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.
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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 had my phone randomly soft brick today and I was wondering if someone might be able to shed some light on what happened to me.
So, my phone is a Samsung Galaxy S GT-I9000M on Bell Canada. Rooted, ADW, Clockword Recovery, *No* Lagfix (I removed it), GPS Update. Today I went to open an app and the phone froze and subsequently rebooted. Upon restart the boot animation displayed for a while and then went to a black screen. Phone did not respond to any input. Force restarting led to the same effect. Tried a battery pull, no dice. Wiped the cache partition, no dice. Booted into recovery then clockwork recovery. Restored to my last nandroid backup. Phone restarted, displayed boot animation for a long time then went to the black screen and accepted no input. Restored to my nandroid before that, no luck. Wiped dalvik cache, no luck. Connected the usb, booted into recovery, opened android commander, and pulled down a copy of everything on the internal sd card. Finally, while walking to the Bell Canada store to get a replacement, I did a factory reset... The phone booted.
So what has me extremely curious is what did a factory reset do, that restoring from a nandroid backup didn't? And what the hell happened to the phone that an app crash trigged a quasi soft brick. Let me know if anyone has any ideas.
Thanks!
I had the same thing happen to me all the time on the XXJPC TOM after having installed the TaskManager update (it was 1.4 back then) from Samsung Apps. Everything seemed fine until I rebooted. After the boot animation played, there was the "I'm crashing" vibration (vibrating once, then three times shorty after) at which point the phone went off. I had this happen four times in a row before I figured out (by accident) that it's the TaskManager update that did this to me. Only a factory reset could revive the phone. Did you, by any chance, install the TaskManager update, too, on a Froyo ROM?
Hope this helps a bit. It was rather frustrating to me.
I'm just running a rooted stock i9000 rom (android 2.1). No task manager update.
I did manage to recover. The process ended up being this:
Backup data on internal sd card while in recovery mode
Factory reset
Wipe cache partition
Boot
Install rom manger
Copy data back to internal sd card
Restore from most recent nandroid backup
The only thing I can think of is somehow I suffered a corruption of my data partition, so the factory reset fixed it by wiping the partition. Not sure if that's a possible explanation.
Sent from my GT-I9000M using XDA App
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
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
Long story short I messed up. I am having some major issues with my phone although I rooted it before ICS came out and used voodoo OTA to save the root, I do not believe it to be the rooting that is causing the problem. My phone is still under warranty and I have talked to verizon and if a master reset doesn't work they are replacing the phone. Heres my f'up I deleted titanium back up and super user without first defrosting and I can not find "master reset" option on my phone. I assumed it was in device set up but not sure. I had device set up frozen before and the phone is still seeing all the frozen apps as frozen and it won't let me in. Titanium backup sees that the device is no longer rooted and will not work. Rooting the phone over again does not work, gives me a error "su cannot be loaded" or something similar. What do I need to do?
"Master" Reset
The master reset they are referring to is simply the "Factory Data Reset" option in the settings.
If Android OS is fully accessible, assuming you're on some version of the stock ROM, go into the "Settings | Privacy | Factory Data Reset"
You'll have the options of wiping the phone, the SD card, or both. The phone should be sufficient. once done it restore the phone to the way it was when you bought it, this usually removes all data, including apps / texts / contacts / pictures / videos / etc.
If Android OS is NOT accessible, you can also do this from Recovery.
With the device powered off hold down both volume buttons and then hold the power button until you see the recovery background image.
Release all the buttons. From this menu you can access the bootloader / recovery / whatever.
Once in recovery there will be an option for a Factory Data Reset.
Use the volume buttons to navigate and the power button to select.
If after the Factory Data Reset you still cannot re-root correctly you may need to try and manually flash BusyBox and Superser via the recovery from an SD card before attempting the root again, but once step at a time.
Let us know how it goes... and as a side note, while carrier reps can sometimes be helpful, they are usually salesmen and not techs; so take any advice from them the same way you would a homeless man dolling out financial advice. Gratefully, but skeptically.