Hi, I have a few question?
1. How do I do a full wipe without losing root? (I want my phone to be like when I bought it because now there is so many leftover folders from apps that I had installed and and uninstalled)
2. If I do a full wipe do I have to re-flash omega onto the phone or will omega still be installed?
3. Does titanium backup, backup all my pictures and music since they are in folders and titanium backup only backs up apps if im not mistaken?
Hi there
When you do a full wipe you will necessarily remove omega so yes, you will need to re-flash.
In order to do so you need to go to recovery mode(reachable via long press on power button) and choose wipe data/factory reset.
Titanium backup doesn't backup your sd card (music, photos, videos etc..) so you can just copy rhose to your pc.
But if you wipe data from recovery all your sd info will not be touched.
Huh? You just said wiping from recovery will wipe everything then said wiping from recovery won't touch sd..
Is there a way to wipe everything without losing custom rom?
Boot to CWM recovery and open a command shell via "adb shell" from your PC.
In CWM recovery, go to "Mounts and Storage" and select "Mount /data".
Then, in the shell on your PC, fire up these commands:
Code:
cd /data
rm -Rf *
sync
reboot
This will delete (=wipe) ALL your data, including everything on the internal storage (a.k.a. "internal SD card").
But all system / ROM related things will stay untouched, so when the phone boots up again you'll be greeted with initial setup and start over fresh.
If you have an external SD card you want to wipe too, just use the formatting option from the settings.
HellcatDroid said:
Boot to CWM recovery and open a command shell via "adb shell" from your PC.
In CWM recovery, go to "Mounts and Storage" and select "Mount /data".
Then, in the shell on your PC, fire up these commands:
Code:
cd /data
rm -Rf *
sync
reboot
This will delete (=wipe) ALL your data, including everything on the internal storage (a.k.a. "internal SD card").
But all system / ROM related things will stay untouched, so when the phone boots up again you'll be greeted with initial setup and start over fresh.
If you have an external SD card you want to wipe too, just use the formatting option from the settings.
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I'm not familiar with shell and that stuff. If I go to cwm and go to mounts and storage and select format sd, will it do the same thing?
uf21 said:
I'm not familiar with shell and that stuff. If I go to cwm and go to mounts and storage and select format sd, will it do the same thing?
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From my experience no - if it works at all (usually gives me errors) - but you can certainly try.
What if I press menu>settings>backup and reset>factory data reset?
Would that delete everything including the rom and root?
uf21 said:
What if I press menu>settings>backup and reset>factory data reset?
Would that delete everything including the rom and root?
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It will delete all data and settings, but not necessariely the contents of the internal storage.
It will, however, leave the system untouched, only applies to the data, i.e. after the reboot you still got w/e ROM you have and it's still rooted.
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Over the last year I along with others have had great run (and some scares) changing roms, now however I am getting messages telling me my sd card is full and i need to delete items. Having deleted various things I am still getting this message and my gallery will not load !
Question is .....is it worth trying to clean up sd card by copying it, reformat and then reinstall items, or is there a better route to go down.
Just as a point of interest the current rom I am running is Turkbey ICS V4 XWLP4.
Thanks
sr
Try in CWM recovery wipe cache and wipe dalvik cache .
jje
Can you tell me did you Full-Wiped data before Flashing the rom?
Hmm try to clear dalvik cache & Wipe-Cache through recovery. It might help. Always full wipe before moving to a new rom.
Clean..
Hi, yes did full wipes before installed. tried further wipes but still getting message telling me sd card full. Looked in settings and the USB Storage is showing full but dont really want to delete as I will loose photos etc. Can some of this be transfered to my external card as theres a fair bit of space there ?
Thanks
sr
Why not put photos pictures videos songs etc on external sd card .
Nothing is lost if you back it up .
jje
I did it this way:
1. backup the whole intermal sd-card onto my computer (via USB cable)
2. delete (still via cable from pc, because more comfortable) any folder created by an app that's no longer installed)
2a. DO NOT delete the following folders:
.android_secure
DCIM (if you want to keep photos/videos)
EFS_BACKUP (if you have it)
external_sd
media
clockworkmod (if you have CWM installed)
3. reboot device and test, if some program is missing important data, plug in usb again and restore from computer
kilrogg said:
I did it this way:
1. backup the whole intermal sd-card onto my computer (via USB cable)
2. delete (still via cable from pc, because more comfortable) and folder created by an app that's no longer installed)
2a. DO NOT delete the following folders:
.android_secure
DCIM (if you want to keep photos/videos)
EFS_BACKUP (if you have it)
external_sd
media
clockworkmod (if you have CWM installed)
3. reboot device and test, if some program is missing important data, plug in usb again and restore from computer
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Lol, if you want to clean you phone, reboot in recovery and format system and data, then boot in download mode and flash stock rom or Litening. Good luck
078gregory said:
Lol, if you want to clean you phone, reboot in recovery and format system and data, then boot in download mode and flash stock rom or Litening. Good luck
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I think you're missing the point. Of course factory reset and formatting the whole sd-card is an option but often you don't want to lose ALL your data, just some of it that's not used anyway.
i want to clean my s3 by wiping everthing including internel sd card and system partition.how to do that?
AminemTV said:
i want to clean my s3 by wiping everthing including internel sd card and system partition.how to do that?
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By reading the INDEX and finding the relevant thread .
jje
AminemTV said:
i want to clean my s3 by wiping everthing including internel sd card and system partition.how to do that?
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If you are rooted and have CWM Recovery:
1. Boot into recovery
2. Mounts & storage
3. Format sdcard
_ full wipe does not format internal SD.
The phone uses a single partition for it's app/data storage and internal sdcard.
So all you can do is delete all the contents ("rm -rf /mnt/sdcard/*" in Terminal) but not format it.
Enter this code but ###WARNING### there will not be any other dialog or yes or no option, after you enter the last "#" it will start to factory reset. I tried it and it cleaned out my internal SD card.
*2767*3855# Full
factory reset (Don't dial
it does not ask you to
confirm unless you have
problem)
Read here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1827817
Or, go here Megawipe
Copy the required zip to your SDcard and reboot into CWM recovery. Install the zip and your sd card will be completely and utterly wiped.
WARNING ... make sure you have a flashable rom on your ext sd card before you do this because your sd card will NOT be accessible after you do this wipe!!
Remember the warning above!!
Homer
In ClockworkMod, - mounts and storage>> - format /system
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 currently have CM10.2 on my DNA. I had soft-bricked my phone previously and recovered it using RUU; from there I did the CM10.2 install.
I'd like to wipe my /data partition then push what's necessary to install CM11M8 because of the way it divides up the profiles, but I can't ADB from recovery even after trying the numerous driver fixes that have been mentioned in the forum (naked drivers, etc).
If I wipe /data, there's no OS to boot into and I can no longer ADB to push the files. What are my options?
Wiping data should not wipe out the OS.
You should just be able to put the file on internal storage, wipe and flash cm11.
Not sure I understand the dilemma.
santod040 said:
Wiping data should not wipe out the OS.
You should just be able to put the file on internal storage, wipe and flash cm11.
Not sure I understand the dilemma.
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When I do "Format /Data" it wiped the OS. Am I missing something? Or am I only supposed to do "Wipe Data/Factory Reset?"
My father had a softbrick of his Galaxy S2 without having done a backup in the last 6 month.
Now he need some data that are stored on the phone so I cannot do a wipe data factory reset and I was wondering if I install a custom recovery can I move all the datas on the Sdcard and then read them from a microsd card reader?
Will installing a new recovery change the data?
Thanks
EDIT:
I solved the problem.
First I installed the Philz CWM recovery, that I reboot the phone in recovery Mode and chosed to mount as USB drive so I could copy the content of Sdcard.
Then I did a backup of data and system Partition through the backup menu on an external Sd card, after that I did a wipe/factory reset and the Phone reboot regularly
To recover the information that you need from the Backup can you use TitaniumBackup
I'm quite sure that the /data partition will stay untouched, since the recovery image is installed in another partition.
BTW, on some recoveries I was able to connect the phone to the computer and to read internal storage. Are you sure it's the data partition you need? The only thing stored in this partition are apps and app data. Images etc are on the internal storage (sdcard0).
Hope this helps.
I thought that Data and Sdcard were the same partition, what I need is to recover contacts and Viber/whatsapp message and images.
If I install a Custom recovery can I do a backup of everything and could I use adb to do a complete copy of the sdcard?
Thanks