It can be formatted as long as you flash a new boot image before restarting. Otherwise I've heard you can brick your phone.
It can be formatted as long as you flash a new boot image before restarting. Otherwise I've heard you can brick your phone.
It can be formatted as long as you flash a new boot image before restarting. Otherwise I've heard you can brick your phone.
including boot! Wipe: boot, system, userdata, cache, sd-ext, dalvik cache, than mount sd card and delete all folders from sd card, unmount sd card, install zip
6. and 7. is not good, there need an important step (6.5):I always do the following for flashing ALL ROMs and it always worked for me:
1. Go to CWM
2. Factory reset
3. Wipe cache
4. Wipe dalvik
5. Format boot, cache, data, system
6. Flash rom
7. Reboot to CWM
8. Flash gapps and normal reboot
Maybe I've been lucky, but I've never flashed a rom and gapps separately and I've never had a problem with gapps, though i can see where it could be problematic.
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6. and 7. is not good, there need an important step (6.5):
1. Go to CWM
2. Factory reset
3. Wipe cache
4. Wipe dalvik
5. Format boot, cache, data, system, sd-ext
6. Flash rom
6.5. boot room (if not do it, you will have problem with gapps)
7. Reboot to CWM
8. Flash gapps and normal reboot
Ok, I aggre but step nr.6.5 (after installing rom need to boot rom before installing gaps) is very important! If not do it, probles ocur with market, with screen for acount configuration...etc
That was the problem I gad earlier on..
About the SD, is the files that are corrupted or the physical SD card?
Needless to say I need my files..
As the last two posters have said, you don't need to do that. No idea where this originated (I've seen several people in this forum suggest it) but it's pointless. You also don't need to restart CWM before flashing gapps.
On another note, "factory reset/wipe data" will clear your data, cache, dalvik cache, and sd-ext. If you do "factory reset/wipe data", then you don't need to manually wipe (aka format) any of those a second time. I think the reason this has persisted is because there were problems with some of the earlier CWM versions where it wouldn't clear it properly, but that shouldn't be an issue anymore.
The one problem I have is that sometimes my phone seems to load so much stuff into RAM that the phone will slow down, freeze up, then reboot. I usually try to close programs with the task manager after i'm done using them; but, sometimes it freezes when i'm not even using it. Typically, when it reboots, the boot animation will be going in slow motion. I'm using S2E for extra space and have dalvik on my ext3 partition; i think that probably has something to do with it. What i do now if i can't get it to speed up is just reboot before it freezes, otherwise I can't get it to recover without doing a battery pull.Has anyone had issues with sporadic reboots with this ROM? After noticing this, I installed an uptime widget.. The phone crashed while adding the widget to the home screen.
Since installing the widget, the phone has rebooted three or four times, so I think it's just making it worse.
Is it compatible with ics? I'm not sure! I have seen something strange when cpu freq governor is on interactive....maybe its problem? Try using ondemand governor 122-806, I haven't problems...Has anyone had issues with sporadic reboots with this ROM? After noticing this, I installed an uptime widget.. The phone crashed while adding the widget to the home screen.
Since installing the widget, the phone has rebooted three or four times, so I think it's just making it worse.