Hi all,
First time I hard reset my Note 3 I did from Settings... my internal SD card got wiped!!! Lost EVERYTHING!!! Photos, music, damn (in all fairness, it did warn me it was about to do just that... but I was a little tipsy and, well, famous last words)! Next time I did a reset, I went in through stock recovery (I am rooted, but my Knox warranty indicator is still 0x0 ), chose factory reset, and my Internal SD card got blown away AGAIN!!! This time I had made a full backup of my IntSD before I reset the phone, but I'd still like to know how to hard reset my rooted Note 3 running stock MJ4 without losing all my IntSD card contents.
I am rooted, so could I not somehow format just the data and cache partitions without harming my Internal SD card?
Thanks!
First of all, if you want to preserve your knox 0x0 status, I suggest you update to 4.4 using the N900W8 guide in the general section.
The reason I asked you to update is because you need to flash custom recovery ( Twrp ) which will trip knox normally but if you update to 4.4 using the guide, you can flash recovery, root and custom roms and won't trip knox. Using custom recovery is the only way I know where you can choose which part of the firmware to wipe.
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Hi everyone, yesterday i was in Omega V4 and i was happy with it, and by the night i had my phone running with all the apps, BUT suddenly the phone auto reboots and starts giving FC's in all apps.
I went to recovery to try and do a full wipe, which means:
Wipe /data, /cache, /system, /preload and dalvik cache...
And try to recover my phone flashing MJ7 latest stock rom:
N9005XXUDMJ7_N9005OXADMJ4_N9005XXUDMJ7_HOME.tar
Had a bootloop issue before and doing this saved me, and all i had to do was flash CWM back, and a custom rom, and that's it...
Now i have a big problem, and i mean BIG one because i don't know how to solve it.
I flashed the stock rom back and it does boot fine and work for about 2 minutes, then auto reboots and doesn't pass the Samsung logo..
Tried to redownload stock firmware, the original one
N9005XXUDMJ7_N9005OXXDMJ4_XEO
And basically i can't get the phone to work, i can't get it to boot properly and the strange thing is that it doesn't detect my SIM after booting.
BUT i have a EFS backup and did restore it thru odin so that is not the problem here, since i can't get any firmware to get stable on the phone.
Do i have to take it to the Samsung Repair Center?
I do have knox 0x1 :\
zylor said:
Hi everyone, yesterday i was in Omega V4 and i was happy with it, and by the night i had my phone running with all the apps, BUT suddenly the phone auto reboots and starts giving FC's in all apps.
I went to recovery to try and do a full wipe, which means:
Wipe /data, /cache, /system, /preload and dalvik cache...
And try to recover my phone flashing MJ7 latest stock rom:
N9005XXUDMJ7_N9005OXADMJ4_N9005XXUDMJ7_HOME.tar
Had a bootloop issue before and doing this saved me, and all i had to do was flash CWM back, and a custom rom, and that's it...
Now i have a big problem, and i mean BIG one because i don't know how to solve it.
I flashed the stock rom back and it does boot fine and work for about 2 minutes, then auto reboots and doesn't pass the Samsung logo..
Tried to redownload stock firmware, the original one
N9005XXUDMJ7_N9005OXXDMJ4_XEO
And basically i can't get the phone to work, i can't get it to boot properly and the strange thing is that it doesn't detect my SIM after booting.
BUT i have a EFS backup and did restore it thru odin so that is not the problem here, since i can't get any firmware to get stable on the phone.
Do i have to take it to the Samsung Repair Center?
I do have knox 0x1 :\
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Problem you have is warranty is void as you have tripped knox
2 ways to try the easy way pull battery out for a minute that can help
Or wipe internal sd card with cwm that will wipe everything so you will have no rom at all nothing so put a rom on external sd or flash stock with odin
jaythenut said:
Problem you have is warranty is void as you have tripped knox
2 ways to try the easy way pull battery out for a minute that can help
Or wipe internal sd card with cwm that will wipe everything so you will have no rom at all nothing so put a rom on external sd or flash stock with odin
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I can go there and pay for the repair... not a problem but wanted to avoid it lol
Trying this:
Script / Fix Brick Loop After restoring from TWRP Recovery_01.11.13
Edit: using this method solved it... efs partition corrupted!
zylor said:
I can go there and pay for the repair... not a problem but wanted to avoid it lol
Trying this:
Script / Fix Brick Loop After restoring from TWRP Recovery_01.11.13
using this method solved it... efs partition corrupted!
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If that doesn't work flash this its like super rom lol i had a big problem with my phone and this was the only thing that fixed it http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2461929
jaythenut said:
If that doesn't work flash this its like super rom lol i had a big problem with my phone and this was the only thing that fixed it http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2461929
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it did work, the problem was the efs partition that was corrupted... and already happened to me to twice... no idea why lol
Hey Guys,
After doing some reading about Folder & partition structure of Android, I am totally confused & in worse condition.
My question is simple;
Flashing a new ROM does not reset/delete the folder in the internal SD card. Since I have capacity problem, I would like to delete those folders and make fresh start. How can I do this? Is is safe to delete /android/data folder?
Under setting/storage, the sum of all folders is around 5.2 GB, while it shows the total as 8.8 GB. Where is the rest of my space?
Best Regards
I have a GT-I9500, running Arrow ROM 11.0 (android 4.3)
Philz recovery has an option to format the device internal memory.
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9505 has 9.13gb
in recovery before flashing a rom you have to wipe data, system, cache, dalvkit cache, etc
i wist phyl recovery sayd wike internal memory, but there is no option like that, only wipe sdcard1 (external)
Okay this is what you need to do.
First download official firmware through SamMobile, then flash the .tar file through Odin, the boot into recovery, factory reset, the flash the same .tar file again. This will wipe out ALL your data on internal storage and give you a true fresh start. Of course after that if you're not happy you can always flash a custom recovery and flash a ROM.
Thanks for the replies. Going back to original firmware, seems like a tough route.
When I connect my device to windows, it simply allows me to format the SD card. What would happen IF I just do that? Would I brick the phone or loose an irrecoverable important data? (I don't care, If some bloatware does not work or loose its data)
xhuttra said:
Thanks for the replies. Going back to original firmware, seems like a tough route.
When I connect my device to windows, it simply allows me to format the SD card. What would happen IF I just do that? Would I brick the phone or loose an irrecoverable important data? (I don't care, If some bloatware does not work or loose its data)
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I'm pretty sure if you format the internal card from a Terminal prompt, you will brick your phone.
we already told you you have to WIPE though recovery
maurocds said:
we already told you you have to WIPE though recovery
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When wiping through recovery will that wipe/erase my efs folder?
That contance my imei and other...
marcel112 said:
When wiping through recovery will that wipe/erase my efs folder?
That contance my imei and other...
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No. wiping through philz does not erase your efs directory.
However, you can always backup your efs to be totally safe
so i was able to format my internal storage with kitkat NC2 and safestrap 3.72 nothing bad happen just phone restarted to safestrap and i still able to install a rom with no problems. everything works like a charm. and now i have more space from previous installs. wondering if anyone tried it format there internal storage. and is it safe it keep doing it everytime i install a new custom rom
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so i was able to format my internal storage with kitkat NC2 and safestrap 3.72 nothing bad happen just phone restarted to safestrap and i still able to install a rom with no problems. everything works like a charm. and now i have more space from previous installs. wondering if anyone tried it format there internal storage. and is it safe it keep doing it everytime i install a new custom rom
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I have the same result when trying to clear data using safestrap 3.72
sugelover said:
I have the same result when trying to clear data using safestrap 3.72
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Do you do it everytime you install a rom?
Soft bricked when formatting data
I tried to format data within safestrap 3.72, couldn't pass the custom padlock on reboot, so I had to odin stock and start over from scratch...
missytoby2000 said:
I tried to format data within safestrap 3.72, couldn't pass the custom padlock on reboot, so I had to odin stock and start over from scratch...
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This happened to me yesterday and long story short I inadvertently accepted the NC4 ota and lost root. So imagine my joy when we got root back.
Im planning to reflash my phone back to stock as a few things are messed up, will be flashing via odin the base firmware is UEND6 and will reflash the same firmware so that I can still root w/o tripping knox, would reflashing via Odin clear user data?
i guess not
EarlZ said:
Im planning to reflash my phone back to stock as a few things are messed up, will be flashing via odin the base firmware is UEND6 and will reflash the same firmware so that I can still root w/o tripping knox, would reflashing via Odin clear user data?
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I guess just flashing the firmware won't wipe the data.
I flashed stock over a CM install and forgot to wipe data. My stuff was still there but the install was definitely a little bit unstable with background apps crashing. It didn't wipe data, but the phone needed a data wipe afterwards to be usable...
AO7 said:
I flashed stock over a CM install and forgot to wipe data. My stuff was still there but the install was definitely a little bit unstable with background apps crashing. It didn't wipe data, but the phone needed a data wipe afterwards to be usable...
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I kinda need to get my data back before wiping, I installed 3 new xposed modules and I am not 100% sure which of the 3 is causing the issue, Im stuck at the Samsung logo.
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Im wondering if factory reset would delete camera photos stored on the internal memory, if not I have most of my impt stuff backed up online.
EarlZ said:
I kinda need to get my data back before wiping, I installed 3 new xposed modules and I am not 100% sure which of the 3 is causing the issue, Im stuck at the Samsung logo.
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Install TWRP recovery (will trip knox) and make a TWRP backup of the entire phone including data partition. Once inside TWRP recovery you can also mount /data and adb pull whatever data you need from it, including the backup. Not sure what to do if you need to access embedded app data that you can not pull through adb.
When I flashed stock without wiping data my files were still there though.
AO7 said:
Install TWRP recovery (will trip knox) and make a TWRP backup of the entire phone including data partition. Once inside TWRP recovery you can also mount /data and adb pull whatever data you need from it, including the backup. Not sure what to do if you need to access embedded app data that you can not pull through adb.
When I flashed stock without wiping data my files were still there though.
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My data is not that important to trip knox
EarlZ said:
My data is not that important to trip knox
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In that case I would just flash stock and see what happens,
AO7 said:
In that case I would just flash stock and see what happens,
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Still waiting for the download to complete. Samfirmware is only giving me 300kb/s and I dont know where else to get stock firmwares.
To close this issue with a resolved status, I would like to say one thing.
If you flash a leaked firmware - it will wipe your phone.
If you flash a stock firmware - it will NOT wipe your phone.
Factory reset will not wipe your internal SD.
Installing TWRP or anything unofficial will trip your KNOX. If your data is worth losing warranty - go for it
I was with a UEND6 firmware and just gonna flash the same to get my data back and factory reset the phone.
EDIT:
Got my data, everything seems to be perfectly working aside from the task manger, Gonna factory reset the phone and probably reflash with odin to have a clean start, would ticking repartition be necessary for a fresh install ? ( but I remember that required a PIT file )
Hi all,
I have a rooted, stock SM-N900W8 with Knox 0x0. I hate to have to back up my InternalSD every time I need to wipe data. Is there a command or script that can be run from ADB that will reset the phone to factory settings without touching InternalSD? I don;t want to flash a recovery so I can keep my Knox @ 0x0...
Thanks!
I dont know is that posible. I think that on forum you havve tread how to flash recovery without triping knox
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