Good morning. A little help needed here. Just got a XT 1575 from Craigslist. It is the 16 gigabyte version and is running marshmallow 6.0. It looks like the bootloader is unlocked but it is not rooted. When I go into settings to do a factory reset the phone just reboots. When I go to bootloader screen and try to go into stock recovery from there it just reboots after I select recovery. It doesn't go to the no command screen.
And I should be clear that the phone is not break. I can get into the OS but I cannot perform a factory data reset. It still has previous owners set up
What happens if you attempt to remove the previous owner's Google account?
Thank you for the reply. I have already successfully remove that account and logged in on my own. I installed supersu just so I could confirm that it wasn't actually rooted. already.
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My co-worker is going to sell my his Ideos S7, but he seems to be unable to do a factory wipe, and thus will not part with it until he does so.
He says he followed the directions on how to do the factory reset, but it continues to sync his Google account.
Any ideas on what could be done?
From the home screen, he pressed Menu, Settings, Privacy, and then Factory Data Reset? Did he let the process complete all the way, including the two reboots (it reboots once in recovery to wipe, then reboots again into the OS)?
I've used the Factory Data Reset to wipe my tablet 3 times now after messing with it, and never had my google account comeback automatically.
Be careful because it has been confirmed that this method does not remove the intial google login. This means that the new person that uses the device can access your google account and gmail potentially.
Can someone confirm this?
The best way is to flash a new firmware ROM from Huawei.
I have 10.1 Retail that was upgraded to 3.1 OTA prior to doing any of the tasks described here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1130574 I then loaded CWM 4.0.0.4 using those instructs and was about to pull the root trigger until I caught the buzz about the encrypted ones bricking. Encryption option is greyed out in Settings with no apparent option to unencrypt, and if I initiate a factory reset, it reboots and has the icon like it's going to wipe, but it immediately bails and reboots whereupon I get the encryption password screen and, after entering pass, it boots up having preserved all settings. Same thing happens when initiating factory restore through CWM. Just wondering if I have any other options to unencrypt right now so i can root?
I had this same problem. I have a 32GB retail version that I encrypted early on.
Long story short is that you need to revert the original recovery (part8.img) and then you can factory reset. Once you factory reset, the encryption will be removed and you can then reload CWM and root per the instructions.
thank you much. perfectly rooted now. good thing i backed up part8.img.
Hello folks,
The SGH-i337 is my first android device and I've had it only for a few days now. I rooted the phone using the "1 click root and debloat" files in the development section of this forum. Everything worked great after that. Today I installed an unofficial apk on my phone but I wasn't comfortable with it at all. So I did a factory reset (are you not supposed to do that?)
After the factory reset, the phone boots up and gives me the usual settings menu. At the end of the settings however, it lags for a few seconds before it says "Unfortunately, settings has stopped working". This brings me back to the "choose a device name" menu in settings. If I fill it out again and go through settings, it crashes again. I can't get into anything else on the phone since it keeps going through the initial setup.
I've tried booting into recovery mode and deleting the cache. I doubt that this clears it since the phone gives me an error and reboots. I tried selecting factory reset through the recovery mode but that also gave me the same issue (said error and rebooted).
After some searching I've found that flashing a stock rom with odin might be the best way to go. Is that correct or is there a better way? On the odin download page, it only lists the 9505 version for Galaxy S4. Could I use that for my SGH-i337?
I think the phone is still rooted because it says Samsung Custom before booting up. Thanks for the help!
Had same exact issue as well.
I booted in to download mode and flashed it with factory rom, then installed CWM.
This is what i used. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2297033
KGB7 said:
Had same exact issue as well.
I booted in to download mode and flashed it with factory rom, then installed CWM.
This is what i used. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2297033
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Oh man, you're a life saver. I'm downloading the file and I'll give it a shot. So just to confirm, I put the phone into download mode and run Run_Me.bat and that should fix the issue?
Also for future reference, are you not supposed to do a factory reset after rooting your phone? Thanks!
Fixed it
The issue arose because the settings program was supposed to follow up with at&t locker setup. But since I had deleted the at&t files with the debloat tool, it kept crashing. So the solution was to reset the phone to stock firmware. I used Odin 3.07 to flash the factory ROM onto the phone and now everything is back to normal.
I guess this also answers my previous question, if I'd probably have the same problem again if I do a factory reset.
aleatoric said:
The issue arose because the settings program was supposed to follow up with at&t locker setup. But since I had deleted the at&t files with the debloat tool, it kept crashing. So the solution was to reset the phone to stock firmware. I used Odin 3.07 to flash the factory ROM onto the phone and now everything is back to normal.
I guess this also answers my previous question, if I'd probably have the same problem again if I do a factory reset.
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Just dont use all in one tool as you did before. Just use the chooper rooting process in the link I provided.
Then manually remove the apps you dont with titanium backup.
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There's a whole complicated series of events, but here's the current issue:
I just did a factory reset, and now when I go to 'Add Accounts' in settings, neither Google nor Samsung work. Google doesn't even ask for login credentials, just skips straight to 'checking info' and then fails. For Samsung, it takes my credentials and stops on a blank screen titled 'legal information,' and a non-functional 'next' arrow on the bottom. I've tried wiping the cache and a full reset, but no luck.
Now, the longer story: I just got the phone, and was trying to install TWRP etc. I got it to work once, but then realized I hadn't done the OEM unlock. Somehow ended up in a bootloop and ended up re-installing stock firmware. Tried again with OEM unlocked and got TWRP installed, but then after flashing no-verity-opt-encrypt 6.0, it went into a bootloop again. Reinstalled stock firmware again, but now I can't get the OEM unlock to show up, the date won't stick where I manually set it, and the Samsung/Google accounts won't work. Tried to install TWRP again anyway, but the install failed. Factory reset AGAIN to see if it would fix the accounts issue, but nothing changed.
I've tried googling the issues but couldn't find anything exactly like this, so I have come to kneel and beg the android gods for help. ANY assistance or suggestions on what to try would me most appreciated.
Here's the specs:
Galaxy S8 SM-G950F
Android 8.0
Used Odin3-v3.13.1 (didn't read about Prince Comsy ver. until after all this...)
Used twrp-3.2.3-2-dreamlte.img.tar
Used stock G950FXXS4CRLB_G950FOXM4CRL1_BTU
No SIM
If anymore info is needed, please let me know. Thank you.
The tablet was reset by someone who should not have done it. When it came back, we couldn't get passed the google account screen. I figure it must be linked to the email account that my GF set up for her daughter. She no longer has access to that email nor does she remember what it was. I went ahead and did a factory reset from the bootloader (I think that's what its call) and cleared cache, now the system is stuck in the Lenovo Boot Screen and it won't go beyond that.
Any suggestion? I thought about rooting it and maybe getting in that way but I read that I must enable debugging mode and in order to do that I have to be in Android to activate it. Any suggestions?
1 more thing, I installed through the update in the bootloader what I thought was an OTA, I believe I made the situation worse as now it won't mount anything I can't even clear cache. There a way to install a OTA through my PC?