I recently updated my rom to Gingervillain 2.4 and this morning after the phone had been charging through the night I tried to update some apps from the market when the phone suddently reboots. I gave it a couple of minutes after which I noticed that it was constantly rebooting before getting to the boot screen. It only showed the splash screen and kept on rebooting. I tried pulling the battery after 30 minutes and going to the boot loader (with volume down + power), which worked, but after going to recovery mode the screen just turned black and stayed that way for 10 minutes.
Any clues on what I could do?
Regards,
Me
I would wipe everything in recovery, then either try the flash again or restore nandroid backup and start again with a new download of the rom.
Hello everyone
Yesterday I tried to reboot my phone because it froze.
After the phone turned down and tried to boot up the only thing it did was showing a green led light (as when the phone is fully charged) and vibrate for 5 times.
As I toughed it was bricked I peeled the battery out and went to sleep.
This morning I putted the battery back in my phone and it booted, but only in safemode.
I noticed that my volume down button only worked in the bootloader and not in recovery or in a safe-booted Android.
I tried serval things like putting the battery out, heating my phone, even got the volume keys out and than booted it but nothing worked.
Then I tried flashing a new Rom but it booted in safe mode right after flashing.
Also factory reset in the bootloader doesnt change a thing.
Can someone help me please?
Thanks in advance!
Wanted to seek some clarity on whether my phone is HW bricked. Here're the conditions:
Rooted/Unlocked Bootloader/Custom ROM/Stock Kernel
Randomly found the phone not responding last night, no software updates or heavy usage that day.
Have to long press power to get to turn on. Typical bootloader unlocked warning message then Google screen, then phone turns off. No screen content when charging (battery indicator or booting).
I can get to fastboot with power/vol down and interact with from Nexus Toolkit but attempting to boot to anything including TWRP just produces the same sequence: boot warning, google logo then complete shutdown. Tried booting recovery, wiping, etc from toolkit, nothing.
Occasionally it'll loop once or twice but most of the time it just shuts right off.
Phone is in the freezer now, will try heating solder later. Am I looking at a new phone here? Anything else I can try before heading to the store?
Same issue
Did the freezer trick work?
I have the same issue.
Nexus 5X
Rooted/Unlocked/TWRP/Stock ROM
Randomly turned off, Long press to get back on. Turns off during boot. Managed to access Recovery the first time but havent been able to since, just shuts off.
Google chat thinks it hardware issue.. still under warranty, but would be nice to back up the userdata from it some how...
Surprisingly enough the freezer trick allowed the device to boot into recovery.. unfortunately it wasn't long enough to recover any data and now the phone won't turn on at all :/
Hi all,
My phone is rooted (still S-ON)(TWRP installed) and running viper's ROM. Last night I forgot to charge the phone when I got home, when I looked it was 1% and shut off. I plugged in the phone and foolishly tried to reboot right away instead of waiting a good ten minutes. Well the phone never got out of the HTC logo screen. I would hold down the power and it would vibrate twice, no clue what that mean't. Anyways I waited for at least 10 minutes to give the battery a chance to chare and see if it rebooted but it didn't. Finally I was able to get into recovery doing the following. Hold down the volume up and power button till the phone reboots (screen will be black) Then quickly hold volume down and power until you see the HTC logo on the black background. Then you should have the options to boot into recovery and into twrp. I had to do a data wipe as something in the OS got hosed. I lost all apps and SMS but at least I was able to boot back into the phone. Hope that helps some out there.
I have encountered this same issue on 2 phones but couldn't recover either without reflashing a stock firmware.
So I updated to Android 11 on Tuesday, and all seemed fine. Last night my phone was trying to install an app, and seemed to freeze.
After a few minutes, I forced it to shut-down (power + vol down) and it started to reboot. It got to the G logo with the small bottom bar animation for a number of minutes and eventually kicked back into Recovery mode.
I decided to try rebooting, and it started to reboot, got to the Google logo (the full word, not the "G"), and then kicked back into rebooting.
The phone now constantly reboots and even if I get into fastboot mode, it only stays in fastboot until I hit a key (vol up/down or power) and it then reboots into constant bootloops described above.
If I don't push a button on fastboot mode, it will just start booting anyways after about 3-5 seconds.
Does anybody know of what I could do? Not sure if replacing the battery would help (e.g. a power issue) or if it may be a corruption of the flash memory and that the system and underlying partitions are corrupt leading to nothing I could do to repair the phone.
I have really enjoyed this phone, but I am afraid that this phone is all-but-dead and unusable.
Any assistance is greatly appreciated.
Cheers,
B.D.
You can try flashing the stock rom from recovery or from fastboot.
Had something similar on an og Pixel... Turned out to be a broken power switch.
I had a weird issue last week. Phone would freeze after a couple of minutes and would reboot. It would also boot loop while connected for charging (wireless and corded.). The battery would not charge. I would shut down the phone and when I plugged in the charger, it would boot loop. The battery finally discharged to 0% and shut off. I plugged the charger in and it remained off. I let it charge to 100% and it's been working for the past week without issue. I'm not sure what happened.
I would suggest letting the battery drain to 0% and go from there. HTH
I updated my 3XL to Android 11 two days ago and since then I have caught it rebooting at seemingly random times, though only when it is on the wireless charger. I guess it's back to Android 10 for now. Hopefully reverting a Pixel is as easy as it was on the Nexus. Thanks Google.
BostonDan said:
So I updated to Android 11 on Tuesday, and all seemed fine. Last night my phone was trying to install an app, and seemed to freeze.
After a few minutes, I forced it to shut-down (power + vol down) and it started to reboot. It got to the G logo with the small bottom bar animation for a number of minutes and eventually kicked back into Recovery mode.
I decided to try rebooting, and it started to reboot, got to the Google logo (the full word, not the "G"), and then kicked back into rebooting.
The phone now constantly reboots and even if I get into fastboot mode, it only stays in fastboot until I hit a key (vol up/down or power) and it then reboots into constant bootloops described above.
If I don't push a button on fastboot mode, it will just start booting anyways after about 3-5 seconds.
Does anybody know of what I could do? Not sure if replacing the battery would help (e.g. a power issue) or if it may be a corruption of the flash memory and that the system and underlying partitions are corrupt leading to nothing I could do to repair the phone.
I have really enjoyed this phone, but I am afraid that this phone is all-but-dead and unusable.
Any assistance is greatly appreciated.
Cheers,
B.D.
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Are you familiar with how to use commands in platform-tools to flash stock images? How did you upgrade? OTA? Are you rooted? Is it unlocked or Verizon variant? If unlocked, do you know how to unlock the bootloader?
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Are you familiar with how to use commands in platform-tools to flash stock images? How did you upgrade? OTA? Are you rooted? Is it unlocked or Verizon variant? If unlocked, do you know how to unlock the bootloader?
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I am proficient in using the bootloader. Phone has been bootloader unlocked since day one.
I upgraded to Android 11 with ota and all was good for a day (rooted with Magisk canary). Then the phone started acting up, first not booting system and then bootlooping.
I can get into the bootloader (fastboot) but only for maximum 3-5 seconds before the phone reboots, or if I hit any button (vol up/down) the phone reboots. Also, if connected to my computer the USB does not recognize fastboot anymore (before it reboots anyways)
I think it's dead, Jim.
Cheers,
B.D.