After I did some things on my Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III, "shell" was asking for root. If I set it to deny, it will be unusuable and I have to resort to restoring a backup.
Also, it has been making my linux OS behave quite strange while connected:
- If I pulg it in before I get past Grub, I login once, the screen flashes and goes back to the login screen. If I shutdown, it shows some jumbled characters at the end of the booting section (of what I can see), and continues with the shutdown (showing valid shutdown messages)
- I have witnessed (only once) that dropdown menus were "glitching" or expanding/collapsing a little when it was already fully expanded.
I assume both my computer and my phone are infected with something as my phone randomly stops working with data that I must toggle Airplane Mode on and off to fix (moving to another location in the city does nothing to fix it). When togging it on, it takes several seconds to activate (some seconds, data icon goes away, some seconds, network icon replaced with airplane icon).
Computer:
Lenovo ThinkPad T61
Dual boot:
- Xubuntu 12.04 LTS (LTS = Long Term Support; official Ubuntu variant; currently set up to hide splash screen and show boot/shutdown progress/messages)
- Windows XP Professional (installed first)
Phone:
Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III
Already gave up on CyanogenMod as it was not giving (or giving weaker) signal in areas where stock would have a signal.
After some time, I installed TWRP (spell check?) recovery and tried to install a certain ROM which failed to install so I wiped and restored to the backup I made after installing TWRP. After this is when I noticed the issues.
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Hello,
I have special SIM card issued by my operator which enables mobile ID use (with sPIN authentication) for connecting to bank or e-government. Works like this:
1. The user clicks the "Log in with mobile ID" option on a supported website
2. The phone displays a screen indicating that a connection is being made
3. The user is prompted to enter a mobile ID sPIN code into the phone
4. The screen on the phone disappears and the website is automatically reloaded with a logged in screen
It worked fine with stock firmware, but after I've rooted my HOX I'm not getting sPIN request screen anymore (step 3).
Have tried several custom AOSP or AOKP ROMs without luck, but found some of them partly working.
One I'm using right now is [ROM][4.2.2] Slim Bean - Endeavoru [STABLE][Build 7]. Mobile ID worked for first days after flashing it but later I was only able to use it for a few random times (after restarts). Then it works till next restart...
I was first thinking its an issue of incompatible apps I've installed or system settings I've mixed up, but somehow it works sometimes after restart (with very low success rate though). Also tried to restart into safe mode - it worked for the first time, but no luck for the next ~20 safe mode restarts after that.
I've also found hints it could be stk (SIM Application Toolkit) related problem. I can see SIM toolkit in my app list, though it doesnt' show up on running processes on developer tools.
If you're still reading this and have any ideas, please make some comments, maybe it would help me to get back on the right track, thanks!
Hello,
I have a weird problem with my phone. Few days ago I've drained my battery and swapped it to the fresh one. But after phone booted up everything is broken.
My wallpaper changed to the one i don't know, it even doesn't look like stock one (Screenshot 1).
Notifications doesn't show up. Probably because upper drawer doesn't work now as well (i can slide it down only once, to show me date. But can't slide it down further to change sound profile, wi-fi etc. Screenshot 2).
Home button doesn't work, square button (the one for switching between applications) doesn't work either.
Half of the settings got reset to factory, some of them stayed unchanged but doesn't work anymore. For example, I've had my lock screen protected by pin. It still shows in the settings that I've set pin code, but there is no actual pin lock when I'm locking my phone (Screenshot 3).
Developer options menu says that they "are not available for this user" (Screenshot 4).
Even my QuickCircle case doesn't work anymore.
I have F400L one with Fulmics ROM 7.6 (6.0 Android).
I've tried to dirty flash it (i was on Fulmics 7.5 before). But after flashing new version of ROM everything still the same.
I've tried to wipe Dalvik + Cache, no luck either.
I don't want to do a full wipe, it will be a huge pain it the ass to reinstall and reconfigure all of my apps. Especially ones like Google Authenticator.
Dear community, do you have any suggestions what happened and how i may fix it?
UPDATE:
Found same problem: https://plus.google.com/u/0/+PaulOBrien/posts/8EGNvpY9jQa
Solution is to type this command (through adb or terminal):
am start -n com.google.android.setupwizard/.SetupWizardTestActivity
At this moment, this command resolved probably all of issues occured.
Hi,
I'm running a current Stock-ROM on my OP3, as provided by OnePlus OTA, never flashed something else. Just using the phone out of the box.
Yesterday, I deleted some cache data to free some space on my 99% filled up phone. Then I opened the gallery but not all thumbnails appeared and then it stucked completely. I holded the power button and it switched off. Now when turning the phone on a message appeared saying:
"The dm-verity is not started in enforcing mode"
After a few seconds it changes to the 3 animated points and this never ends. All I can do is switching it off, starting recovery mode or fast mode again with the same behaviour. I tried to connect it with my PC (W10) but it is not showing up.
How can I fix this problem without loosing my data especially my pictures and personal folders. How can I backup my data? I can still see them in recovery mode but how to access them and copy them? I could live with resetting the phone losing all settings and apps, but not my files.
What is your suggestion? Thanks in advance.
Ok, I just tapped on "Reset system setting", lost all apps and settings but it starts again and all my files are still there. Problem solved.
My tab 3 device is rooted with King0root, that worked well.
I downloaded and installed the root app from Firefox when I was logged into the Tab3 because downloading from Odin in Windows did not work (due to driver problems).
F-secure is installed from Google Play.
Odin also didn't seem to work on other (Windows) computers and I tried the different Odin versions.
The only Odin version that seemed to work was 3.07, but because the status bar was missing on the Tab3 while loading, I knew something went wrong.
After F-Secure was installed, everything first worked well, but that was short-lived.
After about 3 weeks, Tab3 was restarted, F-secure message windows appeared immediately after logging in with the text 'program has stopped' and within a minute the crash and restart.
F-secure stop and delete failed, because the system crashes randomly.
King0root cannot be stopped or deleted either.
In recovery mode, I deleted user data / factory settings and deleted the cache, all of which have no effect.
In safe mode, the apps cannot be stopped or deleted either.
With Heimdall-Frontend I could only flash individual parts from stock ROM on Tab 3.
A status bar was displayed during loading.
But after the flash is completed and Tab 3 is restarted, there is no noticeable change because all added apps remain.
The system also continues to crash randomly.
The only thing that changed after flashing is the date / time that was reset to the build date, that's all.
When flashing 'system.img' it was noticed that the Tab 3 is restarted immediately after completion.
When flashing all the other components, it took a few seconds for Tab 3 to restart.
To me it seems that with such a quick restart 'system.img' will be removed.
That would explain why no 'real' changes were made when restarting after the flash has been completed and the user data has been erased.
Now this thing seems to be 'soft bricked'.
Can someone help me solve this?
Another boot loader was proposed, who can help with that?
xdausernl said:
My tab 3 device is rooted with King0root, that worked well.
I downloaded and installed the root app from Firefox when I was logged into the Tab3 because downloading from Odin in Windows did not work (due to driver problems).
F-secure is installed from Google Play.
Odin also didn't seem to work on other (Windows) computers and I tried the different Odin versions.
The only Odin version that seemed to work was 3.07, but because the status bar was missing on the Tab3 while loading, I knew something went wrong.
After F-Secure was installed, everything first worked well, but that was short-lived.
After about 3 weeks, Tab3 was restarted, F-secure message windows appeared immediately after logging in with the text 'program has stopped' and within a minute the crash and restart.
F-secure stop and delete failed, because the system crashes randomly.
King0root cannot be stopped or deleted either.
In recovery mode, I deleted user data / factory settings and deleted the cache, all of which have no effect.
In safe mode, the apps cannot be stopped or deleted either.
With Heimdall-Frontend I could only flash individual parts from stock ROM on Tab 3.
A status bar was displayed during loading.
But after the flash is completed and Tab 3 is restarted, there is no noticeable change because all added apps remain.
The system also continues to crash randomly.
The only thing that changed after flashing is the date / time that was reset to the build date, that's all.
When flashing 'system.img' it was noticed that the Tab 3 is restarted immediately after completion.
When flashing all the other components, it took a few seconds for Tab 3 to restart.
To me it seems that with such a quick restart 'system.img' will be removed.
That would explain why no 'real' changes were made when restarting after the flash has been completed and the user data has been erased.
Now this thing seems to be 'soft bricked'.
Can someone help me solve this?
Another boot loader was proposed, who can help with that?
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Today I quit trying to repair the Tab 3 device as hardware starts to fail. The combination 'power' with 'volume up/down' fails, then I guess it's game over. So I discarded the device and checked TechRadar for a new device where quatlity/price is right, combined with black friday offers I now have got myself a Galaxy Tab A 10.1 WiFi tablet.
Model: SM-S908U1 Unlocked
Hello so to start off I want to say this is entirely my fault for not backing up my phone before installing this beta.
Story:
So today I tried to create a secure folder and while it was creating the secure folder my phone shut down after rebooting I cannot get into my phone every time I enter the password it just freezes and reboots. I can see my data is still all there because I am still receiving app notifications. How would I go about fixing this as I cannot factory wipe the phone because of fear of loosing my accounts tied to 2fa.
What I have tried so far:
- Using Samsung's find my phone feature to remove the screen lock (The phone randomly reboots multiple times and the screen lock is not removed.)
- Wiping system cache
- ADB does not detect the device as it is locked so there is not much I can do with that.
Other notes:
I have used oden in the past but I cannot find the right software for my model to attempt to re flash. (SM-S908U1 Unlocked)