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What data will I loose when I do a factory reset of my Android phone?

Asked by metadog (381points) September 12th, 2011

Hi! I have a Droid 2 that I just upgraded to Gingerbread. I am not rooted. The phone was slowing down before the upgrade, now it is really sluggish. I am thinking of doing a factory reset and run the OTA update again. Then I guess I have to reinstall all of my apps. But the question is… what “important stuff” will be wiped out? What should I try to back up first? Is there any software I should be using to assist me? Thanks!

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Lightlyseared's avatar

It will reset the device to the state it was in when it came from the factory ie completely blank.

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tom_g's avatar

I think it depends on what “important stuff” you are talking about.

First of all, all of your gmail, contacts, calendar events, and other cloud data are safe. When you boot the phone for the first time following the wipe, you’ll enter your google login and everything will be all setup again.

It’s not going to reformat or wipe your card, so you won’t lose that stuff, but there is no reason not to just backup the contents of the card just in case.

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tlm's avatar

Any custom apps, any data stored in phone’s internal storage and not on SD card. I also lost my home screen, but I beleive that was a bug.

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By the way, someone move this to the General section.

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