Aside from my revo being rooted with cwm installed, it's pretty much stock. Lately it's been lagging and hanging more frequently. I want to stick with the stock rom and i've been thinking about a factory reset. What happens to root and cwm if i do? Does root stick? Do i siimply just reinstall it?
Nothing will happen when you press the power button confirming.. you just boot into CWM.
I've done it twice CWM and root both will stay make sure you do a user data cache wipe to reset everything. I usually plug into my PC first wipe the onboard SD and external to get all files off backup anything you want to keep first, then do factory reset on phone and after it reboots should be clean. I take no responsibility if you jack your phone up though I've been lucky!!!
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don't do a factory reset from within settings, you'll get stuck in cwm and will have to flash the exitrecovery.zip
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Thanks all. I think I understand what I should expect and look for.
I've had to use the exitrecovery.zip before so I know how that goes.
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=761819
So, I used this guide to root and everything went fine no problem. I didn't see the clockwork recovery step and went straight to removing bloatware. Now when I try to backup current rom and goes to blue menu and I have to click reboot. I am a complete beginner and could it be messing up because I did not backup right away? SO, I would like to unroot and try again. I tried searching the forum to unroot and read many things from one click unroot to odin3. I am unsure of which method and if someone can tell me how to get it back to how it was. I just did a factory reset before rooting so I just want it back to that. Pictures, contacts, music is fine to stay as I did a manual backup via mass storage but how can I get the phone back to that state. Thanks and sorry for the long message.
ALSO, WHEN I FACTORY RESET earlier this day it already had quickoffice so, I know the phone did not reset to its original state, but the updated one that is fine. I just want it unrooted and back to how it would be with that factory reset and I will try to root and back up again later. Or if this is not an issue why is it going to the bluescreen after pressing backup current rom in clockwork
When in blue screen click reinstall packages, you will be brought back to the same screen, click reinstall packages again. Enjoy
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so should I go to the bluescreen by holding volume + power or through the backup rom step?
thanks again
Did you hit the to option in rom manager to flash clockwork? If so open up rom manager, click backup, it will reboot to blue screen, reinstall packages twice, it will backup
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ok so I just clicked backup current rom and it brought me to the blue screen. Instead of pressing reboot system now I should choose reinstall packages
OK I just clicked reinstall packages twice and it brought be to a black screen with green clockwork recovery text. After click reboot now.
DOES this mean that I have backed up the rom? is it stock? and if I had to use it would it have no att bloatware on it. I am a little confused. After seeing this guide: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=8507559&postcount=1
I figure I should try it this way. Will I still be able to get to the unrooted factory reset state? Even if it is fine now could you explain how I would do that?
When it went to the green clockwork screen did it run a backup for like 3 minutes? If not you are not backed up yet
Your backup its of your current state, no bloatware rooted, are you looking to find a way to get back to a out of box state?
Do you have a pc our a mac.
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I have a PC. Earlier today I did a factory reset, all apps gone but photos, videos, etc still there. I restored my contacts from a different sim card. So, I figure while it is clean I should root. Now I would like to unroot and try again. I am trying to get it back to the state it was earlier not quite a out of box state but a factory reset state if possible, so all att apps, no messages, contacts, etc.
Hi guys. Yesterday night I was installing a few new apps but the seemed to be stuck installing forever. So I decided to reboot. However, after the reboot, it never goes past the second boot screen.
I know I can just flash to another rom but is there a way to save my data in the instance? I can still get into recovery mode if that helps. Thanks
I've read you can hook up to your pc and mount your sdcard from cwm. Never tried it but if it works you can save your data that way then maybe a master clear/cache or dalvik wipe will help.
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BumRush said:
Hi guys. Yesterday night I was installing a few new apps but the seemed to be stuck installing forever. So I decided to reboot. However, after the reboot, it never goes past the second boot screen.
I know I can just flash to another rom but is there a way to save my data in the instance? I can still get into recovery mode if that helps. Thanks
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You can mount USB in recovery and get all your stuff off of your SD that way. You can also nandroid your current ROM in CWM and re-flash it, then restore from backup. As far as saving texts and all that, Idk if you can, but I'm sure someone else does.
Also, you could try clearing dalvik, cache, and then running the kernel cleaning script. It's gotten me out of a few binds before. It might help you to where you wouldn't have to flash again.
Hi,
My wifi 8.9 galaxy tab won't complete nandroid backups. I have 3.3gb space (more than enough) and after successfully backing up the boot image, recovery and /system partitions, when it reaches /data it appears to freeze. Around 30s later it reboots to whatever state the device was in. If it was off and turned on to recovery it'll turn on, if I chose "reboot to recovery" from the advanced power menu it reboots to recovery.
I have wiped /cache and delvik cache but this didn't help. The backups created are around 200mb.
I've made nandroids previously with no problem. Updating didn't help (now at 6.0.0.8, I had 5.5.0.4). Current rom is AOKP-5.
Any ideas? I want to flash cm10 but until I get a good backup I don't want to proceed!
I've had that problem too. I don't know what caused it but I resolved it by using ODIN to go back to stock. In stock recovery, factory reset (which wiped EVERTYTHING)*, and reinstall stock ROM again by ODIN.
At least at that point I had a functioning tab from which I could re flash cwm recovery and whatever else I wanted. Had to reinstall apps too.
Was a bit of trial and error and I managed to stumble my way through, but that was my journey. Maybe someone else here knows better...... If you end up doing the same, backup everything you need/want externally. And get yourself a cup of tea.
*My other tip I gleaned was holding power button, up volume and down volume at the same time turns the tab off. (used for turning tab off whilst in stock recovery).
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Hidenandroidprogress may work
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Hidenandroidprogress may work
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Hidenandroidprogress didn't work unfortunately, thanks for the suggestion though!
It's fixed now though, and required a flash back to stock in ODIN (which actually failed and caused me to bootloop, though I'm not sure why as I chose the correct device & my location!). Fortunately I could get into (stock) recovery and so I used adb to push CWM to the sd card and flashed that, then pushed CM10. Flashed it, and now I have a super smooth GTab with Jelly Bean that can do nandroids. Sorted!
I'm on rocket Rom reloaded
My phone has become slow over time and I would like to factory reset it . I tried doing all the wipes but the data from the apps still remains on my internal memory.
How do I completely wipe my phone??
Just format your data in cwm. If it doesn't work, maybe you have a broken cwm.
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itsrijo said:
I'm on rocket Rom reloaded
My phone has become slow over time and I would like to factory reset it . I tried doing all the wipes but the data from the apps still remains on my internal memory.
How do I completely wipe my phone??
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I had this a lot and gave up wiping internal from recovery, it never worked properly. Never asked if anyone else had successfully done it. I just mount the internal to PC, select all and delete, easiest way to ensure properly wiped.
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I was just wondering what is the difference between a hard reset from the recovery mode (volume up, power, and home) and a format (from wipe in ss)?
A hard reset is just that. A reset.
A wipe is a wipe.
Guess what one you will not get to boot.
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Ok maybe my question is too general. See i'm very new to this whole root, rom, ss scene. I'm trying to understand something here. As I know that when you do a hard reset it will put your phone back to the factory state as when you first got the phone. Thus all the apps and everything you install on your phone will be gone. But what happens to the files from root, safestrap, busybox and such that was installed to the phone? Will those files be deleted too?
Normally... Yes they will be deleted.
But it isn't hard to re-root.
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tuc28878 said:
I was just wondering what is the difference between a hard reset from the recovery mode (volume up, power, and home) and a format (from wipe in ss)?
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If you do a factory reset from the GUI it will do everything recovery does plus format any secure stuff off your SD card that you won't be able to use anymore after you do a reset (such as app data). Of course it can be restored with TB. If you do a wipe from the recovery menu it's faster, but you should probably manually delete that secure folder off your SD card on boot. If you start having problems or conflicts that might be why.