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Unable to restore to stock firmware

I was having problems with my focus ( http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1669192 ) so I tried to restore it to stock firmware.
I have Rev 1.3, so I downloaded appropriate firmware.
All steps went fine, however when the phone rebooted, the logo flashed on the screen for some 3-4 times & stopped. Now it is just stuck on logo.
So what to do guys ?

Btw I can still go to downloading mode.

avi! said:
Btw I can still go to downloading mode.
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Try flashing again. If it fails go back to the custom rom you were using.

Yes, I did tried to flash again & still same.
Earlier it was on stock & never was on custom ROM.

Shall I try installing Custom Roms ?
I don't think I can install Clean ROM since I cannot perform these steps :
2.) Go to 'Settings' -> 'about' -> 'reset your phone' -> 'yes' -> 'yes'
3.) Right when the screen goes black press and hold 'voldown + camera'
4.) Press '<-' (cancel)
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But I guess I could try Mi7ROM, Freedom ROM

UPDATE :
1. The phone was stuck on Samsung Logo
2. I rebooted. The logo flashed like 4-5 times like mentioned earlier.
2. I rebooted again & to my surprise I saw this screen loading.
{
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"lightbox_previous": "Previous",
"lightbox_error": "The requested content cannot be loaded. Please try again later.",
"lightbox_start_slideshow": "Start slideshow",
"lightbox_stop_slideshow": "Stop slideshow",
"lightbox_full_screen": "Full screen",
"lightbox_thumbnails": "Thumbnails",
"lightbox_download": "Download",
"lightbox_share": "Share",
"lightbox_zoom": "Zoom",
"lightbox_new_window": "New window",
"lightbox_toggle_sidebar": "Toggle sidebar"
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It was stuck there for some 5-7 mins & then rebooted. Now back to stuck at samsung logo.

I'm in the same boat i also have focus which is in the same condition......i have tried almost every possible was to restore it but no luck.
Did u try to format the the phone with Vol down camera and power ?
When i try to put my phone to format mode the second it shows to the mode it restarts and goes to the samsung logo.....do u have face this thing ?

It looks as if the eboot or some other part of the firmware is not flashed correctly.
Can any of you try the attached flasher with the stock rom? (use this exe/flasher, not the default one inside the rom)

EnderPsp said:
It looks as if the eboot or some other part of the firmware is not flashed correctly.
Can any of you try the attached flasher with the stock rom? (use this exe/flasher, not the default one inside the rom)
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I try rebooting the phone & it started correctly ! Currently the firmware shows some 7.0.0 etc. Seems I downgraded

avi! said:
I try rebooting the phone & it started correctly ! Currently the firmware shows some 7.0.0 etc. Seems I downgraded
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So did you reflash? Or just restarted?

I tried just restarting.
The earlier issue is back. Sometimes phone goes off with samsung logo flashing multiple times.

avi! said:
I tried just restarting.
The earlier issue is back. Sometimes phone goes off with samsung logo flashing multiple times.
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It's possible you have a hardware error, but to verify, did you select ALL the checkboxes when you flashed the phone? You should flash all parts, including: Phone Boot, Phone, Eboot, PDA, CSC Download.

At first I did not check. second time I did.
The random reboots have been disappeared after I placed a small piece of paper near battery so that it can connect it tightly. However battery is draining too fast now
I guess the fault is in battery

a500 stuck at acer logo, stuck at booting recovery kernel image and no drivers

Hi. One time my a500 just get out of battery and turned off. I charged it and turned on and it stucked at acer logo 4ever. It also stuck at booting recovery kernel when pressing pwr + vol - . Nothing happens when im pressing pwr+vol+ . I installed clear win 7 pro x86 and installed usb drivers from acer site. When connecting tablet to PC it says its Unknown device and i cant upadate drivers Im depressed. What can i do?

marcin2010 said:
Hi. One time my a500 just get out of battery and turned off. I charged it and turned on and it stucked at acer logo 4ever. It also stuck at booting recovery kernel when pressing pwr + vol - . Nothing happens when im pressing pwr+vol+ . I installed clear win 7 pro x86 and installed usb drivers from acer site. When connecting tablet to PC it says its Unknown device and i cant upadate drivers Im depressed. What can i do?
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I had the exact same thing happen to my A500 back in October. Have tried everything I could find on the net to restore it back to factory settings with no success. Of course it happened to me 2 months after the warranty ran out. To say Acer's support suck would be a complement.
Decided to give up on it and convert to one of the new Windows 8 hybrid tablets when available. Found the Android devices to be only good for email, surfing the net or playing around with useless apps that are gimmicky. At least with the windows 8 tablets you can run any of the programs that you run on your windows computer. They seem to have a similar price point as the Ipad but again, I think they are more practical for so many reasons.
I wish you luck and hope you have better luck then I did.
Cheers, TWC

marcin2010 said:
Hi. One time my a500 just get out of battery and turned off. I charged it and turned on and it stucked at acer logo 4ever. It also stuck at booting recovery kernel when pressing pwr + vol - . Nothing happens when im pressing pwr+vol+ . I installed clear win 7 pro x86 and installed usb drivers from acer site. When connecting tablet to PC it says its Unknown device and i cant upadate drivers Im depressed. What can i do?
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Wots clear win 7? And why can't u update the drivers.
Wot ROM were u on? Maybe hard reset using rotation lock method.
A stock Update.zip might fix it, no drivers needed...
Have a read thru the first 2 guides in my SIG, you'll need yr cpuid for any unbrick method
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clear - fresh installed (no messed drivers). I flashed new bootloader through APX. I were on full stock. Hard reset will clear my movies music and pictures from memory ? upadte zip doesnt works bcs recovery dont boot (only apx and fastboot now)

If you can get to fast boot mode wipe cache first and see if it boots... If it doesn't then flash a recovery.img via fast boot instead....make sure u have a compatible ICS ROM to flash once u have recovery
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Problem is i dont know how to flash via fastboot :| I have ICS stock rom
RECOVERY IS RUNNING If i do wipe menu-wipe data wil i lost all my internal memory things like pictures?

marcin2010 said:
Problem is i dont know how to flash via fastboot :| I have ICS stock rom
RECOVERY IS RUNNING If i do wipe menu-wipe data wil i lost all my internal memory things like pictures?
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No, thats all kept in a special folder "data/media". CWM Wipe data doesn't touch it unless you specifically enable it to do so.
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ROM is working , big thanks

marcin2010 said:
ROM is working , big thanks
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You're welcome. Did u just wipe cache from fastboot or did u have to flash a recovery.img?
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i wiped cache ( i did this on another bundle too but didnt wrked)

marcin2010 said:
i wiped cache ( i did this on another bundle too but didnt wrked)
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Cool thanks
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hi buddy
i am also having a problem with my acer a500, stuck at the acer screen, and when i try to go in recovery, it says recovery verified failed, if you could help me get mine back up and running, i would greatly appreciate it, lol

cj28sc said:
i am also having a problem with my acer a500, stuck at the acer screen, and when i try to go in recovery, it says recovery verified failed, if you could help me get mine back up and running, i would greatly appreciate it, lol
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Do u have v8? Flash recovery again.
If not best read root guide in my sig
Sent from my GT-I9300 using Tapatalk 2

marcin2010 said:
ROM is working , big thanks
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So how did you do it? I've tried all the tricks and factory resets and toggle lock and nothing seems to get it to work. I'm guessing you flashed or something?

Can anyone help me with this issue? The BThunder app wants me to be in debug mode, but I can't get into it. Becasue I can not boot.

timsmooth said:
Can anyone help me with this issue? The BThunder app wants me to be in debug mode, but I can't get into it. Becasue I can not boot.
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IF the auto flash tools do not work, you must use the manual nvflash method, if theres anything wrong it will give an error which you should post, along with what rom you were running.
To save yrself alot of trouble - go to the root guide in my sig and d/l babsector.rar - this will flash the v8/cwm and reset partitions - follow the instructions in that post - and be sure to do a full wipe b4 AND after flashing your rom - ICS/JB only
dibb

My tablet is a sucker
I have a HCL am7-a1 android. I tried to install CMW 5.0.2.0 , it installed, but failed to flash any ROM. afTER THAT i TRIED TO FLASH A NEW cwm ROM, and not my tablet gone dead. It is stuck at bootloader image. It wont go recovery console. ADB works, but fastboot does not work. Followed several posts but all in vain.
Look at the picture where I am stuck:
Model: HCL AM7-A1
ADB shows : HTC dream composite device.
Screen stuck at this picture,
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"lightbox_previous": "Previous",
"lightbox_error": "The requested content cannot be loaded. Please try again later.",
"lightbox_start_slideshow": "Start slideshow",
"lightbox_stop_slideshow": "Stop slideshow",
"lightbox_full_screen": "Full screen",
"lightbox_thumbnails": "Thumbnails",
"lightbox_download": "Download",
"lightbox_share": "Share",
"lightbox_zoom": "Zoom",
"lightbox_new_window": "New window",
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I would like to think I am pretty tech savvy but I want to know what the hell happened in this case. It is similar to what the OP describes but not exact.
First let me set up what the hell happened. I was using Flash Fox to watch Marvel Agents of Shield latest episode and was also downloading a game from the Play store, When all of a sudden it just went black. The screen was still on but it was black. Then the Acer logo came on and it stayed on. I thought it froze and held the power button to shut it off. It powered down just fine. I pressed the power agian and the Acer logo came up and again just hung there. I became a little perplexed and figured I could maybe go into the boot recovery menu by pressing the vol + and power. The little text in the upper left came up saying:
Erasing cache before SD Update...
SD Update CMD: recovery
--update_package=SDCARD: update.zip
Booting recovery kernel image
The Android bot comes up with the spinning blue matrix of leadership in his chest and a status bar appears below but then go directly to the bot on the ground with his chest open and a red ! triangle. It just hangs there for a minute or so and then the Acer logo pops back up and just hangs.
I think I bricked it and through no fault of my own it seems. I mean **** the thing was only running Ice Cream sandwich OS. I am not sure the exact version. All I want to do is see if I can recover the stock OS and have my tablet back. If that is not possible and I have to use a different way to recover using a custom ROM I can do that too. It seems to me that I need a file update.zip on my SD card which I removed before recovering but there is no file on my card named that. If anyone could point me in the right direction it would be greatly appreciated.

stuck
I tried to flash cm10.2 rom but now im stuck on booting primary kernel image.need help

Just reflash skrilax unlocked bootloader
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[Q] HELP stuck on cyongen mod screen start screen

I updated to cyonogenmod nightly 10.2 this morning and it took away my gmail and youtube... so me being a dumby wanted to not deal with that, so i chose to install the earlier cyanogenmod i had on.. 10.1.2? i believe, did that and it was stuck on the start screen... spinning cyanogen mod... got it into recovery mode and factory reset it... this took away all my gapps, so i was bummed when it started working again... so i got home and tried to unroot cyanogen for some reason... out of frustration... followed some guide and it didnt, still had cyanogenmod on it, got past the spin screen, but it was all black and notifications like NFC stopped responding... and then phonecom.android.source stopped etc... nothing worked.. i turned it off tried to go into recovery mode again but its on stock recovery mode now... did a wipedata and factory restore on that and nothing works now just is stuck on the spin screen forever... Is my phone bricked? did i doo too much damage? is there an adb sideload option to put 4.2.2 back on? is it gone forever? PLEASE HELP

Download the stock rom from the Google servers. Extract the zip and connect your phone in the bootloader. Then run the flash-all.bat (assuming you are on windows). This will reflash everything to stock
Sent from my Nexus 4 running Android 4.2.2

lu.ergon said:
I updated to cyonogenmod nightly 10.2 this morning and it took away my gmail and youtube... so me being a dumby wanted to not deal with that, so i chose to install the earlier cyanogenmod i had on.. 10.1.2? i believe, did that and it was stuck on the start screen... spinning cyanogen mod... got it into recovery mode and factory reset it... this took away all my gapps, so i was bummed when it started working again... so i got home and tried to unroot cyanogen for some reason... out of frustration... followed some guide and it didnt, still had cyanogenmod on it, got past the spin screen, but it was all black and notifications like NFC stopped responding... and then phonecom.android.source stopped etc... nothing worked.. i turned it off tried to go into recovery mode again but its on stock recovery mode now... did a wipedata and factory restore on that and nothing works now just is stuck on the spin screen forever... Is my phone bricked? did i doo too much damage? is there an adb sideload option to put 4.2.2 back on? is it gone forever? PLEASE HELP
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what jb is your phone? i will help you.
all you need is
1. Nexus 4 Toolkit (download here)
2. Google Factory Images "occam" for Nexus 4(This will wiped all of your data and unroot your dev-ice). I remind you to choose the factory images carefully, "Factory Images "occam" for Nexus 4" and 4.3 is recommended.
yeah you need two of them only.
MAKE SURE THAT YOUR PHONE IS IN BOOTLOADER MODE. IF YOU CAN'T GET INTO BOOTLOADER(SOMETIMES WHEN YOU PRESS THE POWER BUTTON FOR A LONG TIME IT WILL SHUTDOWN AND REBOOT AGAIN),SO YOU NEED TO CONNECT YOUR PHONE EITHER TO LAPTOP OR AC CHARGER ADAPTER, THEN PRESS AND HOLD THE POWER BUTTON FOR 10secs THEN YOU WILL FIND YOUR PHONE SHUT DOWN AND IN THE CHARGING MODE. UNPLUG THE CABLE FROM YOUR DEVICE AND WAIT FOR A WHILE(5MINS), UNTIL YOUR PHONE IS COMPLETELY SHUT DOWN. AND THEN, GET INTO THE BOOTLOADER MODE (PRESS AND HOLD VOL DOWN BUTTON AND POWER BUTTON TOGETHER FOR 5 SECS. IF IT REBOOT AGAIN DO THE ABOVE STEPS AGAIN UNTIL YOU ARE IN BOOTLOADER. YOU CAN'T DO ANYTHING WITHOUT GETTING INTO IT.
1.install nexus toolkit. then select deviec "Nexus 4(LG E960)" and the android build choose "OCCAM-MAKO: ANdroid *.*.* - Anybuild",apply
2.if the dialog box says it want to download something,just ok. it wont take too long
3.nah now.
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"lightbox_next": "Next",
"lightbox_previous": "Previous",
"lightbox_error": "The requested content cannot be loaded. Please try again later.",
"lightbox_start_slideshow": "Start slideshow",
"lightbox_stop_slideshow": "Stop slideshow",
"lightbox_full_screen": "Full screen",
"lightbox_thumbnails": "Thumbnails",
"lightbox_download": "Download",
"lightbox_share": "Share",
"lightbox_zoom": "Zoom",
"lightbox_new_window": "New window",
"lightbox_toggle_sidebar": "Toggle sidebar"
}
4.be patient and wait until it reboot and HOLAA, everything solved. Hit thanks!

Won't boot past startup screen

Hi everyone, I recently flashed a CM 10.1 ROM to my bootloader unlocked RAZR M. After booting up, the ROM did not display correctly, and the lock slider did not respond to touch. I use Volume Down and power, and let the phone restart. Ever since then, the phone will not pass the Unlocked Boot loader warning, even when trying to display the charging status. I can get the phone to boot into fastboot and recovery, but restoring to backups results in the same situation. The phone has 50% battery, and the touchscreen works in TWRP. Someone help me fix my phone!
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uscsailor said:
Hi everyone, I recently flashed a CM 10.1 ROM to my bootloader unlocked RAZR M. After booting up, the ROM did not display correctly, and the lock slider did not respond to touch. I use Volume Down and power, and let the phone restart. Ever since then, the phone will not pass the Unlocked Boot loader warning, even when trying to display the charging status. I can get the phone to boot into fastboot and recovery, but restoring to backups results in the same situation. The phone has 50% battery, and the touchscreen works in TWRP. Someone help me fix my phone!
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I have a restore thread. It may be overkill but will work. If nobody gives you a better fix , do it. See my signature links.

uscsailor said:
Hi everyone, I recently flashed a CM 10.1 ROM to my bootloader unlocked RAZR M. After booting up, the ROM did not display correctly, and the lock slider did not respond to touch. I use Volume Down and power, and let the phone restart. Ever since then, the phone will not pass the Unlocked Boot loader warning, even when trying to display the charging status. I can get the phone to boot into fastboot and recovery, but restoring to backups results in the same situation. The phone has 50% battery, and the touchscreen works in TWRP. Someone help me fix my phone!
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Just a couple shots in the dark here... Did you install the gapps? Also, did you wipe /data and /cache?

uscsailor said:
Hi everyone, I recently flashed a CM 10.1 ROM to my bootloader unlocked RAZR M. After booting up, the ROM did not display correctly, and the lock slider did not respond to touch. I use Volume Down and power, and let the phone restart. Ever since then, the phone will not pass the Unlocked Boot loader warning, even when trying to display the charging status. I can get the phone to boot into fastboot and recovery, but restoring to backups results in the same situation. The phone has 50% battery, and the touchscreen works in TWRP. Someone help me fix my phone!
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Here's what I would do:
Boot into recovery, mount system, wipe data/factory reset, wipe system, reboot recovery, mount system, restore prior back up. Do all of this while plugged in.
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jco23 said:
Here's what I would do:
Boot into recovery, mount system, wipe data/factory reset, wipe system, reboot recovery, mount system, restore prior back up. Do all of this while plugged in.
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It worked! Thank you! Now to put some CM 10 on this...
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Don't know what to do :(

Hi All,
Little background, I don't own OnePlus 2; I got one from a friend of mine and he already soft brick it, phone turns on and goes to stock recovery with these options (Install form SD, Install form USB, Wipe data and cache, Advanced, Reboot) so i only have these options to work with. Also I can boot into fastboot as well. Unfortunately bootloader is locked and I am unable to unlock it (restricted bla bla bla). So all I am looking for is to restore it back to stock state, just want this dam thing to boot up again. Any help would be nice. I am actively reading up threads on xda and other sites and there is a lot of information. Thanks in advance

If I were you
First try wiping data and cache from stock recovery and try to boot.
If don't work since you have stock recovery you can flash signed full zip, I suggest to grab 2.2.x from next link (don't use beta 3.0)
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=3209863
If still don't work as last resource try this guide
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=3269543
It supposed to be official service images I guess no need to have bootloader unlooked.
Sent from my ONE A2005 using Tapatalk

fburgos said:
If I were you
First try wiping data and cache from stock recovery and try to boot.
If don't work since you have stock recovery you can flash signed full zip, I suggest to grab 2.2.x from next link (don't use beta 3.0)
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=3209863
If still don't work as last resource try this guide
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=3269543
It supposed to be official service images I guess no need to have bootloader unlooked.
Sent from my ONE A2005 using Tapatalk
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Thanks, ill try the steps mentioned, Fingers crossed this will work

fburgos said:
If I were you
First try wiping data and cache from stock recovery and try to boot.
If don't work since you have stock recovery you can flash signed full zip, I suggest to grab 2.2.x from next link (don't use beta 3.0)
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=3209863
If still don't work as last resource try this guide
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=3269543
It supposed to be official service images I guess no need to have bootloader unlooked.
Sent from my ONE A2005 using Tapatalk
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Tried fist 2 steps, no use. phone reboots and boots back into recovery. its like i am bootlooping into recovery. trying the 3rd method fingers crossed.

Tried all methods and none worked.
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"lightbox_start_slideshow": "Start slideshow",
"lightbox_stop_slideshow": "Stop slideshow",
"lightbox_full_screen": "Full screen",
"lightbox_thumbnails": "Thumbnails",
"lightbox_download": "Download",
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I tried again and bam process went through, i got this green message in Chinese and phone automatically boots into recovery mode.
Any thoughts on what should be my next step ?
Edit: the exit button is not active so i was thinking the process is still ongoing, giving another 10 minutes before proceeding forward.

Ok lots of things happened in past few hours.
1. Was able to Unbrick/Recover OnePlus 2 Back to stock 100% via (http://forum.xda-developers.com/oneplus-2/general/guide-unbrick-recover-oneplus-2-to-t3269543)
2. was able to flash from usb via stock recovery Oxygen OS 2.0 (http://forum.xda-developers.com/oneplus-2/general/rom-mirrors-official-oxygen-os-roms-ota-t3209863).
3. Phone was stuck on reboot to recovery so read some ware the use command "fastboot continue" and it worked. was able to boot into android and was able to setup, no problem but the phone was in safe mode.
4. Rebooted the device and back to stock recover. Now need help to get to the rom and bypass the recovery.
Edit: I am able to enter rom every time with "fastboot continue" command. the android boots in safe mode and i am unable to boot normally or even without command.

I think i have narrowed down the issue to broken volume down button. When you think about it, it makes sense. If you turn on the device and press and hole volume down u go to recovery which is exactly what my phone is doing. And when i use fastboot continue command it boots the OS in safe mode which is done when you press and hold volume down while booting. Now I am planning to get the stuck volume down button fixed. If was able to unlock the bootloader i might be able to flash twrp and boot into system from there but alas no luck there.
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I remember Exodus developer raja-m had issues with his volume buttons, send it to repair I think you should try that
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As suspected the stuck volum down button was the culprit, got it fixed and phone is working like it never had any issue. Pesky little bugger