My baby is DEAD???

[Scythe]

anybody you talk to asking this question will usually say wiping, factory resetting your phone wont touch your photos or videos...however that is not the case for me, anytime I've ever factory reset my phone, the SD card gets erased and im not kidding I've called tmobile about this everytime it has ever happened, I would just back up your files just incase..

So, moral of the story is you should just pop out your SD card before wiping.

[simms22]

I just did it, rebooting now.

ONE QUESTION.... below the "reboot now" that I selected there was another option that said something like "apply update to SD Card"

What is this referencing? Could this be the problem the above poster has? I cant imagine there is an update for my SD card that was not OTA right?

"Apply update " is used when manually installing an update or if rooted , another rom . If you put the update on your sd card , you could manually update your phone . That's how many got cupcake before it was officially out . The update.zip was floating around the web . All you had to do was download , rename , and apply . Next time there is an update , you could update your phone before you could officially . Rooted rom won't work this way on a regular unrooted g1 .