I wanted to clear the system cache because my phone was acting laggy and the battery was running down very fast even with little use. I attempted to boot into recovery by holding the volume+, home and power buttons. The phone rebooted and did a factory reset instead of booting to recovery. I tried a second time with the same result. I have booted to revcovery using the same method before. It's a good thing I didn't have anything important on my phone that wasn't backed up because I would have been screwed. I was able to boot to recovery using ADB command at a terminal on my PC and clear the cache but since the phone was factory reset twice it probably didn't matter. One positive is that the phone is running smoothly and the battery life is back to normal (which isn't saying much). And I'll probably will be selling it soon anyway since I ordered a S7 Edge. So anyway has anyone else ever experience that?
That's an unpleasant surprise! Luckily I haven't had that happen to me during the many times I've cleared the cache.
I had the same thing happen, but lost a lot of stuff I really needed. Really frustrating way to figure that one out.
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I have a problem with my Galaxy S2 where it's in a constant reboot loop and the only way to stop it is by taking the battery out.
I'm sure that if I do a factory reset it'll go back to normal.
The problem is, I can't back anything up because as soon as the phone boots up it restarts.
Is there ANY other way to back up my photos and videos etc?
I have NOT rooted the phone
Cannot find any solutions online
I'm currently having this problem too. A couple of days ago it kept rebooting in a loop. I took the battery out and left it for a while, then let it charge. It seemed okay afterwards. Now today it keeps rebooting, and the past couple of days it has refused to charge the battery because apparently the battery was "too hot or too cold" (don't quote me on that) so I'm very confused. Just now though the battery was about half-charged and it still went into the reboot loop.
Something else you should know is that like the OP it has the stock OS on. It isn't rooted or modified. I don't want to factory reset it because I have spent so much time customising it (with apps) and it would be a pain in the ass if the problem still existed afterwards. One thing I must ask the OP is, did you recently get a 64GB MicroSDXC card for your S2? I ask this because I did a couple of weeks ago and it's been working fantastically and was said to work fine with the S2, but I'd like to explore any possible reason this reboot loop is happening.
Thanks.
Edit: To confirm I deleted the cache and this didn't help. I don't want to hard reset...
I've just done a factory reset - I hadn't realised that it only affects my apps and not my files.
The phone is ok now.
I did and man my phone is messed up. It got stock (going on 15 min) atthat little droid animation with the wireball rolling around in the android belly. Not sure how to fix it.
robstunner said:
I did and man my phone is messed up. It got stock (going on 15 min) atthat little droid animation with the wireball rolling around in the android belly. Not sure how to fix it.
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I just pressed the power and volume up/down then it loaded to the bootloader. Once there i wiped cache and data. Then waited a bit while it was wiping data, then held down the power and it restarted. Hopefully that helps.
Ugh, im getting pissed. Second phone same thing. I factory reset from the settings menu. 100% stock. Every time i restart the damn phone it stuck attempting for format data for >15 mintues before i get pissed. If i choose bt tools or factory, it loads the phone just fine, but when i reset, back to the same problem.
EDIT: 8th time around it took just over 13 minutes and the phone reset.
robstunner said:
Ugh, im getting pissed. Second phone same thing. I factory reset from the settings menu. 100% stock. Every time i restart the damn phone it stuck attempting for format data for >15 mintues before i get pissed. If i choose bt tools or factory, it loads the phone just fine, but when i reset, back to the same problem.
EDIT: 8th time around it took just over 13 minutes and the phone reset.
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Did it actually reset itself though? Clearly there's something wrong with the stock recovery. I can wipe cache fine, but do a data wipe, or factory reset, and it hangs... though I never let it go more than 5 minutes. I had used the fxz files previously, so I'm glad to hear it's not those and apparently a problem with the actual recovery img that came with the phone.
It also does seem to actually wipe data... something just must be getting stuck not allowing it to move forward when it's done.
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Did it actually reset itself though? Clearly there's something wrong with the stock recovery. I can wipe cache fine, but do a data wipe, or factory reset, and it hangs... though I never let it go more than 5 minutes. I had used the fxz files previously, so I'm glad to hear it's not those and apparently a problem with the actual recovery img that came with the phone.
It also does seem to actually wipe data... something just must be getting stuck not allowing it to move forward when it's done.
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Nothing wrong with it, it takes ages to erase, wait like 20 mins and it will eventually come back. It happened to me too.
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Nothing wrong with it, it takes ages to erase, wait like 20 mins and it will eventually come back. It happened to me too.
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Well at least that's good to know - but that seems way off timewise, regardless. I know there's more internal storage than most devices, but still...
Yep, it just takes a massively long time. Sorry for the pre teen freak out.
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Yup apparently it just takes a little bit. All good on my end.
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Did anyone that had this problem have a progress bar the whole time? I bought a used Razr maxx hd online and it was factory reset. I tried to boot and got the same issue (android guy with geometry spinning forever) did a hard reset (power + volume down) same thing. Finally got into recovery menu (power + volume up + volume down) and any option i chose would reboot and finally load. But after activating the phone and having all my apps loaded I decided to test a reboot on the phone. Sadly it got stuck again and after using the same method to boot, I had lost everything. Hope there's a fix for this, not sure I can do a swap since I bought this used.
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Did anyone that had this problem have a progress bar the whole time? I bought a used Razr maxx hd online and it was factory reset. I tried to boot and got the same issue (android guy with geometry spinning forever) did a hard reset (power + volume down) same thing. Finally got into recovery menu (power + volume up + volume down) and any option i chose would reboot and finally load. But after activating the phone and having all my apps loaded I decided to test a reboot on the phone. Sadly it got stuck again and after using the same method to boot, I had lost everything. Hope there's a fix for this, not sure I can do a swap since I bought this used.
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Yea, just let the android guy spin, and go back to in 20 minutes. If still spinning, 10 more minutes. It should be good after that. If not, return that thing!
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Yea, just let the android guy spin, and go back to in 20 minutes. If still spinning, 10 more minutes. It should be good after that. If not, return that thing!
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I let it run a long time, finally rebooted but erased everything again. Then I tried installing the new update. Again hung on android guy long long time, reboot finally and again had to setup the phone and update didnt even install.
Can I just run this by you to see if there is anything you can add?
My wife’s phone started misbehaving recently it froze up and wouldn’t charge. On inspection I found it had had a little drink of water, only a very small splash but there was definitely some inside when I took the battery out to investigate. It was in her bag where a drink bottle spilled a little.
Anyway did all the usual stuff once I realised: stripped it out and put it in the airing cupboard overnight, still problems. With the remaining battery I managed to reload a clockwork backup I had on it and it seemed to start working, started charging and run for a while. It then froze. It seems the screen stops working but the vol and pwr buttons still function. Booting into recovery ALL functions work perfectly, I can run the tests (the lower screen buttons work) reload roms etc but as soon as I boot into the rom, mostly the screen refuses to work but sometimes it works for a minute or so (enough time to restore the user account after a factory reset). But after a while and always after the screen time out, nothing will work again, not even the power button. Needs a battery pull to allow it to run again.
Any ideas? I assume it is shagged. I was going to try a complete wipe and re install a new different rom. Any suggestions which one to try?
Thanks for any help.
Keith.
you said that you've pulled battery while the phone was running...you could fry the eMMC chip ("E: can't mount /cache/...." error in recovery) does your recovery show that error?
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you said that you've pulled battery while the phone was running...you could fry the eMMC chip ("E: can't mount /cache/...." error in recovery) does your recovery show that error?
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No I am pretty sure it isn't fried. I know it is dodgy to pull the battery but since I recon the thing is buggered any way I have actually now done this dozens of times. The chip seems to be ok. How do I know for sure? I can mount and unmount the cache from within the revolutionary loader screen but it doesnt do anything or give any messages. Where would I see the error message?
I just loaded the new cm10 rom. It seems to work sort of ok running this though it did freeze once and the screen behaves funny. presses take a long time to register - like it is running really slowly and single taps usually respond as long pushed. I am going to try an old rom (3.5) with a full wipe and see if it is any better with this.
Thanks.
Also I had this error and also because of wather and the phone maked like yours. But....I put older recovery non touch clasic version of 4ext and after I recover a older backup and start working normal.... I think this you can do and don't cost nothing.
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Hey all,
First of all, forgive me if this has already been covered, but I couldn't find any threads that had a solution to this specific problem that worked for me.
That said, I have a Droid RAZR MAXX HD that I rooted and flashed to page plus just about two years ago. I have since unrooted the phone. It was running on jellybean 4.1.2 if I recall correctly. The phone has been great and I've been very happy with it till today. I shut it down, nothing out of the ordinary, just decided to turn it all the way off. When I later went to turn it on, it got stuck in the middle of the little boot animation where the robotic iris opens to reveal the red eye. It froze there for 3-5 seconds and then rebooted only to do it again. Funny thing is, it freezes at a different point every time. Some times the red eye is completely visible and sometimes the iris hasn't even started to open. I tried booting without the sd card and when that didn't work I tried all the other typical stuff: simulated battery removal, cache wipe, factory reset-wipe-format. I also tried a stock system data wipe as well as a stock recovery, both with mattlgroff's Doid RAZR utility from AP Fastboot mode. Still nothing.
At this point I'm at a loss. I bought this phone for $300 back when it was the phone to have and it's been a great phone, I don't want to lose it if I don't have to. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Just a quick update.
I decided to take my phone apart and see if there were any loose connections that might be causing issues with booting. I didn't find any loose connections so I put it back together, and decided to try booting it on a whim. To my surprise, it booted perfectly. A few weeks ago I installed ancleaner, and app that claims to clean your cache, yada yada. I'm guessing that somewhere along the line, it managed to corrupt a deep system file or the cache or something. Regardless of what really happened, my phone is alive again, and I think that it was probably due to physically disconnecting the battery. So moral of the story is, don't trust the simulated battery pull, and physically disconnect it for a time instead.
I have this Photon Q that I got for like 8 bucks that I use as a dashcam. I have another one so it's not a big deal if I can't fix it, but I'd like to if possible. I unlocked it and put TWRP on it, mostly out of boredom, and put CM 13 on it. Works pretty well, but it stopped charging when the phone is on. It only charges if it's off now, even though it fully recognizes the USB. It's weird. I tried loading a stock backup I made, fails every time even though the backup I made with CM on it works fine. Tried restoring completely with RSD Lite, which also fails. Also, if I try to turn it on normally it goes into fastboot saying "flash failure" and will only boot if I go into fastboot mode and select factory reset, even though it doesn't reset the phone or anything, just makes it boot normally.
I've had like 3 of these phones, my first one I used for about a year before it fell 2-3ft from a couch onto a carpet and now it has no video whatsoever. No idea how that happened and it's definitely the board, not the screen. Now I have a Pixel so I just use it as a backup/dashcam.