[Q] Settings reset on reboot

Hello, I'm experiencing this strange behavior, my z3 "forget" some settings if I reboot it. For example if I set super-vivid screen color it goes back to none on reboot. It happens with Facebook password and other apps. It's stock just updated from 5.0 to 5.1, thank you all.

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Wipe data Factory Reset what will I lose?

Hi, I have a samsung galaxy s2 stuck in a boot loop. If I wipe data/factory reset from the standard Samsung recovery will I lose my photos which are not on a external sd card?

Thanks

htc one m8 dead after "fastboot oem reset" command

I used "fastboot oem reset" command. then my device restarted. but screen became totally black. bootloader screen is not loading. no htc logo.but computer detects the device.after this command in device tree product name has disapeared. also serialno, imei, modelid has corrupted. is there a method to rewrite product name, serialno, imei, modelid?

D:\htc one m8\fastboot m8>fastboot getvar all
(bootloader) version: 0.5
(bootloader) version-bootloader: 3.16.0.0000
(bootloader) version-baseband: 1.15.2133156.UA13G
(bootloader) version-cpld: None
(bootloader) version-microp: None
(bootloader) version-main: UUUUUUUUUUUUUUU
(bootloader) version-misc: UNKNOWN
(bootloader) serialno: UUUUUUUUUUUUUUU
(bootloader) imei: 355195000000010
(bootloader) imei2: Not Support
(bootloader) meid: 00000000000000
(bootloader) product:
(bootloader) platform: hTCBmsm8974
(bootloader) modelid: UUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU
(bootloader) cidnum: UUUUUUUU
(bootloader) battery-status: good
(bootloader) battery-voltage: 0mV
(bootloader) partition-layout: Generic
(bootloader) security: off
(bootloader) build-mode: SHIP
(bootloader) boot-mode: UNKNOWN
(bootloader) commitno-bootloader: ab0efa49
(bootloader) hbootpreupdate: 11
(bootloader) gencheckpt: 0
all: Done!
finished. total time: 0.094s

I am really really thankfull if you can help me here.

Factory reset after unlocking bootloader

Hello,
my OnePlus has been accidentally wiped after used OPO Tool Box (please see my post here).
I lost all my data.

When i reboot the phone i had to set the google account and all initial settings. Then Google downloaded all my apps and the contacts list.

Then i tried to recever all my photos and video (maybe about 1000 files) with Dr. Fone, but it didn't found any file related to the date before the wipe.

Why? Isn't this weird?

Could not add google account > did factory reset > can not get through initial setup

Hi guys,

All was well except when I tried to add a google account this happened
screen 1
Just a sec...
screen 2
Add your account
google
sing in to get the most out of your device. i
Enter your email [I enter my email and have tried others for testing]
screen 3
Error sorry there seems to be a problem. Please try again.

For troubleshooting I tried

Disabled 2FA on google account
Removed account from other device
rest app settings
sign in via multiple apps, contacts, playstore, youtube, add accounts et cetera
Enabled Backup my data and automatic restore
Connected via VPN
Update system software

Nothing worked so I did a factory reset. Now the part of the initial setup that is supposed to add a google account gets stuck on

"Couldn't sign in
Can’t establish a reliable connection to the server"

But I really mean stuck, there are no buttons on the screen, no possibility to slide down the task bar or go to home screen because this is happening as part of the initial setup steps. Volume and power buttons work so I can turn it off and turn it on again after which it enters the initial setup and the same thing happenes again as there is no option to skip this step or skip set up as a whole.

There are quite a few google results for

"Couldn't sign in
Can’t establish a reliable connection to the server"

But they all involve interacting with options and settings which I can not do. How can I boot the phone without it launching the initial setup process?

Phone is E2363, the 16G dual sim version. Thanks if you can help

After factory reset I get "setup wizard has stopped" but I'm not able to flash my rom

Hi all

this is my first post so please be nice to me if I do something wrong.
Ok, where to begin with my long list of problems...

1. I have an Evercoss A28b bought in Indonesia but manufactured in China. It has Mediatek 6972 and SW version is ALPS.JB3.MP.V1.40 (that's what I could find in the phone's factory mode)
2. I rooted it 2 months ago and put all my apps and data on it from my old phone with Titanium Backup. I had some minor problems in the beginning but fixed them all and the phone was running smoothly.
3. This morning I froze "Go Launcher Z" because I didn't like it anymore and wanted to try how my phone looks withour it. Since the moment I froze the app nothing happened. I couldn't access the home screen or the app drawer but only my recently used apps when pressing and holding the home button.
4. I wanted to reboot my phone but it kept booting and booting, saying "android is upgrading" all the time. After one hour I took out the battery and now it's dead.
5. I tried to reset it into factory mode and first it seemed to work because it asked me to do all the settings like language, google account etc. As soon as I was finished a window appeared with "unfortunately setup wizard has stopped" and now I can't even see my homescreen or anything. My screen is black apart from the battery, wifi and SIM icons in the top right corner.


Now, what I tried to do:

1. I googled and found a few solutions saying I should flash my rom. I googled and found the sp flash tool and a rom for my phone.
2. SP Flash Tool did not recognize my phone and there was no scatter file in that ZIP file that I had downloaded.
3. I downloaded MTKdroidtools to try to generate a scatter file from my phone and a lot of different drivers but none of them made my phone connect with DroidTools.
4. So I went back to SP Flash Tool and googled for hours in order to find a scatter file and make my phone connect with SP Flash Tool. I managed to find another rom, this one had a scatter file in it and I also managed somehow to connect my phone with SP Flash Tools. It was only recognized after I had selected the scatter file and pressed the download button though.
5. SP Flash Tools brought an error message saying my pmt has changed and I need a new one or something like that. Unfortunately I can't even re-do this to give you the correct error message because I can not connect my phone to the PC any longer. Everytime I do this with battery or without it keeps connecting and disconnecting all the time.
6. I am at my wits ends and don't know what to do any more.

Please help

problem in factory reset after updating yureka to cm12

Hello friend I updated my yureka to cm 12 two months ago I facing a problem in my phone when I going to do a factory reset it done successfully but after when my Yureka phone is starting it shows android is upgrading in first boot. every time when I do a factory reset in first boot it shows android is upgrading. Help me guys to get out from this problem.
I am very thankdul to you.

How to reset or fix a frozen Note 5 if no removable battery?

So I have had my S4 for about 2 and a half years and was looking to upgrade to the Note 5. However there have been plenty of times I have fixed a frozen phone (or when I accidentally hit the OTA update) by removing the battery. How does one fix a freeze on these phones with no removable battery? Just have to wait till it runs out of juice? that could take awhile if it isn't using much CPU on the Note 5.

Hard Reset and Stock Recovery Access

I've been having some interesting issues with my T-Mo M9 and I just want to do a hard reset to fix them. I'm still pretty familiar with the basics of rooting and such though I'm out of touch with it all. So my understanding is there are 2 ways to reset to factory: go in through Backup and Reset for a device, or go through bootloader/Recovery. The latter of which is considered the hard reset.

I've tried going through the typical button sequences to access the bootloader/recovery. I am taken to a black screen where at the top it says "HTC download mode", with the following options to select: system info, show barcode, reboot to bootloader, reboot to download mode, reboot and power down. Select reboot to bootloader, then recovery mode and I get a black screen with a red triangle in the middle of an M9. Reboot to download mode and it refreshes the screen in a sense.

So is the M9 now lacking a stock recovery for hard resetting or doing tasks like wiping cache? I'm not finding much about this (or I've lost my touch in terms of searching). I checked several sites for simple tutorials and they all say just a bout the same thing, or maybe a slight variation in the button pressing.

Factory reset - Problem.

Greetings everyone!

Few weeks ago, I gave my device to a friend of mine to manually update it. Something went wrong so he decided not to go any further. Yday i tried to "Factory reset", after reset some error pop'd in the left upper corner of the phone.It says:
[LGE_SECURITY] ERROR: boot image signature
Critical failure: Unable to start kernel.
Unrecoverable bootloader error (0x00000002).

Anyone had any similiar or even the same problem as i am facing right now? Thanks in advance.

best regards, Milan

Unable to factory reset

Hi to all.

I need your help!
I have a Samsung Galaxy Note 8.0 GT-N5110 that don't boot (it is stock in the Samsung logo)

And I can't enter the factory reset menu.

If a Press & hold [Vol-] + [Power] I get a screen that says:
Warning!!
A custom OS can cause critical problems
in phone and installed applications.

If you want to download a custom OS,
press the volume up key.
Otherwise, press the volume down key
to cancel.

Volume up: Continue
Volume down: Cancel 8restart phone)

If I Press [Vol+] + [Power] I get a screen that says:

Downloading...
Do not turn off target !!

If I Press [Vol+] + [Home] + [Power] I get the same screen that before:

Downloading...
Do not turn off target !!

Any help will be appreciated.

Factory reset with custom rom

I have a question that must be obvious to many but I don't know the answer and am curious.

Right now I am rooted and if I want to install a new rom I do the factory reset and wipe caches in recovery and then install the custom rom.

What happens if

1. I do this reset and clear caches within recovery and just reboot without installing a rom?

2. What happens if I do a factory reset with settings?

I know the phone will start in setup mode but will it have the last rom I installed or what?

Galaxy S4 Sprint Encryption failed - stuck on Reset Device

Hello all,
First, forgive me if the steps I followed below don't make any sense, I don't really know much if what I am / was doing. Anyway:

I have a Galaxy S4 from sprint, L720
I'm about to sell my phone, and I few months ago I rooted it following this procedure using odin:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/gala...5-0-1-t3105760
Not too much to say here, this is just more of a background information.

Anyway, Because I'm selling my phone, I wanted to make sure my information was deleted securely form the device, and found that many people said it should be encrypted.
I tried to do that, and after a couple of hours of the phone stuck on a blank screen, I removed the battery and restarted it.
Now I have a screen that says "Encryption failed" - "Reset Device", only the button to reset it, does nothing.
I follow that guide again, installed that rom again.
I also have twrp, did factory reset, wiped all the data, and still, when I boot, I get that same message.
I have also tried to backup the data (after the debacle), restore it and factory reset the phone.
This leaves the phone stuck on the very first screen, "Samsung Galaxy S4", which maybe a good sign or not.
Any ideas?

Reset Nook

Hi,

I bought my Nook Touch a while back, updated it to 1.21, rooted it, installed gapps on it and a couple of apps. I also resized the partition so that I have about 1GB internal memory, which is what I use.

I have never used it apart from reading. I would like to wipe it and put it back to factory image (apart from the keeping the partition size at 1GB). I was looking for any help on how to do this please ?

I just want my nook as an reader. One question I do have, is if I factory reset it, are there are key ereader features which I may loose ? I seem to remember I installed fastread or something. I cant remember what it does and whether it even makes a difference. The only issue I have with the nook is that its unresponsive/slow but I think thats just the hardware?

Thanks

S6 failing to boot - stuck on factory reset

Hey, my phone has been playing up and generally malfunctioning lately. It seems to work fine for a day or so before freezing, and either rebooting itself or forcing me to manually reboot it using power + volume down. This seems to send it into a bootloop where it generally freezes during the Samsung animation with the pulsing squares. This sequence continues with me manually rebooting, also trying to boot to safe mode and to recovery and after various attempts, i successfully got into recovery without it freezing on the blue android.

I then decided to factory reset as a last option, having looked around on forums for solutions. However, I now do not know what to do as it seems to have frozen during the factory reset. I dont have screenshots but the script reads as follows :

dm-verity verification failed. . .

-- Wiping data. . .
Formatting /data. . .
Formatting /cache. . .


It has been on that for the past 30 minutes and so i have assumed it has frozen. I'm afraid to force another reboot in case it is accessing memory, any suggestions on what to do?

It is up to date on fully stock software, has never been rooted and i have never attempted to do so. Also only around a month old.
Any help would be appreciated, thanks

Hard Reset with odin

I know that we can hardrest our samsung phone through button combination.
but i want to know that can we hard rest our phone through odin in download mode or any other mode if yes than how.
thanks in advance.

Failed to mount /data and frozen after factory reset, HELP!

I have what's probably a unique situation, though I hope not. For background info, I bought two I747s, one white and one blue, each with issues, but I intended to put parts together to end up with one good one.

When I did a factory reset on the blue one via the recovery menu, it returned a bunch of errors along the lines of "failed to mount /data." Then when it rebooted it would hang on the Samsung logo. Back in recovery mode it returns more of the same errors just booting into recovery mode, and factory reset still returns more of the same errors and doesn't fix anything. I flashed 4.3 with Odin in an attempt to fix it, but I got the boards mixed up, and that one had 4.4 on it, not 4.1 like I thought. I'm pretty sure it's hard bricked now (that whole can't downgrade thing) because it's unresponsive to everything. Though my computer does recognize that it's plugged in, more on that later.

So I figured, fine, I screwed up, I'll just use the other board with 4.1 on it from the white phone. Except when I did a factory reset on that one, it did the exact same thing! Same errors, same problem stuck at the Samsung logo. Except this time I'm not flashing sh*t until I know exactly what I need to do to fix it. In another post where the guy had the same issue with 4.1.1, it was solved by flashing 4.3 with Odin. And another post where the guy had no idea what version he had, he just knew it was lower than 4.3, his problem was also solved by flashing 4.3, But since my last efforts failed miserably, I'm very reluctant to try it until I get some knowledgeable input. I don't remember exactly which version is on there, it's 4.1.something. I'd also prefer not to upgrade beyond 4.1 because I'd like to unlock it and from what I'm reading you can only do it for free if you're on 4.1. So I guess I need a link to an Odin flashable 4.1 package?

As for the poor blue phone that used to have 4.4.something, and was mistakenly flashed with 4.3, I've heard about JTAG but I don't quite understand it, and I'm not sure it would work in my case since a lot of what I'm reading says that bricking which occurs from downgrading is often unfixable. However, Windows recognizes that a device is plugged in when I attach it via USB. It shows up in the Device Manager as QHSUSB_DLOAD. I am currently researching more on this and the method of booting from an SD card, except I don't have an SD card reader at the moment.

Any assistance, advice, links, information, and plain ole encouragement are always welcome and appreciated.

Sony Xperia Z3: AOSP Build (Lollipop 5.0) - Time reset on device reboot

Hi,

I'm trying to build Android 5.0 for the Sony Xperia Z3 (leo) using AOSP sources and the vendor binaries provided by Sony on their Developer World website ('SW_binaries_for_Xperia_AOSP_L_MR0_v8'). System, Boot, Recovery, Cache and Userdata images are all built properly and I am able to flash them on an actual device.

However, each time the phone is restarted, the system's Date & Time settings are reset to the default, a fixed day in 1970.

From my past experience with builds for Google Nexus devices, this kind of issue is often caused by outdated or incomplete vendor files.
I attempted to build using the vendor from the software binaries available on the Sony Xperia Github project (sonyxperiadev/device-sony-leo), which is 'v7' I believe, instead of the version available in direct download, with no luck: same issue.

Has anyone encountered and/or solved this issue?
Is there a version of the software binaries I am missing, or do I need to tweak something in the source?

Any help will be greatly appreciated!

Thanks,

A.Robert

After Factory Reset, Phone is Slow as Hell - HELP!!

I'm rooted on my Galaxy S3. Last month I made a backup through TWRP recovery. Yesterday when I restored to the backup, the restore wasnt complete. I tried to restore again and I encountered the same incomplete restore. My customized settings in the apps were gone and some of the apps I had backed up weren't included in the restore. Looks like something got messed up.

I then wiped cache, Dalvik, data and system. I even formatted the phone. I also did a factory reset. This messed up my phone so I installed a new rooted stock rom. So now, the phone is slow as hell and apps arent very responsive. Everything is laggy and slow. And the play store and youtube have slow connection speeds.

What should I do to fix this stupidity??

Completely wiped OS during reset :(

Hello, I'm new to these forums and have come to them under some unfortunate circumstances.

I went to update my device (MOTO G 2014) and had an error (cant remember what it said), anyway I rebooted my device and it wouldnt load after the 'BOOT LOADER UNLOCKED' warning screen. I went into TWRP and went to reset my device and wiped the system. (feel like an idiot, then again I am..) So then I downloaded all the USB drivers and Android SDK along with adb+fastboot and attempted to sideload. during the sideload I got this error..

* failed to write data 'protocol fault (couldn't read status): Invalid argument' *

I have swapped USB ports and tried a different USB cable, does anybody have any tips or do I have a paperweight on my hands?

Thanks in advance :eek: