Hi, I am planning on selling my Atrix that has a busted digitizer, so the touchscreen is inoperable. I would like to wipe all traces of my personal data from the phone. What fastboot/ADB commands need to be run? Do I need then to push a new ROM to flash after I wipe the phone? Any help is appreciated. Thanks.
To completely wipe your phone use this: FFW
Then flash a 2.3.4 Fruit cake to revert it to stock.
Thank you but that doesn't wipe any data whatsoever on /sdcard/
No it doesn't. If you want to, under Advanced in CWM there's an option to erase sd-ext (External SD), if you want to erase the internal memory hook up your phone to the computer and erase it with android commander. It does everything via ADB so you don't have to use the touch screen.
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Hi,
I'm running stock ATT 4.5.91 plus root applied. Just some minutes ago I tried to install Opera Mobile from the market and during installation the phone rebooted. After that, the system keeps rebooting at the unlock screen (all I can see it is mounting the storage system).
I tried wiping cache from stock android recovery but it still keeps rebooting.
I guess a factory reset could solve the problem, but I'd like to save some data I have on the internal memory. Is there any chance of saving them?
Thanks in advance!
cheveoner said:
Hi,
I'm running stock ATT 4.5.91 plus root applied. Just some minutes ago I tried to install Opera Mobile from the market and during installation the phone rebooted. After that, the system keeps rebooting at the unlock screen (all I can see it is mounting the storage system).
I tried wiping cache from stock android recovery but it still keeps rebooting.
I guess a factory reset could solve the problem, but I'd like to save some data I have on the internal memory. Is there any chance of saving them?
Thanks in advance!
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Not sure if the stock recovery allows it but can't you mount usb & then save whatever needs to be saved?
Stock recovery doesn't include that option. Still, I connected the phone to the computer and never happened.
you want to save the stuff thats on your "internal sd card" or data that is on the /data partition? if oyu do a factory wipe it asks you if you want to wipe internal sd or not, so if you want to save data form there you can do a factory wip and it shouldnt wipe it. Otherwise flash a service sbf (if you are on stock 2.3.4 with that bootloader, you can only flash the 2.3.4 sbf or eventually pudding sbf but than you need to unlock your device, which deletes your data, so the onyl option is stock 2.3.4 service sbf)
crnkoj said:
you want to save the stuff thats on your "internal sd card" or data that is on the /data partition? if oyu do a factory wipe it asks you if you want to wipe internal sd or not, so if you want to save data form there you can do a factory wip and it shouldnt wipe it. Otherwise flash a service sbf (if you are on stock 2.3.4 with that bootloader, you can only flash the 2.3.4 sbf or eventually pudding sbf but than you need to unlock your device, which deletes your data, so the onyl option is stock 2.3.4 service sbf)
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I just did the wipe data/factory reset and it left the internal sd card untouched, so that was perfect! I didn't know that this option just erases /data.
Now I'm going to unlock the bootloader and install a better recovery and CM7. If this is going to happen again, there is no point in remaining stock (at least in my case).
Thanks both for your help!
Hi All,
I did a factory reset today and flashed the stock 4.1.1 Polish ROM via Odin. This process seems to have wiped my files (including photos etc) from my S3 (internal memory, not SD card). I've flashed plenty of ROMS before and this has never happened.
Anyone know if it's possible to get them back? I guess I've installed new apps etc now so a lot of the data would have been overwritten. Frustrating!
Thanks for any tips.
UnitedWeFall said:
Hi All,
I did a factory reset today and flashed the stock 4.1.1 Polish ROM via Odin. This process seems to have wiped my files (including photos etc) from my S3 (internal memory, not SD card). I've flashed plenty of ROMS before and this has never happened.
Anyone know if it's possible to get them back? I guess I've installed new apps etc now so a lot of the data would have been overwritten. Frustrating!
Thanks for any tips.
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You answered your own question with your first sentence : I did a factory reset...
Unfortunately its not possible to get back the data
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Unless you backed up on PC or sd card...
Factory reset in S3 will always wipe internal memory as it shares internal memory for applications.
If you want to restore try some data recovery software that supports SD card.
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Unless you backed up on PC or sd card...
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That would be the only way. There is a very small window to recover data wiped from flash memory and on a phone it would be even more difficult. Maybe a Clockwork backup?
Internal SDcard is mounted on the system partition via Fuse..so if you format the /system partition..sdcard is formatted as well..
Pointers for future..
Use CWM for flashing ROMS..(I hate Odin )
Backup your internal SDcard on your PC regularly
Perform a Nandroid Backup on your ExtSDcard before flashing any ROM.
If you ever need to factory reset..use the wipe data/factory reset option in CWM and not in Stock Recovery
For a clean install, if you want to wipe system partition..use wipe /system option under mount and format in CWM..it just wipes the system files and your SDcard data will be safe..
You will not face such issues if you in the future if you follow these pointers.
zoot1 said:
Internal SDcard is mounted on the system partition via Fuse..so if you format the /system partition..sdcard is formatted as well..
Pointers for future..
Use CWM for flashing ROMS..(I hate Odin )
Backup your internal SDcard on your PC regularly
Perform a Nandroid Backup on your ExtSDcard before flashing any ROM.
If you ever need to factory reset..use the wipe data/factory reset option in CWM and not in Stock Recovery
For a clean install, if you want to wipe system partition..use wipe /system option under mount and format in CWM..it just wipes the system files and your SDcard data will be safe..
You will not face such issues if you in the future if you follow these pointers.
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Thanks for that. Lesson learnt I guess..
My sister installed her work eMail which enabled Encryption (I believe only on the Data Partition).
She does not really care about having her work email, so we removed it.
But that still leaves everything Encryted.
After Googling Around it appears you need the Factory RUU to get the Phone Back to Stock.
But that is not availble yet.
Does anyone know a way to either Flash a ROM or Take the Encryption Off.
We tried both TWRP and CW Recovery and neither can do a Backup because they cannot Mount Data.
Any suggestions welcome.
I'm personally on a Sprint HTC One
Perform a factory reset or boot into recovery (I am not sure about the HTC One stock recovery but I did this with my Galaxy S3) and format the /DATA partition.
Use titanium backup to backup all system data and user apps + data to sdcard, copy backup folder off to a computer, factory reset, copy the backup from PC to sdcard, then restore.
xeni said:
Perform a factory reset or boot into recovery (I am not sure about the HTC One stock recovery but I did this with my Galaxy S3) and format the /DATA partition.
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This worked. CW Recovery Failed. But TWRP worked. It got a whole bunch of failures until the last step that it formatted data. Then I ran it again with no errors.
I was a little surprised formatting DATA now includes the internal SD drive, that really sucks.
Thanks
Hey Guys,
I have always used CWM Rom Manager but now it only bricks the phone when installed. "Encryption Error - Factory Reset", but that does not work, have to use AP Fastboot and reinstall JellyBean. Now that I have it up again, I want a recovery solution besides Titanium Backup that will backup the entire phone, like CWM did. So, I installed SafeStrap. (Rooted with Android 4.1.2)
Now I would like to format the internal SD Card to start fresh, but when I boot to recovery in SafeStrap, Wipe does not format the internal card. The terminal window in the Wipe action shows that it cannot find block device. But, the File Manager in recovery works just fine and the backup seemed successful. When I go to Advanced, Settings, there is one setting that cannot be unchecked. "Use rm -rf instead of Format?" No, I do not want to wipe the existing partition, I want to format the entire internal SD partition, so I do indeed want Format like CWM would do. Is there a way to uncheck this box and how do you do it?
SafeStrap does have a Terminal, use at your own risk. So do I need to Format the internal SD Card by command line? Command line Syntax, please? Since this is a deadly serious operation, I would hope to get an answer and someone to confirm it, if possible. Familiar with Linux so that might help.
Anyone can help, please?
Update:
I checked out the SafeStrap Terminal. It is very, very crude, does not display much information like a Linux shell would. I can enter parted or at least the command echos to the screen, but the print command does not even show the partitions on the block device for the Internal SD Card, /dev/block/mmcblk1p25. There must be a better way...
I think you have to go to the SLOT like the ROM-SLOT-1 to do this.The stock rom slot dosent allow you to format or wipe anything.
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I'm sure I qualify for some sort of noob trophy. Having said that, here's my situation: My DNA is rooted w/S-Off, TWRP v2.6.1.0. I have run most of the sense 4 and 5 roms and briefly Newt's GPE v1.0.4. I wanted to flash the official cyanogenmod 10.2. I downloaded the rom and gapps zips and then booted into recovery. From the wipe menu, I did factory reset and advanced wipe of cache, dalvik, and system. Prior to flashing the new rom, I had to step away from the process to help with the kids. When I returned to my DNA, I remembered that I wanted to eliminate the duplicate storage between /data/media and /sdcard that was eating up all my internal storage. As you can likely now guess, my [email protected]$$ formatted the data partition to wipe the sdcard without having ever flashed the rom! I'm now left sitting in recovery with an empty phone. I have my TWRP backups saved on my Windows 7 cpu. What's the SIMPLIEST method to either get one of my backups or a rom.zip onto my sdcard? I thank you in advance for anyone willing to help me out!
raknarc said:
I'm sure I qualify for some sort of noob trophy. Having said that, here's my situation: My DNA is rooted w/S-Off, TWRP v2.6.1.0. I have run most of the sense 4 and 5 roms and briefly Newt's GPE v1.0.4. I wanted to flash the official cyanogenmod 10.2. I downloaded the rom and gapps zips and then booted into recovery. From the wipe menu, I did factory reset and advanced wipe of cache, dalvik, and system. Prior to flashing the new rom, I had to step away from the process to help with the kids. When I returned to my DNA, I remembered that I wanted to eliminate the duplicate storage between /data/media and /sdcard that was eating up all my internal storage. As you can likely now guess, my [email protected]$$ formatted the data partition to wipe the sdcard without having ever flashed the rom! I'm now left sitting in recovery with an empty phone. I have my TWRP backups saved on my Windows 7 cpu. What's the SIMPLIEST method to either get one of my backups or a rom.zip onto my sdcard? I thank you in advance for anyone willing to help me out!
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Step 0: boot to recovery
Step 1: adb devices //if it isn't detected: Advanced > adb sideload > adb devices again > cancel sideload
Step 2.1 TWRP backup option: adb push <directory of TWRP backup, without "<>"> /sdcard/TWRP/BACKUPS/
Step 2.2: New ROM option: adb push <rom directory> /sdcard/ // you may also need do do this for gapps
Step 3: Restore backup or flash ROM
Thanks, Walther! I wasn't able to get the backup to push, but I had the Tranquil Rom zip on cpu as well and I did successfully push it over to my DNA. It's booted and setting up as I type this. I'll hook up to cpu, when done, and transfer the backup to sdcard. Then, maybe, I'll be able to restore back to where I was before I borked everything up.
Thanks again!
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