Stuck in a bootloop + CWM question - Xperia Z3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

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ROM (D6633_Customized HK_1290-5630_23.4.A.0.546_R6C_HK_SuperSU2.46_XZDR2.8.21-signedv2)
Bit of a dumb move on my part. It all started when my snapchat stopped working, I updated, and then Titanium Backup wouldn't restore the data properly (giving me "parse error"). I was trying to fix that and read online that sometimes this is caused by improper permissions, so I booted into recovery mode, couldn't find the option, but somehow decided "hey, maybe my root permission (?) is wrong slash it's 6am and I just watched a wild 2016 election end" and I hit the button. Now my phone is stuck in a bootloop.
So my question:
1) What exactly does re-root phone do (in CWM), and why would that have messed me up? Is it because I have a pre-rooted rom?
2) I wiped cache and delvik and it doesn't help
3) How do I fix this? I was thinking of loading a SuperSU zip on the SD card from my computer and flashing that, assuming somehow a corrupted root is at fault. I can't seem to get the thing in ADB mode as a side note.
3b) If that seems like a good idea, does it matter what one I use?
4) If I reflash the ROM, it should keep my apps and stuff, ya? I don't actually care if my phone is crippled, I just need it to work long enough to properly back up some media, and mainly get my whatsapp over to my new SIM card. If I can't get in it's forever stuck on my old number which I don't have the SIM for anymore.
Any help would be GREATLY appreciated.
Edit: I don't know how to delete this. Anyways, with other resources I found out that because I used a pre-rooted ROM, there were issues with using CWM to try to do the rooting with its built in functions, softbricking the phone. Reflashing the original pre-rooted ROM worked fine.

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[Q] Resurrection Remix ICS 1.0 SGS2 - backup restore issue

Hi folks,
Sincere apologies if this is answered elsewhere. I've searched the development thread and done a few searches elsewhere but it's not come up.
I'm running Resurrection Remix 1.0 on my Galaxy S2 i9100. So far, everything works great - except the gyroscope. And specifically, panning screens when I'm moving apps and widgets about.
This is such a minor gripe that I feel sort of guilty for bringing it up, but I'd appreciate any help! I've tried to flash the fix that sorts the text out but it comes up with the following error: E:signature verification failed
I'm not sure if that's even going to help, but I figured it wouldn't hinder it. I have wiped the cache partition first, and I'm trying to install the zip file from an SD card.
Sure I'm making a fairly elementary mistake somewhere!
Cheers,
Nick
Ugh.
Right, I've made a bollocks of this. In installing the "fix," I've wiped the ROM and all the apps I had installed with it.
Now, I had backed up using CWM Recovery and Titanium Backup - but now those apps aren't on my phone (well, they're buried in it, but they're not part of the GUI and I can't access them). What's more, I can't reinstall the apps I had downloaded from Google Play.
I assume that's an issue at their end - and I assume that I need to use Titanium and CWM to recover the back-ups - but is that the case?
Again, any advice much appreciated...
I've installed an app called Recovery Manager, and the only backup it can see is one I made a couple of days ago. Which I'll take.
The problem I have is, when I boot into recovery mode, it's not using the CWM interface I used to flash the damn ROM in the first place; the CWM logo isn't showing, and it's all blue, rather than orange. There's an Android with a rotating blue shape on its belly. Not sure if that helps!
But either way, I can locate the folder in this new recovery mode but there's nothing in it to recover (or so it seems).
Really stumped.
Hi, I´m running the same ROM and have the same problem. The ROM overwrites CWM somehow and so you can´t access it for recovery. When you boot into recovery, all you get is the stock recovery. If you have an external storage card, Max at Galaxy2root.com offers a solution and a zip file to run to get CWM temporarily - but it disappears after a reboot. I haven´t tried it yet. Tomorrow!
All my reading indicates that there will be no fix for this until WestCrip changes the basic ROM. So we are stuck with a temporary solution.....
U can install.CWM by rom manager n reboot into recovery

Ampe A85 A31S - 0.00kbs, format and factory reset every boot

Hey guys. Forgive my noobity but I could do with some help and might have a unique problem although I dare say someone has had this or similar.
Firstly, after putting a 64GB stick in my tablet the other day, it all went badly wrong. I had done it before with my previous 64GB that had been playing up so I sent it back and got a new one. The new one seems to be where it all went pear shaped. I might add, the 64GB is for my phone really but my phone cam was playing up so I was swapping it over and stuff... anyway the card itself seems fine in my phone.
Anyways... now my ampe tablet is suffering some strange effects that have changed. initially it would not boot up unless I redone it with the official firmware.. but then wouldn't boot up again, unless I did the same thing over and over. then one time it just refused to boot up past the initial boot screen. I gave up for weeks then picked it up again two days ago.
Now I give it the firmware installed using pheonix again and it booted up. Ahh I thought... lets play. Now I plug it into the pc but the pc says I need to format the 5GB internal partition. So I did. I then looked how to fix the fact that the tab still says it has 0.00kbs internal storage in settings. Then after a while it came up saying 5GB so i copied some files onto it.. great. But I still can't install apps as I found when trying to do this tested working fix http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sJlpek6w624
I then read about using android commander to move busybox from xbin to bin in the system folder but mine is already there.
So now I am stuck. I can't test if my tab is rooted for the youtube link fix above although this is what I said to Nayeem on youtube:
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Hi Nayeem. I'm really struggling with this. At first my tab was staying at the 2nd initial boot up screen after I put in a 64GB SD card. Using pheonix I managed to get it to boot by reinstalling the updated official rom from szampe but every reboot back to square one. I left it alone for weeks and came back to it, reinstalled the factory rom again and now it will boot up everytime but it has factory reset every time. I cant run the apps you supply for some reason. Everytime I have rebooted the tab, and connected back to pc it says I need to format the internal 5GB partition. I don't know if I have rooted it properly as I can't check. The commands you give above, work as it changes the location proven when I 'get' it. I'm really stumped. I'm trying out a method someone said about moving busybox from sys/xbin to sys/bin but it's already there (using android commander) so I am really stumped now. When I format the partition, it allows me to copy files to it.
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So far I am stuck with boot up being a factory reset and the partition needs formatting and although the tablet seems a little laggy, everything I have tried works including wifi and incoming email alerts after logging into google account for playstore but no apps will install or update. the best warning I get is there is no memory to install anything and Nayeems method of moving the install location to the sd card seems to work but nothing will install still saying NOT INSTALLED when I try.
Sorry for the long winded thing but I am really new to all of this.
My hat is off to you if you read all of this and can offer a solution so i can give this tablet back to the kids.
Do you have an installed recovery
Try installing a recovery and wipe data and cache. If it does not work u have to repartition ur tablet
nelsontky said:
Try installing a recovery and wipe data and cache. If it does not work u have to repartition ur tablet
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I am gonna look into this tonight and see what I can find out. I really don't know exactly what I am doing outside of getting pheonix up and sending a standard rom back to it as previously mentioned.
How would I repartition it ? Sounds stupid asking as i can build pcs... just want to make sure I am doing the correct method.

F***ed up badly, now downloading factory rom, need help to continue

Hi guys, I just registered @ xda because it looks like it's the only serious and feedback active community available. In 10 minutes I found most of the info I was looking for, but I still want to make sure what Im planning to do is fine before I mess up again. Here's the issue:
I was fooling around with the tablet and had just rooted it so I could get rid of some bloatware, and decided to go further and install cyanogen, just for the looks. So I got this thing cm-10.1-20130411-EXPERIMENTAL-p3110-M3 from the official site, which was I put on a folder inside the tablets storage (not on the 16gb SDcard it had in it). I downloaded Rom Manager and skipped through the "search and download rom" and went for the option of looking for it inside the SD card. I had the Backup options and the wipe cache and data ON.
So I proceeded and it booted, started to do the backup and at some final point it had an error, something like "could not backup Data!". I had the options of rebooting, some other stuff and the option of installing a rom from the SD Card. I went for it and searched for the .zip inside the storage, and installed it. It did it withouth trouble, and when it finishd it prompted me to install an update, which I didn't (don't know why).
Then, I went for the reeboot option and when it started I get the normal samsung's black screen with the device's name on it, but then I get a fast glitching image that sweeps through the screen and the cyanogen startup logo which gets stuck for ever.
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Now Im past it, I can get to download or recovery mode, so I moved onto getting the original firmware so I can clean-install again. I got it from sammobile, chose the one belonging to Chile (that's where I got the tablet), and it's 729mb of data. The tablet is a Samsung Galaxy Tab 2 7.0 P3110
If I flash it with Odin will everything be fine? All I have to do is that thing in downloadmode when I rooted it, but with that 729mb file? Should I put it in the external SD or is it more convenient to place it in the internal storage?
I appreciate your help in advance, I know this is as basic as it gets but messing up again would cost me dearly, since I have to do other stuff.
forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1900055 read here, all the information you will need.
It's fine to flash through odin, you will back at stock provided you don't overlook small details and do exactly like the way it is shown. Don't worry, Don't panic. Just be careful to use the files meant for your device only. Second be extra careful when you are dealing with kernel file, pit file or reparation in odin in future.
Third, get root and custom recovery,twrp.
Fourth, after your device start running take backup from twrp recovery. That will save you from most of the trouble.
Most of the details and instructions are already here
billysam said:
forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1900055 read here, all the information you will need.
It's fine to flash through odin, you will back at stock provided you don't overlook small details and do exactly like the way it is shown. Don't worry, Don't panic. Just be careful to use the files meant for your device only. Second be extra careful when you are dealing with kernel file, pit file or reparation in odin in future.
Third, get root and custom recovery,twrp.
Fourth, after your device start running take backup from twrp recovery. That will save you from most of the trouble.
Most of the details and instructions are already here
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hey thanks a lot, im feeling better ow. There's just one issue left: I cant download the original firmware (it's 699mb, and the download keeps stopping midway through it). What happens if I go into clockwork recovery mode and do a factory reset? would that bring me to the original OS? Im kinda scared of downloading an erroneous file again.
EDIT: im doing a factory reset and then flashing this rom called AOSP Project Android 5.1.1 Lollipop on Samsung Galaxy Tab 2 7.0 P3110 which is a 161mb file. Will that work?
aguscanzani said:
hey thanks a lot, im feeling better ow. There's just one issue left: I cant download the original firmware (it's 699mb, and the download keeps stopping midway through it). What happens if I go into clockwork recovery mode and do a factory reset? would that bring me to the original OS? Im kinda scared of downloading an erroneous file again.
EDIT: im doing a factory reset and then flashing this rom called AOSP Project Android 5.1.1 Lollipop on Samsung Galaxy Tab 2 7.0 P3110 which is a 161mb file. Will that work?
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Factory reset is just clearing data and cache, if you have made changes in kernel or system, factory reset won't reset them, in your case, system has been altered so you will have to format system, then flash the new rom. If you were on jelly bean stock, you are good to flash it.
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Factory reset is just clearing data and cache, if you have made changes in kernel or system, factory reset won't reset them, in your case, system has been altered so you will have to format system, then flash the new rom. If you were on jelly bean stock, you are good to flash it.
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You guys have helped me a lot. I've worked everything out and now i've got to reinstalling android on it, AOSP's 5.1.1 Lollipop. It's beautiful. There's just one problem: Since it came with no apps at all, I wanted to install everything on it again. Problem is, when I go to google play, it shows that i've already got my apps installed, so it wont let me download them, and it doesn't matter if I place the APK's inside the tablet as there's no manager to open them. Even if I download apk's through the tablet's own web browser, it says it can't open the file. Any ideas on this?

Help, out of ideas. Possible mother/logic board going bad?

I have a well and heavily used Galaxy S5 (GM-900P) and about 2 months ago it started accting up pretty hard. Becoming very very slow so I decided to update to the latest sprint firmware and install a new(er) rom ([ROM][QD1][6.0.1]14Dec2017] Stock-ish Plus Tidbits and Magisk) and all was good for about 5 days and the phone started having apps crash/force close like crazy and most the time just reinstalling them would fix it but a bunch of google play services would crash and would have to uninstall the updates then it would work again for a day or so, sometimes it would randomly restart and get stuck at the boot screen and the phone would get crazy hot and the only way out of it was to boot into the recovery and then reflash the stock firmware in odin again then reinstall the rom. Then I had my phone all of a sudden act like there was no sim card in it and originally though it was a sim card issue but turns out it wasnt, I had to boot into the recovery and do a full wipe of everything reflash the stock firmware yet again and then reinstall the rom again. That happened twice in a matter of a week. At my wits end I decided to give LineageOS v16 a try so I boot into recovery, do a full wipe, boot into download mode, flash the latest stock firmware in odin, then boot right to recovery, flash LineageOS 16.0 then latest Magisk and all was great, for about a week, then Google services start crashing again and random apps crash over and over and even times the phone would slow down and reboot, get stuck at the boot screen and then eventually just reboot back into recovery by itself after failing to boot. But with LineageOS at least just reflashing the rom in the recovery will let it boot right back up sometimes and work as it should for another few days, other times too much stuff will just keep crashing so I do a full wipe and reflash LineageOS and all will be great for another few days to a week and it starts all over again. Its like stuff just randomly gets corrupted on the device and the only way out of it is to reflash the whole thing and start over and enjoy it until it does it again. Sometimes it will go days, sometimes a day later its all screwy again.
Also, TWRP always fails when I try to do a back up and it seems to always fail when in the data or data/private-app part of the system and its never at the same point.
I guess my question here is, could the onboard flash (the motherboard/logic board) be taking a crap on me? I really really dont want to give up on this phone just yet as it has everything I want in a phone and frankly, I just really really like it. I can get a new (used) motherboard for like $20 but even that kind of worries me cause I dont want to possibly be in this same position 3 months later again. I have a Galaxy S8+ (unlocked AT&T phone) that I refuse to use yet just cause I can not root it or unlock the bootloader.
Any help or ideas would be much appreciated and sorry for the long winded post.
could be wrong, on this one, But.....
If it was mew, I would go to stock . run that for a day, maybe 3... if all it well, then flash over what ever Rom you would like.
"KNOWING IT Work" is the key. Oh, another thing, that may help too . seen this on one of the LineageOS 15.1 or 16 is when you wipe ... System and Data, can be Reformatted, they have had some major success by also formatting it, (YES EXT4) but this will help to ensure nothing left over....
May even help with others Android 8.0, 8.1, 9.0....
Well, I have a new motherboard on the way so we'll see how that goes but I did manage to get the stock firmware on there and booted then I reflashed TWRP and then Magisk and going to just run it that way for a bit and see what happens.
I initially went in to TWRP, wiped data,system, etc... then flashed the stock firmware in Odin, then rebooted, got stuck at the Samsung boot logo so pulled the battery, booted to stock recovery, did a factory reset (Wiped everything, internal sd card included), then got it to boot, set the phone up, then rebooted to download mode, flashed TWRP, then rebooted again, set the phone up a bit more then decided to flash Magisk so I have root, and so far its working. 100% stock with magisk. Fingers crossed.
I still think there is an issue with the internal flash memory though as I can not get a TWRP backup to actually complete without failing. It always fails when backing up stuff in the data partition/section and never at the same point like its having read errors or something. I'll grab a TWRP log and post it up in a bit.
Well, that didnt last long. Within an hour, apps started crashing. I will make this thing work! LoL

oneplus6 seems damaged following a failed twrp restore

So here is situation.
Phone been running 8.x version of havocos for months, however I was never fully happy due to broken usb tethering and random lockups (blue light freeze).
I decided to work on the phone 2-3 days ago, this involved doing a manual backup of all of data/media, and a nandroid backup. As well as some exports of configs in tasker etc.
I then flashed OOS stock, and nolimits, discovered tethering was still broken (yet it works with same sim in samsung galaxy s7 and hauwei).
This was the only issue tho, everything else was functioning as expected, phone was still fast.
Then I needed quick access to something that was on my phone from havocos, so decided to do a nandroid restore, this nandroid backup had all partitions ticked. The restore I also had all ticked.
The restore failed with an error 255 during data restore, I googled and found out is a nasty known bug for 2 years on TWRP, this backup was done on 3.2.3, I know now is a newer 3.3.x where this particular bug with corrupt backups might possibly be fixed.
I decided to try and boot havoc anyway but it boot looped, so I then went back into TWRP, and restored the vendor partition which was skipped. As it stopped on data, still boot looped, but also now this created a device is corrupt error on every rom boot even on stock OOS.
I spent ages trying to fix this error and during the process, discovered my phone no longer can be detected in flash boot as a com device in windows so currently the phone cannot be used with the MSM tool.
Eventually I reflashed stock using a flash-all script from here, and also put back on twrp using that script, and noticed even more issues that were not there before.
1 - phone is now much slower, stock before booted in one second after first boot, now its way way slower. Over 10 seconds so 10x as slow.
2 - I think before was a cache partition but is now gone. Supposedly these arent a thing anymore tho.
3 - nolimits zip will no longer flash with an error 1, I did exact same process as before but simply doesnt work now, the twrp detailed log right before the error 1 says "Please install the latest Magisk!" which suggests its failing to detect magisk.
4 - camera app is way slower, and OOS feels slower, laggier in general than before the problem.
5 - MTP no longer works when phone is booted up, again this is stock OOS and even if phone isnt rooted no magisk etc. But still works in TWRP. Basically the device pops up, I can see internal storage, but the size information is missing, and is no visible files/folders.
From what I can see I think my EFS is fine, I see an imei number.
I did fix the corrupted device error using a reboot command someone posted in that thread, so that error is gone now at least.
Try to flash oxygen os beta version from the official download links, let it install the stock recovery, then boot into rom, finish the installation progress by just skipping it and then factory reset it twice from recovery mode.
after doing that and finishing the setup , try to take picture and see if its saves it to gallery ( if the picture delete it self try to factory reset it through recovery for 1 more time)
I think you have figured out whats wrong, it just clicked, and I went to post and found your post so sorry no reply yet.
Indeed the problem seems to be a lack of /data/media/0
I have multiple times wiped data, and twrp has been putting files directly in /data/media, I just discovered I Cannot even take screenshots, magisk cannot download modules as well.
So I guess the stock recovery creates this structure?
Pretty shocking that twrp doesnt fix this or even have an option to. I will report back and let you know how things go, thanks.
Issue still there after stock recovery reset, wow these phones are damn hard to work with.
Also it seemed to do nothing, no settings were lost etc.
So basically stock recovery even if I choose full wipe does nothing, there seems to be some kind of lock on the internal storage that anything made by one plus is refusing to write.
I wonder if this is due to the device is corrupt message I had before where it said the device can no longer be trusted.
I can confirm that files that are on there are now visible in file manager and root explorer. But file manager can do no writes. root explorer can create new stuff but cannot delete or overwrite anything there, gets access denied.
I propose to start over again following this guide, option flash-all-partitions.bat. Helped for me.
I already stated thats already been done.
I eventually got msm working. and that luckily worked.
@chrcol ..., but you've issues
chrcol said:
I already stated thats already been done.
I eventually got msm working. and that luckily worked.
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In recovery, format data. Problem fixed. Wipe will never fix your problem but format will.

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