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[Q] Why does my G2x keep shutting off randomly?

I've only had the phone for less than 24 hours and I'm ready to send it back. Someone help me out please.
My phone keeps shutting down randomly. I rooted, installed CWM (Yes the nvFlash), Installed Evils ROM from the dev section.
The phone shut down right before bed last night and it must have done it sometime through the night because I had to restart it in the morning. Today it turned off a couple of times and my logical thought was that it was the ROM.
I switched over to EaglesBlood 1.0.5 hoping it would be a little more stable. It took a little longer, but it still shut completely off.
Nevermind the battery life I just want it to stay on. I'm no genius, but I'm pretty decent with ADB and terminal if I can fix it. Let me know if I'm overlooking something.

this phone has several issues. check the rest of the forums. what you are experiencing is one of them and it only gets worse from here.....

unclemik9 said:
this phone has several issues. check the rest of the forums. what you are experiencing is one of them and it only gets worse from here.....
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I've read most of the issues. I was hoping there was a way to fix it. I talked to a customer service rep at the Tmo store today. He said there is supposed to be an update released by the end of the month.
I rooted so I never have to worry about releases. Usually Cyanogen and his team are all over this kind of stuff. (Cue G1)
I really wanna know why it's doing it and how to fix it.

You by chance have an app that flashes the home buttons as a notification? When I deleted that, my random shut offs dropped...
Is it shut down? Or is the screen black? I get the occasional black screen... if you hit the power button the screen gets a little brighter... if it's that you can just do a hard reboot, power+volume up
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Still not working

Okay I think this will help out. I'm been trying different ROM's for a couple of weeks now in an effort to get this to stop this is what's happening.
1. The phone shuts off completely and you need to pull the battery out to get it to turn on with the power button.
2. The phone turns off during a call or during use and starts up again with the boot animation.
3. Shuts off while charging in the middle of the night or while on the car charger.
What app needs deleted or removed? How do I do it? I'd like to post the solution up for anyone having this same problem.
BobbyDukes707 said:
You by chance have an app that flashes the home buttons as a notification? When I deleted that, my random shut offs dropped...
Is it shut down? Or is the screen black? I get the occasional black screen... if you hit the power button the screen gets a little brighter... if it's that you can just do a hard reboot, power+volume up
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Download this Rom. It is based off of the GB update from LG and lets you keep root. It may solve your problem. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1158513

pdxmatts said:
Download this Rom. It is based off of the GB update from LG and lets you keep root. It may solve your problem. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1158513
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I'm flashing this ROM now. I'll try running it for a few days and see if I get any improvements.
I hit the thanks button. I'll post what happens.

I am getting the same problem with my G2x randomly and whiles its charging and I have tried roms CM7 Nightly, EaglesBlood, Trigger, and MIUI but all start shutting off sooner or later. Tell me if that rom fixes yours.
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It's a hardware problem unfortuantely

strung said:
It's a hardware problem unfortuantely
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So should I send for another phone? Or try fixing this one?

strung said:
It's a hardware problem unfortuantely
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not necessarily. never had a single reboot until the new baseband and rom combo I am running now. now i seem to lock up every time i take the phone off a full charge in the morning.

Another company to add to the "I will never buy a phone from this manufacturer again" category.

Kevc44485 said:
Another company to add to the "I will never buy a phone from this manufacturer again" category.
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If you added a company for every time they had a flawed product, you'd end up making your own electronics.
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HOX Stuck at boot "One" screen, Haven't Flashed Lately

I was on the phone earlier for a fair bit, when I hung up I noticed the battery at 4%. Got home little bit later and when I checked my phone again it was off, I hit the power button so it began to power on, and I them plugged it into AC charger right away while booting up. A couple of minutes later and I noticed it was still on the "One" boot screen (on a sense ROM at the moment, ViperXL 2.1.1). Tried holding power to reboot and it did the same thing.
Figured I leave it plugged in for a little bit, maybe battery was just really low. After about 30 minutes or so it was plugged in, still on the same screen (couldn't power it off it would just reboot). Tried to reboot again, and got stuck on the same screen. This time however I noticed the phone was quite hot, though it seems to be cooling down slightly since I've unplugged it, but not 100% sure.
What could be the issue/any ideas? I haven't flashed anything in over a week, last being ViperXL 2.1.1 and BeastMode Kernel 3.0. First time dealing with potential boot issues as I am always very careful when flashing. Any help is appreciated!

Try reading threads before you post. You may have read a thread that said don't post questions in General. There is a Q&A forum for this.
Anyways, try erasing the caches and rebooting.

Myrder said:
Try reading threads before you post. You may have read a thread that said don't post questions in General. There is a Q&A forum for this.
Anyways, try erasing the caches and rebooting.
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Yeah I was thinking this might not be the right place but wasn't totally sure, I apologize.
I was having trouble getting it to boot into the bootloader as well, forgot to mention that originally, holding volume down and power wasn't working. However after not sure how many attempts I did get it somehow. Perhaps I was holding the buttons down incorrectly, I think I let go of power early the time it worked? Not sure. After a straight system reboot from recovery did not work, I tried wiping cache's as you said and it booted fine! Much thanks.
Again apologies from rushing to make a thread, just got kind of frustrated with not being able to boot into even the bootloader or just power it down for awhile, for seemingly no reason. Someone can delete this thread if they'd like. Thank you though!

maybe your phone doesnt like the overclock. not all phones can handle high overclocks and some cant work with ANY overclock. i would try letting the phone charge and flashing the stock boot.img

Songlambr37 said:
Who else in the world still use the manly Dell Venue?
who can help us upgrade it to 4.0?
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I think you're lost

Songlambr37 said:
Who else in the world still use the manly Dell Venue?
who can help us upgrade it to 4.0?
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Wtf,.. This is second thread I've seen that in,..
WR
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Chrysis said:
I was having trouble getting it to boot into the bootloader as well, forgot to mention that originally, holding volume down and power wasn't working. However after not sure how many attempts I did get it somehow. Perhaps I was holding the buttons down incorrectly, I think I let go of power early the time it worked? Not sure.
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Almost always a matter of pilot error (as long as you have a charge light coming on, it should go to hboot no problem). Correct way is to hold vol down rocker, don't let it go, then press the power button for 3 seconds or so. Release the power button (but keep holding vol down). Don't let go of vol down until the hboot screen comes up.
If the screen is on, you can do the same as above, with the only change being: holding the power button down for 5 seconds or so until the capacitive buttons flash, then release the power button.

WarRaven said:
Wtf,.. This is second thread I've seen that in,..
WR
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I'm on it.
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"If you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice"
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Chrysis said:
Yeah I was thinking this might not be the right place but wasn't totally sure, I apologize.
I was having trouble getting it to boot into the bootloader as well, forgot to mention that originally, holding volume down and power wasn't working. However after not sure how many attempts I did get it somehow. Perhaps I was holding the buttons down incorrectly, I think I let go of power early the time it worked? Not sure.
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Future reference to boot into.downloader...
-lock screen like you would be putting phone in pocket
-hold power + vol down unroll screen goes off
-let go of POWER BUTTON ONLY right after screen goes off and continue holding vol down.
You'll boot into downloader just fine.
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Sorry to resurrect a slightly old thread, but was there any solution to this? My phone just died last night and won't start back up. It just stays stuck on the loading screen. I went into recovery and deleted the caches just in case, but it hasn't fixed anything. I have a nandroid backup from a weeks ago that I can just if I have to, but I'd prefer not to since I'd lose the app data.
Any ideas?

Valohtar said:
Sorry to resurrect a slightly old thread, but was there any solution to this? My phone just died last night and won't start back up. It just stays stuck on the loading screen. I went into recovery and deleted the caches just in case, but it hasn't fixed anything. I have a nandroid backup from a weeks ago that I can just if I have to, but I'd prefer not to since I'd lose the app data.
Any ideas?
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Reading the thread says wiping caches worked for the OP.
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Ah right missed that. Didn't work for me unfortunately. Would re-flashing the ROM without wiping work?

Valohtar said:
Ah right missed that. Didn't work for me unfortunately. Would re-flashing the ROM without wiping work?
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That was going to be my next suggestion. Its your best bet if you don't want to lose all of your app data.
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[Q] Bricked? And why?

So I am running cleanrom 5.5.1, unlocked bootloader and original first leak radios. I was texting and all the sudden bam. rebooted to a black screen. Can't access download mode or recovery. The Samsung logo pops up followed by the s3 logo, then a dimly lit black screen that never ceases till battery pull. When I try download mode, some blue text pops up in the upper left hand corner, then reboots to logo screens then back to black screen. Also, when I pull battery and put it back in, plug in a charger and the battery icon appers on screen. When it goes dark I can wake it with the menu button and see the battery icon again. Any suggestions? If not fixable, would I be able to get a replacement from verizon? (I bought the phone less than a month ago renewed contract. Any help is much appreciated!

If the blue text is popping up your trying recovery, not download mode. Pull battery put it back in then hold volume down , home, and power until the download mode warning shows up
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kintwofan said:
If the blue text is popping up your trying recovery, not download mode. Pull battery put it back in then hold volume down , home, and power until the download mode warning shows up
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i too just ran into the black screen after flashing an aosp kernel running slim 3.1 and im trying this way of getting into recovery and i hold down volume home and power and it still boots normally. i think i soft bricked my phone because i see the samsung logo but i never get to a bootlogo and only the hardkeys light up. im losing my damn mind and dont know what to do! i know its fixable cause i can see the samsung logo but i dont know what to do because the three finger salute wont work to get into recovery and i know that my bootloader is unlocked. not trying to thread jack just figured itd be pointless to post a new thread when the op is having virtually the same problem -___- lol go figure the first day i have my s3 i do this ****.. good thing i still have my nexus til i get it fixed.

Deltadood24 said:
i too just ran into the black screen after flashing an aosp kernel running slim 3.1 and im trying this way of getting into recovery and i hold down volume home and power and it still boots normally. i think i soft bricked my phone because i see the samsung logo but i never get to a bootlogo and only the hardkeys light up. im losing my damn mind and dont know what to do! i know its fixable cause i can see the samsung logo but i dont know what to do because the three finger salute wont work to get into recovery and i know that my bootloader is unlocked. not trying to thread jack just figured itd be pointless to post a new thread when the op is having virtually the same problem -___- lol go figure the first day i have my s3 i do this ****.. good thing i still have my nexus til i get it fixed.
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Well you're right. Since you get life it's fixable. I would say pull your battery for a little while. Put it back in then hold volume down, home and while holding them both hold power. Your phone should boot into Odin mode.
Back stock for now....YUCK!

I had exactly what your describing
jndd333 said:
So I am running cleanrom 5.5.1, unlocked bootloader and original first leak radios. I was texting and all the sudden bam. rebooted to a black screen. Can't access download mode or recovery. The Samsung logo pops up followed by the s3 logo, then a dimly lit black screen that never ceases till battery pull. When I try download mode, some blue text pops up in the upper left hand corner, then reboots to logo screens then back to black screen. Also, when I pull battery and put it back in, plug in a charger and the battery icon appers on screen. When it goes dark I can wake it with the menu button and see the battery icon again. Any suggestions? If not fixable, would I be able to get a replacement from verizon? (I bought the phone less than a month ago renewed contract. Any help is much appreciated!
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I had just rooted and flashed Jellywiz the previous day. The next day at work, I don't know why, but I must have experienced some kind of massive battery drain. The phone would not reboot, I would plug it in and it would just vibrate and flash the battery sign on the display every few moments. I had to put the phone on a charger for about 15 minutes and let the battery charge until I was even able to get the phone to boot. I would not boot while plugged into an AC charger until I let it charge. Very weird, and it hasn't happened again since but I swore that my phone was bricked. Basically the battery was so dead it wouldn't boot the phone, let it charge with out ****ing with it for a while and then try and boot it up.

kintwofan said:
Well you're right. Since you get life it's fixable. I would say pull your battery for a little while. Put it back in then hold volume down, home and while holding them both hold power. Your phone should boot into Odin mode.
Back stock for now....YUCK!
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I don't know how to use Odin I did the non odin way to root lol I can get into download mode tho so apparently its fixable thank god. I feel like a noob right now I didn't ever do anything like this on my nexus or tbolt and then the first day I do it on my s3 -___- guess I gotta read up on Odin
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Deltadood24 said:
I don't know how to use Odin I did the non odin way to root lol I can get into download mode tho so apparently its fixable thank god. I feel like a noob right now I didn't ever do anything like this on my nexus or tbolt and then the first day I do it on my s3 -___- guess I gotta read up on Odin
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Odin is easier then it seems, but make sure you know what you're doing because you can brick your phone with it. However, there is a great guide right here on how to unbrick your phone. Just follow section 5, I did it last night(to just clean up my phone)
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=28530394
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kintwofan said:
Odin is easier then it seems, but make sure you know what you're doing because you can brick your phone with it. However, there is a great guide right here on how to unbrick your phone. Just follow section 5, I did it last night(to just clean up my phone)
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=28530394
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So do I need to do all the steps in section 5 including flashing the radios if I never messed with them prior to rooting?
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Deltadood24 said:
So do I need to do all the steps in section 5 including flashing the radios if I never messed with them prior to rooting?
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You may want to double check section 5 it's one file that includes the entire stock ROM including a locked boot loader and the radios that match.
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kintwofan said:
You may want to double check section 5 it's one file that includes the entire stock ROM including a locked boot loader and the radios that match.
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Oh okay thank you man! Sorry to thread jack op! I'll check it out
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thanks guys
The first several times nothing would work not even download mode, my recovery console was gone too. after several tries download mode popped up so I immediately hooked up to odin and reflashed a stock root. all good now. Still wonder why it borked itself in the first place. Seems to be a mystery but I'm not too keen on flashing cleanrom 5.5.1 again...

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The first several times nothing would work not even download mode, my recovery console was gone too. after several tries download mode popped up so I immediately hooked up to odin and reflashed a stock root. all good now. Still wonder why it borked itself in the first place. Seems to be a mystery but I'm not too keen on flashing cleanrom 5.5.1 again...
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i couldnt get odin to work on my computer for some reason and after searching through google i found a forum on getting into the stock recovery and figured id try it and my phone decided to cooperate and go back to clockworkmod after all that and now my phone is fixed lol technology..

No worries about jacking thread I'm glad my post lead others to help another with not the same but similar issues. I've been out of the dev circle since g1 days but I think its time to play around and execute some system dumps after a bit of tweaking. definitely like Odin! All in one multi partition flaher! Fashing via adb used to be too cumbersome with the early sdk's!
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Yeah I got a lot to learn about programs its crazy how much stuff there is to know and things constantly get added every day lol the android community is very interesting that's for sure
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Phone suddenly acting completely wrong

So, I don't know what happened. I didn't touch a thing on this phone, haven't changed any settings or installed any apps for weeks. However, just now, my phone has decided to start acting up in a bad way.
I'm on Paranoid Android 2.52, and I have been for many months now, with no stability issues of any kind. However, without any warning or cause on my part, something got reset. The first thing I noticed was that all of my settings reset to the default Android settings. I had to go through and change all my settings back to how I want them. Then I discovered that there's nothing I can do to get my lockscreen to work again. I have it enabled, I've tried every variation of lockscreen on this ROM, with delay, without delay, but the lockscreen just won't show.
Then I noticed that my notification bar won't display any notifications. It'll show the time, battery, Wi-Fi and other small logos. But the alarm, timer, text, e-mail, etc. notifications will not show on the bar at all. My phone will vibrate when receiving and e-mail or text, but no notification will appear.
Then I noticed that in SMS Popup, which I use, I can't un-hide the message on the popup. I have the privacy set such that I have to tap the little eye logo to display the message. But now that logo no longer responds. It will change color on press, but will not un-hide the message. All I can do is close the popup with the message unseen.
Then I noticed that my home button doesn't work. Either short- or long-press. Short-press should take me to my home screen, long-press should take me to recent apps. It does neither. My phone will vibrate when I touch the home button, but it does nothing. I've checked my settings, and they are as they should be. The button just won't do anything.
I'm sure there's many, many more issues I'm yet to discover. What on Earth happened to my phone and how do I fix this?
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I've tried rebooting, turning it off, pulling the battery for a few minutes. Had no effect. And I have no idea what else to do.
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Titanium just reported to me that my phone's ID somehow changed. This indicates a factory reset, but I certainly didn't do that.

dstarr3 said:
I've tried rebooting, turning it off, pulling the battery for a few minutes. Had no effect. And I have no idea what else to do.
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When all else fails I personally start completely over using this thread http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1524081 ,boot into completely stock GB go through setup,reboot into stock GB,then reboot into download mode, flash Zen's A16 kerrnel with recovery,reboot,then follow directions for installing whatever ROM you desire.My two personal favorites(YMMV)are 2.3.6 GB deodexed,zip-aligned,debloated and BeanStalk

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When all else fails I personally start completely over using this thread http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1524081 ,boot into completely stock GB go through setup,reboot into stock GB,then reboot into download mode, flash Zen's A16 kerrnel with recovery,reboot,then follow directions for installing whatever ROM you desire.My two personal favorites(YMMV)are 2.3.6 GB deodexed,zip-aligned,debloated and BeanStalk
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Yeah, I ultimately decided that the only thing I could do is just go back to stock and work my way up to BeanStalk. I enjoyed PA for a while, but all the BeanStalk discussion piqued my interest.
Anyway, I just wish I knew what happened to cause my phone to spontaneously fail so completely. It's seriously of a case of it working before I put it in my pocket, and it being completely ruined when it came out.

dstarr3 said:
Yeah, I ultimately decided that the only thing I could do is just go back to stock and work my way up to BeanStalk. I enjoyed PA for a while, but all the BeanStalk discussion piqued my interest.
Anyway, I just wish I knew what happened to cause my phone to spontaneously fail so completely. It's seriously of a case of it working before I put it in my pocket, and it being completely ruined when it came out.
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If you go back stock and run it for a day or two should let you know if it is a hardware issue.

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If you go back stock and run it for a day or two should let you know if it is a hardware issue.
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Yeah. As soon as I went back to stock, everything was immediately back to normal. But, my past three phones have all lasted anywhere between 21-24 months without any problem, and then suddenly falling apart like the Blues Brothers car and becoming completely unusable overnight, just in time for me to upgrade to new phone with a discount. And, since my contract is up in a couple months, I wouldn't be shocked if my phone's about to have its end-of-term breakdown.
I'd really like to avoid the introductory prices on the S4, though... If I could keep this phone going until about June, I'd love that.

dstarr3 said:
Yeah. As soon as I went back to stock, everything was immediately back to normal. But, my past three phones have all lasted anywhere between 21-24 months without any problem, and then suddenly falling apart like the Blues Brothers car and becoming completely unusable overnight, just in time for me to upgrade to new phone with a discount. And, since my contract is up in a couple months, I wouldn't be shocked if my phone's about to have its end-of-term breakdown.
I'd really like to avoid the introductory prices on the S4, though... If I could keep this phone going until about June, I'd love that.
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I don't have contracts and I've had phones with faster,newer,better hardware and I come back to and enjoy my Infuse more. As long as there is this kind of active development for it I will keep picking up cheap Infuse.

elbscorp said:
I don't have contracts and I've had phones with faster,newer,better hardware and I come back to and enjoy my Infuse more. As long as there is this kind of active development for it I will keep picking up cheap Infuse.
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Yeah, I'll admit Scott's solely responsible for keeping my interest in this phone. A year ago, I was still on Froyo and I was getting bored with it and wanting a new phone, but I stumbled across PA somehow and thought I'd give it a shot. Three PA roms and Bean Stalk later, I'm still loving my Infuse.
The problem is that the hardware's just not holding up anymore. I'm having the famous power button issue. I'm going to try to gut my phone and clean the button myself, but beyond that, there's not a lot that can be done about it. I'd really love to dedicate the Infuse to an alarm clock/media player when I get my new phone, so I can still have something to mod. But I just don't know how I'm going to adjust to the sudden lack of customizability when I get the S4 with a stock release of Android.

[Q] Can't get into recover, phone won't boot, CM9

Hi there,
I have a Rogers Galaxy SGH-i727R. About three weeks ago, the phone started re-starting on it's own. I though maybe it was a sticky power key and had that replaced. The problem persisted. I then noticed that it was primarily upon receiving text messages that the phone would reboot. So it seemed it was a software issue. I am running the stable build of CM9.
Yesterday the phone rebooted and never got off the angry alien screen. I pulled the battery, charged it etc and still could not get it to fully boot up. I left it for over an hour. I finally decided to call it quits and re-flash the phone. Problem is, it will not boot into recovery at all. When I hold down Vol + - and Power, it jsut goes into a loop of vibrating every three seconds until I let go and then it tries a normal boot again. Once, I briefly got a screen saying I was trying to install custom software and to press volume up to do so, but before I could hit volume up, the phone cycled off.
I should also mention that the four buttons on the bottom of the screen do not work. I accidentally sliced the wires on the side of the phone when opening it up. I use a software button saver widget to access their functions. I wonder if that issue is related....
Thanks for any advice. I would like to get into recovery so I can load a new ROM or a stock ROM.

You're going to get blasted for posting this here....
That being said, your power button is borked, common on these phones. Happened to mine, but I was still under warranty so it was replaced.

eagercrow said:
You're going to get blasted for posting this here....
That being said, your power button is borked, common on these phones. Happened to mine, but I was still under warranty so it was replaced.
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He said his was replaced and the issue continued..
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Blast away
Sorry. Where should I be posting this? I am happily corrected. I find the titles of the forums confusing, sorry.

btm fdr said:
He said his was replaced and the issue continued..
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Your point? I can't tell you how many times I've been sent "new" or "tested good" parts and they are DOA when installed. Or people who claim to have replaced or fixed a part but really didn't.
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Sorry. Where should I be posting this? I am happily corrected. I find the titles of the forums confusing, sorry.
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In the Q/A section is the proper place. I had the exact same issues you are having, fortunately I had the option to trade it in for a new one. Good luck!