Hi folks.
I am looking for some help in recovering my phone. My phone was fine till a couple of days back, all of a sudden i see that it is at "Phone is starting" phase for days now. I am on Android 11.
What i have tried so far:
1. Rebooted
2. Wiped cache and rebooted
3. On boot menu, tried repair apps
None of it is helping. Not sure whats going on. Is there hope?
Try a factory reset... you'll lose all data which you hopefully backed up before this.
It maybe malware, a software issue or a hardware failure.
Is there anything else that can be tried without factory reset?
harshahs said:
Is there anything else that can be tried without factory reset?
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If you can repair what's causing the boot loop if it's not hardware related.
That's beyond my knowledge limits.
See if you can boot into safe mode.
The 2 times my N10+ boot looped on me because of a buggy launcher after a few boot attempts it automatically defaulted to safe mode.
blackhawk said:
If you can repair what's causing the boot loop if it's not hardware related.
That's beyond my knowledge limits.
See if you can boot into safe mode.
The 2 times my N10+ boot looped on me because of a buggy launcher after a few boot attempts it automatically defaulted to safe mode.
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Well, i have tried safe mode and it ends in the same state as "Phone is starting". The phone starting phase comes after my fingerprint is authenticated, ie phone is up and when i login, it goes to this state. I can access the top menu, and go to the settings, cannot launch any apps though.
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Well, i have tried safe mode and it ends in the same state as "Phone is starting". The phone starting phase comes after my fingerprint is authenticated, ie phone is up and when i login, it goes to this state. I can access the top menu, and go to the settings, cannot launch any apps though.
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Try booting it plugged into the charger.
At this point I would have done a factory reset especially if I didn't know what caused it.
harshahs said:
Is there anything else that can be tried without factory reset?
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Connect phone with pc and set it into Download mode: as soon as the device is in Download mode, this issue will be fixed automatically. You should not remove the device or use it until the fixing process gets over, else the device can get bricked. After the fixing process is over, the device will restart, fixing all the issues.
xXx yYy said:
Connect phone with pc and set it into Download mode: as soon as the device is in Download mode, this issue will be fixed automatically. You should not remove the device or use it until the fixing process gets over, else the device can get bricked. After the fixing process is over, the device will restart, fixing all the issues.
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What should i do after i go into the download mode?
I have the same issue, did you find a fix?
I already have this issue. i just turn off the 'Power Saving' And it be back to normal, welcome
I'm stuck in the same situation, only i cannot turn off "Power saving" via the shortcut (no reaction at all but all other setting buttons function) and when opening "Battery and Device care" settings closes and back to "Phone is starting".
Also connecting via usb in "Download mode" makes no difference whatsoever... I'm at a los because I'd rather not factory reset because of loss of data...
Any more things I could try by any chance?
Thx a lot!!
A.
chestanen said:
I'm stuck in the same situation, only i cannot turn off "Power saving" via the shortcut (no reaction at all but all other setting buttons function) and when opening "Battery and Device care" settings closes and back to "Phone is starting".
Also connecting via usb in "Download mode" makes no difference whatsoever... I'm at a los because I'd rather not factory reset because of loss of data...
Any more things I could try by any chance?
Thx a lot!!
A.
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Boot into safe mode. If you can first backup your critical data which should have already been done. Then try to correct the fault. If this works it's likely a 3rd party app.
Thx Blackhawk but safe mode doesn't make the smartphone startup and is also stuck on "Phone is starting". I know backup's should of been taken but it's the phone of one of my daughters (and yes kids don't always do as they're told) so I might as well dig my own grave if I reset the phone
On the other hand, this might learn them a valuable lesson
Any other tips/tricks someone?
nasserisonfire said:
I already have this issue. i just turn off the 'Power Saving' And it be back to normal, welcome
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Holy crap that worked! Thanks!
jreblando said:
Holy crap that worked! Thanks!
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Wow. Now that's bare bones
I never use that setting as it was always problematic... consequences.
Is there any other solution??
Related
Hello
dose any one know what safemode is on desire. To start it you need to reboot you phone and on the boot animation you need to spam the track ball until the boot animation reboot and then spam meny key until the phone start.
P.S is a gray zone and text safe mode in it when it start in safe mode.
the only thing I noticed was the A2SD wasn't working
I'd imagine it's something like regular recovery mode on Linux. But if it's anything like that it should have full root permissions.
jullejul said:
Hello
To start it you need to reboot you phone and on the boot animation you need to spam the track ball until the boot animation reboot and then spam meny key until the phone start.
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???
Actually, you just need to power up your phone whilst holding down menu, and keep it held down until the phone has fully booted.
When in safe mode, the phone will not run any 3rd party applications or widgets - so, if you've installed an app that is causing problems (e.g. reboots on boot up), you can boot up in safe mode and uninstall it.
Regards,
Dave
foxmeister said:
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Actually, you just need to power up your phone whilst holding down menu, and keep it held down until the phone has fully booted.
When in safe mode, the phone will not run any 3rd party applications or widgets - so, if you've installed an app that is causing problems (e.g. reboots on boot up), you can boot up in safe mode and uninstall it.
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Dave
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Nice to know.
Hi, after having troubles booting, I am in safe mode, but want to know how to get back out of it !!! Thanks
Turn the phone off?
EddyOS said:
Turn the phone off?
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I wont bite on that one.... !!!
I have turned it off, removed the battery, i have recently upgraded to 2.2, then today it wouldnt boot, managed to get it inot safe mode, now I wonder how to get it back out.
Thanks
Just reboot the phone.
i have rebooted it, you two senior member are grade A, I'm not gonna pop up on a forum, and not of tried everything that i read on google, thats why i bit my lip with the other blokes post.
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Just reboot the phone.[/QUOok......................
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Turn the phone off?
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Hey everyone, I need some serious help with my phone!
I have launcherPro, but today I started my phone and suddenly I get this error saying that LauncherPro has been unexpectably terminated and that android.process.acore stopped working. I don't know what to do, because it just keeps popping up and I can't do anything with the phone.
I also don't have the 3 keys combo.. I tried to reboot, take out batery, take out SD/SIM card, please I don'T know what to do!
Is there anything I can maybe deleted while my phone is connected to PC? Also, I have USB debugging off atm and I cannot go to menu so I can't use ADB to boot to recovery
Any help is appreciated.
P.S. Since I didn't do any flashing or anything out of the ordinary, I didn't use the 3 button combo fix..
i had the same problem
just hit the 3 button Recovery Mode
then select wipe data
reboot
fixed
AllGamer said:
i had the same problem
just hit the 3 button Recovery Mode
then select wipe data
reboot
fixed
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Erm...
I also don't have the 3 keys combo..
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Always read first
AllGamer said:
i had the same problem
just hit the 3 button Recovery Mode
then select wipe data
reboot
fixed
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Will this completely wipe out all apps and things when done?
yiannisthegreek said:
Will this completely wipe out all apps and things when done?
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yes it wipes out all user data
there's always the heat trick for the non 3 buttons capable
if all else fail go back to the store and have them exchange the phone
I had this problem on my old Hero and only a wipe solved it. Incidentally, it wasn't a LauncherPro issue, more a general Android problem.
if you had adbd (debug mode) running you can start any program (e.g. twlauncher) and therefore easily recover your phone. otherwise i would return the phone ...
I would say, get yourself a hairdryer... Heat the phone up untill it's scary hot... And then try the 3button combo.
If that fails you should rerurn it, as this wasn't your fault at all.
I have sprint Galaxy s3 with jelly bean rooted. On new years eve I installed a 3rd party app from the market to see if I could get a hot spot. don't even remember the name of the app. I ran it and it locked my phone up. I pulled the battery and when it rebooted it was in safe mode. In safe mode I uninstalled the program but it did not help me at all. Any time I reboot it goes right to safe mode. I have tried several times to get to download mode and recovery mode and have not been able to reach either. The phone works fine in safe mode I could even do a factory reset and with no problem the phone resets and goes right back to safe mode when it boots up to the new factory set up. No 3rd party apps are seen and no download mode or recovery mode can be obtained in the usual ways we use to boot to them. I am stumped any ideas from anyone.
Try use kies!
Hi. You can try this method.
1- get or make a usb jig
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2- turn off your s2. Pull the batt out for 10 sec and press on button w/out inserting the batt.
After doing that, try to boot into download mode. Sometimes yhe phone need some rest,juat pull out the batt for 5-10min and retry. I suggest that you try to enter recovery mode before heading to download mode..
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BlackCl0udMY said:
Hi. You can try this method.
1- get or make a usb jig
0r
2- turn off your s2. Pull the batt out for 10 sec and press on button w/out inserting the batt.
After doing that, try to boot into download mode. Sometimes yhe phone need some rest,juat pull out the batt for 5-10min and retry. I suggest that you try to enter recovery mode before heading to download mode..
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That could be the problem.. "turn off your s2" He may fix that one.. But the S3 will still be broke :laugh:
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BlackCl0udMY said:
Hi. You can try this method.
1- get or make a usb jig
0r
2- turn off your s2. Pull the batt out for 10 sec and press on button w/out inserting the batt.
After doing that, try to boot into download mode. Sometimes yhe phone need some rest,juat pull out the batt for 5-10min and retry. I suggest that you try to enter recovery mode before heading to download mode..
Sent from my GT-I9070 using xda app-developers app
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it always gets as far as the warning screen when going to download mode. when pressing volume up or down nothing happens. I have to long press start key or pull battery to get it out of the warning screen
patrick6465 said:
it always gets as far as the warning screen when going to download mode. when pressing volume up or down nothing happens. I have to long press start key or pull battery to get it out of the warning screen
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Strange. I haven't seen any do this before.. So it'll stick at the download totally? Hmm.. can you get to recovery now?
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milky1112 said:
Strange. I haven't seen any do this before.. So it'll stick at the download totally? Hmm.. can you get to recovery now?
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no not at all
patrick6465 said:
no not at all
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Yeah, i'm at a loss, was gonna say if you can get into DL mode, then could odin to sock. I'm not sure of any other way to get around it and force that puppy to boot back into normal land.
Try this.. Power off phone... Restart, once you see Samsung logo, Press the Menu capacitive button repeatedly. (read this is how to get into safemode) maybe it'll work to reboot you OUT of safe mode. (Note i'm just searching the web to see if i can find anything) And i did pull that for a i9300 International, but it may work for this one as well.. (just a shot)
Seen another with similar issue, Pull SD and battery for 10 min.. When rebooted, went back to normal. Again these are all shots in the dark..
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Yeah, i'm at a loss, was gonna say if you can get into DL mode, then could odin to sock. I'm not sure of any other way to get around it and force that puppy to boot back into normal land.
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Ya this is strange i've been searching all day on different forums and google and haven't seen any other posts with the same issue.
patrick6465 said:
Ya this is strange i've been searching all day on different forums and google and haven't seen any other posts with the same issue.
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I found a few. Try those methods I posted. lemme know if they work.
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milky1112 said:
Yeah, i'm at a loss, was gonna say if you can get into DL mode, then could odin to sock. I'm not sure of any other way to get around it and force that puppy to boot back into normal land.
Try this.. Power off phone... Restart, once you see Samsung logo, Press the Menu capacitive button repeatedly. (read this is how to get into safemode) maybe it'll work to reboot you OUT of safe mode. (Note i'm just searching the web to see if i can find anything) And i did pull that for a i9300 International, but it may work for this one as well.. (just a shot)
Seen another with similar issue, Pull SD and battery for 10 min.. When rebooted, went back to normal. Again these are all shots in the dark..
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no go with this one either
patrick6465 said:
no go with this one either
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May be time for a visit to your neighborhood Sprint store! Thats the only methods i found that might work.. Just searched for S3 stuck in safe mode.
patrick6465 said:
I have sprint Galaxy s3 with jelly bean rooted. On new years eve I installed a 3rd party app from the market to see if I could get a hot spot. don't even remember the name of the app. I ran it and it locked my phone up. I pulled the battery and when it rebooted it was in safe mode. In safe mode I uninstalled the program but it did not help me at all. Any time I reboot it goes right to safe mode. I have tried several times to get to download mode and recovery mode and have not been able to reach either. The phone works fine in safe mode I could even do a factory reset and with no problem the phone resets and goes right back to safe mode when it boots up to the new factory set up. No 3rd party apps are seen and no download mode or recovery mode can be obtained in the usual ways we use to boot to them. I am stumped any ideas from anyone.
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You have the root, why not use it instead of sudo-randomly smashing keys *Grin* ? If you don't have a Terminal app install one of those, su to root (answer to allow root when Superuser/SuperSu asks you) then run "reboot recovery". When/If recovery comes up wipe Cache, Dalvik-Cache, fix permissions and so forth, then try to restart into the system and see if "Safe Mode" crap persist.
I had my phone come up in Safe Mode one time, can't remember what I played with to even trigger it though. If this doesn't work, you can use something like Rom Toolbox Pro, or another fun tool to wipe the caches while the phone is up in Safe Mode.
Happy Flashing,
sponix
sponix2ipfw said:
You have the root, why not use it instead of sudo-randomly smashing keys *Grin* ? If you don't have a Terminal app install one of those, su to root (answer to allow root when Superuser/SuperSu asks you) then run "reboot recovery". When/If recovery comes up wipe Cache, Dalvik-Cache, fix permissions and so forth, then try to restart into the system and see if "Safe Mode" crap persist.
I had my phone come up in Safe Mode one time, can't remember what I played with to even trigger it though. If this doesn't work, you can use something like Rom Toolbox Pro, or another fun tool to wipe the caches while the phone is up in Safe Mode.
Happy Flashing,
sponix
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"No 3rd party apps are seen" Wouldn't Terminal be apart of this one? If so then he couldn't get into it. Just my guess. and those methods i posted were from others with same issue. Def worth a try. Never heard of Safe Mode on these till now Lol..
Are u sure none of your keys are stuck? Mine would do that if my case was holding in one of the keys IE volume key or power button
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fedge1234 said:
Are u sure none of your keys are stuck? Mine would do that if my case was holding in one of the keys IE volume key or power button
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That is the one thing that has me questioning. The volume button seems to move freely however; I have tried volume button when booted up in safe mode and the volume down does not move. the volume up moved the volume control up. although when pressing vol. down when trying to go do download mode it boots to download warning screen. unless it is stuck on internally. I don't know, cause the button moves freely.
Mine was in safe mode once. All I did is reboot it and mine went away.
Galaxy S3- Cyanogenmod 10!
Nexus Style!
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xxXismakillXxx said:
Try use kies!
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Thanks this d root is no longerdid help me make my decision . I am taking the phone to sprint store. by downloading and using keys it seems that the software does not cause my problem. I hooked up to kies and did a complete firmware upgrade. Although there is no upgrade it still reloaded jellybean. It did a complete restore though and root is no longer present. Super user is gone. But I still have the same safe mode issues. I am guessing that this is a hardware problem probably the volume key. I feel ok with taking it to sprint since root is gone. who knows maybe i'll get a new one. Thanks to all who helped I surely appreciate it.
Patrick
Did u reset flash counter before unroot?
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fedge1234 said:
Did u reset flash counter before unroot?
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no not sure how to do that or if I would have been able too because of safe mode limitations.
I am one of those who suffer the continuous reboots, bootloops etc, and the other day was impossible to use the mobile with normality.
Decided to turn it off until Samsung's collect.
Problem, I have personal data within that I should like to save and today I decided to turn on the phone, and to my surprise it dont turning on.
I tried everything, power button, vol - and button, upload... nothing.
Can anyone help me?
Thanks.
Rickymax said:
I am one of those who suffer the continuous reboots, bootloops etc, and the other day was impossible to use the mobile with normality.
Decided to turn it off until Samsung's collect.
Problem, I have personal data within that I should like to save and today I decided to turn on the phone, and to my surprise it dont turning on.
I tried everything, power button, vol - and button, upload... nothing.
Can anyone help me?
Thanks.
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Hi apologies for being the bearer of bad news but this problem just cannot be fixed. I've had the same problem for the past 10 days. Constant bootloops follow by an eventual brick. DM verity error. I used Odin to try to reflash the firmware and .managed to get it to the install screen on the phone. The install died at 32%, that failed effortt got it to a state where I was able to try and emergency firmware recovery via smart select and ended up installing to 100? on the pc but on the handset screen got stuck at 32? again. The phone went back into a bootloops and after the second boot the DM verity error was back. Please don't waste any time on this mate it cannot be fixed and you will get zero support from Samsung as they're only interested in sweeping this first batch of handsets under the rug. Hope you get your data back some of it may be backed up to the your Google account with any luck.
Rickymax said:
I am one of those who suffer the continuous reboots, bootloops etc, and the other day was impossible to use the mobile with normality.
Decided to turn it off until Samsung's collect.
Problem, I have personal data within that I should like to save and today I decided to turn on the phone, and to my surprise it dont turning on.
I tried everything, power button, vol - and button, upload... nothing.
Can anyone help me?
Thanks.
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Keep it connected to a Fast Charger (Under observation - of course) and let it switch on. At this point I'd say focus on deleting them rather than trying to recover them. When the device gets enough juice for a flash, Use odin and Flash TWRP. Then delete all partitions from TWRP through WIPE option, and then power down the unit and hand it over to Samsung.
Hello.
I did a factory reset on the phone and it went normally but then at "set up as new" option, after booting up, started crashing and saying that setup has stopped working or something like that. I tried to access recovery menu to do a factory reset from there by pressing volume up and power buttons but instead of going to recovery menu, it's been stuck on "Powered by android" ever since. Can't even turn off the device and nothing seems to work. It's stuck.
PLEASE HELP!
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Hello.
I did a factory reset on the phone and it went normally but then at "set up as new" option, after booting up, started crashing and saying that setup has stopped working or something like that. I tried to access recovery menu to do a factory reset from there by pressing volume up and power buttons but instead of going to recovery menu, it's been stuck on "Powered by android" ever since. Can't even turn off the device and nothing seems to work. It's stuck.
PLEASE HELP!
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me too:crying:
Is it going to bootload?
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Is it going to bootload?
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Nope. Just stuck on "Powered by android" logo.
I have the same problem, and I can only enter download mode, I tried to flash using two versions of OST and the firmware that is here, and I have not been able to flash yet, I hope that later they can upload another firmware version, I have nokia 6 TA 1054
TheMadxtremist said:
Hello.
I did a factory reset on the phone and it went normally but then at "set up as new" option, after booting up, started crashing and saying that setup has stopped working or something like that. I tried to access recovery menu to do a factory reset from there by pressing volume up and power buttons but instead of going to recovery menu, it's been stuck on "Powered by android" ever since. Can't even turn off the device and nothing seems to work. It's stuck.
PLEASE HELP!
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I am using same device. Everything works perfect except mobile data..I cant use mobile data in Bangladesh. here they dont have china firmware. so i also stuck with it.
try to switch to another slot try first B partition
fastboot --set_active=b
if doesn`t boot to system try A partition
fastboot --set_active=a
Any luck? my friend in Philippines has this problem, and I want to know I can fix it before spending $40 (4 days wages there) to have it sent to be fixed.
aphocus said:
Any luck? my friend in Philippines has this problem, and I want to know I can fix it before spending $40 (4 days wages there) to have it sent to be fixed.
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wait for the phone's battery dead then after that you can enter download mode from download mode flash stock rom using OST La
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wait for the phone's battery dead then after that you can enter download mode from download mode flash stock rom using OST La
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how do you do flash stock rom using OST La? ... sorry if this sounds like a basic question but I just got the same problem and am here for the first time.