I had trouble with my Fire tablet running very slow after adding Google play store support via Fire Toolbox. It worked fine for awhile and then slowed way down. I had the same experience a while back after side loading the Google play store. which was fixed with by resetting to factory settings.
When starting up the login screen would show up and not allow touch input. Most of the time the start screen seemed to restart one or more times before I could get the number pad to show up. Then it would take forever to get to the main screen. The device responded slowly and if I started an app it would often drop back to the login screen.
I tried to do another factory reset and it would not work. The screen would get to the Fire logo with the flashing red lights and not go further. Left it on overnight and now it will not power up at all. Dark scree and no response.
Is there any way to get past the dead screen and possibly reboot it?
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Hello everyone. I have had my Droid Bionic since day one and I have never had an issue with it. It has been wonderful.
Until today. I am on the stock OS. I had a Live Wallpaper that showed a little Android figure that melts based on the percentage of my battery. I went into my Gallery and clicked on "Set As Wallpaper" on an image I took with my camera on the phone.
At the bottom of the phone, a small popup showed up that said "COMPLETED". When I went to the home screen, there was no wallpaper in the background. It was just black, though the icons were still there and it was responsive. I thought maybe the image was corrupt, so I went and tried another image.
This caused the phone to reboot. When it rebooted, there was a notification bar, the time, the lock screen, and a thing that said No Signal. I tried to unlock it, but the phone was unresponsive.
Then I got a text message, even though I had no signal. The notification light was blinking. I could not unlock the phone. I hit the sleep button, and it went to sleep. I tried hitting it again, and it would not wake up.
I tried pulling the battery and putting it back in, and now it won't properly boot. Right when it boots, it goes to sleep (the little shutdown animation). I texted myself from my sister's phone and the notification light blinks, the phone vibrates, and the screen turns on and shows I have a text on the notification bar. The screen and the buttons are completely unresponsive, however.
I tried calling myself from my home line and I could pick up the call just fine and end the call. I could not, however, go back to the home screen while on the call. The capacitive buttons on the bottom were completely unresponsive. When I hung up the call (by touch), it went to a completely black screen with the notification bar showing that I had some text messages and the time and my service, etc.
I have rebooted the phone five times now by removing the battery and it keeps going to this. I have never rooted the phone (I wouldn't even know how to) and I am concerned because of all of the information that I have saved on the phone.
Yes I have tried removing the SD card. Didn't help.
Any suggestions? :/
UPDATE: Now the phone doesn't even boot, it gets stuck at the Red Eye spinning logo. It vibrates twice and the notification light begins blinking, meaning it is letting me know that I have received text messages... but it isn't actually booting to the Android home screen. Really strange...
You should fxz back to stock
It will wipe your application data but not you're sdcard info or internal storage
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Hard reset using all three external buttons
Try doing a hard reset - it's one of those things they only tell you about at the Verizon store when you're stuck:
Once you have the phone on and at least responsive, press and hold BOTH volume keys, then hold the power button down for 10 seconds (it's really about 6, but 10 will do it for sure). This procedure can also be done to force a reboot when you load a gnarly application that sux and locks your phone up - without having to disassemble everything and pull the battery.
Hopefully with any luck, you're phone will do a back-flip and come up!
Hello,
I hope someone can help me resolve the issue i face with my kindle fire hd 7
The device was not rooted, and no parental password was set. The only protection was set is screen pin
The device was unused for several months, so the battery got completely discharged. Now I charged the device and booted it. And all I get is a big lock on the screen, a line where i can put the code, and it says "Enter your boot password", and the keyboard below it.
Needless to say I do not have a boot password. I tried resolving the issue following Amazon instructions to get to factory reset by entering the code 5 times, but i do not get a factory reset prompt.
Tried to get into factory reset boot by pressing Volume Down and Power buttons, it did not work at first. But at the end I got a screen with an triangle and exclamation mark in it, and a message saying the device is unable to boot. There were two options: Reboot device, and reset to factory settings. I selected the reset to factory settings, and the device gave me a second screen with bunch of No and one Yes
I selected Yes, and pressed Power button. So the device was rebooting with a message KindleFire and a line under it for about 5 minutes, and at the end it went back to the huge Lock screen with the prompt to enter boot password.
Amazon support were completely helpless. I spoke with 3 tech people there, neither know what to do. They keeps saying Kindle does not have boot password. So I am quite lost here and will appreciate any help
Thanks
I spoke with Amazon again, now they are claiming my Kindle is rooted, and that it is asking for boot password because a different BIOS was installed. I don't see how it is possible, there were only a few books on that kindle and it was not even connected to the network. I get the feeling Amazon has no clue what is going on and just want to get rid of me and my pesky issue.
I'd like to entertain the possibility of the device being rooted. Is it possible to overload a default Kindle version somehow?
In order for your device to work, you must perform a factory reset from recovery mode. It is a little bit tricky, but it will work. So, let's get started:
In order to get into recovery mode, you need to do the following keys combinations:
Push Power button + volume down key until you see the kindle logo. As soon as it appears, take your hand of the power butoon and quickly push twice the volume down button. After that, hold the volume down button pushed and your device will boot in recovery mode. Please take notice, that you need to do these steps fairly quickly in order for it to work. Then you need to select factory reset and yes. That's all.
Didn't work for me, still asking for boot password.
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any luck?
has anyone managed to fix this issue as i have a kindle fire 7 hd 2013 soho with the same issue, have a fastboot cable but havent had any joy fixing it, have tried firerooter and a few other commands.
Once your kindle fire gets the Enter Boot Password, it is toast. You have a brick on your hands. Amazon support cannot help you, and a factory reset does not work. It's an internal flaw or error, and sadly, Amazon does not address this publicly. If your Kindle fire is not under warranty, the best they can offer is a discount (and not a very deep one) on your next kindle.
i have a Kindle Fire 7 HD that is trash now because it is asking for the Boot Password and of course Amazon is saying too bad...i am trying to find the notebook app i had on it to see if i can recover it on my other android tablet....does anyone know the name of the notebook app that was in this kindle fire 7 hd?
I have been having problems opening my device for months now because the power button isn't working anymore for me. So when I open my Kindle I just usually plug the charger. Then one day, I don't know what happened, when I opened my device it was so slow and the launcher (original) is always not responding. So when I finally manage to go to Settings > Device > Restore Factory settings... my account was deregistered and I waited for it to reboot. When it did, it was the same. I didn't think that the Reset settings I did, worked. My power button is broken, right? So what I did next, I opened the back case of the device and tried to push the power button with a pin, then all of a sudden it restarted and ended up being stuck with the Kindle Fire logo. Anyone could help me with this problem? I'm still hoping that it could still be fixed. Please reply, any help would be much appreciated. (My KFHD is the first gen btw)
and I couldn't reboot again the device, it's still stuck with the logo
So I can't boot my phone. Previously stable h811, unlocked bootloader running latest 20i Extreme 3.3 MM with G4 Tweaksbox. I have a Qi/NFC sticker on the back, but which has worked flawlessly and was not in use when the phone died. Here's what happened and what I have attempted.
Problem began when phone simply went black. The only thing running was Maps, which had a route displayed but was not in navigation mode. The screen went dark like normal, and when I went to wake the phone, nothing happened. I was in the car and tried plugging in the car charger and did not get a charge light. Pulled the battery and was unable to get a response. The phone and battery were quite warm.
When I got home, I tried a different battery, and the screen turned on to the LG initial boot screen, but nothing else happened.
After many battery pulls and attempts to boot into recovery, I tried it with the phone plugged into the computer. Finally, it showed the charging screen and light, and after several more attempts- pulling the battery and inserting it, then powering on, it appeared to be booting, (boot animation started, but then looped and froze on the initial boot screen (with bootloader state: bootloader unlocked in the upper corner). After another round of attempt/battery pull, it booted all the way up, but at that point I had my sim pulled. Pulled the battery and tried to restart and it froze on the initial boot screen again. Haven't been able to get into recovery at all, can't get into download, can't boot past the initial LG screen. Sometimes it loops, sometimes it just hangs. Nothing I do pressing combos of buttons, plugged into computer or unplugged, seems to change anything. The very farthest I've gotten is the breathe blue light before the boot animation, but then it looped. Now it's boot looping plugged into the computer.
Any ideas? I'm at a total loss.
bdportil said:
So I can't boot my phone. Previously stable h811, unlocked bootloader running latest 20i Extreme 3.3 MM with G4 Tweaksbox. I have a Qi/NFC sticker on the back, but which has worked flawlessly and was not in use when the phone died. Here's what happened and what I have attempted.
Problem began when phone simply went black. The only thing running was Maps, which had a route displayed but was not in navigation mode. The screen went dark like normal, and when I went to wake the phone, nothing happened. I was in the car and tried plugging in the car charger and did not get a charge light. Pulled the battery and was unable to get a response. The phone and battery were quite warm.
When I got home, I tried a different battery, and the screen turned on to the LG initial boot screen, but nothing else happened.
After many battery pulls and attempts to boot into recovery, I tried it with the phone plugged into the computer. Finally, it showed the charging screen and light, and after several more attempts- pulling the battery and inserting it, then powering on, it appeared to be booting, (boot animation started, but then looped and froze on the initial boot screen (with bootloader state: bootloader unlocked in the upper corner). After another round of attempt/battery pull, it booted all the way up, but at that point I had my sim pulled. Pulled the battery and tried to restart and it froze on the initial boot screen again. Haven't been able to get into recovery at all, can't get into download, can't boot past the initial LG screen. Sometimes it loops, sometimes it just hangs. Nothing I do pressing combos of buttons, plugged into computer or unplugged, seems to change anything. The very farthest I've gotten is the breathe blue light before the boot animation, but then it looped. Now it's boot looping plugged into the computer.
Any ideas? I'm at a total loss.
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Im bricked myself from another issue but i think there is a black screen of death issue with some of the g4s
Try to boot download mode and re flash stock kdz with Lg up tool
You will loose all data though.
Good luck on help here noones helped me at all .
The g4 is just not a good device or user friendly
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Black screen of death here too
Yesterday, I was using Chrome, site loading, screen just went black. I had about 1/2 battery at the time. I figured maybe the battery was just reporting wrong. When I got home, swapped batteries, same issue. I've been able to get into recovery and attempt a factory reset a couple of times (after many frustrating attempts.) The phone seems to only be able to be powered on for about 30 seconds before it goes black again. I'm going to attempt to fix with download mode now. If anyone else has solved a similar issue, any tips would be appreciated.
Hardware appears to be at fault!
Check this out, people!
http://www.androidauthority.com/lg-admits-g4-bootloop-problem-hardware-fault-669603/
Spread the word. Sounds like this is our problem. Apparently affecting mostly models with serial numbers starting 505xxxxx... which is what mine is. Called LG and they issued an RA# and shipping label to send it to them for service. I'm a little concerned since I didn't buy mine through a carrier, but this seems more like something of a soft recall than strictly a warranty issue, so I'm hoping they fix it no questions asked. I'll keep you guys posted on the progress.
Same thing happened to me today. My phone randomly shut off and it won't boot. Its stuck at the Android logo. I wasn't messing around with it. Just normal use (Snapchat, youtube). I tried booting into recovery but it just goes back to the android screen LG logo and keeps looping. I at least want to wipe the phone before I send it (personal info).
Same here. Mine has serial number starting 505, was purchased back at end of 5/2015 with not problems until this. I filled out the warranty repair form on LGs website and they sent me an RMA with label to get it fixed. I sent it in, they sent it back, and the only thing I see is on one sheet they printed out and included in the package said 'replaced board'. However, when I started up the phone it looked like new initialization with xx of yy apps initializing and then it began bootlooping with the LG splash screen. So frustrating!
So, this time I contacted t-mobile via their online chat, and did a warranty exchange through them. They will send me a replacement LG G4 next day ups air and I will send them the defective one for them to claim warranty themselves. We'll see where this goes. I might just take the replacement unit and do a tmobile jump exchange to another device. I wanted to wait for the new line of HTC nexus phones that are rumored for this year (and was loving the LG 4 until it died), but I might need to just jump twice this year and go for something like the new Samsung S7 of new LG G5 now and then again switch to HTC nexus once that comes out.
Sent mine to LG, and they fixed under warranty with no questions asked. Got it back within a week. All good now.
I just want to say first thank you for taking the time to read my story and helping.
Phone gets stuck on boot logo.
Before the phone died i was laying a game and playing a youtube video in the background and was getting a call through facebook messenger.
Then game freezed or crashed then tried to soft reset which worked sorta then when it came back i saw the no sim notif up top the status bar and i can’t seem to turn on wifi and a system ui not working popped up i chose close instead wait. Can’t remember if I turned it off or if it turned itself off.
I can access the volume up+down+power bootloader and the recovery menu.
I don’t want to factory reset as i have no back up and I don’t know how to recover deleted data and I fear everything won’t be recovered.