[HTC Wildfire S] ukyo_tachibana:
Hi,

Sorry, there are two small mistakes in my post regarding the SD card. I will update the post to fix them and avoid future problems to other readers. First, I assumed that you have a SD adapter to format the SD card. Second, it is not possible to proceed with step 2.4 if you haven't formatted the SD card and it is inserted inside the phone :) .

Regarding your questions:

1) Clockworkmod is installed as a replacement of the HBoot default recovery tool. Therefore, AFAIK it is not available when a normal boot is done. What you should see is the SuperSu app once installed.

2) If you don't have a SD card reader, plug the phone with the SD card inside and select the Disk drive option. Then it is possible to format the card with the SD formatter 4.0 application.

3) The wipes have no relation with the SD card, because the wipes erase data from the phone internal store. Every time that you install a custom rom, these wipes are a must. In this case, they will prevent that information stored from the previous state of the phone get mixed with the new state, and they also may reduce the backup size.

4) If you want to see your backup and make a copy in your PC (highly recommended): a) plug the phone with the SD card in Drive disk mode, b) go to the new drive (let's say H: ), and under H:\clockworkmod\backup, you will find one folder for each backup. Clockworkmod has the nice feature of naming backups/folders using timestamps. Note that every backup folder has several files, so the backup is the whole folder with everything inside (not a single file), for example, H:\clockworkmod\backup\2013-05-11.09.58.50. These backups can be browsed from the phone with a file manager such as ES File Manager, but I don't know a formal way of validating them.

5) Once you have the backup of the unlocked phone, check that it is okay mounting the drive, going to your backup folder and opening a command window. Type dir+RETURN and compare with my backup in a equivalent situation:

H:\clockworkmod\backup\1980-01-06.00.00.32>dir
Volume in drive H is WFSDATA
Volume Serial Number is 316C-F9B0

Directory of H:\clockworkmod\backup\1980-01-06.00.00.32

06/01/1980 00:00 <DIR> .
06/01/1980 00:00 <DIR> ..
06/01/1980 00:00 3.407.872 boot.img
06/01/1980 00:00 5.242.880 recovery.img
06/01/1980 00:02 238.573.632 system.yaffs2.img
06/01/1980 00:03 16.851.648 data.yaffs2.img
06/01/1980 00:03 1.536 .android_secure.vfat.tar
06/01/1980 00:03 794.112 cache.yaffs2.img
06/01/1980 00:04 129.513.472 sd-ext.ext4.tar
06/01/1980 00:04 352 nandroid.md5
8 File(s) 394.385.504 bytes
2 Dir(s) 1.066.303.488 bytes free

H:\clockworkmod\backup\1980-01-06.00.00.32>

The strange timestamp with year 1980 is because the phone was not configured and system date was wrong/default.

6) Proceed with SuperSU installation and second backup.

7) Copy the whole SD card content to your PC, just in case that something bad happens.

8) Let us know if everything is fine.

9) We will discuss how to get rid of the unwanted apps.

I hope this helps you. Regards.

---------- Post added at 09:30 PM ---------- Previous post was at 09:19 PM ----------

Sorry, I was writing while you posted this. Yes, I think it is a good idea to move this new problem to a new thread.