Hello guys,
I need little help. I have rooted my phone as per instructions on youtube and upgraded to 4.2.2. but due to some reasons the OS keeps crashing on me. Also when i run root checker it says root access denied.
Now, I wish to factory reset the phone so that i can try rooting it again. Can anyone tell me how to do factory reset using CWM and will it wipe google play and stuff? I am ok with loosing data on SD card, its just songs and videos.
Pls help guys.
- Pinak
Bro, u need not factory reset your phone in order to root it. And if its saying root access is denied it means your phone is not rooted. U haven't mentioned if you have already installed CWM or you still need to install it, but if you already have, then doing a factory reset is very easy. Switch off your phone and go into recovery mode(power+ volume down button together for 10 secs), then it opens into recovery, u have directly select factory reset and press yes when asked for confirmation. It will reset your phone.
And if you do factory reset you won't lose any data from your SD card. It will be retained in their respective memories, unless specifically formatted.
You will lose all your downloaded applications and everything. You need to login into play store and download all the stuff again. If that's OK with you you can go ahead. If you want to save your applications and their data, then it would be good to use Titanium Backup application and backup everything before you reset your phone.
Hope this helped you. Don't forget to hit thanks
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pinak.nubs said:
Hello guys,
I need little help. I have rooted my phone as per instructions on youtube and upgraded to 4.2.2. but due to some reasons the OS keeps crashing on me. Also when i run root checker it says root access denied.
Now, I wish to factory reset the phone so that i can try rooting it again. Can anyone tell me how to do factory reset using CWM and will it wipe google play and stuff? I am ok with loosing data on SD card, its just songs and videos.
Pls help guys.
- Pinak
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You can search & download mt6589_rooter on google.
** don't forget to enable usb debugging mode and ensure all drivers are installed.
Dr.Akram said:
Bro, u need not factory reset your phone in order to root it. And if its saying root access is denied it means your phone is not rooted. U haven't mentioned if you have already installed CWM or you still need to install it, but if you already have, then doing a factory reset is very easy. Switch off your phone and go into recovery mode(power+ volume down button together for 10 secs), then it opens into recovery, u have directly select factory reset and press yes when asked for confirmation. It will reset your phone.
And if you do factory reset you won't lose any data from your SD card. It will be retained in their respective memories, unless specifically formatted.
You will lose all your downloaded applications and everything. You need to login into play store and download all the stuff again. If that's OK with you you can go ahead. If you want to save your applications and their data, then it would be good to use Titanium Backup application and backup everything before you reset your phone.
Hope this helped you. Don't forget to hit thanks
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Hello Dr.Akram,
Thnx for the info...yes i have clockworkmod on my chd and super user. Im ok with any data loss except inbuilt apps like maps, play, keyboard, gtalk, settings app, contact manager and stuff like that...
I played around with some settings and now my touch on key board is not working properly, keep getting launch stopped error so want to factory reset. I dnt care foe game or app data or sd card data.
I read somewhere that if u do factry reset in cwm u will loose all inbuilt app or drivers like Google play..thats my worry. Is it true? Pls advice.
PS: wheres thanks button?
rajneeshk said:
You can search & download mt6589_rooter on google.
** don't forget to enable usb debugging mode and ensure all drivers are installed.
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Hello Rajneesh,
Can you pls give more info as to what the file ia all about and how to use it?
thnks for the help!
pinak.nubs said:
Hello Rajneesh,
Can you pls give more info as to what the file ia all about and how to use it?
thnks for the help!
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its for rooting, you just have to run a batch file.
Bro...if you factory reset, yes indeed all your applications will be reset to default. You won't lose Google play store. Its an application which comes in any android stock rom by default. What you are going to lose are the applications and games which you have downloaded from the playstore.
Hence in my previous reply I suggested to you to get Titanium Backup app from play store and take a batch backup of all your apps. Then you can reset your phone without any worries!
Hope this solves your issue. Happy to help
Don't forget to hit thanks!
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Dr.Akram said:
Bro...if you factory reset, yes indeed all your applications will be reset to default. You won't lose Google play store. Its an application which comes in any android stock rom by default. What you are going to lose are the applications and games which you have downloaded from the playstore.
Hence in my previous reply I suggested to you to get Titanium Backup app from play store and take a batch backup of all your apps. Then you can reset your phone without any worries!
Hope this solves your issue. Happy to help
Don't forget to hit thanks!
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Hello mate,
i tried titanium backup but it wont work on my phone...kept saying it needs a rooted phone to work. anyways i am least concerned with the downloaded data from play...its imp apps like google play, radio and other such apps that i am concern with it...
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My software on my droid x2 isn't doing good. From what I have seen something will happen in the background that causes all my system apps to restart, only they never finish restarting which begins to devour my memory and eventually leads to my phone freezing up. Also the ringtones like to change randomly to default (alarms set in third party apps too).
I was hoping rooting and getting rid of bloatware would solve this problem but it is still persisting. I thought I could restore backed up system apps with Titanium Backup so I was removing the apps. I'll leave them "restoring" for 45 minutes with no luck (I tried both just restoring the app and restoring both apps and data). So apparently it doesn't work like that.
My question is if I do a factory reset with my phone in its current condition, will I have an issue?
If u diddnt freeze the apps then you might. Did u back them up before u removed them?
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Yes I backed up all of them, but when I go to restore them it doesn't work. It just keeps restoring them eternally. I waited 45 minutes for app only restore and it wasn't done.
If I am just clearing data in the process of a factory reset, can I maybe wipe data manually or with a tool that wipes data?
Anyone know the answer to this? I tried installing from the apk pack of services, but not all of them would install. My phone really needs a factory reset, I'm getting a lot of software related errors.
Could I maybe manually wipe certain apps? If anyone happens to know which built in apps are okay to wipe I would like to know.
ryoxsinfar said:
Anyone know the answer to this? I tried installing from the apk pack of services, but not all of them would install. My phone really needs a factory reset, I'm getting a lot of software related errors.
Could I maybe manually wipe certain apps? If anyone happens to know which built in apps are okay to wipe I would like to know.
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Yes you can wipe an apps data. Go to applications in the settings menu and then click on the app you want to clear and select clear data.
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ryoxsinfar said:
Anyone know the answer to this? I tried installing from the apk pack of services, but not all of them would install. My phone really needs a factory reset, I'm getting a lot of software related errors.
Could I maybe manually wipe certain apps? If anyone happens to know which built in apps are okay to wipe I would like to know.
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Not all the apps in system can be installed via tapping on them. They need to be manually moved to system/app then change permissions. You can copy all over using root explorer
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Yes you can wipe an apps data. Go to applications in the settings menu and then click on the app you want to clear and select clear data.
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Hey nitro... Glad to see you here! Do your future plans include developing for the X2. I was feeling the dark ROMs you supported on the Fascinate!
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wanna hard reset after root
hiii everyone, i am new android user, so please help me, i dont know where to ask questions in this forum so i am querying here.
i have a micromax a58 i just rooted it with farmaroot.
now i want to make it like before, what will happen if i restore factory setting or hard reset.
will my phone brick.
abhishek5694 said:
hiii everyone, i am new android user, so please help me, i dont know where to ask questions in this forum so i am querying here.
i have a micromax a58 i just rooted it with farmaroot.
now i want to make it like before, what will happen if i restore factory setting or hard reset.
will my phone brick.
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Nothing. You will just have a rooted out of the box fresh condition phone.
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nitroglycerine33 said:
Nothing. You will just have a rooted out of the box fresh condition phone.
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very very thank to u sir , as i can u see u r a super seiner of this group , i am sharing my problem with you. i asked a lot of people and search everywhere in web but didnt found my problems solution. i just want to increase my phone's ( micromax bolt a58 ) internal memory, because it has only 90 mb for apps after installing few apps it says insufficient memory. i found a easy solution link2sd. but it doesn't work with my phone. i just created 1st partition of fat32 and second ext2 and then i started link2sd and select ext2 but it says mounting error try with fat32 then i again formatted card with two fat32 partition after that it didnt work and again says mounting error, then i tried a lot of combinations but no result.:crying: i am also attaching the screenshots. please help me.
abhishek5694 said:
very very thank to u sir , as i can u see u r a super seiner of this group , i am sharing my problem with you. i asked a lot of people and search everywhere in web but didnt found my problems solution. i just want to increase my phone's ( micromax bolt a58 ) internal memory, because it has only 90 mb for apps after installing few apps it says insufficient memory. i found a easy solution link2sd. but it doesn't work with my phone. i just created 1st partition of fat32 and second ext2 and then i started link2sd and select ext2 but it says mounting error try with fat32 then i again formatted card with two fat32 partition after that it didnt work and again says mounting error, then i tried a lot of combinations but no result.:crying: i am also attaching the screenshots. please help me.
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All you need to do is swap internal and external mount points. My Eclipse ROM has this built in. There is an init.d script that is floating around here that will do it as well.
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nitroglycerine33 said:
All you need to do is swap internal and external mount points. My Eclipse ROM has this built in. There is an init.d script that is floating around here that will do it as well.
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sorry sir i am novice in this field and dont know about software development or scripting. and dont want to replace or flash my original rom with other. because i also tried to backup my original rom with rom manager, but this **** phone is so weird , no trick works in it, somewhere i read that it is ubifs or something why it didnt work. so can u please mention step by step procedure in easy language so that i can understand how can i increase internal memory.
Hi! Long History, Yesterday I tried "Android Tweaker" app from one guy here on XDA.. BIG MISTAKE.. I select the tweaks i want and apply them all! well, first, I lost root access.. (lucky me i was on release4, so i can root again without problem) second, the tablet now is so unstable, sometimes is really fast.. and other times, (most of the time) is just SO SLOW! even my xperia 2010 is faster! so, i decided to root again and try to fix everything.. i fixed some things but still i have so much lag!, so i decided to install again my firmware.. I boot on the recovery and i tried to install my firmware (release4) again.. no luck .. the recovery says that i can't install the same version.. so my last resort.. Factory reset, i do it from recovery.. now on the first boot I have to type my name, my gmail account etc, so I can see that the factory reset works, .. but when I see my homescreen.. i realized that the tweaks ARE STILL THERE! :crying:
So, how do I perform a FULL WIPE?
Thanks!
btw.. DO NOT INSTALL "ANDROID TWEAKER" here is the forum thread for this app.. i you want to see it..
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2127000
wipe only clear YOUR data,but do nothing to all system files
edit /system/build.prop
change ro.build.version.incremental smaller
flash you current rom again
rspy said:
Hi! Long History, Yesterday I tried "Android Tweaker" app from one guy here on XDA.. BIG MISTAKE.. I select the tweaks i want and apply them all! well, first, I lost root access.. (lucky me i was on release4, so i can root again without problem) second, the tablet now is so unstable, sometimes is really fast.. and other times, (most of the time) is just SO SLOW! even my xperia 2010 is faster! so, i decided to root again and try to fix everything.. i fixed some things but still i have some much lag!, so i decided to install again my firmware.. I boot on the recovery and i tried to install my firmware (release4) again.. no luck .. the recovery says that i can't install the same version.. so my last resort.. Factory reset, i do it from recovery.. now on the first boot I have to type my name, my gmail account etc, so I can see that the factory reset works, .. but when I see my homescreen.. i realized that the tweaks ARE STILL THERE! :crying:
So, how do I perform a FULL WIPE?
Thanks!
btw.. DO NOT INSTALL "ANDROID TWEAKER" here is the forum thread for this app.. i you want to see it..
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2127000
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1. Root again using AiO
2. Use AiO to install 'rescue backdoor', Tweaks & Mods Submenu
3. Reinstall R4
4. Re-root
5. Don't f*** with this tablet, they are very easy to mess up and hard to recover from...... In saying that most of the time you will be safe when the incremental is lowered (rescue backdoor)
6. Enjoy your "NEW" Tablet
Thank you both! I'll try right now! :good:
@<robin> really? thought that it erased too... because on the recovery says that "System and App will be erased" but thanks for the info!
@stifilz You're right! All sony phones that I used were incredibly "open".. and you could do whatever you wanted .. If you had a problem, with a simple wipe, everything work like new!.. Is sad that this tablet is so limited.. :crying:
rspy said:
@<robin> really? thought that it erased too... because on the recovery says that "System and App will be erased" but thanks for the info!
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sure!
a wipe only clear partition data,cache,log,staging,
(system app and user app data save in data)
do nothing to system0 and system1,(all system app and config file no change),
eg your root will keep after wipe
<robin> said:
sure!
a wipe only clear partition data,cache,log,staging,
(system app and user app data save in data)
do nothing to system0 and system1,(all system app and config file no change),
eg your root will keep after wipe
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Thanks a lot bro, for the info and the help restoring my tablet.! Now is working great again!
rspy said:
Thank you both! I'll try right now! :good:
@stifilz You're right! All sony phones that I used were incredibly "open".. and you could do whatever you wanted .. If you had a problem, with a simple wipe, everything work like new!.. Is sad that this tablet is so limited.. :crying:
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Yeh I use Xperia S phone and with flash tool etc no worries. Xperis Z tab is developed by Sony mobile not VAIO like the first two tabs (apparntly). So perhaps the Z will have FREEDOM
I've Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note 2 and i wanted to erase some stuff I had. My phone was rooted and have a rom. But i've accidently erased my setting from my Titanium back up... All the sudden my setting disappeared and if i drag the thing down from the top of my phone and press the setting on top right coner, then my phone says "Unfortunately, system UI have stopped." I've gotten very frustrated idk why but i've hardcore reset my phone...Stupid me... My root is gone, my titanium backup is all gone now i can't even go to my setting... I've tried to plug it to my computer but i couldn't get to my setting to press mass storage check option, or even developer's option... Only way i can fix it is throughout downloading an app or something...
Here's a solution that I havn't tried which is downloading a odin app to root my phone without my pc and after rooting it, downloading the titanium backup and if any of you guys have any backups that is available for me to copy and restore your setting to my phone, then it might work... idk i'm very stupid so i don't know if that would work... PLEASE HELP ME!!!
Or is there a way to get another motherboard to my phone or like other parts and just replace to be like an new phone...? I don't want to spend over a $100 i'm very poor...
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You said you're on a ROM? So just reflash the ROM abs problem solved. Of not just download superuser from play, root doesn't get erased with a factory reset just the app. As a final solution just Odin to stock and restart from scratch
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=34891181
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kintwofan said:
You said you're on a ROM? So just reflash the ROM abs problem solved. Of not just download superuser from play, root doesn't get erased with a factory reset just the app. As a final solution just Odin to stock and restart from scratch
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=34891181
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No but thing is that i can't reflash my ROM because it's not rooted. Also if i wanted to get rooted and let say i use something like Z4root or framaroot, i can't install those apps into my phone because I can't change the developer's option from my setting... When i try to do with my computer, it won't recognize because I can't even go into the mass storage or pictures import or other settings... Is there any ways to download apps with just moving the folders?
ingongchichi said:
No but thing is that i can't reflash my ROM because it's not rooted. Also if i wanted to get rooted and let say i use something like Z4root or framaroot, i can't install those apps into my phone because I can't change the developer's option from my setting... When i try to do with my computer, it won't recognize because I can't even go into the mass storage or pictures import or other settings... Is there any ways to download apps with just moving the folders?
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What the hell? Do you not have a custom recovery installed?
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ingongchichi said:
No but thing is that i can't reflash my ROM because it's not rooted. Also if i wanted to get rooted and let say i use something like Z4root or framaroot, i can't install those apps into my phone because I can't change the developer's option from my setting... When i try to do with my computer, it won't recognize because I can't even go into the mass storage or pictures import or other settings... Is there any ways to download apps with just moving the folders?
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Download super user from play and your root it's back.a factory reset doesn't remove root
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I bought a clone samsung s4 19500 from bangkok last month.I downloaded an uninstaller (uninstall manager) from play store.Maybe by mistake i uninstalled some system file((Android OS,some mediatek file etc) to decrease internet data usage and my phone showed error messages.I quickly reinstalled somee uninstalled system apps using the backup files made by the backup data stored by the uninstaller program.but the error messages stated to increase.i removed my battery and when i opened the s 4 again it only kept on showing the opening message of "SAMSUNG" with some sound).what to do.plz help:
I also did the system restore/factory reset option by using power+vol up key but it did't help.i cleared user data also.What to do now?
THERE ARE THE FOLLOWING PROBLEMS
1.its a clone and i cannot go into the download mode.
2. my s4 cannot be rooted or unrooted and its just in a bootloop.
3.I did not have any recovery software (backup file in my phone).
4.help me otherwise I would be in big trouble.plz,plz just once.help me.
IS THERE ANY WAY I CAN INSTALL A NEW ROM FROM SD CARD WITHOUT ROOTING OR CAN I ROOT MY PHONE IN THIS CONDITION.I CAN ONLY GO TO RECOVERY MODE IN WHICH THERE ARE FOLLOWING OPTIONS.
1.reboot system now.
2.apply update from ADB
3.apply update from sdcard
4.wipe data/factory reset.
5.wipe cache partition
6.backup user data.
7.restore user data.
THANK YOU in advance.I believe that u will help me out.plz plz plz plz plz.
shivani bhatt said:
I bought a clone samsung s4 19500 from bangkok last month.I downloaded an uninstaller (uninstall manager) from play store.Maybe by mistake i uninstalled some system file((Android OS,some mediatek file etc) to decrease internet data usage and my phone showed error messages.I quickly reinstalled somee uninstalled system apps using the backup files made by the backup data stored by the uninstaller program.but the error messages stated to increase.i removed my battery and when i opened the s 4 again it only kept on showing the opening message of "SAMSUNG" with some sound).what to do.plz help:
I also did the system restore/factory reset option by using power+vol up key but it did't help.i cleared user data also.What to do now?
THERE ARE THE FOLLOWING PROBLEMS
1.its a clone and i cannot go into the download mode.
2. my s4 cannot be rooted or unrooted and its just in a bootloop.
3.I did not have any recovery software (backup file in my phone).
4.help me otherwise I would be in big trouble.plz,plz just once.help me.
IS THERE ANY WAY I CAN INSTALL A NEW ROM FROM SD CARD WITHOUT ROOTING OR CAN I ROOT MY PHONE IN THIS CONDITION.I CAN ONLY GO TO RECOVERY MODE IN WHICH THERE ARE FOLLOWING OPTIONS.
1.reboot system now.
2.apply update from ADB
3.apply update from sdcard
4.wipe data/factory reset.
5.wipe cache partition
6.backup user data.
7.restore user data.
THANK YOU in advance.I believe that u will help me out.plz plz plz plz plz.
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There are multiple problems you made above. First off is purchasing a clone device..there isn't any support for those phones on here so its hard to get an answer to anything. Besides that you didn't backup or do anything to ensure that you can have a way to restore if you screw something up. You deleted system files which has nothing to do with Factory Resetting. In order to revive your phone you must reinstall the system partition of the phone with either a stock ROM or custom ROM.. but since your phone is a clone you probably wont find any on here. Look around online and you will be lucky to find one. Other than that you have a cheap paperweight
Ask the seller
Talk to whoever you bought it from online, or if you didn't buy it online, search for one the same being sold from china.
I think the fake samsungs all started with MTK the 4 numbers depending on what crappy model you got.
Talk to someone that sells the fake ones and ask for a factory rom, you should be able to install it from standard recovery
mode as long as its signed.
Good luck, you'll need it by the sounds of things
Now u have only one way left that go to that place from which u got this phone.... Maybe they will reinstall the stock rom your device.... Or Ask in other shop nearby Can they reinstall the stock of this device
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there is one good thing ie. i got two same mobiles (clone s4 ) out of which one is perfectly alright.is there any way by which i can make a copy of the working phone's software to make my mobile work.
shivani bhatt said:
there is one good thing ie. i got two same mobiles (clone s4 ) out of which one is perfectly alright.is there any way by which i can make a copy of the working phone's software to make my mobile work.
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Take a backup of one device, copy it to the other device via USB, and then flash that.
Hit thanks if I helped.
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Hey, this is the first time I'm posting a problem here. I have a Samsung Galaxy Grand Quattro (I8552). I rooted my phone yesterday via cwm recovery, and then made a backup using ROM Manager. It rebooted my phone directly into a backup page where it started backing it up, but my internal memory wasn't big enough so it failed and since then I haven't been able to boot my phone up... When I try to turn it on it goes straight into CWM Recovery page, and when I click "reboot system now" it turns off the screen and then reboots it again into CWM Recovery...
Then, since I couldn't access the apps (as the phone won't start), I made another backup through CWM Recovery, but this time in my external SD Card which had about 6 gb free space. So it made and completed the backup without any problems. But when I restore it from my ext SD Card it restores the system and stuff but then when it comes to data it shows the message
Error while restoring /data!
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. Every time.
And so I tried
wipe data/factory reset
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it does it, and completes the process, but still it won't boot up, neither by
reboot system now
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nor by removing battery and trying to restart.
Mind you, I didn't flash any new ROMs, it was still running my stock ROM when this happened...
So to sum up the things I've tried
1. Reboot system now
2. Backup in extSD Card (which worked) and restore from the same (which didn't work)
3. Wipe data/factory reset
Also one more thing, before any of this mess was made, right after I rooted my phone, I made a backup of all apps through the app called
Titanium Backup root
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Is there any way I can get out of this mess? And maybe make my phone accessible again.
And if somehow by sheer stroke of luck and your expertise, if I do get out of this mess, is there any way to root my phone again and recover the apps or appdata from the already made CWM backup? or the Titanium Backup I made (or is it gonna be gone because of the factory reset?).
Thank you in advance for any help or try you might
try this
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2716953
Just download the latest firmware from sammobile... for your country.. and flash via odin.. you will get back your 'official ' phone...
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Tuneer said:
Just download the latest firmware from sammobile... for your country.. and flash via odin.. you will get back your 'official ' phone...
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Yeah, but then will I be able to restore from the same backup (cwm) that's causing problems now, or will it not work even then?
And what about the backup I made with the Titanium Backup app, will I be able to retrieve app data from there?
Because the very reason I was backing it all up was to protect the app data, and it's pretty important. So is it possible to save it after stock flashing?
The stock recovery flasher will help u get out of that loop. Check the link posted above.
nhozbay said:
try this
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2716953
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Thank you so much... the link worked like a charm. I flashed it through extSD card and it loaded and on clicking reboot it booted the phone right up. I had to go through the factory reset setting as I clicked it before. But almost no important data was lost. All photos videos and documents remained. And for better or for worse the whole thing actually made my phone a lot faster...
Thank you so much.
hacked sparrow said:
Thank you so much... the link worked like a charm. I flashed it through extSD card and it loaded and on clicking reboot it booted the phone right up. I had to go through the factory reset setting as I clicked it before. But almost no important data was lost. All photos videos and documents remained. And for better or for worse the whole thing actually made my phone a lot faster...
Thank you so much.
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no prob