I cleared my dalvik cache in an attempt to fix an error with installing an app on the appstore not working and when I rebooted now it's stuck at the Cyanogenmod 7 boot animation. So I tried pulling the battery and then deleting the cache partition and the dalvik cache again and rebooted but it's still stuck at the boot animation. It's been like this for 20+ minutes so I assume something is wrong.
Please help me, I haven't done a backup in a while and I don't want to lose all my data!
Don't stress.
You've probably fixed this already, but just for those who stumble upon this in the future, here is my experience and solution.
I did the same thing and took the battery out and the memory card and the sim card on the third go. I waited a few minutes and then put everything back together. Turned it on and then after a longer while than usual it loaded. Be patient when it reboots. I think it does take its time when it loads after a wipe. Hope this helps.
Perhaps try clearing cache and dalvik again. Worked for me when I was stuck at the kernel boot screen
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I've cleaned my dalvik cache because I had some issues with an app (sipdroid) that prevented the phone to boot.
Cleaning the cache fixed the problem, but now almost everything App goes in FC.
I've read that I may need to clean /data/boot-cache via adb, but I don't have this folder.
Samsung spica and Samdroid/2.1 here.
Try to do an Factory reset?
Yup, Hard Reset or if all else fails...the dreaded Reflash.
something Ive done over 5 times.
Ugh
reboot your phone then it'll be okay
Just wondering if anyone has ever bootlooped their Charge for no apparent reason. I wasn't flashing anything I was just transferring some videos from my computer to my SD card when suddenly I noticed I can't install any apps from the market it just endlessly installs. So I hold the power button and click restart, get the Samsung logo & my boot animation but the boot animation NEVER ends. I battery pulled twice already and attempted to remove the SD card(since transferring files to it seems to be the only cause for this problem) but alas, to no avail. I rebooted into clockwork, reflashed Eclipse, cleared cache, dalvik cache and rebooted. Still, nothing.
If anyone has had this happen to them or just knows how to fix this please let me know, it's quite shocking considering I did absolutely nothing except transfer a video to my SD card. I'd prefer not to flash the .pit/.md5 since I haven't backed up in a while but if it's totally necessary I'll make the sacrifice for the greater good.
Your phone is force closing due to something if the boot animation never ends. If you use adb and get a logcat, it is possible that we could figure out what it is and maybe fix it. However, wiping /data and doing a factory reset will fix it if you want to go that root. Also Q&A
I just did a factory reset, didn't want to but I need my phone. Bummed I'm going to have to redownload like 35+ apps though, my fault for not backing up more frequently.
I have some random acore fc's sometimes that can only be fixed by wiping and flashing. Good thing I keep everything backed up every few days. I wish there was an option to schedule backups.
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Yeah it bootlooped so I did a factory reset & reflashed, everything seemed fine but then i got all these force closes. This is so aggravating!
update: Flashed the .pit/.md5 combo to go back to stock, just gonna start over.
My Galaxy 7 tab plus just started random rebooting for new reason. I can
turn in on and usually around 30 mins or so it will reboot. I won't even touch it or start an app. It just reboots. I removed everthing from the andriod market and it still reboots.
Anyone else having this issue? Wifi is on, GPS is off
It also happened to me, if you have recovery modified execute a wipe cache partition, and wipe dalvick cache ,or if you continue to have problems making a wipe date/factory reset.
Everything was going so well. I received my perfect phone a couple days ago...unlocked it, installed cwm 6.0.4.4, and rooted it. Kept it stock and only flashed franco and Drummerjed's volume boost. Life was swell.
I decided I wanted to try the Dalvik optimization mod and in preparation booted into recovery to make a nandroid. I always wipe the cache/dalvik cache before making nandroids because they're made faster when I do this. Never had an issue. This time, however, after clicking to wipe the cache partition the system seemed to freeze, which was weird because on my N4 it clears the cache in a matter of seconds. I held the power button down to reboot the phone and immediately knew something was wrong when I was greeted by 3 warning signs in the notification bar. I then discovered that I have no cell service. I am also unable to access internal storage.
I imagine that I'm going to have to flash the factory image and start over, but I'm wondering if there's any way to avoid that? I'm also wondering why this happened so I can avoid reproducing this in the future. Does cache wiping take considerably longer on the N5, and did I interrupt the process by rebooting the phone?
Thanks so much for your help.
I think you did interupt the process by rebooting the phone. Wiping dalvik/cache does seem to take a lot longer on this phone than on other devices (the only other device I have to compare to is the Nexus 7 though). I would say to just let it sit while it does it's thing next time.
I did have a problem with not having cell service once after wiping dalvik/cache though. I just rebooting into recover and wiped again and my cell service was back. Give that a shot and see what happens.
ramdyc said:
I think you did interupt the process by rebooting the phone. Wiping dalvik/cache does seem to take a lot longer on this phone than on other devices (the only other device I have to compare to is the Nexus 7 though). I would say to just let it sit while it does it's thing next time.
I did have a problem with not having cell service once after wiping dalvik/cache though. I just rebooting into recover and wiped again and my cell service was back. Give that a shot and see what happens.
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Thanks, ramdyc, wiping again worked. After rebooting, everything was back to normal (seemingly). Cache wipe on my N5 takes waaayyy longer compared to what I'm used to on N4...just gotta be patient with it!
If you are using TWRP, go into the settings and enable rm -rf and it will wipe instantly. (or something like that - forgot teh exact setting name)
If anyone reads this and wiping it again DOESN'T work, you can flash the stock cache.img via fastboot and you'll be good to go.
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If you are using TWRP, go into the settings and enable rm -rf and it will wipe instantly. (or something like that - forgot teh exact setting name)
If anyone reads this and wiping it again DOESN'T work, you can flash the stock cache.img via fastboot and you'll be good to go.
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I'm using cwm. I actually just flashed the recently released touch version of it and wiping cache with it took mere seconds like it does on my N4. Thanks for your help, guys!
My gf has a N5 and decided to let the update install (not sure which one was on the 23rd) and all of the sudden her phone just went crazy. It reboots randomly, sometimes it will boot completely and other times it just gets stuck at the boot screen. Before this update the phone was working normally and it doesn't appear to be an issue with the power button.
Her phone is bone stock. No root, no unlock. It is unfortunate, but she is on travel and has no phone.
Has anyone else seen this sort of issue after a software update?
Yes it can happen. Did you try to clear cache from your stock recovery?
I will do this once she is back from her trip. She tried to wipe the cache already, but it just got stuck there and afterwards she was not able to get past the google logo. I hope that it lets me wipe the cache and it sorts things out... I will post back once I have a chance to look at the phone to see what's going on with it.
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I will do this once she is back from her trip. She tried to wipe the cache already, but it just got stuck there and afterwards she was not able to get past the google logo. I hope that it lets me wipe the cache and it sorts things out... I will post back once I have a chance to look at the phone to see what's going on with it.
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If it doesn't fix your issue you should flash the factory images to start from scratch.
Also wiping the cache partition can take a long time on a nexus 5 - sometimes 10 to 15 minutes. Not sure why this is - on my Nexus 7 wiping the cache take seconds.
Trev
Got the phone yesterday. I wound up having to reinstall the OS and then factory reset. Not sure what happened to it, but it's working fine now.