[GUIDE] How to fix "Inconsistent System UID" error

silentvisitor · Dec 26, 2013

Hello everyone,
XDA family consisting of brilliant developers, moderators and users is a wonderful community. Devs and users keep on creating great stuff and share with community. Custom ROMs is one of the most favorite thing here

and we all keep flashing every latest and greatest ROMs for our devices. Sometimes we face errors in this process like "UIDs on your system are inconsistent, you need to wipe your data partition or your device will be unstable"

Generally it comes after flashing new ROMs. Wiping data partition is not always desirable.
There's a simple way to solve this error. Read on.....

WARNING :
DO NOT USE this method if you use Link2SD. It will destroy all your links.
Thanks to @qwertyass and @adamdavid72 to bringing it to my knowledge :good:

1. Install ROM Toolbox lite

2. Give it Root permission

3. Go into App Manager tab

4. Hit Menu and select "Multi-select"

5. Now select "Select All"

6. Click Menu and hit "Fix Permissions"

7. Exit the app once it has fixed all the Permissions

8. Reboot your device.

Error should have gone.
Enjoy :good:

hummy15 · Dec 28, 2013

silentvisitor said:
Hello everyone,
XDA family consisting of brilliant developers, moderators and users is a wonderful community. Devs and users keep on creating great stuff and share with community. Custom ROMs is one of the most favorite thing here and we all keep flashing every latest and greatest ROMs for our devices. Sometimes we face errors in this process like "UIDs on your system are inconsistent, you need to wipe your data partition or your device will be unstable"

Generally it comes after flashing new ROMs. Wiping data partition is not always desirable.
There's a simple way to solve this error. Read on.....

1. Install ROM Toolbox lite

2. Give it Root permission

3. Go into App Manager tab

4. Hit Menu and select "Multi-select"

5. Now select "Select All"

6. Click Menu and hit "Fix Permissions"

7. Exit the app once it has fixed all the Permissions

8. Reboot your device.

Error should have gone.
Enjoy :good:

Many thanks. Did not wok for me

Shahzeb5444 · Dec 31, 2013

Try to fix permission with twrp recovery.
Hope this will help.

Sent from my GT-N7100 using XDA Premium 4 mobile app

silentvisitor · Jan 2, 2014

hummy15 said:
Many thanks. Did not wok for me

Did you do it exactly? I have tried it many times and it always worked.
This is for those who don't have "Fix Permission" in their Recoveries like PhilZ.

babyyi · Jan 22, 2014

any other way to solved this?

silentvisitor · Jan 23, 2014

babyyi said:
any other way to solved this?

Did you try above mentioned method? Faced any error?

Nacho0805 · Feb 18, 2014

Thanks. It seemed to work in my LG GT540g

Thanks. It seemed to work in my LG GT540g

ibblaw77 · Feb 19, 2014

Ussd language error

Hi guys, when I flashed DN3 rom, I noticed when I send a USSD request, it comes up in chineese instead of English. Please any fix for this?

I use note 2 n7105
Currently running DN3 ROM.

berryman13 · Mar 3, 2014

TWRP Permissions fix did the trick for me. Glad I didn't wipe my data.

MrPontus · Mar 9, 2014

this didn't work with fix permission for me.

my mothers phone was really f*cked, tried restoring old backups, tried full wipe, of all kinds, "for new ROM" "factory reset" change recovery.
but allways and with new fresh ROM install after full wipe it would FC everything, the device was compleatly useless.

the only thing that worked for me was to format the data partition with TWRP

keithspg · Mar 16, 2014

did not work on my i777. TWRP not available for this phone. No solution, yet

Perpatoura · May 3, 2014

Systen UID inconsistent appeared on my phone a few weeks after flashing a new rom, I did fix permissions with rom toolbox because my CWM version doesn't have fix permissions. Now what happened is that this fix permission crap messed up with all the apps that I had on ext3, remounted, cleaned dalvik cache etc. nothing worked... Apps are showing as not installed, I had to clean the ext3 and start all over again installing apps.. pfff..

jerry42570 · Jun 7, 2014

Inconsistent results

Weird....for me it sometimes does the trick. Other times, I need to use the fix permissions option in ROM Manager. Sometimes, neither does the trick.

It seems like timing is a thing. I have the most success with this when flashing a new ROM and logging in with my Google account, I can interrupt all of the Play Store downloads that are trying to restore, and all of the app updates that it is trying to do. From here I usually download Rom Toolbox and Rom Manager and try to fix permissions immediately.

But again, even these steps do not always work for me. Frustrating too, because now it is not working for me on a ROM that I really want to give a try. And with this error, I can not get Hangouts to work (constant FC.)

silentvisitor · Jul 17, 2014

Hi,
I'm sorry if it is not working for you.
Maybe I'm a bit lucky that it worked for me all the times.

Tip: If your Recovery supports Fix Permissions try that first.

If you want me specifically to respond, then please mention me, like this @silentvisitor

Thanks and Good luck !

shotgun1976 · Jul 19, 2014

Uid's error help plz

hummy15 said:
many thanks. Did not wok for me

nor met.try twrp recovery that also fixes the problem.but again not for me;( now i need a 3 method, anybody?

2dayquestion · Jul 21, 2014

Perpatoura said:
Systen UID inconsistent appeared on my phone a few weeks after flashing a new rom, I did fix permissions with rom toolbox because my CWM version doesn't have fix permissions. Now what happened is that this fix permission crap messed up with all the apps that I had on ext3, remounted, cleaned dalvik cache etc. nothing worked... Apps are showing as not installed, I had to clean the ext3 and start all over again installing apps.. pfff..

ugh, this is exactly what it did for me.... any solutions to this????

ahm-xyz · Aug 5, 2014

2dayquestion said:
ugh, this is exactly what it did for me.... any solutions to this????

how about this, look for file /data/system/uiderrors.txt
you should be find apps that responsible for that error.
uninstall the app or manualy delete.
this on work for me.

pulak.bhatnagar · Sep 5, 2014

ahm-xyz said:
how about this, look for file /data/system/uiderrors.txt
you should be find apps that responsible for that error.
uninstall the app or manualy delete.
this on work for me.

Hey, thanks for this tip. This worked for me. I have an oppo find 7, was restoring apps using titanium backup to my device when the error started coming. I followed your suggestion, the log file (uiderrors.txt) showed instagram was the culprit. But the strange part was the instagram wasn't even installed! So I used SD Maid to find corpses on my sd and instagram showed up on corpses list. After that I just cleared the corpses and the device ran perfectly fine without any errors. Thank you so much!

soralz · Nov 24, 2014

Thanks, it worked for my OPO CM11s.

camus11 · Nov 24, 2014

Inconsistent UID with Stock Rom

Hi, I'm on stock Android 4.4.2 (GT-N7100), and I've never rooted this phone.
I'm getting the "Inconsistent System UID" error, I've done a hard reset 2 times but now, after a few days, I'm still getting the error.
The first time the phone became unusable with the message that appeared every time I touch the phone to do something; now I see the error only at reboot.
My phone is affected by SDS (sudden death syndrome), I've sent it to my carrier assistance the past year without results.
Are these two problems correlated?
How can I solve UID error?

Thank you
Fabrizio

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