Hey nexus heads. I'm a little confused over directions after root. Do you wipe everything between roms including internal forcing you to backup each and every time pics etc....I'm not a noob but never had a non external storage phone before. Im used to external sd card options.
External and internal storage are same thing. When they mean wipe, it's just the wipe portion of twrp. Your internal storage never gets wiped unless you tell it to in advanced wipe or if you format userdata in fastboot for encryption / decryption
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zephiK said:
External and internal storage are same thing. When they mean wipe, it's just the wipe portion of twrp. Your internal storage never gets wiped unless you tell it to in advanced wipe or if you format userdata in fastboot for encryption / decryption
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After switching roms do you have to decrypt each and every time?
GhostZini said:
After switching roms do you have to decrypt each and every time?
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Nope
Appreciate the help mates!
GhostZini said:
After switching roms do you have to decrypt each and every time?
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No you don't, unless the rom ships with a kernel that has force encrypt.
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what does these commands in mount & storage of cwm recovery do?
format cache (is it same as wipe cache?)
format system (is it same as factory reset in cwm?)
format data
format preload
format sd card
format emmc
does it hold significance to perform any of these operations during a full wipe for installing a new rom.
Some answers in here.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1836150
http://www.team-passion.com/index.php/wiki/19-roms/18-how-to-do-a-squeaky-clean-install
even thought its now called obsolete, I still perform those steps catered to my n7000. As posting suggest a bit overkill, but did prevent a load of issues cause installs are overkill clean.
At own risk of course and best from safe kernel. Id recommend it to everyone going from gb to ics, from ics to gb or even between customs roms.
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lrcquest said:
what does these commands in mount & storage of cwm recovery do?
does it hold significance to perform any of these operations during a full wipe for installing a new rom.
Some answers in here.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1836150
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format cache (is it same as wipe cache?)Yes.
format system (is it same as factory reset in cwm?)It will format your system partition. You will not be able to start your phone unless you flash a new rom
format dataThis will format your data. Same as Factory Reset)
format preloadI hope this is for preloaders which loads before starting the OS.
format sd cardThis will format your Internal SD Card
format emmcThis will format your External SD Card.
Wiping Cache/Dalvik/Data is required to perform a clean install of new rom. There is no need to use these commands unless you want a completely new phone without data (Including Internal/External SD Card).
sahilarora2003 said:
format emmcThis will format your External SD Card.
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what will format/emmc do if no ext SD present ?
nokiamodeln91 said:
what will format/emmc do if no ext SD present ?
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It will show error that ext SD not found
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baz77 said:
http://www.team-passion.com/index.php/wiki/19-roms/18-how-to-do-a-squeaky-clean-install
even thought its now called obsolete, I still perform those steps catered to my n7000. As posting suggest a bit overkill, but did prevent a load of issues cause installs are overkill clean.
At own risk of course and best from safe kernel. Id recommend it to everyone going from gb to ics, from ics to gb or even between customs roms.
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This way is a bit too much safe!
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note sometimes emmc and sd are switched, I think in some roms this is the case. I always suggest to take external out, just in case Been there done that
edit: and some kernels
Cleanest install possible for best experience in my opinion
Note, a lot of people do this but always read first post and thread of rom, just to be safest
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baz77 said:
note sometimes emmc and sd are switched, I think in some roms this is the case. I always suggest to take external out, just in case Been there done that
edit: and some kernels
Cleanest install possible for best experience in my opinion
Note, a lot of people do this but always read first post and thread of rom, just to be safest
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unfortunately i realized that way too late, after formatting Sdcard (External card in my case). leaving me with a blank emmc (supposedly internal sdcard).
Hi,
I'm using a HTC one, which is rooted, s-on, unlocked. I'm also using maximus hd 13 rom.
I want to completely reset the content on the internal sd card. I already tried to format the card via cwm wipe and during aroma installer using full wipe. But afterwards my sd card is still not clean, all the stuff from before is still there.
How can I get rid of those sd card content?
thanks in advance,
Chris
Well I can tell you from experience that it's a lot easier than I thought it would be. I actually use TWRP and what I do is install the Rom I want...then format the sd card in recovery and reboot. It's that simple..at least for me. Now for cwm I think there's the option for to format sd..not just wipe..but I can't remember the setup off hand...I'm thinking the process would be exactly the same
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robotrobles said:
Well I can tell you from experience that it's a lot easier than I thought it would be. I actually use TWRP and what I do is install the Rom I want...then format the sd card in recovery and reboot. It's that simple..at least for me. Now for cwm I think there's the option for to format sd..not just wipe..but I can't remember the setup off hand...I'm thinking the process would be exactly the same
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Hi,
I've installed maximus 13 an hour ago, doing all wipes I found
I also use the factory reset in the android settings.
At the moment I'm looking for format options in cwm and I found the following in "mounts and storage menu":
- format /cache
- format /data
- format /sdcard
- format /system
- format /external_sd
- format /data and /data/media (/sdcard)
should I try these options? If yes, all of them? In which order?
I can't imagine that it could be so difficult to get your sd card clean
spooky32 said:
Hi,
I've installed maximus 13 an hour ago, doing all wipes I found
I also use the factory reset in the android settings.
At the moment I'm looking for format options in cwm and I found the following in "mounts and storage menu":
- format /cache
- format /data
- format /sdcard
- format /system
- format /external_sd
- format /data and /data/media (/sdcard)
should I try these options? If yes, all of them? In which order?
I can't imagine that it could be so difficult to get your sd card clean
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format sdcard will wipe your internal storage.
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nkk71 said:
format sdcard will wipe your internal storage.
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okay, I've done so and it looks good. Do I have to reflash the maximus rom now or is it possible just to reboot the phone and everything will work fine?
spooky32 said:
okay, I've done so and it looks good. Do I have to reflash the maximus rom now or is it possible just to reboot the phone and everything will work fine?
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Just reboot. U should now have a clean storage.
The others (system and data) would wipe your Rom and user apps.
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nkk71 said:
Just reboot. U should now have a clean storage.
The others (system and data) would wipe your Rom and user apps.
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perfect!
Everything is fine.
Thank you so much!
spooky32 said:
perfect!
Everything is fine.
Thank you so much!
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No problem. The thanks button is always appreciated
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Hi,
I have ended up with this sdcard\0 and sdcard\legacy type problem.
How do I wipe the internal storage? I have touchwin recovery but its unclear which option wipes the internal storage so I wiped everything but it didn't work.
Thanks
Wipe data will wipe all the sdcard
daveaus said:
Hi,
I have ended up with this sdcard\0 and sdcard\legacy type problem.
How do I wipe the internal storage? I have touchwin recovery but its unclear which option wipes the internal storage so I wiped everything but it didn't work.
Thanks
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Go to cwm recovery and wipe data and if that doesn't work than go to "advance" than der will b option of wiping internal sd card select that and it will b wiped
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Guich said:
Wipe data will wipe all the sdcard
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I tried that one it gave an error.
rajat33 said:
Go to cwm recovery and wipe data and if that doesn't work than go to "advance" than der will b option of wiping internal sd card select that and it will b wiped
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Anyway of doing it in touchwin? Or is there an adb command?
Thanks
Go to settings >storage and than wipe internal storage
U could c in the pic
And if this doesn't work than I'm sorry bro Cuz I don't have touchwin recovery so I don't know a lot abt it..hope this works...
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daveaus said:
I tried that one it gave an error.
Thanks
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Which error?
Post here the log
daveaus said:
Hi,
I have ended up with this sdcard\0 and sdcard\legacy type problem.
How do I wipe the internal storage? I have touchwin recovery but its unclear which option wipes the internal storage so I wiped everything but it didn't work.
Thanks
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I don't have TWRP either, but it should be under advanced and read something like "format /data/media"
I ended up just installing clockwork mod and the wipe worked fine but I have still ended up with sdcard\0 and sdcard\legacy is that normal?
On the plus side I no longer have a copy of everything in both.
daveaus said:
I ended up just installing clockwork mod and the wipe worked fine but I have still ended up with sdcard\0 and sdcard\legacy is that normal?
On the plus side I no longer have a copy of everything in both.
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You should have /data/media/0 and /data/media/legacy
/sdcard/ is only a symlink to /data/media/0
You should be good.
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.
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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