How to fully wipe phone....?

[Crisisx1]

I can't seem to do it.. when i go into cwm reset... all files stay on the sd card, pics music, and others files.

when i go into settings and reset same thing..

is there a third way to try to do it so it wipes everything?

btw i do not have an ext sd card.. just what ever storage came with the 16 gb s3

 

[bfranklin1986]

Go into cwr recovery and mounts and storage I think and format sdcard

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[Crisisx1]

Go into cwr recovery and mounts and storage I think and format sdcard

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I tried it only has option for external SD card which I don't have. Clicked it and said something along the lines that it failed.

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[Venal_System]

After you Odin, let it boot up and then go into settings, back up and reset,and do a factory data reset. I had to ask the same question, because I just thought Odin would do that.

 

[bfranklin1986]

I tried it only has option for external SD card which I don't have. Clicked it and said something along the lines that it failed.

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Hmm mine has option for emmc which should be external card and sdcard which should be internal card. You can also plug it into your pc and right click the drive and format

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[Crisisx1]

Hmm mine has option for emmc which should be external card and sdcard which should be internal card. You can also plug it into your pc and right click the drive and format

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Wouldn't that wipe out even the system files that are needed

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[bfranklin1986]

Wouldn't that wipe out even the system files that are needed

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Didn't when I did it on my vibrant. Pretty sure it just mounts sdcard not system or anything else. That's why you can't edit the system files through your pc that way

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[Crisisx1]

Didn't when I did it on my vibrant. Pretty sure it just mounts sdcard not system or anything else. That's why you can't edit the system files through your pc that way

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well i just tried that option and i dont have the option of format when i right click .. weird

 

[bfranklin1986]

well i just tried that option and i dont have the option of format when i right click .. weird

well the only other thing I can think is manually deleting files one by one......

 

[Crisisx1]

well the only other thing I can think is manually deleting files one by one......

dude i think im ****ed..!!! i deleted everything off the internal memory.. then i did a reset and wiped caches, now i am in cwm and cant do anything because i deleted everything even my damn nandroid back

i have it all copied to my comptuer problem is phone wont get recognized by pc now so i can copy over the nandroid folder so i can do a restore..

 

[bfranklin1986]

boot into dowload mode and odin back

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or if you have an sd card put a rom on your sd card and flash it through recovery

 

[Crisisx1]

boot into dowload mode and odin back

yeah im in odin right now.. kinda confused as to what to do now

 

[bfranklin1986]

Odin tutorial http://www.droidreader.com/2012/04/how-to-flash-roms-using-odin-tutorial.html


stock odin files http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1737855

 

[Crisisx1]

Odin tutorial http://www.droidreader.com/2012/04/how-to-flash-roms-using-odin-tutorial.html


stock odin files http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1737855

doing it now.. idk if its stuck or just takes a while. but i downloaded the stock odin uvalh2 started the process and now its at aboot.mbn part been on that for like 10 mins already

 

[Crisisx1]

here is a pic

 

[saldebot]

From what I can see zooming in you do not have auto reboot checked. Go ahead and check that and ODIN again it will take about 8 to 15 minutes to install everything. I just did that about 2 hours ago. Remember just check auto reboot and leave the other ones unchecked.