Has anyone noticed any issue on their h815 with regards to encrypting the phone? Mine does not work; full or quick option. Has unlocking the bootloader caused this to stop working? I have got root and twrp recovery. Could the custom recovery be causing the phone to get stuck on rebooting to encrypt? The lg website says certain features no longer work after the bootloader is unlocked; maybe this is one of those? All just guess work atm, any help would be appreciated.
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Has anyone noticed any issue on their h815 with regards to encrypting the phone? Mine does not work; full or quick option. Has unlocking the bootloader caused this to stop working? I have got root and twrp recovery. Could the custom recovery be causing the phone to get stuck on rebooting to encrypt? The lg website says certain features no longer work after the bootloader is unlocked; maybe this is one of those? All just guess work atm, any help would be appreciated.
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Hi,
i do not know, as I do NOT (yet?) own the device! But I would love to know! Any unlocked + encrypted phones out there? I would be interested how many of the geeks around here encrypt their phones?
For me, these days, I do not own a single device (PC, Notebook, Smartphone whatever) that is NOT encrypted. The more easy you loose the device, the more encryption should be a standard.
What is the reality? And does it work with the unlocked bootloader?
v1ne said:
I have got root and twrp recovery. Could the custom recovery be causing the phone to get stuck on rebooting to encrypt? d.
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Exactly the same here! I would be very happy if someone could help me out, maybe by looking at some logcat files? The device is rooted after all. Just tell me what log files you would need?
I would like to try to flash the stock recovery. Delete TWRP as I think this could be the culprit. I read about bringing the device back to stock but I am unsure what files I do need exactly and how to proceed. I downloaded the LG Flash tool. Any help would be very much appreciated!
I just got this phone, rooted, unlocked BL, installed Xposed. I tried to encrypt phone, but when I started the process, it rebooted and now it's at the white T-Mobile splash screen. There's no progress indication anywhere and it has been almost an hour. I think I'll have to pull battery.
v1ne said:
Has anyone noticed any issue on their h815 with regards to encrypting the phone? Mine does not work; full or quick option. Has unlocking the bootloader caused this to stop working? I have got root and twrp recovery. Could the custom recovery be causing the phone to get stuck on rebooting to encrypt? The lg website says certain features no longer work after the bootloader is unlocked; maybe this is one of those? All just guess work atm, any help would be appreciated.
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Did you (or fpsq) manage to do this in the end (and if yes, how)? I have the same issue I think... rooted the phone with the method here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/g4/general/lg-g4-100-root-success-directives-root-t3180586
and now the phone gets stuck on the initial reboot after launching encryption. It works if I unplug the battery, which shows it doesn't even start the process.
Thanks for any help.
It didn't get anywhere, so I tried it again with quick encryption. Same white screen. I rooted with a huge pre-rooted system image. using dd. Did you unlock boot loader, install custom recovery, or install Xposed?
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It didn't get anywhere, so I tried it again with quick encryption. Same white screen. I rooted with a huge pre-rooted system image. using dd. Did you unlock boot loader, install custom recovery, or install Xposed?
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No to all three. I also used dd but first dumped my system partition, injected the root files, and then rewrote it (rather than the main method that you used, writing the ready-made image). See the thread I linked earlier for details.
It really seems the root is the problem here. fpsq seems to have gotten it working in a roundabout way:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=62156629&postcount=1468
but I don't understand exactly what he did, I PMed him to ask.
WARNING: Once you encrypt your phone/sdcard you can NOT cancel the process. After you encrypt your phone/sdcard, if you forget your password, you will have to factory reset (wipes /data) and/or format your sdcard (wipes /external_SD) to get a useable phone. Your data WILL be lost!
Also TWRP can not read encrypted volumes other than some Nexus devices, so make a backup BEFORE you encrypt it or the internal/external sdcard.
Overview: You have to kill the SuperSu daemon (temporarily unrooting it) and THEN start the stock encryption process.
1. Install Busybox (need the pkill utility)
2. Open Terminal Emulator and:
Code:
$ su
# pkill -KILL daemonsu
$ exit
NOTE: You'll notice that the # changed back to $. This means that you are no longer the root user and the SuperSu daemon is not running. Do NOT open any other apps, including the SuperSu app.
3. Now go to Settings ---> Security ---> Encrypt Phone.
IMPORTANT: Make sure your phone charger is plugged in. Go through the prompts to encrypt your phone and/or sdcard and the phone will reboot. It will stay at the bootscreen for about a minute and then you will see the white encryption screen. it will ask you for an encryption password. Once you set that, write it down, email it to yourself, whatever you have to do to remember it because if you forget it, there is no helping you. You will have to factory reset (wipes /data) to get a useable phone. Your data WILL be lost!
It will run until it gets to 100% and the phone will reboot. Once it comes back up with the white screen, enter your password and the boot phone will finish booting. To check that the phone/sdcard is encrypted, go to Settings ---> Security and under Encrypt Phone and Encrypt SD card storage, you should see "Encrypted".
Hope this helps.
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You have to kill the SuperSu daemon (temporarily unrooting it) and Then start the stock encryption process.
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It works! And it's so clear why it works, now why didn't I think of this?
Thanks a lot for figuring it out and posting it here, you really helped me! Phones hold so much private data nowadays and are so easy to lose that I was really uncomfortable using it unencrypted.
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I just got this phone, rooted, unlocked BL, installed Xposed. I tried to encrypt phone, but when I started the process, it rebooted and now it's at the white T-Mobile splash screen. There's no progress indication anywhere and it has been almost an hour. I think I'll have to pull battery.
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Hey there - did you get any luck with this? My G4 updated to MM last week, and now I'm trying encryption - but it's been sitting on the initial boot screen for over an hour (not a loop, just that one screen), with no progress bar or screen.
No idea what it's doing, but hoping that pulling the battery out won't brick it completely!
PS. my phone isn't even rooted, so it can't be THAT causing a problem
Thanks,
J
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Hey there - did you get any luck with this? My G4 updated to MM last week, and now I'm trying encryption - but it's been sitting on the initial boot screen for over an hour (not a loop, just that one screen), with no progress bar or screen.
No idea what it's doing, but hoping that pulling the battery out won't brick it completely!
PS. my phone isn't even rooted, so it can't be THAT causing a problem
Thanks,
J
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I just installed Marshmallow last week and took a stab at encryption again. I installed TWRP 2.7.8.1, by the way. What I also did was flash what I think is the original boot.img. I think this would have un-rooted my device and maybe un-Xposed too, but I forgot because I was really sick last week.
Anyway, the standard device encryption actually worked. I opted for /data encryption instead of full device. Funny thing was that the first time I did it, it was stuck at the boot screen, but was actually encrypting. I didn't know that, so I took out the battery and it screwed up my /data, so the OS made me wipe /data. Fortunately, I backed up right when I did Marshmallow, so I restored my /data. I went to encrypt again and waited this time. Eventually, the screen went from boot screen to the encrypting screen starting at like 60% finished. It finished and my /data was encrypted!
I went to TWRP but TWRP could not decrypt my /data no matter what password I tried. Since my /system and /boot were not encrypted, SuperSU installation was easy. I got the password screen at boot like expected.
However, when I installed Xposed, the password screen would keep popping up with "_____ has stopped" persistently and I had to time it right hit each key of the password. When I uninstalled Xposed, the popups stopped. Installed Xposed again, popups were back. After struggling to enter the password and booting up, everything works fine.
That's how much I have experienced so far.
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I just installed Marshmallow last week and took a stab at encryption again. I installed TWRP 2.7.8.1, by the way. What I also did was flash what I think is the original boot.img. I think this would have un-rooted my device and maybe un-Xposed too, but I forgot because I was really sick last week.
Anyway, the standard device encryption actually worked. I opted for /data encryption instead of full device. Funny thing was that the first time I did it, it was stuck at the boot screen, but was actually encrypting. I didn't know that, so I took out the battery and it screwed up my /data, so the OS made me wipe /data. Fortunately, I backed up right when I did Marshmallow, so I restored my /data. I went to encrypt again and waited this time. Eventually, the screen went from boot screen to the encrypting screen starting at like 60% finished. It finished and my /data was encrypted!
I went to TWRP but TWRP could not decrypt my /data no matter what password I tried. Since my /system and /boot were not encrypted, SuperSU installation was easy. I got the password screen at boot like expected.
However, when I installed Xposed, the password screen would keep popping up with "_____ has stopped" persistently and I had to time it right hit each key of the password. When I uninstalled Xposed, the popups stopped. Installed Xposed again, popups were back. After struggling to enter the password and booting up, everything works fine.
That's how much I have experienced so far.
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Thanks for the extra info - need to try again when I get a bit more time, but I eventually pulled the battery (risky, I know!) and put it back in and everything was normal, like nothing had changed. Certainly no encryption anywhere.
Will update when I give it another try.
Thanks again!
So if I had my SD card encrypted, and my phone puked, I get another G4 and want to use my old SD card (I have the password) how can I access the files on the SD card ?
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I've had my M8 since about the end of 2014. Originally on Android 4, have since done OTA upgrades to 5 and 6 as they were flagged as available by my carrier (UK, O2).
I've never managed to get HTC Backup on my PC to recognise the phone, even with the original USB cable, so have never done a proper backup (Yes. I know). Fortunately for me, my Gmail contacts list was almost up to date, and apart from my calendar, that was the most important thing to save, so I've just had to grin and bear it.
Because of the lack of proper backup and therefore the facility to restore from one, I'd never done a factory reset after the various OS upgrades, which I've been told might have avoided my present situation, which is that I can't get any further than a bootloop situation. Other than that, I can get into recovery mode, but no further.
I've tried clearing the cache, I've tried a factory reset. Neither of those have got me anywhere.
I've no great desire (at present) to go fiddling with rooting or anything clever with the phone, I'd just like to get it working again. I've downloaded Android Studio to get the SDK for ADB but don't really know what I'm doing, and if I mess around without expert advice I could end up with a hard brick - which is why I'm here.
Can anyone give me some guidance about what I need to do to get my phone working again?
Thanks in advance...
Hi, I have the same problem, started a few days ago when I was trying to download VLC from the play store, the phone rebooted and said optimizing apps.... It has been in an optimizing apps bootloop since - it gets to the end, then says starting android then freezes and reboots, then starts again... I tried clearing the cache and doing the factory reset as well but nothing helps. We could really use some expert help on this :S
If a stock phone isn't booting, and factory reset doesn't help, the OS is possibly damaged or corrupted in some way; and needs to be restored.
If your version has RUU, you can try to run that.
If no RUU for your version, then probably your only choice is to unlock the bootloader, install custom recovery, so you can restore a stock TWRP backup from the following thread: http://forum.xda-developers.com/htc-one-m8/help/tutorial-how-to-stock-stock-twrp-t3086860
I am in a very similar situation, apparently because of a botched automatic system update, almost same symptoms as airick94. I haven't tried a factory reset yet though, because I want to try to recover what I can from the internal storage first. Can I do that through ADB even if my phone is not recognised as a device by the computer?
I just got done taking the PG1 update and things were working fine except TitaniumBackup had the issue with the writing to SD Card. So I did some research and thought that I could modify the
Code:
/system/etc/permissions/platform.xml
, however when I rebooted the phone, I started getting the dreaded "NetworkSystemProvider" and "Google Play Services" stopped errors every few seconds. I have put the file back the way it was, rebooted, cleared cache & dalvik, but still I get the error. I really do NOT want to factory reset if I can help it.
It's frustrating even more-so because I generally run TitaniumBackups nightly and even TWRP backups pretty regularly too. I just hadn't gotten to one of the later, and ironically I was trying to fix the damn SD card write issue so that I could in fact do my TBs!! #FML
This seems like it should be something fixable no? I do have root and TWRP. I just can't find a good site that explains how to do it. I also tried to run the TWRP 'fix permissions' button too to no avail.
Can I just re-ODIN the PG1 or something worse case? And then re-root? ... without a factory reset I mean, so I keep my data and settings as they are?
I really don't understand how things go so jacked up from just changing an .xml file (and putting it back the way it was)??
Please help! Thanks!
Did you make a backup before you started modifying?
Did you try wiping cache and rebooting? Did you have a backup of the file you modified to restore? Check name and permissions?
If neither of the above help, factory reset and Odin again. Make a backup right after TWRP in case this happens again. Marshmallow is tricky and petty sometimes, unlike the earlier Android OS versions.
What you need is a PG1 modified services.jar for custom ROM. Don't recall seeing one shared for PG1. But there is a custom ROM in development forum.
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Hello there,
I've recently received my Redmi Note 5 back from warranty service. As much as I like the phone, one thing I always found really disappointing about it is that for whatever reason, it is, as far as I know, the only phone from the Redmi Note series that has Camera2 disabled by default, preventing me from installing GCam. Fortunately, I have found multiple tutorials on how to activate it. Since I've wiped my data before sending it, now was the best time to do some tinkering.
I've used my friend's laptop to unlock its bootloader and install TWRP (it refused to work on my desktop for some reason). the official TWRP web page warned me that the phone uses dm-verity, which is something none of the tutorials mentioned. After some further digging, I found out that should I mess with it, the phone would simply revert any changes, and to prevent this, I needed to flash a dm-verity disabler, such as LazyFlasher
Thinking nothing would go wrong, I decided to try flashing TWRP and deal with the system replacing it with the stock recovery later. All went as planned, and the phone booted into the custom recovery with no issues. It asked me for a password to decrypt the internal storage, which I don't know, so I skipped this step. The first thing I did was creating a backup.
I then tried rebooting, just to see if it would really revert the changes. It did, but it didn't go as smoothly as I had hoped. The system became laggy to the point where it was basically unusable, often freezing for more than 30 seconds after just opening an app. Not knowing what to do, I flashed TWRP back, this time with the dm-verity disabler. A tutorial on how to do this that I found recommended I wipe the cache after flashing the tool. I tried doing that, but the process failed immediately. I rebooted the phone, and the next thing you know, I'm in a bootloop. I've let it sit for a while, but even after some time, the system wouldn't start. Fortunately, I was still able to get back into TWRP.
I restored the backup I created earlier. This, for the most part, solved my issues, the system works fine-ish again (aside from an occasional lag, but it's not nearly as bad as it was) and isn't trying to replace TWRP with the stock recovery anymore, but I'm kinda afraid to tinker with it again. I'd really hate having to buy a new phone just because I bricked the one I have (and I didn't even get to flash the tool that was meant to enable Camera2).
What did I do wrong? Should I've formated the internal storage to gain access to it first? Did flashing TWRP without dm-verity disabled somehow mess up the system? Would flashing a custom ROM bypass having to disable it? I'm confused...
I've been trying to install one of the android 10 lineages on my wife's phone.
It keeps on bootlooping and by now I have tried so many combinations of twrp and restores, wipes, different roms and restoring the backup of an android 9 lineage.
The phone keeps bootlooping, sometimes in the "your bootloader is unlocked" message and sometimes in the lineage startup movie.
It even seems to bootloop in the twrp startup screen, but maybe it is just slow and my impatience is getting too high.
I've tried two different twrp versions as one gave an error in restoring a backup (I think the newest one gave the error).
Could it be that a backup made in the older twrp cannot be restored with the newer twrp?
I'm running out of options and may need to go back to stock, which is not the easiest path to take.
Oh, the phone was rooted when I made the backup, if that makes a difference...
Any thoughts?
If you backed up all partitions, then restore all of them and follow the steps to install...
Note: Before you restore the partition, make sure to wipe it, it ensures that nothing goes wrong...