So I had previously disabled the stock launcher and then last night tried using the ultra power saving mode, forgetting that it requires the touchwiz launcher. My phone is unrooted FYI. It's currently stuck on the Verizon splash screen. I tried safe mode, clearing cache, rebooting from recovery, etc.
Is there anyway to... 1). Recover data before factory resetting? 2). Push the launcher.apk via ADB or something to stop the boot loop? 3). Restore system data without overwriting user data? 4). Root (while preserving knox) from my mac while the phone is off/recovery/bootlooping 5).Get it to boot normally, not in UPSM?
Generally my phones are always rooted, so I forget what options there really are on un-rooted phones.
Thanks
jamontoast1291 said:
So I had previously disabled the stock launcher and then last night tried using the ultra power saving mode, forgetting that it requires the touchwiz launcher. My phone is unrooted FYI. It's currently stuck on the Verizon splash screen. I tried safe mode, clearing cache, rebooting from recovery, etc.
Is there anyway to... 1). Recover data before factory resetting? 2). Push the launcher.apk via ADB or something to stop the boot loop? 3). Restore system data without overwriting user data? 4). Root (while preserving knox) from my mac while the phone is off/recovery/bootlooping 5).Get it to boot normally, not in UPSM?
Generally my phones are always rooted, so I forget what options there really are on un-rooted phones.
Thanks
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i have the same problem on my ecoo e04, i 've frozen "Catapult Launcher" and it crashed and reboot.
Now it doesnt boot. It arrives to the point of the end of the boot animation and then it stops (screen freezes).
Is there a way to install a launcher, maybe via sdcard (i mean, "autoinstallation" ).. or enable usb debugging .. or access the userdata to backup it .. or access the internal disk to manually de-froze Catapult ?
recovery menu is in chinese lang, it only allows a total wipe of emmc. ..
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
So I accidentally uninstalled Touchwiz Home and the phone keeps on rebooting. I got into the regular recovery mode and cleared cache, but the phone still reboots. The swiping screen turns on, but then it says "com.android.phone has stopped working or something like that and then immediately restarts. Is there a way to fix this? Or at least recover all of my files before restoring it? I really do not want to lose all of my files. Thanks.
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So I accidentally uninstalled Touchwiz Home and the phone keeps on rebooting. I got into the regular recovery mode and cleared cache, but the phone still reboots. The swiping screen turns on, but then it says "com.android.phone has stopped working or something like that and then immediately restarts. Is there a way to fix this? Or at least recover all of my files before restoring it? I really do not want to lose all of my files. Thanks.
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There may be a couple of ways of correcting this. Much will depend on what bootloader and modem you are on.
Are you on a stock ROM, and if so what version?
Or, are you on a TouchWiz based custom ROM?
If you are rooted and have USB debugging enabled you may be able to adb to copy files and/or directories to a computer. You have probably already copied everything from the external sdcard to your computer. It is unfortunate that the stock recovery does not have file manager that allows you to copy to the external sdcard, TWRP does. TWRP may be an option if you are on an early version of the stock ROM.
As a final resort, on times when I have upgraded with OTAs or flashed custom ROMs without formating the internal sdcard the media partition remained intact. This may not be true with an Odin flash of the stock ROM. Then again /media may still be preserved.
I am running stock ROM and have bootloader unlocked and TWRP already installed. The phone was rooted without problems. I was getting an error from Super SU, so I looked up how to fix it online and the suggestion was to install an older version and then try to upgrade it. It was hard to find a zip from a legitimate source but once I found it, TWRP did not show the directory I was looking for (this was previously available when I rooted it). This is where I did something stupid and looked around in the settings and found the Slot A / Slot B option. I switched from B to A and the phone got stuck on the boot animation for several minutes after rebooting. I decided to reboot into TWRP and switched the slot back to B. This brought the phone back but WiFi is off by default and whenever I try to turn it on, it doesn't change.
I have seen a couple of other people mention similar issues about losing wifi after a root or changing the slot. What's the fix? I am wondering if there is anything else "broken" after the slot change and if I should do a factory reset (I would hate to do that as I was almost finished setting up this device). I have also received the error message saying "Process System isn't responding" in the settings menu a few times. It also seems like the finger print scanner isn't recognizing fingerprints any more and face unlock isn't working
One possibility is, that SuperSU isn't that compatible anymore. Magisk does a wonderful job and no problems so far. Maybe you should give it a try and switch from using SuperSU to Magisk.
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I am running stock ROM and have bootloader unlocked and TWRP already installed. The phone was rooted without problems. I was getting an error from Super SU, so I looked up how to fix it online and the suggestion was to install an older version and then try to upgrade it. It was hard to find a zip from a legitimate source but once I found it, TWRP did not show the directory I was looking for (this was previously available when I rooted it). This is where I did something stupid and looked around in the settings and found the Slot A / Slot B option. I switched from B to A and the phone got stuck on the boot animation for several minutes after rebooting. I decided to reboot into TWRP and switched the slot back to B. This brought the phone back but WiFi is off by default and whenever I try to turn it on, it doesn't change.
I have seen a couple of other people mention similar issues about losing wifi after a root or changing the slot. What's the fix? I am wondering if there is anything else "broken" after the slot change and if I should do a factory reset (I would hate to do that as I was almost finished setting up this device). I have also received the error message saying "Process System isn't responding" in the settings menu a few times. It also seems like the finger print scanner isn't recognizing fingerprints any more and face unlock isn't working
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I had the same issue when I first got my 6 when I was playing around with the slots. Also my original TWRP install for some reason would crash and reboot whenever I plugged in the data cable while in TWRP. I ended up flashing back to stock OOS 5.1.5 through fastboot (used the flash-all command) and then reinstalled TWRP and everything has been working great since then.
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One possibility is, that SuperSU isn't that compatible anymore. Magisk does a wonderful job and no problems so far. Maybe you should give it a try and switch from using SuperSU to Magisk.
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The instructions I followed already installed Magisk to the phone. I wanted Super SU because some of the other chainfire apps like Liveboot and rooted apps like Titanium backup said Super SU is needed (Titanium said Magisk will work but may not be reliable for some newer versions of the ROM). I can live without liveboot but really need Titanium to reliably transfer data from my older phone.
To be honest I didn't know they did the same thing (magisk and Super SU). I am curious now, what if I factory reset my phone and attempted to install Super SU instead of Magisk this time?
If I do a factory reset (let's say I want it just like it was out of the box and I format the data partition as well), will I need to root the phone again? I am asking because I don't know which part of the instructions I should ignore. I am sure TWRP will already be installed after the reset so I would only need to install the extra apps...
You don't have to format data. Just factory reset it. Then use "fastboot boot twrp.img", don't allow modifications, flash a kernel you want (if you want one - I really recommend ElementalX) and then the latest version of Magisk (16.4 BETA currently). Did so - all fine. And yes: Even Titanium Backup works without any issue with Magisk.
We had similar problems with TWRP on the Razer Phone when it was new. We solved the problem by using the TWRP boot image to flash the stock boot image and then flashing a TWRP zip. I just got the OnePlus 6 yesterday and haven't really messed with it yet but everything sounds the same to me so far.
I read more about TWRP and realized what I was doing wrong when the directory with zip files wasn't showing up. When TWRP showed up I was supposed type in my regular unlock password to decrypt storage. When I did that the folder I was looking for showed up. I made a backup through recovery (which took like an hour, may be because the external flash drive I attached was really slow - and the size of the backup was about 12GB). After that I installed the zip file for Super SU, just to see if it worked - it showed the installation was successful but the app was still missing from the app drawer. Now I wanted to factory reset the device and start over.
I went into wipe and there was nothing listed under the wipe screen. I went into Advanced wipe and wiped whatever was selected by default. The selected items were Dalvik / ART Cache, System, Data. There was also "Internal Storage and USB Storage" that wasn't selected.
I swiped to wipe, it wiped everything. Then asked reboot, I rebooted, got a blank screen with white LED for a long time. When I plugged it into the computer it recognized the device as Qualcomm HS-USB Diagnostics 900E (COM4). I rebooted it by holding Power + Volume Up + Volume Down. I tried to boot into boot loader next. This brought me to another blank screen. The computer still makes a noise when it reboots but screen stays black. The only message that shows up is the one saying boot loader is unlocked. Did I brick my phone? This keeps getting progressively worse.
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I read more about TWRP and realized what I was doing wrong when the directory with zip files wasn't showing up. When TWRP showed up I was supposed type in my regular unlock password to decrypt storage. When I did that the folder I was looking for showed up. I made a backup through recovery (which took like an hour, may be because the external flash drive I attached was really slow - and the size of the backup was about 12GB). After that I installed the zip file for Super SU, just to see if it worked - it showed the installation was successful but the app was still missing from the app drawer. Now I wanted to factory reset the device and start over.
I went into wipe and there was nothing listed under the wipe screen. I went into Advanced wipe and wiped whatever was selected by default. The selected items were Dalvik / ART Cache, System, Data. There was also "Internal Storage and USB Storage" that wasn't selected.
I swiped to wipe, it wiped everything. Then asked reboot, I rebooted, got a blank screen with white LED for a long time. When I plugged it into the computer it recognized the device as Qualcomm HS-USB Diagnostics 900E (COM4). I rebooted it by holding Power + Volume Up + Volume Down. I tried to boot into boot loader next. This brought me to another blank screen. The computer still makes a noise when it reboots but screen stays black. The only message that shows up is the one saying boot loader is unlocked. Did I brick my phone? This keeps getting progressively worse.
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OK good news! I tried one more time and fast boot showed up. I was able to get into recovery. I have the backup so I will try to restore that. I don't know what to do after that. I am thinking wiping without getting into advanced mode.
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OK good news! I tried one more time and fast boot showed up. I was able to get into recovery. I have the backup so I will try to restore that. I don't know what to do after that. I am thinking wiping without getting into advanced mode.
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When your phone booted straight into that mode with black screen and the led, then you bricked it. Same happened to me 2 days ago. The solution was to use the Msmtool from another thread and it worked great. Just follow the guide. But it will wipe your device. And you have to install oxygenos manually via "local upgrade". If you have a question, just ask
What I ended up doing was restoring from the backup I had. This was the "bad backup" without WiFi and broken finger print and facial recognition. After the restore, I did a normal wipe (not advanced). This reset the phone to factory settings. Once I configured WiFi and signed into my Google account, Google offered to recover from a cloud backup of my One Plus - I didn't know Google made these backups. It downloaded all the apps automatically. I don't know yet if I have sign into all of them all over again.
The bad back up saved my ass, I wasn't even planning on making it. I was just testing the backup feature. That's why you should always do a backup, even if the device isn't in ideal configuration.
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The instructions I followed already installed Magisk to the phone. I wanted Super SU because some of the other chainfire apps like Liveboot and rooted apps like Titanium backup said Super SU is needed (Titanium said Magisk will work but may not be reliable for some newer versions of the ROM). I can live without liveboot but really need Titanium to reliably transfer data from my older phone.
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I rooted my phone with Magisk and installed the 5.1.6 via OTA (and reroot via installed Magisk Manager). So no need to install TWRP so far.
Titanium Backup runs flawlessly with Magisk (already on my OP 3T and my OP 5).
So give Magisk a try, I never had such an easy and reliable update as the one from 5.1.5 to 5.1.6
Helium is a great alternative to titanium.
I have this SM-T110R Samsung Tab 3 with TWRP installed, whenever I turn off the tablet and turn it back on it goes back to the data when I first turned on the tablet and doesn't save any of my data at all, it used to boot loop but doesn't anymore.
My suspection is that it was when I factory resetted everything from TWRP which caused it and I even tried reflashing the stock rom but nothing works.
What can I do?