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[Q] How do I FULLY wipe my device?

Might be a stupid question, but anyone know how to do this? I want to only keep PSX And neo with no other data on it (Such as games that require downloaded data, apps and etc). Wiping data on CWM doesn't wipe everything (Yes I did cache and dalvik as well), would wiping the sdcard wipe everything and leave the ROM? Hopefully someone can help, thanks
Also, if the only way of wiping brings me back to stock/unrooted, would I still have CWM installed to install custom ROMs and such still?

These are the wipes you are looking for:
1. wipe data/factory reset
2. wipe cache partition
3. mounts and storage > format sdcard
4. advanced > wipe dalvik cache
That should leave you with a empty/clean internal sd card, no data (apps, settings, etc.), and your current rom and kernel.

if you want to completely wipe everything and go back to stock Android, just use one of the toolkit and flash stock image. it will wipe everything in the phone.

Or just fast boot the images including the userdata file it'll erase the entire phone memory. Toolkits are convenient but you should know how to use fastboot too it saved me when my recovery wouldn't boot and there was no ROM on the phone.
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[Q] how to flash roms without losing data n files?

Alright guys I feel very nooby asking this but this is my first device that doesn't have a sd slot. Is there a way to flash a Rom without deleting the download and titanium folders?
My steps prior to flashing are
Wipe data, cache, n dalvik
Flash Rom
Then wipe cache n dalvik again
But if I wipe data then the Rom zip would be deleted before I can flash it?
Please help me on this thanks!
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Hi,
Make only wipe data/factory reset, wipe cache partition and wipe dalvik cache, tat's all then flash your rom and reboot.
Don't wipe anything related to sd card/ext sd card or internal storage so you keep all your files in your "sd card" intact.

lilviet93 said:
Alright guys I feel very nooby asking this but this is my first device that doesn't have a sd slot. Is there a way to flash a Rom without deleting the download and titanium folders?
My steps prior to flashing are
Wipe data, cache, n dalvik
Flash Rom
Then wipe cache n dalvik again
But if I wipe data then the Rom zip would be deleted before I can flash it?
Please help me on this thanks!
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This won't happen on your LG G2. Even when using CWM you can see it is looking for an external SD card in the command line when doing a Factory Reset. You're internal SD card is never touched.
When you flash a ROM just:
Factory Reset
Flash Rom
Obviously make a backup first if you're worried, and you may need to flash Gapps depending on the ROM you flash.

understood, thanks guys

How to delete ALL data

Hi,
So I am new into android and flashing. I performed now happily flashing 10 flashes, using sammobile stocks and custom roms, using odin and philwiz.
I did several hard formats, cleared cache, wiped data through recovery, but I noticed something...
Data is not really deleted.
When I flash for example custom rom, I firstly do factory reset, then clear cache and wipe data, but after flashing custom rom, there are still remaining folders from previous rom
How come, why? How to completely remove this.

Phone2GO said:
Hi,
So I am new into android and flashing. I performed now happily flashing 10 flashes, using sammobile stocks and custom roms, using odin and philwiz.
I did several hard formats, cleared cache, wiped data through recovery, but I noticed something...
Data is not really deleted.
When I flash for example custom rom, I firstly do factory reset, then clear cache and wipe data, but after flashing custom rom, there are still remaining folders from previous rom
How come, why? How to completely remove this.
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You mean folders on your internal storage? You should delete them manually.
Or do you mean that there are still folders left on the /system partition? Then you are not wiping properly. A factory reset = wipe cache, wipe dalvik and wipe data. A full wipe also includes the /system partition.

Phone2GO said:
Hi,
So I am new into android and flashing. I performed now happily flashing 10 flashes, using sammobile stocks and custom roms, using odin and philwiz.
I did several hard formats, cleared cache, wiped data through recovery, but I noticed something...
Data is not really deleted.
When I flash for example custom rom, I firstly do factory reset, then clear cache and wipe data, but after flashing custom rom, there are still remaining folders from previous rom
How come, why? How to completely remove this.
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Wiping with custom recoverys won't delete folders and stuff.
Go to settings -factory reset.
When you want to be sure that really EVERYTHING is deleted you have to burn your device ^^
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[Q] How do I prepare my phonen to sell

My phone is rooted with the XtreStoLite ROM and I'd like to sell it since I've upgraded to a S6 Edge. I've been googling around for ways to wipe the phone before selling and am a bit confused. If I select all the options in TWRP (System, data, cache, boot, efs) and wipe those, will that also get rid of all my old nandroips and titanium backups?
Thanks for your help!

If you choose to wipe internal and external storage, factory reset, wipe SYSTEM, DATA and CACHE in TWRP (Basically choose everything in the advanced WIPE menu)
That should remove everything
Then use ODIN to flash a stock ROM back to the phone, and return it to factory setup

Blisspop: updating without wiping data

Hi,
I've recently done a succesful flash of Blisspop after a full wipe.
Now I want to update, but I don't want to do a full wipe. Simply installing the zip on-top gives a permanent booting screen. Can you update without starting from scratch?

Did you wipe cache & dalvik after flashing updated zip?

I did not. Is that the only required extra step? And will I lose data if I do so?

Kalenden said:
I did not. Is that the only required extra step? And will I lose data if I do so?
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No, you only lose data when you wipe the data partition
In recovery, you'll see different named partitions, cache, dalvik cache, system, data, etc etc
If you wipe System, you wipe the ROM
If you wipe Data, you wipe your user data
Caches are just temp partitions, safe to wipe any time, only side effect is a longer first boot as Android needs to re-cache everything
But yes, you do need to wipe the caches when updating to a newer version of the same ROM/Droid version, and no you won't lose your data
Here's how I do it:
Wipe System
Wipe Caches
Flash new ROM
Flash new Gapps
Flash SuperSU if needed
Wipe Caches again
Reboot
Result = New ROM with no loss of data
That's a clean flash, a dirty flash is how you did it without wiping System
If you are moving to a newer version of android, or a different ROM, wiping data becomes more necessary, especially if the move is to an older version of droid

Thanks. I'll try it out.