Starting today my nexus one (not rooted, stock vodafone ROM, Android 2.2.1) doesn't start anymore After I restarted my phone, because the sound came from the speaker while a headset was plugged, the 'X-animation' plays 4 times and than sticks for 3 seconds, and starts over again repeatably. Of course I have removed the battery, and tried starting it without the SD-card and SIM, but without success. Also I tried to boot in safe mode, but with no success too.
Can I do something about this, or do I have to do a factory reset (clear storage?) and lose lots of data?
Sounds like you are in dire need of a wipe. Jumbled up bits of data and code from the time the phone was new until now are most likely the culprit for the bootloop. I would say now would be a good time to root.
At least then you can make backups and not have to lose everything.
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Hi,
I have a rooted GT-i9000m (bell Galaxy S Vibrant). I used the one click lag fix to root my phone and it works fine.
A few days ago out of no where all the apps started auto closing as soon as i opened them and then both the menu and back touch buttons lit up and the screen went black. I held the power down till it rebooted only to get and error with com.android.calendar even tho I never use the app. When it finish's booting none of my installed apps are showing.
The first time it happened with com.android.app and I did a full wipe and factory reset and just reinstalled everything.
Ideally I don't want to system reset to factory settings again and lose all my files and notes that i copied back on to the phone 2days ago...
Please note I have tried clearing the data for the calendar app in settings -> apps and i cleared the calendar back up. My problem is that none of my installed apps are showing...
(Update) I also cant reinstall or update apps due to a Installation error - Insufficient storage. But there's room on both SD cards. I also set 850mb for apps when i did the one click lag fix and i don't have 850mb of apps installed.
(Update 2) I did a factory reset again this time i didn't format the internal and external SD cards. (It works like new again) Thus I got to keep all my personal files and ring tones ect. The only thing that was deleted that I didn't back up is my Notes. This leads me to my new question whats best for backing up apps on a rooted SGS (bell Vibrant)?
If anyone has answers they would be much appreciated.
i had the same problem
install rom manager from the market place
there is a option in there "Fix Permissions" just run that and it will fix it up for you
only takes 1-2min to run
Tried what you said but i cant install anything... I get Installation Error - Insufficient storage available.
I now understand the cause of the problem. I change my battery once and some times twice a day. At first I would wait for the long shut down (untill the screen goes totaly black) and then take off the back and swap out the battery. At least 3 times the phone would boot up and ask me for the network unlock code (I bought the unlock code directly from bell for 75$). I found this rather annoying so i tried just taking the battery out wile it was on (idle) and it appeared to work flawlessly at least 20-30 times before the phone would start to do an endless force close loop cycle. This kept forcing me to do a factory reset on the phone. I can only assume the one click lag fix and my disregard for the need of the shutdown before removing the battery must be all the cause of my problems.
I will try and see if my phone is more stable with out the one click lag fix.
nope that is not the cause of the problem
but it sounds like you are another victim of the lag fixes that is killing your internal SD card.
not the fault of the lag fix, it just make the problem apear sooner than later
I have been having a similar issue and I'm using Voodoo lagfix. I think it's because I took the battery out before it had completely shut down.
read this
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=793404
Well the phone bit the dust today. I opened up google maps to look up an address and it crashed with the usual error. So i rebooted the phone and now it stays stuck at the boot logo. (the glowing S with both touch keys staying lit) So i did the recovery thing again but this time I had to do the Vol-up + home + power in order to get the phone working some what. IDK but it wont let me log into my google account to sync my contacts. My APN settings are correct and working and I even tried off my Wifi at home. I'll just hope its a google problem and not my phone acting up. Thanks for the pointer to the bad internal SD. That may be the problem kinda hard to prove it to Samy thoe...
I get force close errors after about 4-7 days of use. Now its gotten worse. A few days ago I was looking up an address and my phone crashed and rebooted it self. It then hug at the S boot logo for 20mins. I got to my friends apartment building to find my phone still stuck at this boot logo. I couldn't remember his apartment number or buzzer code... Normally i just check my contacts list and buzz the code. I was standing out side in the Canadian fall cold wind trying to get this phone to work... OMG i almost just smashed it on the spot. Anyways I remembered about something i had read on this forum about the recovery mode ( i had used it to root ) so i tried that out got the little menu and tried every option before having to do the dreaded factory reset. Well nothing work with the exception of the factory reset it got my phone working in about 5mins... LOL
Anyways I thought I might try upgrading the firmware when I got home. What a mistake... I cant control my phones MP3 player via my bluetooth car stereo any longer. Tried everything even a factory reset and formatting the internal and external SD's. I tried running it with out rooting it again and with out the lag fix in hopes that I wouldn't get a force close error. Wouldn't you know it about 5 hours after the factory reset un-rooted just after i finish coping over all my music. I get a force close error! So I tried again and this time the phone ran for about 30hours before it started giving me force close errors about the email now...
Sigh I've tried just about everything in my power to make this phone work. So I assumed it must be the phone... I called Samsung up to get a RMA going... Wouldn't you know it they tell me that I have to call my carrier to get it RMA/repaired. I try to explain that I bought the phone with out a contract and bought the unlock code from Bell so I could use it on Fido. They tell me to call Fido... ROFL Fido wouldn't even give me their APN settings when i got this phone so knew they would be of no help. They don't even have one android phone in their line up i tell the sammy rep. So they tell me I should go back to the Bell store I bought it from to get it repaired/RMA'ed.
I doubt Bell will be of much help but here's hoping.
Do you think my phone is broken, bad flash, buggy memory, ect and needs to be RMA'ed?
Update...
I got my phone back from repairs 2 weeks ago. They flat out replaced the phone for a new one. This was a huge headache for me because the new one wasn't unlocked. Took Bell 2 hours to get the new one unlocked wile my wife waited out side double parked downtown! (I thought it would be a quick pick up and I would be out) The blue-tooth works flawlessly again!!
Much to my dismay the replacement phone has started acting up much like my first one did. It gets several force close errors a day and has gotten to the point where it no longer can send or receive text messages (using Handcent). The stock Music Player app also force closes at random with more frequently. It looks like I got another Lemon. This time around I did NOT root, lag-fix, or flash firmware. I will be sending it for repairs as soon as I can afford to buy another phone to use wile this one is off at repairs. My back up phone is a 3~ year old Iphone3g that my son has made his... (cracked screen, vol rockers dont work, power button is jammed in, the LCD screen it self is bleeding on the top edge)
The Vibrant never let me down other than as a phone. As a divx player or using all-share it rocks! I use these features A LOT to play my 720p divx movies on any TV or the projector in the bedroom .
with that being said I might keep the phone just as a portable movie player to bring from place to place and put my sim in something more stable.
my stock nexus one becomes highly unstable after booting up. im running strock 2.2.1, and this issue started apearing recently (after 2.2.1 update). the phone has never had any problems in the past.
whenever i turn the phone on, if i touch it it becomes really laggy and freezes, requiring me to pull the battery. however, if i let it sit for 15-20 minutes and then play with it it works fine, until the next time i shut id down (which can be days). i have performed a factory reset without reinstalling all of my old applications, i have formatted my sd card, and i have checked all the applications that start on boot up, but none of them seam to be the issue (when there was nothing on the phone it still reacted this way)
any suggestions? should i contact htc? this is really annoying.
Before you do, you could try to root and check the logs for anything suspicious (logcat and kmesg). Also you could try to install custom ROM and see if the problem still exists.
If it doesn't help - you should contact HTC.
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my stock nexus one becomes highly unstable after booting up. im running strock 2.2.1, and this issue started apearing recently (after 2.2.1 update). the phone has never had any problems in the past.
whenever i turn the phone on, if i touch it it becomes really laggy and freezes, requiring me to pull the battery. however, if i let it sit for 15-20 minutes and then play with it it works fine, until the next time i shut id down (which can be days). i have performed a factory reset without reinstalling all of my old applications, i have formatted my sd card, and i have checked all the applications that start on boot up, but none of them seam to be the issue (when there was nothing on the phone it still reacted this way)
any suggestions? should i contact htc? this is really annoying.
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Factory reset with formatted card? Has to be something wrong with the phone.
Go to recovery, wipe cache and dalvik cache, and try to boot phone again, often that helps.
tried wiping everything i can through recovery, yet my phone still freezes soon after start up. any chance htc will fix this? i dont want a refurb
Because when system has just booted up, it needs to check SD card and mounts all App2SD applications.
Try to boot your phone without SD and SIM card, see if it solves the issue.
tried removing sim and microsd and all th possible combinations.
it runs great without the microsd, so im guessing that was the issue. ill try another microsd to make sure its not a hardware/software bug related to sds in general but rather an issue with my specific microsd (which isnt the stock one).
thanks for the suggestion. i was very close to sending my phone in to htc (already had a ticket open and a fedex label)
that sounds good perhaps your SD card was corrupted. Connect it to your computer using a card reader, and do a disk check in Windows, see if it can fix any problem. Also try to degragment your SD card.
I decided to do a reboot just to have a fresh start after adjusting some app. The phone was stuck at the flashing Darky logo for indefinite amount of time. After a minute or so of flashing logo, phone vibrates shortly and continues flashing the logo. That repeats each minute.
Taking out the battery and retrying didn't help, same thing.
In the past 48h since last boot, I've installed a bunch of apps, mostly games, so it's natural to look for a culprit among them. However, right now I can hardly do anything with the phone. I can access the recovery menu, download mode probably as well and that's it.
I'm ready to flash the Resurrection Edition, but first I'd like to exhaust other options for fixing the problem or at least backing up everything I can. I have partial backups but would very much like to access the latest changes that weren't backed up.
My questions are:
1) Is there some kind of boot logging that I could turn on, access and which would point to the problem? I'm comfortable using ADB if it's needed.
2) I did a CWM backup. What did it backup? Primarily, what about contacts, SMS messages?
3) The most important question: If I reflash the ROM and then use CWM restore, will the problem repeat itself? (If an app is the source of the problem and all apps are backed up and then restored, I'm afraid the problem won't go away. I see few big image files in the backup folder which suggests that everything will be restored as it was. Bootloop too?)
Additional hints for experts on what might be causing the problem:
There are only two incidents that come to mind.
First is that I did a wipe flash of darky 9.1, then a regular flash of 9.2. After I discovered my GPS simply doesn't work on 9.2, I did a regular flash back to 9.1. This was about 2 weeks ago. Is there something in this procedure that might leave some problems that would show up in the future?
Second thing is a incident I had 2 days ago (the time last reboot was done and last time I've had a successful boot).
I left the phone ON over night, and in the morning found it turned off. I thought it might be a dead battery so I plugged it in. It wouldn't start for few minutes but then booted normally.
During that day I found it OFF one more time, for no apparent reason. This time battery was nowhere close to low. It turned off while in standby/locked screen mode so I can't say that it was doing anything in particular.
(Even the turning off during the night is suspect. It had sound on, it was near my head, and I'm sure that low battery warnings would wake me up. It might just be the case it turned off for no apparent reason like it did during the day.)
i think, that when you flashed 9.1 over 9.2, it could leave some weird things, because everyone is talking bout updating, and no-one even think about downgrading rom.
Answer 1. If you used SpeedMod kernel, I think you can turn Logging in Tweaks Menu at RM, and start phone with plugged USB cable to computer (running adb).
Dunno bout other kernels.
Darkyy normally turned off logging, because ROM was bit faster without it.
Answer 2. Probably contacts were synced to Google (contacts.google.com) <--- try it
I think SMS messages are backed up together with whole ROM (contacts too).
Answer 3. Probably yes, problem will repeat. I don't know but maybe there is some way you can restore only some things, not whole system.
I think you should make "Backup Everything" in CWM, then try flashing 9.2 again.
Weird that GPS were not working there.
It seems something bad was happening that caused random reboots.
What apps that require root, you were using? Swapper, Galaxy Tuner, Overclocking?
I was just getting over the initial buyers remorse phase for my galaxy (or in my case, flashers remorse, even though I run stock JPY and it's fine, I have this urge to re-exchange it for a SLOWER stock Vodaphone Australia 2.2 version that's probably more buggy, but at least truly stock), when I drained my battery to 1% to test battery life, and shut it off manually.
On the walk back to the recharger in my room I accidentally turned it back on, and I immediately tried to turn it back off again, without letting it go past the 'GT-19000' logo in fear of the battery draining. It just restarted again and I decided to let it boot this time. Mistake. It then started to randomly vibrate and shut off apps (mainly, my live background, shake them all) left right and center then went straight back into default first-boot menu, like the very day I received the phone, or after a hard reset. The funny thing was, instead of having default values selected, it had the ones I had already put in. I thought it would be fine after that. Wrong.
I tried rebooting it again to see if it fixed itself, and it does the same with the forced closes. I uninstall my background and re-install it, and save some settings. When it boots it restores the live background back to it's stock settings (the live wallpaper I chose is still there, but the settings for it are not).
At this point I'm scratching my head so I uninstall all apps. This time on boot it doesn't throw up "force close" errors, but instead force-closes a single app or service for me on boot, with the one buzz, then three quick buzzes. Sigh... I have to factory reset my phone. One thing that particularly annoyed me was the fact I moved all my apps (AngryBirds ) to my external SD card, yet miraculously, after the reset my phone doesn't seem to think it's there anymore! Another thing I'm pondering is that if I didn't reset my phone like this, would this still have occurred?
Runs perfectly fine after the factory reset, with no errors or anything on boot as of yet. I have been compulsively rebooting it ever since just to find out, LOL!
Is this a 'normal' sort of thing to happen on the SGS, or is just through shear coincidence the combination of me restarting the phone in it's booting phase + the low battery life screwed up some boot settings while the phone was writing to it, or is it some hardware error? I can see this as particularly annoying if it were to happen every month or so. Coming from an old brick phone with something like 8000 messages on it, it'd be inconvenient to say the least to start deleting everything periodically... I guess I can use apps to back-up data when this occurs, but some apps don't even work after it's been erroring out on me. *Pulls hair out*
TL;DR:
Reset my phone while it was booting (still on the GT-I9000 screen) on a low (1%) battery and it broke my phone settings. Forced closes unknown app/service on boot with no 3rd party apps installed, but still boots to home. Force closes 3rd party apps frequently if they're installed. Factory Reset/Wipe. Problem Solved. Annoyed. RAGE.
next time something like this happens use adb logcat to figure out what is actually going wrong
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On the walk back to the recharger in my room I accidentally turned it back on, and I immediately tried to turn it back off again, without letting it go past the 'GT-19000' logo in fear of the battery draining. It just restarted again and I decided to let it boot this time. Mistake. It then started to randomly vibrate and shut off apps (mainly, my live background, shake them all) ...
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you are not alone . after draining battery , starting it accidently up (drained) in middle of booting , killed it for me, well not killed but wouldnt boot for me and I had to the the factory reset. oh and since the nice bzz ... bzz bzz bzz I hear more often I would like to ( here was I ignored crying about it http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=937938 )
Yeah I'll definitely boot up logcat if it happens again. I'm just hoping this isn't a regular occurrence . As long as I don't do anything stupid like this again, I'm thinking it should be fine.
The third time this happens, it's going back to the service center, so it's got two chances left! Another thing I failed to mention was that it was chewing up like 200mb~ ram with level 1+2 ram cleared, without loading back into the homescreen, before the factory reset. Probably the stupid forced close app/service leaking >.>
Pagot, if that were me and continual factory resets were the only way to fix it (or didn't fix it) I'd flash it back to stock (or just remove root) and return it to the service center if that's an option. Sounds like something got corrupted or didn't get flashed properly. Either way I'd let THEM waste their time sorting it out because no amount of flashing is going to solve a hardware issue if it turns out to be one.
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(had stock, so just root removing) but I know how our service centers work (and I would have to bring it even to our carrier) they wouldnt even talk to me if I didnt do the factory reset and the first thing they would do "reflash and factory reset"
right now I am not playing on the phone so much anymore. no lust or time so no idae if my apps are still fcing so often . And I installed speedmod and made a backup so I can revert back if something happens. So will see.
Wanted to just write about the battery down +(or) not full boot = corruption
Hello all, new to the forum, though have been using it for issues I've had along the way with my Sony Xperia Z3 Compact.
Presently it is in a boot loop. It will boot up, and the phone is usable for approximately 2 minutes before it shuts down and immediately restarts. Only to do the same thing over and over. It also takes 2-8% out of the displayed battery remaining each time. Generally the battery is getting really hot though all of this.
Each time it registers as a "System Incident" in the diagnostics. Though no details are given. Does not register the crashes as "restarts" in the diagnostics.
Here's the kicker: It will NOT boot loop and operate normally (without overheating) if the phone is connected to a computer via USB or if it is playing music or a movie. But, once either of these conditions are no longer, it goes right back into restarting itself.
Here's the phone info:
D5803 (Originally a Canadian market phone)
Android version 5.1.1 (has been since I've owned it)
Build Number: 23.4.A.1.200
Unlocked
NOT rooted
No SD card mounted or present
Here's what I've done:
Hard reset (multiple times)
Boot in safe mode (will still boot loop in safe mode) restart in regular mode.
PCC repair, twice
Gone into service mode and wiped customizations
Complete factory data reset
*Done all of the above WITHOUT restoring my backup files in case there was a corrupt file within those backed up. Also have tried reset attempts with and without re-downloading my normal array of apps from the Play Store. Though none should be crashing the OS.
Even took the Flashtool to it, and reflashed 23.4.A.1.200 Customized US firmware with APPS_LOG and USERDATA wipe, no exclusions. Though, I was suspect of this, as the firmware is US, and on initial setup, it still defaulted to "English (Canada)" for the language on the first screen. Which is where it usually defaults. So I don't think memory was totally wiped or the firmware was reflashed in its entirety.
I would suspect hardware if the phone was not functioning properly while playing music or a movie. I have all functions and all systems working properly otherwise, even during the boot loop, just before it crashes.
Had a similar boot loop issue when 5.1.1 came out, much like many others. That problem righted itself with a few restarts and a full night of being totally shut off. This is not fixing the issue this time.
Thanks in advance for your help. All is appreciated.
Yeah, so this seems to be a hardware, i have had this happen to me, although just randomly.
You should send it off to be repaired, as restoring software should have fixed the issue.