XDA Android: Device Hangs On Boot at AT&T Globe (at Account Manager)

Monday, November 23, 2015

Device Hangs On Boot at AT&T Globe (at Account Manager)

My skyrocket won't boot. It displays both Samsung logos (the plain and fancy ones) and the AT&T globe (with the flash animation thing) and plays the boot sound, but doesn't get past the globe-on-white screen. Log seems to indicate that boot sequence hangs at Account Manager. That is: The PackageManager sequence has problems, but seems to at least complete: log has both "!@beginofPackageManager" and "!@endofPackageManager". Then there's "I/SystemServer( 519): Account Manager", but there's nothing like "!@beginofAccountManager" (though I'm not sure whether there should be). That's where things kind-of stop, though dalvikvm's garbage collector keeps running like a champ.

I was updating some apps (4, I think) in Google Play Store when device suddenly rebooted. I don't even remember which apps were being updated. It looks like /data/system/users/0/package-restrictions.xml is corrupted. It also looks like the permissions got corrupted, too.

Any ideas? I believe I could flash a new ROM (adb, fastboot, recovery, download mode all work fine), but I'd like to fix this if I can. Also, I don't want to lose any data, and the tarballs from recovery don't even seem to work (data tarball @ 990 MB extracts to only 153 MB of actual files).

Device info: Rooted (SuperSU, Busybox). Custom recovery (PhilZ Touch). ROM is stock. Also: Xposed, Xprivacy. Again, recovery and download modes work fine.

Code:

D/Xposed  (  164): Starting Xposed binary version 58, compiled for SDK 16
  D/Xposed  (  164): Phone: SAMSUNG-SGH-I727 (samsung), Android version 4.1.2 (SDK 16)
  D/Xposed  (  164): ROM: JZO54K.I727UCMC1
  D/Xposed  (  164): Build fingerprint: samsung/SGH-I727/SGH-I727:4.1.2/JZO54K/I727UCMC1:user/release-keys

I'm happy to post the entire logcat output, but it's 3354 lines. Some of the weird things in log:

Code:

...
  I/Xposed  (  164): java.io.FileNotFoundException: /data/data/de.robv.android.xposed.installer/conf/modules.list: open failed: ENOENT (No such file or directory)
  ...
  D/Kies    (  153): fail to get sys.boot_completed 
  ...
  W/Zygote  (  164): Class not found for preloading: android.database.sqlite.SQLiteCompiledSql
  (MULTIPLE OF THESE)
  ...
  W/ResourceType(  519): Failure getting entry for 0x7f020003 (t=1 e=3) in package 0 (error -75)
  (LOT OF THESE)
  ...
  E/PackageManager(  519): Error reading stopped packages: org.xmlpull.v1.XmlPullParserException: unterminated entity ref (position:TEXT @1:313 in java.io.InputStreamReader@422ec8d0) 
  ...
  I/dalvikvm(  519): Zip is good, but no classes.dex inside, and no .odex file in the same directory
  W/PackageManager(  519): Exception reading jar: /system/framework/twframework-res.apk
  W/PackageManager(  519): java.io.IOException: /system/framework/twframework-res.apk
  ...
  I/BootTime(  519): Fail Safe scanning for:/system/app/SetupWizard.apk
  (LOTS OF THESE)
  ...
  E/Atfwd_Sendcmd(  231): Could not obtain AtCmdFwd service
  (LOTS)
  ...
  W/PackageManager(  519): Removing dangling permission: com.qualcomm.permission.ACCESS_LOCATION_API from package null
  W/PackageManager(  519): Unknown permission android.permission.ACCESS_DEV_STORAGE in package com.sec.android.gallery3d
  (LOTS OF THESE)
  ...