To begin with, the device was rooted with Magisk 18.1 flashed about 2 years ago, running stock OxygenOS Oreo 8.1. Recovery: TWRP-3.2.1-1-cheeseburger. Kernel: RenderZenith OP5T [OOS-O-EAS-V3.7.0]. This was the setup I was satisfied with and running in about a year (a total of 2 years).
However, after the first year, I've tried to update TWRP to version 3.3.1-20190908-0-codeworkx-signed-forcedecrypt-dumpling in order to flash and update to the newer OxygenOS Pie 9.0. Something went wrong after flashing the newer TWRP and I couldn't get into recovery anymore... all I saw was a black screen when trying to get into it. I haven't bothered about this since the system booted and worked fine, so I gave up on the 9.0 update and stayed on 8.1. I was able to use it like normal another year. Everything was running very smoothly until a couple of days ago...
The battery has discharged to 0% and the device shut off by itself. 30 seconds before the shutdown, the UI was much less responsive and a popup about the device turning off popped up. I've put it in charge the whole night and when I woke up in the morning... couldn't boot into the system anymore. Instead, the phone booted into the 'broken' recovery, with constant lit of light blue LED (started to lit a couple of seconds after booting, only in the 'non-visible' recovery), and a black screen. I've looked up the fastboot/bootloader keys combination and went into it, well from there, I've tried the turn-off, start, recovery, and bootloader option. Turn off = Off. Start = Recovery. Recovery = Recovery. Bootloader = Bootloader.
The next step I've done was to connect it through a PC and run ADB on it in order to flash the old TWRP-3.2.1-1-cheeseburger. Re-booted into recovery straight after successfully flash and the recovery started to work again. The light blue LED stopped to lit any longer and I haven't seen it anymore. The first thing I've done in recovery was to clear the cache, dalvik, and do a nandroid backup, then tried to re-boot into the system. Finally, it booted into the system and I was happy like a kid when I saw the OnePlus boot animation again, however after putting my password and SIM pin code, I can enjoy it without any issue for about 30-40 seconds before the UI suddenly starts to be non-response (touch doesn't work), the screen starts to flash, sometimes (looks more like turning the screen on and off), until I see a "Turning off..." popup 20-30 seconds later (the battery is fully charged and disconnected from the power source) and the device is rebooting itself into the 'working' recovery. This is how it works each time I boot up into the system now. However, the power button is working and I can turn the screen off and on while the screen/touch isn't responding, the power menu can be opened by holding it (before it's too late and the "Turning off..." popup appears), from there I can choose to re-boot or power off. Magically the touch is working here. If the phone has been rebooted/turned off manually, by hitting either reboot or power off in the power menu, it reboots into the system instead and the same **** happens - not to recovery like it does when the "Turning off..." popup appears and it's turning off by the system.
I'd like to get everything back if possible, at least for one or two days, to back up all data, do some screenshots, back up browser bookmarks, history, open tabs, sms and calls, then give a fresh custom 11 to it.
Any help I can get from you guys? Is there a solution that I could try? What about flashing the newest Magisk onto it? Might it help or rather corrupt it more? Anything else? I'm out of knowledge in this situation and I'm relying on you.
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So, I flashed yesterdays CM10.2 and had no problems, up until today. I was in class, using twitter, set the phone down, and looked back at it 5 minutes later to find it shut off. I restarted it, figured no big deal, it turned off again. I thought there was a problem with that nightly so I flashed back an older, more stable one(still 10.2). It booted up, and shut off again. Now, though, the phone boots up, shows Samsung, then shows the GS3 and CM logo, then just goes into a loop from there. I went to recovery and tried to wipe, which, oddly, the phone restarted again. Luckily I was able to get in and wipe data before a new reboot, but even that didn't fix it. I rebooted into recovery again, and it said something like "root access available" and asked me if I would like to use root, which I didn't get the chance to fully read because it restarted again. When I am able to successfully boot into recovery though, I get a warning saying "no file_contexts", this could be it?
I've already tried to flash back stock Touchwiz with Odin, but it keeps failing to do so. Any help with this?
EDIT: After successfully booting up a CM10.1 backup, I've begun to believe the power button is broke, because the power menu will randomly popup, followed by a shut down.
It's called SDS sudden death syndrome it's very common on the S3. It's a failure of the power button. It's a defect. If your phone is newer than a year old put it back to stock and take it to sprint.
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I really don't know what happened, but all of a sudden yesterday my phone started to behave really strangely.
I turned on airplane mode and the little airplane icon never appeared. Turning it off didn't restore the cellular connection so I rebooted the phone, like usual. Since then:
- Reboots take 2x or 4x longer than usual. Sometimes it gets stuck on the boot animation and I have to turn it off.
- Flashing roms/gapps/kernel with TWRP takes forever. At least 4 or 5 times longer than usual. Sometimes TWRP reboots to system without asking.
- Restoring a previous known working TWRP backup took forever, and the phone had multiples FCs on first boot.
- A few times in android the screen just went dark. Pushing the button activates the button lights but nothing else happens without a reboot (which takes forever).
Besides reflashing the rom and restoring a backup I tried to wipe everything and reinstall the rom from scratch, but I still get very slow boots and occasional problems with the "dark screen".
Is there something else I can do? I've had problems with an external microsd before, but the symptoms were very different. Should I try to mess with the internad sd partitions or flash an official samsung rom with odin?
Btw I have a canadian I317m rocking Temaksek v40-41 for the past month without any problems whatsoever.
A few weeks ago, my Tab Pro 8.4 started bootlooping. I did a few cache/dalvik wipes and got it going again. I think I reflashed the ROM and GApps also.
Now It is doing something odd. If I leave it plugged in overnight, it powers off. It takes a very long (20 second) power button hold to get it to wake. That woke it in the past, but today is something new. Now it is going into a bootloop. During the boot animation, it stutters, freezes, then goes back to the bootloader splash page (the one with the "seandroid enforcing" and "warranty bit" message on top).
It has no issue going into TWRP and I have just done a full backup. I am going to go back into TWRP and make a copy of internal. I have a few files in there that I don't want to lose.
Could this be a ROM issue? (I will update ROM info after next time I am in the device/TWRP) Hardware? I just installed a new battery, but this issue started with the old battery. Any ideas on how to get this revived?
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.
Hello!
After recently getting my hands on an old Samsung A50, I thought I might as well reflash and do some stuff with it.
After installing Orangefox and Lineage, everything worked fine until the phone eventually ran out of power.
I plugged it in and let it charge for a bit, but it was just constantly showing the gray circle with a charging/power icon in it, but no battery indicator.
This usually means that the phone is completely empty and has to charge a bit before booting.
After letting it sit for a long while and nothing changing, I got a bit worried.
At this point, unplugging the phone does not change anything - it will continue showing the indicator even while unplugged.
Holding power and volume down (or power + both volume) briefly blacks out the screen, but it simply comes back to the indicator a few seconds later.
All of this happened a few days ago - I eventually got it to boot again through some key combination while the screen blacked out, sending me to orangefox or download mode (i dont remember),
from which I was then able to boot into lineage again. In lineage, everything worked fine again, including the battery indicator which showed that the phone was full, and the battery seemed to work completely fine.
After that, I turned from lineage to Fresh, which also ran fine until Fresh wanted to install an update which sent me to TWRP. Not sure what to do, i just booted back into System which worked fine, but the Fresh update hadn't succeeded.
I attempted to update again and this time shut down from TWRP - big mistake. Now i am once again stuck in the low-power indicator.
I believe that last time i escaped by booting into orangefox - but i think fresh replaced orangefox with twrp?
Anyway, i tried holding different button combinations while the screen is briefly blacked out but nothing is happening (also tried getting into download by plugging into pc, holding power+volumedown, then holding volume up+down while screen is black).
I also let the battery empty itself until it went black by itself and then tried again, but no success.
I'm now again unsure what to do. How do i unbrick this to boot into the OS again? How do i prevent this from happening again?
Thank you all.
Same issue with my Redmi 9, it seems a battery issue idk if i had rekt mine after flashing a latest CN rom then after not being satisfied tried to flash thru recovery to its stock rom and it went bootloop. Fixed it by flashing with SP flashtool and some bypass stuff, but damage has been done with my batt. Maxing out the volume when I try to play something video or music would trigger a reboot to my phone.