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[Q] rebooted jellybean now left with screwdriver and spanner icon

hi there
after successfully installing the JB updated on my unlocked phone and all was running fine for a while
that is until I rebooted it this morning, now the stupid thing wont start. I am stuck at the triangle iconwith the screwdirver and spanner, and the 'progress' bar below..
clearly it is not progressing as it been like that for over an hour now
also tried clearing cahce/dalvik to no avail
any options here or do I have to ftf my way back to ICS?
any help very much appreciated
thanks
nat

You just need to format your internal sd card and all should be fine, it's a fairly common issue
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matt4321 said:
You just need to format your internal sd card and all should be fine, it's a fairly common issue
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actually I had left it alone for an hour or so and it seems to have come back to life again..
although it has lost my security settings and all the haptic feedback has turned itself back on again
lost my swiftkey settings also it seems
piece of shizzle
EDIT: in fact it refuses to keep any security settings at all, no lock screen nothing.
lost all my texts everything, f*cking cr*p
walkman isnt working either
wondering why i bothered upgrading cant actually see any difference really other than a more colorful boot image. hoping that the battery life will improve as that is rubbish - I know it takes a while to settle.

matt4321 said:
You just need to format your internal sd card and all should be fine, it's a fairly common issue
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No No No don't format anything. That would make you loose all data and apps. Let it be. It will fix itself. Could take between 5 minutes and 3 hours. It is not an error or a problem or anything. Its just getting ready.
But if you really really need it to boot, yes you can format internal.
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xda-nat said:
actually I had left it alone for an hour or so and it seems to have come back to life again..
although it has lost my security settings and all the haptic feedback has turned itself back on again
lost my swiftkey settings also it seems
piece of shizzle
EDIT: in fact it refuses to keep any security settings at all, no lock screen nothing.
lost all my texts everything, f*cking cr*p
walkman isnt working either
wondering why i bothered upgrading cant actually see any difference really other than a more colorful boot image. hoping that the battery life will improve as that is rubbish - I know it takes a while to settle.
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I don't know why it screwed up your settings buddy maybe due to a small flashing error. Flash again and you will see the difference in the upgrade. Battery life is amazing. I can get two days if i switch off data, and 1.5 days with data always on. Plus multitasking is smoother and the camera has HDR, the Xperia Z's ClearAudio+ engine, notification toggles, a sexy new Album, blah blah. You'll find out.
Oh and you did the right thing by letting it be with the white triangle sign.

I don't know why it screwed up your settings buddy maybe due to a small flashing error. Flash again and you will see the difference in the upgrade. Battery life is amazing. I can get two days if i switch off data, and 1.5 days with data always on. Plus multitasking is smoother and the camera has HDR, the Xperia Z's ClearAudio+ engine, notification toggles, a sexy new Album, blah blah. You'll find out.
Oh and you did the right thing by letting it be with the white triangle sign.
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its an Xperia T I have in case that wasn't clear...
so I installed it from a zip in the end, rather than an ftf as flashtool was playing sillybuggers.
I should just go in to recovery and do so again? presumably along with the JB GApps
like I say it was working fine after the first time I did that, but when I turned it off this morning it went all manky
I would however like to keep some of my settings for the apps that havent already had their settings raped.. is titanium the best way to do that? or to move things to SD card and reinstall or something
also home button not functioning- at all
the no screen lock is a big issue as I have my work emails on there - if I lost my phone I would really get in trouble

xda-nat said:
its an Xperia T I have in case that wasn't clear...
so I installed it from a zip in the end, rather than an ftf as flashtool was playing sillybuggers.
I should just go in to recovery and do so again? presumably along with the JB GApps
like I say it was working fine after the first time I did that, but when I turned it off this morning it went all manky
I would however like to keep some of my settings for the apps that havent already had their settings raped.. is titanium the best way to do that? or to move things to SD card and reinstall or something
also home button not functioning- at all
the no screen lock is a big issue as I have my work emails on there - if I lost my phone I would really get in trouble
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OK just installed the ROM zip (timin8r's one) again and its still utterly screwed.
can someone recommend a different one that I might be able to get working.
please....
thanks
nat

thedisturbedone said:
No No No don't format anything. That would make you loose all data and apps. Let it be. It will fix itself. Could take between 5 minutes and 3 hours. It is not an error or a problem or anything. Its just getting ready.
But if you really really need it to boot, yes you can format internal.
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Most the app stuff is on /data not /sdcard so you'll be fine, some of the data made by apps will be in /sdcard/android but there isn't much there as most is in /data/data so if you backup /sdcard/android you'll be fine, you may as well backup your whole sdcard and format, that's the solution I used and most people have been using. If in doubt use titanium backup to also backup your apps if you're unsure

xda-nat said:
OK just installed the ROM zip (timin8r's one) again and its still utterly screwed.
can someone recommend a different one that I might be able to get working.
please....
thanks
nat
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I believe the best way is to use a ftf file with flashtool. I have not tried any zipped roms. They might be faulty. And Titanium Backup is the app to use to backup apps. Moving things to SD card is useless as they will be removed when you install a new rom. Always make sure you do a full wipe when you flash a new rom, and flash the kernel before flashing the rom.

xda-nat said:
hi there
after successfully installing the JB updated on my unlocked phone and all was running fine for a while
that is until I rebooted it this morning, now the stupid thing wont start. I am stuck at the triangle iconwith the screwdirver and spanner, and the 'progress' bar below..
clearly it is not progressing as it been like that for over an hour now
also tried clearing cahce/dalvik to no avail
any options here or do I have to ftf my way back to ICS?
any help very much appreciated
thanks
nat
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I had the screwdriver a few days ago, I freaked out so much because I putted Xperia T ftf and installed app's and then Reboot the device and then boom it showed the screwdriver... I was freaking out, So I went to 3 store's while the device was on.. and then later that day it randomly turned on properly.. Flash att ftf and the put back the jelly bean ftff

[Q] my xperia x8 turns on and off again and again

Hello everyone.
I just got my xperia x8 from my brother because he didn't know how to fix it.
The phone seems like it has not even a scratch.
The issue is that everytime i turn it on it is just turning on and off and on and off again and again.
I don't even have time to input my pin.
The battery always seems to be drained although i charge it occasionally.
I have updated it's os with pc companion, but it keeps doing the same thing.
Is there anything that i can do to fix it?

Mr Skatosakoulas said:
Hello everyone.
I just got my xperia x8 from my brother because he didn't know how to fix it.
The phone seems like it has not even a scratch.
The issue is that everytime i turn it on it is just turning on and off and on and off again and again.
I don't even have time to input my pin.
The battery always seems to be drained although i charge it occasionally.
I have updated it's os with pc companion, but it keeps doing the same thing.
Is there anything that i can do to fix it?
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try to flash stock frimware through flash tools(this wipes the data & reinstalls the system partition)
Normally flashing fixes all software fault but if your hardware is damaged so you shouldnt be hopeful.
I think its a sw problem but even an empty battery can cause exactly the same react.(put another battery then try flashtools)
Hope i could help you
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Mr Skatosakoulas said:
Hello everyone.
I just got my xperia x8 from my brother because he didn't know how to fix it.
The phone seems like it has not even a scratch.
The issue is that everytime i turn it on it is just turning on and off and on and off again and again.
I don't even have time to input my pin.
The battery always seems to be drained although i charge it occasionally.
I have updated it's os with pc companion, but it keeps doing the same thing.
Is there anything that i can do to fix it?
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Did he do any modifacations to the software?
If not, seems like a battery problem to me. Anyway try to flash stock rom.
Btw your username is...

stamatis said:
Did he do any modifacations to the software?
If not, seems like a battery problem to me. Anyway try to flash stock rom.
Btw your username is...
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that's our little greek secret... no modifications to the software but he kinda had troubles with this mobile for the whole period of time he owned it.he didn't receive messages in the particular device as far as i can remember. the battery doesn't seem to have anything wrong though.it is just sliiiightly puffed but nothing that alerting.i mean i havent charged it for a long time and it can still power the mobile's "neverending loop". if there was a problem wouldnt it not turn on at all or something? i don't have an extra battery and i'm thinking of getting through with the flash stock romafter i charge it a bit.. should i? and if yes, how? i've never done that (a guide would be great )

Mr Skatosakoulas said:
that's our little greek secret... no modifications to the software but he kinda had troubles with this mobile for the whole period of time he owned it.he didn't receive messages in the particular device as far as i can remember. the battery doesn't seem to have anything wrong though.it is just sliiiightly puffed but nothing that alerting.i mean i havent charged it for a long time and it can still power the mobile's "neverending loop". if there was a problem wouldnt it not turn on at all or something? i don't have an extra battery and i'm thinking of getting through with the flash stock romafter i charge it a bit.. should i? and if yes, how? i've never done that (a guide would be great )
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=35338935&postcount=2

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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=35338935&postcount=2
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links don't work. i found the stock rom. all i need now is flashtools. Working link anyone?

I got it done. i flashed it succesfuly and was able to work with it while connected to my laptop. once i unplugged it, it went off after 2 minutes. Now all i have to do is buy a new battery.Thank you guys. i just got a free x8 from my stupid brother

[Q] Wiered Xperia T bootloop issue

OK, so I was having issues with CM11 where once my Xperia t had booted I would just about have the chance to unlock the screen, mess about with it for about 30 seconds and then reboot. So I thought OK CM is obviously just a bit buggy and it was a nightly anyway plus it would really eat my battery, so I made the decision of flashing back to pure stock firmware (4.3 9.2.A.1.205) I told flashtool to format just about everything (APPSLOG, CACHE, DATA, PARTITION (internal storage), KERNEL, FOTA and SYSTEM). After doing so, I setup my phone (went through the setup wizard, logged into google, downloaded some apps etc.) and about 10 Mins later the same thing happened that happened on CM (successful boot, unlocked screen did a few things and it crashed again). So then I was confused.
I've tried several other ROMS (Liquid Smooth, Pure AOSP, PureXT (custom sony ROM), all have the same problem so the issue seems to be persistent. So I assumed it must be a hardware problem (i.e. putting pressure on CPU causes phone to reboot) but my phone doesn't crash or do anything strange when I'm in recovery, I can successfully complete backup and restore operations that take about 10 Minutes give or take.
I have also relocked/unlocked the bootloader several times, no difference
So basically the bottom line is this is a really strange problem that appears to be persistent with any rom, I couldn't find anyone with the same issue (quick google search and a search under the XDA Q&A thread for this phone didn't seem to return anything similar). So I'm wondering if anyone else has experienced something similar or can help me because I'm really confused .
Help would be much appreciated Thanks.
YanN509

You already did everything should be done for trying to solve this kind of issues.
It seems your hardware is broken....
Lock your bootloader and try to repair using your warranty if you have one

istux said:
You already did everything should be done for trying to solve this kind of issues.
It seems your hardware is broken....
Lock your bootloader and try to repair using your warranty if you have one
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Yeah I suppose a hardware problem is the only thing that makes sense, I just wasn't sure since Recovery still works but I guess recovery doesn't fully utilise the phones resources. My warranty is out of date (Had the phone for about 15 months now) guess I should probably start saving up for a Z2
Thanks for your help
YanN509

YanN509 said:
Yeah I suppose a hardware problem is the only thing that makes sense, I just wasn't sure since Recovery still works but I guess recovery doesn't fully utilise the phones resources. My warranty is out of date (Had the phone for about 15 months now) guess I should probably start saving up for a Z2
Thanks for your help
YanN509
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Since you don't have warranty anymore, you could try to replace the battery with a new one before changing phone...
There have been so many broken batteries with this device... Just an idea...

istux said:
Since you don't have warranty anymore, you could try to replace the battery with a new one before changing phone...
There have been so many broken batteries with this device... Just an idea...
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Hi
Yes I think it may either be the battery or the CPU because under light use the phone is (kind of) fully functional, it only seems to happen when it is processing a lot and gets warm. This would probably explain why it doesn't reboot in recovery.
But yes it would be worth getting another battery for it since a new one is only about £15 on UK Amazon so thanks for the heads up.

Before you get a battery can you try open Emma please, it may not help but may do, I've explained how to change a battery in another thread have a look around
"To give up is a sign of your weaknesses, but to keep going is a sign of madness"

neosnake991 said:
Before you get a battery can you try open Emma please, it may not help but may do, I've explained how to change a battery in another thread have a look around
"To give up is a sign of your weaknesses, but to keep going is a sign of madness"
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I would do if Emma worked with the Xperia T
But thanks for your help anyway,
YanN509

Haha it does, 'Open Emma' works with all Sony xperias as it's Sony's software for unlocked bootloaders
"To give up is a sign of your weaknesses, but to keep going is a sign of madness"

neosnake991 said:
Haha it does, 'Open Emma' works with all Sony xperias as it's Sony's software for unlocked bootloaders
"To give up is a sign of your weaknesses, but to keep going is a sign of madness"
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Unfortunately a lot of (LT30p) Xperia T owners just get the same strange error in Emma: "The service has been deleted or your access has been revoked."
YanN509

YanN509 said:
Unfortunately a lot of (LT30p) Xperia T owners just get the same strange error in Emma: "The service has been deleted or your access has been revoked."
YanN509
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Ahh OK, weird that as it's OK for me lol
"To give up is a sign of your weaknesses, but to keep going is a sign of madness"

Hey I'm back,
Just got my battery come through and the problem still exists, my best bet is that there is probably an issue with the battery terminals and probably something beyond repair.
So I think with that I'm officially declaring this phone DEAD .
Thanks for your help any ways guys, I'm probably gonna wrap up this thread now.
YanN509

Heating Problem

Hello Guys, I have an Xperia Z1 with lollipop 5.1.1. It recently has started to heat up very fast and the performance is also not as good as before. Can anybody please tell me till what temperature is it okay for the phone to go and any solution to the problem which really works. Thanks in advance

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Hello Guys, I have an Xperia Z1 with lollipop 5.1.1. It recently has started to heat up very fast and the performance is also not as good as before. Can anybody please tell me till what temperature is it okay for the phone to go and any solution to the problem which really works. Thanks in advance
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hi, max temp for z1 may be till 50 degrees celcius, you can search on the net about it and dont worry, your phone will auto shutdown when reach max temp.
to fix this problem you can disable app not use or debloat ur rom.

Thanks for the reply. I am getting some lags recently because of the phone getting hot. And please tell me what do you mean by debloating of rom

Ripul01 said:
Thanks for the reply. I am getting some lags recently because of the phone getting hot. And please tell me what do you mean by debloating of rom
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Don't worry about your phone temperature everything's fine the phone is built to resist.
The easiest explanation of debloating is "Removing useless apps from your phone"
(that will probably be installed from your vendor and cannot be removed-uninstalled)

Ripul01 said:
Thanks for the reply. I am getting some lags recently because of the phone getting hot. And please tell me what do you mean by debloating of rom
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thnx @UltraWelfare
you must root to debloat your rom, manual way , using file manager app, like root xplorer
debloat list safe to remove here
Using flashable zip here
credit: @moly82

Hi,
My Z1 only ever got really warm (I wouldn't say it was overheating) when it was syncing Google photos, i.e. backing them up, or rechecking after a reset. or when my memory card got a bit corrupted (was a bad memory card.)
I found that reformatting the memory card in my phone, after backing up whatever I wanted to keep, stopped it from getting warm again. From what I've read, I think the media scanner was having problems getting 'past' the corruption/s.
If you have a memory card, back it up onto a computer, format the card in your phone, using your phone to do so, then copy back whatever media and files you want. This really worked for me. If you don't have an SD card, then backup whatever you want from your phone, and do a full wipe, including internal memory by factory resetting it. Restart it, and let it settle. It will get warm on reboot, and after you sign in, while it's resyncing everything, but it should then settle down.
Sometimes I found that Google services would be going nuts too, reason really unknown, but it used to do it once in a while, and the phone would get pretty warm. I don't know if this was something Google was upto, or if it was related to the SD card issue.
All in all, my Z1 was pretty well behaved, especially when you compare it to how hot the later phones can get, like the Z5. You can almost fry eggs on that at times lol.

Thank you all I will definitely try to debloat my rom but is it okay for the device to go till 45°C only when you are just browsing. And it shows a lot of lags - even if you write a message it will hang in between.

And I would also like to mention that I have just got my screen replaced and is it possible that if the guy who did it might have messed up and thats why my phone is overheating?

try to clean install latest version
this should fix this issue,
or use custom roms , they are already debloated and include fixes.
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And I would also like to mention that I have just got my screen replaced and is it possible that if the guy who did it might have messed up and thats why my phone is overheating?
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maybe im wrong but i dont think it is related to the heating, most of the heat come from the cpu
but does your screen heat up or the back of your phone?

Both the screen and the back heat up pretty fast

Ripul01 said:
Both the screen and the back heat up pretty fast
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so try to clean install latest stock rom to check if it is a software issue or not.
clean install means to wipe everything in phone(no need to wipe internal data but if you do it is better)
and install stock rom using flashtools
if your phone still warm up, then it is probably a hardware issue
P.S: use your new rom for hours, at first maybe it heat up,

Issues upon issues upon more issues!

I may be the lucky one whose screen didn't start to peel off yet,but f*ck me this phone is starting to really piss me off.
Everything worked well after I have gone to SLiMM 1.4(way before) and as I was upgrading SLiMM versions it was slower and slower to the point where the phone is unusable!
So I thought,let's try to do a good old phone reset,reflash the ROM and go from the beginning.
I restored the apps,rebooted the phone and it was STILL painfully slow,so I resetted it again but this time restoring half the apps and half the Xposed modules I have used before.
It improved a tiny bit but nothing significant.
So I thought it is finally time to unlock the bootloader and see if there is any good AOSP ROMs,as the first one I tried was AOSP 7.1.1.
Fastest ROM I have used by far,the biggest problem,my device gets very hot from loading Messenger and jumping back to Snapchat and in AOSP 7.1.1 it would stop charging the phone because of the high temperature and this was quite a big issue.
So after using it for 2 weeks,I couldn't handle the charging thing anymore,so next best thing was Sony Concept ROM.
I install the ftf,goes well,install the recovery,install DRM fix,SuperSU and Xposed.
After rebooting I notice that Xposed didn't install properly so I jump back and flash it again,and the problem now was it would get like VERY VERY hot(you couldn't touch it) when it came to the "Android is starting" screen and of course the device started rebooting itself because it was way too hot.
So what I did was put the phone on a bag of f*cking ice to keep it cool,and it FINALLY passed that screen,only to find out a second later it returned to the bootanimation and gone into a bootloop.
Now I reflashed the ftf,but before even booting the ROM for the first time I flashed recovery,Xposed,SuperSU and the DRM fix.
It booted up fine,so I started to restore my apps and everything went well until I rebooted my device to find out it doesn't want to log in to Snapchat,the app I use very often.
So I flashed Magisk,systemless Xposed just that I can hide the root from it and disable Xposed just to log in to my account.
Even that didn't work so fine I'll try it next day.
So I decide to reboot the phone quickly and it has gone into the "Android is starting" screen and shut off in the half of the process. F*cking pissed.
I cool the phone down,boot it up,wait for it to finish and when it was close to finishing it has gone into a bootloop,and wiping cache doesn't solve it.
It is currently in a bootloop as we speak.
I really do like the phone but why is it behaving so badly? I do not know if someone had a similar experience as I did.
If anyone could give me a suggestion to make my phone stable and functional,please write a post since I need my phone to work.

Flash original android rom/kernel to the device to make device fully stock. Once it is back to stock, if problems still continue i recomend sell device and buy new one.. On my xperia, display stopped working out of blue, replaced it and my camera became blurry and vibration motor stopped working... Opened it again, fixed vibration motor, now it waits another opening to replace battery and camera lens... Disaster, but hey, device is great in hw department..

Strmy said:
Flash original android rom/kernel to the device to make device fully stock. Once it is back to stock, if problems still continue i recomend sell device and buy new one.. On my xperia, display stopped working out of blue, replaced it and my camera became blurry and vibration motor stopped working... Opened it again, fixed vibration motor, now it waits another opening to replace battery and camera lens... Disaster, but hey, device is great in hw department..
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I forgot to mention,every time I said reset the phone I actually did flash the stock ftf and set it up all on my own,but whatever.
I guess it is just bad luck.

Dinkec27 said:
I forgot to mention,every time I said reset the phone I actually did flash the stock ftf and set it up all on my own,but whatever.
I guess it is just bad luck.
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Jebiga mi Hrvati imamo lose srece sa mobitelima hahah
More luck next time

Dinkec27 said:
I forgot to mention,every time I said reset the phone I actually did flash the stock ftf and set it up all on my own,but whatever.
I guess it is just bad luck.
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internal memory is failing.

bookworth said:
internal memory is failing.
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Awesome

bookworth said:
internal memory is failing.
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Awesome
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Exactly, I suggest the same issue. I had exactly the same problem on my Xperia T, it became slower, slower, incredibly slow after three years so I couldn't even flash anything using flashtool - it was showing many errors. Even after factory resetting the phone, it was booting and setting up for like... two hours or more, becoming VERY hot but it finally booted, still was very slow.
Two solutions - warranty or selling it.

romcio47 said:
Exactly, I suggest the same issue. I had exactly the same problem on my Xperia T, it became slower, slower, incredibly slow after three years so I couldn't even flash anything using flashtool - it was showing many errors. Even after factory resetting the phone, it was booting and setting up for like... two hours or more, becoming VERY hot but it finally booted, still was very slow.
Two solutions - warranty or selling it.
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It just doesn't make sense to me that the internal memory could be failing just under a year...
I cannot go for warranty since I voided it with unlocking the bootloader,and selling it is not an option because I am on a contract currently and I can only sell it once it expires and then get a new phone to renew my contract.
If it is internal memory,it is a second tine in a row,before I had the Galaxy S3 and it had the same symptoms,it looks like I'm prone to internal memory failures lol

Is there a way I can test the internal memory?