Hello, i want to decrypt my phone and need a bit of help. i saw that i need to wipe and format daata to decrypt my phone. what i am not sure about is if i wipe everything in the recovery is the rom i used before still on the phone or do i have to reflash it?
You are most likely using TWRP recovery. To decrypt your phone, boot into recovery, then press wipe. Select "Format data". Type "yes", as instructed to do so. At this point, your internal storage will be wiped, so make a backup! This will NOT wipe your ROM (you delete it, if you wipe your system partition). Instead, it will wipe your data - just like a factory reset.
After this, I do recommend you flash DFE (if you are planning to root your phone, first install Magisk, then DFE). It's been deprecated some time ago, however it was necessary for my device; for the recovery to work properly.
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I wan't to install CM7 and I read this instructions:
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Instructions:
First time flashing CyanogenMod 7 to the Samsung Galaxy S II, or coming from another ROM?
Root the device and install ClockworkMod Recovery. Instructions are available here.
Perform a NANDroid backup of your current ROM.
Format the system, data & cache partitions of your device.
Perform a factory reset.
Flash CyanogenMod.
Optional: Install the Google Apps addon package.
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I don't get the "Format the system"... and "Perform a factory reset" part
this means to do a cache, data and dalvik? and THEN perform the flash?
thx
If only there was a thread for this kind of thing already. Why did you feel the need to create a new thread, when you're quoting the one you should be posting in anyway?
It also says flash this build only if you know what you are doing. You might want to heed the warning.
Anyway, it means do a full wipe of your system, i.e. factory reset from within ClockworkMod Recovery.
I'm selling my phone and wonder if a full wipe will take out the rom too. Any takers on this noob question?
No, a full wipe will erase only the apps installed (and its data too), but the cROM will persist.
Thanks for the help, Rober
select mounts and storages and wipe(format) system.
that depends on the rom really. Doing a factory reset on some custom rooms will clause a boot loop as it removes some files need for the rom. Best bet would be to do a full wipe and reinstall the rom before you reboot.
I have a question that must be obvious to many but I don't know the answer and am curious.
Right now I am rooted and if I want to install a new rom I do the factory reset and wipe caches in recovery and then install the custom rom.
What happens if
1. I do this reset and clear caches within recovery and just reboot without installing a rom?
2. What happens if I do a factory reset with settings?
I know the phone will start in setup mode but will it have the last rom I installed or what?
If you're wiping system too, then the phone won't boot - except to recovery if you tell it to. If you're not wiping system but you're wiping data, then the phone will boot but be like you just installed it new for the first time and you have to set it up.
I'm not positive what Factory Reset within settings will do, if it works or not, when you have a custom recovery installed. Normally under a completely stock ROM with stock recovery, Factory Reset from Settings or from the stock recovery would wipe everything but system. It wipes Data, Cache, Dalvik, and internal storage. You can achieve the same thing from custom recovery if you wish to. And yes, as long as you didn't wipe System, the last ROM you had installed would boot.
Doing a factory reset from settings with twrp installed should be like doing a factory reset in twrp. TWRP will takeover when the phone restarts to do the factory reset. At least that is how it was with my Moto X phones. I've done it with Jasmine on my G3, but don't remember the outcome. It was only a few days ago too. Lol. I'm a retard.
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Hello, I unlocked my bootloader today. Immediately after flashing the official TWRP, I booted into it through ADB, and flashed DFE. After rebooting, I went back to TWRP, wiped data, cache, dalvik, system and flashed the latest vendor with pixel experience. ROM booted just fine, but after rebooting to TWRP again, it was asking me for password. I can get into TWRP by entering my device pin, and I can get back into the ROM, but during boot it always asks me for my pin. What should I do to fix this? Should I flash DFE with the ROM?
try "Format Data"
Your Data is already Encrypted. You need to Format your data/internal storage. Make sure to backup your data first before doing that.
hi today i unlock my poco, and try to flash recovery and mi globe, i flash the orange fox 9.0, and flash the rom, the problem its when i boot to system, a message of my phone was encrypted and i need to perform a wipe data, i try wiping data, and wipe sd, and nothing change, also i flash again and flash then the disableencryptiontreble 17.3, and the same things happen, some solution??
have you tried to format data? not just wipe data
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hi today i unlock my poco, and try to flash recovery and mi globe, i flash the orange fox 9.0, and flash the rom, the problem its when i boot to system, a message of my phone was encrypted and i need to perform a wipe data, i try wiping data, and wipe sd, and nothing change, also i flash again and flash then the disableencryptiontreble 17.3, and the same things happen, some solution??
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i have the same issue, tried different recovery projects, OFRP and TWRP. both seem to have the same issue, with the message "encryption unsuccessful" and if i tried to press the "RESET DEVICE" button i get stuck in a boot loop.
i also factory reset my device, formatted everything via the recovery project menu then booted into recovery and installed the CUSTOM ROMS.
tried also to DFE but nothing seem to change even with encryption disabled.
but i scarcely manged to bypass this issue by; after wiping everything boot into recovery and install whatever rom you want and install gapps after it, better still install firmware vendor if the rom of your choice doesnt include them.
never mind, i fixed it.
in my case i was trying to flash LineageMicroG 16 on my Device and i kept getting that error and i did the following to fix it;
wiped everything and wrote "yes" to format the date and swiped for a factory reset through recovery wipe option then i booted into recovery and flashed LineagemicroG 16 after that i flashed optimus drunk kernel and booted into system and everything seemed to work fine, the kernel is what fixed the problem.