Im in the omega rom installation process and there is the option to NO full wipe or FULL wipe, under full wipe it says "user data will be deleted". Does that mean my photos, videos, music, etc will be deleted?
uf21 said:
Im in the omega rom installation process and there is the option to NO full wipe or FULL wipe, under full wipe it says "user data will be deleted". Does that mean my photos, videos, music, etc will be deleted?
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user data = all apps data (e.g. save games), but I think the SDCard will be not wiped, hence if your photos, music etc. is on your SDCard you are save. Usually full wipe is equal to factory reset.
chrismast said:
user data = all apps data (e.g. save games), but I think the SDCard will be not wiped, hence if your photos, music etc. is on your SDCard you are save. Usually full wipe is equal to factory reset.
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+1.
Equivalent to factory reset, save your pics and personal data in your external though!
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angel_strife said:
+1.
Equivalent to factory reset, save your pics and personal data in your external though!
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Always better to save it on external media.!
It only wipes the old Rom. It won't touch your storage
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Just out of curiosity...I was wondering as to why when I install a new custom ROM, wipe my phone, cache etc.. my pictures and launcher backups aren't deleted?
Is this pure luck and should consider moving my internal data to my external?
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Ray_Banci said:
Just out of curiosity...I was wondering as to why when I install a new custom ROM, wipe my phone, cache etc.. my pictures and launcher backups aren't deleted?
Is this pure luck and should consider moving my internal data to my external?
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That's because it only formats the data partition (like your apps and stuff).
If i factory reset and full wipe, am i ok restoring apps and data with titanium? (not system data i know)
it's just i thought i wiped, but my photos and things were still there after wiping and flashing a Rom, it's kinda laggy in places.
Yes it will restore fine. Move your backup, game data and other important files to ext sd card before you make full factory reset.
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irish-sid said:
If i factory reset and full wipe, am i ok restoring apps and data with titanium? (not system data i know)
it's just i thought i wiped, but my photos and things were still there after wiping and flashing a Rom, it's kinda laggy in places.
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Yes
irish-sid said:
If i factory reset and full wipe, am i ok restoring apps and data with titanium? (not system data i know)
it's just i thought i wiped, but my photos and things were still there after wiping and flashing a Rom, it's kinda laggy in places.
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This is normal only when you are formatting you lost everything.
great, thanks a lot!
So it's factory reset I'm supposed to do then yeah?
OK, I have a noob question. Is internal storage truly wiped completely when doing a wipe before installing a ROM? I mean say that's your only storage and you have a nandroid on it. Would you lose that? If so, how would people with sealed and non-upgradeable storage ever create and preserve a nandrpid? Copy it to their PC before wipe?
Thanks...
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I have noticed there is a difference in Data wipe on ClockworkMod and TWRP. On ClockworkMod my internal Data is left alone when doing the Data wipe. I did a Data wipe on TWRP and I lost everything on internal. I have done this once and only once. It was a surprise to me and thankfully I had all my Ti backups on my external.
These are the options I use when doing a wipe with TWRP:
1.Cache
2. Dalvik Cache
3. Factory Reset
4. System
5. Flash Rom
I hope this helps.
UnexplainedBacon said:
OK, I have a noob question. Is internal storage truly wiped completely when doing a wipe before installing a ROM? I mean say that's your only storage and you have a nandroid on it. Would you lose that? If so, how would people with sealed and non-upgradeable storage ever create and preserve a nandrpid? Copy it to their PC before wipe?
Thanks...
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No its not. I factory reset before every fladh and my internal storage is always intact. Just don't select the wipe internal storage option.
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This post gives a bit of technical explanation that I found interesting, re the differences in how twrp handles Wipe Data vs Factory Reset:
http://teamw.in/DataMedia
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Hi,
I have CM7.2.0-RC1 installed on my Droid X2 (latest right now). The phone has gotten kind of laggy and I want to reformat the phone. And by reformatting, I want to my phone to be like I JUST installed CM7. Is there a simple way to do this since I'm already on CM7?
Thanks!
If you want to make it like a fresh install of CM7, boot into recovery and do a factory reset. This will wipe all your apps though.
jsgraphicart said:
If you want to make it like a fresh install of CM7, boot into recovery and do a factory reset. This will wipe all your apps though.
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Wiping my apps is fine. Will it also remove all my pictures?
longphant said:
Wiping my apps is fine. Will it also remove all my pictures?
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i keep all of my pictures and such on the root of my external sd card. if you do the same, wiping data will not erase your pictures.
Lorenzo VonMatterhorn said:
i keep all of my pictures and such on the root of my external sd card. if you do the same, wiping data will not erase your pictures.
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Great, thanks so much to both of you!
Go in to settings do factory reset . yes it will wipe all the data in your internal memory including pictures and videos. If you don't want to lose your data so synchronized phone and backup data.
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maddyrokieasta said:
Go in to settings do factory reset . yes it will wipe all the data in your internal memory including pictures and videos. If you don't want to lose your data so synchronized phone and backup data.
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again, any pictures you want to make sure you keep, put them on the root of your external sd card somewhere safe, and wipe through recovery.
sorry this post made no sense to me and i wanted to avoid confusion. any images saved in camera apps folders may or may not be erased. move them to somewhere safe.
I have wiped data/factory reset many times from cwm bsr and have never lost any of my pictures. Fyi, wiping or resetting doesn't touch DCIM folder on your internal storage, which is where your phone saves them to by default if you select internal storage. I have some on both my external and internal storage and have never lost any of them. Again, wiping doesn't touch the folders where your pictures are stored. Unless of course you format your sd card in bsr.
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It seems that factory resetting using a custom recovery like CWM or TWRP won't remove pictures.
Hey guys I want to know is it possible to install a custom rom without formatting my phone as I dont want to loose my data
ashsek said:
Hey guys I want to know is it possible to install a custom rom without formatting my phone as I dont want to loose my data
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You have to wipe the data and system partitions obligatorily, but you do not have to format the datas like photo, video etc obligatorily
Uzumaki99 said:
You have to wipe the data and system partitions obligatorily, but you do not have to format the datas like photo, video etc obligatorily
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what i do in recovery wipe data wipe cache and wipe delsvick cache will it delete my data and will it also delete my whats app chats and other messages
ashsek said:
what i do in recovery wipe data wipe cache and wipe delsvick cache will it delete my data and will it also delete my whats app chats and other messages
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WhatsApp have a backup script for the messages... For save the pictures, video etc of WhatsApp you can, with a file manager eg. ES File Explorer, copy the files in your external SD Card or in your DCIM folder in the phone's memory.
Then with any tool like Titanium, I'm not sure, you can save you messages and, I'm sure the data of your app.