I am sure that most people have their ritual of how they Factory reset, Wipe, or delete everything on their computer. Well I want to do that but my method is pretty straight forward. write down the progs i want, save the pics/music i want and wipe! However there has got to be a better way than re-downloading all i need, but i just dont know. Usually i am stuck wiping when the computer crashes or something.
My laptop hp dv6 (not great, but not bad) is getting slow. Ex, at LEAST 4 minutes boot time. 3+ of that is after the windows logo. I generally try to keep things clean on my laptop but i have been running this thing for a few years now and I want to wipe it before school starts so i dont get stuck mid-semester with errors. That would be bad. I do have restore disks i made and I dont thing i have any viruses, just a heck of alot of clutter.
Any suggestions are greatly appreciated.
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It depends how much time you want to spend wiping your computer, if you want wipe it fast use a BFG. If you are willing to spend a long time zero fill the hdd.
BFG? Shoot it? That sounds a little more permanent than i want lol.
Zero fill, I am not really worried about people finding stuff on my computer, I just want to give it a good reset back to factory so it will hopefully run faster. Anyway, will zero fill help with hard drive health?
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I got my tilt I think now over a year ago. I want to revamp it instead of paying hundreds and upgrading to a fuze or an iphone.
Right now I am constantly getting memory low messages even though I can barely find anything to delete. Even when I try to download and install things on to my card which has plenty of room, I keep getting the error.
Is there a way I can start nice and clean?
In addition to this, can I add the new new flo software? Also, the skyfire beta is open now right? So I can redownload it(It's growing on me.
How would I go about restarting everything, and how would I go about installing the new rom for flo(this is what I have to do right?)
Is it all worth it?
Last but not least, does anyone suggest a nice case for the tilt? I carry it around in my pocket so it can't be bulky and it can't let dust in.
Thank you in advance.
Try a hard reset?
A hard reset should put the phone back to how it was when you first got it. It'll wipe all your data so make sure you backup all your contacts etc first. I use PIMBackup to do this. Its probably worth doing a little search on this before you do anything, to make sure you know what it'll do.
If you want to install new a ROM follow the Flashing your First Rom (For Newbs) on the Kaiser ROM development page.
Don't know about the other stuff.
I'm sorry, I tried.
I have been looking all day. Timed search functions are not working in my favor, and again i mean ALL day. I have looked, but I don't believe the information i've found applies to my scenario.
Girlfriends phone is running cyan 4.2.5
I wanna change roms, but not lose the data with the apps.
I've gotten backing up and restoring/reinstall apps with DroidExplorer down to a science, but for some reason I can't find the right way to transfer the data with it.
I read somewhere to just do a nandroid backup, and pull the data file from that nandroid and to put it in a new one(after flashing new rom and creating a nandroid), etc that whole thing. It didnt work for me, and that was me trying it on my phone with the same rom for before and after.
Again for her's, its going to be cyan 4.2.5 going to superd 1.9 -- should I also be expecting some things not to work just because the way it links into other files?
any insight? please anyone? i would send my Chrome history to prove I've been searching ALL DAY.
thank you!
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ah hell. while looking into her phone, i realized/remembered i didnt finish the job the very first time i upgraded her phone and just kept up-flashing the cyan builds
her phone has a 2gig, probably class 2 card, so i never set up a partition on it, and there is no apps2sd going on there, that i know of at least [does it do it automatically without a separate partition?]
and to top that, it wont let me do an nandroid backup - was in CF 1.4, i flashed Amon152 on it and it still wont let me
perform a nandroid backup, just gives me the run from console error. im down for reading, i do that, but pages, on pages.
again if anyone can spare a lil bit of time, and just simply help for a minute, not only will i appreciate it, ill donate. moneys money.
i work in computers, i know troubleshooting **** isn't simple, or cheap. I code other stuff, and cant get enough time to learn ALL of this.
just trying to pull apps + data off of her G1 as easily as possible..
Hi.
Im sorry for the lackluster thread, im kinda in a hurry having my sister in law over who lost 1k photos by pressing something she doesnt remember.
I think its been resetting the phone.
Its running kitkat so its mtp which makes accessing the memory hard.
Is there a way to recover the phones, maybe rooting it (which i think that i can manage to do but i fear to overwrite the data doing it) it?
thx!
If she reset the phone and wiped the memory, then you are out of luck...
But maybe, you can take a look at EASEUS: http://www.easeus.com/mac/mac-data-recovery-resource/photo-recovery-freeware/free-recover-photo-from-android-phone.htm
Thank you so far!
After unlocking and rooting it seems to work, it found some icons and its working and working...i know how long it can take.
Now she has to go home and ill try another day but it made me optimistic to get the icons, so maybe the factory reset didnt delete the pictures.
it's possible, however, a long and complex process. I would only recommend to do it if the info you lose is really important.
cuyo11 said:
it's possible, however, a long and complex process. I would only recommend to do it if the info you lose is really important.
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It is about 1000 (she said, i think its about 500^^) children photos so yes, it is worth all the work i guess.
Im going to try again later this evening, so far i rooted the phone and the software had first results but we didnt have time to finish.
If anybody comes up with another great idea im totally open, whilling and skilled enough to do about anything but i think that the worst part will be the hours its gonna take to find and then rescure all the data, this time i can say goodbye and they let it work over night
Somehow my toddler managed to use the power and volume keys to in just the right order to factory reset my Droid Turbo XT1254 running android 4.4.4. I've already spoken with Verizon and Motorola and their answer is you should have used our security risk laden Clouds. We can't and or won't help you.
When I realized what had happened I made sure not to even set up the phone or install anything. I also put the phone in airplane mode to avoid/minimize any random downloads or writing.
Question 1:
After trying 3 pieces of recovery software and 8+hours of research I have learned that after android 4.2.* that when they removed the USB Mass Transfer option that normal recovery software will not help anyone with a Droid Turbo unless the phone is rooted. Is this correct?
Question 2:
IF my only option is to root the phone (I have never done this but my husband has), given that I have made sure not to write anything to phone since reset, what are my chances of recovering my pictures? Some or all?
Question 3:
Are there ways to "minimally root" a phone so as to maximize recovery of my pictures?
I'd say I'm half a techie with a background in data analysis and many year working with large databases on linux systems (though its been ten years) so I'm just dangerous enough to maybe save my data with some help. *sigh*
Thanks in advance,
Bronwyn
PS Ive installed the ADB drivers and am trying to figure out where to go from there.
i think you are pretty much ****ed, i dont think you can recover anything after a wipe from recovery even if you root to try to recovery something, chances are that will be corrupt or you'll get less than 10% of data. im sorry.
Thank you for taking the time to reply and your kindness. *sigh* Yes, all my reading has lead me to the same conclusion.
Jaocagomez said:
i think you are pretty much ****ed, i don't think you can recover anything after a wipe from recovery even if you root to try to recovery something, chances are that will be corrupt or you'll get less than 10% of data. im sorry.
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Thats why u don't let kids play with expensive things
Did you try http://www.jihosoft.com/recover-data/recover-data-after-factory-reset.html btw you didn't backup to your Google account?
That's why it has a super case on it. That's why I had it locked. But she is 2.5 and pulled it out of Mommy's purse. She is a fast little button pusher. I had no idea it was sooooo easy to factory reset a phone. When I read how to do it, Motorola lost me as a customer. You only have to hold the 2 buttons down for 3 seconds and hit two buttons two more times. Poor engineering for the real world.
ganggreen30 said:
Thats why u don't let kids play with expensive things
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Thanks for the link.
No google backp. The whole cloud idea feels freakishly non-secure to me. No doubt, I wish I had given into the Google Empire.
BronwynST said:
No google backp. The whole cloud idea feels freakishly non-secure to me. No doubt, I wish I had given into the Google Empire.
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The iCult is no better. It seems like we have to drink the Kool-Aid sooner or later... we just have to decide on the flavor, and Apple isn't my personal choice.
(Yes, Mickeysoft is trying to get back into the game with Windows 10 for phones, but they're no better, and BlackBerry still seems to be hovering on the brink of extinction, but they aren't major players right now.)
Well my phone feel so un-snappy, and I'm thinking if a factory reset or reflash from a new rom-file wil l help much?
I don't remember how it was when it was new.
A few years ago you basically just had to do this every few months if you wanted a snappy phone. But I have no idea if matters in 2021?
Reinstalling and setting all up again would probably take several hours for me, time i really don't have unless I have to. So if you guys have any input beforehand it would be much appreciated.
Thanks,
I do it as needed especially if a virus is suspect.
If you've uninstalled a lot of apps and/or the phone is noticably slower or unstable... it's time.
If you have a good flash, reflashing the firmware is pointless unless you wish to change that version. Just needless wear and tear on the memory cells.