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    Rob1n | # 11 | 2010-02-03, 08:58 | Report

    Originally Posted by nMIK-3 View Post
    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.

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    nMIK-3 | # 12 | 2010-02-03, 10:38 | Report

    Originally Posted by Rob1n View Post
    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.

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    Catacylsm | # 13 | 2010-02-03, 11:05 | Report

    Unless it is but has been removed from the UI? maybe we can track it down somehow.

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    Rob1n | # 14 | 2010-02-03, 13:07 | Report

    Originally Posted by Catacylsm View Post
    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.

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    nMIK-3 | # 15 | 2010-02-03, 20:09 | Report

    Originally Posted by Catacylsm View Post
    Unless it is but has been removed from the UI? maybe we can track it down somehow.
    This would be great

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    Catacylsm | # 16 | 2010-02-03, 22:09 | Report

    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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    slender | # 17 | 2010-02-03, 22:16 | Report

    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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    Rob1n | # 18 | 2010-02-04, 09:07 | Report

    Originally Posted by slender View Post
    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.

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    slender | # 19 | 2010-02-04, 10:33 | Report

    Originally Posted by Rob1n View Post
    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.

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    Rob1n | # 20 | 2010-02-04, 10:48 | Report

    Originally Posted by slender View Post
    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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