I am having some wacky issues with my Moto X. I am on a dev edition with bootloader unlocked and rooter on 4.4.2. What would be the easiest most effective way to wipe and then restore my apps and what not?
reno55 said:
I am having some wacky issues with my Moto X. I am on a dev edition with bootloader unlocked and rooter on 4.4.2. What would be the easiest most effective way to wipe and then restore my apps and what not?
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Boot into TWRP, select Wipe, then advanced wipe. Then check dalvik cache, data and cache. If you want your sd card wiped, too, select internal storage.
DO NOT WIPE SYSTEM UNLESS YOU KNOW WHAT YOU ARE DOING.
I would recommend fxz save data it resets your whole system like its fresh out of the box except your data so all your apps are still there. This will hopefully fix any wacky behavior. After the fxz reinstall twrp or whatever recovery you use then root. If you have fonts or xposed installed you will have install the fonts again. With xposed all you have to do is turn it on since you didn't wipe data it will reinstate the changes.
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What is fxz?
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NightThyme said:
Boot into TWRP, select Wipe, then advanced wipe. Then check dalvik cache, data and cache. If you want your sd card wiped, too, select internal storage.
DO NOT WIPE SYSTEM UNLESS YOU KNOW WHAT YOU ARE DOING.
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If I do this will all my apps and SD card files be there?
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reno55 said:
If I do this will all my apps and SD card files be there?
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if you wipe internal storage, you will lose your SD card files, pictures, music, videos and any other content you store on your internal sd card. If you wipe data, you will lose your apps, texts messages, call logs, system settings and contacts. But I thought you wanted to wipe your apps?
If you don't want to wipe your apps, try wiping just dalvik cache and cache and see if that helps before you wipe data.
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reno55 said:
What is fxz?
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fxz = fastboot xml zip file
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Hello fellow XDA people's..
I've got a noobish question for you lol, if I were to format the system and factory reset, would I lose my nandroid backup? I can remember doing it on my TF300T and I lost my backup. So I'm curious to see if that's normal, or was the file order was messed up on the tablet. Thanks.
Reilly9 said:
Hello fellow XDA people's..
I've got a noobish question for you lol, if I were to format the system and factory reset, would I lose my nandroid backup? I can remember doing it on my TF300T and I lost my backup. So I'm curious to see if that's normal, or was the file order was messed up on the tablet. Thanks.
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In CWM data factory reset or format system will not wipe stored backups afaik. If you format the sd card you will wipe everything.
Reilly9 said:
Hello fellow XDA people's..
I've got a noobish question for you lol, if I were to format the system and factory reset, would I lose my nandroid backup? I can remember doing it on my TF300T and I lost my backup. So I'm curious to see if that's normal, or was the file order was messed up on the tablet. Thanks.
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if you format your sd-card you will loose all data on it, even your OS, and you will have to sideload a new ROM. if you only factory reset your OS your backup folder should not be affected.. but i recommend to copy the backup folder to your pc before you do anything..
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gee2012 said:
In CWM data factory reset or format system will not wipe stored backups afaik. If you format the sd card you will wipe everything.
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damn, you're quick
gee2012 said:
In CWM data factory reset or format system will not wipe stored backups afaik. If you format the sd card you will wipe everything.
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Okay, thanks
Question if I do a factor reset on my MotoX DEV Ed. 4.4.2 updated with unlocked bootloader, TWRP, SuperSU will I need to reinstall TWRP and SuperSU or will I retain TWRP and SuperSU?
A factory reset just wipes /data (via recovery). It doesn't do anything to recovery or to /system. Put those two together and you have your answer.
CartlandSmith said:
And when you have TWRP installed, it doesn't even completely wipe data since your Nandroid backups survive a factory reset. I just did one and was surprised to see that.
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"Data" in this case is the /data partition. Backups are stored on the SD card, which is a separate partition.
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CartlandSmith said:
thanks I did eventually figure that out. So /data is apps, settings, contacts, texts, call logs. Anything else?
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Correct.
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kbluhm said:
"Data" in this case is the /data partition. Backups are stored on the SD card, which is a separate partition.
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No it isn't. The /sdcard is /data/media. The reason that TWRP and CWM do not format this during a factory reset is that they are setup not to. They don't actually format when you do it, they do a "rm -rf" of everything except /data/media, unless you select the option to wipe everything, in which case, they actually format it.
I'm really confused about what to do before flashing this ROM: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2694471
I'm coming from CM11, I don't know what to do when it says "so basically just FULLY wipe". Does this mean to just factory reset, or can somebody tell me which boxes to tick in TWRP (System, Cache, Dalvik Cache, etc.) I'm worried that factory resetting will delete internal storage, because I have accidentally deleted internal storage before while flashing a new ROM, and it was a nightmare.
Thanks in advance!
KangKong70 said:
I'm really confused about what to do before flashing this ROM: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2694471
I'm coming from CM11, I don't know what to do when it says "so basically just FULLY wipe". Does this mean to just factory reset, or can somebody tell me which boxes to tick in TWRP (System, Cache, Dalvik Cache, etc.) I'm worried that factory resetting will delete internal storage, because I have accidentally deleted internal storage before while flashing a new ROM, and it was a nightmare.
Thanks in advance!
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In your recovery, a full wipe would be wipe all of: /system; /cache/; dalvik cache and /cache.
Frankly, the latter is a joke -- there's nothing interesting in /cache other than logs, but folks still do it.
what will happen is the /system and /cache partitions will get reformatted. Dalvik Cache will get 'deleted' and the /data partition will get cleaned out (files removed) *other than* your Internal sdcard data.
BTW, if you have a handle as kangkong, you really ought to live up to the suggestions in the name
Thanks for the help, though I am a bit confused about what you mean about my name.
Td hes a newb if you check his profile hes has no idea what kanging is apparently lol
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And to answer your question in lamens terms just do a factory reset youll be good
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This is my first phone that only has only internal storage. I need to double check before flashing any custom roms. Is there a partition on the phone that you guys save the custom roms to or does it not matter. I was thinking about saving it to the DCIM folder since its easy to find. My fear is that the rom will get erased when we clear the cache throught Teamwin recovery. Btw my phone is bootloader unlocked, rooted and has tw recovery installed. Tia.
Just copy it to the internal storage on the phone. TWRP does not erase internal storage when you factory reset.
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Custom recovery do not wipe /data/media on factory reset, which is where "internal storage" is located. But you can wipe it with the "Format Data" option.
customervalued said:
This is my first phone that only has only internal storage. I need to double check before flashing any custom roms. Is there a partition on the phone that you guys save the custom roms to or does it not matter. I was thinking about saving it to the DCIM folder since its easy to find. My fear is that the rom will get erased when we clear the cache throught Teamwin recovery. Btw my phone is bootloader unlocked, rooted and has tw recovery installed. Tia.
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Even I had a similar issue. I've never had a device without a SD card.
So if I flash twrp and then a custom rom do I lose things like photos,media on my phone?
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You only lose data if you unlock your bootloader. Or if you format the data partition. Flashing a rom and factory reset via TWRP does not erase your files.
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I want nothing left on my phone before installing new rom, will wiping data cache and dalvik be enough? or should i do internal storage to?
again, i want nothing left. clean as it gets.
KnishxD said:
I want nothing left on my phone before installing new rom, will wiping data cache and dalvik be enough? or should i do internal storage to?
again, i want nothing left. clean as it gets.
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Just click wipe on TWRP and slide the bar. Then install.
I wipe dalvik, cache, system and internal. Probably overkill, but doing so seems to cause the least problems. I backup my contacts to a vcf file to sd card and flash.
Xblackberryuser said:
I wipe dalvik, cache, system and internal. Probably overkill, but doing so seems to cause the least problems. I backup my contacts to a vcf file to sd card and flash.
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Just add your contacts to Google and you wont need to backup it anymore..
I believe in redundancy when backing up.
Warimation said:
Just add your contacts to Google and you wont need to backup it anymore..
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