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Anyhow, I have an annoying problem.
Before the upgrade to XXALF6 I noticed no problem other than the known drainage of the battery in idle mode.
I rooted and flashed a ROM and it was ok.
But I got sick of the ROM and I hard reset the phone.
No problems.
Then I upgraded to XXALF6 - still unrooted and all.
First thing I notice is that the phone is lagging a bit now and then. Then when I sent and recieved an SMS or two the phone hung and rebooted.
I seems that happend because when vibration was active.
Also there was a new message saying "com.google.process.gapps" stopped working. And that came up again and again.
As far as I could find online that had to do with syncing the calendar and it should help to clear calendar cache in the phone. It did not.
Then I rooted the phone, just "CF-Root-SGS3-v6.4", no other ROM.
Now the problem was even worse and also the sound stops working on and off all the time.
I tried to find the "com.google.process.gapps" with a file explorer with no luck.
I do find it in ROM Toolbox but its not possible to see the where on the phone the file is even there. Also its not possible to uninstall or even kill the process.
I did notice there seem to be doubles of some apps that I didnt notice previously to flashing CF-Root this time.
And I recall the new guide never mentions to wipe any phone data whatsoever during rooting the phone, and now I am thinking that maybe that should have been in the guide?
Anyhow.. appreciate ANY tips at all, Im so sick of this for the moment ^^
Go to cwm recovery, wipe cash, wipe dalvik cash, wipe data/factory reset, then go to mounts&storage, format system. Then put your phone into the download mode and flash ROM again with odin. This should give you a nice and clean install,without any force closes..
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pedja381 said:
Go to cwm recovery, wipe cash, wipe dalvik cash, wipe data/factory reset, then go to mounts&storage, format system. Then put your phone into the download mode and flash ROM again with odin. This should give you a nice and clean install,without any force closes..
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I did wipe all things, cache, Dalvik, battery and user data with CWM.
At the moment it seems the phone is quite okay actually! The only thing left is SU.
U think I have to format system as well? What else would really be "cleaned" out that wasn't allready with the wipes?
Trust me,some of the devs insisted on formating system before flashing their custom roms,and I did have a bunch of force closes,until I decided to go their way and fully format the phone. It then installs everything from the scratch,so there's no way anything to go wrong.. give it a try,and report back... btw. make sure that you DO NOT restore any of the system data,if you use TB
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Yeah I pretty much learnt same way as predja it is always better to do full system wipe, it is not always necessary with some roms but if you do it you won't come across the problems you have as often.
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So, I somehow managed to brick my phone using factory reset on CM9, and subsequently flashed back a stock firmware with Heimdall. Version was LPO (Nordic). However, something went wrong, as no matter what I did (several resets, dalvik wipes with cwm, permissions), the status bar would not appear. Not good for usability.
When flashing, I skipped the modem, boot.bin, the .sbl file and param.lfs. Just to be safe.
I'm currently back on CM9 nightly. Works perfectly.
I'd like to flash a clean stock ROM so I can take a nandroid backup of it (one without cf-root, now that I know how to get temporary cwm); is there something obvious I did wrong? Could I for example format /system prior to flashing to remove any trace of CM9. Would that even help? I'm on Linux, so I can't use Odin or Kies.
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Chousuke said:
So, I somehow managed to brick my phone using factory reset on CM9, and subsequently flashed back a stock firmware with Heimdall. Version was LPO (Nordic). However, something went wrong, as no matter what I did (several resets, dalvik wipes with cwm, permissions), the status bar would not appear. Not good for usability.
When flashing, I skipped the modem, boot.bin, the .sbl file and param.lfs. Just to be safe.
I'm currently back on CM9 nightly. Works perfectly.
I'd like to flash a clean stock ROM so I can take a nandroid backup of it (one without cf-root, now that I know how to get temporary cwm); is there something obvious I did wrong? Could I for example format /system prior to flashing to remove any trace of CM9. Would that even help? I'm on Linux, so I can't use Odin or Kies.
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well a full wipe is recomended prior to flashing a stock rom, hence do the same then flash a stock rom using heimdall and see
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well a full wipe is recomended prior to flashing a stock rom, hence do the same then flash a stock rom using heimdall and see
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I'd thought that a factory reset is a full wipe, but I guess I was mistaken. I'll Google a bit more about it and perhaps then try formatting the system partition as well later today.
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Hm. So I tried flashing stock again after formatting /system (LPG version this time, since LPO was pulled by Samsung) and now my phone is stuck in the "S" screen. (A bootloop, I guess? I'm not sure of the terminology). I can get into stock recovery and even CWM (it's on the external SD) but no amount of factory resets or dalvik wipes do anything. Should I have wiped something else as well?
Flashing seemingly went successfully, but this time the stock rom won't even boot :/ What could cause that? I skipped the bootloaders and modem & params.lfs again but those should be safe to leave out, right? (I've never touched them when flashing, only kernels and the filesystem images)
Update: Was able to install LPO, but the glitch is still present, even after reformatting /system.
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Update: Was able to install LPO, but the glitch is still present, even after reformatting /system.
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try LPW and see
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try LPW and see
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I tried LPQ (I wanted Nordic) and it works. Can't update OTA though. I guess it's the newest version that my operator has, then? BRB backing this one up...:good:
Status update: gained access to Odin and successfully flashed LPG/NEE. Now on true stock firmware; no idea why Heimdall failed. Might be the firmware was corrupted.
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Just doing a sanity check: using TiBu to restore system data should work (in theory) so long as you restore data that has been backed up from the same ROM, correct?
Thanks for any help.
EDIT: Having power key problems, please see posts #3 and #16 for updated information.
In case it really backs up and restores EVERYTHING - theoretically you're right.
Practically, I'm not sure it's the case. Since you're restoring while running a ROM, I'm not sure you can get everything to exactly the same state.
Thanks for your help, but this question was hiding a bigger one.
So until today, my phone has been working just fine. I'm still running an old, now outdated and unsupported ROM: ShirshirROM pre-alpha ICS. It's been my daily driver for almost a whole year now, works perfectly with Entropy's old ICS kernel.
Yesterday, I got tired of shell errors with Superuser (which I had been dealing with since the latest binary update), so I finally switched to SuperSU. Everything seemed to work fine afterwards, though I noticed some trouble with the power button being a little wonky, i.e. showing up the power menu when I hadn't pressed it or not immediately responding.
Today, my power button doesn't work correctly at all. I tried wiping cache, dalvik, then restoring a Nandroid of the same ROM/Kernel combo from way earlier this year. Key test in CWM also shows that all buttons register when pressed, EXCEPT the power one. Otherwise phone functions are perfect; I can make calls, send/receive texts, etc, I just have to plug in my phone or have something happen for the screen to turn on, and then I have access to everything. My question is, is this (God forbid) a hardware failure? That would be my worst nightmare, seeing as I'm almost exactly one full year out from contract renewal, and I don't have a lot of money to spend on a new one, nor do I have nowhere near enough expertise to try to fix it myself. What can I do?
P.S. The TiBu question was because in case the Nandroid fixed the problem, I could just restore contacts and SMS from TiBu since it is the same ROM, and be back up and running immediately.
P.P.S. As mentioned, I can get into CWM. This is done by pulling battery, sticking it in, and holding all physical keys until boot screen shows twice. But I can't use the power key to select any options, I have to use home. And key test shows the power button not registering. I'm hoping that that means power key may still work, but that's just me praying this is fixable.
So this problem didn't occur at all prior to installing supersu ?
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So this problem didn't occur at all prior to installing supersu ?
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No, as far as I recall. I'm not using supersu anymore since I'm on a Nandroid but power button still doesn't work. I have to find alternate ways of activating the screen, like plugging it into a charger or pulling the battery to restart :/
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No, as far as I recall. I'm not using supersu anymore since I'm on a Nandroid but power button still doesn't work. I have to find alternate ways of activating the screen, like plugging it into a charger or pulling the battery to restart :/
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Run a Rom that will support siyah 4.3.3 or siyah 5.0.1 and enable swipe to wake.
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Run a Rom that will support siyah 4.3.3 or siyah 5.0.1 and enable swipe to wake.
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Is that my only option? How can I test for sure that it's a hardware failure and my power button is completely useless?
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Full wipe and return to out of the box stock. If the issue persists, it's hardware.
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Full wipe and return to out of the box stock. If the issue persists, it's hardware.
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After full wiping, if the problem is fixed I should be able to restore the Nandroid from earlier this year without retriggering it, right? Or is that out of the question now?
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After full wiping, if the problem is fixed I should be able to restore the Nandroid from earlier this year without retriggering it, right? Or is that out of the question now?
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No one will know until you try it, as yours appears to be a unique issue if it is being caused by software/firmware.
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No one will know until you try it, as yours appears to be a unique issue if it is being caused by software/firmware.
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So I backed up stuff, then went ahead and flashed bone stock using the Odin3 One-Click from 2a in creepy's guide. I can't get past the initial setup wizard though, because Google Services Framework (process com.google.process.gapps), Calendar Storage (process.com.android.providers.calendar), and other Google apps processes keep force closing when I click the Android to start. I was able to boot into stock e3 recovery (again using three-button combo), but I can't select anything using the power key.
I didn't do a full data wipe/factory reset before flashing, and I can't get to the main menus to do so because my phone won't get past the setup wizard, which keeps crashing. What do I try next?
EDIT: I know that I was able to make selections using a CWM-enabled ICS kernel; home key functioned as select. I have the CWM-flashable zip, and I wanted to know if there's anyway to flash this kernel using Odin. I know it won't boot (custom ICS kernel with Gingerbread stock rom), but if I can get into recovery, I can use the home key to do a full data wipe/factory reset, then I'd Odin stock kernel+ROM again and see if that fixes things. So my question is, how do I flash a CWM-zipped kernel in Odin? (You can tell I never use Odin)
EDIT2: I'd still like to know how I can flash a CWM-zipped kernel in Odin, but I'm gonna hold off on it as it would trip the counter and I found out my phone is still under warranty, hooray! They're sending a refurb'ed replacement that should be here in a couple days, I can test that out and see if I can get me up and running again before I decide to do something really rash like trip the counter. It sucks cause I'm going out of town on Thursday but the replacement is arriving Friday, and I won't be back until next Wednesday. I'm stuck using my old iPhone 3G until then :/
I do know you can't flash this from Odim. You'll need another kind of file. Tar file... I don't remember.
Don't know where to find it.
I don't think you should back to stock. Just wipe and formating everything could test it.
Find an app that allow you to get recovery from android like rom toolbox lite.
Download mrRobinson AeSedai Aroma.
After formating and wiped everything, flash your rom and don't get out of recovery. Flash AeSedai just after. Flash gapps and KERNEL from AeSedai.
Must be an cm10 or aokp rom... Any rom from that source.
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I do know you can't flash this from Odim. You'll need another kind of file. Tar file... I don't remember.
Don't know where to find it.
I don't think you should back to stock. Just wipe and formating everything could test it.
Find an app that allow you to get recovery from android like rom toolbox lite.
Download mrRobinson AeSedai Aroma.
After formating and wiped everything, flash your rom and don't get out of recovery. Flash AeSedai just after. Flash gapps and KERNEL from AeSedai.
Must be an cm10 or aokp rom... Any rom from that source.
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How would I format and wipe everything if I can't get past the setup wizard on bone stock 2.3.4? I can't install apps, make calls or texts, nothing. All I can do is select the language and make emergency calls. I can't wipe in stock e3 recovery either because the power button doesn't work.
I need a way to either Odin a kernel from which I can use the home button to make selections, or find some other way to remotely format and wipe my phone. Is there a way for me to put my phone in USB debugging mode so I can maybe use ADB? I can't access the settings menu...
Don't u use home button to select things in stock recovery?
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Don't u use home button to select things in stock recovery?
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Nah, it's power key. I double checked again this morning. Oh, and I guess it's called 3e recovery, not e3 xD.
One other note, when pulling battery, then putting it back in, phone autoboots. I have to hold buttons then place battery in to boot to recovery, and for download mode, I have to have it plugged in, buttons held, then place battery in to get to download mode.
EDIT: Would anyone be willing to do me a huge favor? I want to find out if Entropy's DD GB kernel, the Odin-flashable tar one, can use home as select in CWM. Would someone be willing to temporarily flash DD_01242012 from here to check for me? It's a CWM zip, the changes are very tiny between it and the previous 01232012 Odin one. I just don't want to Odin it myself and trip the counter to find out it was useless, especially since I don't have a jig to reset the counter.
So an update:
While looking around for a way to root my new refurb model which came shipped with stock ICS, I found creepy's Stock ICS with root package, and I thought, "I told AT&T I was on ICS, I guess I should actually put ICS on my phone instead of leaving GB (UCKH7) on there. Maybe since I was on ICS before I can get past the gapps force closing too and do a factory reset from the settings menu." Sure enough, after flashing stock ICS, I was able to get past the darn wizard and toy with it. I do have problems of course: calendar still force closes, and the phone will randomly reboot after some period of using it. But at least I was able to access stuff.
My data was all still there, all pictures, contacts, settings, etc. I realized that before I do a data wipe/factory reset, I should heed the emmc superbrick bug warning and NOT do that with stock ICS kernel. I still had ES file explorer and root access, so I went in and manually deleted all data as much as possible, to make it look like my phone did have a factory reset done as I said to the AT&T representative. I've deleted wifi access points, browser history/cookies/cache, all contacts, texts, pictures/videos, downloads, all CWM zips and backups, all installed apps, all accounts that were signed in...
My newest questions are:
1) is there anything I'm missing that I should delete so that my phone does not look like it's been modified in any way? Also, any personal data I'm missing that needs to be deleted? I still have root access so I can delete anything I want.
2) Should I go ahead and risk the brickbug and actually do a factory reset/data wipe, or should I just let it be since I've deleted most things manually (and not potentially send them a useless brick lol)? Actually, since I'm rooted, I can install Mobile Odin to flash a CWM-enabled kernel, then wipe data/factory reset safely from there; that is, assuming my phone doesn't do a random reboot in the middle of flashing the kernel. I do run the risk of it rebooting while flashing and possibly bricking something else. So should I do that and take that risk, should I take the risk of wiping data from the stock kernel, or is there no reason to take either risk anymore?
3) Is there anywhere I can find a non-rooted stock UCLE5 ICS Odin-flashable tar, that I can flash before sending the phone back?
How about:
1. Flash back to stock GB
2. Wipe Data
3. Upgrade to stock ICS via kies or OTA
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Red_81 said:
How about:
1. Flash back to stock GB
2. Wipe Data
3. Upgrade to stock ICS via kies or OTA
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Thanks for your help, but I can't do that. If I could, I wouldn't be stuck in this predicament.
Power key doesn't work at all, but it is necessary to make selections in stock 3e recovery. Hence, I can't wipe from recovery, either on stock GB or ICS.
Stock GB rom doesn't boot past Setup Launcher due to gapps force-closes. These force closes prevent me from reaching the settings menu within stock GB to do a wipe there.
My two options for wiping data are using stock ICS ROM (under settings menu), or flashing a custom kernel using Mobile Odin, then wiping with the home key in CWM. Both are risky: stock ICS ROM uses the stock kernel to wipe, possible brickbug there. My phone currently experiences random reboots without warning; a reboot during a Mobile Odin flash could also brick something. My question is, should I do either one, or neither at all?
What about wiping through ADB?
Adb shell
Wipe data
Or
Adb recovery --wipe-data
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What about wiping through ADB?
Adb shell
Wipe data
Or
Adb recovery --wipe-data
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Well, that previously wasn't an option on GB since I couldn't put the phone in debugging mode, but I can now in ICS so in theory it should work. The question now is, will the phone do one of its random reboots while I'm working with it in ADB...
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So ive been having issues with dhacker29's roms making my phone reboot and hang on the bootloader. Well the latest one, the selinux build which he put more bugs into an already screwed up reboot cycle it worked good when I first installed it, than it did one of its forced reboots.
Phone hasnt booted since, restored to previous rom that worked fine. Stock, all kinds of things tried. It just hangs on the motorola logo now.
Anybody got any ideas for me?
When you go back to other ROMs are you restoring apps and data along with them via Titanium Backup or another backup app? If so, that might be the cause. It may be something in your apps, not the ROM. And as always wipe cache and dalvik cache after any flash.
Just restoring back to a TWRP backup. not using tibackup or anything like that,
Ive tried wiping dalvik, Tried a factory reset on these backups. Even tried fix permissions. Still nothing.
Probably a bad backup
If you wipe fully (yes I mean a full wipe) and then restore a back up from working phone and it just loops, chances are you had a bad backup
Just wipe clean and flash a new rom
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Probably a bad backup
If you wipe fully (yes I mean a full wipe) and then restore a back up from working phone and it just loops, chances are you had a bad backup
Just wipe clean and flash a new rom
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I did some posting in the thread for the rom. 2 others had the same issue where none of there backups worked after flashing that rom version and after it crashed and rebooted it never came back. So I doubt it was a bad backup just something weird with the rom
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Unless there is something very strange about this ROM (as in it corrupts other partitions but so highly doubtful), backups are 100% separate from another ROM, this means a full wipe will erase everything about you current ROM and then restoring a backup from a previous ROM will work, so long ad the backup is good and the wipe is clean.
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I don't know. The rom does have a form or selinux in it so maybe that caused it. I don't know the specifics of what selinux does internally just what the goal is
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Doesn't sound like it should brake anything, if the ROM won't boot for you that's one thing, but completely wiping your phone then flashing a new ROM should fix your issue.
I am highly suspect that the ROM in question could have done anything at all to your recovery or your backups.
You said you are using twrp, have you tried wiping/formating all partitions and then flashing a known working ROM? Does your phone have fast boot mode? If so this may be an even cleaner wipe to do prior to the flash
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I had to fastboot back to stock to get anything to work.. No rom I tried would boot
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Again, without knowing anything about your phone, the ROM would not affect your bootloader/radio/recovery no firmware should be changed just by flashing a rom,.
If it won't boot after a full wipe then there is some other issue, but if you were able to fix things by flashing back to stock then good.
Without knowing more specifics about your phone or the ROM you had issues with I guess I can't help you any further, so long as your are up and running now I would suggest just to stay away from any ROM you have had issues with, make new backups and test them (yes fully wipe before a restore and being your phone has fastboot wipe there) and best of luck to you
Happy flashing!
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RAZR hd... Cm10.1 on the post started by epinter.. You can read how others had the same issue. I had 4 backups and non boot looped. It would hang at the bootloader and never even make it to the boot animation. Apparently it's something nobody's seen before but me and 2 others there have experienced it. So it's not a 1 time fluke.
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I'm trying to flash the Santod Stock ICS, debloated, deodexed ROM onto my phone.
I'm coming from Stock GB, and I have already got S-OFF and Root with the HTC Thunderbolt All-in-one-tool.
However, I am currently confused and stuck on what to do next. The catch is that I dont get my service through Verizon, but through Mobi PCS in Hawaii which basically just offers 3G and this required me to pay someone locally to hack the phone and input manually the data settings.
Now, I notice that in the instructions for flashing this ROM is to totally wipe the partitions. Is this really necessary? Only asking because I don't want to lose the data settings and possibly have the phone not be able to have service or have to pay for the settings to be put back on.
I have already created a backup through 4ext, so I think I should be fine with that part. Is there a way for me to back up the data portion of the phone, wipe the partitions, and restore it after I flash the ROM? Besides all that, which radio should I flash first before the ROM?
I would really appreciate some help if anyone has the time.
Thanks
Since you made a nand backup in 4ext you should be OK to do a full wipe (yes you have to full wipe, data,cache and system). If something is wrong then restore your backup and you should be OK. The problem I see you having is that you will have to flash the new radios in order to flash ICS. I'm pretty sure that will mess up any settings you have for the modem which means you would have to get your phone flashed to that service again.
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Since you made a nand backup in 4ext you should be OK to do a full wipe (yes you have to full wipe, data,cache and system). If something is wrong then restore your backup and you should be OK. The problem I see you having is that you will have to flash the new radios in order to flash ICS. I'm pretty sure that will mess up any settings you have for the modem which means you would have to get your phone flashed to that service again.
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Got it. So the wipe is basically a full wipe? does my SD card need to be wiped too?
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Got it. So the wipe is basically a full wipe? does my SD card need to be wiped too?
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Nah you don't have to wipe the SD. Also, since you have to do a full wipe you can use an app called titanium backup to back up user apps and data. Make sure you don't restore system apps from gingerbread into ICS.
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