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More and more people keep having this problem. Your phone suddenly has tons of force closes, and becomes unfunctional. Well we seem to have a problem with our recovery, possibly causing a corrupt partition. There is a solution .......use odin to flash the stock recovery tar found in development. Boot into stock recovery.. wipe data, and cache 3 times each ,and boot the rom back up. Then use rom manager to flash the tmobile gs2 cwm recovery. This does work. And has been proven numerous times.
Here is the stock recovery http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1360943.
If for some reason you still have this issue after following my advice. Use odin to flash the stock firmware tar found here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1342348. After your done. Let it boot. If u get the force closes. Then proceed to power off, boot into stock recovery, and then wipe your data/cache, and reboot
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Excellent post... Thx

another good one Silver Thanks....im curious as well to see how many are really having this issue<<<

Is there a difference between the TMobile GS2 CWM recovery and the CWM recovery flashed using this method (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1340526)?

I had the described problem, but wiping and reloading the intended ROM in CWM recovery fixed it.

That is good but alot of times that does not work. It can actually get to the point where it will not read the internal sd card

How are you guys flashing....and what are you flashing that is giving you these issues.
I have yet to experience these issues on T-Mobile or skyrocket roms.
What are the exact steps you follow when flashing a from to begin with?
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I have experienced this on stock, and custom roms. And im not the only one. Alot of people have had this issue
Lets put it this way enough people have had this problem, and more will to the point where i made this thread, and asked a mod (jayharper08) to sticky it.

yes ALOT have......they may not have known it was a known issue and solved it. but it is there.

I am not saying you guys are not having issues...there has to be a reason I am not which is why I ask.....What steps exactly do you guys use to flash a rom and what roms. The process to fix it is great but if we could prevent it in the first place wouldn't that be better????.
silver03wrx said:
I have experienced this on stock, and custom roms. And im not the only one. Alot of people have had this issue
Lets put it this way enough people have had this problem, and more will to the point where i made this thread, and asked a mod (jayharper08) to sticky it.
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Silver,
Question...based on several of your other posts in threads, if we have 2.3.6 and use http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1340526 to root/install recovery, are things ok?
Or should we still follow this thread to update CWM via ROM Manager?
Thanks.

^^^
That was my question too. What's the difference between the two recovery's?

I was having the issue too. I had the issue on stock(pure from store) as well as stock rooted, skyrocketeer, and cm7.
One thing I have tied it to, which I am not sure is the true reason but I was too impatient to test it thoroughly, is excessive SMS messages.
I have over 32k messages currently stored on my HTC Inspire. These have been moved from my G1, to Nexus One, to Inspire with no issue at all. When importing to my Skyrocket, the messages will import fine for a while. Afterwards, I would get random FCs, screen freezes up(can't do anything, not even turn off the screen), and network disconnects. I can force a reboot by holding the power button and it will work for about 5 minutes and then repeat the issues as before.
At first I thought it was the specific device having radio issues so I exchanged it for a new unit at Best Buy. I was still having the same issues with the new unit so I just figured I could cut my losses (on screen protectors and phone case) by just returning the until outright. I figure I will wait for the ICS update for this phone, hoping it will be more stable. Maybe at that point I can compare with other phones available as well.

I have had this problem repeating several times even after flashing the Rom and repeating steps as mentioned. I think it does it with a certain number of apps that downloaded from the market.

silver03wrx said:
More and more people keep having this problem. Your phone suddenly has tons of force closes, and becomes unfunctional. Well we seem to have a problem with our recovery, possibly causing a corrupt partition. There is a solution .......use odin to flash the stock recovery tar found in development. Boot into stock recovery.. wipe data, and cache 3 times each ,and boot the rom back up. Then use rom manager to flash the tmobile gs2 cwm recovery. This does work. And has been proven numerous times...
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Is this a problem that develops as you start flashing more and more ROMs? Is there a known cause?
I'm new at this stuff - just rooted and tried my first ROM this week. I'm tempted to try others but if chances are good that I'll run into problems/issues even if I'm going about things the right way - I might hold off on making a change given that the phone is stable right now.
Thoughts?

NO rom does not cauz this issues. What causes issue is when you restore data from ur backups. Plus there is problem with cwm it does not fully wipe data because cwm was not particularly made for our phone. That being said you do not have to worry about a thing. I am flashaholic and i used to flash every other day since i m with Sky ice cream rom by Sean i don't flash a lot. Don't worry just try out all the roms you won't have problem by roms at all. There was only one rom that had problem Alien the first or second build.
Locoman_ said:
Is this a problem that develops as you start flashing more and more ROMs? Is there a known cause?
I'm new at this stuff - just rooted and tried my first ROM this week. I'm tempted to try others but if chances are good that I'll run into problems/issues even if I'm going about things the right way - I might hold off on making a change given that the phone is stable right now.
Thoughts?
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Thank for the reply.
BTW, I'm using Sean's Sky IC too. Sooo nice.

Do you need to go into download mode to flash the recovery in ODIN? Or do you do it when the phone is just turned on regularly?

You have to go to dload mode in order to flash recovery. and use odin.
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Do you need to go into download mode to flash the recovery in ODIN? Or do you do it when the phone is just turned on regularly?
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I tried this process and I wanted to flash a new ROM. But in recovery mode it wouldn't read my SD card, and when I transferred the .zip to my internal memory and I tried to install it said I had no space.
Any ideas?

Unlock "Custom" Icon at initial boot

Apologies for not actually being a helpful contributor to the actual problem of unlocking the Verizon Galaxy S3 bootloader, but I came across this one time after booting my phone after replacing the battery
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The Samsung logo, with an icon of an unlocked padlock, and the word "Custom" (this is the very first boot screen, before the boot animation and the Galaxy S3 logo), so it's the bootloader screen.
The only way I can replicate this is by taking out the battery and replacing it. Simply rebooting the phone does not show the icon. I suppose this could have been due to one of three things:
(all as directed by http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1756885 for reference )
flashing the rooted boot image using Odin
installed custom Clockworkmod recovery
flashed custom boot image
Everything still boots properly, I don't have a brick. Is anyone else experiencing this that perhaps didn't follow these three steps?

A lot of people have been reporting this. Sometimes its completely random, sometimes can be replicated. Seems to be related to recovery image afaik, however some have reported being 100% bone stock and getting it. Its absolutely nothing to worry about.
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I wasn't worrying about it, as I said, the phone still boots completely fine, I was wondering if it was indicative of something unusual with the bootloader (such as the impossible chance of it actually being unlocked) or if it was reported by a large number of users.

I literally just saw that on my phone for the first time about 2 hours ago..... im having major issues right now from deleting busybox i guess the "wrong way"... this is my first time posting on this site, though i have read it for years, anyones help or advice would be appreciated......
I came across this image when i would hold the power button then hit restart and that image came up.... only after i attemped to install chainfire 3D and deleting busybox...
Please help me out my brothers n sisters
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1830457

RealMuphukkinG said:
I came across this image when i would hold the power button then hit restart and that image came up.... only after i attemped to install chainfire 3D and deleting busybox...
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Mm, if you're having issues booting, then I think that's something different. I wouldn't know exactly how to fix that.

I have it also.
- Installing VRALG1 rooted alone won't trigger it--in fact, I wipe, flash that, reboot to clear the "Custom" tripwire
- Installing NoSympathy VRALG1 deodexed triggered it for me, twice
- Installing blueui with metamorph triggered it (cf. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=30085423)
- Installing BlueICSFull.zip (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1775235) plus some other action (like configuring/using e-mail, not sure, installing some normal app) triggered it for me
Other than giving VZW an [illegal] excuse to void your warranty, I haven't seen an issue with it.

I just started getting this last night during a reboot .

My device showed this screen right out of the box!

I've seen this after a battery pulls. I'm on my 2nd GSIII and I was worried they wouldn't refund the amount to me if that showed up.

I rooted and flashed the Synergy Rom on my GSIII, as well as my fiancee's and my brothers. My phone was the only one to display this custom lock icon (randomly). I'm pretty sure it had something to do with flashing the cwm touch, then the cwm6. To fix it, I read users gained success just by wiping cache and dalvik, but it didn't work. So I tried flashing the stock recovery instead (hearing it's a recovery issue that 'throws' some sort of flag). It didn't fix the issue. I even ODIN'd back to stock, and it still didn't fix the issue. Everything I tried didn't work.
However, after I went ahead and re-rooted using the root66 method, then installing cwm touch, and then booting into recovery, wiping system, data, cache, dalvik, performing a factor data reset, and then installing the Synergy rom (I used 1.6), (ASSUMING I was just going to have to deal with the custom lock icon forever).... it somehow magically fixed itself.
Hope that helps. Ever since then, it's worked just fine, no custom lock icon. Since then, I've booted into cwm touch, wipe cache/dalvik, and have even updated to the newest Synergy (1.7), and it's remained just fine.
Hope this helps.

I froze the SysScope process. I don't get the custom padlock at boot, but because that process can no longer communicate with the phone I do have phone status as modified.
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I found that I triggered it by changing cpu settings, doing a recovery or basically changing any system setting. I cured it by flashing stock recovery, wiping data and cache. Then I rooted again but didn't change anything and still no padlock.:thumbup:
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Broadley1 said:
I found that I triggered it by changing cpu settings, doing a recovery or basically changing any system setting. I cured it by flashing stock recovery, wiping data and cache. Then I rooted again but didn't change anything and still no padlock.:thumbup:
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I have the same problem as well. By any chance was everyone here with the problem running TWRP as their recovery?

I'm bone stock and have gotten that, from time to time during reboots since release day.

Apologies for bumping an old thread....
I never had this screen before until I bought an extended battery from Gorilla Gadgets and as soon as I started using it I started getting that screen...
I did flash the Verizon stock (with root) but even then it never showed this screen until the moment I used the battery.
Does this void the warranty?

Casual root
I just did the casual ver. 795b root last night so I could stay on 4.1.2 for right now and I have this custom and unlock pic on the Samsung screen not sheer if I should do something or not?????? help if you have any ideas

Broadley1 said:
I found that I triggered it by changing cpu settings, doing a recovery or basically changing any system setting. I cured it by flashing stock recovery, wiping data and cache. Then I rooted again but didn't change anything and still no padlock.:thumbup:
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How did you flash stock recovery?
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XXDroidZillaXX said:
How did you flash stock recovery?
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Seems like he have to root again so he probably used ODIN.

I get this and then my phone has a yellow triangle of death... I still can't figure out how to fix this as I've tried JOdin on my macbook pro with stock flash's and pit files that are corrupt apparently. Anyone else know what I can do to debrick this? I've checked the other brick posts and nothing ;\

I believe this is caused by KNOX Security being triggered - which is irreparable
I think this indicates KNOX security was triggered and therefore your phone is no longer "pure". I don't know exactly what KNOX does, but I believe it burns a fuse in your phone that locks to either a 1 or a 0 - and once it's triggered, it can't be undone.
All of this is speculation though, I suggest looking up KNOX security and see what the experts say. This happened to me a few years ago and at the time, there was no fix. I'm sure someone found a way around it by now - or at least a way to prevent or remove it completely.

No network?

Out of nowhere on invisibleks Cm10 my signal goes completely out and my phone number is 000-000-1674 (something like that) I still have my imei and stuff. So I go to the only stock backup I have (beans 9) and I have my number and imei and all them. BUT I have no network? I tried reboots. Resets. And taking sim out for while.. any help?
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And when trying to make a call.
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Maybe your SIM got jacked up somehow?
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vaffanculo403 said:
Maybe your SIM got jacked up somehow?
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Back up anything you want to keep and type *2767*3855# on stock to reprovision your phone. Try the phone info app first.

Zalithian said:
Back up anything you want to keep and type *2767*3855# on stock to reprovision your phone.
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I'm not sure if it was his SIM card. It was just a guess...
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Zalithian said:
Back up anything you want to keep and type *2767*3855# on stock to reprovision your phone. Try the phone info app first.
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Tried phone info. No go. Trying other.
Sent from my Verizon Samsung Galaxy S3 4G LTE

Have you tried to Odin back to stock?

I know the following will sound very simple but... after installing beans9, did you wipe cache and dav?
I know you said you don't have a stock backup but you have the next best thing: try flashing the latest version of synergy.
Wipe everything first (factory reset, etc.)
Install synergy.
Wipe cache and dav.
... you should be good to go.
Make a backup of syn, factory reset
Try CM10 again.
salas2324 said:
Out of nowhere on invisibleks Cm10 my signal goes completely out and my phone number is 000-000-1674 (something like that) I still have my imei and stuff. So I go to the only stock backup I have (beans 9) and I have my number and imei and all them. BUT I have no network? I tried reboots. Resets. And taking sim out for while.. any help?
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I got it fixed in the morning I was going to odin to stock but I fell asleep downloading it. Anyways. I tried the reprovisioning and it deleted my data (surprisingly too because when the warning "Factory reset" popped up I said ****! And took out the batter. Then put it in. Turned on. Had the blue progress bar recovery for like 5secs and turned on cleaned) but it worked!! Yai!!!
Zalithian said:
Back up anything you want to keep and type *2767*3855# on stock to reprovision your phone. Try the phone info app first.
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salas2324 said:
I got it fixed in the morning I was going to odin to stock but I fell asleep downloading it. Anyways. I tried the reprovisioning and it deleted my data (surprisingly too because when the warning "Factory reset" popped up I said ****! And took out the batter. Then put it in. Turned on. Had the blue progress bar recovery for like 5secs and turned on cleaned) but it worked!! Yai!!!
Sent from my Verizon Samsung Galaxy S3 4G LTE
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I'm glad it didn't hose your phone pulling the battery. I never pull the battery when it's in the middle of doing anything, good rule of thumb Glad you got it up and running, i've been following this hoping someone might be able to help.

desantim said:
I'm glad it didn't hose your phone pulling the battery. I never pull the battery when it's in the middle of doing anything, good rule of thumb Glad you got it up and running, i've been following this hoping someone might be able to help.
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The phone hadn't yet been to recovery when I pulled battery... it still wiped all my data tho lol
Sent from my Verizon Samsung Galaxy S3

I hope your data is wiped and not corrupted. If I were you, I'd do a clean install as soon as I could. It can't hurt.
salas2324 said:
The phone hadn't yet been to recovery when I pulled battery... it still wiped all my data tho lol
Sent from my Verizon Samsung Galaxy S3
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aqhilles said:
I hope your data is wiped and not corrupted. If I were you, I'd do a clean install as soon as I could. It can't hurt.
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Yeah I clean installed CM10 and everything's working LIKE A BOSS!
Sent from my Verizon Samsung Galaxy S3

On every single nightly flash i've done probably after 9/1 for CM10 i've had this issue.. It always boots up with no signal and the only way I can fix it is to go into Mobile networks via settings and toggle from CDMA only to LTE/CDMA and then back to CDMA only. Then I turn Airplane mode on, then off and my signal comes back with no problems.. Then I switch back to LTE and 4g works just fine.. Then I reboot the phone completely and never have problems after this.. I'm not sure why this started after all the rom flashes but at least I can fix it the same exact way everytime.

Diversion said:
On every single nightly flash i've done probably after 9/1 for CM10 i've had this issue.. It always boots up with no signal and the only way I can fix it is to go into Mobile networks via settings and toggle from CDMA only to LTE/CDMA and then back to CDMA only. Then I turn Airplane mode on, then off and my signal comes back with no problems.. Then I switch back to LTE and 4g works just fine.. Then I reboot the phone completely and never have problems after this.. I'm not sure why this started after all the rom flashes but at least I can fix it the same exact way everytime.
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Network is back AFTER first reboot. Flash ROM. Boot. Reboot. Done
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Zalithian said:
Back up anything you want to keep and type *2767*3855# on stock to reprovision your phone. Try the phone info app first.
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This worked for me. Thanks!!!:good:

Zalithian said:
Back up anything you want to keep and type *2767*3855# on stock to reprovision your phone. Try the phone info app first.
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you are the best my phone had no mobile network and I tried this to reprovision my sprint phone and it worked my phone is working again thank you so much

Hey, I'm having similar issues as everyone else on this thread. I want to try the reprovision trick but I type "*2767*3855#" without those quotation marks as you can imagine into the phone keypad on the stock VRBLK3 4.1.1 rom that I just odin'd to and nothing happens. Is there another way to reprovision manually?

housecat93 said:
Hey, I'm having similar issues as everyone else on this thread. I want to try the reprovision trick but I type "*2767*3855#" without those quotation marks as you can imagine into the phone keypad on the stock VRBLK3 4.1.1 rom that I just odin'd to and nothing happens. Is there another way to reprovision manually?
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This reprovision code only works on ICS VRALF2, VRLG1, and VRLG7. Try again using Odin and one of those.
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[Q] Help! Stuck on Raoming After Flashing CM10 Nightlies

I have been trying to fix this problem and browsing threads with similar issues all night for about 6 hours and nothing seems to work.
I have been running on stock ICS 4.0.4 which I rooted and unlocked awhile back with no problems. I finally had the time to attempt to flash cm10 and I wanted to give it a shot, so I backed everything up, wiped data, wiped cache, wiped davlik, format /system. The ROM I attempted to flash was the newest version of cm10 nightlies 12-28 and gapps. After flashing everything went well and the phone booted up in cm10, but it is stuck on roaming. I tried everything that I could find in the forums and nothing seems to be working. I wiped again and tried to restore from my backup and the problem is still there, so I even went a step further and used Odin to flash fully stock unrooted/locked ICS 4.0.4 again and still have the same issue. The IMEI numbers matched up both times after flashing and I also made a backup before and even restored it to my phone as well, so I know that's not the issue.
Most of the threads I read said people were having success with "reprovisioning" their phone, but when I dial *2767*3855# nothing happens on my phone at all. Am I doing something wrong? Are there any other solutions out there that I might have missed?
Please help me so I don't have to return to the Verizon store when they open.
Thanks in advance!

You have to change to ruim/sim in mobile network settings
Should be under cdma subscription settings. Flashing to cm 10.1 changes it to Nv.
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Also system select you should change to automatic, not home.

I can't find any of those settings in my settings menu. I am back on stock ROM unrooted and locked with everything reverted to factory settings.

Ahh no idea on stock rom or tw. This is for cm.

It's strange to me because after wiping everything and restoring to factory locked settings, you would think it would go back to what it's automatically set to...

I got it!!!
Basically I used Odin to port a stock ROM that was already rooted and went through the flashing procedures as usual. Then I used what you gave me above and it is now working. Thanks so much for your help it's really appreciated!
And to think after all the trouble I went through reflashing everything that was all I had to do :laugh:
Thanks a lot!

xNali said:
I got it!!!
Basically I used Odin to port a stock ROM that was already rooted and went through the flashing procedures as usual. Then I used what you gave me above and it is now working. Thanks so much for your help it's really appreciated!
And to think after all the trouble I went through reflashing everything that was all I had to do :laugh:
Thanks a lot!
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I'm new to odin and am having the same problem you are having. How did you unlock the bootloader and put cwm or twrp without data. I can't get the ez tools because wifi doesn't even work.
Ok. I was wrong wifi does work. In all my panic I did the wifi password wrong. How embarassing... And it's fixed!

Glad to see you sorted it out. Was going to suggest flashing back to cm 10.1 to access the settings.
Don't let this experience turn you off. Cyanogen mod is really great.
If you don't want to deal with the roaming problem I'd recommend flashing cm 10 12/16 nightly. Everything works peachy with the exception of the Bluetooth bass bug. You can fix it by making a call though.
Cm10.1 has low call volume but it runs really smooth. When you flash it you have to either not flash gapps so you can change the settings I mentioned in previous post, bypassing getting stuck on activation, and then flash gapps OR use the four corner trick to bypass activation (if you flashed gapps). After you change the mobile network settings, reboot and data should be fine.
It's really not that hard of a process. I got stuck in roaming the first time I flashed 10.1 but I understood what the problem was before hand. I flashed 10.1 and gapps immediately, like I always do with cm, and was stuck on the activation screen. I forgot the four corner code to bypass the activation process also. When I tried to restore a nandroid I couldn't cause it moved all the files around.
To make an already long story short, I had to download 10.1 to my SD card to flash without gapps and make the settings change.

Safe mode hell n missing wifi

On 1.55 firmware and S-off with OTA ROM. Running xposed.
My phone decided to restart on its own... Then stuck on Verizon logo, decided to hold volume down/-. Phone goes to "safe mode", which I've never heard of, till I google it... Thought to myself, I'll just reset n go back to my rom.... Nothing.... No more safe mode on bottom left. All the verizon junk apps r back from frozen. And to top it off my 64gb sd card was totally wiped out! All data gone.. Luckily I backup occasionally so it wasn't exactly end of world.
I decided to run my nandroid n find that it's corrupt or not installing right... Give up n totally start over... Hard reset phone... Wiped everything cept internal memory. Installed cleanrom ...
Everything worked cept gps n wifi.... Reinstalled cleanrom again over w/o wiping n gps is working again cept wifi. I can tether but can't get on wifi...
So....
1. Watch out for safe mode... N backup often
2. Is there anyway I can get wifi back?
3. Is there another recovery that does backup rom well on m8?

Kensai said:
On 1.55 firmware and S-off with OTA ROM. Running xposed.
My phone decided to restart on its own... Then stuck on Verizon logo, decided to hold volume down/-. Phone goes to "safe mode", which I've never heard of, till I google it... Thought to myself, I'll just reset n go back to my rom.... Nothing.... No more safe mode on bottom left. All the verizon junk apps r back from frozen. And to top it off my 64gb sd card was totally wiped out! All data gone.. Luckily I backup occasionally so it wasn't exactly end of world.
I decided to run my nandroid n find that it's corrupt or not installing right... Give up n totally start over... Hard reset phone... Wiped everything cept internal memory. Installed cleanrom ...
Everything worked cept gps n wifi.... Reinstalled cleanrom again over w/o wiping n gps is working again cept wifi. I can tether but can't get on wifi...
So....
1. Watch out for safe mode... N backup often
2. Is there anyway I can get wifi back?
3. Is there another recovery that does backup rom well on m8?
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Sounds to me like your kernel doesn't match your rom. . You can try flashing the stock kernel or the stock rom over top to see if that fixes it.

Thanks, I'll look around for a stock kernel. :thumbup:

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=51703075
I actually found this... It's one of your posting. Would this work as stock kernel?

Kensai said:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=51703075
I actually found this... It's one of your posting. Would this work as stock kernel?
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I literally just removed that from afh last night. Lol.
Any of the stock rom or firmware update zips posted would have a stock boot.img you could flash with flashify or fastboot.
Here's one for 1.12.605.11
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2712793

I flashed the suggested kernel. I backed up my current one before flashing n found its the same one I currently use. I tried dirty flashing cleanrom again. Still no wifi n battery drain more now. Dunno if xposed may be a culprit?
My next move is to just try the stock ruu that you made. I just have to manually install the tethers n power settings...
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