My phone has been having random freezes on reboot for a long time. I unfortunately can't trace back when it started happening as it's been quite a while. It's been this way on every ROM (TW or CM based) and every kernel. It occurs either at the galaxy s4 screen if booting normally, or at the touchwiz screen if booting to recovery. The only way to unfreeze it is to hold vol down + power + home or pull the battery. I thought it might be the recovery so I flashed the newest version of TWRP but that didn't help either
Anyone have a similar issue? Know how to fix it?
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Hi all, i installed the CM11 on my gf's Galaxy s3 (i9300 international version), the problem is that sometimes it randomly reboots and get stuck in an unusual bootloop. It reaches the bootsplash logo and it keeps rebooting, the only solution to get it back to work is to remove the battery for at least 30 seconds and try to turn it on, sometimes it works.
When the bootloop happens i'm not able to enter the recovery mode, because it just turns on and it keeps rebooting, same thing with download mode.
So, i'm new here, but i read about a common issue which is the sudden death syndrome and half-sds, it might be that? I checked and it has the insane chip.
Any advice/idea? It would be better to flash a stock ROM to be safe?
I would backup the whole device, recover initial firmware using kies emergency recovery mode and then start over again.
Had a similar problem but even worse: same bootloop, but no dice on recovery :\
Was unable to reflash or restore old firmware using Odin, Kies was the only thing that worked for me.
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Hi all, i installed the CM11 on my gf's Galaxy s3 (i9300 international version), the problem is that sometimes it randomly reboots and get stuck in an unusual bootloop. It reaches the bootsplash logo and it keeps rebooting, the only solution to get it back to work is to remove the battery for at least 30 seconds and try to turn it on, sometimes it works.
When the bootloop happens i'm not able to enter the recovery mode, because it just turns on and it keeps rebooting, same thing with download mode.
So, i'm new here, but i read about a common issue which is the sudden death syndrome and half-sds, it might be that? I checked and it has the insane chip.
Any advice/idea? It would be better to flash a stock ROM to be safe?
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Do the reboots occure few seconds after pressing the power button?
I have exactly the same problem and I figured out that my power button is kinda stuck and thus permanently pressed.
This causes the permanent reboot, because holding the power button for a certain amount of time causes a reboot.
Try to push "Vol down"+"Homebutton" instantly after a reboot. If your galaxy enters the download mode (before rebooting again), you have the proof, that it's the fault of the power button due to the fact that pressing the power button would have been necessary.
I hope the fix will be for free under warranty.
At the first moment I also thought it would be the Sudden Death syndrom, but thankfully it's not the case and only the power button has to be fixed.
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Do the reboots occure few seconds after pressing the power button?
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I don't know, i didn't paid attention to it. Anyway thanks to both of you for the replies, i'll check the power button as soon as possible since i don't have the phone with me right now. If that's not the cause, i think i'll do an emergency recover with kies as suggested by Cy4n1d3.
Now i still have a doubt, CM11 should have the fix for the sudden death syndrome merged into its code right? I'm asking this because if i'm right i could exclude sds as the cause of the problem...
Rebooting is not an SDS symptom, SDS is totally dead -suddenly.
Power button failure is diagnosed by inserting the battery, if it turns on by itself then button contacts are shorted out.
Your problem sounds more like corruption of the cache or dalvik, wipe and reflash your rom or go back to stock to test. Check MD5 of downloads and don't restore anything before you test.
Hi Guys,
I am facing a peculiar kind of problem in my phone (G900F) since yesterday.
What happens is that, if I tried
i) To restart my phone from the phone (reboot menu), the phone stuc in boot screen and then vibrate twice then after 5-10 sec the phone start rebooting all along once again with 2 vibration and this process keeps repeating until I pull out the battery.
ii) To access recovery (both hard- key combination or from reboot to recovery option in phone), the phone reboots and it stays in the initial screen for about 45 seconds and then the screen went black and freezes there until I pull out the battery.
iii) To access download mode ( both hard- key combination and reboot to download mode option in phone), there seem no problem.
The weirdest part is that, if I remove the battery for 5-10 min and re-insert the battery and do any of the above options; the phone reboots and i get the home screen loaded successfully with no problem . I can also get into my recovery after this 5 mins switch off just like the above. I also found the phone lags a bit in this home screen.
I almost did all the combination to get off this problem (stated below) but I keep getting this problem again and again.
I was in Sixperience v 3.1 with Pheonix Kernel v 10 and Philz CWM recovery and tried the below to try to fix the issue
1. Re-flashed Kernel from Recovery (Also, tried to re-flash kernel after uninstalling Xposed but no use)
2. Re-flashed Modem and Bootloader from ODIN once again (G900FXXU1CPF7_BL_G900FXXU1CPB8_MODEM_LTE.tar)
3. Reflashed ROM once again as a fresh install through Philz recovery.
4. Restore the cwm backup from recovery (which was backed up a week before.)
5. Flashed Samsung Stock MM ROM (G900FXXU1CPFH_G900FPHN1CPFD_PHN.tar.md5) as a fresh install.
After this stock ROM installation is done, the phone struck at SAMSUNG flashing logo and the blue LED keeps glowing for more than 30 mins)
Nothing works. ? Any idea on what is to be done to fix this issue? I am not sure, what i did but this problem keeps coming even after trying of all of the options since yesterday.
Please help to with your expertise.
Hi, I have a Samsung S4 (i9500 International) on Android 5.0.1
I cannot get any logs, apologies.
Stuck in Boot loop, CAN'T even access Recovery. If there is another thread for this please kindly let me know, thanks.
I had CM12.1 on for a month (working perfectly) until my device started rebooting all the time.
I then wiped all cache and deleted all data, moved to Aurora N4/S6 Port Rom for 2 days, but same thing.
I have: Taken out the battery, sim card, memory card, drained all power, deleted apps (All together, combination of some, and separately).
I cannot boot into Recovery (TWRP) as it; reboots either on Recovery Loading screen, or while actually in Recovery.
It will sometimes completely reboot and I can use my device for different variants of time.
The battery has gotten really hot, when this started, but not a common occurrence.
Whenever the battery is inserted, and device is not charging, it will start the boot loop.
While the device is off & charging, the charging screen will flash.
What are the possible causes, AND / OR fixes?
Thanks in advance.
Could be something related to your power button.
Your power button is stuck and needs to be fixed by releasing or replacing it, happened to me once and solved by hitting the phone on the ground xD
But you can access the button if you are a handy guy.
Im so lost with this, im all stock but one day my phone just freezes then bootloop, I would be able to get it work by just leaving it and let it drain itself since it will be boot looping and lock me out completely, like the power button + low volume button would not work even after 10 minutes of holding it, would not boot to download or recovery mode, just the soft touch keys light on and the blue LED.
I reflashed my ROM from sammobile yesterday but did it half-effort, just dirty flashed it but it seemed to reformatted my phone anyway, after reflashing it, everything seemed to work properly for 20 hours and then now im back to this piece of ********* boot looping...
S7 Edge
running the Australia unbranded XSA-G935FXXS1DQG4 from the branded G935FXXS1DQG5,
would flashing de-branded affect this? or this is hardware?, one thing I did that I think was a mistake is that I chose to restore from old device, can apps cause this?
the very first time this happened, I plugged it in to charge then crash and bootloop.
UPDATE:
Things I've tried,
-Booting with NO sim card and SD Card
-Wiping cache and partition then reflashing stock XSA and OPS firmwares
im convinced that this is a hardware issue and will go to Samsung.
mine does this too. crashes then gets into a bootloop at the Samsung logo. I usually try holding the lock and volume down button. I factory reset the phone once but it still keeps happening, this started happening around 4 weeks ago
Guys your Main/Mother-boards are broken.. u need to replace it, or send back to Samsung..
Damn! Crash reboot samsung logo
Damn you say broken mother board...
did this. Press vol down, power button and home key...hmmm... i think...pressed so many combos hard to tell themapart
Getting this after a reboot. Sometimes I get it when system UI is lagging and phone will boot to this mode. What's causing this? Happens on all Roms and TWRP versions. Verizon note 4
Same here. I have yet to figure out how to stop it. I am running LOS 17.1 and TWRP, My Home button is nearing its EoL, so would love to know how to prevent it. For now, I reboot the phone to recovery and then reboot SYSTEM to avoid using the Home button. Luckily, I don't power the phone off frequently.