Hi guys,
Funny thing happened today, taking the phone out of my pocket and in the process i manage to restart the phone and it has been restarting ever since......
Its a 1068, rooted with radium redefined MM rom. The phone has been great for 2 years and i had no issues until today.
So basically the phone continues to restart back to the unlocked bootloader screen and then restarts again.
Nothing i have down can actually switch it off, all manner of pressing sequences etc and for various lengths of time have no effect. You think okay i have it now....it's off.....but then 3 secs later it turns back on again, vibrates and does it all over again......
I ended up taking the phone apart and disconnecting the batter cable and left it for a while, plugged in the power only and then reconnected the battery hoping this would somehow help........but no.....the eternal boot loop continues.
No way to switch off the phone.
Can't access recovery via the power and volume keys
Can't access recovery via pc with adb
I read somewhere that with a low battery this boot loop thing has happened to others but i couldn't find the thread again and have no idea if there is a fix.
Anyone have some bright ideas ??????
Thanks in advance
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Hello All
I did search the forum and still not answer for the stranger reboot loop.
I got a phone call, and answered it. The reception was crappy and hear no voice. I then looked at the phone to see if call had dropped and it was frozed on the incoming call screen. I then pulled the battery and pressed the power button to turn on the phone and It would not power on. After multiple battery pulls and many many power button presses, still nothing. It was like it was out of battery. It was stitting on the home charger before i left the house. Prior to this the phone worked fine. Over the past week or two I had to do a battery pull may be 3 times.
I got to my car and plugged it into the charger and the orange charge led came on, on the front of the device. I then pressed the power button and it vibrate once as normal and then went to the multi-colored nexus "X." he screen went black and then vibrated once again and and was back at the mulit-colored "X." Then the loop starts.
In between the restarts I try to get it to boot into the bootloader by using the "vol down and power" and the "trackball and power button" and the white screen for the boot loader flashed for a milisecond the goes to black. As long as I hold the "vol down" button the while bootloeader or recovery screen flashes every 4-5 sec for a milisecond. As soon as I let go of one of those button, it automatically goes to the full reboot loop.
THis all happens when it is plugged into a power source. As soon as i unplug it, it goes back to the power button not responding. Again it acts as if it has no battery power. But it is in the 90%.
So i am unable to do any other step as in reflashing, and or doing a recovery.
ANY IDEAS any one.
I was running Cyanogen RC3. the latest rom with amon RA 1 7 1, korean radio 5.0.8
It was running perfectly up till today. when it went into its loop.
ANY HELP WOULD BE AWESOME
THanks in advance
DD
Plug it in to the USB, adb reboot recovery, reflash rom. Or even wipe and reflash if needed.
Sounds like it could be hardware the way you have to hold the keys down and you said it wasn't responding to the power button press.
ok thanks, ill give it a try.
here is my only issue. I am not using my original computer Mac. I just sent it out to apple for repair. So i am using my companies computer. I need to set up the AndroidSDK to be able to talk to the nexus. Since the phone will not turn on i can not load the drivers. and ive tried every way and it has not installed and i cant check because it wont stay on. it just goes to the loop. and it wont turn on if its not plugged to a power source.
Any ideas or suggestion.
SOrry I am an noob, so could you please be specific in your instructions.
I as of right now have insalled the Android SDK and i am unable to see the serial number (working on an old dell, running XP sp3) because it wont turn on.
It cant manually install the drivers because I cant turn the phone on to specify the drivers.
and
I using USBDeview, the phone also has to be on to erase all HTC previously installed drivers. i think. but there were none in the usb log...i think becuase they didnt install...agains because it would not power on...:-(
any ideas...please
DD
Also
Sorry excuse me if its a sort of a duhhh question...
even if i am able to load the device bridge, if the phone will not boot can i still flash another rom, or do a recovery. The phone is not getting past the Multi-colored "X" ???
DD
It should still read the commands when it's trying to boot. You don't need to turn the phone on at all to be able to install the ADB drivers, they are independent of each other.
As strange as it started, is a strange as it went.
This morning open the phone to pull the sd and the sim to put it in a throw down phone. I replaced the battery and cover and just hit the power button. The phone does a full boot and it appears to be working properly. the sd card and sim are fine. I the odd thing is i did this multiple times yesterday and last night. I pulled both sim and sd, replaced the battery and tried to boot with the same issues as named above with nothing different.
I left the phone on charge last night and it was charging for close to 8 hours and it was still showing the orange charging light.
So after it booted this morning, and i checked everything. It showed the same amount of charge as yesterday, right before it froze, which was 75%. So that is another strange occurance.
I plan on reflashing the rom and seeing how things go.
I thank you for your assistance and time.
appericate you helping out a clueless noob.
DD
I have tried to boot into bootloader couple times before on stock settings, with nothing flash or modified.
Whenever I tried to restart, it stuck on the black screen with no LED when plugged in, and it won't turn on or boot for about 10-15 min.
I was trying to solve this issue by wiping the entire phone but still happening. Now that I have tried TWRP with ARHD 12.1, the problem still there.
I have also tried fastboot erase cache, doesn't fix this issue either.
Tried to hold Volumn down / Power button for a long time, it still doesn't do anything until 10-15 mins after.
I assume that the device is still in process and somehow is getting stuck somewhere that it doesn't listen to the input anymore until there is signal shutting the whole thing down.
Since I couldn't pull out battery on HTC One, there is no way I can verified if that is the case.
Anyone else facing the same issue?
I am kind of sick and tired of sending back and forth for RMA, which I already did for dead pixels before.
shansoft said:
I have tried to boot into bootloader couple times before on stock settings, with nothing flash or modified.
Whenever I tried to restart, it stuck on the black screen with no LED when plugged in, and it won't turn on or boot for about 10-15 min.
I was trying to solve this issue by wiping the entire phone but still happening. Now that I have tried TWRP with ARHD 12.1, the problem still there.
I have also tried fastboot erase cache, doesn't fix this issue either.
Tried to hold Volumn down / Power button for a long time, it still doesn't do anything until 10-15 mins after.
I assume that the device is still in process and somehow is getting stuck somewhere that it doesn't listen to the input anymore until there is signal shutting the whole thing down.
Since I couldn't pull out battery on HTC One, there is no way I can verified if that is the case.
Anyone else facing the same issue?
I am kind of sick and tired of sending back and forth for RMA, which I already did for dead pixels before.
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try to hols power button and vol down under bright light....should help:good:
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try to hols power button and vol down under bright light....should help:good:
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Thanks for the help
I am under sunlight, thought that could have help, but it didn't....
I guess I will try flashlight next time..
but the problem still not solved, I do not want to get under the light every time when I am trying to make a restart on HTC One..
I found a pattern of this issue, it's seems to related to the USB connecting to a computer.
Somehow it won't let my phone shutdown properly and stuck with no screen showing.
Power button + volume won't work for about 10-15 min.
But it can boot back up after that 10-15 min normally. This is a strange issue.
It happened ever since I tried to access bootloader, but I have not change anything.
Hi all.
So my girlfriends S3 started something weird this morning.
Last night the battery ran flat, so obviously it was put on to charge. The phone was off while charging, but, instead of the constant icon of a battery charging, the icon would come up and disappear, and reappear, and never become fuller.
When we tried to start it up this morning, the Samsung GT-I9305 screen would come on, and then just disappear and reappear, same as the battery icon.
The phone has not been rooted, no custom roms have ever been attempted, it is as stock as the day we opened the box.
First we tried leaving the battery out for about 30 mins, same would still happen.
Then I removed toe sd and sim card, removed the battery, and tried starting with and without the sim card. The sd card has not been put back. Same thing would still happen.
After some searching, I tried getting into recovery mode by pressing and holding power, volume up and the home key. This worked once, where I chose the restart device option first, but since then I cannot get the recovery mode back again.
I read something about a 'safe mode' by pressing power, home and volume down. This gets me to a screen where I am asked if I want to continue, by pressing the volume up key, but no matter what I press, the device just goes back to the GT-I9305 screen looping.
I wonder if maybe trying a different battery would help?
Any other suggestions on how I could factory reset the device?
Sorry for my bad English
Hello friends of the forum, I present my problem. I was given to repair a S3 LTE really is driving me crazy. We'll explain: the owner did filth with ROM to the point to make it unusable. Turns on, but after a while it stops and turns itself off. I tried to flash the stock, wipe system etc .. from recovery and put back the stock, but every time I turn on the phone and get to the Initial Setup (the one that says Samsung GALAXY which allows choosing the language) crashes and off. Also known that the recovery is very very slow (both TWRP that stock that cwm). I managed to flash rom 2 including Cyanogenmod but this crashes. Sometimes the poor cell can not even start that hangs on and off. I tried to replace the battery with one that I already had and the situation does not change. I wanted to try to do an update of the bootloader because I think the problem is the. Further inform you that when it crashes but is charging if I remove the battery on the phone stays on but completely locked and I can not even press the power button for 3 seconds, because it is completely freezed. Another observation I have noticed is that if I leave him in charge when switched off the led solid red, the screen shows no signs of life and if the detachment micro usb LED remains lit sign that is completely blocked even when it is charging (WHILE TURNED OFF!). I hope you can help. I tried everything
Maybe it's power button problem.Check the power On/Off .
Hello forum,
I try not to post on forum for help unless I run out of options. I used to encounter loops before and managed to fix them but this one is really weird. So a bit of background : I was running stock ROM + TWRP recovery and everything seemed normal till one day when I encountered my first loop after opening up newly installed app ( although I don't think it relevant to this case ). But anyway, when I opened it, phone restarted itself immediately and kept doing it (didn't get pass the logo) for around 5 minutes when finally booted into the OS. After that everything seemed fine for...about a month when the same loops started to happen more and more often. They usually happen when phone has it screen turned off and I press power button to wake it up, it then gives me 3 seconds as If I would hold the power button and volume down button prompting me that it's about to restart itself. So I thought, that there has to be some junk apps that are fighting with each other causing these loops and I went for the recovery. But (stupid me) instead of wiping only the apps I got rid of the whole ROM with recovery ( ). So this time I flashed a custom ROM (ViperOne+9.0.0-fix) using ADB (adb push etc etc) and TWRP thinking that maybe the previous ROM was the issue. (I forgot to mention that even when there was no OS on the phone it was still looping.) After a while when the loops stopped, I got into the recovery and flashed ViperOne with no problems at all. Phone booted itself into the OS, everything seemed normal to the point where I left it for couple of minutes, pressed power button and it went into to eternal loop where it only stopped when the battery was drained. It was literally loopin the whole night (couldn't sleep). Now when I connect it to charge it doesn't go into charging but goes straight into the loop. I can get as far as the bootloader and selecting to go to recovery and after I press power button to select it, it goes into the loop. NOW..this might sound like there is a hardware issue (the power button) but I highly doubt it. Ill appreciate any kind of solutions. :silly: Thanks in advance.
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If I didnt make any sense here's video :
https://youtu.be/DhVFApSE3kg