Okay this is going to sound crazy for some, and the people with a lot experience may only be able to answer this.
I own Note5, and even after I deleted every single thing from TWRP and then flashed the new firmware. I realised that there are still some things remain from the old ROM. Like the boot.img (I know I can replace it) and after flashing firmware the English (United Kingdom) shows first even tho it showed English (United) when I first time booted the device.
So is there a way to literally format the whole flash drive of internal storage including all partitions like root and make the device totally blank and then install the firmware to start it very fresh? Like I can literally format everything in my PC's HDD and make it as it like a new piece with no marks left.
Or at least delete everything except very few...
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Okay I've got this weird problem since updated to awesome recovery/kernel. Whenever there is CM/Omni involved, my phone starts acting weird. Okay, listen to this.
First of all, everything seems normal after clean install. Then I install some of urgent apps (total commander, whatsapp - that's all). After a day or two my phone starts to act weird - it's rebooting itself and bootloops. I turn it off and on again - boots to os, then after a few minutes another reboot into bootloop. Okay... I thought it was because I didn't have the ext4 partition. Formatted into ext4 from recovery, installed Omniroom from 2 sept. and suprisingly it went good for two days! I installed some more apps and used it regularly - but it happend again. Reboot, bootloop, manualy reboot, worked fine for a minute, another reboot into bootloop. I thought that my SD card was damaged. h2testw claimed that it was perfectly fine. Now I wanted to install some stock 2.3.5 into it... I couldn't even pass the HTC screen because it keept rebooting itself...
Tell me what can I do to make this piece of... functional again? I ordered new phone, but it will arrive within next 14 days at best, and I still need the functioning android phone. Any advice, help is appreciate: links to a flashable stock roms, links to a fucntioning omni/cm rooms, any help on how to install them... thanks in advance
mclpl said:
Okay I've got this weird problem since updated to awesome recovery/kernel. Whenever there is CM/Omni involved, my phone starts acting weird. Okay, listen to this.
First of all, everything seems normal after clean install. Then I install some of urgent apps (total commander, whatsapp - that's all). After a day or two my phone starts to act weird - it's rebooting itself and bootloops. I turn it off and on again - boots to os, then after a few minutes another reboot into bootloop. Okay... I thought it was because I didn't have the ext4 partition. Formatted into ext4 from recovery, installed Omniroom from 2 sept. and suprisingly it went good for two days! I installed some more apps and used it regularly - but it happend again. Reboot, bootloop, manualy reboot, worked fine for a minute, another reboot into bootloop. I thought that my SD card was damaged. h2testw claimed that it was perfectly fine. Now I wanted to install some stock 2.3.5 into it... I couldn't even pass the HTC screen because it keept rebooting itself...
Tell me what can I do to make this piece of... functional again? I ordered new phone, but it will arrive within next 14 days at best, and I still need the functioning android phone. Any advice, help is appreciate: links to a flashable stock roms, links to a fucntioning omni/cm rooms, any help on how to install them... thanks in advance
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if you want to install older roms or stock you`ll need to fastboot an older recovery check this out http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1415223 you only need to do PART 3 : Add a Recovery section
now you should be able to flash non-aw3som3 roms cm10 RC2 and below/ICS/Jellybean/Stock jaggyjags roms either way will get a functioning phone back for you, remember to wipe everything apart from sdcard once in recovery then install whichever rom
hi,
firstly i'm unsure where to put this, it's not actually a question, but it may be seen as one.. so, if you prefered it in the Q&A then i'm sorry for getting it wrong.
i've got a lot of issues with the basic version of the software of my phone (huawei ascend y300-0000 is what is written on it, i think it's the chinese version, most of the base apps are chinese), till it died on me and even the recovery wouldn't solve anything, so i had to root, unlock bootloader, install an alternate recovery and finally put some mod roms;
well, i was wrong, since 3 days i can't use my phone, since apparently every rom is for "0100" version and on my phone some roms wouldn't start at all (it shows the first animation continuosly), while others works in everything but the local netwrok ! it totally don't want to recognize my sim (after the first time it also says to put in a sim, while mine is already in);
i also have been trying to install the custom chinese rom MIUI v5, but apparently this isn't booting at all, and forcing upgrade with a retail of B197 gives error while installing.
all this being said, could someone help me to:
if possible, modify a custom rom that is lighter and also has nice options like bluethoot tethering, if it's not.. find something that actually works on this version of the phone,
i'm really at a loss of what to do, i even have downloadeded this shuame program, but it's all in chinese and i'm trying to not break completely my phone
Thanks for your time
i found some chinese roms, just one seems to be working when flashed tho, and in this one the network don't seem to be working either (the phone searchs for a UIM card), is there any way to make it work? i tried flashing some european baseband, but it doesn't seem like it changed anything
So...
When i got my phone i didnt even bother putting in the latest miui, i just flashed the latest CM13.1 and started working with it,
Since i got 2 phones, one for me and one for my brother, i used mine as a testbed while i did everything "by the book" for my brothers.
the thing is that now im getting bad battery life and overheating and i notice that even when doing a factory reset some stuff (like i have the keyboard in 3 different languages) gets carried over.
So how do i "clean house" and start over, a sterilization that would leave the phone totaly empty (with exception of recovery offcource, would like to be able to load a new rom) ?
Then again if i have to sideload a new recovery from adb/fastboot it wouldnt be the end of the world.
Have you tried in recovery to "format system"?
I think that it is one of the best ways to clean your phone, even if the deepest would be doing all the possible wipe in TWRP menu.
will try.
Hello. This looks like the place I can get the best help.
Got a Xiaomi Mi5 last week - cheap and very cheerful. Having read online about possible fake roms and bloatware I thought the safest option would be to load the official stable rom to be safe.
Attempt 1
Following the MIUI guidance I downloaded the ROM, copied it to my phone in Windows explorer and then used the MIUI updater tool within the phone to load the new ROM.
http://en.miui.com/a-232.html
Everything went swimmingly for a couple of hours, but then the phone began crashing.
Attempt 2
By this stage I realised the above method was no longer available to me. So I got unlocking privalidges, unlocked my phone. Then, using MiFlash I flashed the latest ROM to the phone. Now the crashing problems happen within about a minute. It actually froze the screen first time round so I did it again.
Added fun issue - left my phone on overnight to charge. And it had stopped charging at 58%.
Attempt 3
Downloaded the EU MIUI Rom. Accessed TWRP in my phone and tried to use it to wipe and install. Not sure the wipes were fully effective - got a lot of red writing. And when I went to install the new ROM the internal storage was 0MB.
Had a look at guidance, and I forget what I did, but was finally able to see the zip file on my phone through TWRP. I got the "7" error. Have read how to fix this but seems too risky considering whats gone before.
Desired solution
I would just like any ROM on my phone which works. Don't really care which, I have followed each guide religiously. It may well just be a faulty phone but I don't want to send it back to China without ruling out the problem being me screwing with the software. Especially as I assume i've technically voided warranty... (I can reload Global Developer and relock it though so have hidden it pretty well. Only difference I can tell is that I now get a menu in recovery mode when before I got instruction to go to PCsuite).
Also - I seem to remember there originally being a downloaded_rom file in the internal memory which is no longer there. If im sending it back do I need to recreate one to hide my activity?
Appreciate any advice.
Moley1985 said:
Hello. This looks like the place I can get the best help.
Got a Xiaomi Mi5 last week - cheap and very cheerful. Having read online about possible fake roms and bloatware I thought the safest option would be to load the official stable rom to be safe.
Attempt 1
Following the MIUI guidance I downloaded the ROM, copied it to my phone in Windows explorer and then used the MIUI updater tool within the phone to load the new ROM.
http://en.miui.com/a-232.html
Everything went swimmingly for a couple of hours, but then the phone began crashing.
Attempt 2
By this stage I realised the above method was no longer available to me. So I got unlocking privalidges, unlocked my phone. Then, using MiFlash I flashed the latest ROM to the phone. Now the crashing problems happen within about a minute. It actually froze the screen first time round so I did it again.
Added fun issue - left my phone on overnight to charge. And it had stopped charging at 58%.
Attempt 3
Downloaded the EU MIUI Rom. Accessed TWRP in my phone and tried to use it to wipe and install. Not sure the wipes were fully effective - got a lot of red writing. And when I went to install the new ROM the internal storage was 0MB.
Had a look at guidance, and I forget what I did, but was finally able to see the zip file on my phone through TWRP. I got the "7" error. Have read how to fix this but seems too risky considering whats gone before.
Desired solution
I would just like any ROM on my phone which works. Don't really care which, I have followed each guide religiously. It may well just be a faulty phone but I don't want to send it back to China without ruling out the problem being me screwing with the software. Especially as I assume i've technically voided warranty... (I can reload Global Developer and relock it though so have hidden it pretty well. Only difference I can tell is that I now get a menu in recovery mode when before I got instruction to go to PCsuite).
Also - I seem to remember there originally being a downloaded_rom file in the internal memory which is no longer there. If im sending it back do I need to recreate one to hide my activity?
Appreciate any advice.
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Greetings and welcome to assist. Xiaomi phones are encrypted by default so you need to wipe your phone in fastboot to access your storage again and you also need to flash latest su zip to disable dm verity. That should clear you internal memory issues and allow you to flash a zip through twrp
Good Luck
Sawdoctor
Hello there,
Please forgive me if i posted this thread on the wrong place.
-I would've not posted a thread here unless this got serious, so i own a Samsung Galaxy S6, it's 1 year old phone, when i first got it, i used it normally like everyone else and had no problem with it, but my curiosity got me to root the phone, i still did not get any problem with it until i chose to add a ROM. I used NNE 5.1 S8 port and it was working well until it got my phone broken somehow.
-My phone started acting really strange after 2 months of activity of that new ROM, my phone just started restarting randomly and it got me worried, i thought it's an application problem so i first just factory reset it. It seemed it was not the problem on an application, so i chose to change my firmware to a stock one. I searched up recently on the newest firmware for S6 and i found out it's: XEF (France) , PDA (AP): G920FXXU6ERC1 and CSC : G920FOXA6ERC1 on 2018-03-22. I Downloaded 4 files: BL,AP,CP,CSC , and i found out about PIT on one of the posts in this forum (Filename: SM-G920F-ZEROFLTE_EUR_OPEN.pit).
-Before i flashed with Odin, i wiped System, Data, Cache and Dalvrik Cache. The firmware worked well but after 1 hour it started doing the same thing but now differently. It happend to me only 1 time that it froze up on an application, but i think that is just an app problem. The main problem is that when i lock my screen, i cannot unlock it anymore, it just freezes there until it restarts after a short period of time. After the restart, it just keeps going, restarts, asks for pin, restarts and so on.
I tried removing the sim card and putting it back in, did not work.
I tried Safe mode, still same.
Model of phone: SM-G920F
Current firmware: XEF (G920FXXU6ERC1)
Android version: Nougat (7.0)
If you can help me, or you know something about this problem, please repost here, i would be really grateful since this is my only phone
Ininstall twrp backup everything most important efs partition.
Install samsung switch and pray that it asks you to do an update. If not try to flash a diferent version of nougat for example November security patch and try again with samsung switch
lenovot said:
Ininstall twrp backup everything most important efs partition.
Install samsung switch and pray that it asks you to do an update. If not try to flash a diferent version of nougat for example November security patch and try again with samsung switch
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How could samsung switch possibly help?
I did flash it with different versions already, but no luck :/.
I've been praying a lot for this lately but it is not working lol
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try doing this.
1) go here: https://updato.com/
2) choose download 2 roms. 1 nougat and another marshmallow (to my knowledge, stock roms are one file. no more splits and unless otherwise stated... no need for pit)
3) first flash nougat using oden
4) try the phone for a few some time.
if after a set amount of time, phone works fancy and no issues present then it's solved.
if not... install marshmallow. then try again.
if all this fails then...
install nougat. as soon as possible afterwards install twrp.
boot into twrp and just leave it there. my twrp locks after a while and screen goes dark until user interaction (just like it's supposed to)
if the same thing happens then its a hardware issue... probably... (i have had my main board fail... kinda similar not similar issue... hope you dont have the same issue and that its just software related)
good luck.
In my case every time there was an update available it would download the whole firmware and by doing so you would get the most fresh and updated version. Also it updates every partition to match