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Hello, when I TWRP it asks for a password to decrypt data and if I don't input the password it won't let me access the emulated sdcard. I've never put any password though =/
Is there any way to restore twrp without flashing the stock image/wiping data?
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The password is as follows: (type or exactly as written below)
default_password
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The password is as follows: (type or exactly as written below)
default_password
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I typed it as you wrote it with the underscore and no uppercase letters but it gives me Password Failed, Please Try Again
I actually made a quick search before posting and I tried this password before.. Another solution is to wipe data/factory reset but if possible I'd like just to re-install TWRP or remove the password somehow
you missed a step initially. after unlocking the bootloader, you MUST reboot first before flashing TWRP.
to fix this, you'll need to hit cancel at the password screen, then go into wipe and do a factory reset. next, go back into wipe and press the format data button. you have to type yes to continue.
this isnt a fun process, as you have to re-setup your device again, but you've just learned something.
xBeerdroiDx said:
you missed a step initially. after unlocking the bootloader, you MUST reboot first before flashing TWRP.
to fix this, you'll need to hit cancel at the password screen, then go into wipe and do a factory reset. next, go back into wipe and press the format data button. you have to type yes to continue.
this isnt a fun process, as you have to re-setup your device again, but you've just learned something.
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I assumed he already did this, but in which case we have all been here at one point. I learned the hard way twice now...
kal eh said:
Hello, when I TWRP it asks for a password to decrypt data and if I don't input the password it won't let me access the emulated sdcard. I've never put any password though =/
Is there any way to restore twrp without flashing the stock image/wiping data?
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No need to fear, Theskillfultroll is here! :good:
To fix your issue, download NEXUS ROOT TOOLKIT by WugFresh, after doing so, you need to open it up and choose your correct device (DO NOT MAKE A MISTAKE HERE OR ELSE YOU CAN BE HARD BRICKED) if you have already unlocked the OEM, then good for you, but what i wanna focus here is on the main window, right hand side* there is a button labeled 'FLASH STOCK + UNROOT' depending on your situation , if you are soft bricked select so, if not click device on. if soft bricked it will tell you what to do, and vice versa on other option, AFTERWARDS, attempt to stock flash and unroot, now if it fails godforbid, you have to go to options and ENABLE FORCE FLASH *WARNING IF YOU DID NOT CHOOSE CORRECT DEVICE AND YOU PICK THIS, YOU WILL BE HARD BRICKED* and go through with that. and bam done. i got in a soft loop when i accidentally flashed a boot.img over a rom which made my phone unusable . i had to go through with the soft bricked option AND force flash, it was scary but dont worry man! any more questions ? feel free to PM me
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No need to fear, Theskillfultroll is here! :good:
To fix your issue, download NEXUS ROOT TOOLKIT by WugFresh, after doing so, you need to open it up and choose your correct device (DO NOT MAKE A MISTAKE HERE OR ELSE YOU CAN BE HARD BRICKED) if you have already unlocked the OEM, then good for you, but what i wanna focus here is on the main window, right hand side* there is a button labeled 'FLASH STOCK + UNROOT' depending on your situation , if you are soft bricked select so, if not click device on. if soft bricked it will tell you what to do, and vice versa on other option, AFTERWARDS, attempt to stock flash and unroot, now if it fails godforbid, you have to go to options and ENABLE FORCE FLASH *WARNING IF YOU DID NOT CHOOSE CORRECT DEVICE AND YOU PICK THIS, YOU WILL BE HARD BRICKED* and go through with that. and bam done. i got in a soft loop when i accidentally flashed a boot.img over a rom which made my phone unusable . i had to go through with the soft bricked option AND force flash, it was scary but dont worry man! any more questions ? feel free to PM me
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wow. seems like a whole lot of work and worry, especially when compared to simply performing 2 wipes in recovery to solve this problem. no extra software required.
OP, stay away from toolkits.
xBeerdroiDx said:
wow. seems like a whole lot of work and worry, especially when compared to simply performing 2 wipes in recovery to solve this problem. no extra software required.
OP, stay away from toolkits.
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Op said he doesn't want to wipe data and he doesn't have access to recovery (I think) saw your post about manual flashing though, pretty good
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ok, so i have this same problem. i have tried the "default_password" thing and the steps in post #4. after performing steps in post #4 everything worked great. but for some reason weeks later the problem has returned. is it possible i'm tripping or could the problem have returned? i know it seems highly unlikely but...
i have also been advised to redo the entire root process, is that a viable option as well?
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ok, so i have this same problem. i have tried the "default_password" thing and the steps in post #4. after performing steps in post #4 everything worked great. but for some reason weeks later the problem has returned. is it possible i'm tripping or could the problem have returned? i know it seems highly unlikely but...
i have also been advised to redo the entire root process, is that a viable option as well?
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could be a twrp bug? are you on the latest version? you can try just updating the recovery, via fastboot or app(like flashify). if that doesnt work you can try wiping out the recovery partition(via fastboot) then reflashing the recovery.
yes i am on the current version via rashr app. i'm not sure how to wipe the recovery partition in fastboot....but it seems time i learn.
again, any thoughts to repeating the root process?
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yes i am on the current version via rashr app. i'm not sure how to wipe the recovery partition in fastboot....but it seems time i learn.
again, any thoughts to repeating the root process?
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why? all that is is flashing supersu or removing it? that had nothing to do with your recovery. you dont need root to have a custom recovery.
ok, so it seems the next thing to try is wipe recovery partition then reflash recovery. i'll begin looking into how to do that. thank you again.
Had this problem last night, if you have a pattern password try using this:
1 2 3
4 5 6
7 8 9
I had an upper case L and it translated to 2589 and that's what unlocked it for me. Hope this helps someone
Ok, I was also asked for a password a couple of days ago for the first time ever, even though I had accessed TWRP several times before to flash roms, kernels etc so I don't think the reason was that I had forgotten to reboot after bootloader. In my case, I didn't even think of trying to enter any PWD so I selected "cancel" and from what I saw I thought my SD was wiped so I re-flashed stock from Bootloader and re-set the device, rather painfull (now I keep a nandroid backup). The thing is though, before I decided to flash stock I just tried exiting recovery and restarting the system and it wouldn't boot by any means. Just sat on the Google logo for ages heating up. And all this happened after a normal shutdown of the device, not after some fancy flashing/modding...
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Ok, I was also asked for a password a couple of days ago for the first time ever, even though I had accessed TWRP several times before to flash roms, kernels etc so I don't think the reason was that I had forgotten to reboot after bootloader. In my case, I didn't even think of trying to enter any PWD so I selected "cancel" and from what I saw I thought my SD was wiped so I re-flashed stock from Bootloader and re-set the device, rather painfull (now I keep a nandroid backup). The thing is though, before I decided to flash stock I just tried exiting recovery and restarting the system and it wouldn't boot by any means. Just sat on the Google logo for ages heating up. And all this happened after a normal shutdown of the device, not after some fancy flashing/modding...
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Are you encrypted?
i was wondering if that made a matter. i didn't want to sound crazy mentioning it....yes, i am encrypted. do we believe that will make a matter?
sinceg1 said:
i was wondering if that made a matter. i didn't want to sound crazy mentioning it....yes, i am encrypted. do we believe that will make a matter?
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Absolutely. If your storage is encrypted, TWRP cannot access it without you entering a password. If you don't enter the password, your storage would appear to be blank to recovery.
I personally prefer to wipe my entire device and keep a kernel that does not enforce encryption. Encryption (in my opinion) makes life difficult for rooted users.
seems to be the answer here. i have seen "how to's" on decrypting.... i will decrypt the device, will i have to do anything additional from that point? reflash recovery perhaps? sounds like it would be a good step, but i guess we won't know until i decrypt.
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seems to be the answer here. i have seen "how to's" on decrypting.... i will decrypt the device, will i have to do anything additional from that point? reflash recovery perhaps? sounds like it would be a good step, but i guess we won't know until i decrypt.
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I'm new to the N6 so I am not sure about decrypting as a process. I just did a full wipe, flashed a kernel that doesnt force encryption .
So this has been talked about before here in XDA, I was also told that it's normal to get the yellow warning that says the bootloader is unlocked, however, when this phone is running stock everything, I get the red error. Says the system is corrupt and can't be trusted, and then proceeds to boot anyway. My question is what causes the red error? Everything is 100% stock, every partition! I eventually installed a custom kernel to get rid of the annoying message, but what needs to be done to get rid of the red error and have the device back to it's pure state? Thanks guys! I know this has been talked about,but for some reason, nothing seems to work!
If you do a full stock restore then you'll see this on your first boot, after the phone encrypts storage and sets up then it goes away. This might or might not require a /data/media wipe I've only done it with a full wipe everything blank factory image.
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If you do a full stock restore then you'll see this on your first boot, after the phone encrypts storage and sets up then it goes away. This might or might not require a /data/media wipe I've only done it with a full wipe everything blank factory image.
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I flashed a stock image the other day and I rebooted it maybe 3 times or so in the span of a few minutes, the message seemed to stay, but does this happen as a result to having to re encrypt? I had my device unencrypted before hand lol
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lol.. just lol.
if you do just the most basic of searches, youll find your right information, as well as many of the same kinds of threads as you started. seriously.
Disregard this thread, I read around other places and ended up doing a factory reset from the stock recovery, took a while but no longer getting the verity message. Sorry with noob questions, I'm learning still.
Hi,
I've got XT1068, updated to 6.0 Marshmallow. In the past, I got it FDE (full disk encrypted).
Few days ago I unlocked my bootloader to gain root access on my phone using http://forum.xda-developers.com/moto-g-2014/general/simplified-modifying-boot-img-t3317605
everything went as expected, but by unlocking it wiped all userdata, so I wanted to re-encrypt the phone (and the external SD especially). But now, encryption fails, telling me "encryption fails, you have to reset your phone" each time I start the encryption, ending in a userdata-wipe.
So I thought about going back to stock fw.
After locking the bootloader and applying stock 6.0 FW, I tried again to encrypt the phone, but I am still unable to do so.
Can someone help me giving some suggestions, how I can fix that behavior and (mainly) how to get some errors/debug shown?
When selecting "encrypt now", the green android symbol with black background is shown for 5seconds, then the phone reboots, shows the bootscreen with the M, then it restarts again (after ~30minute) and shows after another 20seconds the message that something went wrong encrypting.
Ok it seems that I found out the problem in my case by myself.
Instead of using mfastboot.exe -w to delete the data and cache partition, I used recovery mode to delete userdata. I did it twice, since the first run, returns some errors.
After reset, I started the phone and got the fresh-install screen. I skipped mobile and wifi networking and did not entered google account details. Then I restarted the phone and waited for ~5minutes and tried to encrypt - everything works. Everytime I started encryption without waiting for some time it failed.
I hope I can save someone else some time, since factory reset takes ~15minutes each time you do it.
I've now installed TWRP (of this flavor : twrp-3.0.2-1-oneplus3t.img ), and supersu after updating firmware to 3.5.3 on the 3t I received yesterday. It installs without problem. I've not touched encryption and I'm very wary of using TWRP at the moment, because it always asks me for the encryption password. When I initialized the phone after this setup, the only password/entry entities I entered were a) a 4-digit pin, and b) 3 fingerprints. They work fine.
When I try to boot to TWRP, I always am prompted for a password immediately. I have no idea what the password is, and have tried my known-to-be-correct PIN , no luck. I have tried hitting cancel, and then only if I agree to mount /system as RO can I enter TWRP without it trying and failing to decrypt everything which corrupts storage.
I've read the entire (TWRP) thread a couple of times, but maybe it was too late at night. I'm wondering if anyone can tell me what step I'm missing, or if I'm trying to do something that can't be done because of what was just said above (encryption isn't fully supported by TWRP yet?) , or if I just should know the password and let TWRP decrypt it. Finally, is there a way to just decrypt the phone while booted and is that even called for?
I'd like to use TWRP which seems fine in every other respect (well, I don't yet know if I can make a backup & restore, so that isn't fine), but am held up by the password entry at the start of each session. Many thanks for getting it this far and thanks for any help you might give.
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I've now installed TWRP (of this flavor : twrp-3.0.2-1-oneplus3t.img ), and supersu after updating firmware to 3.5.3 on the 3t I received yesterday. It installs without problem. I've not touched encryption and I'm very wary of using TWRP at the moment, because it always asks me for the encryption password. When I initialized the phone after this setup, the only password/entry entities I entered were a) a 4-digit pin, and b) 3 fingerprints. They work fine.
When I try to boot to TWRP, I always am prompted for a password immediately. I have no idea what the password is, and have tried my known-to-be-correct PIN , no luck. I have tried hitting cancel, and then only if I agree to mount /system as RO can I enter TWRP without it trying and failing to decrypt everything which corrupts storage.
I've read the entire (TWRP) thread a couple of times, but maybe it was too late at night. I'm wondering if anyone can tell me what step I'm missing, or if I'm trying to do something that can't be done because of what was just said above (encryption isn't fully supported by TWRP yet?) , or if I just should know the password and let TWRP decrypt it. Finally, is there a way to just decrypt the phone while booted and is that even called for?
I'd like to use TWRP which seems fine in every other respect (well, I don't yet know if I can make a backup & restore, so that isn't fine), but am held up by the password entry at the start of each session. Many thanks for getting it this far and thanks for any help you might give.
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I would start over. Get the stock recovery and flash it. Then factory reset the phone. Do not put a pin or a fingerprint at all after you have booted to the phone. Go straight to the bootloader and do the twrp flashing instructions. after you have flashed and i believe if you want to be decrypted you format data than flash supersu again. Boot into system and then back to twrp and see if that worked. I remember doing this on my nexus 6p but not sure if the kernel has to support the decryption. remember when you do a back up of your phone never never never back it up with pin or passwords or fingerprint. You wont be able to restore succesfully from my experince with the nexus 6p. make sure you back everything up before doing this and i am not responsible for any problems occured. and make sure you are on the latest update from oneplus. hope this helped
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I would start over. Get the stock recovery and flash it. Then factory reset the phone. Do not put a pin or a fingerprint at all after you have booted to the phone. Go straight to the bootloader and do the twrp flashing instructions. after you have flashed and i believe if you want to be decrypted you format data than flash supersu again. Boot into system and then back to twrp and see if that worked. I remember doing this on my nexus 6p but not sure if the kernel has to support the decryption. remember when you do a back up of your phone never never never back it up with pin or passwords or fingerprint. You wont be able to restore succesfully from my experince with the nexus 6p. make sure you back everything up before doing this and i am not responsible for any problems occured. and make sure you are on the latest update from oneplus. hope this helped
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That's exactly how I did it the first time, without password, without setting up phone, and when it got to TWRP (the first time), I was presented with the password prompt. When I hit cancel it went by it, but then said it was decrypting (which I didn't want), and corrupted my storage.
When I reinstalled 3.5.3, I did the same thing again, and that time was not corrupted so I was able to install supersu. At this point I've entered some fingerprints and a pin. TWRP says it supports encryption so I'm wondering about where the password comes from.
Thanks for your quick response. I'm still awaiting some reply over in the TWRP forum as well.
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That's exactly how I did it the first time, without password, without setting up phone, and when it got to TWRP (the first time), I was presented with the password prompt. When I hit cancel it went by it, but then said it was decrypting (which I didn't want), and corrupted my storage.
When I reinstalled 3.5.3, I did the same thing again, and that time was not corrupted so I was able to install supersu. At this point I've entered some fingerprints and a pin. TWRP says it supports encryption so I'm wondering about where the password comes from.
Thanks for your quick response. I'm still awaiting some reply over in the TWRP forum as well.
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Are you sure you had 3.5.3 the first time you did it?
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Are you sure you had 3.5.3 the first time you did it?
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Yes, it was the first thing I did. After receiving the 3t, I skipped over all the prompts (to avoid entering accounts, waiting for sw upds and to not enter passwords) and went to software updates and allowed the 3.5.3 update to occur.
Then I did the things described above.
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In the interests of my trying to understand everything I'm reading about 6.x and encryption. I'm getting the drift that phones with 6.x + are encrypted as a matter of course. Is that the case (or how do I tell if it is)? If it is by default encrypted, then is there a default password before you have entered any specific pin or swipe pattern , etc?
Another question: When TWRP asks for a password, what exactly does it want to do? Does it want to decrypt the data for it's own operations (so just a twrp-level decryption) or does it actually want to completely decrypt partitions? If so, why? Is that the only way TWRP can work these days with default encrypted platforms?
Thanks.
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Yes, it was the first thing I did. After receiving the 3t, I skipped over all the prompts (to avoid entering accounts, waiting for sw upds and to not enter passwords) and went to software updates and allowed the 3.5.3 update to occur.
Then I did the things described above.
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In the interests of my trying to understand everything I'm reading about 6.x and encryption. I'm getting the drift that phones with 6.x + are encrypted as a matter of course. Is that the case (or how do I tell if it is)? If it is by default encrypted, then is there a default password before you have entered any specific pin or swipe pattern , etc?
Another question: When TWRP asks for a password, what exactly does it want to do? Does it want to decrypt the data for it's own operations (so just a twrp-level decryption) or does it actually want to completely decrypt partitions? If so, why? Is that the only way TWRP can work these days with default encrypted platforms?
Thanks.
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Flash stock recovery, install stock 3.5.3 zip, flash TWRP beta 3 and then SR4. I went through same problem and this got me in(would accept my phone password. )
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Flash stock recovery, install stock 3.5.3 zip, flash TWRP beta 3 and then SR4. I went through same problem and this got me in(would accept my phone password. )
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Is that the TWRP beta 3 from the TWRP thread? I thought I saw it mentioned in there. Thanks.
I've done the rest once so will give beta 3 a shot before I resign myself to putting the whole thing back together. Not that big a deal I suppose. I finally realized (after reading quite a bit) that 6.x + comes encrypted and that all versions of TWRP don't handle it right, so I suppose there's no easy way around it. (I'm wondering about this link I happened upon: https://www.androidexplained.com/oneplus-3-fix-twrp-restore-unlock-bug/ )
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Is that the TWRP beta 3 from the TWRP thread? I thought I saw it mentioned in there. Thanks.
I've done the rest once so will give beta 3 a shot before I resign myself to putting the whole thing back together. Not that big a deal I suppose. I finally realized (after reading quite a bit) that 6.x + comes encrypted and that all versions of TWRP don't handle it right, so I suppose there's no easy way around it. (I'm wondering about this link I happened upon: https://www.androidexplained.com/oneplus-3-fix-twrp-restore-unlock-bug/ )
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Yes page 9 or 10 OP gives me a link
The solution for me:
I received this reply in the TWRP thread in Development from the OP:
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Originally Posted by jcadduono
try setting a non-pin password on boot in your OS, like, an actual password, this should convince 3.5.3 to rewrite your crypto key in working format
then see if that new password works on twrp
if it does, you can probably set it back to pin and the pin might start working in twrp
if it doesn't, let me know
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Yes, that completely fixed the entire mess and thanks to everyone else for their suggestions. Funny that I never had noticed the word "password" in the security settings, so I tried pin.
Now I've got an encrypted 3t with working TWRP, makes backups, tried a restore and f2fs, no real changes from stock aside from adding TWRP, picking a password, etc.
This seems to happen when you've got the fingerprint method enabled with PIN or password for that matter.
My experience:
I update from Oxygen 4.1.6 to 4.1.7 with TWRP and something went wrong because the phone stuck in bootload for more then half hour.
I've reboot and it appeared 'Encryption Unsuccessful' and it locked my phone. I tried to go to TWRP and it required the password that was 'default_password' but after it not allowed me to mount data and it seemed that there weren't any data in my phone.
I couldn't wipe, format or install other rom because I received error like 'unable to mount X'.
I've solved downloading the Oxygen Recovery and with a USB OTG, flashing it on my phone (with 'mount image' in TWRP).
I rebooted in Oxygen Recovery and it also asked me the password. I've just pushed 'Forgot password' and it formatted my phone.
The phone rebooted without problems (and without any data :\)
Hope to be useful for someone else in my same situation
You can get back in, without loosing any Data.
Go to TWRP
Choose Advanced
Select Terminal
Type this commands:
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dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/block//bootdevice/by-name/misc
reboot
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I encountered this problem after I updated TWRP to version 3.2.1-0.
I regularly update my rom with TWRP and had never been prompted to enter a pin/password before. My lock screen pin was not accepted.
Seems this issue is a bug in a number of TWRP versions. I fixed it by flashing back to version 3.1.1-2. You can download and flash from a list of historical TWRP versions in Android by downloading the official TWRP app, so I didn't need to mess around sideloading it. Rebooted into TWRP, straight in, no problems.
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I encountered this problem after I updated TWRP to version 3.2.1-0.
I regularly update my rom with TWRP and had never been prompted to enter a pin/password before. My lock screen pin was not accepted.
Seems this issue is a bug in a number of TWRP versions. I fixed it by flashing back to version 3.1.1-2. You can download and flash from a list of historical TWRP versions in Android by downloading the official TWRP app, so I didn't need to mess around sideloading it. Rebooted into TWRP, straight in, no problems.
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Same problem on one of my 3Ts, the other is working with the Oreo based TWRP.
Oreo based Red Wolf Recovery is working: https://forum.xda-developers.com/oneplus-3/oneplus-3--3t-cross-device-development/recovery-red-wolf-recovery-project-t3805416
These things are weird:
1. Why does one 3T work, but not the other 3T ?
2. Why does (Oreo based) Red Wolf Recovery work?
3. Why is OOS Beta 29 able to decrypt Data perfectly?
I assume it's a decryption related bug in Oreo based TWRP.
im stuck not able to get twrp to see any of my storage and i cant get into twrp twice in a row, so if i fastboot and flash twrp thru adb and then boot into twrp, it asks me for the password, if i hit cancel it just shows 0 storage. ive tried to go to adb sideload but it just sits there. I have the backup i made thru twrp before trying to update.
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im stuck not able to get twrp to see any of my storage and i cant get into twrp twice in a row, so if i fastboot and flash twrp thru adb and then boot into twrp, it asks me for the password, if i hit cancel it just shows 0 storage. ive tried to go to adb sideload but it just sits there. I have the backup i made thru twrp before trying to update.
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What exactly is it you're trying to do? What TWRP are you using? What ROM?
You sound surprised that you can't see your Storage when you haven't entered a Password to Decrypt? That is, after all, what it's supposed to do. What security have you set up on your phone? Did you have Boot time security?
With so little useful information to go on it's hard to help. I'd recommend trying Red Wolf Recovery in any case. It's magic at solving many issues.
Sorry lol what happen was I was updating to latest stable oos, and had standard encryption set up. I wipes caches, and flashed latest rom, then magisk and again twrp (which I should not have) and then my phone had a quick reset. From there it was locked with twrp, neither my pin or default_pw worked so I just formated my phone, after copying data and important things to PC. Everything is good now just had to waste my own time.
For those of you facing twrp encryption when you set a password on the phone, remove your lock screen password and twrp will no longer be encrypted.
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For those of you facing twrp encryption when you set a password on the phone, remove your lock screen password and twrp will no longer be encrypted.
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Not so. I removed the password and TWRP still asks for a password.
hachamacha said:
The solution for me:
I received this reply in the TWRP thread in Development from the OP:
Quote:
Originally Posted by jcadduono
try setting a non-pin password on boot in your OS, like, an actual password, this should convince 3.5.3 to rewrite your crypto key in working format
then see if that new password works on twrp
if it does, you can probably set it back to pin and the pin might start working in twrp
if it doesn't, let me know
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Yes, that completely fixed the entire mess and thanks to everyone else for their suggestions. Funny that I never had noticed the word "password" in the security settings, so I tried pin.
Now I've got an encrypted 3t with working TWRP, makes backups, tried a restore and f2fs, no real changes from stock aside from adding TWRP, picking a password, etc.
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This did not work for me.
"To start android, please enter your PIN".
I am getting this message even after performing a factory reset, and wiping dalvik, cache, and system.
I have tried re flashing BlissPop. It seems like the phone is still encrypted somewhere. This all started because I was trying to transfer from Cricket to Mint, and when I put in the SIM card the SIM was asking for an unlock PIN. I couldn't get that to work, so I tried a factory reset, which got me to this point, and now the phone won't boot to anything besides recovery at all.
Any help is VERY MUCH APPRECIATED. This is the only phone I have that's used as a primary POC for several contacts - I did not anticipate problems switching carriers to this level.
Edit: I now even went as far as formatting internal storage, and the phone is still prompting for a PIN on boot.
Was able to get it to boot again after using this method, and then flashing a new ROM again. Now I just need to figure out why the stupid SIM won't communicate.
https://nexus5.gadgethacks.com/how-...ption-nexus-6-for-faster-performance-0158696/