[Q] factory reset

After reading that others have the same issues as I do with ICS (bad battery life, wifi connection problems, and the phone being sluggish) and a factory reset is the "fix" for this, I went ahead and did a factory reset. Surprisingly, the phone had automatically backed up everything..

Hi all, suppose that some apps has damaged my phone and I want to do a factory reset on a stock but promoted ROM.

May I damage the phone by factory reset a rooted stock ROM? If yes how can I reset the phone?

Hi! I need to sell my Galaxy Exhibit 4G, so I want to do a factory data reset to wipe it clean. I rooted it about 6 months ago, but I have stayed on stock and just frozen and deleted some of the bloatware apps. Can I just do a regular factory data reset? I am concerned because of rumors that it might brick your phone?

First lets understand what a factory reset does. It removes all USER DATA and restores the phone back to factory settings providing that the phone is not rooted. User data is defined as apps, call logs, contacts, and anything else the user has placed in the phones memory. Stuff that is on the SDCARD is not affected by a factory reset.

Now that I've got my apps chosen, I'm thinking about restoring factory settings and doing a clean install.

The phone is successfully rooted. If I hard reset, will the phone remain rooted?

As an aside: Settings/Privacy/Factory data reset vs. the power/volume down/clear storage deal? Are they both equally effective when working with the stock ROM?

Thanks, Jake

Hi guys, just a few simple questions regarding malware, I'd really appreciate it if someone could help me out quick!

1. Does malware require to root your phone in order for it to work? Or can it steal your information without rooting?

2.

I had some photos in the phone's internal storage, my friend did a factory reset on it, and now all of them are gone. I have tried nearly all available android applications like Undelete, Hexamob and Disk digger etc but no luck. Disk digger only found 3 photos.

The Huawei Ascend P1 has mass storage option and I have all the drivers installed but it doesn't mount.

So, I have a vodafone smart 2 phone and I rooted it 3 weeks ago, it worked fine until today I made a factory reset of it.

So after the reset, I wanted to open a root required app and nothing, it gave me a error, i installed another, and one more error.

This is an odd problem I'm not sure I've seen anyone else have. So I rooted my phone and of course almost immediately un-installed something I shouldn't have. I can open up my contacts but if I select one, contacts closes itself. I've done a soft and hard factory reset, but that's obviously not going to restore a lot of the stuff that was on there to begin with.