Hello, I rooted my handset yesterday following the tutorial on Android Forums, my Vodafone (UK) branded build is JDQ39.I9505XXUBMEA
I also installed CWM PhilZ Touch 5 (v6.0.3.7)
It works fine inside the OS but occasionally, when I restart the phone, it just hangs on the Samsung Mobile logo?
When that happens, I have to hold the power button then hold Up+Home and boot into PhilZ and then go to Reboot System Now and that restarts the phone mostly back into Android as normal.
Any ideas what the problem could be?
Good question. Haven't come accross something like that. I suggest flashing whatever ROM you want. It should get rid of your problem. If you still want a stable rom with all Samsung features, download Wanamlite 2.0 rom. It's a very good replacement for your stock rom. Or you can try Omege rom. It includes all samsung bloatware incl. S HEALTH etc.
Good luck and let us know! :thumbup:
Thanks for the quick reply.
I have used CWM to do a full data back up onto my SD card. As I'm new to rooting, is there a way I can restore that data onto a new rom so I don't have to keep setting up my phone completely? Even like, settings and shortcuts on the home screen etc?
Not really. What you can do is backup all your apps etsc with Titaniumbackup. With this you can restore all apps+data.
Setting up your phone isn't that bad considering its only settings.
Tha initial backup youve made through CWM is only a backup of your system. I dont think this includes all apps. I never revert to a previous rom. I prever a clean install to have the best rom exlerience without bugs etc.
If you try a new rom. And you dont like it at all(not likely) or for whatever reason you want to revert to you stock rom. You can restore it via CWM. Thats about the only reason why youve made that backup.
Good luck.
Oh yes, one more thing. Remember to press the Thanks button :thumbup:
Will that (Titanium) back up my apps exact settings as well? Say like my login details or custom settings I have changed within an app?
So the back up I made using CWM (which was complete data and apps and cache I think?) can restore my phone to exactly the instance when I pressed back up including the ROM?
To be honest, I'd be interested in the same Vodafone rom that's rooted so I can just use Titanium to freeze the bloatware, I've had a look at the recommended ROMs which have options to disable loads of Samsung bloatware but I use a lot of them...
I've got the note 3 for Sprint, and I already rooted it a long time ago. I recently got rom manager and backed up my apps, downloaded cyanogen mod 11, then tried to install it. Once I do this it gets stuck in bootloop. Any ideas? IIRC I rooted with odin. It was a long time ago, though.
Did you get the good ROM. They are now separate.... Have you done full wipe
I haven't done a full wipe, and I got the download from cyanogen mod's site, specifically the one for the note 3.
(Move if necessary please)
OK Hi. I've got a S5 (Again) now obviously I going to change the phone to a cyanogen (As that seems to be the best out there unless anybody can tell me differently)? Anyway, I think I have everything I need (TWRP, The google app store thing and the cyanogen rom itself) before I go ahead and install though should I be backing things up i.e. the imei so forth? I don't want the phone to go tits up and leave me bricked
Hey everybody, I know the struggle of trying to get a new ROM to bring new life into your old M7 but all the Roms the gps doesn't work.
This never bothered me until Pokemon go came out lol, well there's an easy fix. Takes a little bit to make happen so have your phone charged and/or be by your charger.
Ok here it is..
You will need a copy of the HTC stock ROM and a copy of the new ROM you are looking to use.
Download the new ROM of your choosing and flash it via twrp.
Setup your ROM and get it how you like it. Once all that's done, go into twrp and make a backup of your new ROM.
Now it's time to wipe the ROM and factory reset via twrp.
Once that is complete, flash the stock ROM.
Now boot the stock ROM and grab some food and don't do this if you need your phone in the next half hour. After 10-20 minutes of the ROM setting itself up, turn on GPS and load Google maps.
Now some more waiting..
You need to let the app run and search for GPS with WI-FI off until it locks on to your location, which might take another 10 or so minutes.
Once you've locked onto your location, close the app. Wait a minute, open it back up and make sure it's got your location just to be safe.
OK! We're about 75% done!
Now reboot back into Twrp. All you do now is go into the restore option and restore the backup you originally made. Do not wipe/reset before you do this just go right to restore and restore the backup we made at the beginning of this post.
Voilà!!
Now reboot your phone, and the gps will work on the custom Rom your using.
I've tested this on the GPE M7 Rom as well as Cyanogen Mod.
Dear Experts,
I just got a brand new Note 3 with Android 5. I started encrypting the phone as brand
new, so that it would contain as less data as possible. It rebooted, then it showed the
picture with percentage. After reaching 100%, it rebooted again and is now for almost 1 hour showing the SAMSUNG logo with some stars flying around it.
Please kindly let me know if this is normal ? I think that when the stars are moving on the screen, the CPU must be working in order to display that...
Also, the blue LED is flashing... Please kindly advise on what to do.
Thank you!
It's flashing blue because the phone is trying to boot but it's not having any luck. You may have to boot into recovery, perform a factory wipe, and start over.
Personally, I do not encrypt my phone because it becomes a pain to get data off the phone if the data is encrypted.
Thank you. So you think it makes no sense to wait any longer ?
But how can this happen with a brand new phone ????
Btw. this is why it's being encrypted - to not be able to get the data out of it
You could wait but the flashing blue led means the phone is in the process of loading the ROM with the associated apps and data partitions. If it can't load the data, it will hang the phone.
OK, THANK GOD I was able to reset it and it finally booted! I had been doing a few little things with the phone, just the few minutes after I started using it. Maybe this made the encryption fail.
I am relaunching the whole process once again and we'll see. If it fails again. I'll have to be using it unencrypted :-/
Unless someone has a better idea...
Nope, still the same !!! What to do ??????? Please advise...
Come on, anyone, anything, PLEASE ???
Is the phone running a pure stock ROM, including recovery?
I always avoid encrypting phones. Too many risks and issues. I recommend just having a strong password lock.
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darkman088 said:
Come on, anyone, anything, PLEASE ???
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Simplest solution. Is to try to boot into recovery. Perform data wipe. Do a clean boot
If that fails.
Try to go into download mode. Flash stock rom. Clean boot.
If that fails.
Do emergency recovery in kies or smart switch. After that clean boot
After that. Disable encryption. Yeah it's more secure but also as you experience now. When it fails a pain to solve.
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@audit13 - yes, it was running stock Android 5.0, which btw. looks much nicer than 6.0.
Today I have flashed Marshmallow on it and it looks TERRIBLE :-/ I'm sooooo unhappy with the design!
Perhaps I should find a Jelly Bean ROM to flash to my phone :-/
@aquatarkus - why ? You don't think that anyone will unsolder the chips from your phone in order to read them out ? Is the screen lock really so strong ? No way to go around it through some USB attacks ?
And what about your SD card ?
@Michel - it's more or less what I did, but still no solution for that stock ROM that the phone came with.
Thank you for answering!
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@audit13 - yes, it was running stock Android 5.0, which btw. looks much nicer than 6.0.
Today I have flashed Marshmallow on it and it looks TERRIBLE :-/ I'm sooooo unhappy with the design!
Perhaps I should find a Jelly Bean ROM to flash to my phone :-/
@aquatarkus - why ? You don't think that anyone will unsolder the chips from your phone in order to read them out ? Is the screen lock really so strong ? No way to go around it through some USB attacks ?
And what about your SD card ?
@Michel - it's more or less what I did, but still no solution for that stock ROM that the phone came with.
Thank you for answering!
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So could you please state the current problem again? Because if I'm correctly you van boot into the rom atm, but encryption fails? Or you are still stuck in the boot process?
What is it exactly what you want right now?
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I no longer have the note 3 but I have the Nexus 5 running stock MM and it looks fine to me.
Maybe encryption needs a stock ROM with stock recovery? I never use encryption on any phone as I don't have anything that is that confidential on my phone.
OK, let me put this together very quickly:
2 days ago I got my brand new Note 3. I played with it a little and said - let's encrypt the phone, till I didn't put much stuff on it, so it will be faster. Once it got to 100%, it rebooted and stayed at the SAMSUNG logo with stars flashing around it and the diode flashing blue. I was waiting and waiting and waiting and nothing! I reset it to factory settings from the original recover, repeated the process - the same! I also tried the fast encryption option - again the same!
Then I have flashed the latest TWRP recovery and tried:
1. The VisionX ROM - Android 5. When I selected encrypt, the screen went completely black. I went to sleep. The next morning it was only showing the SAMSUNG logo in fire and that kept on for another couple of hours till I decided to kill it by taking out the battery.
2. The Slim ROM Android 5.0 - when I select encrypt, it immediately reboots. It kept showing just circles for 2.5 hours with no change. Then I decided that it makes no point to wait longer and I killed it by taking out the battery.
3. The TouchWiz Marshmallow for Note 3 ROM - SUCCESS !!!
The question is - why all the Android 5 ROMs are failing to encrypt the phone ? I prefer to stay on Android 5, as Android 6 is extremely ugly, I can't stand its looks with all the white background and round icons. Perhaps I should flash a ROM with Jelly Bean 4.3, just don't know how it looks with encryption there - pretty miserable I guess...
Thank you!
darkman088 said:
OK, let me put this together very quickly:
2 days ago I got my brand new Note 3. I played with it a little and said - let's encrypt the phone, till I didn't put much stuff on it, so it will be faster. Once it got to 100%, it rebooted and stayed at the SAMSUNG logo with stars flashing around it and the diode flashing blue. I was waiting and waiting and waiting and nothing! I reset it to factory settings from the original recover, repeated the process - the same! I also tried the fast encryption option - again the same!
Then I have flashed the latest TWRP recovery and tried:
1. The VisionX ROM - Android 5. When I selected encrypt, the screen went completely black. I went to sleep. The next morning it was only showing the SAMSUNG logo in fire and that kept on for another couple of hours till I decided to kill it by taking out the battery.
2. The Slim ROM Android 5.0 - when I select encrypt, it immediately reboots. It kept showing just circles for 2.5 hours with no change. Then I decided that it makes no point to wait longer and I killed it by taking out the battery.
3. The TouchWiz Marshmallow for Note 3 ROM - SUCCESS !!!
The question is - why all the Android 5 ROMs are failing to encrypt the phone ? I prefer to stay on Android 5, as Android 6 is extremely ugly, I can't stand its looks with all the white background and round icons. Perhaps I should flash a ROM with Jelly Bean 4.3, just don't know how it looks with encryption there - pretty miserable I guess...
Thank you!
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I can't answer the question why the encryption keeps failing. What I do know is that marshmallow offers a lot more then lollipop. And that with the option of the theme store and or a custom launcher and icons packs. You can customize the white background and icons to your liking.
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There is no stock mm rom for this phone so we are stuck with LP for a stock rom.
Michel, as you started the topic about themes - can you pls briefly describe how that works ?
I googled it a bit, but didn't find a simple method. Many thanks!
darkman088 said:
Michel, as you started the topic about themes - can you pls briefly describe how that works ?
I googled it a bit, but didn't find a simple method. Many thanks!
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Samsung included the home store for later end flagships.
I know that through the use of the phoenix rom the galaxy S5 which didn't had support for the theme store got access to it.
You should check with the developer of the rom. Or the Op of the rom if the mm rom available on here comes with support for the theme store.
If it includes that.
You can access the Samsung theme store from touchwiz and download another skin for touchwiz.
This will affect the icon set, notification / dialer and contacts page.
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