Hey,
So I was trying to root my phone (been trying for ages now) and I've been following loads of guides because each one never seemed to work. Now, I know I haven't bricked my phone, but I've somehow managed to lock myself out of it instead. I can't use the fingerprint lock, and the password that I use doesn't work (it says I've put in the wrong password, but if it isn't that, then what is it?).
I tried hard resetting my phone but it didn't work either (I have an unlocked bootloader btw). I tried looking it up and all the guides I followed ended up taking me to recovery mode (which also doesn't work - it doesn't connect to my computer because it defaults to "usb for charging" instead of MTP).
This is really stressing me out and I don't know how to fix it. I've been trying for hours and it will not unlock, no matter what I do. I even tried to do that Google account unlock thing, but there's no "Forgot password?" on the lock screen.
I feel like I'm screwed. Please help.
- Roisin.
You don't need MTP for usb debugging, if you previously enabled it.
Use step 5 from here to delete the gesture.key from your device.
If you have TWRP installed you could also use it's file manager to delete the keys.
Thanks for the quick reply
Does it need to be rooted for this? I never actually managed it. Also, I don't think I have ADB on my computer, how do I do this?
@WizardyNinja Get [TOOL]Minimal ADB and Fastboot [10-22-16].
Don't know if the 'adb shell rm .....' needs root.
How where you trying to root with out the above tools?
Once you have fastboot, use it to boot TWRP: -
Code:
fastboot boot <nameofTWRP.img>
And then use it's file manager to delete the file, if the 'adb shell rm.....' does not work.
I don't know actually, I saw ADB mentioned around a few times but it was really just a "download these few things and it should work" kind of thing. I've rooted devices before but Xiaomi devices are so much more awkward, it really confused me. By the end I didn't know what I was doing. :/
I'll try this out tomorrow and I'll update you on if it worked or not. Thank you.
If you can enter recovery then go to /data/system and delete all the *.key files.
Sent from Note 3, Xiaomi Redmi Note 3.
I can't get into recovery, that's the problem :crying:
I haven't tried the other thing yet, still in school
Okay, so I managed to fastboot TWRP because the other thing didn't work, but now TWRP itself is asking for a password to decrypt data? As far as I'm aware, I never encrypted my data purposefully on my phone.
(Couldn't get a clear picture, but the buttons say "cancel" and "select language". On the top, it says "Mount" with "Decrypt Data" under it).
@WizardyNinja
Just select cancel, in your screenshot.
Then format your data partition (unfortunately losing data and apps).
Then reboot and you should have access to your device, plus have to set it up again.
Would a factory reset be fine, or would it have to be an advanced wipe?
Nevermind, I wiped it. Thank you!
Do you think you could tell/link me a way of rooting this phone? It's so confusing and I haven't found any instructions that I can follow clearly. :/
WizardyNinja said:
Nevermind, I wiped it. Thank you!
Do you think you could tell/link me a way of rooting this phone? It's so confusing and I haven't found any instructions that I can follow clearly. :/
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Now that you have cleared your locking problem, search for SuperSU and flash it on TWRP.. Voila, you are rooted.
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Hello, after playing with a tablet I got boot loop so below is solution for this.
This is what I wrote first:
I purchased Chinese tablet called CyberNav, there is link to the website with specs http://www.dracotek.com/cybernav-7-...ps-navigator-ultra-slim-wifi-8gb-gps70yw.html It works great and is worth the money. I received- on request- firmware for it, but it is with .img extension and I have no idea how to get to the files. Attached application PhoenixCard should install it on sd card but it does nothing. So there is my question- can anyone help me with it? Possibly root it? Or update to newer firmware version? I'll post a link to, just need to upload it to my dropbox on my next break at work.
Sek
im pretty sure you need a 3rd party application to flash that firmware, i think you load the .img file into the software on your pc, connect tablet in flash/recovery mode then flash it that way, dont know which software you would need to use though , sorry i cant help further
There is link to rar package http://db.tt/jm7eHfbq
If there is someone who wants to spend some time... Please help.
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Some new infos:
As far I found out tablet is detectable during boot in adb, but it stays in boot loop. I think I've got right usb drivers.
I tried unyaffs the .img file using C:/unyaffs/unyaffs pw08.img but it shows file corrupted (might be wrong method?).
Logcat attached.
Maybe there is someone who will find what it's missing...
I see there is nobody who can help me, so... If some of u have similar problem with chinese tablet- bootloop, can't flash it with LiveSuit our update from sdcard, I found solution which worked for me. Using adb, pulled catalog /dev/data/ to hard disk, then deleted all dalvik cache, installed by me apps and almost every other file from /data on my hard disk. Then typed adb remount, then adb shell rm -r /dev/data/* to delete all data catalog on tablet. Then pushed /data catalog from my hard disk to tablet, and finally adb reboot. And it WORKS! Booting without problems. I wasted 4 days on research how to turn it in flash mode etc. But it was very simple.
Cheers
Sek
Hi, sek111
It was necessary to use the LiveSuite to flash through usb.
Thank you very much, from your post, I found the firmware for my tablet.
An experience with another low cost tablet with Bootloop
I happen to got my tab (Wammy from WickedLeak.org) stuck in BootLoop and was struggling to get a way out for the past 3 days, checking almost all of the posts for this issue!
The tab would stuck on the android loading animation despite running for 2-3 hours and after several hard reboots, it throw-ed following error-
Encryption Unsuccessful
encrytion was interupted and cant complete. as a result the data on your tablet is no longer accessible
to resume using your tablet, you must perform a factory reset. when you set up your tab after the reset, u'll hav an opportunity to restore any data that was backed up to ur google account
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Despite going for the factory reset, it still didn't workout as the reset activity never completed or proceeded. I happen to be a beginner/noob and was trying my luck with possible solution but was comfortable with ADB stuff and workaround. Well i checked the solution which sek111 offered in this post and it was most closely helped me out. So i would like to Thank him a ton for sharing his solution.
Another method for few others if you don't get through the technical stuff and handling all the flashing tools, i was successful in bringing up the setting window of my tab and chose to do Reset via GUI which worked. Actually my battery got drained out to 7% and a popup message for same displayed while i was on the above error page. I selected the "check battery" option from that pop up and got my way out via factory "Backup and Reset" option under settings.
I hope this might help few people if not all! But the XDA forum is great and everyone will find a solution here. Cheers!!!
So I got this wm8850 chinese generic tablet. The camera is in the front in the middle (wide). It was shipped to me with 4.0.3 in boot loop. I soon found out that it boots into safe mode when I usb to pc. This is the furthest I've gotten with it so far. I can adb into it and have already tried to wipe data. It seems like since its from factory screwed up that a may need to reload the firmware or the os or something. Im kind of a noob because I only have my droid x. I've gotten it out of a boot loop before but I also knew what I had done to cause it so I fixed it. I tried to follow seks adb commands but im too noob to do it I guess. I was able to wipe data and dalvik-cache. Issue still occurs . If anybody can give me some adb commands than can help I would greatly appreciate it. Im fairly sure that I found the firmware elsewhere on xda. I thank you guys for any help at all you can give. I don't wanna send it back without trying everything software related as I can, but ill send it back if I can't fix it or if I brick it
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i have same problem in my china mobile.. dupad k1 ... after in installed new boot screen, device stuck in boot... please help to recover my device in step by step....
I was rooted using ViperMod. I took the JB OTA, thinking rootkeeper would work. Wound up with the partial root issue (some apps worked, i.e. Anti, Network Spoofer, Root Explorer, but root checker and the Linux Installer for Backtrack gave no root errors), so I tried the method here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1911261
I got through step 3. Step 4 gave me a permission denied error, so I used Root Explorer to turn on all permissions for /data/local/tmp. At that point, adb push claimed to have worked through step 6, but I noticed my Prime had frozen. Before I went any further, I decided to hard reboot (hold down power button), to be sure everything was running proper before I started in with shell commands.
Upon reboot, it now sticks at the initial splash screen. I can vol-down & get to the bootloader there, giving me the 4 standard options. Recovery gives me the dead-looking Andy with exclamation mark (I assume because I don't have a backup image, which yes, I know, was stupid not to have. Hindsight.). The OS option says it's starting from a cold boot, but freezes there and does nothing else. I can access fastboot, and at least the reboot command seems to work, but I haven't tried anything else, as I'm not familiar with fastboot, and have no idea where to go from there. I'm hoping against hope I don't have to use the wipe action, as I have a lot of time and data invested in the thing.
I'm also able to vol-up and have APX recognized on my Win7 machine, but I admittedly have no idea what to do with that.
If anyone could help me here, especially if it would include NOT wiping my Prime, I would be forever grateful. Thank you in advance for any advice.
Please, I'm begging the community for help. I have no idea where to go from here. From my view, I don't know what went wrong. I simply changed permissions for one folder and pushed three files.
I don't have anyone else to help with this. This community has always been amazing when someone needed help, and I'm asking, as a man who seems to have screwed himself, for that help for me.
Again, I offer thanks in advance for any advice.
Pls help me root my zte obsidian running android 5.1 Model NO. Z820
I need help too
I also have ZTE obsidian tmobile and really want to root it i cant do much because it only comes with 4gb of space and i cant move apps to the SD card till i root Please help find a root
yeah same issue here all say that it cant after like 10-15 mins its just like nope sry
have you used this
http://forum.xda-developers.com/cro...oolbox-android-one-toolkit-one-click-t3030165
Yes, I tried. Its not working.
Is there any other way. I am desperate. It doesnt allow to move the Apps to SD card. There is no way. Locked in 4GB
I have a z820 in need of root as well. I've tried everything, including the link up there, and so far.....nope. Nothing. No apps to SD for me either.
Zte can't root for ****!!!!
I'm so mad because I really tried everything even a computer won't let me tried everything there to like why would the make a zte that can't even move your games or pictures or music to your SD card knowing danm well everybody gone need like we only got 4g that's nothing so what are we so posted to do delete stuff that we like.to trade for the other that we really don't need **** I'm pissed right now I know y'all are to but if anybody finds something please send me the info or con me by [email protected] thank you:good:
Needs update
This Phone really needs an update, it reboots and sucks, we can't even get into fastboot or anything to try to unlock the bootloader someone needs to make this possible because who in the hell uses only 4gb of storage, apps are so big and you can only download like 3 apps then you have to get rid of something if you want another app and its dumb so please someone..HELP US :crying:
Throwing my post up here so I can follow. Need root bad on this thing. I am using lite versions of every app. Lol
Same problem w/ ZTE obsidian..tCan't move to SD card. Anybody figure somethcing out yet?
I've gotten Kingroot to attempt to root it once and the results varied. Usually got 16% but the highest was almost 30% but I can't even get kingroot to even root it anymore.
The phone is not going into fastboot at all. I think the bootloader is locked. The phone will never be rooted.
I might of found a way, but it's untested so, proceed at your own risk, I am not responsible if your phone becomes bricked.
Enable developer mode and tick "OEM Unlocking" in the developer menu
Download SuperSU update zip from Chainfire's site and put it on your sdcard (internal won't work)
Power off your phone and hold power and volume up
Select recovery, wait for the android with the lid open to show up
Hold power and volume up for a couple seconds and let go
A menu should pop up, if not try again until it does
Select "update from sdcard"
Select the SuperSU zip
Let it flash the zip (shouldn't take long)
Choose reboot
See if SuperSU is installed and test that it works
Again, this is untested and would need a couple of people testing it to make sure it works flawlessly, so if this worked, please post that it did.
Nope. Thank you though.
picsles said:
Nope. Thank you though.
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Any type of error happen or did it not allow it to flash at all?
I can't even get to recovery. Gives me the choice then goes to dead android guy.
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Musicmanmike said:
I can't even get to recovery. Gives me the choice then goes to dead android guy.
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You have to hold down power and vol up for like 2 seconds when you get to the dead android, then you'll get the recovery menu.
When I try to install the update package, I get 'opening update package' followed after less than a second by 'installation aborted'.
I powered down from the Developer Options screen with OEM unlock turned on when trying to update - it appears to turn off during boot as it is off again on restart.
Any suggestions? I looked at the logs that are visible from the recovery screen but they did not seem to have anything useful. Are there logs I can retrieve via ADB to see what the issue is?
My phone has build B18.
Kurrelgyre said:
When I try to install the update package, I get 'opening update package' followed after less than a second by 'installation aborted'.
I powered down from the Developer Options screen with OEM unlock turned on when trying to update - it appears to turn off during boot as it is off again on restart.
Any suggestions? I looked at the logs that are visible from the recovery screen but they did not seem to have anything useful. Are there logs I can retrieve via ADB to see what the issue is?
My phone has build B18.
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OEM Unlocking is always on for me even after restarts but I haven't tried to flash SuperSU yet. You might wanna get a logcat while doing it and post it here to see if anyone knows what the problem is. I have an older build of the phone (B03) but I dunno if it matters or not.
EDIT: Also every new Kingroot build allows you to attempt to root it for like 2 days and then it just can't for some reason but the thing with 18% still happens.
LUModder said:
You might wanna get a logcat while doing it and post it here to see if anyone knows what the problem is. I have an older build of the phone (B03) but I dunno if it matters or not.
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The logcat I am familiar with is in ADB. The only way I can find to access the phone from recovery with ADB is to select the flash from ADB option, which puts the phone in sideload mode where you can't pull data off. I was unsure if trying to load the ZIP that way would brick the phone so I haven't tried it.
I also tried using Fastboot and it doesn't recognize the phone at any time.
Is there another way to capture what is happening with the update?
I tried selecting restart in bootloader from the recovery menu with the phone connected to the PC. It stayed at the ZTE splash screen for over 10 minutes but neither fastboot nor ADB was able to communicate with it. I tried various key combinations without effect and finally ended up pulling the battery. Maybe it just froze up during boot for some reason.
I have tried every one-touch root I can find, none of them work. All the manual guides start with unlocking the bootloader - which I can't find any info on for this model. Based on the partition info, it's definitely locked: it has 27 (!) partitions including names like seccfg and oemkeystore. Is this normal for a lollipop device?
Hi there!
My girlfriend bought an LG Wine (the clamshell one with only one screen), branded by TIM. After using it for a couple of days, it requests a password to get in. She can't remember to have set one, trying all her usual passwords failed. She needs to get access to the phone again, but luckily it does not contain any data that can't be wiped.
Using Google, I could not find any how-to that worked, the tip stated in android-recovery.info/1776/recovery/LG/Wine didn't get my to a recovery screen. Instead the phone booted up almost normally and stated "safe mode" ("Abgesicherter Modus" as it is using a German localisation) on the bottom right corner of the screen.
I'm no Android expert, but I'm a developer for embedded systems, so I'm familiar with the command line and I'm pretty sure that I can follow any how-to to get either the password protection removed or the phone to do a factory reset. Downloading and installing any (free) developer tools (for Linux or Windows) should be also no problem.
So, how can I get this phone reset to factory defaults? Or is there an easier way to remove the password?
SvOlli said:
Hi there!
My girlfriend bought an LG Wine (the clamshell one with only one screen), branded by TIM. After using it for a couple of days, it requests a password to get in. She can't remember to have set one, trying all her usual passwords failed. She needs to get access to the phone again, but luckily it does not contain any data that can't be wiped.
Using Google, I could not find any how-to that worked, the tip stated in android-recovery.info/1776/recovery/LG/Wine didn't get my to a recovery screen. Instead the phone booted up almost normally and stated "safe mode" ("Abgesicherter Modus" as it is using a German localisation) on the bottom right corner of the screen.
I'm no Android expert, but I'm a developer for embedded systems, so I'm familiar with the command line and I'm pretty sure that I can follow any how-to to get either the password protection removed or the phone to do a factory reset. Downloading and installing any (free) developer tools (for Linux or Windows) should be also no problem.
So, how can I get this phone reset to factory defaults? Or is there an easier way to remove the password?
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i dont know anything about your device, and couldnt seem to find anything to help me.
through a combination of buttons when off, you should be able to get into a download or fastboot mode (hopefully).
you will need to put fastboot on your machine. a quick search should find it.
while the phone is in the preboot mode i described, open a command prompt in the fastboot dir. you may have to wait for some drivers to install, you may also have to find some drivers if the next step fails to see the device.
in the command prompt enter, fastboot -w
hopefully you will see some dialogue indicating progress.
when its done remove the cable and force reboot the phone, or remove the battery and replace if need be.
if it worked, the phone will boot up and be clean like new.
as i said, this is mostly an assumption on my part that your phone can get into this mode and has fastboot capability, some dont.
as another possible option from this download screen would be to flash stock with the lg flash tool, but that would be dependent on you finding the proper stock file, and being able to enter download mode.
other than these possible options, i dont know what else you could try.
Oh guys, I badly need your experties. Just as I have in the title, I have a rooted Meizu M5 Note. I rooted the phone believing that I can do much more if it is rooted. But in 6 months of trying to understand what I can do with this said rooted phone, I realized now that there are not much to do with it... Probably because of the brand, so I decided to unroot
The rooting process was from here: giving me error so if requested, i'll give the link.
I have an Android build 7.0.0.0
So here is my issue:
In the same site, I found that I can unroot.. yes, UNROOT the rooted model of phone using superSU by going to its Settings and clicking unroot (or Unroot all something..). It took a bit while, so I decided to restart the device. Yes, while SuperSU was trying to unroot my phone.
Upon restart, it now could not boot.
I allowed 30 minutes, the screen only shows Flyme logo with a spinning circle. So from here, I made up my mind to perform the factory reset/restore:
Turned off Phone > Press and hold Power key + Volume Up... until I reach the screen with options to:
-Update system.
-Wipe data.
I selected Wipe data, for it will reset the system settings. It will now show the
"Wiping data.
Please dont turn off the phone, or it may fail to boot"
It will only last for 2 seconds - and will then again reboot and stop in Flyme logo with a never ending spin below.
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It was already the factory reset, which I thought should help, but it wont work.
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Things I tried:
- Used ADB to flash an offcial update rom from the flymeos.com, but the ADB Flashtool would not read the device because the USB Debugging is turned OFF.
- Googling any possible solutions, but cannot find any - nor any known programs that will allow me to read the not booting phone.
- Fast boot or safe mode, which only wont proceed.
- The Recovery Menu (the un-clickable one) must be locked by the manufacturer.
Can anyone please tell me:
- Is there anyway I can access the phone's drive so I can put the Update zip folder, which will help me to use the 1st recovery option "Update system"??
- Do you have any software that can help me enable the USB debugging when the phone wont boot at all??
Thanks guys..
All the help I can get will be best appreciated.
I tried posting this to forum.FlymeOS, but no one seems to have any interest on helping.
It is now you, that i think can help.
This is my Only phone, and cant afford to lose it...
Same issue with my Meizu M5 Note. I tried a tutorial on how to unlock it's bootloader. But after going through the first step, the SP Flash tool showed some error on how it does not turn on our go recover mode or anything... In really sad
Somebody please help!
RogueDiamond195 said:
Same issue with my Meizu M5 Note. I tried a tutorial on how to unlock it's bootloader. But after going through the first step, the SP Flash tool showed some error on how it does not turn on our go recover mode or anything... In really sad
Somebody please help!
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Looks to me that you've bricked the phone.
jwoegerbauer said:
Looks to me that you've bricked the phone.
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Yeah... Well, atleast I can ask for new phone now! LMAO