Hi all,
I recently got a HK N7105 and because it lacked the possibility to use a french keyboard I upgraded to a stock unbranded ROM from Sweden (XXDLL1) and succesfully rooted with the relevant CF_autoroot through Odin. Also installed TWRP 2.3.3.1.
Then, I connected the Note 2 to my corporate exchange server which enforced a full encryption policy (device and external SD card) so I had to type in a password at each boot time (with a "nice" swedish prompt that took ma while to decypher), plus a password to unlock the screen. All was well as the root survived the process.
Next I upgraded to a later stock ROM from France (XXDLL4 from SFR) to try and get rid of the swedish prompt. That worked fine (and root was loast in the process, as expected) but I hated the branded stuff so much I reverted to XXDLL1 until a proper unbranded "english" or "french" ROM is available.
At this point I decided to root again. I was running XXDLL1 like the first time and used the same autoroot tar from Chainfire. Except my Note 2 was still encrypted and after that it would not accept my boot password (a four digit PIN) anymore so I was guted and had to factory reset and root then reinstall everything before reconnecting to the exchange server.
Question 1: Does anyone know of a safe, proven way to root a fully encrypted Samsung device so I can go another upgrade without having to wipe the device first?
Why reinstall everything? Why not backup everything first so you can restore after the wipe? Well, it so happens that no recovery (at least neither CWM or TWRP) can read any encrypted media on the Note 2 at the moment. And no Recovery can actually fully backup the device as well.
Question 2: Does anyone know of a proper way to handle this situation with minimum hassle?
So far, the best I can think of is doing a Titanium backup and FTP the files to my NAS so I can retrieve them later. But (Question 3) will this be enough to restore my phone to the expected state after a stock firmware upgrade?
Thanks in advance,
François
frankieGom said:
Hi all,
I recently got a HK N7105 and because it lacked the possibility to use a french keyboard I upgraded to a stock unbranded ROM from Sweden (XXDLL1) and succesfully rooted with the relevant CF_autoroot through Odin. Also installed TWRP 2.3.3.1.
Then, I connected the Note 2 to my corporate exchange server which enforced a full encryption policy (device and external SD card) so I had to type in a password at each boot time (with a "nice" swedish prompt that took ma while to decypher), plus a password to unlock the screen. All was well as the root survived the process.
Next I upgraded to a later stock ROM from France (XXDLL4 from SFR) to try and get rid of the swedish prompt. That worked fine (and root was loast in the process, as expected) but I hated the branded stuff so much I reverted to XXDLL1 until a proper unbranded "english" or "french" ROM is available.
At this point I decided to root again. I was running XXDLL1 like the first time and used the same autoroot tar from Chainfire. Except my Note 2 was still encrypted and after that it would not accept my boot password (a four digit PIN) anymore so I was guted and had to factory reset and root then reinstall everything before reconnecting to the exchange server.
Question 1: Does anyone know of a safe, proven way to root a fully encrypted Samsung device so I can go another upgrade without having to wipe the device first?
Why reinstall everything? Why not backup everything first so you can restore after the wipe? Well, it so happens that no recovery (at least neither CWM or TWRP) can read any encrypted media on the Note 2 at the moment. And no Recovery can actually fully backup the device as well.
Question 2: Does anyone know of a proper way to handle this situation with minimum hassle?
So far, the best I can think of is doing a Titanium backup and FTP the files to my NAS so I can retrieve them later. But (Question 3) will this be enough to restore my phone to the expected state after a stock firmware upgrade?
Thanks in advance,
François
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I think using Exynos Abuse apk will do the work
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2050297
Thanks for the heads up, I'll look into it. But to be clear, that answers question 1, correct?
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Thanks for the heads up, I'll look into it. But to be clear, that answers question 1, correct?
Sent from my GT-N7105 using xda app-developers app
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Yes that's a way to root the device.
Regarding encryption, very few people on xda seem to use it. So for that reason you'll have trouble finding out what works... I do use it though through choice so I can help you a bit.
When you encrypt the device, just consider /data to be off limits to anything not booted fully. That's why it asks you for your key in swedish - it can't see what language is in use until you unlock /data.
You will have issues using recovery with the device, since they can't read /data. You can use an external sd to perhaps load data to the device though.
I believe that TWRP might soon support the Samsung encryption on the device, meaning you could use it as recovery. Once you have a recovery that supports Samsung encryption, you should be able to consider it a fairly normal device.
Just be more cautious to backup your data as it is hard to recover if something goes wrong...
If your using stock rom 4.1.2, exynos abuse method of root will not work. It's been patched
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pulser_g2 said:
Yes that's a way to root the device.
Regarding encryption, very few people on xda seem to use it. So for that reason you'll have trouble finding out what works... I do use it though through choice so I can help you a bit.
When you encrypt the device, just consider /data to be off limits to anything not booted fully. That's why it asks you for your key in swedish - it can't see what language is in use until you unlock /data.
You will have issues using recovery with the device, since they can't read /data. You can use an external sd to perhaps load data to the device though.
I believe that TWRP might soon support the Samsung encryption on the device, meaning you could use it as recovery. Once you have a recovery that supports Samsung encryption, you should be able to consider it a fairly normal device.
Just be more cautious to backup your data as it is hard to recover if something goes wrong...
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Fine, I understand. As long as I have a way to recover my data if I need to wipe I'm okay... I just have to hope Titanium backup gives me that until TWRP can manage encruption on the Note 2.
I'm really waiting for a stock rom that boots in English or French now.
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vash_h said:
If your using stock rom 4.1.2, exynos abuse method of root will not work. It's been patched
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Not the case with xxdll1. When was it patched, xxdll4 or xxdll7?
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frankieGom said:
Not the case with xxdll1. When was it patched, xxdll4 or xxdll7?
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I am on Stock 4.1.2 and Exynos Abuse did work on my device, it's successfully rooted using the Exynos AbuseAPK on 4.1.2 :good:
OK, now I have been experimenting a bit with backups and upgrade and have trouble restoring my device fully. Let me explain...
I got hold of a TWRP build that seems to handle Samsung encryption fine through one of the TWRP devs (thanks!), so I decided to go back and try to update my device.
Current ROM: N7105XXDLL1_N7105TLADLL1_N7105XXDLK7_HOME.tar (obtained from Samsung Updates)
New ROM: N7105XXDLL7_N7105OLBDLL2_N7105DXDLL1_HOME.tar (obtained from Samsung Updates)
First I performed a complete Titanium Backup on the device and pulled the files to my laptop using ADB.
Then I restarted into TWRP 2.4.0.0 (got a prompt for my password), performed a full backup and pulled the files to the laptop using ADB.
(for some reason, I could not install the new ROM from TWRP (unable to open ZIP), but the ZIP looked OK, as well as after a second download which TWRP since did not like, so I had to use Odin instead).
Next, I flashed DLL7 with Odin. It worked, asked for the password at boot, but the device was unrooted at this point (I expected that).
Then, I flashed CF-Auto-Root-t0lte-t0ltexx-gtn7105.tar from Odin, but the boot up password would not be accepted anymore as I already knew.
Tried to flash DLL7 again from Odin, same thing
Flashed TWRP back on recovery partition, but on startup it would not ask for password anymore and the external sdcard looked empty to it.
I then copied my backup to a different, non encrypted sdcard and could restore from TWRP but the password would still not work after reboot.
I did a factory reset, restored backup, same result.
At this point I decided to factory reset, wipe Dalvik and format /data. The format did the trick and after TWRP restore of my original back up the device booted up, did not ask for password and all my data was there. Except the Exchange account I use for Corporate email wants me to restore encryption in order to work (I expected that too).
Back at DLL1, so I flashed DLL7 again with Odin (OK), rooted the phone, triangled away the flash counter and reflashed TWRP to recovery.
I was where I wanted to be except for one thing: I need to restore Corporate access. But when I let it encryp the phone it does nothing. I let it through the night and nothing). And if I reboot the phone no password is needed at boot time, yet the phone seems to behave as if it thought the device was still encrypted...
I reflashed my original, full, backup (i.e DLL1) succesfully but Exchange still wants to encrypt my device. Isn't restore supposed to restore the encrypted /data I backed up?
At this point I'm left with possibly tryinjg to go back to full factory settings, not use the backup at all, encrypt the device then restore my data from the Titanium backup I made.
Is there a better option?
[edited jan 18 - TWRP/TB behaviour]
My comments apply to encrypted devices only! I am not trying to talk down TWRP or TB here, as they provide splendid performance on non encrypted devices. I have come upon hard time trying to upgrade/restore an encrypted device using thoise tools, that's all
For those considering upgrading & re-rooting encrypted devices, don't!
I am finding the hard way that this is a one way street. At this point, my TWRP made full backup does not restore the device to the expected status. Each time I apply it, subsequent bootup takes several minutes and I end up going through the initial setup procedure. It seems the device for some reasoin goes through a complete reset procedure.
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Clarification: The TWRP build I use, 2.4.0.0 is an alpha build and I was not current when I restored my backup. I so happens that it was overwriting the encryption header on the partition, which messed things up bad, and had issues writing back the data partition, ending up in a factory reset status!
Using the latest drop as of today (jan 27) I was able to restore my original backup and am now back to my original state. All is well.
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Titanium Backup is none better. It keeps telling me that my Android ID has changed, a host of system applications start to fail when I try to restore and generally speaking I have now spent between a good 20 hours trying to simply restore my data.
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this behaviour is probably linked to encryption. I know for a fact that TB works very well on non encrypted phones. The 20h figure is overall, not just with TB.
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The end story is: root before you encrypt, and either don't upgrade or don't re-root if you do! If you do, be prepared for some rough times...
Unless someone has a cleat idea of how to do this properly without losing all your data, that is.
François
frankieGom said:
For those considering upgrading & re-rooting encrypted devices, don't!
I am finding the hard way that this is a one way street. At this point, my TWRP made full backup does not restore the device to the expected status. Each time I apply it, subsequent bootup takes several minutes and I end up going through the initial setup procedure. It seems the device for some reasoin goes through a complete reset procedure.
Titanium Backup is none better. It keeps telling me that my Android ID has changed, a host of system applications start to fail when I try to restore and generally speaking I have now spent between a good 20 hours trying to simply restore my data.
The end story is: root before you encrypt, and either don't upgrade or don't re-root if you do!
Unless someone has a cleat idea of how to do this properly without losing all your data, that is.
François
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I have had no issues despite doing upgrades, with and without wipes.
Titanium is fine, just stop restoring system app data. Seriously, what data do you have in a system app that you want to restore.
Restore your user apps, their data, and the xml based call, sms, Wifi backups. It will work fine.
Device ID isn't a problem - it's just trying to help you.
pulser_g2 said:
I have had no issues despite doing upgrades, with and without wipes.
Titanium is fine, just stop restoring system app data. Seriously, what data do you have in a system app that you want to restore.
Restore your user apps, their data, and the xml based call, sms, Wifi backups. It will work fine.
Device ID isn't a problem - it's just trying to help you.
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Sorry if I came across dissing Titanium Backup and/or TWRP. This was not the intent... I am sure both tools work real nice in general cases (and I have had success restoring data on a Jetstream before).
My main issue here is _full device encryption_ enforced by my company's corporate IT to allow me on the corporate exchange server. Do you have full device encryption on?
On my device, even after a full wipe and flashing a fresh stock rom Titanium Backup just did not work as I hoped. When I had to confirm individual popups of apps closing unexpectedly while it was proceeding and got nothing back in the end, what was I supposed to think? It could be that I don't understand how TB works... I was neither able to restore missing apps after the flash (missing apps: 0) nor installed apps data (they would close unexpectedly when started after restoring the back up). So I say: until full operation of TB on encrypted devices is documented, I will stay away from it, even though I am a registered user (and I do not plan to seek reimbursment)!
Anyway, I got to a belated happy ending (previous post edited).
frankieGom said:
Sorry if I came across dissing Titanium Backup and/or TWRP. This was not the intent... I am sure both tools work real nice in general cases (and I have had success restoring data on a Jetstream before).
My main issue here is _full device encryption_ enforced by my company's corporate IT to allow me on the corporate exchange server. Do you have full device encryption on?
On my device, even after a full wipe and flashing a fresh stock rom Titanium Backup just did not work as I hoped. When I had to confirm individual popups of apps closing unexpectedly while it was proceeding and got nothing back in the end, what was I supposed to think? It could be that I don't understand how TB works... I was neither able to restore missing apps after the flash (missing apps: 0) nor installed apps data (they would close unexpectedly when started after restoring the back up). So I say: until full operation of TB on encrypted devices is documented, I will stay away from it, even though I am a registered user (and I do not plan to seek reimbursment)!
Anyway, I got to a belated happy ending (previous post edited).
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Yup I use device encryption Enabled manually, but it's the same encryption.
You should find that titanium shouldn't even be aware of it - the encryption is transparent!
I wonder... I'm sure lenny had that issue on a recent 4.1.2 "stock" ROM... And he doesn't use encryption...
I personally have had no issues with titanium on an encrypted device anyway
I notice you were using the newest rom - that's the one lenny had issues on.
pulser_g2 said:
Yup I use device encryption Enabled manually, but it's the same encryption.
You should find that titanium shouldn't even be aware of it - the encryption is transparent!
I wonder... I'm sure lenny had that issue on a recent 4.1.2 "stock" ROM... And he doesn't use encryption...
I personally have had no issues with titanium on an encrypted device anyway
I notice you were using the newest rom - that's the one lenny had issues on.
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Exactly like I thought, encryption should be transparent to Titanium Backup since it runs within the OS.
I have had problems restoring into 4.1.2 DLL1 (the build I came from) and DLL7 (the one I was trying to go to)
The point is moot anyway since the DLL7 I tried was actually branded (Singtel stuff all around the launcher) and did not include French, which is why restoring my TWRP backup was a tempting proposition.
Good to know TB runs fine with encryption as well. What ROM are you running?
François
frankieGom said:
Hi all,
I recently got a HK N7105 and because it lacked the possibility to use a french keyboard I upgraded to a stock unbranded ROM from Sweden (XXDLL1) and succesfully rooted with the relevant CF_autoroot through Odin. Also installed TWRP 2.3.3.1.
Then, I connected the Note 2 to my corporate exchange server which enforced a full encryption policy (device and external SD card) so I had to type in a password at each boot time (with a "nice" swedish prompt that took ma while to decypher), plus a password to unlock the screen. All was well as the root survived the process.
Next I upgraded to a later stock ROM from France (XXDLL4 from SFR) to try and get rid of the swedish prompt. That worked fine (and root was loast in the process, as expected) but I hated the branded stuff so much I reverted to XXDLL1 until a proper unbranded "english" or "french" ROM is available.
At this point I decided to root again. I was running XXDLL1 like the first time and used the same autoroot tar from Chainfire. Except my Note 2 was still encrypted and after that it would not accept my boot password (a four digit PIN) anymore so I was guted and had to factory reset and root then reinstall everything before reconnecting to the exchange server.
Question 1: Does anyone know of a safe, proven way to root a fully encrypted Samsung device so I can go another upgrade without having to wipe the device first?
Why reinstall everything? Why not backup everything first so you can restore after the wipe? Well, it so happens that no recovery (at least neither CWM or TWRP) can read any encrypted media on the Note 2 at the moment. And no Recovery can actually fully backup the device as well.
Question 2: Does anyone know of a proper way to handle this situation with minimum hassle?
So far, the best I can think of is doing a Titanium backup and FTP the files to my NAS so I can retrieve them later. But (Question 3) will this be enough to restore my phone to the expected state after a stock firmware upgrade?
Thanks in advance,
François
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About a backup : have you tried Online Nandroid (Playstore) (or similar, based on Onandroid) ? This makes a CWM or TWRP compatible backup while the device is running (everything should be unencrypted at this moment).
See http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1620255
About rooting : you can try the same trick as above, by using ADB-shell and pushing the needed files to root to the device while it is running.
For my S3 there is a Toolkit that automates all this (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1703488), maybe there is something similar for your device ?
If not, you should still be able to do it using manual ADB-pushing.
I'm sorry I can't give you detailed instructions about the rooting as I'm not familiar with your device. Search here on XDA and you'll find more details.
pat357 said:
About a backup : have you tried Online Nandroid (Playstore) (or similar, based on Onandroid) ? This makes a CWM or TWRP compatible backup while the device is running (everything should be unencrypted at this moment).
See http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1620255
About rooting : you can try the same trick as above, by using ADB-shell and pushing the needed files to root to the device while it is running.
For my S3 there is a Toolkit that automates all this (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1703488), maybe there is something similar for your device ?
If not, you should still be able to do it using manual ADB-pushing.
I'm sorry I can't give you detailed instructions about the rooting as I'm not familiar with your device. Search here on XDA and you'll find more details.
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Thanks for the suggestions, and no I had not tried Online Nandroid as I was not aware of it. Anyway, my main issue is now resolved since TWRP has include support for Samsung TouchWiz based encryption in 2.4 and that works well.
For those interested, the only remaining issues I have with TWRP regarding encryption are that if you want to format /data from TWRP (say, to remove encryption) it will fail unless you _do not_ enter the password at boot, and the TWRP formated /data cannot be re-encrypted (you must use stock recovery to factory reset/wipe the device or else the encryption step will sit deat in the water doing nothing). I suppose the second one is a bug that will be fixed in a later version.
I will check Online Nandroid out anyway, being able to make a backup from a live system sounds good!
François
frankieGom said:
Thanks for the suggestions, and no I had not tried Online Nandroid as I was not aware of it. Anyway, my main issue is now resolved since TWRP has include support for Samsung TouchWiz based encryption in 2.4 and that works well.
For those interested, the only remaining issues I have with TWRP regarding encryption are that if you want to format /data from TWRP (say, to remove encryption) it will fail unless you _do not_ enter the password at boot, and the TWRP formated /data cannot be re-encrypted (you must use stock recovery to factory reset/wipe the device or else the encryption step will sit deat in the water doing nothing). I suppose the second one is a bug that will be fixed in a later version.
I will check Online Nandroid out anyway, being able to make a backup from a live system sounds good!
François
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I have a similar issue. I had the device encrypted and decided to ROOT (using CF-AutoRoot). Unfortunately I cannot bypass the password screen now, although I know that I'm entering the right password. You are saying that if I flash TWRP everything will be fine?
ludovicianul said:
I have a similar issue. I had the device encrypted and decided to ROOT (using CF-AutoRoot). Unfortunately I cannot bypass the password screen now, although I know that I'm entering the right password. You are saying that if I flash TWRP everything will be fine?
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Two separate things:
Root messing up encrypted touchwiz devices and twrp not handling touchwiz encrypted partitions properly.
The 2nd one, as much as I can tell, is fixed since before 2.5 so if youwork with the latest (2.6) you should be fine.
The first one I haven't played with in a while, but my finding is that you don't want to root a device once it's been encrypted. I've tried several different methods including rooting as you flag as is possible with twrp and all end up the same:the password is not recognised anymore!
The only thing that works for me is rooting before encrypting or only flashing pre-rooted ROMs.
frankieGom said:
Two separate things:
Root messing up encrypted touchwiz devices and twrp not handling touchwiz encrypted partitions properly.
The 2nd one, as much as I can tell, is fixed since before 2.5 so if youwork with the latest (2.6) you should be fine.
The first one I haven't played with in a while, but my finding is that you don't want to root a device once it's been encrypted. I've tried several different methods including rooting as you flag as is possible with twrp and all end up the same:the password is not recognised anymore!
The only thing that works for me is rooting before encrypting or only flashing pre-rooted ROMs.
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Yes - I had to factory reset the phone and format the SD Card. Never root AFTER encryption :silly:
Hi guys, first, sry for my bad english.
I have a huge Problem. I did a Twrp Backup from my Viper rom. After Backing up, i installed cm13. After that, i would go back to my backup from Viper. The Problem is, i can restore the Backup but ive got a bootloop. How can i go back to my Backup ?
Next Problem is, everytime i start into twrp i got asked for the Decrypt password. How can i deactivate that ?
Which TWRP version are you currently on? Sounds asbif it is an older one. If so, try the latest 3.0.2-6 and report back.
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hi, im on 3.0.2-6.
Now i restored my Viper backup. It Boots normaly.
Then i have type my Pin, that works. But after that, i have to unlock the Pattern lock. But it says my Code is Wrong.
I know it is the right code. I can try 1000000 different times, i cant unlock
pboden83 said:
hi, im on 3.0.2-6.
Now i restored my Viper backup. It Boots normaly.
Then i have type my Pin, that works. But after that, i have to unlock the Pattern lock. But it says my Code is Wrong.
I know it is the right code. I can try 1000000 different times, i cant unlock
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directly from twrp FAQ:
"After I restored my Data backup and boot back to Android, I'm entering the correct PIN/password, but it's telling me the password is wrong. What happened, and how do I fix it?
It appears that sometimes after restoring a backup of Data where security was enabled (such as a PIN or password lock), the device does not recognize the correct password. There are two ways to avoid this issue:
Disable security in Android before making a backup of data.
After restoring Data, while still in TWRP, use the TWRP File Manager to navigate to /data/system and delete all the locksettings.* files (such as locksettings.db, etc). When you reboot, the password will be gone."
pboden83 said:
hi, im on 3.0.2-6.
Now i restored my Viper backup. It Boots normaly.
Then i have type my Pin, that works. But after that, i have to unlock the Pattern lock. But it says my Code is Wrong.
I know it is the right code. I can try 1000000 different times, i cant unlock
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adb into the phone via TWRP or live system and rm -rf /system/data/*.key and locksettings* this will reset the security. no one currently knows why twrp is doing this but it seems to only happen to me when flashing a different rom then going back. it does NOT does this if restoring a previous backup of my current rom.
really the only file you need to delete is the locksettings.db file. I've never had issues deleting just that one.
I also tried this way to delete the locksetting.db and can bypass the suck lockscreen!
BTW, highly recommend you that in addition to whole system backup in TWRP, also use Titanium Backup to backup all user apps. In case of restore failure, you still can preserve your user apps and restore in newly installed system.
Hi..
I updated to Android N, and everything went fine, but I found it a little buggy and (my mistake) didn't realize xposed was not working yet, and there are some privacy modules I really would like.... So, I decided to downgrade back to MM.
As I am s-off, I booted into a rom.zip RUU (1.96.617.20). During the subsequent initial setup, I picked a screen pattern (to be used on restarts only)..for whatever reason, I decided to pick something different besides the rather easy pattern I had used since the M8... I will call this pattern B. Also during setup I copied over my internal storage files which I had backed up my laptop.
I then flashed the correct TWRP and then installed the correct SuperSU.zip. When I rebooted from here, Pattern B worked fine as I expected it to. I then thought I it would save time by restoring a nandroid (also 1.96.617.20) which had a lot of tweaks and other things. That nandroid backup however I know used my old screen pattern, which I will call Pattern A. That restore finished without error.
After reboot I got the restart screen asking for the pattern... I wasn't sure which one would work, so I first tried Pattern A which would have been used in the nandroid restore I just finished.... no luck. So I thought ok, I will try the pattern I used when I set up MM, Pattern B. But that didn't work...
This makes no sense... I have never used a screen unlock pattern other than Pattern A, and then today, I tried Pattern B which I know I remembered correctly because I used it once before I restored the nandroid.
When I search on how to solve this problem, I see "do a reset"... but wouldn't a reset be the same as restoring a nandroid backup? And since I just restored a nandroid and the pattern doesn't work, I am stumped.
Anyone have any clue how I can fix this???
Thanks in advance!
syntropic said:
Anyone have any clue how I can fix this???
Thanks in advance!
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I found in the Nexus Forum someone with this problem... I rebooted into TWRP, and using the file manager I deleted these files:
/data/system/locksettings.db
/data/system/*.key
And this allowed me into the OS.
Thank you for anyone who has read this anyway!!
syntropic said:
I found in the Nexus Forum someone with this problem... I rebooted into TWRP, and using the file manager I deleted these files:
/data/system/locksettings.db
/data/system/*.key
And this allowed me into the OS.
Thank you for anyone who has read this anyway!!
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A hint: You are talking about twrp, sill you are searching a nexus forum. Next time try twrp htc 10 thread instead
mirok said:
A hint: You are talking about twrp, sill you are searching a nexus forum. Next time try twrp htc 10 thread instead
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I just googled "site:sea-developers.com pattern security not working HTC 10"
This wasn't strictly a TWRP issue... You could use TWRP or ADB to access the system partition IF the files which stored this security code were stored there (of this I wasn't entirely sure).
I didn't know for certain if these files were located in the same place or even under the same name as the Nexus, so I used TWRP's file manager to look around (starting in the above location) aa maybe I'd find them.
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Phone came to me as 6.0.1 .
I OTA'ed up to 7.1.1 Nov1 .
I unlocked bootloader and flashed Alberto's TWRP.
I backed it up and couldn't restore it and thus learned about verity patch.
I didn't realize that all I had to do was restore a backup, flash verity, and boot and it probably would have been fine.
So:
I RSD lite'ed it to the exact same place, flashed the verity patch and all was fine.
Restore's fine.
Okay so I added a bunch of apps and a pattern lock.
Went off to flash some other stuff, came back, wiped all 4, restored stock and pattern lock wouldn't work.
Time passes. This time I had set up 2 things: face lock and a pin.
Yup, you get the picture - neither will work.
Anybody else get this?
My only recourse is never to have any locks on a stock ROM when I back it up.
Much time wasted.
Any ideas?
KrisM22 said:
Phone came to me as 6.0.1 .
I OTA'ed up to 7.1.1 Nov1 .
I unlocked bootloader and flashed Alberto's TWRP.
I backed it up and couldn't restore it and thus learned about verity patch.
I didn't realize that all I had to do was restore a backup, flash verity, and boot and it probably would have been fine.
So:
I RSD lite'ed it to the exact same place, flashed the verity patch and all was fine.
Restore's fine.
Okay so I added a bunch of apps and a pattern lock.
Went off to flash some other stuff, came back, wiped all 4, restored stock and pattern lock wouldn't work.
Time passes. This time I had set up 2 things: face lock and a pin.
Yup, you get the picture - neither will work.
Anybody else get this?
My only recourse is never to have any locks on a stock ROM when I back it up.
Much time wasted.
Any ideas?
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If you are wondering that when you restore your nandroid backup it then doesn't accept your pin/password? If this is the issue, here is the fix!
1. Boot into TWRP.
2. Go to Advanced Tab and select File Manager.
3. Now go to /data/system
4. Delete all these files (don't worry if any one of them don't exist just delete whichever you can find)
password.key
pattern.key
locksettings.db-wal
locksettings.db-shm
locksettings.db
5. Reboot.
Now you won't be asked for any Pin/Pattern/Password. You can set a new lock ( like a new beginning) when your rom boots up. FYI completely safe, no data will be lost.
AmulyaX said:
If you are wondering that when you restore your nandroid backup it then doesn't accept your pin/password? If this is the issue, here is the fix!
1. Boot into TWRP.
2. Go to Advanced Tab and select File Manager.
3. Now go to /data/system
4. Delete all these files (don't worry if any one of them don't exist just delete whichever you can find)
password.key
pattern.key
locksettings.db-wal
locksettings.db-shm
locksettings.db
5. Reboot.
Now you won't be asked for any Pin/Pattern/Password. You can set a new lock ( like a new beginning) when your rom boots up. FYI completely safe, no data will be lost.
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Hey, THANKS!!! - tested by setting a pattern, boot to TWRP and removed the 3 locksettings and voila!!! THANKS!!!
KrisM22 said:
Hey, THANKS!!! - tested by setting a pattern, boot to TWRP and removed the 3 locksettings and voila!!! THANKS!!!
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No problem.
I believe this is an anomaly of TWRP 3.2.1-0. Doesn't happen with 3.2.0-0
So my old 5x died with the BLOD - I managed to get into recovery using TWRP build for 4 cores and grab a full backup. This was running 8.1 Developer Preview.
I have a new 5x now, obviously I want to move from the developer preview to the latest build, which I've flashed fine.
Can I simply restore the "data" partition from my old TWRP backup to the new phone via TWRP or would this cause untold problems!?
I have tried just restoring everything, but the phone just hung for 4 hours doing nothing when I tried this.
teapea said:
So my old 5x died with the BLOD - I managed to get into recovery using TWRP build for 4 cores and grab a full backup. This was running 8.1 Developer Preview.
I have a new 5x now, obviously I want to move from the developer preview to the latest build, which I've flashed fine.
Can I simply restore the "data" partition from my old TWRP backup to the new phone via TWRP or would this cause untold problems!?
I have tried just restoring everything, but the phone just hung for 4 hours doing nothing when I tried this.
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Yes, just restore the data partition. The only problem you might run into is if your other 5x had security on it, pin,etc, you may have to re-flash the firmware and then not use your old data partition (even if you know the old pin, etc, ). I ran into that on another device. I haven't tried on my 5x though. To get around that issue I had to remove any security before making the backup.
Oh, also, absolutely not try to restore the efs partition from your old device. You'll never be able to use the phone if you do.
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Cool - I'll give it a go and see what happens. After taking the backup from the old phone I disassembled it and tried to do a solder reflow - it's a dead brick now
So if this doesn't work I guess it's a manual task - which isn't the end of the world - just very annoying.
Sooo close to working - data partition went in fine, everything looked great - 2000 messages and notification popped up as it caught back up... but I can't get into it as the "PIN" code is wrong.
Was the same PIN I used on both phones but it's not working, and the fingerprint won't unlock it either!
Ah well.
Do a more thorough search of this forum. You can bypass the pin by deleting a certain file. Your question about requiring a pin after restoring a backup pops up once in a while and i think here is an older dedicated thread.
teapea said:
Sooo close to working - data partition went in fine, everything looked great - 2000 messages and notification popped up as it caught back up... but I can't get into it as the "PIN" code is wrong.
Was the same PIN I used on both phones but it's not working, and the fingerprint won't unlock it either!
Ah well.
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That's the same problem I had. Good to know it's the same on the 5x. Next time set security to none before you make the twrp backup. I know to do the same now.
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peltus said:
Do a more thorough search of this forum. You can bypass the pin by deleting a certain file. Your question about requiring a pin after restoring a backup pops up once in a while and i think here is an older dedicated thread.
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I think you're referring to the files in /data/system related to lock settings. You can delete them from twrp but, at least in my case, twrp required a pin to get into it.
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File to wipe Android-PIN: /data/system/locksettings.db
File to clear TWRP-settings: /sdcard/TWRP/.twrps
Cool - thanks all.
Managed to use TWRP to delete old PIN stuff, all the fingerprint stuff which also didn't work and had to reset all my networking.
But appears it's all back together and working and just like my phone hasn't died.
Appreciate the pointers.