Factory Reset

[Malkozaine]

How do you Factory Reset the phone? Also will it delete only the apps or will everything on the USB and SD card get nuked.

Sent from my Samsung Galaxy S2 Epic 4G Touch

 

[strabo231]

How do you Factory Reset the phone? Also will it delete only the apps or will everything on the USB and SD card get nuked.

Sent from my Samsung Galaxy S2 Epic 4G Touch

First, are you rooted?

Second, factory resetting the phone will only clear the apps that you installed. Not the ones that came stock on the phone. It will not clear your sd card.

 

[Malkozaine]

No I am not rooted. OK so the SD card is fine how about the pictures and music I have on the phone?

Sent from my Samsung Galaxy S2 Epic 4G Touch

 

[strabo231]

No I am not rooted. OK so the SD card is fine how about the pictures and music I have on the phone?

Sent from my Samsung Galaxy S2 Epic 4G Touch

It's going to remove anything you put on the phone. Pictures, music, contacts, etc. So you need to back all that up.

 

[Malkozaine]

It's going to remove anything you put on the phone. Pictures, music, contacts, etc. So you need to back all that up.

OK thanks.

Sent from my Samsung Galaxy S2 Epic 4G Touch

 

[Cobravision]

Make sure you move your files to the external_sd folder. The "sdcard" directory and all subfolders are actually part of internal storage and will be wiped on factory reset. The only exception is the external_sd folder and its subfolders. External_sd is really the mount point for the actual sd card.

You can go to settings storage to see what files are left in "usbstorage", which, confusingly, is the internal storage partition.

 

[Malkozaine]

OK, thanks again guys.

Sent from my Samsung Galaxy S2 Epic 4G Touch