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[Q] Phone stuck when booting - how to fix?

Hi All,
Suddenly my phone gets stuck during booting at the S logo and it vibrates sometimes similar to FC-ing.
I have the feeling that some process keeps crasing in an infinite loop.
I havent touched the ROM for at least a month.
It was upgraded to JPY via KIES with reg hacking and it has worked fine until today.
Yesterday before going to sleep I shut it down and when this morning I turned it on it could not get past the logo it just vibrates and front leds are lit.
Battery is fully charged, screen showing fully green battery when charging.
I can enter both Recovery and Dowload modes, nothing unusual is displayed there.
Battery out-in did not help.
No lagfix, phone was rooted with modified kernel (chainfire afair) more than 1 month ago.
No problems like this whatsoever.
Last successful boot was yesterday evening, no signs of any problem.
I have not done factory reset yet as my last Titanium Backup was quite a long ago.
Questions:
- is there any kind of "safe mode" boot like in windows?
- I can not access its internal SD card from PC (USB), is there a trick to make the pc recognize it?
- any other suggestion before FR?
It is International Galaxy S, JPY, unbranded
Thanks in advance!

if you have CWM recovery then i think there is an option to mount the sd card so its visible on your pc,
another thing. there is a safe mode i accidentally entered it a few months ago, what you need to do is boot up the phone and whilst it is booting press the left key (menu) until the keys light turns off, (or keep pressing the menu key) and then the phone should come up in safe mode..
i havent tried it with a boot loop and i dont know if anyone else has so it may not work..
and finally if you do have CWM you can do a nandroid backup thru that, then do a factory reset and re-apply the nandroid backup.

Unfortunately I do not have CWM.
I tried safe mode the way you wrote but it did not work for me, neither worked the other Menu + Home + Power combination mentioned elsewhere, probably the problem comes earlier than that.
Is there a chance to install CWM in this limited mode of my phone?
the problem is that int sd does not seem accessible.
does update.zip work only from internal sd?

im afraid so yes its not possible to do it from the external sd unless you have a steam kernel.
looks like your only option would be to do a factory reset in recover or re-flash through odin.. but you will lose your data..
your best bet is to just write down as many apps as you can remember you had, and maybe re download them after the flash 1 by one.
but all the stuff on your internal sd card WILL STAY INTACT. e.g pictures music movies ect
EDIT::: you can now access the market on-line so perhaps you check that to see if your apps show on there before you do the reset... I've not checked it out yet...

My market on web looks good so that should not be a problem.
I was just told that I could have CWM by flashing a kernel that contains it.
If that is true I can do what you said earlier: do a nandroid backup + FR + restore
I except this to save my Angry Brids achievements that are in not on the int sd card but only in the app data.
Does this make sense?

jasahu said:
My market on web looks good so that should not be a problem.
I was just told that I could have CWM by flashing a kernel that contains it.
If that is true I can do what you said earlier: do a nandroid backup + FR + restore
I except this to save my Angry Brids achievements that are in not on the int sd card but only in the app data.
Does this make sense?
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Replying to myself: It made sense.
I flashed a SpeedMod kernel to have CWM
- tried booting, but no success (as expected)
and then from CWM
- I mounted USB storage to back up SD card
- did Nandroid backup as well to make backup of the rest
Then Factory Reset -> phone could boot again
tried to only 'Restore data' from nandroid backup -> failed to boot
ok, FR again and get back the most from my 1 month old titanium backup
My is guess that some program with root rights corrupted something which made me unable to boot
What I learned -> backup frequently !
Now what remained is to get back my Angry Birds progress from nandroid backup
Thanks for help!

[Q] HELP!! Recovering from a stuck bootup?

So I installed Phoenix Rom and clockwork 2.5 last year on my device. I have not done anything since then.
Last night my phone started to play music at full volume in the middle of the night. Since I couldn't find any programs running that are playing music, I pulled the battery. Ever since, it gets stuck at the phoneix boot flash animation (shows the animation for a while, vibrates, and re-runs the animation from the start)
I CAN access the clockwork recovery mod, but I'm afraid to do much because I don't want to lose my data. I was using a backup software but I think it is backing up to my internal sd, not my external sd card.
The only clockwork backup I performed was at one of the steps when flashing the Phoenix rom. Can I use any part of that backup to fix the issue? Should I simply flash the phone to a new rom and hope that my data stays?
No matter how long I let it sit, it stays at the flash animation of the phoenix rom logo.

what backup program were you using?
it doesn't matter if its on the internal...hell i don't even have an external.

(By the way, I was using titanium backup, but i'm not sure if the data has been saved on my internal card or external sd card)

So boot into recovery, mount your sdcard to your PC and check where it is...

No need for a pc. Just use My Files to look for a folder labeled Titanium Backup.

How do you do that without being able to boot into Android?
He's stuck in a bootloop...

studacris said:
How do you do that without being able to boot into Android?
He's stuck in a bootloop...
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Exactly, I'm stuck in a bootloop. I don't have the drivers on my work computer so I'll have to check when I get home. I think what I'm going to do is simply find a stable cooked rom and install a new one, hopefully I can find a recent titanium backup, but even then, I could never manage to find which packet I needed to backup text messages, so i know those will be lost.....
Sigh, what a pain in the @$$

studacris said:
How do you do that without being able to boot into Android?
He's stuck in a bootloop...
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Duh, where's my sign? Your right. Was trying to speed read the post while on break.
@op, listen to studa. He obviously had his coffee this morning.

[Q] Recovery mode not working - Please help!!!

Hi,
I have tried to upgrade the ROM on my Samsung Galaxy S i9000.
The upgrade was successful but the phone was not running well, so I tried to restore the previous ROM by using ROM Manager app.
For some reason the restore did not take place when the phone was rebooted.
After this, the phone will not boot.
When I press the power button, only the welcome screen comes on, but nothing happens.
I tried to enter recovery mode, by pressing volume-up+home+power, but nothing happens (the welcome screen comes on and that's about it).
Download mode is working.
When I try to connect the phone to the PC in download mode the PC recognizes it, but in other modes, the USB is not recognized.
What should I do to restore my phone to its previous state?
Is there another way to enter recovery mode?
Thanks,
Dubi

Use odin to flash another firmware to it, I have links below in my sig.
Instructions should be within the threads, but its essentially put the files in the matching names, and click repartition (this wipes the phone) and click start

Thanks for your quick reply.
I am not sure that I understand the difference between recovering the old ROM and flashing a new one, as you suggested.
If I use the Odin with the download mode, will it erase the contents of my internal sd-card as well and contact information or will this information still be available and I can use it to restore my phone (for example I used Titanium backup to backup the contents of my applications etc.)?
In other words, what are the differences between the two methods?
Thanks again,
Dubi

Odin is usually considered a fresh install, it usually deletes everything on your phone, (sometimes internal sd card, but not always). When you do flash through odin its like a factory reset so you will loose all contact info and app info etc. If you saved your backup on internal sd then you will loose that if you internal sd is wiped.
Going through recovery it depends on the rom and contents of the zip. Sometimes it will factory reset your phone, sometimes it wont. Usually it is advised to wipe if you are changing to a different rom, but as you said it was only an update and so it probably wouldn't require a wipe.
In your case yes everything will be wiped via Odin, and possibly your internal sd card will remain.
Titanium backup will allow you to restore the apps and data you have backed up.
Unless you can get back into recovery it may not be possible to save everything that was on there previously. The only way that I think may work is by using adb, and typing adb reboot recovery. If that works then you should maybe try the update again, or try another zip
Solve it? lemme know

Internal SD card behaving strangely - Please Help

In short: Canceled Factory Reset, Now my SD card is not being detected properly and I am unable to format/mount it in recovery
Hey Everyone,
I've recently created quite a frustrating problem on my HTC Vivid that I'm unable to figure out. While attempting to go into CWM Recovery to check what version I have I accidentally selected Factory Reset from the bootloader. I quickly pulled the battery, as my back cover was off, within a second or two of this selection, and to my knowledge the phone was still on the bootloader screen and hadn't begun the process. After rebooting into my ROM and I attempted to install TWRP Recovery via Goo Manager in preparation for flashing a new ROM. After the download timer expired my Goo Manager crashed. Any attempt to install via Goo Manager since then is giving me this error, or it just hangs at the download web page. I suspect that this is because of the botched Factory Reset I mentioned earlier, and I'm worried I've somehow messed up the internal SD. My internal sd card is not detected by the camera app nor correctly seen in my file manager, in settings it is reported at the correct size, but apparently all my media has been deleted. I'm unable to format/mount ext sd or emmc in Recovery. My questions are: Has my sd card been corrupted, and If so, why did all my apps and user data remain? Secondly, how can I remedy this situation? I should mention that my phones data port is basically unusable, so I am unable to connect my device to a PC and use adb/fastboot.
My recovery is CWM 5.5.0.4 and my ROM is CM-10.2 | AOSP 4.3.1 Jellybean [KANG] [Oct-31] My phone is unlocked and S-OFF
Update: I tried to Factory Reset, thinking maybe what got me into this mess would get me out, but that option just takes me into recovery. This leaves me even more puzzled. I followed that up with a factory reset/davlik cache wipe from recovery but that hasn't done anything either. My conclusion thus far is that I need to somehow reformat my internal storage, is that possible without connecting my phone to a pc?
Thank you for any responses, and taking the time to read this.

I inadvertently hit the factory reset once from the boot loader and it did the reset in just a few seconds. It hosed my internal memory and unfortunately had to run the ruu to fix it. I know that is not what you want to hear if you can't connect it to a computer.
Sent from my Nexus 10 using Tapatalk

Seriously?
I have answered this question literally 100 times...
Please use the search feature...
Or at least scroll down and read thread titles...
And if your port is borked... Replace it
Sent from my Vivid 4G using Tapatalk

I did a forum search, I was unable to find a satisfactory answer so I started my own thread. (All were referring to using some method of connecting the phone to a PC)
If anyone is wondering, I solved my problem by simply doing a reset/data wipe via recovery and reflashing my ROM. During setup it prompted me to format my internal storage and now my phone is behaving as normal.
Mods feel free to lock and delete this thread.

[Q] S III mini keep rebooting

Hello, today I was using my phone just like usually, when I arrived home I've put it on charge. After I noticed that it was rebooting, and even after it was almost fully charged it keeps rebooting.
I tried to uninstall some apps, clearing the system cache partition in the Recovery menu, but nothing.
Before trying to do a hard reset, I would like to backup the data on the sd card, but since the phone reboot in about 1 minute after, it is impossible to do something.
I tried to read the sd card on the pc, but it keep asking to format it. And now that I've put it back in the phone I can't see the images :crying:
Ps: I've been able to recover a few photos on the external sdcard using SkiSoft android toolkit, but I discovered that i also have photos on the internal sdcard, but It just recover a few pictures, probably because the device keeps rebooting.
Is ther a way to try to backup/explore those folders keeping the phone in recovery mode, since when in this way it do not reboot?

Giankic said:
Hello, today I was using my phone just like usually, when I arrived home I've put it on charge. After I noticed that it was rebooting, and even after it was almost fully charged it keeps rebooting.
I tried to uninstall some apps, clearing the system cache partition in the Recovery menu, but nothing.
Before trying to do a hard reset, I would like to backup the data on the sd card, but since the phone reboot in about 1 minute after, it is impossible to do something.
I tried to read the sd card on the pc, but it keep asking to format it. And now that I've put it back in the phone I can't see the images :crying:
Ps: I've been able to recover a few photos on the external sdcard using SkiSoft android toolkit, but I discovered that i also have photos on the internal sdcard, but It just recover a few pictures, probably because the device keeps rebooting.
Is ther a way to try to backup/explore those folders keeping the phone in recovery mode, since when in this way it do not reboot?
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rooted?
which ROM?
which recovery?
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moonryder said:
rooted?
which ROM?
which recovery?
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I didn't rooted it, I've tried with the toolkit but wasn't able. the phone reboot before entering in download mode.

Giankic said:
I didn't rooted it, I've tried with the toolkit but wasn't able. the phone reboot before entering in download mode.
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I have installed cwm, and tried a backup... then I've installed the new firmware with odin ( w. androidgalaxys. net/news-samsung/nuova-serie-di-firmware-per-il-galaxy-s3-mini-i8190xxanf3/) but it keeps rebooting after less the a minute...