I have bought Samsung Galaxy S3 from market, i.e., used phone.
Now, I want to reset the phone and put my login details. What all things will be erased when I reset the phone?
And how can I find "any presence of tracking app" in phone?
hammadfaisal007 said:
I have bought Samsung Galaxy S3 from market, i.e., used phone.
Now, I want to reset the phone and put my login details. What all things will be erased when I reset the phone?
And how can I find "any presence of tracking app" in phone?
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you can hard reset by doing a factory reset, will wipe you phone incl. sd card if I am not wrong. This should bring the phone back to factory state.
Regarding the tracking app, not sure.
Dont know if the below code works anymore but you can try it. It will clean up everything and only keep the files installed from factory. Warning if you enter the last part which is # phone will just go automatically in the format mode and you'll just have few secs to pull out battery in order to stop it.
Type*2767*3855# Full
factory reset (Don't dial
it does not ask you to
confirm unless you have
problem)
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Hi,
I own a Bell Motorola atrix and after rooting the phone I accidentally deleted one the many moto apps (don't remember the exact name). As soon as I realized I deleted one of the system apps, I wanted to bring the app back, so I thought doing a hard reset will do but I was mistaken.
After the hard reset my phone won't go past motoblur activation. When I enter my motoblur account details, it tries to login but after a while I get "An internal server error has occured. Please try again" (I think this is because of app I deleted)
I tried skip setup but no use.
What should I do? I searched for Bell Atrix SBF but there is none, they are all for AT&T.
Is it possible that some one can take an image of their Bell atrix and I can somehow use that image to flash it back to stock?
Please help! This is my first android phone and have no idea how flashing to stock works.
Update: I found the Bell atrix dump with all APKs from this thread http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1004503&highlight=dump
Now my question is, how do I install the missing APKs from the fastboot screen or from Motoblur activation screen? (note: usb debugging turned off when I hard reset it ) Please help!
nikechristo said:
Hi,
I own a Bell Motorola atrix and after rooting the phone I accidentally deleted one the many moto apps (don't remember the exact name). As soon as I realized I deleted one of the system apps, I wanted to bring the app back, so I thought doing a hard reset will do but I was mistaken.
After the hard reset my phone won't go past motoblur activation. When I enter my motoblur account details, it tries to login but after a while I get "An internal server error has occured. Please try again" (I think this is because of app I deleted)
I tried skip setup but no use.
What should I do? I searched for Bell Atrix SBF but there is none, they are all for AT&T.
Is it possible that some one can take an image of their Bell atrix and I can somehow use that image to flash it back to stock?
Please help! This is my first android phone and have no idea how flashing to stock works.
Update: I found the Bell atrix dump with all APKs from this thread http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1004503&highlight=dump
Now my question is, how do I install the missing APKs from the fastboot screen or from Motoblur activation screen? (note: usb debugging turned off when I hard reset it ) Please help!
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If you wish to wipe all data from your Motorola Atrix smartphone, you can perform a factory hard reset on the device. There are a couple of ways to accomplish this.
Software
If you can access the Android OS on the phone, this option is preferred. 1. Go to Settings. 2. Select Privacy. 3. Tap Factory data reset. 4. Select Reset phone. 5. Tap Erase everything.
Hardware
If your phone has issues and won’t boot normally, this is the option to use. 1. With the phone off, hold the Volume Down button while pressing Power. 2. A Fastboot screen should appear. Press Volume Down to navigate to the Android Recovery selection. 3. Press Volume Up. 4. A yellow triangle and Android logo will appear. Tap the bottom-right corner of the screen until a menu appears. 5. Tap wipe data/factory reset then tap OK. 6. Tap Yes then OK. 7. The Atrix will take a moment to peform the factory reset. When completed, select reboot system now then tap OK. This will clear all internal memory on the phone. SD card data is preserved, so if you’re transferring ownership of the phone or sending it back to the store, you may want to format the SD card as well. You can do so under Settings > SD card & phone storage.
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@yokozuna82 I know, but hard reset doesn't help. Read my original post again. Thanks for trying to help though.
I have a Sprint Galaxy S2 and I am out of the country without access to a store. I recently was unable to get my phone past the starting screen. YES IM AWARE OF THE ROUTE AS TO HOW TO DO A HARD RESET! First I took out the SD drive and did the proper way to get to the RESTORE FACTORY SETTINGS (and lets be clear, the factory screen did come up!). However, this is where I screwed up, I accidentally cleared the "cache" one I believe, not the "restore factory". It then took me back to that screen and I was able to do the normal factory wipe. It never really restarted like it did with the numerous other posts on how its "suppose to reboot itself". I now turn it on and it just goes back to the Galaxy start up screen again, only now, I cannot even access the factory menu. Can someone please give me a step by step process on what to do? I have seen the word ODIN everywhere and I have no idea what that is...
Long story short, my phone took a swim and the display is dead. The phone boots and all appears to be working fine, just no display. I can see the file system when plugged into computer.
I've searched around quite a bit and unable to find the best process to use to perform a factory reset without seeing the display? Any guidance is greatly appreciated. I want to perform a factory reset prior to selling the device.
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Long story short, my phone took a swim and the display is dead. The phone boots and all appears to be working fine, just no display. I can see the file system when plugged into computer.
I've searched around quite a bit and unable to find the best process to use to perform a factory reset without seeing the display? Any guidance is greatly appreciated. I want to perform a factory reset prior to selling the device.
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I bought a new Galaxy Note 3 and loving it - but would like to depart from my Galaxy Note 2 with a factory reset. Any utilities out there that I can use without the display working?
It's safe to assume you didn't enable "remote wipe" within Android Device Manager before it took a dive?
You should at least be able to use Odin to restore the factory image without any touchscreen interaction.
I have the GT-S7560M through Solo (Bell) and I rooted it shortly after purchase last year. I've been happy with the phone and for the last few weeks an upgrade notice has been appearing but would fail when applied. Some searching suggested the root was interfering. At first I started to look into un-rooting the phone, but then thought that a factory reset would be the simplest, least-risky solution. I had done a factory reset on my last Galaxy phone without a problem so it seemed like a safe choice. I backed up the contact info, etc with Kies (I don't use many apps so I didn't go all out ie Titanium Backup) and removed my SD card.
Now the phone boots to screen asking me to pick a language and press Start. Then it moves on to a black screen with the info bar at the top (clock, cell strength, data xfer) and nothing else. It is auto-rotating. The phone does react to touches with the buttons lighting up, but I can't get anywhere. Kies can see the phone, the phone number, the firmware version and all that. It reports Internal Memory as 84.83MB used of 1.58GB. I can navigate through the phone using Windows Explorer. I did a Restore with Kies but it doesn't seem to have had any relevant effect.
I am able to boot into CWM Recovery. I don't remember doing a back-up with it, and when I ask it to restore from either the SD card or the interal SD it says it can't mount.
At this point I would start thinking about taking the phone back to the store, but a flash counter appears during start-up and I'd rather they didn't see that for obvious reasons.
When I google I just get people who have bricked their phones. I just want my phone to work again. I'm not worried about modifying it further to achieve that.
Yoqui said:
I have the GT-S7560M through Solo (Bell) and I rooted it shortly after purchase last year. I've been happy with the phone and for the last few weeks an upgrade notice has been appearing but would fail when applied. Some searching suggested the root was interfering. At first I started to look into un-rooting the phone, but then thought that a factory reset would be the simplest, least-risky solution. I had done a factory reset on my last Galaxy phone without a problem so it seemed like a safe choice. I backed up the contact info, etc with Kies (I don't use many apps so I didn't go all out ie Titanium Backup) and removed my SD card.
Now the phone boots to screen asking me to pick a language and press Start. Then it moves on to a black screen with the info bar at the top (clock, cell strength, data xfer) and nothing else. It is auto-rotating. The phone does react to touches with the buttons lighting up, but I can't get anywhere. Kies can see the phone, the phone number, the firmware version and all that. It reports Internal Memory as 84.83MB used of 1.58GB. I can navigate through the phone using Windows Explorer. I did a Restore with Kies but it doesn't seem to have had any relevant effect.
I am able to boot into CWM Recovery. I don't remember doing a back-up with it, and when I ask it to restore from either the SD card or the interal SD it says it can't mount.
At this point I would start thinking about taking the phone back to the store, but a flash counter appears during start-up and I'd rather they didn't see that for obvious reasons.
When I google I just get people who have bricked their phones. I just want my phone to work again. I'm not worried about modifying it further to achieve that.
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You have posted in wrong section
BTW your solution is just flash stock Rom via ODIN , your problem will get solved.
BTW your solution is just flash stock Rom via ODIN , your problem will get solved.
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I've just finished doing that, and it appears to have worked.
For anyone else with a similar problem who finds this thread:
- Go to the FAQ here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=45767157#post45767157
- Download Daver18qc's root kit at the link provided (you'll have to scroll down to the second post). You want this to get Odin; don't worry about the zip's other contents.
- Go here: http://www.sammobile.com/ and register. It's free and all it wants is an e-mail and your country.
- Go here: http://www.sammobile.com/firmwares/ and type s7560m in the search box. The list will automatically update. I'm a Solo customer and chose 'Canada (Bell Mobile)'. When I first tried this in Firefox I would get a screen telling me I wasn't logged in. I tried it in IE (which I never use and so is 'clean') and the download went through.
- Go back to the FAQ http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=45767157#post45767157 and scroll down to 'Short Tutorials' and 'How to Flash with Odin:'.
- One thing it leaves out is that when you boot into Download Mode, you will first get a warning screen that asks you to either press Volume Up to continue or Volume Down to abort and reboot. Not a big deal but it caught me off guard. Odin will not detect the phone until you get past this screen.
- Continue with the Tutorial. After it is done you will have to setup the phone again. But at least it's working now.
Title is self-explanatory. I got locked out of my phone, so I went into recovery mode and did a hard/factory reset then rebooted the device. Everything was fine and well until the Device Protection from 5.1 kicked in and asked me to log back into my google account due to "unauthorized reset". I cannot access that google account anymore; I only created it for this phone and I never wrote down the password. I tried every password recovery option. I am COMPLETELY locked out of my phone, AND I deleted all my data for no reason. Grrr.
I read somewhere that since DP wasn't intoduced until 5.1, flashing the phone back to 5.0 would circumvent the entire problem, making it a nonissue. What I need to know, is how to do this in download mode. Please tell me it's possible. I'll try anything at this point; the phone is already a paperweight so any idea is a good idea.