About 3-4 months ago I flashed stock ICS into my Galaxy S2 (I did not wipe the cache, which I discover today was a mistake). I noticed a few weeks later that it was a bit unstable, crashing, restarting, etc. I did not care much and just kept using it.
Today it just would not boot, so after 1 hour trying, I managed to keep it alive (using safe mode) long enough to go to setting and have a factory reset.
Then it would not boot again.
From there, I tried several times the factory reset and wipe cache (using volume up + home + power menu). It would sometimes hang on the "installing applications" until several restarts it would eventually go. Then it would hang randomly on startup "s" video, until I managed to get to the welcome screen - which freezes pretty much on the first or second screen (choosing language and date/time).
I flashed I9100GXXLPY_I9100GDBTLP3_DBT and got the same result.
The phone is not rooted, there is no clockwork and I can't even access the phone to put it into debug mode.
Anyone has any more idea of what can be done besides throwing it on the trash? :/
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First of all, I have the straight talk version of this phone. Second, here is everything I can do and what the phone does:
What I CAN do:
Enter CWM recovery (Though, sometimes it will crash instantly, the Power button will not work)
Enter download mode (Thanks to USB jig)
Use the phone (Max of 5 mins before the phone crashes.)
Fun information about the phone:
The Power button is a gamble. Sometimes it will work, sometimes it wont.
If I turn the phone on (Have to take battery out then put back in), and let it go to sleep. 9 times out of 10 the phone will crash.
CWM crashes...very often. Very often in this case can be defined as 'always'.
Here is what I HAVE done:
Attempted to flash the stock ROM
Factory reset
Wipe data and cache (Though, CWM crashed both times on these, don't know if it fully cleared them)
Here is what I attempted to do:
Perform a ROM wipe using a script from here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=38199542 (This was unsuccessful because everytime I try and do this, CWM crashes before I can start the process)
That ends that. I just want this boot loop to end...and restore functionality back to the power button (I'm thinking flashing back to the stock ROM will solve this). I have done nothing to cause this. The only thing that happened before the boot loop is the battery was low and when I turned the phone on (it was in sleep mode), I accidentally pressed the power button twice, which first froze the phone. Then, crashed the phone. Ever since then it was in a boot loop.
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My samsung s3 mini just freezed the other day while I was texting. I lost my patience after 5-10 minutes and pulled the battery. It started up again, and now it just reboots, runs about 1-2 minutes, reboot, runs another minute and continues so on... I was running full stock. No root what so ever.
If it's to any use, I can't delete anything on the phone when it's running. Photos, apps etc... It disappears at first but when the phone has rebooted again all the things that I deleted is still there.
Now here's the thing. It won't go into recovery mode. When I try, it freezes at the first screen, no yellow triangle showing.
Here's what i've tried:
- Flashing another kernel with odin. Tried to flash CWM, according to odin it's succesful, but it's the same thing as before when I try to boot in recovery mode. I also tried flashing a stock kernel but with same results.
- Flashing a stock ROM with odin. Same thing. Odin says it's succesful, but it's the same ROM as before the flash.
- Factory reset in settings on the phone (yeah, I tried doing a factory reset on those 2 minutes lol). When I click the delete button nothing happens.
I've searched the entire internet lol... No one seems to have the same problem as me.
What can I do?
Big thanks in advance.. :laugh:
Okay, here's the situation. I was playing Minecraft PE on a server. While I was playing, all of a sudden, my tab stopped working and froze. Then I reset (power button >5 seconds) the tab. After that, I was stuck on the splash screen (shows Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1). But I did set the settings to not show the boot animation during boot (this was a long time ago). I left it there for 2 hours++ and nothing happened. I even left it to drain until it shut down itself. I did a full charge, not working. I took out the battery overnight, not working. Only CWM recovery works. I tried to backup, but then was stuck on SettingsProvider.apk. I cleared cache and dalvik, not working. I didn't factory reset though as I will lose the entire Rom itself. I tried to sideload the rom on my pc, but Windows shows USB not recognized etc. I also tried going into download mode, but then same thing, windows does not recognize it. In ODIN, nothing shows up. I suspect a faulty cable, so I'll buy a new one. However, that couldn't make it bootloop in the first place. So I need help for this.. It has been almost a week. My ROM is SlimBean p4 20121211. Thanks in advance.
The phone is rooted and has a few Xposed modules installed; stock ROM.
I shut the phone down every night. When I wake up and turn it on, every now and again it gets into an infinite boot - not a bootloop (at least not in my understanding). It either stays on the LG logo or the Tmobile logo. Sometimes it boots just fine and quick, sometimes takes a minute longer. Other times I have to hold the Power + Volume Down for a few seconds to reboot it, and it boots fine after that. Yet other times, I have to get into the Factory Reset mode and rebuild the Dalvik cache form within TWRP, after which it boots fine.
The weird thing is that when nothing is changed from the moment it loops to the moment it boots fine; it may only be a reboot away. Granted, I do have (quite) a few things frozen and/or removed in Titanium Backup, but should it affect the boot?
Has anyone experienced anything like that?
Attached are the warnings and errors captured while LiveBoot was running. The lines go really fast, and Nexus 5 shutter isn't capable of going that quick (that's why you can see double lines in certain places). The phone booted after I switched to my swap battery.
Just an update, I restored the earliest Nandroid backup and instead of uninstalling these apps, I froze them in TB. No boot issues so far.
Another update. This morning the problem seems to be back, it was stuck on the T-Mobile logo. Although I can rebuild the cache, it's worse now, because I haven't disabled any LG or system apps since the last restore.
Update to this update: after the T-Mobile logo reboot, it now stuck again on the LG logo and took two 5-minute waits before reboots; it booted fine on the third (essentially, the fourth) reboot upon swapping the battery.
Does anyone else experience this?
i had my phone for about 2 years, it has been rooted ever since i got it and its running custom rom and custom recovery CM 13 on android 5.0.1 and TWRP . about a week ago i was charging my phone, when i unlocked it, i'm unable to go to the home screen because whenever i do that, google app crashed and the phone redirected me to the recently used app tabs, then i tried to reboot my phone and it went to safe mode but then i restarted it and its stuck on bootloop. so i let it be for a while, then it show the "android is starting" tab and "optimizing app number "xxx" out of "xxx" and after it finished, again it is stuck in CM's logo. however, then i put my phone to fastboot an restarted it and i dont know, it turned on again after 2 boot loops. a week after, my phone ran out of battery so i tried to turn it on but it wont , after reading threads on the internet, it suggested me to erase the cache and the dalvik cache. so i did and it turned on. today, i ran out of battery again and i erased both cache and dalvik cache, but it wont turn on.. i have no idea what's going on with my phone, and im a newbie so please go easy on me thank you.