[Q] Slimbean 2.9+ bootloop w/o Powerbutton - Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

I have been running Slimbean 2.8 since it came out, tried to upgrade to 2.9 when it came out and got a bootloop. I saw some where to hold the power button down till the phone shuts off to fix the bootloop, the problem is my power button doesn't work. Thought I would just wait for the next release to come out, so I went to upgrade today to 3.1 and same problem.
It may not actually be a boot loop, but that is the best way I can describe it. It boots the first time and goes through the app initialization then reboots. After that it hangs on the slimbean boot animation.
I have tried pulling the battery and reinstalling, re-wiping dalvik/cache, re-downloading zip. I haven't tried a factory reset(hoping to avoid that).
Any suggestions?
Thanks

WSlinky said:
I have been running Slimbean 2.8 since it came out, tried to upgrade to 2.9 when it came out and got a bootloop. I saw some where to hold the power button down till the phone shuts off to fix the bootloop, the problem is my power button doesn't work. Thought I would just wait for the next release to come out, so I went to upgrade today to 3.1 and same problem.
It may not actually be a boot loop, but that is the best way I can describe it. It boots the first time and goes through the app initialization then reboots. After that it hangs on the slimbean boot animation.
I have tried pulling the battery and reinstalling, re-wiping dalvik/cache, re-downloading zip. I haven't tried a factory reset(hoping to avoid that).
Any suggestions?
Thanks
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Have you tried flashing the ROM, rebooting into recovery and re-flashing it?

I tried that and it didn't fix the problem. However I started doing some playing, since it seemed to boot the 1st time and die after it loaded the apps I figured it was app related. So I formatted datadata and data and re-flashed, everything worked fine after that.
Thanks for the suggestion
Sent from my SGH-I897 using slimbean 3.1

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