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(Q) How to full wipe with TWRP?

Hello!
Only one question..
Im on 4.2.2 with new baseband
When i want to wipe all my data,so i have the whole space back, what button i have to push in twrp ? Wipe data only or more?
And after that i can push my PA 3.0 via adb push on my nexus and flash it without problems ? Thank you guys and sorry for my noob english,i hope u understand what i want to do
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In TWRP, click Wipe, then Format Data. Be warned, you'll lose everything, including backups.

USSENTERNCC1701E said:
In TWRP, click Wipe, then Format Data. Be warned, you'll lose everything, including backups.
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Does it erase TWRP itself?
Does it erase EFS as well?
I assume after I press this, I will have to push a rom in via Odin for example?

the_hatrix said:
Does it erase TWRP itself?
Does it erase EFS as well?
I assume after I press this, I will have to push a rom in via Odin for example?
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Are you joking mate or just trolling. I hope so otherwise you better buy a iPhone

No not really as I never clicked Format Data before.
I assume it doesn't wipe TWRP itself... but I just want to be sure.
As for EFS I asked because I have a persistent No Service - Selected Network Unavailable showing up since a few days ago. Restore, Full Wipe, Restart, Reconnecting, nothing works. I suspect it might be the EFS partition (TWRP never backed it up as it always fails when it gets to that point, the backup works fine regardless)
So I am down to probably doing a Full Data wipe and install a fresh rom to see if it will fix it.

the_hatrix said:
No not really as I never clicked Format Data before.
I assume it doesn't wipe TWRP itself... but I just want to be sure.
As for EFS I asked because I have a persistent No Service - Selected Network Unavailable showing up since a few days ago. Restore, Full Wipe, Restart, Reconnecting, nothing works. I suspect it might be the EFS partition (TWRP never backed it up as it always fails when it gets to that point, the backup works fine regardless)
So I am down to probably doing a Full Data wipe and install a fresh rom to see if it will fix it.
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You don`t have to wipe if you flash a factory image in fastboot. Everything will be erased after the wipe. Look here for how to do it http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2010312.

I'd like an answer to this too.
I want to nuke all data on my N4 (I've saved backups and media on my PC), so that i have a clean phone ready to flash a new ROM (copied across by USB after the wipe) so that any old program folders are gone and I've got a clean slate. But don't want to lose my TWRP recovery/root etc.
I recall that CWM had an option to wipe everything but still had the sense to avoid wiping itself! What's the point of a recovery that nukes itself in the process? That's just retarded - no offence.
Thanks.

gee2012 said:
You don`t have to wipe if you flash a factory image in fastboot. Everything will be erased after the wipe. Look here for how to do it http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2010312.
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So thanks to this forum, I thought I bricked my phone last night (well I kinda did). I used the format option on TWRP and magic happened, I was stuck at the logo. I figured I'd just use Odin to flash my official rom, which worked fine. Now I wanna flash the rom I had before formatting but want all the space back (I dont want all of the bloatware folders and bull**** that result from the official rom, which is why I used format in the first place). My questions is: Can I use format now that I have my official rom running and then push a custom rom through Odin? Will that work or not?

Globespy said:
I'd like an answer to this too.
I want to nuke all data on my N4 (I've saved backups and media on my PC), so that i have a clean phone ready to flash a new ROM (copied across by USB after the wipe) so that any old program folders are gone and I've got a clean slate. But don't want to lose my TWRP recovery/root etc.
I recall that CWM had an option to wipe everything but still had the sense to avoid wiping itself! What's the point of a recovery that nukes itself in the process? That's just retarded - no offence.
Thanks.
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If you use twrp and factory reset it will wipe data not the sd partition if you wipe system it wipes the ROM if you wipe data it will wipe SD partition including your backups. None of those will remove your recovery. Nothing will touch efs partition this is not a Samsung device
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Globespy said:
I'd like an answer to this too.
I want to nuke all data on my N4 (I've saved backups and media on my PC), so that i have a clean phone ready to flash a new ROM (copied across by USB after the wipe) so that any old program folders are gone and I've got a clean slate. But don't want to lose my TWRP recovery/root etc.
I recall that CWM had an option to wipe everything but still had the sense to avoid wiping itself! What's the point of a recovery that nukes itself in the process? That's just retarded - no offence.
Thanks.
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You are showing a complete lack of understanding on the subject. I would recommend doing more reading before you mess with your device.
It is impossible to have root when you don't have a rom on your phone. Clearing all data erases root as well. Flashing a rooted rom (nearly all are rooted) establishes root again.
Wiping data in recovery does not wipe the recovery for one extremely simple reason - recovery has its own partition on any device. The only way recovery could ever be wiped is by flashing a recovery.img file by fastboot (such as the Google factory images).
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FlashThisB said:
So thanks to this forum, I thought I bricked my phone last night (well I kinda did). I used the format option on TWRP and magic happened, I was stuck at the logo. I figured I'd just use Odin to flash my official rom, which worked fine. Now I wanna flash the rom I had before formatting but want all the space back (I dont want all of the bloatware folders and bull**** that result from the official rom, which is why I used format in the first place). My questions is: Can I use format now that I have my official rom running and then push a custom rom through Odin? Will that work or not?
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Odin?????????
Do you have a Samsung Nexus 4????
Sent from my iPad 4

For some reason in my HTC One X wipe sdcard doesn't work with twrp. I've noticed that in the hardest and surprising way once that j was trying to flash a new rom and before flash I hit the wipe sdcard button. It supposed to delete everything but I didn't. Thanks god it didn't wiped my data, but now that I am safe I want to delete all from recovery and it just don't work.
Sent from The HTC One X Mongrel Cat.

mitchdickson said:
You are showing a complete lack of understanding on the subject. I would recommend doing more reading before you mess with your device.
It is impossible to have root when you don't have a rom on your phone. Clearing all data erases root as well. Flashing a rooted rom (nearly all are rooted) establishes root again.
Wiping data in recovery does not wipe the recovery for one extremely simple reason - recovery has its own partition on any device. The only way recovery could ever be wiped is by flashing a recovery.img file by fastboot (such as the Google factory images).
Sent from my iPad 4
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Odin?????????
Do you have a Samsung Nexus 4????
Sent from my iPad 4
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lol nonono I have a samsung galaxy S4 i337M. Sorry for posting in the wrong section but this is all I found on XDA regarding TWRP formatting option.

mitchdickson said:
You are showing a complete lack of understanding on the subject. I would recommend doing more reading before you mess with your device.
It is impossible to have root when you don't have a rom on your phone. Clearing all data erases root as well. Flashing a rooted rom (nearly all are rooted) establishes root again.
Wiping data in recovery does not wipe the recovery for one extremely simple reason - recovery has its own partition on any device. The only way recovery could ever be wiped is by flashing a recovery.img file by fastboot (such as the Google factory images).
Sent from my iPad 4
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Odin?????????
Do you have a Samsung Nexus 4????
Sent from my iPad 4
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Thanks for your reply, sorry my knowledge of this subject isn't as strong as yours.
So I can choose wipe data, then copy a new ROM using USB and flash on a clear device?

Globespy said:
Thanks for your reply, sorry my knowledge of this subject isn't as strong as yours.
So I can choose wipe data, then copy a new ROM using USB and flash on a clear device?
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Yes. U will need to use adb to push the ROM after wiping data though.
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My device shows less available storage than I know it actually has - after flashing

Hi,
I have a 16GB Nexus 4, running Android 5.1.1 LMY48I. I had recently flashed Google's stock rom (Android 5.1.1 LMY48I) on my Nexus 4. Later, I noticed that my Nexus thinks my internal storage capacity is 5.6 GB, while I know it should be a little less than 16 GB. That was really strange, and I figured that re-flashing stock rom might solve the bug. Unfortunately, my phone still believes I have less storage than I actually have.
I'd be happy if someone could explain why it happened, and more importantly - How I can fix it.
Thank you!

SOVED:
I managed to fix it by formatting the CACHE, SYSTEM and USERDATA partitions, then re-flashing the stock rom. I encountered a bootloop, so I decided to format again only the CACHE and USERDATA. Everything works now.

ido_doron said:
SOVED:
I managed to fix it by formatting the CACHE, SYSTEM and USERDATA partitions, then re-flashing the stock rom. I encountered a bootloop, so I decided to format again only the CACHE and USERDATA. Everything works now.
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In the future, all you need to do is boot into the stock recovery after flashing the factory image and do a factory reset.
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I actually did tried this, but from some reason TWRP failed wiping the userdata partition...

ido_doron said:
I actually did tried this, but from some reason TWRP failed wiping the userdata partition...
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Trwp is not the stock recovery.
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However, as much as I know, it should be able to wipe cache and user data. I tried to flash the stock recovery, but from some reason all I got is a green Android with exclamation mark on it... By the way, I also tried CWM and it failed too.
I ended up improvising something with ADB...

Restored phone to stock Google image. Storage now shows as 32GB instead of 64GB.

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!

Just got RMA, can't disable force encryption

Just got my RMA, so of course I instantly unlock, root, and go to disable forced encryption and i keep getting a password error, my only pin i've ever used won't work, so I flashed factory, reset it up, made sure i didn't use a pin or anything, tried again, still asks for a password and won't accept mine. Am I missing something or is the fact they sent me a remanufactured phone screwing me because of the previous users pin?

kickenwing13 said:
Just got my RMA, so of course I instantly unlock, root, and go to disable forced encryption and i keep getting a password error, my only pin i've ever used won't work, so I flashed factory, reset it up, made sure i didn't use a pin or anything, tried again, still asks for a password and won't accept mine. Am I missing something or is the fact they sent me a remanufactured phone screwing me because of the previous users pin?
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What TWRP version are you using? Are you on the newest 3.03? If not that's more than likely your problem.

murphyjasonc said:
What TWRP version are you using? Are you on the newest 3.03? If not that's more than likely your problem.
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OMG I'm confident it's 3.02. So I need to update that before I try the decrypting thing. I need to go root, twrp 3.3 then unencrypt ?
Thanks man I wouldn't ahve thought of that .

kickenwing13 said:
OMG I'm confident it's 3.02. So I need to update that before I try the decrypting thing. I need to go root, twrp 3.3 then unencrypt ?
Thanks man I wouldn't ahve thought of that .
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Just download the updated TWRP from this link. Boot back into recovery and choose flash IMG instead of zip. Install to recovery partition and then reboot. You should be good to go.
http://dl.twrp.me/angler/

murphyjasonc said:
Just download the updated TWRP from this link. Boot back into recovery and choose flash IMG instead of zip. Install to recovery partition and then reboot. You should be good to go.
http://dl.twrp.me/angler/
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same nonsense. Went from clean, rooted, flashed TWRP 3.03, tried to flash noencrypt kernel and it's asking me for a password I don't have ... . should I try making my own password next time I reflash stock and see if it like overwrites it ?

found something on a N6 thread that says wipe user data and it should work .

kickenwing13 said:
found something on a N6 thread that says wipe user data and it should work .
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Yeah that will work and shouldn't be an issue backing up everything with a new phone. TWRP should be able to read an encrypted device though as long as you gave it permissions to change system. No kernel will decrypt a device but most do not force encrypt.
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kickenwing13 said:
same nonsense. Went from clean, rooted, flashed TWRP 3.03, tried to flash noencrypt kernel and it's asking me for a password I don't have ... . should I try making my own password next time I reflash stock and see if it like overwrites it ?
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Are you by chance trying to restore a backup on your RMA?

kickenwing13 said:
same nonsense. Went from clean, rooted, flashed TWRP 3.03, tried to flash noencrypt kernel and it's asking me for a password I don't have ... . should I try making my own password next time I reflash stock and see if it like overwrites it ?
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I had a similar problem with TWRP 3.0.3-0 when I tried to restore a backup. It asked for a password, which has never happened before. I couldn't access my backup or any of my data or boot up. I had to restore stock. Clearing user data did nothing.

murphyjasonc said:
Yeah that will work and shouldn't be an issue backing up everything with a new phone. TWRP should be able to read an encrypted device though as long as you gave it permissions to change system. No kernel will decrypt a device but most do not force encrypt.
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Are you by chance trying to restore a backup on your RMA?
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I was not . Just trying to disable force encrypt root and get PN back on it . Wiping worked for me. Also on 3.03, but that alone didn't solve, had to wipe . May be because I was using WUGS instead of manually doing it . Not sure, but it worked .

kickenwing13 said:
I was not . Just trying to disable force encrypt root and get PN back on it . Wiping worked for me. Also on 3.03, but that alone didn't solve, had to wipe . May be because I was using WUGS instead of manually doing it . Not sure, but it worked .
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Hey, I'm running into the same problem after an RMA. I'm currently on stock unrooted 7.1.1 and want to flash custom rom but want to disable encryption beforehand. Can you advise proper wipe steps, or is this correct?
- unlock bootloader
- restart phone, enable developer options for USB debugging
- fastboot twrp-3.0.3-0-angler.img
- factory reset
- wipe everything (all checkboxes) including internal? (will this format with no encryption?)
- wipe system, data, cache
- push ROM (PN), Gapps, SuperSU-v2.79-201612051815.zip to phone via ADB in TWRP
- flash ROM (PN), Gapps, SuperSU-v2.79-201612051815.zip
- restart
Or is there another way to decrypt data or is it not an issue when clean wiping a new ROM?
Thanks and appreciate any help.

martinomac said:
Hey, I'm running into the same problem after an RMA. I'm currently on stock unrooted 7.1.1 and want to flash custom rom but want to disable encryption beforehand. Can you advise proper wipe steps, or is this correct?
- unlock bootloader
- restart phone, enable developer options for USB debugging
- fastboot twrp-3.0.3-0-angler.img
- factory reset
- wipe everything (all checkboxes) including internal? (will this format with no encryption?)
- wipe system, data, cache
- push ROM (PN), Gapps, SuperSU-v2.79-201612051815.zip to phone via ADB in TWRP
- flash ROM (PN), Gapps, SuperSU-v2.79-201612051815.zip
- restart
Or is there another way to decrypt data or is it not an issue when clean wiping a new ROM?
Thanks and appreciate any help.
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You need to Format Data, Not Wipe to decrypt. It WILL wipe EVERYTHING so make sure anything in internal storage you want is backed up.

CyberpodS2 said:
You need to Format Data, Not Wipe to decrypt. It WILL wipe EVERYTHING so make sure anything in internal storage you want is backed up.
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Thanks for confirming, I wasn't aware that there's a difference between Format Data and Wipe Data. After formatting data, I should be able to sideload the ROM, gapps, etc back via TWRP right?

I always try to keep an emergency folder on the PC with the minimum needed to copy back to the phone through recovery. In my case I keep a copy of pure nexus, dynamic gapps, supersu and elementalx. That combination never fails to boot and I know it well enough to get back in business in short order if it all went to hell. Do what's best for you.
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Unable to wipe Data Partition

About after 6 months, I decided to change ROMs on my Moto X. Just like before, I booted into recovery, made a nandroid backup, and tried to wipe cache, ART and Data. But when I try to wipe the data partition, the recovery freezes, my phone starts vibrating and goes into a bootloop. Neither the new ROM will boot, nor will the Nandroid boot. Is there a way to wipe data partition using ADB, as ADB still works.
Also if it helps, I'm using the adopted storage format for my SD Card(i.e. where the SD Card is formatted as internal storage)
Thank you! Don't have a device rn, so any help is appreciated!

I experienced the exact same thing. Was unable to wipe or re-install back up. My data was in the f2fs format so I changed it to ext4 and was able to wipe and finally install a new ROM. Currently using TWRP 3.1.1.0. Not sure if this helps you but that's what I had to do to get it to function.
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Use "format data" first, then go to advanced wipe. It will erase all internal memory.
What rom/kernel was the last? Twrp version? @kkricardokaka95
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lilcdroid said:
I experienced the exact same thing. Was unable to wipe or re-install back up. My data was in the f2fs format so I changed it to ext4 and was able to wipe and finally install a new ROM. Currently using TWRP 3.1.1.0. Not sure if this helps you but that's what I had to do to get it to function.
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What rom/kernel it happened?
I had it with RRemix + handbag kernel 2.0.

At the time I was running Viper OS with handbag 2.0. I went back to CR Droid with stock kernel for now. I haven't had a chance to mess with things since to verify its fixed.
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lilcdroid said:
I experienced the exact same thing. Was unable to wipe or re-install back up. My data was in the f2fs format so I changed it to ext4 and was able to wipe and finally install a new ROM. Currently using TWRP 3.1.1.0. Not sure if this helps you but that's what I had to do to get it to function.
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I used 4 different variants of TWRP but to no avail. I think my data was also in the f2fs format, I don't remember. Will keep it in mind next time something goes wrong! I used a Flash to Stock tool and I'm sitting at 5.0.0. Used fastboot to flash TWRP, will flash some other ROM and check what's wrong.
I was on Ground Zero ROM(Validus) with Handbag kernel.

dzidexx said:
Use "format data" first, then go to advanced wipe. It will erase all internal memory.
What rom/kernel was the last? Twrp version? @kkricardokaka95
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What rom/kernel it happened?
I had it with RRemix + handbag kernel 2.0.
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Format Data wasn't working. Recovery hung and rebooted resulting in a bootloop

kkricardokaka95 said:
Format Data wasn't working. Recovery hung and rebooted resulting in a bootloop
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Try the suggestion from post #2.
(Twrp - advanced wipe - format/repair file system)

It is most definitely the handbag kernel. I'm back on stock CRdroid kernel (completely fresh install of ROM) and have wiped format, backed up, restored all without any problems on TWRP 3.1.1.0. I even put my file system back to f2fs for data.
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You'll have to go back to stock then flash twrp and then recover your backup.
Happened to me when I used handbag with los14. 1 and aicp