[Q] Unable to acces Recovery after rooting encrypted phone - Galaxy S 4 Active Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

Hello,
A friend gave me his phone so I could root it, having done it before I said no problem, but the problem is his phone was encrypted.
So now he can't get into his phone. The pasword prompt comes up, he types his passsword, a 'Droid' shows and the phone shuts down.
I have tried booting into Recovery but after the bootlogo with the blue recovery text the phone powers off.
Does anybody have a fix?
Thanks in advance for your help

Wamb0 said:
Hello,
A friend gave me his phone so I could root it, having done it before I said no problem, but the problem is his phone was encrypted.
So now he can't get into his phone. The pasword prompt comes up, he types his passsword, a 'Droid' shows and the phone shuts down.
I have tried booting into Recovery but after the bootlogo with the blue recovery text the phone powers off.
Does anybody have a fix?
Thanks in advance for your help
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You should start by checking the information on the thread of the root you used. When I rooted mine I noted something about not rooting encrypted phones, so... yeah. But anyway - that's where you should go for help.

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Dear android experts,
I had CM 5.0.7 installed on my HTC Dream, and I stupidly installed ROM Manager, wanting to upgrate to CM 5.0.8, and used the application to do a backup - after I clicked the 'backup' function, the phone rebooted, and is now stuck on the startup logo (and has been stuck for the last hour). I have already tried pulling out the battery and booting the phone into recovery mode, however it cannot access recovery mode, and still hangs at the startup logo. Is there any way to get past this startup logo, or is there no hope for my phone? Is there any way to push the phone into recovery mode via adb? I am a complete amateur, who follows step-by-step instructions - please help me!
P.S. If this tells you anything, while my phone is stuck at the startup T-mobile logo, if I plug in the USB cable, a message on a red background appears at the top of the 'G1 T-mobile' logo, saying 'FASTBOOT USB'.
P.P.S. In case this is a detail that could help me, while my phone is in Fastboot Mode, I have four options available:
HBoot Mode
Reset Device
Restart to HBoot
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Could any of these help me?
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i have the same problem.............. did anyone ever help you out??? if the did let me know please!!!
alroco20 said:
i have the same problem.............. did anyone ever help you out??? if the did let me know please!!!
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This thread is old, and OP is ignorant and wants to blame ROM Manager for his own problems. If you can't get into recovery, chances are you are using one built for another phone. Find the one for the G1.
Or ran into the know issue of cm5.0.7 that fash_image sometimes (more than not) fails.. thus applications using it sometimes fail.
But you have danger spl right? So flash the recovery via fastboot.. and if you don't have fastboot/adb and intended to run these custom roms its about time you installed it.

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Sir, It doesn't show the recovery mode. It is like no recovery exist. It just shows Powered by android logo and then keeps restarting.
did you solve your issue? trying to reboot?
How did it happen?
and How did it solved? Did your phone start then?
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So I think you have different Kernel-boot to another system-version

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