I received a replacement Nexus 5 after the screen on my first one was flickering. Since I had to move all of my files over anyway, I used CF-Auto-Root to unlock the bootloader and root the new phone. I then used BootUnlocker to relock it. I did that last week, and everything was fine. Earlier today, I installed Tasker with Secure Settings, to disable Pattern Lock while I'm at home. While I was out, I turned my phone off, and when I tried to turn it back on, it was stuck in a bootloop. I restarted the phone numerous times after unlocking and relocking the bootloader, without any issues. The only difference between restarting it this time and last time was Tasker and Secure Settings. I should be able to recover the phone by doing a factory data reset from Recovery Mode, but before I do that, is there any way to recover my files? Specifically my SMS and MMS messages? Thanks.
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Help... I accidentally ran my phone completely dead, upon restarting it, and plugging in charger, it turned on and then off. Now i'm getting a message that reads: ENCRYPTION UNSUCCESSFUL encryption was interruppted and can't complete. As a result, the data on your phone is no longer accessible. To reume using your phone, you must perform a factory reset. When you set up your phone after the reset, you'll have an opportunity to restore any data that was backed up to your google account. I do not want to lose anything on my phone most importantly my pics, music, and contacts. frankly i don't want to lose anything on my phone. I tried flashing the 4/23 over to see if that would have worked but to no help. Any ideas? PLEASE!!
Also should mention that i can access CWM. I can see all of my past nightlies, and my last back up...in CWM. Should i restore my last backup, will that fix the issue and not lose my internal things?
Hey guys!
My S4 is stock 4.2, but rooted, VRUEMK2 build, for reference.
I need to encrypt my device to use my corporate email, however, it keeps failing. Basically, to go step by step, I set up a PIN screen lock, connect my charger, input my PIN, and hit encrypt... I see the green Android dude for about 10-20 seconds, my phone reboots, and I'm back at my lock screen. No encryption applied.
I've done around three to four factory resets and it still doesn't work.
Any advice?
Hello. I decided to start a new thread. I have a Moonshine s-off phone. Recently I reset the phone put stock recovery on it and ran the newest RUU. It worked I got the new software[emoji3] . Then I unlocked the phone using the HTCDev method and my old unlock key, everything worked, when I went into BOOTLOADER phone said TAMPERED UNLOCKED S-OFF.
The only thing missing is my camera. Sometimes it turns on, but very rarely ( maybe 1/200 tries ). It tells me Unable To Start The Camera.
I think it's a software glitch, as with previous version of Android I had no issues. Also with the new OS the flash is BUSY sometimes. When I want to use a flashlight phone tells me PHONE SCREEN WILL BE USED FOR ILLUMINATION SINCE THE FLASH IS IN USE BY OTHER APP. There is no other app running...
I tried flashing TWRP but fastboot just hangs, I left it on for 3 hours and it never finished. I tried using the SD IMG method. It goes thru, tells me to reboot. When I do I'm on the same stock recovery...
I have backups of my phone. But they are all done with TWRP and I can't install it. I tried CWM as well, same result, timeout.
I might try running a lower version RUU and see if that fixes all...
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I have found a temp solution. If I disable my Phone Data and Location for a few minutes, then enable just the Phone Data camera will start. I don't know the time you need to wait... 2-5 minutes. I tried just putting the phone in Airplane mode but that did not make my camera. App start...
My Flash started working again. I have updated all my Apps, maybe that helped...
Two days after getting my XA Ultra, I received the latest firmware update. Everything was flawless until I couldnt unlock my phone since the system ui was crashing. I tried booting to recovery mode and perform a basic factory reset and I could not.
I plugged my device to my PC and for some reason, the system ui stopped crashing. I tried going to settings and factory resetting it from there, every time phone would reboot, it would boot android back again without resetting my data.
I ended up using the software repair option and here I am still at 40% trying to fix it.
What combination keys should I use to boot my device to recovery mode and reset it?
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isthatxavier said:
Two days after getting my XA Ultra, I received the latest firmware update. Everything was flawless until I couldnt unlock my phone since the system ui was crashing. I tried booting to recovery mode and perform a basic factory reset and I could not.
I plugged my device to my PC and for some reason, the system ui stopped crashing. I tried going to settings and factory resetting it from there, every time phone would reboot, it would boot android back again without resetting my data.
I ended up using the software repair option and here I am still at 40% trying to fix it.
What combination keys should I use to boot my device to recovery mode and reset it?
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It seems it's a security problem. The phone is encrypted by So Sony and every time I set a password an error occurs and it makes the settings app crash. I managed to run a "software repair" using the Xperia companion which downloaded the latest firmware and reinstalled it onto the phone but bug is still there.
I contacted Sony but tech support agents are always rude and helpless they had no technical knowledge. I am now using the phone but I cannot set a pin or pattern otherwise the system crashes.
Phone is under warranty I could easily mail it back to Amazon but I wouldn't like another customer to have this issue. Any suggestions?
In this case I would recommend the use of Flashtool. Your problem is software related and can easily be fixed without the painful process of an RMA.
Flashtool can auto download the latest firmware and will do a COMPLETE wipe and reflash of all data.
Hey all,
My phone updated today and ever since I cannot move past the initial lock screen. When unlocked, the UI appears to crash and send me back to the lock screen. My pin code works for turning the phone off, restarting the phone and putting it into emergency mode, which indicates some sort of UI crash.
Because this is a new account I can't post a link to a video of the issue directly, but the YouTube video code is: 8ZhlH-Tt-NU
I have tried the standard fixes like wiping the cache partition and booting into safe mode, but these don't seem to make any difference. Unfortunately I never logged into my Samsung account on this device, so their 'Find My Mobile' service is not an option. I am however signed into my Google account on the device and it does have wifi/network enabled.
The phone is running PPR1.180610.011/G965FXXU2CSA8
On the phones internal memory is a bunch of photos from a recent trip to Japan, I'm a fool for not backing these up sooner but I would hate to lose them.
Has anybody experienced anything like this before, and is there any way for me to get back into the phone, or atleast recover the photos that I took?
Thanks!
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One potential route out of this I can see is sideloading the same or a subsequent OTA update using ADB to hopefully fix the issue. Unfortunately despite some digging I can't find any updates that will allow installation from: PPR1.180610.011/G965FXXU2CSA8
If anybody has any information on this specific firmware version (Is it beta 3? beta 4? ect.), its installation path and where files relating to it may be listed/hosted it would be appreciated. Also how disasterous would it be to take a mismatched OTA upgrade and modify the metadata to allow it to be sideloaded onto the phone? I assume this would almost certainly break the OS completely but I'm not too sure.
You can try to flash your firmware again with ODIN, but with the HOME_CSC (Important!)
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You can try to flash your firmware again with ODIN, but with the HOME_CSC (Important!)
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Thanks for the reply Profi I had no idea using HOME_CSC would retain user data. I have tried flashing a few different versions of Pie (wish HOME_CSC) using Odin but with no luck, every time the phone boots I have the same problem. Do you know if there is a sure way to downgrade to Oreo while retaining user data? I have seen a few posts of people attemping this and getting stuck in bootloops, eventually requrining them to factory reset.
To give a final update on this. I attempted the Oreo downgrade, upon reboot the phone was stuck in a bootloop so I updated to Pie again. When the phone booted I tried the pin code as quickly as I could, and after some glitchy graphics on the screen it unlocked. From here I turn on the stay awake while plugged in feature in the developer options and managed to transfer all my data over to PC.
I don't believe it was the firmware changes that actually made any difference, because any further attempts to put my pin in, to remove the pin code for example, failed and cause the same crashing behaviour.
All data is recovered, I have factory reset the phone and all appears to be behaving as normal again. If anybody stumbles upon this with the same issue, all hope is not lost, but unfortunately I was unable to determine a realiable way to overcome it. It seems in this case it was just dumb luck.
Thanks for the assistance.