Hey guys,
I did a reset on my z2 and it seems the default videos, photos, and songs that come with the device dont restore back. I was just wondering if anyone could please upload them? Also do any other files not get restored? it doesnt seem like a factory restore if certain files are missing.
They are by default on userdata partition. So they will get removed on factory reset
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jatinrungta said:
They are by default on userdata partition. So they will get removed on factory reset
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Well yes, I understand that now.. that's why I'm asking if someone can upload them.
Since you're resetting it anyway, can't you flash the factory image?
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Garaddon said:
Since you're resetting it anyway, can't you flash the factory image?
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Where would I get that? Also how do I know that it would even include that media? I restored multiple times through different avenues, all to no avail. Which is why I was hoping someone would be nice enough to zip up the photos, videos, and songs..
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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.
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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.
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Great! Thanks for the info!
Appreciate the fast response.
I accidently deleted most of the folders on the internal storage(sd card). Android and Notification are the only ones left. How do I get Android to rebuild this?
you can use third part stuff to restore the files using a pc. Dont know how to do it without that.
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You can try this http://www.easeus.com/data-recovery/card-recovery-software/sd-card-recovery-freeware.htm
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I accidently deleted most of the folders on the internal storage(sd card). Android and Notification are the only ones left. How do I get Android to rebuild this?
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I do that on my s3 a lot. And all I have to do is flash the rom again and they all show up.
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Crisisx1 said:
I do that on my s3 a lot. And all I have to do is flash the rom again and they all show up.
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The factory image is no longer on the Google site.
xda6969 said:
The factory image is no longer on the Google site.
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Look in the stickies in general. There is a link to RandomPhantasmagoria that will get you the stock images.
estallings15 said:
Look in the stickies in general. There is a link to RandomPhantasmagoria that will get you the stock images.
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Got them. Thanks. Before I do all this work, there is no way to rebuild it from Recovery?
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Got them. Thanks. Before I do all this work, there is no way to rebuild it from Recovery?
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I don't believe so. There really isn't a lot of work to do.
fastboot erase cache
fastboot flash system system.img
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Got them. Thanks. Before I do all this work, there is no way to rebuild it from Recovery?
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Maybe doing a factory reset might? Try that first, because either way your gonna wipe everything if you flash the stock image.
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Maybe doing a factory reset might? Try that first, because either way your gonna wipe everything if you flash the stock image.
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Good point.
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Maybe doing a factory reset might? Try that first, because either way your gonna wipe everything if you flash the stock image.
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I remember once I did a factory reset on my Galaxy Nexus. It didn't touch the SD Card area.
I was going to run the flash-all.bat. I can just extract system.img from image-occam-jop40d and flash that?
I can probably just create the folder manually. The apps will populate them once I open them. Anyone know what all the stock folders are called?
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I remember once I did a factory reset on my Galaxy Nexus. It didn't touch the SD Card area.
I was going to run the flash-all.bat. I can just extract system.img from image-occam-jop40d and flash that?
I can probably just create the folder manually. The apps will populate them once I open them. Anyone know what all the stock folders are called?
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Why are you making this so hard? We have given you all the info you need. Just use 7zip to extract system.img, drop it in the folder where you keep fastboot and use the commands I told you earlier. WTF, dude?
Hi, I am very sad bcos I lost my niece pics after factory reset my Motorola XOOM 3g. Please help me, now I am realizing what I did!
Did you factory reset rooted with a custom recovery? Or stock through settings? If stock through settings you might be screwed, get a file management app and look for a file that says DCIM
Why did you factory reset?
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This might work for the Xoom too since it has a similar partitioning scheme.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2123999
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Did you factory reset rooted with a custom recovery? Or stock through settings? If stock through settings you might be screwed, get a file management app and look for a file that says DCIM
Why did you factory reset?
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i am green horn in using my Motorola xoom although I own it for last 1 year but I do not know anything about it's working so I am not aware about the terms root, rom etc. What I did, I gone to settings> Privacy > Factory data reset . Now please suggest me which software should I use? I did factory reset because my Bluetooth was not working.
Thanks for reply.
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i am green horn in using my Motorola xoom although I own it for last 1 year but I do not know anything about it's working so I am not aware about the terms root, rom etc. What I did, I gone to settings> Privacy > Factory data reset . Now please suggest me which software should I use? I did factory reset because my Bluetooth was not working.
Thanks for reply.
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Uhh, look up. That's the best you will get.
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if it wiped your internal storage, you're SOL
d3athsd00r said:
Uhh, look up. That's the best you will get.
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I did not understand.
alex94kumar said:
if it wiped your internal storage, you're SOL
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I did not got you?
jatin1990 said:
I did not got you?
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Deathsdoor is saying the link he gave you is your best possible shot.
alex is saying that if your internal storage was wiped during the factory reset, you aren't getting the pictures back.
Since you are not rooted, then your internal storage was almost definitely wiped. And since rooting (which is Part of the directions in deathsdoor link) will involve you unlocking the bootloader, your tablet would have to be wiped again.
If you can't find them, then their gone.
Android doesn't work like Windows or Mac.
SOL=sh*t outta luck
Agree with above, don't think you'll be getting them back.
For future protection one simple rule - backup.
Hold pictures on a sd card instead of internal memory, as factory reset does wipe that, and also use an auto backup app (Dropbox and Google + both do well as automatically backing up photos and videos).
Anything digital that is important should be backed up on a regular basis.
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Hey Guys, I have a Nexus 4 running on stock 4.3 rooted.
I copied the CM 11 M Snapshot files and using CWM wiped everything. as it turns out it also wiped my sd ext. Thankfully I had a backup and got all my data back. Is there a way so that it doesnt wipe the Sd ext? I had a Nexus S before this and it didn't get wiped everytime I flash :crying:
Anybody?
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until you learn to post sensible comments no one can help you. what you have written may be the biggest load of nonsense i've ever read. do you even know what you are asking?
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until you learn to post sensible comments no one can help you. what you have written may be the biggest load of nonsense i've ever read. do you even know what you are asking?
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I understand his question just fine...
There is no "sd ext" on the current Nexus devices. It is simply called sdcard. The sdcard shouldn't be erased unless you format /data, because /sdcard is located at /data/media. In the future, just use factory reset in recovery and the sdcard won't be wiped.
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I did the factory reset. But my entire media also got wiped. Although it doesn't happen with twrp. I guess I'll stick with twrp then. Thanks anyhow.
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until you learn to post sensible comments no one can help you. what you have written may be the biggest load of nonsense i've ever read. do you even know what you are asking?
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Just because you don't understand, doesn't mean nobody else did. My words make perfect sense to anyone who can read English and knows a thing or two about android development.
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kkricardokaka95 said:
I did the factory reset. But my entire media also got wiped. Although it doesn't happen with twrp. I guess I'll stick with twrp then. Thanks anyhow.
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Impossible, wipe data/factory reset doesn't format sdcard. Under mounts/storage (if i remember right) you can just delete media files.
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Impossible, wipe data/factory reset doesn't format sdcard. Under mounts/storage (if i remember right) you can just delete media files.
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It seemed odd to me too. I guess its a problem with CWM Touch? I'll try to get screenshots if I can
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Hello Gentlemen,
Let me try to keep this short.
I got a new Android phone recently and had planned to port all my app backups from the N9005.
As things happen, I ran the Samsung app for backup and did a factory reset before checking the same.
The backup made a fool out of me, nearly all the crucial stuff is missing.
So now I need to recover the settings from the post "factory reset" Note 3.
What would be the fastest and least painful way to-
a. Root the SM9005;
b. Recover the backup (XML files for tasker, Aquamail, Biz Calendar and so on);
c. Unroot the app and be done with it.
I need to unroot as the last step as I plan to have the phone loaded with a kid friendly UI and keep it for the kids for long trips. Do not want anything wary taking over it.
Any suggestions and help is welcome!
Thanks,
CKhurana
Your data were erased during the factory reset.
Agreed
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Your data were erased during the factory reset.
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Agreed.The data is gone.Poof removed from existance.Unless you have a Partition on your phone intact.
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Atifbaig786 said:
AgreedAgreed.The data is gone.Poof removed from existance.Unless you have a Partition on your phone intact.
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Yeah, I know. But a recovery is possible AFAIK until the free space is overwritten? Just like any disk based data recovery happens?
Can you help me with options on the root?
Thanks,
Chetan
Well the simplest one without hassle is either flashing recovery IMG and rooting via SuperSU.
Atifbaig786 said:
Well the simplest one without hassle is either flashing recovery IMG and rooting via SuperSU.
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ok, so this should work, right?
ckhurana said:
ok, so this should work, right?
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Hell yeah