for some reason CWN isn't working on my phone. I don;t know if I buggered something up trying to flash it or what, but will my phone;s factory reset option give me an utterly clean slate to try reflashing CWM?
If not, is there a factory spec ROM I can flash in odin that will?
Or can I skip the middle man and just flash a rooted factory rom image instead of messing about with CWM?
Is there a rooted factory rom available?
here are the images
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2117436
OMG, thank you!
Followed the steps here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=32143426&postcount=254 flashed the rooted kernel and I still can;t get into recovery mode, but **** it I got root now so I'm happy!
Also, I can now reboot into recovery via Rom Manager (and probably terminal) so it's good enough!
Edit: And I didn't lose any data!
I have a friend who has the Skyrocket.
He is rooted and has TWRP installed, but he is still running the stock rom and kernel.
Today his phone randomly rebooted and now it is stuck on the samsung logo. We have been able to take out the battery and boot into TWRP no problem.
We do have a backup from a while back and he is also considering trying a new rom at this point, but we'd like to be able to get this to boot.
Anyone have any ideas on how to get this thing to boot? What could have caused this?
Any help is greatly appreciated.
If the backup is a nandroid backup made in twrp restore that in twrp
jd1639 said:
If the backup is a nandroid backup made in twrp restore that in twrp
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We do have a twrp backup and can restore it, but we're hoping to find something that will fix the boot issue.
Do you think it could possible fix the problem if we flashed a new kernel and then tried to boot? Can't hurt, right?
iLuvMudkips said:
We do have a twrp backup and can restore it, but we're hoping to find something that will fix the boot issue.
Do you think it could possible fix the problem if we flashed a new kernel and then tried to boot? Can't hurt, right?
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You could try the kernel our you could also try wiping just cache and dalvik. I assume you're trying to save the data.
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You could try the kernel our you could also try wiping just cache and dalvik. I assume you're trying to save the data.
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We aren't trying to save the data. We already have a backup. We're trying to get this thing to boot without flashing a new rom or reverting to a backup.
iLuvMudkips said:
We aren't trying to save the data. We already have a backup. We're trying to get this thing to boot without flashing a new rom or reverting to a backup.
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read the stickys, this one is right above your post, short answer wipe caches and if still a no go then do a factory reset, still a no go then restore, still a no go then read the sticky
I'm S-off, CWM, SuperSU, no ROM just stock with a couple of addons like the browser.
Did a factory reset from CWM and now whenever I reboot from CWM I get this message "Root access possibly lost. Fix?" Anyone know what this could mean? I googled it and found a few ideas, I tried disabling then re-enabling SuperSU, I reinstalled SuperSU through CWM, but I keep getting the same message and I've tried both No and Yes and it doesn't seem to make a difference. Should I try and uninstall SuperSU then re-flash it?
Everything seems to work OK, but I'm just curious.
Thanks
I've installed one ROM, tried it and everything works fine. Than made a backup with custom recovery.
After that I flashed the other ROM, xposed it, tried it and everything works fine.
Now, I want to restore the first one, try and compare with second, and maybe after that I will want to restore the second one, or so.... maybe try each one for few times.
What do I need to wipe when I'm changing those ROMs? Dalvick/ cashe, or do I need to make factory reset every time? And what about Xposed, do I need to disable or uninstall it before flashing/restoring the other ROM?
Thank you for your answers.
P.S. Both ROMs are customized, prerooted LP 5.1.1, with dual recovery
if you are using a recovery such as twrp and done a full backup then you wouldn't need to wipe anything as the system/data would be written with what was backed up at the time
Richy99 said:
if you are using a recovery such as twrp and done a full backup then you wouldn't need to wipe anything as the system/data would be written with what was backed up at the time
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Thank you very much for your answer! Appreciate it.
Just figured I'd give the heads up if you factory reset with a patched boot, for root or otherwise, it bootloops the phone twice and then goes to recovery. Flashing back stock boot img fixes it.
So don't be stupid like me and reset settings while rooted lol.
thank you for providing us this info, do u just have to go through the whole process again to TWRP/Root?
would it work, if u installed the stock unmodded boot image via twrp, do the factory reset/or clean install full OS zip, then install TWRPFix & Root all in the same session?
Bradl79 said:
thank you for providing us this info, do u just have to go through the whole process again to TWRP/Root?
would it work, if u installed the stock unmodded boot image via twrp, do the factory reset/or clean install full OS zip, then install TWRPFix & Root all in the same session?
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I would imagine so, I haven't tried that yet. TWRP broke wifi for me, so I went back to stock recovery for now, maybe I did something wrong, but I'm gonna hold out until theres an official TWRP.
Chris123NT said:
I would imagine so, I haven't tried that yet. TWRP broke wifi for me, so I went back to stock recovery for now, maybe I did something wrong, but I'm gonna hold out until theres an official TWRP.
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Did u follow post 70 step by step and used the files provided? Also when I did mine I deleted any security I had first.
Bradl79 said:
Did u follow post 70 step by step and used the files provided? Also when I did mine I deleted any security I had first.
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Yeah, I did, so I dunno what happened, but when I booted into the OS after all the steps WiFi was boned.
If you have TWIRP why would you factory reset?
Why not just format /data?
Or does that also cause boot loops
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If you have TWIRP why would you factory reset?
Why not just format /data?
Or does that also cause boot loops
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u don't want to format data, u want to wipe data, Format will erase sdcard. That is what the factory reset does anyway is wipe the caches and data.
Bradl79 said:
u don't want to format data, u want to wipe data, Format will erase sdcard. That is what the factory reset does anyway is wipe the caches and data.
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if youre going to factory reset might aswell format data in twrp
i just thought maybe formatting data in twrp wouldnt cause the bootloop
virtyx said:
if youre going to factory reset might aswell format data in twrp
i just thought maybe formatting data in twrp wouldnt cause the bootloop
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I could be wrong but I believe the OP might be talking about the root files and not twrp. Prior to twrp release, factory reset was the only option. As it happen to me also, after rooting device.
Plus Oneplus did not include a rom install zip in the stock recovery.
Damn, this AB partition setup really makes things a hassle
Bumping because other people are getting tripped up by this. Something in the factory reset process is not compatible with any sort of mods.
This happened to me as well. Not sure how I recovered, as I flashed via fast boot a bunch of image files. Is the boot image in the image files the latest stock boot image for 5.1.5?
For those of us rooted and no TWRP can someone link the stock boot.img?
Nevermind I found them on the ota page by titokhan
Bradl79 said:
Did u follow post 70 step by step and used the files provided? Also when I did mine I deleted any security I had first.
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That could be what's causing it, I did wonder about that.
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That could be what's causing it, I did wonder about that.
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try it and let us know
So before factory reset we need to make sure to reflash stock boot.img that will unroot the phone and only then do a factory reset..
So factory reset with twrp is working or not?
Anyone know where I might be able to get the stock boot.img? My phone is now toast and the referred thread should carry a health warning
Sorry for the noob question but does factory reset delete the media partition too?
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Sorry for the noob question but does factory reset delete the media partition too?
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No, it does not.
this happened to me too. I was thinking of flashing the latest OxygenOS 5.1.11 with a clean install and I am rooted with TWRP. So what I did was reboot to recovery, wiped data, flashed OOS, then TWRP, reboot recovery and then flashed magisk. Then it got stuck in a TWRP bootloop.
Good thing I had a nandroid so i restored it and tried again.
This time I did the above steps but didn't wipe data. I booted successfully to 5.1.11 and i tried Factory Reset inside OxygenOS. Phone rebooted to TWRP and no data wipe was done. I did the Wipe Data within TWRP, same thing happened... bootloop to TWRP.
Nandroid restored again.
3rd attempt to dirty flash 5.1.11 but this time i didn't flash TWRP nor magisk and just rebooted system. I was back to stock. Then I tried factory reset again within OOS, it was successful so i had to do the whole TWRP and Magisk install again, and restored my apps via Titanium.
Moral of the story is (at least for me), Factory Reset within OOS or Wipe Data in TWRP both doesn't work. If i need to do a clean install, flash OOS then factory reset after rebooting to system, and then go through the whole TWRP and Magisk install process from scratch. Pain in arse really...:crying: