Hi! All. My phone started acting wierd last week. It randomly shuts down & reboots & gets stuck at the black screen with the name & model no. I tried taking out battery & putting it back but after a few days, the problem returns. Btw my set is rooted on stock rom. Any ideas how to solve?
try booting into recovery (vol up+home+power) and factory reset
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? :/
Hello,
I rooted my S2 some time back with no problems and removed some Samsung bloatware. I did not install a custom ROM but did use Triangle Away to remove the start up screen. It's rooted with the Siyah Kernel
My issue is not with boot hanging, but hanging after starting,
My phone used to hang every now and then (twice a week) and a simple battery pull would solve the problem. Pull battery, reboot and it's fine.
Today, my battery ran out, and I placed it in charge and removed the phone after charging. My phone starts up fine, gets pass the Samsung logo, Siyah logo and I get my home screen. Here is where the problem starts.
I get the usual start up notifications e.g. "preparing USB storage", "power saving mode enabled" etc. I can then use the phone for roughly 4 seconds before it freezes. The touch screen does not respond. It freezes. The only thing that does work is pressing the home key 4 times to get negative colours. Apart from that, nothing. If I press the sleep button, the screen goes black and the phone is off. I restart and I get the same problem all over again.
TLDR: Rooted phone, hangs at homescreen upon boot, no custom ROM, battery pull doesn't work
Any help would be much appreciated!
ampeme12 said:
Hello,
I rooted my S2 some time back with no problems and removed some Samsung bloatware. I did not install a custom ROM but did use Triangle Away to remove the start up screen. It's rooted with the Siyah Kernel
My issue is not with boot hanging, but hanging after starting,
My phone used to hang every now and then (twice a week) and a simple battery pull would solve the problem. Pull battery, reboot and it's fine.
Today, my battery ran out, and I placed it in charge and removed the phone after charging. My phone starts up fine, gets pass the Samsung logo, Siyah logo and I get my home screen. Here is where the problem starts.
I get the usual start up notifications e.g. "preparing USB storage", "power saving mode enabled" etc. I can then use the phone for roughly 4 seconds before it freezes. The touch screen does not respond. It freezes. The only thing that does work is pressing the home key 4 times to get negative colours. Apart from that, nothing. If I press the sleep button, the screen goes black and the phone is off. I restart and I get the same problem all over again.
TLDR: Rooted phone, hangs at homescreen upon boot, no custom ROM, battery pull doesn't work
Any help would be much appreciated!
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Tried wiping cache and dalvik cache in recovery?
Christiaan91 said:
Tried wiping cache and dalvik cache in recovery?
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Haven't tried that but I will give it a go mate
All of the sudden my S2 keeps shutting down. I turn it off, the first screen appears and it shuts down. And it does that constantly. Perhaps my ROM (carbon KK 4.4.2) got corrupted. Anyway I deleted partition cache, dalvik cache and in the end I've done factory reset. None of this helped. So I downloaded CM12 i flashed along with Gapps. It still doesnt work, still the same situation. I think I should install a bootloader, but I can't find one for S2 with Carbon ROM KitKat!!!
So what should I do?
Hello,
maybe someone has suggestions on what to look next or how to determine where the problem actually is.
My Galaxy S3 Tab 10 has suddenly started to freeze after boot + ~1-2min. Even if I wipe everything it freezes even during the initial setup. It is possible to complete the initial setup in minute increments.
When it freezes there is nothing I can do, only Power+vol down for reset. Even to power off I need to press Pwer+vol- then boot it in recovery and then choose power off.
But if it's booted in recovery it can be on for a while and nothing bad happens. That let me think it is more software than a hardware issue.
Have tried to reinstall stock ROM, a few custom ROMs, all the same.
It has not been dropped or "watered" or some other abuse.
Any help?
Thanks!