Can't factory reset unmodified streak 7. - Dell Streak 7

The only change from when I got it has been updating it to the latest official update.
I've tried resetting through the menus, and both reset options from the Power+Volume Up method. None of them will reset the device. It continues to boot up, connect to wifi, and still has my gmail information for the marketplace, everything still present (apps, images, settings, etc.).
I remember hard resetting (Pwr+Vol+) it once when there were odd streaks of color (reddish or pink i think it was) on the screen (god I hate this screen), which resetting luckily fixed (thought it was some sort of heat or impact damage), but I don't remember if that was after the update, though I think it was.
I'd like to avoid using "nvflash" or other advanced methods as I'm lazy and haven't looked into even rooted the streak yet, but whatever works, I guess. Any advice?

May have been a bad up date. The download was corrupt or something. Do you have warranty? Nvflash is supper easy btw.
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Did you ever resolve your issue?
I am having nearly the same problem.
I bought a used Dell Streak 7 and my device will not do a factory reset using any of the methods listed on the forum.
I have tried Settings>Privacy>Factory data reset - It seems to work but doesn't reset any data.
I have booted holding volume up and power and did the factory reset from there but it doesn't erase anything. It boots up with the original owners settings and accounts.
Any help would be appreciated.
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Boot loop

And now I'm boot looping won't go past n color startup animation wth
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I had that problem on my NC when it was rooted. Luckily I had another problem that let me get out by the 8 times reset manual method. Mine would occasionally update itself back to version 1.0.0. When it did that I managed to reset it & now a new NC is on its way to replace this one.
This probably won't help solve the issue but at least it lets you know you're not alone.
Mine boot looped and I did the full 8X reboot thing and then the 3 button data reset. All of that puts you back to "out-of-the-box" stock. You can then redo the autonooter rooting procedure.
Can't get out
I am stuck in a boot loop and cant get out.
First it was stuck on the droid boot animation from the auto config. After I put the autonooter card back in it started looping the rooted boot animation.
Did the 3 button thing and that forced an update but went back to bootlooping the rooted animation.
Then did the 8X reboots manually and that also forced the down arrow update, but then it still bootloops.
I tried getting in from PuTTy (as admin) but it never connects. Do I just use port 22? (to 192.168.2.2 with Data and username as root?)
adb doesn't work... going to bed now and will try again tomorrow after work.
What i had to do to resolve my issue was that was to do the 8x reset to trigger the factory reset of the OS and then do the 3 button reset of the user data. In my case it was a self tweaked issue with an app permisson. If I remember right the key combo is Power+VolUp+"n" key. Try this and let us know.
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Bigger Issues.... First Brick?
Nate731 said:
What i had to do to resolve my issue was that was to do the 8x reset to trigger the factory reset of the OS and then do the 3 button reset of the user data. In my case it was a self tweaked issue with an app permisson. If I remember right the key combo is Power+VolUp+"n" key. Try this and let us know.
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So ... I left my Nook in what I thought was an "OFF" state last night, only to bring it to work and find it says "Battery too low to Power on" "Please wait 15 minutes and try again"
I think... no worries... plug it in and let 'er sit for an hour.... an hour passes and I'm still getting the same screen.
Is this better or worse? let me see...
1) if it stays like this, I can return/exchange it at B&N and they won't be able to verify that it was rooted due to non-bootiness
2) If it eventually boots, I will have to try to get it out of bootloop.
3) If it comes to life and I can't get it out of bootloop, I will drain the battery again and go back to #1.
Any thoughts besides this current train?
sort of working?
OK....
so after charging on USB port (all I have at work today as I forgot the base to the charger), it will bootloop again... yay!
problem is... the bootloops take too much juice and won't allow me to fail 8 reboots. I can't even charge it up enough since I'm on USB charging and it keeps trying to turn itself on.
2 Options i see:
1) Go home and charge it on the wall and see if that helps
2) Discharge it to death and return within my 30 days (X-mas gift)
Doubt this will work, but have you tried putting in an autonooter sdcard and then plug it into the usb? If it tries to boot maybe it will boot from that sdcard?
Boot from the Froyo SD card, then fix /rom/devconf/BootCnt from ADB.
Cal you never mentioned if you cleared the user data... Did you?
Nate731 said:
Cal you never mentioned if you cleared the user data... Did you?
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If you mean the 3 button reset? Yes.
If not... I did not because I'm not aware of it. (couldn't through the UI of course)
cal3thousand said:
If you mean the 3 button reset? Yes.
If not... I did not because I'm not aware of it. (couldn't through the UI of course)
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Try Geezer's tip but do this:
Do three button reset WITH the autonooter card in there.
Got it working
Finally got it working after creating a Nookie Froyo card and booting off of that.
Then I reinstalled ADB on my work computer and reset the BootCnt file to 8...
that successfully restored /system and then the 3 finger trick actually gave an option to wipe.
Now to start over.
New Question: How likely is this hardware related and should I be looking to replace it before my 30 days is up>?
I ran into the same problem, trying the same solution - any luck the second time?
JasonBunting said:
I ran into the same problem, trying the same solution - any luck the second time?
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My Nook has been great since the fix. But I also needed to use a program to turn off Wifi when I turn the display off.
I did it all from my Nookie...
confused?!
I was wondering how you fixed this..i have read everywhere, but nothing...im stuck in the nook co screen. This happened right after i plugged my nook to charge after my battery was drained...thnks

[Q] ATT auto update recently?

Did ATT release some sort of stealth patch over the weelend? As of Sunday morning my home button now links to Desktop Home instead of the standard Android home. My phone also gets stuck in landscape mode.
I am running stock froyo with root and clockwork only installed!
The funny part about this is I can restore to a previous saved backup and have it start in non landscape. But once I reboot, say goodbye to portrait mode. You get stuck in landscape.
Anyone else had this issue and fixed it?
Highly doubt it, not their speed.
Caution swyping! Read at your own risk.
No att did not send some update to you.chances are it is a messed up accelerometer for the rotation problem and possible a setting change or random bug that has affected the homer button
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Well the funny thing is I do a factory reset and things are fun. No problems and every thing works perfect. Once i reboot after re-setting things up, it forces landscape mode and changes the home button. The accelerometer isn't broken. The reason I say this is because i can switch between between landscape and portrait just fine until I reboot the phone for the first time. If it was broken, it would not be able to do this.
One thing I am going to do is try and go back to factory in an area there is no service and see what happens. If it still does it, then I may be infected with something. But would be interesting since I haven't installed anything in weeks!
If ATT is sending stealth updates, then who knows what the heck they are doing with our phones!
There are no stealth updates. Recalibrate your accelerometer and it will work fine again. I never had the problem on my Captivate, but once I upgraded my brothers to KB1, his had the accelerometer issue. Horizontal calibration in Settings>Display fixed it.
I think I had the same problem.. Everything became landscape...
I just rebooted and it was fine..
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Well recalibrating did not work. Still stuck in landscape mode. Rebooting does nothing. Still trying to find a place to test the theory that I was on first connect with ATT.
One other thing. If I clear the delvik cache, it rests the portrait mode and switches correctly from there until I reboot the phone. Then it switches back to landscape only. This is driving me nutts. I can not get this crap to top happening.
crystalhand said:
the homer button
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D'oh!
I love a good typo
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So does anyone have any ideas on what to do with this? If I factory reset and clear delvik, I get the screen to work fine till I reboot. Once I reboot the phone, it gets stuck in landscape mode. I have tried everything on this and still can not get this to work. I am just about ready to ODIN it and see if that resolves the issue.
I have re calibrated about 50 billion times and it does nothing! Its not the exceleromitor since I can factory reset and it works till I reboot.
tnerb123 said:
So does anyone have any ideas on what to do with this? If I factory reset and clear delvik, I get the screen to work fine till I reboot. Once I reboot the phone, it gets stuck in landscape mode. I have tried everything on this and still can not get this to work. I am just about ready to ODIN it and see if that resolves the issue.
I have re calibrated about 50 billion times and it does nothing! Its not the exceleromitor since I can factory reset and it works till I reboot.
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How about replace? That's where you are at.
replace as in bring it to att and get a new one?

[Q] Pictures not saving?

Running on 2.2, rooted. ever since i upgraded to 2.2 i've been having all sorts of problems with my phone. first it was i couldn't download apps from the market(the clear data didn't work at all), so i factory reset, that fixed that.. then 2 days later my wifi wouldn't connect to my home wifi connection anymore so factory reset again.. it's been about a week, now it's sending text to the wrong people and when my girlfriend sends me pictures from her iPod touch (she uses textfree because her phone broke and she can't get a new one yet) but it shows up black (for the pictures) then i found a solution to seeing the picture, saving the attached item, but when i do that it says "copied to SDcard" but when i go into gallery to find it, it's no where on my phone. i found out that sometimes restarting my phone will show it up, but half the time it just shows up at the most random times like after i look for it & restart if it isn't there a few hours later it will be
So anyway to fix this without factory reset?
You need something more than just factory reset. You need to completely reflash your ROM. Use a fresh download because the one you used could have been messed up slightly.
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Help ds7 stopped woring

everthing stock.
2.2.2, wifi version
i cant delete any apps. i tired deleting apps & nothing. I also tried moving them to sd and den formatting SD and same thing. nothing gets deleted. Also formated internal storage and nothing gets deleted. After turning on & off tablet i am able to use it a couple mins then i get "sorry....something something...please try again" and the have to tap on "force quit"
When i select to turn on wifi it just stays light green doesnt turn bright. when i go to settings for wifi. i get "error" on it.
1) did a hard reset. vol + & power button, then selected (1), everthing still the same. notin gets deleted
2) soft reset privacy >> factory reset
3) also tried going into safe mode. power on and waited for 2nd dell logo and press & hold 'settings button'' til safe mode show up. but only for about 1-2 secs and then it jus it virbates and goes back to the 1st logo keeps doing this til i let go. which then im able to see 'safe mode'' words. but then screen turns off and turns on without safe words on it.
what can i do?
could I ask what you did just befour this happened because it sounds to me that your dell streak is in read only
rickwyatt said:
could I ask what you did just befour this happened because it sounds to me that your dell streak is in read only
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I had to send mine to Dell for repairs because it was in read-only mode. Does anybody know how it goes into this mode? Is it just a random event, or does it go into this mode after certain events take place? It sure seems like this happens to the Streak 7 far to often.
what i would like to no dose this just happen to peoples sk7 with clockwork recovery installed or without
rickwyatt said:
what i would like to no dose this just happen to peoples sk7 with clockwork recovery installed or without
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if its in read-only mode i have to send it dell to get it to work again or is it possible to fix it myself? Well recently i didnt do anything to it. the most recent thing i did was download some apps but that was about 2 weeks ago (maybe a lil less). those apps were from pocketlengends, where u get free platinum in the game if you download those apps. but tablet worked fine after i installed them.
Could someone with a bricked dell try to run this fsck_msdos -y /dev/block/mmcblk3p3 with adb
james_larson2001 said:
if its in read-only mode i have to send it dell to get it to work again or is it possible to fix it myself? Well recently i didnt do anything to it. the most recent thing i did was download some apps but that was about 2 weeks ago (maybe a lil less). those apps were from pocketlengends, where u get free platinum in the game if you download those apps. but tablet worked fine after i installed them.
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Once you tried the factory reset from within Android (in the settings menu) you went into Read Only... its a known issue....
The ONLY thing you can do is send it to DELL for repair
cdzo72 said:
Once you tried the factory reset from within Android (in the settings menu) you went into Read Only... its a known issue....
The ONLY thing you can do is send it to DELL for repair
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I have reset mine from within the menu, right after I got it. No problems.
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stevedebi said:
I have reset mine from within the menu, right after I got it. No problems.
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I HAVE to say you are one of the lucky few that could... I have seen 7 Streak 7s that belonged to friends that all Hasbro be sent in becausenof it... I wouldn't keep pushing your luck though...
cdzo72 said:
I HAVE to say you are one of the lucky few that could... I have seen 7 Streak 7s that belonged to friends that all Hasbro be sent in becausenof it... I wouldn't keep pushing your luck though...
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As it happens, I used the power on sequence to reset the next time. Anyway it is a mysterious thing.
since the tablet works for a lil it what if the notification for the honeycomb updates shows up? will upgrading get it out of read only mode?
It would be hard for me to believe that the update to Honeycomb would fix that. BUT I would not rule it out, it's a very interesting theory, but I wouldn't get my hopes up seeing as not even the NVFlash method will bring the Streak out of Read Only mode, nor the NVFlash method to put Honeycomb on it will revive it, but there is always the chance the Honeycomb update would address the issue, I mean it would actually benefit DELL so they wouldn't have so many being sent back, but big companies don't always do what's best for them, much less the consumer. BUT keep your fingers crossed, although sending it off to DELL you would have it back in 14 days, I understand the Honeycomb package rolls out the 7th of October but that remains to be seen

[Q] Wifi stuck "Turning on"

Tried searching around and have seen others with this issue but nothing has worked. Tried a clean flash of a rom and during the setup wizard its still broken.
I have pretty much done everything but done a clean flash of stock and i am gearing up to do that but i dont have high hopes.
are you using a custom kernel?
JustusIV said:
Tried searching around and have seen others with this issue but nothing has worked. Tried a clean flash of a rom and during the setup wizard its still broken.
I have pretty much done everything but done a clean flash of stock and i am gearing up to do that but i dont have high hopes.
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Did you change your Android password within the past 72 hours?
cam30era said:
Did you change your Android password within the past 72 hours?
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Nope...
its not that i just cant connect, its like the hardware is broken.
and just did a complete factory image flash.
still broken
I had this happen to my N6 last week. It started after running the battery completely flat so the green LED lit when I charged it. The fix having repeatedly wiping seemed to be draining battery completely again until the green LED lit when I charged it. It has worked fine ever since.
JustusIV said:
Tried searching around and have seen others with this issue but nothing has worked. Tried a clean flash of a rom and during the setup wizard its still broken.
I have pretty much done everything but done a clean flash of stock and i am gearing up to do that but i dont have high hopes.
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I have the exact same issue and have tried everything from fully returning to stock which worked a little better but still not well and also tried different radios etc etc and roms... dont know what the deal is.. nothing on the internet seems to help its almost like no one knows how to fix it or its really rare... ugh
hackahero said:
I have the exact same issue and have tried everything from fully returning to stock which worked a little better but still not well and also tried different radios etc etc and roms... dont know what the deal is.. nothing on the internet seems to help its almost like no one knows how to fix it or its really rare... ugh
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First contacted square trade as that is my insurance, they said contact Moto because it is still under warranty. Did that, Moto said they would replace it. I said i don't want to go without a phone and they said they can charge me 25 and put a 500 hold on my account but they would send the phone first. Said OK phone arrives on Tuesday.
Just as an FYI they did basically say did you factory reset it.... but that is all the trouble shooting.
If anyone is interested in my symptom. Wifi is just always stuck at "turning on" every once in a while it will be off. but when you try to turn it on it just gets stuck again.
When it is stuck you can not turn it off.
paulwoodhouse said:
I had this happen to my N6 last week. It started after running the battery completely flat so the green LED lit when I charged it. The fix having repeatedly wiping seemed to be draining battery completely again until the green LED lit when I charged it. It has worked fine ever since.
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Might be worth an RMA. see my previous post.
Don't know if I'm a little too late to this post... .But it happened to my Nexus 6 too, tried everything, wipe cache, factory reset, root, delete /persist/wifi but nothing worked....
However, luck seems to be on my side when I went into Google Connectivity Services under Setting--> Apps... and wipe its cache and tried to disable it (but stopped before I did). Then reboot the phone once i wiped all the data from the Google Connectivity Services Apps and VIOLA! It's working now!
*EDIT... It worked for about an hour (allowing me to dl all the apps) but now it has failed again....
I have the same issue as soon and I unlock the bootloader
any ideas? Im going to root again the device and load a different to see if it makes any difference
I am experiencing this as well. Was working fine yesterday and when I tried to go to Android M Preview 3 this happened. Whats worse is that this is happening right after I switched from Unlimited Data on TMo to Project Fi with 3GB. Making this even more frustrating is that Project Fi support says the preview images are now compatible with Project Fi. Isn't that something they should be telling people up front?!
I'm having the same issue on marshmalow, it suddenly started to happen some weeks ago.
First times was solved with phone reboot.
Then was required to clean cache before restart
Now I've tried reclutance suggestion (delete data from google connectivity services and reboot but the problem persist?
I'm using 6.0.1 stock rom without root
I don't want to perform a factory reset
Any suggestion?
here too...close the wifi
All tried doesn't work,
Wipe cache
Wipe dalvik cache (via fastboot as I do not have a custom recovery neither unlocked the boot or root, my phone is completely original)
Also tried to delete wifi data
Any suggestion?
RMA
I'm continuing to have issues with my Motorola Nexus 6 phone.
It is running stock android 6.0.1
I never unlocked it or rooted (Sadly cause If i do so I were able to backup my apps and settings with titanium backup and restore it before a full device reset )
The problem started some weeks ago.
First symptom was that i was unable to enter on Settings -> Data usage (Every time receives an "unfortunately, settings has stopped" message)
Then some days have difficult to connect to wifi or disconnect (at that moment I didn't investigate the issue, just retry considering the issue was on router side)
After some time I realize that the problem was on the phone, specially cause it started to stuck turning on wifi, but for some days just turning off phone and turning it on again solves the issue.
With the time it becomes more and more frequent and turning it off and on didn't solve anything so I've reboot into recovery mode and perform a clear cache but it doesn't solve the issue.
Looking here and at other forums found that this issue is really common and some people solves it trough ADB with "adb shell pm clear com.android.settings" I've tried it but it didn't solve anything.
Even when many people didn't solve it with a factory reset I want to try it, but I need to be able to backup one app data (If could backup everything will be the best but at least need to backup blockchain app (Also have an issue with them as provider and couldn't log in from another device or website, just this device has a session already approved and open)
Any suggestion?
I've upgraded/downloaded to almost any possible rom and the problem is still here
Looking on forums found that is a very common issue since marshmallow in many devices (Specially Nexus)
Most people couldn't fix it but some could.
the problem is with devices macaddress that shown 02:00:00:00:00:00 and get stuck turning on
there are solutions in forums that seems to be a little bizarre like drain battery to 0 and full recharge (This one works for me once)
,others like deleting Google connectivity services cache, or deleting /persist/wifi folder completely
But I found one for nexus 5 who replaces the full /persist partition with a dump and edit the files and permissions with macaddress information.
This seems to have logic and provides an explanation about why the problem persist after, factory reset or rom changing so I want to try it in nexus 6.
Could someone provide me a dump of it?
There is an app: https://play.google.com/store/apps/d...nam.partitions, that makes the process of making a partition backup easy. The persist partition is on /dev/block/mmcblk0p26
Thanks in advance
Did you solve your problem? Because I have the same. Did you try to change Mac address on device?

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