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Help: password protection after boot

Hi All,
Well, I have just flashed my phone - using the samfirmware site.
A process I have done many times successfully, this time though the process was going well.. through an odin flash. I got to the stage of rebooting, an icon appears like packages are being extracted. It then prompts me for a password at this point (one I do not know). The only things I can do on my phone is enter download mode and flash new roms, I am unable to enter recovery mode or start the phone due to the password prompt, Would anyone know of a way I can get past this..
Help please.
Regards
Muff

If you had setup a pin lock on your phone, try that. Or try entering a random pin number a few times and you will get a message saying your internal sd card will be formatted. This method worked for me before.
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Oh! This is a stupid thing ! Happened with me a few days ago when I was flashing 2.3.5 and is nothing ! Just enter anything for 3-4 times and then just flash what you want nothing will happen! It happens because of security apps.! like 'app. Protector pro.' ! Used by you and does not format your SD card!
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agreed app protector is a rubbish app.. try formatting ur system

[Q] Kernel Error when trying to reach Android Recovery? Can boot normally though.

Model: LG-P880g (the Canadian model; originally from WIND Mobile)
Software: V09b (LG Updater thinks it's V09a, this was pre-release testing software, it never got flashed to release software)
I've been trying to work towards CM10.1 on this thing, I've rooted the phone, and I when I was trying to create a ROM backup using ClockworkMod, (ROM backup -> confirm, etc.) when it power cycles, I see the LG splash screen with:
[LGE_SECURITY] ERROR: boot image signature
Critical failure: Unable to start kernel.
Unrecoverable bootloader error (0x00000002)
And any attempt to enter Android Recovery fails and gives me the same result. However, by removing the battery, holding power, and reconnecting the battery, the device will power cycle twice, then go to the WIND splash screen and boot up normally. But still any attempt to reach Android Recovery puts me back in the same situation.
Is there any way to recover Android Recovery? Can I do it without risking a hardlock?

KDZ
Corno4 said:
Model: LG-P880g (the Canadian model; originally from WIND Mobile)
Software: V09b (LG Updater thinks it's V09a, this was pre-release testing software, it never got flashed to release software)
I've been trying to work towards CM10.1 on this thing, I've rooted the phone, and I when I was trying to create a ROM backup using ClockworkMod, (ROM backup -> confirm, etc.) when it power cycles, I see the LG splash screen with:
[LGE_SECURITY] ERROR: boot image signature
Critical failure: Unable to start kernel.
Unrecoverable bootloader error (0x00000002)
And any attempt to enter Android Recovery fails and gives me the same result. However, by removing the battery, holding power, and reconnecting the battery, the device will power cycle twice, then go to the WIND splash screen and boot up normally. But still any attempt to reach Android Recovery puts me back in the same situation.
Is there any way to recover Android Recovery? Can I do it without risking a hardlock?
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Flashing KDZ will probably fix it.

+1
Got same issue and flashing kdz files helped
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Got same thing and kdz help flashed to stock rom 4.1.2...
But is there anyway i can boot into recovery cos i want to use custom rom:what:
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It seems that your bootloader is still locked. You should unlock it by using one of the tutorials in the general section

Tnx it worked
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I have flashed cm 10.1 but cant see developer options so i cant enable usb debugging
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In the section "about phone" tap the build number 7 times rapidly.

Tnx u rock
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Got exactly the same problem. Hope it's gonna world on mine, too.
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[Q] phone not playing nice

After all the abuse I got for saying something bad about AOIP, I decided to try to reinstall a new download. I think that was a mistake. The gapps won't load and all I get are errors talking about terminated scripts. Unfortunately, I can't seem to boot into recovery (TWRP). If the rom won't load, how do I boot into recovery mode so I can flash back to my nandroid? Thanks for your help.

Proud2banoob said:
After all the abuse I got for saying something bad about AOIP, I decided to try to reinstall a new download. I think that was a mistake. The gapps won't load and all I get are errors talking about terminated scripts. Unfortunately, I can't seem to boot into recovery (TWRP). If the rom won't load, how do I boot into recovery mode so I can flash back to my nandroid? Thanks for your help.
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Can you get in to download mode? Volume down + power? I can make you an Odin flash-able TWRP tar file if you can do that.

meekrawb said:
Can you get in to download mode? Volume down + power? I can make you an Odin flash-able TWRP tar file if you can do that.
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Thanks for responding. Sometimes I can get it into the screen with the download option with the yellow triangle sign at the bottom, but pressing the volume up or down buttons have no effect. I do not seem to be able to get into download mode. I did find that you can access both sd cards through the computer, if USB is connected. Right now, it says it's in safe mode, but it's still in that loop saying that "setup wizard has stopped." I also see an error saying different apps have not loaded properly.

Proud2banoob said:
Thanks for responding. Sometimes I can get it into the screen with the download option with the yellow triangle sign at the bottom, but pressing the volume up or down buttons have no effect. I do not seem to be able to get into download mode. I did find that you can access both sd cards through the computer, if USB is connected. Right now, it says it's in safe mode, but it's still in that loop saying that "setup wizard has stopped." I also see an error saying different apps have not loaded properly.
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Were you able to boot in to recovery easily before? Pull battery, put it back and hold volume up + power until Samsung logo comes up, count to two and let go of the power button only. I can do it every time that way.
For download mode:
Try taking out your battery for a minute and when you put it back in press volume down + power. If you are still unable to get into Odin then this method isn't going to work.
Did you flash the right Gapps for the ROM you were trying to install? Just trying to figure out where you went wrong.

it's ALIVE!
meekrawb said:
Can you get in to download mode? Volume down + power? I can make you an Odin flash-able TWRP tar file if you can do that.
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TWRP finally booted and I reloaded a nandroid from before i tried AOIP. It seems alive again. There phones really are indestructible. Should I load new roms from the internal sd? Would that be a better idea? Right now, they're all on the external, but I can put the one I want to install on the internal before I begin. Would that maybe make things go more smoothly? Thanks.

Proud2banoob said:
TWRP finally booted and I reloaded a nandroid from before i tried AOIP. It seems alive again. There phones really are indestructible. Should I load new roms from the internal sd? Would that be a better idea? Right now, they're all on the external, but I can put the one I want to install on the internal before I begin. Would that maybe make things go more smoothly? Thanks.
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Nice! Glad you got it working. You can move it to internal if you think it helps. I have always installed from the external and never had a problem. Of course, YMMV.

I may have been using the wrong gapps.
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Proud2banoob said:
I may have been using the wrong gapps.
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Sounds like you did
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I took the plunge and reinstalled with the correct gapps. Everything seems good. When I tried to flash a new kernel, though, it kept booting into recovery. Is there something I am missing? I am not wiping anything before installing the kernel. Thanks.
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[Q] LG D415 L90 - Stuck On "udc_start()"

This is the first issue with an android phone I've had in a while where I have absolutely no idea what I should do next.
The music player was beginning to stutter a LOT on my install of CM11, and I was having issues where if I selected a song to play on my music player, the volume would suddenly spike to THE HIGHEST LEVEL, and I had to adjust the volume down to get it to reset back to normal. So I figured I'd wipe everything clean and re-install CM11. I didn't just wipe /data and /cache, but I also wiped /system because I believe the issues mentioned above came from a Sony Walkman Mod ZIP I flashed. So after formatting all of the partitions, I went to the "Install" button of TWRP (by the way, I am using TWRP 2.8.1.0) to re-install the CM11 ROM. When I tried to open the CM11 ZIP, TWRP gave me an error saying it couldn't open the file to flash it. I tried using adb sideload as well but adb sideload gave me a similar error.
So I figured it was just an issue with TWRP and that I'd have to boot into fastboot and flash a different recovery image that I know works, like shinobisoft's CWM. I power off the phone, hold the volume up button while plugging the phone back in to the USB port and I am greeted with the Download Mode screen as usual. Here's where things start to get unusual: instead of the phone taking about 1-2 seconds and presenting me with a "Fastboot Ready" line of text or something similar to that, the Download Mode screen hangs on [270] udc_start().
What should I do from here? I tried flashing back to the stock KDZ, but Download Mode needs to be working to do that. Also, I can still get into TWRP recovery just fine, and TWRP can still see all of my partitions.

jasonmerc said:
This is the first issue with an android phone I've had in a while where I have absolutely no idea what I should do next.
The music player was beginning to stutter a LOT on my install of CM11, and I was having issues where if I selected a song to play on my music player, the volume would suddenly spike to THE HIGHEST LEVEL, and I had to adjust the volume down to get it to reset back to normal. So I figured I'd wipe everything clean and re-install CM11. I didn't just wipe /data and /cache, but I also wiped /system because I believe the issues mentioned above came from a Sony Walkman Mod ZIP I flashed. So after formatting all of the partitions, I went to the "Install" button of TWRP (by the way, I am using TWRP 2.8.1.0) to re-install the CM11 ROM. When I tried to open the CM11 ZIP, TWRP gave me an error saying it couldn't open the file to flash it. I tried using adb sideload as well but adb sideload gave me a similar error.
So I figured it was just an issue with TWRP and that I'd have to boot into fastboot and flash a different recovery image that I know works, like shinobisoft's CWM. I power off the phone, hold the volume up button while plugging the phone back in to the USB port and I am greeted with the Download Mode screen as usual. Here's where things start to get unusual: instead of the phone taking about 1-2 seconds and presenting me with a "Fastboot Ready" line of text or something similar to that, the Download Mode screen hangs on [270] udc_start().
What should I do from here? I tried flashing back to the stock KDZ, but Download Mode needs to be working to do that. Also, I can still get into TWRP recovery just fine, and TWRP can still see all of my partitions.
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Check your PM's

shinobisoft said:
Check your PM's
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I tried your suggestion of holding the power button but that didn't work. And this is the ONE TIME where I did not make any backups. I couldn't because TWRP couldn't read my /data partition since my phone was encrypted, but before this whole thing happened I formatted /data as EXT4 (which I did before without issue), so I don't think it should be encrypted anymore.

jasonmerc said:
I tried your suggestion of holding the power button but that didn't work. And this is the ONE TIME where I did not make any backups. I couldn't because TWRP couldn't read my /data partition since my phone was encrypted, but before this whole thing happened I formatted /data as EXT4 (which I did before without issue), so I don't think it should be encrypted anymore.
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What I said about the power button was only to help you get out of fastboot mode so you could try to get to fastboot mode again. LOL.
BTW, I always have a least 2 backups on my sdcard.
You're in a bit of a pickle... I need to think about this for a few...

**BUMP***
I went back to TWRP and tried flashing a PurePerformances .zip and it was able to flash just fine. But even with a fresh download of the CM11 ZIP It still doesn't work. Maybe I'll try flashing a different ROM.

jasonmerc said:
**BUMP***
I went back to TWRP and tried flashing a PurePerformances .zip and it was able to flash just fine. But even with a fresh download of the CM11 ZIP It still doesn't work. Maybe I'll try flashing a different ROM.
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That's really strange. As I stated in my ROM thread, I haven't changed anything with the last build...

Whoa, just noticed the 12/2 build! I was trying to flash the 10/22 this whole time. I'll try flashing 12/2.

I tried the new build with ADB Side load. It was able to load the zip!
But the device could not be found...
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jasonmerc said:
I tried the new build with ADB Side load. It was able to load the zip!
But the device could not be found...
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So ADB debugging isn't enabled in TWRP 2.8.1.0? Have you tried another recovery? And why sideload? Why not straight flash?

shinobisoft said:
So ADB debugging isn't enabled in TWRP 2.8.1.0? Have you tried another recovery? And why sideload? Why not straight flash?
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I can't load another recovery on here without going into fastboot. And I am currently in the process of attempting a straight flash. I am going to save the rom on an SD card on another phone then inset it in the L90.
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...And the moral of this story is: change your USB cables
I'm feeling a little stupid right now...
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jasonmerc said:
...And the moral of this story is: change your USB cables
I'm feeling a little stupid right now...
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LMFAO. Lesson learned I hope. LOL

shinobisoft said:
LMFAO. Lesson learned I hope. LOL
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I've never had this happen to me before. What's weird is the cable was able to transmit power to the device, but not data.
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jasonmerc said:
I've never had this happen to me before. What's weird is the cable was able to transmit power to the device, but not data.
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Ya got me. I use the same cable for PC communication. My main charger is a hardwire charger so I basically just leave my data cable attached to my PC. In fact, it's the same cable I started modding my P506 with about 2 years ago .

jasonmerc said:
...And the moral of this story is: change your USB cables
I'm feeling a little stupid right now...
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Speaking of feeling stupid, is that the fastboot screen? Like, if I have that screen and it says "hold up till download mode" does that mean I can do fastboot commands like that????? Maybe I DID enable fastboot mode????

whodisname said:
Speaking of feeling stupid, is that the fastboot screen? Like, if I have that screen and it says "hold up till download mode" does that mean I can do fastboot commands like that????? Maybe I DID enable fastboot mode????
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Yes, that is the fastboot screen in the picture and it passed the UDC START. What you have to do is power off the phone, hold volume up while inserting USB cable to phone, and KEEP HOLDING VOLUME UP until you see something like "fastboot: processing commands". Then you will be in fastboot.
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How long you got to hold it? I been holding it for about 3 min and counting'
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For your problem

whodisname said:
How long you got to hold it? I been holding it for about 3 min and counting'
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Its only for a few seconds.
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I don't think I got it. It goes into the screen but if I hold down the button it stays the same. I unplugged the coed and plugged it back in (saw something about that here but I can't find it again) fastball devices comes back with nothing. Fastboot OEM unlock gets "waiting for device" as does fastboot reboot and fastboot flash recovery recovery.IMG (I have twrp in my fastboot folder called recovery.IMG) does download mode look like all the rest of the LG phones I have seen with the S/W UPGRADE IN PROGRESS DO NOT TURN OFF TARGET. Just asking because these things are subject to change!

whodisname said:
I don't think I got it. It goes into the screen but if I hold down the button it stays the same. I unplugged the coed and plugged it back in (saw something about that here but I can't find it again) fastball devices comes back with nothing. Fastboot OEM unlock gets "waiting for device" as does fastboot reboot and fastboot flash recovery recovery.IMG (I have twrp in my fastboot folder called recovery.IMG) does download mode look like all the rest of the LG phones I have seen with the S/W UPGRADE IN PROGRESS DO NOT TURN OFF TARGET. Just asking because these things are subject to change!
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Download mode and fastboot mode are the same. S/W Upgrade mode is totally different. S/W Upgrade mode is what you should have if you DIDN'T zero out your laf partition. If you did zero out your laf partition, then you should have access to fastboot/download mode.
If the fastboot executable isn't recognizing your device, then you must be in S/W Upgrade mode, or fastboot mode on the device had become corrupted somehow.
I remember reading in the Android Original Development section that you used the script to increase your internal data storage. Does that script mess with the laf partition? If so, there's your issue.

SIII Mini rebooting every 3 seconds! Please help!

Hi there,
My phone has started trying to reboot every 3 seconds. Where can I download an Android OS and how do I flash it onto my phone?
First time threader, not a techie. Be gentle.

I have also just started having this issue! Would be great if someone has some advice.

weird, mine started to have this issue 2 days ago as well : o
i smell conspiracy
however, i think you should just read up on some tutorials, there are tons of them out there

What rom? Stock 4.1 or cyanogenmod?

PeterDempsey said:
Hi there,
My phone has started trying to reboot every 3 seconds. Where can I download an Android OS and how do I flash it onto my phone?
First time threader, not a techie. Be gentle.
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Wipe cache and dalvik cache on recovery, power off your phone and power on with pressing POWER+HOME+VOLUME UP.

garpedos said:
Wipe cache and dalvik cache on recovery, power off your phone and power on with pressing POWER+HOME+VOLUME UP.
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didnt work for me, also bought a new battery, because other sources said this might be the cause of the bootloop. didnt work either. i have the stockrom 4.1.x
that i rooted a long time ago. so i will try to flash a custom rom on it, see if it works
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i have one question left though: do i need odin to flash the rom, or is it enough to select the corresponding option in cwm? i did read several tutorial about that, most are with odin. my head hurts from the information overload, since i barely have any knowledge about modding android.
a brief answer is appreciated
edit: found the answer x)

So i tried installing cyanogenmod 11 with cwm, but my device keeps booting (half an hour so far) -> apparently i screwed up.
i attempted to restore my backup, but the problem is that the boot error is even present in recovery mode, so i didnt manage to restore it yet. any ideas on how to proceed`?

Doflaminhgo said:
So i tried installing cyanogenmod 11 with cwm, but my device keeps booting (half an hour so far) -> apparently i screwed up.
i attempted to restore my backup, but the problem is that the boot error is even present in recovery mode, so i didnt manage to restore it yet. any ideas on how to proceed`?
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Have u tried in download mode???
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ninjasoft said:
Have u tried in download mode???
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i forgot to update the thread, sorry about that x).
actually i managed to resolve my problem already and successfully installed cyanogenmod 11. also, the booting error is hardware-based. i realized that it occasionally occured after pressing the power button. apparently the button "presses itself" for longer after using it and this causes the restart. a lot of samsung-users seem to have this problem.
thank you nevertheless for your reply

Doflaminhgo said:
i forgot to update the thread, sorry about that x).
actually i managed to resolve my problem already and successfully installed cyanogenmod 11. also, the booting error is hardware-based. i realized that it occasionally occured after pressing the power button. apparently the button "presses itself" for longer after using it and this causes the restart. a lot of samsung-users seem to have this problem.
thank you nevertheless for your reply
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It was a great pleasure!!!
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