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[Q] Galaxy Nexus Boot Loop (stock)

I have an unlocked HSPA+ Galaxy Nexus imported from the UK to the US. Ordered from Negri Electronics.
It's not rooted or modded in any way.. Mainly because I don't know how to. As far as I know, it's running stock ICS.
I was using it normally, (using the fb messenger app if it makes any difference) when it suddenly rebooted by itself. The Google logo comes up, then the start up animation, and sometimes the home screen will appear but is not touch sensitive (i cannot slide it to unlock), and then it 'hangs' and the screen goes black. Repeat.
I've tried to fix this by myself and there's a video on youtube (sorry, noob here. can't post links. video is by robbidwv and title is "my galaxy nexus won't boot..") of the same problem that I have, but the posted solution doesn't work for me.
So far, I have entered Coin Mode and pressed Start. Entered Fastboot mode and gone into Recovery Mode (no options appear after that. it just starts booting up and the loop begins), and I've also tried Restart Bootloader.
I've almost given up. Now all I want is to extract my SMS, if they're still on my phone. I can't access the folders on my computer because it won't boot up and connect. Is there a way that I can extract my SMS by using DOS in either Coin Mode or Fastboot mode?
Or even better, does anyone have a solution to this boot loop problem? I'll contact Negri Electronics tomorrow and hopefully they can send me a replacement.
Please help!! Thanks

that problem just started happening with me an hour ago!!
i hate this!!
we need a solution please!

Hey guys, sorry about the issue.the major problem I see here is you wanting to retrieve your txt messages, which might be possible with a little Modding, but if yourwilling to lose them to get a working phone back, then this is what your going to have to do. Make sure your phone is completely off. Hold the 2 volume buttons and the power button together. You will get into a mode with an android Guy. Press the volume button up or down until it says reboot recovery at the top. Press the power button. It will rebootand come to a screen with an android. Hold volume up,down and power at the same time. A menu will come up. Go down to wipe data. Click it, and after it is done reboot. Your phone should work now.
If this helped you, or you simply appreciate me taking the time to write this out then please press the thanks button

Hey!
Thanks. Yeah I 'fixed' it already. I was just about to post something similar. After a while I just gave up on trying to recover my data. Good thing that Google syncs everything so the only issue would be recovering my messages, which I decided weren't worth sending it in for a repair which would probably not be able to recover anything anyway.
The thing I didn't know about was to press power + volume up WHILE on the recovery screen. I thought navigating to the recovery screen was it!
Still, this kind of sucks. I love my GNex, but I can't help but be slightly pissed seeing that my crappy iPhone 3GS never did this in the 2 years I had it. Oh well, hope it doesn't happen again!

hey guys! i also did a complete wipe on my phone and got it working again!
but i wonder why this happened in the first place?
last application i installed before the crash was double twist, i dunno why but i feel that it was the reason behind the boot loop!

Sorry for reviving this thread, but I just had this happen to me TWICE!
It happened to me first last Monday, the 23rd - the phone crashed when trying to send an email with an attachment - and went into a boot loop - Google logo would appear, no make it to the animation, and reboot....
I performed a full reset and things worked again. I didn't install all the apps I had before - figuring it must have been due to some app messing with the OS.
Well, it happened again to me yesterday! I was connecting to my bluetooth headset when the phone crashed and went into the boot loop. Full reset worked again, and I've installed even fewer apps - essentially only those that I use on a daily basis.
My phone is still on 4.0.1 and I'm hoping once 4.0.4 is pushed this may get resolved? I have a canadian GNex from Negri. I will call them again (I called the first time, but when the full reset worked I never contacted them again).
I would like to this this is a software issues, and not hardware.

I have the same problem. If you figure it out let me know.

Today my phone also entered a boot loop: [Google logo]->[black screen]->[vibration]->[Repeat]
I tried Recovery Mode, but this is what happens: (sorry for the link but I am not trusted with powerful tools such as outside links apparently, as I have not yet reached the maturity of a person with eight posts... )
dl(dot)dropbox(dot)com/u/53568097/Android.jpg
This is what I see when I navigate to Recovery Mode
For a split second I can see an image of an Android with spinning cogs in his innards, but then this little sad fellow appears. WTF is this?
EDIT:
Oh, and I'm running Android stock 4.0.2, never rooted or unlocked, Swedish. At the time when the phone started doing this, I was using Endomondo, and was about to set off on my bike when it died on me.

Stock ROM galaxy nexus bootlooping after wiping data also.
Hi,
My GNex went into a bootloop so i searched xda and found that factory reseting would be helping my prob. But after wiping the data also its still in going through the loop . Please help .:crying:

[Q] Kindle fire was in loop, now in "brick" i suppose

so, i have read just about everything i can on these forums, and have tried everything. I want to say i rooted the fire, with burrito root3, and installed fff recovery. It was all working fine, then i added golauncher, and it worked amazing. I went on vacvation, tried to hook up to wifi to watch a movie on netflix, then it turned off and went into a boot loop where the fff logo came on for 5 seconds or so then it would turn off. I tried everything i could that i read on these forums, and still not loading. I have it stuck in "fastboot" now i suppose, where the yelow firefirefire logo is just there, the only good thing with this that i have noticed, that since it stays on, the computer sees the device, but that is where i am at, i would be happy with getting back to the oem os.

[Completed] [Q] A Tough Bootloop Problem...

Good day to all. I'm here resorted to ask about my problem here because I really can't handle it. I been googling for days. I'm ran out of resources from both google and tablet. So, I hope you can help me here. Note I'm going to write this in FULL detail here, so expect this to be a extremely long post. (I been warning you) So here goes....
Anyone uses the brand Ramos?(kind of unpopular brand) I use Ramos W21, it's been using it around 1 year and a half, and it endured a lot of problems, but fixed by researching on online forums and apply various methods there. Now, I think it's finally gave up...
One time, when I opened it and play my usual apps and browsing, it caused the errors " unfortunately
google.process.gapps has stopped", unfortunately browser has stoped",and "unforturnately google play has stopped". Then, I tried to clear data the similar apps in settings as usual, and even disabling them. Then more errors exploded, and "unfortunately launcher has stopped" appears. The menu screen(where the usual wallpaper and shortcut apps are located) turns black, while my running apps are still there running. When I pressed the back key to exit the app, now only tons of errors from the launcher appears endlessly(while the screen is black.
The time I finally turned it off by hard reset it made its way to the main problem: the bootloop.
Okay, here's where the thing gets real. It opens with the usual ramos logo, but the next one is a silver flashing android logo instead of enlarged ramos logo with spinning fire from the letter o(which is NOT my usual boot up screen) When I turned it off, it reopens again up to flashing silver android logo and the cycle repeats, even with pin reset until battery dies out. No recovery mode, so I can't use it to fix this. USB connections can't be recognized when inserted to PC. And no, the tablet is not rooted, and I don't customized anything, no mods, and no fancy roms. Just using a stock rom.
So now what? All I have here is just a sd card slot, which I think there's hope in there. Right now it has two options, deal with it and fix with all of might, or repair it in the nearest repair shop(something that is pretty risky, a lot of fakes and robbers here)
Well, this is the first time I post here, so sorry for anything that goes wrong. Thanks in advance.

Hi, thank you for using XDA Assist. It sounds like a rouge app has replaced your boot animation. Rather than try to chase that down and try to fix it I'd flash the stock firmware and start all over. Unfortunately there is very little about your device on XDA. So you'll probably have to google that.

Solved!!!
Update: I FINALLY FIXED IT!!! IT WAS A MIRACLE!!! O.O
After I keep on wrecking it's power buttons and volume buttons, I discovered something decisive!
This tablet actually HAS RECOVERY MODE! Again, it has a recovery mode! However, the way how to input it is very unique compared to most devices, including other devices from the same brand!
Now having the power of recovery state, I first selected "wipe data cache". The old large Ramos logo with spinning fire appeared again! But it's still bootlooping. So I went back on recovery state, selected "factory reset" and boom, IT BOOTS LIKE BRAND NEW!!! (sacrificing my old data though)
Okay, I don't want this recovery mode powers to be kept only by me. So I'm going to share it to all Ramos users,especially the model W21, like right now!
1. To do this, you need power button and volume up button.
2. While bootlooping, hold the power button and volume button at the same time and it will turn it off(Then expect it to turn on back up again automatically)
3. When it opens up again to the small Ramos logo(no fire animation), now RELEASE the POWER BUTTON ONLY, and keep holding the volume up button. Note, this is important! If you do anymore than this, it will either black out, go bootlooping once again, or ultimately, nothing.
4. Keep holding the volume up button, then the ramos logo will disappear, and now it will enter to our holy grail, RECOVERY MODE! Congratz!
Now when you finally have a normal working Ramos tablet again, you may go there again by turning it off by "Power Off" (assuming that your tablet is open) then holding the power and volume up(then follow above!)
I hope this will help a ton for Ramos users! :laugh:

I'm glad you got it working. You should post your solution here, http://forum.xda-developers.com/general/general More people with your device will look there than in the Assist forum. Name the post something like [SOLVED] RAMOS Bootloop Problem

jd1639 said:
I'm glad you got it working. You should post your solution here, http://forum.xda-developers.com/general/general More people with your device will look there than in the Assist forum. Name the post something like [SOLVED] RAMOS Bootloop Problem
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Well thank you then for the link. Gotta go there!

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[Q] Moto G black screen

I've gone to many of threads looking for help to try to get my phone back on and working but nothing has helped so far. I can get to the fastboot screen and thats about it. Every choice on there either gets me stuck back on the black screen or it stays on the motorola screen until the battery runs out. When i plug it into my computer it installs the drivers but there isnt a way for me to get into the files on my phone and treats it like an unrecognized device, any help?

Hey @bobbybelcher,
Check this out : http://forum.xda-developers.com/moto-g/help/moto-g-bootup-problem-recovery-mode-t3122492
Do you have the same or similar issue?
If so,tell me your :
OS,Bootloader Version,what commands you tested/working and preferably images like the ones I did.

Samsung Galaxy Core 2 G355M stuck on "samsung" screen

Greetings!! before anything else, my english is pretty basic so apologies for murdering the language.
This morning i found my very old and beloved Samsung Galaxy Core 2 G355M turned off, i thought the battery depleted during night for leaving some app open like steam or chrome, anyway this happened so many times in the past so i just plugged the phone to charger, turned on and it was stuck on "samsung" screen for more than 2-3 minuteS, that was very unusual and it never happened before so i restarted hoping it was just some random malfunction but nope, the phone still stuck in that samsung screen.
I removed the battery and that didn't fixed it, neither removing the SIM card/chip and/or MicroSD.
I watched some videos (and dozens of websites) about the "hard reset" method pressing and holding home button, power button and volume up button... let me show you exactly what i mean with a couple of videos in spanish, the model they have is the exact same as mine the G355M.
then, what's the problem? well when i do it, my phone shows the green android robot with a red warning sign and then it just restarts, no matter how many times i've tried, soon as the little android guy shows up, the phone restarts, it doesn't show the "android system recovery options" like you can see in the videos above.
BUT WAIT!!! i kept trying and sometimes android succesfully loads (no system recovery tho) and then im at phone initial configuration options, you know, with some "welcome" screen, when it asks for your name, google account, samsung account, wi-fi connection and all that stuff you must fill with a brand new device. I thought the "hard reset" worked somehow but nope, now the next problem is that several android and google services crash while doing this "initial configuration" and sometimes the phone restarts itself and if it doesn't i can't continue because those "services" were crucial and the phone stays in some infinite loop trying to validate either wi-fi connection, google account or my name.
What do you thing happened with this phone? it was working just fine last night, i woke up and saw it was turned off then this permanent "samsung" screen.
Is there any PC software that can access the internal memory or fix the entire phone? maybe i can save some old SMS messages or stuff stored there which now is locked or deleted (coz i did this "hard reset?")
I know nothing about flashing, odin3 and that sort of stuff but im very familiar with PC stuff so i guess thats the only thing lef to do, mess around with the phone, there's too much info around so id appreaciate if you guys point me in the right direction (odin3 tutorial, trusty websites with firmwares, roms and that stuff for ancient samsung devices). Meanwhile gonna read everything about odin and how to flash, thx in advance.
BTW this user had almost the same problem like me...
Samsung Galaxy Core 2 (SM-G355M) - Recovery mode does not work.
Helo! I'm new here at FORUM. In a desperate attempt I decided to create an account here and try to solve my problem with a Samsung device. It all started when I received a Samsung Galaxy Core 2 device to fix. It is stuck on the Samsung screen...
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