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2010-02-03
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Originally Posted by nMIK-3
That exact same function is still in the current firmware (works on my phone anyway), but doesn't do what you seem to think it does. All that does is set the settings (as in, those set in the settings dialogue) back to their factory defaults. It doesn't remove installed apps, data, changes to system files, etc.
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2010-02-03
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Originally Posted by Rob1n
I am not referring to the "Restore Original Settings" which is present and it does what you said above, I am referring to the "Clear Device" option on the right side. This was a button for a complete format/clean up of the device and no it is not available in the final firmware.
That exact same function is still in the current firmware (works on my phone anyway), but doesn't do what you seem to think it does. All that does is set the settings (as in, those set in the settings dialogue) back to their factory defaults. It doesn't remove installed apps, data, changes to system files, etc.
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2010-02-03
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Unless it is but has been removed from the UI? maybe we can track it down somehow.
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2010-02-03
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#14
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Originally Posted by Catacylsm
I suspect it just didn't work. I don't see how they can do this without keeping a full (untouched) copy of the firmware on-device. I'd guess that all that was done was clearing the user data and uninstalling packages - basically clearing out everything that gets backed up by the Backup app.
Unless it is but has been removed from the UI? maybe we can track it down somehow.
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2010-02-03
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Originally Posted by Catacylsm
This would be great
Unless it is but has been removed from the UI? maybe we can track it down somehow.
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2010-02-03
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I agree there Rob, or maybe just a nice clean wipe of the eMMC, but if we can track anything related to this down, this could be very interesting.
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2010-02-03
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BTW.
Has someone run emmc flash and phone flash and tried after that recover files from emmc. Just tough that for sake of security I hope that it writes zeros to emmc before flashing.
Has someone run emmc flash and phone flash and tried after that recover files from emmc. Just tough that for sake of security I hope that it writes zeros to emmc before flashing.
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2010-02-04
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Originally Posted by slender
I doubt it does. It's very difficult to recover files from flash though, as blocks get remapped all the time for wear-levelling.
BTW.
Has someone run emmc flash and phone flash and tried after that recover files from emmc. Just tough that for sake of security I hope that it writes zeros to emmc before flashing.
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2010-02-04
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Originally Posted by Rob1n
ok.Because i recovered some default music files with recuva.
I doubt it does. It's very difficult to recover files from flash though, as blocks get remapped all the time for wear-levelling.
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2010-02-04
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Originally Posted by slender
If you've not written anything then it'll be easy enough. I think that reflashing will rewrite enough to make it difficult though - I've not tried though, so I could be wrong.
ok.Because i recovered some default music files with recuva.
