Hi everyone, after trying everything I could to fix this phone I don't know what to do anymore so I'm here asking for other options.
So the story is, I was just using my phone as I usually would that day and it just randomly turned off and won't turn back on anymore.
(it randomly turned off before a couple of times but it would always turn back on)
- It won't go into recovery mode or any other of the 'modes' (I tried all the different combinations of pressing the keys).
- It's not a battery issue as I've tried my battery on my brother's phone (he has a Note 4 too) and it worked fine and I tried his battery on mine and it wouldn't work.
- I tried the 'drain' method (removing the battery and holding the power button for a minute or more).
- I tried using multiple cables to charge my phone nothing worked.
I didn't drop my phone, wet it, root it or anything and it was working fine the day it happened until it just powered off by itself. When I plug it in my laptop it would make
a sound indicating I've plugged something in but nothing happens. It was version 5.1.1 model SM-N910F.
TLDR; Is there a way to somehow recover the files in the internal phone memory?
This is happening to me as well, also started in February. I'm suspecting a hardware issue. Tried it ALL but rooting. In the past 30 minutes my phone has booted and rebooted itself till it died. If someone can confirm it is a hardware issue. Maybe it's time to unite and get it fixed for free. ~Tamarnouche
Recovering data from a brain dead phone may not be possible, as it probably need some internal component replacement which may erase the data(Mostly). Have u tried connecting it to pc? Better give it to service immediately. Good Luck.
My phone has done exactly the same thing, happened in February too, initially it did the random freeze then started to reboot itself, went back to stock software and full wipe but no improvement; now it will only boot if I leave the battery out for a prolonged period, otherwise it doesn't respond to the power button at all.
I occasionally see MMC Read Fail on boot but not all the time so presumably the internal memory has a bad contact or is failing.
Can it be replaced?
HXOY said:
My phone has done exactly the same thing, happened in February too, initially it did the random freeze then started to reboot itself, went back to stock software and full wipe but no improvement; now it will only boot if I leave the battery out for a prolonged period, otherwise it doesn't respond to the power button at all.
I occasionally see MMC Read Fail on boot but not all the time so presumably the internal memory has a bad contact or is failing.
Can it be replaced?
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I have the same problem with my Note 3. Only if I keep the battery out for a long (over 24 hours) time I can see the boot logo. So if you find a solution to this kindly don't forget to tag me, will really appreciate it.
I was wondering..
I came across this Forum group since I was looking for boot problems with my SM-N910T3
I hope flashing pit will resolve this..
I recently started to have some low level issue and was hoping it was partition/boot related and not hardware.
Randomly phone boot directly into Download mode with error;
ddi: mmc_read failed
Often I have to pull battery and hold down /power / home for 10 sec to boot up again.
Thanks
Hello, so i've had this Note 4 for about 2 years, i had no problems with it thus far until recently ( 3 hours ago actually) i was just texting and browsing Instagram and out of no where the screen froze, it became unresponsive and the screen went black and started constantly vibrating so i quickly pulled the battery out and put it back in again, tried to start it again and it got stuck on the Samsung logo, i went for recovery mode and tried to look up latest cashe log and it froze right there too and restarted, pulled battery out and in again, tried to get into Recovery mode for a second time and a dm-verity verification failed error on the lower left corner popped up, i selected "Restart phone" and it got stuck on the Samsung logo again, battery in-out, tried to get into Recovery mode for a third time to do a factory reset but this time it got stuck whilst trying to boot onto recovery, and i had to out-in battery again, tried several times to get into recovery and it didn't work, i just gave up and started searching, then after 14 minutes i decide to give it another try and it normally booted up! i inserted in my PIN and browsed the apps for about 2mins but it froze, again, and the whole cycle kept repeating i let it cool down for 15mins and it boots up normally but freezes again after a few minutes of usage, i noticed that it insanely overheats before freezing (especially right above the SIM card area) and the four CPU cores are showing 2469MHz and on 100% (But that's also the case when the phone just boots up right?), Now i basically can't access recovery mode and i'm stuck with a Freeze-Reboot looped and i'm left with no other option but a full Stock ROM flash, the thing is i can't even get into recovery to do a full wipe before flashing in the ROM, can i just flash in again a TWRP recovery? and is there any way to fix this without having to do a full Stock ROM flash (i Tried the wake lock app it didn't work) and i'm on Android 5.0.1, this has JUST happened today and never before. i'm hoping this isn't a hardware issue.
UPDATE: i have just noticed something rather interesting, the phone immediately freezes and goes nuts with the reboots and failed recovery modes instantly after i connect it to a wifi network, and exactly when it's attempting to "send report", a sending report sign shows up in the notification bar and it immediately screws up the phone until i do another Factory reset, i just did another one without connecting to a wifi network and i've already gone 40mins with it without any issues but perhaps it's just because it's not on heavy usage?
Sounds like you have the eMMC issue.
You can try and reflash with Odin. Get the right version from Sammobile.
Do yu get to download mode in any of the scenarios you describe?
Try WakeLock again and select the level to 4
Having the same issue
I'm having the same issue and don't have any idea how to help, just hoping someone out there knows...:crying:
Cybrid013 said:
I'm having the same issue and don't have any idea how to help, just hoping someone out there knows...:crying:
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If you have the Snapdragon version - it's highly possible to have the emmc problem. Which is a bummer and the phone is like dead.
Unless you can buy another 910C motherboard and swap it.
Sorry.
What is short name for emmc?
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What is short name for emmc?
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embedded multimedia controller
Just been having a very similar problem. I posted this elsewhere, but it may be helpful:
"My issue was that I needed to recover data, docs, photos, phone numbers etc. When boot looping the note 4 got very hot . In particular around and to the left of the camera (looking at the rear). Thinking it could possibly be the dreaded eMMC problem which also manifests itself by creating heat, I thought cooling the device might help. I placed the Note on a cooler box freezing block and voilà! No boot loop. I was able to remove all, but necessary apps and do a full copy to my PC. Storage was reduced from around 90% to 50% and memory 80% to 60%. It's now been stable for 12 hours, but the jury is still out. Next will be full reset with he latest available firmware 6.0.1 as mine was still on 5.1.1."
Also now downloaded a eMMC bug check that says my eMMC chip is 'sane'. Guess we'll see
I applied the 4core fix for my N6P back in September of last year, and stopped using it around December because of the battery life. Around July/August I purchased a battery and installed it and things were going well. Now my phone is freezing and booting to the Google Logo and... Crash again. No Nexus animation; Google, crash. Sometimes it will attempt to boot and bootloop and sometimes it turns on and works fine. Sometimes if it turns back on it freezes and boom. Google logo.
I guess the remaining 4 cores in this phone are done completely from the looks of it? I know the patch wasn't meant to be permanen, only temporary because the remaining 4cores would eventually die.
snappycg1996 said:
I applied the 4core fix for my N6P back in September of last year, and stopped using it around December because of the battery life. Around July/August I purchased a battery and installed it and things were going well. Now my phone is freezing and booting to the Google Logo and... Crash again. No Nexus animation; Google, crash. Sometimes it will attempt to boot and bootloop and sometimes it turns on and works fine. Sometimes if it turns back on it freezes and boom. Google logo.
I guess the remaining 4 cores in this phone are done completely from the looks of it? I know the patch wasn't meant to be permanen, only temporary because the remaining 4cores would eventually die.
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My 6p also started bootlooping again today and this time fix didn't help me. I think it's gone for good.
maxguncel said:
My 6p also started bootlooping again today and this time fix didn't help me. I think it's gone for good.
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Is yours booting to the Google logo and crashing? Or simply bootlooping? Mine goes to the logo, crashes about 10-15 times and then eventually attempts to boot.
It's a shame, got a baby on the way and simply can't afford another phone right now
snappycg1996 said:
Is yours booting to the Google logo and crashing? Or simply bootlooping? Mine goes to the logo, crashes about 10-15 times and then eventually attempts to boot.
It's a shame, got a baby on the way and simply can't afford another phone right now
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Displays Google logo about 20-30 sec and restarts. Before I could see the animation but this time no luck.
Congratulations! I also have a newborn, we'll see what the future holds
maxguncel said:
Displays Google logo about 20-30 sec and restarts. Before I could see the animation but this time no luck.
Congratulations! I also have a newborn, we'll see what the future holds
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Thank you You too! Day of Thanksgiving he is supposed to get here, but my wife isn't doing too well lol do you know of any way for us to pull data? Adb is failing to see my device when it's in the bootloader, fastboot is working though. I tried once more to flash twrp 4 core and boot it with no luck. Those small cores gave out I guess. I left my phone on overnight bootlooping with no luck. I got most things off, just my actual camera fder I couldn't get and apps which aren't a huge deal.
Sadly this morning I had the same problem. Bootlooping, I even cannot enter into Recovery. Then, suddently, it restarted, but I wasn't home, so I hadn't the chance to save the data. Then, about 3 hours later, it restarted bootlooping and, since then, it's stucked into this bootloop. Even reflashing the modified boot won't work.
Anybody knows how to at least recover the data inside? Even if I have to break the phone (I'm going to buy onther one soon)
hey guys, me too. but you know something? my initial assessment was that it was a result of an update. Now looking here annd seeing so many others with the same problem at the SAME TIME?? mine happened out of the blue on about October 4th or 5th. Ive had this phone for two years and never had aproblem with it at all. right out of the blue (in the morning) i get the bootloop. I cleared the cache and it booted up again. it was just fine for two days and now it is down black and out. When i push the power button i get a red light. one blink. if i hold down pwr and vol i get 8 blinks. tried on stock charger and other charger. like was previously mentioned when i tried it on a different charger it worked. the first time. now its dead. any solutions?
Marxmellow said:
hey guys, me too. but you know something? my initial assessment was that it was a result of an update. Now looking here annd seeing so many others with the same problem at the SAME TIME?? mine happened out of the blue on about October 4th or 5th. Ive had this phone for two years and never had aproblem with it at all. right out of the blue (in the morning) i get the bootloop. I cleared the cache and it booted up again. it was just fine for two days and now it is down black and out. When i push the power button i get a red light. one blink. if i hold down pwr and vol i get 8 blinks. tried on stock charger and other charger. like was previously mentioned when i tried it on a different charger it worked. the first time. now its dead. any solutions?
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It simply means that the battery is fully discharged. Keep it connected to the current and maybe it restarts working.
I'm in the same situation since yesterday, hoping that at some point it returns working for some time, just to backup some data. I have like 10GB of photos not backupped in it.
When I replaced my battery I reinstalled factory. Start from scratch.
I had the same issue and that's all I did. Booted fine after that. I used the ifixit battery tho, cause if you got a lower cost one it could be the battery itself too
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.