Emoji Switcher semi-bricked my phone - Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

Hi, this is more of a warning.
I have a LG G4 H815 and I'm on lineage-14.1-20170516-nightly-h815-signed with opengapps and lineage su, was doing fine.
I previously (CM13 times) used emoji switcher (com.stevenschoen.emojiswitcher) to get the iOS emoji, so I did that again - only this time, I noticed that Threema would crash if I selected an emoji.. which should have been a hint..
..with a reboot it was fine again for a couple of hours, until it crashed again.
After a couple of days with this I though "hm, maybe I should switch to another emoji version, maybe from iOS 10.2 to 10?" , yeah after I did that and rebooted, my phone was in brick-limbo.
Firstly it seemed to have factory reset my phone - everything gone, SD card completely empty - safe for some apps, strangely. But it was also unable to connect to the internet, neither wifi nor mobile data...
The (software) buttons did not work, except for the "back" button.
Also I was unable to enable developer mode again....
I tried rebooting in various ways, tried clearing davlik.. I even looked into the SD folder from TWRP recovery... empty...
So I'm now re-flashing my phone, and I will try to get some old backup data on it - since, as I mentioned, it completely cleaned out my SD card, so no titanium backup either...

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Recently, I dealt with the message "The Contacts application stopped". The same with Calendar app and sometimes with the Camera app. The same issue I had with the original keyboard LG, which I did not use so I did not mind that. Basically, the message appeared only after backing up with Titanium backup before I switched back to Smart Keyboard Pro.
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You could try an older version of the firmware.
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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:
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Things I've tried:
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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
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• 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.
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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
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mkdir emmc
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Try flashing twrp and mounting the data partition from twrp.
Yes, thanks, that worked and i was able to get most of the data i wanted, though not all, and did a factory reset. I also did a backup on an USB but when i tried to recover the data from there the progress bar was stuck at 0%.
My phone managed to boot normally, started downloading apps and then i got the android system crash again, along with the home app(trebutchet). So far it hasn't restarted by itself. I can still go to the app store and launch some of the apps from there. I managed to get 3 of the android system crash logs on pastebin: (again i can't post links) pastebin dot com /axBsYXfV, /6e3AiEyB /nwHxym9Y; should i make a new thread about this altogether?
Edit:Another crash log from when i tried to enter Apps from settings: tRbUX5h1
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