OK so my problem is as stated above. My exhibit boots to the Samsung logo for about 3 seconds then reboots in a continuing sequence. I have tried entering recovery mode with no luck as the phone does not stay on long enough. I am able to boot into download mode however, when i tried restoring the stock firmware nothing happened. Its says that everything went well but the phone keeps rebooting in the same pattern. Though this is no longer my primary phone I would like to get it fixed. Any help is deeply appreciated.
akeem127 said:
OK so my problem is as stated above. My exhibit boots to the Samsung logo for about 3 seconds then reboots in a continuing sequence. I have tried entering recovery mode with no luck as the phone does not stay on long enough. I am able to boot into download mode however, when i tried restoring the stock firmware nothing happened. Its says that everything went well but the phone keeps rebooting in the same pattern. Though this is no longer my primary phone I would like to get it fixed. Any help is deeply appreciated.
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When you get to recovery try hitting the menu button several times with a pause in between. If you can get in, wipe data and you will be good to go.
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I tried a flash and think i messed my tab...now its just a black screen with a faint light in the background like its on but its no images.......my battery icon pops up then distorts away and thats it ....can get into download mode but not recovery.....tried holding all 3 buttons got this lil android dude in the corner with a sign sayin something about power reset but cant select nothing......help me please......
Put it in d/l mode and flash one of the stock roms with Heimdall.
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i tried a stock flash with heimdall it flashed successfully but i still get the SAMSUNG logo that flashes and go away,buttons light up at the bottom,can go in download mode but not reboot mode,phone stay on with a faint light ,so i assume that its on somehow.....help
Did you follow this exactly?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=967175
One thing I missed here before was to wipe data and cache. Otherwise I go into boot loop.
how to get recovery mode
i cant wipe nothing because i cant get to recovery,just download mode
done it step by step
i followed evrything it flashed successfully but when it rebooted i turned off.and tried recovery but nothing......
chubbyflood said:
i followed evrything it flashed successfully but when it rebooted i turned off.and tried recovery but nothing......
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Use UnBrickable Mod
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1341753
Although you get a black screen on boot, it might still be working....
Chubbyflood,
If you are in the same situation as I am then the tab is still working, you are just getting black screen on boot up. It played tricks on me for ages when I was first rooting by tablet; but it turned out it is just the boot up screen that isn't showing.
This is my situation:
-Press and hold Power button to turn on.
-I see the Galaxy Tab / Samsung initial boot image for about 1 second, and also hear the "boot chime"
-Then the screen goes completely blank (but you can tell it is still on with a little light showing.
-The four "hard button" lights will light up briefly a couple times
-Wait approximately 30 seconds to a minute (to be safe and give the tablet time to boot up - it is actually booting up)
-Tab the Power button once, to turn the tablet off (now the screen is clearly off)
-Tab the Power button again, and the tablet will be up and running as normal.
I am guessing the boot animation / images are failing in some way, but the tablet is booting up as normal.
I've just learned to live with it, because I haven't had a chance to figure out what's going on, but it honestly took me a good hour or so, and a few (unnecessary) flashes, before I realized the thing was up and running fine, it just need to have the button pressed on and off.
One final thing to mention; don't have the tablet plugged into anything. I seem to remember leaving it plugged into the PC didn't help (I think).
Hope that makes sense.
Cheers
Ed.
Has your situation been resolved?
I am in the same boat. What I have done to temporarily fix this was to Flash a ROM that uses Hemdall and it will boot as flukebu stated but only with the Galaxy Cubed ROM.
I cannot get the factory files to boot as you have stated.
I have continually tried to return to stock using the files provided on this forum and all "unbrick" posts.
While flashing the stock images everything completes and works well. The device reboots and the Samsung Splash screen appears. Once it appears it disappears and scrambles the screen. I believe it then goes into a bootloop which easily enough I could access factory recovery to correct but when I do attempt to access factory recovery the screen is as posted above (black but illuminated).
Once I flashed Galaxy Cubed ROM and it booted I hit the power button and the locksreen appeared. I can tell you I was excited but there are some issues with that ROM I have not tried to correct yet because my main goal is to return to stock.
Even with this ROM working correctly I have attempted to access CWM once installed to complete a Data Wipe and that does not show up either.
I would really like to find a solution to this I want to return to stock and not have this custom ROM running.
Juiced_RL said:
Has your situation been resolved?
I am in the same boat. What I have done to temporarily fix this was to Flash a ROM that uses Hemdall and it will boot as flukebu stated but only with the Galaxy Cubed ROM.
I cannot get the factory files to boot as you have stated.
I have continually tried to return to stock using the files provided on this forum and all "unbrick" posts.
While flashing the stock images everything completes and works well. The device reboots and the Samsung Splash screen appears. Once it appears it disappears and scrambles the screen. I believe it then goes into a bootloop which easily enough I could access factory recovery to correct but when I do attempt to access factory recovery the screen is as posted above (black but illuminated).
Once I flashed Galaxy Cubed ROM and it booted I hit the power button and the locksreen appeared. I can tell you I was excited but there are some issues with that ROM I have not tried to correct yet because my main goal is to return to stock.
Even with this ROM working correctly I have attempted to access CWM once installed to complete a Data Wipe and that does not show up either.
I would really like to find a solution to this I want to return to stock and not have this custom ROM running.
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Have you found a resolution to this? Mine tab is doing the exact same thing as yours after the cubed rom.
Hi All!
I flashed the last build available from http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1777398 on my P7300.
Every thing was OK (well, after the flash I had to fix permissions, since it didn't boot) until I had to switch the tab off. After switching on again, it didn't boot, black screen after the Samsung splash, back light was on.
So, I wiped/factory reset, and installed every thing again and it worked, until I switched off the tab again ... I can reset long pressing the power button and getting into recovery.
I already did the procedure three times, since I didn't find a way to properly boot when this happens.
Could anyone give a clue about what can be happening?
Many thanks!
try to reboot tablet multiple times. work for me
yoyurik said:
try to reboot tablet multiple times. work for me
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Thanks! I will try it if it happens again. I am also considering to try the AOSP.
Mine always starts on the second boot. After the black screen after the Samsung splash, I just long press to reboot, and it always
works the second time.
Same here...
Hi all
I reflashed an old i9000 with CM10.1 for my wife recently, and everything seemed to be working fine. Then it started behaving a bit funny and this week it started rebooting at random. I thought "no worries, I'll just do a fresh flash with stock GB".
However, before I could even give that a go the phone started acting even weirder. As soon as I put the battery in it powers on (without me even pushing the button) but it resets every time it hits the Samsung splash screen. Earlier today I could get it to go into CWM recovery and after clearing cache I actually got it to boot up. But by the time I had downloaded the stock GB files the phone was just constantly resetting at the Samsung logo and now I can't even get it to load CWM recovery using the 3-button method.
I can get it to enter Download mode, and it shows up in Odin just fine. But within 5 seconds it resets itself again so I can't actually perform a flash.
Any suggestions? Or is the phone just plain busted?
mrfurion said:
Hi all
I reflashed an old i9000 with CM10.1 for my wife recently, and everything seemed to be working fine. Then it started behaving a bit funny and this week it started rebooting at random. I thought "no worries, I'll just do a fresh flash with stock GB".
However, before I could even give that a go the phone started acting even weirder. As soon as I put the battery in it powers on (without me even pushing the button) but it resets every time it hits the Samsung splash screen. Earlier today I could get it to go into CWM recovery and after clearing cache I actually got it to boot up. But by the time I had downloaded the stock GB files the phone was just constantly resetting at the Samsung logo and now I can't even get it to load CWM recovery using the 3-button method.
I can get it to enter Download mode, and it shows up in Odin just fine. But within 5 seconds it resets itself again so I can't actually perform a flash.
Any suggestions? Or is the phone just plain busted?
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I'm just going to answer my own question as I've solved the problem but it may benefit someone else to know how.
It got to the point where the phone wasn't even booting to the Samsung splash screen, but I could still get Download mode to show up for 5 seconds (not long enough to flash). Then in a moment of desperation I got the original Samsung microUSB cable and plugged that in, and booted into Download mode again. This time Download mode stuck! And I was able to flash a clean GB ROM which is now working fine.
So the take-out from my experience is this: sometimes you really do have to use the original Samsung USB cable.
Weird.
Thanks for reporting howto ...:good: good to know
mrfurion said:
I'm just going to answer my own question as I've solved the problem but it may benefit someone else to know how.
It got to the point where the phone wasn't even booting to the Samsung splash screen, but I could still get Download mode to show up for 5 seconds (not long enough to flash). Then in a moment of desperation I got the original Samsung microUSB cable and plugged that in, and booted into Download mode again. This time Download mode stuck! And I was able to flash a clean GB ROM which is now working fine.
So the take-out from my experience is this: sometimes you really do have to use the original Samsung USB cable.
Weird.
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mrfurion said:
I'm just going to answer my own question as I've solved the problem but it may benefit someone else to know how.
It got to the point where the phone wasn't even booting to the Samsung splash screen, but I could still get Download mode to show up for 5 seconds (not long enough to flash). Then in a moment of desperation I got the original Samsung microUSB cable and plugged that in, and booted into Download mode again. This time Download mode stuck! And I was able to flash a clean GB ROM which is now working fine.
So the take-out from my experience is this: sometimes you really do have to use the original Samsung USB cable.
Weird.
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I have a similar issue where I'm trying to flash my stock ROM on my Epic4gTouch. When it opens up the download mode error I start to flash and all seems to work before it reboots. Every 5 seconds. I tried the original cable and it did not help. Any ideas??
NerdsBestAdvice said:
I have a similar issue where I'm trying to flash my stock ROM on my Epic4gTouch. When it opens up the download mode error I start to flash and all seems to work before it reboots. Every 5 seconds. I tried the original cable and it did not help. Any ideas??
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put the cable and press button power the phone go mode charging at this time make the phone in download mode
its ok for me:good:
I have seen a lot of threads on similar problems, but none of them seem to have a fix for me. So, here I am!
A few weeks back, I flashed a custom CM11 ROM to my phone, and it went through without a hitch. The phone did have a few problems, but the dev had mentioned that the ROM had a few bugs, so I didnt think much of it. The phone screen would turn off at random, and if i plugged in the phone while it was not turned on, it would get stuck at the loading screen that precede the battery animation. Like I said, I didn't make much of these.
The dev released the newest update yesterday, so I downloaded it, and when I tried to boot my phone into recovery, the s3 mini splash screen came up for a few seconds, then the phone turned off. This happened several times, even when I tried to turn it on in download mode.
I decided to use Terminal Emulator to turn on recovery, but when I tried to turn my phone on normally, the same thing happened (s3 mini splash screen, then turned off).
I saw other threads on the same matter, but they were mostly due to a pressed-in power button, or were solved with steps that didnt work out for me. Please advise!!!
polski691 said:
I have seen a lot of threads on similar problems, but none of them seem to have a fix for me. So, here I am!
A few weeks back, I flashed a custom CM11 ROM to my phone, and it went through without a hitch. The phone did have a few problems, but the dev had mentioned that the ROM had a few bugs, so I didnt think much of it. The phone screen would turn off at random, and if i plugged in the phone while it was not turned on, it would get stuck at the loading screen that precede the battery animation. Like I said, I didn't make much of these.
The dev released the newest update yesterday, so I downloaded it, and when I tried to boot my phone into recovery, the s3 mini splash screen came up for a few seconds, then the phone turned off. This happened several times, even when I tried to turn it on in download mode.
I decided to use Terminal Emulator to turn on recovery, but when I tried to turn my phone on normally, the same thing happened (s3 mini splash screen, then turned off).
I saw other threads on the same matter, but they were mostly due to a pressed-in power button, or were solved with steps that didnt work out for me. Please advise!!!
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is it turnoff and keep restart or turnoff and never turn on ?
Ahmed.ragab said:
is it turnoff and keep restart or turnoff and never turn on ?
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I have the same problem, since two weeks the phone was stuck on the pre-charging logo loading.
This morning the phone showed the same problem of polski, but i can boot in recovery and in download mode.
Every time i try to change something, the phone's situation worsens.
First the phone reboots 5 seconds after the system completely boots.
After a nandroid restore the phone was stuck in S3 mini logo
After that i tried another nandroid restore and it failed.
The phone keep restart, anyway.
Sorry for double-posting, anyway i tried a way to resolve and it had been successful.
I downloaded original firmware from samsung site (obiouvsly the correct one) and i flashed it with odin.
After that i re-flashed Maclaw's CM11 by odin and now the phone work well
HylianHero said:
I have the same problem, since two weeks the phone was stuck on the pre-charging logo loading.
This morning the phone showed the same problem of polski, but i can boot in recovery and in download mode.
Every time i try to change something, the phone's situation worsens.
First the phone reboots 5 seconds after the system completely boots.
After a nandroid restore the phone was stuck in S3 mini logo
After that i tried another nandroid restore and it failed.
The phone keep restart, anyway.
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HylianHero said:
Sorry for double-posting, anyway i tried a way to resolve and it had been successful.
I downloaded original firmware from samsung site (obiouvsly the correct one) and i flashed it with odin.
After that i re-flashed Maclaw's CM11 by odin and now the phone work well
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As u can go.to download.mode.. flashing full stock.firmware via odin will solve it
As i said
There's another problem now... the phone works well but there's no more the Samsung Splash screen but a crashed image (like static of TVs)
HylianHero said:
As i said
There's another problem now... the phone works well but there's no more the Samsung Splash screen but a crashed image (like static of TVs)
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Flash param and image will be alright again.
tys0n said:
Flash param and image will be alright again.
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The problem started with the GT-i8190N_param.tar flash
Ahmed.ragab said:
is it turnoff and keep restart or turnoff and never turn on ?
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It turns off and never turns on. :\
I bought a new battery today to see if it fixes the problem, but it didnt. :\
polski691 said:
It turns off and never turns on. :\
I bought a new battery today to see if it fixes the problem, but it didnt. :\
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if it didn't respond at all so it is a hard brick for sorry
Ahmed.ragab said:
if it didn't respond at all so it is a hard brick for sorry
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I dont think I made myself clear.
The splash screen does show up, but then the phone turns off immediately afterwards.
polski691 said:
I dont think I made myself clear.
The splash screen does show up, but then the phone turns off immediately afterwards.
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(can u access download mode if yes so try complete stock firmware via odin
polski691 said:
The splash screen does show up, but then the phone turns off immediately afterwards.
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First of all do you have a Custom Recovery installed??
If you don't this won't work.
(This happened to me on my S3.
I was using pimp my ROM and upon reboot, turned of after splash screen)
My way to fix this was:
•Download another ROM (for your device) (using a PC or another Android Phone) move downloaded ROM to External SD Card
•Insert External SD card back into Galaxy S3 Android Phone (or you can move ROM file to Internal SD Card if your using a PC)
•Boot into recovery mode.
Turn phone off
Press & hold Power Button, Volume Up & Home Button.
•Factory Reset
•Flash ROM from External or Internal depending on way used.
•Reboot
•Profit
Sent from S3 Mini
Using XDA App
polski691 said:
I dont think I made myself clear.
The splash screen does show up, but then the phone turns off immediately afterwards.
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Discharge battery using download mode and return to seller for refund or replacement!
My wife's phone is completely stock, I have never rooted it or anything.
A couple of days ago, she started getting a strange notification with the android icon and something called Smith with the message that it is disabled. Her phone would reboot itself a couple of times a day and now it is stuck in a boot loop. The phone has been stuck in the loop for a couple of hours now, stopping on the white android screen for a second and shutting down, rinse and repeat.
I can get into recovery by ONLY holding down the volume key, which is kind of strange. I also cant select anything in recovery.
Any help would be appreciated, she is about to kill me and switch to an iPhone.
allstarfung said:
My wife's phone is completely stock, I have never rooted it or anything.
A couple of days ago, she started getting a strange notification with the android icon and something called Smith with the message that it is disabled. Her phone would reboot itself a couple of times a day and now it is stuck in a boot loop. The phone has been stuck in the loop for a couple of hours now, stopping on the white android screen for a second and shutting down, rinse and repeat.
I can get into recovery by ONLY holding down the volume key, which is kind of strange. I also cant select anything in recovery.
Any help would be appreciated, she is about to kill me and switch to an iPhone.
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Follow this guide - it should fix you up.
StormyNight said:
Follow this guide - it should fix you up.
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unfortunately this doesn't apply to my situation because the phone has never been rooted
allstarfung said:
unfortunately this doesn't apply to my situation because the phone has never been rooted
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Follow the instructions here then. Be warned though, this will wipe everything, including internal storage.
The Smith file is some file that HTC put into the ROM that expired in mid-August. Ever since then, the app shows as expired when you reboot. Nothing you can really do about it if you are not rooted, but HTC is supposedly working on a fix that they will push via OTA.
However, it shouldn't be causing the bootloops as far as I know. If a factory reset doesn't work, then running the RUU is most likely the way to go.