Exactly what the title says. Im currently running apex 8.2 (a GB rom). If i were to do a hard reset, would it flash back to a stock apex 8.2, or a stock jf6? or do something else?
Thanks
If you are referring to the dialer code hard reset, it will simply wipe your data and format your internal memory. It will not "flash" your phone back to a stock firmware.
A hard reset, as in pulling the battery? No, doing a reset by pulling the battery will not flash you back to stock Apex or otherwise. After a hard reset (battery pull) you should still have all your settings, contacts and such. However, if you mean hard reset as in doing a factory reset (from the settings -> privacy) then yes it will bring your phone into a state that resembles stock. Stock, whatever ROM you've got installed. You, will still have all your data on the internal SD card, but none of your settings, contacts etc.
To do a complete wipe and get back to stock you will need to re-flash to or jf6, or the ROM of your choice.
Ah! i got it now Thanks
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Last night I power cycled my phone and put it on my charger. When I woke up this morning and looked at my phone there were a ton of force close screens. I have no phone (cannot make calls) and not data.
I power cycled the phone over and over and have been searching the net all day but cannot get it to work. The only thing that I had done prior to the initial power cycle was a few updates from the market, so I uninstalled those apps, but it appears that was not the problem.
I have root access and was running gumbo's rom (now MaDoCo...thought that would help) and I really don't wanna do a factory reset. Is there anything I can do?
Factory reset is most likely gonna be your only option. If you dont wanna do that, do you still have the .zip for your rom on your mem card? If so, why not just reflash the zip? Might take care of the issue without having to do a hard reset. I am assumingm, though, that if you are rooted you would have created a nandroid backup? Why not just restore?
Tried reflashing the rom and that didn't work. Gonna do a Factory reset now. Lets see
tried factory reset and now i'm stuck on boot screen
Did you ever make a Nandroid backup?? I would suggest you run the Sprint RUU and bring your phone back to Stock, reroot, install recovery, and then a custom ROM. That looks like your best option.
But, just for the hell of it -- take out of your battery and then insert it back in and reboot, see if that does anything.
What kind of factory reset did you do? Wipe from recovery, go through setting, the home>back>power one, or what? And are you stuck at the HTC screen? That happened to me once, but it was because I flashed a GSM rom my first try. Boot into recovery, wipe the phone, and if that doenst do it, I agree with pseodo, time to RUU.
Well I tried resetting from the recovery and wiping, but it will not boot up. Then I tried the RUU, but it wont get past the boot screen in order for me to to connect it to the USB. I tried connecting the USB through recovery and although I can access my SD card via my PC, going through the steps for the RUU says its not connected.
I took my phone over to sprint and although they know I have a custom rom on there (which voided my warranty), they are still gonna give me a brand new one and send mine back through manufacture warranty. It'll be in on Tuesday. Luckily for me I have an online back up through by MyBackUpPro, so I should be good on restoring settings, apps, contacts and all other important stuff. (Minus Root and Custom Rom )
Thanks for all the suggestions, I appreciate it.
I flashed a new set of icons last week and had a bunch of force closes, restored a nandroid and everything was fine.
I recently has some issues with my Captivate, even after I used Odin and MasterClear to return it to stock so I called AT&T. They were troubleshooting the device on the phone with me, and told me to do this other as they put "deeper" factory reset. They had me:
Power Off Device
Remove MicroSD and Battery
Power On Device
Enter Code:
*2767*3855#
(once inputted, automatically did the clearing of the phone)
It seemed to have completely wiped everything from my phone. I was wondering if anyone has any knowledge of how that's different from doing a factory reset in recovery mode, or from the system menu? Is this a valid alternative for those with the AT&T Captivate instead of using MasterClear through Odin?
Thanks!
That code does what is known as a hard reset. Think of it as truly putting everything back as if you never used the phone. It is the recommended way to clear your phone if you sell it. As you found out, it truly wipes everything out.
A Master Clear wipes out the data you had on your SD cards like music, any CWM zipped files, etc.
I hope this helps.
you could also format the sd cards
Is there a recovery partition that I can just do reset to factory defaults and it place all the bloat back on the phone, or do I need to add it all back then reset to factory defaults.
Reason I ask is that I just started getting a couple dead pixels on the left side of my screen and I want to get a replacement (i've only had the phone about 3 weeks).
You need to place all the apps your removed back. There is no "backup partition" that holds a copy of the phone the way it came from the factory.
Restore all the apps then you can do a Factory Reset.
Factory resetting on one with missing apps (required apps) will cause more damage.
I want to completely format my phone back to factory settings. A consistent WiFi issue has been troubling me with every single ROM I use. I even went back to stock with root. I think a complete factory reset is in order. I'm on 4.4.2 and nc2. I would prefer to stay on this. Would reformatting change it?
Edit: I did a factory format from the recovery menu. The WiFi problem is still there. Toggling off than on the WiFi again seems to partially fix the problem.
Hi i am wondering if i am able to factory reset while being rooted? Or will my phone brick?
I feel like my battery has been draining a ****load for some reason.. I have to charge twice a day now compare to 1 charge will last me more than a day.
I am on 5.1.1. On N910T3
From what I understand trying to factory reset on your phone will always fail via stock recovery or through settings on stock Rom. I think you need to use Samsung Smart Switch OR download the stock firmware from Sam firm (My favorite ) OR Sam-mobile. r
Yes you can factory reset while rooted. Worse case scenario is you'll have to re-root.
MrWilsonxD said:
From what I understand trying to factory reset on your phone will always fail via stock recovery or through settings on stock Rom. I think you need to use Samsung Smart Switch OR download the stock firmware from Sam firm (My favorite ) OR Sam-mobile. r
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What does that have to do with factory reset?
Thanks!!!
dkb218 said:
Yes you can factory reset while rooted. Worse case scenario is you'll have to re-root.
What does that have to do with factory reset?
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All the times I have tried to factory reset while on stock touchwiz firmware on my s3, note 2,3, and 4 (while they have been rooted) fail. When I would use stock recovery or the settings menu to attempt to factory reset, I would get a fail message, then the phone would shut off.
When I turned it back on, everything would still be left untouched on my phone. All my apps, files, etc would be in the same place.
So in order to perform the equivalent of a full factory reset and return to full stock firmware, I would use smart switch or download the stock file and flash via Odin.
That's just been my experience with the Samsung series.
MrWilsonxD said:
All the times I have tried to factory reset while on stock touchwiz firmware on my s3, note 2,3, and 4 (while they have been rooted) fail. When I would use stock recovery or the settings menu to attempt to factory reset, I would get a fail message, then the phone would shut off.
When I turned it back on, everything would still be left untouched on my phone. All my apps, files, etc would be in the same place.
So in order to perform the equivalent of a full factory reset and return to full stock firmware, I would use smart switch or download the stock file and flash via Odin.
That's just been my experience with the Samsung series.
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Factory reset is merely returning the device to its out the box setup. That can be done from the settings menu.
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