I want to know if there is a way to completely format everything on my Vibrant before installing a new JB Rom. I have a lot of clutter that's built up over time. Folders with nothing in them, files from older roms, etc. How can I wipe everything and do a complete fresh install, step by step?
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I want to know if there is a way to completely format everything on my Vibrant before installing a new JB Rom. I have a lot of clutter that's built up over time. Folders with nothing in them, files from older roms, etc. How can I wipe everything and do a complete fresh install, step by step?[/QUOT
Go to mounts and storage in recovery and format, data, datadata, system and SD card. Do not format boot! You can do it before you Odin back to stock (clean slate). Then get root and cwm recovery and flash back to JB.
* you will lose everything, pics, music, app backups, ROM/kernel zips etc. Backup anything you dont want to lose and for safe measures backup your /efs.
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Thanks so much man! Just pictures and music... lol, going to take a while. But perhaps I can revive this beast of a phone before I get a Note at Tax Time. Thanks again!
Hey, I was just re-reading. Do not format boot at all. Just wanted to clarify that. The easiest way to back everything up, IMO, is to copy the entire SD to your PC. Then you can sort through it there.
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I've read alot of the threads around but cant seem to find specific info that I require. I've already rooted and flashed Litening ROM 1.5, however I want to try other ROMS and read its best to wipe before some of them.
Now most of the instructions say to boot into CWM and do a data/cache wipe, can anyone tell em what does this wipe exactly?
From what I can understand the 16gb is partitioned into the "sd card" and the storage? When looking through Windows Explorer only the larger (I believe sd card" partition shows up, with download folder, CWM back ups, music, camera images etc.
Does this get wiped, or is it just apps/personalisation of the phone? I've got titanium backup and backed up all data + user data etc which can be restored, but I just want to check that music/camera images etc won't go!
Hope its not too stupid a question, cheers for any info!
My understanding is: wipe = factory reset. I hope I'm right with that assumption.
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Wipes....
I got caught once when I installed cognition for the first time. The installation somehow did wipe my internal sdcard with all my stuff on it. (Although I do have backups on my PC) So it was just a pain but not serious.
But the odd thing is that all the following upgrades of the rom did not wipe the sdcard, so DG might have change the way it does the wipes.
Also if you do a factory reset either via keypad on phone with the *#... it will wipe the sdcard.
So one needs to be carefull and make sure that we have backups of the stuff we want to keep.
I find this annoying making the 16GB card internal sdcard almost behaive as temporary storage ruther than permanent.
So watch out.
thanks for both replies! still not 100% sure though, does anyone know 100% what the CWM wipe options actually wipe?
thanks again!
How about "everything"? It sets your phone back to the way it was when you first started it.
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Back up sd card and wipe phone to learn.
jje
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Guys,
Over time in flashing roms, playing with different apps, etc. I've built up a bunch of junk on the phone and there are certain items I'm not even sure are safe to remove.
What is the best way to go about completely formatting the phone and starting fresh. Just format the SD card then boot into CWM and factory reset and then flash my ROM again? Will that take me back to a completely fresh install and clean SD card?
I did a search and most results were about cleaning things up for a ROM flash but I'm really trying to totally remove all the junk I don't use anymore. I have all my data backed up on the computer so putting it back won't be a problem. Thanks!
Jamie
Yeah that should do it. But be careful, I may be wrong, but if you wipe your SD card, wouldn't you loose recovery too? Considering the clockworkmod folder would be wiped? Can someone clarify?
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trell959 said:
Yeah that should do it. But be careful, I may be wrong, but if you wipe your SD card, wouldn't you loose recovery too? Considering the clockworkmod folder would be wiped? Can someone clarify?
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Recovery is kernel dependent, so no. The only concern in wiping the sd is deleting nandroid backups, which you can backup manually on a PC before clearing the sd. I assume the OP is going to take the appropriate measures to backup the files he/she wants.
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Recovery is kernel dependent, so no. The only concern in wiping the sd is deleting nandroid backups, which you can backup manually on a PC before clearing the sd. I assume the OP is going to take the appropriate measures to backup the files he/she wants.
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Thanks. I knew it was kernel dependent, just was unsure.
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I've read, but not attempted, that the only way to do what you want is to reflash a stock rom and do a master reset from inside there.
Another recommendation was to unmount/format the SD.
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I put nandroids and any files I need to flash on my external sd, then wipe, factory reset, wipe caches, and then format sd. Then I can flash the ROM and other files from the ext sd.
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I've had this same question for a while, posted sort of before but no answer. So what is the safe way?
How to keep nandroid backup and titanium backups.
I'd just move all my stuff to external_sd or a usb flash drive otg (what's that mean anyway? )
Can phone go into download mode from usb otg flash drive? What would I need on there?
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Just like everyone else, I have moved on to the new SGS 3 phone. And now I am selling my fascinate very cheap to a coworker. But before I can do that, I need to get rid of all my personal data on there. What is the best way to ensure all my personal information is completely wiped from the phone and microSD?
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Just like everyone else, I have moved on to the new SGS 3 phone. And now I am selling my fascinate very cheap to a coworker. But before I can do that, I need to get rid of all my personal data on there. What is the best way to ensure all my personal information is completely wiped from the phone and microSD?
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Reformat the sd card then odin back to stock eh03
What software is currently on it, and what software do you want to be on it when you give it to him?
If you want him to have the latest official release just ODIN back to EH03 with the PIT file. That will wipe everything from the phone. If you want to keep any custom rom and Kernel then reboot into recovery and do a data, cache and dalvik wipe.
If you want to wipe the SDCard go into Settings when the phone is booted up and under "Storage" there should be an option to unmount and erase the card. You can also try it from CWM under Mounts and Storage; there's an option to wipe the sdcard.
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Thanks for the quick responses. I have stock Android 2.2 on it, with root. I suppose I could bring it up to the latest stock version.
Hey guys,
My AT&T Galaxy SII has been working fine on UnNamed 2.2.1 for probably 9 months or more, but I just ran into a weird issue today. After sending a text to someone and hitting the on/off button to turn the screen off, the phone restarted, and now refuses to boot past the Samsung screen. It'll stay on it for 5-10 seconds, go black for a few seconds, and repeat.
I can get into recovery, tried wiping cache, dalvik cache, fix permissions, and it still does the same thing. Fix permissions took quite a while and didn't work the first time. Or I just got impatient. But it worked the second time and didn't fix anything.
Anyway, I mounted the SD to copy my data from the internal SD card. I haven't run a Titanium Backup in a while though. I know I can fix the phone with ODIN, but I was just hoping someone might have another idea to avoid this and avoid losing settings, text messages, etc.
Thanks!
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Hey guys,
My AT&T Galaxy SII has been working fine on UnNamed 2.2.1 for probably 9 months or more, but I just ran into a weird issue today. After sending a text to someone and hitting the on/off button to turn the screen off, the phone restarted, and now refuses to boot past the Samsung screen. It'll stay on it for 5-10 seconds, go black for a few seconds, and repeat.
I can get into recovery, tried wiping cache, dalvik cache, fix permissions, and it still does the same thing. Fix permissions took quite a while and didn't work the first time. Or I just got impatient. But it worked the second time and didn't fix anything.
Anyway, I mounted the SD to copy my data from the internal SD card. I haven't run a Titanium Backup in a while though. I know I can fix the phone with ODIN, but I was just hoping someone might have another idea to avoid this and avoid losing settings, text messages, etc.
Thanks!
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If you can get into recovery, does that mean you can complete a nandroid backup? There's actually an option in Titanium Backup to extract apps from a nandroid backup and restore them in Titanium.
My other thought is a handy little app called Nandroid Manager, which you can find on the Play Store. With it you can restore SMS+MMS messages from a nandroid backup. It also has an option for restoring Apps+App Data, but it doesn't seem as stable as the Titanium option.
As for system settings, I'm afraid you're going to have to set those up again after you wipe and reflash your rom.
Speaking of wiping and flashing...have you considered trying a newer rom? Maybe a Jellybean one?
EDIT: By the way, you don't need to use Odin to flash. Just place the rom .zip on your SD card, and wipe and flash using CWM Recovery.
Nice!
That's one option I had never explored in CWM recovery. Duh. Thanks.
Backing up now.
I guess it is about time to update the ROM. Any suggestions for a current super stable one? Takes a while to read through the last 10 or so pages of all the ROM threads to find out what issues people are having or if it's good to go.
Update:
"Error while making a backup image of /data!"
What all will be lost if I don't have that? Boot image, recovery image, and system backed up correctly.
Edit: might have been due to low disk space - removing a bunch of non essential stuff and will retry.
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Nice!
That's one option I had never explored in CWM recovery. Duh. Thanks.
Backing up now.
I guess it is about time to update the ROM. Any suggestions for a current super stable one? Takes a while to read through the last 10 or so pages of all the ROM threads to find out what issues people are having or if it's good to go.
Update:
"Error while making a backup image of /data!"
What all will be lost if I don't have that? Boot image, recovery image, and system backed up correctly.
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Are you backing up to internal storage or SD card? Make sure you have about 2GB free on the one you're using, and try it again. If that doesn't work, let me know.
As for a good rom, it depends on what you want. As far as Touchwiz Jellybean, I don't think there's much out there better than ShoStock3. I'm an AOSP man myself, so I prefer SlimBean personally. Task's AOKP is also excellent.
I had selected "backup" which I assume after reading your post is to internal storage, not internal SD card. There was 890MB free on it, and now after trying the backup, it's completely full.
When selecting backup to internal SD card, I get a "Can't mount backup path" error, regardless of if I have /sdcard mounted or unmounted.
After deleting some stuff, it now has plenty of space when I choose the regular backup option. We'll see if it works this time.
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I had selected "backup" which I assume after reading your post is to internal storage, not internal SD card. There was 890MB free on it, and now after trying the backup, it's completely full.
When selecting backup to internal SD card, I get a "Can't mount backup path" error, regardless of if I have /sdcard mounted or unmounted.
After deleting some stuff, it now has plenty of space when I choose the regular backup option. We'll see if it works this time.
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I've never seen that error before. Hopefully it just works this time.
Even with almost 9 gigs free, it failed to backup /data.
Any other ideas?
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Even with almost 9 gigs free, it failed to backup /data.
Any other ideas?
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Yeah, you can try a different kernel, with a newer version of CWM. I would try the latest AJK. As an ICS/Jellybean kernel, you won't be able to use it to boot up, but you'll still be able to boot into recovery and back up/wipe/flash.
Backing up using AJK now. Hopefully this works.
Thanks for your help so far.
Ok backup was successful. Sweet! So now I can just install a ROM of my choice and restore using TiBu or the other app you mentioned?
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Backing up using AJK now. Hopefully this works.
Thanks for your help so far.
Ok backup was successful. Sweet! So now I can just install a ROM of my choice and restore using TiBu or the other app you mentioned?
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Yes. Just make sure you do a full wipe first. Wipe data/factory reset, clear dalvik cache, format /system. Then flash away!
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I would really like to check out the recently released i717 official rom, but i don't want to have to go through the process of backing everything up, wiping everything, running odin, risking bricking my device, and then have to move all my data back over.
Is there a version of this rom that has been rooted and zipped so i can install it with twrp like every other rom i've ever come across?
thanks in advance,
cpgeek
If you use the Kies software on your pc it will install the stock rom and save your apps and data.
If you use the stock rom in the development section by pmtr3 you can flash that as a zip and it is rooted.
But when you change a rom to a different base you should factory reset and wipe first. If you skip this procedure (called dirty flashing) you can have troubles later.
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If you use the Kies software on your pc it will install the stock rom and save your apps and data.
If you use the stock rom in the development section by pmtr3 you can flash that as a zip and it is rooted.
But when you change a rom to a different base you should factory reset and wipe first. If you skip this procedure (called dirty flashing) you can have troubles later.
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thank you for your fast reply, I apologize my search-fu rather tanked on this one d'oh
thanks again though!
Yeah buddy, the xda apps stink. I usee the odin tar from samfirmware.com to get the stock JB. This morning I flashed the pmtr3 stock on top of what I had without backups or resets. But its the same base.
At least be sure to do usual wipes. If it borks your phone you can always fix it later.
rangercaptain said:
If you use the Kies software on your pc it will install the stock rom and save your apps and data.
If you use the stock rom in the development section by pmtr3 you can flash that as a zip and it is rooted.
But when you change a rom to a different base you should factory reset and wipe first. If you skip this procedure (called dirty flashing) you can have troubles later.
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I should have spoke more carefully - I *always* run "factory reset", wipe "system" and "caches" from TWRP, it's the internal sd filesystem data that I wanted to retain which is separate from the OS image and it's active data files. I don't want to have to move around my music, pictures, app archive, etc.
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I should have spoke more carefully - I *always* run "factory reset", wipe "system" and "caches" from TWRP, it's the internal sd filesystem data that I wanted to retain which is separate from the OS image and it's active data files. I don't want to have to move around my music, pictures, app archive, etc.
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You shouldn't have to worry about wiping your internal memory. I updated with kies and didn't touch my internal memory, and neither did kies. However it is recommended. I now have some extra folders that aren't being used on my internal memory. I'd delete them but last time I did that I kept getting errors. So now I make a spot on my external sd card saying "internal backup" and copy everything to it. Then I wipe internal as I do a factory reset. Once up and running I move what I need back to the internal memory from the sd backup.