Hey, so I woke up today to my phone at a recovery screen (I'm not very familiar with any of this stuff) and it said to reboot, so I did. Since then, it has been stuck in a never ending loop of restarting. I was able to turn the phone completely off, but since starting to tinker in it within the past few hours it won't stay off. Currently I am at some screen where I attempted to follow this video to load some firmware, but I couldn't find the firmware I needed to download as I have no clue what model number or current software version I need. Is this the right step to take to get access back into my phone? I just wanted to save some of my pictures and videos that I don't have saved elsewhere and then factory reset my phone. basically, I've only felt comfortable clearing the cache partition to see if that would work. My problems seem almost the exact same as this thread on this forum. Any help is greatly appreciated. Is there any way to access these files? I looked it up and it said to use Samsung Smart Switch, but I didn't have that on my phone and there is not enough time I have in my phone to download or uninstall any app before it enters the restart loop.
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OK I know there are a ton of boot loop threads, but I can't find anything close to my problem after hours of searching, so here it goes:
My Atrix:
-2.3.6 Stock with 4.5.141
-Rooted
-(Side notes - because I'm not sure if they will be helpful:
--It had an unlocked bootloader before 2.3.6, but after the update it was locked again, I believe, as it doesn't say Unlocked in the top left corner when booting up. It's worked fine for months since the update.
--The internal SD was almost full - it only has about 30MB free, and it kept telling me it was pretty much full.)
A few days ago my Atrix just shut down while I was playing "Where's My Water?". Titanium Backup was updating itself automatically while I was playing, and when it finished was when the problem happened. A message popped up while I was playing that said "The process com.motorola.service.main has stopped unexpectedly. Please Try Again --> 'Force Close' or 'Cancel'". I pressed Force Close, and the phone shut down and started boot looping.
After searching I found that com.motorola.service.main may have something to do with e-mail, but I only use Gmail and I only have 1 account.
It won't boot into safe mode, and I don't have any recovery on it that I can remember, or it won't boot into that.
The thing is that I haven't done any modding in months - since rooting after the update, so it seems extremely random.
I don't care if I lose any data, as anything I need is backed up or useless.
I just want the thing working again or having NottachTrix on it. Really I just want it to work again.
If there is any more info I can provide, I will try my best to do so. Any help is greatly appreciated!
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I got the same problem. Please Help!
Eric162 said:
OK I know there are a ton of boot loop threads, but I can't find anything close to my problem after hours of searching, so here it goes:
My Atrix:
-2.3.6 Stock with 4.5.141
-Rooted
-(Side notes - because I'm not sure if they will be helpful:
--It had an unlocked bootloader before 2.3.6, but after the update it was locked again, I believe, as it doesn't say Unlocked in the top left corner when booting up. It's worked fine for months since the update.
--The internal SD was almost full - it only has about 30MB free, and it kept telling me it was pretty much full.)
A few days ago my Atrix just shut down while I was playing "Where's My Water?". Titanium Backup was updating itself automatically while I was playing, and when it finished was when the problem happened. A message popped up while I was playing that said "The process com.motorola.service.main has stopped unexpectedly. Please Try Again --> 'Force Close' or 'Cancel'". I pressed Force Close, and the phone shut down and started boot looping.
After searching I found that com.motorola.service.main may have something to do with e-mail, but I only use Gmail and I only have 1 account.
It won't boot into safe mode, and I don't have any recovery on it that I can remember, or it won't boot into that.
The thing is that I haven't done any modding in months - since rooting after the update, so it seems extremely random.
I don't care if I lose any data, as anything I need is backed up or useless.
I just want the thing working again or having NottachTrix on it. Really I just want it to work again.
If there is any more info I can provide, I will try my best to do so. Any help is greatly appreciated!
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OK if you don't care about losing data, you can wipe the phone and factory reset it like this:
1.Turn off the phone and boot into recovery
2. If you didn't have a recovery or thought you didn't, like me, when you see the triangle, exclamation point, and android dude press (and possibly hold) both volume buttons at once. (I got this tip from a Motorola guy when I called thank goodness because I thought there was no recovery...)
3. Find the option for factory reset, and them it'll delete everything.
**Do this for me first though - when you get to recovery try wiping the cache and dalvik cache and see if that doesn't fix it. Otherwise do the full reset because that worked for me. Good luck and if you have any questions hopefully I can help!
And then I put a romracer's recovery and NottachTrix 4G on, and I love it!
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Hello all,
I have a soft-bricked Galaxy S3. I have no idea why it soft-bricked. I was using Google Maps to find a place and put it in my pocket. When I got there and took the phone out, I was greeted with a black screen with the white Galaxy S3 I-9300 logo that wouldn't go away. Tried taking the battery out then putting it back in and powering on: no dice.
I cannot access Recovery Mode with the Volume Up shortcut; the device bootloops. I can only access Download Mode with Volume Down shortcut. Even stranger, plugging the phone into the charger causes the battery icon to appear, then freeze.
Now, most advice I've searched for says to flash firmware or a custom ROM or do a factory reset to get the phone working again. I'm worried about doing this because it will probably delete the data on the phone. I don't really care about the phone anymore having bought a new one; I just want to get the data. Please let me know what I can do to recover it. Again, the phone doesn't matter. If your method requires me to break the phone in half, so be it as long as the data remains intact and I can retrieve it.
Thanks very much for reading!
I had rooted my T110, but it was still very slow. I took everything I didn't use out of there, including the default keyboard. I ended up getting a new tablet through a Verizon promotion, so decided to sell the T100. A friend was looking for one for her son, I told her to look at it and if he wanted it, to let me get it ready. I explained I had done a few things that needed to be undone before he could reset it. She either didn't listen or didn't understand. When he said he wanted it, she factory reset it. It started up and all seemed fine until she found there was no keyboard.
I have used Odin 3.09 and tried to put stock firmware on it. Odin says it was successful but it was still coming up without a keyboard. Now I can only boot into download mode. It only stays on for a couple seconds in any mode except download mode, and even then if it is not connected via usb to the computer it shuts down. I can't get it into recovery mode at all and as I said, to try to just start it, it gets to the first page saying Samsung Tab 3 Lite, then almost immediately shuts down.
Can anyone help me find an answer for this? I might be wrong, but keep thinking since I am able to get it to work with Odin, it is possible that I haven't totally lost it and still may be able to get a few bucks out of it.
Any help would be GREATLY appreciated!!!
Hey,
I'm pretty new here, so don't hate on my lack of knowledge^^
Maybe I'm even in the wrong sub-forum
(I think there was a sub-forum dedicated to moto x, but this isn't a device-specific issue, so here should be fine - no?)
Got the following problem:
My moto x (2nd gen) is stuck in a loop. I get to the logo-screen, then it goes to "Encryption unsuccessful" and when I click "Reset", it restarts and fails upon trying to reset.
How I got here:
1) A while ago I wanted to encrypt the phone for the lulz (using its' own encryption-tool)
Followed the simple steps, as in having it charged up, but the encryption did not go through.
Don't remember having it to reset at first, it just booted, even though it had bugs after that:
-whenever I charged it, I had problems turning it back on after charging, had to turn off and back on for it to actually work.
-those notifications on top which one can normally open via sliding down, that sliding down did not work after that.
Eventually I did a hard-reset and it fixed the sliding-problem.
Charging also worked fine at first until it did not.
2) I ended up stuck in a boot-loop that went to the logo-screen back and forth (got to logo-screen, restarted, got to logo-screen, restarted, ...)
Tried to soft-/hard-reset using the VOL- and POWER combo.
The hard-reset itself threw some errors at me, something like "can't delete [whatever]".
Still, after a few tries it eventually went past the logo-screen to the encryption-step.
After another few failed resets and emptied cache via recovery-screen, it somehow ignored the encryption-step and turned on the phone (was a fresh version).
3) Worked fine for 1 whole evening, no crashes/glitches/anything until I had to charge it up.
Then it was back to the broken state.
Note: during 2) I tried to boot with a custom recovery-mode(TWRP), but couldn't get it running.
Then I tried to flash it, but anything I tried to install failed.
I had my suspicions, but eventually I got it straightened out: my phone isn't rooted, and the bootloader is locked.
I did get the code to root it via some steps and the motorola service, but the code did not work as it wanted me to unlock the phone first.
From what I've read, to do that I need to get into the settings and unlock/root it...
Funny thing: I can not turn on the phone to get into the settings.
So - anyone got ideas?
Warranty is gone since apparently my tinkering with the locked bootloader and unrooted phone still was visible and they voided the warranty.
Not sure I broke much/anything with that, though, since it DID work at some point after that (even if it was for a few hours before needing recharging)
Therefore I'm open to any suggestions since the alternative stop would be throwing it into the bin^^
Can I unlock the bootloader without having a working system?
Can I root it somehow without having to get into settings (since I can not turn it on in the first place)?
I did a fair share of reading, but most times the guides just assumed that I already rooted it, or forwarded me to a guide where it said "go into settings and spam the build to get advanced options, then simply root/unlock that damn thing". Tried to find a way to unlock/root it without being able to turn it on, but did not get lucky with the search.
If I could unlock and root it, I probably could go from there. Guides are pretty specific and seem to work for most.
Also, I would try the original android version first before searching for any custom systems.
(that is the smartest way to do, right? since I'm just a user and dont plan on doing more hacking/breaking)
Hope all that above wasn't too much to read
Thx for any advice in advance.
Edit:
Well, after what feels like 50 restarts it miraculously did not send me to the "Encryption unsuccessful" but instead booted like it should (as a fresh version, though - so had to backup).
Now I've turned on the thing in the settings so next time it breaks, which I expect to happen by tomorrow, I can flash that sucker.
Still - anyone knows how to enable all that stuff one normally does via settings some way that does not involve successfully booting it?
I mean, there should be a way to root/unlock it without having to turn it on first, right?
Edit2:
As expected, the flashing part was pretty easy, so I'm now sitting with a fresh android 6.0.
Two days in and it's still working fine, haven't had any complications (except battery draining faster then at the very beginning, but I think that's due to it hanging too much on the usb-cable during all those sessions of me trying to fix it - and generally I've had it charge over night a few times to often)
Still would appreciate any advice on how to unlock developer mode and usb-debugging within the bootloader or recovery-mode.
So I've reached out to this forum as I've tried a million and one things but can't seem to get my phone to boot.
Here's the situation:
I fell asleep watching a video on my phone and my phone died. I plugged it into the charger and it wouldn't boot, would just endlessly be stuck in a boot loop. Looked it up and saw this is a common issue. Went through the standard fixes:
Wiped the cache
Factory reset the phone.
Attempted to boot in safe mode. (Wouldn't work, still boot looped)
After all this failed I thought I would just flash it using Odin v3.14. T-Mobile is my carrier and I'm based in the US so I used this firmware: SM-N950U TMB, LINK(https://updato.com/download-samsung...sa/sm-n950u/B094B9DAF04A11EAB4A2FA163EE8F90B/)
It still didn't work after this. It booted up and the startup process began asking me to agree to the terms and conditions. Before even getting to agree, the phone crashed. I tried this again and it just kept failing and crashing. I did this all while plugged into a charger. What I did begin to notice is that the phone would get hot on the left side, where the battery sits. I'm not sure if this is related to the crash or just the fact that its been discharging and charging a lot while I troubleshoot it. I have tried different firmware as well just in case I had the wrong one, but nothing has been working. When I update the firmware I used the CSC file and not the HOME_CSC and I also use the USERDATA file since at this point I kind of accepted I'm not getting my pictures and files back and I'm just trying to get the phone to work once again, thus just trying to factory restore it. Also, when the phone does start booting it says optimizing apps on the bottom each time I boot it I feel this number is changing. I'm not sure what else to do or if anyone has any suggestions? Thank you in advance