I think i have totally messed up my g-tablet in attempt to install clock mode, so now i get this unstable UID message. Is there a way to reset and start over?
If your gtab is operational, and you are rooted, you install a program called Rom Manager from the market. When you run the application, there is a section that will allow you to install ClockworkMod.
If your gtab is not operational, you probably need to reflash the recovery. You can refer to the instructions found in this thread:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=861950&highlight=nvflash
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I've had a great experience so far with my xoom! I had it rooted and overclocked since the first day I had it!
Its starting to get sluggish and things are beginning to go a little wonky, so I'd like to reflash to either the stock honeycomb 3.1 installation, or one of the roms that I've seen floating around.
The trouble is that the minute I saw the 'encryption' feature, I used it. I did that before ever rooting or overclocking it.
I am now unable to reset to factory defaults. Here is what I've tried:
- using the menu option from inside of the settings area to reset the tablet to factory defaults: When I do this, it reboots and gets to a screen with a little android logo and a progress indicator - however within several seconds the progress indicator goes away and is replaced by that nasty little triangle with the exclamation point saying something isn't right.
- Booting into clockwork mod and formatting everything available to be formatted from CWM: This actually broke the tablet and I had to reflash things to get it working properly. However all of my user stuff and all the settings remained intact.
Does anybody know how to reset the tablet to factory default after its been encrypted? You guys know 50x more than Verizons support team will.
My only other option is to back up all of my data, "break" the tablet, then go use my warranty at the store to get another one. I'd really like to avoid that if at all possible.
What version CWM do you have? Flash the newest recovery if you flashed the recovery from ROM manager. If that doesn't work then flash stock software.
What version Xoom do you have? This is for 3g http://www.xoomforums.com/forum/motorola-xoom-hacking-guides/2788-how-return-stock-3g-4g-hr166.html
You don't have to do the last step of locking if you want to reroot. That should also remove encryption. If it doesn't do a factory reset from settings. And verify CWM works as well.
Hey,
Rooted my Galaxy Tab plus, then backed it up with TB, then tried to transfer the backup to the external sd... which didn't work. I then very precisely (I thought) followed the instructions for creating permissions to write to the external sd, and as per those instructions, rebooted.
And so my Tab has. Rebooted, and rebooted, and rebooted, and rebooted.
I've got it in recovery mode at the moment... but does anyone know how to get this thing out of circular reboot mode? I'm leery of doing a factory reset from recovery until I know if that will have the desired effect--mainly, getting me back into my Tab. I have the stock firmware and ODIN, if that's what's needed. I just need some advice on which is the best to try.
Or, if there's an altogether different solution, then please share...
This may not be useful to solve your problem. However, FYI,...
I was able to applied the permission mod previously, and afterwards, I did a factory reset. It did not remove the permission mod that I applied. That is, after the reset, it was still able to write the the external SD even though all my data and apps were gone.
So chances are the factory reset is not going to solve your problem.
factory reset doesn't mess with the system partition - it basically just wipes the /data partition. So it won't fix your problem.
If you have ODIN, just find a replacement image and re-image the device.
garyd9 said:
factory reset doesn't mess with the system partition - it basically just wipes the /data partition. So it won't fix your problem.
If you have ODIN, just find a replacement image and re-image the device.
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I initially downloaded the stock firmare for the US version, after discovering for myself that doing a factory reset from it's semi-bricked state did no good. The original firmare download was somehow incomplete; it reached an "unexpected end" while extracting and so would not work in ODIN. Then my Tab wouldn't connect to the computer I was using at all.
Fortunately, I was able to re-download the firmware and use ODIN on another computer, so I was able to get back to stock. Even after that, however, I had to do a factory reset; for some reason, my Tab downloaded the first update from Samsung, but would not make the leap to LA3. Once I did the factory reset, though, all was well.
Then, of course, I immediately re-rooted and manually made the changes that let me write to the external sd--correctly, this time. No trouble at all on reboot.
Thank God.
Hi I installed the xposed module cyanlockscreen. I didn't realize I needed a asop rom. I just wanted cyanogen's lockscreen. I can no longer tell if my phone's getting a charge thru the charger. The lightning bolt doesn't show anymore. It also won't show up on a computer thru adb mode or MTP or USB debugging. The charge number doesn't go up at all until I reboot. After a reboot I can tell it charged because the percentage is higher. Please help. I can get into the system and download on the device itself or transfer thru airdroid.
I have tried wiping everything and installing a new rom and fixing permissions, no go. I never made a nandroid backup cause it never bothered me to start over and flash thru adb. I can't get to adb this time, doesn't even show up on computer as connected device.i have a t mobile note edge.
i would say your best bet is to download the firmware from sammobile.com.
if you can backup your current apps or files and do a factory reset and put the factory rom
and dont worry, even if you are rooted, the factory rom will still install, all you need to do is either
- reinstall the rom you had before (before the factory reset)
- or just install supersu from play store
then you can reinstall your other apps back
good luck
Earlier today, I got an error upon starting up my Samsung Galaxy S5 (T-Mobile) that says "Unfortunately, System UI has stopped." My background has been turned to black and none of the buttons work properly. The phone IS rooted (and has been for about a week), but runs on stock OS (5.0 Lollipop) and stock recovery. I have never flashed a rom on this phone. I already tried restoring from a Titanium Backup I made yesterday before this error ever showed up, but it did nothing. Perhaps it's relevant that this error first happened after I booted the phone in recovery mode (to see what stock recovery looked like), then selected "reboot phone." I also already tried wiping the cache partition, wiping the System UI cache, and rebooting is Safe Mode. None of these worked. I thought unrooting the phone might help, but I accidentally uninstalled SuperSU without removing the root. With the System UI down, I can't install any apps at all, such as SuperSU again or a file explorer that would allow me to remove the "su" folder in /system/bin/. Now I have no way of unrooting, short of wiping the phone. I DO NOT want to do that. How do I get my phone back to normal?
--EDIT-- I finally gave in and did the factory reset. I rooted it again using the same method as before (in order to use Titanium Backup), and just to see what would happen I went to recovery mode. Sure enough, I was greeted with the same error as before. I had already rebooted the phone normally multiple times before trying to use recovery mode, so I have no doubt that the stock recovery mode is the cause of these issues.
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Personally, I don't like Titanium Backup. I seem to be in the minority with that opinion, but it's given me issues in the past. Try flashing a non-stock recovery like TWRP for your S5 and either wiping your phone or wiping and flashing another ROM.
Samsung phones seem to dislike rooted users for some reason
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Too late, I already wiped the phone. I re-rooted using Chainfire's auto-root, then flashed CWM so that stock recovery doesn't screw me over again. Before restoring from the backup, I booted into CWM recovery and restarted the phone. No error. I hope it stays that way, this whole thing is a huge hassle. There really needs to be a disclaimer with Chainfire's auto-root telling people to get rid of stock recovery!
Hi there
You'd be best served asking for help from the experts who own your device, here:
T-Mobile Galaxy S 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting
Good luck
I tried to remove Uc browser from my system. For some reason when i uninstalled it it fully crashed my system. Previously i had inadvertantly removed some of the cached files in its internal app folder. I tried then to uninstall it by using an app called Root Application. Still did not work. So tried reinstalling by directly going to website to get the apk file. Reinstalling was success but uninstalling or launching the app still crashed my system. Even going to app manager under setting to force stop it would cause system reboot.
Then i found out that i could not even go into recovery mode of twrp v.3.0.2-1. So i downloaded latest twrp for my p5110 v3.0.3 to try out. It seemed that it has replaced my older version since i could see the new version number but it still would not go into it. Right after i saw the splash screen it would go back to boot.
I tried going to setting and reset my tablet but everything seemed to come right back to original state. Nothing got wiped or cleaned, which i suspected it crashed before even getting to that operation.
Everything else seems to work with the machine. I could uninstall other app. I really do not know how to approach this problem. If i cannot go into recovery mode. What could i possibly do to revive my tablet.
Should i just use odin to flash a stock rom back? Would that wipe out twrp as well?
Please give me some suggestion.
are you going into recovery by holding the power button and volume down just checking
I did some experiments and here what i have found so far.
1. Uninstalling ub browser app will reboot it by any means.
2. I have managed to replace twrp with cwm. When i go and try to reformat /data partition it will reboot it as well. No factory reset can accomplish
3. Bring up application manager and while it computes statistics of memory usage it will reboot it
4. Test memory using emmc brickbug check app says all 16g healthy and problem free and it found no emmc bug saying it is sane
My next trial would be to flash back the stock rom but i am so afraid it will crash it while being flashed given my experience above.
Right now the machine seems to function well in all aspects. I suspect it is infected or some nand flash is damaged but not sure what that would be.
I won my battle. Here is what i have done. Revert to stock kernel to wipe over old system partition then whereupon i was able to factory reset the data partition. I suspect oc browser is playing havoc here since i had no way to eliminate it before i did all that. I advise against deploying it on your android