The story starts when my power button was broken. He had phantom presses. The devices was is boot loops because of it
I got to a phone repair shop and they replace my button power button. The button was fixed.
I had on my devices CM 12.1 after they replaced the button the device does boot but after the boot animation the screen was stuck on the wallpaper image with a very dim light. I tried to re flash the ROM few times with total wipes. Each time the process was stuck in "Finishing boot". Trying to reboot the device caused the screen to be stuck on the wallpaper image.
I download another zip of the ROM with newer version, its the same problem.
I tried to download Unofficial Dirty Unicorn 5.1.1, the exact same problem.
When the screen is stuck the PC does recognize the device. I can access the SD card and the charge LED is on.
The only ROM that does flash successfully is from S3Rx_UCUFNE4_AROMA_11-9-14 (The stock one).
I dont understand why switching power button caused this issue? Maybe there is some firmware lock on the button? What can cause this problem?
Thanks for helping.
Are you performing a complete wipe before changing ROMs? Have you tried installing a stock recovery and performing a full wipe from stock recovery?
tomerFire said:
The story starts when my power button was broken. He had phantom presses. The devices was is boot loops because of it
I got to a phone repair shop and they replace my button power button. The button was fixed.
I had on my devices CM 12.1 after they replaced the button the device does boot but after the boot animation the screen was stuck on the wallpaper image with a very dim light. I tried to re flash the ROM few times with total wipes. Each time the process was stuck in "Finishing boot". Trying to reboot the device caused the screen to be stuck on the wallpaper image.
I download another zip of the ROM with newer version, its the same problem.
I tried to download Unofficial Dirty Unicorn 5.1.1, the exact same problem.
When the screen is stuck the PC does recognize the device. I can access the SD card and the charge LED is on.
The only ROM that does flash successfully is from S3Rx_UCUFNE4_AROMA_11-9-14 (The stock one).
I dont understand why switching power button caused this issue? Maybe there is some firmware lock on the button? What can cause this problem?
Thanks for helping.
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same problem occurred sometimes when I repaired old nokia phones days. Disassemble the phone, check around power button for any missing caps or lost paths.
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So I'm running CM 10.2 android version 4.3 and I started to notice that when I pressed the power button, it brought up the reboot menu instead putting my screen to sleep so I downloaded the newest nightly and figured it was probably just a bug and went to flash the latest nightly. Upon reboot, my phone got in an infinite bootloop so I pulled the battery, let it sit for a minute and then held the power, volume up and menu button to enter recovery. I got the blue words in corner that you will normally see when booting into recovery, then saw the S3 screen that you'll see right before entering recovery, however, my phone started rebooting again constantly vibrating etc. So then I decided to try and get into download and flash back to stock with Odin. So I entered download mode, pressed volume up on the confirm screen and then it entered download mode and then immediately rebooted and wouldn't stop. Is my phone bricked? I'm wondering if the power button is broken since when in download mode, it reboots which normally occurs when you hold the power button in download mode. Sorry for the long description but just wanted you guys to know what I've done so far and am experiencing. Any help is appreciated. I've been rooting phones from all manufacturers for years now and I'm out of ideas at this point. Thanks!
Definition of a bricked phone: A completely unresponsive device which doesn't turn on at all. Doesn't vibrate upon start up and doesn't have any signs of life.
You most likely have a jammed power button as that has been the issue with the GS3. Not a brick.
Clearly not bricked as the first reply explained. And for the love of god, please use some white space (paragraphs) next time.
If you think that a button is jammed, see if you can physically unjam it without causing damage. If you believe that the flash may be messed up, the mskip's Samsung Toolkit may be able to reflash a known good ROM even with a stuck button. And look into some of the button remapping apps like the aptly titled Fix Broken Power Button app.
Good luck.
This might seem like the average bootloop to you but I've been through every thread on here about it and all the solutions have no effect: I can boot into Download mode or recovery (TWRP) but anything I do there has no effect... I've got two custom roms (CM, custom CM) and both result in the bootloop. I've tried formatting system, caches, data etc and flashing stock rom using ODIN but it all comes back to the phone being stuck on the "Galaxy Note II GT-N7105" screen and when I power it off, it switches back on and gets stuck on the screen again!
Can you help, please?
harry9991 said:
This might seem like the average bootloop to you but I've been through every thread on here about it and all the solutions have no effect: I can boot into Download mode or recovery (TWRP) but anything I do there has no effect... I've got two custom roms (CM, custom CM) and both result in the bootloop. I've tried formatting system, caches, data etc and flashing stock rom using ODIN but it all comes back to the phone being stuck on the "Galaxy Note II GT-N7105" screen and when I power it off, it switches back on and gets stuck on the screen again!
Can you help, please?
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BUMP - This might be against the rules but I desperately need this phone and the KNOX warranty void flag has been triggered so that is out of the question. I've tried flashing "N7105XXUENC3" and it succeeded but just kept restarting and back to square one. It's a N7105 with H3G (Three) UK if that helps.
harry9991 said:
BUMP - This might be against the rules but I desperately need this phone and the KNOX warranty void flag has been triggered so that is out of the question. I've tried flashing "N7105XXUENC3" and it succeeded but just kept restarting and back to square one. It's a N7105 with H3G (Three) UK if that helps.
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Try one thing go into download mode without pressing power button , only press home and volume down and see if it still goes into download mode.If yes then your power button is faulty,either it's pressed continuously so you'd need to loosen it out or worse power button needs to be replaced.
singhpratik87 said:
Try one thing go into download mode without pressing power button , only press home and volume down and see if it still goes into download mode.If yes then your power button is faulty,either it's pressed continuously so you'd need to loosen it out or worse power button needs to be replaced.
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Hey, I've checked and it's not the power button.. The phone does go into "recharge mode" with the battery percentage indicator and download mode but other than that it is just rebooting.
Hi, i was reading what you posted on how to fix it but my phone is still stuck on the logo. it randomly turned off and wont turn back on since. the only thing it shows is the logo and if it does disapear its for a split second where it turns pitch black and then comes back to the logo. Please help!
Will the phone stay on in download mode?
My wife's old S3 was given to me to use. I had originally flashed CM 11 on it and tried to upgrade to CM 12.1. In doing so I accidentally forgot to flash GAPPS.
I reverted to the stock ROM via Odin but now I'm stuck in a boot loop. The best part? The device's power button does not work and I cannot make any selections within the stock recovery to clear the cache and reset to factory settings.
Can anyone help me?
Pull the battery to turn off the phone and put it back in. If you feel the phone power up by vibrating upon putting the battery in and not touching the power button and go into loop then you have a bad power button. Do you have this problem? If so, then your only options are repair or remove the power button (there is an alternate way to power the phone up). Let us know if it is a bad power button or not so that hardware issues can be accounted for and go from there.
NOTE: The S3 has been known for some time now to have power buttons that fail. Mine did, and I opt to remove mine as I could not justify paying for a repair when the S3 is my backup phone and test platform and I have a method to power up. I use widgets for controlling power off, restarts, and recovery once powered up.
I no longer have a power button either and recently encountered this same issue after using Odin to flash a stock image.
My solution was to flash TWRP recovery using Odin, which allows one to perform operations using touch instead of the power button.
Gargat said:
I no longer have a power button either and recently encountered this same issue after using Odin to flash a stock image.
My solution was to flash TWRP recovery using Odin, which allows one to perform operations using touch instead of the power button.
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That works. Glad you found a way to get through it.
n_alvarez2007 said:
My wife's old S3 was given to me to use. I had originally flashed CM 11 on it and tried to upgrade to CM 12.1. In doing so I accidentally forgot to flash GAPPS.
I reverted to the stock ROM via Odin but now I'm stuck in a boot loop. The best part? The device's power button does not work and I cannot make any selections within the stock recovery to clear the cache and reset to factory settings.
Can anyone help me?
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Bootloops have not been uncommon when reverting from LP to KK. Once you have flashed TWRP as others in the thread have suggested, you will probably need to wipe/ format the internal sdcard. The other remedy some have posted is to load a stock recovery and do a factory reset from within that stock recovery.
Not sure how to get into recovery without a power button.
Is the button loose or not functioning at all? You could try opening the phone and removing everything from the frame and see if the power button functions.
I haven't tried this with my SGS3, but on my Acer tablet I have booted into recovery using adb and fastboot. This requires connection to a computer, but not a power button. Unless you have a touch version of a custom recovery installed you still would not be able to select an item.
You may be able to flash a custom recovery using adb. I had broken my stock recovery on that tablet and used fastboot to reflash a working stock recovery.
I've got one of those 10.5 models (SM-T807R4, the US Cellular version) that suffers from the screen freezing problem which requires either pushing the power button twice or closing an opening the case. In an effort to fix the problem, I rooted it and installed TWRP 2.8.5.0 and was able to successfully boot into TWRP. I backed up the boot loader and the system using TWRP and the entire tablet with Titanium Backup.
I just booted into TWRP and was ready to wipe everything and install a new ROM when the screen froze. I can't unfreeze it with the power button or by closing and opening the case. When I pushed the power button, it locked TWRP but since the screen is frozen, I can't swipe to unlock it. I tried the power+home+vol down sequence and that didn't work. I have held the power button down for a minute or two (until my fingers gave out) and that didn't work either. I hooked it to the PC but the PC doesn't see it so Odin or ADB or Fastboot don't do anything. The only upside to this is that now I'm pretty sure the screen freezing problem is hardware rather than software so flashing a new ROM probably won't help.
At any rate, I need suggestions to shut it down, given that nothing I have tried has worked. Then I'll see if I can sell it as a boat anchor!
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Well, I got finally got it to boot with the power+home+vol down sequence. Will try TWRP again later.
The first problem I encountered while rooting my phone was that TWRP wouldn't stick, even though I didn't choose read only (ie i allowed it to make system modifications on the first TWRP boot) after rebooting
and booting back into recovery I would boot into stock recovery, instead of TWRP. So I tried flashing twrp, booting into it and rooting the phone, which was successful!
THE ROOT was successful, TWRP still didn't stick, every time I want to boot into TWRP I have to boot into it via fastboot.
Getting to the main problem, I booted into twrp, flashed a custom rom and got stuck in a bootloop while rebooting. It reboots every 15 seconds, I have kept the power button pressed for almost 2 minutes it doesn't stop the bootloop, I tried other combinations of vol buttons and power buttons does nothing.
One weird thing is that while it's in the loop I just have to press the vol down button and it boots into fastboot (as opposed to both the power button and vol down) when I boot into fastboot it stays there for about 6-7 seconds before rebooting, I tried booting into twrp through fastboot, but before I am able to enter the decryption password to start twrp, the phone reboots.
Should I let it run out of battery? will that stop the bootloop? I have a backup in twrp but I can't access twrp!
Does anyone have a solution?
[update] I let it run out of battery and on charging it continued the bootloop, with great difficulty i managed to install stock img file but the device just wont quit the bootloop
LeonDsouza123 said:
The first problem I encountered while rooting my phone was that TWRP wouldn't stick, even though I didn't choose read only (ie i allowed it to make system modifications on the first TWRP boot) after rebooting
and booting back into recovery I would boot into stock recovery, instead of TWRP. So I tried flashing twrp, booting into it and rooting the phone, which was successful!
THE ROOT was successful, TWRP still didn't stick, every time I want to boot into TWRP I have to boot into it via fastboot.
Getting to the main problem, I booted into twrp, flashed a custom rom and got stuck in a bootloop while rebooting. It reboots every 15 seconds, I have kept the power button pressed for almost 2 minutes it doesn't stop the bootloop, I tried other combinations of vol buttons and power buttons does nothing.
One weird thing is that while it's in the loop I just have to press the vol down button and it boots into fastboot (as opposed to both the power button and vol down) when I boot into fastboot it stays there for about 6-7 seconds before rebooting, I tried booting into twrp through fastboot, but before I am able to enter the decryption password to start twrp, the phone reboots.
Should I let it run out of battery? will that stop the bootloop? I have a backup in twrp but I can't access twrp!
Does anyone have a solution?
[update] I let it run out of battery and on charging it continued the bootloop, with great difficulty i managed to install stock img file but the device just wont quit the bootloop
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1. Try flashing new recovery image using TWRP booted via fastboot.
2. Does your phone had contact with any fluid or was in place with high humidity level for longer time? Your power button is short circuited. In other words it is in pressed state all the time. I had same problem on my previous P2 when I came from 1h running session in light rain. Some sweat and/or water got inside my volume down button and same thing happened.
In my case the phone button recovered itself after drying and clicking it a lot of times
Kielbek said:
1. Try flashing new recovery image using TWRP booted via fastboot.
2. Does your phone had contact with any fluid or was in place with high humidity level for longer time? Your power button is short circuited. In other words it is in pressed state all the time. I had same problem on my previous P2 when I came from 1h running session in light rain. Some sweat and/or water got inside my volume down button and same thing happened.
In my case the phone button recovered itself after drying and clicking it a lot of times
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I can't access TWRP as the phone doesn't give me enough time to enter the password for decryption, which is asked at the start every time you boot into TWRP, I get like 5 seconds in TWRP before the phone reboots
It is possible that the power button is spoilt as I have sweaty hands...
LeonDsouza123 said:
I can't access TWRP as the phone doesn't give me enough time to enter the password for decryption, which is asked at the start every time you boot into TWRP, I get like 5 seconds in TWRP before the phone reboots
It is possible that the power button is spoilt as I have sweaty hands...
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That's the reason. I know that pain. You should try pressing that button with different pressure (but be careful) and move you finger while doing it. Maybe it will recover itself. If not you should find someone trusted who will open the phone and clean the buttons from the inside. It's a shame that Lenovo just left this construction vunerable like that.
After you get your P2 working properly again then just buy case that will cover whole buttons to prevent situations like this next time. Also make sure to clean it regullary inside.
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