Okay so I'm feeling extraordinarily dumb at the moment, I've had my phone storage encrypted for a while now and I've also been running a vanilla AOSP custom rom....... However today I felt like it'd be smart to flash a new rom because ya know, who can stay happy with one rom. Well not really thinking of the consequences of encrypted storage, I went ahead and flashed a new rom and surprise surprise, that was the stupidest thing I could have done. I cant get into the recovery, and I cant get into the phone because somehow my encryption password has changed or its all corrupted or something. I get prompted to enter it just like before but it's an error every time now. Currently downloading a stock image for Odin, however I dont even know if this will work. Does anyone know if I am SOL or if there is anything I can do? Thanks for the help peeps :crying:
EDIT: Wiping, installing stock through Odin, re-wiping has fixed the issue. Feel free to close thread bc idk how!
Related
Hello everyone,
First of all my problem. Since about 2 weeks I started getting random crashes. The phone is unresponsive and the screen goes from really bright to a greenish/grey color (hard to explain). I googled but I didn't find an answer. If anyone here knows the problem that'd be great but I doubt it since there are so many this that could cause this. So now my question is, how can I be certain it's not an software issue? Further info: My phone is rooted, and I didn't change the ROM. However, I don't actually have root permissions and when I open SuperSU it asks me to update the binary which always fails. I tried to Root it again with the Galaxy Toolkit and it says it's already rooted. Also, Under the google logo is a unlocked lock sign.
Thanks
I would recommend you to try some custom stable ROM, based on 4.1.2. CM, AOKP are among top ones.
better make a backup using recovery, and flash a new ROM. It will give you a fresh start with SU too.
If you dont like using a custom ROM, restore an earlier backup if you already have..
marcusabu said:
Hello everyone,
First of all my problem. Since about 2 weeks I started getting random crashes. The phone is unresponsive and the screen goes from really bright to a greenish/grey color (hard to explain). I googled but I didn't find an answer. If anyone here knows the problem that'd be great but I doubt it since there are so many this that could cause this. So now my question is, how can I be certain it's not an software issue? Further info: My phone is rooted, and I didn't change the ROM. However, I don't actually have root permissions and when I open SuperSU it asks me to update the binary which always fails. I tried to Root it again with the Galaxy Toolkit and it says it's already rooted. Also, Under the google logo is a unlocked lock sign.
Thanks
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
ahsanali.pk said:
I would recommend you to try some custom stable ROM, based on 4.1.2. CM, AOKP are among top ones.
better make a backup using recovery, and flash a new ROM. It will give you a fresh start with SU too.
If you dont like using a custom ROM, restore an earlier backup if you already have..
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
My only expercience with custom roms got me into a boot loop, so I don't prefere that. I actually want a "out-of-the-box" phone without any modifications. Therefore I tried a factory reset but that keeps the root and unlock.
marcusabu said:
My only expercience with custom roms got me into a boot loop, so I don't prefere that. I actually want a "out-of-the-box" phone without any modifications. Therefore I tried a factory reset but that keeps the root and unlock.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
ok, if you want to get the total old look, relock the bootloader, and install official GNex image that comes straight from Google. Hope this sorts the issue out.
Yes, Custom ROMs are a bit time taking to setup in the start, but thats the whole point - a lot of options. I flashed alot of ROMs and luckily, I have had no boot issue still. I think following the proper instructions(which are simply wiping and formatting data, cache, and dalvik) are easily gonna keep the boot loops away.
You can rule out a sw issue by starting fresh.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1626895
Sent from my i9250
What's up guys!
Using ROM installer I flashed vanir 4.4 along with 4.4 gapps on my sprint gs3 sph l710. I wiped the cache and it looked as if it were installing fine but winded up getting stuck in boot loop mode instead. Now when I try to boot into recovery the twrp screen flashes and then it goes straight into bootlop mode from there. Now i cant acsess any of my backups. I can get into down load mode but unfortunately my computers messed up right now. I can't hit the run button on Odin because the screen is too big. I know it sucks!!! Does anyone know some tricks I can use or have any recommendations. Your help would be greatly appreciated! BTW.. I was running illusion 4.3 when this happened.
ddray said:
What's up guys!
Using ROM installer I flashed vanir 4.4 along with 4.4 gapps on my sprint gs3 sph l710. I wiped the cache and it looked as if it were installing fine but winded up getting stuck in boot loop mode instead. Now when I try to boot into recovery the twrp screen flashes and then it goes straight into bootlop mode from there. Now i cant acsess any of my backups. I can get into down load mode but unfortunately my computers messed up right now. I can't hit the run button on Odin because the screen is too big. I know it sucks!!! Does anyone know some tricks I can use or have any recommendations. Your help would be greatly appreciated! BTW.. I was running illusion 4.3 when this happened.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Can you try using this? http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1746680
Maybe that'll work, you can use it to return to stock, and if anything I would recommend going back to stock before doing anything else. Also, it may not be the consensus of the site here but in my own opinion, I don't like using rom installer or goo manager or anything. I like doing it all myself in recovery. I've heard one too many stories of people getting hardbricked because their rom installer or whatever downloaded the international version of the rom they wanted :/ always best to check your own md5 checksums and make sure you're downloading the rom for your phone from your phone's forum.
As for the exact reason your phone did that? I couldn't tell you, maybe with a little more info someone more knowledgeable here could tell you
So i got my computer fixed. I havent tried the tool kit in the thread you recommeded. I decided first to use a stock file i have on odin first that has saved me from softbricks in the past. I set everything up hit start, watched the process complete with the pass. Now it shows the stock boot animation but still stuck in bootloop mode. I put it into recovery,which is now stock instead of twrp, wiped cache, davlik cache and factory reset then i reconnected to odin and reflashed the stock file. Still stuck in bootloop mode!!!! Plain reboot and same thing :/ so for the hell of it, i wanted to see if i can to my backups by restoring twrp. So i flashed my cf auto root and then flashed my twrp file and bam!!!! Twrp was full functioning with all my backups!!! :laugh: next i restored my latest illusion 4.3 rom and wala! Ive got a fully functioning rooted phone with a custom rom. I flipped through everything to make sure it looks good and it does. Except.... any photos and music that are saved to phone and not sd card are gone I dont understand, everthing else is backed. Contacts, call logs, messages, text messages, apps, customised settings etc...I even flashed my carbon rom that had the same music and pics. When i open gallery it shows the photo count in snapseed and others im looking for but then they all start dissapearing!!! i also dont understand why the stock file which has saved me from softbricks before didnt work. I dont know anything about checking md 5 checksums but if its worth the time ill do my research! Im happy i got my phone working but i would like to be more solid in what im doing. Maybe someone can help shed some light on this.
never had this problem first here is all the background information from my last thread (yes i must be challenged)
really I don't know what to do
I believe i need to completely erase everything from my device as i cannot think of what else it could be but some conflicting something somewhere I am not educated enough to know
it flashes fine with odin but always system ui error I will be trying to go back to 4.1X as i believe that was my last bootloader and hope it works out. In all i want to update to NC2 and take advantage of the last roms beuing developed for this device.
In all i want to get my phone working again i need to get and send calls and texts so i plead for help Any question i will answer to the best of my ability
I have flashed with odin 3.1 and 3.07 NC2 then MJC basically both root 66 4.3 roms I don't know what my problem is maybe if while im waiting for help and using a root 66 for 4.1.2 (last working state) i will use recovery to wipe the sd card? idk but in all i think i need to start FRESH as long as i can get my contacts from Google i'm fine (and the phone rings and such lol)
IM eagerly waiting for help!!! someone else who is having a crappy holiday season maybe you can relate when you get in a funk where it seams everything breaks or needs to be replaced at one time
TUIA
You can't flash back to 4.1 with Odin. Root66 performs a full update including bootloader so no downgrade. You probably just need to factory reset with recovery. Just make sure you backup your internal sd
serio22 said:
You can't flash back to 4.1 with Odin. Root66 performs a full update including bootloader so no downgrade. You probably just need to factory reset with recovery. Just make sure you backup your internal sd
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Thanks for sticking in there with me i did a factory reset using the recovery (i guess the android recovery) deleted data and cache which deleted all the apps which were messing things up so now it booted up like a brand new phone my contacts are back via Google and that's all i care ill be installing a rom and such soon but idk im starting over it works and upgrade
thank you a lot for sticking with me serio22 all i can do is thank you for all your posts but if i had the means id buy you a beer or something man
No problem man, glad it's fixed!
BeatnikBandit said:
Thanks for sticking in there with me i did a factory reset using the recovery (i guess the android recovery) deleted data and cache which deleted all the apps which were messing things up so now it booted up like a brand new phone my contacts are back via Google and that's all i care ill be installing a rom and such soon but idk im starting over it works and upgrade
thank you a lot for sticking with me serio22 all i can do is thank you for all your posts but if i had the means id buy you a beer or something man
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
http://forum.xda-developers.com/and...-rendering-t3003534/post58190052#post58190052
Try this
Hey guys Im running stock rooted and for some reason my phone SD is saying im full. I have literally nothing on it. Any ideas?
I tried once to install a ROM but it borked so I went back to a backup I had and it was fine.
Via windows it says my SD only has around 8 gigs used but android is saying 24?!?!?!?
WTF MATE?
Try wiping userdata in twrp.
Illogi.xbone said:
Try wiping userdata in twrp.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
thanks, I was about to try and just redo the device with a ROM. Clear cahces and such.
I was actually wrong, every time I go into the phone in windows its giving me different storage use #'s. One time its 8 then 17 then 23 then 9. its weird. I think when I tried dirty flashing it just screwed it all up. I have nothing on the SD I care about really so maybe Ill just back up what I want (TWRP backup and titanium apps) and start from scratch if I Cant solve this.
That might be the best. Try backing up to an OTG then completely wiping and installing a fresh ROM. After backing up apps and such.
ugh IM having trouble using any roms on my 5x. No matter the way I install the phone always boots to "internal problem with device"
Ive tried installing different roms (I only like stock style ones) and the vendor.zip and it just doesnt work for me. Ive gone back to my backup for the moment until I figure this out. Never had these issues with my nexus 5
this is odd now my pattern no longer work since my restore back to my TWRP backup! GOD DAKNIT!
let me do the start patttern fine for android then when unlocing the phone it tells me "pattern needed to start device"
what the hell man!
tevil said:
this is odd now my pattern no longer work since my restore back to my TWRP backup! GOD DAKNIT!
let me do the start patttern fine for android then when unlocing the phone it tells me "pattern needed to start device"
what the hell man!
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Try 1st: Completely wipe device, System, data etc. Including Internal Storage and flash a new rom. If that does not fix the issue try flashing stock firmware and start from scratch. Use THIS guide to flash the stock images.
Flash vendor.img that matches your rom base. MMB29Q is the February OTA base. February AOSP roms are based on MMB29U master code but MMB29Q vendor file works fine.
For password issues after TWRP restore, do this: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=3245070
Sent from my Nexus 5X using Tapatalk
SERIOUS ISSUE!
Bricked the phone!
CRAP, this whole thing went downhill. Can get into TWRP, and get the android crash logo (triangle) was trying to restore back to stock to start fresh and it bombed completely!
Any tips!!!
Been a while since I used ADB or fast etc, but man if I have to relearn I will
Hey all,
Fairly new to custom roms, so hopefully I'm asking a legit question. My phone is a D855, currently on DU 10.3. I wanted to upgrade to the 10.4, doing a clean install, but I seemingly cannot wipe anything. TWRP (using 3.0.2) will give an error message: failed to mount \[...]. Interestingly, flashify labels the recovery as Stock, so maybe there is a connection.
I have been doing some googling/"xda-ing" and as it seems, going back to stock can help. BUT, for one, I hope that there's an easier way, and also I would like to know what's causing this issue. Maybe it can be avoided somehow? So maybe someone can help me with that?
Cheers.
Just going to add a few more specific questions. As I am rather unexperienced, I don't want just to try things out without a confirmation that it's safe to go:
- TWRP: can I just try and reflash the newest one via flashify? Or maybe recover an old backup and update? Might it solve the issue and is it safe to go?
- If I have to revert back to stock: I'm coming from stock MM -> root -> Dirty Unicorns. Can I revert back to MM directly using that LG up method, or would you rather recommend flashing Lollipop, if I want to root again anyways? There seems to be a plethora of options for flashing stock (MM to MM, MM to LP, LP to MM, ...) and I am not sure which one applies here...
Hey. I had similar problem with my ls990. And tried all means to fix. Twrp was not mounting the system and sometimes internal storage appears as 0mb. It was so frustrating. So i resorted back to stock. But why flashing stock i got hooked at 98% and since then i was not able to do anything. My phone hardbricked.
Ugh, great prospects. :\
Really hope I can sort this out. At least, my phone is running fine so far, so no need to hurry. Glad for any idea!
Dellocatus said:
Ugh, great prospects. :\
Really hope I can sort this out. At least, my phone is running fine so far, so no need to hurry. Glad for any idea!
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Wait. Let me understand you well. U can boot up phone? U mean the only issue is you not able to flash anything via recovery right?
Oh, forgot to mention explicitly that the phone is still running fine. So yeah - I just cannot wipe and thus cannot flash anything. So for now, I am stuck with the rom I am on, unless I find a solution to the problem.