All,
I just upgraded my wife's phone and would like to sell her old one, a Sprint Samsung Epic 4G Touch. based on my reading, the best approach for wiping the phone's data is to encrypt it. I have been trying this, but it keep failing with "Encryption failed: Unable to complete encryption due to interruption..."
The phone had been rooted, and thinking that that could be the problem, I downloaded a stock kernel and installed it. However, the problem persists. Is there anything else I can try?
After trying the process of resetting the phone, reflashing it, and encrypting several times, I thought that the problem was resolved - the progress bar for the encryption got all the way to 98% before it died. I tried again and it crapped at around 20%.
I am stuck - please help.
Thank you.
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My Desire has intermittent freezing issues. I thought it might have been due to a poor rom installation so I wiped the Dalkvik cache and factory wipe before I re-flashed LeeDroid 2.2a. I've kept the phone clean and not installed any apps so I can rule out and problems caused by them.
It was working fine yesterday until I was showing a friend how to wipe battery stats, when I went to reboot the phone from ClockworkMod it then froze at the lock screen. I had to pull the battery twice before it actually started up correctly.
It's fine now but I'm just waiting on it happening again.
Has anyone else had these issues?
It was a t-mobile uk handset and I would need to restore to their rom before returning, so if that is the likely solution, can someone pass a link so I can put their rom back on the phone.
Any help or advice appreciated.
I've just got my Desire back from repair (after 6 weeks of grief with HTC, but that's another story on another thread!) and it's doing exactly the same as yours....will appear to work fine, then randomly freeze. This could happen after 10 minutes or sometimes even during boot.
I've rooted it, but it's still got the stock T-Mobile (UK) ROM. I'm wondering if the problem might be caused by rooting, but have downloaded the 2 stock ROMs on the relevant thread on here, but neither will install.
Have you had any joy with your issue?
I'll email you as well.
Cheers,
Rich
Hi there,
Just wanted your point of view regarding something really strange that happened to me yesterday.
(btw, I looked it up all over the forum + google but still unabale to find a proper answer)
So basically, I droped down my phone, which crashed on the floor but nothing really serious. Ever since, every time I try and turn on the wifi, it says "Error".
I've tried rebooting it several times and still get the issue.
Do you guys think the wifi chip could have been broken? Is there any report log I could find using terminal or root explorer?
Phone specs:
Virtuous Unity v1.29.0
Android 2.3.3
Phone rooted
Bluetooth does turn on
Thanks in advance for your help
Try flashing a different rom, back up your current one first, and check out if the wifi is working without restoring any apps.
Did you ever fix this? I did the exact same thing, dropped onto hard tile. Wifi error and couldn't read data partition.
Randomly after a day or 2 it fixed itself and was fine for 2 weeks.
BUT...just happened again today. I wiped caches, reflashed ARHD, fixed all permissions. Data partition became readable again (not sure which of those fixed that) but i still get "Wifi Error" when turning wifi on.
Any help/suggestions much appreciated.
I have a Samsung Epic 4g that I have flashed to cricket, and I am having significant problems with the phone. It initially worked fine, but it eventually started shutting off on its own, dropping calls, and other issues. I thought it might be one of the battery saving programs I had tried, so I re-flashed the phone to a different Rom. The problems continued, so I tried to flash the CWM El30 to FC09, but it gave errors and would not process. I am also unable to install Google Apps, and the PlayStore would not load but gave connection errors.
I am leaving for a business trip tomorrow, and need to know if this is a hardware problem or a software problem that can be somehow fixed, so I can get a replacement phone. Does anyone have suggestions on how to fix the software issues, or ??????
johnmbailey said:
I have a Samsung Epic 4g that I have flashed to cricket, and I am having significant problems with the phone. It initially worked fine, but it eventually started shutting off on its own, dropping calls, and other issues. I thought it might be one of the battery saving programs I had tried, so I re-flashed the phone to a different Rom. The problems continued, so I tried to flash the CWM El30 to FC09, but it gave errors and would not process. I am also unable to install Google Apps, and the PlayStore would not load but gave connection errors.
I am leaving for a business trip tomorrow, and need to know if this is a hardware problem or a software problem that can be somehow fixed, so I can get a replacement phone. Does anyone have suggestions on how to fix the software issues, or ??????
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if it gives you issues on stock fc09 i would say hardware. flash to fc09 stock from here and try. remember to click reset partition if you are on a bmt rom.
All,
I just upgraded my wife's phone and would like to sell her old one, a Sprint Samsung Epic 4G Touch. based on my reading, the best approach for wiping the phone's data is to encrypt it. I have been trying this, but it keep failing with "Encryption failed: Unable to complete encryption due to interruption..."
The phone had been rooted, and thinking that that could be the problem, I downloaded a stock kernel and installed it. However, the problem persists. Is there anything else I can try?
Thank you.
Hello, all. Long time Android user here, no stranger to rooting, ROMing, all that good stuff. I ran into sort of a weird issue that just started to happen quite consistently over the past few days. It all started when I tried to flash the new XtraSmooth Factory Image ROM when it went up. Everything went smooth, except, for some reason, it kills my data connection. FYI, I'm on Sprint, but I don't think that has anything to do with the issue. But it gets weirder. Even if I try to flash a different ROM, a ROM where I had data working before, data is still mucked. No connection whatsoever. If I try to restore a nandroid backup, even weirder things happen. Like for instance, the restoration process stopping at 20-25% and automatically rebooting back into Android (Which just happened an hour ago), or the backup going into a bootloop. Only solution to these problems are going back to stock and re-rooting everything all over again. It's really weird. Am I alone with this issue? Thanks for any help.
Yes your alone sadly. Restore to stock and root again/unlock bootloader, etc