Hi there all, I need your help.
I decided to sell my Note 2 and as I tried to factory reset the phone for the new owner- it lead to bootloop witch I don't know how to get out of.
Basically it's N7105 model, unlocked and rooted. TWRP recovery and CyanogenMod 13. Was working totaly fine.
Before factory reseting I've read that to completely clean the data you should encrypt the phone and that will scramble the data. So I went and did that.
After I went to factory reset ,but it did nothing and just rebooted. Apparently it's some known bug in CM13, it's not working -many people experience it. And also there is no way to decrypt the data.
So now where I've made a mistake: I went to TWRP and saw one backup from the times I've installed TWRP and rom, and without thinking I pressed to restore.
But that backup was made when I've installed TWRP but OS was stock.
So now it goes through TWRP saying unable to mount data partition and then boots (not fully) to original Samsung OS but with an error: "Encryption failed. Unable to complete encryption due to interuption. Perform factory data reset (erasing all your data) before use. After resetting, try encrypting device again".
And one button to reset the device. If I press that it will go through the TWRP again as above. I can charge the phone and I can press Vol buttons.
I tried to connect with pc through ADB but looks like no devices are found. And in my Device Manager threre is an Yellow Exclamation mark on the phone line saying "The device cannot start". So that's the situation. Is there I can try before canceling sale?
Thanks for your help!
Paul
I decided to sell my Note 2 and as I tried to factory reset the phone for the new owner- it lead to bootloop witch I don't know how to get out of.
Basically it's N7105 model, unlocked and rooted. TWRP recovery and CyanogenMod 13. Was working totaly fine.
Before factory reseting I've read that to completely clean the data you should encrypt the phone and that will scramble the data. So I went and did that.
After I went to factory reset ,but it did nothing and just rebooted. Apparently it's some known bug in CM13, it's not working -many people experience it. And also there is no way to decrypt the data.
So now where I've made a mistake: I went to TWRP and saw one backup from the times I've installed TWRP and rom, and without thinking I pressed to restore.
But that backup was made when I've installed TWRP but OS was stock.
So now it goes through TWRP saying unable to mount data partition and then boots (not fully) to original Samsung OS but with an error: "Encryption failed. Unable to complete encryption due to interuption. Perform factory data reset (erasing all your data) before use. After resetting, try encrypting device again".
And one button to reset the device. If I press that it will go through the TWRP again as above. I can charge the phone and I can press Vol buttons.
I tried to connect with pc through ADB but looks like no devices are found. And in my Device Manager threre is an Yellow Exclamation mark on the phone line saying "The device cannot start". So that's the situation. Is there I can try before canceling sale?
Thanks for your help!
Paul