I have a rooted Prime (on stock JB build, nothing else) and after the Jellybean update, I'd like to start from scratch on a fresh factory install to take advantage of the new JB speed and efficiency.
Is it ok to factory reset the device or will I lose root? I have been maintaining root through the updates with the Voodoo, but obviously that won't be available to me after a factory reset.
Thanks in advance.
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OK, tell me if this is a pipe dream. I'm rooted and am pretty satisfied with the stock ROM plus bloat freezer to kill bloat. So starting with stock/root, if you simply do the OTA's as they are released here (and don't take them OTA), is it safe to just wipe cache and dalvik and then install the OTA as released here? Can you do that without a full factory reset? It would seem you should be able to: since you never have to factory reset when you take the actual OTA. Wasn't sure though.
Mike
mikeyxda said:
OK, tell me if this is a pipe dream. I'm rooted and am pretty satisfied with the stock ROM plus bloat freezer to kill bloat. So starting with stock/root, if you simply do the OTA's as they are released here (and don't take them OTA), is it safe to just wipe cache and dalvik and then install the OTA as released here? Can you do that without a full factory reset? It would seem you should be able to: since you never have to factory reset when you take the actual OTA. Wasn't sure though.
Mike
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It depends if htc made changes to framework and such you might have, after the rooted version is release they will some developers that will check and hopefully let us know we got some in the evo that you really didn't need to wipe at all
If you don't have an Evo3d well you don't have an Evo3d
HI all.
I have Simply Honey 2.8 Rom on my phone and have had this for the last few months.
I wanted to do a hard reset (since my phone seems to be laggy and force closing more often)
When the phone boots up after a hard reset, will it boot up with the custom ROM or with stock?
Is there anything else i need to make sure to do, before i hard reset?
Thanks so much,
riskaa
Referring to your use of the phrase "hard reset", in the words of Inigo Montoya, "You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means."
If what you meant is a factory reset, then the answer is it'll boot up with your custom ROM. If you really mean "hard reset", then uh... turn your phone back on and everything will be as it was when you turned it off.
I did mean factory reset - thank you.
Good to know it will boot up with my custom ROM. That's what I was hoping.
Thank you,
When is it recommendet to do an factory reset after updating?
If I even do an update for example from V54 to V54 do you think I should do an factory reset anyway?
treater said:
When is it recommendet to do an factory reset after updating?
If I even do an update for example from V54 to V54 do you think I should do an factory reset anyway?
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A factory reset is usually necessary when flashing a new rom (Say Stock 2.1 > Simply Honey). However, if you're only updating a rom (Say Simply Honey v2.7 > Simply Honey v2.8) then you don't have to do a factory reset.
Thats the question
Of course i have OTA voodoo root keeper and i think i already did a factory reset on .14 or something and kept the root / was able to restore root - not sure anymore.
Has anyone tried that?
I want to factory reset because i have some strange things going on, like reboots after a long time on standby and stuff like that. Or maybe these are just issues with .21 ... who knows but anyway would be nice to know what happens to root after factory reset.
you will lose root and voodoo keeper so you will be unable to restore root.
clouds5 said:
Thats the question
Of course i have OTA voodoo root keeper and i think i already did a factory reset on .14 or something and kept the root / was able to restore root - not sure anymore.
Has anyone tried that?
I want to factory reset because i have some strange things going on, like reboots after a long time on standby and stuff like that. Or maybe these are just issues with .21 ... who knows but anyway would be nice to know what happens to root after factory reset.
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Try the paper clip in the little hole by the sdcard first to see if that helps. I just did it this morning. There is no downside.
clouds5 said:
Thats the question
Of course i have OTA voodoo root keeper and i think i already did a factory reset on .14 or something and kept the root / was able to restore root - not sure anymore.
Has anyone tried that?
I want to factory reset because i have some strange things going on, like reboots after a long time on standby and stuff like that. Or maybe these are just issues with .21 ... who knows but anyway would be nice to know what happens to root after factory reset.
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I did a factory reset with .21 after rooting .14 and installed voodoo ota root keeper...i didn't lose root...the superuser app gets installed along with other apps...
Does anyone know the answer to this definitively from experience, and could they explain it. I asked the same question on 04/13 with no answer.
You will not lose root if you have Google backup enabled. I did a factory reset on .21. The OTA Voodoo app along with the data files for it will be automatically reinstalled when you log back into your Gmail account.
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You will not lose root if you have Google backup enabled. I did a factory reset on .21. The OTA Voodoo app along with the data files for it will be automatically reinstalled when you log back into your Gmail account.
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Thank you are there any other answers besides google backup (I don't trust it) it sometimes only works on first bootup after system reset
Yeah i dont trust google backup either
Guess i'll wait for the next update which should come very soon. See if that clears up my issues because other than that i like the stock rom.
But good to know its still an option to factory reset even though its somewhat risky.
I actually did factory reset on .21. I had lost wifi do to pilot error. I had a backup apk of voodoo and upon installing it I still had root AFTER the factory reset. This was a wipe all data from the bootloader menu, not using the reset pin on the side. I can confirm that either you wont lose root, or voodoo will restore it for you.
I was rooted on .14, went through the upgrades, had multiple failed updates to .21 until I downloaded and manually ran it.
Now I cannot get root back with Voodoo despite having backed it up before hand.
Any ideas?
I had .21, rooted with VooDoo on the system, when I reset the superuser came back but I did not have root, and Voodoo did not come back. I have everything backed up on Titanium, but it won't work without root.
I am going to try and use another users voodoo apk and see if it will work.
I have the same issue, SU is there, but no root.
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I had .21, rooted with VooDoo on the system, when I reset the superuser came back but I did not have root, and Voodoo did not come back. I have everything backed up on Titanium, but it won't work without root.
I am going to try and use another users voodoo apk and see if it will work.
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Grab the apk from TB for Voodoo and manually install it. It should restore root for you. Your backups are in mnt/sdcard/titaniumbackup
im on .21 not rooted. if i do a factory reset will it reset my firmware to factory too like to .14 and then can i root install voodoo and update to .21?
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im on .21 not rooted. if i do a factory reset will it reset my firmware to factory too like to .14 and then can i root install voodoo and update to .21?
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Factory reset does not remove or rollback firmware updates.
Just wanted to let you know, i did a factory reset yesterday. Everything went fine, i kept root and titanium worked perfectly.
It was a complete pain in the ass though to copy back my stuff. I had about 20GB that i backed up before the reset and wanted to copy back once everything was set up. I had to start over several times, and it kept hanging at times. I hate this media device mode. HATE IT.
Hey guys,
If i do a factory reset through settings and i have the leaked ics rom.. will i brick my phone?
Thanks,
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no
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Would doing this un-root a rooted phone?
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Would doing this un-root a rooted phone?
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no. it will only wipe user data
Are you trying to go back to stock??
WOW, is this topic real?
Lmao to is this topic..real!!!
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A factory reset removes ANY data that is not 'pre-installed' by the rom.
Basically, its as if you just turned your phone on for the first time but instead of with the rom that came with the phone, it is with the rom you have installed.
You do not loose root because what actually is giving you root is code added to the kernel (hooks) and since the kernel is part of the system, it cannot be reverted to its original state, any changes made to the kernel will remain after a factory reset (Android at this time does not keep multiple backups of system files like Linux or Windows does - sometimes called shadow copies).
If your rom did NOT come with SuperUser pre-installed, you can simply redownload it from the market (if you were rooted).
One other thing, a factory reset also removes any cached data (davlik for example) as well. This is why it takes so long for the phone to boot after a factory reset or after installing a rom that does a wipe before installing (the phone has to rebuild the davlik cache when it reboots which takes some time).
If you are interested in specifically what a factory reset does and does not do, I recommend asking Google, its a very informative resource.
I'll just toss this out there; I got my phone a few days ago, and it was pretty sluggish on stock TW; adding ADW ex didn't help a lot, so I did a factory wipe reset yesterday, and it fixed things right up!
Did it to my wifes phone too, and it fixed a few little issues she was having too..I read some posts saying that it should almost be mandatory to do a factory wipe when you first get this phone, which i thought was weird, but, proved beneficial for both of our newly acquired Notes...
Absolutely, Android is alot like windows, it begins to just start performing badly. Typically, a simple reboot fixes things but one in awhile, a factory reset doesnt hurt.
So how do you do a factory reset????
Hi,
I have an unlocked UK S2 phone on the stock 4.0.4 kernel. It's an Orange branded phone if that has any relevance.
I have noticed that my GPS no longer will fix at all. Left it for a good 30 minutes but no luck,
Googling suggests a hard reset or clearing the dalvik cache.
I'm unable to clear the cache as the phone is not rooted.
I then stumbled upon various threads about a bug which can cause the phone to be bricked if certain operations
are performed (see http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1756242) on a 4.0.4 kernel and certain firmware versions for the flash memory - which mine appears to have!
I definitely don't want to brick my phone!
2 questions:
1. I'm not clear if I hard reset on stock 4.0.4 can brick it. I think so. But it's not clear (to me). Is that correct? And if so, is there a way to do a hard reset without the risk of bricking it? Any step-by-step instructions would be most helpful.
2. Any other suggestions that can get the GPS working again?
Any help appreciated.
Thanks
ist flash a safe kernal like siyah 4.1.5 or an earlier version of Dorimanx without mali drivers using odin as the brick bug has been diabled..
This will allow you to do resets and wipes without any problems.
A hard reset for sgs2 is simply removing the battery and reinstalling it.
Factory reset will wipe user data and return the phone back to stock 4.0.4 without any customizations.
Hi,
Thanks for the reply. My badly worded email - when I said hard reset I was really meaning factory reset to wipe it.
I got the impression from the thread I linked to that the very act of flashing a kernel/wiping caches etc could cause the brick bug.
Or is that not correct?
I have since rooted my phone. I'm wondering if it is safe to just remove everything in the dalvik-cache directory from an adb command line prompt? The phone will obviously be still running at this point. Or would it be safer to clockwork mod recovery on and do it from there?
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ist flash a safe kernal like siyah 4.1.5 or an earlier version of Dorimanx without mali drivers using odin as the brick bug has been diabled..
This will allow you to do resets and wipes without any problems.
A hard reset for sgs2 is simply removing the battery and reinstalling it.
Factory reset will wipe user data and return the phone back to stock 4.0.4 without any customizations.
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