Sorry for posting here, I just desperately need some help. I haven't been able to use my phone for about 5 days now. I need to know what to do, I'm so ****ing lost. I have a very unique situation (I feel), and I don't know where else to go. Basically, encryption ****ed up somehow and now I can't access my device via ADB, I might have lost ROOT, and I don't freakin know what to do next...I've never been in a bind this bad while rooting phones (done it for years now).
History on what happened: I had everything set up beautifully in CM11, I loved it, was smooth, everything worked.
Saw the encryption option in settings, decided to do it, and then the password I set up would not work. I wrote it down, I was extremely careful, I made sure I entered it properly both times. It just wouldn't work!.
Now I have no phone...I hope I didn't brick it permanently. I couldn't factory erase or anything through the CWM recovery I had. In the "mounts and storage" section, I was able to format the /system partition, but not the /data one. I believe that when I formatted the /system partition I somehow removed root, because now every time I try to exit CWM it says:
Root access is missing. Root device? THIS CANNOT BE UNDONE.
I tried saying yes, but it still asks every time. I am also unable to get the ls980 to be recognized by adb. I have cwm recovery open, and the phone is connected to the computer, but it doesn't see it. I suspect this is because I don't have root?
I am very confused, and could really use some help. The people at the sprint store have no idea...
Thanks!
Oooh, someone somewhere else said they had to remove all the drivers and reinstall. Before it recognize it. Not sure about cwm recovery but I know twrp had side load option. After you can see it in adb.
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secret.animal said:
Oooh, someone somewhere else said they had to remove all the drivers and reinstall. Before it recognize it. Not sure about cwm recovery but I know twrp had side load option. After you can see it in adb.
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Hmm Ok, will try that. In general, when accessing a phone with ADB, do you have to be rooted?
Also, in general, when accessing a phone with ADB, what do you need to have open on the phone? Just any screen of the recovery right?
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Hmm Ok, will try that. In general, when accessing a phone with ADB, do you have to be rooted?
Also, in general, when accessing a phone with ADB, what do you need to have open on the phone? Just any screen of the recovery right?
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You used to have to root with adb commands. Pushing a file over and such.
I want to say you should be able to. But Google it for sure. With cwm there may be something in advanced.
I'm using twrp.
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secret.animal said:
You used to have to root with adb commands. Pushing a file over and such.
I want to say you should be able to. But Google it for sure. With cwm there may be something in advanced.
I'm using twrp.
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**** dude...holy **** all I want to do is wipe my phone and put a rom on there. ****ing encryption is WAY better security than I ever thought it was..............
If that is the case, is it possible to root an encrypted phone from adb? Or do I need to learn to format the partitions first? Remember, I was already able to format the /system partition.
What may get you a better chance without doing partition damage or such would be .tot back to stock.
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I agree man...clockworkmod should have a sideload option on it. Try a diff USB cable what error message do you get ? Do you have access to your internal storage via recovery if so flash a backup I believe I remember reading that in the past somewhere through a diff device being encrypted
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I hate to tell you this, but you're going to end up having to TOT. Just by wiping system, you lost any chance of recovering any file you had, because the generated encryption key is stored in that partition. Good luck bud.
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I hate to tell you this, but you're going to end up having to TOT. Just by wiping system, you lost any chance of recovering any file you had, because the generated encryption key is stored in that partition. Good luck bud.
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That's fine, I don't care about any file I had in there.
How do I TOT? I have no idea what it means but I want to get on with it. I have a nandroid of the stock android saved on my computer, I can use that to get started?
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Soooo... my phone took the drop of death today and it is down for the count. Now before I file an insurance claim, I still need to recover many of the pics and files I have in there. I am rooted and have Clockwork Mod in there so I don't know if that helps. Please, PLEASE, someone help me do this
So it will not power on at all? Recovery? Anything?
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U did not have an sd card?
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albe070 said:
U did not have an sd card?
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Some roms save the pictures to the internal sd...
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The phone still powers on and functions. Its. Just the screen that is shot and without being able to mount the drive by pressing the buttons on screen, I need an alternative solution. The default was to save it internally so I just don't know how to access it. Maybe there's a solution from Samsung directly? I don't know which is the point and I'm reaching out to y'all for help ; A
So you should be able to get into recovery then. What recovery version did you have and I could try to tell you how many clicks of what button to get it to munt the internal storage. So then it can be seen by your pc.
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Hmmm... I finally feel like one of those people that ask for help but never quite know the pertinent information to get the help they need... I don't know what recovery version I have
At this point, just trying the buttons to the version you have is worth a shot Thanks in advance!
I'm sorry but in my cwm I can't mount the internal with recovery. I have the light blue cwm. I wish I had more for you.
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Get an mhl adapter so you can output to TV so you can see
Or use adb to pull files
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Brings up an interesting question, because I live in fear of something like this happening to me.
Is there anyway to tell the phone to access the "sdcard" that is ACTUALLY the sdcard? I have several apps that save important data, but they save it to "sdcard" and there is no way to change the path within most apps.
I hate having to make constant backups manually because at any moment all my data could be lost because this phone doesn't actually use the ACTUAL sdcard for data.
What kernel do you have? I assume you are rooted, download and install busybox via the market place on the PC, it will push to your phone. (so you are sure to have it installed).
Then download and use qtadb.
http://qtadb.wordpress.com/about/
So there have been posts about this in the past but none of them have been ansewered recently so i figured i'd ask again...
My T-Mobile Galaxy S3 is fine, but my girlfriends is messed up. She can't copy and paste. I just tried it my self. Holding down on say, for example, a url in chrome, and tapping copy causes chrome to force close.
I understand the only ways to fix it at this point seem to be factory reset (really a major pain in the ass... what with having to reenter all her info and passwords and everything) or rooting and then do a list of commands i found on various threads (really don't want her to have to root her brand new phone that is otherwise running great).
this really sucks. anyone know any newer methods to fix this? it's really ridiculous.
You could flash one of the official firmwares via odin. This will basically rewrite the system and a few other partitions while leaving data intact. If somethings corrupted on the system side, this should fix it by overwriting with good uncorrupted files.
And if you haven't updated to UVALJ4 yet you could get that at the same time.
If its something in the user data partition, then finding the responsible app and clearing data/cache may work. Otherwise you'd have to factory reset...
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You need to be rooted though to do this.
Do this and it should work.
1. boot recovery (CWM) > advanced > wipe cache
2. reboot phone > Root Explorer > delete /data/clipbord/*
3. reboot recovery again > advanved > fix permissions
4. reboot phone > it's fine
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those are the exact commands i was talking about, but we don't want to root our phones. anyone have any ideas how to fix it without rooting or doing a full factory reset. such a stupid issue for a phone to have
polarbearmc said:
those are the exact commands i was talking about, but we don't want to root our phones. anyone have any ideas how to fix it without rooting or doing a full factory reset. such a stupid issue for a phone to have
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I gave you two options to do so and keep your data two posts up, in case you missed it.
Factory reset is last resort.
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DocHoliday77 said:
I gave you two options to do so and keep your data two posts up, in case you missed it.
Factory reset is last resort.
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oh i'm sorry, that's my bad i thought that flashing odin thing had to do with rooting or something. thanks, i'll look into that... one thing though is she just got the newest ota update last night and that didn't fix the problem. is that a bad sign that this might not work?
polarbearmc said:
oh i'm sorry, that's my bad i thought that flashing odin thing had to do with rooting or something. thanks, i'll look into that... one thing though is she just got the newest ota update last night and that didn't fix the problem. is that a bad sign that this might not work?
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You can flash the stock firmware with odin without root.
Not necessarily, if there's a corrupted system file the ota simply may not have patched it, or patched a different part of it leaving the root cause of the problem intact. Keep in mind, my suggestion may not help at all. Its just another option for you in trying to find a fix.
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Starting off I have experience with rooting, flashing Roms etc. I use to own the Nook Tablet running Cm10.1.
I recently bought the Nexus 7 FHD and was wondering what the most simplistic way of rooting is there for the device. I am happy with my device's UI, I just want root privilege, more specifically so I can use certain apps and connected a PS3 controller to play games.
In summary, I need root privilege without flashing CM or recovery programs.
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enter bootloader
fastboot oem unlock
allow the unit to wipe data/cache and reboot
enter bootloader again
fastboot boot twrp.img
In TWRP choose install and select UPDATE-SuperSU-v1.51.zip
TWRP the only way to root? I'd also much rather not wipe my data and cache. Not sure why I would have to for root.
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datallboy said:
TWRP the only way to root? I'd also much rather not wipe my data and cache. Not sure why I would have to for root.
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When you unlock the bootloader, the tablet forces you to wipe data and cache as a security measure, otherwise anyone can just bypass your unlock method. You have no choice in the matter.
If you don't unlock the bootloader, /system is write-protected and you can't install root permanently.
You don't need to "install" TWRP. You just run it temporarily to install the root files. The command I gave you just loads twrp into memory to run it. It doesn't flash over the stock recovery.
You probably want to just look at one of the guides. I know you said you had experience with rooting, but probably not familiar with nuances on nexus.
Ahh okay, thank you. Before, recovery programs would flash over stock and I had to use an image file to flash stock back. Annoying.
My other question being what do you suggest me to do about backing up then restoring data and cache? Any apps work good with this PR should I manually back up my data and cache partitions?
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CWM Helium work? I know Titanium is only root.
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Not sure about non-root backup. The first thing I do is to unlock bootloader so I don't have to redo my efforts, so I usually just use Titanium.
I want to save all my data and cache files including pictures etc. just like it is now. Whatever is best for that. I'm not all that crazy about rooting my new tablet (although the factory image is now released) but I like rooted privileges.
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datallboy said:
I want to save all my data and cache files including pictures etc. just like it is now. Whatever is best for that. I'm not all that crazy about rooting my new tablet (although the factory image is now released) but I like rooted privileges.
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I'm sure there are backup programs that work without root, I just never looked into them. For the images, you should be able to just drag and drop them off the MTP device that shows up when you plug in the nexus to the PC (MTP is the replacement for USB mass storage)
I've found a few guides for rooting. Thanks for the help!
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Copy/paste what you can off the devices storage partition, then unlock.
Nexus devices don't require a "hack" to root like other devices. Eventually there will be a non-unlocked method for rooting, but because it is so easy out the box, not much effort goes into finding a workaround.
This is why unlocking is always best to do immediately, even of you don't root or do anything.
Backup apps should work fine without root since it will have read only rights by default. Restoring a backup would require root to write. And Be cautious though because I used titanium backup while being rooted before I switched to a custom rom. When I tried to restore I got errors and the programs got really stupid. I uninstalled a few and they wouldn't let me reinstall at all without error messages. I had to find alternatives. Might be a better way but I didn't spend much time on it. Lost my Riptide 2 save though
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I used the Nexus Root Toolkit to backup all my data and cache, and it restored without problem. Helpful application. Thanks to everyone!
OK, I'm in a bit of a pickle and am hoping that someone with more knowledge can help me out. This is what I did.
Rooted the phone
Installed FreeGee
Installed TWRP through FreeGee
Copied a new rom to SD card
Entered TWRP and ERASED EVERYTHING BEFORE MAKING A BACKUP
Couldn't load rom from SD card
When navigating through the TWRP directory, there is a folder titled SD card. I thought my ROM would be in there, but it is not. I know I should have done two things that I didn't.
Backup my data
Copy the ROM to root folder like the instructions said to,
But I didn't do those thing. Now, I have a phone that will enter TWRP, but I cannot get it to find any ROMs I put on the SD card. Is there anything I can do to remedy this situation that I have caused?
Thanks an advance for your ideas.
Try connecting the phone to your computer and manually copying over another ROM.
If you didn't copy it to external card, and you wiped internal, then you don't have an operating system and need to use LG flashtool to get back to stock.
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If you didn't copy it to external card, and you wiped internal, then you don't have an operating system and need to use LG flashtool to get back to stock.
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It is definitely on the external card, but I cannot see it via TWRP. I am getting ready to use flashtool to see if that fixes the problem. I will update my progress.
Thanks.
ScootDiggity said:
It is definitely on the external card, but I cannot see it via TWRP. I am getting ready to use flashtool to see if that fixes the problem. I will update my progress.
Thanks.
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If you are using the hacked TWRP go up a level a couple of times and look for ext-card.
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I guess I don't have hacked TWRP
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If you are using the hacked TWRP go up a level a couple of times and look for ext-card.
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The TWRP that I am using was the one click install from FreeGee. It looks like this is not the hacked TWRP. When going up as many levels as I can, this is what I get. For future reference, do you know where I can get the hacked TWRP?
Current Progress - In the process of downloading LGE980AT-01-V10g-310-410-APR-03-2013.zip to use with LG Flashtools. Not the fastest server, but am very thankful that someone is hosting this file.
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The TWRP that I am using was the one click install from FreeGee. It looks like this is not the hacked TWRP. When going up as many levels as I can, this is what I get. For future reference, do you know where I can get the hacked TWRP?
Current Progress - In the process of downloading LGE980AT-01-V10g-310-410-APR-03-2013.zip to use with LG Flashtools. Not the fastest server, but am very thankful that someone is hosting this file.
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Tap at the top where it says "Internal Storage." It should let you switch to the external SD.
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RaiderDuck said:
Tap at the top where it says "Internal Storage." It should let you switch to the external SD.
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When I do that, I can only choose internal storage. I'm guessing that's one of the reasons there is a hacked TWRP.
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When I do that, I can only choose internal storage. I'm guessing that's one of the reasons there is a hacked TWRP.
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IIRC, the hacked TWRP is merely to ensure that the Official CM builds (which are marked for e986 only) can be installed on any LGOG Pro phone. You should still be able to see the external SD even with the FreeGee TWRP. Try fooling around in TWRP a little bit and see if you can get it to recognize the external SD.
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Well, I tried looked throughout TWRP and could not find a resolution.
What did work was LGFlashTool and madmacks awesome instructions. Thanks everyone for your ideas.
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Well, I tried looked throughout TWRP and could not find a resolution.
What did work was LGFlashTool and madmacks awesome instructions. Thanks everyone for your ideas.
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OK, next time, if you forget to backup before you flash, boot your phone into TWRP recovery, select mounts and then mount usb storage, connect your phone to the PC and you should see in "my computer" the phone as a drive, copy the ROM you want to flash to that drive, if it is a CM ROM remember to copy the Gapps also. Disconnect from the PC and then continue with the ROM flashing procedure that we all are so familiar with. This way it saves you the trouble of having to go back to stock again in order to flash a custom ROM.
Glad you got it fixed.
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Im using stock galaxy tab 3 lte sm-t215 (rooted) and i did a grievious mistake, wiped data/factory reset in stock recovery with not a single backup.
Ive tweak my device so much the way i wanted it already. PLEASE HELP if there is any way i can revert/restore everything back WITHOUT the use of any pc. Only terminal emulator.. :crying:
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Im using stock galaxy tab 3 lte sm-t215 (rooted) and i did a grievious mistake, wiped data/factory reset in stock recovery with not a single backup.
Ive tweak my device so much the way i wanted it already. PLEASE HELP if there is any way i can revert/restore everything back WITHOUT the use of any pc. Only terminal emulator.. :crying:
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No.
@crazyVato, sorry, i meant to expand on that answer but got distracted.
for what you want to do and actually save as a backup you need to be rooted WITH custom recovery.
So long as your system is intact you can repeat the process of customizing but what's
wiped is gone. =(
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I have a lot of empathy for your situation. Not many things give you that sick feeling in the pit of your stomach, but this is definitely one of them.
I am no expert but everything that I know tells me that there is no way to restore your device back the way way you had it.
I'm not certain which files remain intact following a factory reset but some do remain. Is it possible that once you rooted you made a backup that you don't remember making? It wouldn't hurt to reroot and poke around for a clockwork folder. SD Maid will also help find big files, in case a backup was stored in mnt/shell.
Best of luck to you.
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I have a lot of empathy for your situation. Not many things give you that sick feeling in the pit of your stomach, but this is definitely one of them.
I am no expert but everything that I know tells me that there is no way to restore your device back the way way you had it.
I'm not certain which files remain intact following a factory reset but some do remain. Is it possible that once you rooted you made a backup that you don't remember making? It wouldn't hurt to reroot and poke around for a clockwork folder. SD Maid will also help find big files, in case a backup was stored in mnt/shell.
Best of luck to you.
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Well i did get sd maid pro.. weird thing is it stated that my device is not rooted. I downloaded su root checker to double check and it states rooted. Gosh!!
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It says you're not rooted but can ES Exlplorer see a lever higher than sdcard?
Chris Kurisu said:
It says you're not rooted but can ES Exlplorer see a lever higher than sdcard?
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it stated rooted as soon as i update my su binary in supersu and update my busybox.. anyway, yeah there's no way i can get everything back.. ive done my best to tweak as much as i could remember it before its wiped out. so imma end this thread and would like to thank to the 3 of you with ur solutions..
for me, sd maid is a nono.
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