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[Q] Constant Bootloops ARRGHHHH

Ok, so here is my story:
I rooted way back in July right after I got my Evo, so I started on Android 2.1. I flashed and used OMJ's ROM for quite a while until I discovered Cyanogen mod, which I switched to after trying OMJ's 2.2 ROM.
I used CM6 for a long time, eventually flashing some nightly builds, culminating in nightly build number 140. At some point in this process, I started having real trouble with bootlooping CONSTANTLY (and I couldn't even make a nandroid backup because it would reboot inside the backup process). I eventually got it to stop bootlooping after many many reboots and wipes (full wipe, cache wipe, dalvik wipe) and restarts and got CM to boot.
I just now flashed CM6.1 and started getting constant bootloops again. I assumed it was a problem with CM, so I decided eff it, I'm going with a different ROM and downloaded Calkulin's EViO 1.5 rom to try, but it can't boot either.
I can get to the android screen, which displays no signal, then it reboots. I can't get out of this cycle. When I was on CM, I had issues with starting up - I had to hold down the power button quickly and press airplane mode, then it would reboot again, but it would come all the way up. Then once it was fully booted I could disable airplane mode and it would stay online. After that point, I just decided never to reboot the phone, but this is a huge problem that I can't figure out how to fix.
I have tried wiping using Clockwork and Amon Ra, but neither makes a difference.
Any help would be GREATLY appreciated. Thanks!!!

it reboots while making nandroid? So even if you hold vol down + power and go to the recovery from there it is rebooting?

xHausx said:
it reboots while making nandroid? So even if you hold vol down + power and go to the recovery from there it is rebooting?
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Correct, I hold volume down + power to get into recovery, then choose nandroid and backup, then while it is creating a nandroid backup, it reboots.

Does anyone have any ideas? At this point, I have no clue what to do, and I can't boot into any ROM.

If you Google it you'll see its an incredibly common problem not just with those of us who have modded our phones but those with stock roms who have never done so it happened to me when I originally flashed cm6 to my phone as well but it eventually fixed itself if you can get it to boot try factory reset it may help
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hackulous said:
If you Google it you'll see its an incredibly common problem not just with those of us who have modded our phones but those with stock roms who have never done so it happened to me when I originally flashed cm6 to my phone as well but it eventually fixed itself if you can get it to boot try factory reset it may help
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Factory reset just wipes your data using your recovery doesn't it? Either way, I've tried that, and no dice.
I mean, I guess at the very least I could try to bring the phone into Sprint... is there a shipped RUU I can flash so they can look at it?
edit: found the latest RUU (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=8474707)
I'm gonna try this and see what happens.

http://www.google.com/m/url?client=...IQFjAA&usg=AFQjCNHQ2016xLF_DLz7uVoilk8Hm1EsRg
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same problem. no solution. i am now fully bricked, aka i reboot before i can pull down lockscreen (rom changes, unroot, nothing works) return before it gets so bad you cant unroot.

No good man I hope you got insurance
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Ewe, thats no good. I would use the ruu but Do Not Use The Newest One. You will lose root and the new 3.30 people are having trouble rooting
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same thing happening to me. Stuck in bootloop now, started out as just a random reboot that would boot than reboot than hold for a while. Right now im completely stuck in bootloop =(.
Is there a way to put a stock rom on my phone with just booting to recovery?

These sound like hardware issues but if your recovery is working fine then it may be something else. Did you try the RUU while in the recovery?
Just don't use the newest one
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dkdude36 said:
same problem. no solution. i am now fully bricked, aka i reboot before i can pull down lockscreen (rom changes, unroot, nothing works) return before it gets so bad you cant unroot.
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I was finally able to get to a point where I could get it to boot - here is what I did.
I wiped everything using amon ra's recovery, then flashed the latest cyanogen mod from here: http://mirror.teamdouche.net/get/supersonic/update-cm-6.1.0-RC1-Supersonic-signed.zip, then when it booted, it would get constant bootloops, but it would get to the home screen for a few seconds each time.
You have to click through the intro menus reaaaallly freakin fast so you see the desktop with the live wallpaper. DON'T sign into a google account. It will probably bootloop again, and if it doesn't, quickly hold down the power button and select airplane mode. If it reboots again, it will power up completely successfully in airplane mode. Then make sure you're in an area of good signal and disable airplane mode until you have 3G, and then sign into a google account. If it starts bootlooping again, quickly hold the power button and press airplane mode - you can always boot successfully in airplane mode for some reason...

xHausx said:
These sound like hardware issues but if your recovery is working fine then it may be something else. Did you try the RUU while in the recovery?
Just don't use the newest one
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It could be hardware related, but I'm not 100% sure at this point...
The reboots seem to be correlated with signal strength. If I have 1 bar of signal (in CM, so not cell signal), it will reboot before it gets to 3G.
Also any flash on a website reboots the phone for some reason. I don't know if that's common or not.

[Q]Rogers Galaxy S3 constantly restarting even in recovery/download mode

So tonight out of the blue, my Rogers Galaxy S3 restarted itself. This isn't totally unusual, as sometimes this will happen once or twice a day, but never has it been too bad.
First off, I've been running Cyanogenmod 10.0, and again, has been relatively problem free. The first major issue I had was a week or so ago when I woke up to my phone having seemingly restored it's default settings on its own. Apps and all my other data were intact, but widgets, app settings, etc, were all cleared.
Now tonight, my phone can rarely boot into CM, and when it does, the power menu will appear shortly thereafter before restarting itself once again. If the phone is plugged in, I can't get anything other than the charge indicator to come on the screen for more than a second. The phone also does this when trying to boot into recovery mode or download mode.
I'm at a total loss as to what to do here, so I'm going to be leaving the phone off with the battery out over night. Appreciate any feedback in the meantime.

Also having a similar problem: phone boots up, will barely enter the bootloader/TWRP/boot animation for hyperdrive ROM. Also with rogers. I believe it might be SDS but I need to re install the stock firmware and can barely boot into the bootloader without the phone dying (battery is charged though). Any help greatly appreciated!
EDIT: managed to boot up for long enough to install "eMMC check" and apparently I have a 'sane chip'.

There have been issues with the power button getting stuck. Maybe you have that issue?
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Domoo said:
There have been issues with the power button getting stuck. Maybe you have that issue?
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Well, after pulling most of my hair out, that does seem to be the issue. Would explain why the power menu would come up the few times it did manage to boot. I managed to get it working for a while, but the button seems to be really delicate since picking my phone up and barely touching it reset it again.
I guess now I need a solution to the power button sticking, but at least it doesn't seem to be SDS.

Okay, that makes sense. When I leave the phone completely stable it's fine.
However, I have tried unrooting and reinstalling stock firmware. However, my system status in bootloader is still custom, when I boot up the rom I still have superuser installed. I tried installing two different stock firmwares for Rogers and the same problem. Any help would be great, I really want to send this in for warranty ASAP.
EDIT: After using ODIN to install stock rom, I still had Superuser. I installed SuperSU and then preformed it'sfull unroot. After that i cleared data and cache from stock recovery and the phone is now at original status and seems to not be randomly rebooting/dying. Weird.

[Q] Phone is going nuts!!! Help!! PLEASE!!!

Ok so, I have been running Hyperdrive RLS16 for quite sometime now with no issues, going on approx 6 months now. Love the rom. Just today out of nowhere my phone started timing out. By timing out I mean, screen started going black as if I was closing it when I was in the middle of using it. This proceeded to happen for at least 15 minutes meanwhile it was constantly rebooting itself as well. After about 15 mins of reboots and screen timeouts, it got to where the phone would not stay on. it would boot up, then when i started using it it would reboot again. So after a battery pull, sd card pull and sim card pull I restarted it and since it seems to be doing ok for the moment. I immediately backed up my rom in clockword mod recovery through rom manager, backed up all my apps and created an update.zip in titanium backup. I downloaded the stockmod slim rom t999 4.3 v3 and the uvuemj4 modem that it requires for data and was gunna try and flash it and everytime i boot into recovery and try to select an option to pick, it randomly starts selecting things and jumping all over the place and then reboots. wont let me wipe data factory reset, or wipe dalvick or cache. wont even let me choose the rom or modem to flash. I tried to update my version of clockwork mod, and nothing. Tried to download goo manager and try twrp but it wont go into twrp it stays in clockwork mod and does the same. Im so confused on what to do to fix this and would like to flash a new rom to see if it will fix my screen timeouts and reboots but I cant get recovery to cooperate in order to do that. Can anyone help me? PLEASE!!!! I thought maybe if i try clockwork mod touch that it may fix the problem, but even if i download it how can i flash it if recovery isint cooperating?:crying::crying::crying:

kbeezy2686 said:
Ok so, I have been running Hyperdrive RLS16 for quite sometime now with no issues, going on approx 6 months now. Love the rom. Just today out of nowhere my phone started timing out. By timing out I mean, screen started going black as if I was closing it when I was in the middle of using it. This proceeded to happen for at least 15 minutes meanwhile it was constantly rebooting itself as well. After about 15 mins of reboots and screen timeouts, it got to where the phone would not stay on. it would boot up, then when i started using it it would reboot again. So after a battery pull, sd card pull and sim card pull I restarted it and since it seems to be doing ok for the moment. I immediately backed up my rom in clockword mod recovery through rom manager, backed up all my apps and created an update.zip in titanium backup. I downloaded the stockmod slim rom t999 4.3 v3 and the uvuemj4 modem that it requires for data and was gunna try and flash it and everytime i boot into recovery and try to select an option to pick, it randomly starts selecting things and jumping all over the place and then reboots. wont let me wipe data factory reset, or wipe dalvick or cache. wont even let me choose the rom or modem to flash. I tried to update my version of clockwork mod, and nothing. Tried to download goo manager and try twrp but it wont go into twrp it stays in clockwork mod and does the same. Im so confused on what to do to fix this and would like to flash a new rom to see if it will fix my screen timeouts and reboots but I cant get recovery to cooperate in order to do that. Can anyone help me? PLEASE!!!! I thought maybe if i try clockwork mod touch that it may fix the problem, but even if i download it how can i flash it if recovery isint cooperating?:crying::crying::crying:
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It sounds like there would be a problem with your digitizer. Or motherboard. Either way it sounds expensive to fix.
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The touch response is working fine though, and the buttons work fine. But it randomly scrolls all over the place in recovery and selects things on its own even when Im just holding it in my hand pressing nothing. I have the regular clockwork mod recovery not the touch installed. I have to scroll with the volume buttons and select with the power button. But even when im not pressing either it just goes in ghost mode and starts selecting stuff. Its crazy!! Is there a problem with my version of recovery? 6.0.4.3
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It sounds like there would be a problem with your digitizer. Or motherboard. Either way it sounds expensive to fix.
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kbeezy2686 said:
The touch response is working fine though, and the buttons work fine. But it randomly scrolls all over the place in recovery and selects things on its own even when Im just holding it in my hand pressing nothing. I have the regular clockwork mod recovery not the touch installed. I have to scroll with the volume buttons and select with the power button. But even when im not pressing either it just goes in ghost mode and starts selecting stuff. Its crazy!! Is there a problem with my version of recovery? 6.0.4.3
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I don't use cwm so I wouldn't know. But your didgitizer could still act like its working fully and still be broken. Idk man.
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ok well thanks man for your help. Would the digitizer be causing the random reboots as well?
jmcoffey said:
I don't use cwm so I wouldn't know. But your didgitizer could still act like its working fully and still be broken. Idk man.
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kbeezy2686 said:
ok well thanks man for your help. Would the digitizer be causing the random reboots as well?
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If it's malfunctioning is possible. But there's no telling.
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Can you boot download mode? Odin flash stock firmware. If it continues then it may be a hardware problem.

i havent tried to do that. But i did do a factory reset from my settings instead of through recovery. I did lose quite a bit of stuff because it deleted my backups in titanium and etc but my recovery is working now. No more ghost mode selecting everything. But my phone is still doing the random reboots
DocHoliday77 said:
Can you boot download mode? Odin flash stock firmware. If it continues then it may be a hardware problem.
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kbeezy2686 said:
i havent tried to do that. But i did do a factory reset from my settings instead of through recovery. I did lose quite a bit of stuff because it deleted my backups in titanium and etc but my recovery is working now. No more ghost mode selecting everything. But my phone is still doing the random reboots
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Did you flash another ROM and its still rebooting?
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kbeezy2686 said:
The touch response is working fine though, and the buttons work fine. But it randomly scrolls all over the place in recovery and selects things on its own even when Im just holding it in my hand pressing nothing. I have the regular clockwork mod recovery not the touch installed. I have to scroll with the volume buttons and select with the power button. But even when im not pressing either it just goes in ghost mode and starts selecting stuff. Its crazy!! Is there a problem with my version of recovery? 6.0.4.3
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Earlier I too felt this type of auto touch in my other device and I figured out that this was happening due to some radio interference at some particular time and particular place which was near a radio station
Whenever I go away or that station time was over it will be working correctly
May be something like this happening just for your information to make sure
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[Q] Infinite boot loop out of nowhere.

I was using my phone earlier today and was attempting to extract an archived file with OfficeSuite 7. I had merely 400-500 of free space available at this point. After a few attempts and cancellations due to failure to extract I decided to restart my phone. Upon restarting it continuously will vibrate, show the Samsung logo for a moment, the screen will flicker off and it loops through that process all over again indefinitely. I can access download mode and recovery mode. I tried clearing the cache through recovery and removing the battery as well as smacking around the power button but it did not fix the problem.
I'm using stock TouchWiz Android 4.1.1 partly debloated, rooted, and stock recovery (because this ROM reflashes the stock recovery after a reset if a non stock recovery is installed).
I figure a factory reset might be the fix but I would need to extract my apps, settings, and SMS/all other data and I'm not sure how to do this with the phone in this condition and without an external SD card. Maybe I could flash ClockWorkMod, do a nandroid backup, and than extract this data with Titanium Backup? Can Titanium Backup do all that I am asking (I've barely used it)? Does anyone have an idea as to what the cause of the problem is to have this suddenly happen? I'm thinking it's the power button malfunctioning. The day prior twice my phone turned itself off.

Twrp has built in file manager. Copy to sd, then to computer?
Otherwise look into ADB.

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strange I am have the same issues . from working great to now FC and rebooting . almost like it the power button malfunctioning but it is not. Its something more. I was running DocHoliday 4.3 and was great . then I tried Aamir Mod V2 UVDMD5 4.3 same great . but this morning noticed it kept rebooting for no reason . wiped reset, nothing . looped and looped . wipe/reset and re-flashed and it will only stay on for a mintue . and if sleeps will not turn it F/C as soon as I touch power button.. crazy ???
anyone having the same problems with any 4.3 ROMs ??

I'm having the problem on my S3, but I'm not on 4.3 yet....
I already had this issue once 2 weeks ago and I factory wiped and started over. Fast forward two weeks forward and it started again today. WTF?
Qverse said:
strange I am have the same issues . from working great to now FC and rebooting . almost like it the power button malfunctioning but it is not. Its something more. I was running DocHoliday 4.3 and was great . then I tried Aamir Mod V2 UVDMD5 4.3 same great . but this morning noticed it kept rebooting for no reason . wiped reset, nothing . looped and looped . wipe/reset and re-flashed and it will only stay on for a mintue . and if sleeps will not turn it F/C as soon as I touch power button.. crazy ???
anyone having the same problems with any 4.3 ROMs ??
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insaneoctane said:
I'm having the problem on my S3, but I'm not on 4.3 yet....
I already had this issue once 2 weeks ago and I factory wiped and started over. Fast forward two weeks forward and it started again today. WTF?
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Are you using TWRP? I had a similar issue, upgraded to newest TWRP 2.6.3.1 and it was fixed. Before this I tried everything, factory reset/modem upgrade/different roms.. and it wasn't working..other than a rooted touchwiz rom.
Give it a shot.. might work..
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Install TWRP 2.6.3.1. Then take a Nandroid.
Next wipe /Data. Then flash your Custom Rom. Wipe Dalvik + Cache after the Flash.

[Q] Phone randomly freezing

Please bare with me, I'm trying to think of every possible detail for anyone to help me with this....
My brother gave me his Note 2 to "fix" because it was stuck in a boot loop and would randomly freeze. It was 100% stock, unrooted and less than a year old. The problem started when the phone auto-updated to 4.4.2. After investigating and tinkering around, I got it out of the boot loop (I just wiped the cache). Upon reboot, the phone would function normally for up to 90 seconds (approx) then freeze. The only way to unfreeze was to battery pull, holding the power button down didn't work. After repeating the reboot process several times I realized that each time it attempted to do a system update. I looked for a way to disable the auto-update feature and was unable to find it.
My next thought went to rooting and flashing a custom ROM. After all, if the problem was with the stock, flashing would fix that. I have rooted, installed philz recovery and flashed the Alliance ROM. I wiped all cache and booted her up. To my dismay, it's still freezing. I've gotten past the boot screen and am now freezing in different places on the "android is upgrading" screen. Each freeze causes me to have to battery pull and start over.
I am out of ideas. I would like to be able to fix this phone and put service on it. Thank you in advance for all help!
-Amy

Nerdmom3 said:
Please bare with me, I'm trying to think of every possible detail for anyone to help me with this....
My brother gave me his Note 2 to "fix" because it was stuck in a boot loop and would randomly freeze. It was 100% stock, unrooted and less than a year old. The problem started when the phone auto-updated to 4.4.2. After investigating and tinkering around, I got it out of the boot loop (I just wiped the cache). Upon reboot, the phone would function normally for up to 90 seconds (approx) then freeze. The only way to unfreeze was to battery pull, holding the power button down didn't work. After repeating the reboot process several times I realized that each time it attempted to do a system update. I looked for a way to disable the auto-update feature and was unable to find it.
My next thought went to rooting and flashing a custom ROM. After all, if the problem was with the stock, flashing would fix that. I have rooted, installed philz recovery and flashed the Alliance ROM. I wiped all cache and booted her up. To my dismay, it's still freezing. I've gotten past the boot screen and am now freezing in different places on the "android is upgrading" screen. Each freeze causes me to have to battery pull and start over.
I am out of ideas. I would like to be able to fix this phone and put service on it. Thank you in advance for all help!
-Amy
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Make sure you are using philz recovery (6.07.9 recommended). You will need to wipe the internal sdcard. Go under mounts option and select wipe /data /data/media option then go to reboot menu and reboot recovery. Now install rom and see how if that works.
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jlmancuso said:
Make sure you are using philz recovery (6.07.9 recommended). You will need to wipe the internal sdcard. Go under mounts option and select wipe /data /data/media option then go to reboot menu and reboot recovery. Now install rom and see how if that works.
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Thank you!
I wiped the internal SD. That enabled me to format the phone then install the Liquid Smooth ROM. So far so good. It's been 48 hours with no problems.
Thanks again for your help!