Hi,
I seriously ****ed up big time. So it started with this. I just wanted to upgrade my magisk, clicked on direct install as usual. Something went wrong I guess because after the upgrade my phone won't boot, just into fastboot. Then I've got an idea, reflashing LOS (at that time I was able to access my storage from TWRP but strangely it did not asked for a password, but it always did before) So yeah, I reflashed LOS which went well(? idk) and after that LOS and TWRP started to ask for a password. I've tried my lock screen pin (which was ok every time before this very unfortunate event, but not ok now), I started Googlin and found a few other passwords like: "default_password" or "none" but neither works of coruse.
What is your opinion, is there any way that I can access that encrypted **** or I should just format everything and restart from a blank phone?
Okay kids the moral of the story: do your ****ing backups regularly!
Thanks
Try to delete locksettings.db in root/data/system via twrp using file explorer
Adidas108 said:
Try to delete locksettings.db in root/data/system via twrp using file explorer
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Thanks, that'd be good, but apparently I can't see any file in that folder.
Something is wrong then...data must be mounted. Corect location is data/system/locksettings.db
turisz said:
Hi,
What is your opinion, is there any way that I can access that encrypted **** or I should just format everything and restart from a blank phone?
Okay kids the moral of the story: do your ****ing backups regularly!
Thanks
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No. There's no way to recover your data. You'll have to format your storage.
turisz said:
Hi,
I seriously ****ed up big time. So it started with this. I just wanted to upgrade my magisk, clicked on direct install as usual. Something went wrong I guess because after the upgrade my phone won't boot, just into fastboot. Then I've got an idea, reflashing LOS (at that time I was able to access my storage from TWRP but strangely it did not asked for a password, but it always did before) So yeah, I reflashed LOS which went well(? idk) and after that LOS and TWRP started to ask for a password. I've tried my lock screen pin (which was ok every time before this very unfortunate event, but not ok now), I started Googlin and found a few other passwords like: "default_password" or "none" but neither works of coruse.
What is your opinion, is there any way that I can access that encrypted **** or I should just format everything and restart from a blank phone?
Okay kids the moral of the story: do your ****ing backups regularly!
Thanks
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Also happened to me when I try rooting my phone using Kingo. I removed the battery, then put it back. Turned on and it worked again.
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Hello,
Today, I came back home and put my phone on my desk.
I went outside the room for a couple minutes, and when I came back, the phone was turned off.
I thought the battery got emptied, so I plugged the phone to the charger. The phone turned on, but instead of my custom start screen, the default Cyanogenmod screen was up.
Then, I got the "Encryption Unsuccessful" message, saying the only way to recover my phone is to wipe it and hope google backed enough stuff.
Now, I still haven't used the button on the bottom of the screen. I went to the recovery mode, thinking maybe I could back up stuff before I wipe everything.
My question is: Is there a way to restore back my phone without wiping everything? I tried to back everything up to the SD card, but the backup stopped once it reached the /data folder, which I assume, is the source of the problem. Can the problem be solved by formatting the /data folder from the recovery mode? I also currently don't have any clockwork backups, thus I cannot use recovery to restore everything to the way it was.
Please help, I have very important information on my phone and I'd hate to lose it.
The data folder is where all your information is stored. There are many threads where people have tried to recover data from a brick, I've not heard a single success.
You could just try flashing the exact same rom you already had, without a wipe. That might cure any system issues but won't help corrupt data.
It sounds like your phone has suffered a partition corruption or failure.
boomboomer said:
The data folder is where all your information is stored. There are many threads where people have tried to recover data from a brick, I've not heard a single success.
You could just try flashing the exact same rom you already had, without a wipe. That might cure any system issues but won't help corrupt data.
It sounds like your phone has suffered a partition corruption or failure.
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And what could possibly cause that?
As I said, I didn't do anything special or risky to the phone. The Cyanogenmod has been installed on it for a year and a half, so I don't think that's the problem.
Is there a way to extract some folders from the phone? I tried to plug it with a USB to the computer, but aside from the name, all information is unknown.
Also, will flashing the exact same rom will work? And what do you mean by "won't help corrupt data"? How do I know which data is corrupted?
And as I asked, will formatting the /data folder through the recovery mode will work? Can it cause damage?
I'm sorry for asking so many questions, I'm trying to be really careful with that and I need to fully know what I'm doing.
Thank you for replying.
Try ADB pull or aroma file manager in recovery, but if data partition is corrupt then your data is already lost.
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Try ADB pull or aroma file manager in recovery, but if data partition is corrupt then your data is already lost.
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It says "device not found". does that mean my data is lost?
And can you please answer my other questions?
Thank you for your help.
Edit: In case I do have to reset my phone, can someone guide me how to do it step by step?
I don't want something to mess up and get no help or wait hours for an answer.
FlyingPotato said:
or wait hours for an answer.
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Take it to a service centre and pay them to help you.
okay nvm, I used the button on the bottom and it did the trick.
I should probably start backing up things more often because right now I use a backup from a year ago.
Thank you for your help.
Title says it all, I already posted in the cm12.1 thread but I can't get my phone to not be encrypted. I would seriously appreciate some help..
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@invisiblek thanks for keeping this device alive along with others. I am about to ship off to bootcamp and I was going to give my DNA to my mom. Well, I am trying to get my device to decrypt but for the life of me I can't. I encrypted inside of CM12.1 a month or two ago and half way into a reboot i need to do my password to boot. I have reset the phone from phone settings, and even tried wiping EVERYTHING including internal storage inside of TWRP yet half way into a pure clean flash of CM12.1 (sideload zips from recovery using adb) It STILL wants me to do my password and phone says it is encrypted in settings. I even wiped everything (again) and obviously bootlooped into htc logo until i rebooted into recovery where twrp asked for my password to unencrypt...lol I am not trying to complain but I don't want her to deal with the super long reboot and having to remember my password everytime it tries to boot. I would really appreciate any help!
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Just flashed TWRP 2.8.7.1 from mdmower hoping it would actually kill the encryption but didn't work.
https://android.cmphys.com/twrp-dlx/
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@santod040 you're a dlx wizard perhaps you could even help if ya had a sec lol
got my X today and testet some custom roms, but after i tested omni, my phone always ask for a password to encrypt the system partition but i never set one.
is there a "general password" or something to get rid of that?
this is happened when you re flash stock rom and check MASTER RESET but never wipe internal storage.
you will have to reflash / wipe all, there is no other way (at least not that I know of)
all data will be lost and you will get your internal storage back
i do a full wipe now, but i still encounter this problem. cant believe its just about master-reset because even if i dont wipe it, i get questioned about the password wich i dont know. if i enter "default_password" it says "your password is correct but your files are corrupted please go back to your recovery and wipe your system" but in TWRP this password doesnt work and i cant wipe anything besides cache. I cant even set a pasword if i'm on stock .252
never thought it would be such a pain in the ass to flash a custom-rom on the X...
so, after some tests, even if i set a pattern lock, after flashing any custom-rom it says my pattern is wrong. i don't know what to do to get rid of this, i hope some of you guys can help me because at this level i just only can use stock-rom
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after more research, i found a tipp on a guide for One+ that data (encryption) can be erased in twrp. So, i did and wow, it works. good to know.
Aaskereija said:
so, after some tests, even if i set a pattern lock, after flashing any custom-rom it says my pattern is wrong. i don't know what to do to get rid of this, i hope some of you guys can help me because at this level i just only can use stock-rom
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after more research, i found a tipp on a guide for One+ that data (encryption) can be erased in twrp. So, i did and wow, it works. good to know.
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thank you! i didn't know that!
life is diy project!
My phone is encrypted and After I flashed an update of a custom rom it required me to enter a password to start android
I did my screen pin and it won't accept it. I tried default_password it did not work too, also twrp has locked me out of my data
don't tell me to wipe my data its really important and I need it.
And this is why we backup....
The encryption key was unique to the old version of Android, even re-flashing stock is NO guarantee of recovering data...
Sorry...
Masterx1200 said:
My phone is encrypted and After I flashed an update of a custom rom it required me to enter a password to start android
I did my screen pin and it won't accept it. I tried default_password it did not work too, also twrp has locked me out of my data
don't tell me to wipe my data its really important and I need it.
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As i know, u cant recover ur data now. Phone data need to be formatted. Sr. Or someone can help u. Good luck.
Masterx1200 said:
My phone is encrypted and After I flashed an update of a custom rom it required me to enter a password to start android
I did my screen pin and it won't accept it. I tried default_password it did not work too, also twrp has locked me out of my data
don't tell me to wipe my data its really important and I need it.
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LOL! Its funny, while Im reading your post, Im clean flashing my phone from bootlegger to xiaomi eu stable rom. Cleared up security pin, flashed DFE magisk v19.3 prior and after flashing the rom, and guess what? Ended up in same situation as you. HAHAHA! I think Im gonna give up with this whole decryption thing. Its really s**ks, sometimes DFE works and sometimes it just wouldnt work. I think I have lost my data and flashed fastboot rom for 10 times since playing with this device.
Anyway, theres no other way to get back the data that we lost. Its just, FRUSTRATING and really wasting our time to decrypt the whole phone back.
cangcan said:
LOL! Its funny, while Im reading your post, Im clean flashing my phone from bootlegger to xiaomi eu stable rom. Cleared up security pin, flashed DFE magisk v19.3 prior and after flashing the rom, and guess what? Ended up in same situation as you. HAHAHA! I think Im gonna give up with this whole decryption thing. Its really s**ks, sometimes DFE works and sometimes it just wouldnt work. I think I have lost my data and flashed fastboot rom for 10 times since playing with this device.
Anyway, theres no other way to get back the data that we lost. Its just, FRUSTRATING and really wasting our time to decrypt the whole phone back.
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exactly the same as you it has happened to me more than one time!!
anyways I managed to make it accept my password by going to the previous build where the password was set up originally.
but the smiles and happiness didn't continue for long, it showed me a message saying that the decryption was unsuccessful and I have to reset my phone to use it again.
I finally gave here I put up a good fight, I did reset my phone and this time I flashed DFE. this phone is so trippie man you have to do a backup before flashing anything!!
also if you are locked up from your phone that means it was encrypted before, id rather my phone be decrypted atleast when I run into issues I can have my data back. this whole encryption thing forces you to wipe your phone, but give what I said a try go back to the previous rom and try unlocking it there. good luck man.
Okay so I f-ed up. I wanted to install the new pie KDZ, and it didn't matter to me if it was an upgrade or if it wiped out the data (the apps of course, not the media).
So anyway, I chose the upgrade option in the LG UP, and after booting up I got a warning, something about encryption, and that I should do a reset.
I didn't choose to reset there, but instead I tried to get into TWRP, forgetting that it's gone after the KDZ flash (yes, I'm an idiot).
Aaand of course everything was gone, including the internal storage, which I found out only after booting up and setting up the device.
What are my options here, any chance for a recovery, considering that I was decrypted BEFORE the reset (or rather before the update to pie)?
EDIT: Uhm, yeah... this ship has probably already sailed. I've tried numerous apps that claim they can recover data, but they can't do sh*t except install bloat and possibly malware.
Now I'm having issues getting usable system/twrp, because of the encryption bullsh*t. And attempt after attempt, I've written data over the old one, so it's probably not even recoverable anymore.
I've never been more disgusted by playing around with android...
R.I.P
adsubzero said:
Now I'm having issues getting usable system/twrp, because of the encryption bullsh*t. And attempt after attempt, I've written data over the old one, so it's probably not even recoverable anymore.
I've never been more disgusted by playing around with android...
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Well, we did solve the encryption issue.
I'm very sorry about your data.
ChazzMatt said:
Well, we did solve the encryption issue.
I'm very sorry about your data.
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Yeah, I guess it's better than nothing lol