Hi there folks,
I really hate to be a bother... However, I've sort of run into a huge issue with my Pixel and unfortunately all the research I've done really hasn't done much good to fixing this. I've tried everything I can at this point, however, it absolutely refuses to connect to Wifi and I've even restored the android P factory image (With user data errors) and then tried all over again and still the same issue.
I've even tried installing Lineage OS 16 and still same story.. Forgive me if I'm doing something wrong.. Just I'm really to the point of over frustration with this. It was doing this before the flash and restore, still doing it despite my best efforts to fix it. Flashed the modem and radio individually even and same story..
Unless the factory image restore is failing? I am getting an error on Userdata imaging failed and removed the -w in the flash all file and got a bit further, same story though..
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Like the title says, I'm stuck at the erasing 'userdata' part of flashing back to stock.
I'm following the information from http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2513701
I chose to use method 1, since i'm lazy and just want the new 4.4.1. Everything was going well until that part. Please help, I don't want to brick my phone by doing something stupid like unplugging it.... Unless that'll work.
also the little android with the ! is not present. The screen still shows the large android with blue squares inside. I also did not factory reset before i tried to do this.
datboyc said:
Like the title says, I'm stuck at the erasing 'userdata' part of flashing back to stock.
I'm following the information from http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2513701
I chose to use method 1, since i'm lazy and just want the new 4.4.1. Everything was going well until that part. Please help, I don't want to brick my phone by doing something stupid like unplugging it.... Unless that'll work.
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formatting partitions can take ages on this phone. i stopped mid-format on cache with an early version of TWRP a couple of weeks ago and it's taken the best part of a day yesterday to sort it out - i couldn't even flash kernels or boot animations without bootloop (on the second boot? wtf??), and ended up going back to stock, locking the bootloader and repeatedly formatting all partitions to sort it! (it might be worth locking and unlocking the bootloader before you put your data back since you're there anyway....)
Well I decided to be brave and boot from TWRP recovery, but when I unplugged the phone ADB showed an error saying "Too many open files in system". The phone then rebooted on its own, and the little android with the ! came up, and the process seems to have worked. Thank you for the information about taking forever on the formatting, I will keep that in mind when I flash a custom recovery again.
I know its a little outdated, but i had the same problems few days ago, and i solved the problem using a pc in windows xp and everything went great, but in Windows 7 everytime got stuck at erasing userdata.
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Hi guys, wasn't sure where to post this and I've been searching the web for hours without coming up with an answer with the best way to fix the problem I've got.
So yesterday my sister gave me her phone saying it was shat and slow and generally rubbish (S4 i9505 running 4.4.2). So I had a brief look at it and she had absolutely no room on the phone at all, it was completely clogged. So I deleted all the cache data (4 gigs!!), as soon as I did this the phone came back to life and started updating everything it could, then made a backup in CWM. Thought while I'm here I may as well put the official Lollipop firmware on it from Sammobile. All was good until I realised that she has never backed anything up to google or any other cloud storage (pretty dumb!) and all of her important stuff I couldn't get back.
So I then had to try and extract some data from the CWM backup... couldn't do it. I just couldn't find the files that she wanted restored. Mainly whatsapp messages and pictures and also Smemo. These are all she needs, there's really important memos apparently, why the hell she never backed them up or had another copy of them is beyond me if they were that important!
So I tried restoring just the data part of the 4.4 CWM restore to the 5.0 rom, looking back now I see this is where I went wrong and was asking for trouble.
So I then tried rolling back to the full CWM backup, all went well so I assumed and it said it was successful. This was until the phone booted. Constant spamming of gapps has stopped working, and no matter what I did I couldn't get it to stop, the phone was unusable with it constantly pinging up, every app was failing, and then it would turn itself off and reboot.
So I Factory reset again and wiped everything, installed the backup again, same thing happened again. Even tried flashing the latest version of gapps, but nothing had any effect.
So now I'm thinking oh feck... I didn't make a backup of the Lollipop install as I thought the rollback would have just cured it, and she had already started messing about with it, making it look pretty and getting people to send her some of the important files she had.
So I thought balls, tough luck and you'll have to start again, your fault for never backing anything up. So I reflashed Lollipop, and for some reason it wouldn't boot. Would just hang at the Samsung logo, this was 4am, I was panicking as I'd effectively bricked her phone. So after lots of boot loops and countless flashes I was looking on ebay for a new phone for her, then suddenly it finally boots on one of the flashes.
Anyway after a lot of faffing about, flashing 4.4 which worked, so flashed 5.0 again, and luckily it booted, I don't know what happened, maybe I missed something as I was so tired, so I signed her into google and let all the apps download while I slept.
Now the question is, I seem to have found a site that explains how to extract individual files vaguely, I just need to get the smemos and whatsapp files and I'm not entirely sure where to look and extract these files. Also, will they corrupt if I try to install them on the 5.0 firmware?
Any help would be much appreciated as I'm really in the stinky brown stuff.
Morning bump if anyone can shed some light on this :crying:
Hi
Thanks for writing to us at XDA Assist. Have you tried using this tool?
[Tool] Cwm nandbackup file Extractor ( .img/ .tar files )
It should extract exactly what you need. If you're only reinstalling those specific apps with their data you should have no issues, just don't restore any system data, that's what caused your problems after restoring the KitKat backup on top of the Lollipop ROM.
No response in two days, thread closed, thanks.
Hey all,
I've got a question. Most likely a question I know the answer to and I'm in denial. My phone crashed on vacation and wouldn't boot anymore. Not sure how it append but it did. A software failure. After many attempts I've tried to recover some of my vacation photo's an video's. (luckily I've added a cloud sync before going on vacation in case of theft and havn't lost all) In the restore attempts I've soft bricked my phone (from bad to worse) And had to make a clean install with odin. I've installed a clean Stock Rom and rooted it with Magisk (supersu resulted in bootloop). I've tried a few recovery programs from the first page googleling. But no results.
I'm pretty sure the previous version was encrypted and I'm hitting a dead end here.
As for my question: Have I've really given myself the answer not getting it back because of the (possible) encryption or are there better recovery options?
As soon as you started writing over everything with a new flash, you effectively became SOL. There's likely nothing left to recover.
Even before that, while recovery might have been possible, you wouldn't have liked the price tag.
Yeah, thanks. I've figured that. By now I've accepted the fact that I've lost the content and moved on.
I believe one of the security updates decided to install partially and prepare to install on the next reboot which came during a night out where the phone reached 0%. Now when I turn the phone on all I'm getting is "Cannot load Android system. Your data may be corrupt" Google/Sargo 10/QQ1A.200205.002/6084386.
My question is, is there any method that can get a dump of the user data? I would be interested in paying for a chip off type service to get the local storage back. I pretty much do not care if the device is ever actually usable again, I have other phones to switch to but there was a lot which was not cloud syncing on this 3A. A nand dump is worth more to me than the phone itself. I've read that Pixels are encrypted by default though so I'm unable to think of anything other than being SOL on it.
I'm pretty furious at this thing, it's left me with the wipe and deal-with-it ultimatum that I'm only used to seeing from toying with flashing devices yet all I did was swipe away the February patch notification 2 or 3 times. How can this thing really have just bricked itself totally stock? Don't they bother to check the battery level before auto applying updates anymore? Help! What the hell Google?
Edit: Or thinking about this more calmly - is it possible to flash only the bootloader or key partitions of the os without wiping the sdcard partition? I could care less about the installed app data, only thing lost would be Signal messenger history. But the user space partition is the biggie.
naaaaail said:
I believe one of the security updates decided to install partially and prepare to install on the next reboot which came during a night out where the phone reached 0%. Now when I turn the phone on all I'm getting is "Cannot load Android system. Your data may be corrupt" Google/Sargo 10/QQ1A.200205.002/6084386.
My question is, is there any method that can get a dump of the user data? I would be interested in paying for a chip off type service to get the local storage back. I pretty much do not care if the device is ever actually usable again, I have other phones to switch to but there was a lot which was not cloud syncing on this 3A. A nand dump is worth more to me than the phone itself. I've read that Pixels are encrypted by default though so I'm unable to think of anything other than being SOL on it.
I'm pretty furious at this thing, it's left me with the wipe and deal-with-it ultimatum that I'm only used to seeing from toying with flashing devices yet all I did was swipe away the February patch notification 2 or 3 times. How can this thing really have just bricked itself totally stock? Don't they bother to check the battery level before auto applying updates anymore? Help! What the hell Google?
Edit: Or thinking about this more calmly - is it possible to flash only the bootloader or key partitions of the os without wiping the sdcard partition? I could care less about the installed app data, only thing lost would be Signal messenger history. But the user space partition is the biggie.
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Afaik, you can change the default boot partition, as we have 2. Only one gets updated. You can do that in fastboot mode. Search google for an how to. It should be something like boot a or boot b.
Wish you good luck with your data. I can write tomorrow, i have to sleep now.
Can you still boot into recovery?
If so, and if I understand the problem correctly, you might be able to ADB sideload an OTA from there. Download the version you were on or the update after that from https://developers.google.com/android/ota#sargo to your PC, boot into recovery and choose "Sideload update from ADB", get ADB running on your PC and use this command in a command line window
Code:
adb sideload [/path/to/ota.zip]
which should apply it like a regular update without wiping anything. This is possibly your best bet.
Did you unlock your bootloader, by any chance? Then you might also be able to flash a factory image via fastboot, but you have to remove the "-w" in the "flash-all.sh/bat" file to avoid wiping the device.
I faced another issue and went through a lot of troubleshooting, which I wrote about here and it might be informative or relevant to some extent:
https://forum.xda-developers.com/pixel-3a/help/systemui-crash-loop-rescue-directions-t3997747
Everything failed in my particular case, though, but this might show you some other ideas I and other helpful people had, especially with an unlocked bootloader.
I think you can edit the flash-all script and remove the wipe from the script line. But I'd try sideload OTA First if you can
Hi all,
I recently took the plunge into the Android world of things and loved it. Everything was going according to plan, until I decided to try out the DSU loader and load a GSI package. Based on everything I read it shouldn't had cause any issues, but unfortunately it did. Once I rebooted the phone I received the dreaded "Your Device is Corrupted and Cannot Be Trusted" message. Unfortunately it all went down hill for me from there. A couple of things I know now and shouldn't have done without knowing more information was performing a "Format and Download" option on the phone. Had no idea I was going to loose other partitions that is not created by the flashing of the Rom.
I was able to get the Manufacturer Rom and flash it back to the device. Everything appeared to be working fine until I noticed that I was not getting any data for the battery management option. Another thing I noticed is that now my battery is rapidly loosing it's charge. Could this be related to the Cache Partition not being present? Is there anyway to get the Cache Partition back or recreate it by rooting the device? Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
-Glitch