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[Q] Does flashing a new rom erases all contacts and gallery etc apart from the system

Sorry to post such a stupid question here. I'm really new in this field and I had read many of the faqs but could really find this info. Does flashing new roms delete all other data such as contacts, photos, music etc? I do know some rom might delete the entire system including the settings and apps, but I wish some people here could confirm my question. Thanks and sorry again for this stupid question.

Do you know what xda, forums,threads, sub-forums,search option, pm,etc etc is?

Depending on how the ROM was made, example Doc's rom starting from version 5 can do an update w/o deleting anything.

Shazad.K said:
Do you know what xda, forums,threads, sub-forums,search option, pm,etc etc is?
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Thats a bit harsh its only their 1st post.
Contacts are saved via your google account so when you sign back in they are resync'd with your phone and gallery pics wont be wiped unless you format internal SD card.

Shazad.K said:
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I've been searching for hours, including google etc. As I couldn't find any direct answers in regards to my question mark, so I figured perhaps I could post it here to get some replies. And besides, I didn't know anyone here for me to pm. So I posted this. If it offends you, I'm sorry.
EarlZ said:
Depending on how the ROM was made, example Doc's rom starting from version 5 can do an update w/o deleting anything.
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Thanks for your time and reply. Now I got it. Much appreciated =)
mrwookie6379 said:
Thats a bit harsh its only their 1st post.
Contacts are saved via your google account so when you sign back in they are resync'd with your phone and gallery pics wont be wiped unless you format internal SD card.
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I see. Thanks for telling me about this. Really in the middle of nowhere to seek for this info =)

What do you develop m8?
http://www.xda-developers.com/announcements/a-reminder-from-the-xda-moderator-team/
Please read...
Does asking a question in right section hurt?

[Q] Cyanogen Mod 7.1

Hi this is my first post. Im really sorry if Im posting this again and if I am just tell me to delete it and point me to the correct one.
So i want to install the Cyanogen mod 7.1 that was released yesterday onto my HTC incredible s. however since i have only just had it around a month i know very little about android rooting and how to do it.
My question is what guide should i use? is this the cyanogen mod good. i cna tpost it here it wouldnt let me.
if so i know doing so will void my warrenty and so is it like jailbreaking where all you have to do is restore to stock firmware?
Update: installed using this http://wiki.cyanogenmod.com/wiki/HTC_Incredible_S:_Full_Update_Guide
worked like a charm
thank you very much.

incrediblealex said:
Hi this is my first post. Im really sorry if Im posting this again and if I am just tell me to delete it and point me to the correct one.
So i want to install the Cyanogen mod 7.1 that was released yesterday onto my HTC incredible s. however since i have only just had it around a month i know very little about android rooting and how to do it.
My question is what guide should i use? is this the cyanogen mod good. i cna tpost it here it wouldnt let me.
if so i know doing so will void my warrenty and so is it like jailbreaking where all you have to do is restore to stock firmware?
thank you very much.
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welcome to the forum. just remember, this forum is chock full of great info. when you have a question, more often then not your question has already been asked. always use the search button first to reduce clutter
this phone is one of the easiest phones to root. just head here. voila. that's it.
yes, cm7 is THAT good. definitely worth it. fast and prob the best battery life out of all the roms.
you can always get the phone back to it's original state for warranty purposes. always a good idea to do a backup immediately after you root.
have fun.

ok thank you very much. Does the guide on the CyanogenMod website include how to restore to stock if you have to send your phone in?

incrediblealex said:
ok thank you very much. Does the guide on the CyanogenMod website include how to restore to stock if you have to send your phone in?
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i don't think so. that info is, however, readily available in this forum. just do a search
come to think of it, i think all you have to do is revert to the stock rom that you just backed up after rooting. someone please correct me if i'm wrong.

Does anyone also know if the root method for the HTC incredible S is temp? Does that mean you cant turn off your device? I'm confused.

incrediblealex said:
Does anyone also know if the root method for the HTC incredible S is temp? Does that mean you cant turn off your device? I'm confused.
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no, it's not temporary. it will stay rooted until you unroot and return the device to stock/original state. why don't you try it out? it will be a good way to familiarize yourself with rooting, backing up, and restoring.

Hearing of the release of CM7 got me finally around of rooting my phone. This forum offers great tutorials and I managed to root is fairly easily. After rooting I was also asked wheter I wanted to flash CWM and I answered yes. Everything went OK and I was able to try CM7 after 30 minutes or so. The most time consuming operation was creating backup with CWM recovery.
But my opinion about CM7 isn't good. While I like the the effects and other neat customisation possibilities 3 thing turn me off.
First, I really love HTC's phone or dialler application which helps me find contacts by entering their number or trying to type their names. This is the single most useful thing invented on a telephone. As CM7 doesn't support that (only enterning numbers as far as I know) I will not use it.
Second, I wasn't able to connect to Exchange server for some reason
Third, Android Market shut itself down after 10 seconds and repeatedly kept doing that.
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PS. I would have liked to post this info to developers forums, but as I don't have rights, I couldn't.
I'm no noob to forums - I'm a veteran member of Estonia's leading IT forum of Hinnavaatlus.

weaselEST said:
Hearing of the release of CM7 got me finally around of rooting my phone. This forum offers great tutorials and I managed to root is fairly easily. After rooting I was also asked wheter I wanted to flash CWM and I answered yes. Everything went OK and I was able to try CM7 after 30 minutes or so. The most time consuming operation was creating backup with CWM recovery.
But my opinion about CM7 isn't good. While I like the the effects and other neat customisation possibilities 3 thing turn me off.
First, I really love HTC's phone or dialler application which helps me find contacts by entering their number or trying to type their names. This is the single most useful thing invented on a telephone. As CM7 doesn't support that (only enterning numbers as far as I know) I will not use it.
Second, I wasn't able to connect to Exchange server for some reason
Third, Android Market shut itself down after 10 seconds and repeatedly kept doing that.
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PS. I would have liked to post this info to developers forums, but as I don't have rights, I couldn't.
I'm no noob to forums - I'm a veteran member of Estonia's leading IT forum of Hinnavaatlus.
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The markets fixed by going in to language settings and selecting English again.
Exchange worked fine for me...
Download another dialer application..
I'd choose double the speed, battery life and ram any day over sense

lets not start cm7 vs sense. this thread will never end really, it comes down to individual preference and that's not something we can argue.
cm7 isn't prefect but it's close, imo.

Please recommend a dialer app and I will give it a try Dialer One maybe?
Thanks for the market tip.

weaselEST said:
Please recommend a dialer app and I will give it a try
Thanks for the market tip.
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try dialer one. it has the function you are looking for.

weaselEST said:
Please recommend a dialer app and I will give it a try
Thanks for the market tip.
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Dialer one, go contacts and touchpal dialer are all good.

syc7090 said:
no, it's not temporary. it will stay rooted until you unroot and return the device to stock/original state. why don't you try it out? it will be a good way to familiarize yourself with rooting, backing up, and restoring.
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Thanks again I'm going to try it out and report back on how I got on.

incrediblealex said:
Thanks again I'm going to try it out and report back on how I got on.
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sounds good. and there are guides in the dev forum if you need some assurance.

Cannot download anything from the Market for unknown reason. The download bar just scrolls endlessly.
E: Restart helped. Everything seems to be working just fine. Will give an estimate of battery usage in a few days time. And will test out Skype as well.

I feel as though the guides here need to be updated current one is from June. Not complaining just sayin is all.

itsbeertimenow said:
I feel as though the guides here need to be updated current one is from June. Not complaining just sayin is all.
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Yes, they could use some tweaking.
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Unable to sign in to Skype. Forums aren't very helpful too.

weaselEST said:
Yes, they could use some tweaking.
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Unable to sign in to Skype. Forums aren't very helpful too.
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Yeah I think they need updating. From what I can work out the root for the HTC IS is not temp but the guide says it is?

incrediblealex said:
Yeah I think they need updating. From what I can work out the root for the HTC IS is not temp but the guide says it is?
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What do you mean exactly? After restarting my phone is still S-OFF (if you asked that).

weaselEST said:
What do you mean exactly? After restarting my phone is still S-OFF (if you asked that).
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Well I think the HTC incredible S was a temp root but from what I can work out and what you have and others have said it is not. I haven't tried it yet but I'm going to tonight.

[Q] Am i posting it wrong?

Hi
I'm new to forums. But I like this one. People are discussing stuff instead of complaining about their devices. I'm learning a lot. But I still need an answer to my question. And I don't think it's very complex. So I thought maybe I'm posting it wrong. Is there anything else one should do to get there post replied to. Like tagging it in some way. It's not a complaint. I really wanna know to be able ro enjoy the forum fully.
Cheers

You don't need to do anything special. What is your question?

Oh cool
Hi
Thank you very much indeed for replying. I was just wondering if it was safe to update a rooted galaxy 8.9. I got the update message in my settings so it's a proper factory official update but I've never done it before so I was a bit worried after having read about some bricked phones and (don't even know what bricked means but sounds scary).
And if you could answer another question as well please that would be really nice.
Recently my tablet crashed in a weird way so I had to reinstall every single application on my tablet. After the crash every single app was force closing and it asked me for the date and the region. Since then it crashes not very often but regularly. So I thought maybe I need to do a hard reset or even reflash the rom. But now, as far as understand, updating my firmware should sort it out for me. Am I right in thinking so?
Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

I have not heard of anyone who has bricked their gt8.9 updating a rooted device. You possible loose root when you update, but you can just flash the root.zip again. In worst case you end up with a soft brick, this can be fixed with flashing stock firmware with Odin.
If you are having random crashes, i would start with factory reset. Please dont forget to backup before, because factory reset will delete everything on your tablet.
Update to latest version. Latest versions are a lot better then early builds.
Hope this helps.

Thank you very much indeed.
Will I be alright following the instructions in this forum's guide on how to use the ODIN?

d.lavaman said:
Thank you very much indeed.
Will I be alright following the instructions in this forum's guide on how to use the ODIN?
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Yes, but i don't think you are going to need Odin. Just click update. If you get any problems, then let us know and I'm sure that there is someone here who will help you restore stock firmware if needed.

This thread has nothing to do with me and I have nothing to contribute other than to say that you're a class act, poisike. Too many people on XDA think it's OK to be rude to newcomers and that obnoxious comments about using search add value to the board. +6 internets to you.

poisike said:
Yes, but i don't think you are going to need Odin. Just click update. If you get any problems, then let us know and I'm sure that there is someone here who will help you restore stock firmware if needed.
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+1 to this. Havent needed Odin yet..thank god..also thanks to you for setting me up!
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Not enough space for new apps cm11

Hello
Im on latest cm11 (i used partition table tool-optimal) and I have about 400+mb of free memory on my intrernal sdcard.
However, I can't install new apps (not from store nor from file manager), it says i dont have enough of space.
What can i do with it?
Thanks

Try run ng cm cleaner, I had a similar issue where when flashing from stock my cache didn't get wiped for some reason and took up all my memory, ran cm cleaner and cleared out the cache giving my memory back, also just check the files saved in storage, ROMs and backups can take a lot of memery, best to save them on the sdcard.
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Thanks, but I have enough of free space everywhere, still cant install anything.
Can anybody competent help me?
Should i get some logs?

Your welcome but sorry misread your og post, not to experienced with partition tool, never used it.
Other wise, there was no need for the insult, if your more re competent than me, than you should be able to figure that out for your self.
Some one else on here should be able to help you.
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Can anybody competent help me?
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Statements like this are considered abusive and ARE NOT condoned here at XDA-Developers.
Now, you've done something that is not a standard practice to do, and that's repartitioning your device. This is extremely risky and honestly more than likely the culprit of your current dilemma.
Did you just install CM11? If so, did you follow the installation instructions in the OP? And a thousand more questions that I could ask in an attempt to help you out of your situation. Always include as much information as possible when asking questions like this.

shinobisoft said:
Statements like this are considered abusive and ARE NOT condoned here at XDA-Developers.
Now, you've done something that is not a standard practice to do, and that's repartitioning your device. This is extremely risky and honestly more than likely the culprit of your current dilemma.
Did you just install CM11? If so, did you follow the installation instructions in the OP? And a thousand more questions that I could ask in an attempt to help you out of your situation. Always include as much information as possible when asking questions like this.
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Well you are not competent neither.
Mods delete/lock this thread, xda is still full of autists.
xda never change

olinojephanko said:
Well you are not competent neither.
Mods delete/lock this thread, xda is still full of autists.
xda never change
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You've been warned once already. Now you're going to insult yet someone else who is trying to help you.

@ olionephanko this forum is operated by volunteers... Being rude means no one will bother to help you...

Another non-competent post with redundant info.
Keep your OT for yourself.

Closing this thread.
Let's all remember to treat each other with a little respect and decency and not call people who try to help us incompetent, lest no one wants to help in the future..

Important!????

Hi
How I can install twrb without root ?
Thx

Ok.... dumb question... have you even done your research or even looked through the forum?
Reason I ask is because you can find the answer to your question rather easily if you did one of the 2 I mentioned above. Googling it also gives you the answer to your question.

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Z-Blade said:
Ok.... dumb question... have you even done your research or even looked through the forum?
Reason I ask is because you can find the answer to your question rather easily if you did one of the 2 I mentioned above. Googling it also gives you the answer to your question.
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Yes, I have looked, I did not find, Is it possible to link, and all of them fail to see the picture attached, and believe me, looked without interest, I hope to help, I own updated official Noga, but when the update is up 38% and fails. This is when a lot, now I want the piece to install it through twrb and Thanks
Sorry for my English bad

for rooting you need to be alredy twrp instaled, so, no need root to use twrp