Did a factory reset after rooting my wifes phone. Installed viper rom and silver needle kernal. Phone wouldnt go thorugh hnads free even after ##3242#. Did the factory reset options in phone storage and it rebooted to twrp and I have been sitting at the formatting /data and /cache screen. What should or can I do? I am sure it shouldnt take this long.
EDIT: Im a noob just had to us the volume keys to reboot lol!
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hey guys, been here since the launch of evo. rooting, flashing, everything.
today i wanted to switch roms. so i went about my normal process...
d/l new ROM
backup current ROM
backup apps
wipe cache and dalvic
flash new ROM
i got stuck on the last step. i went to flash the new ROM (nocturnal 1.3)
it said something along the lines of blah blah is already unmounted. i didnt pay too much attention to it because i was going to restart and try again. long story short, it will only boot to htc white screen and nothing else.
can anyone help me out?
p.s. im on clockwork recovery
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did you not wipe system and data? I am not super skilled, but maybe it tried to stick the entire ROM into the left over space of the last ROM that is still on there?
It won't boot to recovery? It should boot to recovery
weezymagic said:
hey guys, been here since the launch of evo. rooting, flashing, everything.
today i wanted to switch roms. so i went about my normal process...
d/l new ROM
backup current ROM
backup apps
wipe cache and dalvic
flash new ROM
i got stuck on the last step. i went to flash the new ROM (nocturnal 1.3)
it said something along the lines of blah blah is already unmounted. i didnt pay too much attention to it because i was going to restart and try again. long story short, it will only boot to htc white screen and nothing else.
can anyone help me out?
p.s. im on clockwork recovery
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The error message you received is going to be the key to understanding the issue that occured. When it says unmounted, it is referring to a specific partition, either /data or /system most likely.
For starters, when it hangs on the htc white screen, this is usually either a kernel or ramdisk issue. If the kernel is known to be good, then it is probably a ramdisk issue. most ramdisk issues relate to a mismatch/incompatibility between the loaded kernel and the ROM.
First suggestion would be to reflash the ROM, clearing /cache and /data.
Second suggestion would be to restore a backup. This will confirm there is nothing wrong with your device hardware wise and you'll know it is a specific issue with the ROM you wanted to load.
Third suggestion, find the exact error, word for word, which occured in recovery and post up in the ROM thread asking if other users of that ROM also encountered, how they handled. Also feel free to post back up here.
When writing the programming behind a custom recovery, the error messages are added in there to help allow users and developers better knowledge of the exact issue so they can work to resolve them. Without the exact error message, it is similar to going to a car shop and saying, some light came on my dash, but I don't know what it was and now the car doesn't work. Fix it? Another words, it is very vague.
Hope the suggestions and tips help! Good luck!
my first instinct was to reflash the backup or new rom again but it wont boot to any rom, recovery or bootloader. it just hangs on the htc white screen
idk what happened but i got into the bootloader through battery pull, power+vol down. i know ive tried that in the past but this time it worked. now im restoring a nandroid from yesterday
weezymagic said:
idk what happened but i got into the bootloader through battery pull, power+vol down. i know ive tried that in the past but this time it worked. now im restoring a nandroid from yesterday
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are you on twrp 1.0.x ? There is s charging issue where it won't restart right because it thinks It's already in recovery
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weezymagic said:
hey guys, been here since the launch of evo. rooting, flashing, everything.
today i wanted to switch roms. so i went about my normal process...
d/l new ROM
backup current ROM
backup apps
wipe cache and dalvic
flash new ROM
i got stuck on the last step. i went to flash the new ROM (nocturnal 1.3)
it said something along the lines of blah blah is already unmounted. i didnt pay too much attention to it because i was going to restart and try again. long story short, it will only boot to htc white screen and nothing else.
can anyone help me out?
p.s. im on clockwork recovery
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You missed a step. After you wipe dalvik and cache, you ALWAYS need to wipe /system and /data, do a factory reset to make sure, or download a superwipe tool. The ONLY time you don't need to wipe completely is when you're updating your ROM, but even then it is recommended to wipe everything.
Twolazyg said:
You missed a step. After you wipe dalvik and cache, you ALWAYS need to wipe /system and /data, do a factory reset to make sure, or download a superwipe tool. The ONLY time you don't need to wipe completely is when you're updating your ROM, but even then it is recommended to wipe everything.
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Agreed^^^^^
Hello,
I flashed Cyanogenmod 9 on my S3, and wanted to play around with the full phone encryption feature. I decided I don't like it, and want to go back to no encryption.
I did a factory reset through the rom, and the phone still prompted me for my password. (?) I even tried to wipe in clockwork recovery and still no dice. I did notice that /sdcard cannot be mounted in clockwork recovery, and that might be the issue?
I feel like a complete newb here, but I was hoping someone could explain how to remove the encryption, and explain why it is still present after a factory reset....
Lol something like this happened with my friend LG as well so he went to Lg and they fixed it for him. This was 3-4 years ago I had nexus one that time.
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Haha, man... Kinda ridiculous that a factory wipe isn't doing the trick.
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I've played around a bit more, and here is what I tried:
1)I flashed CM10. Formatted the the /cache and dalvik cache.
The CM10 flash screen loaded, yet it still prompted me for the password. (!!!!???) Even after typing in the correct pw, it just hung on the green android.
2)I formatted everything in recovery /system /cache and dalvik . I then installed CM9.
The CM9 flash screen came up and required my pw. Afterward, it went back to the CM9 flash screen and just stayed there.
My question is what is wrong with the phone. At this point there should absolutely be no more phone encryption, yet it's still present and prompting for the password regardless of what is formatted, and regardless of the rom that is flashed.
I saw a thread on this yesterday and I'll ask the same question....why would you encrypt your device anyways?? You do know their are like 100,000,000,000,000 combinations for a pin number right? Encryption really isn't needed unless A. Your cheating on you wife or girlfriend in that case your a fool or B. Your hiding something top top top secret from your local government. Its really not needed.
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Or work related emails... It's not compulsory, but it was requested when I was setting up the exchange server info. Any solution for this issue?
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Solved!!!!!
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=32744320&postcount=8
I browsed through the general q&a and i am not finding exactly what i am looking for, so please hold the yelling if i missed it. but i am not against being told where to go....
background info....I purchased a DNA off of EBay and i turned it on, and got it going. The SW version is current, stock rooted and the phone is S-Off. The phone still had some of the guys pictures on it, so i jumped in to recovery (CWM touch recovery) and wiped the phone, cache, and restarted. When i did the phone hung, and never booted, so i held the power button down, it then rebooted, checked the apps and all was good. his pics are still on the phone.....going through the phone and wiping (backup and reset) and it's the same thing....
So my question is, what can i do to get the phone back to square one, fully clean but still keep the root and s-off? the reason i am asking is when i wiped it wouldnt boot properly. should i reflash a stock rooted rom? whats the best way to wipe the internal memory? i have rooted and rom'd going back to the original droid, but the HTC's always intimidate me. So please any suggestions they would be welcome. I want to get it stock, then make a perfect good backup, then start trying some roms.....
Thanks in advance!
So I read up a little more, and decided that the best thing to do was Format the SD card. After i did that, i wiped everything again and after it boots, it still just hangs. Then i hold power down and it restarts and i get the "android is upgrading screen" then i am fine. So i am still concerned that it never boots properly. So my question still stands..... should i download another stock rom, or is there something else i should do?
mooseknuckles said:
So I read up a little more, and decided that the best thing to do was Format the SD card. After i did that, i wiped everything again and after it boots, it still just hangs. Then i hold power down and it restarts and i get the "android is upgrading screen" then i am fine. So i am still concerned that it never boots properly. So my question still stands..... should i download another stock rom, or is there something else i should do?
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if you wipe the phone in recovery ( im assuming /data, /cache, /dalvik, and/or /system) you would have to flash a new ROM on top of that, because you are wiping the entire thing. i dont think you can do a regular wipe in CWM and expect it to boot after that. but, yes, for what you want, formatting /sdcard would probably suffice.
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if you wipe the phone in recovery ( im assuming /data, /cache, /dalvik, and/or /system) you would have to flash a new ROM on top of that, because you are wiping the entire thing. i dont think you can do a regular wipe in CWM and expect it to boot after that. but, yes, for what you want, formatting /sdcard would probably suffice.
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I don't think cwm wipes the rom by selecting factory reset in it.
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It doesn't, and if he had wiped system it never ever ever would have booted even after resetting it 9001 times.
Wiping data, factory reset, same thing different terms for different versions of recoveries, technically wiping data would delete sdcard with /data/media but usually doesn't. Format SD and a factory reset/data wipe would be what he's looking for, but it not booting afterwards is an issue pointing to something else.
I'd suggest looking at your current ROM version then getting a rooted version and flashing it then seeing if it persists. Any ROM will do, really, I just said that way if you want to stay on that version of sense.
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I bought a Note 2 off Craigslist. I got it home and tried to update the firmware and it kept failing. So I performed a factory reset and found out the phone was Rooted. They had the SU hidden so I'm guessing they might have installed some kind of hack app. My question is since I performed a factory data reset will that get rid of anything and everything they might have installed?
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I bought a Note 2 off Craigslist. I got it home and tried to update the firmware and it kept failing. So I performed a factory reset and found out the phone was Rooted. They had the SU hidden so I'm guessing they might have installed some kind of hack app. My question is since I performed a factory data reset will that get rid of anything and everything they might have installed?
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That will remove everything from /data and /cache but anything stored in /system will still be there. You would need to do a format /system in either TWRP or CWM to ensure that the device is clean. If you don't want to be rooted, I would recommend finding a guide to flash back to stock, that should rewrite the whole phone for you.
This will help you back to stock.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2024207
Apologies for bringing up an old topic.
Basically I stopped messing with this phone ages ago and plan to buy a new one.
My S2 was softbricked after trying to use clockwork methods with a semi current rom.
I used the app that verifies my phone has the bad chip.
I managed to get it back to a semi-normal state but now I just want to use odin and flash it back completely stock
I also want to do a factory reset since I plan to sell it. Is there any way to do this?
I just want to stop reading about this since it is an old phone and I have exams coming up. Can someone advise me of the simplest method to turn the phone back to stock + erase all my data, and not brick it in the process?
m0b1liz3 said:
Apologies for bringing up an old topic.
Basically I stopped messing with this phone ages ago and plan to buy a new one.
My S2 was softbricked after trying to use clockwork methods with a semi current rom.
I used the app that verifies my phone has the bad chip.
I managed to get it back to a semi-normal state but now I just want to use odin and flash it back completely stock
I also want to do a factory reset since I plan to sell it. Is there any way to do this?
I just want to stop reading about this since it is an old phone and I have exams coming up. Can someone advise me of the simplest method to turn the phone back to stock + erase all my data, and not brick it in the process?
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tell me more about which rom & kernel do you have running on your sgs2 right now and i might be able to help you
try considering triangle away zip file to remove the traces off your phone being rooted ever
and wipe cache
wipe dalvik cache
format intsd
mount& wipe preloads
step wise -
1) Open Chainfire's Triangle Away app and press "Reset flash counter" to reset the counter and remove the triangle. It does not matter if there is no triangle already.
2) Do a nandroid backup using Clockworkmod recovery if necessary (to get to it; turn off your phone, press the power button, volume up button, and home button at the same time and hold it down for a while). This is done so that you can restore your original OS like I would want to after getting my phone back from Samsung if you're restoring it for that sole purpose.
3) (Mandatory) Wipe Data/Factory Reset in recovery menu. IF YOU DON'T DO THIS, YOUR PHONE WILL BECOME STUCK ON THE "S" LOADING SCREEN. You also should wipe the cache partition and the internal SD card. The internal SD card in case you have any directories which may link you to rooting your phone, such as clockwork mod.
4) Restart into Download Mode and plug your phone into a windows computer.
5) Open Odin , click PDA, choose the STOCK kernel. Make sure that F. Reset Time, Auto Reboot and the PDA checkboxes are checked and NOTHING ELSE.
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