While installing the most recent update to my encrypted SG3-L710, the phone restarted and while booting up remained stuck on the blue/white Samsung logo.
-After removing the battery and attempting to get around this several times it appeared that the update had soft-bricked my phone. I was never prompted to put in my passcode to undo the encryption.
-I am able to access CWM Recovery and, being that the only significant thing I would lose are my contacts so I attempted to perform a factory restore which was unsuccessful. It appeared the error indicated it was the /sd_card and /data folders posing the problem.
-I attempted to mount and unmount the /sd_card and /data folders which was unsuccessful, formating them also did not work.
-I downloaded Odin and the PIT file as my last hope. I attempted to flash the stock ROM to the phone and hopefully wipe the old ROM from the system. Odin also encountered problems with the /sd_card and /data and was not able to progress past that point. Now I am attempting it a second time to obtain the specifics and it's stuck on "<ID:0/004> Send lock information...".
Any ideas on how to be able to bypass the encryption and wipe my phone so I can flash a new ROM on this?
I've been working on this problem for almost two days now and I would greatly prefer not having to send my phone into Samsung and spend $100 to do this for me! Thanks ahead of time, bear in mind I'm new to this and might be a bit slow.
After running Joe stones cyanogenmod10.1 for almost a year I suddenly found my phone in a bootloop
It is stuck at the boot animation, restarting it brings it back to the same state.
All I did was somehow keep one of the buttons pressed (not even sure which one), and did see the shut down/reboot menu flashing by.
The mt1 U06 does appear in my file manager (linux) but cannot be ejected, trying to connect does nothing but show progress indicator.
Tried adb reboot> device not found
fastboot recovery> waiting for device
I have started making a backup using twrp, (yes, could access it) but that may backup what's broken too...)
Any idea if this is fixable?
But also, Why, oh why did this happen?
SvenHee said:
After running Joe stones cyanogenmod10.1 for almost a year I suddenly found my phone in a bootloop
It is stuck at the boot animation, restarting it brings it back to the same state.
All I did was somehow keep one of the buttons pressed (not even sure which one), and did see the shut down/reboot menu flashing by.
The mt1 U06 does appear in my file manager (linux) but cannot be ejected, trying to connect does nothing but show progress indicator.
Tried adb reboot> device not found
fastboot recovery> waiting for device
I have started making a backup using twrp, (yes, could access it) but that may backup what's broken too...)
Any idea if this is fixable?
But also, Why, oh why did this happen?
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Usualy for the fastboot output that you got it means you need to reinstall the drivers.
Sent from my SM-G850F
Reinstalling drivers if for windows is it not?
Until now I found that linux is super easy in installing adb and fastboot, and previously, during instalation of the phone, installing adb and fastboot was all I did.
Assuming that the 10.1 ROM still is present on your SD card try to reinstall it dirty. Just wipe cache and dalvik cache before rebooting into the system. Only the rom.
Got it working again with just a factory reset, but off course, all data and settings were gone.
I did try to put (partial) backups back but that broke the system again.
It is a shame that all my texts are gone, but I'll get over it.
Thanks for the help guys!
Hello
After rooting my G3, I installed an AOSP-based custom rom via TWRP. Then later on, encrypted the phone (& sdcard).
Recently, decided to install a LG stock-based rom (Clean Rom 2.8), but can't get passed a white screen asking for a password at first boot. This appears to be something to do with encryption? (From what I recall, there's no password to set when encrypting the phone). I factory-wiped, and wiped via advanced options of TWRP before installing this rom, so thought the phone has been decrypted.
After reading around, I tried flashing the latest LineageOS rom, and it worked fine. Notably, the phone indicates it's still encrypted! though the sdcard isn't as I can access it outside of the phone. I read about this problem with some ROMs not being able to boot past a password/white screen, but CM/LineageOS not having this issue.
Anyhow, how do I fully decrypt the LG phone? I've read various advice, but confused (especially about bootloaders).
Any help appreciated.
I dont own the device right now (in the future i wil) but i think i can help u whit that.... (it happened me with other phones)
The thing is if you have encription in the phone the only way to dencrypt the device is format the data partition through twrp THIS WILL ERASE ALL OF YOUR FILES LIKE PHOTOS AND MUSIC PLEASE DO A BACKUP BEFORE TRYING THIS
Boot to twrp, press the wipe button, in the wipe screen you will see a button that say "Format data" (in the top corner above the switch saying "swipe to factory reset") then twrp ask you to type yes, you do it and this will format the data partition erasing the files and the encription....
For the sd is the same but you can do it from a computer if you want or other way
I hope that this can help u
First, this phone is converted from C72 to A42 by the seller.
I have enabled encryption and therefore I cannot use the "Fuse wipe data".
It went amok and start bootloop few days ago. I tried cache wipe with simcard and sdcard taken out. It still failed to enter into system UI.
Any idea what went wrong? I have not backed up my data and hopefully avoid hardware reset.
Looking for someone who can help me. TIA.
First of all: My method deletes everything on your phone. But it should work in mostly all cases.
Download this
Extract it, boot phone into bootloader, then run flashall - stock reco.bat and wait until the phone reboots on its own.
Hi,
I need some help with my OnePlus 3 running the latest or close to latest Android 8 OTA stock rom. It started half year ago, suddenly the phone was in a boot loop. I switched it on and off and I managed it to start again, doing a factory reset and wiping cache data. Then I reentered my details and selected a password. It was working for some days again, but I struggled to enter the right password after a while. Not because I'm stupid, it's pretty easy and I did it again and again. Then it was accepted and the phone was running again. I backuped my data and wiped it again just to check whats going on with that password. After restart I reentered all my data with password 0000. After restarting, it started again having trouble to enter the right password... not accepted. Switching on and off and then suddenly 0000 was accepted.... I don't know, I was tired to use this phone anymore and left it on my desktop.
Now half a year later. I want to fix this somehow and I thought, ok nothing to lose. I try that new Android 9 beta with adb sideload. Before that I'll do a full wipe loosing all my data (no problem). The wiping bar stucks at 99% and then it says "Format failed" with the only option "Yes". So stuck there, not started to sideload so far.
Update 1:
If I select that "Yes", I'm back in that erasing menu, with 3 options factory reset, wiping cache and erasing everything... if I select the last option again, it takes a second saying "Format failed"... I could do this forever. But if I select another option like wiping data something strange happens. It opens up a password screen asking for password... none of my passwords are working there. It is starting to decrypt... but stops with vibration and I'm back in that password screen. Only option that is left is "Forget password". If I select that, it is warning me, that I'll lose all my data. I say "Yes" and it's rebooting with a Chinese screen with a bar stucking at 99% again. That after a while the screen turns black. Phone is rebooting into that Chinese screen again, animating the bar to 100% again, switching itself off. If I start normal, Android logo appears, thats it, no OnePlus circle is coming up. Then I did it once more... "Chinese init/wiping loop" again. So I can restart normally having this or restart in recovery to do all the things as before.
Update 2:
After showing up the Chinese init/wipe loop again it restarted but now with red/white OnePlus circle animation. As you read this, it's still rotating...
Are there any thoughts about it... has this phone a hardware damage or what can I do? I appreciate any ideas.
Cheers, cyx
cyx said:
Hi,
I need some help with my OnePlus 3 running the latest or close to latest Android 8 OTA stock rom. It started half year ago, suddenly the phone was in a boot loop. I switched it on and off and I managed it to start again, doing a factory reset and wiping cache data. Then I reentered my details and selected a password. It was working for some days again, but I struggled to enter the right password after a while. Not because I'm stupid, it's pretty easy and I did it again and again. Then it was accepted and the phone was running again. I backuped my data and wiped it again just to check whats going on with that password. After restart I reentered all my data with password 0000. After restarting, it started again having trouble to enter the right password... not accepted. Switching on and off and then suddenly 0000 was accepted.... I don't know, I was tired to use this phone anymore and left it on my desktop.
Now half a year later. I want to fix this somehow and I thought, ok nothing to lose. I try that new Android 9 beta with adb sideload. Before that I'll do a full wipe loosing all my data (no problem). The wiping bar stucks at 99% and then it says "Format failed" with the only option "Yes". So stuck there, not started to sideload so far.
Update 1:
If I select that "Yes", I'm back in that erasing menu, with 3 options factory reset, wiping cache and erasing everything... if I select the last option again, it takes a second saying "Format failed"... I could do this forever. But if I select another option like wiping data something strange happens. It opens up a password screen asking for password... none of my passwords are working there. It is starting to decrypt... but stops with vibration and I'm back in that password screen. Only option that is left is "Forget password". If I select that, it is warning me, that I'll lose all my data. I say "Yes" and it's rebooting with a Chinese screen with a bar stucking at 99% again. That after a while the screen turns black. Phone is rebooting into that Chinese screen again, animating the bar to 100% again, switching itself off. If I start normal, Android logo appears, thats it, no OnePlus circle is coming up. Then I did it once more... "Chinese init/wiping loop" again. So I can restart normally having this or restart in recovery to do all the things as before.
Update 2:
After showing up the Chinese init/wipe loop again it restarted but now with red/white OnePlus circle animation. As you read this, it's still rotating...
Are there any thoughts about it... has this phone a hardware damage or what can I do? I appreciate any ideas.
Cheers, cyx
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Try THIS version of TWRP to format and flash.
tnsmani said:
Try THIS version of TWRP to format and flash.
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Update 3:
Before following tnsmani's advice to install TWRP I did something that makes things worse. Because I couldn't wait, I sideloaded the new Android 9 zip without any problems in sideload mode. It was installed and the loading circle was coming up. It took a while and finally the phone switched off. Now the phone is booting up to a new rounded edge OnePlus splash screen without any animation and It's not possible to start the old recovery mode anymore. So I can't connect to adb or fastboot to install that TWRP. All what is coming up are different menus without the options I need. I attached two new pictures to show them. But I can't establish a connection to my pc anymore. No devices showing up.
Update 4:
Ok, it seems that fastboot is communicating when I'm in that green/red menu which says start but my command:
fastboot flash recovery twrp-3.2.3-10-oneplus3.img
fails with the output:
target reported max download size of 440401920 bytes
erasing 'recovery'...
FAILED (remote: Partition erase is not allowed)
finished. total time: 0.019s
Update 5:
Ok, I followed this steps:
https://forums.oneplus.com/threads/guide-oneplus-3-3t-unbrick.531047/
to unbrick the device with MSMDownloadTool and Qualcomm drivers, but with no real success so far. But I can start recovery mode again and adb sideload is working as well.
But with anything else, I have no luck. After a new sideload it's keeps anímating the Oneplus dots and I can't install TWRP to do a clean wipe.
All I want to have is a booting up final or beta stock rom working as before, without any specials.
cyx said:
Update 5:
Ok, I followed this steps:
https://forums.oneplus.com/threads/guide-oneplus-3-3t-unbrick.531047/
to unbrick the device with MSMDownloadTool and Qualcomm drivers, but with no real success so far. But I can start recovery mode again and adb sideload is working as well.
But with anything else, I have no luck. After a new sideload it's keeps anímating the Oneplus dots and I can't install TWRP to do a clean wipe.
All I want to have is a booting up final or beta stock rom working as before, without any specials.
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Is fastboot/bootloader working or not? If it is, simply flash the TWRP first and then proceed with ROM.
If the MSM Download Tool succeeded, you should be able to boot. If not, it means that it did not succeed. Try it a few more times since for some people, repeated attempts are required before the phone boots.
cyx said:
Update 5:
Ok, I followed this steps:
https://forums.oneplus.com/threads/guide-oneplus-3-3t-unbrick.531047/
to unbrick the device with MSMDownloadTool and Qualcomm drivers, but with no real success so far. But I can start recovery mode again and adb sideload is working as well.
But with anything else, I have no luck. After a new sideload it's keeps an
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What I noticed from your SS is that your bootloader is locked. So no way you can flash or run a custom recovery til the time you actually unlock your bootloader.
I will advise to unlock bootloader first, flash TWRP fixed version (somewhere in LOS thread is the link), "format" /data partition, flash your desired OOS Rom and then try again and see if it works.
@cyx
Boot into the bootloader and on the PC enter this command: fastboot oem unlock.
This should unlock the bootloader. Then flash TWRP, boot back into it and flash ROM etc.