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phone turned booting up issue

im curious about a issue i may be having. lets say i decide to turn off the phone for whatever reason. when it finally turns off completely when i try to boot it back up it wont turn on! i have to go pull out the battery and put it back on for it to boot up. is that a issue? could it have to do with anything iv done to the phone?

I have the same issue, and my evo is stock with the exception of unrevoked and wireless tether. Would love any input as to why this is happening.
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Mu5ic92 said:
im curious about a issue i may be having. lets say i decide to turn off the phone for whatever reason. when it finally turns off completely when i try to boot it back up it wont turn on! i have to go pull out the battery and put it back on for it to boot up. is that a issue? could it have to do with anything iv done to the phone?
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I've had the same issue myself, I think it's because I tried to turn the phone back on too quickly after it turned off. Sometimes I have to hold the power button down a little bit longer than I would expect to.

I've experienced the same problem, mine is 100% stock and it usually takes a number of tries to turn it back on...most times i just end up pulling the battery as you said.

yea im not sure if this is a good cause for concern. maybe down the road the battery may start to give out issues?

Didn't notice this. Went through the boot marathon after the update ... I turned it off and set it down for a while and forgot to turn it back on. Powered right back on.

[INFO] Random Reboots aren't True Reboots

I think many of you are misinterpreting the "Random Reboots" you're experiencing. Unless the screen goes completely blank, then it is not a true reboot, if all it does is flash back to boot animation it is just the graphical shell crashing.

Good point, I did notice that it booted up significantly faster than a full reboot when it happened to me before and that it only dropped to the boot animation.

That makes a lot of sense actually
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Thanks for the suggestion - that does make some sense. Is there a way to verify this, though? In my case, my DInc will be in a stand on my desk - screen off, so I can't actually see what happens - when I'll hear it vibrate, and I'll notice the white HTC screen followed by the boot animation. It's only done this since I rooted, and it has done it with at least three of the ROMs I've used.

CaptBananaPants said:
Thanks for the suggestion - that does make some sense. Is there a way to verify this, though? In my case, my DInc will be in a stand on my desk - screen off, so I can't actually see what happens - when I'll hear it vibrate, and I'll notice the white HTC screen followed by the boot animation. It's only done this since I rooted, and it has done it with at least three of the ROMs I've used.
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Yeah, same deal. I have learned to do "real" reboots, especially after rooting. What I mean is actually turning it off, counting to like 20 (maybe pull the battery), and then turn it back on.
Recently I had an issue with the capacitive buttons not lighting up at all so I tried a "quick" reboot (the kind that requires root) and it did nothing, then I tried a "real" reboot and they work fine now.

Agreed. I can confirm the Atrix is not doing a full reboot. I had a call on speaker phone then all of a sudden my screen showed the boot animation and I could hear the other person talking for an additional 15-20 sec while the phone finished "booting". Our conversation was not ended until the home screen came back up, at this point my bars/service dropped to no service. Also, I have not rooted or modified the Atrix, its stock.. w/LauncherPro+.

WiredPirate said:
Agreed. I can confirm the Atrix is not doing a full reboot. I had a call on speaker phone then all of a sudden my screen showed the boot animation and I could hear the other person talking for an additional 15-20 sec while the phone finished "booting". Our conversation was not ended until the home screen came back up, at this point my bars/service dropped to no service. Also, I have not rooted or modified the Atrix, its stock.. w/LauncherPro+.
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I had those "reboots" twice now. Once while using Maps and once while sitting on my desk not being used. I was also using LauncherPro+. I wonder if that might have been part of it. I stopped using LP+ and haven't had a "reboot" yet (knock on wood)

stuck in bootloop on stock Evo =(

I have an Evo that isn't rooted, but is stuck in a bootloop. The battery was getting low and then all the sudden after i charged it some and turned it back on it just loops the boot animation.
I have tried a few things and still can't really figure out why this came out of nowhere. I was running the official 2.3 update for a few days now and this came out of nowhere.
any idea or tips?

Jddroid9 said:
I have an Evo that isn't rooted, but is stuck in a bootloop. The battery was getting low and then all the sudden after i charged it some and turned it back on it just loops the boot animation.
I have tried a few things and still can't really figure out why this came out of nowhere. I was running the official 2.3 update for a few days now and this came out of nowhere.
any idea or tips?
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So you're 100% stock, huh? (adjusting my thinking to stock type)...
Were you running any new apps or anything before this happened? It was literally out of the blue? I would take the battery out of it, and let it sit for a while (10-20 mins) Then put the battery back in and see if it will boot up. If not, try taking your SD card out and then try booting. If that still doesn't work, I'd suggest doing a factory wipe from your bootloader, then try booting. To do that, power the phone down completely. Hold your volume down and power buttons simultaneously until the hboot screen comes up. Navigate down to 'clear storage', and select it. This will completely wipe all of your user data from the phone. If it still won't boot up after that, I would take it to sprint. Normally I'd suggest using an RUU, but since you're on the OTA, there is no RUU for it yet, and you can't downgrade it, unfortunately. Good luck.
Again, if the phone's super hot, let it cool down with the battery out for a while.

k2buckley said:
So you're 100% stock, huh? (adjusting my thinking to stock type)...
Were you running any new apps or anything before this happened? It was literally out of the blue? I would take the battery out of it, and let it sit for a while (10-20 mins) Then put the battery back in and see if it will boot up. If not, try taking your SD card out and then try booting. If that still doesn't work, I'd suggest doing a factory wipe from your bootloader, then try booting. To do that, power the phone down completely. Hold your volume down and power buttons simultaneously until the hboot screen comes up. Navigate down to 'clear storage', and select it. This will completely wipe all of your user data from the phone. If it still won't boot up after that, I would take it to sprint. Normally I'd suggest using an RUU, but since you're on the OTA, there is no RUU for it yet, and you can't downgrade it, unfortunately. Good luck.
Again, if the phone's super hot, let it cool down with the battery out for a while.
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That phone is stock (my gf uses it)
I myself have rooted my last few phones (Tbolt right now). yea I'm gunna let it sit for a while now, i tried the SD card thing but its a no go. I'm going to try to let it sit for a while like you said. leaving it alone can work miracles sometimes.lol
Hopefully were good because I don't think she wants to start all over in all of her games!lol
Thanks for the advice!

Jddroid9 said:
That phone is stock (my gf uses it)
I myself have rooted my last few phones (Tbolt right now). yea I'm gunna let it sit for a while now, i tried the SD card thing but its a no go. I'm going to try to let it sit for a while like you said. leaving it alone can work miracles sometimes.lol
Hopefully were good because I don't think she wants to start all over in all of her games!lol
Thanks for the advice!
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You're welcome. I hear ya about not wanting to lose the stuff, but a reset may be the last resort if it won't boot up. It's better to get it booting and lose all her stuff, than to not have the thing even turn on! Hopefully after it sits for a while it'll fire up for ya though. If not, I'd pay sprint a visit and tell them that the OTA borked the phone!

Nexus 4 went nuts

Hi,
My Nexus 4 has been acting up for some time. I had the infamous "optimizing apps" issue almost one year ago. Since then I used an app ("optimizer app fix" or something) to get around it. It's rooted, but I can't remember the details/versions.
More recently, the phone started to lose the network connection. I tried to change the setting from automatic to my home network, it did seem to help a bit, but didn't really fix the issue.
Yesterday I was using the flashlight, and just before I turned it off, the phone rebooted itself. From then on it became very unstable. If I leave it alone in flight mode, it will stay on. If I start doing anything, at some point it will shut down. If I keep it plugged to the charger, it stays on, though. So it looked like the battery is gone. I'm just not 100% sure because if I boot it into recovery mode it stays there apparently with no issues, for a long time. It could be that the current draw is not so big in that mode, though.
I have just finished backing up whatever I could, and wiped the data/dalvik/cache partitions from the TWRP recovery menu. Still not good. Did a Format Data from there too. No luck.
Given the cost and hassle and wait and the number of fake batteries in the market, I don't want to buy a new battery to revive this phone (knowing that it's likely to fail again sooner than I can expect). Is there anything else you'd suggest that I try before I go shop for a new phone? :crying:
Thanks,
VMat

vmat005 said:
Hi,
My Nexus 4 has been acting up for some time. I had the infamous "optimizing apps" issue almost one year ago. Since then I used an app ("optimizer app fix" or something) to get around it. It's rooted, but I can't remember the details/versions.
More recently, the phone started to lose the network connection. I tried to change the setting from automatic to my home network, it did seem to help a bit, but didn't really fix the issue.
Yesterday I was using the flashlight, and just before I turned it off, the phone rebooted itself. From then on it became very unstable. If I leave it alone in flight mode, it will stay on. If I start doing anything, at some point it will shut down. If I keep it plugged to the charger, it stays on, though. So it looked like the battery is gone. I'm just not 100% sure because if I boot it into recovery mode it stays there apparently with no issues, for a long time. It could be that the current draw is not so big in that mode, though.
I have just finished backing up whatever I could, and wiped the data/dalvik/cache partitions from the TWRP recovery menu. Still not good. Did a Format Data from there too. No luck.
Given the cost and hassle and wait and the number of fake batteries in the market, I don't want to buy a new battery to revive this phone (knowing that it's likely to fail again sooner than I can expect). Is there anything else you'd suggest that I try before I go shop for a new phone? :crying:
Thanks,
VMat
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No. You need to replace the battery.
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trent999 said:
No. You need to replace the battery.
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That's what I thought. What a bummer.
Thanks for the reply. Happy new year, everyone!
VMat

Nexus 6P Bootloop after 4core

I applied the 4core fix for my N6P back in September of last year, and stopped using it around December because of the battery life. Around July/August I purchased a battery and installed it and things were going well. Now my phone is freezing and booting to the Google Logo and... Crash again. No Nexus animation; Google, crash. Sometimes it will attempt to boot and bootloop and sometimes it turns on and works fine. Sometimes if it turns back on it freezes and boom. Google logo.
I guess the remaining 4 cores in this phone are done completely from the looks of it? I know the patch wasn't meant to be permanen, only temporary because the remaining 4cores would eventually die.

snappycg1996 said:
I applied the 4core fix for my N6P back in September of last year, and stopped using it around December because of the battery life. Around July/August I purchased a battery and installed it and things were going well. Now my phone is freezing and booting to the Google Logo and... Crash again. No Nexus animation; Google, crash. Sometimes it will attempt to boot and bootloop and sometimes it turns on and works fine. Sometimes if it turns back on it freezes and boom. Google logo.
I guess the remaining 4 cores in this phone are done completely from the looks of it? I know the patch wasn't meant to be permanen, only temporary because the remaining 4cores would eventually die.
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My 6p also started bootlooping again today and this time fix didn't help me. I think it's gone for good.

maxguncel said:
My 6p also started bootlooping again today and this time fix didn't help me. I think it's gone for good.
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Is yours booting to the Google logo and crashing? Or simply bootlooping? Mine goes to the logo, crashes about 10-15 times and then eventually attempts to boot.
It's a shame, got a baby on the way and simply can't afford another phone right now

snappycg1996 said:
Is yours booting to the Google logo and crashing? Or simply bootlooping? Mine goes to the logo, crashes about 10-15 times and then eventually attempts to boot.
It's a shame, got a baby on the way and simply can't afford another phone right now
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Displays Google logo about 20-30 sec and restarts. Before I could see the animation but this time no luck.
Congratulations! I also have a newborn, we'll see what the future holds

maxguncel said:
Displays Google logo about 20-30 sec and restarts. Before I could see the animation but this time no luck.
Congratulations! I also have a newborn, we'll see what the future holds
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Thank you You too! Day of Thanksgiving he is supposed to get here, but my wife isn't doing too well lol do you know of any way for us to pull data? Adb is failing to see my device when it's in the bootloader, fastboot is working though. I tried once more to flash twrp 4 core and boot it with no luck. Those small cores gave out I guess. I left my phone on overnight bootlooping with no luck. I got most things off, just my actual camera fder I couldn't get and apps which aren't a huge deal.

Sadly this morning I had the same problem. Bootlooping, I even cannot enter into Recovery. Then, suddently, it restarted, but I wasn't home, so I hadn't the chance to save the data. Then, about 3 hours later, it restarted bootlooping and, since then, it's stucked into this bootloop. Even reflashing the modified boot won't work.
Anybody knows how to at least recover the data inside? Even if I have to break the phone (I'm going to buy onther one soon)

hey guys, me too. but you know something? my initial assessment was that it was a result of an update. Now looking here annd seeing so many others with the same problem at the SAME TIME?? mine happened out of the blue on about October 4th or 5th. Ive had this phone for two years and never had aproblem with it at all. right out of the blue (in the morning) i get the bootloop. I cleared the cache and it booted up again. it was just fine for two days and now it is down black and out. When i push the power button i get a red light. one blink. if i hold down pwr and vol i get 8 blinks. tried on stock charger and other charger. like was previously mentioned when i tried it on a different charger it worked. the first time. now its dead. any solutions?

Marxmellow said:
hey guys, me too. but you know something? my initial assessment was that it was a result of an update. Now looking here annd seeing so many others with the same problem at the SAME TIME?? mine happened out of the blue on about October 4th or 5th. Ive had this phone for two years and never had aproblem with it at all. right out of the blue (in the morning) i get the bootloop. I cleared the cache and it booted up again. it was just fine for two days and now it is down black and out. When i push the power button i get a red light. one blink. if i hold down pwr and vol i get 8 blinks. tried on stock charger and other charger. like was previously mentioned when i tried it on a different charger it worked. the first time. now its dead. any solutions?
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It simply means that the battery is fully discharged. Keep it connected to the current and maybe it restarts working.
I'm in the same situation since yesterday, hoping that at some point it returns working for some time, just to backup some data. I have like 10GB of photos not backupped in it.

When I replaced my battery I reinstalled factory. Start from scratch.
I had the same issue and that's all I did. Booted fine after that. I used the ifixit battery tho, cause if you got a lower cost one it could be the battery itself too