Odin and full wipe?

[amirage]

Hi all,

I have been trying to full wipe/ factory reset my phone (the traditional value) using the Odin (and smart switch). Both the methods showed that the phone was being erased however after reboot all my data and setting were still in tact. So the question is does Odin/ Smart switch act as an alternative to factory reset through android/ recovery? I'm kinda confused.

 

[alexiuss]

Odin does not have an option to factory reset, and it never touches the data/media on your phone... of course your phone should lose all settings since generally the /system partition gets erased before flash, but your /data/media partition is still intact.

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[amirage]

Odin does not have an option to factory reset, and it never touches the data/media on your phone... of course your phone should lose all settings since generally the /system partition gets erased before flash, but your /data/media partition is still intact.

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Well, that's the funny bit. Non of the settings are changed as well..everything intact although Odin said success...

 

[alexiuss]

Well, that's the funny bit. Non of the settings are changed as well..everything intact although Odin said success...

That depends on firmware, you have to manually factory reset from recovery.

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[amirage]

That depends on firmware, you have to manually factory reset from recovery.

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That's what I thought too..