Hi guys,
A friend of mine Samsung Galaxy Nexus is blocked in the boot sequence and I would like to help him out. The phone has (or at least had..) Paranoid installed, my friend doesn't know what it is or how it works, he just bought a secondhand phone on ebay and Paranoid was already installed.
Here is the problem: some days ago the phone restarted automatically after a sort of crash, so my friend entered in the bootloader screen (using the 3 combo buttons) and did a reset or restore idk, removing all the data on the phone. When the phone restarted it could not connect to the provider (no call and no messages allowed), so my friend downloaded whatsapp using wifi. During the log in it is like if the battery dropped and the phone turned off.
Since that moment if you try to turn on the phone it starts but blocks after few seconds on the "Google screen", the one with black background and the text Google in the middle of the screen (it doesn't reach the screen with the google symbol spinning around) and it remains there eternally. I tried to enter in the bootloader screen but the only option available is "Start", and obviously if I select it the phone restarts and blocks again on the same google boot screen. In my opinion probably Paranoid is damaged or has been removed, so there is no OS to start.
Does anyone has an idea/suggestion/guide on how can I make the phone working again? It would be great to be able to install again an official Android release (kitkat, jelly bean or something like that), but the priority is obviously to repair the phone!
Thank you in advance!
Same problem here
parni87 said:
Hi guys,
A friend of mine Samsung Galaxy Nexus is blocked in the boot sequence and I would like to help him out. The phone has (or at least had..) Paranoid installed, my friend doesn't know what it is or how it works, he just bought a secondhand phone on ebay and Paranoid was already installed.
Here is the problem: some days ago the phone restarted automatically after a sort of crash, so my friend entered in the bootloader screen (using the 3 combo buttons) and did a reset or restore idk, removing all the data on the phone. When the phone restarted it could not connect to the provider (no call and no messages allowed), so my friend downloaded whatsapp using wifi. During the log in it is like if the battery dropped and the phone turned off.
Since that moment if you try to turn on the phone it starts but blocks after few seconds on the "Google screen", the one with black background and the text Google in the middle of the screen (it doesn't reach the screen with the google symbol spinning around) and it remains there eternally. I tried to enter in the bootloader screen but the only option available is "Start", and obviously if I select it the phone restarts and blocks again on the same google boot screen. In my opinion probably Paranoid is damaged or has been removed, so there is no OS to start.
Does anyone has an idea/suggestion/guide on how can I make the phone working again? It would be great to be able to install again an official Android release (kitkat, jelly bean or something like that), but the priority is obviously to repair the phone!
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Hi all,
I purchase my Samsung Galaxy Nexus from 3 (Three) UK Store last Thursday. It has been faultless bar the odd hang which taking the battery out has resolved. Im using it on Orange.
However, this morning I picked up my phone and was notified I had the volume bix fix update.
I downloaded and installed the update and all was well for about 20 minutes.
Then my phone started going crazy!
I think its something to do with the screen as it keeps popping up the google search bar and flicking through some options, then the screen stops responding.
Sometimes the phone flicks between home screens partially and make them jiggle!
Locking and unlocking the phone gives me 5-30 seconds of normal use, then the phone goes crazy or just doesnt respond.
Ive turned the phone off and on, removed the battery and even reset it this evening.
It doesnt do it ALL the time, and whenever I try and do it on queue, it doesnt!
Luckily tonight I got video of the phone going crazy.
Can anyone help?
The phone is bog standard, ie no roms/roots etc.
Should I take it back or is there something I can do?
Also, since ive just reset the phone, ive had to set up my mail. Once the phone behaved I put in my account details and then it started popping up the menu button at the top of email, ie to change folders or accounts etc. Deffinately seems to be something with the top of screen.
Thanks
you tube.com/watch?v=x3Lf1IozPpw&hd=1
Please check the video out.
Maybe download the original shipping rom from Google and fastboot the image onto the phone and see if the behaviour continues.
braingravyuk said:
Maybe download the original shipping rom from Google and fastboot the image onto the phone and see if the behaviour continues.
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This.
There's links to the original roms with or without the volume fix in place which can be found on the development section. I used this to update my gun and its working just fine. I'm also on Three UK and the reason I did this is because even though the volume bug doesn't affect us three users I still like being 100% up to date.
Rik.
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Started acting up last week when I noticed it restarted on it's own, but didn't fire back up right away. Instead it went into a reboot cycle for almost an hour (doesn't make it passed the Samsung splash screen). Then it just fixed itself and I was able to access everything as normal.
Once it was going again, I backed up all my info and did a factory reset and proceeded to re-load Jellybean (4.0.2?). Although Kies said I was already up-to-date and didn't do anything.
Anyway, worked fine for a week until yesterday when it went into the continuous reboot cycle, and never fully turned on again.
I have pictures and vids I would like to somehow recover (on phone and not on SD card), but I have no idea how to get the phone to start up. I have removed my SIM and memory card to see if that did anything. Also have done numerous hard resets (pull the battery and lock + vol down combo). It basically just kills the battery as it cycle reboots. Every few minutes, it will fire up again but still doesn't make it past the Samsung splash page. And when the phone is charging, it just doesn't turn on in general and just intermittently vibrates to try to start-up.
Dunno how I would even be able to flash the ROM (newb at this) since the phone doesn't stay on long enough to access the BIOS of the phone. Does this seem like a software or hardware issue? I bought this phone 2nd hand off Craigs about 2 years ago, so no idea if it was a refurb.
Has anyone experienced this and can direct me to somewhere so I can fix it? Or is it a goner and I should just move on to another phone? Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Its likely a stuck power button. Search here or Google for treatments.
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it sounds like a problem I had once
Galaxy S2 Wont boot anymore
one option was to disassemble teh phone and check the power button , someone recommended I use an eraser to tap the power button and see if that would unlodge it and to my relief that worked. You might want to try that first
Hi,
I installed the cyanogenmod 11 nightly like a week ago on my galaxy note 2 and all was running perfectly until this morning.
When I woke up this morning the phone screen was black. The phone is actually working, I can hear emails notifications, phone ringing etc.
The buttons light up when i press them. When I connect it to the PC I can browse the phone contents etc. All seems to function except the screen.
The battery is charged. I tried to remove the battery for a long time and try again but still nothing.
I can't get into recovery or download mode as the screen is blank (sometimes there is a like a weird area at the top where there are like different colored pixels present). I know people will say the screen might be damaged but last night before I went to bed it was all fine, the phone was placed on the table, and this morning when I picked it up screen is blank.
I want to flash back the stock firmware. However I can't get into download mode in order to use Odin. Is there any other way to get into download mode or hardware reset the phone?
Any suggestions are welcomed.
EDIT: The touch screen also seems to work when I touch it as I can for example call numbers for which I had speeddial scortcuts but it is still completely blank.
I think this is hardware issue. You must replace the screen
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I think this is hardware issue. You must replace the screen
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Yeah I think so too. I've sent it to Samsung.
It was rooted and had cyanogenmode so probably I have no warranty
However I managed to install stock ROM so hopefully they won't (can't) notice.
Hi everyone,
so i was given a note 4 that had a booting up problem. it was originally my girlfriend's sister and she told me that when ever it turned off(either out of battery or manually) it would have a hard time booting up. when attempted to turn on it will show the
Samsung
GALAXYNOTE4
powered by
ANDROID
then black screen and a semi blue and white notification. sometimes it would vibrate, restart, and repeat for about two or three time's. i first tryed that "remove battery and drain out the power form the mother board" trick and sometimes it works. i installed a fresh, clean Android OS but still have that problem. i search online and i have not gotten no answers on why this happens. it just happend to me now and i used the "remove battery" trick and its turned on now but i would like to know a salution that will completly fix this problem. there will be times im going to restart the phone and im afraid it will get stuck again.
Hello,
My wife's Sony Xperia XZ2 Compact with model number H8324 has an issue with booting or maybe the launcher getting stuck in a loop after getting to the lock screen for a split second.
The phone seems to boot like normal and gets to the lock screen, we are even able to punch in one or two digits of the 4 digit pass code. Then it goes into a loop of the notification bar and back button flickering. From then on the phone is not responding except for the power button which brings up the normal "Turn off, Reboot, and Lockdown" menu. The issue just started out of nowhere yesterday morning and we haven't been able to fix it yet. We haven't done any rooting or custom rom flashing, it's running the official Sony software but it's out of warranty.
Here's a video showing the issue. The video shows the whole boot process but the link takes you to the last part after the logos.
We would love to get some files off it so if there is a way anyone can help us with that we'd prefer it over a hard reset.
Things we've already tried
Turning the phone off and on again
Unlocking the phone in the split second the lock screen works, this is just too short to swipe up and then put in four digits.
Rebooting the phone
Booting while charging
Booting into safe mode (this has the same issue)
Connecting the phone with USB to a pc, the phone is recognized by Windows, but it doesn't share it's filesystem with Windows.
Connecting the ADB to it, alas usb debugging is not yet enabled on the phone
Trying to get into recovery mode, we haven't been able to get into the recovery menu. Googling seems to indicate it might be holding volume up + power button when the phone is off but then it doesn't seem to do anything at all.
We're currently trying to run out the battery of the phone to see if that will resolve the issue on it's own.
If anyone has any idea, we would love to hear it.
no solution from me. But I have exact same problem and tried same things. Yesterday I did not used the phone. Day before shut down, today tunred it on and it starts with the issue. Strange it happens to both of us at the same time frame. removing sims did not help either.
By holding down "volume down+power" I was able to boot in safe mode but the same issue occur; no way to get into the phone.
Yeah that's weird. Draining the battery did nothing for us. There was not much data that we wanted to extract from the phone. Most of it was contacts and an emulated Pokémon game save file. So my wife eventually reflashed the OS with Xperia companion which did actually resolve the issue of not being able to use the phone.
I faced the same problem today ,i have xz2 , yesterday it was 24% and today i found it 0% so I put it in the charger ,but I faced this problem