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wiping question

i just wiped everything ,shouldnt that erase everything? after the wipe i flashed a rom and programs that i had installed prior to the wipe were still on my phone.the google/facebook flickr setup screen came up like i was turning the phone on for the first time so i wiped again this time everything including wipe sd card and i go back and go to flash zip from sd card and the rom is still there shouldnt it be gone after wiping?

what ROM is still where? You cant completely remove all ROM from your phone by a simple wipe... if that's what you're saying...

jerry43812 said:
what ROM is still where? You cant completely remove all ROM from your phone by a simple wipe... if that's what you're saying...
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the rom zip was still on the sd card but i repartitioned and it's gone now

If you just wiped the ext partition on your SD card from recovery all that does is wipe the partition where it stores the apps for apps2sd. You would need to format the SD card or like you did repartition it to completely wipe it.

I have ROOT but now what?

Hello
I have managed to root my phone and confirmed this with a free app on Google.Play but now what do I do?
I read somewhere that I need ClockworkMod and I followed a tutorial but the link was dead.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1034145
Dead link for clockworkmod 5
http://[url="http//forum.xda-developers.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=743333&d=1318051346
I am not exactly sure what Clockworkmod is and why I need it.
My plan is to be able to backup my Phone operating system (ROM I think it is called)
And I also want to put all my apps stored on the phone's memory onto an SD card. This is because I keep getting warnings that my internal memory is full.
I would appreciate any help or advice
Cheers

the lemming said:
Hello
I have managed to root my phone and confirmed this with a free app on Google.Play but now what do I do?
I read somewhere that I need ClockworkMod and I followed a tutorial but the link was dead.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1034145
Dead link for clockworkmod 5
http://[url="http//forum.xda-developers.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=743333&d=1318051346
I am not exactly sure what Clockworkmod is and why I need it.
My plan is to be able to backup my Phone operating system (ROM I think it is called)
And I also want to put all my apps stored on the phone's memory onto an SD card. This is because I keep getting warnings that my internal memory is full.
I would appreciate any help or advice
Cheers
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I told you it in your other post
ROOT + CWM 5.0.2.6. FIX

Viper The Ripper said:
I told you it in your other post
ROOT + CWM 5.0.2.6. FIX
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Hello
For some reason the link you gave in the other post was broken. However the link you have just given does work and I have now downloaded it.
Thank you

Viper The Ripper said:
I told you it in your other post
ROOT + CWM 5.0.2.6. FIX
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May I ask how you can tell if the Backup process has been successful?
Is there a way to verify the backup?
I only ask as I have tried to make a backup and got the message that could not mount SD-ext
And that the backup my not be supported by my device. The information went very quickly so I could not get the info exactly.
Cheers

the lemming said:
May I ask how you can tell if the Backup process has been successful?
Is there a way to verify the backup?
I only ask as I have tried to make a backup and got the message that could not mount SD-ext
And that the backup my not be supported by my device. The information went very quickly so I could not get the info exactly.
Cheers
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1. Your backup = ALL your current rom data
2. Umm... I've never had a problem using CMW :S
3. Sd-ext IS NOT sdcard, so no problem if you haven't got sd-ext partition the script always finish telling you that you haven't got a sd-ext and skipping automatically this step , that's all. No problem at all

Hello
Before I did the clockworkmod, I partitioned my SD card into two FAT32 partitions. One was for my data and a smaller partition was to be in preparation of learning how to transfer all my apps to the SD card.
I was worried that partitioning the SD card had caused complications.

the lemming said:
Hello
Before I did the clockworkmod, I partitioned my SD card into two FAT32 partitions. One was for my data and a smaller partition was to be in preparation of learning how to transfer all my apps to the SD card.
I was worried that partitioning the SD card had caused complications.
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What did you use to do partitions?CWM?
I use minipartition tools (a windows free tool) and is to easy
Now you can use Link2sd e.g.
If I were you I'd create an ext4 (as sd-ext partition) instead of create 2 Fat32. Because ext4 can be used with int2ext scripts too
If you want you can read this q&a thread about link2sd/int2ext to get more useful info
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2313327

Hello
I did indeed use minipartition tools to create two partitions. I have a 16Gb card. I saved 2Gb for the second partition. I will now format that partition to ext4.
Cheers

the lemming said:
Hello
I did indeed use minipartition tools to create two partitions. I have a 16Gb card. I saved 2Gb for the second partition. I will now format that partition to ext4.
Cheers
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format with ext4
mount system
flash this script and hurray work done
HIT THANKS MAN

So this method works for sure? On the Ace is possible to make only a 512mb ext4 partition to use it with int2ext, right? Because every 500mb partition is needed 100mb of internal storage.

MeltingSnowman said:
So this method works for sure? On the Ace is possible to make only a 512mb ext4 partition to use it with int2ext, right? Because every 500mb partition is needed 100mb of internal storage.
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Yes, for sure!!
...no, you can do a partition with the size that you want. This script mount your /sd-ext as your /data partition so you can use all space you want in your sd-ext partition
I had 1GB partition and worked without problems with int2ext+ script

[Q] How to safely format Internal Storage ?

Okaii, there is nothing wrong with my phone and everything is working just fine , i always wipe system and data and and flash new roms ... i also have a backup of my rom , but now i want to make a FULL wipe , as in system, data, and internal storage.. but i know i can't connect my phone in twrp to add a rom file affter wiping storage.. so is there any way to do that , safely , without any errors and just flash the ROM again ?
Thanks.

ali-k95 said:
Okaii, there is nothing wrong with my phone and everything is working just fine , i always wipe system and data and and flash new roms ... i also have a backup of my rom , but now i want to make a FULL wipe , as in system, data, and internal storage.. but i know i can't connect my phone in twrp to add a rom file affter wiping storage.. so is there any way to do that , safely , without any errors and just flash the ROM again ?
Thanks.
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You could try and use adb sideload, however for me sideloading ROM zips never works so what you would need to do is format the internal storage from a PC then transfer a ROM.zip over to it then proceed with the rest of the wipes except internal storage as you've already wiped that

Jonny said:
You could try and use adb sideload, however for me sideloading ROM zips never works so what you would need to do is format the internal storage from a PC then transfer a ROM.zip over to it then proceed with the rest of the wipes except internal storage as you've already wiped that
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This works ?
Also i wanted to ask.. if i formated internal storage from the phone itself, after the boot , i transfer the rom.zip to it and do all wipes from recovery.. does it work too ?

ali-k95 said:
This works ?
Also i wanted to ask.. if i formated internal storage from the phone itself, after the boot , i transfer the rom.zip to it and do all wipes from recovery.. does it work too ?
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Yep, both methods should work equally well

Jonny said:
Yep, both methods should work equally well
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Thanks for the replies !
One more q. , how did you format your storage from PC ? i can't find that when right clicking my htc one..

ali-k95 said:
Thanks for the replies !
One more q. , how did you format your storage from PC ? i can't find that when right clicking my htc one..
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Seems like its been disabled for MTP devices, that's new to me - looks like you'll have to go with the other way of doing it, flash the ROM with a full wipe of system and data beforehand then just wipe internal storage from recovery after the ROM has flashed.

Everything worked perfect , thanks alot !

[Q] T599 Internal SD Formatting

I have the T599N phone with the newest clockwork recovery installed. I noticed my internal sd card is a complete mess and understand that it's not formatted when installing new ROMs. What's a safe way to format it? Does formating it through the clockwork recovery work? I don't want to brick anything. Thanks!
EDIT: It worked, in CW recovery I formatted the /data/media/ (sdcard) partition and it cleared out the internal memory perfectly.

pingstary said:
I have the T599N phone with the newest clockwork recovery installed. I noticed my internal sd card is a complete mess and understand that it's not formatted when installing new ROMs. What's a safe way to format it? Does formating it through the clockwork recovery work? I don't want to brick anything. Thanks!
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Yep it'll work. Wipe cache and dalvik cache while you're at it too.
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TWRP 3 for droid turbo

OK other phone I had has external SD card. When I wiped data it wiped internal SD completely. Since turbo has no external SD, will it wipe completely or just Android file data and preserve other files on internal SD. If it does wipe internal SD completely how would you flash ROM? Thanks for any advice.

newbe1droidx said:
OK other phone I had has external SD card. When I wiped data it wiped internal SD completely. Since turbo has no external SD, will it wipe completely or just Android file data and preserve other files on internal SD. If it does wipe internal SD completely how would you flash ROM? Thanks for any advice.
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That depends on what kind of wipe you do. If you do a factory reset in TWRP, it will not wipe your user data (downloads, music, everything else in /data/media/0 or /sdcard). However, if you select Format Data, or you pick Internal Storage in the advanced wipe menu, all of your user data will be wiped. Usually, a factory reset is all you need after flashing roms, so you don't have to worry about losing photos/music/etc.

Great thanks for the fast reply. OK other phone was sgs3. Sometimes when flashing and then running new ROM it seemed the settings stayed the same as previous ROM. Devs would have you format data for clean install. How would that work on this droid turbo?

I also wiped data and it wiped my internal storage. I thought maybe I had wiped internal storage accidentally or did something else wrong but this leads me to believe I didn't do anything wrong. Back to the previous version that worked for us? (I think it was 2.8.7)
Edit: I just read that choosing to format data will also format internal storage, but a factory reset which "wipes data" does not touch the internal storage. This is a little confusing if you aren't familiar with how everything is partitioned. Is internal storage actually on the data partition?
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If I have the ROM and gapps on internal SD and format data I loose ROM and gapps right? Then how would you install ROM? Second if I delete Android file on internal SD would that make it a clean install? But other files would still remain. Just trying to understand so I don't brick or can't get ROM on. Thanks

SpyderPride said:
I also wiped data and it wiped my internal storage. I thought maybe I had wiped internal storage accidentally or did something else wrong but this leads me to believe I didn't do anything wrong. Back to the previous version that worked for us? (I think it was 2.8.7)
Edit: I just read that choosing to format data will also format internal storage, but a factory reset which "wipes data" does not touch the internal storage. This is a little confusing if you aren't familiar with how everything is partitioned. Is internal storage actually on the data partition?
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Yes, the internal storage is on the data partition. When you do a factory reset with TWRP and you read the script as it executes, it says something like "wiping /data without wiping /data/media." Doing the factory reset wipes everything on /data except /data/media, which is where your user data lives. So what gets wiped is all of the user apps and the data generated by the system apps, but your user data is preserved.
It makes sense that wiping data would wipe everything. I think having separate boxes for data and internal storage is to account for someone who might install an older version of android that is partitioned differently. I can't remember when the change happened, but at one point, the user data and app data were kept on separate partitions. I think that user data lived on /sdcard and apps lived on /data. That's why you see the /sdcard folder as a symlink when you go exploring with a root browser. It's symlinked to /data/media/0 to maintain backwards compatibility with older apps that are expecting /sdcard to exist.

Thanks st33v. My last phone had a /sdcard partition separate from /data so I think that is where the misperception came from. It also had /sdcard2, which was an actual SD card.
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Yep my thinking too. You guys are great! Cleared it up.

If you wipe all your files simply use twrp and connect it to the PC. You can drag the files over for flashing.

mrkhigh said:
If you wipe all your files simply use twrp and connect it to the PC. You can drag the files over for flashing.
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Awesome I was wondering if you could do that...