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HTC Desire Reboot Loop Problem

I have an interesting problem, kind of. Bought my phone second hand as supposedly unlocked & debranded but on boot up it after the HTC logo I get the Virgin Media logo, not really an issue though. Anyway the problem is when I switch the phone off and then switch on again it boots up fine to the home screen and then it will reboot itself and carries on doing this. i.e. boot up to home screen then reboot again continuously.
To get out of this reboot loop I have to remove the sim & boot the phone with no sim in it then switch off and insert my normal Vodafone phone sim and switch on again. after that the phone is fine until I power down and then the same thing happens.
Anybody else experienced this or got any ideas?? It came with 1.15.405.4 firmware already installed and I have tried reflashing with the same firmware using the goldcard method & it worked but the problem remains. When the sim registers on the network is when the reboot loop seems to start.

did you try reflashing it ?
hold down the side button (down) and press on at the same time.
then select erase data and press on again
if you bought it second hand, its hard to say what the previous user has done with it ...

Yep tried reflashing it, just about to reflash again with an older rom. It's just wierd that a sim card authenticating to the network would cause a reboot loop.

TieT said:
did you try reflashing it ?
hold down the side button (down) and press on at the same time.
then select erase data and press on again
if you bought it second hand, its hard to say what the previous user has done with it ...
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Maybe it's a dumb question - But I'm having some issues that doesn't seem to get solved by a factory reset - Would it be an idea to reflash it for this, so the phone gets a fresh rom?
How would I do it specifically? Do you know of a guide somewhere?

sudman said:
Yep tried reflashing it, just about to reflash again with an older rom. It's just wierd that a sim card authenticating to the network would cause a reboot loop.
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have you tried a different sim card ?

Ye tried a different sim card, boots fine and all is good till you reboot the phone and then the same happens again. Anyways flashing was a disaster this time round as I was doing it on my work pc and Symantec kicked in thinking it found a virus with adb.exe and halted the process & quarrantined the file. Now everytime I try and reflash on a different PC I get the dreaded error(110):file open error. Disconnect the phone & all I get is a black screen & HTC logo. Nice. Thanks Symantec you've just bricked my Desire!!

*UPDATE* - Fixed.
Removed the battery, left it for a few hours then reflashed on a different pc and it flashed fine. Then thought I'd try & repeat so reflashed with the older rom from here (originally used the newer rom posted on Modaco) and got the error again and again couldn't flash back to the newer. Removed the battery left for an hour and then could reflash again and get it working!! Wierd

I had the same problem.
My Solution: remove battery, remove the SIM, put battery reboot, turnoff, remove battery, put SIM, put battery, boot

first i want to excuse my bad english,hope you will undestand what i´m trying to say.
i have the same problem since a few days.
first time i notice it,was when the desire was charching and i used it a bit,it restarts again and again.so i put out the battery and wait a few minutes,than it works.
it´s also,when i use it a long time with wifi or 3G....the the phone turns off and i have the boot loop.
but when i take out my sim,it works fine.
my question is,do i need a new sim or is it a hardware problem?
does anybody know?
greetz from germany!

sorry, wrong thread

same here.
Tequila98 said:
first i want to excuse my bad english,hope you will undestand what i´m trying to say.
i have the same problem since a few days.
first time i notice it,was when the desire was charching and i used it a bit,it restarts again and again.so i put out the battery and wait a few minutes,than it works.
it´s also,when i use it a long time with wifi or 3G....the the phone turns off and i have the boot loop.
but when i take out my sim,it works fine.
my question is,do i need a new sim or is it a hardware problem?
does anybody know?
greetz from germany!
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i have the exact same problem!! any solution? after that the phone will boot loop over and over! damn!

I had the same problem last week.
I suspected it had to do with the EXT3 partition.
Solved it by first flashing the OTA 2.2 ROM (for rooted users) as this does not use the EXT3. Then used Rom manager to recreate the EXT3.
Now all ROMs that use the EXT3 run fine!

hmmp
as long as i know, i did not install anything on my phone lately so thats the problem so far and i think tequila98 also having the same problem as me, cause when i remove my sim card the phone works fine. but ive reset my phone yesterday and not restarting so far hope this will continue.

I really wished there was a dead fix to this problem we are all having!
My problem:
My phone was running fine until a few weeks ago. There was no rebooting problems when I first got my phone (April) and when I flashed my phone for the first time (May). Happened a few weeks ago when I was browsing on YouTube where my phone suddenly restarted on it's own.
Before it was once a couple of days, now it has gotten more frequent and annoying.
I don't think the heat is the problem because I don't go on the internet much because of my data plan. I use wifi when I browse the web, youtube, etc. And I certainly don't use Google maps or any heavy duty applications. That's just what I think...
My phone rebooted 3 times today in a time span of 4 hours? I noticed that my phone rebooted itself when I use the camera to take a picture or video. Doesn't happen everytime, but that's what happened today. Also, when my phone rebooted today, my application Advanced Task Killer was automatically removed from my phone! That was weird... But I experienced another reboot even after having the app removed.
I really hope someone can find the core of this problem and fix it!
My phone is running on DeFroST 2.0b Android 2.2
My battery stats: 42% for display, 26% for cell standby, 21% for phone idle, 4% for android system, 3% for voice calls, 2% for android OS

jxleung said:
I really wished there was a dead fix to this problem we are all having!
My problem:
My phone was running fine until a few weeks ago. There was no rebooting problems when I first got my phone (April) and when I flashed my phone for the first time (May). Happened a few weeks ago when I was browsing on YouTube where my phone suddenly restarted on it's own.
Before it was once a couple of days, now it has gotten more frequent and annoying.
I don't think the heat is the problem because I don't go on the internet much because of my data plan. I use wifi when I browse the web, youtube, etc. And I certainly don't use Google maps or any heavy duty applications. That's just what I think...
My phone rebooted 3 times today in a time span of 4 hours? I noticed that my phone rebooted itself when I use the camera to take a picture or video. Doesn't happen everytime, but that's what happened today. Also, when my phone rebooted today, my application Advanced Task Killer was automatically removed from my phone! That was weird... But I experienced another reboot even after having the app removed.
I really hope someone can find the core of this problem and fix it!
My phone is running on DeFroST 2.0b Android 2.2
My battery stats: 42% for display, 26% for cell standby, 21% for phone idle, 4% for android system, 3% for voice calls, 2% for android OS
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same problem here guys why desire have a this problem ? why no one cant find any solution ?
PLZ help us

Ehsan021 said:
same problem here guys why desire have a this problem ? why no one cant find any solution ?
PLZ help us
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It's probably hardware problem with motherboard. Therefore I recommend you to take your phone to repair center and they should replace mobo with new one. That's what I did and now everything is ok.

I am having the exact same problem. Seems to be related to the SIM.
But the SIM works fine in another phone.
Did anyone find any more information?

If you get random reboots its most likely ther motherboard there is a massive thread about it on the forums. You need to send it off to a HTC repair centre.

Just got this problem.
I rooted yesterday. Today I made a nandroid backup. After that the phone is in a reboot loop.
How is this possible from just and backup???
Tnx.
R
Edit:
Restored backup and is working fine again.

nandroid backup loop
rottunix said:
I rooted yesterday. Today I made a nandroid backup. After that the phone is in a reboot loop.
How is this possible from just and backup???
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I have the same problem.
rottunix said:
Restored backup and is working fine again.
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I will try it. Maybe the backup is not only a backup but also a remove? Strange.
I will comment if this works also for me.
EDIT: Restore helps

[Q] CM7 Random Reboot and RE Setup Issue

Hi,
I am having a really odd and very frustrating issue with the latest CM7 Stable Build on my device.
I have been using the latest stable since its release back in November.
I ensured a clean wipe and install of CM 7.1.0.1 and setup my phone accordingly and Nandroid Back Up around a Week later as the Device was behaving as intended.
Sadly, I am now plagued with the following issue which occurs without any common trigger....
I will be using the device which will be behaving normally and it will suddenly, normally when screen is off... reboot and enter a Boot Loop (CM7 Robot will either be frozen solid or will keep rebooting to CM7 Robot) which seems to continue until a battery pull.
I will then restart the device and it sometimes boots straight away though sometimes hangs for a while. Once booted it boot to the 'Setup your device' Screen, from which point onwards you are required to Re-Enter your Logins for Google and such like. All settings and sync profiles are normally missing/deleted so requires setting up of all apps requiring logins etc.
As you can imagine, the above is quite an inconvenient as it normally happens when I actually need to use the device
I have tried reinstalling a clean CM7 over the top as well as wiping and formatting the SD card.
Neither seem to have solved the issue.
Any help anyone can give would be greatly appreciated.
It is also worth noting that while the device will charge off USB, it will not allow usb tethering or any form of USB Mounting etc.
Cheers
Jason
Device Spec:
Phone: HTC Wildfire Alpharex S-Off
Android: 2.3.7
OverClocked: 518.4MHz-691.2MHz (SmartAssV2)
VM Heap Size: 24m
ROM: CyanogenMod-7.1.0.1-buzz
Radio: 13.55.55.24H_3.35.20.10
Recovery: ClockworkMod 2.5.0.7
Kernel: 2.6.35.14-nFinity arco(at)tuxbox #1
Custom MTD Partitons using S2E

cm7 issues.
sounds like your in quite a pickle my friend.
i used to get your reboot issues (the bootloops) but that was because my phone was overclocked to over 700. i never got the setup device screen though.
when you say youve tried a clean install over cm7 have you factory reset the device as well as deleteing the dalvik cache??
also my sound stupid but have you tried your backup to see if it starts again??
it sounds like something has became quite corrupted.
have you installed any new apps recently or changed anything in the system files of the phone?
also when you have to go through the set up are all your apps still there afterwards? And when you first flashed it did the tethering work at all?
Heavy_metal_man.

heavy_metal_man said:
when you say youve tried a clean install over cm7 have you factory reset the device as well as deleteing the dalvik cache??
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Yup
heavy_metal_man said:
also my sound stupid but have you tried your backup to see if it starts again??
it sounds like something has became quite corrupted.
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Yup and while it does restore to a point where I can use my phone quite quickly after however I'm very cautious after - typically it happens a couple of weeks later
heavy_metal_man said:
have you installed any new apps recently or changed anything in the system files of the phone?
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No real new recent apps installed and no mods to the system files that I can recall.
heavy_metal_man said:
also when you have to go through the set up are all your apps still there afterwards? And when you first flashed it did the tethering work at all?
Heavy_metal_man.
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All my apps are still installed but many apps require re-setup or accounts for sync require re-adding. Phonebook requires import of contacts however messages remain in place.
I can't recall I think it did or at least USB-Storage did

Do you have a SD ext partition?
I ask because I had similar problems (randomly losing data) with an ext 4 partition, repartitioning my card using ext 3 solved it, also put your dalvik cache and data back into phone memory if it isn't already as that can also cause instability.
Sent from my HTC Wildfire using xda premium

Try this....
Run an RUU for wildfire.
- Download (RUU_Buzz_HTC_WWE_1.14.405.2_R_C_Radio_13.45.55.24 _ 3.35.15.19_release_141106_signed) from android forums.
- Connect phone to PC and run RUU
- This downgrads phone OS to eclair (android 2.1)
- Let it do the bizniss
- Re-root with unrevoked 3
- Re-Flash CM7 and gApps

Many thanks Scratch and Arkose,
Since my post last week I have since formatted the SD Card as well as Wiping the Phone as much as possible.
I then flashed and installed the latest CM7 Stable, Radio Package as well as re-setting up the EXT Partition this time as Type 3.
Once up and running I reinstalled all Apps.
Seems to be running okay so far.
Long may it last hopefully.
If not will try last suggesion

Great stuff. Let us know how it goes
Sent from my HTC Wildfire using XDA App

A quick update...
Still having issues
I'm noticing that randomly phone process will crash for no apparent reason/cause, normally when off Wifi and on Mobile Data.
Last night was the worst its even been though... at a critical moment when I needed the phone to work... it decided it was having none of it.
Phone kept switching Airplane Mode On and Off causing process.android.com to crash along with most other services So I rebooted only to find that it now was either stuck in Airplane Mode or couldnt enable to Radio (No Phone Signal at all) so I did a battery pull while trying to walk home in the pitch black and rebooted.
The Saga continued even after a battery pull, I eventually as I got in the door was able to use the 'Torch' and recieve a phonecall before all the processes crashed once more...
So I did a battery pull, left the phone for five mins and rebooted. All was well for a while, enabled Wifi, phone seemed happy.
Had to reboot a short while ago, after recieiving a phonecall and text.... grrr... anyone have any suggestions?

I had problem with process restarting. Adw launcher process I downloaded Go Launcher ex I have no problems now.
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Galaxy Nexus keeps rebooting

Today when i got home i turned on Wifi and suddenly my phone went into a boot loop.. It doesnt get past the "Google" logo at the beginning and just keeps rebooting every 5 seconds.. I have tried doing a hardreset restoring to factory settings but that didnt work.. It is rooted.
Can anyone help me fix this?:/

What Rom/Kernel are you on? Can you get it into download mode? Have you tried restoring a Nandroid? Have you tried a fresh install?

I had the CM9 3/29 nightly running. Had the phone in desktop mode all night. This morning it started rebooting after coming to the home screen, and then situation is getting worse, it reboots after every boot. I had a good CM9 nandroid back up, restored and still doing the same thing.
CM9 nightly, no separate kernel, just some tweaks and was @1350 under performance.
Can there be some hardware damage?
Help please!!
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Phyxius said:
Today when i got home i turned on Wifi and suddenly my phone went into a boot loop.. It doesnt get past the "Google" logo at the beginning and just keeps rebooting every 5 seconds.. I have tried doing a hardreset restoring to factory settings but that didnt work.. It is rooted.
Can anyone help me fix this?:/
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Was your phone continuously on, and got hot by any chance?

Don't run performance governor. Also just do a full wipe system and data and flash a known stable CM9 build. That should get you up and running.

Sdobron said:
Don't run performance governor. Also just do a full wipe system and data and flash a known stable CM9 build. That should get you up and running.
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Done, no go there. One thing I am noticing is a "pop" sound just before it reboots

This happened to me 2 months ago. The way I fixed it was by putting it into download mode and flashing 4.0.1 YAKJU via the ODIN file found on the Samsung German website. Phone has been good ever since. *knock on wood*
EDIT: BTW, after that, I updated to 4.0.2 OTA normally, and since then, I've been manually updating because I rooted my phone.
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wiki_warren said:
This happened to me 2 months ago. The way I fixed it was by putting it into download mode and flashing 4.0.1 YAKJU via the ODIN file found on the Samsung German website. Phone has been good ever since. *knock on wood*
EDIT: BTW, after that, I updated to 4.0.2 OTA normally, and since then, I've been manually updating because I rooted my phone.
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Yes thats the only way to do it.
Installed the rootkit 5.6 and downloaded the 4.0.4 into the corresponding folder.
Sure wiped my phone completely, but I don't have a $600 paper weight.
Thanks all!

[Q] Help: Gps not working as it should.

Hey guys,
My gps isn't working accurate.
First off it worked pretty good but when I changed to a custom rom (android revolution Hd) it didn't anymore.
When i use google maps, it takes a damn long time to get a fix on my position and when it does it stays accurate for about 5 seconds and then it starts to change to a street next to me then to another side... etc. . Also when i am standing still it jumps for my location to 50meters ahead of me and behind me, changing my speed to 20km/h ... I think you get the problem. Also the same problem on navigon (navigation software) it is constanly rerouting me because of the inaccurate position. So its not an application issue.
I flashed the rom as it should be, with boot.img through fastboot and zip file in cwm. Except for the gps there are no other issues.
Then i flashed the original rom in cwm with boot.img in fastboot, still the same problem.
I then tried CM10 and it became even worse... every 20 seconds it gave me a position update in maps and with navigon there wasn't even a update because it couldn't get a fix.
And i also used fasterfix on every rom except the original one (not rooted) to set my gps to europe.pool.ntp.org or something like that...
Now i am trying to revert to android revolution HD but first my battery has to be charged above 10% and it goes damn slow because of the bricked boot (made a mistake while changing form CM10 to And rev HD) Can't flash the and rev HD yet but does somebody in the meantime know a solution ?

Somebody ??
Could it be a problem with the kernel ? because i didn't flash one separatly

Does somebody has a solution ?

Unfortunately, I also have the same problem with rom coredroid and igo primo aid to some expert please
thanks

I had the same issue when I moved from Stock to the Modaco Ir5 Vanilla ROM, my GPS didn't even go as far as finding my location inaccurately, it didn't work at all. Hence I couldn't use my maps/navigation.
I am now running the Slim Bean ROM and everything is working great. I am no expert, but have you always done the usual 'full wipe data > clear cache partition > clear Dalvik cache' while flashing new ROMs?
For your charging issue, maybe try this? http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1646135

My phone is now allright but you i'll try the rom you are speaking about and see if the gps works better.
and... Also tried another kernel (eternity) but it still didn't work

I had this issue and had it fixed after sending my phone to service 3 times.
The first time they only did a reset, didn't help.
Second time they changed the wifi, GPS module, didn't help.
I sent them a recording of the problem on the third time. This time they changed the motherboard and it finally got fixed.
Remember to tell them that the issue is specially visible when GPS and WiFi are both on.
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waterscent said:
I had this issue and had it fixed after sending my phone to service 3 times.
The first time they only did a reset, didn't help.
Second time they changed the wifi, GPS module, didn't help.
I sent them a recording of the problem on the third time. This time they changed the motherboard and it finally got fixed.
Remember to tell them that the issue is specially visible when GPS and WiFi are both on.
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There isn't any diffrence when wifi is enabled and like i said, with stock rom everything was fine.

Just for now i can't flash another rom but other solutions are welcome...

kefjeuh93 said:
Just for now i can't flash another rom but other solutions are welcome...
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Tried the agps patch (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1595800) still no solution

Tried some other roms and still nothing...
I will try to go back to stock with RUU but which one do i need to choose ? Based on what info ?
i know i have to choose HTC_E11 (dutch)

kefjeuh93 said:
Tried some other roms and still nothing...
I will try to go back to stock with RUU but which one do i need to choose ? Based on what info ?
i know i have to choose HTC_E11 (dutch)
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This may help - GPS Fix.
It worked for me, but not for the faint hearted.

[Q] note 10.1 2014 bootloop

Ok I am REALLY frustrated. Yesterday my note was working fine and I shut it off like normal. Then the next day, when I went to turn it on, it kept saying the samsung logo over and over again. It then goes to the lockscreen and immediatly boots back to the sammy screen. Another weird thing is that it takes FOREVER to boot to the lockscreen before rebooting again. If i pull the pen out or touch the screen during that time, it vibrates like it should be on the lockscreen.Sometimes, the samsung logo will flicker and rotate sideways for a half a second and go back. Ive tried restoring my backups but it didnt fix it. Sometimes, it wont reboot and will work so idk what the problem is. I didn't do anything that would make it bootloop like this. Ive tried reflashing stock kernel and ive restored the boot but nothing. Im running cleanrom 1.2. Is that maybe a bug in the rom? I know I should probably update to the newest version but I havent felt like it. I REALLY need some guidance here. Thanks

I'm still unrooted on my p605 and I've had this happen as well, without the logo flicker and rotate. It righted itself after 5 - 10 loops all way to lock screen.
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hexbox117 said:
Ok I am REALLY frustrated. Yesterday my note was working fine and I shut it off like normal. Then the next day, when I went to turn it on, it kept saying the samsung logo over and over again. It then goes to the lockscreen and immediatly boots back to the sammy screen. Another weird thing is that it takes FOREVER to boot to the lockscreen before rebooting again. If i pull the pen out or touch the screen during that time, it vibrates like it should be on the lockscreen.Sometimes, the samsung logo will flicker and rotate sideways for a half a second and go back. Ive tried restoring my backups but it didnt fix it. Sometimes, it wont reboot and will work so idk what the problem is. I didn't do anything that would make it bootloop like this. Ive tried reflashing stock kernel and ive restored the boot but nothing. Im running cleanrom 1.2. Is that maybe a bug in the rom? I know I should probably update to the newest version but I havent felt like it. I REALLY need some guidance here. Thanks
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I think you should just start over and do fresh install of CleanROM . the 2.0 one. With my experience I usually make a backup with twrp before I do anything for situations like your in. If you had a twrp backup you can just restore that and you would be good to go. I've learned to take a few extra minutes to make a twrp backup. Sometimes stuff just goes wrong. You can always flash stock firmware with Odin, then do a fresh install of CleanROM 2.0.If you search around forum you can find stock firmware.
That's just my opinion.

I have multiple back ups but when I restored them it still did it. I ended up factory resetting then using titanium to get my stuff back and it works like normal now.
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I had the same issue running stock and twrp. I used odin to install the latest version of twrp - from there I loaded a user-compiled kernel - cleared the cache and it worked.

That didn't work for me sadly. But factory reset did so I'm good now
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Still unrooted, did a factory reset, restored by Samsung account & Google account, still bootlooping. Seems to be taking longer to break out of it. Anyone got any ideas or solutions?
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Contemplating the 4th factory reset in 2 days, as bootlooping has become never ending. It stops for a while with a factory reset, but by the time I've downloaded everything again it's back. It use to stop eventually but not any more. Does anyone know a way to stop this or at least what's causing it?
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I had the same issue. To solve it, I went into the advanced Wi-Fi settings and unchecked "Always Allow Scanning". I have not had a boot loop since then.
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casimi said:
I had the same issue. To solve it, I went into the advanced Wi-Fi settings and unchecked "Always Allow Scanning". I have not had a boot loop since then.
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Thanks Casimi, that worked perfectly. Just wish I had known about this 4 days ago, before I started doing factory resets. Anyway all fixed now. Again many thanks for the help.
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You're welcome. I don't know why Samsung still hasn't issued a fix for this. Had the same issue with my Note 3 as well.
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i have the same issue
hey guys !
i have the same issue on my note sm-p605 , I bought it about a week ago and didn't back up anything.
it started boot looping suddenly and i tried to enter the recovery mode but i couldn't .
p.s: my device is not rooted and am not that professional in these things.
kindly help me !

Thank You
Thank You so much I wasn't sure what I was going to do with my tablet. It's just to expensive to go out and buy another one. You are a life saver.
casimi said:
I had the same issue. To solve it, I went into the advanced Wi-Fi settings and unchecked "Always Allow Scanning". I have not had a boot loop since then.
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Eyadoo13 said:
hey guys !
i have the same issue on my note sm-p605 , I bought it about a week ago and didn't back up anything.
it started boot looping suddenly and i tried to enter the recovery mode but i couldn't .
p.s: my device is not rooted and am not that professional in these things.
kindly help me !
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I had the same problem with my SM-P605. I took out the MicroSD card and the Note booted up. Now the wifi "Scanning always available" is also unchecked.
Did a reboot and it was fine.
I hope it lasts.