[Galaxy S3 Neo Android Development] Marstradamus:
Encryption, factory reset "bootloop" and temporarily bricked my device

Hey out there,

I flashed the latest Update from Rox' CM12.1 (clean, not updated from previous Versoin) on my GT-I9301I, set up everything and installed my Apps.

After that I choose to encrypt the phone using the Standart Android encrytion under settings/security.

Then it wants me to set up my Pin and after setting it reboots first. After a few minutes showing me the little green Android it tells me that the process takes about 2,5hours to complete so I leave my phone alone.

The next time I look how far its gone (about 2hours later) it shows the Android is starting square with the loading circle and the text "Apps werden gestartet" (in english maybe "Apps starting"?!) for about 3hours,

so I removed the battery and restarted it with the same issue.

After that I reboot into recovery (TWRP) and he asks me for a password I never set and never been asked to set (the pin I must set up before encryption doesn't work). This prompt I can cancel and enter TWRP.

In the wipe menu section I tried to wipe all partitions, whats not working, so I tried to make a factory reset and after that a complete wipe which requires to input "yes" (doesn't know how it called at the moment)

what both also not working.

Then I tried change the file system of all possible partitions, whats working and after that I could wipe all partitions in the normal way again. (confusing for me, is this normal?)

After all wipes I reinstall CM12 and boot up my device. Everything installs and boots up fine and just for testing I do encryption again before set up my settings and install apps, etc.

This time he doesn't want a pin from me to set up (cause my screenlock was not pin protected I think?) an he do everything right - showing small little Android, rebooting twice and starts normal.

After encryption process in settings/security menu he tells me that the phone is encrypted.

So I get wondering why I don be asked to set up a password for the encryption and booted into recovery just to look if he asks me for a password, and he does.

So I rebooted my device again and did a factory reset from my running system to remove the encryption - this was a mistake I think.

After the Information screen that my device will reboot, it shuts down and tried to enter my recovery menu, I wrote tried because the "Teamwin" screen from Recovery flashes for a short time and go black again, then flashes again and goes black again - a never ending loop (I let him try for 30Minutes).

Removing the battery and trying to boot normal ends up in the flashing "Teamwin" Screen.

I think I must flash the recovery again via Odin, am I right? Are there any other solutions I can try from a Linux PC - because Iam not at home and here is no Windows PC available for me.

And is this a CyanogenMod problem or a general Android (5.1) one, because the original Recovery/firmware is not installed?

And Rox, if its a Cyanogen based problem, could you fix that?

Next moth I am at my home again and can try to "repair" my phone, then I also can reproduce that "bug" with making logs for you.

Hope someone could help me and if I described something not clear enough ask me, I tried my best but english is not my best language.

Thanks in advance.