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Help Droid 3 won't factory reset......HELP!!

aross6

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Aug 21, 2010
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This is actually my husband's account, but he's at work and this is driving me NUTS!

My Droid 3 won't let me uninstall anything. I uninstall and reboot and everything is back. Any text messages sent or received after two days ago disappear sporadically. Random reboots. Occasionally in a bootloop. Battery pulls stop the bootloop, but everything is back to where it was two days ago when the phone is turned back on. Once, I had sent two or three texts, read a little in Aldiko, then went back to my texts and they were gone, but when I sent another text, what I typed was not sent...instead, it sent the last text I received. Tried to send another text and it sent the first text I had recently sent. Then tried a third time and it was fine, but the person I was trying to text thought I was going crazy.

Oh, and occasionally when I try to read a text it force closes and the only solution is to restart the phone, which of course brings it back to that point that will be the death of me, so I lose the text that I just received.

I tried multiple times to do the factory reset, and when it reboots it's back at the same freaking point it keeps going back to.

The only thing I can think of that I downloaded is Words With Friends, which is coincidentally demonic and therefore should never be downloaded by anyone, EVER. I have tried a billion times to uninstall it and it keeps coming back again and again and again! So, in the meantime, since it is clearly NOT going anywhere, I have been continuing to play it and am actually winning...for once.

I even tried uninstalling ROM Manager and Superuser before attempting the reset. Nothing. They're back too. And Superuser consistently force closes through all of this.

Please help me before I murder something.
 
UPDATE: Tried factory reset again, this time checking "erase internal storage" and removing my SD card. Rebooted back to the same point, then did a random reboot, when it finished booting that time, it appeared to have reset by looking at the wallpaper alone, but before it was completely done, it started a bootloop again. Removed the battery, went into another bootloop. Removed battery, put SD card back in, hasn't bootlooped again. But still like groundhog day.
 
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Thats a very odd issue, there has been some reasearch on the factory reset and it doesn't completly whipe the phone. Your best option at this point is to SBF the device...
If you go into the DROID3 all things root fourm area, and look for the sticked ultimate thread.
Link to thred: http://androidforums.com/droid-3-all-things-root/408712-root-ultimate-droid3-root-rom-thread.html

Look under the section for "unbricking/SBFing" or something along those lines and follow the given instructions to SBF the device

(SBF is basicly a factory reset, on steriods)


And, words with friends is only addictive, not demonic ;)
 
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I agree that an SBF is needed. This goes deeper into the phone than resetting it from the device. Resetting from the phone removes your personal data and puts it to factory settings. SBF'ing wipes all of the software clean and re-installs it all fresh. So if it's a software issue, then an SBF should fix it.
 
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Yes.

I am desperate now. Any suggestions will be tried a hundred thousand times, and then about twenty-seven more after that.

Try rootin and flashing a rom, most likely CM7, then SBFing
Or, root, install recovery, and go into (Clockworkmod) recovery and erase all the partions and SBF

For rooting info check the link i gave in an earlier post

(Any reason why these would work is beyond me, but who knows
Becareful, i may be sending your phone to its doom)
 
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