[Q] Total Factory Reset. Possible?

[MR H3LLMAN]

Hey all,

So I've been digging into this for about a week now and have come up with no conclusive results. I sincerely hope someone can point me in the right direction.

I've been experiencing random lockups and resets recently on EVERY rom I use, including all stock roms. I just don't get it. So I've been trying every rom possible and going back to stock, changing kernels, underclocking and overclocking, changing I/O schedulers, etc...

But what is really blowing my mind is that regardless of how many full wipe and restores I've done, my phone still seems to remember my wifi network and other random info. My question is this:

Is there a way to truly get my phone all the way reformatted to how it came out of the box? (blank slate with absolutely NO user date whatsoever)

If anybody can help me out with this, it would be so greatly appreciated.

Also, I have to manually update the drivers on my device everytime I put it in to download just for Odin to work with it.

 

[droidstyle]

follow the going back to stock section in the link...

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1238070

 

[MR H3LLMAN]

Yeah I've done this so many times its sickening. Appears the drivers are gone from my phone as well.


This may be a stupid question, but somewhere along the the way I guess my nandroid backup disappeared. Is it possible to use someone elses?

 

[droidstyle]

Yeah I've done this so many times its sickening. Appears the drivers are gone from my phone as well.


This may be a stupid question, but somewhere along the the way I guess my nandroid backup disappeared. Is it possible to use someone elses?

So you put the stock ed05 rom in the pda section of odin w/ atlas pit and repartition checked and you still have issues?

 

[MR H3LLMAN]

So you put the stock ed05 rom in the pda section of odin w/ atlas pit and repartition checked and you still have issues?

Yeah. This is baffling me. I've been doing the custom rom thing for awhile now and am pretty knowledgeable on all of this. But I'm still getting random lockups and resets.

 

[droidstyle]

Yeah. This is baffling me. I've been doing the custom rom thing for awhile now and am pretty knowledgeable on all of this. But I'm still getting random lockups and resets.

One thing to try is to back up your sd card to a computer then reformat it, then odin a stock package and see if that fixes things. Or odin all the way back to eclair (dl09) then flash your rom of choice. This was the only way I could get on cm7.

 

[MR H3LLMAN]

One thing to try is to back up your sd card to a computer then reformat it, then odin a stock package and see if that fixes things. Or odin all the way back to eclair (dl09) then flash your rom of choice. This was the only way I could get on cm7.

I'm in the process of trying this right now. Also, thank you for your help and for replying in such a timely manner. I'll post back my results.

 

[MR H3LLMAN]

One thing to try is to back up your sd card to a computer then reformat it, then odin a stock package and see if that fixes things. Or odin all the way back to eclair (dl09) then flash your rom of choice. This was the only way I could get on cm7.

You, sir, are a God among men. I don't know why but I odin'd back to dl09 instead of ed05 this time and reformatted my sd card and everything seems to have fixed itself. Crazy. Can't express enough gratitude...

 

[droidstyle]

You, sir, are a God among men. I don't know why but I odin'd back to dl09 instead of ed05 this time and reformatted my sd card and everything seems to have fixed itself. Crazy. Can't express enough gratitude...

Your welcome...Glad it worked for ya! I think dl09 is the best stock package to odin as far as clean install. I was having one hell of a time trying to put cm7.1 on my phone a few days ago...tried every stock froyo package and pwgb, but couldnt get the file system to convert. just a bunch of "can't mount system/data" errors. Finally decided to try the old dl09 package and reformat sd card and bam cm7 installed...which imo was a good indicator that some of the stock odin packages out there do not completely wipe everything.

 

[MR H3LLMAN]

Your welcome...Glad it worked for ya! I think dl09 is the best stock package to odin as far as clean install. I was having one hell of a time trying to put cm7.1 on my phone a few days ago...tried every stock froyo package and pwgb, but couldnt get the file system to convert. just a bunch of "can't mount system/data" errors. Finally decided to try the old dl09 package and reformat sd card and bam cm7 installed...which imo was a good indicator that some of the stock odin packages out there do not completely wipe everything.

Yeah that has absolutely been my experience now. ED05 ended up failing me in the end. I just never thought to use dl09 since it was so old but now I'm a firm believer it is the only stock odin package that should be used for clean installs. I had so many issues before this and now it feels like the first time I ever installed a custom rom. And zero problems as well. Thanks again!

 

[kasmanavt]

Is Atlas pit file same for dl09 and ed05?

 

[droidstyle]

Is Atlas pit file same for dl09 and ed05?

yep sure is