I am going from Autonootered 1.1 to the latest nightly CM7 with Dalgrins Kernel using CWM
Please advise
1. Before installing CM7 what all should I wipe / format
2. After installing CM7 and kernel what all should I wipe/format
Also when I update to a newer nightly later
1. Before installing the newer nightly what all should I wipe / format
2. After installing newer nightly what all should I wipe/format
3. When updating to a newer nightly do I nned to install Dalgrins kernel again
Thanks very much
Anyone ? would appreciate some help
Whenever I try to install a new nightly I have to wipe everything. If I don't all the apps when I try to open them just flash real quick then close. I have titanium backup so its not very hard restoring sense I can just restore all apps + data which makes it a very painless process.
In the Nook General forum user eyeballer has an excellent step-by-step guide for installing CM7. Follow his directions and you will be fine. In general, you do not need to do a complete wipe of everything to install CM7 or to update between versions of CM7.
Guys I tried searching and only found this thread
which didn't help me at all
Can someone please explain when to do each of the following?
Reformat
Wipe Data
Wipe Cache
Wipe Dalvik
I want to have the cleanest install, so do I do all?
Thanks
I will give thanks to all that help me clarify when to use what in what combination
eyecon82 said:
Guys I tried searching and only found this thread
which didn't help me at all
Can someone please explain when to do each of the following?
Reformat
Wipe Data
Wipe Cache
Wipe Dalvik
I want to have the cleanest install, so do I do all?
Thanks
I will give thanks to all that help me clarify when to use what in what combination
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If you look in my tips thread linked in my signature, I explain what you need to wipe in what situation. But I will explain just a little here.
Ordinarily if you are moving from just one nightly to another nightly of the same rom, just wipe dalvik cache.
If you are moving from one type of rom to another, it is best to do just a factory reset. A factory reset wipes /data, /cache and clears any apps you installed to SD. (And a factory reset automatically wipes dalvik cache since it is located in /data and /cache.)
Never wipe /boot and the new rom automatically wipes /system so you should not have to ordinarily wipe that.
But I have found if you are moving from a CM rom back to stock you need to do a full format with my format zip in my tips thread. It formats /system, /data and /cache completely where using CWM does not.
leapinlar said:
1.Ordinarily if you are moving from just one nightly to another nightly of the same rom, just wipe dalvik cache.
2. If you are moving. from one type of rom to another, it is best to do just a factory reset.
3. A factory reset wipes /data, /cache and clears any apps you installed to SD. (And a factory reset automatically wipes dalvik cache since it is located in /data and /cache.)
4. Never wipe /boot and the new rom automatically wipes /system so you should not have to ordinarily wipe that.
5. But I have found if you are moving from a CM rom back to stock you need to do a full format with my format zip in my tips thread. It formats /system, /data and /cache completely where using CWM does not.
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Thanks so much, I left you a thanks as well
can you explain 2 & 3 again? I have CWM. Is a factory reset same as wiping data? Thanks
Edit: Darn, only limited to 8 thanks per day, I'll get you back tomorrow
eyecon82 said:
Thanks so much, I left you a thanks as well
can you explain 2 & 3 again? I have CWM. Is a factory reset same as wiping data? Thanks
Edit: Darn, only limited to 8 thanks per day, I'll get you back tomorrow
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Wipe is the same as formatting.
Factory reset is listed in CWM as 'factory reset/wipe data'. And it is shown on the main menu. It does what I said earlier, it wipes /data, /cache and clears apps installed to SD.
Wipe dalvik is shown in CWM in the 'advanced' menu.
Those wipes or formats that are shown in CWM under 'mounts and storage' should rarely be used.
Sent from my Nook Color running CM10 and Tapatalk.
leapinlar said:
Wipe is the same as formatting.
Factory reset is listed in CWM as 'factory reset/wipe data'. And it is shown on the main menu. It does what I said earlier, it wipes /data, /cache and clears apps installed to SD.
Wipe dalvik is shown in CWM in the 'advanced' menu.
Those wipes or formats that are shown in CWM under 'mounts and storage' should rarely be used.
Sent from my Nook Color running CM10 and Tapatalk.
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wow, thank you so much! you have been a great help
Quick off-topic question:
I have the rooted STOCK ROM and I deleted/edited some system files. Should I revert back to a nandroid back up with the system files in tact, or should I be ok to flash the new official rooted JB ROM (when it comes out) with some system files missing and/or renamed? thanks =)
eyecon82 said:
Quick off-topic question:
I have the rooted STOCK ROM and I deleted/edited some system files. Should I revert back to a nandroid back up with the system files in tact, or should I be ok to flash the new official rooted JB ROM (when it comes out) with some system files missing and/or renamed? thanks =)
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If you are going to flash the new JB ROM over the top of stock, you do not have to do anything to the stock ROM first. It will be wiped entirely by the new JB ROM as it is installed. But I would do a factory reset/wipe data first as I said in my earlier post.
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If you are going to flash the new JB ROM over the top of stock, you do not have to do anything to the stock ROM first. It will be wiped entirely by the new JB ROM as it is installed. But I would do a factory reset/wipe data first as I said in my earlier post.
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Oh ok, thanks! So, just to re-affirm, I don't have to revert back to a STOCK ROM with system files unedited in order to flash JB?
Before flashing JB rom, I will absolutely wipe data, cache, and dalvik prior to flashing! Thanks! :cyclops:
eyecon82 said:
Oh ok, thanks! So, just to re-affirm, I don't have to revert back to a STOCK ROM with system files unedited in order to flash JB?
Before flashing JB rom, I will absolutely wipe data, cache, and dalvik prior to flashing! Thanks! :cyclops:
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No, no, no. Are you not reading my posts? You do not wipe data, cache, and dalvik when you install a new ROM. Just do a 'factory reset/wipe data'. That wipes everything for you. The other wipes are redundant!
And to re-iterate, you have to do NOTHING to stock before flashing the JB ROM. Leave it exactly as is.
Sent from my Nook Color running CM10 and Tapatalk.
leapinlar said:
No, no, no. Are you not reading my posts? You do not wipe data, cache, and dalvik when you install a new ROM. Just do a 'factory reset/wipe data'. That wipes everything for you. The other wipes are redundant!
And to re-iterate, you have to do NOTHING to stock before flashing the JB ROM. Leave it exactly as is.
Sent from my Nook Color running CM10 and Tapatalk.
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Thanks. I got you now. I was just in a habit of doing that before. Even if it was redundant
leapinlar said:
If you look in my tips thread linked in my signature, I explain what you need to wipe in what situation. But I will explain just a little here.
Ordinarily if you are moving from just one nightly to another nightly of the same rom, just wipe dalvik cache.
If you are moving from one type of rom to another, it is best to do just a factory reset. A factory reset wipes /data, /cache and clears any apps you installed to SD. (And a factory reset automatically wipes dalvik cache since it is located in /data and /cache.)
Never wipe /boot and the new rom automatically wipes /system so you should not have to ordinarily wipe that.
But I have found if you are moving from a CM rom back to stock you need to do a full format with my format zip in my tips thread. It formats /system, /data and /cache completely where using CWM does not.
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Can I pick your brain a little bit?
I had an odd thing happen to me......I rooted and went all delete-happy and deleted a bunch of stuff from system/app without making a nandroid backup...of course stuff stopped working properly, so I downloaded the stock rom rooted and flashed that (with wiping data, cache, and dalvik---even though wiping cache and davlik is unncessary as you explained), but those files I deleted were still missing
The only way I got them back was to do what is listed here (http://forum.xda-developers.com/show....php?t=1904099) and start all over from a non rooted state
Any idea why? If I would have flashed the rooted stock ROM, wouldn't it have wiped my /system too?
PS: I'm reading your tips thread now....just got off work
eyecon82 said:
Can I pick your brain a little bit?
I had an odd thing happen to me......I rooted and went all delete-happy and deleted a bunch of stuff from system/app without making a nandroid backup...of course stuff stopped working properly, so I downloaded the stock rom rooted and flashed that (with wiping data, cache, and dalvik---even though wiping cache and davlik is unncessary as you explained), but those files I deleted were still missing
The only way I got them back was to do what is listed here (http://forum.xda-developers.com/show....php?t=1904099) and start all over from a non rooted state
Any idea why? If I would have flashed the rooted stock ROM, wouldn't it have wiped my /system too?
PS: I'm reading your tips thread now....just got off work
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You said you downloaded the 'stock rom rooted'. Where did you get that? Also as I explained in my tips thread, sometimes CWM does not wipe things as cleanly as it should. I cannot explain why. In those circumstances I flash my format zip from my tips thread. I suspect that that rom you said you downloaded that you said was rooted was not set up to format the /system.
Also that link you quoted does not work so I can't look at that page.
leapinlar said:
You said you downloaded the 'stock rom rooted'. Where did you get that? Also as I explained in my tips thread, sometimes CWM does not wipe things as cleanly as it should. I cannot explain why. In those circumstances I flash my format zip from my tips thread. I suspect that that rom you said you downloaded that you said was rooted was not set up to format the /system.
Also that link you quoted does not work so I can't look at that page.
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I flashed this rooted STOCK ROM, the first link in the OP http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1743923)?
but that didn't work, so I started all over using this http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1904099
I hope the links work for you now
EDIT: MY THANKS WORK NOW, SO I THANKED YOU FOR ALL THE POSTS =)
eyecon82 said:
I flashed this rooted STOCK ROM, the first link in the OP http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1743923)?
but that didn't work, so I started all over using this http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1904099
I hope the links work for you now
EDIT: MY THANKS WORK NOW, SO I THANKED YOU FOR ALL THE POSTS =)
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You flashed Samsung roms to your Nook Color? This is a Nook Color forum. All the stuff I have been telling you applies to the Nook Color and the CWM built for the Nook Color. Are you on another device?
leapinlar said:
You flashed Samsung roms to your Nook Color? This is a Nook Color forum. All the stuff I have been telling you applies to the Nook Color and the CWM built for the Nook Color. Are you on another device?
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crap! lol...I mean to post for SGSIII...sorry for hijacking this thread
I truly am sorry, I just did a search, which landed me to this, but I ended up hijacking it
eyecon82 said:
crap! lol...I mean to post for SGSIII...sorry for hijacking this thread
I truly am sorry, I just did a search, which landed me to this, but I ended up hijacking it
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LOL, well I learned something here. If users start asking questions that do not quite jib with having a Nook Color, I had better ask more questions before I start spouting stuff. I am really glad I added assert statements to my zips to make sure the user is on a Nook Color before the flash will attempt to install. It could have been a real disaster for you if you had tried to flash my format partitions zip on your SGIII and it was allowed to install. I am going to make sure I have that assert statement in every zip I make, just to protect users.
But most of what I told you about CWM should apply to the SGIII version of CWM.
leapinlar said:
Wipe is the same as formatting.
Factory reset is listed in CWM as 'factory reset/wipe data'. And it is shown on the main menu. It does what I said earlier, it wipes /data, /cache and clears apps installed to SD.
Wipe dalvik is shown in CWM in the 'advanced' menu.
Those wipes or formats that are shown in CWM under 'mounts and storage' should rarely be used.
Sent from my Nook Color running CM10 and Tapatalk.
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So wipe and format are the same?
Why do they have them listed separately in the first place in CWM if they do the same thing?
Thanks.
Sent from my SPH-L710 using xda app-developers app
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leapinlar said:
LOL, well I learned something here. If users start asking questions that do not quite jib with having a Nook Color, I had better ask more questions before I start spouting stuff. I am really glad I added assert statements to my zips to make sure the user is on a Nook Color before the flash will attempt to install. It could have been a real disaster for you if you had tried to flash my format partitions zip on your SGIII and it was allowed to install. I am going to make sure I have that assert statement in every zip I make, just to protect users.
But most of what I told you about CWM should apply to the SGIII version of CWM.
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True. Even though I got off topic for the sgsiii thing most of my questions are universal to all devices
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Hello, I have recently been unable to flash ROM's succesfully.
I have Clockwork MOD 4.0.0.2 installed as it came with CF-Root, and I am on stock 2.3.5 KI3.
I have tried flashing several roms, and while it says install complete, whenever it restarts, it is on a boot loop, where it won't go past the Galaxy S II bit with the yellow triangle, I have to flash the stock rom again using odin to even use the phone, I have tried to flash other recovery versions, like 4.0.0.14 and 5.1.2.6 (I think it is) but they all come up with errors mounting or getting recovery.log or something, could you please help?
Did you try to do a full wipe?
Most issues can be resolved by this.
In the CWM menu chose the factory reset/full wipe. (Don't worry it won't touch your files on the internal SD card)
Do a cache wipe and in the advanced menu do a dalvik cache wipe.
Some recommend to do this procedure twice, but you should be settled with doing it once
Let me know if it helped?
theMartyMcfly said:
Did you try to do a full wipe?
Most issues can be resolved by this.
In the CWM menu chose the factory reset/full wipe. (Don't worry it won't touch your files on the internal SD card)
Do a cache wipe and in the advanced menu do a dalvik cache wipe.
Some recommend to do this procedure twice, but you should be settled with doing it once
Let me know if it helped?
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Yeah I did all that, didn't help, the progress bar gets half way and says complete :S I have downloaded the ROMs several times aswell incase they were corrupt, still didn't help.
Take out the battery, wait a bit, put it back in. Do all the wipe and formatting procedures (perhaps twice) and format the internal sd card as well and wipe the battery stats (just to be sure)
Sent from my GT-I9100 using XDA App
Backup EFS folder 1st....
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Backup EFS folder 1st....
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That's probably not a bad idea.
Here's how:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1068193
Hello,
Today I wanted to factory reset my phone so I booted into CWM Recovery and did a factory reset. Strangely when I rebooted all my apps, settings and other stuff where still there. Then I tried to do a factory reset via the settings menu but it still didn't work. I figured I should just flash the rom and gapps again but this didn't work either. Also when I tried wiping dalvik it just went back to the advanced menu in CWM without wiping dalvik. I run CM9-NIGHTLY-121118-Defy+ with gapps-ics-20120429-signed on my Defy+, Bootmenu version is v2.1 and the CWM Version is v5.7.0- jordan.
I hope someone can help me figure out how to fix it.
Thanks!
You can try the format filesystem option from the boot menu. Convert to ext3 and then back to ext 4. If this doesn't work then try a wipe from the stock recovery. And lastly, try an sbf flash
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thekguy said:
You can try the format filesystem option from the boot menu. Convert to ext3 and then back to ext 4. If this doesn't work then try a wipe from the stock recovery. And lastly, try an sbf flash
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Ah thanks, yesterday I figured it would just be easier to flash a stock sbf then go trough all the hassle of finding a solution.
Thanks anyways!
Using these would've been an easier solution, though - http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1818520
Hello. I tried doing the 5.0 update to my tablet using the factory images. It failed on sending /system and now the whole tablet isn't working. I loaded Philz, to wipe the whole tablet, and it errors mounting /data and /system when attempting to wipe. I have tried wiping everything in every way, and nothing. I cannot get anything to flash on the tablet. Any help?
Yoyodude1124 said:
Hello. I tried doing the 5.0 update to my tablet using the factory images. It failed on sending /system and now the whole tablet isn't working. I loaded Philz, to wipe the whole tablet, and it errors mounting /data and /system when attempting to wipe. I have tried wiping everything in every way, and nothing. I cannot get anything to flash on the tablet. Any help?
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Ya man, its the same with me . Hope someone, reply's with a solution for it.
Maybe try with latrst version of twrp instead of Philz.
Flash TWRP
Wipe
Advanced wipe
Select system
Repair or change file system
Repair
Let it do its thing, then flash your ROM.
Send your thanks to @Paramesh96. He gave me this advice on my thread. Still haven't been able to flash factory images. But I can get my tablet up & running again with this guide
I could do this, but I have no way of moving a zip file to the tablet.
Yoyodude1124 said:
I could do this, but I have no way of moving a zip file to the tablet.
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I flashed TWRP, went through the process, rebooted to bootloader, reflashed TWRP, reboot to recovery & mtp was enabled to access the sdcard
Hi,
I set up TWRP 2.8.7.0 and cm-13.0-20160129 on my Samsung Galaxy S4 LTE-A (GT-I9506), and run into an odd problem where it would work after install, but would not work after a reboot (booting screen would just roll for ever). Installing CM again, would work, and than the problem would still be there. Mindlessly I decided to play a little anyway and set up encryption. The phone ended up rebooting, and not loading, so I'm here without a password (default_password doesent work) and with an encrypted /data that TWRP cant wipe or format
Unable to mount storage.
Unable to decrypt data
Unable to wipe '/data' -- unknown file system 'auto'
Unable to format to remove encryption
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I've attempted to use ADB to format it, but it seems parted isnt installed. With that phone being a less popular variant I'm kind of afraid to just flash whatever there, but I guess I need a recovery with a least parted, or possibly one that would be able to format the drive itself. Any pointers?
Have you tried flashing a stock ROM via Odin? Is this your phone: http://www.sammobile.com/firmwares/database/GT-I9506/ ?
not yet; I don't have windows, and didn't see any point in changing the soft used for flashing, will try but cant download the polish rom at the moment o0 (ends up with a dead link or a server down?)
I know of no other way to flash a stock ROM from sammobile.com other than Odin.
Did you create a free account on sammobile.com to enable the regular download?
harce said:
not yet; I don't have windows, and didn't see any point in changing the soft used for flashing, will try but cant download the polish rom at the moment o0 (ends up with a dead link or a server down?)
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You can also flash it with Heimdall. It's the open source variant of Odin.
aaaand I'm back, managed to download, got some windows, flashed to stock using odin, and it's still encrypted. is running 'repartition' from odin safe? I've noticed some warnings against it but without any explanations.
edit; running the same operation with repartition failed. this bloody encryption might be able to survive nuclear war.
After flashing back to stock via Odin, did you perform a factory wipe before booting the rom for the first time?
I assume you have a pit file for the phone since you repartitioned?
audit13 said:
After flashing back to stock via Odin, did you perform a factory wipe before booting the rom for the first time?
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just now, seamed to go thorough properly (no error messages) and worked!
audit13 said:
I assume you have a pit file for the phone since you repartitioned?
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never managed to do that. I wonder what advantage does the wipe from factory ROM have over custom recoveries... anyways thanks to all who helped, the issue is solved. also it seems that the problems with non-rebooting CM were my mistake of not wiping the cache/dalvik after install
I find that a wipe using a custom recovery is not always as through as a stock recovery. Can't say how or why, it's just based on my experience with Samsung and Nexus phones.
harce said:
just now, seamed to go thorough properly (no error messages) and worked!
never managed to do that. I wonder what advantage does the wipe from factory ROM have over custom recoveries... anyways thanks to all who helped, the issue is solved. also it seems that the problems with non-rebooting CM were my mistake of not wiping the cache/dalvik after install
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I find that a wipe using a custom recovery is not always as through as a stock recovery. Can't say how or why, it's just based on my experience with Samsung and Nexus phones.
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I think the difference is that a custom recovery only wipes /data partition so that the internal sdcard will not be wiped. The stock recovery formats /data partition. When you want to lose encryption you need to format /data partition.
You can also format the /data partition with a custom recovery, but that option is hidden for good reason. Because it will also format your internal sdcard and that's not something we want to do when changing roms.