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.
thermanlee said:
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
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Hello,
I bought g Tablet last week and want to sell it now.
I installed Gingerbeard 2.3, then Installed Honeycomb 3.0 with NVFLash
I have accessed email and personal websites like facebook, also had some photos of me and family in it.
but now I want absolutely to delete everything on the G tablet and restore it to original factory, so the buyer have no chance to pick any previous information on the device .
would NVFlash it again do the job? or what do? thanks.
If you just want to remove all personal data (and not also take the software back to stock), then remove any external SD cards, boot into ClockworkMod Recovery, and then:
1. Do "wipe data/factory reset", which will clear /cache on the NAND flash, then
2. Repartition the internal SD card, which will clear out your internal SD card.
Even after several wipes and nvflashes, the data can be recovered by someone who knows how to do it.
So what to do? Well I suggest to do the usual wipes and nvflashes, and then I fill the memory with huge files (i.e. Dvd rips or anything like that) and then delete again. It's almost the same technique used by wiping programs on PCs which write zeores and ones on the disk to overwrite the whole thing.
A bit time consuming, but if you are that paranoid you can do it that way.
Cheers!
Rayan
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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!
I would like to clean up my Cyanongen installation, but i dont know what is safe to delete and what not.
is there is a way to start totally 'clean' with just CM7 installed?
i have a feeling alot of unused directories / files are on my phone.
I'd prefer to format everything and re-install a fresh CM7 like u do when re-installing a PC.
Do a Titanium backup to your external SD card, backup your contacts, SMS & anything else you need (EFS too use Hellcat's kTool available on Market), then transfer the folders/files to your PC.
Do a factory reset on your phone, format both your internal/external SD cards, reinstall CM & whatever kernel you like thru Odin then transfer those backup files back to your internal or external SD card & restore your backups (just the apps, not the app data). That's what I'm planning to do over Xmas/New Year (tho not with CM).
Is this what you had in mind ?
tontje said:
I would like to clean up my Cyanongen installation, but i dont know what is safe to delete and what not.
is there is a way to start totally 'clean' with just CM7 installed?
i have a feeling alot of unused directories / files are on my phone.
I'd prefer to format everything and re-install a fresh CM7 like u do when re-installing a PC.
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Do i have to re-install with Odin, or is it also possible to format everything in CWM recovery and re-install CM7 with CWM recovery aswell? besides, do i lose my current kernel when i format through recovery?
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Actually, that's a very good point. You probably noticed I ummed and ahhed/edited my post a couple of times
Yeah, I guess you can probably just as easily do it all thru the CW Recovery ;-)
Edit - Although...If you nuke your SD cards (both), I'm thinking you'll more than likely get rid of everything on them, including CW, so that's why my first thought was that you'll need to reflash CM/kernel thru Odin, put the backups back on your external SD & then go from there.
tontje said:
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Do i have to re-install with Odin, or is it also possible to format everything in CWM recovery and re-install CM7 with CWM recovery aswell? besides, do i lose my current kernel when i format through recovery?
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Thanks for your help, i managed to do it all through CWM recovery.
started with downloading latest CM7 zip and stored it on my external sd (emmc).
rebooted into CWM and did
* Factory reset
* did all the formats under mount/format except emmc ofcourse
* reinstalled CM7 zip
* reboot and there it is, a fresh install with no unneeded empty directory/files etc
i didnt have to do a backup since all i had was some apps (wich i can redownload from app-store, and contacts are synced through google)
Thanks again!
No worries ;-) Glad it all worked smoothly for you.
You pretty much did it all yourself anyways Now I know you for sure that you don't have to use Odin at all & will follow the steps you did myself when I wipe mine over the next week or so
Learning together is a beautiful thing
tontje said:
Thanks for your help, i managed to do it all through CWM recovery.
started with downloading latest CM7 zip and stored it on my external sd (emmc).
rebooted into CWM and did
* Factory reset
* did all the formats under mount/format except emmc ofcourse
* reinstalled CM7 zip
* reboot and there it is, a fresh install with no unneeded empty directory/files etc
i didnt have to do a backup since all i had was some apps (wich i can redownload from app-store, and contacts are synced through google)
Thanks again!
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Battery / warmth issues
since i've done a total whipe and re-installed CM7, i seem to have a recharging issue, the phone gets really warm and it doesn't continuesly charge... it was almost empty, then got it back to around 30% and now it unloading again even while its connected...
do know what's wrong or what i could do to fix this? My battery-usage is not showing anything unusual that is consuming the battery
Occasionally after flashing a new kernel (I've never experienced it with a new rom tho) I've experienced heat issues like you're describing which tend to work themselves out after a couple of charge/discharge/reboot cycles, tho not the problems with recharging.
Try draining it to 5%, boot into CW Recovery, clear cache, clear Dalvik, delete battery stats then charge the phone while it's off to 100% (dont switch it on until you get the notification).
See if that helps.
tontje said:
since i've done a total whipe and re-installed CM7, i seem to have a recharging issue, the phone gets really warm and it doesn't continuesly charge... it was almost empty, then got it back to around 30% and now it unloading again even while its connected...
do know what's wrong or what i could do to fix this? My battery-usage is not showing anything unusual that is consuming the battery
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yeah clearing the battery stats seemed to have worked.... Strange tho, since i also did that right after formatting and reinstalling CM
It worked ? Excellent
Yeah that's a strange one. I have absolutely no idea why things like that don't seem to be fixed by clearing cache/Dalvik or battery stats once, but when you do it a second time the problem is solved
Main thing is you've got your phone running sweet now
tontje said:
yeah clearing the battery stats seemed to have worked.... Strange tho, since i also did that right after formatting and reinstalling CM
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Jup! again, thanks alot m8!
You're welcome man ;-) We worked it out together.
tontje said:
Jup! again, thanks alot m8!
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so I was in the process of installing JB on my gs2, backed up my device, everything was fine. until I factory resetted before flashing CM10, now I have no software on my device and I can't connect it to the computer to put a ROM across. so I went searching and found this
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1585494
and followed the instructions, but my computer won't install the drivers. I have also played around in device manager with this. So I resorted to an old 2gb ext sd card I had lying around thinking I would put CM10 on that, but the zip file being 155mb, doesn't want to install on a 2GB sd card. would my phone have recognised it any way? I have also tried droid explorer but I am in way over my head with that.
what do I do please? this has been the past 4 hours of my night and I'm running out of options.
Sultan89 said:
so I was in the process of installing JB on my gs2, backed up my device, everything was fine. until I factory resetted before flashing CM10, now I have no software on my device and I can't connect it to the computer to put a ROM across. so I went searching and found this
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1585494
and followed the instructions, but my computer won't install the drivers. I have also played around in device manager with this. So I resorted to an old 2gb ext sd card I had lying around thinking I would put CM10 on that, but the zip file being 155mb, doesn't want to install on a 2GB sd card. would my phone have recognised it any way? I have also tried droid explorer but I am in way over my head with that.
what do I do please? this has been the past 4 hours of my night and I'm running out of options.
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so I simply, out of curiousity, restored the backup I did though CWM and it worked! *facepalm* but I thought it would have deleted it all off the memory since I did a factory reset? but anyway, it's working and I'm putting CM10 and GAPPS on now and then going to flash first this time!!
Sultan89 said:
EDIT******
so I simply, out of curiousity, restored the backup I did though CWM and it worked! *facepalm* but I thought it would have deleted it all off the memory since I did a factory reset? but anyway, it's working and I'm putting CM10 and GAPPS on now and then going to flash first this time!!
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Wipe Data / factory reset doesn't format your internal SD card
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.
ravilov said:
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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