Yeah. I was trying to unlock my bootloader using Controllerboy's guide, and I managed to install TWRP. I also managed to unlock my bootloader. When I tried to restore my phone using the backup I put on my computer and back to my A7, it won't boot - it's stuck on the "ZTE powered by android" boot screen.
I think that the problem is that when I was copying the backup from my phone to my computer it said "unspecified error" but still let me copy the files (the files and the sizes remained the same) so I just ignored it. Whoops!
So I tried to install CM13 in hope that it will somehow fix things, and unsurprisingly everything is still the same.
So. What do I do? I think that the problem was that I backed-up system and tried to restore system (probably).
Anyone got a solution? Or even a system restore that will cure my phone?
Any help will be greatly appreciated! Thanks in advance!
I managed to solve the problem myself by re-wiping dalvik and installing CM 13! Odd that it worked this time and not the other time I tried it, but at least it works
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Hello all,
I installed this ROM on my phone: http://forum.xda-developers.com/galaxy-s3-neo/orig-development/rom-cyanogenmod-12-1-s3-neo-t3099384
Notably I used the 20151111 version. Everything worked fine. I did however decide to try to encrypt the phone. Everything looked ok, but now the phone is stuck at booting. Notably, at the "Starting apps" stage of the boot process. Unfortunately this is too early to get a logcat. I already tried wiping the cache partition, doing a factory reset and reinstalling the image.
Any ideas on how to unbrick the phone?
x2b said:
Hello all,
I installed this ROM on my phone: http://forum.xda-developers.com/galaxy-s3-neo/orig-development/rom-cyanogenmod-12-1-s3-neo-t3099384
Notably I used the 20151111 version. Everything worked fine. I did however decide to try to encrypt the phone. Everything looked ok, but now the phone is stuck at booting. Notably, at the "Starting apps" stage of the boot process. Unfortunately this is too early to get a logcat. I already tried wiping the cache partition, doing a factory reset and reinstalling the image.
Any ideas on how to unbrick the phone?
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Reinstall stock rom via Odin btw encryption screws up the phone in every aspect I recommend not doing so
so... my phone suddenly wouldn't accept my password anymore to unlock. i tried a couple of things, like deleting the files lockscreen files using TWRP to bypass that... but then it got stuck in a "android is booting" screen and everytime i tried to change my PIN, it would crash.
So i went to TWRP and wanted to reflash my ROM (I was using Resurrection Remix), but then I couldn't decrypt the data because ... the password again wouldn't work. so I finally decided to use sideload to try to flash everything again and it works, but the problem is that even after the factory reset, the phone will boot up but there won't be any images. You can hear the jingle play when you first turn on any android phone... but it's all black.
edit: I've tried flashing two different roms: RR & Lineage OS, both will boot up, but same problem.
I haven't been able to back anything up because... well the OS wouldn't boot up and my TWRP was being wonky and I can't restore anything...
Anyone have any ideas of how to fix this? I feel like i could use the format data and start from scratch... and make it work but then I assume that would wipe my titanium backups, which I haven't been able to extract out. so if anyone has any guidance on how to do that, that would be great. I've tried to use adb to extract stuff out but it hasn't worked and now I can't even do it anymore because I don't have usb debugging on.
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so... my phone suddenly wouldn't accept my password anymore to unlock. i tried a couple of things, like deleting the files lockscreen files using TWRP to bypass that... but then it got stuck in a "android is booting" screen and everytime i tried to change my PIN, it would crash.
So i went to TWRP and wanted to reflash my ROM (I was using Resurrection Remix), but then I couldn't decrypt the data because ... the password again wouldn't work. so I finally decided to use sideload to try to flash everything again and it works, but the problem is that even after the factory reset, the phone will boot up but there won't be any images. You can hear the jingle play when you first turn on any android phone... but it's all black.
edit: I've tried flashing two different roms: RR & Lineage OS, both will boot up, but same problem.
I haven't been able to back anything up because... well the OS wouldn't boot up and my TWRP was being wonky and I can't restore anything...
Anyone have any ideas of how to fix this? I feel like i could use the format data and start from scratch... and make it work but then I assume that would wipe my titanium backups, which I haven't been able to extract out. so if anyone has any guidance on how to do that, that would be great. I've tried to use adb to extract stuff out but it hasn't worked and now I can't even do it anymore because I don't have usb debugging on.
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have you try to re-flash your TWRP? maybe re-flasing your TWRP will work, also maybe installing the original rom will work, and then you can try to flash whatever rom you desire
as i know doing a factory reset from the TWRP delete all of your files, i mean everything. so i don't think that you still have the backup files
Flash the Official recovery of the oneplus 5 and then install OOS by adb into thé recovery.
Yes this post is correctly dated. I've had this device a LOOOONNNGGG time.
The device has been rooted since shortly after I bought it new years ago. I've had very few problems since... which is why it's never been replaced.
I believe I have the stock ROM, sorry it's been a while.
When I start the device it gets stuck at the splash screen with the sprint logo.
I can get the device to "download mode" but I don't know what to do once there and I'm not sure I can do anything from here.
I can get the device to "android system recovery."
I know I installed TWRP when I rooted and installed the rooted ROM but when I boot to recovery it doesn't go there.
I've wiped the "cache partition" but the problem remained. I'm not sure what else to do from here and still be able to salvage data.
I'm trying to salvage the data on the internal storage. I'm pretty sure I could successfully "wipe data/ factory reset" and get it to "function" again but that's not the priority. I'm going to replace it regardless of success or failure. Data recovery is the priority here. (pictures and videos of my young children as well as less important stuff like contacts.)
I have an old laptop with an old version of ubuntu I can use or a newer one with windows 7 to work with. I mention this in case it makes this easier to help?
Thank you very much if you try to take a stab at this or refer someone that might!
Update:
So I managed to install TWRP via Odin.
I booted to this recovery and my data partition appears to be empty?
When I try to back up I get the error message "unable to mount '/data'"
I tried doing a wipe, not one of the fancy extra options ones just the regular wipe and it failed.
Any guidance will be extremely appreciated.
Edit:
So I've come to the conclusion that the data isn't accessible because of encryption and my pass code. Is there any way to enter it via recovery and access this info?
Is anybody out there?
Edit 2:
I hope this helps someone someday. I haven't solved the problem but I think I'm making progress.
First I had an old version of TWRP. I installed the latest for my device and tried backing up again. I'm not sure but I think it's working. TWRP dosen't seem to need my password for the backup. I imagine I'll just need it to access the data later.
Edit 3:
No sooner did I save the last edit and my backup failed.
Process ended with error : 255
Hello! Long time lurker on here but first time posting. I follow this guide to unlock bootloader and install twrp on the zc553kl. https://forum.xda-developers.com/zenfone-3/how-to/zenfone-3-max-zc553kl-bootloader-unlock-t3691837
It kind of worked, and it did flash twrp. The only problem is that the twrp although launching, didnt seem to have permissions to access storage, probably due to a data encryption problem. all the storages had 0mb sizes and i couldn't do anything.
So naturally i googled my problem and tried a few methods.
Nothing seemed to work, and i ended up doing an advance wipe. That also failed and it said it didnt have access or permission to do it (something along those lines). Next day i decide to try again and now my internal storage seemed to show.
So i ended up formatting it, and while the files seem to be still there, i changed .ext4 to .ext2 and back again, and then it stopped recognizing the stock rom i still had installed. Please note that before all of this, although twrp didnt work properly, the phone still worked fine and booted into android. My problem is now the stock rom is gone, twrp says no OS installed, and i have tried my best to reinstall the stock rom, but that hasn't worked. Any ideas or help would be welcome thanks guys
Nyoxx said:
Hello! Long time lurker on here but first time posting. I follow this guide to unlock bootloader and install twrp on the zc553kl. https://forum.xda-developers.com/zenfone-3/how-to/zenfone-3-max-zc553kl-bootloader-unlock-t3691837
It kind of worked, and it did flash twrp. The only problem is that the twrp although launching, didnt seem to have permissions to access storage, probably due to a data encryption problem. all the storages had 0mb sizes and i couldn't do anything.
So naturally i googled my problem and tried a few methods.
Nothing seemed to work, and i ended up doing an advance wipe. That also failed and it said it didnt have access or permission to do it (something along those lines). Next day i decide to try again and now my internal storage seemed to show.
So i ended up formatting it, and while the files seem to be still there, i changed .ext4 to .ext2 and back again, and then it stopped recognizing the stock rom i still had installed. Please note that before all of this, although twrp didnt work properly, the phone still worked fine and booted into android. My problem is now the stock rom is gone, twrp says no OS installed, and i have tried my best to reinstall the stock rom, but that hasn't worked. Any ideas or help would be welcome thanks guys
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i downloaded a previous rom version from asus site and that flashed fine.
Hey there, a friend of mine works at a place where he is in charge of the correct disposal of broken electronics. So he usually gives me phones. This one had the screen cracked. So I replaced it and I am now trying to get it to work, as I found it stuck in a bootloop.... It reboots itself several times until it takes me to a emui menu where I can turn it off, wipe it, etc. It's the first time I repair a huawei so I don't have much of an idea what to do.
edit: At first I was trying to flash wrong stuff through the microsd card so It got stuck at 5% or give me errors, now I succesfully flashed emui 8 / 9 but anyways it's bootlooped. I noticed a safe mode option on emui 9 recovery, but that does nothing... Factory reset / cache wipe do nothing. When putting the phone to fastboot mode it shows "Phone locked" and "FRP Locked". I would just like to get it to boot but it keeps rebooting and going into erecovery.
If anyone knows anything that could help me fix it I would highly appreciate it.
Thanks
One of the tutorials about downgrading emphasizes that the micro SD must be formatted in ExFat. And you can also try to use HiSuite to restore/fix the system.
lfom said:
One of the tutorials about downgrading emphasizes that the micro SD must be formatted in ExFat. And you can also try to use HiSuite to restore/fix the system.
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Hi, thanks, but I forgot to mention that I also tried with exfat/ntfs format and it doesn't work either. Also, HiSuite says this phone is not compatible with system restore :\ any other ideas? Maybe I'm trying to flash the wrong file , but I tried about 7 files already and none of them work ....
edit: I searched for the downgrading post you mentioned just in case I could find something usefull and I tried the same file mentioned there and IT WORKED! damn, finally... thank you very much!
edit: Well, it does complete the updating process but then it's in a bootloop again. The post there says it's supposed to happen so a factory reset is required. I do that but anyways it doesn't help... but well, I guess I'm getting somewhere now... I installed the latest firmware version 9.0.0.3 and I know it installed correctly because the recovery is now white, so It must mean it updated. But anyways, still bootlooped... Safe mode does nothing, factory reset does nothing either...
Do you know what type of p smart it is like FIG-LX1 etc and which varient ?