Hey all I have a super simple fix if you get stuck after a full restore back to stock. If you get stuck in the boot loop where all you see is the Samsung logo its usually do to the data partition being corrupt. To fix this do the following
hold the power button till it turns off.
Hold the power and the volume up button til you see the samsung ..... 10.1 message on the screen.
At this point you can take your finger off the power button but still hold the volume up till you get into recovery.
Once you get into recovery, wipe data then cache and do a factory reset.
Once its done your boot loop should be resolved.
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after rooting and unlocking and installing gingerbread (or i think i did) my atrix is going crasy and is not staring but keep looping.
can someone helpmeee please
boot into recovery and wipe data
turn off phone. hold volume down while turning on. once you see rsd, scroll all the way to android recovery, then press volume up.
once you see the android logo with !, press both volume up and down at the same time, you should see the option to wipe, and press power to wipe and reboot
still the same
i allready did it but any ways i just did it again, but the result is tha same my phone keeps going off. it start with the logo (M) and them goes off and start again, is there some thing else i can do to bring it back to life??
My Atrix has been going in to reboot ever since the last OTA update. Usually it would start doing this once a week and I could remove the battery for 10 mins and it would come back and work fine for about a week.
Yesterday it started again but can not get it to stop. It won't even stay on long enough to do a factory reset.
I stopped by an art store and they were no help, they just gave me a number to call so they could have online tech try to help me. They stepped me through the standard take the battery out, try to do the factory reset (even after I told then I tried all of this stuff) they told me to hold the power key and both up & down volume keys at the same time (that did not do anything or may be I was not doing it right)
Finally they are sending me a replacement (refurb) phone that I have to wait 6 days to get and from what I have been reading on the forums it will most likely have problems too.
I had to go back to my old samsung windows phone and its been less than 24 hours and I am getting the shakes not having my android.
Any other ideas on how to get my phone to stop rebooting constantly?
Can you get into recovery even if it's stock recovery just turn off and hold the vol- key and tape the power key it will boot to a screen with fastboot press vol- untill you see android recovery press vol+ and wait for it to boot in to recovery if you have clockwork recovery the hit reset to factory and if you have stock recovery then press both vol-+ at the same time and then press reset to factory
rickwyatt said:
Can you get into recovery even if it's stock recovery just turn off and hold the vol- key and tape the power key it will boot to a screen with fastboot press vol- untill you see android recovery press vol+ and wait for it to boot in to recovery if you have clockwork recovery the hit reset to factory and if you have stock recovery then press both vol-+ at the same time and then press reset to factory
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Thanks,
Your advice was very helpful. I was able to reset my matrix.
After unlocking the bootloader and flashing CWM, I clicked to patch it to disable the revert to stock recovery. It then rebooted with the Google logo with an unlocked lock logo, then the nexus X logo. When I hold down the power button down for several seconds to shut the phone off, when the screen goes black, it immediately reboots back up and goes through the same process again. What the hell happened and what do I gotta do to boot back into recovery?
Edit: figured out as soon as I take my finger off the power button, I had to immediately hold power and volume down to go into fastboot before it restarted on it's own then I cleared both caches.
thebryceee said:
After unlocking the bootloader and flashing CWM, I clicked to patch it to disable the revert to stock recovery. It then rebooted with the Google logo with an unlocked lock logo, then the nexus X logo. When I hold down the power button down for several seconds to shut the phone off, when the screen goes black, it immediately reboots back up and goes through the same process again. What the hell happened and what do I gotta do to boot back into recovery?
Edit: figured out as soon as I take my finger off the power button, I had to immediately hold power and volume down to go into fastboot before it restarted on it's own then I cleared both caches.
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Try factory reset also.
Started up fine after I cleared both caches. Nice that it didn't wipe my memory.
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I think I may have bricked my phone. I have a Verizon Note 3 - rooted - running Kit Kat with Safe Strap. In the power menu (accessed when I hold the power button down) I accidentally selected boot into recovery mode. Now my phone is stuck in an endless boot loop. It powers on to the 'Note 3 - Custom' screen with blue text at the top that says "Booting recovery..." then it shuts down and starts over again and refuses to actually boot into recovery mode. I've tried taking out the battery and sim card, with no luck... the same result. Can anyone think of a way to troubleshoot given that I cant even get the phone to boot at all? Thank you.
schafur said:
I think I may have bricked my phone. I have a Verizon Note 3 - rooted - running Kit Kat with Safe Strap. In the power menu (accessed when I hold the power button down) I accidentally selected boot into recovery mode. Now my phone is stuck in an endless boot loop. It powers on to the 'Note 3 - Custom' screen with blue text at the top that says "Booting recovery..." then it shuts down and starts over again and refuses to actually boot into recovery mode. I've tried taking out the battery and sim card, with no luck... the same result. Can anyone think of a way to troubleshoot given that I cant even get the phone to boot at all? Thank you.
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It doesn't sound like your phone is bricked... it just sounds like you're stuck in a bootloop, which is usually fixable.
Try removing the battery again and leaving it out about 10 mins... also press down the power button on the phone for 10 seconds or so with the battery out to discharge any remaining power still in the device. Put battery back in after a bit and see if you can boot into stock recovery (by pressing volume up+home button+power button all at same time). If it lets you boot into stock recovery, see if just wiping the cache allows it to boot back up. If that doesn't work, pull battery... reinsert... boot back into stock recovery and do a factory reset (that will wipe all your data as I'm sure you know, so that's why I thought wiping cache first may be worth a try--even though wiping cache alone probably won't work). Hopefully, you have made a TWRP backup in safestrap that you can use to restore if you have to factory reset.
If you can't get into stock recovery manually.... or if you can and wiping cache or factory reset doesn't work, then you could boot into Odin mode (by pressing volume down+home button+power button all at same time), and restore the phone back to KitKat 4.4.2 with Odin. Droidstyle has put together a great guide to help restore the phone which you can find here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=46461911
I hope this helps you get it fixed. Good luck!
I was reading through older forum posts and came across this thread which may help with some other ideas if you couldn't get into stock recovery to fix it with a wipe.... ( http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=56087194 ).
A couple of the suggested fixes in the thread may be easier than using Odin to go back to stock.
My daughters Nexus 10 has recently stopped working. Every time we turn it on the Google Logo appears and then the android balls spinning logo appears, but at that point the tablet reboots back to the Google Logo.
So far I've pressed Power + Vol Up + Vol Down and chose recovery mode. This then reboots and I get a android image with the words 'No Command' - I managed to get out of that I think by Power and Vol Up to get into the recovery mode. I chose wipe cache partition and rebooted but the tablet still goes back into a loop when booting. I then went back into the recovery mode and chose wipe data / factory reset. Again it goes back into the boot up loop. But now all I can do is press Power + Vol Up + Vol Down which gets me to an android image with the words 'Downloading - do not turn off target!'
Any ideas? Ideally I'd like to get the tablet back to a factory image so I can sell it. I've already wiped my tablet and given it to my daughter to stop her from moaning!!
Thanks
skyking_comms said:
My daughters Nexus 10 has recently stopped working. Every time we turn it on the Google Logo appears and then the android balls spinning logo appears, but at that point the tablet reboots back to the Google Logo.
So far I've pressed Power + Vol Up + Vol Down and chose recovery mode. This then reboots and I get a android image with the words 'No Command' - I managed to get out of that I think by Power and Vol Up to get into the recovery mode. I chose wipe cache partition and rebooted but the tablet still goes back into a loop when booting. I then went back into the recovery mode and chose wipe data / factory reset. Again it goes back into the boot up loop. But now all I can do is press Power + Vol Up + Vol Down which gets me to an android image with the words 'Downloading - do not turn off target!'
Any ideas? Ideally I'd like to get the tablet back to a factory image so I can sell it. I've already wiped my tablet and given it to my daughter to stop her from moaning!!
Thanks
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Have you tried using the factory images from Google and resetting it that way. A factory reset in the stock recovery won't do much except wipe the data, apps, etc. If theres something wrong with the system, that won't fix it. That's where the factory images come in.