Boot loop issue - HTC Droid DNA

So, ever since i updated to a 4.4 rom ive been having some boot loop issues. In the past i just had to plug the phone in and itd boot right up. But today it seems to have gotten into a pickle.
About every 7 or so seconds it reboots itself back to the white HTC splash screen. I can get into fastboot, but after a few seconds it reboots again, and i cant get into recovery at all because its rebooting so fast.
Any ideas on how to fix it, and any ideas on how to prevent it from happening in the future

Bigandrewgold said:
So, ever since i updated to a 4.4 rom ive been having some boot loop issues. In the past i just had to plug the phone in and itd boot right up. But today it seems to have gotten into a pickle.
About every 7 or so seconds it reboots itself back to the white HTC splash screen. I can get into fastboot, but after a few seconds it reboots again, and i cant get into recovery at all because its rebooting so fast.
Any ideas on how to fix it, and any ideas on how to prevent it from happening in the future
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Have you tried to factory reset>?

thayl0 said:
Have you tried to factory reset>?
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How would i do that? i cant get it into recovery, and i cant get it to stay in fastboot for more than a few seconds

Factory reset is in the bootloader. Can you get into that.

thayl0 said:
Factory reset is in the bootloader. Can you get into that.
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Thats what i mean by fastboot(my bad), so no. It reboots after just a few seconds

Bigandrewgold said:
Thats what i mean by fastboot(my bad), so no. It reboots after just a few seconds
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Is it possible without those few seconds to some how get it to reset.. If not there really isn't anything you can do. You'll half to take your phone for a replacement.
Only other thing your can try is to fastboot a RUU

Bigandrewgold said:
So, ever since i updated to a 4.4 rom ive been having some boot loop issues. In the past i just had to plug the phone in and itd boot right up. But today it seems to have gotten into a pickle.
About every 7 or so seconds it reboots itself back to the white HTC splash screen. I can get into fastboot, but after a few seconds it reboots again, and i cant get into recovery at all because its rebooting so fast.
Any ideas on how to fix it, and any ideas on how to prevent it from happening in the future
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Had this same problem, it can really be a pain to try to fix. Does the charging light come on when plugged in?

zach p said:
Had this same problem, it can really be a pain to try to fix. Does the charging light come on when plugged in?
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I helped you with your problem. <3

Bigandrewgold said:
How would i do that? i cant get it into recovery, and i cant get it to stay in fastboot for more than a few seconds
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Are you able to power it down completely by holding the power button or get into the bootloader by holding the volume down button?

durgis said:
Are you able to power it down completely by holding the power button or get into the bootloader by holding the volume down button?
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He already stated that

thayl0 said:
He already stated that
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Thanks, I didn't realize that the bootloader was rebooting as well. Sounds like he's got hardware issues.

Sounds like a hardware issue to me as well. You have a warranty? Otherwise you could try taking it apart and see if the battery has a bad connection or something. I have a feeling it's the soc or something like that though. I feel like the fact that it's happening since you updated to 4.4 is probably a coincidence.
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So, i feel that it may be my power button going bad in some way. Because before it goes into the bootloop the 3 hardware buttons flash, as if the power button is being held down, and ive found that to get out of the bootloop i can just 'pump' the power button

Bigandrewgold said:
So, i feel that it may be my power button going bad in some way. Because before it goes into the bootloop the 3 hardware buttons flash, as if the power button is being held down, and ive found that to get out of the bootloop i can just 'pump' the power button
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Holding the power button down always makes the buttons flash.

thayl0 said:
Holding the power button down always makes the buttons flash.
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no... it does it by itself, when im not touching the power button

Bigandrewgold said:
no... it does it by itself, when im not touching the power button
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Sorry misunderstood

Do you think, maybe, the power button is bad. I've seen a few reports of this.
Sounds to me like it's stuck, pressed. That would cause the repeated reboots, lights flashing, etc.
Edit-- I see you already suspect this is the problem. Never mind...

Well, i flashed back to a 4.3 sense rom yesterday and havent experienced the bootlooping issues since. For reference, before i switched back it got to the point that it was doing it twice an hour
So hopefully it is a software issue and not a hardware issue(knock on wood), id rather not go through the hassle of paying my deductible and getting a new phone

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[Q] I think it's bricked, can someone help?

So my Prime is completely stock from an OS standpoint. Not rooted, just a handful of apps. I got the JB firmware notification this morning and I went ahead and kicked it off. Things seemed fine and the android with the blue progress bar popped up after a reboot. I left it alone and when I came back it was sitting on the ASUS boot screen. It has been on that boot screen ever since. I let it sit that way for over an hour and finally tried to power it off. I can power it off but it automatically tries to restart and gets stuck on the ASUS screen again. Tried holding the volume button down during power cycle and no luck. Anyone have any ideas?
Thanks
xRedLeadrx said:
So my Prime is completely stock from an OS standpoint. Not rooted, just a handful of apps. I got the JB firmware notification this morning and I went ahead and kicked it off. Things seemed fine and the android with the blue progress bar popped up after a reboot. I left it alone and when I came back it was sitting on the ASUS boot screen. It has been on that boot screen ever since. I let it sit that way for over an hour and finally tried to power it off. I can power it off but it automatically tries to restart and gets stuck on the ASUS screen again. Tried holding the volume button down during power cycle and no luck. Anyone have any ideas?
Thanks
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Try the following and see if it helps.
Hold volume down and power button and when the text appears in top left just wait 5 seconds. When the icons appear on your screen use volume down to go to the wipe icon then press volume up.
Not guaranteeing this will work but it has for others.
If still broken come back and post.
I have a unlocked TF201 and managed to install cyanogen mod 10 on it. Then one fine day, it encountered the "turning on wifi" error, and I tried to be clever and did a format /data on CWM.
Now I have a TF201 which can enter CWM (but can't install anything because it can't read SD card) and can get into Fastboot (since it's unlocked), but can't seem to be detected when i run fastboot from my win-pc.
Can anyone help? I tried installing various of the ADB fastboot drivers, in particular the universal naked driver from another thread, but still can't seem to work!
Can help? Pls?
fonsus said:
I have a unlocked TF201 and managed to install cyanogen mod 10 on it. Then one fine day, it encountered the "turning on wifi" error, and I tried to be clever and did a format /data on CWM.
Now I have a TF201 which can enter CWM (but can't install anything because it can't read SD card) and can get into Fastboot (since it's unlocked), but can't seem to be detected when i run fastboot from my win-pc.
Can anyone help? I tried installing various of the ADB fastboot drivers, in particular the universal naked driver from another thread, but still can't seem to work!
Can help? Pls?
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adb and fastboot are different things.
adb you will be able to use while in CWM and fastboot you can use while in fastboot.
You need to be able to push a rom onto your device thru adb while in cwm.
There could be a few things wrong. It could be a faulty cable or it could be that your usb ports on the computer don't like it.
Have you tried using usb ports on the back of your computer and seeing if anything shows up in device manager when you are in cwm?
If not can you try it on another computers usb ports and see if anything shows up in device manager when you are in cwm?
Please come back with a bit more information when you have tried this. Once you can see the device in device manager you should be able to install the naked drivers and I can help you from there.
edit.. can you please also tell me what happens when you just try to let it boot.. where does it get stuck, what is on the screen?
flumpster said:
Try the following and see if it helps.
Hold volume down and power button and when the text appears in top left just wait 5 seconds. When the icons appear on your screen use volume down to go to the wipe icon then press volume up.
Not guaranteeing this will work but it has for others.
If still broken come back and post.
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I also have this exact same problem. For mine, I can't get it to show the text or get to this menu (I've definitely gotten there before this, though).
klarh said:
I also have this exact same problem. For mine, I can't get it to show the text or get to this menu (I've definitely gotten there before this, though).
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I'm having this problem. No bootloader messages show just splash screen. I get a blank screen when I hold power and volume up but that's it. ****.
T-HO6969 said:
I'm having this problem. No bootloader messages show just splash screen. I get a blank screen when I hold power and volume up but that's it. ****.
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Its power and volume down to get to the wipe icon not power up.
flumpster said:
Try the following and see if it helps.
Hold volume down and power button and when the text appears in top left just wait 5 seconds. When the icons appear on your screen use volume down to go to the wipe icon then press volume up.
Not guaranteeing this will work but it has for others.
If still broken come back and post.
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Thanks for the response. vol down and power don't do me any good. It won't let me into the stock recovery mode. I've been down that road before and entered it successfully so I'm pretty certain I'm doing it right. It just loops me back to the ASUS screen.
Thanks again.
xRedLeadrx said:
Thanks for the response. vol down and power don't do me any good. It won't let me into the stock recovery mode. I've been down that road before and entered it successfully so I'm pretty certain I'm doing it right. It just loops me back to the ASUS screen.
Thanks again.
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The only way to do it is to have it powered off. Then hold the volume down button first and while holding it start holding power button also.. Then don't let go of both buttons until it appears.
If that don't work I'm not sure what you have done sorry mate.
flumpster said:
The only way to do it is to have it powered off. Then hold the volume down button first and while holding it start holding power button also.. Then don't let go of both buttons until it appears.
If that don't work I'm not sure what you have done sorry mate.
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I guess I'm looking at an RMA then because it is powered off when I do the vol down + power. Still only get the splash screen. I wouldn't be upset if I was trying to load a custom ROM or something but all I did was let the blasted thing try to install the OTA. Oh well, thanks again for your time.
xRedLeadrx said:
I guess I'm looking at an RMA then because it is powered off when I do the vol down + power. Still only get the splash screen. I wouldn't be upset if I was trying to load a custom ROM or something but all I did was let the blasted thing try to install the OTA. Oh well, thanks again for your time.
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After communicating the issue to support, they said to do an RMA. This is my second RMA for this device, which is pretty annoying.
klarh said:
After communicating the issue to support, they said to do an RMA. This is my second RMA for this device, which is pretty annoying.
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I think there must be some serious issues with TF201 and JB. I have got into exactly the same position by trying to use Protato's method to update to WW JB - and so have at least 3 others. But if the genuine update is doing this too!!
I'm going to request RMA. My tablet has gone to hell and this is just the seal of approval. Have a feeling I'm Infinity bound now. Good luck to all.
I am definitely going to have to RMA at this point. 3rd for me. Mine started off with the wonderful Serial Number unknown and was then suffering from pretty bad wifi/bluetooth fallout. ASUS has made good by me on both cases so far and I felt pretty good about my Prime but I must say I'm a bit disappointed that I need a 3rd RMA. I'll be happy overall if they get it back to me in good working order in a timely fashion.
xRedLeadrx said:
I am definitely going to have to RMA at this point. 3rd for me. Mine started off with the wonderful Serial Number unknown and was then suffering from pretty bad wifi/bluetooth fallout. ASUS has made good by me on both cases so far and I felt pretty good about my Prime but I must say I'm a bit disappointed that I need a 3rd RMA. I'll be happy overall if they get it back to me in good working order in a timely fashion.
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How long foes RMA take for you usuallly? I was an idiot before to an opened up my Prime. I didn't mess with it just peaked to assembly if my camera fell out. Think this will matter? Do we have to pay the shipping?

my phone won't turn on!

i've had the phone for about 7 days and everything was fine until tonight when i tried to use my phone. the phone won't power on anymore.
i plugged it in for a couple of hours and it still didn't turn on. the battery wasn't low when it died. i also tried holding the volume down button then powering on. I even tried plugging it into the usb. i don't know what else to do.:crying:
is it rooted or unlocked? if so which freegee is it unlocked with? you could always join the irc channel for some help. it may be faster through that
sawdey21 said:
is it rooted or unlocked? if so which freegee is it unlocked with? you could always join the irc channel for some help. it may be faster through that
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it's completely stock and untouched.
kneemahp said:
i don't know what else to do.:crying:
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Return it.
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My brother actually has a completely stock one and is complaining if the same problem to me. I just told him to return it for a new one. Mine is rooted + unlocked and not suffering from any problems. Possibly a hardware problem or overheating?
My friend just had the same issue this morning,
the phone was very hot and wouldn't turn on.
we tried pressing pwr+voldown and nothing happened. then tried pwr+volup and it then showed the LG log but as soon as we let go of any of the button the logo disappears and nothing else happens.
charging also didn't help
*his phone is un-rooted. So i told him to contact Rogers wireless.
bayardo2001 said:
My friend just had the same issue this morning,
the phone was very hot and wouldn't turn on.
we tried pressing pwr+voldown and nothing happened. then tried pwr+volup and it then showed the LG log but as soon as we let go of any of the button the logo disappears and nothing else happens.
charging also didn't help
*his phone is un-rooted. So i told him to contact Rogers wireless.
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Sounds like a soft brick. Happened to me a few times. Tell him not to worry. LGNPST would fix this.
Edit: didn't see that it was unrooted. Yeah I think you told him the right thing. That shouldn't happen if he hasn't done anything to his phone.
I have had this happen several times.
If you press (or hold) the power button, do you see a cheap white "battery charging" animation?
I can't say exactly what, or why, it works, but keep at it. I think the magic trick is to hold the power until the LG logo has appeared and the boot animation is about to (or has) started.
Sorry I can't be more specific, but I was panic stricken every time. If this is happening to you, then you understand what I mean.
I hope this helps someone. This phone seems to be full of issues... I'm just hoping the software it's the cause, and not the hardware.
Haraldr Blaatand said:
I have had this happen several times.
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I hope this helps someone. This phone seems to be full of issues... I'm just hoping the software it's the cause, and not the hardware.
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Same problem for me, phones stops responding unexpectedly, could be that it's power-off by itself but in order to power-on it I need to press power button for a long time ~30 sec. I was thinking that it's because of SnowJB custom Rom but it seems not, the strange thing that it starts only few days ago and appeas almost every day. May be it's needed to format internal or external SD card to fix it?
romrak said:
Same problem for me, phones stops responding unexpectedly, could be that it's power-off but itself but in order to power-on it I need to press power button for a long time ~30 sec. I was thinking that it's because of SnowJB custom Rom but it seems not, the strange thing that it starts only few days ago and appeas almost every day. May be it's needed to format internal or external SD card to fix it?
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Yea I have the same issues I tried everything to fix but it always just starts again
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My LGE971 doesn't turn on
Hello there
My Optimus g E971 doesn't turn on.. it was shut down with low battery ..i tried to put back on charger but it's not charging.
I tried to use different charger , different cable but nothing worked.
I tried pressing volume up/down and power button keys simultaneously but still i got nothing.
There is no lg logo or no back light coming on the screen.
I am confused ..
Plz help guys..
That sounds like you need new battery
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Vol Down + Power not doing anything.

Hi!
I am rooted, and was running Android Revolution HD 13.
Tried to install KitKat 4.4 and the status was aborted. I saved a back up in recovery. I entered a boot loop once I restarted the phone. I thought, "No problem! I'll just get into my recovery!" But every time I hold the Vol Down + Power button, nothing happens. It simply shows, "HTC: Quietly Brilliant" and the developer disclaimer at the bottom. Any ideas?
scottjw89 said:
Hi!
I am rooted, and was running Android Revolution HD 13.
Tried to install KitKat 4.4 and the status was aborted. I saved a back up in recovery. I entered a boot loop once I restarted the phone. I thought, "No problem! I'll just get into my recovery!" But every time I hold the Vol Down + Power button, nothing happens. It simply shows, "HTC: Quietly Brilliant" and the developer disclaimer at the bottom. Any ideas?
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When your at the HTC boot screen hold the power button and both volume buttons.... You'll see your button lights flash like 10-15 times and then it will force shut down your phone. Once it's completely off try booting into recovery again.
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FanDroid09 said:
When your at the HTC boot screen hold the power button and both volume buttons.... You'll see your button lights flash like 10-15 times and then it will force shut down your phone. Once it's completely off try booting into recovery again.
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That is not working. Thank you for the reply.
scottjw89 said:
That is not working. Thank you for the reply.
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holding the power button for 10-15 seconds will shut the phone off
try holding it under a bright light ..the proximity sensor can keep the phone from shutting down if the room is not well lite
clsA said:
holding the power button for 10-15 seconds will shut the phone off
try holding it under a bright light ..the proximity sensor can keep the phone from shutting down if the room is not well lite
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I tried the whole light thing as well. No dice. Thank you for the reply.
scottjw89 said:
I tried the whole light thing as well. No dice. Thank you for the reply.
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So are you thinking theirs some other miracle answer to your question ?
it's a fact that holding down the power button plus vol down till you see the blinking lights (around 10 seconds)
then let off the volume it will shut off, just keep trying.
clsA said:
So are you thinking theirs some other miracle answer to your question ?
it's a fact that holding down the power button plus vol down till you see the blinking lights (around 10 seconds)
then let off the volume it will shut off, just keep trying.
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I have no expectations. I simply tried what you had told me and it didn't work. I wanted to let you know that it has been tried and that I thank you for trying to help is all.
scottjw89 said:
I have no expectations. I simply tried what you had told me and it didn't work. I wanted to let you know that it has been tried and that I thank you for trying to help is all.
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well i suppose it's possible the power button is broken but it's the first one I have heard of
clsA said:
well i suppose it's possible the power button is broken but it's the first one I have heard of
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I think it may be the vol down button to be honest. It is odd. I have never experienced an issue like this before.
scottjw89 said:
I think it may be the vol down button to be honest. It is odd. I have never experienced an issue like this before.
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OK I hope you get it sortied
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Had a similar problem once. Let the battery run completely dry, then charged it back up and got into recovery from a power up.
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[Q] Anyone got poweroff issue?

Did anyone get the power off issue? I didn't find this earlier because I never power my phone off unless I was on a plane.
That is whenever I select power off to shutdown my phone, it will automatically restart into recovery mode, which is the TWRP. I don't know if this is a bug or something I screwed up. Thanks.
dbmj said:
Did anyone get the power off issue? I didn't find this earlier because I never power my phone off unless I was on a plane.
That is whenever I select power off to shutdown my phone, it will automatically restart into recovery mode, which is the TWRP. I don't know if this is a bug or something I screwed up. Thanks.
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Mine does this also but not all the time. I just shut it down right now and it shut completely off.
MikeyLee said:
Mine does this also but not all the time. I just shut it down right now and it shut completely off.
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Interesting. I just gave a few more tests and the phone did shutdown without issues. Weird.
dbmj said:
Interesting. I just gave a few more tests and the phone did shutdown without issues. Weird.
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That always happens when you plug in charger cable when turn off. If thats the case, Please reflash the official twrp from the original dev subfourm, that one worked. We have fixed this in Modding.Mymind version, but since the official version release, so we didn't release it.

Okay what in the world just happened? Black screen and can't turn my phone off.

I seriously am lost right now. My phone was working just fine, running the Sense 7 rom by santod040 for weeks, and I just tried to unlock my phone just now, and the screen is completely black no matter what I do, I can hold the power button for like 5 minutes and it won't turn off. The charge indicator doesn't come up when I charge it, it doesn't show up on my PC. Nothing.
Can anyone help?
My phone is probably at a very good charge and if its just going to be in sleep this would take a ridiculous amount of time to die.
Hold all 3 buttons for one minute.
beaups said:
Hold all 3 buttons for one minute.
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I appreciate the help, but it didn't work =/. Sigh.
Sounds to me like its a goner.
beaups said:
Sounds to me like its a goner.
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Doesn't make any sense though. It's clearly on because the notification light is green, which leads me to believe its booted into the OS but is just somehow mad locked up. Guess I'll just wait for it to die and see what happens..
rejectedjs said:
Doesn't make any sense though. It's clearly on because the notification light is green, which leads me to believe its booted into the OS but is just somehow mad locked up. Guess I'll just wait for it to die and see what happens..
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Ah, you managed to leave out that little detail earlier (or I missed it). When you hold volume down and power for one minute do the capacitive keys flash?
beaups said:
Ah, you managed to leave out that little detail earlier (or I missed it). When you hold volume down and power for one minute do the capacitive keys flash?
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Yeah. It just sits there and flashes and that's it.
EDIT: While flashing**
Weird
beaups said:
Weird
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Well. The thing finally died this morning, I plugged it into the wall charger and it just charged just fine, turned it on same thing, works fine....Now I'm just afraid to even leave it sleeping.
Have you tried using ADB to try and reboot your phone?
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Have you tried using ADB to try and reboot your phone?
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The phone finally died and I was able to charge it. It wouldn't respond no matter what computer I plugged it into or what button combination or for however long I had them held. I just hope it doesn't happen again. It took over 24 hours for it to die.

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