[Q] need help, daily battery pulls and bootloops - Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

Can't figure out the problem but no matter which rom/radio/hboot I use, I try to turn screen on and find my phone unresponsive. I have to do a battery pull then power on the phone again. Usually this will happen again a few times in a day so I end up doing full wipes and trying different roms and backups. I sim-unlocked my phone last week when the problem started using a tool I found on these forums but don't think that would cause this...any ideas of help would be appreciated as I can't afford a new phone and really love my trusty old desire

bigpeet666 said:
Can't figure out the problem but no matter which rom/radio/hboot I use, I try to turn screen on and find my phone unresponsive. I have to do a battery pull then power on the phone again. Usually this will happen again a few times in a day so I end up doing full wipes and trying different roms and backups. I sim-unlocked my phone last week when the problem started using a tool I found on these forums but don't think that would cause this...any ideas of help would be appreciated as I can't afford a new phone and really love my trusty old desire
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Did you do a real "full wipe"? I had the same problem a few weeks ago...
1) wipe data / factory reset
2) wipe cache partition
3) advanced > wipe dalvik cache (< I forgot this one)
4) advanced > wipe battery stats

desireleß said:
Did you do a real "full wipe"? I had the same problem a few weeks ago...
1) wipe data / factory reset
2) wipe cache partition
3) advanced > wipe dalvik cache (< I forgot this one)
4) advanced > wipe battery stats
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thanks for reply, yes I did proper full wipe every time. I think my memory card is maybe dying as jellybean roms give corrupt card message.
My problem does happen on roms using stock partition too though, usually what happens is my phone will have a black screen and I can't turn screen on so end up doing battery pull

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[Q] I'm stuck in a bootloop!!!

Hello everyone!
I'm running I believe the latest Fresh ROM. All I was doing was switching out a nearly dead battery, next thing I know my phone isn't getting past the boot screen. I've got into recovery, not really sure what to do there but I did do a cache & dalvik wipe. Now doing a nandroid backup. What can be causing this, and what do I need to do?
It could be any number of things. did you do anything before you took the battery out? did you power the phone down before removing the battery? did you wipe cache's before your fresh rom install? have you installed any new software recently?
Good job having a nandroid backup! the first time i got caught in a boot-loop i was SOL on that front. nice work
No I didn't power the phone down. I did the last Fresh upgrade a month ago or so but believe I did a wipe. I haven't installed anything new this week I believe. And I just did a nandroid backup, will that do me any good now?
No takers?! Your help would be much appreciated! This phone is my lifeline for biz and personal life so I need to get it back up & running quick fast and a hurry. LOL
have u tried a factory wipe at least twice I do out three times to be sure and what recovery r ur running I heard that cw is not really working well

Wildfire Random Restarts - please help

Hi all,
I have HTC wildfire for almost a couple of years, recently it started to randomly restart, about 5-8 times a day (the phone is off during the night).
At the time it begun I had OLDWildPuzzleROM_2.2 Froyo v8.0.11 ROM, with HBoot 0.8.
Before the restarts happened I rooted my phone using unrEVOked-3-2-Windoze (it stayed S-Off though).
I don't think the restarts happened right after the root so I'm not sure that is the cause
I few days ago I flashed it with "RUU_Buzz_Froyo_HTC_WWE_2.22.405.1_Radio_13.55.55.2 4H_3.35.20.10_release_160191_signed" which changed my HBoot from 0.8 to 1.01.0001. I found the ROM here and followed the instructions.
I had to make a goldcard (I formatted the SD card using the phone and not using the PC).
My phone continues to randomly restart.
We don't have HTC representative in my country, only non official labs that deal with repair, so I can't go to the company for repair. talking to the lab guy he says it is probably a software issue and not a hardware issue, though I don't understand how it is possible since I flashed a completely new ROM. Oh, and the lab guy says he will charge me whether the repair works of fails....
Do you have any suggestions?
Many thanks
PS
I read about boot loop, I'm not sure what boot loop is, but when my phone restarts it shows the HTC logo as it does during power on or full restart.
bootlooping is random restarting or continuous looping of boot.
reasons could be many......
overclocking your cpu to high.
low on memory (too many apps installed / running).
v6 / supercarger / juwwes ram scripts etc etc.
MokeeOs
So that doesn't apply to me
I don't overclock
I have restarts even without installing any apps
I don't know what v6 / supercarger / juwwes ram scripts mean
any ideas of what should I do?
slymobi said:
bootlooping is random restarting or continuous looping of boot.
reasons could be many......
overclocking your cpu to high.
low on memory (too many apps installed / running).
v6 / supercarger / juwwes ram scripts etc etc.
MokeeOs
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Clonimus said:
So that doesn't apply to me
I don't overclock
I have restarts even without installing any apps
I don't know what v6 / supercarger / juwwes ram scripts mean
any ideas of what should I do?
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like slymobi already mentioned it could have several reasons - but we've already excluded a few...
Another idea is to start your phone without the sdcard and look if the reboots continue
Important: flashing a different ROM to solve the issue almost doesn't help if you haven't done a complete wipe/factory reset - it has also been reported (not confirmed, though) that Clockworkmod recovery randomly fails with wiping - so it might also help to repeat the procedure.
Probably slymobi will point to a thread where he explains a complete wipe... (you could search in his threads - I'm busy and it's really hot here atm )
I mean: to be sure I always try to format + wipe + factory reset (sound redundant but feels safer...)
eventcom said:
like slymobi already mentioned it could have several reasons - but we've already excluded a few...
Another idea is to start your phone without the sdcard and look if the reboots continue
Important: flashing a different ROM to solve the issue almost doesn't help if you haven't done a complete wipe/factory reset - it has also been reported (not confirmed, though) that Clockworkmod recovery randomly fails with wiping - so it might also help to repeat the procedure.
Probably slymobi will point to a thread where he explains a complete wipe... (you could search in his threads - I'm busy and it's really hot here atm )
I mean: to be sure I always try to format + wipe + factory reset (sound redundant but feels safer...)
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thank you,
I will try to find a tutorial that illustrates how to do a format and complete wipe, I will appreciate it if someone will have the time to point one, but will look for it myself too.
so I understand you all think it is not a hardware issue.
BTW I did a factory reset on my original ROM before I flashed a new one.
Clonimus said:
thank you,
I will try to find a tutorial that illustrates how to do a format and complete wipe, I will appreciate it if someone will have the time to point one, but will look for it myself too.
so I understand you all think it is not a hardware issue.
BTW I did a factory reset on my original ROM before I flashed a new one.
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Sorry, couldn't find how to do a system format. can you help?
Does "wipe" as you call it the same as factory reset? if so that I did but no format.
In the recovery go under Mounts and Storage and select Format System.
Technically factory reset is a wipe, it wipes cache, data and sd-ext
Clonimus said:
thank you,
I will try to find a tutorial that illustrates how to do a format and complete wipe, I will appreciate it if someone will have the time to point one, but will look for it myself too.
so I understand you all think it is not a hardware issue.
BTW I did a factory reset on my original ROM before I flashed a new one.
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There's another thing you might want to check: a lot of people had reboots when they (or the phone) switched on 3G. So do you have reboots, too, with data/3G off?
Furthermore I also know of at least one case where the reboots were caused by a damaged battery - so it might be a hardware issue as well - but in most cases I know of it hasn't been
Re. how to do a clean wipe/format: in this thread I describe my method (sometimes I'll do it different, though) and slymobi describes how he does it (your choice): http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1833966
Lesicnik1 said:
In the recovery go under Mounts and Storage and select Format System.
Technically factory reset is a wipe, it wipes cache, data and sd-ext
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yes but as you probably know, sometimes that might just not be clean enough...
reboot into recovery,power off then volume down button and power button at same time,in this menu,using trackball to select,
wipe data / restore factory settings,
wipe cache,
go into advanced and wipe dalvik cache.
press power button to go back.
go into mounts and storage,
format data,
format cache,
format system,
format sdext,
DONT FORMAT SDCARD
you have now wiped your phone clean.
press power button to go back,
install rom from sdcard,navigate to where your rom is on your sdcard and select / confirm,
let it install..........
don't reboot,if gapps are needed?
flash correct gapps in same way as you just flashed rom........
reboot.
MokeeOs
eventcom said:
There's another thing you might want to check: a lot of people had reboots when they (or the phone) switched on 3G. So do you have reboots, too, with data/3G off?
Furthermore I also know of at least one case where the reboots were caused by a damaged battery - so it might be a hardware issue as well - but in most cases I know of it hasn't been
Re. how to do a clean wipe/format: in this thread I describe my method (sometimes I'll do it different, though) and slymobi describes how he does it (your choice): http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1833966
yes but as you probably know, sometimes that might just not be clean enough...
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Thank you eventcom,
Actually I didn't think about it but the restarts started a bit after I started using the 3G internet.
If so will the format-wipe-flash procedure will help? this phone suppose to be 3G capable, no?
Many thanks
If the reboots happen because of you enabling 3G I think re-flashing the radio will fix that. (Not so sure on that, someone please complete me)
slymobi said:
reboot into recovery,power off then volume down button and power button at same time,in this menu,using trackball to select,
wipe data / restore factory settings,
wipe cache,
go into advanced and wipe dalvik cache.
press power button to go back.
go into mounts and storage,
format data,
format cache,
format system,
format sdext,
DONT FORMAT SDCARD
you have now wiped your phone clean.
press power button to go back,
install rom from sdcard,navigate to where your rom is on your sdcard and select / confirm,
let it install..........
don't reboot,
flash gapps in same way as you just flashed rom........
reboot.
MokeeOs
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Thank you slymobi,
but as I wrote above, when I did the RUU thingy I had to do the goldcard procedure and so I formatted my SD card.
Does it have a ROM image after I did the RUU flash?
what is "flash gapps", is it one of the option in the menu? sorry, I'm new to all of this
thank you for your patience and valuable help
gapps is the google apps package.needed for most non sense roms I think
its fine that you have formatted the sdcard at that stage. I meant whenever your performing recovery wipes to be careful not to format sdcard as it does exactly what it says and you will delete all contents of sdcard.
MokeeOs
Lesicnik1 said:
If the reboots happen because of you enabling 3G I think re-flashing the radio will fix that. (Not so sure on that, someone please complete me)
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can you flash just the radio?
Lesicnik1 said:
If the reboots happen because of you enabling 3G I think re-flashing the radio will fix that. (Not so sure on that, someone please complete me)
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forgot about this.
yep I think you're correct,if it is the 3g? but what triggered it?
MokeeOs
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Clonimus said:
can you flash just the radio?
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lol I knew this was coming next.
yes you can. I'm busy now so hopefully someone will guide you.
if not search forum on how to flash radio etc etc.
MokeeOs
Yes you can.
First download the file I attached and this file: http://www.mediafire.com/?lkhsl6hojm7vplv
Put both on the SD card
Flash the first one in the recovery, this will give you a temporary 2.5.X recovery, that goes away on reboot.
Within that recovery flash the second file I put up (the radio file itself)
Lesicnik1 said:
Yes you can.
First download the file I attached and this file: http://www.mediafire.com/?lkhsl6hojm7vplv
Put both on the SD card
Flash the first one in the recovery, this will give you a temporary 2.5.X recovery, that goes away on reboot.
Within that recoveryond flash the sec file I put up (the radio file itself)
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I feel so stupid asking this, but how do I 'flash the in the recovery'? I don't know the basics, also the 'Within that recovery and flash the sec file' is a bit esoteric for me
I feel stupid since I am an electronic engineer and working with J-Tag and embedded systems
Thank a lot
Flash them both, just like you flash a ROM
Once you flash the first file a new recovery will pop up, within that one, flash the radio file
Lesicnik1 said:
Flash them both, just like you flash a ROM
Once you flash the first file a new recovery will pop up, within that one, flash the radio file
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That's my point exactly, I never flashed a ROM on a cell phone
I used the RUU exe, it was as simple as running a windows application.
Do I have to root the device? and mimic a ROM update procedure to do that?
Or wait, is it by using the bootloader menu that comes up when you press down+power on?
lesicnik I would have thought you of all people would give better instructions. Especially after yesterdays pm. lol.
MokeeOs

Power on issue

Hi , I'm using a custom rom (Revolution 9.3) and have a strange issue.
I normally turn my phone off on a night to put it on charge. When the phone is fully charged it now turns itself back on. Is this normal and is there a way to stop it doing it. I have not had this problem either with the official rom or with other phones i have had with custom roms installed.
The other issue is when i wake the phone in the morning it has the "people" app open.To get rid of this i have to press the home button which crashes Sence .Once Sence reloads all is fine all day .Apart from this im very impressed with the Rom so dont really want to change it.
These are minor issues and not the end of the world but i would like to know if there is a cure. I'm fairly experienced in flashing roms but have been unable to locate any reference to this on this site. I have had to post on here as i havent the 10 posts to allow me to put in the developers section for this ROM. Thanks
I think it's clockworkmod recovery that turns the phone on when nearly charged.
Martintxx said:
Hi , I'm using a custom rom (Revolution 9.3) and have a strange issue.
I normally turn my phone off on a night to put it on charge. When the phone is fully charged it now turns itself back on. Is this normal and is there a way to stop it doing it. I have not had this problem either with the official rom or with other phones i have had with custom roms installed.
The other issue is when i wake the phone in the morning it has the "people" app open.To get rid of this i have to press the home button which crashes Sence .Once Sence reloads all is fine all day .Apart from this im very impressed with the Rom so dont really want to change it.
These are minor issues and not the end of the world but i would like to know if there is a cure. I'm fairly experienced in flashing roms but have been unable to locate any reference to this on this site. I have had to post on here as i havent the 10 posts to allow me to put in the developers section for this ROM. Thanks
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did u perform full wipe, erased cache and dalvik cache before flashing ROM
vivek_bhoj said:
did u perform full wipe, erased cache and dalvik cache before flashing ROM
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Yes did full wipe with super wipe as per instructions .Also did a cache wipe and dalvik cache wipe before and after install.
Thanks for the info about clockwork - it hasn't had this effect on previous phones plus when i flashed back to stock rom but still with clockwork recovery it doesn't turn on when it reaches full charge. Presuming it is clockwork is there a way to stop it ?
Open to any more suggestions though.
It's one of those things that is bugging the hell out of me but i can live with it for the extra functionality the rom gives me and the better battery life.
Little worried that the extra on time it is giving me will have a long term effect on battery life and also dont want the phone going off with text at two in the morning.

[Q] ROM Issues

Had a strange thing happen to me today with my Skyraider Zeus 1.3 ROM. Had everything setup the way I like but then I decided to try and change my lockscreen ring. Found some from somewhere, suppose to work with 2.3.4 sense 2.1. Flashed in recovery and restarted and got my status bar with icons but no lock ring or shortcut icons or any way to unlock it. So I pulled the battery, went in to bootloader, then recovery and did a backup restore. Everything was fine after that...for a while. Then i plugged it in to charge it, shut the phone off (all the way, not fast boot) to charge for about 30 minutes, then restarted. When it restarted, I had just a red battery icon, no percentage numbers just my red icon circle. Then i noticed when the screen would time out and dim, it would never shut off. It just stayed on dim, forever (and no, I wasn't plugged in). Restarted...same thing. Pulled bat...same thing. Finally I tried another restore of the same ROM, but it went right back to the recovery menu instantly without doing anything, then tried 2 more backups with the same result. Finally I did a completely different ROM restore and it worked. When it opened I noticed the battery icon was doing the same thing, along with the display eventually dimming and staying on dim. Did a complete wipe, data, cache and dalvik 3 times, flashed the ROM again figuring it would fix it... but no. After a few minutes, the battery icon turned red again and then the display would time out (after the 30 seconds i set), go to dim and just stay on. After awhile it went back to normal again but then did it again. This has happened about 4 times in the past 2 hours. I don't know what I did but its got me worried. Do you think it could be some settings file stored on my SD card? Or possibly the batterystats.bin file? I am about to reset it and see if that helps. Honestly, I don't know what is going on. I just hope its not hardware related. Its just coincidental that after my bad flash of the lockscreen ring that it happened, so i figured it was a software issue. Sorry so long guys, just in a bit of a panic right now
just do a full wipe and reflash the rom
casseer15 said:
just do a full wipe and reflash the rom
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I did that. I wiped everything out 3 times just to make sure and reflashed the ROM, like I stated above. Strange though, I haven't seen the issue reappear since the first couple hours of my reflash, since then its been ok. I guess ill just wait and see if it starts to happen again.
Definition of Full Wipe
Just making sure you know what a full wipe is and allowing others to Search Full Wipe and know what it means. When I fist started flashing I wasn't quite sure what Full Wipe meant.
Here are the instructions:
In Clockwork Recover
scroll to mounts and storage
select format /system -> Yes - Format
---Done---
Select format /data -> Yes - Format
--Done--
Select format /cache-> Yes - Format
--Done--
Now you may flash a new rom
kwick85 said:
Just making sure you know what a full wipe is and allowing others to Search Full Wipe and know what it means. When I fist started flashing I wasn't quite sure what Full Wipe meant.
Here are the instructions:
In Clockwork Recover
scroll to mounts and storage
select format /system -> Yes - Format
---Done---
Select format /data -> Yes - Format
--Done--
Select format /cache-> Yes - Format
--Done--
Now you may flash a new rom
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That is different from what I was doing. Though I am not new to flashing (almost a year) I have heard and read other posts through the months about people saying "do a full wipe" then saying "wipe data/factory reset wipe cache and dalvik cache". If this is the case there is a lot of people doing full wipes wrong. Hell I've even seen developers mention full wipes in this way. Not saying that your wrong, im just honestly not sure whats correct. But I am curious, what is the difference between the two? Is it because its formatting and the other is just wiping, or when its wiping is it also formatting at the same time? If that's the case wouldn't it be the same thing, just in a different way? You've peaked my curiosity
This isn't my list, but there are good explanations on the thread that I found, I cannot post the link due to my lack of postings but if you goolge: Full Wipe Spider
It should be the first search item.
Enjoy your new found knowledge.
Especially moving from Sense to AOSP, I format /system, /data, /cache. Usually, I do all three no matter.
I dont know but you could have problem with the battery or charger.

[Q] HELP! my note 2 wont boot past samsung logo!

hey, new user here, don't know if this has come up before but i did a search and haven't found anything that has the same particulars as i do.
recently my phone hasn't been responding to power button or home button wake up, intermittently. freezes up sometimes and some apps force close more than usual. then the other day, my phone died on me (full battery discharge) and when i finally got around to charging it, it charged fully but it wouldn't turn on past the Samsung boot logo, and gets real hot while doing so.
Also, the samsung boot logo appears before the AT&T splash screen tone starts.
im running stock Rooted 4.1.2 with the latest perseus kernel version.
any suggestions? i havent made a nandroid in a couple weeks, so my preferred route would be without a data wipe.
i can still access CWM recovery, btw.
well damn wheres the help?
I would download the stock rom and flash it again. If that doesnt work, custom rom time. I honestly cant see this problem getting fixed without a data wipe though good luck and keep me posted.
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With the non-response issues you describe, and the fact that you are seeing multiple force closes on the device....start with a wipe of the cache and dalvik cache in recovery.
It sounds as if the device is having cache file management issues, and trouble within the file structure.
While I dont think you have any hardware issues, it does sound like the software is suffering for one reason or another, and a base cleaning of the caches may help.
If no improvement is seen after cache cleaning, then we move to the data next.
I realize you want to keep your data intact, but if corruption has occured, you will have no choice but to factory restore the device and test again.
Try the cache cleaning first, then boot and test....
Beyond that...as the above poster states...a fresh install may be needed....g
Before a data wipe try reinstalling the kernel, and also try dirty flashing the Rom.
Not sure I would recommend a dirty flash to him. Plenty of times the result for users has been bad. Though as stated above yours, It does appear to be a file system error. He is probably right and I should have thought about wiping the dalvic cache first.
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i was afraid this would happen....
tried wiping both caches with no new results.
ive read that dirty flash has had mixed results. if i can at least get the OS booted so that i could backup what i need to, that would be a good thing.
im thinking its a kernel issue, since the phone gets real hot while stuck on the samsung screen. could i be right?
thanks guys:good:
i also tried reinstalling the kernel through cwm recovery, nothing new
FIXED
did a data/factory reset from recovery. it kept everything! thank god for cloud backups. Google is the JOINT!! i even kept my kernel and root, and at&t backed up my texts and calls....thanks everybody for the help, i really appreciate it!
its still kinna hot though...turned it off to let it cool down and see what happens when i start it back up....will keep posted if anything
Great. Know I didnt help too much but glad you got it worked out. :thumbup:
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DroidOblivion said:
did a data/factory reset from recovery.
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Great news ....
Data corruption is so very easy to get.
As we mix and match pieces of code, those issues do arise.
Sadly, the causes are often elusive.
But the plan "B" wipe generally does the trick, as is the case here.
Happy flashing....g

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