Well, I decided to try and clean up my phone as much as possible to give it the cleanest SBF I could.... So in SystemRecovery I cleared the Cache, Dalvik, and Data. Sounds good right? But I wasn't done.
I also thought it would be such a good idea to re-partition my External SD and my Internal SD, which I've done before and didn't have a problem. WEEELLLL... I also thought it would be smart to format my SD, SDext, and Internal SD - probably not a good idea.
Sooo, what happened? ALMOST bricked it. After it restarted (while I was prepared to plug into a computer and SBF it) I saw some text pop up, and disappear and shutdown... I tried to turn it back on and it wouldn't boot; at all.
After removing the battery multiple times, I manage to get it to boot again and saw that it said "FAIL BOOT 1". I sh*t my pants at this point.
I was incredibly happy to see that it also said "PUTTING INTO RSD".
Overall, I was able to successfully SBF it back to 2.3.4, while almost bricking my phone in the process!
For those wondering why I was doing this... it's because when I installed Eclipse... the folders were ALL over the place! /.android_secure was in one SD, /Android and /data were in another...
IAreKyleW00t said:
Well, I decided to try and clean up my phone as much as possible to give it the cleanest SBF I could.... So in SystemRecovery I cleared the Cache, Dalvik, and Data. Sounds good right? But I wasn't done.
I also thought it would be such a good idea to re-partition my External SD and my Internal SD, which I've done before and didn't have a problem. WEEELLLL... I also thought it would be smart to format my SD, SDext, and Internal SD - probably not a good idea.
Sooo, what happened? ALMOST bricked it. After it restarted (while I was prepared to plug into a computer and SBF it) I saw some text pop up, and disappear and shutdown... I tried to turn it back on and it wouldn't boot; at all.
After removing the battery multiple times, I manage to get it to boot again and saw that it said "FAIL BOOT 1". I sh*t my pants at this point.
I was incredibly happy to see that it also said "PUTTING INTO RSD".
Overall, I was able to successfully SBF it back to 2.3.4, while almost bricking my phone in the process!
For those wondering why I was doing this... it's because when I installed Eclipse... the folders were ALL over the place! /.android_secure was in one SD, /Android and /data were in another...
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Those files WILL be split up like that due to the sdcard flip mod that is included with eclipse.
It is just fine to leave that how it is and.continue on as normal.
And trust me.
I haven't seen ANYONE HARD brick the x2
Soft bricks are VERY common and sbf easily.fixes soooooo many problems we could encounter
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I just installed the new RA recovery, and me being the newb I am, tried out the partition swap process, only to find out after turning on the phone that everything is gone on the SD Card, totally my fault, but damn had no warning about it. All that stuff...Some which I can't get back..... Oh well...I'll make sure next to time to dump the whole SD contents on the laptop for safekeeping.
Uhh... k? Most people think about it first, y'know. At least back up when you do anything major like that to the card.
I guess it was a fluke, didn't look into the SD Partition enough, thought it just took a part of the remainder and left the rest, I mainly do backup my stuff, but after all those wipes and installing roms I thought I was safe. Haha, well this thread is pointless, if any wandering mods see this, please delete it.
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So i flashed CM7 and it worked alright, but i cant get any of my data/apps back! When i go into the file manager built into the rom it just shows my Sdcard as empty and my sdcardext or whatever as empty also, when its unplugged and in charge only aswell. When i plug it up to my computer and put in usb transfer mode it reads all my files that i have before unlocking, cwm, rooting, and flashing CM7. Any help here?! And the rom doesnt come with the marketplace so i cant try a different file manager. Im really lost here and i dont have any of my data atm.. I have it all backed up on my pc, but no means to make my phone read its memory. Any help would be HUGELY useful right now. While in CWM before flashing i factory reset phone, didnt include sd card(as Qbking77 said in video i watched, huge thanks to him btw love his work) And then wiped cache and dalvic cache. Am i missing something here or whats going on?
EDIT: Also, when plugged into my computer it shows 2 devices, a G: and F:. there used to only be F: as the main "Moto" one, i have no sd card installed into the phone. Now it is G: that is that folder and F: is just empty and cannot be opened by windows and comes when i plug my photon in, at same time as the loaded drive G:. I just used a Nandroid backup to go back to stock rom and reflashed CM7 and still have the same issue..
With the file manager, check /mnt/emmc when running Cm7. That is where the internal sdcard is mounted.
Also. Make sure you flash GAPPS so you'll have market.
http://goo-inside.me/gapps/gapps-gb-20110828-signed.zip
You can flip them by selecting settings, cyanogenmod settings, application, use internal storage.
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Thanks a ton!! That was exactly it, it mounted to that weird location! and i was able to change that, thank you so much!
Is anyone else having the calendar force close in CM7? This is something I use regularly and would like to have fixed if possible. Any semi easy DIY fixes? Other than that i am absolutely loving CM7!
The title should give a pretty good overview. However, for completeness, here's the deal. (BTW, I've searched and haven't found a good answer. It could be that I'm not searching properly though.)
The Vibrant is running MIUI 2.3.7. It has worked perfectly, GPS included. I upgraded to a GSII during the Valentine's day thing, and now need to wipe the Vibrant so I can give it to my daughter.
I've backed up everything available to my computer, and am now looking for the best way to essentially reset the phone. I want to put MIUI back on it ultimately.
I understand that 'factory data wipe/reset' in CWM doesn't remove everything. Should I format stuff via CWM? Should I Odin back to stock, then reflash everything? If so, does that remove saved passwords, apps, etc.?
Thanks for your help!
Wipe factory reset will clear apps and user data like password.
It will not remove anything on SD card though like music, pics.
You can format SD card and external SD card.
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No need for external SD at this time, so I'm keeping it
So, format SD card from CWM? The word format frightens me a bit. I guess the OS stays in a different partition, so I don't have to worry about deleting that, right?
You can always just hook it up to your PC and pull everything off the internal that way. Then when your teen gets it there won't be anything on it.
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The title should give a pretty good overview. However, for completeness, here's the deal. (BTW, I've searched and haven't found a good answer. It could be that I'm not searching properly though.)
The Vibrant is running MIUI 2.3.7. It has worked perfectly, GPS included. I upgraded to a GSII during the Valentine's day thing, and now need to wipe the Vibrant so I can give it to my daughter.
I've backed up everything available to my computer, and am now looking for the best way to essentially reset the phone. I want to put MIUI back on it ultimately.
I understand that 'factory data wipe/reset' in CWM doesn't remove everything. Should I format stuff via CWM? Should I Odin back to stock, then reflash everything? If so, does that remove saved passwords, apps, etc.?
Thanks for your help!
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This will get you back to stock eclair. Make sure you have java installed on your computer.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1278683
I'm looking to reset my Motorola Atrix 4G. I'm on AT&T in the U.S. I have MROM 7 (20130330) version 2.3.7
I am wanting to format my internal drive and clean everything up. I have gone into CWM and done the factory reset but I still have folders from apps that I don't use and pictures. I have done the factory reset in MROM and have the same thing, but it doesn't wipe the internal drive.
Do I need to flash a fruit cake to version 2.3.(4,5,6), then run MFBSR script to put it back to stock. Then run the factory reset? SBF files scare me and I'm not really wanting to go that route, but I can if that is what I need to do. Sam Cripps Reboot Project Site which has all the fruit cakes is down for a couple of days and Zeljko1234's Back Up Fruit Cakes drop box isn't working. Does anyone know any where else to find them?
I'm not ready to sell my phone at this time but I would like to know how to sanitize it when I am ready. I have searched for the past two days and haven't been able to find anything that said what specifically you have to do to completely start with a clean system. Or maybe it is out there and I just missed it. Any advice would be appreciated.
Why are you trying to make it so much more complicated than it really is?
Of course none of the methods mentioned are not going to wipe the storage. They are not meant to do that.
How about you just go to Settings > Storage > Erase SD card?
Or hook the phone to the computer and format the phone's internal drive from it.
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Why are you trying to make it so much more complicated than it really is?
Of course none of the methods mentioned are not going to wipe the storage. They are not meant to do that.
How about you just go to Settings > Storage > Erase SD card?
Or hook the phone to the computer and format the phone's internal drive from it.
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ravilov,
Thank you for the reply. If I format the hard drive from the computer, what do I need to do from there to get the phone back operational. That does sound the easiest. I have already formatted the SD Card and it worked, but I couldn't format the SD Card through any ROM that I flashed.When the second screen came up and I clicked Erase everything a pop up at the bottom said "Invalid path : null"
Thanks again.
You shouldn't need to do anything else after formatting the drive to make the phone functional again - the phone should never stop being functional. Note that I'm talking about user storage here, not the whole entire phone storage (good luck trying to access the whole entire phone storage on the computer through USB mass storage anyway).
Haha yes I realized that after hooking it up to my computer. I felt like an idiot but sometimes you need to look at the simplest things first. That's why I edited the title so the moderators can delete this thread.
Once again, thank you for your reply and support of our phones.
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I don't know what happened, but I no longer have a working lock screen on my Verizon (T-Mobile network) LG G3.
All of a sudden, there's just no lockscreen whatsoever. I tried disabling the lock screen and then turning it back on using swipe, patter and PIN, but there's just no lock screen at all. If I hit the power button or let the device time out and go to screen off, when I wake the phone via double tap or hitting the power button, I'm just taken to my home screen. I've disabled trusted places and on body detection. That really shouldn't matter though as I should still get the swipe screen if those are active.
Even when I initially boot, it goes right to my desktop, where before, I had to enter my PIN first.
Completely stumped here.
Any ideas? I really don't want to factory reset.
Probably related. My screen is not timing out. I have screen timeout to 15 seconds, I'm not plugged in and the screen never goes off. Smart screen is off as well.
Any ideas now?
I have no ideas that don't involve first trying wiping Cache and Dalvik/ART, and then wiping those two plus Data if the first doesn't fix it, and then flashing the 10B TOT to start fresh if neither of those fix it. Of course before wiping Data I'd do an LG Backup to backup my user apps and user data, and before flashing the TOT, I'd move everything I want to keep from the internal storage. I'd also have a TWRP backup of the EFS which includes IMEI, and remove the SIM and MicroSD card before flashing the TOT or any kind of flashing when possible, as I believe flashing has occasionally wiped one of those items. Rare for the SIM and for the MicroSD card, but it happened to me with the MicroSD card.
Any time there's ever any kind of problem, the first thing to try should always be the wipes.
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I have no ideas that don't involve first trying wiping Cache and Dalvik/ART, and then wiping those two plus Data if the first doesn't fix it, and then flashing the 10B TOT to start fresh if neither of those fix it. Of course before wiping Data I'd do an LG Backup to backup my user apps and user data, and before flashing the TOT, I'd move everything I want to keep from the internal storage. I'd also have a TWRP backup of the EFS which includes IMEI, and remove the SIM and MicroSD card before flashing the TOT or any kind of flashing when possible, as I believe flashing has occasionally wiped one of those items. Rare for the SIM and for the MicroSD card, but it happened to me with the MicroSD card.
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The screen on issue wasn't really an issue, that was TiBu keeping the screen on.
I already did a factotry reset that fixed it. What a pain though, I'm still not full recovered.
I did wipe cache and dalvik before wiping data. Wiping data fixed it.
I've never had any luck with LG Backup, so I didn't do that, but used TiBu to recover, which didn't go so well.
I guess it's lucky I didn't have to go the whole TOT process. I've done that before and that's not fun either.
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The screen on issue wasn't really an issue, that was TiBu keeping the screen on.
I already did a factotry reset that fixed it. What a pain though, I'm still not full recovered.
I did wipe cache and dalvik before wiping data. Wiping data fixed it.
I've never had any luck with LG Backup, so I didn't do that, but used TiBu to recover, which didn't go so well.
I guess it's lucky I didn't have to go the whole TOT process. I've done that before and that's not fun either.
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Glad you solved it. Hopefully nothing you restore re-creates the problem.
I sure wish I knew why LG Backup doesn't work for some people? When you tried it did you try saving to internal storage, or just MicroSD card? I always save to internal since it's much faster than any MicroSD card, and then move it later if need be.
I'm used to TOTing. It's no big deal to me any more.
roirraW "edor" ehT said:
Glad you solved it. Hopefully nothing you restore re-creates the problem.
I sure wish I knew why LG Backup doesn't work for some people? When you tried it did you try saving to internal storage, or just MicroSD card? I always save to internal since it's much faster than any MicroSD card, and then move it later if need be.
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I don't recall, haven't done it in a while. It didn't get me anywhere close to back to a full restore when I've tried it. I probably did it to SD card, but don't remember for sure.
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I don't recall, haven't done it in a while. It didn't get me anywhere close to back to a full restore when I've tried it. I probably did it to SD card, but don't remember for sure.
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If you have your MicroSD card formatted FAT32 (which is common, and what Android, TWRP and probably Windows would normally format it as), then I *think* that maybe LG Backup complains because it puts everything in one huge compressed file and FAT32 can't handle files over 4 GB in size, as it was made in 1977. ExFAT (you can format as such in Windows with the card connected directly to the PC/via adapter, etc) has no restriction. NTFS doesn't either but I wouldn't use that on a MicroSD card.
Another option is to back up half your apps the first time (A-K?) and then L-Z the next time.
Warning that some Android builds/kernels might not have ExFAT support built in, but I'm very sure stock LG does.
Of course if you don't have a huge amount of apps this probably wouldn't be the trouble.
roirraW "edor" ehT said:
If you have your MicroSD card formatted FAT32 (which is common, and what Android, TWRP and probably Windows would normally format it as), then I *think* that maybe LG Backup complains because it puts everything in one huge compressed file and FAT32 can't handle files over 4 GB in size, as it was made in 1977. ExFAT (you can format as such in Windows with the card connected directly to the PC/via adapter, etc) has no restriction. NTFS doesn't either but I wouldn't use that on a MicroSD card.
Another option is to back up half your apps the first time (A-K?) and then L-Z the next time.
Warning that some Android builds/kernels might not have ExFAT support built in, but I'm very sure stock LG does.
Of course if you don't have a huge amount of apps this probably wouldn't be the trouble.
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I have a ton of apps. I will reformat to ExFAT when I get a chance and try to run LG backup again. I won't be chancing a restore though, but at least I'll see how the backup completes.
I'm actually currently formated as exFat. I can't say if I ever tried an LG backup formatted that way, but it's possible. I'll try to run one once I've fully recovered here.
Had a lot of recovery issues with TiBu. Got parsing error even when restoring via indirect method with many apps. I had to restore from a feb TiBu backup, then update all the apps in the play store, then I'm going to restore data with the new TiBu backup. Big PITA. New apps will still show as not restored from the new TiBu backup, so I can just d/l those from the play store and then restore data on this. Good excuse to not bother restoring apps I never use and shortening my total number of apps.
Aigh! Yeah, I've been having more and more trouble with TB which is why I just use LG Backup where possible, although the specific troubles you're having with TB don't sound the same.
MicroSD card in general just isn't as reliable as internal storage. Just plain copying files that have already been written to internal storage to MicroSD card is less taxing than having software create the files on the card to begin with. I've been in the habit of doing disk intensive stuff to internal storage starting with the Galaxy S2.
Hopefully your current restore journey is ultimately successful.
FWIW, I had to wipe data again today due to another issue I was having. I did an LG backup to my external SD that was about 6GB, wiped and did the restore. It looks like it did a pretty good job of getting me back to where I was. The text database is a bit screwed up. All of the group chats are showing at the top of Yaata for some reason. I have an sms backup & restore backup from last night, so I'll wipe the messaging database and restore that. Lot of settings I'll need to clean up, but apps look to be in good shape. Not sure why LG Backup totally didn't work for me previously.
Hope the data wipe fixed this problem (SIM card keeps getting disconnected), but I bet it doesn't and that'll be the end of my G3.