[Q] Cyanogenmod Update Stuck on Splash - AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III

Hey fellas,
A while ago I installed Cyanogenmod over my stock Samsung ROM (Rogers) using the Cyanogenmod Installer.
Then a few weeks ago, through settings -> about (or information), I updated to CM11 with no issue.
Today, I was prompted to update again (not sure what version it was, but I believe I had the update check frequency to 1 week, and today was the first time I got this prompt in a while).
The phone seemed to update fine, but after reboot, it is stuck on the splash screen (black background, says Samsung Galaxy S III, and has the cyanogenmod guy/logo at the bottom). This is the splash screen that pops up (usually only for a second) before the boot screen with the rotating circle.
From the search I've done, I was only able to find people that are stuck on the boot screen (with the circle), rather than the splash screen. And for those people the only solutions I was able to find involved factory reset. Before I attempt any of that, I was wondering if there was anything else I could try (other than wiping cache). Idiot that I am, I haven't backed my phone up since I first installed CM, and I have a number of very important contacts and texts that I really can't lose.
Failing that, is there a way to back up such information before wiping user data? Perhaps after booting into recovery?
Thanks in advance for any help whatsoever.

With regards to backing up,
If I boot into recovery, can I back up user data like contacts and SMS through ClockworkMod Recovery? If so, will it work even though the phone doesn't seem to be able to boot?
Under Backup and Restore, I see various options, I think storage/sdcard1 is the external SD card.
If I choose backup to /storage/sdcard1, it starts backing up my data, but exactly what will be backed up? Also, I don't have a ton of space in my SD card, would it be possible to select what to back up and what to skip?
Finally, under Mounts and Storage, there is a mount USB storage option. I assumed going into it will allow my computer (connected by USB) to detect my SD Card, and I can delete stuff off of it, but my computer can't detect the phone/sdcard either as media device or storage. Am I doing something wrong, or is this not what this function is supposed to do?

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[Q] help recovering with TWRP after failed ROM flash

I've found myself stuck trying to flash a ROM. I'm a newbie, this was my first attempt at something like this, I though I read enough about the process but I guess I screwed up something. I will try to be to the point.
Phone: Samsung Galaxy S3 AT&T i747
Rooted phone with Casual, installed ROM Toolbox and purchased the pro upgrade.
installed TWRP 2.5 and made a nandroid backup, the only place this backup existed was in internal storage.
used ROM toolbox to backup user apps and user data
selected cyanogenmod 10.1 RC5 from within ROM Toolbox and there was a requester for gapps and a checked the box for that also. When the DL was complete I installed the ROM queue with those two items and I checked the boxes Wipe Data & Cache and Wipe dalvic-cache.
Phone went to recovery mode (i guess) and appeared to clear the memory and load the new rom, the phone rebooted and I got the cyanogenmod boot screen but then it went to a requester saying:
Unfortunately , the process com.google.process.gapps has stopped.
When you hit ok you get:
Unfortunately, setup wizard has stopped.
this requester never goes away, just keeps popping up when you hit ok.
So I removed the battery and booted the phone in recovery mode and try to restore but the restore nandroid file in not shown. If I hit the center button in the restore window it says "updating partition details" but never returns.
Whenever you power it up normally now you end up in this gapps loop.
My searching suggested I may have tried to install the wrong version of google apps somehow. What are my options for trying to recover from this? Does my backup still exist somewhere?
If process.gapps is your only warning you can try to reflash the gapps zip from here. http://goo.im/gapps/gapps-jb-20130301-signed.zip If this does not fix your problem, you will have to head deeper into the rabbit hold
You can look for your back with a file explorer. Should be in sdcard/TWRP/BACKUPS/******** (random number). If you dont see them here, check your ext-sd in the same location. If you don't see them, they are gone. Do a Nandroid backup now just to be sure you have one. You should chose to back it up to external in TWRP. As for your FC problem, it would appear that you have not wiped fully. You will likely need to factory reset. the problem is this will remove everything. Titanium back up is a great product for situations like this. If you have used it, you can transfer your backup from the internal storage while connected to your pc. Also copy your DCIM folder as it will contain your photos. This is why you will need to do another Nandroid, because worst case scenario, you can just restore this one.
Thanks for the reply. I will try to reflash the gapps file from the external as soon I can download it, the site is having some trouble right now. I made another Nandroid of the phones current state and stored it to external. I did also have Titanium backup and had backups of the whole system with it. Unfortunately they are also only on the internal storage.
Re-installing the gapps zip file off the extSD from within TWRP did the trick. All the data and backups I created are also still there and are now backed up in several places.
Something that compounded the problem was the 64GB sd card I have for the phone. I was not able to mount it on either of my linux mint machines or an XP machine. Some oddness with the exFAT file system on it, I used a 4GB card I had laying around and it worked fine.
Thank you for the help, the phone is now running CM which is what I wanted and I learned a few things too.
theaxis695 said:
Re-installing the gapps zip file off the extSD from within TWRP did the trick. All the data and backups I created are also still there and are now backed up in several places.
Something that compounded the problem was the 64GB sd card I have for the phone. I was not able to mount it on either of my linux mint machines or an XP machine. Some oddness with the exFAT file system on it, I used a 4GB card I had laying around and it worked fine.
Thank you for the help, the phone is now running CM which is what I wanted and I learned a few things too.
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I just bought a 64GB card as well. You may be having troubles mounting it due to a partition that comes factory in the SD. If this is the case, you can look at post #57 on the following page http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1915385&page=6
It helped me tremendously.

International version - phone is not opening

hey,
i got htc one m8 3 days ago and i rooted the phone yesterday. today i installed a rom and i didnt like it and i deleted all files in recovery mode. after deleting i tried to restart but recovery said "there is no os, are you sure" and i clicked ok. now phone stuck on starting screen with a text "this build is for development purpose only".
as u know i cant remove the battery, i cant close the phone either. i really need your help to install original android software and how to do it
The easiest way is to download the rom you like and put it on external sd card with card reader, put the card in to phone, reboot to recovery and flash new rom from sd card. Second way is to sideload rom from pc to internal memory via adb and flash from there.
You can read about adb sideload from HERE (it's for htc m7 but the principle is the same), or google it.
Have something HERE also.
cabbard said:
hey,
i got htc one m8 3 days ago and i rooted the phone yesterday. today i installed a rom and i didnt like it and i deleted all files in recovery mode. after deleting i tried to restart but recovery said "there is no os, are you sure" and i clicked ok. now phone stuck on starting screen with a text "this build is for development purpose only".
as u know i cant remove the battery, i cant close the phone either. i really need your help to install original android software and how to do it
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you use recovery wipe system, so it was said there is no os, are you sure. Press power + volume up 10s, screen is black, hold power and press volume down go to recovery, put rom to ext card and flash rom.
cabbard said:
today i installed a rom and i didnt like it and i deleted all files in recovery mode. after deleting i tried to restart but recovery said "there is no os, are you sure" and i clicked ok. now phone stuck on starting screen with a text "this build is for development purpose only".
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You deleted system, which is the OS. So of course there is no OS.
If you didn't know what that was, why on earth did you wipe it? I suggest slowing down, and learning more about the basics of modding the phone. Wiping system without knowing what it was, indicates a lack of basic knowledge. As does not knowing how to recover from this simple situation.
If you were using TWRP, it says right on the wipe screen that the default wipe (wipe data, cache and Dalvik) is all that is normally needed. It says this for a reason! If you picked "Advanced" it means just that, and you better know what you are doing before selecting to wipe things that you don't understand.
Just restore your nandroid. If you didn't make one before flashing the ROM, again it indicates carelessness and/or a lack of basic knowledge.
Or adb push a ROM, or use a USB card reader on your computer to copy a ROM to removable SD. Then flash in recovery.

LG-H815 begun to bootloop after a restart. Can't back up System Image from TWRP.

Hi everyone,
I have an LG-H815, with bootloader unlocked, rooted, and xposed framework installed.
I've never had problems with the phone before, and this is what happens now:
1. Press power button.
2. LG bootup animation finishes.
3. A random number of apps need optimizing. Sometimes it says 0 out of 136, sometimes 0 out of 208.
4. If I wait it out, the phone goes black after finishing, for a second or two, then returns to the LG bootup animation.
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I actually have TWRP installed over the stock recovery, and after a lot of tries have gotten into it through the physical buttons. The only problem is I can't for the life of me make a backup of the System Image, which is approx. 4 GB. It always fails once it 'finishes' with System Image. The other 6 items, which are Boot, System, Data, Cache, Recovery, EFS I can back up easily. I was using a formatted Sandisk microSD 32GB for this.
And so, is the System Image critical for a complete/usable backup? Also, any idea why I cannot specifically back up System Image?
Many thanks to anyone who tries to help out.
Credibility said:
Hi everyone,
I have an LG-H815, with bootloader unlocked, rooted, and xposed framework installed.
I've never had problems with the phone before, and this is what happens now:
1. Press power button.
2. LG bootup animation finishes.
3. A random number of apps need optimizing. Sometimes it says 0 out of 136, sometimes 0 out of 208.
4. If I wait it out, the phone goes black after finishing, for a second or two, then returns to the LG bootup animation.
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I actually have TWRP installed over the stock recovery, and after a lot of tries have gotten into it through the physical buttons. The only problem is I can't for the life of me make a backup of the System Image, which is approx. 4 GB. It always fails once it 'finishes' with System Image. The other 6 items, which are Boot, System, Data, Cache, Recovery, EFS I can back up easily. I was using a formatted Sandisk microSD 32GB for this.
And so, is the System Image critical for a complete/usable backup? Also, any idea why I cannot specifically back up System Image?
Many thanks to anyone who tries to help out.
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I'm having problems with the external sd card. Try copying to the internal storage. Clear space if you need to or mount the storage to usb in two to move stuff to a pc (while you still can!)
you dont need to backup that partition.

Missing back-up/phone locked/weird sd-card behaviour

Hi together,
just as a disclaimer, I don't really have knowledge in this field (custom roms etc), but I'm willing to learn and understand what is going on.
I have the Moto G5 as my daily phone with the unofficial lineage 17 from the xda-forum. It's not rooted. Now i saw that the g5 got official support for LOS18, so I wanted to upgrade. However, I had some important files on my phone, so I wanted to do a backup (with twrp), which i did on a different sd-card than the one I was using as storage. Or so i thought. The upgrade itself wasn't really a problem, at first i forgot to wipe the phone, but i realized right after the installation, wiped it accordingly to the instructions and did the installation again. The phone booted without a problem and everything seemed fine. I encrypted the phone accidently, i thought it was the lockscreen pin. But it wouldnt recognize the sd i used as storage on the previous version. Because i had pictures, music etc on the card, i wanted to restore my backup to use the phone as before. Well... to my surprise, on the sd i used to back up i couldn't find it, but strangely there were now two versions of a backup i made some months ago, only different in the timestamp (not the date) in their filename. I didn' know if one of them was the one i made, or if i had made two backups back in the days. I was confused, but i chose on of them at random and restored it. It seemed to have worked, it booted to the familiar lockscreen i set up a while ago. But then: it wouldnt accept the pin, even though i knew it was the right one - at least for the system i have used the same morning. I had to delete the lockpin.db (or how it was called) via twrp to acces the phone again. The former uncompatible storage sd now got recognized and worked, the phone showed all the apps i had before, i was still logged in in all of them etc. But: i made a photo, wanted to look at it in my gallery app, and i briefly saw my albums - then they vanished and only the photo i had taken was there. So now all the pictures, music are gone from the sd. Some funky things are different, the swipe directions for the "recent apps" and "back" buttons on the fingerprint sensor are switched and i cannot find the menu to change them. That's the story.
Here are my questions:
The backup i made - why wasn't it called with the proper date and time? Or have i deleted it somehow due to my wiping mistake? but it was on the sd... ?
I now assume i restored the old backup with a different lockscreen pin, and thats why the pin i thought was correct didn't work. But some apps which i hadn't installed at the time i made the backup where there and with all the recent data. Doesn't that mean the sd has some kind of image of the system or rather the apps themselves stored? but why are the pictures and the music gone? Is there any chancce to get it back? Can I upgrade to LOS18 and use the same sd as storage without the need to format it?
I'd like to learn what the mechanisms behind all these happenings are and would be glad if someone could explain it! Thanks in advance!
Twrp backups do no backup personal files - This includes music pictures and documents. These must be backuped up yourself to a pc, external device or the cloud.
TWRP backups do backup the following for example
System - your current rom
Data - apps and their data of your current rom, phone settings
Boot - Kernel
Never restore data on a different rom. The data contains apps and settings for your current rom and restoring this on a different rom will likely lead to a bootloop or an unstable device. This is why you had issues with passwords.
In regards to personal files - if you have formatted data of an encrypted device then it removes encryption and thus formats internal storage. Anything on this will be lost.
If you are changing roms you need to format data and then install everything again via the playstore (or manually via apk)
You can use 3rd party apps that backup apps and data but I advise against this as what it restore may be unstable on a different OS
As with the twrp date I assume twrp assigns the correct date. The file would be lost if you backup up to internal storage and your formatted data. I don't know what happened to it if you backed up to an external device.

Lineage OS suddenly gone, device boots into fastboot, TWRP still accessible, still possible to rescue data?

Pre-history: my son's Pocophone F1 running Lineage OS 18.1 had some battery issues last weekend - due to aging.
The battery meter was starting to showi inconsistent readings (10% before reboot, 24% after reboot into System).
Now, on Monday, after a full charge and reboot, the phone keeps booting into the bootloader.
I can still boot into the TWRP recovery. From there, when selecting "Reboot" and System, the recovery says, that there is no OS available. )-:
From within TWRP I can mount Data and activate MTP, then the phone is recognized by the Windows File Explorer and I can see the Folder "Internal Storage". It is empty however, TWRP shows a size of 113.791 Bytes for Data.
1. Is there any hope to recover data as photos
1a. e.g. by using PhotoRec/TestDisk (have to find a way to assign a drive letter to Internal Storage though)?
1b Would re-installing th OS wipe all data (internal storage)?
(Never experienced such a behavior before, I used Cyanogen / Lineage OS since many years on several device of various manufacurers)
Help is very welcome
ManyPhones
ManyPhones said:
any hope to recover data as photos
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So far I haven't been able to recover pics from a phone... but the last time I'd rather blame Samsung's Android for it (couldnt access FS at all)... Pictures from +3yrs *poof* gone!
Don't want to bother you with "No backup, no mercy"... but you should consider some backup. I use
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syncthing
It doesn't help you with recovery right now though...
Thanks for the answer. I should probably use an extra SD card again and let the camera store the photos there. So, when the partions in the internal flash storage the phone are damaged, I could still access the SD card. And this i should combine with external backup, of couse...
Regarding backup:
Well,for photos I use to use Acronis Mobile Backup - on all other phones - but not in the case of my son for some reason. Anyway, I am going to have a look at Syncthing, because AMB has problems with browsing the backup files via Windows Explorer. For contacts and calendar items i use DAVx5 in connection with Nextcloud. Probably it is easy to make Syncthing work with Nextcloud as well.

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