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Stuck in the bootloop :(

I noticed One+ was a bit slow so I decided first to switch from power save to balanced and it was still going slow so I decided to do a reboot. After the reboot the phone got stuck at the boot animation. I can get into recovery tried a factory reset didnt help. Im wondering if i try flashing the OS if that would work. Plus what would be the best way to do so.

What ROM, Kernel are you using?
Switching from Power Save to Balanced shouldn't cause your phone to be stuck in a boot loop. Something else caused it.

Everything is stock, it was really weird I was considering maybe using adb to flash a stock img (although i have little experience doing that). I tried rebooting again to potentially start this process (this is after a good 5 or 6 reboots and a factory reset) and it started up to the welcome screen. Another side issue it seems like the factory resets for this device only wipe the apps + user data. I know if I was rooted i wouldnt expect the media to be wiped but its stock with the stock rom. I bought it off ebay and when i went to load my stuff i did a factory reset and noticed the previous owners data including call/text logs and contacts were all on the device

mrfantastic said:
Everything is stock, it was really weird I was considering maybe using adb to flash a stock img (although i have little experience doing that). I tried rebooting again to potentially start this process (this is after a good 5 or 6 reboots and a factory reset) and it started up to the welcome screen. Another side issue it seems like the factory resets for this device only wipe the apps + user data. I know if I was rooted i wouldnt expect the media to be wiped but its stock with the stock rom. I bought it off ebay and when i went to load my stuff i did a factory reset and noticed the previous owners data including call/text logs and contacts were all on the device
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If you were to flash a stock image, it would be done in fastboot mode and not adb mode. So is your phone booting yet?
You can always adb sideload a custom ROM and flash that to get your phone to a bootable state again.

The phone booted up after a good 3 hours a factory reset and multiple reboots

Accidentally deleted TouchWiz Home? What can I do?

So I accidentally uninstalled Touchwiz Home and the phone keeps on rebooting. I got into the regular recovery mode and cleared cache, but the phone still reboots. The swiping screen turns on, but then it says "com.android.phone has stopped working or something like that and then immediately restarts. Is there a way to fix this? Or at least recover all of my files before restoring it? I really do not want to lose all of my files. Thanks.

juicylemon said:
So I accidentally uninstalled Touchwiz Home and the phone keeps on rebooting. I got into the regular recovery mode and cleared cache, but the phone still reboots. The swiping screen turns on, but then it says "com.android.phone has stopped working or something like that and then immediately restarts. Is there a way to fix this? Or at least recover all of my files before restoring it? I really do not want to lose all of my files. Thanks.
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There may be a couple of ways of correcting this. Much will depend on what bootloader and modem you are on.
Are you on a stock ROM, and if so what version?
Or, are you on a TouchWiz based custom ROM?
If you are rooted and have USB debugging enabled you may be able to adb to copy files and/or directories to a computer. You have probably already copied everything from the external sdcard to your computer. It is unfortunate that the stock recovery does not have file manager that allows you to copy to the external sdcard, TWRP does. TWRP may be an option if you are on an early version of the stock ROM.
As a final resort, on times when I have upgraded with OTAs or flashed custom ROMs without formating the internal sdcard the media partition remained intact. This may not be true with an Odin flash of the stock ROM. Then again /media may still be preserved.

Galaxy S6 can't boot with data

My Galaxy S6 is in Bootloop.
When the lock screen appears it restarts, staying in this situation forever. I did full backup on TWRP, then did a clean rom flash (Noble Nougat 5.1), it restarted and I set it up normally. When I joined TWRP and restored Data to get back with my apps, the bootloop problem came back. I tried to get into safe mode to uninstall some app that was conflicting, but even going into safe mode it rebooted by itself.
I can copy any file from my S6 to an external hard drive through the TWRP file manager.
Is there any way to back up some applications in the situation that my S6 is? There are some apps that I can not lose data for nothing.

igorreis088 said:
My Galaxy S6 is in Bootloop.
When the lock screen appears it restarts, staying in this situation forever. I did full backup on TWRP, then did a clean rom flash (Noble Nougat 5.1), it restarted and I set it up normally. When I joined TWRP and restored Data to get back with my apps, the bootloop problem came back. I tried to get into safe mode to uninstall some app that was conflicting, but even going into safe mode it rebooted by itself.
I can copy any file from my S6 to an external hard drive through the TWRP file manager.
Is there any way to back up some applications in the situation that my S6 is? There are some apps that I can not lose data for nothing.
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Maybe that's because you are trying to recover apps from an old android/system version.

How to bypass Recovery Mode?

Hello everyone,
So I have a rare issue. I have a OnePlus 6. Today, it started to act really weird. It became so slow that even swiping on home screen with no apps opened takes like a minute to register. I forced power off the device. When powering on again, it seemed like it take around 10 minutes or so to boot. Again, extremely slow. I tried everything from restarting and clearing app cache while in the system itself but no luck.
So, next thing I booted to recovery mode, typed my pin, and cleared system cache and settings. It started to progress until just a tiny bit left before the end of the progress bar, and it got stuck again. Kept like this for a long time. I had to force power off the device again. Now, when I try to power on the device, it launches into Recovery Mode. I tried my pin but it wouldn't decrypt and looks like the device is no longer recognizing it. I tried a couple of "default passwords" but it wouldn't work either. It only gives the option to "Forget Password?" Which should wipe everything off the phone. The only other mode it launches into is Fastboot Mode. I'm using Stock everything and Device State is Locked. I'm not sure where to go from here.
Now my question is, is there any way I can open my device again without losing data? Maybe some way I can pull files using adb in that state then factory reset? Or maybe someway I can bypass Recovery Mode and boot again? I have important data that I can no longer access if the only way to fix this is by wiping everything!
Can anyone help? Much appreciated in advance.

When a phone permanently boots into Recovery mode then either Android OS is corrupted - for whatever reason - or phone's bootloader is misconfigured.
If phone is accessible by either ADB or Fastboot you can try to exit Recovery mode by forcing phone to boot into Android OS ( Normal mode AKA System ) by applying the related ADB and/or Fastboot command.

Recover data of frozen Samsung Galaxy A51 SM-A515F

Hello,
my friends Samsung Galaxy A51 crashed while using it, opening a google docs link she received via WhatsApp.
Restarting the phone will only show Samsung logo, then Samsung Galaxy A51 logo and then dead again. No boot loop.
In the morning the wake up alarm set in the phone plays its chimes but display remains black.
Rebooting phone with holding volume down doesn't work.
The phone is not rooted or flashed.
I can enter Recovery mode. Tried to restart system. Tried to delete cache. Tried to repair apps. None of this changed anything.
I can connect via adb but only in Sideload mode. Hoped to unsintall Samsung Browser as this might be a damaged app. But I don't have permission because USB debugging is not toggled. I tried adb restart and adb restart recovery. Phone will no restart to Android. Restarting to recovery works but doesn't solve the problem.
I can bring the phone to Download mode. Btw. none of the tutorials helped to do this. At some point I double-tapped the power button and was surprised to get into Download mode. I wanted to flash TWRP recovery to the phone to get more options to backup and recovery. Unfortunatley the OEM protection did not allow me to flash TWRP recovery.
My friend is from Ukraine and has her Ukrainian banking app registered with this phone and currently no other possibility to access her bank account. Also she has a lot of data like contacts, messages, photos and videos only on this phone. So we can not do a factory reset.
Do you have any other ideas for troubleshooting?
Do you have any ideas how to remove OEM protection without access to OS so I can at least flash TWRP and do a backup?
Do you have any other idea how I could backup the phone?

Unfortunately I still have not been successful to get the phone working again or to backup or read any data.
Just to add another information: I drained the battery to 0% so the phone was totally dead. I was not optimistic that this full power off might help any more than the restarts I did so far. But running out of ideas. It didn't help or change anything.
I'm afraid only a factory reset could at least repair the phone :-(

Frisbee7 said:
I'm afraid only a factory reset could at least repair the phone :-(
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Without OEM-Unlocking and USB-Debugging you will not be able to install TWRP and if so then all data would be gone automatically anyway, as this is equivalent to a factory reset.
The only way would be to download the STOCK-ROM with "Frija" (quick and free) and flash it with "Odin". Of course, the mobile phone is then virgin and has to be set up again from the beginning. A Google login restores a lot of data. Setting up the banking app again (username & password, etc.) shouldn't be a problem either.
Of course you can also try a factory reset first, but setting up a completely new one is not avoided here either.
Much luck!