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[Q] [HELP] Screen Flashes, No Launcher, Network Unavailable -- Cause Discovered

I've never seen this issue before, and now I've run into it twice since updating to Kit Kat, rooting, and setting up my VZ Moto X.
Honestly, I don't have much info to share. I had just gotten done setting up my phone. Froze some VZ apps (this might be it, maybe) though nothing crazy..Navigator for one, then rebooted. No problems.
Did some more updating, installed Delayed Lock and GSAM Battery monitor (which is broken in 4.4 for now, I know) and rebooted again. One final time before I planned to do a full backup of all apps using Titanium.
It boots up fine, boot animations (both Moto globe and VZ logo) and then goes black. Now it's sitting on my desk, screen flashing every 15 seconds or so. The time is accurate and updating. Battery icon comes and goes, but it's not dead. Network shows no bars. It's basically just the status bar and the bottom nav icons. Adb isn't recognized, though it does show up under fastboot.
The worst part is that this happened to me last night. I was at the Pats game. Battery was running low and I was trying to record the last play of the game. Battery ran out and the phone shut down. I tried to start it back up and it died on me again. After getting home and charging it to full, it did what I described above.
I really hope it's not time to do a full reset via fastboot as that's what I had to do this morning. Any ideas? I tried clearing cache via fastboot too. No luck. Anyone ever see this before?
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I've discovered what causes this issue, for me at least. It is the combination of "improper" shutdown methods in use by some apps (Titanium Backup, Quick Reboot, SafeStrap, and others I'm sure) and the use of Delayed Lock. Basically, Delayed Lock takes control of certain system files in order to disable the pin/password/pattern lock. If the system shuts down correctly, it hands control back to system. If the phone doesn't hand over control (the phone cuts out without proper notification due to the battery dying or caused by the way an app handles rebooting), the phone hangs up on the next boot. I made a video and uploaded it here.
http://youtu.be/CRtmUAv3PLk
Also of note, rebooting using the Advanced Power Menu option within Gravitybox (the Xposed Framework module) works just fine. All of the options except for "Soft Reboot".
See more in the Delayed Lock support thread (starting at post 654):
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=955092&page=66

mercado79 said:
I've never seen this issue before, and now I've run into it twice since updating to Kit Kat, rooting, and setting up my VZ Moto X.
Honestly, I don't have much info to share. I had just gotten done setting up my phone. Froze some VZ apps (this might be it, maybe) though nothing crazy..Navigator for one, then rebooted. No problems.
Did some more updating, installed Delayed Lock and GSAM Battery monitor (which is broken in 4.4 for now, I know) and rebooted again. One final time before I planned to do a full backup of all apps using Titanium.
It boots up fine, boot animations (both Moto globe and VZ logo) and then goes black. Now it's sitting on my desk, screen flashing every 15 seconds or so. The time is accurate and updating. Battery icon comes and goes, but it's not dead. Network shows no bars. It's basically just the status bar and the bottom nav icons. Adb isn't recognized, though it does show up under fastboot.
The worst part is that this happened to me last night. I was at the Pats game. Battery was running low and I was trying to record the last play of the game. Battery ran out and the phone shut down. I tried to start it back up and it died on me again. After getting home and charging it to full, it did what I described above.
I really hope it's not time to do a full reset via fastboot as that's what I had to do this morning. Any ideas? I tried clearing cache via fastboot too. No luck. Anyone ever see this before?
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Bad system file, you may want to rsdlite and yes userdata needs to be erased. Moto is finicky, I've never had any other device soft brick on me, never. 3 times now with the moto 2 after flashing a ROM, 1 from restoring a nandroid
Sent on my Moto X

flashallthetime said:
Bad system file, you may want to rsdlite and yes userdata needs to be erased. Moto is finicky, I've never had any other device soft brick on me, never. 3 times now with the moto 2 after flashing a ROM, 1 from restoring a nandroid
Sent on my Moto X
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i figured you'd say that. i'm just trying to figure out how to stop this from happening again. so unbelievably inconvenient.

Added some more info to the OP about what turned out to be the cause.

Unique problem with xperia TL much help needed

I have an Xperia TL phone, the AT&T version and I have had a problem that I have not been able to figure out for quite some time. So here is what happened, I rooted my TL and started to download root apps, then I happened to come across one that said boot animation changer, I thought oh cool i can change my boot animation so I downloaded it. once I had gotten it and messed with it i changed the boot anim and started checking random ones out. the first two worked fine, but then the 3rd one i tried did this strange glitch. The glitch is that it starts up normal and goes through the custom boot animation, but then the picture doesn't go away. The phone goes to the lockscreen and all, but for some reason the last picture of the boot animation is like stuck over it so you can't see anything. I can unlock the phone and all (I know because access through usb then works) but still can't see anything but the last boot picture. any ideas? I couldn't find anything online anywhere near to this problem, i have no idea where to start

[Q] Stuck at verizon boot screen after editing someting in /system/etc

Hi guys, I'm new here and I think I just messed somethin up.
I just rooted my G2 verizon last night but didn't install a custom recovery, just some apps and xposed.
Was tinkering around in xposed a bit and making a few changes to the statusbar etc while listening to some music. I realized the music was way too low and when i'm out in public i can barely hear it on my headphones, so i searched up an article that walks you through steps to boost the volume:
hxxp:// opensourcegangster .com/blog/2014/3/23/android-sound-mod-boost-speaker-and-headphone-volume
basically followed the steps in here, edited the XML and then powered down to reboot.
now the phone just gets stuck at the verizon screen forever. i get passed the LG logo. then verizon logo continues to animate and never freezes up, but i've left it on for 20+ minutes and the thing just wont get past the verizon logo. i'm thinking this can be resolved by clearing some sort of cache but i dont have a custom recovery installed. i even got lazy and decided to bite the bullet and just do a hard reset, but when i do, i see the little android logo, and then the lg logo, and then back to the verizon logo.
have no idea where to go from here
halp.

U will have to flash back to stock. Unfortunately u will loose all pics and files on your phone since this will wipe everything.
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I am having a similar issue. Verizon G2, rooted months ago. I haven't done anything unusual lately.
Today, while using Chrome, the phone freezed and rebooted in a few seconds. Everything back to normal.
But then at night, after it is done charging, I noticed the phone freezed again. I picked up the phone and there were no response - black screen with green indicator light (I think it means charge complete). So I long pressed the power button. But then the boot ended at Verizon logo. I can see the Verizon logo animation but it remains there forever. Any way to recover?

Please help. I am hoping to recover some photos from my phone...

[Q] [HELP!]

I have a Verizon, stock, unrooted Moto X. Today while updating several apps in the Play Store my phone all of a sudden flashes a black screen, followed by a split second of the boot animation (one of the animated globe scenes) then went black. Pressing and holding the power button force resets my phone, which goes through the entire boot animation, then the Verizon logo, then an unresponsive black screen. I've done the 3-button reboot and then told it to reboot normally, but with the same result. Eventually after about 6 or more failed bootup attempts, it'll finally boot up all the way. I don't remember which app was in the process of updating when this happened, but it did happen twice today. I've got 8+ gigs of free space available on internal storage. Has anyone had this happen before? Any idea what could cause it or what I should do about it? I'm afraid it might keep happening more frequently or my phone might just up and die . Had it since November.

GreenMunky said:
I have a Verizon, stock, unrooted Moto X. Today while updating several apps in the Play Store my phone all of a sudden flashes a black screen, followed by a split second of the boot animation (one of the animated globe scenes) then went black. Pressing and holding the power button force resets my phone, which goes through the entire boot animation, then the Verizon logo, then an unresponsive black screen. I've done the 3-button reboot and then told it to reboot normally, but with the same result. Eventually after about 6 or more failed bootup attempts, it'll finally boot up all the way. I don't remember which app was in the process of updating when this happened, but it did happen twice today. I've got 8+ gigs of free space available on internal storage. Has anyone had this happen before? Any idea what could cause it or what I should do about it? I'm afraid it might keep happening more frequently or my phone might just up and die . Had it since November.
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If a factory reset does not fix the issue, all I can suggest is find the thread "Return to Stock" and follow the instructions to flash the entire stock SBF for your carrier. This should fix any corrupted files, if present. Either option WILL erase everything, so backup anything you need first.
Good Luck

Maybe your battery stats are off? Were you low at the time? Sure sounds like the power just died?

KJ said:
Maybe your battery stats are off? Were you low at the time? Sure sounds like the power just died?
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Nope, phone had been off the charger only a few hours, still had 85% or so. I actually tried plugging the phone in while it was booting up to see if an extra jolt of juice would somehow help it to fully boot up... made no difference. After 6-8 failed boot attempts, it finally booted up and has been running fine since... although I have yet to try to manually reboot it.

Well, if it acts up anymore...I'd consider a full wipe and return to stock. Same android version you're on now of course.
Otherwise...probably a fluke. ?

[HELP!] A series of events led to an infinite boot loop i can't do anything about.

The first time I got my phone was about two days ago. I got the MotoG2 from ebay at such a cheap price ($20), I won the auction and so yeah (26 bids). HOWEVER, this is what the description says from the seller:"This smart phone sells working as-is because screen is cracked, LCD has liquid damage, other components work as they are supposed to. SIM slot/cellular feature has not been tested on any networks. Customer data have been deleted from smartphone. *Battery life and performance on used electronic devices can not be guaranteed. * Entire screen is cracked; there are many scratches and scuffs on the bezels and on the back side. Smart phone sells with battery and non-OEM box.
I finally got it and shipped to my house, on'ed it and everything worked fine the camera, audio, basically it was brand new except for the front screen that is shattered. Later on, i decided to root my Android phone with KingRoot on kingroot.net and it was fast and easy. I didn't know what to do after, my friend told me about it and you can do many things with root. My phone was successfully rooted. I was browsing Google Play untill i saw an app that says "boot animations" I was like "Cool, gonna test it out" so it did install and i opened it. It has a ton of animations and i chose one to be as my boot animation. Unfortuanately, I so stupid forgot to backup the previous original (Motorola boot animation). It now takes a bit longer to boot up (idk whether it was the animation itself, or the fact that my phone is now rooted). I decided to uninstall the root, hoping the boot animation was gone(also kinda blurry). Well it did not, but i was like whatever. Phone still worked fully, and decided to stuck it up with that boot animation.
Now that my phone is unrooted, i decided to root it again since it did not work. I tried to install an app that AdAway and it did work. Ads were gone and i was happy.
Until. A motorola screen popped up saying it has a system update. I forgot what the update is about. All i remember is something do with "stabilizing and other stuff" and takes about 10 min.
So I did install it, phone off'd and on with an android logo with a progress bar. After it was complete A picture of an android lying down with an exclamation mark saying "Error". I was like wtf, what happened. I couldn't boot up my device because of this error. I off'd my phone and then on'd it again. It now says "no command." with the same android guy. I gave up and tried to "wipe data and personalized content" "THIS CANNOT BE UNDONE" so i just accepted it. I off'd my phone and boot it up. There was an infinite boot loop, and tried to do as much as i could. But it always led to this(phone on's then offs a few seconds later then on a few seconds later and a few seconds later An android guy says"Erasing..."few seconds later phone off's again. REPEAT!" It was like this and left it the entire night with a cable charged to it so it will not die. So its now unusable and i do not know wtf i should do. The same friking Android guy saying "erasing" i dont think its erasing because when i hold the (power button + Volume up) it says "data wipe complete". It was just repeating over and over and over again with the say frikin vibration everytime it turns on. Tried to Enter Factory, Recover, normal recovery, wipe data again. Basically i did everything that was reasonable that would fix this boot loop. HELP PLS!
Sorry have bad english.