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[Q] Encryption broke my phone

Hi, I got Motorola Moto G, original system, no root. I just encrypted my phone, process most probably finished without problems - I stopped watching the phone on around 90%. Then it restarted, boot animation, "enter your password to decrypt the phone", I type it in, green robo shows for 1 second and then black screen (backlighted) :/ After couple hours nothing changes.
If I type wrong password, phone ofc doesn't accept it. Computer sees device, but I can't access it. When I turn off the phone by pressing POWER for long time, it just resets and goes back to asking for passwod again.
Please help me recover my data...
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before entering password PC says phone is off, after typing it, PC says it doesn't have drivers (it worked normally before encryption).
I can enter fast boot, but IDK what next. Recovery mode just ends with "NO COMMAND"

I see that probably all users who got this problem have Motorola Moto G too. Mostly people who use CM and tried to encrypt phone too.
I downloaded Android SDK, fastboot.exe tool sees my phone in this state. Not sure if it can be used to do something useful....
adb.exe doesn't see device

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So, I left the phone in black screen step over night. Battery ran out. I tried turning it on/off, entering fast boot mode, but nothing happened, then connected to USB. LED turned on for a while, screen too, showing battery with 0%. But now nothing again. Just black or off, not sure. Can't do literally anything, I tried pressing different keys for minutes and changing USB slot.
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nevermind, fixed battery problem, Moto G with no power needs normal charger or much longer time on USB

phantom_gopher said:
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before entering password PC says phone is off, after typing it, PC says it doesn't have drivers (it worked normally before encryption).
I can enter fast boot, but IDK what next. Recovery mode just ends with "NO COMMAND"
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Dunno if this can help (and sorry for the grammar but i'm not english and i really suck at it), but for me it's normal to see "no command" on the recovery, to see the recovery commands you just need to:
(Token from Customer Help Motorola):
1. Go in fastboot mode.
2. Select the voice "Recovery".
3. Now the phone'll show motorola's logo and then the android bot with the exclamation mark.
So now, you have to press VOL UP for 10-15 seconds. while pressing it, press and release the POWER button.
U should now see the voices in the recovery.

phantom_gopher said:
So, I left the phone in black screen step over night. Battery ran out. I tried turning it on/off, entering fast boot mode, but nothing happened, then connected to USB. LED turned on for a while, screen too, showing battery with 0%. But now nothing again. Just black or off, not sure. Can't do literally anything, I tried pressing different keys for minutes and changing USB slot.
EDIT
nevermind, fixed battery problem, Moto G with no power needs normal charger or much longer time on USB
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If you can get the phone to be recognised try reflash firmware
Sent from my Moto G using XDA Free mobile app

Thanks for replies. Menu in recovery mode lets me wipe all data, so that's last thing I want to do, but I guess I will have too soon :/
About flashing firmware - from what I've read, encrypted data on phone is protected by password and some kind of encryption key/file. Reflhasing would cause permanent lose of that key and thus whole encrypted data.
The only solution I guess is copying that key on PC. Copying encrypted data if possible, and decrypting on PC using some tool, as Android is open source, so it shouldn't be a problem to extract it's decryption mechanism and run it on PC.
OR copying key to PC, reflashing phone, copying back key and praying this time system will start.

Well what's more important I working phone or a few apps??
If you need to get data off the phone maybe using a otg cable and using the file manager in recovery to copy it all over to the USB otg but as far as that I think your gunna have yo count your losses and learn not to encrypt your phone lol....
Sent from my Moto G using XDA Free mobile app

ME TOO!!!
phantom_gopher said:
Hi, I got Motorola Moto G, original system, no root. I just encrypted my phone, process most probably finished without problems - I stopped watching the phone on around 90%. Then it restarted, boot animation, "enter your password to decrypt the phone", I type it in, green robo shows for 1 second and then black screen (backlighted) :/ After couple hours nothing changes.
If I type wrong password, phone ofc doesn't accept it. Computer sees device, but I can't access it. When I turn off the phone by pressing POWER for long time, it just resets and goes back to asking for passwod again.
Please help me recover my data...
EDIT
before entering password PC says phone is off, after typing it, PC says it doesn't have drivers (it worked normally before encryption).
I can enter fast boot, but IDK what next. Recovery mode just ends with "NO COMMAND"
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Same happened to me...couldn't even do a factory reset. I had to get a new phone. I was so mad!!! Now I have a Sony Xperia phone. I just bought it outright so I wouldn't be stuck in a plan.

[SOLUTION] How To Fix "CM Lockscreen Has Stopped Working" Error in OnePlus One 38R

[SOLUTION] How To Fix "CM Lockscreen Has Stopped Working" Error in OnePlus One 38R
DISCLAIMER: I do not guarantee that this method will work for you, but it doesn't require ROOT or a custom recovery, etc. So, it's safe.
So, three days after OTA updating my OPO to XNPH38R, I randomly got the "unfortunately, CM Lockscreen has stopped working" error, and my phone became virtually unusable. I was devastated! I didn't want to wipe my phone. So, I decided to just got into Recovery and wipe the cache. But my custom recovery was freezing, so I decided to boot up my computer and try to re-flash recovery... And while I was waiting for my computer, I stumbled upon this work-around. I hope it helps someone.
WORK-AROUND METHOD:
Step 1.) Reboot your phone. (You'll have to hard reset it by holding the power button down for 5+ seconds.)
Step 2.) After the phone restarts and you're faced with the persistent error of death again, just press the power button once to turn off the screen. Then, turn the screen back on.
Step 3.) When you turn the screen back on in Step 2, the screen should be totally black with the capacitive buttons still lit. If this doesn't happen, try repeating Step 2 until it does.
Step 4.) Just leave the phone on with a blank screen and lit capacitive buttons for 20+ seconds. This seems to be an important step.
Step 5. Turn your phone screen off and back on again. For me, this fixed the persistent error. Yay! Hopefully it works for you. However, for me, the error came back again in only 5 minutes, and I had to repeat the entire procedure. Which is why we need Step 6.
Step 6.) Disable the lockscreen. This can be done by going to System Settings > Lockscreen > Screen Security > Screen Lock, and then choose "none" to disable the lockscreen entirely. This has kept the persistent error from recurring for me for 12+ hours.
And, that's it! That's all. You get to keep your data and information. And you get to keep the latest OnePlus One software version... However, unfortunately, you lose all lockscreen Security. But, you could maybe try installing a third-party lockscreen like "GO LOCKER" until OnePlus recognizes this problem and fixes it in the next update.
Good luck everyone! Lemme know if this works for anyone else besides me.

Marvelite said:
DISCLAIMER: I do not guarantee that this method will work for you, but it doesn't require ROOT or a custom recovery, etc. So, it's safe.
So, three days after OTA updating my OPO to XNPH38R, I randomly got the "unfortunately, CM Lockscreen has stopped working" error, and my phone became virtually unusable. I was devastated! I didn't want to wipe my phone. So, I decided to just got into Recovery and wipe the cache. But my custom recovery was freezing, so I decided to boot up my computer and try to re-flash recovery... And while I was waiting for my computer, I stumbled upon this work-around. I hope it helps someone.
WORK-AROUND METHOD:
Step 1.) Reboot your phone. (You'll have to hard reset it by holding the power button down for 5+ seconds.)
Step 2.) After the phone restarts and you're faced with the persistent error of death again, just press the power button once to turn off the screen. Then, turn the screen back on.
Step 3.) When you turn the screen back on in Step 2, the screen should be totally black with the capacitive buttons still lit. If this doesn't happen, try repeating Step 2 until it does.
Step 4.) Just leave the phone on with a blank screen and lit capacitive buttons for 20+ seconds. This seems to be an important step.
Step 5. Turn your phone screen off and back on again. For me, this fixed the persistent error. Yay! Hopefully it works for you. However, for me, the error came back again in only 5 minutes, and I had to repeat the entire procedure. Which is why we need Step 6.
Step 6.) Disable the lockscreen. This can be done by going to System Settings > Lockscreen > Screen Security > Screen Lock, and then choose "none" to disable the lockscreen entirely. This has kept the persistent error from recurring for me for 12+ hours.
And, that's it! That's all. You get to keep your data and information. And you get to keep the latest OnePlus One software version... However, unfortunately, you lose all lockscreen Security. But, you could maybe try installing a third-party lockscreen like "GO LOCKER" until OnePlus recognizes this problem and fixes it in the next update.
Good luck everyone! Lemme know if this works for anyone else besides me.
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This is not working for me as i cant get my phone to the stage where the screen is black with only the buttons lighting up

Alternative solution
I too faced the same problem with the lockscreen after changing my wallpaper.
However the method mentioned above did not work for me.
I tried this instead.
1. Restart your phone by holding down the power button for a few seconds.
2. Turn off the screen.
3. Use the play music gesture: swipe down 2 fingers to start the music player. (tried the camera gesture but did not work).
The lockscreen problem disappeared since then. I have also turned off the lockscreen in the settings in fear of it reoccurring.
Hope this helps any of you suffering from the same problem.
Cheers!

I found another way to get your phone unlocked
So the solution that was provided by Marvelite did not work for me. I tried many many MANY times, but to no avail.
After looking around the interweb, I found some other instructions to root my phone (FYI I had no experience in rooting) and I was able to fix it without flashing or re installing anything.
So... what did I do. All I did was unlock my phone. I got my phone and remember saying it was unlocked, as you could use any carrier. That is not what I mean by unlock. What I mean by unlock is you cannot flash it or erase it. See the command line window below saying the phone is not unlocked and that is why I cannot flash it. I thought I had to flash it or erase it to get everything working. Just unlocking it fixed the CM Lockscreen Has Stopped Working error.
So what will you need to install on your computer and do to your phone.
1) Download adb-setup- 1.3.exe (if you type "adb-setup- 1.3.exe" into google, you will find a download) and install ADB system wide on your computer.
2) Put your phone in Fastboot mode and plug it into your computer. To do this, have your phone completely off and then hold the volume up and power button. You will see the screen of your one plus one in fastboot mode.
3) open up a command line window (as in my attached picture) and type fastboot oem unlock
THIS WILL RESET YOUR PHONE! After I typed in fastboot oem unlock, my phone reset itself and it was though I had hit the factory reset.
You can see from the command line window attachment, that I tried to flash my phone based on this workflow (http://forum.xda-developers.com/oneplus-one/help/fix-brickloop-audio-fx-fc-efs-corrupt-t2879061), but I did not even need to do this, because my phone was not unlocked. Then when I unlocked my phone, the problem was fixed.
I hope this works for those that have this horrible bug.

[Q] Phone Keeps Rebooting After It Dropped

My girlfriend dropped her phone yesterday and despite that it's encased in a bulky Ballistics case it appears that the power button is broken now. When I plug the phone into my laptop using her USB cable the phone automatically boots up the Google screen with the lock icon, vibrates and then shuts off and reboots again resulting in a boot loop. Unfortunately she's out of warranty. She opened the phone and the iron nub of the power button appears to be unmovable. She also tried going into recovery, but the phone continues to reboot.
Is there any way we can fix this? I read that some people can get theirs repaired at a repair shop, but I'm not sure how viable that is in Canada. Please advise.

Getting the power button fixed isn't too expensive. Hopefully that's all you need. ?

whyareallusernamestaken said:
My girlfriend dropped her phone yesterday and despite that it's encased in a bulky Ballistics case it appears that the power button is broken now. When I plug the phone into my laptop using her USB cable the phone automatically boots up the Google screen with the lock icon, vibrates and then shuts off and reboots again resulting in a boot loop. Unfortunately she's out of warranty. She opened the phone and the iron nub of the power button appears to be unmovable. She also tried going into recovery, but the phone continues to reboot.
Is there any way we can fix this? I read that some people can get theirs repaired at a repair shop, but I'm not sure how viable that is in Canada. Please advise.
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I have had this issue for the past 4 days. After many attempts of trying to bang the phone a lil onto my hand (for where the power button is located at), sometimes the phone will boot fine, for as long as you do not click the power button again it won't act up.
(I am pretty sure I didn't drop my phone when I was napping in the car, it just started out of nowhere after I have been using lollipop 5.0 with franco kernel for like 2 months without any problem).
Same sypmtoms, bootloop (looked like the power button defective / boot IC on mobo defective), can't even stay on recovery/bootloader screen/system for longer than 5 sec.
Try these :
- spam click power button, until it is able to boot into system, you will have to keep clicking, for every click you either screen on/off you will realize Power Off options may pop up, it looks like the power button has been holded for few sec to trigger the power off, but all you do was spamming the click to keep the button active, you have to click until you feel that certain point the power off doesn't pop up, then stop clicking ( remember never to touch that power button again for NOW), if after a few sec of using the phone and it doesn't force shut down (result from power button defective where it sense its being clicked and hold for like 8-15 sec). Then you are good to carry on whatever I am to tell here.
- go to about phone, click the build number for 5-10 times until you get the unlocked developer mode
- back, click on developer options, enable usb debugging mode (this will pop another message asking you if you want the device to memorise your pc's mac address) that way it is synced with your pc.
- before you proceed with any other thing, go to playstore, download power button to volume button, enable volume power, check start volume power on bootup, check screen off. This will help you greatly for not touching the power button to unlock the screen when you are working on your pc.
- if you have all the correct nexus usb driver installed onto your pc, you need to get Minimal ADB and Fastboot installed onto pc. After installing, run Minimal adb and fastboot, a command prompt windows will pop out and is automatically redirected to the minimal adb folder. key in this command
"adb devices" to see if it detects your device or not. There should be at least a device listed if you have the usb driver installed correctly
- now you can make use of adb commands to reboot into bootloader/recovery to do any flashing of system, backup all your data that you needed to PC. Download official 5.0.1 nexus 5 image and extract it into the Minimal ADB folder.
- is your bootloader unlocked? if not do adb reboot-bootloader
- fastboot oem unlock (this will wipe all your data on the phone)
- fastboot reboot after the wipe is done
After that you can actually carry on with flashing back to stock images. Look at this link http://forum.xda-developers.com/google-nexus-5/general/tutorial-how-to-flash-factory-image-t2513701 for flashing to stock factory image.
I am not sure which step has actually solved my problem, because on my first flashing of factory image, booting into system as a brand new device (no extra softwares, yet to recover any of my data). the problem persists as long as I clicked on power button once, it'll act up again random power off and bootloop.
I actually was on a follow-up cases with google play support team from Aus as my device was bought from Aus. After the last step of factory image setting, doesn't help, I intended to ship it back for RMA as my device is still under warranty and I suspected it was the hardware issues from power button too. They will send me another refurbished device. After ending the call, they sent me link to proceed with warranty claims where I need to fill in several forms and ship the device back to them.
I decided to give it one more try, due to my phone was previously unlocked, rooted, changed to franco kernel.
By restoring to stock images made my device unroot, I was afraid of google will accuse me for unlocking bootloader voided the warranty and not willing to replace another unit for me. I locked back the bootloader, then I remembered in bootloader, fastboot oem device-info shows that a record of a phone if it has been unlocked, it will show Tampered status as True, google probably can use that to track if a device has been unlocked before. So I unlocked my bootloader again (which causing another wipe for whatever data is in the device).
So I looked up on google again and found source for changing that tampered status to False in addition to locking the bootloader again, but to change that tampered status, I need to use TWRP to run the scripted zip file, so I used fastboot boot path (it is stated in the link I gave you above) to boot into TWRP images temporarily from my desktop and ran the zip file, I always practice wiping data, cache and everything before I boot the device back into a brand new factory image.
So I went to wipe dalvik cache. Rebooted the system - it was running the Optimizing x numbers of Applications.
Upon finished with that. I was surprised that, after a few clicks of power button, the random power off issues is no longer there. I even test clicking on the power button for entire day. The symptom isn't coming back. So I emailed google play support team to cancel my warranty ticket and close the case for now.
Should there be any problem again I will probably then claim the warranty for replacement.
Its been more than 24 hours now that I am using the device without any problem of random power off and on or stuck in bootloop due to power button defective.
I suspect it is either the 5.01/5.0 lollipop with ART that is causing something wrong with the boot IC / power button defective in a long run.
Or maybe it was some settings I have changed in franco kernel ? but it was running fine for 2 months which made me doubt that it is franco kernel
Or it could be some of the apps I used to tweak my phone settings - LLama and tactile player (which I have set something condition and actions for power button) but I doubt it is caused by these either.
I will observe and see if the problem comes back after some time of using the 5.0.1 stock image now.
Oh I am also back to using franco kernel, unlocked bootloader and rooted again. Haha...
Hopefully you are able to solve the problem by trying some factory reset method + wiping cache, partition and dalvik.
If not, you probably may have the hardware issues, I have seen some other forum/websites with n5 users upon replacing the mobo, no longer encounter such problem.
Regards,
Kean

Thanks for the replies. My girlfriend was able to get the power button repaired for $80 and replaced the external button for $7 + tax, she paid $98. At least it's cheaper than a new phone.

[Q] Tasker profile gone wrong: Display won't come on

As the title says, I was making a tasker profile to give my camera button permission to lock and unlock the device. I also allowed the Secure Settings plugin to be installed into the system. Now, when I boot the phone, the display stays on for a very short amount of time. Ive tried to QUICKLY get to tasker right away to turn off the profile, but I never have quite enough time before the screen goes black. Then, pressing the unlock button only flashes the screen for a second, the camera button does nothing. USB debugging should still be enabled, thankfully. It's a Sony Xperia z1s. How can I get to tasker and secure settings to remove both and start over?
Edit: Have enough time to boot into safe mode, but then it continuously says " unfortunately, initialbootsetup has stopped"
I cant factory reset, I dont have a nandroid. Please help and tell me I havent completely screwed my phone.

Flash stock sony os. It should fix it.

CoDe LaZaRuS said:
Flash stock sony os. It should fix it.
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Thank you, nothing else was working. It's all good now

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Sony Xperia T3 - forgotten password, can't do a factory reset

Hello. I've forgotten the pattern to unlock my old phone Xperia T3. I know there is a way to unlock it with email and password, however it just doesn't seem to work since I've changed the password many times and forgot which one I was using back then. I've tried launching it with volume up/ volume down + power, however it either did nothing or just vibrate a few times without turning on. One combination resulted in the phone launching normally but with "Tryb Awaryjny" (polish - "safe mode") text in the bottom left corner. I've tried forcing it into recovery mode with ADB, but it doesn't detect the device - usb debugging is probably disabled and I can't turn it on without unlocking the phone. I'm sure it has correct adb drivers. Sony's flashing tool Emma says the phone is locked and I can't use it. I've ran out of options. Can you please help me make this phone usable? Thanks.

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