Hi, I used to have a s2, and I once got stuck in a boot loop. I can't remember how, but had to completely wipe the phone and its software and do a fresh re install.
Now I want to completely wipe my note of Any old messages, pictures, account information the lot. So none of it is retrievable. By absolutely any one, so completely gone. How can I do this? And what would I do?
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if you are rooted you can use recovery to wip the system
So nothing is ever left or retreavable? Does this need me to back up what I want...... ?
Thanks.....
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yes it will wipe it to factory, alternatively just flasha stockrom that will wipe the system and set it to factory
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Ok first off, I am pretty green newbie, please help me understand this stuff.
This is my girlfriend's phone, she was using it and it reset itself and now it seems to be stuck in a boot loop.
We'd like to try and recover the original system back to normal without having to use the built in system reset. I've heard I can do that by wiping the dalvk cache?
It is not rooted, and I'm driving myself crazy trying to figure it out. There's ways to root it but I can't get into the system to run things like zergrush or the other options.
I tried to flash clockwork mod, but since the built in recovery tool only sees the INTERNAL SD contents, I only have access to the EXTERNAL SD card to put ZIPs in. I tried to use ADB to push the zip onto the internal SD Card but it says access denied (because it's unrooted?) Now what?
So short of system resetting it and loosing all the system settings or trying to see if we can send it into samsung for a replacement, how do I do this?
Thank you for any help in advance. Please be gentle.
Put cwm on the phone via Odin, on a question asked yesterday almost exact problem I posted a link with instructions how to do this, MAKE SURE it is a t679 not t759! Otherwise you will brick your device
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Unrooted, your only real options are factory reset or use Odin.
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That is not true, if he gets cwm on it via Odin he can flash to stock through cwm, doing so would bring the phone back to out of the box condition with 2.3.6. Also it will save ALOT of time doing cwm through Odin rather than return to stock via odin
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It is a T679, yes.
OK according to the wiki page for the phone, I see how to use Odin to bring the phone back to stock, which is great, but I just want to be able to root it to wipe the dalvik cache in hopes of stopping the boot loop. Hopefully this would get the phone working like normal again without deleting the old system, right?
With the Odin program, how would I use it to force the CWM.zip to root it and give me access to the recovery menu to wipe the cache? Or am I missing something?
Again, sorry for not quite getting this stuff. Thank you for helping.
Check here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=26860509&postcount=4
Down near the bottom.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1686384
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tazmaniondvl said:
That is not true, if he gets cwm on it via Odin he can flash to stock through cwm, doing so would bring the phone back to out of the box condition with 2.3.6. Also it will save ALOT of time doing cwm through Odin rather than return to stock via odin
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My bad, I forgot there was a cwm for Odin on this phone. I got mine after the 2.3.6 update and you could flash it thru stock recovery. Plus I've only used Odin once and that was to root my Gtab 2.
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OK thank you guys, using Odin did manage to get CWM recovery pushed into the phone.
The current problem is that wiping cache/dalvik is not fixing the boot looping.
I tried wiping battery stats, fixing permissions, wiping cache/dalvik, etc. and while it does cause the phone to sit on the "SAMSUNG" opening for about 2 mins, it still bootloops after that.
now, because I want to try and somehow preserve the old stock system (she has a lot of settings and programs that she needs to get access to) I can't just wipe everything and start over fresh.
Now, again, I am a newbie, but if I'm not mistaken, can I do a nandbackup onto the external SD card and this will allow me to just wipe to original stock, get it fully working again, then do an ADVANCED RESTORE of only the /system to get it back to the way it was before?
Again thanks for the help (and putting up with newbies) :3
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now, because I want to try and somehow preserve the old stock system (she has a lot of settings and programs that she needs to get access to) I can't just wipe everything and start over fresh.
Now, again, I am a newbie, but if I'm not mistaken, can I do a nandbackup onto the external SD card and this will allow me to just wipe to original stock, get it fully working again, then do an ADVANCED RESTORE of only the /system to get it back to the way it was before?
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If you go back to stock and then advanced restore system you will probably be right back where you are now. Do another backup before trying that.
P.S. Make sure you have a way to keep track of the backups. Write it down or something.
Sorry bro if it is sticking on the Samsung logo, your phone does not have a rom
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I just got a nexus one for $35 that i plan on using mostly as an mp3 player. I rooted it using the one click method but it's still S-on. Part of my issue is that booting into recovery using CWM only works maybe 25% of the time. Not sure why that is. A couple times I've been able to flash a rom via recovery but after seeing the X screen, the phone bootloops on the next splash screen. This has happened on two GB roms - MIUI and CM 7.2.
Any guess on why this happens? One reason I want to flash a rom is that the camera doesn't work so I'm curious if it would work in a different rom.
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I just got a nexus one for $35 that i plan on using mostly as an mp3 player. I rooted it using the one click method but it's still S-on. Part of my issue is that booting into recovery using CWM only works maybe 25% of the time. Not sure why that is. A couple times I've been able to flash a rom via recovery but after seeing the X screen, the phone bootloops on the next splash screen. This has happened on two GB roms - MIUI and CM 7.2.
Any guess on why this happens? One reason I want to flash a rom is that the camera doesn't work so I'm curious if it would work in a different rom.
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Before flashing a ROM, clear cache/ dalvik-cache from recovery. If you don't do these, then you will see bootloops.
I had been doing that through rom manager but just did it through recovery. still bootlooping.
I wiped cache but did not factory reset
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I had been doing that through rom manager but just did it through recovery. still bootlooping.
I wiped cache but did not factory reset
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If you are changing ROMs, its always advisable to do a factory reset in addition to clearing cache and dalvik. Try it
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Best advice is to skip ROM manager and always do everything manually in recovery, this has never been a problem for me
And just because, I would suggest using 4ext recovery as in my opinion it is by far the most superior recovery... Just saying
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Unfortunately, I've tried flashing manually via recovery too...still bootloops
Check md5sum of ROM (maybe bad download)
Make sure you wipe fully (manually in recovery or with fastboot)
Make sure you meet requirements of ROM in op (as in you flashed gapps if needed or you have a large enough system partition etc)
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yeah, i haven't checked the md5's but it's odd that it's happened with both official miui and cyanogenmod. i did wipe cache and dalvik. i think i'm just going to give up. i'd do a factory restore but don't want to do that because then i'd have to root my phone again. i rooted the phone using a Vista computer but now I'm back home and my computer runs windows 8. from what I can tell, installing the android SDK is kinda complicated on W8.
Factory reset is needed and will not mean you have to reroot your phone, this is something that would be done before each flash, in fact the cleaner the wipe the less chance of an issue.
Also there is no need for the SDK to root (but its easy to get for windows 8 anyway and tools such as fastboot and adb are very handy... Also there are other ways to get these tools without the SDK) but all that besides the point, these are your steps
Nandroid backup
Wipe everything as clean as possible
Flash ROM and anything else needed (gapps etc)
Reboot
This is the procedure you should follow for any ROM flash for any android and never a need to reroot in between
Best of luck
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I really appreciate the help. the reason I mention the SDK is that my computer doesn't recognize my phone unless I install the SDK and the associated drivers. So I'd hate the wipe my phone so that I can flash a rom, but then be unable to flash a rom because I'm not rooted!
But you feel confident that if I factory reset, I won't loose root?
I factory reset daily! You'll be just fine, when you factory reset and wipe all partitions you are following the proper procedure to change roms. When you flash the new one you are sure to still have root access
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well, did a factory reset last night but i'm still having the same problem. I'm at a loss.
my company just moved there email system from good to airwatch, the problem is airwatch started detecting as my phone as rooted ( which was :lol: ).... So I booted in stocked recovery did a factory reset and re-flashed a stock ROM using ODIN.
The problem is Airwatch still identifies the phone as "rooted /compromised" any idea how to completely unroot it or really reset to default
thankx
Flash a 3 part gb rom. Before flashing do a wipe of cache and data from recovery. Flash with pc odin, then do full wipe from recovery of gb, should clear any traces.
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panch said:
my company just moved there email system from good to airwatch, the problem is airwatch started detecting as my phone as rooted ( which was :lol: ).... So I booted in stocked recovery did a factory reset and re-flashed a stock ROM using ODIN.
The problem is Airwatch still identifies the phone as "rooted /compromised" any idea how to completely unroot it or really reset to default
thankx
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follow the instructions of SpyderTracks only instead of install you can also install jb gb, it is important to do all the wipe format and send it in download mode directly from recovery
panch said:
my company just moved there email system from good to airwatch, the problem is airwatch started detecting as my phone as rooted ( which was :lol: ).... So I booted in stocked recovery did a factory reset and re-flashed a stock ROM using ODIN.
The problem is Airwatch still identifies the phone as "rooted /compromised" any idea how to completely unroot it or really reset to default
thankx
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Is your counter set to '0'?
Thankx.. for the suggestions, let me give them a try
Also yes the counter is set to zero
panch said:
Thankx.. for the suggestions, let me give them a try
Also yes the counter is set to zero
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I have tried Google... I am drawing a blank.
Can somebody point me to official 3 part N7000 ROM for StarHub- Singapore.
All the rom I am getting are single file.
There is no need for that rom. Just boot into a Cwm recovery. (if you have already Un rooted then install Philz kernel.) . Format the system, data, cache and preload partitions and then choose reboot download. Then flash a stock rom again.
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Thankx ... but did not work
Airwatch still is pain in back side....
use different email app to connect that support airwatch, whatever that is.
Or hack airwatch app if that exists to not check
Or dont allow it root...
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You could also try ota rootkeeper from the playstore to temporarily disable root.
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hey guys,
I was running Stock JellyBean but having lags & slowdown issue and hence decided to Re-flash my OS with same official JB ROM.
I had wiped all necessary things like cache etc via Philz and flashed via Odin (Pc).
Everything ran smooth till today suddenly phone got stuck on Logo.
Tried removing the battery for 1hr. and still the same.
I can enter Recovery - Plz assist why this thing have happened and how it can solved ?
PS: Phone ran perfectly till now and its been 15days since reinstalled my OS.
Can you try to do a factory reset and the three wipes using philz kernel? Then reboot but remember all your data will be lost.
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kaborayyan said:
Can you try to do a factory reset and the three wipes using philz kernel? Then reboot but remember all your data will be lost.
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I did factory reset via recovery and the phone is working normally now. If problem again happen in future I will update here.
I was running Kitkat rooted with safestrap. Just did a backup and then did a factory wipe. I then click the wipe option to the right and then it rebooted and was stuck in a boot loop. I can get to recovery mode and tried doing a factory wipe. It now just sticks at Samsung Galaxy Note 3 screen. Did I brick my phone? What can I do to get it booting again?
Please help
Thanks
Travis
Woah...did you wipe the stock system?
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TechMonster said:
I was running Kitkat rooted with safestrap. Just did a backup and then did a factory wipe. I then click the wipe option to the right and then it rebooted and was stuck in a boot loop. I can get to recovery mode and tried doing a factory wipe. It now just sticks at Samsung Galaxy Note 3 screen. Did I brick my phone? What can I do to get it booting again?
Please help
Thanks
Travis
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=51572014
Link will get you back up and running. Not the nc2 official though but hey. Follow the instructions to get rooted again and dont forget to thank the op, dude's bright.
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Yes I just found that and was able to recover. Thanks
I did wipe the stock system. The link above will allow you to reload it.