I installed FreedomOS and decided to try encrypting my phone. It restarted and now I have been looking at the red dot orbited by 2 white dots for 2 hours. Is that how it is supposed to look, or is it some sort of boot loop?
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Argh. HTC Desire, has been running Cyanogen 7.0 for months now.
This morning I get up and the phone won't switch on, just sitting there with the green light indicating charge must have finished over night.
Pull the battery and reboot, stuck on white screen with HTC in the middle.
Pull the battery and reboot, comes up to the lock screen but is then frozen and won't unlock.
Pull the battery and reboot the rest of the times (mostly) and it won't get any further than the main HTC screen.
Pull the battery and try to get to the boot loader (vol -) and it works, clear storage, reboot, and it comes up asking me to set it up again, so far so good. During setting this up the screen goes black and I have to pull the battery. Now i'm back to stuck at the white HTC screen.
NO changes were made to the phone, it's been solid and completely dependable since the cyanogen mod went on months ago, until this morning.
next step i'm going to leave the battery out for a few hours before putting it back in but in the mean time I thought i'd post here and see if any of you clever folks have any ideas.
I do still have insurance so I guess the next step after this is to call it in.
Thanks in advance.
Matt.
Have you got another sd card that you could install a rom onto and then flash from that ?
stuck the htc after install a new rom or update? ... i had the same prob and must perform a full wipe
I've never seen this posted here so I thought I would share since it might save some people from having to reflash/factory reset when they get boot loops.
http://www.tested.com/news/feature/...ds-safe-mode-to-save-a-phone-from-boot-loops/
I haven't tried it yet because it says that it breaks all of your widgets and I don't feel like setting all of those up again right now. If anyone tries it post your results here for others to see.
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Worked. Hold VolDown through the entire boot process, I got 2 pink HTC logos on a black background after the first boot logo. It did remove my one widget when I booted back to normal.
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Worked. Hold VolDown through the entire boot process, I got 2 pink HTC logos on a black background after the first boot logo. It did remove my one widget when I booted back to normal.
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Thanks for trying it out! I can't believe I have never seen anything about this before last night. It would be great for all the times I've thrown my phone into boot loop when messing with CPU settings!
Sent from my ICS Dinc2
+1
Only broke my weather clock widget & had to re-select Swiftkey.
Nice to know it'a an option, but I have no problem factory wiping. :silly:
Don't see how much it will help though, considering most bootloops are caused by system stuff and not downloaded apps. Could be useful in some situations though.
Yeah it will only help with app related boot loops but its still good to know.
Sent from my ICS Dinc2
Hey all,
I've got my wife's galaxy note 2 here, and its doing something I've never seen in all the time I've been rooting and custom roming Android devices. Her battery is at 0%. When you plug it in, it will show the charging status while the device is powered off like normal, however, after about 5 seconds it will show the boot animation. No splash screen or anything. When it boots into system, the lock screen shows charging 0%. You can unlock, do anything, only it powers off after around 15 seconds, and starts the process all over again.
She has a missed text message, and everytime it boots, the OS thinks its a new message. So it shows 64 missed text messages, however when you open messaging, its the same one over and over. I can't boot into safe mode, nor can I boot into recovery. Usually you do the button combo, and when you see the splash screen you release power. There is no splash screen, it skips straight to boot animation. I've tried everything I know how, no download mode, no recovery, no safe mode.
Now you should know that this phone is no longer rooted or running a custom rom. It is running the latest OTA from AT&T. Knox re-enabled. Its been running smoothly for about 2 months now, and it just started about 2 hours ago. Tried 4 different chargers. What should I do? Is it time for a new device? My wife doesn't mind change, however she would prefer not to. She LOVES her note 2. Bought her a new phone, and we had to return it because she missed the Note.
Hi, hoping someone can help.
Having a major problem with my P605 (Hong Kong version), It just will not start up anymore.
Current State:
At the moment, with just the power button, it shows the samsung galaxy note 2014 logo. Then a few seconds later the startup sound will play. Then a few seconds later the samsung boot animation plays. Then once the animation stops and just displays the samsung logo, nothing else. It stays on that, and can stay on it for hours.
Note: The Samsung boot animation has a very pink hue to it, like the cyan and yellow are no longer there. More on that later.
With the Power + Home + Vol Up it says recovery mode is starting, then resets and boots as above.
With the Power + Home + Vol Down it goes into download mode no problem.
Background (Some of it may or may not be relevant, just putting it on here in case it is):
Up until a couple of weeks ago it was stock, but rooted JB (IIRC), then it was accidentally dropped (not by me). It is in a Trident Krakhen case, but that did not stop damage being done, the damage being the backlight stopped working. I followed a Youtube guide and removed/reinserted the ribbon. Put it back together and switched it on, and worked, sorted!
Now I thought as the seal of freshness has been popped, I may as well upgrade it to Lollipop so I can play Pokemon Go. As Lollipop has not been released for HK p605's I used the Irish (I think) firmware. Upgraded using Odin, no problem. So then I wanted root access, so I used the method described on XDA to root Lollipop using "CF-Auto-Root-lt03lte-lt03ltexx-smp605.zip". Again, flashed with Odin, no problem. But the root didn't take, a few programs randomly lost root access, others would not ask for access and just say the tablet was not rooted, etc. I reflashed the file at least 6 times to try and get it to take. Eventually it did.
Forward to the next day, I go to unlock my tablet and the screen has gone all pink, same as above, like Cyan and Yelow have gone. And a black shadow is over the left half of the screen. I restarted the tablet, colours came back, yay. All fine up until yesterday, the pink and shadow were back again. This was late at night while I was in bed, so not near the computer. I restarted the tablet. This time the pink stayed. OK, so I thought I will wipe the tablet back to factory and see if that helps (not done a wipe or anything else up until this point) so I try to go into recovery mode. It showed the logo and the little blue recovery text, then black screen, then normal boot logo and back into the OS. Tried a few times to get into recovery mode, but just kept resetting back to OS. So I told ROM toolbox to force a recovery restart, big mistake! It went into recovery boot loop. Just Galaxy Note 2014 entering recovery" then blank, repeat. No sound, nothing. I think that perhaps if I can turn it off, it may reset the whole thing, I put the tablet into download mode, then go to sleep. In the morning, the battery is dead. Great! Plug it in, instantly recovery boot loop. Fudge! From this point I don't know the battery level of the tablet, so that MAY be causing issues. I plug it into the PC to flash with Odin. Flashed stock lollipop, restarted, flashed stock bootloader, flashed CF auto root. Multiple times in each. Nothing seems to bring it out. The closest I got to something was the tablet telling me recovery was screwed and I needed to use Kies recovery. I left it plugged in for a few hours to try and build up some battery power, the PC does not provide enough power to charge, it makes the screen flicker rapidly when the battery is empty, but all the time while charging it is boot looping and the screen is on full brightness so I don't know how much I gained.
Finally flashed stock KK, and now it just hangs on the Samsung animation logo as above.
Is there anything I can do?
Does the pink hue and black shadow mean hardware is affected? The colours seem fine in download mode.
If anyone could help that would be great as I am scratching my head here.
EDIT 1: OK, I took the casing off, found that the little push on connector next to the usb connector had pried itself loose, I reattached it, and removed/reinserted the screen ribbon cable. All while the tablet was powered on (my old electronics teacher would have had a fit!). Restarted, the pink tinge has gone and the boot animation came up at the same time as the audio. Good signs. But still froze on the 'glow' effect. Tried recovery and YES it went into recovery, although the little android fell over with an exclamation mark over him. But still, progress. So now I am reflashing stock, will see how it goes.
Can anyone tell me why when i unlock my phone, the G logo in the search assistant at the bottom of the screen turns blue and then flashes for a couple seconds before returning to the normal multi-color logo. I think it just started doing it today, i never noticed it before. Screenshot attached.
Google is playing with animations that go along with the current days Google Doodle. Did the same kind of thing on the first day of spring when a flower popped out of the bar. I have it as well.
Saw that on my wife's P3 this morning. Figured it was thir way of saying "quit trying to use GPay on a rooted phone," LOL!