A Recovery Mode allows you to apply various tasks for your device such as factory resetting the phone, installing custom ROMs with custom Recoveries, wipe data, wipe
system partition only, mount partitions, install custom kernels with Custom Recovery, and more.
A Recovery Mode allows you to apply various tasks for your device such as factory resetting the phone, installing custom ROMs with custom Recoveries, wipe data, wipe
system partition only, mount partitions, install custom kernels with Custom Recovery, and more.
Not exact matches
Factory Resetting the phone
only wipes the
system partition, but it won't delete any data from the internal storage of your device.
The reason for this is perfectly logical: this new update method will require two
system partitions in order to work, and pretty much all current Android phones
only have one.
If the Windows
system partition is the
only partition on the drive, the options will be basically the same.
The Factory Reset will
only delete the
system partition, no data will be removed from internal storage.
The
only solution here is to free up space on the
System partition, which can be a bit dangerous since many files on this
partition are required for Android to run.
Factory Resetting the device will not delete any data files from internal storage, as it will
only wipe clean the
system partition in order to remove the custom ROM.
Stock Recovery Mode can be booted
only with stock Android OS, it offers a limited array of options such as: apply update from ADB, wipe data / factory reset, wipe cache
partition and reboot
system.
Factoring in the space filled by the operating
system — Windows 8 (64 - bit)-- along with a recovery
partition and preinstalled programs and apps, you'll
only have about 60 GB of free space out of the box.
Note that the tutorial will ask you to wipe data, but it will delete
only the
System partition, the one that contains installed apps, SMS, Call logs etc..