My co-worker is going to sell my his Ideos S7, but he seems to be unable to do a factory wipe, and thus will not part with it until he does so.
He says he followed the directions on how to do the factory reset, but it continues to sync his Google account.
Any ideas on what could be done?
From the home screen, he pressed Menu, Settings, Privacy, and then Factory Data Reset? Did he let the process complete all the way, including the two reboots (it reboots once in recovery to wipe, then reboots again into the OS)?
I've used the Factory Data Reset to wipe my tablet 3 times now after messing with it, and never had my google account comeback automatically.
Be careful because it has been confirmed that this method does not remove the intial google login. This means that the new person that uses the device can access your google account and gmail potentially.
Can someone confirm this?
The best way is to flash a new firmware ROM from Huawei.
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I am trying to install Dexter's ElocityMod v1.41, and running into two problems.
The easy and final problem is this: how do I know if the mod was successful or not? How can I verify that the A7 is running ElocityMod v1.41.
The confusing problem and first problem I have is this.
I power the machine up, and use the procedure ElocityMod v1.42 thread to enter the Recovery Menu
I press home and see the menu
I select Wipe/factory reset
BUT
At that point I am presented with the following:
Android system recover <1e>
Confirm wipe of all user data?
THIS CAN NOT BE UNDONE.
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
Yes -- delete all user data
No
No
No
E:recovery.c Can't open /cache/recovery/command
Formatting MISC:...
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
So this confuses me. I have a few questions.
Do I want to wipe the user data? What will I lose by doing so?
I can move up and down selecting each list item. Do I want to press MENU and wipe each one?
Or do I want to wipe only the first item?
Or do I want to wipe only the user data?
And what is that stuff at the bottom about can't open a cache recovery command and formatting MISC:?
And finally, is the Elocity A7 easy to brick, or hard to brick and easy to recover from?
Thanks so much
Jerry
What I did when flashing was wipe data/factory reset, wipe cache partition, and then apply sdcard:update.zip. I did the same thing for 1.41, 1.42 and the xbox controller patch. Wiping should erase all data and programs on your tablet. I am not sure how hard it is to brick this tablet but as long as the files you download from that thread don't get corrupted in the download process you should be fine. And even then I think you should easily be able to just turn it off and get back into recovery to flash again.
Thanks, I deleted the user / data partition, and actually did not apply the update (accidentally) and just rebooted to find that the tablet booted up just fine, looking reinitialized to factory defaults.
So I tried again, and this time applied the update, and it worked just fine.
And success seems to be self-evident, in this case, coming up, being asked to setup a "phone", and signing into a google account, and eventually seeing a lot more apps in the drawer, specifically including the market.
One other tip though, you can't sign into your google account until you setup a wifi channel. The tablet wants you to do it the other way around.
And just a note for google 2 step authentication users, if you do use 2 step authentication, then when signing in to an existing google account on the tablet, you do need to use a google application specific password.
yeah kind of dumb it asks for a google login when you don't even have wifi setup. you can also check the what version you have by going into settings and clicking about.
I installed Cyanogenmod 7.2 on my Xperia Arc S. Then installed Google Apps from CM because I needed it, but found out it installs way more google apps than I am comfortable with and tried to get rid of it ever since:
I tried a factory reset via the privacy settings, I tried the data wipe/factory reset via the bootloader menu, I erased all data via the USB connection and re-installed CM -- no success, Google Apps is still there.
I tried hard resetting the phone pressing back and menu buttons and then powering on the phone, but it only boots normally.
Any ideas how I can remove the google apps?`
I'm sure reflashing the kernel and rom will return you to square one, and from there, try installing what you need.
I've recently upgraded to the 2013 Nexus 7 and want to give my old Nexus 7 to my nephew. It is currently unlocked and rooted (4.4.2) under my account. I want to go back to factory (basically wipe the tablet) but keep it rooted for him. Can this be done without going through the Google account set up (I don't want to tip him off with e-mails to his account about the new device)?
Google account creation or login is not mandatory after a factory reset, and performing a factory reset in either the stock or custom recovery does not need a Google account either.*
A Google account can be set up/connected any time after skipping that step by starting the Play Store app.
To do any initial customizations following a factory reset (even without a Google account credential) though, you will need to connect to a WiFi AP.**
* something to watch out for is if your root app is not installed as a system app but as a market app - a factory reset will delete app portion, so restoring the app portion will either require a sideload (of a backup of the) .apk, or a google account to download it again from the market.
** perversely, the WiFi router does not need to be connected to the internet; after the tablet is connected to a router , the WiFi setup screen on the tablet will eventually time out and let you continue. This suggests a means to partially configure a tablet following a factory reset without the tablet ever "phoning home".
good luck
Edit: From your post it is not evident whether you are planning (i) a factory stock install followed by re-rooting, or (ii) have a lightly-rooted stock that you merely want to perform a factory reset on. In either event a solution would be to make sure that SuperSU is installed as a system app. That way 100% of your root kit will survive a "factory reset" procedure in the recovery. In the case of (i) you can certainly reconnect to your own Google account to download the newest version of SuperSU, get it installed as a system app (I think that is a menu item in the SuperSU app), and then do a "factory reset" afterward.
Hi!
I'm now on a clean at&t oc3.
to explain the situation:
- I had golden eye or something similar for a long time and my phone started to get slow so I decided to do a clean reinstall of the same ROM
- after flashing, my phone was not booting ( stuck on samsung logo) and I the only option was to flash a back to stock at&t rom which was the only working option at that moment.
- now I want to sell my phone and after I'm doing a factory reset to delete my google account, I can not add any other google account because it crashes with the following message: "Unfortunately, Google Play services has stopped."
- I tried another couple of factory resets...same problem.
Please, give me an advice!
Thank you!
Did you do the factory reset from recovery mode?
Been working on this for a while now, but can't figure out how to get around it.
The phone is currently runing a custom 8.1.1 ROM and I have TWRP 3.2.0.0 installed.
I've done full wipes and factory resets, but the phone never seems to fully reset. I am fine with losing everything on the phone. I just want it 100% clean so I can sell it, which of course includes getting rid of the password on TWRP so the next user can mess around in there.
I have access to TWRP, the password is mine. But I can't seem to remove it, and every time I wipe and reset the phone it still asks me for my old device password with the owner message present as well.
I have also tried to format data, but it is unable to mount the data partition it seems, which I am guessing is due to encryption.
What's my fastest way to a reset and clean phone? I'm getting desperate here since I'm running out of time.
Edit: Through no change in process of my own, it suddenly completely reset. Now I'm more curious as to why.. Can anyone explain so I can avoid this issue in the future?
for me, the only way is to flash the full factory image from the Google site
First clear data and than flash software