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[Galaxy S 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] BuriedCode:
Hi,

First post, so be gentle. I searched the forum and found quite a few posts about a boot looping S5 but most referring to custom ROMs - my phone started doing this on its own. Running marshmallow 6.0.1. Its almost 3 years old, and up until now has never caused problems. It was charging when this first happened, and it could have updated (I have no way of knowing what update though).

First thing I tried was a new battery, I charged it up with the phone off, but it still wouldn't boot.

The problem:

-It either hangs on the startup splash screen ("Samsung GALAXY S5") and can only be turned off by pulling the battery (sometimes), or.. it restarts on the same screen (mostly).

-If I leave it for 10 minutes without a battery, it goes further, getting to the point where it asks for the password, but then freezes at this point at restarts.

-I can get into recovery (vol up + home + power buttons) and have cleared the cache. It never hangs or freezes whilst in recovery.

-Whilst I had enabled developer options (used for debugging bluetooth problems once) I have NOT enabled USB debugging - so it seems ADB push/pull to recover user data won't work.

I don't really want to do a factory reset as google hasn't backed up everything, so I'm stuck. Does TWRP or clockworkmod go into the recovery partition (sparing user data)? Or do these only work after a factory reset? I have read a fair bit about Odin, Kies, and firmware updates, but as I don't know what the problem is, I have no idea where to start - I was hoping there are some kind of debug logs on the phone that could at least point to the cause, but of course I cannot access it. The fact it doesn't crash/hang/restart in recovery leads me to believe it isn't a hardware problem - but the fact this happened suddenly without me changing anything is suspicious. Ideas?
[Galaxy S 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] TheFixItMan:
If you have an SD card inserted remove it - a corrupt SD can cause bootloops

If it boots without sd card transfer what you need from it to a pc either via USB card reader or via USB cable whilst in twrp

Once done format sd card & transfer files back - note only transfer back personal files eg pics music etc & not the android folder or any app data

If it still bootloops your only choice maybe a factory reset

You can flash twrp at any time - it will not erase userdata unless you goto the wipe section & do it yourself

You can create a backup & extract it on a pc but remember twrp backups do not backup personal files like pics music docs

You can however mount internal storage & transfer what ever files you want to pc

If all else fails flash stock firmware via odin
[Galaxy S 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] BuriedCode:
Sadly, it stil does it without the SD - forgot to mention I tried that too.

Ahh, this is what I was hoping. So twrp, goes onto the recovery partition? I did read (here: hxxps://twrp.me/faq/backupexclusions.html ), as you mentioned, that TWRP doesn't back up internal storage automagically. Even if done manually, as long as I can transfer the files to PC, I'll be happy. Thankfully, it's only one folder of photos that I google didn't back up, but I might as well grab everything.

I may post back with questions, thanks for the reply!
[Galaxy S 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] BuriedCode:
Right, I keep reading that "USB debugging" must be enabled when installing TWRP, or doing almost anything. But I don't have this enabled, and I can't enable it since I don't have access to the phones system. Is this required to install TWRP? I know it is required to use ADB which I believe is used to flash the TWRP. If this is the case, it looks like a dead end. I did find one link claiming to enable USB debugging from a recovery, but the instructions are incomplete, and it also mentions performing a factory reset first - which kind of defeats the point.
[Galaxy S 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] TheFixItMan:
On the g900f all you have to do is the following

Install Samsung USB drivers https://developer.samsung.com/galaxy/others/android-usb-driver-for-windows

Put phone into download mode (hold Vol down home & power button) & connect to pc

Push Vol up to start connection

Open odin https://xdaforums.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=4431749&d=1519672710

Place twrp.tar in the AP section & flash

https://dl.twrp.me/klte/

As soon as the phone restarts enter recovery - hold Vol up home power button

If the phone starts to boot before entering recovery you will need to flash it again - once you have entered twrp once it will stick
[Galaxy S 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] BuriedCode:
Once again, thank you for the clear instructions. I Successfully got TWRP on my phone, and it appears on the PC so I could see the file structure in explorer (!). Progress.

I went to copy two photos as a test - MPT/USB transfers have always been unreliable for me anyway - and the phone froze. I only noticed when the touch screen became unresponsive and the clock wasn't updating. So this could well be the original problem - a hardware issue that causes the phone to freeze when it does anything remotely taxing. Or.. it could be the MPT transfer.

Either way, I had to pull the battery and it seems the TWRP didn't take as when I tried to boot into recovery, it had the stock recovery menu. So at least I'm not going backwards, nothing is broken.

Now I know how to get TWRP on there, and to boot back into recovery right away, and I know that it works. Next up is getting it on there and leaving it for 10 minutes to see if it crashes/freezes. If its OK, then I'll have to look for another way to pull files off. Can one use ADB with TWRP? If its enabled then I could use "pull" to get the files off and hopefully quicker (or at least more reliably) than ****ty MPT. Ideally I'd like to just pull everything off so I can decide what to add back later after a fresh reset.

Thank you once again for your advice!
[Galaxy S 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] BuriedCode:
Replying to my own post. It still can crash (screen has random colours on it and it freezes) but rarely whilst in TWRP. I was able to use adb and pull off all my camera photos that weren't backed up, and with the "-a" option, keep the file attributes.

Also solved the MPT problem - if anyone has the same issue or cares - using USB 3.0 sockets on my PC and only at the back rather than the sockets on the front (which are awful quality anyway). It's sitll onyl USB 2.0 but I guess the socket is higher quality.

Last question which I may make another thread for: How can I back up contacts, internet bookmarks, SMS and "memos" from a Samsung S5? I read that TWRP does not back these up, so I would need the location of the directory where these are stored. My google fu yielded somewhat vague answers from stackexchange, but no exact directories. If TWRP includes these in backup great, if not I would like to know if there is any kind of work around. MMS messages probably aren't that important, but contacts and memos really are. If I find any answers, I'll post back for others. Cheers!
[Galaxy S 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] BuriedCode:
Right, I realise people either know this, or don't care, but I did say I would post with anything I've found. I couldn't find the answers googling, so I was digging around in the file browser in TWRP.

- Almost everything in data/media - which isnt' backed up by TWRP - is exposed to MPT. I say almost everything, because some isn't, but I backed up the entire folder anyway with adb pull. This is the "internal SDcard" people mention in forums (internal memory partition, not an actual card). Simply copying from windows explorer grabs the files, but not with the correct directory structure. Best to use adb pull with the -a option to keep file attributes.

- Samsung memos, bookmarks (from the samsung internet browser), and contacts are not stored in /data/media. Rather these are in data/data. in the following places (absolute directories):

- memos: data/data/com.samsung.android.app.memo/databases/memo.db

- bookmarks: data/data/com.sec.android.app.sbrowser/databases/SBrowser.db

- contacts: data/data/com.android.providers.contacts/databases/contacts2.db

It seems TWRP does not back these up -I could be wrong though. Samsung's own utilities probably do but I have never used them. I don't know if google stores these either since I haven't used its backups to check.

I am still unclear of exactly what TWRO backup backs up. I understand that the /media folder is not included (downloads, photos, music etc..) but are app settings in data/data included?
[Galaxy S 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] TheFixItMan:
All app data is backed up in a twrp backup

If you were to restore a twrp backup your phone would be in exactly the same position as when the backup was created including app settings & data

The common partitions it will backup are system data cache & boot (kernel) - it can also backup (if included in the twrp.fstab) modem/efs & other partitions

The only things a twrp backup doesn't backup is personal files eg downloads music pictures documents etc

You can make a twrp backup & extract it on a pc - I'm sure there are guides which explain how to do this
[Galaxy S 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] BuriedCode:
Excellent. Well I've manually (well, same directory structure) backed up pretty much everything I could think of anyway so even if the phone goes south, the media files are safe. I'll do a TWRP backup on my PC as well (just for easy restoring if I need to) I'm assuming this can only be done via adb? as the UI only gives options for internal or SDcard storage - which is another option.

I have some more questions as I am not sure how to proceed. Yes, everything is (or can be) backed up. But the phone still freezes which may or may not be a hardware issue. So I am stuck deciding:

1) looking for logs to attempt to diagnose the problem. Probably won't get me anywhere. logcat doesn't seem to work.

2) Just performing a factory reset from TWRP. Unsure exactly what this resets. Firmware? OS? wipes all apps?

3) Using Odin to flash stock firmware (I only have one large md5 file from updato.com for use with "AP"). Does this wipe apps and data? (I'm not including media files here).

In some forums people claim that user data (as in apps and app data) isn't wiped by using ODIN to update the firmware, others say it wipes absolutely everything. Whilst I have back ups I'd obviously prefer it to keep the apps and their data, assuming they aren't the cause of the problem. Apologies for so many questions, I probably don't need to know all the details, but I'm curious and cautious.
[Galaxy S 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] TheFixItMan:
Odin firmware images (unless custom made) do not wipe user data apps & settings however unless it's the same firmware as already on the phone it will most likely bootloop until you do a factory reset in stock recovery

This will erase all app data & settings but not internal storage unless the device was encrypted in which case all internal storage will be erased

For twrp if you want to flash a custom rom

If encrypted format data (option on right of wipe menu) This will erase all internal storage - then restart to recovery

Then once encryption removed or not encrypted to begin with

Wipe system (previous rom)

Wipe data (app data settings)

Wipe cache

Flash rom

Flash gapps

Flash root (optional)

Restart
[Galaxy S 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] BuriedCode:
So it looks like a firmware flash with ODIN is the way to go. As I've loaded on TWRP I can no longer see the firmware version that was on the stock recovery screen to check if I have the right image downloaded. Is there a way to see the firmware version from TWRP? I tried

adb shell getprop

Which had [ro.boot.bootloader]: [G900FXXU1CRH1] that I'm guessing is the firmware version, although the hit on sammobile doesn't mention the carrier (vodafone). If I search by region and carrier, I get a different version.

Update: Just tried to backup to a blank SD micro. It freezes and restarts 2% into it every time. Tried:

adb backup " -all -noshared -f "C:\phone backup.ab" "

And it said "now unlock your device to confirm action" but TWRP gave no such dialog. At this rate I can't actually do a proper backup of anything. Is there another way? I don't have enough space on internal storage. I guess I could try USB storage (USB memory stick with adapter).
[Galaxy S 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] TheFixItMan:
Just backup to internal storage or SD card & transfer to pc

Backup is stored in eg sdcard/twrp

The firmware you need is

https://www.sammobile.com/firmwares/galaxy-s5/SM-G900F/BTU/download/G900FXXU1CRH1/233034/

Free downloads on sammobile will be back on Monday or find an alternative site
[Galaxy S 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] BuriedCode:
I can't backup to SD card because it freezes at 2%. And using "adb backup " -f "C:\mybackup.ab" --twrp boot system data" " asks me to unlock my device - but TWRP doesn't show anything. On top of all that, it seems sammobile is under maintainance so I cannot download that firmware file until Monday :( Probably a good thing as it gives me a couple of days to keep trying to back up. Right now it gets into TWRP from recovery boot about one in 6 times. I'm out of idea's.
[Galaxy S 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] BuriedCode:
You can probably tell the frustration is real. Right now, I cannot use adb or twrp to backup onto internal storage (no space), the SDcard (crashes 2% into it, even with a blank SD card). It doesn't seem to crash whilst in TWRP, and I managed to pull the media folder off use "adb pull" so it seems it doesn't crash when using ADB commands.

So my only option before attempting to flash firmware is to make a backup via adb. However, I cannot get this to work at all. "adb backup --twrp" prompts me to unlock my phone, but the phone just displays the TWRP menu still. "adb backup -f "c:\backADB.ab" -noshared --twrp system boot data" tells me "adb: unable to open file c:\backADB.ab". Using simply "adb backup" puts me in the backup menu in TWRP, but then I can only change storage to internal or SDcard.

So either we can't yet backup to PC via adb and the TWRP documentation is out of date, or bugged. I'm on windows so I don't know if that makes it impossible - I just want to be able to get a backup on my PC's harddrive(s). Am I missing something with ADB?

Edit: it seems to now attempt to back up with "adb backup -f "c:\mybackup" --twrp system boot data" however.. this starts to back up and crashes at... 2%.
[Galaxy S 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] BuriedCode:
Just flashed the linked firmware with Odin after managing to get my apps backed up with my samsung account (the phone didn't crash for 15 minutes!). It cycled through "installing system update" restarting several times before hanging on the startup screen. I then pulled the battery, booted into stock recovery performed a factory reset (TWRP was gone). Now it is back in bootloop.

I installed TWRP again to use the file browser and my data has indeed been wiped (RIP). So what now? I could just let it boot loop and hope that it somehow gets back into android - it did that before, maybe one in 15 times. But I've done pretty much everything that has been recommended.
[Galaxy S 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] BuriedCode:
Rather than leave this thread hanging, I might as well post progress. After many *many* reboots interrupting the phone updating apps, it seems stable. It still occasionally crashes, but I can now make it crash and restart on demand by trying to install snapchat. It downloads it successfully and about a minute of "installing" the phone restarts, and reboots about 15 times before finally booting properly. I installed several other apps, none of which restarted the phone.

So, I'm going to get a new phone, and it seems that most things are backed up (please note, samsung doesn't back up contacts, shealth data, or splanner data despite claiming they do so). But I am curious as to what this problem could be. I have no experience debugging phone problems, and I realize it could be many things, but is there a way of checking the phones RAM (unlikely) or internal memory (flash, = more likely) for corruption? I may run a stress test to check if its power, CPU, or hover heating. If it passes that then it has to be memory usage.

Update: Today it only lasts a few minutes before it restarts. This is without any app updates - although I cannot be sure because I don't know whats going on in the background. This happens with, or without the SD card, and with both the new and old battery. I don't know where to start debugging. Any pointers?
[LG V20 Questions & Answers] Alfred1516:
Hey guys i was reading something about project treble and it seems we are compatible because we are running android 8.0, what do you think about it?!

I would like to be part of it, i love stock android and it is a great project
[LG V20 Questions & Answers] Ruckamongus:
Just running Oreo doesn't qualify a device as Treble compatible. Nonetheless, [MENTION=2881807]x86cpu[/MENTION] has got the phone repartitioned and a GSI (generic system image) booted with issues. Specifically, it seems the camera will likely never work and he didn't want to pursue Treble for the time being. See this post and the ones before it for where the V20 stands for now.
[LG V20 Questions & Answers] Alfred1516:
Sad fact but i hope we get something at least on the next year, thanks bro!
[Vivo Nex Guides, News, & Discussion] erkund:
http://imgur.com/a/MPIl5y7
[Vivo Nex Guides, News, & Discussion] erkund:
Apparently I still can't post images in this forum. :eek:
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Themes, Apps, and Mods] Unusualfire:
Hello guys:) I have starting many mods to Galaxy s8, here is one of them. This is a stock s8 samsung camera. ONLY FOR Galaxy S8 and S8+ (Exynos). Oreo Work on September Path!!!

Feature:

1. Enable QHD 60FPS in Rear and front Camera

2. Unlocked the Shutter Sound option

3. Super Slow Mo (time limit 8 sec)

4. My Emoji maker (work in keyboard)

5. The flash-off threshold is reduced when the battery charge is low, to 0%.

6. Improved the quality of jpeg 100%

7. Custom Emoji

8. Removed the size limit of the video file.

Installation Steps:

-Download Camera

-Enter TWRP

-Flash mod kernel

-Flash camera

-After install, wipe cache and dalvic cache

Mod Edit
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Themes, Apps, and Mods] FSadino:
Thread closed due to violation of rule n12

12.3. Re-releasing other's works as your own is forbidden. The code that you release into the wild must have something beyond minor aesthetic changes that makes it better than the last.

XDA Forum Rules
[LineageOS Questions & Answers] KrissSo:
Hi,

I was surprised today to see that my android firewall (afwall+) blocked several communications from the SMS/MMS application (ID 10068).

The following IP address were blocked, all on port 443

216.58.213.142

216.58.215.46

172.217.19.238

172.217.18.206

These IP belongs to google hosting, have self-signed certificate (and redirect to google.com if blindly via https://[theip] ).

Does anybody have clue about this?

Thank you

Kriss

PS: my phone runs lineage os 15, updated on Sept 4th. It is rooted, runs microg, fdroid and xposed, and has very few apps on it.
[Xiaomi Mi Mix 2 Questions & Answers] cartonneexpress:
I want to use my Mi Mix 2 (MIUI 9.6.1.0 Global) with a hub to transfer files (pictures) between two external storages. The transfer rates are ok-ish, but I was hoping for more. Maybe someone here knows if it can be sped up?

I want to be able to back up pictures from a SDXC card (SanDisk Extreme Pro U3 128GB) to an SSD (Crucial BX300 480GB) in the field, using my phone to move the files. The hub I got is this one: click here, and even though it's a rather cheap construction it works as advertised.

When I connect the hub to my PC (USB Type C 3.1) I get cross transfer speeds of around 85 MB/s, which is pretty much the maximum read speed of the SD card.

Connected to the Mix 2 (USB Type C 2.0) the set up only averages around 14 MB/s, which isn't bad, but less then I expected, since USB 2.0 should have transfer speeds of up to 35 MB/s. The Problem is, that moving 128 GB at that speed takes 2.5 hours, which a) is too long, and b) is super hard on the Mix 2's battery, which probably wouldn't even hold that long.

Now my first question is: Why oh why does this otherwise wonderful 2017 flagship device only have USB 2.0?!

And the second one is: Who knows a solution other than buying a Samsung with USB 3.1?
[Xiaomi Poco F1 Guides, News, & Discussion] sanjay0501:
Seems it is quite well built. Lots of speculation about front glass etc laid to rest hopefully.

https://youtu.be/IXLvNrUTUYw
[Xiaomi Poco F1 Guides, News, & Discussion] uremytoy:
Well this phone survived car crash so it's durable for sure...

Wysłane z mojego POCOPHONE F1 przy użyciu Tapatalka
[Xiaomi Poco F1 Questions & Answers] JovanSijacki:
Cant seem to find a setting for wall paper carousel. Uniinstalled and installed app again and it doesnt work. Any help
[Xiaomi Poco F1 Questions & Answers] Mori_B:
Try setting the region to india, that should do it :good:
[Xiaomi Poco F1 Questions & Answers] lockhrt999:
If I'm not mistaken it's not for home screen right? Wallpapers auto change is only for lock screen right?
[Xiaomi Poco F1 Questions & Answers] unulufuntu:
It only changes lock screen wallpaper, and I think you need to have the 'default lock screen', because with the lock screen from other themes it doesnt seem to work.
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] ukdoc:
I'm sick of having to go into each separate email and sms account to do an "empty deleted items" command. I've tried googling but to no avail: is there any utility out there that will clear all the deleted items from all accounts in one fell swoop?

Ta v much.
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] kyphur:
Menu > Tools > Options.

Tap on the "Storage" Tab.

Empty Deleted items: Select "Immediately" and tap on OK.
[Galaxy Note5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] devilunix:
there are no rom updates for s6 edge plus.Can i flash note 5 roms to s6 edge plus?
[Galaxy Note5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ochipapa:
Yap they are interchangeble like now Im using smokkie rom for s 6 edge on on note 5 and vice versa I mean its the same chip
[Galaxy Note5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] devilunix:
ok thanks alot . i will try
[Nokia 8 Questions & Answers] pawankkumar:
Nokia 8 is available for INR 28k. So is it worth buying considering SD835 and camera quality or is there any better option ?
[Nokia 8 Questions & Answers] KonikoO:
As of the locked bootloader, issues with obtaining root and maintaining updates from OTA at the same time and lack of custom roms I would rather choose Pocophone F1 nowdays. The battery is also smaller on this one and ONLY advantage of N8 over F1 is the camera from Carl Zeiss.
[Nokia 8 Questions & Answers] lmulli:
And at Amazon, the Nokia 8 is £100 cheaper than the Pocophone, I'd say that was a good advantage :)
[Nokia 8 Questions & Answers] Stringy:
I'm guessing you can get the Pocophone F1 or Honor Play for similar or less money in India? I'd seriously consider those (I own a Nokia 8 but if I was buying today I'd probably look elsewhere)
[Nokia 8 Questions & Answers] amiguielesl:
I haven't got any issue on OTA updates so I would always recommend Nokia 8. It hasn't give me any problem issue either, not even with Bluetooth as some people had wrote. I'm pleased with the camera quality, stock Nokia camera is decent enough, but if you want better post processing image to obtain better picture quality and really good HDR+ option you can install Google camera posted here in some thread. Another good option is installing open camera app from playstore, with it I can set up 4k at 60fps and it does record video without any crush. I haven't check on PC about if it's really recording at those parameters though.

Another plus that I believe is build quality. Nokia has been always outstanding in that department. I don't know about pocophone's build quality, nor endurance durability. So I can't say if it is good or bad. But I can surely say Nokia is better, no doubt. Lol

But of course, if you want better performance in paper I would recommend you pocophone, as it has the latest snapdragon processor and RAM I think (?).