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If I need to do factory reset running V1.1

lostlaker24

lostlaker24

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I am running V 1.1 and woke up to my on screen back button not working. Still under warrenty and plan to call verizion. If they ask me do a factory reset, will it interfere with V 1.1? I just had shoulder surgey yesturday and am a one armed bandit so sorta limited in "work" I can do right now. I.E. I am gimp.
 
If you do a factory reset, it will wipe everything on your phone, including Velocity. When the phone reboots after wiping, it will be running the stock rom.
 
That is incorrect. A factory reset will NOT magically restore the stock ROM. All it does is wipe ALL data on the phone. It does NOT touch the ROM in any way.
 
Custom roms on the Ally are just placed over the stock rom. If you factory reset, it will get rid of all userdata but the stock rom is still there. I got this info from Dots so I'm 97% sure it's correct.
 
A factory reset will not wipe a flashed custom ROM on Ally. The only way to do that is to flash another ROM or Nandroid.
If you could go back to stock with a simple factory reset there wouldn't be all of the threads with people asking how to get back to stock for one reason or another on here.
 
ALL a factory reset will wipe is the /data and /cache partions.

Custom rom's don't place over stock files they usually are placed ona freshly formated /system partion, depending what the update-script in said rom says to do. Hence when flashing roms you might see it say "Formating /system," or such. That is why you have to flash to go back stock as dautley said.

So no doing a factory reset will not get you to a stock rom. It will only wipe the data that you placed on the rom.

Sorry if what i said wasn't clear in irc.
 
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