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[SOLVED] Restore phone to unrooted stock when encrypted and improperly formatted

Hi, I've had my Sprint Galaxy S3 rooted for a while, and it was encrypted. Instead of decrypting it before flashing a new, non-standard rom, I used TWRP to format /data
Now if I install a non-touchwiz rom, it works perfectly. If I try to install ANY version of a touchwiz rom, however, upon the first boot, the phone prompts me for an encryption password. My original password does not work. I have attempted every rom I could find that is labeled "official."
My TWRP backups also do not install, upon reaching the Cache portion of the restore, the process fails, providing no information as to why.
I'd very much like to get my phone back to its original state, if possible. Any help would be greatly appreciated!

Re: [HELP] Can't install official ROM due to encryption
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KarmaBytes said:
Hi, I've had my Sprint Galaxy S3 rooted for a while, and it was encrypted. Instead of decrypting it before flashing a new, non-standard rom, I used TWRP to format /data
Now if I install a non-touchwiz rom, it works perfectly. If I try to install ANY version of a touchwiz rom, however, upon the first boot, the phone prompts me for an encryption password. My original password does not work. I have attempted every rom I could find that is labeled "official."
My TWRP backups also do not install, upon reaching the Cache portion of the restore, the process fails, providing no information as to why.
I'd very much like to get my phone back to its original state, if possible. Any help would be greatly appreciated!
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I've never used encryption, but I'd bet there's still some data lingering in the system folder of the internal storage...
First thing I'd recommend is doing a Factory Reset and a System wipe. This is in TWRP under the Wipe Menu. Then try to flash a TW ROM. See if that works.
If the system wipe doesn't work, I'd next recommend a full wipe of your internal storage (of course, you should copy your nandroid backups and anything else you want to keep to your external SDcard first). This is also found under the Wipe Menu in TWRP.
Then you can install whichever ROM you want (from your External SDcard, 'cause it won't be in our internal storage of course).
Let me know if this works for you.
EDIT: My apologies, apparently the Format /data is supposed to do all the above (and more). I'd recommend the approach in GiantJay's link and see if that works.

So, I had tried wiping and formatting everything already, to no avail.
I just used Odin to flash the original firmware from samsung-updates.com, and after the reboot, I STILL get the encryption prompt... I'm completely lost now. And to top it off, I no longer have a custom recovery or anything with which to flash a different rom :/
EDIT: It would appear that after using ODIN to flash the stock firmware, the stock recovery was capable of succeeding where TWRP was unable to. Performing the factory/DATA reset from the stock recovery fixed my problem.
To others encountering this problem, the following worked for my SPH-L710:
1. Boot into download mode.
2. Use ODIN to flash the correct stock firmware (MD5 or TAR file).
3. Boot device into recovery mode and perform a factory reset.
Easy enough lol.
Thanks a lot for your help, and the quick replies!

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Samsung Galaxy GT-I5510M One to One copy? odin?

I'll try to make this as short as possible.
Basically, I have the I5510M, and flashed it from the stock Froyo rom to a gingerbread rom for the wrong region. Now it won't flash the original rom. Assumingly because of something that was changed in the bootloader or some other thing.
If I try to flash it, the device won't boot.
So I managed to get my hands on another identical device - I'm wondering if its possible to backup literally everything about the phone into some form Odin flashable thing.
I mean -everything-, the radio, the bootloader, the system, etc. A simple nandroid backup won't work, because it doesn't include things such as the radio.
Unfortunately the only CWM recovery rom available for the device only works with gingerbread. I've tried flashing it to the new phone on the froyo rom, and it simply won't work. I had to flash the stock recovery back onto it with odin.

Going from stock to stock (basically just wiping) while on CWM recovery

I'm already on the stock KK ROM (E98020g)., but with the CWM recovery. I just want to wipe everything while keeping the stock ROM, but I've seen that factory resetting or flashing stock ROMs while on a custom recovery will probably cause a some sort of brick...
I've already briefly seen the pinned stock ROM tutorial already. Before I try that (assuming it still works), can anyone tell me if there's a simpler way? It's going to take me a long time to go through that entire thread so it would be an immense help if someone could just tell me.

Have you try using system setting, storage, hard reset?

hawkwind212 said:
Have you try using system setting, storage, hard reset?
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That's what I meant by "factory reset", sorry. Everything I've read indicates that this will cause a softbrick, which I'm trying to avoid. Is this info wrong?

I assume the reason that you install cwm and running the stock ROM is so you can have a nandroid backup? Otherwise Why else would you installed a custom recovery? So backup the ROM and do the factory reset with kk instead of cwm, which may be the reason that some people are getting the soft bricks. I can't guarantee you that everything will be according to the plan, but that's the reason backup function is there.

I originally installed CWM because I wanted to wipe and try out a custom ROM (probably CM). But then I noticed all the serious issues people were having with various custom ROMs, so I decided to skip the custom rom (for now) and just get on with wiping. I really don't want to risk any type of brick with this device.
Anyway, I think I'm going to try out the pinned stock rom thread I mentioned in the OP.

Kernel version "Unavailable" Help

I have used stock rooted ROM from robalm, ver 20u with Gabriel kernel. today I decided to try out new Fulmics ROM from xpirt. of course I made full backup with TWRP, flashed the ROM w/o problems.
after I tried the ROM a bit I decided to go back and restore my previous ROM. everything went fine except I get a warning message after boot:
Current version is not available for user. can't find matched cust for NT-code mcc/mnc [FFFFF],subset[11]
in software information about kernel version it says unavailable. naturally I went into TWRP and flashed kernel again with cache/dalwik cache wipe. no luck, result is the same.
my guess would be that something from previous ROM test survived wiping and is giving me the error. my question would be is this and how possible? any info on the subject? I've seen some threads about the issue around but no solution or explanation why it happened. I'll try flashing robalm's ROM and then restore my backup once more. other than that any info appreciated.
thx!

ok, flashing my ROM zip and then making restore did the trick. of course, I again did full wipe after flashing zip, before doing the restore. so the questions remain: did anything from previous ROM survived wipe and is that even possible?
with Fulmics ROM there was a problem where people coming from AOSP roms experienced problem with WiFi not connecting. the solution was to flash stock based rom first and then Fulmics rom and then the WiFi would work. that's what gave me the idea of something remaining after full wipe. otherwise there wouldn't be need for flashing two roms. my recent experience adds to the theory, where flashing zip first laid the ground for restore to work flawlessly this time, even with full wipe before doing restore.
it doesn't make sense. how is this possible? shouldn't full wipe perform...well...full wipe?

how to decrypt stock rom please help

every time i flash custom rom its just going to bootloop. i think its because of encrytion.
when i restore twrp stck backup. the touch is not working properly. it requires two touches simultanously to touch any thing.
how to disable encryption? plz help

You can disable decryption by formatting the data partition in TWRP. Of course you will delete all data in the process. And I kind of doubt that encryption is causing your problems.
Are you sure that you are flashing the right ROM for your bootloader? Which Android version did you have on your phone before, and which version are you trying to flash?

zeeshanbage said:
every time i flash custom rom its just going to bootloop. i think its because of encrytion.
when i restore twrp stck backup. the touch is not working properly. it requires two touches simultanously to touch any thing.
how to disable encryption? plz help
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what ROM?, what procedure (RSDlite, manual, etc?)are you using to flash ROM - and what bootloaders?

i wiped everything including internal storage. flashed rom successfully. but after reboot again bootloop happen. so went into twrp then again its asking password to decrypt.
now i flashed stock firmware using adb. i wasted whole day just to get root access and still didn't got one

I just put a few guides at the top of MZP Guides etc - start there and we'll see how it goes. RSDlite-ing a phone can cure a lot of ills.