I just wanted to confirm that when using AmonRa it doesn't wipe the SD card when you select WIPE ALL.. I didn't want to wipe everything stored on my SD card when I use the wipe all option before flashing a rom, thanks!
Are you talking about just the external SD card?
c10layman said:
I just wanted to confirm that when using AmonRa it doesn't wipe the SD card when you select WIPE ALL.. I didn't want to wipe everything stored on my SD card when I use the wipe all option before flashing a rom, thanks!
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When you wipe all/factory reset to flash a rom, everything on your phone's internal storage is cleared. That includes sdcard, not sdcard2 or ext sdcard. The ROM will generally be on your sdcard2, so it wouldnt make much sense to wipe that too.
Yeah I was but I got my answer over in the CLEANROM thread, thanks!
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I'm planning to wipe my phone and do a full SBF flash before I install GingerBlur ROM. Will doing this erase data on my Internal SD card as well? I don't use an External SD-card, and I backed up all of my apps and data on this so I can reinstall easily once I install the ROM. Will this be a problem?
Aaronneyer said:
I'm planning to wipe my phone and do a full SBF flash before I install GingerBlur ROM. Will doing this erase data on my Internal SD card as well? I don't use an External SD-card, and I backed up all of my apps and data on this so I can reinstall easily once I install the ROM. Will this be a problem?
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It doesn't touch anything on the internal media partition (I think 10 gigs), it just wipes the internal phone partitions so anything on the internal sd and external is safe.
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Not my experience. It did wipe the apps off of the card. Next time I wipe mine I am planning on removing the card first.
deserthi said:
Not my experience. It did wipe the apps off of the card. Next time I wipe mine I am planning on removing the card first.
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The apps are removed because they are associated with the inaccessible internal storage but personal data like docs, photos, and music should be left untouched
In CW recovery, when I do wipes i goto Mount and Storage then format / data, cache, system.
What happens if i select format / sdcard? will that erase my internal sd card?
Formatting an SD card will wipe it totally clean, so yes.
I've never used it but I suspect it's the same as formatting sd card from settings / storage. You would lose all your photos, media files and everything else on your internal SD card.
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Useful for a fresh install on a clean phone via download mode and Odin and stock rom .
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Hello,
I have a question about formating internal card with Recovery ...
Is there any safe way how to format internal card of the phone in CWM recovery and still be able to flash new rom? There is an option for it - format internal sd card and format external but I am not sure what happens if I format internal card etc. Thank you.
Drahy said:
Hello,
I have a question about formating internal card with Recovery ...
Is there any safe way how to format internal card of the phone in CWM recovery and still be able to flash new rom? There is an option for it - format internal sd card and format external but I am not sure what happens if I format internal card etc. Thank you.
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it will wipe your SD card just like normal formatting. It's safe.
However if you are not comfortable with the recovery method, you can also try this method which is even safer:
- goto SETTINGS >Storage> Erase SD (do this for the SD you want to erase)
Very fast, very smooth
Swyped from my Samsung Galaxy SII
Jokesy said:
it will wipe your SD card just like normal formatting. It's safe.
However if you are not comfortable with the recovery method, you can also try this method which is even safer:
- goto SETTINGS >Storage> Erase SD (do this for the SD you want to erase)
Very fast, very smooth
Swyped from my Samsung Galaxy SII
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I was thinking about wiping completely internal and external data which show to me when i plug-in my telefon to my computer. Is there any save way to format all the phone and not brick it? I mean really clean the phone ...
Then do exactly as Jokesy said.
But this procedure will wipe only external card, right?
Drahy said:
But this procedure will wipe only external card, right?
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No. There will be three storage devices shown under storage settings.
1. System, 2Gig
2. Internal SD, 11.x Gig ( there will be a separate ERASE SD for this)
3. External SD, x.x Gig, depending on the size of the your external SD.
If you still not sure advise this you can temporarily unmount your external SD before trying the formatting process.
Good luck
Swyped from my Samsung Galaxy SII
Quick question here:
In TWRP recovery, if I choose to wipe internal storage, does it mean I only wipe the internal sd card or does it wipe the system ROM also? I am on the latest moded viperX+ TWRP
Thank you.
simorangkir_dcs said:
Quick question here:
In TWRP recovery, if I choose to wipe internal storage, does it mean I only wipe the internal sd card or does it wipe the system ROM also? I am on the latest moded viperX+ TWRP
Thank you.
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Yes it will only wipe the internal sd card . If you choose format internal storage, it will wipe everything. SO DON"T FORMAT
If you format interal storage why would that be a problem ?
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ac3kill said:
If you format interal storage why would that be a problem ?
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When jumping between ROMs people generally like to keep the contents of their Internal Memory intact. It used to not really be a problem, because most Android phones had SD cards to act as their internal memory (this isn't technically correct, but you get my drift), and those SD cards would not be wiped when you formatted your system. Now that the phone's internal memory is actually part of the phone's filesystem, though, it requires a bit more effort to ensure you don't wipe out the contents of your "SD card" when formatting the phone.
but isnt internal storage just where photos/music and stuff is stored? yet, certain apps have folders there, and twrp keeps nandroids there, titanium keeps its backups there, but if you KNOW this, you copy these folders to pc first, then format, then copy back those folders and can still restore nandroids or titanium backups, right?
Will the CWM backups disappear after a full wipe? Please answer.
Thank you!
If on your external sd card then no, they won't. Internal sd will be wiped, depending on how you're doing the wipe.
Mine didn't but they were on the external sd card everything on the internal was gone but external stayed intact.
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It depends on what you call full wipe. On my recovery and generally speaking it is /cache dalvick cache, and /data except the internal sdcard folder. Sometimes it adds system and preload wipe. So your internal card personal data are untouched. With those recoveries the option to wipe internal card completely is explicitly labeled and you can't make a mistake.