So I was having an issue with an older version of fre ROM where the screen wouldn't turn on. Usually I could just do a battery pull and reboot and that would fix it. Recently it got worse where the screen would be blank even after a battery pull, you could hear the device booting as well as vibrate upon turning on but the screen was just blank and unresponsive. I figured out that I could boot download mode first and reboot from there and that would fix the problem on the first try. Today my screen turned off and nothing would fix it: rebooting phone, trying to boot into recovery, booting into download mode, nothing.
So I get home and charge the phone hoping I would be able to run ODIN without the screen being visible. Thankfully after about an hour on the charger I was able to get the phone to finally boot with the screen on, lol. Figuring this was a sign that I should stop being lazy I ODIN'ed Android 4.4, ODIN'd TWRP recovery, then did a full install of the latest fre rom. When the phone booted and Android finished updating everything was set up exactly the way it was before I started the process.
My noob question is this: how does Android remember all your settings and apps even after doing a full wipe through ODIN? I mean I didn't even have to log into Google or anything. Does ODIN not fully wipe the phone like it did back in the day?
Thats weird. At the very least you should have had to log back in with Google acct. Odin should wipe everything. Ive heard of it wiping ext sd card on some devices.
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Thats weird. At the very least you should have had to log back in with Google acct. Odin should wipe everything. Ive heard of it wiping ext sd card on some devices.
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Yeah I know. I remember it happened the last time I ODIN'd too. Not that I'm complaining, it makes life way easier, but I wish I knew how to get a complete wipe for future use. Maybe I need to check reformat if I want to get full wipe.
1greek4u said:
Yeah I know. I remember it happened the last time I ODIN'd too. Not that I'm complaining, it makes life way easier, but I wish I knew how to get a complete wipe for future use. Maybe I need to check reformat if I want to get full wipe.
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What version of Odin are you using? I've had the best luck on 1.85
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What version of Odin are you using? I've had the best luck on 1.85
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I used 3.09. I have no problems flashing. I'm on the new version of Android that I flashed. It's just when I start up the phone my desktop is setup exactly the way it was and all the apps I already had are either already on the phone or download/update themselves. I never even have to log into Google or re-enter passwords for facebook, pandora, wifi, etc. Maybe it's a feature of fre ROM or something but I find it weird that it would remember all that considering I used ODIN with stock 4.4.4 before I flashed fre ROM. Where would that information even get stored?
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I used 3.09. I have no problems flashing. I'm on the new version of Android that I flashed. It's just when I start up the phone my desktop is setup exactly the way it was and all the apps I already had are either already on the phone or download/update themselves. I never even have to log into Google or re-enter passwords for facebook, pandora, wifi, etc. Maybe it's a feature of fre ROM or something but I find it weird that it would remember all that considering I used ODIN with stock 4.4.4 before I flashed fre ROM. Where would that information even get stored?
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No way you are getting a full clean wipe then. Search Odin v 1.85 here on XDA and try that. On my Note 3 i Odin d back to 4.4.2 rerooted and installed Philz recovery. Solved almost all issues i was having. My phone did not like NH7 4.4.4. Supposed to be an update coming December early to fix those issues but i just grabbed a Note 4
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Alright So I am new to this forum but Im not new to the scene. I cant figure this problem out after days of searching and restoring. So I just got my note last week been loving it coming from my old 4s. Anyways My problem is I did a fresh factory restore rooted with dags kernel (tried both stock root and Oc kernel). I have clockwork recovery installed btw. So usually everything goes smooth. I clear all caches phone boots up runs smooth, I install root then my basic apps. Now I was doing them one by one and restarting.
Well long story short. At random any one of these times I reboot the device I come back into the lock screen Ill unlock and it force closes everything and just keeps rerunning media scanner looping. (force close twlauncher calenders google sync etc like really anything usually its twlauncher thats first I click ok it goes back to lock screen freezes for a second then reboots media scanner. It doesnt find service or even attempt it. The only thing I can do is restore and try again. I have done this over 10 times just this past week. I have fixed permissions in both rom manager and clockwork. Though it was good until last night it just completely restarted on its own and when I booted back up it was force closing.
I even did a fresh format wiped everything reinstalled stock att unrooted Rom then rooted and I have to be afraid of my phone dying or just randomly crashing and that when I restart its not gonna make it back into gingerbread without a restore. Now this will happen whether I have no apps or some apps. I can seem to find anything triggering it. Is this a defect in the phone maybe? Should I restore to stock and exchange at at&t or am I missing something? Please help guys. Ive only been able to get about a day before everything force closes. And that is unacceptable for an 700 dollar phone when all these others are running smooth.
Did you happen to mess with any overclock values? I had the problem you explain only after I overclocked to much and it was unstable
Solution: put into download mode and flash back to total stock with odin and start over. It worked for me. Restoring backup did not work
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It is a problem with CWM. You should look for and download darkside super wipe. If I were you I would probably flash the stock Odin tar and start fresh. Make sure you install the latest CWM.. I believe beta4. You should not have to reboot your phone after every new app install.
Use the super wipe from in CWM (install from zip) and then use Odin to get back to stock.
You most likely have an older version of the CWM, I don't think anyone has reported any problems with beta 4 and force closing issues.
I have CWM 5.0.2.7 on here. I dont have to restart everytime I install. I was doing it to see if there was a certain app triggering it thats all. Cuz if the phone goes off and reboots to lockscreen thats when the FC happens. It never happens while Im actually in use. First time this happened it was stock clock speed and its happened whether its 1.83 or 1.56 or stock rooted rom. And I had tried both restarting stock att rom with bloat and from my first backup after odin root.
Where do i find beta 4? I originally got this cwm from rootgalaxynote.com
Nevermind I found it I pulled a n00b. Ok Imma give that a try right now I see this is older version so HOPEFULLY thats it. Thanks a bunch Ill check back in after to let you know. Pretty crazy in the back of my mind I felt like CWM was the only thing I didnt check out.
Stuck in firmware upgrade encountered an issue. I cant do anything Odin wont write the stock firmware back on after wipe. What do I do? No cwm or anything phone just boots to telling me to restore with kies?
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I have CWM 5.0.2.7 on here. I dont have to restart everytime I install. I was doing it to see if there was a certain app triggering it thats all. Cuz if the phone goes off and reboots to lockscreen thats when the FC happens. It never happens while Im actually in use. First time this happened it was stock clock speed and its happened whether its 1.83 or 1.56 or stock rooted rom. And I had tried both restarting stock att rom with bloat and from my first backup after odin root.
Where do i find beta 4? I originally got this cwm from rootgalaxynote.com
Nevermind I found it I pulled a n00b. Ok Imma give that a try right now I see this is older version so HOPEFULLY thats it. Thanks a bunch Ill check back in after to let you know. Pretty crazy in the back of my mind I felt like CWM was the only thing I didnt check out.
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The version of CWM you were using was most likely for the international Note and therefore incompatible with the Note you have.
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Stuck in firmware upgrade encountered an issue. I cant do anything Odin wont write the stock firmware back on after wipe. What do I do? No cwm or anything phone just boots to telling me to restore with kies?
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You may want to join the IRC channel and see if anyone there can offer you a solution.
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Just for Clarification
I too had the TwLauncher issue and tried clearing the Dalvik cache, cache, etc. This then sent me into a boot loop into recovery. (My CWM is the 5.0...version too). Tried the restore, no luck, wipe, no luck etc.
My PC doesn't see the phone, so I need to basically start the root process over again and install the Beta4 CWM. Am I understanding correctly?
I have the same problem and its driving me crazy. Can some one please help me out step by step Im new to this any help would be gratefully appreciated
Hi all,
Had my SGS3 for a few weeks now and it's been good for the most part, but as of a few days ago things started to go wrong.
Had a message from Orange saying that i've been using my phone out of the EU and i've used 2MB (even though i haven't) this issue hasn't raised it's head again, i also had four apps install themselves, "slots", "cab app", "droid apps" and "new message", i've since wiped and had no issues.
Then this morning i had an icon show up saying car mode enabled, click here to disable, theres nothing i can do to remove it besides reboot the phone and then it promptly comes back again
The other one is since installing villain rom, which has been a solid rom and the dev's there are top notch so i don't even think it's the rom, but i've been getting a strange error too.
Also getting rebooting of the phone randomly also happens and again theres nothing i can do about that either.
I've attached screengrabs of both the car mode issue after i click on the notification and the error i'm getting when using villainrom.
Any help at all with any of these issues would be great.
Many thanks.
PS: Things i've tried:
Rebooting.
Full wipe, data, cache and dalvic.
Re downloaded the rom and full wiped again.
Cleared the internal and external memory.
Tried different kernels
The car mode issue was also present on Omega rom and i imagine it would follow me onto any other rom, i'm actually suspecting that it's some malware which has been left behind and has installed itself, so even after wiping it's just installing itself again.
I don't use apk's too much but i do use titanium after every flash although i am careful as to what i install.
Might i need to go back to stock and start over?
Thanks.
~EDIT: Just used the toolkit to go back to a stock rom and i'm still receiving errors "Unfortunately the process android.process.acore has stopped ?? wtf? It's supposed to be clean?
Anyone?
EDIT 2: Re rooted the phone and everything went perfect, flashed a custom rom and still good, then signed into google and as it was loading up my numbers and changing my wallpaper, attempting to download my apps, it crashes, i reboot and as soon as it's connected and trying to finish off what it was doing, it reboots again? This lump of **** is going back.
Baad.
Bump.
Yeah.bump. don't know what is causing this. But try this
Full wipe, go to mount/storage and format system, then flash new rom
Do have full access to all your apps,if not then your phone is on "safe mode/car mode" and i never use that feature, so i don't know how to turn it off.
Hope this can help
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Maybe if you "tick-off" the sync_with_google option before finishing the first time gmail setup??
And you could try Settings --> Back up and reset --> and untick Automatic Restore??
Good luck
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Yeah.bump. don't know what is causing this. But try this
Full wipe, go to mount/storage and format system, then flash new rom
Do have full access to all your apps,if not then your phone is on "safe mode/car mode" and i never use that feature, so i don't know how to turn it off.
Hope this can help
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Completely unrooted, flashed a stock rom, still having issues.
Called orange, getting a new phone tomorrow, courier to my door Now that's service.
Don't know how to fix the issue but i had 6 reboots on the train on the way to work, couldnt' even send a text.
System was clean, i'd already wiped anything that could be wiped.
Hardware issue.
QuaQuaRaQuaQua said:
Maybe if you "tick-off" the sync_with_google option before finishing the first time gmail setup??
And you could try Settings --> Back up and reset --> and untick Automatic Restore??
Good luck
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Sign in or don't sign in, the problem persists.
Car mode has stayed away but the reboots are still present, for a 20 day old phone i think it's utter bull****.
Must have been tested by a bunch of corpses, either that or the testers were high and thought it'd be funny to send out some dud unit's.
Even in my place of work, i sometimes set up client's phones, up til now i've done hundreds, about 10 of them have been dead from the box, some have had issues with the touchscreen, lalalalallalalaaaaaa, not good enough samsung, i understand that some bad eggs can slip through the net but for me the ratio is just too high.
Like i said, i'll be getting a spanking new phone delivered tomorrow morning, hopefully this one isn't on it's arse.
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Yeah.bump. don't know what is causing this. But try this
Full wipe, go to mount/storage and format system, then flash new rom
Do have full access to all your apps,if not then your phone is on "safe mode/car mode" and i never use that feature, so i don't know how to turn it off.
Hope this can help
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If this issue is happening to you, send it back, mine went from being on it's knees to being on it's back in a coffin in one day.
I would suggest you do a full wipe as suggested and try to use a different GMAIL account initially to see if your issues return.
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I would suggest you do a full wipe as suggested and try to use a different GMAIL account initially to see if your issues return.
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M8, i HAVE done a full wipe, i've also signed in AND not signed in as i've previously said.
Both yielded the same results.
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Clean Slate for those that balls up the firmware .Or need to return to service or decide if its hardware/firmware problem .
Backup data first if phone is working .
Boot CWM recovery
Mounts and Storage
Format cache data system sd card .
Remove battery
Boot to download mode
Open Odin
Install correct stock firmware for your phone .
Still problems Triangle Away to set rom counter to zero flash stock rom .
Return to service centre .
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Clean Slate for those that balls up the firmware .Or need to return to service or decide if its hardware/firmware problem .
Backup data first if phone is working .
Boot CWM recovery
Mounts and Storage
Format cache data system sd card .
Remove battery
Boot to download mode
Open Odin
Install correct stock firmware for your phone .
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I'm not sure what your addressing here?
Balls'ed up the firmware? Not likely sunshine, not me
NO i think you'll find that this ***** has hardware issues, at least since it still reboots at stock.
Either way if someone does want to go back to stock then there is only one place they need to go to.
There is no script or anything else needed for it.
Just the tool kit.
Congrats, u neither helped me nor, did anything else, u just gave some unwanted info. Kudos i think????
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I DO NOT UNDERSTAND THE POINT OF YOUR POST, AT ALLLLLL.]
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OK so let me start off with, great site. I have read a ton of information.
First: Siyah 4.3.3 (Latest) Kernel which now has been put to AJK v1.48s
ROM; SHOstock3 v2.5.9
PreMod Settings: SGS2 AT&T SGH-i777. Started with GB > AT&T OTA (KIES) 4.0.3 > AT&T OTA WIFI 4.0.4 (caused huge freaking headaches with battery, charging, turn off the phone loop, battery draining, etc.)
Issues:
Original Issue posted in this thread (viewing Single Post) http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=39350619&postcount=18
Creepy offered something to try. That never worked as all I was able to do was download mode or stare at the Samsung Galaxy S2 Splash Screen. Well, I took to his download repository and other links and used his One-Click Recovery to stock GB Rom to make part of my phone usable, using this link here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=18859438&postcount=199
While it is Gingerbread at least my phone is usable. I want to try his STOCK ICS method but that mentions the eMMC super-brick bug.
So this is what I have tried so far. I have tried installing Siyah 4.3.3 nomswap for my kernel using Mobil-Odin Lite. That works but it never reboots or actually says finished. What it does do is stay at the wicked purple splash with the yin yang symbol. I left it like that last night until I woke up this morning and it never changed. So I rebooted the phone and the Kernel is on there. I reboot into recovery so that I can install SHOstock3 v2.5.9. That goes off flawlessly except here the last few times it won't reboot when I go to the GO BACK. It sticks and doesn't do anything. Rebooting shows the SHOstock3 Engine Boot Animation. Once it stops it goes to ask me for the encryption password. Well I put in my password (was the same one to the unlock screen) and it reboots and you see the nifty Samsung animation logo and then goes to the Samsung Galaxy S2 Animation Logo and then just stays there. It really pisses me off.
So after all that I finally put a new Kernel on there,AJK 1,48s. Pretty cool it loads up and then reboots. Well AJK shows up after the light-blue bar fills up and then goes black and the 4 touch sensitive row keys are lit up for a bit before going dark but the phone is still on. So I rebooted to recovery (CWM now with the Kernel) fixed tweaks, went to advanced and saw all sorts of options. Tried clearing caches for ROM 2 and restarting,no effect. I removed ROM 2 and went through reboot and nothing. Restored ROM 2 and nothing. Re installed SHOstock3 v2.5.9. Did the same thing after install and not backing out when I hit GO BACK. Rebooted, same scenario that happened before with requiring password. Entering password does the same thing with a reboot and then staying on Samsung Splash Screen. If I Don't enter the password and reboot,same thing happens. So after being irritated and pissed off I ran Creepy's One-Click Fix again and paid attention to the phone and noticed it mentioned not being able to access the AT&T section or partition or something like that. So while part of my phone works under normal circumstances I want to figure out how to remove that encryption part of the phone and get full access (even though full memory and space are shown under Windows 7 and the files on the phone). The password I put on there isn't taking and I don't know if using PC methods for removing encryption (which could take awhile I know) needs to be employed (and if so which methods) or if that part is just screwed and I can't put on any other kernels or custom ROMs. Perhaps tell me where I messed up. Should I try swapping the ROMs from Advanced setting in CWM Recovery? Can I try a different ROM (kernel didn't seem to help)? I have done several factory resets dalvik cache wipes cache wipes formats,etc. and it is still there. I can say that before the whole encryption debacle (even though I was encrypted I did get in my phone after encrypting it) my pin unlock for my SIM wouldn't work and I actually SIM locked my phone. Had to go to AT&T and get a new SIM and was up and running. I put a 4 digit pin lock for the SIM (it let me do it) and when I went to unlock it after a reboot, it wanted an 8 pin for the PUK and wouldn't take what I put. I tried to change the PIN but to no avail. Once that happened I guess it snowballed. Any help is appreciated. I have searched and tried some things that looked to match my issue but none have totally helped. I do have ADB set up on my wife's laptop which I use to restore my phone to GB Stock ROM. I haven't been able to reboot the phone into Bootloader to do any fastboot commands as when I tried to do it the commands just sent the phone into normal reboot (though adb reboot recovery does boot to recovery). I Haven't tried booting to the bootloader using the new Kernel though so I will wait for confirmation or additional information before I try. Thanks guys.
Eagle
Couple of comments. Siyah 4.3.3 (and ajk) kernels are for 4.x ICS and JB so that explains why your stock Gingerbread system would not flash after you installed it. If you flash back to stock Gingerbread again, and then flash a custom kernel, use a kernel that is compatible with Gingerbread if you want to boot the system.
After doing a little research, it seems that a wipe data/factory reset will not clear the encryption, but a format data will. This information is not from a Samsung forum; it's from the Droid DNA forum. I'm thinking that the same thing may apply to the I777. See the thread here.
It might be worth a try anyway. Flash stock plus root Gingerbread, install mobile odin or mobile odin lite, and use it to flash Siyah 2.6.14. Boot into recovery and go to the Mounts and Storage section. There you can format data, (and all the other partitions, separately.)
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Couple of comments. Siyah 4.3.3 (and ajk) kernels are for 4.x ICS and JB so that explains why your stock Gingerbread system would not flash after you installed it. If you flash back to stock Gingerbread again, and then flash a custom kernel, use a kernel that is compatible with Gingerbread if you want to boot the system.
After doing a little research, it seems that a wipe data/factory reset will not clear the encryption, but a format data will. This information is not from a Samsung forum; it's from the Droid DNA forum. I'm thinking that the same thing may apply to the I777. See the thread here.
It might be worth a try anyway. Flash stock plus root Gingerbread, install mobile odin or mobile odin lite, and use it to flash Siyah 2.6.14. Boot into recovery and go to the Mounts and Storage section. There you can format data, (and all the other partitions, separately.)
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Thank you so much creepy. I will give that a try later and see how it goes. I hope the information I gave actually gives enough info. I know folks usually want enough. Ill post back my findings.
Eagle
quick follow up and what I tried
creepyncrawly said:
Couple of comments. Siyah 4.3.3 (and ajk) kernels are for 4.x ICS and JB so that explains why your stock Gingerbread system would not flash after you installed it. If you flash back to stock Gingerbread again, and then flash a custom kernel, use a kernel that is compatible with Gingerbread if you want to boot the system.
After doing a little research, it seems that a wipe data/factory reset will not clear the encryption, but a format data will. This information is not from a Samsung forum; it's from the Droid DNA forum. I'm thinking that the same thing may apply to the I777. See the thread here.
It might be worth a try anyway. Flash stock plus root Gingerbread, install mobile odin or mobile odin lite, and use it to flash Siyah 2.6.14. Boot into recovery and go to the Mounts and Storage section. There you can format data, (and all the other partitions, separately.)
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Hey Creepy, I have a quick follow up and want to tell you what I have tried.
So I had already used Kies to move to AT&T v 4.0.4 ICS on my phone when I read your post. Rather than flashback again to GB I went ahead and put Siyah 4.3.3 on my phone. Went great, rebooted and installed quick and everything. Well I rebooted into recovery and went to mounts and storage and formatted the data and all that there and even formatted the secondrom data and all that. Did it a couple times to make sure everything was clean and good to go. Even put AJKs kernel on there after I ran the cleanrom script and it went flawlessly. I did factory resets and wipes and all that and installed SHOstock3 v2.5.9 and started up great. Well it got past the animation and the damn Password for encryption popped up. Well I put the wrong password in and it rebooted without the SAMSUNG screen and went through the boot ani and back to the password for encryption screen. I put the right password in, it reboots and you see the Samsung logo flash quickly and then it sticks on the Samsung Galaxy S2 Splash screen. I don't know what is holding it up from going forward unless when I messed up the first go around and it deleted everything if it didn't take out the bootload command or what have you. So I don't know if this idea will work but I am going to flashback to GB and put the siyah version on there that you linked and see if that will work.
One tihng, when Iencrypted the device the first go round, I onlydid the used data and area not the whole thing. Is this affecting it somehow? Any other ideas to try? I figured a full data format would remove the encryption but it never pops up saying all encryption will be removed. What I need is access to that area of the phone if I could just mount it on the computer. Is it possible after formatting the data, or before, that I should mount internal USB, DATA, etc and try another format/wipe or at least mount them to see if they can be used? Thanks for the help. For anyone else viewing this post (which actually is a lot) any help or ideas are appreciated. I am thinking I may need to format everything and get ahold of Samsung to see if they will reset my phone for me. I just wonder if the PIN lock on my SIM card that got locked when it wouldn't take my PIN didn't mess something up as well.
Eagle
WarEagleUS said:
Hey Creepy, I have a quick follow up and want to tell you what I have tried.
So I had already used Kies to move to AT&T v 4.0.4 ICS on my phone when I read your post. Rather than flashback again to GB I went ahead and put Siyah 4.3.3 on my phone. Went great, rebooted and installed quick and everything. Well I rebooted into recovery and went to mounts and storage and formatted the data and all that there and even formatted the secondrom data and all that. Did it a couple times to make sure everything was clean and good to go. Even put AJKs kernel on there after I ran the cleanrom script and it went flawlessly. I did factory resets and wipes and all that and installed SHOstock3 v2.5.9 and started up great. Well it got past the animation and the damn Password for encryption popped up. Well I put the wrong password in and it rebooted without the SAMSUNG screen and went through the boot ani and back to the password for encryption screen. I put the right password in, it reboots and you see the Samsung logo flash quickly and then it sticks on the Samsung Galaxy S2 Splash screen. I don't know what is holding it up from going forward unless when I messed up the first go around and it deleted everything if it didn't take out the bootload command or what have you. So I don't know if this idea will work but I am going to flashback to GB and put the siyah version on there that you linked and see if that will work.
One tihng, when Iencrypted the device the first go round, I onlydid the used data and area not the whole thing. Is this affecting it somehow? Any other ideas to try? I figured a full data format would remove the encryption but it never pops up saying all encryption will be removed. What I need is access to that area of the phone if I could just mount it on the computer. Is it possible after formatting the data, or before, that I should mount internal USB, DATA, etc and try another format/wipe or at least mount them to see if they can be used? Thanks for the help. For anyone else viewing this post (which actually is a lot) any help or ideas are appreciated. I am thinking I may need to format everything and get ahold of Samsung to see if they will reset my phone for me. I just wonder if the PIN lock on my SIM card that got locked when it wouldn't take my PIN didn't mess something up as well.
Eagle
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Should I try TWRP instead of CWM and if so where should I grab it from?
Status Update
So this is what I have tried so far as of this moment.
I reflashed using your Stock + Root Gingerbread ROM.
Wiped DATA and everything in recovery menu several times.
Used Kernel Wipe and ROM Nuke for extra cleaning power.
Reinstalled the Kernel AJK and SHOstock3 ROM
Haven't installed any themes though I had Johns Blue and Villians Poison Base Theme (I believe that is what it is) on there when this all went down. Should I put them back on there?
Password still pops up. So what it looks like is that unless I stick with the unencrypted portion of the phone, I am screwed with any custom ROMs as the correct password has the phone restart and then stick at the Samsung Galaxy S2 Splash Screen. Apparently I still cannot access that area of the phones memory to wipe it at all no matter what I do. I need to access it somehow. Really driving me crazy and thinking I may need to talk with AT&T(as Samsung told me to earlier this morning lol) and see what they can do.
One thing I do notice is when I use your stock root program it actually removes the encryption or decrypts the section of the phone for the stock ROM to go on the phone which is cool.
Eagle
Any other things to try from anyone is greatly appreciated.
Been away all day. Sorry, I can't offer any other suggestions, but I have no experience with encryption. As you said, what you need to know is where the encryption is stored in memory so you can wipe or format that and restore it to original. If you can get to the right person, probably not level 1 tech support, then maybe you can find out. Somebody somewhere knows the answer to this.
would restoring my original EFS before this whole process help or is the encryption section totally blocked off?
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would restoring my original EFS before this whole process help or is the encryption section totally blocked off?
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I have no idea whether the encryption is stored there. What kind of efs backup did you take?
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Been away all day. Sorry, I can't offer any other suggestions, but I have no experience with encryption. As you said, what you need to know is where the encryption is stored in memory so you can wipe or format that and restore it to original. If you can get to the right person, probably not level 1 tech support, then maybe you can find out. Somebody somewhere knows the answer to this.
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Thx bro. yeah I need to run some forensic tools and see if I can mount the whole phone system on my PC and run the tools.
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I have no idea whether the encryption is stored there. What kind of efs backup did you take?
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a full efs backup. I made two or three actuakky using advanced efs, nitrality, and recovery.
WarEagleUS said:
a full efs backup. I made two or three actuakky using advanced efs, nitrality, and recovery.
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A little research indicates that there is quite a bit of stuff stored in efs besides carrier specific data. So maybe encryption could be in there. Of those tools, nitrality for sure and maybe advanced efs should be able to restore the entire efs partition. If you are comfortable with the risk - a damaged efs would render the phone useless - then you might try this to see if it clears up the encryption issue. BTW, you should learn how to back up the efs partition yourself using terminal and linux commands.
creepyncrawly said:
A little research indicates that there is quite a bit of stuff stored in efs besides carrier specific data. So maybe encryption could be in there. Of those tools, nitrality for sure and maybe advanced efs should be able to restore the entire efs partition. If you are comfortable with the risk - a damaged efs would render the phone useless - then you might try this to see if it clears up the encryption issue. BTW, you should learn how to back up the efs partition yourself using terminal and linux commands.
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Yeah I should have used ADB to do that from the get go. I should have used the wife's laptop like I started to instead of my WIN 8 machine has it seems to be finicky with Android SDK (the portion at least needed to run ADB). Linux commands really aren't much different than terminal and I have done both. I was actually trying to get fastboot commands to work but my bootloader wasn't cooperating and for the life of me I couldn't find how to unlock it. I may try restoring that EFS. If nothing else I would love to be able to format that EFS and replace it with my original copy though as you said a damaged EFS may actually cause issues (who knows if it is damaged). I do know that I am fixing to chat with AT&T support. I hope I don't have to drive down to Hoover, AL to the repair facility. I would rather them send me a phone and send this one back. I am on stock 4.0.4 ICS from AT&T and any root that may be on there (though I doubt there is now) I can remove and what not
Thanks for the advice and insight Creepy. I know you tried like hell to get me an answer but in doing research on here with other problems I found out some useful information going forward my friend.
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Well, looks like I will be getting a special early upgrade and the wife will as well. I will be keeping this phone, however, to mess with this and see if I cannot get this problem fixed. Thanks Creepy so much. I appreciate your research and help more than you know. If possible I would love to keep this thread open for a while just in case I figure this out and fix the issue. It may take me a week or so but I will get back to messing with it again.
A side note. You don't need the whole sdk to get adb. You can download just the files you need from my signature.
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I have a fascinate that I rooted and then put CWM 4.0.1.0 on and Cyanogenmod 10.2 nightly build on. I have updated the build a couple times and now I am looking at trying HellyBean.
My trouble is that the phone doesn't seem to erase anything. I boot into CWM and started with factory/data/cache/devilk/battery resets then trying formatting /system and trying the hellybean install multiple times. I reboot into CWM and flash 2-3 times in a row like I have read. I then boot into the phone, not only is hellybean not installed, ALL my data is still on the phone as if I had just done nothing. I have also tried 'fixing permissions' in CWM as well.
I'm a noob and need some assistance.
I also tried downloading TWRP and installing that as well and get a status 7...not too worried about getting that installed as from what I understand you have to reflash it everytime you want to use it.
Xceptiona1noob said:
I have a fascinate that I rooted and then put CWM 4.0.1.0 on and Cyanogenmod 10.2 nightly build on. I have updated the build a couple times and now I am looking at trying HellyBean.
My trouble is that the phone doesn't seem to erase anything. I boot into CWM and started with factory/data/cache/devilk/battery resets then trying formatting /system and trying the hellybean install multiple times. I reboot into CWM and flash 2-3 times in a row like I have read. I then boot into the phone, not only is hellybean not installed, ALL my data is still on the phone as if I had just done nothing. I have also tried 'fixing permissions' in CWM as well.
I'm a noob and need some assistance.
I also tried downloading TWRP and installing that as well and get a status 7...not too worried about getting that installed as from what I understand you have to reflash it everytime you want to use it.
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okay sir, which cwm version are you using?
and honestly I'd odin back to stock and build back up to cm10.1 nighties
thanks for the heads up, I wanted to make sure I wasn't missing something silly. I went ahead and redid my phone Odin style and also repartitioned my SD card to fat32/ext2, not sure if that had any effects; I was running it fat32/ext3?
Either way I now have hellybean on it and just getting things setup again. Though being a computer guy I like to do a 'clean' install of a new OS and it seems to me even running Odin some settings are carried over or perhaps Im imagining things. Stuff like turning on rotation lock was on when I loaded the phone up...my old WiFi connection was still showing in wifi settings. Part of that could be some Google magic too, I'm just not familiar enough with how android works.
For my piece of mind, when I Odin the stock image on, its effectively erasing and placing an image on the memory, not leaving anything old on it correct? I am able to remove the SD card and make sure its clean, so thats not in question. Just trying to learn, thanks!
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thanks for the heads up, I wanted to make sure I wasn't missing something silly. I went ahead and redid my phone Odin style and also repartitioned my SD card to fat32/ext2, not sure if that had any effects; I was running it fat32/ext3?
Either way I now have hellybean on it and just getting things setup again. Though being a computer guy I like to do a 'clean' install of a new OS and it seems to me even running Odin some settings are carried over or perhaps Im imagining things. Stuff like turning on rotation lock was on when I loaded the phone up...my old WiFi connection was still showing in wifi settings. Part of that could be some Google magic too, I'm just not familiar enough with how android works.
For my piece of mind, when I Odin the stock image on, its effectively erasing and placing an image on the memory, not leaving anything old on it correct? I am able to remove the SD card and make sure its clean, so thats not in question. Just trying to learn, thanks!
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did you repartition with the .pit file while odining?
and yeah, odining erases everything, if you flash the .pit it'll reset the stock partitions and erase everything. i suggest going over to droidstyles guide and reading up
EDIT: here's the link to it: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1238070
Xceptiona1noob said:
thanks for the heads up, I wanted to make sure I wasn't missing something silly. I went ahead and redid my phone Odin style and also repartitioned my SD card to fat32/ext2, not sure if that had any effects; I was running it fat32/ext3?
Either way I now have hellybean on it and just getting things setup again. Though being a computer guy I like to do a 'clean' install of a new OS and it seems to me even running Odin some settings are carried over or perhaps Im imagining things. Stuff like turning on rotation lock was on when I loaded the phone up...my old WiFi connection was still showing in wifi settings. Part of that could be some Google magic too, I'm just not familiar enough with how android works.
For my piece of mind, when I Odin the stock image on, its effectively erasing and placing an image on the memory, not leaving anything old on it correct? I am able to remove the SD card and make sure its clean, so thats not in question. Just trying to learn, thanks!
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That's because your Google account will automatically restore phone settings like WiFi and brightness its really cool how they do it will also redownload all your apps for you 2
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I let my galaxy tab 10.1 die completely and it sat for several months without being used. When I turned it on, it was stuck in a bootloop. Tried to do a factory reset but, it would freeze in the middle of the reset. I really don't want to spend $150 to send this to Samsung for them to do something I can possibly do myself.
Is this a common issue with these things?
I have seen several forums and youtube videos where flashing was required to fix this problem, is this the only way to fix this problem?
Where can I download ODIN without all the other crap that some of these sites are trying to pass off as ODIN?
Step by step instructions would be helpful as I am not computer stupid, but have never done something like this before...
misschrissy1225 said:
I let my galaxy tab 10.1 die completely and it sat for several months without being used. When I turned it on, it was stuck in a bootloop. Tried to do a factory reset but, it would freeze in the middle of the reset. I really don't want to spend $150 to send this to Samsung for them to do something I can possibly do myself.
Is this a common issue with these things?
I have seen several forums and youtube videos where flashing was required to fix this problem, is this the only way to fix this problem?
Where can I download ODIN without all the other crap that some of these sites are trying to pass off as ODIN?
Step by step instructions would be helpful as I am not computer stupid, but have never done something like this before...
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1. Let it fully charged
2. If you never flashed a custom recovery, do the factory reset again through the stock recovery mode. That should do it.
3. If you are rooted, get odin [http://odindownload.com/],
get a custom Recovery e.g. [http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1733045], install it using ODIN
4. Extra, install a custom ROM e.g. nameless [http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2716016] or the stock ROM [http://forum.xda-developers.com/gal...wnload-link-samsung-galaxy-tab-10-1-t2807422]
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1. Let it fully charged
2. If you never flashed a custom recovery, do the factory reset again through the stock recovery mode. That should do it.
3. If you are rooted, get odin [http://odindownload.com/],
get a custom Recovery e.g. [http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1733045], install it using ODIN
4. Extra, install a custom ROM e.g. nameless [http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2716016] or the stock ROM [http://forum.xda-developers.com/gal...wnload-link-samsung-galaxy-tab-10-1-t2807422]
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Thanks for the reply:
this is not a rooted device. How do I do the factory reset through the stock recovery mode? I am sure it's what I have tried several times and it still freezes in the middle of the recovery. I have gotten as far as putting in the date and time and then... nada back to where I have started. I am a noob, sorry
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Thanks for the reply:
this is not a rooted device. How do I do the factory reset through the stock recovery mode? I am sure it's what I have tried several times and it still freezes in the middle of the recovery. I have gotten as far as putting in the date and time and then... nada back to where I have started. I am a noob, sorry
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Stuck in the bootloop also, saw this post so asking here first. I'm going to do some more searching, but if I flash the ROM will I lose all photos, music, videos and the sort? Don't care about the apps, just the data. I don't have an SD Card on this thing which I keep reading on other posts some folks have. It's a P7510 32 GB Wifi Only.