I have a Rooted Pantech Discover P9090 with ClockworkMod 6.0.2.8 recovery from Here. After which I proceeded to test out the phones "secure" (encryption) features. Now that the phone is encrypted, however, I cannot remove the encryption because I can not perform a factory reset. When attempting a factory reset from within the UI the phones attempts to reset as normal but at the point where the phone turns off and comes back with the android screen and a loading bar at the bottom the phone restarts. Doing a factory reset from the recovery fails do to not being able to load /data, /system /sdcard. Is there anything else I can try/do?
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Android Version 4.0.4
Still nothing.
Update 1: Flashed over to JB in hopes that it would help. Nothing. Still looking for solutions.
Does anyone have any of the stock files. Hopefully the recovery.img for this phone?
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I am a noob looking to try out the touchwiz rom,
My 10.1 is encrypted and trying to remove the encryption using the menu option in settings- factory data reset - it just reboots like nothing happened and asks for the password (I wanted to turn off/get rid of the encryption). I get a box open and android icon for a brief moment at reboot.
Using ClockworkMod Recovery v4.0.0.4 the wipe/factory reset option selected and it errors on the mounting /data. Can't mount or format /data too.
This 10.1 retail has a locked bootloader and is rooted.
Anybody? So far not bricked, ,
got it
I used odin and followed instructions here- http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1119492
I lost clockworkmod and it did not recognize my password on reboot, but it did let me wipe everything.
You might have to wipe user data to get rid of the encryption. But you will loose all ur data
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I'm having the same trouble - and no amount of flashing various stock or CWM recovery gets me to a point where I can actually format / remove the encrypted partition.
The device had been rooted - and then encrypted - and it wasn't until I attempted to reboot into recovery with CWM (hoping to perform a factory reset) that I got into a boot loop.
Days, and countless flashing later - I'm no closer. The one thing I find interesting: when I flash particular (CWM) recovery / images, and reboot - I actually get the 'pre-boot authentication' page, which still accepts my encryption passphrase. It's after this point - that I'm just staring at a black screen.
Perhaps nvflash might be the right tool for the job - so off to learn about THAT. Every day, a new adventure - and another twist down the rabbit hole.
Thanks in advance to anyone with some insight / links / tips to share.
encryption owns me
SnoWake4Me said:
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I'm having the same trouble - and no amount of flashing various stock or CWM recovery gets me to a point where I can actually format / remove the encrypted partition.
The device had been rooted - and then encrypted - and it wasn't until I attempted to reboot into recovery with CWM (hoping to perform a factory reset) that I got into a boot loop.
Days, and countless flashing later - I'm no closer. The one thing I find interesting: when I flash particular (CWM) recovery / images, and reboot - I actually get the 'pre-boot authentication' page, which still accepts my encryption passphrase. It's after this point - that I'm just staring at a black screen.
Perhaps nvflash might be the right tool for the job - so off to learn about THAT. Every day, a new adventure - and another twist down the rabbit hole.
Thanks in advance to anyone with some insight / links / tips to share.
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I'm facing what I think is a similar problem on an AT&T Galaxy s3 i747 with Paranoid Android. I had to encrypt for work email, and ever since then it regularly reboots whenever I try to do something (~25 second effort)... when I do the factory reset, or try reflashing a ROM, it seems to reboot before the action completes... Can you advise how I might solve this?
I've already tried CWM to redo everything... Factory reset does not complete as it always asks for the encryption password once started again... I just want to get back to unencrypted please. Any ideas? Maybe ODIN CWM then try a new install? formatting my SD card? Thanks in advance...
Hi, I had the same problem as above.
I was unable to factory reset with CWM recovery as it couldn't flash the data partition or sd card and couldn't mount them.
However, using the stock recovery, the factory reset and formatting worked fine returning back to an unencrypted device.
OK Guru's
How do I replace CWM Recovery with my (or a working / valid) Asus boot image. Please read on, as there is a reason I need to do this.
After my kid rooted and unlocked my Prime and installed CWM (He's now grounded), I need to try and get the thing working properly again.
My issue is that my prime has been encrypted (through the security menu), and as such CWM won't reset to factory details - says it can't mount /data! I've tried installing Virtuoso and also the AlmostStock and they seem to work, but my wireless won't turn on.
If I try the Asus factory reset, it just boots into CWM recovery and then I have to use the un-boot loop fix (option 1a).
My hope is to re-install (somehow) the Asus boot image (unlocked of course), and then factory reset which should un-encrypt it. I then intend to put CWM back on, and retry Virtuoso.
Therefore I need an unlocked Asus boot image - not to return it or get warranty (I know I'm stuffed there), but purely to try and get this thing unencrypted.
If you have CWM recovery still installed, flash this: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1518462
It's the stock .15 ROM.
If you still want to go back to factory form, use this method: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1427125
That didn't work
nice try, but that didnt work. the stock .15 did flash - still no wireless. I did a factory reset (via backup & restore menu), and as per before it rebooted into CWM and I had to use option 1a to unbrick the boot loop and the factory reset failed
I the tried the Viperprime. nit sure which option you intended, but I did the unroot option - again, that worked, but when I did factory rest I got exactly the same - boot into CWM recovery and boot loop, and the factory reset failed.
Nice try, but next suggestion please
OK, managed to fix things
adb shell
wipe all this wiped most stuff but not everything
Managed to do the "wipe" option at boot up (press down vol + power, leave go of power - etc...). then chose left icon. that did a wipe as well.
Hey presto - no more encryption.
into CWM recovery - all options working now - wipe data doesn't error anymore yippee
installed Virtuosa again and blow my socks off - everything is working - INCLUDING ,my WIFI.
Moral of the story - never give up, and never believe things cant be done just because people say they cant. Persevere and you shall overcome, or have a nice brick door stop that cost a lot of money - hehe
Device: Samsung Galaxy Tab 7.0 Plus, P6200.
ROM: CM9.
Started with the device rebooting every time I tried to do nandroid backup when it got to backing up /data. I attempted to factory reset but then CWM (6.0.1.0) just hanged at formatting /data.
Then I attempted to do factory reset from the ROM (CM9). The device got stuck in a bootloop of trying to format /data and just hanging there. The device kept turning itself back on when turned off to go into this ridiculous loop.
Is my on-board sdcard fried or something? Anything I can do?
UPDATE: Fixed it, I hope. . . Ran f2sck from recovery on mmcblk0p10, needed three rounds before all the errors were gone. Then could successfully do factory reset and reinstall ROM. Restoring from backups now, hopefully nothing borks again,
try to get back to the stock rom via odin it will overwrite the data partition and of course the recovery image so ure back to 0 than and are able to continue what u wanted to do
Hello everyone,
Does anyone know how I can wipe/decrypt an encrypted ATT HTC One? I need to remove encryption to install another ROM.
Prior to this phone I had a Galaxy S3 and to remove encryption I needed to use ODIN to restore the device to factory defaults.
I have tried to enter the encryption initial PIN incorrectly a number of times and the phone just reboots,
I have tried to enter the encryption PIN incorrectly after getting past the first encryption password over 40 times and that did not work either.
I tried a factory reset in CWM and that did not work as it could not mount /data (assuming that is because it is encrypted.)
I am now trying to SOFF and factory reset with CWM.
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So I succesfully S-OFF'd my device, booted into the boot loader, chose the "factory reset" option which launched CWM, chose factory reset and same issue. CWM reports "Formatting data... Error mounting /data! Skipping Format..."
Can anyone provide any input?
Flash stock recovery, reboot to bootloader, then factory reset.
Hi all,
Sigh. So it looks like I bricked my Samsung Tab E Verizon. I rooted it with King root and when I removed it, it is now in a endless boot loop. I've tried all sorts of things to try and recover it.
I used SkipSoft to set it up to be flashed but odin fails everytime. I was using the new ROMS found on this Forum. I've tried putting it into download mode and manually flash it and that didn't work. I can't Re-Root it as it won't stay on long enough to Root and they always fail. Right now I'm at a loss.
Can anyone help?
Thanks.
Do you have custom recovery or default? if you have default you can hold the home button and vol up button then the power button to get into recovery, once your done with that you can wipe cache and reboot, if that STILL does not work then factory reset your phone and re wipe cache, i know losing data sucks but its better then a brick. (this will work 99% of the time because the default recovery automatically re-installs stock rom)
If you have a custom recovery, then i recommend wiping everything including dalvik cache etc, making sure EVERYTHING is squeakly clean (execpt recovery obviously) , and find the driver for your samsung phone and download it on your computer and install, once you are done with that, put your phone into download mode, find your original STOCK rom for your phone, download it and flash it with odin, from there IF successfull you should have a fresh boot of your stock rom, then you can re-root and go on with your day.
Also make sure once you re-gain root access backup your rom so you will always have a plan b if everything goes bad. i cannot recommend this enough, even if you are an expert with flashing, there is always that small percentage things will go wrong and you should always have that backup ready.
Hi!
Thank you very much for the reply. You know, that was one of the things i tried initially when it happened. When I tried it, it wouldn't go into recovery mode. I then went on the odyssey of hell in trying to recover it.
When I read your post I was thinking; "Yeah I tried that", but then I thought I would give it another shot. I went into Factory Reset, it then actually went into the recovery menu. I deleted the cache and set it to data/factory reset and it's still looping. I get an error saying; "E:failed to mount /preload (no such directory)". I then tried to run update from external storage and it's telling me that it's disabled. I tried to update from ADB and it's disabled. I tried to apply from cache and it says; "APPLY_CACHE is depreciated". It's still looping.
Urghhhhhhhhh.......