I need to know before I go to Sprint tomorrow... Thanks
(Oh, and I have a Hero)
Hard Resetting on a Official ROM, don't know if it would work.
But you could try to install some apps that needs root to work, to test if you either have it or not.
If you want to be on the safe side, download a RUU updater that installs your phone all over again.
Then it becomes like the day you bought it.
I don't think it will. If you flash an official RUU from your carrier that will get rid of it. (look on the Sprint site)
I tried that.. with this one..
http://forum.ppcgeeks.com/showthread.php?t=103776
but it would not work.. had the same problem other people had (through the comments).. but no fix was ever suggested, so I just hard reset it..
PROBLEM: "hey got a questions for anyone that could help me out. i cant get the RUU to see my Hero...? it just gives this error: "ERROR[170]: USB CONNECTION ERROR" but its conneted. and ive tried it both just plugging it in and by mounting it. but both dont work. any help would be greatly appreciated."
Does anyone know a different link to one or how to get this one to work?
http://support.sprint.com/support/a...n_your_HTC_Hero/case-gb746811-20091009-155624
Will this one work, then?
The 170 error is when the RUU updater can't get a connection to the Phone.
Have you installed HTC Sync? Or some other drivers for the Hero?
I had the same problem with the Sprint RUU download... kept telling me it wasn't connected.
Then I was messing with it and I manually pressed sync on the phone and then tried to install the RUU and it worked perfect.
So, I guess it was just that I needed to manually press sync.
Anyway, I did it.. it's on my phone... so does that mean the root is off?
If the RUU installation went fine, and finished.
Then you don't got root on your hero anymore.
lol ok.. just making sure!
Thanks for the help
No problem.
Ok, so I have a serious problem... My phone is locked and when I touch the text bar to enter the password, no keyboard comes up. Important information:
- I just upgraded to jelly bean (the official one that came out today)
- as far as I can tell, everything is working fine, i just can't unlock it
- when I touch the text bar, it makes a noise, but no keyboard comes up
- was working fine immediately after the upgrade
- I got done fixing some settings and locked the screen
- this may have something to do with changing the default keyboard to Google Keyboard (it was acting a little funny immidiately after, like it was crashing)
- I have Android Lost installed, the unlock function isn't working, but others do work
- phone is encrypted
Unless someone has some ideas for me within the next couple hours, I'm going to wipe the phone. Obviously, I would prefer to not do that.
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I've managed to use Android Lost to make some backups of some stuff, but I'm still trying to figure out how to unlock the screen. I've found that I'm able to install apps remotely from google play if that gives gives anyone some ideas.
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I had another idea. If this is a problem with the keyboard, is there a way for me to change it remotely? Can I install another one via the store?
Alright... I gave up on trying to get passed the lock screen and tried doing a factory reset. I was afraid of the super brick issue, so instead of doing a wipe in recovery mode, I used Kies to reflash it. However, that did nothing. The phone started back up and acted like nothing happened. It asked me for the same password, then got to the lock screen and had the same keyboard issue.
I've tried various roms, but nothing seems to wipe the encrypted information properly. At some point, I got it to forget the password, but it still thinks that one exists. I even rooted it and tried shostock3, but when it boots, it asks for a password. The old password doesn't work, so I can't get passed it. I tried entering the "wrong" password many times and it said it would wipe the phone, but it just restarted to the SAMSUNG boot screen and just sat there. I pulled the battery after half an hour...
I should note that stock gingerbread seems to work fine...
Does anyone have any ideas on how to wipe the encrypted data?
If you can push apps to it, try pushing an app like no lock or something.
Short answer: No.
It is probable that encryption information is stored in the efs (encrypted file system) folder. That's where the imei and other critical stuff is stored. I don't believe anyone who posts here in the I777 forum really has a grasp on how phone encryption works though. I've only seen one other person post here who had an issue with an encrypted phone, and he was unable to solve his problem as far as I know.
If you have a proper backup of the efs partition from before the phone was encrypted, it is possible that you could solve the problem by restoring that partition. But I'm not even sure you could write to that section of the phone memory with adb with the phone in it's current state. Edit: if you can boot into stock gingerbread normally, then you can restore an efs backup, if you have one.
I'm guessing you could send it to Samsung and they could fix it for you probably.
I finally got it working. I'm not sure what combination of things did it, but I had to restore it to stock jelly bean (via kies) to get it to wipe the encryption. I guess the stock rom knows how to properly wipe it when you keep entering the wrong password. After I got it all cleaned up, I put shostock3 back on. When the battery charges back up, I'm going to try encrypting it again (in shostock).
However, now I found another issue (may or may not be a real problem). I wanted to check if the phone was still unlocked, so I dialed *#SIMLOCK# and it says "Connection problem or invalid MMI code."
Tada!
Creepy, my good friend, would be referring to me and as you know SCIU I didn't ever get it to unlock the phone. Oddly enough a stock ICS rom (my mom now has my phone right up the road so I may try this to see if it will work and then go back to ShoStock3) works fine. I have nothing hidden from the phone storage, everything shows up, it is actually unlocked and rooted though not a custom bios err firmware/ROM because when that is put on there the encryption issues come back and the password is asked for. If the correct password is entered (and my KEYBOARD comes up but I didn't change it from the Android/Samsung one) it proceeds to enter whatever it is supposed to (my guess is the POST area like on a computer when it is entering Windows/Linux, etc.) but the screen stays black (ShoStock logo doesn't even appear if I remember correctly or it does show then goes to black loading screen with the Samsung logo and that is it, perm stuck). However I did try flashing back to Gingerbread ROMs and ICS ROMs though not through official KIES.
SCIU I may have to give this a try if my mom don't mind it and see if that helps fix the problem. Thanks for starting this thread. I am sorry I didn't respond to the PM you sent me (my LGOG, Triple OG, OG, TRIPLE OG, Optimus G AT&T Phone has screen cracked twice and is unresponsive on two different phones so I sent that in to warranty repair [rapid heating and cooling issues]) and haven't been on XDA for a week. If there is anything else you need to ask or bounce ideas off of me then I am all for it.
As far as encryption goes, the process works the same as any other encryption algorithms used (MD5/HASH/SHA-!, etc.) using a basic replica of most file systems although mobile storage tends to work a tad differently. Unfortunately, the freezer trick, brute force, nor any other cracking methods I was able to try at home worked to get it to open up. I tried getting into the EFS area of the phone but never could get to the directory or have it display.
Again thanks SCIU and as I stated I may give this a try if my mom don't care.
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i've the same problem here but i cann't use kies when my phone is locked .... so what can i do??
rawan-omer said:
i've the same problem here but i cann't use kies when my phone is locked .... so what can i do??
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You can get the full stock jelly bean Odin flashable tar in the Download Repository. See link in my signature. According to sciguy125, flashing stock jb and then inputting repeatedly the wrong password will clear it. I'm not sure how many times it takes, 5 or 10 I think. I've never worked with an encrypted phone. I'm just repeating what I have read others say. I've seen the above posted by at least one other person. You should be able to flash the stock firmware using Odin. The one you want is I777UCMD8
my phone screen is locked (with word password) , Huawei, and the keyboard doesnt show up when i click the box? tried reseting it, cant go to settings whatsoever! i didnt damage my phone in any way either. need help asap!!
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my phone screen is locked (with word password) , Huawei, and the keyboard doesnt show up when i click the box? tried reseting it, cant go to settings whatsoever! i didnt damage my phone in any way either. need help asap!!
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Friend, this is the forum for the S2 (Samsung), so you won't find anything about Huawei devices here - best to ask your question in the forum for your device.
That being said if you are rooted and have a custom recovery, simply power the device off and boot into recovery and perform a factory reset from there. If that doesn't work do a full wipe (this means wiping /system), then re-flash the ROM/gapps.
me too!!! do you have some tips for me?? i almost fainted when i knew that the keyboard isnt working.... i do have a lot of important files in my phone.
Easy, you fools! JUST KIDDING lol Connect an external keyboard. Restart the phone with the keyboard plugged in and you'll have one chance to input the pass every time you restart. Good luck, bosses!
my phone screen is locked (with word password) , SAMSUNG GALAXY TAB 3V, and the keyboard doesnt show up when i click the box? tried reseting it, cant go to settings whatsoever! i didnt damage my phone in any way either. need help asap!
My sumsang keyboard has stopped I cannot do nothing because is secure by password can you help please
I got the same problem but everything on my phone is fine except it doesn't let me enter the password I dnt wanna factory reset it cause I got important pictures in it any suggestions on how to get my keyboard working.
Solution that worked for me
Hello all,
I usually don't post things around, but something told me to do this, since I don't see any threads talking about this solution.
My solution was the following:
Went to google play store on my computer via chrome. Logged in to the user attached to my play store and re-installed all keyboard apps I have.
That worked beautifully and hope this helps other people!!
Hi, i have little (or maybe big) problem with my Vienna. Yesterday phone asked for Wireless Update and i allowed it. So Update started to install, almost finished it. But at the end it just gave error and rebooted and then there is just Ulefone logo after what it gives No command error and just continues to bootloop. I tried to wipe cache through recovery and even factory reset. It just wipes my data and thats it. No factory reset. I cant restore backup either. It just says no SD card. I'm kinda new Android user, so i dont know what to do next. Kinda frustrated about that update. It basically bricked my phone. Anyways phone is running stock 5.1 version. Thanks who can help me with this :fingers-crossed:
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Hi, i have little (or maybe big) problem with my Vienna. Yesterday phone asked for Wireless Update and i allowed it. So Update started to install, almost finished it. But at the end it just gave error and rebooted and then there is just Ulefone logo after what it gives No command error and just continues to bootloop. I tried to wipe cache through recovery and even factory reset. It just wipes my data and thats it. No factory reset. I cant restore backup either. It just says no SD card. I'm kinda new Android user, so i dont know what to do next. Kinda frustrated about that update. It basically bricked my phone. Anyways phone is running stock 5.1 version. Thanks who can help me with this :fingers-crossed:
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This had happened to me too. Try to update it again trough sd card by getting into recovery mode (youll find vids how to get into recovery mode). The 6.0 version isnt very good (it can hanlde more apps though, I have ~500 apps). BUT, MOST IMPORTANTLY; after the upgrade factory restet the phone (more than once would, I think, better). I didnt do that and I think I should, since that may enable me now to get again in recovery mode (yeah, now buttons dont work, Ive to do this via PC), my phone maybe would be more compatible with PCs and I may was able to root it. By the way, there is another xda forum about ulefone vienna where you could get more answers and Im not a professional. I hope I helped (with some months delay).
Hi guys
I think i just bricked my phone (which is lenovo a328 rooted). But before these things happened my phone was perfectly working fine, I even managed to successfully flashed a custom to it. But then one day these kind of errors popped up "system ui has stopped working, all google apps has stopped working". So i though i just have to re-flashed it again, the whole process went fine it says "download ok" which indicates that the flash was a success. But when i opened my phone it went into boot loop, My phone just wont open. I don't even know if its charging coz' there's no battery logo showing up it's just stuck on lenovo logo. But the good news is windows can still recognize my phone. I've been re-flashing it so many times but still wont work. So I decided to go to a repair shop but they said it cant be fix anymore (internal problem, that what they said).
I've been searching the xda s for an answer, and i've found some thread similar to mine but I cant find any fix.
Thank you, Hoping for an answer
I really need an answer :crying::crying:
Do you have a backup for the phone somewhere
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Do you have a backup for the phone somewhere
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You mean backup roms? No, I don't. What I have is a custom rom. Thanks for the response
I have a horrible ZTE Valet Z665C (Tracfone), which is stock and running Jelly Bean 4.1.1. This is my first dumb, "smart phone" that I have owned, but I have owned a few computers so I should be able to understand anything you want me to try.
I can no longer use the cell because every 2-3 seconds another error message(ex. Unfortunately, the process android.process.acore has stopped; OneDrive has stopped; YouTube has stopped etc.) pops up and I can't clear them fast enough to do anything. If I try to uninstall an app that I installed, I get another stop error message, and nothing uninstalls. I tried Safe Mode, but the same thing happens. I have successfully done a factory reset via Recovery in the past, but now, even though it goes through the motions successfully, it doesn't actually factory reset anymore and remove any app I installed, and I still get tons of stop messages.
Is there a way to find a factory "update.zip" for my cell, so I can try to reset it that way? Can I attach the usb cable to my laptop, and somehow uninstall the apps I installed, just in case one is corrupted and causing these problems? If you have any ideas, I'm game to try them.
Thanks in advance.
...Stumped?
Seven days have gone by, and not one reply other then mine, here lol. If my post would get more traffic from experts elsewhere, I hope an admin or moderator can advise me. Thanks in advance.
This is a "Developers" forum, yet not one expert can take the time out of her/his day to offer up any suggestions?
Mods, is this in the wrong sub-forum, and if so, can you move it to the correct spot? I first asked for help in May of 2017 and there still has not been anyone able to suggest anything that may help at all. Thanks in advance.