[Replicant] stuck on startup

[Fil Lupin]

Thank you for taking time for this answer Denis !

I found https://redmine.replicant.us/projects/replicant/wiki/BackupTheDataPartition with and instructions to backup data and loaded it a few days ago when my phone crashed (lucky me) ^^  It's very useful !
By the way, wiki is again online :)

For information, I installed last Replicant 4.2 by building it myself a few years ago, so I would say Replicant 4.2 version 0004.
I do not remember if there is a file giving the installed version accessible in CLI (I think we discuss this a few years ago bu I do not remember if it exists).

Cheers,

- Fil Lupin.

On Friday, July 30th, 2021 at 4:54 PM, Denis 'GNUtoo' Carikli <GNUtoo at cyberdimension.org> wrote:

> On Thu, 29 Jul 2021 10:41:24 +0000
>
> Fil Lupin via Replicant replicant at osuosl.org wrote:
>
> > Hi there,
> >
> > after updating some apps (Document viewer), I get an issue with
> >
> > sharing access to my Galaxy SIII space to my computer (`lsusb` did
> >
> > not recognize when I pluged my phone). I have a replicant 4.2 (yes, i
> >
> > know should update to v6 but I still was not able to import my sms
> >
> > from v4.2 to v6 and i would like to keep them).
> >
> > When I rebooted my phone:
> >
> > 1.I was asked my password to decrypt my phone.
> >
> > 2. I then was stuck on the image of green bugdroid startup screen.
> >
> > 3. I can reboot my phone by putting out my battery and I then can
> >
> > access to download mode or recovery mode, but I can't mount /data and
> >
> > /emmc from recovery mode. I succeeded to mount it from adb shell but
> >
> > /data contains only /data/data/app directory.
> >
> > I need at least save some data from apps and would like to access to
> >
> > user data from several apps. Do you know any way to do this?
>
> There are some things that could be tried. I recall having seen
>
> software for GNU/Linux that is capable of opening partitions encrypted
>
> by Android.
>
> It may be referenced on the wiki, but the wiki is currently down for
>
> some reason ("503 Service Unavailable"). We need to contact the OSUOSL
>
> if it stays unavailable.
>
> Since you have a shell in the recovery you could probably backup the
>
> data partition and try to open the partition with these tools.
>
> There are tutorials in the wiki for restoring application data to
>
> another installation or device. They need a bit of polishing so if you
>
> find anything to improve feel free to do it.
>
> It might also be a good idea to also look at the UMS partition (which
>
> typically contains files like the users music, etc) along the way to see
>
> if it's also encrypted, or what it contains.
>
> Another idea could be to try to add root to the boot image that is in
>
> the KERNEL partition, but here you already can get root in the recovery
>
> and lsusb gives nothing with the regular boot, so I'm not sure that it
>
> will change something or not.
>
> For that to work you also need to double check what exact Replicant
>
> version you have. In addition the tool to add root wasn't tested yet on
>
> Replicant 4.2.
>
> Denis.