when doing a clean flash?
I am currently just using the default wipe in twrp.
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john566 said:
How am I supposed to back up my apps?
Supposedly titanium backup can't be used since it causes problems
Do I also have to wipe my SD card internal storage when doing a clean flash?
I am currently just using the default wipe in twrp.
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TB might cause problems, but I've never had any problems and I've used it every time I've flashed a ROM, so if I were you I wouldn't worry about it. And yes, you only have to do the default wipe, but to be safe you can go in to advanced wipe and wipe system as well before flashing. Don't wipe the internal SD unless you want to though
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As long as you don't back up system apps or system app data(messages, logs- have caused problems for me) TB will be fine. Make sure u manually backup any obb files for big games if you have.
Made full wipe(from firmware) and all the contents of internal sd was gone. How can I wipe data partition without loosing sd card contents?
Any Suugestions?
I always pull my sd card just to b safe..
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You can't pull internal sd, because it's a part if internal memory.
buenos said:
I always pull my sd card just to b safe..
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lol...
vodkinagdan said:
You can't pull internal sd, because it's a part if internal memory.
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I use titanium backup to backup my stuff to external SD card. then wipe and if required, bring back stuff from backup.
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I use titanium backup to backup my stuff to external SD card. then wipe and if required, bring back stuff from backup.
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So, there is no way not to loose data on sd?
I know about backuping apps. But SD is also wiped(music, videos, caches, others)
Ha...missed the 'internal' part...
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vodkinagdan said:
So, there is no way not to loose data on sd?
I know about backuping apps. But SD is also wiped(music, videos, caches, others)
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Use file explorer to move files to external..
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danieljamie said:
Use file explorer to move files to external..
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Really? All 32 Gb's?
Seems that problem is solved. CWM recovery has 2 options: format /data and format /data, /data/media
Wipe command from firmware sends the first command(seems to be compability problem with CWM), so SD content is lost during wipe. We should not use it and make all wipes only through CWM recovry.
As you know this phone doesn't have ext sd card
I want to ask
If i wipe data and cache from recovery, is every apps will be deleted too? How about every folder on this phone? (Newbie LG user)
Sorry for the english
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GaYoung28 said:
As you know this phone doesn't have ext sd card
I want to ask
If i wipe data and cache from recovery, is every apps will be deleted too? How about every folder on this phone? (Newbie LG user)
Sorry for the english
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It won't wipe your internal SD card if your wondering unless you select internal wipe...why are you wiping just the cache and data anyways? .....be careful before wiping things