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Need help Tab is stuck in boot cycle

Hey guys, I'm currently deployed right now, I've been using my ATT tab extensively for surfing the internet, kindle and task management.
I didn't use it for a day, next day went to pick it up and it had a dead battery. I charge it up, go to turn it on and it boots up to the white glowing samsung logo.
From there it just loops the samsung logo and won't reload.
I've tried loading the ATT stock firmware with Odin but that didn't seem to work.
Any help you could provide would greatly assist here.
Thanks guys.

I am a noob when it comes to this stuff, but it sounds like you can still get to the standard recovery console if it exists on stock ATT tabs:
1. Make sure it is turned off (hold power & vol + & vol - for a while to force it to turn off)
2. With it off, hold power & vol + until the moment you see the samsung logo and let go.
3. Clear the cache (navigation within this menu may or may not be explained on your device once you reach it, on VZW tab vol +/- are used to move and home softkey is used to select)
4. Reboot
5. Cross Fingers
If that did not work, get back into recovery using the same steps, and this time try clear data/factory reset. Obviously, you will lose information/apps stored in the device's internal memory, but it shouldn't touch your sdcard, no guarantees though! Then after that runs, go ahead and clear cache again, then reboot.
Hopefully this gets you somewhere!

Thanks for the help, thought my TAB lost.

Another tip to use is to do the following:-
Press & Hold the Power button whilst at the same time touching the screen.
The battery indicator pops up.
The Tablet reboots.
Everything goes back to normal.

[Q] Most Complicated Brick thus far. A cry for help..

I know I have Few or no posts at all... but I am quite experienced with Android OS... I wish i could have contributed more to this forum before asking for help on such an INTRICATE problem.. Anyways
The rundown is this, in the sequence in which the things occured... Today i set my phone down, (Droid X, Rooted, Running Apex 1.4.1) and it was working perfectly fine. I then pick it up, absolutely nothing had been done to it between me setting it down and picking it up, and the hard buttons (Menu, Home, Back, Search, Volume Rockers, Camera Button) all not working, only the lock button on top. So, I think like I always do, Battery pull time. I preform a pull, and turn the phone back on, then it's stuck on "M", just stays there. I pull again, stuck again, nothing, one more time and it goes to stock recovery mode just the Android and Exclamation triangle, (I have clockworkmod installed) but of course, no hardbuttons are working so it's false hope. I press buttons over and over out of frustration and I bring up the menu, but that's all i can do, and i have to hold the Volume rocker down, and search to even do that, but besides that i can do nothing more. So I'm stuck at what I see as a dead end, can't move through recovery because buttons aren't working for whatever reason, so i can't flash SBF, or stock reset... So I'm asking for help, please.

wunsung said:
I know I have Few or no posts at all... but I am quite experienced with Android OS... I wish i could have contributed more to this forum before asking for help on such an INTRICATE problem.. Anyways
The rundown is this, in the sequence in which the things occured... Today i set my phone down, (Droid X, Rooted, Running Apex 1.4.1) and it was working perfectly fine. I then pick it up, absolutely nothing had been done to it between me setting it down and picking it up, and the hard buttons (Menu, Home, Back, Search, Volume Rockers, Camera Button) all not working, only the lock button on top. So, I think like I always do, Battery pull time. I preform a pull, and turn the phone back on, then it's stuck on "M", just stays there. I pull again, stuck again, nothing, one more time and it goes to stock recovery mode just the Android and Exclamation triangle, (I have clockworkmod installed) but of course, no hardbuttons are working so it's false hope. I press buttons over and over out of frustration and I bring up the menu, but that's all i can do, and i have to hold the Volume rocker down, and search to even do that, but besides that i can do nothing more. So I'm stuck at what I see as a dead end, can't move through recovery because buttons aren't working for whatever reason, so i can't flash SBF, or stock reset... So I'm asking for help, please.
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have you tried getting it into bootloader mode?
hold vol - + camera + search while powering the device on
if you can get into bootloader mode than you can flash an sbf file

If you tried everything you can think of and still can't get it to do anything take it back to verizon. If you can't get it to work I doubt most of the employees at verizon would be able to get it to work either
Did you try a long battery pull. 30 seconds or more?
Sent from my Droid

Pull the battery and then.plug the phone into.the wall charger. Then put the battery back in, and when the phone boots up it should boot to clockwork
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Did this work?

SPB 3D now no boot stuck att screen

Help! My atrix now is stuck at the "Rethink Possible" Screen and I only installed SPB 3D Shell.
Suggestions?

reflash the SBF file using RSD lite.

Thanks, but I was looking for something a little less severe.
That's like saying, oh, I've got a bug in my windows -Friend "Better wipe and reinstall windows" that's the only solution! and so forth.
THAT would wipe the phone.
I've made some progress, it seems that the Beautiful Widgets and the SPB are conflicting, and I can get into the desktop but it's black. If I press the search icon, then I get the google page.
It's only stuck at a black home screen. I have this thing set up to the nth degree and I can't bear the thought of doing it all over again, and horking up my wifi and so forth with the flash rom.
Got any suggestions on how to get to a moto blur screen with taps etc?
It's not like I rooted the damn thing or screwed it up that way. Just an install of a 15.00 program messed it up big time.

i couldnt get SPB to work on mine...

Dang. Wish I got the refund in time. The 15 minutes isn't enough. It took me 30 minutes to realize that this launcher has little room for customizing, and there's little things like slow scrolling that make LP better.
Never live in the past but always learn from it.

OK, I could get to "search" mode google etc., so I searched the catalog of apps on the phone and then I found "task Manager" and got in that way. Uninstalled Beautiful widgets and stopped SPB but didn't uninstall it. Then the next time I booted I had complete hang and had to do a hard reset. Oh well, not like it's the most fun part of a phone - setting it up, so maybe I'll do a better job this time.
I never did have to reflash the rom, I knew it wasn't THAT bad.
What's irritating is nearly 90 users read my post and only 3 replied in any way. How irritating.
That's people for you I guess.

jesus the same thing is happening to me right now..
stuck on the rethink possible screen. WTF

Fountainhead931 said:
OK, I could get to "search" mode google etc., so I searched the catalog of apps on the phone and then I found "task Manager" and got in that way. Uninstalled Beautiful widgets and stopped SPB but didn't uninstall it. Then the next time I booted I had complete hang and had to do a hard reset. Oh well, not like it's the most fun part of a phone - setting it up, so maybe I'll do a better job this time.
I never did have to reflash the rom, I knew it wasn't THAT bad.
What's irritating is nearly 90 users read my post and only 3 replied in any way. How irritating.
That's people for you I guess.
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how did you get to a black desktop?

ok my phone finally got past the Rethink possible screen, but now i'm staring at a blank desktop and can only access the contact/dialer screen... search button will only allow me to search contacts
pressing a bunch of buttons also allowed me to get into the browser.. i'm fine with doing a reset if i can figure out how to get to the settings screen somehow.

you can do a factory reset without doing a reflash by going into android recovery and wiping user data/cache
hold vol down and power on
hit vol down till you get to android recovery
hit vol up
tap lower right of screen
use vol up/down to select wipe data/factory reset
tap ok on lower left
select wipe cache partition
tap ok
select reboot
tap ok
redo everything you jacked up...... only better this time

diedemus said:
you can do a factory reset without doing a reflash by going into android recovery and wiping user data/cache
hold vol down and power on
hit vol down till you get to android recovery
hit vol up
tap lower right of screen
use vol up/down to select wipe data/factory reset
tap ok on lower left
select wipe cache partition
tap ok
select reboot
tap ok
redo everything you jacked up...... only better this time
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ok, i got the the "android recovery" part, hit vol up, then it says "Entering Android Recovery mode OSD 1" or something like that.. now i see a little green android with the exclamation.. volume up/down does nothing/ there is no option for a reset or anything else... stuck here and afraid to touch any different buttons but the volume buttons aren't giving me any new options..
is it safe to do a battery pull at this point and try again or will it brick my phone?
by the way, my phone is totally stock..
...pulled battery, attempted again, same issue.

OK, here's how i fixed it without any resets..
from the dialer, i held down the search button, used Vlingo to search "Settings", uninstalled SPB, voila, phone back to normal.
thank f'king god.

It is not compatible with Atrix I guess, I have tried to install from PC... It says ur device is not compatible

I tried it out on my Atrix, ran fine with no trouble even after a few reboots. So I don't know if it is SPB itself or if it is conflicting with something you guys have installed.

Same here. Works great for me not one problem so far.

at the screen with the little android guy you tap the bottom right of the touchscreen

[Q] Can't start phone?

Hi All,
I need your quick help, I dont know why but I cannot start my Samsung focus v1.3.
I tried to flash it by pressing power button + volume down + camera button but can't do hard reset.
When I am trying to remove battery and reattach battery again, then phone just showing "SAMSUNG" screen and again goes switched off.
Even I tried to press power button + volume UP + camera button then it shows only "Download Mode" screen only nothing happens after this.
Please need your help!
Many thanks in advance,

Since you just flashed it, I assume that it started up by displaying 'SAMSUNG" and seems to be stuck there.
If that is the case, you need to be patient. It takes a few minutes to get past that point. Every time I flash, I feel like I have done something wrong and the phone is bricked. But it always moves past that point after a few minutes.

wildbilll said:
Since you just flashed it, I assume that it started up by displaying 'SAMSUNG" and seems to be stuck there.
If that is the case, you need to be patient. It takes a few minutes to get past that point. Every time I flash, I feel like I have done something wrong and the phone is bricked. But it always moves past that point after a few minutes.
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Thanks for your reply,
But I haven't flashed my phone..
and from yesterday it is showing same 'SAMSUNG' name screen and then again goes switched off..
dont know what is going wrong.. or is it due to battery issue?
please help!

nah, it's the power button switch which somehow got stuck, it's a relatively common issue with the focus it seems
some people have reported that cleaning the button helps, others simply have replaced the whole switch at a local repair center... do what you think is best

Saiyaku said:
nah, it's the power button switch which somehow got stuck, it's a relatively common issue with the focus it seems
some people have reported that cleaning the button helps, others simply have replaced the whole switch at a local repair center... do what you think is best
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Thanks Saiyaku,
But how power button works when I press (Powerbutton + Volume UP + Camera button), screen shows me "Download Mode" nothing happens after that. Yesterday whole I tried these options..

help
To flash magldr, you need that combo , press power button + volume UP + camera button then it shows only "Download Mode". To flash a ROM, you go Vol DOWN, and then reset your phone, or format, and then go back to the same menu, and when you see the do you want to format your phone stuff, you hit the back button and you'll see the magldr screen where you'll connect your USB and go forward with the flashing process. Perhaps try flashing an actual ROM to your phone. You can't really do squat from from the download screen but add magldr really. Hope that helps you.
Please need your help!

DACHEF81 said:
To flash magldr, you need that combo , press power button + volume UP + camera button then it shows only "Download Mode". To flash a ROM, you go Vol DOWN, and then reset your phone, or format, and then go back to the same menu, and when you see the do you want to format your phone stuff, you hit the back button and you'll see the magldr screen where you'll connect your USB and go forward with the flashing process. Perhaps try flashing an actual ROM to your phone. You can't really do squat from from the download screen but add magldr really. Hope that helps you.
Please need your help!
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Thank you for your comment, but I haven't installed magldr.

[email protected] said:
But how power button works when I press (Powerbutton + Volume UP + Camera button), screen shows me "Download Mode" nothing happens after that.
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because download mode disables the power switch (it even says "do not turn off"), that's why it seems to "work". power switch is active at the format prompt, however, so when you enter that mode the phone turns off immediately afterwards
do a little experiment: remove the battery, then put it on again while you're pressing volume down plus camera... you'll probably see a little surprise there
it's the switch. go repair that nao

i have the same problem, and many unfortunate people out there , but my phone on service center now, and i just wanna tell you about this thread this http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2007946, maybe can make you calm for a while... look at his problem solution

"Unfortunately, system UI has stopped" - and that's just the start!!

Hi all,
Hope I might be able to get some advice. Excuse me up front if I butcher the jargon and/or description of the issue, I am but a simple (very, some might say) mobile phone user. I know nothing of the mystical world of 'rooting', and other Andriody black art.
So, here goes.
My wife owns a Samsung Galaxy S5 which hasn't been modified (except for the installation of a few extra apps) since the day it left the Vodafone shop. Today, for no apparent/obvious reason, the following is happening:
Switch phone on, boots into home screen when "Unfortunately, system UI has stopped” message is displayed. Click 'OK', messages disappears for approx 2 seconds and then comes back. Too short a time to do anything else with the phone.
After around a minute, the phone then reboots itself.
Once rebooted -> home screen -> "Unfortunately, system UI has stopped” -> repeat.
The only thing I could see happening, in between pressing the 'OK' button dozens of times, was some automatic App updates (Facebook Messenger and Facebook Pages Manager, were the two I saw).
The back of the phone is also getting pretty damned hot - related?
I've read a few 'Help me' pages online and managed to get the phone into Safe Mode thinking I could at least have a little look around while it was stabile. Wrong. The message and endless reboot cycles still occurred.
I'm loathed to do a full reset as I can't extract the photos from the phone - the phone won't stay 'up' long enough for me to copy them onto my laptop. The phone connects and is recognised but when it reboots itself Windows Explorer cracks it.
I know a lot people say "I didn't do anything", the only thing I've done to the phone prior to this issue was to remove the rear cover and re-seat the SD card (Sandisk Ultra 32Gb, if that's any use).
I really appreciate the time you hopefully take to read this and (hopefully) help out an old boy like me. Thanks heaps in advance.

simarjoshlib said:
Hi all,
Hope I might be able to get some advice. Excuse me up front if I butcher the jargon and/or description of the issue, I am but a simple (very, some might say) mobile phone user. I know nothing of the mystical world of 'rooting', and other Andriody black art.
So, here goes.
My wife owns a Samsung Galaxy S5 which hasn't been modified (except for the installation of a few extra apps) since the day it left the Vodafone shop. Today, for no apparent/obvious reason, the following is happening:
Switch phone on, boots into home screen when "Unfortunately, system UI has stopped” message is displayed. Click 'OK', messages disappears for approx 2 seconds and then comes back. Too short a time to do anything else with the phone.
After around a minute, the phone then reboots itself.
Once rebooted -> home screen -> "Unfortunately, system UI has stopped” -> repeat.
The only thing I could see happening, in between pressing the 'OK' button dozens of times, was some automatic App updates (Facebook Messenger and Facebook Pages Manager, were the two I saw).
The back of the phone is also getting pretty damned hot - related?
I've read a few 'Help me' pages online and managed to get the phone into Safe Mode thinking I could at least have a little look around while it was stabile. Wrong. The message and endless reboot cycles still occurred.
I'm loathed to do a full reset as I can't extract the photos from the phone - the phone won't stay 'up' long enough for me to copy them onto my laptop. The phone connects and is recognised but when it reboots itself Windows Explorer cracks it.
I know a lot people say "I didn't do anything", the only thing I've done to the phone prior to this issue was to remove the rear cover and re-seat the SD card (Sandisk Ultra 32Gb, if that's any use).
I really appreciate the time you hopefully take to read this and (hopefully) help out an old boy like me. Thanks heaps in advance.
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sorry to hear about your luck mate, but im sure we can figure a way around this issue. The first thing id try is wiping the cache and dalvik cache. that can be done by turning the phone completely off (in your case, probably just pull the battery and put it back after a few seconds), then hold volume +, the home button and power. the phone should vibrate and when it does, continue holding the first two, but release the power button. then itll boot into factory recovery. You use the volume buttons to navigate the menu, and power to select. Go to wipe cache, confirm wipe and reboot

Hi, thanks for the reply. I've just followed your suggested action but unfortunately the phone is still doing exactly the same thing.

simarjoshlib said:
Hi, thanks for the reply. I've just followed your suggested action but unfortunately the phone is still doing exactly the same thing.
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np. ok, so you should be able to connect the phone to your computer in recovery and mount it so you can get the pictures off. After youve grabbed everything you need from the phone, then nuke it with Odin and the correct tar.md5 file and see what s what at that point

I agree. You might as well root it at that point.

youdoofus said:
np. ok, so you should be able to connect the phone to your computer in recovery and mount it so you can get the pictures off. After youve grabbed everything you need from the phone, then nuke it with Odin and the correct tar.md5 file and see what s what at that point
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Assume you mean the 'mount/system' option from the system menu (hold volume +, the home button and power)? If so, I select this option and it doesn't appear to do anything. It seems to accept the entry by confirming the action at the bottom of the screen. So, I select 'boot' (top option), the phone starts as usual and then begins the cycle of - error message -> reboot, etc, etc after approx 15-20 seconds.
Is there no way to access the internal physical memory of the phone (even by force) to access the data stored there? Thanks again.

simarjoshlib said:
Assume you mean the 'mount/system' option from the system menu (hold volume +, the home button and power)? If so, I select this option and it doesn't appear to do anything. It seems to accept the entry by confirming the action at the bottom of the screen. So, I select 'boot' (top option), the phone starts as usual and then begins the cycle of - error message -> reboot, etc, etc after approx 15-20 seconds.
Is there no way to access the internal physical memory of the phone (even by force) to access the data stored there? Thanks again.
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wait, you can actually see this stuff on the screen to select from?