My Photon Q won't boot up for some reason. I didn't do anything especially strange to it. It ran out of power, I plugged it in as it was turning off and then it wouldn't boot up. It's not a problem with the screen because when I turn it on it still comes up with "Bootloader unlocked etc" but then I just get a blank screen, with the LCD on, but just black. So the phone is rooted and I managed to get it into TWRP. Any ideas on what I can do to get it working?
Charge it enough to see if you can get it to boot... This is always a dangerous scenario with this device it seems, running the battery completely dead.
I had similar issues where I could not boot because the battery would die before it would finish booting. If you can get it to offline charge, that's the best thing to do. If not, try to charge it in TWRP.
Once you get enough of a charge, it should boot. If it still doesn't, restore a backup in recovery.
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Charge it enough to see if you can get it to boot... This is always a dangerous scenario with this device it seems, running the battery completely dead.
I had similar issues where I could not boot because the battery would die before it would finish booting. If you can get it to offline charge, that's the best thing to do. If not, try to charge it in TWRP.
Once you get enough of a charge, it should boot. If it still doesn't, restore a backup in recovery.
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Hi arrrghhh, thanks for the reply. I tried doing that and it didn't work, but thankfully I managed to backup my photos, phone numbers and text messages using TWRP, followed this guide (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2295643) and did a stock reset. So now I can relax in the knowledge that my phone isn't dead afterall.
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Hi arrrghhh, thanks for the reply. I tried doing that and it didn't work, but thankfully I managed to backup my photos, phone numbers and text messages using TWRP, followed this guide (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2295643) and did a stock reset. So now I can relax in the knowledge that my phone isn't dead afterall.
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Evidently you didn't have a full backup?
You should definitely make one - can't always depend on links to stay alive with this old device.
Honestly that should be step #1 after flashing a custom recovery like TWRP... immediately take a full backup in case you ever need to restore.
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Evidently you didn't have a full backup?
You should definitely make one - can't always depend on links to stay alive with this old device.
Honestly that should be step #1 after flashing a custom recovery like TWRP... immediately take a full backup in case you ever need to restore.
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Do you know how to get APNs working? You probably know that changing the MNC number causes the APN to disappear. I managed to get it working before, but that was ages ago and I can't remember how I did it.
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Do you know how to get APNs working? You probably know that changing the MNC number causes the APN to disappear. I managed to get it working before, but that was ages ago and I can't remember how I did it.
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OK, it turns out I didn't have to change the MNC, and it's working with the default value of 20. Thanks anyway!
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I boot directly into recovery mode every time I shut down and or cold boot my phone. I'm not too sure why, but if I can get help on how to get a log that will show if and or why it is happening, thank you.
into boostrap recovery? mine does that too. i never thought anything of it, just hit reboot system now and it boots like normal. slightly annoying but no big deal i dont think.
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into boostrap recovery? mine does that too. i never thought anything of it, just hit reboot system now and it boots like normal. slightly annoying but no big deal i dont think.
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Yes, into bootstrap recovery. It sometimes boots when I plug it into charge after a complete shutdown. True, it's just an extra step, I guess it's good in a way. Haven't figured out how, but just a wild guess. Thank you for the reply botnryan
botnryan, how did you get your phone to boot into bootstrap after looping?
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botnryan, how did you get your phone to boot into bootstrap after looping?
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im guessing youre talking about when i pretty much bricked it after applying a theme? Well, i had it on (looping) and pulled the battery and immediately reinserted it. you shouldnt have to hold down the power button for it to come back on, and it SHOULD boot into bootstrap recovery. Now the 2nd time i bricked my first d2g, this didnt work, therefore i couldnt fix it. Hopefully it works for you. Try plugging it in to charge and then pulling/reinserting the battery too.
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Yes, into bootstrap recovery. It sometimes boots when I plug it into charge after a complete shutdown. True, it's just an extra step, I guess it's good in a way. Haven't figured out how, but just a wild guess. Thank you for the reply botnryan
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This is a safety feature so if you've messed up your phone but not too bad you can get into recovery and fix your mistake.
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How do you wipe bootstrapper recovery? In case I ever have to return my GF's D2G I would like to get it back to stock before I take it in.
But anything that may change the state would be a huge help if you have a thought?
All I have right now is a quick LED and battery charge signal for a second then gone.
I can't get into download or recovery mode or power on.
I switched CWM versions (after a nandroid and attempting to reinstall the previous CWM would error) and then tried to flash cm10.
I went into bootloop and tried to pull the battery since i couldnt force it to recovery so i could restore factory but nothing now.
Again, I think i screwed myself, but if you can save me money I'd appreciate any thoughts.
dont know how to help man. unless you know how to jtag, it sounds like you are hard bricked. by the way, you do know that cm10 is SUPPOSED to bootloop for a few minutes on every boot right? or maybe your battery was really low during flash, or maybe you got a bad md5 sum for your download? more info on what you did to make this happed would make it easier to help you.
Make sure your doing the right combination for download mode. Volume down home button and power.
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dont know how to help man. unless you know how to jtag, it sounds like you are hard bricked. by the way, you do know that cm10 is SUPPOSED to bootloop for a few minutes on every boot right? or maybe your battery was really low during flash, or maybe you got a bad md5 sum for your download? more info on what you did to make this happed would make it easier to help you.
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yeah. it rebooted over a dozen times.
im not sure if when i updated CWM to touch and a newer version if for whatever reason it didnt recognize the nandroid from an hour earlier.
but that doesnt really make sense.
i have to think i did something wrong with the recovery img
so now there is no response to any of the hardware buttons.
crap. and thanks.
How about listing the steps on what you did to get where you are now.?
I've had somewhat similar problem. Mine turned out to be dead battery and phone wouldn't charge. I ended up charging battery on buddies phone, which allowed phone to boot. Then I wiped everything and started from scratch. Everything returned to normal
A few details before I start
I am on Galaxy S3 i535 from Verizon, was running CleanROM 5.6 for a few hours after coming from Codename Android that I was using for a few days(I've been going crazy with trying roms lately.)
I flashed LiquidSmooth 2.0 with CWM (never have used odin)
On all of these flashes before i did so I wiped system/factory reset, wiped cache and dalvik cache, and formatted system, cache, and data.
I had just finished flashing Liquid Smooth about an hour ago and was installing a few things with titanium back up. everything up until this point was going fine, got all my apps instaIlled and ready to go, and I head into the settings and try to turn on a few things and edit some settings in the Liquidsmooth settings.
Now my phone is stuck in a bootloop and I'm not sure what to do. I have tried power/volume down, power/home/volume up, power/home/volume down, and nothing will get it to reboot. I dont know whether or not it is safe to take out the battery and start from there, so if that is the route I should take, please let me know.
I have no experience with odin, but I can most definitely look that up so I wont need help there. Just some help on whether or not I should take out the battery or do something else. I just don't want to brick it in any way if that is avoidable:fingers-crossed :fingers-crossed:
Thanks to whoever can help me!
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I used the search a little better this time and saw people say pull battery on similar cases, and I did that, and I'm still stuck in bootloop. (It seems like in most of the threads I found pulling the battery was a given so people didnt mention it, but I needed to know for sure.) So I am still in the bootloop and am just going to boot into download mode and go from there.
Alright I was able to odin to stock, and now im back to square one.
Not sure how to delete threads :S
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A few details before I start
I am on Galaxy S3 i535 from Verizon, was running CleanROM 5.6 for a few hours after coming from Codename Android that I was using for a few days(I've been going crazy with trying roms lately.)
I flashed LiquidSmooth 2.0 with CWM (never have used odin)
On all of these flashes before i did so I wiped system/factory reset, wiped cache and dalvik cache, and formatted system, cache, and data.
I had just finished flashing Liquid Smooth about an hour ago and was installing a few things with titanium back up. everything up until this point was going fine, got all my apps instaIlled and ready to go, and I head into the settings and try to turn on a few things and edit some settings in the Liquidsmooth settings.
Now my phone is stuck in a bootloop and I'm not sure what to do. I have tried power/volume down, power/home/volume up, power/home/volume down, and nothing will get it to reboot. I dont know whether or not it is safe to take out the battery and start from there, so if that is the route I should take, please let me know.
I have no experience with odin, but I can most definitely look that up so I wont need help there. Just some help on whether or not I should take out the battery or do something else. I just don't want to brick it in any way if that is avoidable:fingers-crossed :fingers-crossed:
Thanks to whoever can help me!
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I used the search a little better this time and saw people say pull battery on similar cases, and I did that, and I'm still stuck in bootloop. (It seems like in most of the threads I found pulling the battery was a given so people didnt mention it, but I needed to know for sure.) So I am still in the bootloop and am just going to boot into download mode and go from there.
Alright I was able to odin to stock, and now im back to square one.
Not sure how to delete threads :S
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ok i only read the first few lines but manually boot into cwm by either vol up or down and multi function and power at the same time and upload a rom like synergy i know it works and u should be good
WOW!
This I cant believe!
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I have tried power/volume down, power/home/volume up, power/home/volume down, and nothing will get it to reboot.
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ok i only read the first few lines but manually boot into cwm by either vol up or down and multi function and power at the same time and upload a rom like synergy i know it works and u should be good
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Yeah, we noticed you only read the first few lines. :what:
If you are gonna try to help at least read the whole OP.
And to manually boot recovery its: Volume up+home+power.
Not
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EITHER vol up or down and multi function and power at the same time
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OP you are missing the point here. You have to take the battery out and put it back in before going to recovery. Once you have done that try vol-up/home/ power at the same time. Once samsung logog appears look at the top left if you see words release. it will boot to recovery. You can take it from there.
I accidentally dropped my OPO face first from about chest height earlier today. The screen didn't break but now my phone is acting weird.
First, it was okay but after a few minutes, it hanged up and was on a boot loop. I tried a factory reset but now I'm unable to get wifi (wifi button is off with a orange square around it) and the boot loop and hanging still persists. The phone does heat up and seems to go out of the loop if its cool enough. Hangs up if it gets hot.
Any help on fixing this? I'm going to try a fresh install in a few minutes but I'm kinda feeling this is a hardware issue already.
The fact that it still does it even after doing a factory reset is concerning. Try doing a complete factory restore as per this thread and then also try this. If both fail to resolve the issue i suspect your hardware has been damaged and i don't see you fixing the issue one your own unfortunately.
Yeah, unfortunately I did both already. Installed stock build and the Audio FX fix. The Audio FX bug is still showing up though. Not sure if I have done anything wrong in replacing persist.img
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Yeah, unfortunately I did both already. Installed stock build and the Audio FX fix. The Audio FX bug is still showing up though. Not sure if I have done anything wrong in replacing persist.img
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You could also try flashing this. Though i think its unlikely to fix the issue, you don't have anything to lose at this point...this also re-flashes the reserve4 partition.
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You could also try flashing this. Though i think its unlikely to fix the issue, you don't have anything to lose at this point...this also re-flashes the reserve4 partition.
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Just an update, my phone is now dead. After rebooting several times this morning, it suddenly lost power. Not even charging helps. No response from power button and can't even fastboot. I guess the main board got affected when it fell and fried itself up in the process.
Crap. I'm really sad about this..I'll probably try opening it up and see if anything got dislodged. You think that's a good idea?
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Just an update, my phone is now dead. After rebooting several times this morning, it suddenly lost power. Not even charging helps. No response from power button and can't even fastboot. I guess the main board got affected when it fell and fried itself up in the process.
Crap. I'm really sad about this..I'll probably try opening it up and see if anything got dislodged. You think that's a good idea?
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I sorry to hear that bro, its a bummer. You might as well open it up yourself and see if you can find anything obvious wrong with it, or you could try and get in contact with OnePlus and find out if they can do a repair of sorts, but i wouldn't get my hopes up on that though.
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I sorry to hear that bro, its a bummer. You might as well open it up yourself and see if you can find anything obvious wrong with it, or you could try and get in contact with OnePlus and find out if they can do a repair of sorts, but i wouldn't get my hopes up on that though.
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Well, it seems there's power. The phone is slightly hot when touching it. I tried plugging via PC and Windows recognizes there's a USB device although after trying to install drivers, it prompted me that the device was not recognized. Not sure what to do at this point though.
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Just an update, my phone is now dead. After rebooting several times this morning, it suddenly lost power. Not even charging helps. No response from power button and can't even fastboot. I guess the main board got affected when it fell and fried itself up in the process.
Crap. I'm really sad about this..I'll probably try opening it up and see if anything got dislodged. You think that's a good idea?
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Well, it seems there's power. The phone is slightly hot when touching it. I tried plugging via PC and Windows recognizes there's a USB device although after trying to install drivers, it prompted me that the device was not recognized. Not sure what to do at this point though.
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As what does Windows' Device Manager show/identify the device ?
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As what does Windows' Device Manager show/identify the device ?
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My phone is back but still boot looping. Would installing other ROMs solve the problem? I won't be able to RMA this so it's not an option.
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My phone is back but still boot looping. Would installing other ROMs solve the problem? I won't be able to RMA this so it's not an option.
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It could perhaps, but lets start here: Can you boot into fastboot mode? If YES does it reboot itself while in fastboot or is it actually stable as in it stays in fastboot?
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It could perhaps, but lets start here: Can you boot into fastboot mode? If YES does it reboot itself while in fastboot or is it actually stable as in it stays in fastboot?
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It's actually quite stable. I had never seen it reboot when in Fastboot. It's also worth mentioning that if I'm in Recovery Mode (TWRP installed), the phone also doesn't reboot.
I also noticed that ever since the drop/boot loop/hangs, my phone reboots very long (around 2-3 minutes it it does boot into the system; which happens less frequently than the boot loop). Before it took probably a minute at most to reboot.
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It's actually quite stable. I had never seen it reboot when in Fastboot. It's also worth mentioning that if I'm in Recovery Mode (TWRP installed), the phone also doesn't reboot.
I also noticed that ever since the drop/boot loop/hangs, my phone reboots very long (around 2-3 minutes it it does boot into the system; which happens less frequently than the boot loop). Before it took probably a minute at most to reboot.
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Another update. So here's what I found out. My phone needs to be super cooled for it to work. I tried putting it in front of the air conditioner. If it's really cool, WIFI works. When it gets slightly warm, my phone hangs up. When it reboots, I lose wifi. After that, if I still don't cool it down, boot loops happens.
I'm not sure what's happening but it seems that it's an overheating issue perhaps?
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Another update. So here's what I found out. My phone needs to be super cooled for it to work. I tried putting it in front of the air conditioner. If it's really cool, WIFI works. When it gets slightly warm, my phone hangs up. When it reboots, I lose wifi. After that, if I still don't cool it down, boot loops happens.
I'm not sure what's happening but it seems that it's an overheating issue perhaps?
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Well that is possible, i suppose. Maybe the heat-spreader moved away ever so slightly of the CPU, or isn't making good enough contact with it anymore which would lead to it not properly dissipating the heat. Unfortunately that i wont be able to know.
Lets assume that this is a software issue for now. Have you tried this yet by any chance ?
If not it is definitely worth a shot. Before flashing it i recommend clearing cache partition & dalvik cache in TWRP first then reboot into bootloader mode and then run this as per the READ ME file which is included.
There are essentially 3 batch file you need to run and it will recreate all the partitions on your device etc.
PS: You need to register on the OnePlus forums to actually be able to view the thread.
PPS: If for some reason the download link is bad let me know and ill mirror it for you on my dropbox.
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Well that is possible, i suppose. Maybe the heat-spreader moved away ever so slightly of the CPU, or isn't making good enough contact with it anymore which would lead to it not properly dissipating the heat. Unfortunately that i wont be able to know.
Lets assume that this is a software issue for now. Have you tried this yet by any chance ?
If not it is definitely worth a shot. Before flashing it i recommend clearing cache partition & dalvik cache in TWRP first then reboot into bootloader mode and then run this as per the READ ME file which is included.
There are essentially 3 batch file you need to run and it will recreate all the partitions on your device etc.
PS: You need to register on the OnePlus forums to actually be able to view the thread.
PPS: If for some reason the download link is bad let me know and ill mirror it for you on my dropbox.
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Yeah, unfortunately I have the 16GB version. Any chance what's the difference? Is it just the userdata.img?
So I guess i followed an outdated tutorial! My phone ever since the ota update months ago destroyed my battery life felt sluggish and constant reboots. Today i followed a tutorial to install rom manager to install clockwork mod recovery so I can delete dalvik cache. On reboot i get "System software not authorized by Verizon Wireless has been found on your phone.”
So now after I realized that the bootloader is locked,
1) Is there a way I can get my phone to work again.
2) But MOST importantly, did I completely screw up and lost any of my pictures saved on the phone?
I'm posting here because everything I look up online is either outdated or I am afraid to break things more. So I would like someone to help me.
Thanks.
P.S. Im pretty sure I had the newest OTA which is 4.4 i think. And the phone was Rooted with towelroot. I can also boot into downloading mode.
Update: Ok so I pressed down + home + power to download mode but this time I pressed Down to cancel and the phone booted to my homescreen. I'm kind of scared to never ever restart my phone. Is my data safe? why booting this way work?
Thank you.
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So I guess i followed an outdated tutorial! My phone ever since the ota update months ago destroyed my battery life felt sluggish and constant reboots. Today i followed a tutorial to install rom manager to install clockwork mod recovery so I can delete dalvik cache. On reboot i get "System software not authorized by Verizon Wireless has been found on your phone.”
So now after I realized that the bootloader is locked,
1) Is there a way I can get my phone to work again.
2) But MOST importantly, did I completely screw up and lost any of my pictures saved on the phone?
I'm posting here because everything I look up online is either outdated or I am afraid to break things more. So I would like someone to help me.
Thanks.
P.S. Im pretty sure I had the newest OTA which is 4.4 i think. And the phone was Rooted with towelroot. I can also boot into downloading mode.
Update: Ok so I pressed down + home + power to download mode but this time I pressed Down to cancel and the phone booted to my homescreen. I'm kind of scared to never ever restart my phone. Is my data safe? why booting this way work?
Thank you.
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On the newest kk OTA you can't run a custom recovery other than safestrap. Unsure if your data is safe at this point since you've created a soft brick
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well I don't think this is a soft brick since now I can boot like normal. If I shut off the phone and restart it it boots fine. The only thing now is if i press home +power +up i get that message. So not sure how to delete the recovery and undo what i did.
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well I don't think this is a soft brick since now I can boot like normal. If I shut off the phone and restart it it boots fine. The only thing now is if i press home +power +up i get that message. So not sure how to delete the recovery and undo what i did.
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You will have to Odin back to stock that's basically your only choice. And if it was a hard brick your phone wouldn't work at all
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Thanks bro. I'll leave it like this until I have time to do a backup. I need a new phone anyways because of the battery drain. Is there a method or app you recommend to do a back up
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Thanks bro. I'll leave it like this until I have time to do a backup. I need a new phone anyways because of the battery drain. Is there a method or app you recommend to do a back up
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If you can get into recovery and make a backup it's worth a shot. And yea I understand what you mean about battery drain. I love my S3 and I will probably never get rid of it. Try to get into recovery if you can and if not we will go from there
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