G'day guys,
Having some issues with my Tablet. I had been using it for basic web\email and had zero issues. I was playing a game (which had been played, on and off, for 3+ months) on the device when it froze.
Pressing 3 software buttons (home, back, switch) did not respond. The Volume rocker didn't adjust volume. Pressing Power didn't turn off screen. So I held down Power for 3 seconds. Nothing. Held it down for 5 seconds. Nothing! ... Held it down for 10 seconds and it switched off.
I left it for 2-3 minutes and then turned the tablet on. Just gets stuck on the Sony animated boot screen. Nothing more!
OS 3.0 upgraded to OS 4.0.3 direct from built-in Sony upgrade. Zero issues for months until now.
Stock ROM. Not rooted.
I was hoping to get the data off the internal storage however if it is not possible... then maybe I just need to move on and start fresh! :\
I have a suspicion there is a corruption with something like /cache or something else really simple.
Would be great if anyone is aware of a simple fix without losing data, or a full-proof way to resolve it by doing anything..... Just need a reliable solution...
HELLLLLP!
THANK YOU!
NOTE: I can bypass the boot animation and access the recovery interface.
Cheers guys!
Following the instructions here a few days ago http://www.howtogeek.com/125375/how...kup-without-rooting-or-unlocking-your-device/ (http://developer.android.com/tools/sdk/tools-notes.html and http://developer.android.com/sdk/index.html#win-bundle) I downloaded and installed the bundle as per instructions.
When Sony Tablet S is connected, nothing is displayed. Although, granted, it took a lot of fiddling to get the Samsung to show up (damn USB / Sync / xxx modes for USB connectivity.
Code:
C:\Users\Flip\AppData\Local\Android\android-sdk\platform-tools>adb devices
List of devices attached
My Samsung, which I plan to backup and then root via KingRoot:
Code:
C:\Users\Flip\AppData\Local\Android\android-sdk\platform-tools>adb devices
List of devices attached
304xxxxxxxxxx4AE device
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So I've run into quite an annoying problem- I can't install applications from the market. Last night, I had my phone plugged into my computer and I don't THINK I had the SD mounted, but I've been wrong before. Anyways, I went to disconnect it and instead of dismounting then unplugging, I just unplugged. Since then, if I try to download something, the notification bar will show that the app is downloading, for a second, then it just disappears. My phone is rooted, no custom rom though, and I'm not running Apps2SD. Also, I'm running Ubuntu 10.10 x64 on my computer.
This has happened once before, and I had to tinker with popping my SD card out and rebooting the phone a few different ways before it finally started acting right again. I'm looking for help because 1) I can't remember exactly how I did it and 2) I figured I might as well try to find out if anyone here knows what I could do to fix it.
Thanks in advance.
Galaxy S Showcase stuck at very first screens
Afternoon guys, I did some browsing and searching and cannot seem to find a way to fix this, so here goes:
Samsung Galaxy S i500, Showcase with Cellular South.
It is rooted, with the original ROM/Kernel.
Yesterday, I was attempting to follow the guide on getting ClockWorkMod on it (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=860250) and when I finally got the final command to work, the phone rebooted, and has since been doing VERY little.
Power Button = SAMSUNG... No vibrate, No change.
Vol Up/Down + Power = SAMSUNG... No vibrate, word flashes, release power (steps to enter recovery or download), SAMSUNG screen remains. Still no vibrate or anything.
Plug in = Grey battery with "loading" circle with no animation of any kind. It is charging though.
Plug in + Vol for recovery/download mode = still just grey Battery not moving.
In all attempts, I have left it trying for anywhere between 30 mins to 4 hours... I cannot get to anything but those 3 results. (samsung, samsung w/ 1 flash, and grey battery).
If I can get it into Download, I can Odin it, or recovery to reset to factory... but I need to get to one. Any and all help is appreciated.
~*~*~Artilleur~*~*~
Download Mode
I had similar situation. Could not get past samsung screen. No splash screen.
Download mode. Pull battery, Plug in USB, hold Vol-. Little guy with shovel.
As for getting back to running. Good luck. I got new warrantied phone couldn't figure out how to fix after soft brick.
I've done a quick search of this forum and [ALARMINGLY] can't find a solution (or any references) to a continualy cycling reboot on my daughter's day-old Sony Tablet S.
What's happening is, the system boots, I see the unlock screen for a few seonds and then it reboots again!! No time to do anything.
The power button (in combination with either of the volume buttons) doesn't do anything when the boot animation is being displayed. And the reset button (in the tiny hole) simply turns the tablet off, but the cycling reboots start again when powered back on.
Just so you know, I have owned and used the Morotola Xoom since August 2011, so do have some experience with Android Honeycomb, but nothing like this. Oh, and I have not attempted to root either machine.
Here's what I believe is the cause: I was copying a file off a network share (using a third party file manager), but it was VERY slow. The transfer mustn't've finished when I turned the tablet off (completely) for the night.
Therefore, I assume it is trying to resume the transfer, but there is a problem (possibly the WiFi connection is slow to connect). Nevertheless, I would have thought Andorid was more robust than to simply reboot... an error message would be a bit more "professional" and much more welcome than a cycling reboot that does not allow me to do a F%^&$#G thing about it!!
PLEASE HELP or point me to a forum that may be able to.
Thanks in advance.
Wow. That tablet is toast. Something must have been corrupted when you turned it off.
My girlfriend had an HTC Sensation 4G that had similar problems the day she bought it. HTC and our cell provider gave us the run around denying responsibility. We rooted it and flashed a new ROM which completely fixed it though. In your case for the Tablet S this solution is impossible as the tablet hasn't been rooted yet.
Return it to the store asap and tell them it's not working properly!
Have you tried the reset button on the side underneath the volume button. Just stick a pin in thhere and hopefully voila.
Let us know if that works.
Sent from my Sony Tablet S using Tapatalk
Cycling reboot - FIXED!
mightyfo said:
Have you tried the reset button on the side underneath the volume button. Just stick a pin in thhere and hopefully voila.
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motoscoddie said:
And the reset button (in the tiny hole) simply turns the tablet off, but the cycling reboots start again when powered back on.
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Yeah, mightyfo, I did. Thanks for your reply, though.
Anyway, I have attempted a few more "fixes". Among them was to delete the partial/currupted files from the SD card, without result. Then, for some reason, I turned off my WiFi access point, and, bugger me, the tablet booted! I turned the WiFi back on to be certain it was responsible for the problem and, yes, the reboot cycling started again.
Obviously, I turned off the WAP again, booted the tablet and killed the saved connection. Once I turned the WAP back on, I re-established the connection and the tablet has behaved ever since!
Just so you know, I did have the latest System update (v3.2.x) when all this was going on...
Makes me wonder if it is an Andorid issue, or something Sony have done while tinkering with Andorid. I just hope my findings can help someone else in the future.
Sounds like you need to do a system reboot.
Comprehensive explanation of the problem
Please take a look at the following very thorough explanation of the underlying cause of the reboot problem:
[Can't post links] Search for "android stops renewing lease" in Google and select the Princeton link (should be top of list).
My fix was to turn off the WiFi AP (to stop the reboots), delete ("forget") the connection and then set a static IP outside my DHCP range.
Hope this helps someone else...
Hi, I was wondering if anyone can help me with my last problem. I recently started a different topic ( which seems dead
Link), and I have one problem after I have finally
gotten my phone in a usable state. It is unable to mount my /efs directory, or whatever. And while I don't know if they are directly connected,
things like my lock screen, holding my power button to get options like Flight Mode, Data Network, Restart, Etc., is gone, among the most
noticeable things. And I have tried screen lock to work, it doesn't. Holding my power button shuts my phone down (in the same amount of
time that holding it would normally bring up the options screen, as well). I would just like to get my phone in complete working order,
assuming that isn't to much to ask. Any help in getting past this final hurdle would be greatly appreciated. To see what I've done/my
progress, go here: Link. Currently, I
successfully have CF-Root on my phone, and my firmware is XXLPH. I've only had luck with 2 firmwares I believe. This one and one
other... Others make my screen black, except for my notifications tray.
my xperia iii just started acting up. I tried to log in to siriusxm and the screen timed out because I was away for a bit. I tried to turn the screen back on when it got stuck in accessibility mode with the screen off and constantly fired the Google assistant. pushing and holding power does nothing except fire off the assistant three more times. if I can't get it to come back to me I can do a factory reset since I just received this phone yesterday and haven't done much with it. anything I can do here?
This isn't normal behavior. If you can return it.
Assuming you didn't install something stupid it's likely a firmware or hardware issue.
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Was this a new device? Rooted?
Are you sure that you long pressed the power button and not the Google Assistant button by mistake?
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my xperia iii just started acting up. I tried to log in to siriusxm and the screen timed out because I was away for a bit. I tried to turn the screen back on when it got stuck in accessibility mode with the screen off and constantly fired the Google assistant. pushing and holding power does nothing except fire off the assistant three more times. if I can't get it to come back to me I can do a factory reset since I just received this phone yesterday and haven't done much with it. anything I can do here?
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Try pushing and holding power + vol up until it vibrates it'll force restart the device.
1. bought via swappa, listed as mint.
2. unrooted
3. it was the power button. it's below the volume rocker, first button on the side. the assistant is the second (and smaller) button on the side.
4. eventually the phone unfucked itself. I did nothing but wait. this actually happened a second time later on except this time the screen displayed my wallpaper at least. I rebooted as soon as I had control and so far so good. I will try power + vol up next time. btw I'm guessing it may have been a software issue. I was moving from a note 8 that had a bixby specific app that got transferred and activated. however a similar thing happened to me with a galaxy tab 4 (without any kind of software mod) so I don't know. I had to wait for that device to unfuck itself too.
ctkatz said:
1. bought via swappa, listed as mint.
2. unrooted
3. it was the power button. it's below the volume rocker, first button on the side. the assistant is the second (and smaller) button on the side.
4. eventually the phone unfucked itself. I did nothing but wait. this actually happened a second time later on except this time the screen displayed my wallpaper at least. I rebooted as soon as I had control and so far so good. I will try power + vol up next time. btw I'm guessing it may have been a software issue. I was moving from a note 8 that had a bixby specific app that got transferred and activated. however a similar thing happened to me with a galaxy tab 4 (without any kind of software mod) so I don't know. I had to wait for that device to unfuck itself too.
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Try Safe Mode. It will temporarily disable a lot of user-space configurations that can cause boot loops. It's good for broken launchers, bad widgets, impossible settings, etc.
Take the microSD card out too. Google worked hard to disable expandable storage starting with Android 11. There's the floppy-disk-slow, absolutely useless SAF and nothing else. Performance workarounds from other phones, even if they're as simple as legacy mount options, will cause bootloops.
Hello.
First of I'm a fan of this forum for a couple of years now but never had a chance to have an account until now (Still a total newbie), anyhow I tried to fix it myself for weeks now searching and looking for almost everything I can both Google and here but no avail. desperate as I'm now I decided to start this thread.
My phone is Sony Xperia XZ1 G8342, the problem is boot looping as I stated the possible reason I think it's because of low internal storage (64GB) I used around 90%, and yes I did clean up the cache from time to time but its keep building up back again. I have had experience with this problem before (only once) around 5 months back it kept looping so I force shut down > turn it on again repeat this process for the whole morning and suddenly it's back to normal.
How it started.
I charge the phone and Google play probably automatically updates all the apps, which is really dumb of me to turn this function on, then it freezes and starts restarting.
My goal.
I know people will tell me just be done with it and re-flashing or use a Sony PC companion. but in this phone, there's a data that hold dear to me, I know this sounds stupid in some aspects and yes it's totally my fault for not backing up some of these data and still relying on a 5-year-old phone. But I hope to fix it without losing all of these data and at least be able to access it for backing up.
More info on my phones.
None root.
The phone can turn it on normally but it's will restart itself once it reaches the Xperia logo (FYI: booting > Sony logo > Xperia logo)
When connecting to the PC and holding volume up the led light will turn blue (I'm not sure if this is Fastboot mode or something else) PC will detect as Android devices when checked on Device Manager.
When holding volume down + power then keep holding volume down the phone will vibrate after reaching the Xperia logo but still to no avail.
Sim card and Sd card are removed, same result.
The battery is replaced about 2 months ago.
All other parts except the battery are original.
It can charge normally.
USB debug mode is off. (very unfortunate)
I don't think XZ1 has recovery mode which really sucks since older models have it and newer ones also have it.
Any solution or suggestion is very welcome here, I'm not a native speaker my apologies for that.
I don't want to list what I have done so far because the way I have tried might not be correct, I might miss some tiny details or maybe I could try it again if you guys suggest.
Regards.