I dont have root so I cant back up my apps and data, so I was wondering does the PC Compantion backup apps and data as well as everything else?
Thanks
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I'm planning on unlocking bootloader + rooting (seeing as i can't find root solution without unlocked bootloader)
This would be very useful so that i/we don't lose our app data while unlocking bootloader
ok so I backed it up but now I dont know why it only restores my music pictures and videos not anything else it just comes up with a yellow explantion mark in a triangle saying it failed tried twice.
I get same problem, however does not get as far as your yellow explaination mark, my back up just freezes up on my laptop at 25% remaining and will not complete back up task. Tried several times and have to force close programme without being able to back up phone. Frustrating.
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I came home from work this morning and my wife said my daughter was reading a book and she turned the page and it just locked up. Now when I boot it up it will go to the lock screen, but when I try to slide it to the right it will not do anything, even the clock is at the top left like it should be. Usually you can see the wallpaper on the lockscreen, but now it is just a black screen............
The only thing I can do on the lock screen is just power it off, even then, I have to hold the power button down a couple of times before it will boot up again then it just goes through the normal boot up until it gets to the lock screen and then its stuck again. What can I do to fix this? If I do a factory reset will I have to root it again?
i honestly dont know but a suggestion i see a lot is to do the hard reset which is pressing the n button along with the power button and you have to do it 8 times ill try to find a vid
If you do full factory reset you will loose root.
but the good thing is that its very easy to root
Yeah, I was afraid I would loose everything. I may wait a bit and see if this has happened to someone else before I do anything. If not, I guess I will go ahead and do a reset. I really hate to do that!
have you tried plugging the NT into your computer via the USB cable? I wonder if that would allow you more access?
I would do a factory reset and re-root if necessary. Worst thing that could happen is that you'd have to restore back to 1.4.0 before re-root.
Well I did a factory restore, made sure I was at 1.4.0 and I was, set up everything and connected to the wifi.......downloaded tgps then turned off my wifi. Went through turning on debugging...got that. Started zergy and it noticed my nook since my drivers were already installed. It recognized my nook number and asked if I wanted to root, I entered Y then hit enter. It then restarted my nook and did nothing. My tablet came up with a warning that said I may now move items from my PC to my tablet, please eject nook from computer to avoid file transfer problems. I restarted zergy and it said that my nook is already rooted???? It did not install gapps, launchers or anything.......
I did another factory reset and went through the process again and it did the same thing. I know Im missing something but I dont know what it is. This has happened to me 2 times, once I had to go back and get rid of the update proceedure and reroot and now this. Very frustrating to say the least.
I thought that doing a reset would unroot my nook??? I am wondering if now I have to unroot it and then go back and root it again?
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I thought that doing a reset would unroot my nook??? I am wondering if now I have to unroot it and then go back and root it again?
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There is more than one recovery process. The nook+power button seems to do a factory reset (reformat and restore /data). The 8 bad boots does a full factory software reinstall (reformat and restore /system and /data).
yea the 8times thing is what i was referring to
*How to make a hard reset - This reset the /system folder to factory (removing gApps, restoring bloatware, removing root, etc)
*How to make a factory data reset (Wipe Data/erase-deregister): Go to Settings> Device Info> Erase and Deregister Device - This will clean/format /data (All your installed apps will be gone)
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My tablet came up with a warning that said I may now move items from my PC to my tablet, please eject nook from computer to avoid file transfer problems. I restarted zergy and it said that my nook is already rooted????
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did you eject your nook when the warning was up?
Yes, I ejected it from the pc. When I plug it back to the pc it gives me the same message.......
At this point, could I just do the one step unroot and then go back and root it again? I will not be able to do anything else to the tablet until Friday because of my work shedule, so I am gathering information until then. Thanks.
Also I was wondering if anyone else has seen this message pop up? I'm almost tempted to mess around with it to see if I can get apk files to install while using the Barnes and Nobel software since it says its rooted, lol. Then again, I don't have the 999 version to block OTAS either.
I was trying to uninstall the theftaware prog from my rooted X10a. I read in a forum from Avast (the owner of theftaware nowadays) that it would be possible to use titanium backup to do it.
Then, I opened titanium backup, and choosed the theftaware app. After a long click, the menu popped up and I choosed to uninstall it. The prog said the phone would boot up twice before complete removal. But then, after automatically booting, the phone shows the sony ericsson logo and then a picture with an "!" in a yellow triangle over a phone draw. After around 10 seconds, the device turned off.
I´ve tried to turn it off again but no success. The SE logo appears, the mentioned picture appears and after 10 secs, turn off again...
What should I do??
I had that when I tried to do something with rom manager.The phone showed a picture of a yellow triangle with an arrow pointing down to a phones screen.
I think I couldnt access xrecovery cos of this,so I had to reflash and use the backup I had made previously using xrecovery.
And I think I had problems reflashing it,loads of errors,flashtool refused to work.I only managed using easy rooting kit.
Maybe wait to see if an expert here has an easier fix,as it took me about 5 hours to fix the problem.
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Yes theunderling, this is exactly the picture I see on the screen, so for sure you had very similar problem... Which file should I reflash? My model is X10a.
All I can say is that I was only interested in getting xrecovery back-since I knew I could then launch the back-up I had made.
Maybe there is an easy fix,or maybe you dont have a backup.But if you are just wanting the phone to work,and are not worried about losing stuff-then try a pc companion repair to start off with.
It could take a while for someone else to chip in with some help.....phone unuseable in the mean-time
Do you have anything backed-up,or not worried?
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??
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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??
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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!!
I have the GT-S7560M through Solo (Bell) and I rooted it shortly after purchase last year. I've been happy with the phone and for the last few weeks an upgrade notice has been appearing but would fail when applied. Some searching suggested the root was interfering. At first I started to look into un-rooting the phone, but then thought that a factory reset would be the simplest, least-risky solution. I had done a factory reset on my last Galaxy phone without a problem so it seemed like a safe choice. I backed up the contact info, etc with Kies (I don't use many apps so I didn't go all out ie Titanium Backup) and removed my SD card.
Now the phone boots to screen asking me to pick a language and press Start. Then it moves on to a black screen with the info bar at the top (clock, cell strength, data xfer) and nothing else. It is auto-rotating. The phone does react to touches with the buttons lighting up, but I can't get anywhere. Kies can see the phone, the phone number, the firmware version and all that. It reports Internal Memory as 84.83MB used of 1.58GB. I can navigate through the phone using Windows Explorer. I did a Restore with Kies but it doesn't seem to have had any relevant effect.
I am able to boot into CWM Recovery. I don't remember doing a back-up with it, and when I ask it to restore from either the SD card or the interal SD it says it can't mount.
At this point I would start thinking about taking the phone back to the store, but a flash counter appears during start-up and I'd rather they didn't see that for obvious reasons.
When I google I just get people who have bricked their phones. I just want my phone to work again. I'm not worried about modifying it further to achieve that.
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I have the GT-S7560M through Solo (Bell) and I rooted it shortly after purchase last year. I've been happy with the phone and for the last few weeks an upgrade notice has been appearing but would fail when applied. Some searching suggested the root was interfering. At first I started to look into un-rooting the phone, but then thought that a factory reset would be the simplest, least-risky solution. I had done a factory reset on my last Galaxy phone without a problem so it seemed like a safe choice. I backed up the contact info, etc with Kies (I don't use many apps so I didn't go all out ie Titanium Backup) and removed my SD card.
Now the phone boots to screen asking me to pick a language and press Start. Then it moves on to a black screen with the info bar at the top (clock, cell strength, data xfer) and nothing else. It is auto-rotating. The phone does react to touches with the buttons lighting up, but I can't get anywhere. Kies can see the phone, the phone number, the firmware version and all that. It reports Internal Memory as 84.83MB used of 1.58GB. I can navigate through the phone using Windows Explorer. I did a Restore with Kies but it doesn't seem to have had any relevant effect.
I am able to boot into CWM Recovery. I don't remember doing a back-up with it, and when I ask it to restore from either the SD card or the interal SD it says it can't mount.
At this point I would start thinking about taking the phone back to the store, but a flash counter appears during start-up and I'd rather they didn't see that for obvious reasons.
When I google I just get people who have bricked their phones. I just want my phone to work again. I'm not worried about modifying it further to achieve that.
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You have posted in wrong section
BTW your solution is just flash stock Rom via ODIN , your problem will get solved.
BTW your solution is just flash stock Rom via ODIN , your problem will get solved.
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I've just finished doing that, and it appears to have worked.
For anyone else with a similar problem who finds this thread:
- Go to the FAQ here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=45767157#post45767157
- Download Daver18qc's root kit at the link provided (you'll have to scroll down to the second post). You want this to get Odin; don't worry about the zip's other contents.
- Go here: http://www.sammobile.com/ and register. It's free and all it wants is an e-mail and your country.
- Go here: http://www.sammobile.com/firmwares/ and type s7560m in the search box. The list will automatically update. I'm a Solo customer and chose 'Canada (Bell Mobile)'. When I first tried this in Firefox I would get a screen telling me I wasn't logged in. I tried it in IE (which I never use and so is 'clean') and the download went through.
- Go back to the FAQ http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=45767157#post45767157 and scroll down to 'Short Tutorials' and 'How to Flash with Odin:'.
- One thing it leaves out is that when you boot into Download Mode, you will first get a warning screen that asks you to either press Volume Up to continue or Volume Down to abort and reboot. Not a big deal but it caught me off guard. Odin will not detect the phone until you get past this screen.
- Continue with the Tutorial. After it is done you will have to setup the phone again. But at least it's working now.
Hi
I tried to root my GS6 SM-G920F 5.1.1
But missed that the file i used were for 5.0.5 and now the phone cannot start.
I know that i can restore it in KIES 3 by writing my modelnumber and serial.
BUT! I just returned from the first vacation with my kids and theres a whole lot of pictures that i want to keep.
If i use KIES it will delete all my data, is there any, i mean any way to make it connect to the computer so that i can remove the files or another wa to fix it without loosing my data?
I can see that Jihosoft Android Phone Recovery tells me that i can recover all my things after a factory reset, can anyone confirm this?