Hey guys.. after like 2 months i still havent figured out what to do after following thousands of guides..
I've tried rooting my hero but it stucks on downloading .boot.img = FAILED (remote:no access) or sth like that.. i have followed every step in like 20+ guides?and i always get the same error no matter what i do.. also the one-click flash rooting fails because from what i've been told i have an updated kernel (or how its called) version and it is fixed :/
any info u might want i am open to tell you (like my kernel version etc) i just dont know what u need to "solve" my problem ;d just ask!
i just want to root it so i can have apps on my sd, bluetooth and nothing else
Dont worry, you havent bricked your Hero yet!
GO TO THIS>>>>>>
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=543571
and read 3rd post first and first thenafter and read on. Ypu should find everything you need. Be patient.
And also this thread>>>>
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=559613
thx A LOT for the replies! one of the few i got so far in multiple forums..
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=543571 this is the guide i had followed and it failed ;/
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=559613 i have a newer version of hero and i've been told that the flashrec is patched on mine ;/ is it possible or? i couldnt do the guide (some options werent there atleast)
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so i somehow managed to downgrade my hero, flash it through recovery and i can access the new menu from home + power button but it still says am not rooted... any ideas?:/
You have achieved major hurdles.
To get root you have to flash rooted rom like Mocado's. I have v2.8 which I think has everything I wanted. You can have your own choice>>>
http://www.thei.tguy.co.uk/hero/Older 'Updates'/
if i flash a rom do i loose my messages/contacts if i DONT backup?also can i partition my SD without rooting? and i have already tried Amon Ra with better terminal emulator but it fails ;d btw if possible try pm me
f--k this-.-
after all the good progress i've had..
i managed to root it, partition my SD and when i tried to move my apps it, midway, it asked me to restart my device..so i did.. and now all my apps are gone, factory reset has been made, contacts are lost, messages are lost..almost EVERYTHING is lost apart from application shortucts-.- :S i have made a backup but i dont know how to use it (lol-.-) pls reply
freaking p----ed...
sry for all the bumpness.. really in need of help
whenever i try to fastboot it says not allowed..and am about to cry..
stupid nandroid backup cant get it to work! pls help!
You flashed Amons recovery... With it you can format and partition sd card, and flash rom of your choice.
Yes you loose everything when flashing rom. You could have copied your contact on sim or sd, same for applications. You can reinstall but a word of advice,
Do your wipes first, I mean to ensure smooth running of rom. Hope it helps.
And when not sure please read, read and read, we are all here to help one another. Regards.
how can i do a backup for my contacts and messages? i have the .img files ;/
when i fastboot it says remote: not allow
also htc sync doesnt work now
and when i restore from recovery boot it says nandroid mobile sh failed run via console ;/
No dont flash .img.
Re- restoring contacts, I dont know any easy way but all your sim contacts can be copied. All phone contacts will have been wiped ,that swhat happenes when we install new os.
i thought it was the other way around and i copied everything on my mobile.. lol..
anw doesnt matter ;d just had 40 contacts anw ;d
can i restore messages, application saves and application folders at least? btw my phone aint working on htc sync now ROMS are still on btw
and how can i correctly partition my SD so any application i add it is saved on SD?thx ;d
Just one thing. Refrain from using foul languages as this forum is open to all ages of members and it will also reflect bad on you.
Install something like Astro, open it ,click menu and go from there to back up all your installed apps.
yeah sry forgot :/
will edit it right away
also thats what i mean, all my apps and their saves/settings are on backup.imgs :/ my hero is like a brand new one with modaco installed and nothing else... and htc sync doesnt load it, although i can use mass storage
Back up images are actually of rom itself. Sorry I dont know how to reinstate sms messages. This questiones was asked by a friend about his iPhone and again I couldnt answer as I never owned iPhone.
Anybody out there to answer question raised in above post?
meh doesnt matter i guess
i'll just "rebuild" it from scratch ;/
just wanna know what to do now so i get a partition on my SD.. i have a 2gb card which was partitioned before but i restored it.. i want 2 things
1) howto partition it for automatic saving apps on SD! and not having to move them everytime
2) how to make HTC sync works -.- i think i "broke" it:S i reinstalled it 4 times so far..nothing..
1) Format and partition feature s in your recovery. Format the whole card as fat32 and next make partition but again you will loose everything on card! After that you will need to mount your sd card ( option in recovery) so that you can put copy back everything on it. But why do you want to do it if everything is working?
2) Do you see ADB in system properties? If yes, drivers are installed correctly.
It is worth browsing Dream forums as Dream was first Android phone hence more to read and almost all can be related to Magic and Hero units operational practices except rooting and flashing bits.
one last thing man
atm i am looking for another application to connect to my hero to install other apks :/ currently i have apps2sd on hero although and i was wondering if all i have to do is Copy apps to SD and thats all? (whats dalvik cache that asks me to copy btw?)
i asked about formating and partitioning cause i am getting an 8gb in a few days and i was wondering if i should do it like that
and no i cant see ADB in system properties ;o how can i install the drivers ;/
1) i've read that modaco doesnt work with HTC sync anymore sometimes.. so i was wondering if there is anyway i can install apk without htc sync?
(tried with adb had 2 different errors)
2)is there anyway to like load 2-3 roms and swap between them without loosing anything? (if yes, how)
thx
edit: i reinstall htc sync and my drivers are gone! cant get them back..my pc doesnt even load APK files! :S
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Just 2 simple questions
When do i loose my apps? If i wipe data? Factory Reset? New ROM? New Theme? If i have lets say 20 apps on my phone now and i want to change ROM how do i transfer them?
Also, does modaco rom provide multitouch? And which ROM is the fastest?
Merry Christmas to all and a Happy new year
uhm wiping/factory reset erases everything youve ever done (except stuff on sd card:])
new roms usually erase almost everything but depending on what rom you have a new rom might not (read the post with the rom file to find out), i know modaco 3.0 wont erase anything at all if you've got the ruu update from the htc site. (didnt erase anything for me anyways + it said it wouldnt)
modaco 3.0 has multi touch, and is faster than stock, although if you dont wipe before installing modaco 3.0 some people said that it was slow...(i didnt wipe and im still fassst)
there ya go! haha happy new yearss
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and new themes wont erase stuff (usually) some people who dont have a clue might upload a theme inside a rom (never seen it but possible), in which case the new rom might erase everything (doubt that this would happen...not from this site anyways)
xsirhc6x said:
uhm wiping/factory reset erases everything youve ever done (except stuff on sd card:])
new roms usually erase almost everything but depending on what rom you have a new rom might not (read the post with the rom file to find out), i know modaco 3.0 wont erase anything at all if you've got the ruu update from the htc site. (didnt erase anything for me anyways + it said it wouldnt)
modaco 3.0 has multi touch, and is faster than stock, although if you dont wipe before installing modaco 3.0 some people said that it was slow...(i didnt wipe and im still fassst)
there ya go! haha happy new yearss
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and new themes wont erase stuff (usually) some people who dont have a clue might upload a theme inside a rom (never seen it but possible), in which case the new rom might erase everything (doubt that this would happen...not from this site anyways)
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ah thx :>
if i factory reset will it erase the apps i have on my SD?
and btw i installed a theme yesterday and when i started up my phone it stuck on HTC logo for more than 20minutes.. I removed the battery and restarted the phone and it was all ok, theme was applied but i lost 3-4 apps :S any idea why?
and something last, do u know where to find the default fonts of HTC hero? Some1 posted them somewhere but when i try to install that package it stops at Package (8) and then installation aborted
Happy new year
im not sure about that as i dont use apps to sd.. i dont think it would considering the factory reset does stuff on the internal memory not the sd card!
not sure why you would loose apps... all i can think of is that you might loose settings in some apps that are changed.. like if the theme changed stuff in an app that you had settings in.. you would loose those settings
i dont no anything about fonts sorry havnt looked into itt!
happy new year to you too!
any1 knows if installing 2.0 will erase my current apps/loose root/loose anything at all?
and should i install it?
thx!
Shei77 said:
any1 knows if installing 2.0 will erase my current apps/loose root/loose anything at all?
and should i install it?
thx!
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Yes & Yes lol
meh, i have hard time accessing Market so if i loose all my apps = not worth it at ALL
btw, i tried installing a theme 2 days ago and i backed up before i installed it.. i installed the theme, DIDNT like it so i restored.. some apps were missing, i had the shortcuts on my home screen though, but whenever i try to reinstall them it says -App- Could not be installed on this phone, any idea why? I've lost contact and sms applications aswell-.-'
also, if i backup, copy the file to my pc, factory reset and restore EVERYTHING will be back to normal and perhaps some problems will be fixed?
when you say backup your referring to a nandroid backup right?
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when you say backup your referring to a nandroid backup right?
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Yes, ofc
Since the theme install my apps are no longer installed in SD and am running low on space now and i cant uninstall the broken apps since i cant find them on Manage applications/Quick uninstaller
ohh.. i dont use apps2sd and my nandroid backups have been 100% the same as when i originally copied them :|
so i guess if it were me id manually backup everything, like contacts and apps to your sd card.. then factory reset (themes wont be back to normal)...
for contacts iv never had an app that correctly backed them up so use sync from htc and sync to microsoft outlook or something like that.
sorry!, i know how loong it takes to install so many apps at once! (very annoying) but thats really the only bad part!
and yea so your theme will still be changed so, install a new theme i guess! or there might be a revert back to normal sense on here for that theme so use that just like a theme to get back to normal!
if you wanna go back to normal and you used one of my themes i can send you a revert back..
double post :/
xsirhc6x said:
ohh.. i dont use apps2sd and my nandroid backups have been 100% the same as when i originally copied them :|
so i guess if it were me id manually backup everything, like contacts and apps to your sd card.. then factory reset (themes wont be back to normal)...
for contacts iv never had an app that correctly backed them up so use sync from htc and sync to microsoft outlook or something like that.
sorry!, i know how loong it takes to install so many apps at once! (very annoying) but thats really the only bad part!
and yea so your theme will still be changed so, install a new theme i guess! or there might be a revert back to normal sense on here for that theme so use that just like a theme to get back to normal!
if you wanna go back to normal and you used one of my themes i can send you a revert back..
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manually backup? Full backup from nandroid and copy SDcard folders?:S or?
have never done a sync tbh
i dont care how long it takes, i just dont have interent access all the time, i dont have a wifi router in my house at all tbh... is there anyway to extract my current apps as apks?
dont care about the theme tbh
wait im kinda lost just explain what you have right now and what you want plz? aha
well il try.. but dont do anything yet unless your sure about it there might be an easier way i dont think i even know what exactly happened so...
if you just want to get rid of the broken app links then all i can think of is start over with a backup of your working apps and contacts ..
install ASTRO file manager if you can get it, i use it and its perfect for backing up apps..
so open it, hit menu, tools, app manager, hit the top empty checkmark box to select all your apps..then hit backup... now all the apk's are on your sd card
*make sure they all showed up when you selected them all.. i dont know what will happen because you use appstosd! (maybe there are apk files already on your sd? look through i guess)
for contacts
uh go to htc site and go to support, click hero then downlaod HTC Sync if you dont have it already...
make sure sync is open and plug your hero in
then in htc sync hit sync and follow through that, i used outlook because i had it and no problems for me, make sure all goes well too! like if you used outlook, after it finishes, go to outlook and go to contacts to make sure there in there!
now get the ruu from htc site if you want to start fresh orr to keep your root/custum recovery get any rom like modaco 3.0???
then boot into recovery, wipe your hero, then install modaco 3.0...
now your back to the start so get the app "ASTRO"
and follow the back up steps above except when you get into app manager, hit the tab on the right, and this is the part where you hold your finger on an app, install, ok for everyy app :\
then with htc sync open plug your phone in, hit sync
your contacts should now be on your phone...
if you had facebook links they should automatically link (they did for me at least) i can easily see this not happening though...
so now all you gota do is redo all your app settings!
i have no idea about apps2sd though, i think it takes for eveer to install modaco 3.0 if youv got apps on your sd card in the right formatted partition so DONT pull the battery! i think thats why you lost apps in the first place!
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i uploaded astro for ya
http://www.4shared.com/file/188345514/7fe3f26e/commetagoastro.html
i have Astro but it was already installed and now its broken inside.. so i cant reinstall it
is there any other program i am allowed to use rather than outlook?
if i wipe my hero, i wont loose anything on SD?
also when i wipe do i loose contacts?
i knew that it takes a lot to install modaco 3.0 as i had installed 2.1, 2.8, 2.9 but the THEME i installed was JUST a notification bar (not even the drag-down notification) and it took MORE than 20 minutes...
thx for astro btw
Shei77 said:
i have Astro but it was already installed and now its broken inside.. so i cant reinstall it
is there any other program i am allowed to use rather than outlook?
if i wipe my hero, i wont loose anything on SD?
also when i wipe do i loose contacts?
i knew that it takes a lot to install modaco 3.0 as i had installed 2.1, 2.8, 2.9 but the THEME i installed was JUST a notification bar (not even the drag-down notification) and it took MORE than 20 minutes...
thx for astro btw
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wait so you got astro installed now?...
i think so.. it gave me at least 2 options i just chose outlook.. it cant hurt (i cant get to that screen since iv already done it)
a wipe should not touch the sd card.. to be safe unplug the sd card! haha
yes with a wipe im pretty sure you loose contacts (unless contacts are on ur sim card im not sure about this)
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ohh i see my mistake, you cant install astro without astro lol my bad... let me check for somethin else
hmm so if you can get internet, download astro (even though the app button link wont work)
you will be able to get to the program through the notification once, so i think thats your only bet to backup apps,
xsirhc6x said:
wait so you got astro installed now?...
i think so.. it gave me at least 2 options i just chose outlook.. it cant hurt (i cant get to that screen since iv already done it)
a wipe should not touch the sd card.. to be safe unplug the sd card! haha
yes with a wipe im pretty sure you loose contacts (unless contacts are on ur sim card im not sure about this)
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ohh i see my mistake, you cant install astro without astro lol my bad... let me check for somethin else
hmm so if you can get internet, download astro (even though the app button link wont work)
you will be able to get to the program through the notification once, so i think thats your only bet to backup apps,
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i replied before, asking you what should i do but i got an error 502 gateway and tried it out anw >.>
I installed a 3.0 theme (AWESOME! ) , wiped, modaco 3.0 blah blah blah and i found all the apps i used to have before but bugged out ^^
thing is, i cant find some of them as apks since they were faulty :/
i know this is a lot to ask but can you help me by uploading
Spark, Digital Clock
also, if you have internet access could you "find" if there is a version of Raging Thunder (racing game) that is not a demo?
thx in regards and appreciate A LOT all your help!
hm, well i remember reading that modaco should work with apps2sd automatically.. is this where you pulled the battery?
i can upload those sure... no problem.. rageing thunder is is a demo becuase you have to pay for the full game, so i dont have it and cannot upload it anyways (warez not allowed on this site).
give me 5 min
nvm there both private so i cant back them up.. or at least i dont no how lol sorry! (the demo for raging thunder is also private so i also cant get that)
xsirhc6x said:
hm, well i remember reading that modaco should work with apps2sd automatically.. is this where you pulled the battery?
i can upload those sure... no problem.. rageing thunder is is a demo becuase you have to pay for the full game, so i dont have it and cannot upload it anyways (warez not allowed on this site).
give me 5 min
nvm there both private so i cant back them up.. or at least i dont no how lol sorry! (the demo for raging thunder is also private so i also cant get that)
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I didnt pull my battery when i installed Modaco...ONLY when i installed my previous theme...anw i wiped and re-installed along with a new theme and on a new SD card..its ok now
i have the demo of raging thunder, had spark, doesnt matter spark isnt so important anw xD thx a lot anw!
np! cheers
Hey guys I have been trolling this forum for some very useful information, and it has helped me quite a bit, but on this one I am stuck. Every time I try and delete something on this phone (Samsung Vibrant) it just comes back. This was not my phone before, I am just trying to put it back to stock.
I have flashed the phone 3 times using odin, including using the re-partition option.
When I hook the phone up to the pc, and load update.zip into the root folder, and reboot into recovery mode, it says cannot find sd card/update.zip. Even when I go in and manually delete apps if I reboot the phone, they all just come back.
Am I missing something? part of me wants to say its something easy.. but I have searched and searched about this and found nothing. Is there a mod out there that does this? -Thanks
*edit* Oh, and it seems like any time I think I might get close, I get the little android and the triange w/ the exclamation point.
Bueller?
How are you deleting? What are you deleting? Why are you using odin to delete apps? Not enough info to help you.
Hi, I am just trying to totally wipe the phone back to stock, hence odin. I dont care about info being lost. But like I said.. if I go in and manage applications, and remove them manually, I restart the phone and like magic they are all back.. I am quite confused. I hook the phone up to the pc, open the phone and manually delete pics and songs that way.. unplug the phone from the pc, and its like i never did anything.
jorsh03 said:
Hi, I am just trying to totally wipe the phone back to stock, hence odin. I dont care about info being lost. But like I said.. if I go in and manage applications, and remove them manually, I restart the phone and like magic they are all back.. I am quite confused. I hook the phone up to the pc, open the phone and manually delete pics and songs that way.. unplug the phone from the pc, and its like i never did anything.
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If you want to wipe the best thing to do is flash Eugene's Froyo that does not brick. That will get rid of EVERYTHING. From there flash JFD. That will give you the clean start you want.
icandy75 said:
If you want to wipe the best thing to do is flash Eugene's Froyo that does not brick. That will get rid of EVERYTHING. From there flash JFD. That will give you the clean start you want.
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Yeah, that is the problem. I already did that, and the stuff is still there. I did it 3 times. I flashed it with the 512 pit, did a re-partition and the JFD. Then went back and even updated it to the JI6 firmware, and loaded it with the stock kernel.
I'll help you out before you needlessly flash roms over and over and over.
Before you say, "WTF!!!! That doesn't answer my question" please read to the end.
1. As I understand your problem, you want to wide everything from your INTERNAL SD Card.
2. as such, The steps are as follows:
3. Go to settings.
4. Go to "SD Card and phone storage"
5. "Unmount phone storage"
6. "Format phone storage"
This is assuming that you are ALREADY on stock Rom.
If not, flash the stock first, then wipe your internal SD.
Remove your External SD and SIM card. *(Not required), but i'm paranoid, and this always helps me feel better on the off chance that something does happen while i'm wiping the internal SD.
GL
That was first thing I tried to do, sorry I didnt post that in OP. I tried to unmount and format using the in phone software. I have tried a hard reset using the button combinations on the phone. I have also done a factory format using the service code. All to no avail.
Thanks for the input.. believe me, if I could have avoided the time and hassle of reading about odin I would have. Odin was a last resort.
I dont know if this is helpful or not but after I format the internal sd.
Total Space: 13.18 GB
Free Space 12.31 GB
I am really beginning to think that the internal SD is broken/corrupted or something. As I said in the OP when I boot into recovery, it says it cannot find sdcard/update.zip. Furthermore, if I mount the usb as mass storage, and go into the folders and delete pictures/whatnot. Even if I unplug the phone from the computer, its as if I never did anything. The pictures will all still be there as if nothing happened. If I go in and manage apps, and remove them all one by one, then reboot the phone all the apps are there. These are all reasons why I think the internal storage is messed up.
I was/am quite confused. This is why I requested ideas from people smarter than me.. i.e you guys . Thanks for all the input this far, my OP was a little lacking I suppose.
Did you ever get problem resolved?
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@jorsh :
I had the same problem with u. Can't delete few old files that stored in the internal SD. Also, I can't use update.zip in the recovery mode. It says "cannot find sdcard/update.zip.
My phone also can't play MP3 file or 3GP file that transfered from other phone / PC.
Anyone can help us ?
How are you deleting the files?
What are you running?
the update.zip, are you guys talking about rooting, or clockwork recovery?
Sorry, thanksgiving was preventing me from following the thread. The problem is still unresolved. I was trying the update.zip in recovery mode, as far as I know there is no clockwork on the phone. I thought the update.zip was just a recovery image that the phone used as a basis for restoring the phone.
s15274n said:
How are you deleting the files?
What are you running?
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I have tried deleting files a few different ways.
Odin, directly via pc with usb mount, and using the software on the phone itself, and tried using factory formats/resets hard and soft.
What do you mean by what am I running?
i just buy a used vibrant. There are some photos & files in the internal memory. I can erase it with file manager, but when I restart the phone, those photos & files appear again.
Same thing with with the gmail account. This gmail account is sign up by previous user. I can't remove this account.
I already try using "factory reset", but it's useless. Those photos & gmail account still in my phone.
I'm running in 2.1 T959UVJI2
about the update.zip, I'm using for rooting. I can't root the phone too. I'm using the file "SGH-959 Root Update.zip" then rename it to "update.zip"
I put this update.zip that the root folder of my internal SD. Bad thing is, this file is gone when I restart my phone (turn off then turn on). So, when I goes to recovery mode, it always said : cannot find sd card/update.zip
anybody can help me ? pleaseeee. So frustated >.<
Yeah that sounds pretty much exactly like my problems.
Perhaps people are having a hard time helping because we cant determine what you are trying to do....
first, yes, there is a clockwork recovery... download rom manager from the market.
there are going to be folders on the internal memory you can not remove because the OS puts them there.
could you please say exactly what you want to do???
I am just trying to delete everything and basically restore the phone back to factory. But it seems like the normal ways of doing that are not working.
Use ODIN to go to stock ji6 or jk2. I have a guide in my signature
Once you reboot mount the internal memory and format it. Settings > sd card and phone storage
s15274n said:
Use ODIN to go to stock ji6 or jk2. I have a guide in my signature
Once you reboot mount the internal memory and format it. Settings > sd card and phone storage
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ok ok.... I'll try at weekend. I'm out of town in few days. Thx for the info.
please report back, want to make sure all is well
If one enables full device encryption in Ice Cream Sandwich, am I correct in assuming that that the internal SD of that device is now not going to be available in the CWM recovery mode? And even if it was, the root fs would not be available? If so, this pretty much would make CWM flashing your device near impossible?
Does CWM even work if you use FDE? Or is it planned/
The question I guess is, when do you input your encryption password? Is it some pre-boot step?
I really want to enable device encryption but I can't find enugh details on how it works.
I did read this post on it., but it doesn't really answer my questions. And it is unclear if it encrypts the internal SD, or just the root FS?
http://source.android.com/tech/encryption/android_crypto_implementation.html
No one knows anything about this?
I got a Gnex today from Verizon in the US and I encrypted my phone after I unlocked the bootloader but before rooting. As a result I don't think I will be able to root because it doesn't seem that the modified boot.img that the instructions tell me to use can mount the encrypted system (it sat at the Google logo w/ the unlocked icon for 10 minutes before I pulled the battery and let it boot the stock boot.img) which came up fine.
It seems the only way to decrypt the phone is by doing a factory reset.
That's all I know. That being said, while a custom recovery may work for wiping partitions (such as cache), it would probably be mostly useless until the custom recovery is updated to support the encrypted file systems. I'm a *NIX user and an engineer, but don't have a lot of experience with Android's internals, so take all that with the appropriate sized grain of salt.
Regards,
Chris
Bump.
Anyone experimented with full device encryption / ROM flashing / SD Card? I'm curious about this as well, but not curious enough to experiment.
I dident try it myself, so i dont exactly know, how this works. But i think device encryption shouldent completly block clockworkmod recovery.
I think it could be a problem to make a backup while your device is encrypted. But i think it shouldent be a problem to recover a old system over an encrypted one. Encryption keeps people without the key away from reading data. This dosent mean you cant wright something over it and replace the locked data with some new one. But then you defenitly loose the old data. I dont think you can flash a new ROM or a recovery without a full wipe. You probably gona loose all the data you had on the old system.
But i general i think this is anyway a good think to do when you flash a new ROM.
I think you could give it a try, without briking your phone. But i dident try it, so i cant take any responsibility.
Would any of you happen to know how to get to the diagnostic mode?
ryfly65 said:
Would any of you happen to know how to get to the diagnostic mode?
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I sonst exactly know hat diagnostic Mode you mean. Depends hat Diagnose you want to run. Do you want to read the logfiles in your phone, wher you can see what ist doing? You could use the app alogcat. An other way would be to run logcat over Eclipse.
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Hilmy said:
I sonst exactly know hat diagnostic Mode you mean. Depends hat Diagnose you want to run. Do you want to read the logfiles in your phone, wher you can see what ist doing? You could use the app alogcat. An other way would be to run logcat over Eclipse.
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I need to edit modem information and enable a diag port for QPST, essentially allowing me to flash it to another carrier.
Is there any new information on this? Any help would be very appreciated!
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I encrypted mine after flashing the stock ICS 4.0.3 image and rooting. CWM still loads, but when I try to use USB mass storage, windows tells me it needs to be formatted before the SD card can be used.
You can use titanium backup to make backups of your stuff, and restore them to a non-encrypted phone. I have found no other way to unencrypt the phone than factory reset either. When you encrypt, then go to settings > security > encryption, it just has a greyed out area saying "Phone is encrypted", which is stupid and needs to be fixed.
nevarDeath said:
I encrypted mine after flashing the stock ICS 4.0.3 image and rooting. CWM still loads, but when I try to use USB mass storage, windows tells me it needs to be formatted before the SD card can be used.
You can use titanium backup to make backups of your stuff, and restore them to a non-encrypted phone. I have found no other way to unencrypt the phone than factory reset either. When you encrypt, then go to settings > security > encryption, it just has a greyed out area saying "Phone is encrypted", which is stupid and needs to be fixed.
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So if I factory reset the device from CMW I will not loose my pictures or TB in the internal SD?
What about flashing a new ROM?
Thanks!
I have been playing with ICS + FDE for several days doing different things. First off this is:
Nexus S 4G, running Pete's crespo4g OTA ROM
I flashed with CWM which is still on there and runs fine.
However: /data and /sdcard and /system (?) are encrypted and CANNOT be mounted.
To restore you have to 1) make a full backup over USB to a PC of the whole SDcard (or at least the important folders).
2) wipe and reformat everything. This isn't just a factory reset, this kills the sdcard as well.
3) mount (hopefully) the newly reformatted /sdcard and blow your backup from the PC onto the /sdcard
4) use CWM to restore a previous ROM.
That's pretty much it, give or take. Not for the faint of heart. However, if you are concerned enough to want encryption, you don't want to just say reboot recovery and voila all your files are belong to us, right?
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Also, the backup to PC part is just your sdcard. It doesn't back up the whole system. There might be a way to do that via adb, I don't know.
So i am running rooted runnig miui.us rom. I just tried to encrypt phone.. It ran for 2 and a half hours and I got impatient. thinking maybe i shouldnt have done it... Then after a little bit of panic i said **** it if i lose data i lose data... so i powered off and back on hoping i didnt and the rom booted back up with all my data intact..... •••••• Wish I had more to report but im not doing that again until someone can confirm that it works fine...... I have tried booting into cwm yet.. If i have an issue when i need to boot illl report back but if you dont hear from me here then assume I was able too.
Pete's to CM9 - still encrypted
IT does indeed take a fairly long time to encrypt. If I understand correctly it will build the encrypted partition on a loopback (or something like) before erasing the original (by overwriting?).
I've got more to report. I followed my plan (couple posts back) for unencrypting and reflashing my phone. (Nexus S 4g).
The first bits of this worked fine. I was able to flash CM9 onto my phone (works like a champ btw). While the phone was in recovery I mounted the SD and copied my backup back onto it.
However...
When CM9 booted I STILL got the "unlock your device" screen, still the same password, and it decrypted and booted. That was surprising, but not as much as when I looked for the SD card, it said it was incorrectly formatted! The only thing to do was reformat and copy with the phone on and unlocked.
So lessons learned: 1) a factory reset from _inside_the_ROM_ doesn't remove the encrypted partition at all and
2) As far as I can tell, the SD card _is_ encrypted along with /data
I'd be very interested to hear other's experiences, especially someone who can remove their SD storage.
Undoing FDE
First off - Lacking a device with removable storage to test with all I can tell you is that the sdcard is not accessible by any normal means after FDE is enabled without booting into the encrypted system.
"Removing" FDE required three steps beyond normal:
-Factory reset from within the ROM
-factory reset/wipe at recovery and/or format /data
-once into a running ROM, reformat the sdcard
Once all that is done (in addition to normal setup for ROM) you should be able to operate normally again.
problem with encryption on sgs2 with android 4.0.3
I really want to enable my device encryption too, but I can't !!!
the phone start encrypting after he ask me for a new secure password, rebooting and asking again for my password and surprise!!!.... the password is not match ?!?!
I repetead these steps for 3 times but the same result...the password does not match!!! ?
Please, if someone found a trick to repair this inconvenient, tell us in this post steps to be followed.
Regards!
SGS2, Android Icecream 4.0.3
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So i am running rooted runnig miui.us rom. I just tried to encrypt phone.. It ran for 2 and a half hours and I got impatient. thinking maybe i shouldnt have done it... Then after a little bit of panic i said **** it if i lose data i lose data... so i powered off and back on hoping i didnt and the rom booted back up with all my data intact..... •••••• Wish I had more to report but im not doing that again until someone can confirm that it works fine...... I have tried booting into cwm yet.. If i have an issue when i need to boot illl report back but if you dont hear from me here then assume I was able too.
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I did exactly what you did, and so far everything seems to be intact Thanks!
This error is still not answered on the forums so im starting a new thread.
i get the error as the title.
sd card space is not the problem.
i tried formatting the sd card.
i have less than 50 apps installed.
wiped dalvik cache, and all other sorts people say on other posts.
(my phone is LG P936 so "fix permission" screws up the phone. all text disappears)
have latest cwm recovery.
and still get the error.
any answers please?
and please dont reply if you are going to write an opinion.
only answers please.
sorry for my rude behaviour but I'm sick and tired of reading posts full of opinions and "maybe"s.
Not sure if you ever got this fixed but I 'm suffering from the same error. I tried pretty much everything you tried (even fix permissions) and I have about 20GB free on my SD card so space shouldn't be an issue. I have not yet tried formatting the SD card since it has always worked and CWM is able to write to it because the following files are created:
- boot.img
- data.ext3.tar
- recovery.img
- system.ext3.tar
The files that are missing are (based on older backups):
- .android_secure.vfat.tar
- cache.ext3.tar (probably because I wiped it first?)
- nandroid.md5
I have attached the log from CWM in the hopes that someone can tell me what is wrong. The error occurs at the end of the progress bar of 'backing up /data'.
hey just use TWRP Recovery. It's way better than CWM. normal backup on cwm took me like an hour but twrp was never longer than 10minutes.
Today I have formatted the SD card and tried again, but as expected it did not change anything.
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hey just use TWRP Recovery. It's way better than CWM. normal backup on cwm took me like an hour but twrp was never longer than 10minutes.
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I guess I will give this a try. Can I just install it over CWM or can they run side by side?
different reciveries cannot be run side by side as they are installed on a different partition. so it will always be installed over your current one.
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different reciveries cannot be run side by side as they are installed on a different partition. so it will always be installed over your current one.
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Well, I tried TWRP and it also fails at backing up my data partition. The log is a bit more clear though and it seems to get stuck on "/data/data/com.android.vending/cache/images" which is the last line before it gives an error. I checked the "images" folder and it seems empty but I cannot delete it. Tried ES File Explorer and Terminal Emulator but no way to get rid of it. The folder appears to be related to Google Play, so I cleared all data and cache from Google Play, even uninstalled the updates but there 's simply no way to get rid of it. I 'm not sure if this is the reason why the backup fails, but I CAN copy the folder and even rename it.
Pff looks like I 'm going to have to do a clean install after all .
Hello, I too have this problem and unfortunately TWRP is not available for my phone.
I used to be able to do CWM backups fine on my old phone, and they work great on my tablet. But they consistently fail at "/data" on my Galaxy Ace II x. Might it be because I'm using Link2SD? I don't see why that would cause a problem, but maybe it's having trouble with the symlinks?
Hmm. Seems the issue was that, despite having only 1.28 GB total available storage space on stock, the backups wanted more than 4 GB. Cleared some room on my microSD card and suddenly backups worked fine! Of course, shortly after I installed CyanogenMod, which has much smaller backups...
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I forgot to report back here but the only way I found to fix the problem was by doing a clean install. After that, I was able to backup my data partition again. I then restored my apps ' data with TB and was unable to backup the data partition again. I 'm guessing one of my apps had corrupt data, but never got to find out which one it was.
maybe your partition not match with recovery, like something wrong vold.fstab
Just in case anyone still wants to know how to fix this, I managed to solve it by running these commands:
1. run adb shell in recovery.
2. unmount data partition (umount /dev/block/mmcblk0p26). -> this one failed so I skipped it
3. run e2fsck /dev/block/mmcblk0p26
See http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=48659092&postcount=868 for original post.
I got a few HTREE errors and a bunch of duplicate names which I renamed when prompted. Booted the phone and rebooted into TWRP and now I am able to backup my data partition again. :good:
EDIT: Problem reappeared so I tried the above commands again but it said that the filesystem was clean. Ran 'e2fsck -f /dev/block/mmcblk0p26' instead and had to fix a bunch of HTREE errors from Facebook again and duplicate names from Xprivacy but now I 'm able to backup my data partition again.
Dude just selest the backup format as both zip and tar filea
Hi there
I followed an online tutorial a while ago to put android 2.1 (could have been 2.3) on my htc hd2.
I loaded on the magloader and pushed on the android software and it worked lovely.
Then a week ago the phone decided to freeze and I couldn't unlock the screen. A few minutes before it locked it had unlocked a little sluggishly and then wouldn't unlock at all.
I re-started and tried a soft and a hard reset to no avail.
I can still load into the magloader and so had a go this weekend loading on clockwork recovery. Downloaded a newer version of android and put it on the sd card. I managed to get it to install from the zip on the sd card, but it won't launch into android, it just loads the magloader.
My pc won't find my phone so if anyone can help with a link to the right software for my winxp pc to recognise my hd2 that would be a first step as I think I need to remove the original android files from the phones internal memory.
If that's the wrong approach I would be grateful for any advice. :fingers-crossed:
I don't have the phone with me at work at the moment and I know I am a bit vague on the details, but I'm hoping someone knows their way around the magloader and clockwork to point me in the right direction. I am especially frustrated with the pc not seeing my phone. I installed the htc sync manager, but that doesn't work.
I can see the phone as a removeable drive in my disk management, but not in my computer. I can explore it from there, but it's just the sd card and not the phone itself.
If anyone could help that would be great. I don't want to give up on my hd2 yet, but I'm missing my whatsapp, etc
Thank you for looking and sorry for being so vague and so useless.
Mods: If this is in the wrong section please feel free to move it. Thanks.
All you had to do was download the .zip file for the ROM, copy it to your SD card, if you did not download the .zip with your HD2. Then boot into Clockwork Mod Recovery or whatever custom Recovery you have on your HD2. Then wipe your delvick cache, your cache, and data then flash the ROM using the recovery.
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I've seen this by T-Macgnolia on a an upgrade thread http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1618570
Is this likely to work for me? I will look at how to clear the delvick cache (whatever that is).
Please let me know if you can help.