Hello to all. First, thank to the devs for all the fantastic work done, and to all the people willing to check and answer these threads. So down to my problem.
When I first got my S5 (SM-G900F) I immediately rooted with cf-autoroot. Tripped knox but worked well. From there I went on to install Twrp and then CM 11. The bugs drove me off, so I wanted a tw based rom. At the time I chose XtrStoLite (spelling?) And that worked a treat.
So after a while I found alliance rom and thought wow, this is great. So I installed it as per the instructions in the OP. Now we get to problem one: I got stuck at the Samsung boot screen. No boot logo, nothing, no matter what I did, even formatted /system, still nothing. I tried a few suggestions from the extremely helpful dev, @Goldie, none of which worked, such as flashing another rom first, so I tried with cm and slimkat. Didn't work. Tried updating supersu, didn't work. Tried different TWRP version, nothing. Tried Philz. Tried different Kernel with and without SELinux set to permissive and still it would need a battery pull at the Samsung "powered by android" screen.
Okay, last resort, flashed stock for my country (south africa), flashed TWRP, installed towelroot, rooted, flashed newest supersu, installed busybox and retried. This time something changed. Instead of freezing at the first Samsung screen, it now showed "Set Warranty Bit: kernel" in yellow at the top. Then the screen would go black, phone would vibrate twice and then reboot. So now I had a boot loop.
It was suggested to try omega, to see what happens. Well, it works fine. To date I've tried 5 different working roms. Was told to flash via omega, so I did, but same issue. At some point when I was on stock I even did a factory data reset, effectively wiping sdcard. Just in case. Formatted the external sdcard too. Formatted everything from /system to dalvik to /cache and /data, and eventually /data/media, and still that didn't work.
I'm really at a loss here. I'm the only one of all the other users with this issue. The devs have gone way over and beyond to help me, and that makes me happy. I donated because they've done more than others would. But basically I just need ideas of what the problem could be and why this is happening, if anyone has any ideas.
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Hello, i recently purchased a samsung s5 900w8. I had one before rooted with alliance rom fully customized but i lost it at work in contruction. so i rooted my phone no problem got twrp on it and tried this with philz touch on it no problem. but when i go to install the rom i get ether one or two problems same on both recoverys, also tried different versions for alliance rom. It ether says it installed good i go to reboot and it keeps loop back to recovery when i boot it. Or when it installs and i go to reboot, it says root not detected will you root now (i've selected both options) and it gets stuck at the samsung powered by android logo. I've followed video and article how to's and for this mod and i still am having these problems please help.
tr0nic135 said:
Hello, i recently purchased a samsung s5 900w8. I had one before rooted with alliance rom fully customized but i lost it at work in contruction. so i rooted my phone no problem got twrp on it and tried this with philz touch on it no problem. but when i go to install the rom i get ether one or two problems same on both recoverys, also tried different versions for alliance rom. It ether says it installed good i go to reboot and it keeps loop back to recovery when i boot it. Or when it installs and i go to reboot, it says root not detected will you root now (i've selected both options) and it gets stuck at the samsung powered by android logo. I've followed video and article how to's and for this mod and i still am having these problems please help.
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I would try installing a different kernel, Adam kernel by wanam works good for me.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=55526561
Also I would use ktoonsez latest version of twrp.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=53277016
And if all else fails, I would re-download the rom, just in case it is a bad download.
SM-G900W8, 0x1
A recovered flashaholic since Aliance Rom 5.5
Hey guys,
I have been running CM Kit Kat forever on my phone and I decided to switch to Lollipop.
I can't, for the life of me, get the phone working again.
I cleaned everything off the phone (full format) and installed flashed CM 12.1 from the download.cyanogenmod site for GS4 AT&T (18Sep2015 nightly)
I installed Gapps from the opengapps site (ARM/5.1/Mini)
When I boot up, it optimizes 104 apps and then it says "starting apps", then something about updating contacts, and then "Unfortunately, [Every app] has stopped". When I clear all those, I can't even get in because I can't use the keyboard.
I tried installing without the Gapps and I can get it running, but without the play store, I'm pretty sunk.
I tried about 4 different links for Gapps and 2 different links for CM.
I tried repairing Root, not repairing root, installing gapps first, wiping dalvik/cashe between flashes. (this is everything I could find on people having the same issue).
I'd really like to get this working. Does anyone have any advice or proven method for doing this? I'm a little illiterate on all of these things. My brother did the install/flash stuff for me 2 years ago and I haven't really learned how to do much besides putting stuff on my SD card and booting into recovery to install it.
Additional, potentially useful information:
AT&T version/SIM
16GB storage version
I don't care about any data at all-everything I need is backed up to the cloud
I don't have any of the software I used to originally put CM on or root/custom recovery.
I have TWRP on it but I don't remember how to install or change that.
Edit: Well now I'm really screwed. I can't even get it to boot past the "Samsung Galaxy S 4" screen. I'm in so far over my head! Please bail me out!
UPDATE: Please read the next post.
A while back, I rooted my v20 with magisk using this method and everything worked fine for a few months, except for a few issues that reflashing the system would fix. Last night, SystemUI kept crashing (the status bar and the buttons would disappear). After a while, the phone crashed, and then it completely refused to boot. It would very rarely get to the lock screen, but it usually crashes soon after I unlock it. I tried everything I know of that could fix it, such as restoring the boot partition and reflashing magisk, reflashing the system partition, and wiping the cache and dalvik/ART cache. I eventually gave up with this and just reset it through the wipe menu in TWRP. I was able to get the phone to work for about a day without any issues, and then the same thing started happening again. It would take a really long time to boot and the system would crash. I tried using that ~1 minute it gives me before crashing to enable core mode in magisk to prevent any modules from loading, but that didn't do anything. I am really confused as to why this would happen considering that I reset the boot and system partitions multiple times in this process, and eventually did a full reset. It should be like a brand new phone. I really don't know what could possibly be the issue. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Update: It turns out that Magisk Core Only Mode did not properly apply because of yet another crash. I cleared my cache once more, which gave me enough time to properly apply it, and now my phone is staying on and not crashing. But this still is concerning to me. I was able to run Magisk modules perfectly fine in the past, including after the most recent Magisk zip update, so why is it that I can no longer run modules, and that this issue persists after a factory reset? It can't be an update, because, as I stated, I was able to run modules just fine for at least a week before these issues occurred. Please correct me if I'm wrong, but this makes absolutely no sense and I want to be able to run modules again. I even deleted the modules through TWRP but the only thing that seems to fix this issue is completely disabling all other features via Magisk Core Only Mode.
Update 2: A Magisk update came out recently and I tried updating to that to see if it would fix the issue. This only brought back the original crashes. I tried using the Magisk uninstaller zip (because I found that simply reflashing Magisk isn't enough, there are other files which magisk uses to store data.) After doing this and reflashing Magisk, it worked for a little bit, but, me being me and wanting busybox installed, I managed to bring back the crashes. After that, uninstalling and flashing magisk would work, but only until a reboot. I am at a complete loss. I am currently backing up my internal storage (manually since TWRP doesn't) and I will try a full /data format.
Ok, it has been a few days since I wrote the previous section but I decided not to post it because if the /data format worked, I didn't want to have bumped it for no reason. At first, it worked, and I decided to leave it like that without rebooting it for a few days or messing with Magisk, and my phone worked perfectly. I had to restart my phone because Google photos was acting up, and it started crashing again. I am genuinely confused. I completely formatted my phone and reflashed Magisk several times, and it is still crashing. I just reset my phone again because I attempted to just restore a stock boot backup from before I installed Magisk, which made my phone completely unbootable. I pulled the battery and found that it tried re-encrypting the phone (AFAIK, TWRP doesn't support encrypted data on the v20, which really sucks) so I had to wipe it and flash Magisk so it wouldn't re-encrypt it. I will try to do this again, but I don't want to not be able to restart my phone (which is so far the only thing that's working for me). This time, not even uninstalling and re-flashing Magisk worked this time, as it has all of my previous attempts. I had to completely reset it. Again. I really need this issue fixed. I probably already said this, but I would greatly appriciate any possible help I could get. I really want my phone back.
Ok I forgot to include some basic information about my phone.
Model number: LG-H910
Android version: 7.0
Android security patch level: April 1, 2017
Kernel version: 3.18.55
Build number: NRD90M
Software version: H91010m
According to Kernel Auditor:
Kernel: Linux version 3.18.55-Werewolf-2.0-Basilisk ([email protected]) (gcc version 6.3.1 20170430 (GCC) ) #1 SMP PREEMPT Sat Jun 24 00:56:07 CDT 2017
Bump/Update: This is a small one, but, despite not restarting my phone, Magisk is showing an error "Magisk is not installed". Root access also disappeared. I don't know how much longer I can keep it on without having to restart it due to random issues like these that usually fix themselves with a reboot. I would appreciate any help.
Seems like your phone is all sorts of wacked out. I noticed from the specs your using the werewolf kernel. I had all sorts of performance issues as well as random reboots using that kernel. Since you're losing root and the system is overall unstable I recommend wiping clean and starting over. Wipe system, data, cache, and dalvik in twrp and flash the full stock 10r zip by runningnak3d. It will put you on the latest security patch with the newest firmware available. I recommend installing askerm2000 1.4 kernel as it is very stable and works well on the h910. Flash magisk last (latest 15.3 works great for me) and reboot. Hopefully will solve your problems. The 10r zip for the h910 plus askermk2000 kernel and magisk has served me well for a while now.
toastyp said:
Seems like your phone is all sorts of wacked out. I noticed from the specs your using the werewolf kernel. I had all sorts of performance issues as well as random reboots using that kernel. Since you're losing root and the system is overall unstable I recommend wiping clean and starting over. Wipe system, data, cache, and dalvik in twrp and flash the full stock 10r zip by runningnak3d. It will put you on the latest security patch with the newest firmware available. I recommend installing askerm2000 1.4 kernel as it is very stable and works well on the h910. Flash magisk last (latest 15.3 works great for me) and reboot. Hopefully will solve your problems. The 10r zip for the h910 plus askermk2000 kernel and magisk has served me well for a while now.
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Thank you. Before I do this, I have a few questions.
1. How do I disable force encrypt with Magisk? I remember when I flashed Magisk 14.0, that managed to disable force encrypt, but any other version of Magisk wouldn't do that when installing fresh (updates kept this setting). AFAIK TWRP is unusable on the v20 for things such as backups, file browser, etc because it isn't compatible with the encryption algorithm used by the v20. How would I turn off force encrypt with the latest Magisk zip
2. Should I do a full format data (where you have to actually type "yes" to confirm it) or just wipe those partitions using advanced wipe?
3. Will the askerm2000 kernel hide modified boot, unlocked bootloader, etc from safetynet just as Werewolf kernel did, and will it get rid of the static boot issue?
4. Will this increment ARB? If anything goes wrong, I want to be able to roll back.
5. If it was working perfectly fine before, what suddenly made everything come crashing down, even after multiple wipes? This is not as important as the other ones, I am just curious.
Sorry if these questions seem over excessive and/or obvious. Doing stuff like this tends to make me a bit nervous and I want to think of everything I can that might affect the outcome.
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Thank you. Before I do this, I have a few questions.
1. How do I disable force encrypt with Magisk? I remember when I flashed Magisk 14.0, that managed to disable force encrypt, but any other version of Magisk wouldn't do that when installing fresh (updates kept this setting). AFAIK TWRP is unusable on the v20 for things such as backups, file browser, etc because it isn't compatible with the encryption algorithm used by the v20. How would I turn off force encrypt with the latest Magisk zip
2. Should I do a full format data (where you have to actually type "yes" to confirm it) or just wipe those partitions using advanced wipe?
3. Will the askerm2000 kernel hide modified boot, unlocked bootloader, etc from safetynet just as Werewolf kernel did, and will it get rid of the static boot issue?
4. Will this increment ARB? If anything goes wrong, I want to be able to roll back.
5. If it was working perfectly fine before, what suddenly made everything come crashing down, even after multiple wipes? This is not as important as the other ones, I am just curious.
Sorry if these questions seem over excessive and/or obvious. Doing stuff like this tends to make me a bit nervous and I want to think of everything I can that might affect the outcome.
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Twrp can properly decrypt the v20. Twrp backup and restore works just fine for me. Never had an issue with this. You format data and then type yes. Wipes the data partition but this is only needed once. Decrypts the device and twrp can then do it's thing. Encryption problems stem from booting into system with a stock boot image that has force encryption enabled without flashing magisk or supersu. They modify the kernel to prevent the device from rencrypting. Latest magisk 15.3 has zero issues keeping the phone decrypted. The modified boot warning has nothing to do with the kernel. This is caused by the debug bootloader used to achieve root on the US carrier v20's. Nothing can be done to change that. ARB has not been incremented on the h910 so that isn't an issue currently. Potentially in the future, but not right now. The problems you're having could stem from a multitude of issues. Could be modifications you made, bad flashes, etc. If you're having issues with encryption and stuff sounds like magisk wasn't functioning properly at the end. I've been rooted since last January and haven't experienced anything like that before so I'm not sure
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Twrp can properly decrypt the v20. Twrp backup and restore works just fine for me. Never had an issue with this. You format data and then type yes. Wipes the data partition but this is only needed once. Decrypts the device and twrp can then do it's thing. Encryption problems stem from booting into system with a stock boot image that has force encryption enabled without flashing magisk or supersu. They modify the kernel to prevent the device from rencrypting. Latest magisk 15.3 has zero issues keeping the phone decrypted. The modified boot warning has nothing to do with the kernel. This is caused by the debug bootloader used to achieve root on the US carrier v20's. Nothing can be done to change that. ARB has not been incremented on the h910 so that isn't an issue currently. Potentially in the future, but not right now. The problems you're having could stem from a multitude of issues. Could be modifications you made, bad flashes, etc. If you're having issues with encryption and stuff sounds like magisk wasn't functioning properly at the end. I've been rooted since last January and haven't experienced anything like that before so I'm not sure
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Ok, I cannot possibly thank you enough for this. After this started happening, I seriously thought my phone was at the end of its life. If this were to happen, I wouldn't be able to get a new phone anytime soon. Not only did it fix the crashes (I only restarted it once, I'm not going to try to intentionally make it crash), It ALSO managed to fix my FM radio and (I think) the Google Assistant Voice Match unlock thing, both of which I never even thought I would be able to get back. Let's just hope that it stays this way. I have one last question. Would you say it's safe to download and install Magisk modules now?
NullBite said:
Ok, I cannot possibly thank you enough for this. After this started happening, I seriously thought my phone was at the end of its life. If this were to happen, I wouldn't be able to get a new phone anytime soon. Not only did it fix the crashes (I only restarted it once, I'm not going to try to intentionally make it crash), It ALSO managed to fix my FM radio and (I think) the Google Assistant Voice Match unlock thing, both of which I never even thought I would be able to get back. Let's just hope that it stays this way. I have one last question. Would you say it's safe to download and install Magisk modules now?
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Yes. I use a few modules myself without an issue. If you're unsure of the stability of a module, you can always take a nandroid backup in twrp prior to installation. If things are stable, and then you flash something and the phone freaks out, it's most definitely the mod you have flashed causing problems. Some modules make changes to the system partition that have the potential to problems. But I haven't had a module cause my device to bootloop or reencrypt. So I think you're good to go. Glad you're phone is up and running as it should. Very strange that it was in such a bad way, but crap happens. I have had zero issues with this setup (10r + 1.4 askermk kernel + magisk 15.3).
I have the stock firmware on the H990 version, I end up on the Crash LK screen error. I can access TWRP, how can I restore access to my device without losing data? Thanks.
So tl;dr version - i was using my tablet, saw an update to magisk, installed it, now it boots to black screen while running sambones rom
[SM-P580] [BQK1] SaMBoNeS
TWRP 3.2.3.0 --> 3.3.1.0
longer story:
i was trying to get a game to run, it wasnt...and realized it has been a while for a restart, so i checked to see if anything needs to be updated and saw magisk needed an update. i didnt note what version it was before but it was a version or two earlier than what it was trying to install.
rebooted to blackscreen no samsung logo
have tried restarting a dozen times, booted to TWRP, tried to force normal system boot through the UI, nothing.
I tried installing a new kernal [SiriKernel], it made it to the samsung logo, waited 15 - 20 minutes and it never made it past. restored a backup using TWRP
updated TWRP to 3.3.1.0, still no luck.
i had this problem a long time ago, and cannot figure out how i fixed it....it may have fixed itself but it isnt this time. any advice would be appreciated. I am trying to avoid wiping and starting again if at all possible because the problem seems familiar. also trying to stick to a rom for use with adaptive storage. if i do have to wipe if that can be done on a newer stock OS that's fine as well but last time i messed with this tablet it wasnt