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[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] CVAngelo:
I guarantee you that iRoot or KingRoot were indeed the source of the problem. What I said was, one of those programs downloaded the culprit without your knowledge. I know it for a fact because my own phone was completely free of all malware. I had a brand new, clean stock ROM flashed. I then tried to root with iRoot or vRoot. Immediately after rooting, I deleted a Chinese app that got installed by the rooting program. And as soon as I deleted that program, the annoying message began. So it had to be via the rooting process and it was because I deleted that crapware.

It's possible that it's an app that cannot be deleted even by AppMaster, or the root browsers even with root permission. This is because some of the virus apps install themselves into the system partition with an attribute of i (immutable) or a (annex only). You first have to remove the "i" or "a" attribute with a terminal emulator such as Terminal Emulator from PlayStore (but your phone needs to be rooted). The problem with those attributes is that a program like AppMaster, SD Maid or Root Browser will tell you the app was deleted, but once you reboot, you will quickly find out that the app was not deleted at all. Once you remove these attributes, you can delete the offending apps permanently. So to do this, you'll have to reroot your phone. Don't be afraid to reroot because once you're rooted, you can get rid of all the crap. Also, once you're rooted, make sure you also install busybox (download and install Busy Box X from PlayStore) because it gives you access to a better suite of Linux commands that you can use via the terminal emulator app.

There is another possibility for the problem. The annoying message may be a service and not an app. In that case, you need to discover what service it is and use the app called Disable Service to permanently stop that service from running (but your phone needs to be rooted). So you'll have to reroot and then use Disable Service.

Anyway, you have an absolutely beautiful phone. Love the specs. I wonder it it uses MTK or Spreadthrum architecture. If it's MTK you can easily and quickly flash back to stock with SP Flash Tool. Otherwise you have to use the Spreadthrum tools. You will need to find your stock ROM and flash it. That's the other way to deal with it.

Let me know how it goes. I can help answer questions at each step of the way. Just remember to take screenshots to help explain what's going on if you need help.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] stentmartin:
System is Damage

First. My goal withe phone is to install Ubuntu Mate and have a combined phone & Ubuntu computer.

On all tests this powerful phone have extremely low score. Reason, the tests can not handle 4G phones @ 2GHz and 8-cores or the phone is a fake or scam?

I have contacted the Seller on eBay about the Stock ROM. Normally they don't know anything..

Also I am a normal user with some computer knowledge, not a hacker or aUnix programmer.

I have downloaded and tested all programs you have suggested. Note! my phone is rooted.

The problem:

1 To use Service Disable or Uninstall apps in settings I need to know what app is causing the problem and I don't have a clue witch app I shall disable.

2. I can not find the Stock ROM to my phone.

3. I believe the my phone is a MT6589 SoC MTK device with 8-cores 2048MHZ and 120GB local storage.

At least that is what the phone is telling me.

Anyway, this is the future of computer/phones.

Possible Solutions

1. Buy another similar phone. Cost only $52 on eBay.

2. Take. backup of the new phone ROM and restore the backup to the old damage phone (delete internal storage first to get rid of malware?)

3. Compare installed apps on the phones and delete the differences on the old damage phones..

Can I use the therminal emulator to find the program causing my problem? You told me they have the "i" and "a" attribute in the mode. Can I look for some distinct features in the mode and use RM to remove the app.

In what directory shall I look?

Please advise

stentmartin
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] CVAngelo:
It's really difficult to tell which app is causing whatever problem you might experience on your screen.

There are a couple things you can try:

First look in Settings> Applications and flip over to the Running tab. Look for apps with strange names. Then find the app in the All apps tab and try to disable it.

Next, use a root browser and check the /system/app and /system/priv-app folders. Again, you are looking for apks that have strange names. You have to be really careful because there are some system apps that have strange names but they will often have an odex file with the same name right next to them. You can ignore these apps that have an odex sibling. WARNING: Don't delete any of the apk files in the system folders. First try to rename them to whatevername.bak. Be sure you have root permissions. If you can rename the file, then it is NOT the one you're looking for. Rename it back to whatevername.apk and try another suspicious file. If you cannot rename the file, it will throw a message like "operation failed"... THIS IS THE CULPRIT. And there could be several of them. These are the virus files that cannot be deleted by normal means because they have their attribute set to immutable or annex or both. (I'm assuming that you already deleted all the virus apps that can be deleted using a system app manager like App Master and only these stubborn ones are left).

I use ES File Explorer for my root browser. Just long click on the file you want to delete and select Properties. There on the file properties screen, I have the option to Copy Full Path. Click that to save the name of the file including the path (it will save something like /system/app/filename) so you don't have to manually type it later.

Then go to the Terminal Emulator app. Type su to get superuser privileges. Then type chattr -i -a /system/app/filename. This will remove the i and a attributes if they were on the file. Next type rm /system/app/filename. Obviously you can just paste the filename you copied to the clipboard instead of typing the whole thing and making mistakes on these tiny keyboards. Anyway, this is how to delete virus files that refuse to let you delete them. Lol. I have had to do this with infected phones that had 10 or more viruses permanently installed. This is why the copy full path is excellent. It removes the need for a lot of typing.

Let me know how it goes. But I did like your solution which was very effective....If these phones cost only $50 bucks, just buy a new one and extract the stock ROM from it. The only thing that concerns me is how could a phone so powerful only cost $50??? Sounds like a fake. I see a lot of Samsung Galaxy clones that show they have many GB of internal storage in the Settings. But if you run an app like Diskinfo on them, you'll see that they have very little RAM and very little internal memory. Some are so bad that you can't even install any apps on them because you'll get an insufficient memory error.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] stentmartin:
ROM for corrupted phone

I have tried everything and can not find the virus.

Is not in the /Syste/app or /System/pri-app. If I delete all apps and goes to safe mode the virus is still there so it most be on the root level. The seller can not give me a new phone, they are out of stock and they are totally fake. They are even programmed to deceive you and the test program, a deliberate fraud or crime. It is 479MB not 4GB RAM and 1.2GB ROOM not 128GB. The CPU is a 4-core 1GHz not 8-Core 2GHz. And it is the same with all the Chinese phones I have seen. However they are nice low end phones payed by the ads you have big problems with. And as in my case, when you try you have this message "System is Damage" you can't get rid of blinking every 2 seconds.

The only way I can see now is to find a Stock ROM that works and that is not east to an MT6589 CPU.

Any suggestions?
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] CVAngelo:
If it's not one of the apps that shows up in your listings of Running apps, then it is a service which you need to halt.

There is a root app called OS Monitor which you can download from the PlayStore. It will tell you exactly which apps and services are running at any given moment. Use it to identify which service(s) is(are) running when this message pops up.

Then use Disable Service (also a root app from PlayStore) to block/turn off those services, thereby permanently stopping the message from appearing.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] elyas2u:
y320

my friends huawei y320 u10 gapps and many other process keep crashing (android core is one of it). and its spamming error message

tried factory reset, it said reset success, but all my data is still there and the crashing persist.

tried flashing the stock firmware, it said success, but everything from before the flash is still there, and the crashing error persist. (tried adb ,and sd card)

and i also found that in the storage setting , there is an internal storage and phone storage. and i found that everything that is usually sdcard0 on my other phone.

there is an option to delete phone storage, but it also doesn't work (altough it said success.)

i also can't uninstall any app on that phone (currently there is : piano tiles, farm quest saga, instagram, weibo). everytime i tried to uninstall, launcher,setting,and nearly everything else crashes,

adb (at pc ) can't read the phone unless its doing install update from adb option (at the phone).

tried using ubuntu,kali , windows, mac (pc) and tried a lot of different usb cables)

help
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] CVAngelo:
Is the device rooted? Is it encrypted? Is the bootloader locked (by operator)?

Your EMMC may be corrupted. Forget factory reset. Hold down the volume DOWN key and then press power till the phone boots. You should see a menu. Select Clear or Wipe EMMC. Let us know what happens.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Qiba:
I'm facing the same problem,system damaged,pleasw check.After re-root nothing happen,the massage still pop up.Try using Os monitor,cannot find weird apps running the massage.Only system running..please someone help
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] CVAngelo:
The message about "system damaged" comes from a virus process that is installed by certain rooting applications. That application is triggered when you attempt to delete certain apps installed by the rooting app. Nothing is wrong with your system.

What phone do you have have bro? Can't help you unless you state the make and model of your device. Also, what did you root with?
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] INNOOS:
If you put the phone in english and after you use iRoot. Try this:restore factory seting and root again but not change the lenguage
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam General] smads:
Got my Tytn (Vario II) today, great phone but the LED's don't operate at all. It's on a T-Mobile ROM ver 1.21.110.3 (6/19/06).

I have not installed any hacks and the vibration works fine.

Any ideas, or do I have a dud :?

Thanks
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam General] pof:
have u tried to hard reset?
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam General] smads:
hi, yes I have (twice :( ), there doesn't seem to be any activity with the LED's at all.
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam General] smads:
Re: LED's won't work - UPDATE

Just an update... T-Mobile have been great and are replacing the unit on Tuesday, seems I had a dud!

Anyone waiting for this phone WILL be thrilled with it, it is a fantastic piece of kit.
[General Questions and Answers] Ikmalil birri:
please give me link download firmware philipine for my samsung corby 2 GT-S3850. i was search but i get nothing
[Sprint HTC One (M7)] suga_d:
the guy that flashed my phone told me that as of april 30, boostmobile is phasing out mms and gps to many 3g phones. unlucky for me the rant(my donor phone is on that list) i contacted him after i havent been able to send or receive mms. my gps works fine. i searched google and here for any info on this, and couldnt find anything he also said the only why to get mms back on is to get a new donor(incognito). i would like to know if this true.

2ndly can any one help or point me to info that will get my mms working again. i have tried the ##3282# to edit advance method. but i cant find mmsc(or anything close to that) to change to mm.myboostmobile.com. I went to my stock messaging-mms setting and it has the mm.myboostmobile set already. also went to mobile network setting but "access point names" cant be selected. please help anyone.
[Sprint HTC One (M7)] suga_d:
so i spoke with customer service and its true they have discontinued multimedia for the rant and other nonandroid/smart phones. he gave me 50% off on any smart phone on boostmobile.com but he said the incognito is nonsmart and cant get mms either. anyone have there htc one flashed? does your mms still work? is there anyone with input or suggestions? help
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] wim69:
I am trying to find the setting to start a music player when I connect a wired headset, but I cannot find it.

Any help would be appriciated.
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Primokorn:
Don't think Mahdi has this feature (which is integrated into handy apps like PowerAmp or Headset Controller)
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] taran181:
HI i used galaxy mini first .. and there was no knox.. so i am confused about knox.. now i own a Note 2 N7100.. i was going to root note 2 but before rooting i want to ask some questions.

1. I am on a complete stock rom 4.4.2 and knox is there but i havn't installed it.. if i root will knox prevent rooting or root will work correctly? I dont care about warranty..

Link for the latest version for cf auto root?

2. I heard about issues on sd card on 4.4.2.. so i am going to install titanium backup will it cause any issues,, i f yes how to solve?

3. Adaway was removed from play store .. now how to remove ads ?? any link for it or any other app?

4. Latest cmw recovery link ?

Sorry for these questions but i am new to Galaxy Note 2 thread..
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Mohammed779:
1. About knox: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2595889

link for cf root: http://autoroot.chainfire.eu

2.download NextApp SDfix from play store, give it root permission and go through steps, othen reboot, external SD card works fine by now and titanium backup will work.

3. Google adaway apk.. You'll easily find it

4. Go to original android development under n7100 section and you'll find philz and twrp recovery. Philz is based on cwm, but I prefer twrp
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] taran181:
will doctor ketan's rom utilies removes knox ? is there any option in it or i have to manually remove it from system?

and if i install any custom rom will it change my baseband also?? as i dont want to change my baseband..
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] OngL:
I have just rooted my N7105 using TWRP and SuperSU. Didn't try with CF-Autoroot.

SuperSu will disable KNOX, so far no issues that I have encountered.
[T-Mobile HTC One (M8)] Veniceee:
People of XDA what Rom do you prefer? Android Revolution HD-One M8 5.5 or insertcoin sense6 m8-2.6.0
[T-Mobile HTC One (M8)] VolcanicSkunk:
I'm on InsertCoin.

Sent from my HTC One M8
[T-Mobile HTC One (M8)] Veniceee:
is the battery like good?
[T-Mobile HTC One (M8)] VolcanicSkunk:
You tell me. :)

Sent from my HTC One M8
[T-Mobile HTC One (M8)] dizbstretch:
InsertCoin 2.7.0. [emoji2]

Sent from my HTC One_M8
[T-Mobile HTC One (M8)] Clevelandroot:
ARHD is the best. Insert coin is good though also. I am ARHD all day though on my HTC Sensation, HTC One (M7), and now on my HTC One (M8). :good:
[T-Mobile HTC One (M8)] luigi311:
This type of thread is not allowed. Just a heads up OP
[T-Mobile HTC One (M8)] Da Kine:
Like luigi311 said, "best rom" or "best anything" threads aren't allowed. Test the roms out and find which one suites your needs/usage.
[Motorola Photon Q 4G LTE] AndyYan:
Hi all,

I don't remember when it started, but recently my Photon's recovery has been acting strange when accessing /data partition. I'm now using official TWRP 2.7.0.1, and the recovery "hot reboots" itself when wiping /data, effectively making it unable to restore backups (because to restore the /data partition it has to be wiped first). I tried an older version of CWM (6.0.1.2), and it "wipes" /data in a blink of an eye, which only means it didn't wipe successfully at all.

For reference sake, I can still use my phone normally. I can install apps, restore app backups, or even directly create/delete files in /data partition once I'm booted into Android, so the problem is only limited to recovery. I even tried RSD-ing back to stock and then start all over, but still no dice.

Any ideas would be welcome. If I need to grab any logs, please tell me which and how.
[Motorola Photon Q 4G LTE] kabaldan:
Recovery logs are stored in /cache/recovery .
[Motorola Photon Q 4G LTE] arrrghhh:
For TWRP, I thought it was just /tmp/recovery.log...

But either way, can you post a log from recovery after attempting to wipe?
[Motorola Photon Q 4G LTE] Loader009:
I had something similiar when I wanted to restore a nandroid from my sdcard with TWRP (earlier, about a year ago).

At the end I chose to backup and restore on the internal sd (/data/media) instead of the external sd.

I am not sure if it was the sdcard but this solved my backup problems with TWRP.

Since then I always first backup to internal sd and then copy it to the external one.

I could not read if the problem comes by just wiping /data or while restoring a backup (which should first wipe a backup).
[Motorola Photon Q 4G LTE] AndyYan:
Here is the last_log from TWRP 2.7.0.1: http://d-h.st/TKb . These 2 parts grabbed my attention:

I:Mount: Unable to find partition for path '/data'

and

I:wipe list '/data;'
I:wipe_path '/data'
Wiping data without wiping /data/media ...
[STRIKE]I:Unable to unlink '/data/bugreports'[/STRIKE]
I:Fixing /data/media/0 contexts

...What's that "/data/bugreports" all about?

And here's the last_log from CWM 6.0.4.8 (I built it via ClockworkMod Builder myself): http://d-h.st/zvK . These:

-- Wiping data...
Formatting /data...
I:Formatting unknown device.
rm: can't remove '.' or '..'
rm: can't remove '.' or '..'

Something even more strange is, although TWRP "hot reboots" / CWM "fast skips" when wiping /data, /data gets wiped anyways.

Hmm, my problem can be triggered simply by attempting to wipe /data, so I'm pretty sure this is not relevant to my SD. For verification, I ejected my SD before booting into recovery, and attempted another /data wipe, which still "hot rebooted" my recovery.
[Motorola Photon Q 4G LTE] Loader009:
Probably I'm talking about another problem.

Sorry, I was not sure and noticed my problem to be on the safe side.
[Motorola Photon Q 4G LTE] dslinfreak:
I'm not sure if you're familiar with linux at all. But there's a simple fix to this solution. I had the same problem when I was using CM7 with my second OG Droid. But basically you use the following commands. If it's a problem with wiping the /Data clean out, and then rebuilding from a previous backup where the /Data directory is in tact, this is what you do. (WARNING! IF YOU ARE NOT COMFORTABLE ISSUING THESE COMMANDS, THEN DON'T.)

navigate to your adb folder where the actual adb.exe file is located. Then make sure your phone is booted into recovery.

that will put you in a linux environment while your phone is in recovery

that will list all directories and files in the root of your phone make sure there is a directory called data. as long as there is, do the following.

that will delete the entire current /data structure on your phone. If you don't feel safe doing this, then don't. From there just do the recovery again.

ENJOY! :)
[Motorola Photon Q 4G LTE] AndyYan:
You really sure this could deal with my issue, since you're replying to HIM instead of ME in MY question post?

EDIT: I actually risked my phone and attempted this - I think I already know ADB commands pretty well - and although /data is totally deleted, after a reboot to recovery, wiping /data still causes "hot reboot".

AND the actions also totally wiped my internal storage (because internal storage is /data/media and deleting /data also deleted it)! Thank god I don't have anything important in there...

Sent from Google Nexus 4 @ CM11
[Motorola Photon Q 4G LTE] Loader009:
Yes, that's what I was thinking after reading his post.

It is also a little bit different problem than the one discussed here.

In your case AndyYan I simply would flash a stock ROM with RSDLite and then redo the flash recovery and ROM steps.

Because your data is already lost, this might be the fastest way.

But this way we wouldn't figure out what the current problem is. It's your choice since I don't know how fast you need the phone. I don't know if you are able to get a shell (with OpenRecovery you surely are) but what do you get if you enter "mount"? (Search for a line with /data)

With "mount" you'll get plenty of lines so it might be better to do it on the PC with "adb shell mount".

edit: With mount you get only the mounted partitions. I forgot that nothing of that is mounted. Theoretically we should be able to mount the data partition manually and format it with the right filesystem...

But I really don't know what might break, what happens to the media folder and other soft-/hardlinks.
[Motorola Photon Q 4G LTE] AndyYan:
As said in the OP, RSD'd already but problem remains. As for mounting problems, I assume I can attempt to manually mount it, but I don't know the right command (Linux n00b).

I don't have any important data on the phone (it's not my primary device, as my signature says), everything's on the SD card, so feel free to throw suggestions/commands at me, as long as it doesn't have the risk of hard-bricking! :p

Sent from Google Nexus 4 @ CM11
[Motorola Photon Q 4G LTE] dslinfreak:
I appoligize that you did this. i really was just talking to him. as for the fix, was there a stock rom already on the phone? or had you put cm10 or 11 on there? i know for a fact that their internal storage for files, pictures, music, and dowloads are stored in /sdcard on the photon q. i did enough digging on adb for the past week to memorize that file structure.

Edit: Now that /data is gone, do an advanced recovery, don't wipe data, just flash it on. this might avoid the 'hot reboot' issue. i'm about to attempt to replicate this problem on my emulator.
[Motorola Photon Q 4G LTE] arrrghhh:
/sdcard is just a symlink to /data/media...
[Motorola Photon Q 4G LTE] Loader009:
I read the thread from the beginning to be sure what has already been tried.

It looks like the /data partition is corrupted, probably even more, the partition table (which we cannot rewrite afaik).

But I give my best suggestions I have to help.

As you might imagine, I won't be able to solve your problem but I can try to search where the actual problem is.

Please correct me if I am saying something wrong!

The following commands should be entered inside "adb shell" and the output should be posted here:

mount

ls -al /dev/block/platform/msm_sdcc.1/by-name

ls -al /dev/block/mmcblk0p39

The first command tells us what has been mounted within the recovery. /data should be there somewhere.

The second command tells us what partitions are available. userdata is the /data partition and should be listed.

The third command is actually a confirmation. If userdata is not in the output of the second command, then this command tells us if the actual partition exists.

In the last case (userdata is not shown in the second command but the partition exists), there might be a naming issue. Theoretically a format of this partition and give it the name "userdata" should solve it.

How? Actually I know on linux the command "mkfs.ext4 /path/to/partition" with which it is possible to format a partition into the ext4 filesystem.

But how do we give it a name? I don't know. Actually this is done in the partition table and not in the partition itself.