Wipe data Factory Reset what will I lose?

Hi, I have a samsung galaxy s2 stuck in a boot loop. If I wipe data/factory reset from the standard Samsung recovery will I lose my photos which are not on a external sd card?

Thanks

factory cable doesn't work for Fire HD 6

HI pros,

I had a Fire HD 6 16G version. I have it rooted, but when trying to use TWRP, I run into trouble, right now it is in a rebooting loop, every time it just boot and stay on white amazon logo for like 10 sec, then reboot again.

I purchased a kindle factory cable via ebay, however, it doesn't bring the device to fastboot mode.

Anyone has any experience on fixing this boot loop issue?

by the way, adb console doesn't work now as well, no way for me to use adb command to push or install anything to it.

Thanks,
Lei

Factory reset after unlocking bootloader

Hello,
my OnePlus has been accidentally wiped after used OPO Tool Box (please see my post here).
I lost all my data.

When i reboot the phone i had to set the google account and all initial settings. Then Google downloaded all my apps and the contacts list.

Then i tried to recever all my photos and video (maybe about 1000 files) with Dr. Fone, but it didn't found any file related to the date before the wipe.

Why? Isn't this weird?

Could not add google account > did factory reset > can not get through initial setup

Hi guys,

All was well except when I tried to add a google account this happened
screen 1
Just a sec...
screen 2
Add your account
google
sing in to get the most out of your device. i
Enter your email [I enter my email and have tried others for testing]
screen 3
Error sorry there seems to be a problem. Please try again.

For troubleshooting I tried

Disabled 2FA on google account
Removed account from other device
rest app settings
sign in via multiple apps, contacts, playstore, youtube, add accounts et cetera
Enabled Backup my data and automatic restore
Connected via VPN
Update system software

Nothing worked so I did a factory reset. Now the part of the initial setup that is supposed to add a google account gets stuck on

"Couldn't sign in
Can’t establish a reliable connection to the server"

But I really mean stuck, there are no buttons on the screen, no possibility to slide down the task bar or go to home screen because this is happening as part of the initial setup steps. Volume and power buttons work so I can turn it off and turn it on again after which it enters the initial setup and the same thing happenes again as there is no option to skip this step or skip set up as a whole.

There are quite a few google results for

"Couldn't sign in
Can’t establish a reliable connection to the server"

But they all involve interacting with options and settings which I can not do. How can I boot the phone without it launching the initial setup process?

Phone is E2363, the 16G dual sim version. Thanks if you can help

After factory reset I get "setup wizard has stopped" but I'm not able to flash my rom

Hi all

this is my first post so please be nice to me if I do something wrong.
Ok, where to begin with my long list of problems...

1. I have an Evercoss A28b bought in Indonesia but manufactured in China. It has Mediatek 6972 and SW version is ALPS.JB3.MP.V1.40 (that's what I could find in the phone's factory mode)
2. I rooted it 2 months ago and put all my apps and data on it from my old phone with Titanium Backup. I had some minor problems in the beginning but fixed them all and the phone was running smoothly.
3. This morning I froze "Go Launcher Z" because I didn't like it anymore and wanted to try how my phone looks withour it. Since the moment I froze the app nothing happened. I couldn't access the home screen or the app drawer but only my recently used apps when pressing and holding the home button.
4. I wanted to reboot my phone but it kept booting and booting, saying "android is upgrading" all the time. After one hour I took out the battery and now it's dead.
5. I tried to reset it into factory mode and first it seemed to work because it asked me to do all the settings like language, google account etc. As soon as I was finished a window appeared with "unfortunately setup wizard has stopped" and now I can't even see my homescreen or anything. My screen is black apart from the battery, wifi and SIM icons in the top right corner.


Now, what I tried to do:

1. I googled and found a few solutions saying I should flash my rom. I googled and found the sp flash tool and a rom for my phone.
2. SP Flash Tool did not recognize my phone and there was no scatter file in that ZIP file that I had downloaded.
3. I downloaded MTKdroidtools to try to generate a scatter file from my phone and a lot of different drivers but none of them made my phone connect with DroidTools.
4. So I went back to SP Flash Tool and googled for hours in order to find a scatter file and make my phone connect with SP Flash Tool. I managed to find another rom, this one had a scatter file in it and I also managed somehow to connect my phone with SP Flash Tools. It was only recognized after I had selected the scatter file and pressed the download button though.
5. SP Flash Tools brought an error message saying my pmt has changed and I need a new one or something like that. Unfortunately I can't even re-do this to give you the correct error message because I can not connect my phone to the PC any longer. Everytime I do this with battery or without it keeps connecting and disconnecting all the time.
6. I am at my wits ends and don't know what to do any more.

Please help

problem in factory reset after updating yureka to cm12

Hello friend I updated my yureka to cm 12 two months ago I facing a problem in my phone when I going to do a factory reset it done successfully but after when my Yureka phone is starting it shows android is upgrading in first boot. every time when I do a factory reset in first boot it shows android is upgrading. Help me guys to get out from this problem.
I am very thankdul to you.

Un-root to factory

I have enjoyed all the fun of hacking things up on my rooted hdx 8.9. Its been fun,

But I am ready to take a dive an go to amazons control. I Cant seem to get many of the amazon features to work, so i am wanting to just factroy wipe/reset and allow amazon to update it and what not.

HOWEVER, I do NOT want to brick the device.

Can someone help me get this devices SAFELY to a point that it can be updated with out bricking.

I have a 14.3.2.5

I updated using the kfhdx toolkit 0.95 from memory it used towelroot as also installed xposed. (i did attempt to re-enable OTA but still says its failing)
I also installed google package ; framework, account manager, services, play store.

I just want to go back the right way so I dont brick. If you wouldnt mind pointing me in the right direction I would really appreciate it

SM-T111 3G 8GB tab nand write failed and stuck on factory mode

HI
I have a Samsung galaxy tab 3 lite SM-T111 and the tab had a problem about /efs invalid argument.
i was tried to fixed it already by install twrp recovery and the efs is worked but after i flashed back to stock firmware THL-T111XXUANB2 after pass on odin it suddenly showed
E: /system invalid
/cache invaild argument
then switch off automatically.
Now my device is stuck on factory mode only and even i tried to firmware restore by odin it shows nand write start failed. I tried to restored with pit file also it let pit file pass but when it started to flash firmware it failed on nand write start!
it that anyway to fix it guys?? May be my pit file is wrong or something happening. So pls let me know guide way to fix it. I hope that wont be emmc chip error.
Thanks you guys.

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T-Mobile Factory IMG ?

Does anyone know where I can find the latest factory IMG for the N6?

Sent from my HTC One M9 using Tapatalk

Factory reset - Problem.

Greetings everyone!

Few weeks ago, I gave my device to a friend of mine to manually update it. Something went wrong so he decided not to go any further. Yday i tried to "Factory reset", after reset some error pop'd in the left upper corner of the phone.It says:
[LGE_SECURITY] ERROR: boot image signature
Critical failure: Unable to start kernel.
Unrecoverable bootloader error (0x00000002).

Anyone had any similiar or even the same problem as i am facing right now? Thanks in advance.

best regards, Milan

Unable to factory reset

Hi to all.

I need your help!
I have a Samsung Galaxy Note 8.0 GT-N5110 that don't boot (it is stock in the Samsung logo)

And I can't enter the factory reset menu.

If a Press & hold [Vol-] + [Power] I get a screen that says:
Warning!!
A custom OS can cause critical problems
in phone and installed applications.

If you want to download a custom OS,
press the volume up key.
Otherwise, press the volume down key
to cancel.

Volume up: Continue
Volume down: Cancel 8restart phone)

If I Press [Vol+] + [Power] I get a screen that says:

Downloading...
Do not turn off target !!

If I Press [Vol+] + [Home] + [Power] I get the same screen that before:

Downloading...
Do not turn off target !!

Any help will be appreciated.

Factory reset with custom rom

I have a question that must be obvious to many but I don't know the answer and am curious.

Right now I am rooted and if I want to install a new rom I do the factory reset and wipe caches in recovery and then install the custom rom.

What happens if

1. I do this reset and clear caches within recovery and just reboot without installing a rom?

2. What happens if I do a factory reset with settings?

I know the phone will start in setup mode but will it have the last rom I installed or what?

S6 failing to boot - stuck on factory reset

Hey, my phone has been playing up and generally malfunctioning lately. It seems to work fine for a day or so before freezing, and either rebooting itself or forcing me to manually reboot it using power + volume down. This seems to send it into a bootloop where it generally freezes during the Samsung animation with the pulsing squares. This sequence continues with me manually rebooting, also trying to boot to safe mode and to recovery and after various attempts, i successfully got into recovery without it freezing on the blue android.

I then decided to factory reset as a last option, having looked around on forums for solutions. However, I now do not know what to do as it seems to have frozen during the factory reset. I dont have screenshots but the script reads as follows :

dm-verity verification failed. . .

-- Wiping data. . .
Formatting /data. . .
Formatting /cache. . .


It has been on that for the past 30 minutes and so i have assumed it has frozen. I'm afraid to force another reboot in case it is accessing memory, any suggestions on what to do?

It is up to date on fully stock software, has never been rooted and i have never attempted to do so. Also only around a month old.
Any help would be appreciated, thanks

Failed to mount /data and frozen after factory reset, HELP!

I have what's probably a unique situation, though I hope not. For background info, I bought two I747s, one white and one blue, each with issues, but I intended to put parts together to end up with one good one.

When I did a factory reset on the blue one via the recovery menu, it returned a bunch of errors along the lines of "failed to mount /data." Then when it rebooted it would hang on the Samsung logo. Back in recovery mode it returns more of the same errors just booting into recovery mode, and factory reset still returns more of the same errors and doesn't fix anything. I flashed 4.3 with Odin in an attempt to fix it, but I got the boards mixed up, and that one had 4.4 on it, not 4.1 like I thought. I'm pretty sure it's hard bricked now (that whole can't downgrade thing) because it's unresponsive to everything. Though my computer does recognize that it's plugged in, more on that later.

So I figured, fine, I screwed up, I'll just use the other board with 4.1 on it from the white phone. Except when I did a factory reset on that one, it did the exact same thing! Same errors, same problem stuck at the Samsung logo. Except this time I'm not flashing sh*t until I know exactly what I need to do to fix it. In another post where the guy had the same issue with 4.1.1, it was solved by flashing 4.3 with Odin. And another post where the guy had no idea what version he had, he just knew it was lower than 4.3, his problem was also solved by flashing 4.3, But since my last efforts failed miserably, I'm very reluctant to try it until I get some knowledgeable input. I don't remember exactly which version is on there, it's 4.1.something. I'd also prefer not to upgrade beyond 4.1 because I'd like to unlock it and from what I'm reading you can only do it for free if you're on 4.1. So I guess I need a link to an Odin flashable 4.1 package?

As for the poor blue phone that used to have 4.4.something, and was mistakenly flashed with 4.3, I've heard about JTAG but I don't quite understand it, and I'm not sure it would work in my case since a lot of what I'm reading says that bricking which occurs from downgrading is often unfixable. However, Windows recognizes that a device is plugged in when I attach it via USB. It shows up in the Device Manager as QHSUSB_DLOAD. I am currently researching more on this and the method of booting from an SD card, except I don't have an SD card reader at the moment.

Any assistance, advice, links, information, and plain ole encouragement are always welcome and appreciated.

Help! i cant boot into recovery or restore factory settings (secure booting error)

I am on stock kitkat ATT Lg optimus g pro e980, i cant boot into recovery or restore factory settings, all i get is
Secure booting Error!
Cause: boot certification verify
but i can boot normally.....i have been able to boot into TWRP recovery and install a few custom roms some time ago, this problem started after i restored TWRP backup. I read somewhere that the bootloader is locked, i tried using freegee but it doesnt work
when i start up freegee



after selecting a rom it downloads and stays like this like forever

when i minimize and go back to it

After Factory Reset, Phone is Slow as Hell - HELP!!

I'm rooted on my Galaxy S3. Last month I made a backup through TWRP recovery. Yesterday when I restored to the backup, the restore wasnt complete. I tried to restore again and I encountered the same incomplete restore. My customized settings in the apps were gone and some of the apps I had backed up weren't included in the restore. Looks like something got messed up.

I then wiped cache, Dalvik, data and system. I even formatted the phone. I also did a factory reset. This messed up my phone so I installed a new rooted stock rom. So now, the phone is slow as hell and apps arent very responsive. Everything is laggy and slow. And the play store and youtube have slow connection speeds.

What should I do to fix this stupidity??

Galaxy S6 Active stuck in factory binary mode

Hi, I didn't see a section specifically for active users. I hope I didn't overlook it.

I recently sent my phone off to the Samsung repair center in Plano, Texas. I cracked the glass around the camera and wanted to get it replaced. Well, when they sent me my phone back, it's stuck in some kind of factory binary mode. It says factory binary when booting up. IDK what that means, but it looks like some kind of testing mode. You can test all kinds of features, sounds etc. I sat on the phone with Samsung for an hour, and they couldn't figure it out. I pretty much can't use the phone in this mode, only testing. I can access my settings. I tried factory resetting about five times already. Nothing is working. I really don't want to have to send it off to them again.

Thanks in advance for anyone that can help me.

i have to break this URL up, because i dont have permission to post links yet....



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Tab 3 - Unable to Factory Reset

Hello,

I need help regarding my tablet. Here are the details:

Tablet: Samsung Galaxy Tab 3 10.1 Wi-Fi (GT-P5210)
Problem: I can't perform a Factory Data Reset
Root: Yes, rooted about 6 months ago, I got TWRP Version 2.6.1.0
Age: Almost 2 years, got about 1 Year and 8 Months, still got about 2 months warranty but I'm rooted so....

So the problem is that I cannot perform a factory data reset, neither from the Android Settings app or manually from Recovery. I found out about the problem when I decided that my tablet needed a factory reset, but then when I tried it failed. This was not my first time attempting a factory reset. Whenever one of my devices starts to act laggy and slowly after some time I attempt a factory reset and then setup everything again. When I wasn't rooted the factory reset worked and even after I rooted the tablet a factory reset worked. So to put it simpler after I rooted I tried 2 factory resets. The first worked and the second failed.

I read articles about this and apparently this is supposed to happen if you have messed up files in a partition. From what I read something I could try is to choose Advanced Wipe and try that, but my problem is that I do not know what I should choose to wipe. There are these options- Cache, Dalvic Cache, Data, System and Internal Storage. The bad thing is that, from what I read, wiping specific things could leave with me with NO OPERATING SYSTEM so I have to be careful. During an attempted factory reset in recovery mode I got errors which explained that it couldn't mount data and internal storage. It refered data to as a partition like this: /data/ but it mentioned internal storage like this: Unable to mount internal storage. The system is still able to boot up and operate normally but sometimes applications restart and misbehave and o have no option but to restart the system.

I hope you understood my problem and if there is something else you want to know or if there is something you want to be explained more clearly tell me. I'm not a newbie, tell me what needs to be done.

Tab 3 - Unable to Factory Reset

Hello,

I need help regarding my tablet. Here are the details:

Tablet: Samsung Galaxy Tab 3 10.1 Wi-Fi (GT-P5210)
Problem: I can't perform a Factory Data Reset
Root: Yes, rooted about 6 months ago, I got TWRP Version 2.6.1.0
Age: Almost 2 years, got about 1 Year and 8 Months, still got about 2 months warranty but I'm rooted so....

So the problem is that I cannot perform a factory data reset, neither from the Android Settings app or manually from Recovery. I found out about the problem when I decided that my tablet needed a factory reset, but then when I tried it failed. This was not my first time attempting a factory reset. Whenever one of my devices starts to act laggy and slowly after some time I attempt a factory reset and then setup everything again. When I wasn't rooted the factory reset worked and even after I rooted the tablet a factory reset worked. So to put it simpler after I rooted I tried 2 factory resets. The first worked and the second failed.

I read articles about this and apparently this is supposed to happen if you have messed up files in a partition. From what I read something I could try is to choose Advanced Wipe and try that, but my problem is that I do not know what I should choose to wipe. There are these options- Cache, Dalvic Cache, Data, System and Internal Storage. The bad thing is that, from what I read, wiping specific things could leave with me with NO OPERATING SYSTEM so I have to be careful. During an attempted factory reset in recovery mode I got errors which explained that it couldn't mount data and internal storage. It refered data to as a partition like this: /data/ but it mentioned internal storage like this: Unable to mount internal storage. The system is still able to boot up and operate normally but sometimes applications restart and misbehave and I have no option but to restart the system.

I hope you understood my problem and if there is something else you want to know or if there is something you want to be explained more clearly tell me. I'm not a newbie, tell me what needs to be done.

Can't detect Internal Storage After restore to factory ROM

HTC ONE M8,
Unlocked Bootloader
TWRP installed.
S-off still ON

Backup all original Rom thru TWRP and test some of customer ROM... Now, restore to Original ROM and everything seems to work but can not detect internal 32GB Storage :confused::confused: Everytime I still install apps run from apk.. It indicate (Out of Space)