I was doing a factory reset on my stock unrooted at&t galaxy s5 active. I made a backup, the phone said "backup succesfully made" then I did a factory reset. Now it says "No backups were found on your internal storage. Maybe you should make some!"..
Anybody familiar with this or have any advice for me?
If you have done a factory reset you have wiped the internal storage. You should have moved the backup to your sd card. I'm afraid you've probably lost it all
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I have searched online, and there is no definative reliable content on what portions of memory I can delete safely without loosing the nandroid backup. What I mean is, I have TWRP on my handset. Aside from the factory reset option, what else can I wipe? I am asking because I built a Cyanogenmod unofficial image, and flashed my handset with it. The phone booted ok; I got an error about NFC service stopping. So I restored the phone back to a previous nandroid image. I then, tried to install my image again. This time the phone goes into download mode. I think I saw something online about how doing advanced clean would fix this. So when I log into TWRP I have the following options:
Davlic Cache, System, Data, Internal Storage, Cache, and Micro SDcard. How can I know where my nandroid backups reside so I can avoid clearing that portion?
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I have searched online, and there is no definative reliable content on what portions of memory I can delete safely without loosing the nandroid backup. What I mean is, I have TWRP on my handset. Aside from the factory reset option, what else can I wipe? I am asking because I built a Cyanogenmod unofficial image, and flashed my handset with it. The phone booted ok; I got an error about NFC service stopping. So I restored the phone back to a previous nandroid image. I then, tried to install my image again. This time the phone goes into download mode. I think I saw something online about how doing advanced clean would fix this. So when I log into TWRP I have the following options:
Davlic Cache, System, Data, Internal Storage, Cache, and Micro SDcard. How can I know where my nandroid backups reside so I can avoid clearing that portion?
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By default nandroid backup is on internal storage but you can choose to save it on sd card as well. Tap on the top box/menu after you enter restore menu. If you choose sd card and twrp shows no backup then the backup is on internal storage. Explore a bit mate.
Or use file explorer check twrp folder in both storage. There should be subfolder of 'backup' in it.
You don't need factory reset. And just choose wipe cache/dalvik/system/data to install new rom/restore nandroid backup
I had been using Cloudy G3 2.0 rom and when i had to sell my phone i did a factory reset but when i checked my file manager my files were still there so i had to manually delete them. Why is this the case? Every other phone or rom i have used factory reset wipes the internal storage clean leaving it new out of the box. I never understood this.why is this the case? All apps were uninstalled but some files or all were left intact. How can this be?
The default "Wipe data" option in TWRP excludes the internal storage (since phones with internal storage are likely storing the exact files they are trying to install in there) in order to keep the user from accidentally wiping the zip files that they are wiping data for. Boot it into TWRP and then do an advanced wipe for data and internal storage and you should be fine.
I had used factory reset option within the Android settings menu not the TWRP recovery, i never reset from TWRP always from the android OS settings.
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well i made the mistake of wiping data in phils touch recovery, and ever since then my device which is actually a 8GB device is now showing as 32GB. Ive done a factory reset which made no difference at all and im currently on cm12 nightlies. any help would be greatfully appreciated
Make a backup of your data partition that you copy off to cloud/computer/OTG storage. Format the data partition with fastboot. Or just do a full factory data reset in recovery (I used TWRP) after a full backup. Then restore the backup. I did the FDR and it fixed my partition size. If that didn't fix your problem, it may have to do with the rom, but I don't know why.
I was preparing to do a factory reset to prepare to sell my rooted phone, and mistakenly (in twrp) did a "format data" in the factory reset page, deleted my back up files and the roms I had stored in the internal sd card.
What can I do to get a rom back on this g2, if possible (or do I have a $100 paperweight)
Thanks
edit: everything came back to the ROM I had installed, without any personal data, just what I was trying to do.
I had to restore my phone to stock last night by manually flashing the 6P image from Google's Nexus page. I noticed that the storage now shows as 32GB instead of 64GB total. Has anybody run into this problem and/or know how to fix this?
I believe you can go into stock recovery and perform an onboard factory reset, which will set it to the right size. Hopefully you didn't restore all your apps already. If you did start restoring and you happen to be unlocked/rooted/have TWRP installed, make a backup with TWRP and put it in a safe place, then wipe /data and restore the backup.
That fixed it. Thanks!