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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] htc hd2 not booting up, not able to enter bootloader

Please help, I installed android gingerbread (2.3.7) on SD card on my HD2 and it was working fine for a couple of months. two days ago I attempted to make a call (using the touch and not the call button) and it got freezed. Battery was near by 80 % then.
I pulled the battery out... Now the charge showing RED LED is not glowing up but I think it is charging as it gets heated up at the back when I try to charge it. Also I can't turn it on, can't hard reset , can't soft reset , can't enter bootloader, and nothing else I can do. It is completely unresponsive.
I have also tried with and without the SD card.
I tried everything I could found but it cant boot.
I have spent several hours reading on xda regarding the solution for this but no luck !
What else I can do to get it bootup for once, manually on my own !!
Has the android installation on SD card caused this problem.
Is there any possibility of hardware failure.
PLEASE, PLEASE HELP IF YOU CAN !!!
thanks.

aapke_leeye said:
Please help, I installed android gingerbread (2.3.7) on SD card on my HD2 and it was working fine for a couple of months. two days ago I attempted to make a call (using the touch and not the call button) and it got freezed. Battery was near by 80 % then.
I pulled the battery out... Now the charge showing RED LED is not glowing up but I think it is charging as it gets heated up at the back when I try to charge it. Also I can't turn it on, can't hard reset , can't soft reset , can't enter bootloader, and nothing else I can do. It is completely unresponsive.
I have also tried with and without the SD card.
I tried everything I could found but it cant boot.
I have spent several hours reading on xda regarding the solution for this but no luck !
What else I can do to get it bootup for once, manually on my own !!
Has the android installation on SD card caused this problem.
Is there any possibility of hardware failure.
PLEASE, PLEASE HELP IF YOU CAN !!!
thanks.
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Is there anyone who met the same problem but ending in a solution ??

htc hd2 not able to boot and can't enter bootloader
Isn't there anyone to answer ? please it is urgent....

aapke_leeye said:
Isn't there anyone to answer ? please it is urgent....
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seems you have (soft) brick your device. please provide with photo as other people will diagnose better as they can see what displayed on the screen and can suggest something. or have you search in youtube with respected query (eq: unbrick htc hd2, etc)

Vibration problem on I8260

Hi guys,
suddently my i8260's vibration stoped working. A thousand hard resets , a thousand instalation of the original rom but nothing.
When i press the ombination key to have it entered in recovery mode it vibs just like dying and after that...nothing.
Please help me. I don't consider myself as a noob user. I have been flashing and roming android phones since Eclair.
But now i cant do something to fix that.
I cannot buy a new phone.
Thanx a lot!!!!!
Vassilis from greece

I got the same problem. Usually I am able to fix it by just giving the phone a mild punch at the top part of the phone. But now it's not working at all. You can try it if you want.
Put something around your phone. Something like a cloth.
Put the phone in vibration test mode:
In dialer app, type *#0*# then go to vibrate.
Then knock your phone against your fist softly to avoid damage. This is just to give the vibration dynamo a start.

Try Vibration test from dialer,if it doesnt then nothing to do! Give it to a good Mobile fixing store,they will deplace the dynamo!

Bang it on the right side! (Power button side) by going in the vibration menu. It works!

AnsleyC said:
Bang it on the right side! (Power button side) by going in the vibration menu. It works!
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I had the same problem and was solved when I accidentally fell off the phone

nand.96 said:
Try Vibration test from dialer,if it doesnt then nothing to do! Give it to a good Mobile fixing store,they will deplace the dynamo!
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vibration test
did you mean type *#0*# on the dialer
i'm in cosmic rom and its not working
when i type the code *#0*# and press call on any call icon sim1 or sim2
it gavies "connection problem or invalid MMI code"
all codes gives same error on cosmic rom i don't know why
do any one have another idea

stock rom
Commrade,
flash a stock rom and retry!!!
it will work!!!!:laugh:

vampin said:
Commrade,
flash a stock rom and retry!!!
it will work!!!!:laugh:
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Done Flashing the stock and it did work
now i type *#0*#
and the screen views a lot of choices [ attached screenshot 1 ]
so i choose "Vibration"
then screen got to black and nothing for few minutes
then i restart it
and try the vibration test code *#0842# [ attached screenshot 2 ]
and i press on / auto / try off and try every thing
no vibration

you have to shake it while performing the test!!!!!

vampin said:
you have to shake it while performing the test!!!!!
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i'm now on custom rom again
can u pls send the stock dialer apk [SecPhone.apk] to push it to system/app may the codes work with this way
insted of flashing the stock again
and thanks a lot for helping

vampin said:
you have to shake it while performing the test!!!!!
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now only when i shake it it vibrate other wise it not
this mean that motor is fine
but what denied it to vibrate when call coming or any other thing
power save mode off 4 sure
so what else
can any one help ?

Capacitive Buttons not Working

I have the Verizon variant of the Galaxy S6
A few different times now the capacitive buttons stopped working. They don't light up, they don't work, and there is no haptic feedback from them. It always happens after a restart, but not the first restart.
I have tried factory reset and that didn't work. I had to flash my phone using Verizon's repair assistant to fix the problem.
The second time it happened I thought it was due to installing that Galaxy Lights app everyone is talking about. I booted into safe mode, uninstalled the app and restarted. Once I did it worked for a few more days before it happened again. I did a full repair to fix it.
A few minutes ago it happened again. This time I haven't installed that app or any other apps that would affect the buttons. I am rooted with Ping Pong but I haven't done anything other than remove a few bloatware items and use Titanium Backup.
Any suggestions? I'm desperate to find the problem and a solution so I don't have to keep resetting my phone. Thanks!

So, I booted into safe mode and the buttons were working fine. I didn't do anything and restarted into normal boot mode. Now the buttons are working just fine. We'll see what happens in the next few days if it reaccures.
Has anyone else had similar problems with them stop working?

Problem Again
I rebooted my phone and the buttons stopped working again. Booting into safe mode doesn't fix the problem.
I haven't installed any apps recently and no apps at all that would have an impact on the soft keys. I have a small hunch it may be caused by having a handful of apps open as i restart.
Any special resets or things I should try to get my soft keys working again?

This just happened to me today.
Galaxy S6, VZW.
Buttons were working just fine, and then suddenly stopped working as I was using the phone.
I had noticed a strange screen briefly that looked like the task manager but had no "close all" at the bottom, but I dismissed it and then shortly thereafter the buttons seemed to just stop working.
Haven't tried a safe mode boot yet. Will do that shortly.
If this is going to become a recurring thing, I'm sad.
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dth74 said:
Haven't tried a safe mode boot yet. Will do that shortly.
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Nope. No dice. Soft buttons (capacitive) not working at all (not lighting up at all either - even at boot).
Any ideas?

That sucks
Try uninstalling any recent apps that might affect haptic feedback, display settings, etc while in safe mode.
Otherwise you'll have to flash using Verizon recovery software. It'll install itself once you connect your phone to your PC. This will completely reset your phone so be sure to backup.
If you don't want to do all that just use "Handy Soft Keys"
It'll make a floating widget with the soft keys. I ultimately had to do a warranty exchange with VErizon.

I've had the same thing happen to me. Capacitive buttons just stopped working after having the phone for a week.
I've tried rebooting, running the battery down to 0, rebooting to safe mode. Nothing seems to work.
I've enabled the "tablet software buttons" (qemu.hw.mainkeys=0) in the interface so I can still use it for now, was hoping they'd magically start working again so I don't have to get a warranty (refurb) replacement.
Anyone else find something that fixed them?

nicjansma said:
I've had the same thing happen to me... Anyone else find something that fixed them?
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Best advice I have is to flash your phone back to stock.
I still haven't restarted my phone, I really don't want them to stop working again.

nicjansma said:
Anyone else find something that fixed them?
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Nope.
I tried a full factory reset/wipe, to no avail.
Took it to the VZW store and they got me a replacement no questions, though. The new phone has been working fine -- -- -- so far...

seems its a hardware issue. I've tried different ROMs flashing through Odin. Nothing happened. Sometime works, sometime not!!!

I will try to answer all the problems of XZ2 :)

Hi , i have working with more than 100 xz2 phones , i got many problems and fix it (google and xda) , so I think I can help you to fix your problem with xz2 asap if u ask me in this post
My exp :
Flash
Unlock
Root
and some small problems...

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sinommo said:
Hi , i have working with more than 100 xz2 phones , i got many problems and fix it (google and xda) , so I think I can help you to fix your problem with xz2 asap if u ask me in this post
My exp :
Flash
Unlock
Root
and some small problems...
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Hello,
My wife's Sony Xperia XZ2 Compact with model number H8324 has an issue with booting or maybe the launcher getting stuck in a loop after getting to the lock screen for a split second.
The phone seems to boot like normal and gets to the lock screen, we are even able to punch in one or two digits of the 4 digit pass code. Then it goes into a loop of the notification bar and back button flickering. From then on the phone is not responding except for the power button which brings up the normal "Turn off, Reboot, and Lockdown" menu. The issue just started out of nowhere yesterday morning and we haven't been able to fix it yet. We haven't done any rooting or custom rom flashing, it's running the official Sony software but it's out of warranty.
Here's a video showing the issue. The video shows the whole boot process but the link takes you to the last part after the logos.
We would love to get some files off it so if there is a way anyone can help us with that we'd prefer it over a hard reset.
Things we've already tried
Turning the phone off and on again
Unlocking the phone in the split second the lock screen works, this is just too short to swipe up and then put in four digits.
Rebooting the phone
Booting while charging
Booting into safe mode (this has the same issue)
Connecting the phone with USB to a pc, the phone is recognized by Windows, but it doesn't share it's filesystem with Windows.
Connecting the ADB to it, alas usb debugging is not yet enabled on the phone
Trying to get into recovery mode, we haven't been able to get into the recovery menu. Googling seems to indicate it might be holding volume up + power button when the phone is off but then it doesn't seem to do anything at all.
We're currently trying to run out the battery of the phone to see if that will resolve the issue on it's own.
If anyone has any idea, we would love to hear it.

mohhom said:
Hello,
My wife's Sony Xperia XZ2 Compact with model number H8324 has an issue with booting or maybe the launcher getting stuck in a loop after getting to the lock screen for a split second.
The phone seems to boot like normal and gets to the lock screen, we are even able to punch in one or two digits of the 4 digit pass code. Then it goes into a loop of the notification bar and back button flickering. From then on the phone is not responding except for the power button which brings up the normal "Turn off, Reboot, and Lockdown" menu. The issue just started out of nowhere yesterday morning and we haven't been able to fix it yet. We haven't done any rooting or custom rom flashing, it's running the official Sony software but it's out of warranty.
Here's a video showing the issue. The video shows the whole boot process but the link takes you to the last part after the logos.
We would love to get some files off it so if there is a way anyone can help us with that we'd prefer it over a hard reset.
Things we've already tried
Turning the phone off and on again
Unlocking the phone in the split second the lock screen works, this is just too short to swipe up and then put in four digits.
Rebooting the phone
Booting while charging
Booting into safe mode (this has the same issue)
Connecting the phone with USB to a pc, the phone is recognized by Windows, but it doesn't share it's filesystem with Windows.
Connecting the ADB to it, alas usb debugging is not yet enabled on the phone
Trying to get into recovery mode, we haven't been able to get into the recovery menu. Googling seems to indicate it might be holding volume up + power button when the phone is off but then it doesn't seem to do anything at all.
We're currently trying to run out the battery of the phone to see if that will resolve the issue on it's own.
If anyone has any idea, we would love to hear it.
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I think u just need to reinstall rom file with newflasher and stock rom , did u tried it ? with newflasher newest version , u still can keep the personal files and flash stock rom for the phone , then i think this phone will run normal again
If u dont know how to do that , reply comment here , but u should turn off the phone to keep battery well , if u can't turn off the phone , try to press and hold volume up button + power button within 5 sec , phone will vibrate 3 times and totally off

Is there a way to get a stock recovery if somehow the recovery has been deleted?