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[Q] Need help for my Vibrant

Here is the story. I've got my Vibrant as a replacement for my older one two weeks ago. The old one had a problem with Home button responsiveness and at the end I decided to go with replacement. After some testing with identical firmware (freshly flashed) on both phones I found that the the new one boots much faster - around 12 sec difference (the time my audio widget is fully loaded) and overall I was very happy, until today when my phone screen turn of during some work on the browser. The buttons light was on and the screen became black.
1. I did battery pool. First boot was very slow. Force close for some koush process ( probably clockworkmod) came out .
2. I did 'wipe cache' - multiple force close after that
3. Factory reset - it was somewhat booting very slow and I decided to go with Odin.
I was able to put the phone in downloading mode and flash JFD with repartitioning. Everything looked ok during the process, but after reboot it plays Tmobile animation, startup sound, shows the letter S and stucks there.
I am able to get in stock 2e recovery. If I choose reinstall packages it goes to clockworkmod recovery (I thought clockworkrecovery should disappear after flashing with odin, but it is there) I tried flashing different usb ports - no difference.
The phone was with stock JI6 firmware, rooted with OCLF, ROM Manager with clockworkmod installed. Was working fine till today. I didn't experience any lag issues and neither of the lag fixes were installed or tested.
I played with clockworkmod recovery options format: system, data, sdcard.
I was not able to format boot - some error.
I am not a very good writer... sorry if somebody gets upset.
I will appreciate any help or idea.
Thanks

Fix for your problem
Sounds like some of the rom is either corrupted or the factory reset did not have J i-6 in it.......not enough info. Personal message me and i ll help you fix this problem.

Another Newbie with a slight problem.

I tried to flash from darky's rom back to I9000UGJK3.tar
Using Odin i selected the s1_odin_20100512.pit then pda for I9000UGJK3.tar
Things went well with Odin but when the phone trys to boot the splash screen just flashes endlessly.
Im guessing i pooched something along the way.
Download mode works but not sure how to get this stock rom back on.
Any suggestion would be appreciated

sarcasm-inc said:
Using Odin i selected the s1_odin_20100512.pit then pda for I9000UGJK3.tar
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You shouldn't use a pit or re-partition for a 1 file firmware.

I know i messed up,
Anyhow i just flashed I9000XXJPU, selected re-partition, and selected
PDA,MODEM,CSC.
Everthing worked then, when the phone rebooted, it says cannot mount sd card, use UI something. Then it just flashes the logo screen like before.
Update: reflashed with I9000UGL2 and the phone works now.
Now if i could only figure out what my original firmware was, Kies does not work now

To go back to stock:
1) Back up things u love
2) Make factory reset. Any reset options you can get
3) Wipe
4) Download firmware from samfirmaware.com
5) Patch with all 4 files
6) Factory reset, wipe, clear cache
Done

Well i followed the instruction from this page:
If you had enough or want to send it back in for warranty and want to go back to a STOCK ROM, this video shows how to go back to a 2.2.1 default ROM which in this case is JPY based - Made by AndroidGalaxyS:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1009197
The problem now is I cannot remember what firmware i had. My phone is not coming up as a bell phone and the code to reinstall the provider apps will not work.
I think im screwed, have a feeling there gonna know i was messing with my phone if i try to bring it back, which is what i want to do. I have a extended warranty from Future shop, and supposedly they will not honour it for any software related problems.
Also now when my phone boots i keep getting a gallery force close. The phone is like a semi functional brick right now.
Not sure if the firmware is region specific in Canada as well but i got my phone in BC?

Usual Darky f9999 my phone repair kit .
Boot to restore wipe Dalvik cache followed by factory reset and wipe .
Boot to download mode flash stock rom with pit relevant to that rom and repartition checked .
Once working you can upgrade as you want .
jje

Sarcasm, just do as stated above. Find the default canadian firmware. If you can make make ur phone upgrade/update with kies, without messing with kies itself you r home.
Sent from my GT-I9000 using XDA App

Usual Darky f9999 my phone repair kit .
Boot to restore wipe Dalvik cache followed by factory reset and wipe .
Im not to sure how to do that. Is that in the recovery mode?
Update:
I used titanium backup to wipe davlik cache. re flashed with Firmware: I9000MUGKC1 found here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1022445
Still no luck Kies says this device version cannot be updated.
I tried this code to get the stock bell apps but it does not work. nothing happens when you finish with # then if i press the dial button it just says USSID code rejected.
*#272*353285040815508#

[HELP] Can't Get Wifi To Work.

Right guys, I'm really stuck and about to smash my phone in half.
For some reason this morning my phone decided that it no longer wanted the Wifi to work, so it switched off and I haven't been able to get it to turn back on for more than 5 minutes. I've completely wiped the phone and started again, I've restored old working backups and I've updated to the latest versions of ROMs.
The weird thing that I find is that when I restore from an old backup the Wifi works until I go into settings, as soon as I do that the phone freezes before loading the settings and it breaks the Wifi, can't find anything on this and all previous efforts to revive it and solutions posted all over the internet are not working at all.
Really am about to break this phone, so please help!
Any solution would be helpful and I can quickly rule out the ones I have done.

Pulse654321 said:
Right guys, I'm really stuck and about to smash my phone in half.
For some reason this morning my phone decided that it no longer wanted the Wifi to work, so it switched off and I haven't been able to get it to turn back on for more than 5 minutes. I've completely wiped the phone and started again, I've restored old working backups and I've updated to the latest versions of ROMs.
The weird thing that I find is that when I restore from an old backup the Wifi works until I go into settings, as soon as I do that the phone freezes before loading the settings and it breaks the Wifi, can't find anything on this and all previous efforts to revive it and solutions posted all over the internet are not working at all.
Really am about to break this phone, so please help!
Any solution would be helpful and I can quickly rule out the ones I have done.
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If I had that problem here is the first thing I would try.
First restore the backup you said you had. (the one which has the working wifi).
After doing that go into settings>accounts> Backup and reset and select "Factory data reset".
Then reboot the phone, but don't setup your google(gmail) account yet, skip that step.
When you finally get to the launcher screen go into setting turn on wifi and see
if it's working properly.......
If it is, it means that there was something corrupted in your
data or settings which google/gmail backed up for you.
If that's the case then do a full SYNC with your google Gmail
account so google will no longer restore some corrupt settings
which causes your wifi not to work properly.
Good luck!

Sorry should have stated that I'm still running custom ROMs, I've got PACMAN on there at the minute, but I did as you said and the did the equivalent reset and then couldn't finish the setup because the setup wizard kept crashing. Either way it does ask you to enter your wifi password before entering your Gmail account and I couldn't do that because it was stuck on "Turning on wifi".
About to do a full reset back to a stock rom without root. Did some more testing last night and it seems that I keep losing root somehow, after a little while I'll go into titanium and it'll say root access lost, and then when I go into CWM when I got to restart it will say "Root access is missing, root device?" and neither option helps as if I click yes after a while it just 'goes' again.
I've also had some boot hangs which I've discovered other people have had when they've been faced with the same root missing message.

Pulse654321 said:
Right guys, I'm really stuck and about to smash my phone in half.
For some reason this morning my phone decided that it no longer wanted the Wifi to work, so it switched off and I haven't been able to get it to turn back on for more than 5 minutes. I've completely wiped the phone and started again, I've restored old working backups and I've updated to the latest versions of ROMs.
The weird thing that I find is that when I restore from an old backup the Wifi works until I go into settings, as soon as I do that the phone freezes before loading the settings and it breaks the Wifi, can't find anything on this and all previous efforts to revive it and solutions posted all over the internet are not working at all.
Really am about to break this phone, so please help!
Any solution would be helpful and I can quickly rule out the ones I have done.
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wifi didn't work?
if the office stock firmware can't get it work , maybe your phone need fix....

I haven't tried stock just yet, about to though, just updated CWM and SuperSU, did SuperSU before but not CWM. I'll see if this works if not then I'll do a full stock install, getting quite miffed off with this now.
Edit: New problem, I can't seem to flash stock as it keeps coming up Odin: write failure. Never had this before :/

For those that are still searching for the answer here is what I did. Links provided for ease.
This method will delete all user data.
This basically is a last resort type scenario so please follow it with caution.
Backup what you can, while you can. Plenty of tutorials online for that.
Download the ROM I9505XXUEMJ7, can be found at SamMobile but slow download. I alternatively used a pre-rooted one just for testing as I had no intention of keeping the Samsung ROM. You can find a copy here.
Download Odin 3.07 and 1.85 (I had problems using some files with them so had to keep swapping)
Make sure you have Samsung USB Drivers installed. (Download here)
Download I9505XXUEMJ7 WiFi FIX, here.
Optional Downloads:
Download CF AutoRoot 1.65, here.
Download CWM 6.0.4.4 .TAR files, see this post.
Now, If you're coming from a Stock ROM do this:
Go into Settings > Developer Options, and enable "USB Debugging". If you don't have that, you need to go Settings > About, scroll down to "Builder Number" and tap it 5-10 until it says "You are now a developer" and the Options should now be visible.
Put your phone into Download mode. (Power off/Remove battery. Then hold Vol Down, Power and Home button until it vibrates. Then continue if asked.)
Connect your phone to your computer via USB cable (if you've only just installed the USB drivers you may need to wait a while for it to recognise the device, you may also have to disconnect/re-connect the USB cable after it's finished loading the drivers.)
Open Odin 1.85 and load the downloaded ROM under the PDA Section (You don't need to change anything else)
Once Odin has added this device, should show "<ID:0/003> Added!!" or similar, click start.
When it's completed it should say "PASS" in green at the top. If it doesn't repeat steps 3 & 4 but with Odin 3.07.
Let it boot up normally, if it gets stuck on Samsung logo (Mine did), you'll just need to clear the user data & cache.
To do that you need to enter Recovery (Same procedure as download mode but Vol Up, not Down.)
Scroll down to "Wipe data/factory reset" and then scroll down to "Yes".
Then select "Reboot system now", it will restart straight away
Once it has finally loaded up select your language and then the next screen should be Wifi setup, if your wifi is working then you're done.
If you Wifi isn't working and won't turn on and is stuck, then continue the setup for the phone as you wish, I skipped everything and didn't enter any accounts as I didn't wish to keep it.
Once you're at the Homescreen, turn the phone off and put it in download mode again.
Open Odin 1.85 and select the Wifi Fix file under PDA. This time untick Auto-Reboot and then click Start once Odin sees the phone.
When it's completed it should say "PASS" in green at the top. If it doesn't repeat step 9 but with Odin 3.07.
Note: Most tutorials do state to add this under Phone, but I found that it kept failing and didn't work.
Turn your phone off and go back into download mode. (Again, I just pulled the battery out)
Close Odin and follow step 9 again. But you don't need to untick Auto-Reboot. This is to ensure that the Modem has been flash correctly.
When the phone has loaded again, try the Wifi out, hopefully this time it should be working. That's all I did after days and days of testing, and now it's working flawlessly.
If you then wish to install a custom ROM again, you are more than welcome to, quick guide:
Enable "USB Debugging", as above (Step 1).
Put your phone into download mode.
Open Odin 1.85, under PDA select the CF AutoRoot 1.65 file found at the top of this post.
Click start, let it restart and install SuperUser.
Once it's booted up, turn it off and put it back into Download mode.
Open Odin 1.85 and select the CWM 6.0.4.4 file and click Start.
When the phone has booted back up, you should now have working Wifi, a Rooted phone ready for exploitation and have Custom Recovery menu ready for you to install your new choice of ROMs.
Took me a long time to write this up, but if it helps just one person, then it will have been worth it. Enjoy!
Edit: I should also say a massive Thank You to all the developers out there that helped me get to this point by providing me with the Utilities, ROMs, Fixed Modems, Root and CWM.

Phone restarts at startup.

Well this is my 1st post so first of all hey everyone
I just spent a week in Amsterdam and my phone restarted twice, different times different days and I dont remember what I was doing with it back then.
But as I landed back home I put the phone back from "Airplane Mode" and went on to toggle "Cellular Data" on.
The second I pressed the cellular data shortcut on my the phone restarted itself but this time whenever it would finish the screen would be on but fully black and sometimes it'll show battery precentage at the top but then will restart again in an infinite loop.
Sometimes it'll pop up the "Optimizing Apps" window and will go through all 24, upon finishing it will restart once more and do the same.
I tried using the bootloader and it worked (the bootloader that is) but the phone would do the same thing even after Rebooting from there or shutting down from there and then turning back on.
I contacted tech support on chat but they couldnt help past telling me to go to bootloader and reboot, said I should factory wipe when it failed.
Also tried wiping cache but to no avail.
I have no backup of my phone (wanted to do one before the flight but got lazy and I suck for not doing one sooner) since probably October and google doesnt backup my contacts properly for some unknown reason.
I already downloaded Android Studio with everything included for me to try using adb to sideload stock without wiping but its my first time and I couldnt get it to do anything at all...
I already got the official stock .gz file from the motorola website.
Anyway here are the specs to my phone:
XT1575
Everything is stock. didn't root or change recovery once in my life.
Was fully updated and had plenty of drive space (I have almost 128GB with the 64GB version + 64GB SD)
I'm really lost here so help will be very appreciated.
Thanks in advance,
-Noam

Start with a full wipe and if that doesn't work flash the stock image. Not sure what your question is though as you never really say. Once fixed I would unlock and make a backup so you don't have to deal with this again.

lafester said:
Start with a full wipe and if that doesn't work flash the stock image. Not sure what your question is though as you never really say. Once fixed I would unlock and make a backup so you don't have to deal with this again.
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The thing I pretty much want to know is if theres a way to either backup the phone now with it connected to the computer while in bootloader or recovery. or a way to flash the stock rom without wiping which I read someone did with his tablet. I cant post source normally because I'm a new user so here it is but change spaces to dots: schnouki net/posts/2014/08/13/flashing-a-stock-android-image-without-wiping-user-data/
Also while in recovery I noticed 2 options under wipe: 1. userdata only. 2. userdata+(insert something I dont remember here) and I was wondering what gets deleted in both? if I delete only userdata what data will remain? something helpful?

Sure you can try flashing without wiping data but being locked I personally wouldn't risk it. No idea about backing up in your state... somewhere I remember a thread on backing up without root try searching in q&a.

lafester said:
Sure you can try flashing without wiping data but being locked I personally wouldn't risk it. No idea about backing up in your state... somewhere I remember a thread on backing up without root try searching in q&a.
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Out of curiosity why shouldnt I try flashing with no wipe if ill lose the data anyway? worst case wont I just have to wipe after it fails and flash again?
And I will try thank you
Do you have any knowledge about the 2 wipe options?
Thanks in advance

Well I tried turning the phone on and it took a couple of minutes before loading to a fresh start. It apparently wiped itself on its own. Managed to restore almost everything.
Anyhow the phone takes too long to boot now. Was even stuck at boot and I had to restart it.
Anyway to fix my software? Or at least check for corruption?
Sent from my XT1575 using XDA-Developers mobile app

Verification Failed, Unable to restart your device.

This dreadful error: "Verification Failed, Unable to restart your device. The Integrity verification has failed. You need to reset your device to factory default settings. This will erase all your data."
And a "Reset" button.
Nothing seems to have caused this. One minute phone was sitting on my desk happily, the next it rebooted itself (I assume) and this error appeared. Given that I'm not interested in losing my data I haven't pressed the factory reset button... because that's just silly.
- Phone is S5 Neo (W version). Rooted (CF-autoroot) with TWRP installed. Has been this way for months.
- Software updates are turned off
- ADB is disabled but I can access terminal using TWRP.
- Data partition is encrypted
What I've done so far:
- Backed up my Data partition using DD; but as it's encrypted I can't access the data
- Attempted terminal "twrp decrypt mypassword" using the password I used to unlock encryption at boot (result: "Failed to decrypt data")
What do I do now? Is there any way to decrypt this partition on my PC (I have linux and windows available to me) to at least rescue my data?
Thanks in advance...

I just had the same thing happen to me with the exact same model with the exact same settings as well today about a couple hours ago EXCEPT I never rooted the phone like yourself. So it isn't developer mode or anything like that. That can be ruled out. It's such f**king BS!
I heard rumors about nonsense like this years ago and the only way to supposedly fix the problem is to send the phone into samsung where they fiddle with the phone, never fix it, keep it (for whatever reason ??), and send a new phone back out IF we fall into warranty.
With all the corruption in the world and the shady happenings with government and businesses, why in the hell would any logical person send their phone back in to an OEM after it's been used? I'm a good person and come from a good family and all that, but ever since I had my information stolen from me a little over 5 years ago I really don't want to send my phone in and have my life in shambles again. No damn chance!
I'm thinking about calling in but I want all my info! I have important work related documents on here!
Only thing I am going to ask you is what software did you use to back it up (DD?)

Do these exact steps, Do not miss.
1. Reboot to recovery.
2. Do a data wipe (WIPE>FORMAT DATA) And Say "Yes"
3.Go to Reboot and Reboot back to recovery.
4.Download DM Verify Disabler https://build.nethunter.com/android-tools/no-verity-opt-encrypt/, Get the latest.
5.Copy in to the phone and flash it.
6.Go to Reboot and Reboot back to recovery.
7.Now Flash any rom as you wish.
8.Make Sure to Wipe Dalvik, Cache after.
Enjoy!!

Shameera_N said:
Do these exact steps, Do not miss.
1. Reboot to recovery.
2. Do a data wipe (WIPE>FORMAT DATA) And Say "Yes"
3.Go to Reboot and Reboot back to recovery.
4.Download DM Verify Disabler, Get the latest.
5.Copy in to the phone and flash it.
6.Go to Reboot and Reboot back to recovery.
7.Now Flash any rom as you wish.
8.Make Sure to Wipe Dalvik, Cache after.
Enjoy!!
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Shameera_N you sound pretty smart....but why didn't you read the comments we posted and actually try and answer what we asked? WE DO NOT WANT TO WIPE OUR DATA and there is no way that wiping is part of the solution.

For this do we need a rooted phone?

This happened to me on a completely stock SM-G903F with data encryption enabled. So it has nothing to do with custom recoveries or root. It seems that the encryption method is flawed.
I don't think there is a way to get out of this one, so I wiped it. I don't have all that much stuff on the internal SD of my phone except for apps and messages. Your SD card won't get formatted, so if you save your photos there, they should be safe.
It's a pain, but this means you can't really safely use data encryption unless you regularly take backups (and even then, factory resetting a phone is no fun), even if errors like this only happen once in a blue moon.

This happend to me on my SM-G920P. I just odin flashed stock rom and back to new no data wipe or loss.

Same problem with a samsung galaxy s5 neo. Envrypted partition, Stock firmware, no root and updated.
At least i understood what caused it. I was listening to a youtube video. While the video was playing, i pressed the power button and switched off. When i switched on, i could not start android anymore

Shameera_N said:
Do these exact steps, Do not miss.
1. Reboot to recovery.
2. Do a data wipe (WIPE>FORMAT DATA) And Say "Yes"
3.Go to Reboot and Reboot back to recovery.
4.Download DM Verify Disabler https://build.nethunter.com/android-tools/no-verity-opt-encrypt/, Get the latest.
5.Copy in to the phone and flash it.
6.Go to Reboot and Reboot back to recovery.
7.Now Flash any rom as you wish.
8.Make Sure to Wipe Dalvik, Cache after.
Enjoy!!
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Thanks for the link, do you know who built this? Need update for 7.0...

githyanki said:
Thanks for the link, do you know who built this? Need update for 7.0...
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You can use same for 7.x.x Use latest version from the link

I know this isn't exactly related to the issue in this thread, but I'm not having much luck elsewhere.
My completely stock J3 (2017 model, J327A) was hit with verification failed. From what I've seen, I can fix my issue merely by flashing the original OS back into my phone. I have the files and programs I need to do this.
But I can't get the phone into download mode. I can boot it up to the warning screen. It tells me to press VolUp to enter download mode, or VolDn to cancel and restart the phone. However, neither pressing nor holding either of them does anything. I know they aren't broken, as I can boot into recovery mode as well, which requires VolUp. The buttons just don't respond when I'm at the warning screen. Is this something I can work around, or something I have to be patient with, or something I can't fix?
(Data partition is encrypted, though. Not sure if that will affect this.)

Simply long press the Shut Down Button !!!!!!!!
I simply pressed the shut down button and restarted my phone and it worked !!!!!

A light at the end of the factory reset error tunnel!
Well I had an encounter with that dreaded 'factory reset losing all data' message and I'm telling you I was furious! Anyways, after a few seconds of gasping and wondering how the heck am I gonna retrieve all of my data and stuff, the thought came to me to try some 'old school tactics' which involved removing the battery and pressing the power button to drain any residual power remaining on the phone's circuit board and then try powering up after reinserting the battery. Low and behold, the phone booted up with no issues at all. I was able to log in and access my phone as if nothing happened. It's funny how that one message can just change your whole outlook on things. I just hope that folks out there will try this and perhaps it will work for them instead of losing all their data and jumping through all sorts of hoops. Most importantly, BACK THAT THING UP!! You never know what next will come out of the woods at any given time!

Resolved error without loss of data
Hi,
I came across this problem today as soon as I woke up today, but was able to solve it.
I have a Samsung J5 prime phone and did the following steps:
Why this occurs?
The system thinks you wish to root your phone.
How to solve this?
1) when you have the verification failed screen, press "power" button + "Home" button + "Volume Down" button.
you'll be presented with a new screen which gives you 2 options-first, installing a custom OS and second, canceling it.
NOTE: I did not want to root my phone.
2) Hence, I chose the 2nd option and after that, my phone restarted with no loss of data.
Hope this helps!

if u can boot into recovery, go ahead and wipe cache/dalvik cache and reboot
this worked for me without any loss (i used twrp recovery to wipe and my device is SM_C900F /INS variant)

zay2046 said:
This happend to me on my SM-G920P. I just odin flashed stock rom and back to new no data wipe or loss.
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Sir, can you guide me a bit further ? it just happened with my J7 prime and i don't want to loose data.

Same Problemo
I Jst Had The Same Issue, Bit I Fixed It Straight Away, Jst By Restarting It, Hold Both "Up & Down Volume", "Power Button" and "Home Button", And It Restarted & Worked

This works!
This worked with my daughters J7. THANK YOU!
udit_e said:
Hi,
I came across this problem today as soon as I woke up today, but was able to solve it.
I have a Samsung J5 prime phone and did the following steps:
Why this occurs?
The system thinks you wish to root your phone.
How to solve this?
1) when you have the verification failed screen, press "power" button + "Home" button + "Volume Down" button.
you'll be presented with a new screen which gives you 2 options-first, installing a custom OS and second, canceling it.
NOTE: I did not want to root my phone.
2) Hence, I chose the 2nd option and after that, my phone restarted with no loss of data.
Hope this helps!
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Shameera_N said:
Do these exact steps, Do not miss.
1. Reboot to recovery.
2. Do a data wipe (WIPE>FORMAT DATA) And Say "Yes"
3.Go to Reboot and Reboot back to recovery.
4.Download DM Verify Disabler https://build.nethunter.com/android-tools/no-verity-opt-encrypt/, Get the latest.
5.Copy in to the phone and flash it.
6.Go to Reboot and Reboot back to recovery.
7.Now Flash any rom as you wish.
8.Make Sure to Wipe Dalvik, Cache after.
Enjoy!!
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Came here to thank you with all my heart, this worked. I've been using TWRP for years on several phones, and I never knew that Wipe > Format Data did something different than Wipe > Advenced Wipe > Selecting Data > Swiping. I thought it served the same purpose. I don't know if the script did anything, though (because I used it before, but without formating data, and it didn't help at all).
Anyway, thank you so much!

how to remove Verification Failed or root in the TWRP file manager without losing data