istar i9220 - Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

Hi
Please I need some help. I’ve used link2sd program to save some memory in the phone but it seems that I’ve moved something and now it doesn’t start anymore or if it starts after a couple of attempts I can see only locked screen and when I do unlock I can only move the upper bar that has the wifi Bluetooth etc.
I’ve tried the button combination and cleared user data, cache, but nothing had changed. I don’t think Ive made or there is a back up (or I can’t find it). Is there a solution or any programs that I can download to bring it back to life????I’ve only had it for 1 month
Thank you for your consideration

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[Q] Factory reset / complete wibe with a broken screen !!

Hi everyone,
First I am no expert, but I've been going through all possible forums for a solution to my problem with no easy solution. I've cracked my screen on my Samsung SII i9100 (current firmware version: I9100JPKG2/I9100OJPKG1/I9100XXKF1/I9100JPKG2 DBT). I have replaced the Firmware once a year ago through Odin as I needed to access different languages no available on the original firmware. I think it is not rooted! If it is then it wasn't intentional . Now I am trying to send it for repair. The phone still connects to USB and Kies and through it I managed to delete all contacts, pictures and media. I accessed the internal memory and cleaned up all folders I previously placed on it, but didn't have the guts to go further through what looked like system or application folders.
Now I need to wipe all the account data, memos, and applications. Since I have no visibility, I tried a hardware factory reset like 5 times but it never worked, I've confirmed that. Read a couple of times about something called "adb" and how I maybe can wipe such data through it, or maybe use my computer monitor as a screen! Despite a whole day of reading and downloading and trying stuff, didn't manage to get it right.
If anybody has a solution for this problem, please don't spare on details, flying blind is difficult
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iStar i9220 no boot anymore

Hi
Please I need some help. I’ve used link2sd program to save some memory in the phone but it seems that I’ve moved something and now it doesn’t start anymore or if it starts after a couple of attempts I can see only locked screen and when I do unlock I can only move the upper bar that has the wifi Bluetooth etc.
I’ve tried the button combination and cleared user data, cache, but nothing had changed. I don’t think Ive made or there is a back up (or I can’t find it). Is there a solution or any programs that I can download to bring it back to life????I’ve only had it for 1 month
Thank you for your consideration

[Q] Enlighten phone stuck at wizard

Hi Everyone, I need some serious help - thanks in advance!
I have a LG Enlighten phone - I am a tech, although I am new to the whole smartphone thing (ya, I know, where have I been lol). Anyway, as you probably know it has limited internal storage. So I have a Sandisk 32gb micro sd card installed where I move things over to it to keep space open on the internal. The phone is rooted.
Ok, things were going well - and I am not sure what happened precisely, but obviously I must have moved something over to the sd card I shouldn't have. The phone went wonky on me after a reboot. I got stuck in a boot loop I could not recover from. So I did a factory reset (power button, home, and volume up). That went just fine. I activated just fine to. Problem is after that all I get is: Sorry! the application com.android.lgsetupwizard (process com.android.lgsetupwizard)has stopped unexpectedly. please try again.
You can press the force close button a million times (I probably have) and nothing happens. I have tried EVERYTHING to try to clear this and I can't get passed it. I've spent two days online reading forums, web pages, watching youtube videos - nothing has helped. Problem is, since I did a factory reset its back to defaults (I am assuming) meaning USB debugging and mounting is turned off because it is turned off as default. I can't get passed that infernal screen to turn it back on.
I don't have any data on here that I care about I just want my phone back. I don't mind flashing the rom but for the life of me I can't get at it!
When I go into restore mode, at least with the enlighten it doesn't give you options - it just shows the picture of the android for a few seconds then reboots. No idea what it's doing there.
I tried re-formating the micro sd card thinking maybe it was picking something up from there, that didn't seem to do anything.
I have Android Studio installed, I was hoping to do something through it - but again the phone isn't mounting when plugged into my laptop (windows 7) - it was before - no doubt because that feature is turned off because of the factory reset.
If you have ideas, please speak in small words with lots of steps. Thanks.
HELP!

[CM12.1] Stange bootloop after several months of trouble free usage

Summary:
So this morning (abiout six hours ago) my beloved S2 running CM12 crashed and could not reliable boot since then, it goes into some kind of weird bootloop.
The issue in detail:
Attempting to boot (long press on power button) will bring up the "Galaxy I9100" as sually and continues with the CM12 bootloader animation. After the typical time required to boot it vibrates slightly as usual, but afterwards the screen dims for about a second and the whole process is repeated.
What I did shortly before the issue:
Google Play wanted to update apps, but I was out of internal memory. So I went to /data/data and searched and deleted all files containing "cache". I've done this about 20-40 times over the last months (I didn't keep count) and never had any issue.
Things I've tried:
It is possible to access the recovery mode, but the options in CM12's recoverey are very limited (unlike TWRP for example). I cleared the cache but it had no effect.
After taking out the battery the "optimizing apps" windows pops up. When it's done, user input (enter sim, unlock pattern, homecreen) is possible, but only for a few seconds. The first time I missed the chance, the second and thired time I immediately restarted into safe mode.
Safe mode works surprisingly well, the first time I used it to let google continue the updates and disabled autostart of Applock and Greenify, the second time I uninstalled both Apps and cleared the dalvic cache (simply by deleting data/dalvic/). Neither attemped solved the issue.
What I'm currently doing:
After booting into safe mode for the 4th time I'm starting to back up all user data. Communication with a PC works only for some time, but reconnecting solves the issue (for now).
So what's next?:
Honestly I've no idea what I'm doing. I've installed CM on 3 devices in the past 4 years, but thats all experience I have. I'm hoping that I'm just missing an important detail and can get around all these problems with a simple fix. If not, I'd try a clean install, but I'd like to avoid that.
So, if you've got ANY IDEA what the issue might be or what to try, I'm open for all suggestions! Chances are that I haven't left the safe mode since posting, so you can also request sceenshots of anything you need. Thanks!
Screenshots or other related documents are in my sync.com folder: https [colum slash slash] cp [dot] sync [dot] com/dl/9b9bc5440#5b27p5ig-jfevicd7-kbnrzgcj-i2giy43b
Current screenshots: installed apps, phone info
I'll update this thread with all step that I take, so that a) you know where I am b) I remember everything and c) people with similar problems might benifit:
• The USB connection was kinda fragile, so I copied all data to the micro SD instead
• sdcard0 could be copied without problems
• phone crashed during coping of other files in root. Folder "sys" has been copied (at least partionally) before crash
• reboot normal, but always with message "Trebuchet was closed"
• seems to work fine now
• exit plane mode (I've enabled it before to charge quicker and reduce heat) and display turns black
• medium long press on power button brings up restart menu, nothing else can be done (checked: double click home button for camera, long click for recent apps)
• turn on airplane mode again and restart and its just fine again
• tried out a different sim card, same issue.
Based on all this, I'd say the issue is a third party app acting (badly) on the ppresence of a mobile connection. Weird. Will investigate the issue further tomorrow, or - more likely - flash the new lineageOS version. I'll report back when I know more.
After making a backup of ALL files I followed the pinned tutorial to install linageOS. Everything - including mobile connection - seems to work fine now! Thanks @djibe89 for such an amazing easy-to-follow tutorial
You can consider this thread closed

Camera problem + Solution

Hi Folks,
Yesterday, out of the blue, when I tried to open the generic camera application to take a photo of my kids, the application never loaded. Instead, a black screen was presented for a brief 5 seconds, followed by a message "can not connect to the camera service".
I tried two different camera apps, same error message. Okay, the phone needs restart apparently, his uptime is over a month or so, so I did it - Same thing, the camera app won't load, and the flashlight is not functioning.
Okay, with the use of Google, I've tried several methods, incl. delete the cache partition, clear face recognition data etc. - none of them worked.
The last resort was to perfrom a full wipe/erase on the phone's internal memory and so I did - Didn't worked either. After a full reset/wipe and configurations (Google/Apps/Email/Whatever) Same thing happened again, like it was a hardware problem or something.
One last thing came to mind, as a programmer, I know that the wipe operation removes only the '/data' mount point, not the '/system' mount point and my guess was that something went corrupted with the camera service/binaries.
I went to the recovery menu (power off -> hold both power button & volume up for a 10 seconds) and I ended up downloading the latest firmware (.193) again from Huawei servers.
After that, everything is back to normal, and i've learned that the wipe stage was unneccessary. Hell, I could have saved all my data and configuration by doing the same without wipe my device.
So, for any of you that stumble on the same situation - Just go to recovery and d/l fresh copy of the latest firmware from Huawei, It will take ages (took me about 2hrs to download and i'm on a 500/100 broadband) but eventually it will solve your problem without loss of data.
Hope I helped someone.
Eviatar

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