phone reset on it s own - Epic 4G General

My brother called me from work about his rooted epic. It is was rooted with EB13 installed and has been working great. He said he noticed it vibrating in his desk and then it rebooted. It would boot to the splash screen, vibrate, then reboot. After 5 or 6 times he pulled out the battery. When he put the battery back it booted but took a while. When it booted up it was just as if a factory reset had been done. Everything was gone and there were no account. Worse than this there were no apps at all. The app tray was empty. Not even a market app. Does this mean the phone memory is dying?

Have no idea without a whole lot more info. I would suspect user error.
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My G2 is stuck rebooting itself...

My G2 is rebooting itself every 5 seconds.. it won't load or get past the G2 screen...
i tried holding the power down but thats not doing anything.. I guess I'll just pull the battery.
this is the first time this has happened. usually it randomly reboots, but it loads but this one has been rebooting for 10 minutes now.
will my rebooted while I was in the gmail app.
it won't finish boot so I pulled the battery.
it did restart this time but my phone lost all it's apps and settings!
it reverted back to stock but I've not rooted or modded my phone in any way.
argh, going back to my old phone...
never had an android phone reboot so much and now forgetful.
N4Spd said:
will my rebooted while I was in the gmail app.
it won't finish boot so I pulled the battery.
it did restart this time but my phone lost all it's apps and settings!
it reverted back to stock but I've not rooted or modded my phone in any way.
argh, going back to my old phone...
never had an android phone reboot so much and now forgetful.
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It seems you have a defective unit.

Phone crash after battery died!!

my battery was running low, (and coz poor battery issues with JPY), i didnt notice when it switched of. normally i use the power button to turn the screen on to unlock, but instead i realised the phone had been off as it was now booting up...it booted up fine went into the homescreen and then vibrated once and powered down.......now it was powering down for a long time and occasionally there were vibrations and the lights on the home keys were constantly on. the screen was black. i got home and tried to charge it but the progress bar showed no progress on charging, i tried to switch it on but it would go to startup screen vibrate cupla times and power down. so eventually had to do a hard reset in recovery mode. tried every option but in the end had todo it by wiping data.
now the thing is, is this supposed to happen? if ur battery suddenly losses power ur whole fone will screw up?
for future ref if ur battery dies dont try to switch ur fone on until u got some charge in it and use the home key to put screen on..
Sounds like it could have been faulty firmware .
JPY does not have a significant battery drain problem per se .
jje
Black screen, vibrations and no boot after restart
Hello! I had almost the same experience (Black screen after reboot and occasional vibrations) only mine refused to boot even after memory wipe and after flashing new roms.
Was your phone rooted? Because I think rooting a 2.2.1 rom (XWJS3) was the beginning of my nightmare. keep in mind that the phone was working like charm for two months. This was the second time I had a problem. The first time the phone started after performing a factory reset by itself!
In case this happens to you next time and for every non experienced galaxy player (like me) reading this:
Don't panic! Blank screen, vibrations and no boot doesn't necessarily mean a hardware problem. Finally I managed to fix it flashing eclair and repartitioning with pit512. Now I'm a happy XWJS8 user
And a question for the experts: Any clue why this happened? Is it really a rooting issue? Can a cheap Chinese battery from ebay cause this?
everything was stock on mine, no root.......maybe thats why i could recover it??!!
Maybe! and I hope the reason is faulty firmware as JJEgan says. If this is true, your phone will be fixed by the next update.
I was very urge... the same happened again. It's been a month of smooth functioning and now after a simple restart, the device doesn't boot for absolutely no reason (Stuck on black screen constantly vibrating). Since my phone wasn't rooted, and I haven't seen many people talking about a problem like this I suspect:
1. Faulty hardware (for a few devices including yours and mine)
2. A Bad app.
Contacts Vanished
Hey Everyone
Im having similar problems, i updated my sgs to the js7 version of froyo, then rooted it with oneclick method. this was as i got the phone a month ago. Its been smooth sailing since then. But last night the phone powered down and wen it loaded up it had no contacts, my sms where still there but all the apps had a force close issue none worked. so cleared the cache in recovery. Still nothing so i did a factory reset and once loaded up. i formatted the sd and internal within the settings option. So the phone was now clean. I then connected to pc luckily had backups so installed titanium restored all my apps n settings. Using kies restored my contacts n thanks to an app called sms backup i restored those.
So all was well and worked again. I didnt restore the apps i had installed within the last week to make sure it was not a faulty app. I was happy, but now tonight it did it again. No contacts again.
Pls help
Any suggestions
That's exactly how it started for me. One month after rooting froyo 2.2.1 Suddenly everything force closes and the device hard resets by itself. I reinstall all the apps and then after one month and performing a simple restart, it refuses to boot. Stays in a black screen and vibrates every some seconds. I flash a new rom but does the same. Problem solved after repartitiong and flashing original eclair with pit 512. Reflashed a 2.2.1 rom and everything works perfect (the phone now is unrooted and with a nice clear stock rom). But then after one month again (!) I realise that some videos refuse to play. Trying to restart and craaash. black screen, vibrations and no boot. Did the same again (repartitioning and flashing) and now I wait for another month to pass and lose an hour of my life to do the same again. No idea why this is happening. Is it possible that rooting messes with something that stays faulty after restoring the file system? is there an app that we all installed and caused this mess? please this is the most serious problem I've red in this forum and still a mystery. I believe this thread should be sticky and we all share similar experiences because this looks completely random!
I believe this thread should be sticky and we all share similar experiences because this looks completely random![/QUOTE]
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phone started randomly rebooting again

I'm not exactly sure what happened, but when I first rooted, installed safestrap, and then Jelly Beans 106 on my Note 3, my phone would start up fine but then restart constantly. I would get my home screen, then immediately get notifications that various apps had crashed, and then the phone would reboot, but not fully though, it wouldn't go directly to the Jelly Beans boot animation, not through the full boot from the beginning with the samsung logo. From start up to reboot varies, but usually whatever app i was using would crash within a minute, and my phone would crash/lockup/reboot maybe 30 seconds to a minute later. It did not matter what app i as using or what I was doing. Actually I just noticed it somehow lost all my email settings, none of the accounts are there anymore.
If I booted into the stock rom from safe strap it seemed stable, but never with Jelly Bean. I had tried clearing the caches, wiping the phone, and a bunch of other fixes and nothing worked. In a last ditch effort I tried the process again, from the very beginning, I retooted my phone, reinstalled everything, and it worked, until three days ago when it started rebooting again. I had about three months of my phone being perfect, and then it just started rebooting randomly on it's own. The only thing that I can think that I did was decline some usage rights for the my magazine samsung app, that was the last thing I did before my phone went crazy.
I can't even get the stock rom to be stable anymore, it will do the same thing, whats' going on? I don't get why my phone was so stable, and then it went all haywire again. anybody have any idea of what I can do?

Random boot loops on new Redmi Note 7 (Stock 10.3.5 MiUI non root)

Saturday night, I plug my 1 week old phone on the charger at 9%. I power off the phone and see the battery charging animation. I turned it back on as usual but this time my phone did something I've never seen before.
It started bootlooping!
I was like what the hell.
It loaded up to the lock screen and then rebooted. This happened over and over again for about an hour.
After googling, I found a thread about a Redni Note 5 pro having the same issue.
The solution was to hold power and Volume down until the phone rebooted to recovery.
After doing that, I was presented with the option to reboot to system, wipe phone (which I definitely didn't want) and connect to My Assistant.
I chose the first option and sure enough....my phone was stuck in a boot loop once again.
This is my first Xiaomi phone. It's not rooted at all and has locked bootloader on the stock 10.3.5 ROM. Fresh out the box...just a few apps, some photos and texts.
I've seen stuff like this before happen with rooted phones but never on a brand new non rooted phone.
Fortunately (and with lots of prayer), I was able to let the phone battery drain out completely since it wouldn't power off.
Sunday morning, I plugged it back on the charger and to my surprise, I saw the battery animation only this time!
After charging fully, I turned it on and saw it bootlooping again. After 5 mins, I decided to remove both my SIM tray with both SIM and micro SD.
THIS time, the phone stopped bootlooping entirely! Again....what the hell was my question ?.
Normally, my nerves are steel but yesterday, they were more like spaghetti lol
Against my own judgement, I wanted to test if it was my own SIM card causing the issue or if my micro SD card caused the issue.
I placed the SIM try back in with each card 1 by 1 however, the phone immediately started bootlooping on it's own right from system!
I've never seen this before with any other phone or brand I've used in the past.
This activity occurred again and again regardless which card was inserted. With no cards, the phone worked normally.
I decided, you know what, at this point, I'm going to back up my data during and factory reset since now I have access.
Thank God that worked!
After many hours of backing up data, factory resetting my phone and then restoring everything on Mother's Day ( which meant working around free time and planned activities with my Wife), I am happy to say my phone is back working normally with the same SIM card and Micro SD as if nothing happened.
Fluke or not, definitely going to be watching this phone carefully to see if the problem is gone for good.
I will say this, when I first took the phone out the box last week, I turned it on and watched it update to MiUI 10.3.5. Normally I factory reset my phones after updates to be safe but since the phone was still new, I did not factory reset this time. That could be the reason it did this...I'm still not sure.
Sometimes I power my phones off, connect the charger and turn them on. For years I've never had an issue or doing it this way. For a few days I didn't have an issue with my Redmi Note 7 either. After this experience, I will stop doing that entirely.
My question is, have any of you encountered random random boot loops with any of your Xiaomi products? How did it occur and how did you fix it?
Got the same problem, fixed it the same way
tiguy99 said:
Saturday night, I plug my 1 week old phone on the charger at 9%. I power off the phone and see the battery charging animation. I turned it back on as usual but this time my phone did something I've never seen before.
It started bootlooping!
I was like what the hell.
It loaded up to the lock screen and then rebooted. This happened over and over again for about an hour.
After googling, I found a thread about a Redni Note 5 pro having the same issue.
The solution was to hold power and Volume down until the phone rebooted to recovery.
After doing that, I was presented with the option to reboot to system, wipe phone (which I definitely didn't want) and connect to My Assistant.
I chose the first option and sure enough....my phone was stuck in a boot loop once again.
This is my first Xiaomi phone. It's not rooted at all and has locked bootloader on the stock 10.3.5 ROM. Fresh out the box...just a few apps, some photos and texts.
I've seen stuff like this before happen with rooted phones but never on a brand new non rooted phone.
Fortunately (and with lots of prayer), I was able to let the phone battery drain out completely since it wouldn't power off.
Sunday morning, I plugged it back on the charger and to my surprise, I saw the battery animation only this time!
After charging fully, I turned it on and saw it bootlooping again. After 5 mins, I decided to remove both my SIM tray with both SIM and micro SD.
THIS time, the phone stopped bootlooping entirely! Again....what the hell was my question .
Normally, my nerves are steel but yesterday, they were more like spaghetti lol
Against my own judgement, I wanted to test if it was my own SIM card causing the issue or if my micro SD card caused the issue.
I placed the SIM try back in with each card 1 by 1 however, the phone immediately started bootlooping on it's own right from system!
I've never seen this before with any other phone or brand I've used in the past.
This activity occurred again and again regardless which card was inserted. With no cards, the phone worked normally.
I decided, you know what, at this point, I'm going to back up my data during and factory reset since now I have access.
Thank God that worked!
After many hours of backing up data, factory resetting my phone and then restoring everything on Mother's Day ( which meant working around free time and planned activities with my Wife), I am happy to say my phone is back working normally with the same SIM card and Micro SD as if nothing happened.
Fluke or not, definitely going to be watching this phone carefully to see if the problem is gone for good.
I will say this, when I first took the phone out the box last week, I turned it on and watched it update to MiUI 10.3.5. Normally I factory reset my phones after updates to be safe but since the phone was still new, I did not factory reset this time. That could be the reason it did this...I'm still not sure.
Sometimes I power my phones off, connect the charger and turn them on. For years I've never had an issue or doing it this way. For a few days I didn't have an issue with my Redmi Note 7 either. After this experience, I will stop doing that entirely.
My question is, have any of you encountered random random boot loops with any of your Xiaomi products? How did it occur and how did you fix it?
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Hello,
today I got the same issue as you stated above.
I tried to remove the SIM card (while the phone is on) and the phone brought me to the startscreen instantly. Inserting the SIM card caused the bootloop again ..
I googled this issue and found this thread,
went into the Recovery mode (Power + Volume Up) and did the Data Wipe.
Consequently, I could start the phone with my SIM card without problems ..
Later I found out, that removing the "Telephone"-permission from the "Contacts and dialer" app caused the bootloop.
(On my Stock 10.3.4 MiUI non root)
Greeting,
Dorian Rec
Dorian Rec said:
Hello,
today I got the same issue as you stated above.
I tried to remove the SIM card (while the phone is on) and the phone brought me to the startscreen instantly. Inserting the SIM card caused the bootloop again ..
I googled this issue and found this thread,
went into the Recovery mode (Power + Volume Up) and did the Data Wipe.
Consequently, I could start the phone with my SIM card without problems ..
Later I found out, that removing the "Telephone"-permission from the "Contacts and dialer" app caused the bootloop.
(On my Stock 10.3.4 MiUI non root)
Greeting,
Dorian Rec
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Adding all permissions in contacts& dialer is the solution - you saved my day!
man ... it saved my life thanks a lot. it 100% worked.
That is awesome!
Glad I could help out.
Talk about scary situation....caused by a simple glitch in Miui 10.3.5.
Wonder if the fixed it with the updates...
To scared to update right now since everything has been running smoothly since on my 10.3.5 phone.
Can anyone else share of this problem still occurs on newer versions?
Dorian Rec said:
Hello,
today I got the same issue as you stated above.
I tried to remove the SIM card (while the phone is on) and the phone brought me to the startscreen instantly. Inserting the SIM card caused the bootloop again ..
I googled this issue and found this thread,
went into the Recovery mode (Power + Volume Up) and did the Data Wipe.
Consequently, I could start the phone with my SIM card without problems ..
Later I found out, that removing the "Telephone"-permission from the "Contacts and dialer" app caused the bootloop.
(On my Stock 10.3.4 MiUI non root)
Greeting,
Dorian Rec
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tiguy99 said:
That is awesome!
Glad I could help out.
Talk about scary situation....caused by a simple glitch in Miui 10.3.5.
Wonder if the fixed it with the updates...
To scared to update right now since everything has been running smoothly since on my 10.3.5 phone.
Can anyone else share of this problem still occurs on newer versions?
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10.3.6 PFGEUXM here - no glitch so far
Hi mine went on a bootloop but I have removed my sim and SD card and it continues to be on bootloop. Since I have a lot of data I can't do wipe data. Can you guys help me
Hello,
I am having the same issue of boot looping on my Redmi note 7 PRO. I also want to enter boot menu so atleast I can do anything, but doing force shut down (Volume down+power) I came across "FASTBOOT" mode. To get out of that I pressed and hold the power button for a while and it went again in a boop loop. Can you guys please help, I am still not able to turn it on.
Greeting,
Akash Parmar.
Akashparmar1999 said:
Hello,
I am having the same issue of boot looping on my Redmi note 7 PRO. I also want to enter boot menu so atleast I can do anything, but doing force shut down (Volume down+power) I came across "FASTBOOT" mode. To get out of that I pressed and hold the power button for a while and it went again in a boop loop. Can you guys please help, I am still not able to turn it on.
Greeting,
Akash Parmar.
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most probably removing the "Telephone"-permission from the "Contacts and dialer" app is causing the bootloop - remove SIM and data card, start phone, fix the settings issue the get back the SIM
bootloop on my global version of redmi note 7
BThis last monday after all day work. I sat down and watch on youtube and after a few minutes my phone suddenly went black and when i turn it on it gets stuck on the logo redmi by Xiaomi then turns off.up until now i cant Open my phone. Pls help me resolve this matter. Thanks
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BThis last monday after all day work. I sat down and watch on youtube and after a few minutes my phone suddenly went black and when i turn it on it gets stuck on the logo redmi by Xiaomi then turns off.up until now i cant Open my phone. Pls help me resolve this matter. Thanks
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did you take off the card memory and sim?
Hi,
I am also facing the same problem since yesterday ecening, when I turn restarted my phone it gets stuck on the logo redmi by Xiaomi then turns off.up until now i cant Open my phone.
Also, I am unable to enter the fastboot or fatory reset menu as the fastboot menu ony flashes for a second and it again goes into the infinite loop.
Pls help me resolve this matter, any poiner would be appreciated. Thanks
hbhasin said:
Hi,
I am also facing the same problem since yesterday ecening, when I turn restarted my phone it gets stuck on the logo redmi by Xiaomi then turns off.up until now i cant Open my phone.
Also, I am unable to enter the fastboot or fatory reset menu as the fastboot menu ony flashes for a second and it again goes into the infinite loop.
Pls help me resolve this matter, any poiner would be appreciated. Thanks
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How you solved this issue?
It's MIUI 11.0.1 still the same problem
Ok I updated my phone to MIUI 11.0.1 it still has the same problem but thanks to everyone in this thread I
finally fixed this problem that kinda scared the crap out of me.
Thanks Everyone
I did not know this was a thing until last night. I'm on MIUI 11.0.9
My phone restarted out of nowhere and then my flash light came on by itself, gps was turning on by itself and the reboot/switch off screen kept coming and going, little while later it went into the loop. wouldn't even get to the android screen, i couldn't go into recovery mode either it was so bad. I let it die last night and after seeing this thread i plugged it in, and took out the sim (no memory card). So it seemed to work, though the torch and reboot/switch off screen did show up but nothing like yesterday where it kept interrupting me while i was trying to backup my data. Luckily i do a manual back up regularly.
I changed the "Telephone" permission and it went into the bootloop immediately. It turned on, and i started to backup the last of my data and it went into bootloop again. It's been 10 minutes now.
I noticed it seemed to go into bootloop every time i turned off gps,cell data, or was clearing files from my phone. Honestly i thought i was being hacked. Any suggestions on what I can do?
Srushti97 said:
I did not know this was a thing until last night. I'm on MIUI 11.0.9
My phone restarted out of nowhere and then my flash light came on by itself, gps was turning on by itself and the reboot/switch off screen kept coming and going, little while later it went into the loop. wouldn't even get to the android screen, i couldn't go into recovery mode either it was so bad. I let it die last night and after seeing this thread i plugged it in, and took out the sim (no memory card). So it seemed to work, though the torch and reboot/switch off screen did show up but nothing like yesterday where it kept interrupting me while i was trying to backup my data. Luckily i do a manual back up regularly.
I changed the "Telephone" permission and it went into the bootloop immediately. It turned on, and i started to backup the last of my data and it went into bootloop again. It's been 10 minutes now.
I noticed it seemed to go into bootloop every time i turned off gps,cell data, or was clearing files from my phone. Honestly i thought i was being hacked. Any suggestions on what I can do?
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Try turning off the call logs premission in the contacts app
Srushti97 said:
I did not know this was a thing until last night. I'm on MIUI 11.0.9
My phone restarted out of nowhere and then my flash light came on by itself, gps was turning on by itself and the reboot/switch off screen kept coming and going, little while later it went into the loop. wouldn't even get to the android screen, i couldn't go into recovery mode either it was so bad. I let it die last night and after seeing this thread i plugged it in, and took out the sim (no memory card). So it seemed to work, though the torch and reboot/switch off screen did show up but nothing like yesterday where it kept interrupting me while i was trying to backup my data. Luckily i do a manual back up regularly.
I changed the "Telephone" permission and it went into the bootloop immediately. It turned on, and i started to backup the last of my data and it went into bootloop again. It's been 10 minutes now.
I noticed it seemed to go into bootloop every time i turned off gps,cell data, or was clearing files from my phone. Honestly i thought i was being hacked. Any suggestions on what I can do?
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It looks like a hardware problem, if your phone gets into bootloop even there is no sim card - try to change to the other position for the sim card
same issue
gosh scared the xxxx out of me too! I was uninstalling updates uninstall to my redmi note 7 cause too little space and it went into reboot loop. removed sim and giving permission works. I wonder how to do it if removing sim didn't help me boot! how would j have been able to add back permission. what's worrying was I didn't remove any permissions , I only did uninstall updates to all xiaomi apps
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tiguy99 said:
Saturday night, I plug my 1 week old phone on the charger at 9%. I power off the phone and see the battery charging animation. I turned it back on as usual but this time my phone did something I've never seen before.
It started bootlooping!
I was like what the hell.
It loaded up to the lock screen and then rebooted. This happened over and over again for about an hour.
After googling, I found a thread about a Redni Note 5 pro having the same issue.
The solution was to hold power and Volume down until the phone rebooted to recovery.
After doing that, I was presented with the option to reboot to system, wipe phone (which I definitely didn't want) and connect to My Assistant.
I chose the first option and sure enough....my phone was stuck in a boot loop once again.
This is my first Xiaomi phone. It's not rooted at all and has locked bootloader on the stock 10.3.5 ROM. Fresh out the box...just a few apps, some photos and texts.
I've seen stuff like this before happen with rooted phones but never on a brand new non rooted phone.
Fortunately (and with lots of prayer), I was able to let the phone battery drain out completely since it wouldn't power off.
Sunday morning, I plugged it back on the charger and to my surprise, I saw the battery animation only this time!
After charging fully, I turned it on and saw it bootlooping again. After 5 mins, I decided to remove both my SIM tray with both SIM and micro SD.
THIS time, the phone stopped bootlooping entirely! Again....what the hell was my question .
Normally, my nerves are steel but yesterday, they were more like spaghetti lol
Against my own judgement, I wanted to test if it was my own SIM card causing the issue or if my micro SD card caused the issue.
I placed the SIM try back in with each card 1 by 1 however, the phone immediately started bootlooping on it's own right from system!
I've never seen this before with any other phone or brand I've used in the past.
This activity occurred again and again regardless which card was inserted. With no cards, the phone worked normally.
I decided, you know what, at this point, I'm going to back up my data during and factory reset since now I have access.
Thank God that worked!
After many hours of backing up data, factory resetting my phone and then restoring everything on Mother's Day ( which meant working around free time and planned activities with my Wife), I am happy to say my phone is back working normally with the same SIM card and Micro SD as if nothing happened.
Fluke or not, definitely going to be watching this phone carefully to see if the problem is gone for good.
I will say this, when I first took the phone out the box last week, I turned it on and watched it update to MiUI 10.3.5. Normally I factory reset my phones after updates to be safe but since the phone was still new, I did not factory reset this time. That could be the reason it did this...I'm still not sure.
Sometimes I power my phones off, connect the charger and turn them on. For years I've never had an issue or doing it this way. For a few days I didn't have an issue with my Redmi Note 7 either. After this experience, I will stop doing that entirely.
My question is, have any of you encountered random random boot loops with any of your Xiaomi products? How did it occur and how did you fix it?
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I cannot thank you enough!!
charles2020 said:
gosh scared the xxxx out of me too! I was uninstalling updates uninstall to my redmi note 7 cause too little space and it went into reboot loop. removed sim and giving permission works. I wonder how to do it if removing sim didn't help me boot! how would j have been able to add back permission. what's worrying was I didn't remove any permissions , I only did uninstall updates to all xiaomi apps
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I cannot thank you enough!!
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Anytime!
Glad I can help
tiguy99 said:
That is awesome!
Glad I could help out.
Talk about scary situation....caused by a simple glitch in Miui 10.3.5.
Wonder if the fixed it with the updates...
To scared to update right now since everything has been running smoothly since on my 10.3.5 phone.
Can anyone else share of this problem still occurs on newer versions?
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Seems like this problem exists on MIUI 12.5 too. I haven't tested the fix yet.

Galaxy S5 with Lineage OS stuck in a bootloop

Hello everyone,
I rooted my Galaxy S5 (SM-G900T) about 6 months ago. I also installed Lineage OS. All of it has worked fine until recently, I downloaded a new update for Lineage. I tried to open the Google Play Store after the update but it kept crashing. So I waited about 15-20 minutes and tried again. I rebooted as well. It was still crashing. So I thought I'd try installing an older version of the Play Store to see if that would fix it. My S5 rebooted, and hasn't loaded since. I am stuck in a boot-loop. I have tried an Advanced wipe and tried to re-install Lineage OS and GAPPS. Still won't boot up. Will I even be able to get my S5 out of a boot-loop? Am I doing this the wrong way? What are some other options for getting rid of a boot-loop?
XxXPhantomXxX said:
Hello everyone,
I rooted my Galaxy S5 (SM-G900T) about 6 months ago. I also installed Lineage OS. All of it has worked fine until recently, I downloaded a new update for Lineage. I tried to open the Google Play Store after the update but it kept crashing. So I waited about 15-20 minutes and tried again. I rebooted as well. It was still crashing. So I thought I'd try installing an older version of the Play Store to see if that would fix it. My S5 rebooted, and hasn't loaded since. I am stuck in a boot-loop. I have tried an Advanced wipe and tried to re-install Lineage OS and GAPPS. Still won't boot up. Will I even be able to get my S5 out of a boot-loop? Am I doing this the wrong way? What are some other options for getting rid of a boot-loop?
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Might Be A Malicious OTA Uptade , My Advice For You , Install Stock Rom
Try installing a different rom and if that works, retry installing LOS. Two years ago i became unable to update/install LOS. RR was an instant success and i kept using that till becoming somewhat instable one year ago, so back to LOS, w/o difficulties(probably a clean install of RR would have solved the problems i had, but i didn' t want to do this two times, if really RR and only that was the culprit).
Of course you can start by reinstalling stock rom in Download Mode, as this will be the last attempt if all previous measures may fail. Then re-root, re-install TWRP etc.
XxXPhantomXxX said:
Hello everyone,
I rooted my Galaxy S5 (SM-G900T) about 6 months ago. I also installed Lineage OS. All of it has worked fine until recently, I downloaded a new update for Lineage. I tried to open the Google Play Store after the update but it kept crashing. So I waited about 15-20 minutes and tried again. I rebooted as well. It was still crashing. So I thought I'd try installing an older version of the Play Store to see if that would fix it. My S5 rebooted, and hasn't loaded since. I am stuck in a boot-loop. I have tried an Advanced wipe and tried to re-install Lineage OS and GAPPS. Still won't boot up. Will I even be able to get my S5 out of a boot-loop? Am I doing this the wrong way? What are some other options for getting rid of a boot-loop?
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XxXPhantomXxX said:
Hello everyone,
I rooted my Galaxy S5 (SM-G900T) about 6 months ago. I also installed Lineage OS. All of it has worked fine until recently, I downloaded a new update for Lineage. I tried to open the Google Play Store after the update but it kept crashing. So I waited about 15-20 minutes and tried again. I rebooted as well. It was still crashing. So I thought I'd try installing an older version of the Play Store to see if that would fix it. My S5 rebooted, and hasn't loaded since. I am stuck in a boot-loop. I have tried an Advanced wipe and tried to re-install Lineage OS and GAPPS. Still won't boot up. Will I even be able to get my S5 out of a boot-loop? Am I doing this the wrong way? What are some other options for getting rid of a boot-loop?
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Since it's old, possibly hardwqre related.
Recently, I had that with my stock s5 s906s.
I reloaded stock firmware but to no avail.
Occasionally it boots up but I noticed it would go past the boot loop after I gave up and gave it a rest for a few days. Then I realized it was a temperature thing. When it's hot and I put the batt in, it would automatically start and go into a boot loop.
But then, it does not always boot well even after giving it a long rest.
I then reached out for my Qi wireless receiver, slapped it on top of the battery, pressed the 3 pins onto the connectors on the phone, and pressed the power button. And the phone booted well right after.
So, something in the old phone has made it sensitive to internal heat. Cool it down by turning it off, even if you have to remove the battery. Leave the battery out. If you have to recharge it with a charger or with another s5, do that.
Then, once cool, put the battery back into the phone with the qi receiver strapped onto it, and make the 3 contacts in the wireless receiver touch with the 3 connectors in the phone as you slide the battery in. Then press the power button. Somehow, this makes up for the old phone's faulty circuitry's tendency to start by itself when the battery's put in.
It is a quirk in my old phone, but other than that I have loaded it with an RR rom and it is running now like a champ. Just expect it to go into a bootloop each timeI I restart as there is heat already from its operation. When that happens, remove the battery and let the phone cool off before putting in back in to start.
yerrag said:
Since it's old, possibly hardwqre related.
Recently, I had that with my stock s5 s906s.
I reloaded stock firmware but to no avail.
Occasionally it boots up but I noticed it would go past the boot loop after I gave up and gave it a rest for a few days. Then I realized it was a temperature thing. When it's hot and I put the batt in, it would automatically start and go into a boot loop.
But then, it does not always boot well even after giving it a long rest.
I then reached out for my Qi wireless receiver, slapped it on top of the battery, pressed the 3 pins onto the connectors on the phone, and pressed the power button. And the phone booted well right after.
So, something in the old phone has made it sensitive to internal heat. Cool it down by turning it off, even if you have to remove the battery. Leave the battery out. If you have to recharge it with a charger or with another s5, do that.
Then, once cool, put the battery back into the phone with the qi receiver strapped onto it, and make the 3 contacts in the wireless receiver touch with the 3 connectors in the phone as you slide the battery in. Then press the power button. Somehow, this makes up for the old phone's faulty circuitry's tendency to start by itself when the battery's put in.
It is a quirk in my old phone, but other than that I have loaded it with an RR rom and it is running now like a champ. Just expect it to go into a bootloop each timeI I restart as there is heat already from its operation. When that happens, remove the battery and let the phone cool off before putting in back in to start.
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Well, this worked for a while. Then, bootloop became more stubborn.
By then, I had already bought a phone to replace it, so I was in no hurry to fix this issue but still, I hate to see a good phone go. Still has a screen that stood the test of time, and at high res, and I love the size of the phone.
So, another Hail Mary. And it worked!
I put the phone, worked in tissue paper, then enclosed in bubble wrap, in the freezer overnight, surrounded by grains of rice in a plastic container, that had been vacuumed by a FoodSaver machine.
The following morning, removed the phone from the freezer and laid it bare, separating the battery from it, and wiped it clear of moisture, and let it sit to evaporate any more moisture from the temperature gradient.
Then started the phone, and the bootloop once again gone.
So, phone saved. But since it's no longer that reliable due to the recurring bootloop problem, it would be my phone to watch streaming movies from Amazon Prime or Netflix, but not my phone for receiving calls and text messages, or for Waze and all.
The lesson I got from this is that with this phone, the circuitry inside has become finicky. To open it up and fix it would be too bothersome, especially with the circuitry being composed of embedded modules. Probably somewhere inside there is a capacitor that has reached its reliable end of life, but still breathing and needing an occasional handholding. So, I just gotta learn to live with this quirk, and this quirk is tolerable for the use I have it for.
So, if you run across this problem, I hope I gave you a workaround for you to remain loyal to a workhorse that served you long enough.

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