Hey all
So after a botched Cyanogenmod install on my AT&T GS3, I am having some issues with the stock ROM. Here's what happened: I tried to install CM using the windows installer, everything went well until the end and then I got a prompt on the phone prior to it rebooting "Root access lost, fix? Yes/No". Regardless of choice, phone would always boot back to stock ROM. Asked for some advice on the CM forum and was told KNOX was the issue. I then rooted the phone using Towelroot, and then installed Super SU. Super SU when opened for the first time said KNOX was installed, did I want to disable it, I chose YES. Re-tried CM installer, same issue, just boots back to stock ROM.
At this point I gave up and just re-installed all my apps and settings, synched my Google account etc. Since then I can no longer download anything from any Google app, it just says "Download failed". So Gmail attachments, links, Chrome etc. nothing downloads. Although stock Internet downloads are fine. Swiftkey now errors saying "Cannot save language pack" then crashes, Swype keyboard keeps on re-enabling itself after I turn it off, and apps that worked fine before are crashing like crazy.
Last night I performed a wipe/factory reset after starting in recovery mode. This did not help. I also noticed that recovery mode boot screen is Cyanogenmod boot screen still, so guessing factory reset is not exactly a full factory reset and it just wipes data/cache etc.
Seems to me like some kind of permissions issue. I downloaded Root Explorer and had a poke around. Permissions look fine (read/write etc.) on Downloads folder. Only thing that looked odd was there are 3 different file system areas so 3 different downloads folders (ie sdcard0/0/Downloads, storage/0/downloads and storage/legacy/downloads). Not sure if that is normal.
Just want to put it back to how it was. Any suggestions what to do next?
Cheers.
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I get this message when I boot up.
I cannot access settings so I cannot perform a factory reset.
Is there any way to factory reset when you cannot access "Settings" because of constant force closes.
I am running stock but with lots of side-loaded apps.
I can access the file explorer. That is the only thing I can open that will remain open even though I get constant force close popups like "android.process.acore has stopped... android.process.media has stopped unexpectedly...
Is my gtab toast? Can it be saved or should I return it?
I get this all the time, with all the mods I do. Don't worry, your system is fixable.
For me, I use clockworkmod recovery .08. There's a "fix permissions" option and this always fixes the problem for me. It also allows a data wipe within recovery.
If you are 100% stock, you could try one of the stock ROM's here as well - that might get you working. You have a few options, here. Check out the FAQ in my signature. I'm actually posting up the new stock update that I pulled from TnT, today.
EDIT: Direct link the the stock ROM updates -- http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=842000. You'd need to understand how to actually run these, which I mention in the FAQ section.
thx Roebeet, I was able to update to the new stock rom.
But I still have the same problem. Is there any other way to wipe my data. Can it be done while connected by usb or do i have to root it?
Is there any hardware button method to do a factory reset?
I still cannot open settings... it gets canceled by the force closes.
I am ready to give upon my G-Tab which I was enjoying so much.
Does anyone know how to wipe the date if you cannot open settings???
Try clockworkmod - it really is a great tool. You can find it in the Tnt Lite dev section as I have a link for .08.
For UID issues, "fix permissions" will correct it. And you can wipe data via clockworkmod as well. You can even remove it by flashing back to stock -- the latest stock firmware works as I've done it myself, the other day.
Btw, there are so many threads here that I sometimes miss replying. I dont ignore, I just might miss a post. Always feel free to PM me if you have a question.
I had a similar issue where something got corrupted in my user data and I was completely unable to start the settings or open the keyboard. I had to flash back to the full vanilla ROM because it contained clockworkmod, which was the only option available to accomplish a factory reset. That wasn't a fun day.
Think I figured out a key reason for sudden UID issues
People including me are getting UID errors even after having a stable rom and several reboots with no issues. Based on guinea piggin' my G, I can confirm the issues happen on apparently stable installs anytime you update a Google app.
Case in point, I updated Google Voice and Gmail and soon after I rebooted the G- UID city. I have started with a clean rom and installed many different apps to test. The only apps that hose the device at reboot are the GAPPS and it is not just if you update with the package. Simply updating from market will work fine, until you reboot and then it is a few minutes for trying to shut the device down and then perhaps two reboot attempts using fixed permissions.
TnT 2.20 (at least) does NOT like GAPP updates. How could VS bork this up so bad that fundamental apps for Android bork the device?
Again, the Tap UI team and who hired them and approved it on the Gtablet should be fired, rehired for a minute and then fired for good. Word.
This sounds kind of "preachy," but don't give up.
There is a learning curve to the G-Tablet, and it takes a good bit of reading on this site and assimilating the info.
I will testify that I had a hugely bad malfunction and and even worse fix on my tablet.
Using suggestions from helpful folk -- and carefully researching what I needed to do -- I was able to get my tablet back working just fine. To be sure, it's not stock any more!!! But I actually believe that with all I learned about flashing, mods, etc., I now could go back and make it stock again if I wanted to.
Don't give up. Just keep reading and researching the learning.
Rev
rushless said:
People including me are getting UID errors even after having a stable rom and several reboots with no issues. Based on guinea piggin' my G, I can confirm the issues happen on apparently stable installs anytime you update a Google app.
Case in point, I updated Google Voice and Gmail and soon after I rebooted the G- UID city. I have started with a clean rom and installed many different apps to test. The only apps that hose the device at reboot are the GAPPS and it is not just if you update with the package. Simply updating from market will work fine, until you reboot and then it is a few minutes for trying to shut the device down and then perhaps two reboot attempts using fixed permissions.
TnT 2.20 (at least) does NOT like GAPP updates. How could VS bork this up so bad that fundamental apps for Android bork the device?
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Not true for me, I installed the new Gmail from the Market with no problems. I am on TNTLite 2.2.1.
Google Voice has always been a hack for a tablet, since it is not actually phone. You might want to pull it out and see if your issues are solved.
I am back up and running thanks to clockwordmod. Thanks again!
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I am back up and running thanks to clockwordmod. Thanks again!
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Good to hear and thanks for the update!
I am currently having this problem. I am hoping to sell my 10" Android 2.2 Tablet PC on Craigslist... I need to fix this Error... I've only used it 10 times to play Angry Birds. The forum with the links I am confused as to what one to use... I am younger I must say. I am not a 21 year old "computer whiz"/.NET/OS maker... I do make websites. Besides that... I do not know how to "Wipe my system partition" as my Error message says to. Especially due to the fact I cannot open Settings. PLEASE HELP. I may have repeated things said above in his problems but I would like a "NOOB" walk through... (Because I am one). Please help. Thanks in advance. -Sophomoric
Hey, I had a same after my phone battery was empty and it turned off. I kept it off and recharged it, then I had the feeling "I'm feeling Lucky" -.-' so nice from google. xD
Had to wipe everything then full reinstall... such a pain.
Probably the cleanest solution HERE
So today i took the leap and rooted my phone. That went well and i rooted my phone succesfully. My next step was install CM11. Heres where the problems start. I used the CM11 installer and followed all of the instructions. The installer went through, it said it was succesful, and i saw the blue CM person on my phone and my phone started. As expected it made me run through all the set up options. But then, every 10 seconds i would get "google play services has stopped working" and my phone was running very slow. Going to settings, my phone was still running jellybean and nothing was new, now i was just at factory settings, google play services was broken, and my phone ran slow. I rebooted my phone. still nothing. I tried custom installing drivers and reinstalling CM11 using the installer. Same thing. Anyone have any ideas?
Android 4.3 T-Mobile Galaxy s3
Sorry for wall of txt and general un-organization. Very frustrated.
SamsungS3helpplz said:
So today i took the leap and rooted my phone. That went well and i rooted my phone succesfully. My next step was install CM11. Heres where the problems start. I used the CM11 installer and followed all of the instructions. The installer went through, it said it was succesful, and i saw the blue CM person on my phone and my phone started. As expected it made me run through all the set up options. But then, every 10 seconds i would get "google play services has stopped working" and my phone was running very slow. Going to settings, my phone was still running jellybean and nothing was new, now i was just at factory settings, google play services was broken, and my phone ran slow. I rebooted my phone. still nothing. I tried custom installing drivers and reinstalling CM11 using the installer. Same thing. Anyone have any ideas?
Android 4.3 T-Mobile Galaxy s3
Sorry for wall of txt and general un-organization. Very frustrated.
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Install the latest version of PhilZ recovery from here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/galaxy-s3/development/i93xx-philz-touch-t2002953
Go to this page and download a type of cm rom that you want:
http://download.cyanogenmod.org/
Put it on sdcard, go to recovery, do a full wipe (wipe data/factory reset + wipe cache + wipe dalvik cache) then install it from " install zip "
done!
Hi,
Last night I installed the new stock lollipop. Initially I had a problem with rooting it but eventually everything was working fine. I've used Philz recovery and cf-auto-root. All seemed fine, and I've got all my apps, accounts, etc. back.
This morning I woke up and it looks as if at 6:02am the phone just froze. The strange things are (1) I could turn on and off the display so it was not completely frozen, just the UI (displaying new screens and receiving a response from the keys or the touch screen). (2) I thought to reboot into recovery and when I did - it was the stock recovery! not sure what happened to Philz that was there before?
In any case, I did clear cache and restarted. The logo came up but after 20 sec I've got "unfortunately, media storage has stopped". Of course - it did not receive any response from keys or the touch screen so I could not release this message - only on-off worked. After a minute or so, I saw that other services are crashing...
Of course I can do yet another "wipe to factory" but I was wondering if anyone experience the same. If I will make it work after clear to factory - I'm afraid it will behave the same after a day or so... Any suggestions?
Thanks!
gilbnx said:
Hi,
Last night I installed the new stock lollipop. Initially I had a problem with rooting it but eventually everything was working fine. I've used Philz recovery and cf-auto-root. All seemed fine, and I've got all my apps, accounts, etc. back.
This morning I woke up and it looks as if at 6:02am the phone just froze. The strange things are (1) I could turn on and off the display so it was not completely frozen, just the UI (displaying new screens and receiving a response from the keys or the touch screen). (2) I thought to reboot into recovery and when I did - it was the stock recovery! not sure what happened to Philz that was there before?
In any case, I did clear cache and restarted. The logo came up but after 20 sec I've got "unfortunately, media storage has stopped". Of course - it did not receive any response from keys or the touch screen so I could not release this message - only on-off worked. After a minute or so, I saw that other services are crashing...
Of course I can do yet another "wipe to factory" but I was wondering if anyone experience the same. If I will make it work after clear to factory - I'm afraid it will behave the same after a day or so... Any suggestions?
Thanks!
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This happened to me. I had to do a factory reset.
I seriously do not recommend cf auto root(because its not designed for this firmware). Use chainfire's update SU zip that you flash through a recovery. That update SU zip will prevent the stock recovery from being re-flashed. In addition, I always do a factory reset (wipe entire internal storage) before updating the ROM since I root. If I didn't root or anything, I wouldn't wipe my data. But when we root and mess with stuff, plus all the tries to prevent root, it conflicts sometimes. So a factory reset is always best. I was able to use Titanium Backup to restore everything. Just forgot to backup my Internal SD card.. xD
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I seriously do not recommend cf auto root(because its not designed for this firmware). Use chainfire's update SU zip that you flash through a recovery. That update SU zip will prevent the stock recovery from being re-flashed. In addition, I always do a factory reset (wipe entire internal storage) before updating the ROM since I root. If I didn't root or anything, I wouldn't wipe my data. But when we root and mess with stuff, plus all the tries to prevent root, it conflicts sometimes. So a factory reset is always best. I was able to use Titanium Backup to restore everything. Just forgot to backup my Internal SD card.. xD
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Thanks elesbb, I saw your message just now but I have my phone working already since few hours ago after a 2nd stock reflashing. If I have the same issues as before - I will use chainfire's update SU.
What I did find is that once I enable accessibility (to apps like Tasker, and an LG bluetooth headphone I have (so it could announce notifications) the phone becomes unstable; it just went through 2 boot loops but eventually recovered... Hopefully it will stay stable.
Gil.
Hi everybody,
I'm using a Redmi Note2 Prime with MIUI 8 7.4.27 Beta (weekly). The phone was running very smooth, fast and reliable - battery life was always several days.
Yesterday I tried to root it using method 4 from here using recovery.img from TWRP 3.0.2-2.zip and UPDATE-SuperSU-v2.79-20161211114519.zip (SuperSU app was already installed). After several attempts (installed MI PC Suite twice until it worked on Win10) it finally worked.
I rooted since I wanted to try dual boot patcher and a MM ROM as second.
But after phone booted again it was nearly unusable. No smooth reaction I had to wait several seconds until screens changes when just scroll through them. Also apps and settings now need lots of time more before they start. Wifi is always turned off after reboot (while it was on during shutdown) and Google sync starts automatically after reboot while it is deactivated in all settings. Also background image of lock screen was changed. Google Play Services are now constantly crashing (need to click away these message requesters all the time) and Play Store does not even start anymore. Meanwhile I removed SuperSU app again since it never asked for granting root access while it was set to do so.
Installing a second ROM using Dual Boot Patcher finally also did not work (patching worked - installing not). Details are provided here.
I am still puzzled what happened here and do not have any clue since I rooted already several devices without any problems so far. Even this one some time ago IIRC.
Does anybody have any idea how I can get the phone back into a stable, usable mode? Do I have to completely reflash the MIUI8 ROM? Or do I have to use another SuperSU zip?
Any help is highly appreciated!
Thanks guys!
You can try wiping data/factory reset.
To easily install TWRP, you can use the Fastboot Install Method described here:
https://twrp.me/devices/xiaomiredminote2.html
Thanks. But doesn't this wipe/reset delete all apps and data (which I try to avoid)?
Would reflashing complete MIUI8 (version which I already have installed - without any system/data wipe) cure the problem?
TWRP app is already installed - but either TWRP recovery or SuperSU.zip crashed the Google Services (Play Services or even more) for whatever reason.
Does anybody have some idea why this might have happened? Maybe due to dalvik cache wipe which was requested?
I think that the phone become unusable a Google Services/Play Services is crashing because of wrong settings or data corruption.
That's why I said to do a factory reset.
You can try deleting just cache and data for Google Play Services and Google Play Store apps. Data are on cloud and should be restored automatically when needed.
Seems I got it working again - thanks to post #2. Used TWRP app to install another TWRP, afterwards I got a reboot loop. Then I deleted cache and dalvik cache and now everything works fine again!
Thank you!
Well Dual Boot still does not work but progressed a little bit further - but this is a different topic.
Try do delete your Rom (Backup all with Titanium backup before) and try to install latest Dev from mi-globe ! Prerootet and very smooth and good ROMs!
Thanks. But as said - got it working again (see above). The only thing which is not working is flashing a secondary ROM using Dual Boot Patcher (already opened another thread and posted it into the PATHCER thread - but seems nobody knows about some solution...).
Hi folks,
I have a strange phenomen in my phone. I unlocked the phone yesterday, rooted it with the most current (I think) root tutorial for the Mi Note 4, installed TWRP; went fine, still does work. Installed those two zips named verity & supersu.
I then rebootet it, downloaded root checker and I saw it was root. Used some root file explorers to test it, works.
Phone gets rebooted sometimes. It works all the time. Now the ALL launchers don't work at all. They got some NUllPointerException in Java.
I downloaded Microsoft Launcher, Evie (don't know both) for the sake of testing and both didn't even start, theycrashed and ask me to send bugreports or cancel.
Every system launcher is crashing. I factory resetted. It worked, but the systemlauncher still crashes and it won't even boot properly. It's totally weird.
I did never erase the ROM or change it! The only things changed were recovery.
BUT there was one thing. I accidentally (because somebody was talking to me, damn) put the thing into boot.
I then sideloaded boot.img from the Stable ROM for the Red Mi Note 4 and it booted. It worked. Menus worked.
Now suddenly this.
My dumb guess is it has something do with rooting and replacing the boot.img. But WHY will it work for days and then suddenly stop? Doesn't make sense.
Has anybody any idea?