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I am selling my MT4G and in order to get top dollar the person buying it wants it to be exactly as it is now(rooted and running Iced Glacier 1.14) My question is if I do a factory restore will it just delete all data etc and still be rooted and running Iced Glacier 1.14? Will it brick it? Or can I just delete all of my contacts by going into App/manage apps and deleting data there. My main concern is to remove all of my contacts. I do not mind the buyer having the apps that are on the phone as i do not believe they will be able to update them and will have to purchase them in the future. The person buying the phone does not want to root etc but does want it the way it is now. Any info and help is warmly and greatly appreciated. I really am sad about selling the phone(it is a fantastic phone) but I have a Vibrant and a Nexus One and am looking to what may be coming out in next couple of months.
You will lose the apps that are installed with the reset, but you main concern should be your gmail account. I don't think you can sign out the main gmail account, so you would need to reset most likely. A master reset alone should not remove root and will not revert you to stock.
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stoneyjonez said:
You will lose the apps that are installed with the reset, but you main concern should be your gmail account. I don't think you can sign out the main gmail account, so you would need to reset most likely. A master reset alone should not remove root and will not revert you to stock.
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Is a master reset the same as factory reset?Would the safest way to do it be to boot into CW recovery and do factory reset there. I have just read that if you do a factory restore from handset it will result in boot loop. I guess I could just load some apps for the buyer if the reset deleted them as well as long as my Gmail acct is off of it and all my contacts are deleted.
tenbeau said:
Is a master reset the same as factory reset?Would the safest way to do it be to boot into CW recovery and do factory reset there. I have just read that if you do a factory restore from handset it will result in boot loop. I guess I could just load some apps for the buyer if the reset deleted them as well as long as my Gmail acct is off of it and all my contacts are deleted.
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Could you provide a source for this information?
jentzschman2000 said:
Could you provide a source for this information?
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I read this in a thread from a search I ran on this subject. This is from the Vibrant forum so not sure if it applies here. Here is the link
http://forum.xda-developers.com/archive/index.php/t-829771.html There seems to be a divided opinion about it. I am selling the phone so do not want to make a mistake. Anyone else have any info or opinions?
Do a full wipe and you'll be fine. Iced glacier still there, but no personal info. He would have to use his own gmail account to log in with.
esincho said:
Do a full wipe and you'll be fine. Iced glacier still there, but no personal info. He would have to use his own gmail account to log in with.
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By a full wipe do you mean factory reset in CW recovery a factory restore in menu on handset. Or a data and cache wipe through Cw recovery?
tenbeau said:
By a full wipe do you mean factory reset in CW recovery a factory restore in menu on handset. Or a data and cache wipe through Cw recovery?
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In recovery. Wipe everything. When u reboot, it will be factory reset
Any problem if he did it though device as he suggested? I am guessing that cache wipe is equivalent of task28 (fatfs format) in WinMo which clears the NAND and restores factory default.
Factory reset in recovery. Recovery can be reached by power +volume down or through Clockwork via boot into recovery.
tenbeau said:
By a full wipe do you mean factory reset in CW recovery a factory restore in menu on handset. Or a data and cache wipe through Cw recovery?
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Definitely the tried and true way to do this is, as the above posters mentioned, to wipe via recovery..perform a data wipe and a cache wipe..you should be good..
ppl do this all the time when they flash a new rom..definitely won't brick your phone..
I was going to say that, but being new and all I figured I would let a more seasoned person have a go first.
But that is what I thought. Full wipe, then just flash the rom again.
Just booted into CW recovery and selected :wipe data\factory reset and all seemed to have gone well I really appreciate all of the kind and informative responses. I am very sad to be giving up the MT4G as it is probably the best all around phone I have ever had. Once again thanks to all!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1
I have a fully functional A500 tab with OTA ICS on it. For reasons I won't get into unless it's necessary, I have a dead Android when trying to boot into recovery. I want to give the tab to my daughter, but would like to do a factory reset first. Will the dead Android in recovery prevent or otherwise impact a factory reset? The tab is rooted and I'm not interested in flashing any other ROM at this point.
rbeachy said:
I have a fully functional A500 tab with OTA ICS on it. For reasons I won't get into unless it's necessary, I have a dead Android when trying to boot into recovery. I want to give the tab to my daughter, but would like to do a factory reset first. Will the dead Android in recovery prevent or otherwise impact a factory reset? The tab is rooted and I'm not interested in flashing any other ROM at this point.
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Just do factory reset from yr tab. Settings> backup> factory data reset. This will do what u want.
The dead android is stock recovery which u can't do alot with.
I want to perform a factory reset but i debloat my rom which removed my secsetupwizard.apk..i believe this is the set up screen after factory reset.. Has anyone tried to factory reset without secsetupwizard.apk. Is it safe? Does it boot straigt to home screen or cause persistent error messages like system ui crash??
Do it from recovery ... power+home+volume up button boots u to recovery ... and wipe data/factory reset
AvelonTs said:
Do it from recovery ... power+home+volume up button boots u to recovery ... and wipe data/factory reset
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Is this the best method to reset? I want to do it but afraid i will break something. Just wanna make sure. :angel:
Zoddex said:
Is this the best method to reset? I want to do it but afraid i will break something. Just wanna make sure. :angel:
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I m not a dev but from my knowledge and personal experience i can't see how anything could go wrong with that ... if however after wiping u have problems u could reflash your current rom and u should be fine ...
So i just factory resetted my phone without the secsetupwizard.apk. Had a sysem ui crash on boot but pressing ok after that it never shows up again until next factory reset. So it's nothing to worry about. Im not sure though if it has anything to do with secsetupwizard uninstalled or other factors like theme.
Hey guys, I have updated my S5(f-version) from kitkat to Lollipop via KIES3 and it was working alright.
I thought rooting it would make it better, but now I feel it's just worse...
But now my applications constantly crashes, for an example - when recieving call the app crashes making me missing the call.
Opening gallery takes up to 7 seconds, and other apps 2-4 seconds (if not more). Which is getting very frustrating,
I dont know how to downgrade to kitkat, but I would love to do so. And then install XPOSED
Things i have done
Cleared partition cache
freeing memory
restarting the phone
unrooting
rooting
This isn't because of lollipop. The problem is something your doing or your device-
Either you did something wrong when rooting or something else.
What method did you use to root the phone?
Did you wipe data?
Make a backup in recovery and wipe data, dalvik, cache. Reflash, root and report back.
cykel said:
Things i have done
Cleared partition cache
freeing memory
restarting the phone
unrooting
rooting
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They recalled the update they are fixing the update.
lingowistico said:
This isn't because of lollipop. The problem is something your doing or your device-
Either you did something wrong when rooting or something else.
What method did you use to root the phone?
Did you wipe data?
Make a backup in recovery and wipe data, dalvik, cache. Reflash, root and report back.
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I had the same problems before rooting it, and thought rooting it would make a difference.
I followed all the steps correctly
If you updated from KK to LP, it is highly advisable to factory reset the phone after the update, KK leaves behind rubbish files that cause all sorts of problems, factory reset solves a big number of them
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If you updated from KK to LP, it is highly advisable to factory reset the phone after the update, KK leaves behind rubbish files that cause all sorts of problems, factory reset solves a big number of them
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My S5 is rooted, should I unroot it and factory reset trough the phone? I dont think I can acess the android recovery mode, when I try all I get is into the TeamWin one
cykel said:
My S5 is rooted, should I unroot it and factory reset trough the phone? I dont think I can acess the android recovery mode, when I try all I get is into the TeamWin one
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No need to unroot first, but you might need to root again after
You should be able to factory reset from TWRP too - through phone or TWRP will work fine
cykel said:
I had the same problems before rooting it, and thought rooting it would make a difference.
I followed all the steps correctly
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If you updated from KK to LP, it is highly advisable to factory reset the phone after the update, KK leaves behind rubbish files that cause all sorts of problems, factory reset solves a big number of them
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cykel said:
My S5 is rooted, should I unroot it and factory reset trough the phone? I dont think I can acess the android recovery mode, when I try all I get is into the TeamWin one
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No need to unroot first, but you might need to root again after
You should be able to factory reset from TWRP too - through phone or TWRP will work fine
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Like detection pointed out, you don't need to unroot to do a factory reset.
Android Recovery = very basic and limited recovery.
TeamWin = everything the above one has plus lots of more useful functions (same goes for CWM)
When I said wipe data, cache and dalvik cache I assumed you knew what that means. Judging from your reply you don't. It means to do a factory reset, in recovery (whether it's TeamWin or whatever, doesn't matter). Be sure to make a backup in recovery if you don't want to lose data like sms messages etc.
Hello,
I know that all V20's have encryption turned on by default.
Does that mean doing a simple factory reset is enough to make all data unrecoverable?
I was considering zeroing out the phone, but I'm not going to bother if factory reset is enough.
Thanks!
droidgar said:
Hello,
I know that all V20's have encryption turned on by default.
Does that mean doing a simple factory reset is enough to make all data unrecoverable?
I was considering zeroing out the phone, but I'm not going to bother if factory reset is enough.
Thanks!
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If you're using a custom recovery like the TWRP fork for our phone, then formatting all the partitions using that and then re-doing the phone using a .kdz via LGUP will be your best bet. Alternatively, I'm quite sure a factory reset will do the trick, since it formats the /data partition and restores the /system to how it came out of the box. Should be more than enough.