Factory Reset?

[born2golf]

Hi, I am on a droid 2 and I think I have tinkered too much and my phone is unbearably slow now. I want to do a factory reset, do you think this is the right way to go? If so, how do I do it and do I need to do anything to get my phone back on the verizon network once it is done? If so how?

Once it is reset, will I be able to selectively restore applications/data with titanium or must I restore everything? (will titanium even work?)

Any/all suggestions welcome.

Lastly, since I'm going to be wiping the phone perhaps this would be a good time to try a ROM? I haven't done any of that stuff yet? what the popular & stable ROM for a D2 these days?

Thanks in advance

 

[VZ4G3NT]

Remove all downloaded apps before doing reset. Unless you want to re-blur your phone.

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[cizzle714]

Can someone help me please...I'm having freezing up problems my facebook isn't working anymore and sometime people are not recieving text messages from me and vise versa...I was rooted until my droid x upgraded and now my phone still shows superuser guy but want to bring my phone in for warranty. I'm very new and not knowledgable about all this.

 

[born2golf]

Cizzle, your first lesson should be "do not hijack other people's threads" you problem has nothing to do with a droid 2 so be default you don't belong in my thread. Go start your own post.

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[born2golf]

Vz4g3nt. Please elaborate. Why would I spend any time removing apps if I am asking to do a factory reset. Doesn't a reset remove everything anyway? I am asking to return the phone to the state it was in on day 1. Unless you have a different way?

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[furbearingmammal]

Can someone help me please...I'm having freezing up problems my facebook isn't working anymore and sometime people are not recieving text messages from me and vise versa...I was rooted until my droid x upgraded and now my phone still shows superuser guy but want to bring my phone in for warranty. I'm very new and not knowledgable about all this.

Please do not hijack threads. Go look/post in the Droid X sections.

born2golf, I'd say back up what you want to keep with Ti Backup and do your factory reset. Just remember you will probably need to reroot afterward.

 

[furbearingmammal]

Ah, if you're asking to return it to stock you'll need to SBF. Forget the reset till after you flash the SBF.

 

[takeshi]

Hi, I am on a droid 2 and I think I have tinkered too much and my phone is unbearably slow now. I want to do a factory reset, do you think this is the right way to go?

Well, it's like wiping and reloading your PC as a solution to whatever problem you might be having. After a clean start you will be running better but it is a heavy handed approach.

If you reload and set up your device and something you loaded is causing the slowdown then you'll just be back at square one after all that effort. I suggest at least spending a little time troubleshooting to see what that cause is.

Lastly, since I'm going to be wiping the phone perhaps this would be a good time to try a ROM? I haven't done any of that stuff yet? what the popular & stable ROM for a D2 these days?

Selecting a ROM is a very subjective process. Check the D2 ROM subforums and do some legwork to see what options sound good to you. You'd have to test drive ROM's to determine what's best suited to you.

 

[born2golf]

Thanks Takeshi. I understand exactly what you are saying. I am a bit of a software junkie, and have loaded/unloaded lots of different apps. In a windows world, this type of activity would leave behind a vast amount of residual garbage even though the software is unloaded. Hence a fresh start is often the best option when needed. Not knowing if android apps leave behind the same garbage after removal, I began thinking of a factory reset. Can anyone confirm/deny that removing apps is 100% clean? If so I may consider removing stuff one by one,


But I'm still partial to wiping and starting over. The phone is barely usable right now.

 

[furbearingmammal]

Clear your cache, reboot. Your Dalvik is gummed up so hard I'm not surprised you're having problems.

 

[born2golf]

Clear your cache, reboot. Your Dalvik is gummed up so hard I'm not surprised you're having problems.

I did as you suggested, using Jrummy overclock. I cleared my data cache and SD card cache, and rebooted and am seeing no improvement at all. Did I do something wrong?

 

[born2golf]

So Back to my original question, If I do a factory reset, do I need to do anything to get my phone back on the verizon network?

 

[furbearingmammal]

Isn't there an option to wipe cache in bootstrap or clockwork recovery? Are you familiar with the terminal commands to do it yourself? And yes, you'll have to reprogram your phone. Same as it's been on any smartphone since Verizon started carrying them. You'll have to sign back in and reprogram the phone. No biggie.

 

[jbdow]

Wow, i was toying with the idea of a factory reset myself, was just about to
do a search on it and here was this thread - born2golf i feel your pain- i'm kinda
wondering myself how it is we can do all this installing, uninstalling, rooting, etc.
without creating debris/clutter somewhere. Then we see wall to wall posts of people
having problems with their phone and they don't know what they've done to cause it.
I want to learn everything i can about this creature before i do anything with it.

r, john

 

[furbearingmammal]

Worst case scenario there's the SBF now.