I haven't tried full device encryption before, so I thought I'd give it a try with my old i9100. It was running twrp-3.1, Lineage 14.1 (specifically the OctOS flavour) and had OpenGapps and Lineage Root installed. I proceeded to set up a pin, enable full device encryption, it rebooted and I began to wait. Several hours later it was still spinning with the boot animation. One post online suggested a rooted phone could give it issues. No worries, there was nothing of value on there anyway. Rebooted back to twrp, reinstalled the OS, OpenGapps, factory reset, let it reboot and I was back to the launcher. Set a pin, tried to click on the "Encrypt Phone" entry in settings and nothing happens. The encrypt phone window just won't come up. From there I proceeded to try several things. Various combinations of pins and passwords in different lengths. Reinstalled the OS a few more times with and without OpenGapps. Downgraded to Lineage 13. Nothing. Never again have I got the encrypt phone window to come up.
Is there some sort of prereq that I'm missing that I haphazardly had on my first install that I haven't repeated?
Thanks
Same problem here, well, not really, mine reboot and nothing happens except that i don't have network anymore, i have to reboot the phone again to have network operational.
But the phone isn't encrypted, tried everything without success.
I can see post on forum from the beginning of the year with this issue, too bad for us, encryption is a really important feature for a lot of users.
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Hi,
I have an lg c800 -- mytouch q by lg
I rooted it yesterday and removed all the bloat. I also installed several root only apps to optimize the phone.
It ran smoother than even right out of the box.
So, I figured it be a good idea to backup the rom, and maybe later try cyanogenmod... So I installed Rom Manager by clockworkmod
It said i needed to install clockwork recovery rom. I went in there but it said my device was unsupported (only like 12 were) so I backed out,
and stupidly hit TWRP listed under "Recovery Already Installed". (thinking that meant what options I had to SETUP a recovery/backup)
I hit backup rom. almost instantly the phone restarted. After the bios, but before android it went to a screen with a box, and an arrow pointing from the inside of the box to the little android man. Then went to the regular android boot screen.
It does this every reboot now. The SuperSU is still there, whenever Rom Manager (which I have to reinstall each reboot) asks for root access I get that dialog box, so it hasn't actually hard reset the phone I don't think. But all the user data, contacts, apps, wifi passwords, google id "(to access Play) get wiped out.
I understand what I did wrong. I think I understand what its doing (booting to the factory rom as it was, and I can't set it to stop doing it each reboot)
What I need help with is getting back, if possible, to what I had previously, among other things, I had a bunch of tasker profiles and notes that will be time consuming to replace.
Thank you for your help.
EDIT: SuperSU is now listed among the factory installed apps. This is unchanged each reboot.
Question: If I unroot the phone what that invalidate Rom Managers ability to run before android boots?
Hey Guys,
I just flashed the latest lineageOS nightly and decided it was a good time to encrypt my phone.
However, when I try and encrypt, it starts by going to the encrypt screen with the green outline of the android guy. Seconds later it goes to the lineage loading animation and goes right back into the OS and nothing happened (no errors or anything either) I've tried multiple times (unplugging and plugging the phone back in, turning off wifi, etc)
Has anyone else come across this?
Thanks!
Has no one tried encrypting their phone? I can't be the only one.
I tried to encrypt using lineage 13 for the zl1 (lepro3) March 25th weekly build, and see exactly this issue.
Can't remove data
I've tried encrypting my phone several times and never had this issue. My problem comes when app data for certain games are still saved on my phone, even if I do a factory reset right after encrypting. The specific apps I'm referring to are Mobile Strike and Game of War.
My phone (Nexus 4) appears to be soft-bricked, and will not boot up. When I turn on the device, it appears to get part way through the boot process but it never completes, and the bootsplash just keeps spinning forever. The top of the phone where the radios/gps/etc are gets very hot during this time.
I've tried: clearing caches within TWRP, factory reset, loading a couple new ROMs, wiping all partitions and reformatting, updating TWRP. Nothing seems to help.
I'm starting to think it's a hardware problem, but I'm hoping that someone might be able to give me some ideas that I haven't tried yet. I can get into TWRP and can load ROMs.
Some background: My phone is a Nexus 4 (mako) and had Cyanogenmod 13.1 prior to the issues, which has been running fine since last year. Recently my phone was acting glitchy/slow, so I decided to clear the cache and dalvik cache a couple weeks ago. This worked great and got things working well again. When I set things up again I also decided to start using DroidWall, which was the only app on my phone using root. About a week ago I also replaced the battery inside the phone since my old battery was shot and could barely keep a charge. The new battery has been working well, and does not appear to be the part of the phone heating up when the phone is stuck booting.
An update. I found that with the Slim ROM loaded, I can run `adb logcat` while the phone is booting to see what's happening. Lineage OS does not seem to ever get far enough to be seen by adb.
When viewing the Slim logcat, there are a lot of logs generated. Within, there are some DEBUG and backtraces displayed. And, I think the phone may be stuck trying the same thing over and over again as I've seen a section appear about the camera several times.
Earlier today I opened up my phone again, and noticed some pressure contacts on the back cover of the case. I cleaned them all to make sure they were making good contact, but it hasn't helped.
So, to begin with, yesterday Mi A1 got the Android 9 update. As I always do, I went to uptade it with Magisk (it worked with 8.0 to 8.1 and with every security patch, so I, as a newbie, thought, "why the h3ll not?"). Obviously, it didn't work and I got into a boot loop. So, here are the [lot] of things I have tried to do.
-Downloaded MiFlash and the latest OS version from Xiaomi site (8.1 witch november patch). Tried flashing a lot of times, I always get the boot loop after installing it. Wiped all data with TWRP and still didn't work. Always the same problem. Tried with different versions as well.
-Downloaded latest AOSP ROM for the device, flashed it, wiped cache and data, instaled TWRP (3.2.3-0), but the system never initiates. Doesn't even restart (20 minutes after my last try and it still is in a black screen).
-I've tried the same thing with Lineage 15.1 as well. Checked with MD5 in both roms. Doesn't work at all. Followed every tutorial I could, step by step, don't know what I'm doing wrong.
Can any one please help me? I don't know what to do anymore.
EDIT 1: So, I thought nothing happened, but after installing AOSP, I rebootet the phone holding the power buton, and during boot, I can see the "Powered by Android" from the custom ROM for a few seconds, but then the screed turns black and nothing more happens.
Hi Everyone,
Since LG was shutting down their developper tools on the 31st of December, I decided it was time for me to finally install Lineage OS. Unfortunately there occured some problems however. I was hoping some of you could help me troubleshooting and possibly fixing it!
The version I wanted to install is the following version, LineageOS 18: https://www.cyanogenmods.org/lg-v30-lineageos-18/
The guide refers to the following guide to install TWRP, this was done succesfully: https://www.cyanogenmods.org/forums/topic/how-to-install-twrp-and-root-lg-v30/ . I did however lose my phone's data, but I've accepted that already.
I then proceeded to following step, the flashing LineageOS step, in the guide: https://www.cyanogenmods.org/forums/topic/flash-install-custom-rom-twrp-recovery/
In this step a problem occured. It stated that the drive I tried to flash to was encrypted. I could flash LineageOS however I could not boot into it. I needed a password to unencrypt the data. I did not have this password (it was not my phones PIN, SIM PIN or Google account). I wanted to try the flashing process again but format the drive first (since I lost my data anyway, I didn't really care). After formatting the system needed a reboot.
The reboot however is stuck. It always goes instantly to the 1st time boot of Lineage OS (while I haven't reflashed yet). It just gets stuck there (I left it on overnight, still no signs of progress). I tried force rebooting using the powerkey+volumedown, that still works, but I can't turn it completely off. Some googling shows that people suggest reflashing the Lineage OS, but that clearly doesn't work because I can't get into TWRP.
I am currently trying to let Lineage OS drain the battery completely and then upon fresh start up try to boot into the TWRP menu and refresh.
The model I have is the LG V30 H930 (no T-Mobile variants or whatsoever).
Some questions that I have:
1. Did I screw up my phone?
2. If 1. is "No not yet", what are some possible solutions?
Kind regards,
Hidde