Okay, so I have a CDMA Unrooted Evo 3D. A few days ago I had to bring it to Sprint to get it wiped since after the Sprint boot up the screen was showing nothing. About half an hour ago when I turned the phone on after I unlock I get the Process.Android.Acore and the Gapps process force closing. I have fastboot on since I was unsure if I wanted to root or not. Are there any alternatives to getting it wiped again at Sprint? I've tried removing the battery and restarting it.
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Okay, so I have a CDMA Unrooted Evo 3D. A few days ago I had to bring it to Sprint to get it wiped since after the Sprint boot up the screen was showing nothing. About half an hour ago when I turned the phone on after I unlock I get the Process.Android.Acore and the Gapps process force closing. I have fastboot on since I was unsure if I wanted to root or not. Are there any alternatives to getting it wiped again at Sprint? I've tried removing the battery and restarting it.
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If the wiping process Sprint does it only a wipe of data and not a reinstallation of anything, you have access to that same data wipe process.
The data wipe function will basically erase everything held on the /data partition of the phone. When the phone is turned on for the first time, ideally the /data partition is empty. This is how Android is designed. As the phone is setup, used, customized, 3rd party apps added, settings saved, etc, all of these things are stored on the /data partition. This centralization of settings/customizations makes it very easy/simple to completely reset the device.
There are two methods on the CDMA EVO 3D to access this data wipe function:
1) From Android mode, Settings -> SD & phone storage -> Factory data reset (at the very bottom). HTC added this feature to their Sense version of Android as I don't recall this being present in the AOSP version.
2) Using vol down + pwr, select recovery from the menu. Once in this screen, press vol up + pwr and it the stock recovery menu should appear. One of the options should be Factory Reset / Data wipe. This would be the option to wipe all data on the phone.
Hope that helps!
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Hi, I recently rooted my Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 and everything was working fine. A couple of months later, I put the tablet in airplane mode because I didn't want to drain the battery when I wasn't at home. When I got home and removed it off airplane mode, the device appeared to be frozen so I held the power down to restart it; this normally fixed most issues I've had with it.
Only this time, it boots to the screen with the Samsung logo and is just stuck there. I was wondering since I did root my tablet, is there any way to restart it properly without doing a factory reset which will cause me to lose all my data/apps, etc...
Did you try to restart device from recovery?
Could you please describe what you mean by boot to recovery?
Hold power+volume down, you will be directed to recovery, there choose reboot device, if that wont help try factory reset, or flash stock rom through Odin
Any solutions that would not wipe the data?
If not is there a way for me to access the data and save it prior to me doing the factory wipe like hooking it up to my pc and transferring the data?
I have recovery but noticed I never took a backup. I am wondering if I did a backup now and did a factory wipe; would it wipe out the recovery/root? If not; would I be able to restore the backup and get my data back?
I tried the wiping cache but no luck; still just goes to the logo screen and no further.
Gorath190 said:
Any solutions that would not wipe the data?
If not is there a way for me to access the data and save it prior to me doing the factory wipe like hooking it up to my pc and transferring the data?
I have recovery but noticed I never took a backup. I am wondering if I did a backup now and did a factory wipe; would it wipe out the recovery/root? If not; would I be able to restore the backup and get my data back?
I tried the wiping cache but no luck; still just goes to the logo screen and no further.
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I had this same problem on my tab. However, I just got out of it using the RECOVERY mode as was explained above.
It will not wipe your data. Just choose the option to reboot the system and that will fix it for you. I had same concern about wiping my data so when I saw that reboot option, I selected it and it has helped to rectify my issues. My tab has finally boot completely and I'm once again able to use my tab.
My encryption failed, forcing me to factory reset my S4 mini :crying: But when I hitteed the factory reset button, it wiped my data (took a minute or so), reeboted, and I landed at the same screen as before. Also wiping cache, dalvic cache, and formatting /data didn't help
I've read severeal very old threads here, saying that you got to reinstall the stock firmware. Is this still possible??? Can somebody tell me where to get the right 3 part firmware for my S4 mini (DTM)???
How the encryption problem occured
HELP!!! My phone forces me to factory reset, but the SD-Card encryption key will be lost then!
I can still reach the recovery and got a backup from Titanium of all apps on my SD-Card (thank god I did it yesterday). But the SD-Card is encrypted, and the key will be lost in case I do the factory reset. I can still access the CMW recovery and even can backup the system (just /data is still not working), ADB is enabled. Does anybody know how to safe the SD-Card key/unencrypt the SD-Card?
PS. I still know date and time when I did the encryption of both storages
How the failture happened:
I started the unencryption progress, and went out of my room, the phone still plugged in.
A few minutes I came back, the screen was still black. It also didn't reacted when you pressed a key. I thought something went wrong and the phone shut down complety, so I pressed the power button for a few secs. Then it booted, but then I got the message that I got to factory reset my device.
It seems like the unencrypting has never started, but the device thinks it has started, and therefore fails to boot.
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Please help me, all my game stats are stored on the SD Card and it would be horrible if I would loose them:crying:
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Other problem now, so I brought the thread back to the top
My daughter's i9300 started resetting itself without control. Today it got unmanageable and a successful boot became impossible.
Looking around, I found a thread suggesting that the power button switch is the culprit.
Indeed, after removing the switch, everything worked fine. Had major issues starting the phone, but eventually it started, so I was good to go.
I rooted it, installed latest TWRP and Resurrection ROM. The ROM was a random pick more or less, I had it on my LG G3 at some point and I wanted lollipop.
All fine and dandy, I was able to get into the phone. However, data wasn't wiped even though I selected it for wiping in recovery (probably didn't select the right thing...). So I went to settings and chose factory reset with wiping all data.
This lead to phone rebooting to recovery, but TWRP logo just flashes every few seconds without ever getting to recovery itself.
How can I make this phone work again? Any ideas?
Boot into download mode then flash a full stock rom with Odin. If that works then factory reset in recovery before testing.
You may find the firmware won't flash, as it sounds like your nand memory is worn.
Hi,
I got the message today on the phone that it could not install updates because the storage is full. Then the battery died and now it won't boot up anymore even though it is fully charged.
It is stuck at the boot screen. I can only get into recovery mode that gives me a limited number of options (like 'appy update from adb' or 'wipe data' factory reset')
It is a Wiko model Ridge 4G with Android 5
How can I make it work again without deleting all my data ie a factory reset?
coresystem said:
Hi,
I got the message today on the phone that it could not install updates because the storage is full. Then the battery died and now it won't boot up anymore even though it is fully charged.
It is stuck at the boot screen. I can only get into recovery mode that gives me a limited number of options (like 'appy update from adb' or 'wipe data' factory reset')
It is a Wiko model Ridge 4G with Android 5
How can I make it work again without deleting all my data ie a factory reset?
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I'm afraid you can't get out of bootloop without factory reset.
If your device has a TWRP, you can install that and boot from it. From there, you can copy your important data to your computer and then perform a factory reset.
I have an unlocked (but not rooted) ATT S4 active that I have been using on Cricket.
It now refuses to boot; just displays the ATT globe.
I can hold vol-down, power, and home and boot into a screen the warns me of the danger of booting a custom OS.
I can also hold vol-up, power, and home and, after a blue “recovery booting” appears, boot into a screen which at the top says
Android system recovery
LRX22C.I537UCUC0C7
And then the selection menu:
reboot system now
apply update from adb
apply update from external storage
apply update from cache
wipe data/factory reset
wipe cache partition
reboot to boot loader
power down
view recovery logs
Enable cp logging
Disable cp logging
I have tried wiping both the cache and the data (factory reset) to no avail.
Although it could be a hardware issue, I suspect it had to do with an app that started loading from a repo other than Google. I stopped it but it started generating errors; when I tried to reboot, it wouldn’t.
Since it is practically bricked, I see little downside to loading a later ROM, even with no ability to backup what was there. I have installed Android development and ADB on my Linux box but don’t see how to proceed. All of the help postings I see assumes that I can root the machine after the machine boots; I never get that far.
I have looked for help but haven’t seen anything. (I’ve tried to RTFM!) Can anyone point me in the right direction?
Thanks.
-Jack