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.
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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.
Here's the deal. I want to factory reset my nexus so I can remove the unlock pin. Question is I can't seem to really get an answer. If I do the factory data reset from the menu will I lose my data from the emulated SD card. According to the picture. I will, but I looked this up and according to some website and other xda members. I won't. Since I've only had this phone for about a month now and this is the first phone that I've had with a SD slot. I honestly don't know what will happen if I hit that reset button.
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Back up your storage to a computer and see what happens. They only way I've been able to erase my data was formatting in recovery or locking then unlocking the bootloader.
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FeintDoxx said:
Here's the deal. I want to factory reset my nexus so I can remove the unlock pin. Question is I can't seem to really get an answer. If I do the factory data reset from the menu will I lose my data from the emulated SD card. According to the picture. I will, but I looked this up and according to some website and other xda members. I won't. Since I've only had this phone for about a month now and this is the first phone that I've had with a SD slot. I honestly don't know what will happen if I hit that reset button.
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Yes a factory reset will wipe all user data on the phone if done from settings/backup and restore/reset device. Backup files first.
The nexus 4 doesn't have an SD card slot. You will lose all data unless you've made a backup in recovery or on your computer. And yes, it will wipe the /sdcard folder.
Holcomb227 said:
The nexus 4 doesn't have an SD card slot. You will lose all data unless you've made a backup in recovery or on your computer. And yes, it will wipe the /sdcard folder.
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I know sorry meant without just didn't notice it and yeah I figured so. Guess I'll have to wait a bit before I do a reset then.
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But you know, i have done factory resets, wiped dalvic nd cache and unlocking bootloader but evrytime i so that, the files in my internal sd card were all still there and never was deleted.
So im quite confused as well..
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vinz_bangiz said:
But you know, i have done factory resets, wiped dalvic nd cache and unlocking bootloader but evrytime i so that, the files in my internal sd card were all still there and never was deleted.
So im quite confused as well..
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If you factory reset in stock recovery it wipes the lot
vinz_bangiz said:
But you know, i have done factory resets, wiped dalvic nd cache and unlocking bootloader but evrytime i so that, the files in my internal sd card were all still there and never was deleted.
So im quite confused as well..
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Yeah this is what I mean. I keep on getting different answers.
But I'll just back things up on a PC and then attempt to factory reset.
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If you factory reset in stock recovery it wipes the lot
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Doing a factory reset in stock recovery will wipe everything
Doing a factory reset in custom recovery will not wipe SD context
Unlocking the bootloader and rebooting will wipe everything
Unlocking the bootloader and flashing a custom recovery then wipe cache and reboot will not wipe SD context
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spaceman860 said:
Doing a factory reset in stock recovery will wipe everything
Doing a factory reset in custom recovery will not wipe SD context
Unlocking the bootloader and rebooting will wipe everything
Unlocking the bootloader and flashing a custom recovery then wipe cache and reboot will not wipe SD context
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Thanks. Although.not really sure which one of these I can use to reset my unlock pin.
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Just go to security settings and choose a different lock style !!! Unless you have forgot your pin ??
What recovery are you using ?
I have no issues doing.........
Go to settings and backup and reset option, choose the factory data reset.
Now this will wipe your user data and reset your ROM to how it was originally. This does NOT touch your emulated sdcard partition. Basically it resets the ROM and removes all user apps etc.
You can always use TB to back up all user apps 1st then just restore again after. ( obviously you will have to install TB again before you can restore but all data will remain on your " sdcard".
Hope this helps.
Mmmmm actually I am using twrp so maybe I got mistaken as I don't know how it handles on a stock recovery as it does boot into twrp briefly when I do this.
I've done this many times and never lost my sdcard files though.
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Do you have an exchange account connected to your phone? Like an outlook email from work or something? A pw is required if you have that connected.
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Teo032 said:
Do you have an exchange account connected to your phone? Like an outlook email from work or something? A pw is required if you have that connected.
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I have my other gmail synced on the stock email app. Uhm I'll try to delete my accounts but as you see in the last page. The picture I posted. "No Pin" is greyed out. Its odd. Never had this happen to me.
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slymobi said:
Just go to security settings and choose a different lock style !!! Unless you have forgot your pin ??
What recovery are you using ?
I have no issues doing.........
Go to settings and backup and reset option, choose the factory data reset.
Now this will wipe your user data and reset your ROM to how it was originally. This does NOT touch your emulated sdcard partition. Basically it resets the ROM and removes all user apps etc.
You can always use TB to back up all user apps 1st then just restore again after. ( obviously you will have to install TB again before you can restore but all data will remain on your " sdcard".
Hope this helps.
Mmmmm actually I am using twrp so maybe I got mistaken as I don't know how it handles on a stock recovery as it does boot into twrp briefly when I do this.
I've done this many times and never lost my sdcard files though.
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I have CWM Touch Recovery. Never tried TWRP.
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Well I'm not sure how the system handles a factory data reset with cwm but I know for sure that using the factory data reset from phone settings does not wipe your internal "SD card" when using twrp. Now be aware I'm not referring to any wipes from recovery,its the wipe from the phone settings in backup and reset.
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slymobi said:
Well I'm not sure how the system handles a factory data reset with cwm but I know for sure that using the factory data reset from phone settings does not wipe your internal "SD card" when using twrp. Now be aware I'm not referring to any wipes from recovery,its the wipe from the phone settings in backup and reset.
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Okay thanks guys for all the help! I think this thread is done. I flashed TWRP recovery and I Factory Reset in there and it wiped everything that I needed. I got rid of the lock screen and I also found out that TWRP is a pretty amazing recovery. In the end I kept all my data. Just restored apps by Titanium BackUp. Thanks!:thumbup:
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my nexus have been rooted and i bought it a week ago at first it works well
but suddenly i couldn't connet to the internet and my baseband and imei is unknown now but when i go to the fastboot mode my phone still shows its baseband number
i'll appreciate it if you guys can help me to solve my problem
try hard reset from recovery mode
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try hard reset from recovery mode
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thank you for giving me advice but i've tried this many times my nexus still shows unknown baseband version and imei
I had this happened to me before, but because I flashed a radio wrong. Your best bet is to download a radio here in the Nexus 4 collection of radios and flash it via fastboot. What radio version do you have?
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mrraindrop said:
thank you for giving me advice but i've tried this many times my nexus still shows unknown baseband version and imei
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I did not mean hard reset from settings .open nexus in recovery mode then do hard reset
shihte said:
I did not mean hard reset from settings .open nexus in recovery mode then do hard reset
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You mean bootloader?
kbeezie said:
You mean bootloader?
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He means recovery.
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mitchdickson said:
He means recovery.
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I've never seen "hard reset" from recovery, just stuff like factory reset (which all it does is wipes /data and /cache, but not the /data/media portion), and then the usual things like wipe /system etc.
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I've never seen "hard reset" from recovery, just stuff like factory reset (which all it does is wipes /data and /cache, but not the /data/media portion), and then the usual things like wipe /system etc.
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A hard reset would include a factory reset and wiping system.
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A hard reset would include a factory reset and wiping system.
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K, not everyone knows that (I mean I would know what it would entail, but if someone pops up say TWRP they're not going to see "hard reset")
So for reference in this case hard reset is :
wipe the following
/system
/cache
/data
If you *really* want to clean up that data partition (warning it will remove all your /sdcard stuff, but rom-wise you can use adb to push back up some zips so you can re-install an OS), you would use the "Format Data" option which will reformat the whole partition including the /data/media area.
Thank you all
I have already done hard reset in the recovery
But it didn't work
i also reflashed my radio(48 and 54)
I can see my baseband version at fastboot mode but i still got unknown baseband and imei at settings
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What were you doing when this first happened
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I just take it from my pocket and found it lost signal and shows an empty triangle so i searched the internet and then checked my baseband imei at settings they were all unknown
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Maybe the phone is reported as stolen?
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Sounds like the efs data has been deleted..unless you have a backup, you're in trouble and then easiest way to resolve it is to RMA the device.
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I would reflash a factory image including user data. EFS is most likely not accessible instead of beeing wiped.
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A hard reset would include a factory reset and wiping system.
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looks like hard reset from recovery fixed my nexus that lost imei as well.I can again make calls!!!hope that it will work properly now
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tried all the ways still unknown baseband and imei at settings
but why can i see my baseband version at fastboot mode?
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mrraindrop said:
tried all the ways still unknown baseband and imei at settings
but why can i see my baseband version at fastboot mode?
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Refresh stock image via fastboot.
Check Efrant's thread for the how to 's
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I did the twrp method of rooting and would like to know show to get my system back to factory. also how would I go about getting my system to a fresh state of root? would using the twrp recovery factory reset just basically reset my system back to a fresh root state? I applied a bunch of tweaks and my system is acting funny. thanks for the help
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if do a factory reset u will lose root but that can b easily fixed by flashing a Su zip..sorry dont have link for u at hand.
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skiwong20 said:
if do a factory reset u will lose root but that can b easily fixed by flashing a Su zip..sorry dont have link for u at hand.
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A factory reset will NOT cause you to lose root.
Using googles factory images you can do a full reset to stock including system. Its like a new device except it doesn't change the bootloader status.
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tiny4579 said:
Using googles factory images you can do a full reset to stock including system. Its like a new device except it doesn't change the bootloader status.
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I don't think Google has released factory images yet (for this model) on the developer website. They weren't there last time I checked.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2381582
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2381438
Those will get you to the equivalent of or close to factory (one of them is pre-rooted), which may be all the OP wants to do.
However they aren't technically Google's factory images.
I dont understand whats going on here. I have twrp 2.6.3.4 for the verizon version installed and when i do factory reset it takes like 5 seconds. Tehn I try to install clean rom and when I reboot I am only on a black screen. Only way to get back is to restore my stock backup.
I have the att version and wiping takes like 5 minutes.
Why isnt this wiping on my verizon g2?
This is driving me mad.
Ive even tried cwm, same thing.
What version of twrp for the att version?
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My factory resets are very quick as well. Is this just the processing power or something wrong? Always get improper root after 4.4 installation as well.. so sick of this. Never have had this issue before with previous phones
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DurbanPoison24 said:
My factory resets are very quick as well. Is this just the processing power or something wrong? Always get improper root after 4.4 installation as well.. so sick of this. Never have had this issue before with previous phones
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Didnt the Factory Reset take awhile on earlier versions of TWRP?
I remember having to wait at least 5 mins for a factory reset using TWRP
XERO_Racer said:
Didnt the Factory Reset take awhile on earlier versions of TWRP?
I remember having to wait at least 5 mins for a factory reset using TWRP
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Unfortunately I wouldn't know. I've always used CWM. This is the first time I've ever used TWRP. But CWM would take considerably longer than the very quick factory reset speeds I'm seeing now.
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XERO_Racer said:
Didnt the Factory Reset take awhile on earlier versions of TWRP?
I remember having to wait at least 5 mins for a factory reset using TWRP
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Hey, did you ever find out why factory reset happens so quick and or if you fixed it??
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DurbanPoison24 said:
Hey, did you ever find out why factory reset happens so quick and or if you fixed it??
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Try this version IIRC this one didnt have that issue http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2449670
I just recently switched to CWM for the same reason
To be honest idk whats the purpose of having a "slower" cache formatting than the one that takes 5 seconds?
Maybe it actually does its job? i have no idea