I'm not sure how best to describe this which has made it difficult to search the forums for someone with a similar issue.
I was using CleanROM 5.1 on my rooted Verizon Samsung SIII for months. Just yesterday it decided to stop responding so I pulled the battery and turned it back on. The screen it showed me after booting was that of my background with the apps button in the middle and the clock and battery in the top right. My menu and back button were lite but I couldn't do anything.
I flashed the CleanROM 5.6 thinking something might have become corrupted but the same issue happens when I boot.
Any help would be greatly appreciated!
** Update **
I'm doing a factory reset as well. Hopefully that will do the trick. It actually it booting up and doing something now
For starters just try wiping cache, and dalvik. Are you doing clean flashes every time?
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So I just got tried to download the official ICS update for the device using kiev and the download and everything went great but when my phone restarted it froze on "updating android: starting applications"
After it was frozen for around 30min I held down the power button to reset it, and it froze at the same point, I reset it again and it froze on the "rethink possible" att load up screen, so I pulled the battery and restarted it to find it freezes on "rethink possible" and that is where it has currently been for the past 10 minutes.
I'm stumped.
You too???
Glad to hear I'm not the only one who's phone keeps freezing and freezing after this update. I've got a feeling we won't be the only ones. I already called AT&T and they directed me to Samsung. To be continued...
Ditto Here
Same for me. My phone was rooted (original ROM) - that make any difference?
Unbricked
This worked for me
Found on forums dot att dot com
Re: Skyrocket upgrade to ICS is frozen
Fixed! The guy at the AT&T store showed me how:
Remove and replace the battery.
Hold the power button and BOTH volume buttons at the same time.
It will boot into Fast Boot mode, which is like a service/diagnostic mode.
In the menu, there will be a reset to factory option.
Select it, confirm.
It will restart. It will take a moment, and then come up factory fresh, with ICS.
Reinstall your apps and you are good to go. My guess is one of the apps we had installed was not ICS compatible; a service or something.
you can read the sticky thread in general section
[HOWTO]:RESTORE:ODIN stock firmware w/sammobile:ROGERS|ATT: GB|ICS
edit: sticky now moved to the dev section
Yeah my cache froze after updating from an ics rom at that. Phone wouldn't clear caches or format or backup / restore. Had to go back to gb with a gimped error back up then flash stock recovery and that cleared my cache. I clear it five times now I do anything. ****ty experience.
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Hello Peeps,
I was trying to flash a rom yesterday and had something strange happen to me.
The rom featured Aroma installer and I had flashed this particular rom roughly 5 or 6 times with no issues.
Yesterday, I did a full wipe and tried to do a new install of this rom.
There was an option screen in aroma that allows you to choose your own mods and features or use the developers defaults.
I was on this screen trying to choose the developers defaults option and Aroma simply froze up.
It would not let me choose with version to flash.
The touch screen wouldnt respond and I didnt know what to do.
I searched google and found nothing.
I decided to do a battery pull.
I know that a batter pull during a flash is something we should never do as it will brick our phones.
In this case, as the flash had not actually started yet I decided to try it.
I pulled battery and booted into recovery and was able to restore a nanroid.
I am just curious if anyone else has had this issue?
How dangerous was it to pull my battery?
Could I have bricked my phone?
Phone has been working just fine, I am just wondering if there is another way to resolve an issue with Aroma like that?
Thank you,
I never had that problem as for the pull battery it is fine as long as you're not flashing.
I was installing a ROM on my sister's s3 when the aroma installer completely froze. I pulled the battery and it boot looped but wouldn't go into recovery until around the 10th or so time (vol up + home + power). Flashed it again and it worked fine...really weird.
As for bricking your phone I agree with above poster, it should be fine if you aren't flashing anything.
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I've had this same issue happen a couple of times. It usually happens when I try to install the Jelly 'Beans' rom...sometimes it will work, sometimes it will freeze. I usually have to do a battery pull and recovery will come right back up. I've noticed this seems to happen the most when the phone has grown hot...so maybe it has something to do with RAM, etc.
The title pretty much says it. I've been trying to flash Axis since last night and once it hits 100% I hit the next button..it vibrates, then completely freezes. I wiped dalvik, system, and full data each time i've tried it. Didnt know what to do so I tried to restore it..and then it gets stuck on the LiquidSmooth boot screen. I'm a noob at this rom stuff so I dont really know what else to do and its stressing me out. please help!
Aroma can be a bit finicky. I have had to battery pull several times during an aroma install. Just be persistent is about all I can suggest. I haven't heard of ant tricks that helps.
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Verizon Galaxy S3
SCH-I535
I535VRBMF1
4.1.2
It's rooted. Previously have run some custom roms, but I've gone back to stock since then.
Problem: Phone randomly restarts. It seems like it's only ever does it when it's plugged in and charging. Still, it happens just once every few days, and I can't recognize the pattern. It loads "Android is upgrading, starting apps." It vibrates for a nanosecond, and freezes, then restarts, and loops from there.
I don't know what to do, and fresh starts, factory resets, wiped caches, etc...do nothing
Thanks for anything guys. It's becoming quite annoying to change my settings and to rely on titanium backup every night to make sure that apps and data are there if something happe
cam1john said:
Verizon Galaxy S3
SCH-I535
I535VRBMF1
4.1.2
It's rooted. Previously have run some custom roms, but I've gone back to stock since then.
Problem: Phone randomly restarts. It seems like it's only ever does it when it's plugged in and charging. Still, it happens just once every few days, and I can't recognize the pattern. It loads "Android is upgrading, starting apps." It vibrates for a nanosecond, and freezes, then restarts, and loops from there.
I don't know what to do, and fresh starts, factory resets, wiped caches, etc...do nothing
Thanks for anything guys. It's becoming quite annoying to change my settings and to rely on titanium backup every night to make sure that apps and data are there if something happe
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If you're completely stock, it leads me to think it may be hardware related.
I would try to odin a stock image again and see if that fixes the issue, just in case something bad happened during the flash, if that still doesn't fix the issue, send it into samsung and see if they'll replace your phone.
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BadUsername said:
If you're completely stock, it leads me to think it may be hardware related.
I would try to odin a stock image again and see if that fixes the issue, just in case something bad happened during the flash, if that still doesn't fix the issue, send it into samsung and see if they'll replace your phone.
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It's been rooted and has had custom rom.
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I've been having spontanious reboot problems where my charge would reboot and get stuck in a boot loop freezing on the droid eye animation and rebooting. In the past I've been able to clear the delvic cache and regular cache and get the phone to boot and go back to working order. Today however, clearing cache didn't work. Thinking this was a software problem, I connected the phone to oden and flashed the stock software ED1. I was planning to install back to EP5 and redo Tweaked 3.2 since the phone had developed a lot of lag.
Now the phone gets to the droid eyebll and stays there. Every so often the animation freezes for a second or two then continues. Is the phone dead? Can it be brought back to life so that I can use it while I figure out a new phone. I'm asking because this is my only smartphone and I'm now stuck activating my old chocolate flip
Mike
Why all the way back to ED1? Do you have everything backed up in case you need to flash with the pit file?
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beavermjr said:
I've been having spontanious reboot problems where my charge would reboot and get stuck in a boot loop freezing on the droid eye animation and rebooting. In the past I've been able to clear the delvic cache and regular cache and get the phone to boot and go back to working order. Today however, clearing cache didn't work. Thinking this was a software problem, I connected the phone to oden and flashed the stock software ED1. I was planning to install back to EP5 and redo Tweaked 3.2 since the phone had developed a lot of lag.
Now the phone gets to the droid eyebll and stays there. Every so often the animation freezes for a second or two then continues. Is the phone dead? Can it be brought back to life so that I can use it while I figure out a new phone. I'm asking because this is my only smartphone and I'm now stuck activating my old chocolate flip
Mike
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No, the phone is not dead, it is a bit lag.