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Question about Wiping

Okay...so I had the Cyan ROM and I went into Recovery and wiped everything. Does that mean that I don't have a ROM installed? Or is it just like a factory reset...but instead it resets it back to the original Cyan ROM?
I did do a full wipe and then flashed what I thought was a ROM but I guess it turned out to just be an add-on.
So, I guess my other question is...when I flash an addon/theme to a ROM...it becomes a part of that rom...even after a complete wipe?

Factory reset/wipe wipes everything. You don't have a ROM to boot up with anymore.
Add-ons go on top of ROMs. Add-ons alone = nothing to boot with, either.

You can still boot after doing a factory reset, to my knowlege it just wipes all your settings and internal data.

It does? Admittedly I haven't tried that for a while, but the last time I wiped in recovery and rebooted, it didn't really boot up.
I understand the factory reset under Settings -> Privacy is different, though.

When I woke up this morning...I tried the wipes under Recovery just for the heck of it...and it booted up. Now I'm just what exactly is on the ROM? All the addons and themes? It looks that way.
I guess since the only real danger of Bricking the phone would be to interrupt the flashing of the radio...so I guess I'll go into trial and error mode for the next couple of days.

Yeah, during my "let's try everything and flash different ROMs twice a day" phase, I kept expecting the phone to die and never wake again. Looks like the only real ways to brick it are flashing radio and SPL.

Okay...so if you use the Factory Reset under settings...it seems to do nothing but reboot the phone.
If you wipe through Recovery...it just resets your settings and apps. All addons are still intact. So I'm assuming that when you flash an Addon...it becomes fused with the main ROM?

I don't understand why the ringtones that I pushed to the system/media folder are still there after a wipe and reflash of the same rom? Shouldn't reflashing overwrite everything?

[Q] Clear all private data without unrooting?

I am going to be selling my Hero to someone who would like it rooted (as it is now).
His plan is to use it in WiFi mode only and won't be activating it with Sprint.
Is there a way to clear all my private data (logins, bookmarks, contacts, calendars, etc.) without unrooting?
Will he then be able to enter his google account info and gain access to the Market though WiFi?
Thanks!
Eph

The "Factory Reset" feature does the trick. But if you are really paranoid, you could wipe data, cache, dalvik and resintall the ROM from recovery.

Won't factory reset unroot me?
Will he still be able to access the net and the market via WiFi?

What ROM are you running?

andythegreenguy said:
What ROM are you running?
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Nfinite's Stock.

cephraim said:
Nfinite's Stock.
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Factory reset should bring the phone back to the state it was in when you first installed the rom. If you really want to be safe, boot into recovery, wipe everything and reflash the rom. You will still be rooted. Remember to either remove and keep your sd card or to format it to erase the data on it, THEN create a nandroid for whoever is buying the phone. Yes, they will be able to run the google setup via wifi if they choose to do so.

Weird.
After I do a factory reset (either from settings or from recovery), it stays in a boot loop. I have to pull the battery and restore the Nand.
What am I doing wrong?
Thanks,
Eph

Tried many different factory resets last night.
Tried from recovery mode and from settings>privacy.
In each case, I got stuck in boot loops.
Also tried to wipe data, cache, dalvik and resintall the ROM from recovery. Same thing - boot loop.
All I could do was pull the battery and do a nand restore.
Any ideas?

go here and download the ruu. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=800586 . follow the instructions. this WILL take away root and will flash you black to stock. then, go here:http://forum.xda-developers.com/archive/index.php/t-743289.html and follow those instructions to re-root your phone. it is very easy. then flash your rom of choice again. that will erase your data AND get rid of your bootloop. idk why the othere way isnt working for u though

OR, you should try to take out your sdcard or format it before you reflash the nfinite's stock. i had this problem once because some of my data was on the card and so when it tried to boot it got stuck.

Thanks guys. I tried the factory reset a couple more times, and for some reason it booted.
Thanks again!

[Q] DSP Manager BRICKED my phone

Please help. I downloaded DSP Manager on my Captivate, and now the phone is stuck toggling between the Galaxy S screen and AT&T screen. I'm currently running stock Froyo and Speedmod kernel. I can get into Recovery mode and Clockwork, but "wipe data/factory reset" did not fix the problem.
I've searched this forum for my particular problem, but couldn't find any answers. Please help.

Probably need to reflash the stock ROM. That would be my best suggestion. It sounds like DSP either damaged a file or replaced it with something that doesn't work.
Here's the best set of directions to flash stock with odin.

Clear dalvik cashe might help. Or just re-flash what ever rom you use from recovery. Shouldn't need to go back to stock.

whiteguypl said:
Clear dalvik cashe might help. Or just re-flash what ever rom you use from recovery. Shouldn't need to go back to stock.
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Tried clearing Dalvik Cache, didn't work. Jay1390, is there any other possible solution rather than completely wiping my phone? I mean, I'll do it, I'd rather have a phone that works rather than a $200 paperweight. But, couldn't I somehow "uninstall" DSP Manager?

You have already wiped data/factory reset, so the data you are trying to not lose has already been deleted, at this point flashing to stock will only fix your boot loop problem, did you happen to make a backup either nandroid or tibu?
Edit: oh, if you are talking about the stuff on the sd card flashing to stock doesn't wipe that, but if you want to be safe go into recovery and mount it to your computer and copy everything to it before you flash stock.

[Q] Steps to restore backup file using cwm recovery

Hi guys,
I believe this question has been asked multiple times, and i myself tried searching for answers from many various source to clarify my doubts, only to get more confused due to conflicting information.
Let's say now i am on a custom ROM. Before flashing the custom ROM, i made a backup of my stock touchwiz rom using cwm. However i want to revert back to the exact same state before flashing the custom ROM. What are the steps i need to do to restore the backup file?
1) Some sources mentioned just booting into cwm recovery, selecting "backup and restore" option, select "restore" and choosing the desired backup file will allow the phone to restore to the state prior to flashing.
2) Some other sources mentioned needing to wipe cache/wipe delvik cache/format system/format cache etc. first before i can restore the backup file.
So which is it?
Thank you!

Personally, I always choose option 2 if going to another rom. If restoring an earlier backup within the same rom i use option 1.
Don't know excact what the right thing to do is, but it never hurt to wipe cache / dalvik cache / system because you have it all backed up anyway. At least if you backup regulary. I back up regulary and delete the backups i don't want.

Cundis said:
Personally, I always choose option 2 if going to another rom. If restoring an earlier backup within the same rom i use option 1.
Don't know excact what the right thing to do is, but it never hurt to wipe cache / dalvik cache / system because you have it all backed up anyway. At least if you backup regulary. I back up regulary and delete the backups i don't want.
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Thanks for the tip!
Is wiping cache/delvik cache sufficient in most cases?
Cos i saw a youtube video, where the guy did not wipe cache/delvik cache. instead, he formatted cache, data and system.

chainer22 said:
Thanks for the tip!
Is wiping cache/delvik cache sufficient in most cases?
Cos i saw a youtube video, where the guy did not wipe cache/delvik cache. instead, he formatted cache, data and system.
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Wipe /
If problems format .
jje

Any other things i should look out for or preventive measures i should take for restoring backup from cwm?
i have been reading of cases where restoration through cwm fails and they have to go through the whole process of re-rooting and flashing before being able to restore it

there is no need for wiping, the recovery does it on its own prior to restoring.

got stuck
i erased everything followed 2nd step now its stuck on logo not starting

rishiud said:
i erased everything followed 2nd step now its stuck on logo not starting
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Factory reset

factory reset
my phone is Zen Ultrafone 701HD there is no shortcut for recovery mode

rishiud said:
my phone is Zen Ultrafone 701HD there is no shortcut for recovery mode
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Well you are in the wrong forum this is SGS3 I9305 .Not your phone ,

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Soft brick on rooted Xperia Z3c locked bootloader?

I have Xperia Z3c 5.1.1 rooted with locked bootloader. It is on wifi only. Yesterday I've turned wifi on and suddenly have got device off. I tried to reboot. I see the Xperia logo and bluish Xperia start screen with waving elements. However, the home screen and apps are not appeared, have just black screen. The battery is fully charged (green led). I tried several times reboot today as well with the same result. I believe the phone is soft bricked.
The phone is rooted with NDR Utils and TeamWin Recovery (TWRP). I also have Titanium backup.
After reading this forum I found several ways to unbrick the phone:
1. Soft reset (Power + VolUP) up to 1 vibration.
2. Hard reset (Power + VolUP) up to 3 vibrations.
3.Use flashtool (flashmode) and flash ftf file. Should I flash Kernel as well?
4. Use phone System recovery (Power + VolDown).
Which method I should try first? Can I save root and my current Lollipop firmware or I should go and start from the scratch with rooting and flashing 5.1 again?
Thank you for your suggestions.

Try soft reset and hard reset. This don't break your phone but it is worth a try. If this will not work do NAND backup (full backup of phone) in recovery. Now you can try clear cache in TWRP (wipe -> advanced wipe -> check cache -> swipe to wipe). If this don't work try clear dalvik/art cache.
If this metods didn't work flash same rom (if rom was't pre-rooted root after flash). If system starts you can restore NAND backup without system partition and cache.
If system don't start after restore backup the last chance is clear rom flash.
I don't know where the problem is but in my place I would do that

Thank you krzysiek546 for your help.
I have tried soft and hard reset, both unsuccesful. I made backup and wiped cache and dalvik from within TWRP. The phone after apps optimization has started the system (there was black screen but I was able to see home and Back buttons, which were non-functional, i.e non-responsive.) The screen became black again after a few secs and did not return to the life then.
I think I'm going to flash the Rom. My question is there is any chance to get brick again in case I will restore from the TWRP backup (if there was a virus or something?). May be I should wipe data, cache and dalvik and only then made a backup?
Also, when you saying "a clear rom flash" as a last chance do you mean factory reset?
Thank you.

Don't wipe data before backup. This is like doing backup after format system. It doesn't make sense.
Have you tried this metod with flash with nand backup and flash same rom (zip from twrp or ftf from flashtool) and restoring data without system partition (it's important)? In this i mean something corrupted system files. In this metod you can save your data. You just reinstall system and restore data from nand backup.
When I sayed "a clear rom flash" i mean wiping all data in recovery and flash rom from flashtool or twrp without restoring anything. You can do it first. I think now it's beter because you can check did that fixed your problem and if this "clear rom flash" repair your problem you can restore data from backup.
As to your question. Yes you can get brick from restoring data from twrp but in my opinion this virus or something must have root permissions to do this.

After installing the newest supersu, I also get this bootloop. Is there a chance to undo this without wiping data?
Edit: ok, after hard reset, flashing SU, cleaning caches etc. (which all did not help) I reflashed the ROM, now it works again. Pheeew.

firox said:
After installing the newest supersu, I also get this bootloop. Is there a chance to undo this without wiping data?
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Try to install SuperSU v2.81 - author apologized for inconvenience caused regarding 2.80 update. I got this bootloop too and solved it by installing SuperSU v2.81.

MATPOC said:
Try to install SuperSU v2.81 - author apologized for inconvenience caused regarding 2.80 update. I got this bootloop too and solved it by installing SuperSU v2.81.
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When I had that error, it was still V2.80 and no update round the corner.

Thank you for the link. Worked great for me. Installed per TWRP.

Well, in my case I didn't updated SuperSU, just have turned on wifi. I think the problem may be in Wallpaper app I have installed previously. It changes wallpaper every day, but I noticed sometimes the background of my home screen where all apps are became black.
Anyway, only "clear rom flash" with wiping cache, dalvik and data helped me. I then installed pre-rooted Lollipop ROM I made before and restored all custom apps from the Titanium backup. BTW, don't try to restore system apps from the Titanium, I've got the error with Xperia keyboard and have to make a restore whole system from TWRP.
Thank you krzysiek546 very much for your help.

MATPOC said:
Try to install SuperSU v2.81 - author apologized for inconvenience caused regarding 2.80 update. I got this bootloop too and solved it by installing SuperSU v2.81.
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I also got bootloop after installing latest SuperSU from Google Play.
How can I install 2.81 (or 2.79) when phone is in bootloop?