I have a vortex that a friend gave me that was missing a battery. I decided to see if it would come on with the charger and it did. I messed around with it for a while then went to shut it off, it didnt shut off but actually rebooted, I figured it was due to being plugged in and so I just pulled the cord.
Now next time I try to turn it on with charger it just shows the lg and verizon logos then reboots over and over, and maybe once every sevrral times it will actually get to home page for a few seconds, then reboot again.
I then had the idea to plug it in to a computer and when I do that I get a weird animation on the screen of the backing being put on with an arrow pointing down.
Any ideas why it keeps rebooting and/or what the animation means when put on a pc?
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I recently imported a LG Optimus 7 and it finally arrived today. However, the phone doesn't seem to want to boot. The first time I plugged it in, the screen lit up with an LG splash screen, then the screen turned off and turned back on with LG on it. This kept repeating so I pulled the battery, however this time the phone didn't light up when I plugged it in and I couldn't get anything to respond, the power button didn't do anything. So I pulled the battery again. From this point I did several more battery pulls, each time the power button does not do anything, and if I plug the charger in, the screen may or may not turn on and show the LG splash screen.
Is the phone defective or is there something I can do to fix it?
"Is the phone defective" that's funny.
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This may be stupid but have you charged it for like an hour at least, then tried? I found out that if the battery drains to zero, you won't be able to boot the phone unless its been charged for like 5 mins minimum.
Try plugging your phone into a wall outlet.
Need a little help here. The other day I turned on our old D2 BC I need aa replacement phone and its given me hell. First boot it went into the Liberty boot animation and wouldn't stop looping. My girl rebooted into recovery and flashed Liberty again and apparently it was working fine which I did not know. When she did this she didn't tell me so I was under the impression I needed to do what she did. I went to recovery, wiped and flashed Liberty, I believe its 2.0. Now I can't get it to even go into recovery. The only thing that happens is sometimes when I plug it in to a power source it will go straight to a liberty screen and just sit there. Not even an animation. Any ideas? I'm fixing my Ubuntu right now so maybe I can access ADB commands from there. It won't detect on Windows.
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update: I finally got this phone to do something and idk how? I have tried to let it charge for a few days now and I'm thinking that 'somehow'(???) the battery got f'd up because just now when I plugged it in to finally try to connect through ADB, a black screen popped up. at top it Read: Bootloader > next line > D2.37 then at the bottom two lines that read Battery Low, Unable to Program. ....any thoughts? other than a new battery?
you need to get the battery charged with another phone or an external charger (stay away from homemade chargers as they can mess up stuff). What happened is the battery got too low to either start or finish sbf'ing so it went to bootloader and the phone won't charge without software so until you charge or buy a charged battery you are stuck. It's very fixable but you are stuck.
So today, as i was on my way to work I accidentally held down the lockscreen button and the power menu popped up (I was on Glorious Overdoes V2) in the middle of a text and i pressed reboot accidentally... My phone never rebooted... It was stuck on the black Sidekick 4G/T-Mobile screen and then it would go black, then once again that screen would pop up... I removed the battery and put it back in, and without me pressing any buttons the same screen came back up... I let it sit for a while and after 20minutes nothing changed except the phone got really hot. Luckily I had my OLD Nokia in my car and popped my SIM card in it so that i could continue having a phone. I let The Sidekick sit for 4hours and it was extremely hot and then eventually it just turned off completely (Im assuming the battery drained, it was at 90% 4 hours before.) I got home, plugged it in and it wouldn't even turn on the charging screen. Somebody told me that my Motherboard is fried but I don't know. I called T-mobile and they're going to send me a new phone since it's still in the 1-year warranty period.
Anyone know if they're going to be able to inspect my old device and find out if i rooted/flashed it? because i can't get into it or anything to ODIN
I feel like they will try putting a new battery in it, and if it still wont turn on you should be fine.
It got hot because the CPU was churning over something and couldn't enter a low power state. I bet you could coax the phone into download mode and reflash it.
what do you mean coax the phone into download mode? by using the button combo to get it into download mode when turning on? I've tried that and it doesn't work. I tried rebooting into recovery and that wont work either. Also, it wont charge the battery anymore...
I've always had a hard time getting into download mode, and my phone works fine. I just spent 5 minutes trying different combinations until I got it.
I've heard people say trackpad-power button, volume down-home-power button, volume up/down-put battery in-plug in USB, etc etc etc. But the only method that works for me is to put in the battery, plug in the USB, wait for the charging screen, then hold volume down-trackpad-power, releasing power as soon as the screen goes black
You say your phone is turning on as soon as the battery is inserted? What if you have it plugged into USB first?
I had the exact same problem, I sent it into samsung and they just replaced a part(never told me which one) and it was fixed. I did noticed that when the sccreen was poped open to show the keyboard, it would stop. But it's probably a loose cable like I've read before.
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Worst case scenario if you can't figure it out here on XDA, you could always sell it on eBay for parts as defective.
Ok so I wasn't using my phone but it was turned on. I wake it up to use it and it turns off and starts vibrating every other second. I take the battery off and whenever I put it back in it does the same vibrating thing. It flashes the samsung logo twice and then just goes black and vibrates every second. Can't get into recovery at all. I tried going into download mode but it only goes in for about a second then flashes off. It's sort of like a glitch like display when it flashes off.
Any ideas?
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Ok so I wasn't using my phone but it was turned on. I wake it up to use it and it turns off and starts vibrating every other second. I take the battery off and whenever I put it back in it does the same vibrating thing. It flashes the samsung logo twice and then just goes black and vibrates every second. Can't get into recovery at all. I tried going into download mode but it only goes in for about a second then flashes off. It's sort of like a glitch like display when it flashes off.
Any ideas?
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make sure it has a good charge, what happens when u have usb plugged in
I plug the usb in and it just keeps vibrating. Even if I take the battery out and plug the usb in it does the same thing. It only stops when the battery is out and nothing is plugged in.
i think its a low battery, it does weird things when its really low, make sure ur using oem cable and keep it plugged into wall plug, not comp, for a couple of hours, did u read this, could b power button is stuck http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1716302
with no battery and cable plugged in it just vibrates, will not start
I apologize, I actually opened that thread and skimmed through it. The power button was just stuck internally. I just pushed it down a little harder to get it unstuck.
Phones back up and running. Thanks for the help!
Weird a couple of people have reported this issue now
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Came home from work yesterday and the Pure XL was dead, said it needed to be charged. Never happened before but I figured whatever and plugged it in and went to sleep. Woke up this morning and powered on the phone and the all white BLU splash screen came up and then the phone went off. Came on again and the all white BLU splash screen came up and went off. Ive tried holding down the power button for over a minute. Tried holding the power button and volume keys to boot into recovery from 10 seconds to 2 minutes, nothing stops it! It just keeps rebooting. This has been my apprehension towards purchasing phones with non removable batteries. The boot recycle happens about every 15 seconds and the phone vibrates everytime it boots up for the past 2 hours. Its getting very annoying and there is no way to make it stop. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
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Came home from work yesterday and the Pure XL was dead, said it needed to be charged. Never happened before but I figured whatever and plugged it in and went to sleep. Woke up this morning and powered on the phone and the all white BLU splash screen came up and then the phone went off. Came on again and the all white BLU splash screen came up and went off. Ive tried holding down the power button for over a minute. Tried holding the power button and volume keys to boot into recovery from 10 seconds to 2 minutes, nothing stops it! It just keeps rebooting. This has been my apprehension towards purchasing phones with non removable batteries. The boot recycle happens about every 15 seconds and the phone vibrates everytime it boots up for the past 2 hours. Its getting very annoying and there is no way to make it stop. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
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Plug it into your computer (you'll notice that there will be a longer black screen in-between the bootloops) and hold down the power button for at least 10 seconds or more, then release it after the next vibration and the white BLU screen shows up. It might take a couple of tries.
If you manage to boot into at least recovery but can't boot into the system, then try clearing your cache/dalvik cache and try rebooting into system again.
If all of the above doesn't work for you, then your boot.img/system has gone bad, and you'll have to flash the stock images with SP Flash Tool (both of which can be found on other posts on this forum).
follow the instructions on the SP flash tool thread... sounds like what happened to me after bad flash... theres a lot of information in that thread that will set you up...
Thanks for the quick replies guys. The PC trick didnt work at all. I just called BLU and asked for a replacement(havent heard back from them ironically). I put the phone in the basement so I wouldnt have to deal with that incessant buzzing every 15 seconds. Eventually the battery died. Since I had it powered off finally, I plugged it in for about 10 minutes to give it enough of a charge to power on but not stay on to buzz for another 2 hours. This time I powered it on using the master reset button combo and was finally able to wipe the cache and restart the phone. Took a good 4 or 5 minutes to boot after that, but everything has been fine since. Really dont know what initially caused the issue, never happened before. Good thing too, cause BLU told me that they would send me a RMA within the hour and I still havent heard from them. Think this will be my last BLU phone. Thanks for the assist.
My phone Is stocked without root or Twrp. And I find my self having a bootloop once a month for an odd reason. This forces me to take bat out and put it back in or just let it loop til battery dies
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My phone Is stocked without root or Twrp. And I find my self having a bootloop once a month for an odd reason. This forces me to take bat out and put it back in or just let it loop til battery dies
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My phone is basically out of the box and I'm getting boot loop problems when I first boot. This happens like once a month
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This happened to me for first time yesterday. Bought the phone earlier this year and everything worked fine. I restarted the phone because my sound recorder app froze up twice on open and the infinite boot started until the battery died. Tried the {power}{vol up} thing, didn't work to stop it, so I put it in my car and went back to the conference I was attending. Battery was dead when I got out. Contacted BLU by phone and they started a ticket for me, but I figured I'd see if other people were having this issue and learn what they did because I'd rather not be out of a phone for however long it takes for BLU to replace mine. Stumbled on this page. I never rooted my phone. And BLU only sent one wireless update since I've had the phone. I'm trying to get into the menu by connecting to the computer. Worked the first time, I cleared cache, and tried to backup my files, but I'd taken out the SD card in expectation of sending it to BLU. So, Powered off the phone, put the card back in, and now I haven't been able to get the menu back. Still working on it, if there are any suggestions anyone drops on me before Tuesday when I'll likely ship it (or at least hope to because I'll be yelling at them Monday), I'd appreciate it.
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This happened to me for first time yesterday. Bought the phone earlier this year and everything worked fine. I restarted the phone because my sound recorder app froze up twice on open and the infinite boot started until the battery died. Tried the {power}{vol up} thing, didn't work to stop it, so I put it in my car and went back to the conference I was attending. Battery was dead when I got out. Contacted BLU by phone and they started a ticket for me, but I figured I'd see if other people were having this issue and learn what they did because I'd rather not be out of a phone for however long it takes for BLU to replace mine. Stumbled on this page. I never rooted my phone. And BLU only sent one wireless update since I've had the phone. I'm trying to get into the menu by connecting to the computer. Worked the first time, I cleared cache, and tried to backup my files, but I'd taken out the SD card in expectation of sending it to BLU. So, Powered off the phone, put the card back in, and now I haven't been able to get the menu back. Still working on it, if there are any suggestions anyone drops on me before Tuesday when I'll likely ship it (or at least hope to because I'll be yelling at them Monday), I'd appreciate it.
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I tried to flash the phone, but the bootloop apparently wouldn't allow that. I had 0.0% progress after 3 hours. I then tried to go back into the menu you get from {Power}{Vol UP}: still no go. So, I started to take the phone apart again to get ready for shipping. The battery was still low so it didn't take long for it to die after I unplugged it from the computer. Out of curiosity, I tried to repeat finding the menu like I did earlier that day (conditions were that the phone had no charge when I connected it to the computer, and my SD card was removed.) No go. But, then I hit {Power}{Vol Up}{Vol Down} just to see what happened, and boom. My phone loaded up. No loop... Figured somehow the files had copied and the status bar was wrong. Turned the phone off, put my SD card back in and turned the phone on. Loop reappears ...I waited for the phone to die again, took out the SD, attempted to turn it on and the loop was there. Connected it to the computer and hit all 3 buttons, and the phone loads up. So, now I'm confused. Is there any way that the problem is some crappy connection to the SD?