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Rob1n 2010-02-03 08:58
Re: Hard reset - Complete format
 
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Originally Posted by nMIK-3 (Post 507591)
I agree and this is what I meant. A reformat (in our case re-installing Maemo and clean up everything) all with a simple click. Again, I repeat this function was available under tab in "Settings" menu in a pre-release firmware and is a mystery of why Nokia didn't included it, in the final release.
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.

nMIK-3 2010-02-03 10:38
Re: Hard reset - Complete format
 
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Originally Posted by Rob1n (Post 508136)
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.
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.

Catacylsm 2010-02-03 11:05
Re: Hard reset - Complete format
 
Unless it is but has been removed from the UI? maybe we can track it down somehow.

Rob1n 2010-02-03 13:07
Re: Hard reset - Complete format
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by Catacylsm (Post 508307)
Unless it is but has been removed from the UI? maybe we can track it down somehow.
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.

nMIK-3 2010-02-03 20:09
Re: Hard reset - Complete format
 
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Originally Posted by Catacylsm (Post 508307)
Unless it is but has been removed from the UI? maybe we can track it down somehow.
This would be great :)

Catacylsm 2010-02-03 22:09
Re: Hard reset - Complete format
 
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.

slender 2010-02-03 22:16
Re: Hard reset - Complete format
 
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.

Rob1n 2010-02-04 09:07
Re: Hard reset - Complete format
 
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Originally Posted by slender (Post 509419)
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.
I doubt it does. It's very difficult to recover files from flash though, as blocks get remapped all the time for wear-levelling.

slender 2010-02-04 10:33
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Originally Posted by Rob1n (Post 510052)
I doubt it does. It's very difficult to recover files from flash though, as blocks get remapped all the time for wear-levelling.
ok.Because i recovered some default music files with recuva.

Rob1n 2010-02-04 10:48
Re: Hard reset - Complete format
 
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Originally Posted by slender (Post 510148)
ok.Because i recovered some default music files with recuva.
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.


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