How to do a full adb wipe...help!

capo745

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Hello everyone, I am trying to install a rom, but instructions say that I need to do a full adb wipe. I've searched everywhere on how to do this, but no luck. I found one thread that gave these directions:

Boot into recovery....mount SYSTEM, DATA, CACHE...

Go to your computer and type:
adb shell
format SYSTEM:
format DATA:
format CACHE:
Unmount SYSTEM DATA, CACHE
Proceed with install.

I'm able to boot into recovery and mount sys, data, cache. But where it says to go to my computer and type, I get lost, don't know where to type this at. If someone out there could guide me in the right direction I'd really appreciate it. Thanks
 

natediddy1120

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Yeah you need to set up the Android SDK on your computer and have a successful ADB connection.
 
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Thanks, you guys are quick! I really appreciate it. Now, I did figure it out, but now when I try to format DATA, it says I have a bad block(actually it goes from 3 to 10), and still can't install my rom. Any ideas why is not letting me format DATA?
 

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Thanks, you guys are quick! I really appreciate it. Now, I did figure it out, but now when I try to format DATA, it says I have a bad block(actually it goes from 3 to 10), and still can't install my rom. Any ideas why is not letting me format DATA?

Don't know, I have never seen that. Are you using ADB while your phone is booted into recovery mode? Also, i never mounted when running the format commands. I just booted into recovery mode then ran from adb

adb shell
format DATA:
format SYSTEM:
format CACHE:

then i used backup/restore to do a nandroid restore of the ROM i was installing
 
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