My Sprint S9+ beta has a pretty big issue. Essentially the UI dissappears, and you can't do anything. You just have a black screen, and at the very top you see the clock and a couple icons (battery, wifi, lte) fade in and out repeatedly. After a force reboot (Vol Down + Power) it seems to boot fine, asks for my security pattern, and for a split second i see my home screen, then it all goes black again. Rebooted into recovery to wipe cache, and still didn't resolve anything. Just wondering if anyone has any ideas or input. I'm willing to do a factory reset and i did backup all my data, so that's not an issue. Thanks in advance!
Factory reset and report back
This has to do with Lockstar and your lockscreen.
I had to boot into SafeMode, lock my device cia Google Device Manager, that would let me unlock it. After that, I removed my lock screen and it works
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I was on my phone, checking XDA, reading news and so forth. I put the phone down to grab some dinner. When I got back after eating I picked up my phone and it was unresponsive.
I held down the power button for a while and nothing.
I did a battery pull and I was able to boot to the Google splash screen with the unlock symbol. Unfortunately it just hung there.
I pulled the battery again, this time I booted in fastboot, then recovery. The clockworkmod recovery main menu came up in recovery, but when trying to do a restore or anything… The blue menu would disappear and not come back. I can get to recovery, but I am unable to do anything with it.
Last night I flashed to AOKP B26 from AOKP B25. I wiped cache and dalvik. I did not do a full wipe, but according to the dev you do not need to. This morning I flashed Morphic’s kernel TNP138-RD-FUV. I used this kernel on B25 with no issues for several days as well. I wiped cache and dalvik before flashing the kernel as well. CPU was set to the default 1190 and default voltages, with the on demand governor.
It is weird that I didn’t have any issues until hours later and the phone wasn’t even in use. It is as if it wiped itself. I am wondering how and why.
At this point I am going to do a full factory ODIN restore. I don’t think there are any other options.
EDIT, as posted below:
I was getting ready to do the ODIN restore when for the heck of it I decided to let it boot normally one last time. What do I have to lose.
I booted to the Google splash screen and set it down. I got a drink and took out the trash. When I came back I noticed it was at the boot animation! It sat at the boot animation for another couple of minutes but 10 minutes after pressing the power button I was booted up.
I let it sit for another 10 before I played with it. But now its like nothing ever happened. And it boots regularly now. I even booted into recovery and it is functioning as normal.
Any ideas what happened?
Dakota0206 said:
I was on my phone, checking XDA, reading news and so forth. I put the phone down to grab some dinner. When I got back after eating I picked up my phone and it was unresponsive.
I held down the power button for a while and nothing.
I did a battery pull and I was able to boot to the Google splash screen with the unlock symbol. Unfortunately it just hung there.
I pulled the battery again, this time I booted in fastboot, then recovery. The clockworkmod recovery main menu came up in recovery, but when trying to do a restore or anything… The blue menu would disappear and not come back. I can get to recovery, but I am unable to do anything with it.
Last night I flashed to AOKP B26 from AOKP B25. I wiped cache and dalvik. I did not do a full wipe, but according to the dev you do not need to. This morning I flashed Morphic’s kernel TNP138-RD-FUV. I used this kernel on B25 with no issues for several days as well. I wiped cache and dalvik before flashing the kernel as well. CPU was set to the default 1190 and default voltages, with the on demand governor.
It is weird that I didn’t have any issues until hours later and the phone wasn’t even in use. It is as if it wiped itself. I am wondering how and why.
At this point I am going to do a full factory ODIN restore. I don’t think there are any other options.
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In cwm is there a 'go back' option at the bottom? If not scroll up and down a few times passing from bottom to top (looping) until it says like back button activated. If back is not active power button makes screen go off and on and does not select.
This is if you are not using touch enabled cwm.
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if you can get into cwm then try fastboot and flash the factory images from the boot screen
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In cwm is there a 'go back' option at the bottom? If not scroll up and down a few times passing from bottom to top (looping) until it says like back button activated. If back is not active power button makes screen go off and on and does not select.
This is if you are not using touch enabled cwm.
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I am not using the touch enabled. I know that if you cycle through the menu too much it will disable the select button, but if you keep cycling it will enable it. This isn't that.
The screen is on, I can see the clockworkmod recovery & version in the middle of the screen. Just the ICS blue menu disappears completely. no go back or anything. just a black screen with the clockworkmod info in the middle. It is as if its thinking but it just hangs.
id suggest you try to use ADB from recovery to try and at least pull the sdcard files first of all
second id try to flash another recovery from fastboot then boot to recovery and flash a rom or restore backup
if the above doesnt work then factory image from fastboot is it
I was getting ready to do the ODIN recovery when for the heck of it I decided to let it boot normally one last time. What do I have to lose.
I booted to the Google splash screen and set it down. I got a drink and took out the trash. When I came back I noticed it was at the boot animation! It sat at the boot animation for another couple of minutes but 10 minutes after pressing the power button I was booted up.
I let it sit for another 10 before I played with it. But now its like nothing ever happened. And it boots regularly now.
Any ideas what happened?
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Hey all, so I have a Stock Galaxy nexus running whatever the latest OTA update is that is stuck in the boot process right now at the "X" screen with the changing colors.
This is pretty much all I know about the situation:
I was sitting around with my phone next to me, decided to look to see if I had any messages, so I hit the power button to turn on the screen, nothing happened, so I pressed it a couple more times. Still nothing. Assuming the phone had frozen or something (although I haven't had any issued with this in the past) my instinct was to take out the battery and reboot it. After I did that it started to boot, showed the Google logo, moved on to the X screen and stayed there for about 15 minutes. I did some googling and people said it can occaisionally take a while to boot but after 20 minutes I figured there might be an issue so I once again took out the battery and tried again. This brought me right back to the same X screen and it's been sitting there for some 30 minutes now. Any suggestions or ideas of what's going on?
EDIT: I also just booted into recovery and tried clearing the cache, but that didn't really do anything.
EDIT2: I just wiped all my data through recovery and it booted fine. Is there anything I can do in the future to avoid having to start from scratch though?
Any help is appreciated.
Thanks for your time.
More details might evoke more replies. What did you do immediately before rebooting the device the first time it got stuck at the boot animation?
Same problem! Stuck at 'X' for infinite time ..
I have faced this problem second time now.
One of my friend who also has Galaxy Nexus faced this problem once!
Both of us have 4.1.1
When problem occurred ? -- (me both time)
I turned on Bluetooth using widget on homescreen, it halted for a second or two and suddenly 'X' logo appeared which didn't go away ! I tried taking off battery and turning on phone again. While starting it "Passed Google logo" and on next screen at "X" logo it stuck.
When problem occurred ? -- (my friend once)
While changing from flight mode to Normal mode.
to : Junior Member - OP
" I just wiped all my data through recovery and it booted fine." I have not done anything by myself yet, so don't know how to do that. can you please explain in detail ? It will really be helpful . Thanks ..
4.2.1 is the latest version, not 4.1.1.
Without any logs, it's that much harder to tell.
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Have you rooted your phone?If yes then head over to recovery=>then Clear cache partition=>factory reset=>advanced-clear dalvik cache
Then reboot..now your phone should work fine.
As per your problem stated you might have different rom and got OTA,which finally messed with your system and hence got bootloop..
my phone not rooted
hello,
If phone is not rooted, can I reach recovery mode and clear cache ?
Is there any other way to do this with not rooted phone? or can I root my phone in this condition?
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Also can to install yakju image freshly while my phone is stuck in bootloop?
With procedure given here
If I can install it, then will it solve the problem ? (stuck at X logo)
Thanks a lot..
You can enter recovery by turning the phone off and first pressing volume down + volume up + power =[bootloader], and then use the volume arrows to scroll so recovery is across the top, then press the power button to accept the selection. In recovery, android with red triangle, press and hold power then press volume up to bring up menu, and you'll see clear cache option. Otherwise, adb will allow you to erase cache, as well as rebooting to recovery. Fastboot is how you'll flash fresh factory images. And yes, that should fix your problem. Why not go with takju rather than yakju? If you do, i believe you'll have to do a factory reset, as well as the cache and dalvik wipes.
Ok so I have a bizarre and painful one here.
Recently the micro-usb slot faulted so I had to replace it, managed to do it but the volume rocker whose connector was soldered on was removed.
A week later I change roms get the recurring start up animation so go to manually put it into fastboot. Except of course my volume rocker is disconnected. And as the phone can only do recurring animation or off I don't think adb is going to help me.
I have a feeling the answer is going to be fix the volume rocker, if so anyone know how? Or better yet another way to get into fastboot in my current predicament?
Phone: T-mobile Galaxy S4 (SGH-M919)
Android: Touch Wiz 4.4.4 FOH3 (Stock rooted)
Updated some apps in the app store, while they were installing I got dressed. When I picked up my phone it just shut off.
Thinking it was a dead battery, I plugged it in while in the car. It still doesn't come on. After awhile it would power on, I'd see galaxy s4 logo then the phone would shut off again.
Sometimes it would make it all the way to the T-mobile splash screen, and in some cases it would completely boot up into the phone, but then shut off again.
If I boot into recovery, the phone shuts off as well. Sometimes I can see recovery for 2 seconds then the phone will shut off...other times the entire screen turns bright pink
Now, before you tell me I have a stuck/bad power button. I can boot into download mode and the screen stays on the entire time. So how can that happen if the power button is stuck?
I've reflashed the stock 4.4.4 t-mobile rom and the problem still happens.
So maybe it is a faulty/bad/stuck power button. OR what I think is the case, one of those apps that updated had some bad code or malicious things happening that overload the ram.
How can I wipe my dalvik and other cache partitions to test that theory, if I cannot boot into recovery?
Update:
Had the power button replaced and even tested a different battery. The issue still happens......So I dunno wtf the deal is. I've also managed to get twrp back on and wipe dalvik and cache, still stuck in reboot.
Maybe my processor is over heating and I need a new phone or logic board?
I have a Samsung Galaxy s6 on 5.1.1 (Sprint SM-G920P)
I tried downloading and failing to install xposed stupidly. So then it was stuck on a bootloop. I then again stupidly did a factory reset thinking that it'll fix the problem (but it only got worst in my opinion) i then flashed twrp and tried to install the uninstall for xposed but i couldnt uninstall it because it wasnt any data folder to put it in since i ****ing did a factory reset. Anyways then i got frustrated and did an advanced wipe and cleared all the data... I am now just stuck on the "samsung galaxy s6 ... Powered by android" screen and i need help . I literarlly tried everything
Black and white Samsung logo showed up.
Initially I could only get to blue Downloading screen
By observing and trying various described ways I finally got to the Android recovery menu.
My current procedure to get there is here:
Turn off holding Down+Power
The b/w Samsung logo will automatically come up and stay that way forever
Hold Down+Power+Home until screen goes black and move finder from Down to UP while still holding the Power+Home
as soon as black and white Samsung logo comes up AND continue holding UP+Power+Home until Android flashes and recovery menu comes up.
Then I did go through the described wipe cash, and factory reset and some more wipe cash with reboot system in various combinations and always ended on black and white Samsung logo screen.
Tried to flash sboot but failed.
Then the new firmware showed up for sprint and i tried flashing 2 firmwares (G920PVPU3BOJ7_G920PSPT3BOJ7_SPR and G920PVPU3BOI1_G920PSPT3BOI1_SPR)but both succeeded but is still on the samsung logo screen
From the recovery menu only power down selection is useful as it does turn the phone off until I turn it on. The power button does not power off – it just boots back on.
Apply update from cache gives yellow text in the bottom of the scree: “APPLY_CHEK is deprecate.”
I have no clue how to use e.g. first 3 menu items.
Reboot to bootloader – just brings the b/w logo .
View log displays row upon row of things I have no clue about – pages of it.
On the very bottom of the screen – in yellow – there are two lines:
“dm-verification failed…
Need to check DRK first…”
Please help. — Max
Download the PI3 file from here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/spr...uide-links-files-update-root-restore-t3366862
Flash using Odin. There is a video linked in the OP to show you how.
That should take you back to stock.
Do what Koop said and then follow: http://forum.xda-developers.com/xposed/unofficial-xposed-samsung-lollipop-t3180960
I also recommend this when you get Xposed working: http://forum.xda-developers.com/xposed/modules/app-xtouchwiz-customize-stock-samsung-t3296878
I use this on my S6 and have experienced absolutely no issues.
Hi guys,
my oneplus 3 boots fine and soon after the boot animation is completed, it only show a black screen.
pressing the power button brings the poweroff and restart menu
when I make a call, the phone rings and only true caller notification is visible
alarm is working...
but unable to see anything on the screen (except above), its completely black...
any help would be much appreciated....
tried below thing:
1. rebooted several times
2. flashed 4.1.6 image several times
either it keeps stuck on the boot animation screen or the black screen after boot animation.
I had the same yesterday. I just run the unbrick tool.
kpmohamedhussain said:
Hi guys,
my oneplus 3 boots fine and soon after the boot animation is completed, it only show a black screen.
pressing the power button brings the poweroff and restart menu
when I make a call, the phone rings and only true caller notification is visible
alarm is working...
but unable to see anything on the screen (except above), its completely black...
any help would be much appreciated....
tried below thing:
1. rebooted several times
2. flashed 4.1.6 image several times
either it keeps stuck on the boot animation screen or the black screen after boot animation.
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Wipe System, Boot, Dalvik and Cache. Then dirty flash your rom. Note: booting takes some time. Let me know if it worked!
Puddi_Puddin said:
Wipe System, Boot, Dalvik and Cache. Then dirty flash your rom. Note: booting takes some time. Let me know if it worked!
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trying it now... will keep you posted.
no luck, still same results
Darkje said:
I had the same yesterday. I just run the unbrick tool.
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what about the data on your devices, for ex: the apps that you installed from play store, are they intact?
What do you mean? It just reinstalls the whole device to factory default