I cant make any changes to my phone. Every time I reboot it reverts back to the state it was this morning. I'm on CM7.
My phone was crashing today, so I decided to do a wipe, however on reboot everything reverts back to the state it was this morning.
I tried doing a nandroid restore using TWRP. Restore completed successfully, but everything reverts back to today's state on reboot.
I tried wiping everything in TWRP, but on reboot everything is reverted as if i had not done anything
Thinking TWRP was the problem i installed clockworkmod and did multiple wipes, but on reboot everything reverted
I have tried doing a Format system, data, etc and no matter what everything reverts back on reboot
I tried re-installing CM7, but again everything reverts back
I tried installing CM9 and it would not boot at all. I then re-installed CM7 and when i rebooted everything reverted to today's state.
Even if i uninstall an app, remove widgets, or anything, on reboot everything reverts back
When I try to wipe using system settings, I get the following error message "Invalid Path: null"
At this point I'm out of ideas. I want to do a full wipe and do a fresh rom flash. Any thoughts would be appreciated.
One more detail. I set the alarm on the phone for 7:00am last night, however the alarm went off at 6:30am which was the time I set it to the night before. I assume the phone rebooted on its own during the night and set the alarm back to what it was the day before. Thanks in advance if anyone has some insight.
No idea what the hell is going on with the phone.
Full wipe and flash the official factory images onto your phone with fastboot. They are here. https://developers.google.com/android/nexus/images
Guides on how to do it are on these forums....
albundy2010 said:
No idea what the hell is going on with the phone.
Full wipe and flash the official factory images onto your phone with fastboot. They are here. https://developers.google.com/android/nexus/images
Guides on how to do it are on these forums....
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I didn't try fastboot yet. I'll try that when I get home. Thanks
I just performed a wipe via fastboot and tried installing a rom via fastboot. I got successful messages, but open reboot everything reverted back. At this point I don't know what to do.
Installing a ROM via fastboot? What exactly did you do?
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Installing a ROM via fastboot? What exactly did you do?
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I actually just did the wipe via fast boot then installed the rom via clockwork. I performed the fastboot -w command.
I also just flashed Twrp again. Mounted the SD card, deleted all files on the SD card. SD card showed full capacity. I then unmounted and remounted and all files returned. I dont get any errors in clockwork or twrp yet they are unable to do anything and have it stick.
Within the rom i mounted The SD card and deleted all my files in windows. I took about 15 seconds and everything looked clear. I then unmounted and mounted again and all files appear. Its almost like i don't have write access to the phone, but there are zero error messages during deletes and wipes
Only thing left to try is stock screwing around with a ROM / cmw etc and flash factory images with fastboot.
Sounds like it may not work but try it. Was your device encrypted?
Can try a fastboot OEM lock and unlock and flash back all factory images. If that don't work you're Sol I suppose. Could try odin but if fastboot flash factory images dont work I don't see that working either.
It sounds like the sd card becomes read-only
I recently updating cyanogen12 to cyanogen13. Things were running well but while running backup I ran out of memory.
Realised I want installing lots of old apps I no longer used so thought I would factory reset and start again!!! Found out the hard way that this is not the done thing.
Now my phone starts to boot into recovery and all that happens is the 'Teamwin' page just flashes on and off. Is there any way to get the phone back or have I bricked it?
Thank you for any assistance
Flash TWRP with ODIN again, see if it boots, if not, flash CM13 without wiping from TWRP and see if it boots then
Make sure you clear the caches from TWRP, might be an idea to wipe SYSTEM before flashing CM13 again too
As long as you don't wipe DATA or INTERNAL STORAGE, you're apps etc will remain
So I was trying to flash the new N beta. I wanted to do it without wiping internal storage if possible so I went into the flash-all.bat and deleted "-w" so it wouldn't wipe. I wasn't sure if it would flash successfully without wiping but I figured it was worth a shot and if it didn't work I could always boot to TWRP, copy my data to my PC, then do a flash with a full wipe...
Well, after the flash completed and the phone booted up I'm getting the "Encryption Unsuccessful" error. Did it really attempt to encrypt my phone while flashing the beta? Why would it do that? Is there anything I can do at this point to avoid wiping my data? Losing my data isn't a huge deal, but I'd like to know why this happened...
I had the same after flashing Nougat factory in a similar way. However, I had hard-booted after about 15 mins into the first boot as I figured it was in a bootloop. However, I now suspect it was encrypting the phone while doing the first boot. If this was the case, thats a big usability flaw IMHO - it should notify what's going on, and tell the user to connect the charger. Anyways, looks like I'm going to have to restore from backup
if you used the stock boot image then that's why it encrypted you. Stock has forceencrypt. You need a modified boot image to remain decrypted. @Tigerstown has a thread with modified boot images for angler. Use that in place of stock boot image and decryption will remain. For now however you will have to format data. Soooooooo. Flash the modified boot image then format data and you will be decrypted again.
I'm having issues with restoring the factory image of stock Android 6.0.1, I'm using
@Heisenberg guide to create the fresh back up image on TWRP-3.0.2-0. Once I create
the back up, I boot into the OS and perform a factory reset, when i do that the phone resets
into TWRP, and performs the wipe to the device, when i go to do the restore, it freezes
at about 39%, and reboots fully trying to enter the OS, but its corrupt due to TWRP restarting
in the middle of the recovery.
I did at one point upgrade to Android N, but reverted back to android 6.0.1 if that makes a difference.
TL;DR - Created a fresh factory image of 6.0.1 using TWRP, cannot recover with it, TWRP freezes at 39% every time.
What options are you selecting to backup/restore?
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What options are you selecting to backup/restore?
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I'm doing a back up selecting the system/data/boot/vendor boxes, leaving everything else unchecked, and a second back up with only the EFS,
When i go to restore, I'm just using the first back up, leaving the EFS alone unless ever needed, and am selecting the system/data/boot/vendor boxes
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I'm doing a back up selecting the system/data/boot/vendor boxes, leaving everything else unchecked, and a second back up with only the EFS,
When i go to restore, I'm just using the first back up, leaving the EFS alone unless ever needed, and am selecting the system/data/boot/vendor boxes
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I can only think that your backup is corrupt. Also, instead of booting into Android and performing a factory reset that way, just go into the advanced wipe section of TWRP and wipe only data. Maybe you'll just need to flash the factory images to get the phone booting up fresh again.
That's where it gets interesting, I've flashed the factory 6.0.1 image, then flashed twrp, created the back up again, did the advanced wipe as you said, did the restore again, and same result, at around 39% of the recovery the phone reboots and the back up gets corrupt. My main goal is to make sure this back up absolutely works before I root and start playing around with flashing xposed modules, but I'm unable to do a successful restore for the life of me.
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That's where it gets interesting, I've flashed the factory 6.0.1 image, then flashed twrp, created the back up again, did the advanced wipe as you said, did the restore again, and same result, at around 39% of the recovery the phone reboots and the back up gets corrupt. My main goal is to make sure this back up absolutely works before I root and start playing around with flashing xposed modules, but I'm unable to do a successful restore for the life of me.
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I'm stumped, I really don't know why it wouldn't be working if you're performing the backup the way you say you are. Sorry I can't be more helpful. If it's any consolation, a backup probably isn't strictly necessary because you can always get back to stock by flashing the factory images.
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I'm stumped, I really don't know why it wouldn't be working if you're performing the backup the way you say you are. Sorry I can't be more helpful. If it's any consolation, a backup probably isn't strictly necessary because you can always get back to stock by flashing the factory images.
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I'm stumped too, I've been able to do this effortlessly in the past with this phone, my Nexus 9 and m8 GPE, it wasn't until I upgraded to N and reverted back to 6.0.1 this started to happen. I've even gone as far as trying different versions of twrp, but have had the same result.
I'm just worried in a worst case scenario I'm away from a comp, something crashes and I can't do a restore via twrp, I could be SOL until I get to a comp with adb.
i had a similiar problem , but when i got into the stock image , i went into settings and did a factory reset from there , no worries your BL stays unlocked , once thats done get whatever apps you want back , disable fingerprint /security junk , then boot into bl just like the guide says , youll be able to fastboot install recovery , (boot back into bl, then scroll to recovery and start a gain) then make your backups yor OG & EFS , then reboot , get su reboot into recovery install and yould be be fine , i think you can also try fastboot format userdata , as well
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I'm stumped too, I've been able to do this effortlessly in the past with this phone, my Nexus 9 and m8 GPE, it wasn't until I upgraded to N and reverted back to 6.0.1 this started to happen. I've even gone as far as trying different versions of twrp, but have had the same result.
I'm just worried in a worst case scenario I'm away from a comp, something crashes and I can't do a restore via twrp, I could be SOL until I get to a comp with adb.
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Just keep a ROM zip + gapps on your phone at all times, if you run into trouble you can flash that.
That definitely makes sense , i always dk that
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Hey,
I didn't updated my phone for quite some time and today I had some free time and I decided to update it to the latest version. I performed the first OTA update, and the process wen't really smooth. The phone booted after a few minutes, however it told me there's another system updated so I installed it as well.
However, after installing the second OTA update, my phone never booted again. it stucks in bootloop for a few minutes and then just boots to recovery.
I don't really know what to do, and although most of my data is backed up I really want to avoid wiping all the data.
The phone was never rooted and has stock recovery. How can I make it boot without wiping all the data? I did try to wipe cache already and it didn't help.
I see that there is a method called 'adb sideload' but I want to be sure it doesn't wipe data and to know which zip I should give it... Thanks!