Not a question, I fixed the problem but thought I should leave this around for others.
I had a issue about a month ago that may be connected, it sure complicated things for me. My SD card became corrupted. I was able to fix it and recover some of the stuff there, but lost my stored nandroids and TB backups. I should have made new ones then...but I didn't.
Moving ahead to yesterday
While using the phone in the doctors office, I started seeing login errors. Found all accounts were gone except facebook(?)
Recreated accounts and phone functioned fine but noticed more app crashes than usual, then realized I've been experiencing app crashes for a little while and kind of ignored them, mostly "Flipboard has stopped" stuff.
Decided to try clearing cache and dalvik (latest Philz recovery) and got a "too many files open" error.
When I got home, I decided it was time to do a factory reset and clean the whole thing up. Tried doing a nandroid, but the phone just restarts. TiBU showed only one element installed (facebook?) and would not bu.
Again using Philz, attempted full reset which hung for ~3-4 min then rebooted the phone. Repeated with same results. When phone rebooted to system, it acted like a new install but accounts, wifi data and many apps were still there.
Tried to flash TWRP to attempt reset with it, but the phone hung on the TWRP splash screen.
After much reading, I flashed a clean stock rooted rom d/l through the universal toolkit with Odin (also installed by the toolkit)
Finally, I was back in control. The stock rom re partitioned the internal memory and removed whatever corruption was there. I was able to flash back to STS 1.2 (my current choice) and restore the phone manually. Would have been nice to have those bu though!
Maybe someone who has similar symptoms will find this and have an easier time of it than I did.
I had a issue about a month ago that may be connected, it sure complicated things for me. My SD card became corrupted. I was able to fix it and recover some of the stuff there, but lost my stored nandroids and TB backups. I should have made new ones then...but I didn't.
Moving ahead to yesterday
While using the phone in the doctors office, I started seeing login errors. Found all accounts were gone except facebook(?)
Recreated accounts and phone functioned fine but noticed more app crashes than usual, then realized I've been experiencing app crashes for a little while and kind of ignored them, mostly "Flipboard has stopped" stuff.
Decided to try clearing cache and dalvik (latest Philz recovery) and got a "too many files open" error.
When I got home, I decided it was time to do a factory reset and clean the whole thing up. Tried doing a nandroid, but the phone just restarts. TiBU showed only one element installed (facebook?) and would not bu.
Again using Philz, attempted full reset which hung for ~3-4 min then rebooted the phone. Repeated with same results. When phone rebooted to system, it acted like a new install but accounts, wifi data and many apps were still there.
Tried to flash TWRP to attempt reset with it, but the phone hung on the TWRP splash screen.
After much reading, I flashed a clean stock rooted rom d/l through the universal toolkit with Odin (also installed by the toolkit)
Finally, I was back in control. The stock rom re partitioned the internal memory and removed whatever corruption was there. I was able to flash back to STS 1.2 (my current choice) and restore the phone manually. Would have been nice to have those bu though!
Maybe someone who has similar symptoms will find this and have an easier time of it than I did.
