[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] RootieTootie:
I may have a bricked phone on my hands, my fault I guess.

Although, I feel TWRP should share at least some of the blame.

I'm hoping someone can help to get me going again.

Last Xmas I got a refurbished Note 4 from Ebay and followed directions

here to root it. This all went well, I put TWRP 3.0.2 and Jasmine on it,

and it has worked just fine since then.

A couple days ago I realized I hadn't made a Nandroid backup of my phone

lately so I went into TWRP and did so. This went just fine and I stored

the backup on the external SD card.

A few hours later I bought a cheap home controller from Ebay. The controller

brand name is "Vera" and despite all of the negative comments on Google Play

I went ahead and installed the app. For the next day or two my phone began to

hang, stall, hesitate, whatever... and I remembered installing that app from

Google play so I went into the app manager and selected the uninstall option.

This caused the phone to hang indefinitely, I had to cycle the power button to

regain control. I then went back to Google Play and downloaded an uninstaller

program, told it to uninstall the vera app. It tried for a long time but

eventually gave up. "Uninstall failed" was all it would say.

So to stop this Vera app from hanging my phone I ran a freeze program ("Freeze"

is the actual name of the program) and had the vera app frozen. This worked, my

phone began to respond normally again. But I didn't like having this bad software

in my phone and that is when I remembered the recent TWRP backup.

I decided to do a complete restore with TWRP. TWRP did a restore of boot - (success),

recovery - (success), system - (success), data - "ERROR extractTarFork() process ended

with ERROR=255". Thanks TWRP, that really tells me a lot...

I repeated the restore effort a total of three times and same results. Google

wasn't much help, one suggestion was to unmount the data partition and try again.

Same results. Same error. Another suggestion was “stop and learn how to fix it”, well

sure, but I need a solution right now, I don’t have time right now for the learning part.

This is probably my first *big* mistake, I exited TWRP to see If I could boot

the OS and maybe fix it from there, (factory restore or something...). As you might

have guessed, it wouldn't boot the system with an incomplete data partition. I

suspected it too but I was desperate to try something. It would have been nice if TWRP

had warned me not to exit, instead of just saying "error 255..." because now it wont

boot back into recovery, just hangs. Odin mode appears to be working but I suspect it isn't.

It looks like it enters odin mode just fine, but odin can't see it.

So here is where it stands at the moment:

SYSTEM - Wont boot. Shows the Samsung logo, shows "custom", hangs at this point.

RECOVERY- Wont enter recovery mode. Small text in upper left says it is entering recovery

mode then it hangs.

ODIN/DOWNLOAD - Appears to enter this mode, usual screen appears, will not communicate

with Odin, will not communicate with adb.

One other note, the external sd card has a copy of the twrp log file written to it, as well

as the nandroid backup. But plugging the sd card into an adapter and then into a pc... It

says it can’t read it, and would I like to format it(?).

And of course there is valuable information on the phone.

I've run out of ideas, I'm asking anyone who is still reading this lengthy message(apologies)

for any other options, suggestions, any hope at all, instead of just throwing it in the trash.

Thanks for reading. I hope the dialog was understandable.

RT

UPDATE:

Progress. I have odin talking with the phone now, was able to re-flash TWRP and boot into it.

Still getting error 255. I am under the impression that this means I am out of space???

I pulled the recovery logs with adb, here is the relevant lines:

==> extracting: //data/app/radiotime.player-1/lib/arm/libtunein.uap.so (file size 5499572 bytes)

I:Unable to extract tar archive '/external_sd/TWRP/BACKUPS/657e54fc/2017-04-08--07-58-24_JasmineROM_v7.0-MMB29M.N910VVRU2CPF3/data.ext4.win001'

Error during restore process.

I:Error extracting '/external_sd/TWRP/BACKUPS/657e54fc/2017-04-08--07-58-24_JasmineROM_v7.0-MMB29M.N910VVRU2CPF3/data.ext4.win001' in thread ID 0

I:Error extracting split archive.

Error during restore process.

extractTarFork() process ended with ERROR: 255

I:Set page: 'action_complete'

I:operation_end - status=1

I still don't understand "error 255" well enough to proceed. Google is not a wealth of information when it comes to this subject. Any suggestions on how to proceed are greatly appreciated.

thanks!

RT

LAST UPDATE:

I want to thank everyone here for all the help. Or the lack there of.

Since I had Odin and TWRP both working, I reconstructed the phone from scratch.

Re-rooted and re-installed Jasmine. So I am back up and running now, I just need

to get all the apps re-installed and configured.

But I must say that I am really disappointed with the lack of support from this forum.

It used to be that people were falling all over each other to help others out.

But 3 days and 49 views and not one of you had anything to say.

I guess that's what happens to all forums sooner or later, the newbies here don't know what

to say and are just looking for answers to their own issues, and the regulars become jaded

over time and can't be bothered anymore.

I used to think this forum was awesome, but now its just another forum like all the rest.

I will look to other websites for any future learning.

To the Admin: (If you can be bothered for a moment)You can close this thread, I consider

the issue resolved, and you can close my account too, I won't be back.

Good luck to you guys.

RT