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Root Factory Data Reset on Galaxhero..

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spottyelephant

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While I wait for 2.0 to be released for this phone, officially or not, I've decided I'm giving it to my brother, and i'm going to play with a Milestone.

Anyway before I hand it over to him, I obv want to delete all my email account etc info off the phone. I couldnt really be bothered re-flashing it, so does anybody know whether the factory data reset works on Galaxhero, and does it just leave you with a blank galaxhero slate?

Cheers
 
spottyelephant said:
does anybody know whether the factory data reset works on Galaxhero, and does it just leave you with a blank galaxhero slate?
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It does, but be careful. When I did the factory reset in order to extract a some clean db files for behold2 guys, my phone wouldn't boot. We came to conclusion it's probably due to gapps (or their config) being deleted also, so make sure you have stock ii5 tarball renamed ii5.tar in on your internal sd card so you can restore gapps with rectools.

However I almost broke my phone due to the fact gapps wouldn't restore in my case. (we assumed that was because sdcard fs was dirty or broken, and I probably formatted my sd card incorrectly which gave me some headaches).

Please reply is it working for you. Or maybe you even managed to boot without restoring gapps after wipe.
 
Mmm, little worried about doing it now!

Screamin, do you mean i should just have that tar sitting in the root of my phone? I flashed so long ago I've kinda forgotten what the process is.

So when i restore factory data from settings and the phone reboots, do you expect it to go ii5.tar boot -> rectools -> choose restore gapps -> boot into galaxhero -> normal galaxhero boot after that?:confused:
 
1. put II5.tar on internal sd
2. boot into recovery
3. wipe/factory reset
4. apply update.zip (forgot about it the first time, sorry)
5. DO NOT REBOOT
6. restore g.apps
 
spottyelephant said:
Mmm, little worried about doing it now!

Screamin, do you mean i should just have that tar sitting in the root of my phone? I flashed so long ago I've kinda forgotten what the process is.

So when i restore factory data from settings and the phone reboots, do you expect it to go ii5.tar boot -> rectools -> choose restore gapps -> boot into galaxhero -> normal galaxhero boot after that?:confused:
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EDIT: First try what informale says. I didn't do it like that (I did factory reset from Settings and rebooted), and this could be a source of problems I was having

ii5.tar has to be in the root of internal sd card. It doesn't matter if there are other files/folders there. In fact RECTOOLS.tar.gz are there (you need this), as well as nandroid backup files, and you would want those in case something goes wrong.

You'll have to have rectools 4.3 at least (you probably already have it). If phone doesn't boot after factory reset, then yes:
boot -> rectools -> choose restore gapps -> Reboot (in normal system)

But before all that I strongly suggest that you make a nandroid backup, just in case.

The one thing I didn't remember to try (when I got stuck) is just to apply galaxhero update.zip all over again and then restore g.apps, so you might wanna try that too if it still won't boot after trying out everything else.
 
Uh oh, I need help!

I followed Informale's instructions and then when I went to reboot after, it's now getting stuck on the android (hd) screen. It just keeps starting up, flashing off, and then starting that bit again!:confused:


edit: ok, i just re-did it and applied update.zip first, all good now! Got a fright for a minute there !
 
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