Root [International] No Home Screen on Reboot

[majordidge]

Hi,

I have a GT-I9505, rooted, running the latest stock telstra firmware.
When I reboot the phone it starts OK and presents me with the sim unlock screen. I can unlock the sim card and the phone then tells me its updating the date and time but then presents just the notification bar, no home screen or dock.

However, I am able to call settings from the notification bar and by seleting My device > Home screen mode I get the Home screen mode toggle screen. If I select easy mode > apply I get the easy mode home screen and can then toggle it back to the standard mode home screen.
If I then reboot, I go back to square one, i.e. no home screen. :hmmmm2:

I have tried a factory resey using TWRP and flashing a stock Telstra rom but when it starts I have exactly the same problem - no home screen.
This is driving me mad. Can anyone suggest what I've done and more importantly - what I need to do to fix it? :help:

Thanks,

MD.

 

[Kelmar]

Sounds like you are rooted... When you flashed the stock ROM did you also wipe cache(s)?

Have you tried resetting the cache/data for TW through your settings (since it sounds like you can access that)?

 

[majordidge]

Yes i am rooted. I did a fctory reset which I assume would have cleared the cache, but I noted that I still had my downloaded apps when i flashed the stock rom which I thought was odd. I have checked the TouchWiz app info and it says the cach is empty.

MD

 

[Kelmar]

Try going into TWRP and wiping your cache and davlik (sp?) cache

 

[majordidge]

Hmm, interesting.

Attempted to wipe cache and dalvic in TWRP and I got 'unable to mount /cache' and then 'failed to wipe dalvik'

Have I done something with my partitions perhaps?

MD

 

[majordidge]

I ran mount in terminal emulator and got:


u0_a266@android:/ $ mount
rootfs / rootfs ro,relatime 0 0
tmpfs /dev tmpfs rw,seclabel,nosuid,relatime,mode=755 0 0
devpts /dev/pts devpts rw,seclabel,relatime,mode=600 0 0
none /dev/cpuctl cgroup rw,relatime,cpu 0 0
none /dev/memcgrp cgroup rw,relatime,memory 0 0
proc /proc proc rw,relatime 0 0
sysfs /sys sysfs rw,seclabel,relatime 0 0
selinuxfs /sys/fs/selinux selinuxfs rw,relatime 0 0
/sys/kernel/debug /sys/kernel/debug debugfs rw,relatime 0 0
none /acct cgroup rw,relatime,cpuacct 0 0
tmpfs /mnt/secure tmpfs rw,seclabel,relatime,mode=700 0 0
tmpfs /mnt/asec tmpfs rw,seclabel,relatime,mode=755,gid=1000 0 0
/dev/block/dm-0 /mnt/asec/com.usage.bigpondpro-1 ext4 ro,dirsync,seclabel,nosuid,nodev,noatime 0 0
/dev/block/dm-1 /mnt/asec/com.seb.SLWP2b-1 ext4 ro,dirsync,seclabel,nosuid,nodev,noatime 0 0
/dev/block/dm-2 /mnt/asec/com.tapatalk.androidforumscom-1 ext4 ro,dirsync,seclabel,nosuid,nodev,noatime 0 0
tmpfs /mnt/obb tmpfs rw,seclabel,relatime,mode=755,gid=1000 0 0
/dev/block/mmcblk0p26 /persdata/absolute ext4 rw,seclabel,nosuid,nodev,relatime,data=ordered 0 0
/dev/block/platform/msm_sdcc.1/by-name/system /system ext4 ro,seclabel,relatime,data=ordered 0 0
/dev/block/platform/msm_sdcc.1/by-name/userdata /data ext4 rw,seclabel,nosuid,nodev,noatime,discard,journal_checksum,journal_async_commit,noauto_da_alloc,data=ordered 0 0
/dev/block/platform/msm_sdcc.1/by-name/apnhlos /firmware vfat ro,context=ubject_r:firmware:s0,relatime,uid=1000,gid=1000,fmask=0337,dmask=0227,codepage=cp437,iocharset=iso8859-1,shortname=lower,errors=remount-ro 0 0
/dev/block/platform/msm_sdcc.1/by-name/mdm /firmware-mdm vfat ro,context=ubject_r:firmware:s0,relatime,uid=1000,gid=1000,fmask=0337,dmask=0227,codepage=cp437,iocharset=iso8859-1,shortname=lower,errors=remount-ro 0 0
/dev/block/platform/msm_sdcc.1/by-name/efs /efs ext4 rw,seclabel,nosuid,nodev,noatime,discard,journal_checksum,journal_async_commit,noauto_da_alloc,errors=panic,data=ordered 0 0
/data/container /mnt/shell/container sdcardfs rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime,uid=1000,gid=1000 0 0
/data/media /mnt/shell/emulated sdcardfs rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime,uid=1023,gid=1023 0 0
tmpfs /storage/emulated tmpfs rw,seclabel,nosuid,nodev,relatime,mode=050,gid=1028 0 0
/dev/block/vold/179:33 /storage/extSdCard vfat rw,dirsync,nosuid,nodev,noexec,noatime,nodiratime,uid=1000,gid=1023,fmask=0002,dmask=0002,allow_utime=0020,codepage=cp437,iocharset=iso8859-1,shortname=mixed,utf8,errors=remount-ro 0 0
tmpfs /storage/extSdCard/.android_secure tmpfs ro,seclabel,relatime,size=0k,mode=000 0 0
/data/media /storage/emulated/0 sdcardfs rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime,uid=1023,gid=1023 0 0
/data/media /storage/emulated/0/Android/obb sdcardfs rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime,uid=1023,gid=1023 0 0
/data/media /storage/emulated/legacy sdcardfs rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime,uid=1023,gid=1023 0 0
/data/media /storage/emulated/legacy/Android/obb sdcardfs rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime,uid=1023,gid=1023 0 0
u0_a266@android:/ $

no sign of /cache

Any help?

 

[Kelmar]

What version of twrp are you on?

Do you have the stock .tar file to Odin?

 

[majordidge]

I'm using TWRP v2.6.3.0

Using Odin 3 v3.07 but also have 3-v1.85. (Not sure which one I used to flash the stock rom).

The stock Telstra rom i flashed is I9505XXUAMDE_I9505TELAMD8_I9505DVUAMD8_HOME.tar.md5

MD