Hi everyone. I installed a substratum theme on my M9, after doing a soft reboot, my settings app refused to come on. It kept saying settings has stopped. I booted to TWRP, and cleared cache. The phone used about 5 minutes to come on, but i can't get past the home screen (no screen lock) because it keeps saying settings has stopped. I can't reboot to recovery mode because my volume buttons are bad. The cache I cleared disabled USB debugging (I always have it on). I'm totally helpless and clueless. I don't mind losing all the data on the phone. How do I go about it? I'm on nougat, stock rom, and have root...
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So I am keen on how to fix bootloops and going back to stock/rooting, etc...
My friend asked me if I could fix his phone for him, so I said why not. Thing is, it's the weirdest problem I ever faced with a phone, EVER.
The problem is the phone boots normally, I unlock the pattern, some seconds later it turns off and reboots. So I said hey why not boot into safe mode, perhaps it's an app causing all of this, so I did, worked perfectly, turns out "Google Play Services" was "forcing close" and suddenly phone turns off. I uninstalled all updates, cleared data, cache, everything and installed EVERY SINGLE APP on the phone and removed pattern, then rebooted phone. BUT, when i rebooted, the pattern was back, language was back to arabic (I changed it to english when in safe mode), ALL APPS were back, and the updates to Google Play Services were back. It's like I didn't do anything. So I said before it turns off I'm goin to try 1 thing, so I immediately went into settings and managed to uninstall updates for Google Play Services and cleared cache data, even to all google apps, and then I re-uninstalled all applications (out of safe mode), I thought perhaps when irebooted from safe mode, everything was back, now that I'm goin to reboot out of safe mode, this will work. So I rebooted, and guess what? EVERY SINGLE APP was back, system language back to arabic, AGAIN, and pattern was back and GPServices updates were back.
So I said hey, let's factory reset. SO I went into safe mode, I hit factory reset, phone reboots to recovery (vol up + power ) > Factory reset done > wipe cache partition done > reboot : EVERYTHING WAS THE SAME. I am completely shocked. I tried doing Factory reset out of safe mode too, same result. So I said hey, let's unlock this thing and just flash a stock rom, that'll fix it indeed. I went into fastboot and tried flashing the unlock token, the confirmation page appeared, clicked "YES", phone reboots: PATTERN AND EVERYTHING STILL THERE, while they shouldn't be since unlock performs a Factory reset, so I went back to fastboot and it indeed was NOT unlocked, I tried many times and it failed every single time I tried.
So I said hey, download AVG Antiviirus and run it perhaps it can find the problem, so I did and ran it, couldn't find anything, rebooted phone and AVG was gone. So I said, hey, again, download Google Play Services and install it on your phone, perhaps it will permanently override the one existing and it will fix the problem (it didn't, it would disappear and the old G.P.S reappear as soon as I reboot). So I said hey, you got the OTA Zip, it has the firmware, perhaps flashing that firmware will shake things up, most probably brick the phone but perhaps will let me unlock it. So I went into fastboot > fastboot oem RebootRUU > phone reboots normally, I CAN'T even access RebootRUU.
So as you can see I probably tried everything one can do in this situation.
Hi all,
so i was driving on the road today using google maps and listening to the stock lg music player. I am rooted and have xposed on my phone for around a week or so. Everything is running good but all of the sudden my phone freezes and i tried to hold down the power button to reset but it didnt work. So now i removed the battery, waited a good minute then placed it back in. Started it up... sometimes it stays on the black LG bootup screen while other times it reaches the yellow sprint spark screen then it bootloops back to the black LG screen. I have gotten it to boot to the optimizing apps area once or twice some how but it always bootloops and doesnt finish optimizing the apps.
I just dont understand how having root and xposed running perfectly for a week and then a frozen screen turned into a bootloop. I have not messed with any settings since i got xposed. I have restarted the phone many times after i got xposed running.
Is there a way to factory reset the phone in stock recovery mode? (I was able to get into the stock recovery mode) If someone could please chime in to help, as i have no working phone atm.
TIA,
Steven
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Miraculously it booted up all the way. But i'm now stuck on the LGsetupwizard. After i press next on the wifi setup screen it says LGsetupwizard has stopped and goes back to the first step on the LGsetupwizard
I can get into the options menu, tried to stop the LGsetupwizard but it restarts the app after 5 seconds. For some reason my pc doesnt show the LG G4 icon in the explorer menu. I opened the debloat tool and it read my LG G4 fine. I blocked the LGsetupwizard but and restarted the phone. It still shows up when i reboot the phone. im out of ideas .
Well ill be honest, im not sure how i got it to work but adb finally was working. then i followed this thread
http://forum.xda-developers.com/g4/general/guide-recovering-bootloop-twrp-t3167361
finally got it working again.
Question. -- By re-rooting the phone do you have to redo the whole xposed process or is it still intact, i would just have to download the xposed app?
So I feel like this is different from a typical bootloop (certainly different from ones I've had in the past). Any ideas short of factory reset would be very much appreciated. I just need it to load once more to do a Titanium Backup (and I guess I should install TWRP and do a nandroid backup)!
I've been using my Tab Pro for years now, rooted, works perfectly, and I always leave it on. I thought yesterday, perhaps this is a bad idea, I should turn it off every once in a while. But I wanted to play a game before I did. I click the game icon and then everything froze and it restarted itself.
It gets stuck at the SAMSUNG logo page. Sounds like a typical bootloop. After 20 minutes of waiting, nothing changes, so I hold down the power button and it restarts and actually loads to my home screen! Great! I swipe the screen lock, click on my game -- it restarts, rinse, repeat. Each time it restarts itself it stops at the SAMSUNG page, forcing a second manual reboot that fully loads, but doesn't go 10 seconds before restarting. I try to load different things each time and finally give up.
So I look some stuff up online. There's a suggestion to go into recovery (I could've sworn I had custom, but apparently not?) and "Wipe Cache/Partition." I look up that this is safe and do it (Sidenote: Power+Home+Vol Up only works around every 5th try or so. It glitches out every other time, there's a quick flash and a horizontal line and it restarts again). Now I restart and it worked! It loads and no reboot!
But now, a third of my apps/games have the android guy as an icon and even more of the real icons are all grayed out. I figure one more restart and it would come back. Now I'm back into my weird bootloop. I try wiping cache/partition again and again and it no longer works as a solution...
TL;DR - Tablet keeps restarting to SAMSUNG logo, requires 2nd manual restart. Home screen loads, but then restarts 10 seconds later. Clearing cache/partition made things worse. HALP!
EDIT: My current build is KOT49H.T520XXUANAE. I can't even find the stock ROM for this! Does it exist?
EDIT 2: After letting it charge for an hour (it was already 93%) I went back to it and it had loaded! But the home screen was blank save for the Google search and the Apps icon (which found no apps....). I was able to get into settings and attempted to click Application Manager and then it froze again.
Update: Still in need of help if anyone has any. A wonderful person on the forums linked me to my stock ROM, I pushed that through ODIN, it worked and did the "Android is Updating App XX of 200" thing.
It loaded and didn't crash! Most of the icons came back, but were still grayed out (I have a second partition via Link2SD which, when not rooted, doesn't load!)
So I went to Settings to see if USB debugging was enabled... and it froze. Kind of. It let me bring up the task bar and close settings, but not reload anything. Eventually I was forced to restart because I couldn't do anything. I tried booting into safe mode and still nothing.
Now when it loads, I get repeated "Unfortunately, Samsung keyboard has stopped working." and then the touch screen stops functioning and it restarts. I'm having a great day.
hamstrman said:
Update: Still in need of help if anyone has any. A wonderful person on the forums linked me to my stock ROM, I pushed that through ODIN, it worked and did the "Android is Updating App XX of 200" thing.
It loaded and didn't crash! Most of the icons came back, but were still grayed out (I have a second partition via Link2SD which, when not rooted, doesn't load!)
So I went to Settings to see if USB debugging was enabled... and it froze. Kind of. It let me bring up the task bar and close settings, but not reload anything. Eventually I was forced to restart because I couldn't do anything. I tried booting into safe mode and still nothing.
Now when it loads, I get repeated "Unfortunately, Samsung keyboard has stopped working." and then the touch screen stops functioning and it restarts. I'm having a great day.
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Few of this probs I did have too.
I would recommend to start from scratch and wipe also your data and sd-card (with TWRP). Install either stock or Custom, but put out your sdcard before re-booting.
Just play around and after that (with no probs hopefully) insert it again.
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Few of this probs I did have too.
I would recommend to start from scratch and wipe also your data and sd-card (with TWRP). Install either stock or Custom, but put out your sdcard before re-booting.
Just play around and after that (with no probs hopefully) insert it again.
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I appreciate the response, but as I said, I'm looking for anything shy of factory reset. If I lose all of my apps and data and configuration, I might as well throw out the tablet and buy a new one.
Still trying to figure out the pattern. I got another attempt of it not restarting for 10 full minutes. The keyboard failing is annoying because it doesn't stop, but I can live with it if it means being able to backup my tablet with Titanium Backup. I only got 6 apps backed up before it froze, but I'll get through all of them eventually (I hope). It's just going to be incredibly frustrating.
I recently bought a new device and decided to give my HTC U11 EYES to my sister-in-law. So I did a factory reset through the recovery mode (rather than through the Android settings). Now the phone refuses to proceed through initial setup. I can get to the Welcome screen where I choose the language, then it asks me to connect to a WiFi network (which it does successfully, and I have to do so otherwise the "Next" button is grayed out), then it goes to a screen that says "Checking for updates, this may take a minute or two" and it just sits there forever. It never progresses beyond that. There's no "Skip" option anywhere, there's no EULA to agree to, and the WiFi icon shows all kinds of constant activity. But the setup never progresses beyond that update screen. I tried leaving it on overnight, it's been 10 hours. Still nothing. I tried doing another factory reset, same result.
I've owned two of these devices and never had an issue doing initial setup before, but I've never done a factory reset on either of them before. Normally a factory reset is supposed to SOLVE problems, not cause them. I have no idea what's wrong or how to fix it. I've been unable to find an original RUU that successfully flashes to the device.
try to wipe the cashe
Go again to download mode by pressing power and volume down together, then check for wipe Cashe drive
And you can try again factory rest later after restart
To begin with, the device was rooted with Magisk 18.1 flashed about 2 years ago, running stock OxygenOS Oreo 8.1. Recovery: TWRP-3.2.1-1-cheeseburger. Kernel: RenderZenith OP5T [OOS-O-EAS-V3.7.0]. This was the setup I was satisfied with and running in about a year (a total of 2 years).
However, after the first year, I've tried to update TWRP to version 3.3.1-20190908-0-codeworkx-signed-forcedecrypt-dumpling in order to flash and update to the newer OxygenOS Pie 9.0. Something went wrong after flashing the newer TWRP and I couldn't get into recovery anymore... all I saw was a black screen when trying to get into it. I haven't bothered about this since the system booted and worked fine, so I gave up on the 9.0 update and stayed on 8.1. I was able to use it like normal another year. Everything was running very smoothly until a couple of days ago...
The battery has discharged to 0% and the device shut off by itself. 30 seconds before the shutdown, the UI was much less responsive and a popup about the device turning off popped up. I've put it in charge the whole night and when I woke up in the morning... couldn't boot into the system anymore. Instead, the phone booted into the 'broken' recovery, with constant lit of light blue LED (started to lit a couple of seconds after booting, only in the 'non-visible' recovery), and a black screen. I've looked up the fastboot/bootloader keys combination and went into it, well from there, I've tried the turn-off, start, recovery, and bootloader option. Turn off = Off. Start = Recovery. Recovery = Recovery. Bootloader = Bootloader.
The next step I've done was to connect it through a PC and run ADB on it in order to flash the old TWRP-3.2.1-1-cheeseburger. Re-booted into recovery straight after successfully flash and the recovery started to work again. The light blue LED stopped to lit any longer and I haven't seen it anymore. The first thing I've done in recovery was to clear the cache, dalvik, and do a nandroid backup, then tried to re-boot into the system. Finally, it booted into the system and I was happy like a kid when I saw the OnePlus boot animation again, however after putting my password and SIM pin code, I can enjoy it without any issue for about 30-40 seconds before the UI suddenly starts to be non-response (touch doesn't work), the screen starts to flash, sometimes (looks more like turning the screen on and off), until I see a "Turning off..." popup 20-30 seconds later (the battery is fully charged and disconnected from the power source) and the device is rebooting itself into the 'working' recovery. This is how it works each time I boot up into the system now. However, the power button is working and I can turn the screen off and on while the screen/touch isn't responding, the power menu can be opened by holding it (before it's too late and the "Turning off..." popup appears), from there I can choose to re-boot or power off. Magically the touch is working here. If the phone has been rebooted/turned off manually, by hitting either reboot or power off in the power menu, it reboots into the system instead and the same **** happens - not to recovery like it does when the "Turning off..." popup appears and it's turning off by the system.
I'd like to get everything back if possible, at least for one or two days, to back up all data, do some screenshots, back up browser bookmarks, history, open tabs, sms and calls, then give a fresh custom 11 to it.
Any help I can get from you guys? Is there a solution that I could try? What about flashing the newest Magisk onto it? Might it help or rather corrupt it more? Anything else? I'm out of knowledge in this situation and I'm relying on you.