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[Q] How to Completely Erase Everything?

I want to do this as more of a starting new kind of thing. I know you can clear the sd cards and factory reset, but does that truly erase everything? And i understand theres also some options to clear delvik cache and others in CWM. Are these caches erased w/ factory reset? thx brah

Odin maybe?
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yeah ive used odin a bunch to flash eugenes roms and stock rom if i get a soft brick. But weird thing is it doesnt wipe my internal sd. BTW this ISNT like a serious issue and i NEED to erase everything...but ive flashed so many roms over each other i thought it would be good to give my phone a breath of fresh air. haha

okay so just about an hour ago i was trying to install the 2825 radio. i flashed it onto the phone in recovery mode and now my phone wont go past the boot screen. (tmobile g1) i can still get to recovery and fastboot and all of that but even when i tried to restore it, it still wont go past the boot screen!!!!! what did i do wrong, and is there any hope for me?? please help!

roguly said:
I want to do this as more of a starting new kind of thing. I know you can clear the sd cards and factory reset, but does that truly erase everything? And i understand theres also some options to clear delvik cache and others in CWM. Are these caches erased w/ factory reset? thx brah
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Hopefully you will not accomplish your objective. "Everything" includes the Primary Boot Loader, in which case your phone will be permanently bricked, for all intents and purposes.
You will not be able to access the phone by any means other than an expensive tester after you delete USB drivers from the phone.

To erase everything...you need to go settings.phone & sdcard.umount...under phone storage.format....it will mount back on its own
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jmcghee1973 said:
To erase everything...you need to go settings.phone & sdcard.umount...under phone storage.format....it will mount back on its own
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Will this hurt anything if I do this while running a custom rom? Just wondering.
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ZachLL88 said:
Will this hurt anything if I do this while running a custom rom? Just wondering.
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you'll lose everything on the rom including apps that the dev added. only thing you wont lose is stock apps, but no it shouldnt matter what rom your running.

jmcghee1973 said:
you'll lose everything on the rom including apps that the dev added. only thing you wont lose is stock apps, but no it shouldnt matter what rom your running.
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Great! Thanks for the info!
Appreciate the fast response.

App keeps.....

Good afternoon all
I'm after a little help iv got an app that keeps wanting to update and a couple others that are also starting to play up
So could some kind person please tell me how I wipe all app data, I don't mean delete them just do like a factory reset or something so I don't lose my installed apps
Many thanks in advance
Paul
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BTW I don't think its a Rom issue but in case it matters I'm running arhd 3.0
I can't post in the dev forum so I can't ask in there
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chunk1982 said:
Good afternoon all
I'm after a little help iv got an app that keeps wanting to update and a couple others that are also starting to play up
So could some kind person please tell me how I wipe all app data, I don't mean delete them just do like a factory reset or something so I don't lose my installed apps
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I don't actually get the problem here... But if you want to clear app data then go to settings - applications and open the list of your installed apps and choose the app you want and there is a button to clear app data/cache if there is any. If you want to get rid of general update notifications just uncheck the box from market settings.
Still why won't you just update them?

Boot to recovery and wipe cache and davlik cache.

chunk1982 said:
Good afternoon all
I'm after a little help iv got an app that keeps wanting to update and a couple others that are also starting to play up
So could some kind person please tell me how I wipe all app data, I don't mean delete them just do like a factory reset or something so I don't lose my installed apps
Many thanks in advance
Paul
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It's kinda difficult to wipe all app data without wiping the apps themselves. If you do factory reset, you will wipe all of your apps.
If I were you, I would go for flash FULL-WIPE.zip + flash full ROM + manually installing all apps again.

CitizenLee said:
Boot to recovery and wipe cache and davlik cache.
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that seems to have done the trick many thanks

[Q] triple ringtones after CM7

hi all.
after (one click root), (unlocking bootloader), (installing rom manager and CWM), (flashing CM7) ... and realizing the full potential of this device, (previosly on (2.3.4 4.5.91 AT&T) - i find in settings/sound/phone ringtone list every ring tone is triple. is this something normal? or i have done something wrong. it was my first time flashing a rom.
any idea?
and something else... how do i uninstall apps that came with CM7. actually all those apps are amazing. but some of them i dont use. like "torch"
a big thank you for devs.
and sorry if this is posted in the wrong thread.

hormosapiens said:
hi all.
after (one click root), (unlocking bootloader), (installing rom manager and CWM), (flashing CM7) ... and realizing the full potential of this device, (previosly on (2.3.4 4.5.91 AT&T) - i find in settings/sound/phone ringtone list every ring tone is triple. is this something normal? or i have done something wrong. it was my first time flashing a rom.
any idea?
and something else... how do i uninstall apps that came with CM7. actually all those apps are amazing. but some of them i dont use. like "torch"
a big thank you for devs.
and sorry if this is posted in the wrong thread.
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Did you do a wipe? Mine is fine!
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msd24200 said:
Did you do a wipe? Mine is fine!
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what do you mean by "a wipe"? i wiped cashe and dalvik before install of CM7. is that what you mean? after install of CM7 i have not clean anything. should i?

hormosapiens said:
what do you mean by "a wipe"? i wiped cashe and dalvik before install of CM7. is that what you mean? after install of CM7 i have not clean anything. should i?
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Factory reset, when going from a factory rom to cm it is best to factory reset, I do and everything seems good, but of course when upgrading cm version you won't need to factory reset. Be sure to back up all your apps, factory reset then restore your apps. When I restore apps I restore app only and not the data. If you restore the data and get problems factory reset again and restore app only.
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[Q] Switching ROMs

I have a quick question. When switching ROMs should I also in addition to factory reset, also perform a system/wipe to wipe the already installed custom ROM? Thanks.

It is generally unnecessary, but not a bad idea to do so. Most devs have their updater script format /system, but you'll find the occasional one that omits that one line.
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Alright. So I shouldn't worry about performing system wipe?
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tsmith9191 said:
Alright. So I shouldn't worry about performing system wipe?
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I think it's better to wipe the system. As I've faced many kind of froblem because of a dirty flash. And I've seen many bug reports on several ROM thread and it just came out that it's not the ROM but the dirty flash is causing the problem. It will probably take 1-2hr to get back to the previous position so what's the big didfference??
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ashik992 said:
I think it's better to wipe the system. As I've faced many kind of froblem because of a dirty flash. And I've seen many bug reports on several ROM thread and it just came out that it's not the ROM but the dirty flash is causing the problem. It will probably take 1-2hr to get back to the previous position so what's the big didfference??
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OK. So when switching ROMs I should perform factory restore, wipe all caches, as well as system/wipe to erase the ROM currently installed. I have done it that way before but I always get nervous when I wipe system, cause now it has no ROM installed at all and I don't want anything to happen in that case. But thanks for the quick reply
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tsmith9191 said:
OK. So when switching ROMs I should perform factory restore, wipe all caches, as well as system/wipe to erase the ROM currently installed. I have done it that way before but I always get nervous when I wipe system, cause now it has no ROM installed at all and I don't want anything to happen in that case. But thanks for the quick reply
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What could happen?? Hardbrick?? A little chance..... Here's what I think when I do something risky. Just Think like I don't have any device if I can get this device back it's bonus for me.
You can always flash a rom whatever it has one or not untill your device can be booted into fastboot. So don't be afraid if something bad(!?) happens and you can boot into fastboot mode. Once I even had no boot just the fastboot it took less than 5 min to get a system on it.
And dirty flash is always an option. I myself had and seen many people having problems with it.
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Clean is always the best! But always make a backup before the wipe process!
Wipe:
/system
/userdata
/.android-secure
/dalvik-cache
/cache

[Q] Need to re-install official MF3 after rooting and deleting applications.

Hello xda-dev,
I'm having trouble finding somebody else with a similar situation as mine:
So I picked up my new I337 from Costco this week. While using it throughout the week, I was very unfortunate as to allow the MF3 update from ATT to successfully update on my device. (This is the part where I cry because I can't install GE or custom bootloaders)
While doing some more research, I finally used this method to get root access after which I got Titanium Backup to remove the stock ATT bloatware.
I then proceeded to carefully un-install about a dozen or so applications most of which were ATT garbage.
Now maybe I uninstalled something crucial, or maybe certain applications need the ATT bloatware to run correctly, but my problem now is that Music and S-Voice both crash moments after starting them, so I would like to re-install my OTA MF3 update.
I understand that I have no shot downgrading or installing custom boot loaders at the moment, but I know that the MF3 rom seems to be available here.
Is there any risk in me getting Odin and attempting to install the rom using down+home+power way? (Sorry don't know the name for this procedure yet.)
I have come to peace with being stuck on MF3, but at the same time I would like to regain full functionality of my S-Voice and Music.
How would I go about safely re-installing my OS?

Using titanium backup, set both programs to be user apps, reboot, and switch back to system apps. Worked for me with Svoice, Smusic, and a few other programs. No more "Unfortunately xxxx has stopped" messages.
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EDIT: This should be the link for the original thread about this problem.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2282959

Thank you so much, Doymecca.
This works for me... to an extent. S-Voice will only continue to run if I keep it as a user app.
Still no luck with the Stock Music player.
Will check the other threat now for a solution regarding a complete OS wipe.

Have you tried wiping your dalvik cache yet?
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EDIT: Here us a thread about wiping dalvik
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1752390

I have tried wiping the "cache partition" as well as "wipe data/factory reset" from the stock recovery boot menu with no result.
Also I'm not sure, but I don't think I can wipe the Dalvik without a custom bootloader?? (Even after reading around, I don't understand the difference between Dalvik and what I have tried.)
EDIT: I really think, the reinstall would be my best option. I'm most curious to know if I'm at risk of bricking my device if I try to restore the MF3 rom from the earlier thread.

I could be wrong but I don't think you could flash that without a custom recovery.
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Apparently I cannot post outside links...
Google what is dalvik cache, also check out system tuner app in the play store, this app has a feature for wiping your dalvik cache along with a ton of other things.
HiTideBlastoise said:
I could be wrong but I don't think you could flash that without a custom recovery.
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I also would not risk a flash.
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matievan said:
I have tried wiping the "cache partition" as well as "wipe data/factory reset" from the stock recovery boot menu with no result.
Also I'm not sure, but I don't think I can wipe the Dalvik without a custom bootloader?? (Even after reading around, I don't understand the difference between Dalvik and what I have tried.)
EDIT: I really think, the reinstall would be my best option. I'm most curious to know if I'm at risk of bricking my device if I try to restore the MF3 rom from the earlier thread.
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Just so its clear, you can NOT flash the rom in your link. Luckily, you won't be able to since you don't have a custom recovery. Trying to put a recovery on and flashing that rom could cause irreparable damage to your phone. You're mf3 and are severely limited to what you can do.
If you continue to mess with tibu, freeze the apps, don't delete them. That way if you mess something up you can get them back

You extract the contents of that ROM, and a manually add in the missing apps until your problem dissapears (will prob have to change permissions on each added app to "rw-r-r" and reboot for apps replaced apps to take effect)
That should work...and next time use titanium back up to actually back up, than freeze apps reboot see if there's any problems...if none than uninstall
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Thanks for the quick replies, everyone. I appreciate your help.
After much more research, I do see that there is no MF3 factory image available yet. I guess I wait til then.

matievan said:
Thanks for the quick replies, everyone. I appreciate your help.
After much more research, I do see that there is no MF3 factory image available yet. I guess I wait til then.
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Just to add to their arguments, absolute no flashing with odin on the MF3. Period. You will definitely mess something up. I'm thinking you altered the system recovery by getting rid of some stuff. You are going to have to wait until the devs come out with something.