Hi,
i think i broke my tablet ;_;...
Here is what I did:
- factory-reset
- update by flashing the latest 5.1.1 stock image
- rooted
- installed titaniumbackup pro + unlocker
at this point the tablet would still work fine
- copied my backup back onto the tablet with adb push
- ran a titaniumbackup "restore all missing apps, all app data, all system data" batch from that folder
now my tablet boots fine, but instead of the launcher all i get is a black screen. when I press&hold the powerbutton i get the "switch off" popup, and i can reboot to safe mode, but safemode also only gets me the black screen.
Could that be because _before_ the wipe the storage was encrypted, _after_ the wipe i did not encrypt the tablet?
as in, in the backup there's a setting that basically says 'this tablet is encrypted', but it actually isnt anymore?
Any ideas on how to fix this that still lets me restore that backup and have my apps, settings and files?
Cheers
M
hm... guess noone has any ideas...
are there any logfiles that i could check if i can still get in via adb shell?
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I have an Acer Iconia Tab A500 which is on stock 4.0.3 OTA rom. It is rooted with blackthund3r's ICS root 7.1.1. After installing a font from "Custom Android Font Switcher" by Bentotbox, the tablet rebooted and got stuck with a blinking android loading screen after the Acer screen.
**** I need a way to reset the font back to default or to get this font to work. ****
I have tried to use the reset button, the power + volume up + toggle lockscreen switch, the power + volume down, connecting to the computer via mini usb and rerooting, and am now trying to download "Flashtool v0.9.0.0". I have no SD card, though I could buy one if absolutely necessary (trying to use the update.zip way) (I also have scoured google looking for update.zip, still no luck; link would be appreciated). I have no nandroid backup (it crashed every single time), however all apps, music, etc have been backed up to computer. As long as it works again, I'll be thankful.
I have Windows 7 without a command line, but administrator permissions.
AgentJones said:
I have an Acer Iconia Tab A500 which is on stock 4.0.3 OTA rom. It is rooted with blackthund3r's ICS root 7.1.1. After installing a font from "Custom Android Font Switcher" by Bentotbox, the tablet rebooted and got stuck with a blinking android loading screen after the Acer screen.
**** I need a way to reset the font back to default or to get this font to work. ****
I have tried to use the reset button, the power + volume up + toggle lockscreen switch, the power + volume down, connecting to the computer via mini usb and rerooting, and am now trying to download "Flashtool v0.9.0.0". I have no SD card, though I could buy one if absolutely necessary (trying to use the update.zip way) (I also have scoured google looking for update.zip, still no luck; link would be appreciated). I have no nandroid backup (it crashed every single time), however all apps, music, etc have been backed up to computer. As long as it works again, I'll be thankful.
I have Windows 7 without a command line, but administrator permissions.
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yup ive had that app cause boot loops for me too i warned everyone in a commment? you have to flash a new rom the only way i got it to workwas doing all the wipes and flashing the sme rom although if its the same rom i dont think you would have to do all the wipes? im not sure
Help! I have been working this issue for the last 4 days.
After i bought the device, it worked great. The guy that i bought it from pull his SD Card and then factory reset. the next day, I held power button and selected recovery because i wanted to make a backup, restore to factory, install factory updates and my a500 to ICS.
In comes the problem... When it went to boot in to recovery, it failed. I reboot the device normally. Once up, I then adb device - CPUID comes up. Then i adb sh....error - adb sh: Applet not found.
any ideas?
TucanoRC
Hello, going to put this here if it helps anyone else out. Couldn't find a post that helped (there may be I might have not looked hard enough lol)
So after leaving it for a week today I let my Nexus 9 WiFi only do the latest OTA security update, halfway through it came up with an error and on reboot got stuck booting with the little Android fella on his back with a message saying it was corrupted.
First thing I went to do was install the factory stock image, but this would not let me as I had not unlocked the bootloader (and couldn't as I couldn't access the Dev menu in android previously). Tried a few other things including factory wipe/fastboot/etc and this is what fixed it for me
Note: you need ADB installed (plenty of ways to do that on XDA)
- Download latest OTA here
- Connect tablet to PC with USB
- On the recovery screen bring up the menu (Power button + up)
- Select 'Apply update from ADB'
- [Windows] Bring up CMD and navigate to the update location (Hold shift + right click brings up the option to open CMD in that folder location)
- Type 'adb sideload (ota file.zip)' in brackets is the file name of the download (Copy the file name and right click into CMD/Paste)
- Tablet should update and be working after that
I also wiped Cache after installing the image, whether you need to do that I don't know. Tablet is now back up and running. I had factory reset the unit before trying this, so I don't know if it will keep data. I assume it would do as OTA don't normally wipe data.
Hopefully this helps someone
This issue pops up every month with corrupted OTA process.
Numerous threads with this solution posted in it.
Thanks for sharing.
Hi everybody.
TL;DR
Recovery hangs upon booting and fastboot mode doesn't show up ADB interface on my PC. How to flash the phone?
Long version:
I wonder if you can help me. My old faithful Note 3 is badly misbehaving. Yesterday I filled almost all its internal memory with some movies before heading out on a trip, but some time later when I reset the phone after unusually long boot all user settings were lost. Well, something went wrong, couple of hours later there was reset after reset so I wanted to restore previous backup... but couldn't. TWRP was showing error messages (TAR something something, 255) very shortly into restoring process. It couldn't restore backup but also couldn't make new one as well (similar error with TAR and code 255 when trying to backup user data).
Something was very wrong, so I thought maybe I will flash newer TWRP 3.0 and give it a try but suddenly after next reset I couldn't even get into recovery anymore - TWRP gives me black screen after several seconds into booting it. No icons, no reaction to key presses, nothing. Even holding power button does nothing.
Ooooookay, it's time to enter fastboot mode then and flash new recovery manually. So I enter it, connect phone to my laptop and... nothing! No ADB interface. Some kind of samsung driver is installing, but the most important one, for ADB, just doesn't show up. It's really weird. Reinstalling drivers doesn't help, only the same one device that shows up gets different names, but that's it - no ADB interface, and, effectively, I can't flash anything because fastbot and ADB can't see any device. Odin can't see the phone too.
What's going on? Is the internal flash dying or what? But if so what does it have to do with ADB not showing up? Do you have any ideas that I can try out in this situation? I checked my laptop with a tablet that I have on hand and it shows up its ADB interface without problem in fastboot mode even though it's the first time I connect it to this laptop, so laptop and it's system are fine.
If nothing helps then, well, One+ 3, here I come.
EDIT: Problem solved. Turns out f2fs on data partition crashed and therefore TWRP couldn't start at all. I managed to flash Philz CWM via Odin somehow (after messing with drivers for some more time) which told me there is something wrong with /data because it couldn't mount it at all. It couldn't format it either. Fortunately SlimLP managed to start and after throwing up some errors I managed to do factory reset which formatted the internal memory back to ext4. Then flashing TWRP, formatting data back to f2fs, restoring backup and voila! It works again. Good, I'll wait until Note 8 if there ever will be one.
I think I've brought this upon myself - probably had a "delete all data after X incorrect password tried" set up, then my phone was in my sweaty pocket and the buttons pressed randomly...
Here's what happens when I turn the phone on
1) Normal boot into Android
2) Immediately a popup is visible "Deleting all data..."
3) Lockscreen is visible behind the popup but not accessible
4) Unable to take any step except reboot phone because I can't provide my PIN
5) Things start up as normal in the background, apps load, notifications come in, etc
6) Phone abruptly reboots into a blue screen that reads "Erasing..."
7) Phone reboots into recovery
8) I can then reboot the phone into Android again, go back to 1) above
Here's what I recall of how I've set up my phone
- Rooted via engineering boot image
- No custom bootloader
I don't think any data is actually deleted which is strange... everything that happens behind the "Deleting all data..." popup leads me to believe it's not successfully deleting (at least most) data.
Is there any way I can get out of this loop? Or possible backup all my phone data and restore it after I've reflashed the phone?
Any advice greatly appreciated, thanks
ninegoodthings said:
I think I've brought this upon myself - probably had a "delete all data after X incorrect password tried" set up, then my phone was in my sweaty pocket and the buttons pressed randomly...
Here's what happens when I turn the phone on
1) Normal boot into Android
2) Immediately a popup is visible "Deleting all data..."
3) Lockscreen is visible behind the popup but not accessible
4) Unable to take any step except reboot phone because I can't provide my PIN
5) Things start up as normal in the background, apps load, notifications come in, etc
6) Phone abruptly reboots into a blue screen that reads "Erasing..."
7) Phone reboots into recovery
8) I can then reboot the phone into Android again, go back to 1) above
Here's what I recall of how I've set up my phone
- Rooted via engineering boot image
- No custom bootloader
I don't think any data is actually deleted which is strange... everything that happens behind the "Deleting all data..." popup leads me to believe it's not successfully deleting (at least most) data.
Is there any way I can get out of this loop? Or possible backup all my phone data and restore it after I've reflashed the phone?
Any advice greatly appreciated, thanks
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Wipe all except sd in twrp recovery
Restore with stock rom or use twrp backup
to recovery^
ninegoodthings said:
I think I've brought this upon myself - probably had a "delete all data after X incorrect password tried" set up, then my phone was in my sweaty pocket and the buttons pressed randomly...
Here's what happens when I turn the phone on
1) Normal boot into Android
2) Immediately a popup is visible "Deleting all data..."
3) Lockscreen is visible behind the popup but not accessible
4) Unable to take any step except reboot phone because I can't provide my PIN
5) Things start up as normal in the background, apps load, notifications come in, etc
6) Phone abruptly reboots into a blue screen that reads "Erasing..."
7) Phone reboots into recovery
8) I can then reboot the phone into Android again, go back to 1) above
Here's what I recall of how I've set up my phone
- Rooted via engineering boot image
- No custom bootloader
I don't think any data is actually deleted which is strange... everything that happens behind the "Deleting all data..." popup leads me to believe it's not successfully deleting (at least most) data.
Is there any way I can get out of this loop? Or possible backup all my phone data and restore it after I've reflashed the phone?
Any advice greatly appreciated, thanks
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i was having the same problem when rooting my phone .Go to recovery , immediately keep pressing vol up & down ,u r in recovery. do a full wipe data settle the problem
My Galaxy Note 9 is also stuck in deleting all data due to wrong passcode entered too many times, yet my situation is slightly different.
-The phone is powered on.
-Unable to power off (must enter pin to turn off phone)
-It has a popup "Deleting all data..."
-Lockscreen is visible behind the popup but not accessible
-Unable to take any step because I can't provide my PIN
My phone is not rooted. Its normal and I am not all that tech savvy.
-Is it safe to pull the battery?