If you need to wipe everything from your phone and take it back to factory default there are two way to perform this.
First backup your data take out your SD card or data will be lost.
On phone go into settings then Privacy and select Factory data reset.
The second way is to boot phone into recovery mode.
Power off phone
press and hold both up and down volume button and then press the power button. the recovery menu will come up. Select recovery and sit back drink a beer, once your done ,your phone will back to default.
T_Dog said:
The second way is to boot phone into recovery mode.
Power off phone
press and hold both up and down volume button and then press the power button. the recovery menu will come up. Select recovery and sit back drink a beer, once your done ,your phone will back to default.
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The stock recovery doesn't actually wipe EVERYTHING.
It leaves framework and possibly the ROM you're running
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I am new to these boot menu.
I was told, clearing Dalvik cache may help clearing up some of the unused cache so I wanted to give it a try.
I was then told the procedure is like this:
1. turn off the phone
2. press vol down and press power once to get into the menu
3. choose recovery using vol down key and press power to choose it
But when I did all these steps, it goes to the N1 boot logo and then a screen with a "!" and an android and stopped. Is this normal?
I was told it is supposed to give me a menu to choose choose "wipe cache partition" then i can reboot your phone again (even though it may be a bit slower).
Anyone nice enough to give me a walkthrough?
Many thanks.
Once you see that ! With triangle around it hold power and hit volume up and it should take You to recovery
ilostchild said:
Once you see that ! With triangle around it hold power and hit volume up and it should take You to recovery
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works well, thanks a lot
welcome and no problem
Hold both VOLUME UP and VOLUME DOWN while pressing power button.
THen press volume down when the box is displayed.
Enjoy the default recovery
I made a video earlier:
http://youtu.be/QVfeXppqH6Y
What does this do for you? Will it take the phone back to stock?
knitpurlgurl said:
What does this do for you? Will it take the phone back to stock?
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Possibly, if we can use the "SBF Flash" menu instead of RSD Lite on the PC. I haven't seen that menu in an Android device before so I'm not entirely sure how it can be utilized.
In Recovery you can install an update.zip file to apply new software. You can also wipe data/factory reset to return to a semi-stock state if you are having lags and/or bootloops.
Hello!
i have an sgs that every time it powered on it goes on an error bootloop of the launcher, and when i choose force close it goes on and on...
the second problem is that the 3 keys combo for entering download mode doesnt work, i mean it just power the phone...
the third problem is that adb cant find the phone after drivers installed.
what options do i have?
sorry for bad english...
Try doing a factory reset, wipe cache and Dalvik cache...and reformat Internal SD card (first remove any importants stuff like pictures)
i cant acess anything in the phone the error deny it from me
Not even recovery mode? Power down phone. Pull battery. Put back battery. Hold down volume up + home key + power button. If this doesnt work and you cant enter download mode with 3 button combo...looks like youll be making a jig. a 302k resistor jumped across pins 4 and 5 of the micro usb. I made one before for a buddies phone and it saved him.
Hold vol_up button, power button and home button for a few secs, when the samsung logo comes up, let go; in recovery mode go into advanced - fix permissions, then after its done, go into advanced again - Wipe Dalvik Cache.
no recovery mode, the phone is unrooted and without recovery
there is really no solution?
Volume reduce button is stuck. My battery got over, so now when i restart it, it goes into HBOOT.
The press power button to choose option doesn't work.
If i do hard reset the phone pressing up+down+power button it boots in safe mode.
Is there a way to start it at least once so that I can backup my data before giving it for repair or replacement.??
Talking about the hard reset method:
How to hard reset a Sony Xperia Z3
Turn the phone off.
Press and hold the volume up and down buttons simultaneously.
Then press and hold the power key (while you are still holding the volume up and down buttons).
The device will enter Recovery Mode, release the buttons once this happens.
You can navigate up and down with the volume keys, while the power button can be used to select an option.
Select the “Wipe Data/Factory Reset” option and then press “Yes”.
After that, simply press on the “Reboot system now” option.
Your phone will restart and be ready for action!
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Say I delete the "stock" pictures/videos that came with the phone. Will they be restored if I do a hard reset as mentioned in the quote above?
Sprkd1 said:
Talking about the hard reset method:
Say I delete the "stock" pictures/videos that came with the phone. Will they be restored if I do a hard reset as mentioned in the quote above?
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no iirc. if u clear internal storage, preloaded media wont be restored.