What the heck just happened. My s6 was on 6%, so I plugged it into a USB from my PS4. Next thing you know, while playing rocket league, I look down and my phone says something about 'erasing data..'. At this point I have no idea whats going on. Then I realize it is doing the system update that I had been putting off for a long time.
I immediately took it off the charger and was waiting for it to finish and then my phone died. I forgot it was on such a low %. When I plugged it in my fast charger and came back a few minutes later, it made me go through set up wizard and everything was erased.
My first question is, how is this possible. After years of rooting/flashing my s3 and s5, I never thought that I would accidentally wipe a phone without doing anything (my s6 isnt even rooted).
Second question is, is there anything I can do? I just want the pictures really... I'm big on memories and have backed up every picture I've taken since my LG Ally. But I have over 100 that have been erased and wish I could get back.
edit: question 3. will this phone ever be rooted. If yes, I can just switch phones and hold on to this one and try to recover stuff later when I can root but those odds aren't looking good
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Yesterday at around 4:15PM I plugged my Samsung Galaxy S 3 phone to charge. When I looked a few minutes later, the screen was showing the android reinstallation screen. My phone performed a full factory reset by itself, it even formatted the external SD card.
The crazy bit is that around the same time yesterday my brother (who has an iPhone 5) also happened to plug his phone in and the exact same thing happened to his phone. It did a factory reset by itself and when it finished, itunes did not recognise the phone.
Even crazier, the exact same thing happened to a 3rd guys iPhone yesterday (although his was not plugged in at the time).
When it happened to me, I originally thought it was just bad luck or something I had done (as I was close to running out of free space on my phone at the time). But as soon as I heard about my brother's phone and a work colleague, at roughly the same time as mine, something did not sound right.
None of the phones have been rooted/jailbroken
Does anyone know what this could be?
Could it be a virus that all 3 of us picked up? (2 on ios, 1 on android)
Could it be some hack?
Hello people, first off lemme say I'm not necessarily new to this forum, I for sure have used it a hell of a lot in the past and I know roughly what goes on around here, I've recently created my account in order for me to actually be able to be able to plead for the amazing help the XDA is known for.
Anyway, long story short, I don't know what the hell happened, but allow me to start from the beginning. I went on a camping weekend with my OPO, phone worked flawlessly all weekend and lasted the whole time, everything was fab, went back to a mates house and asked if I could borrow his phone charger (He has a Lumia 625 incase anyone was wondering), we then went out shooting and I left the phone there for a few hours to charge. Came back to it and it was fully charged, but had turned itself off? Because it was on the power off charge screen when I came back to it, and was on lock when I left it, nobody touched it in that time. I took it off charge, powered the phone up and it must of boot looped about 3 times? Eventually it got into CM but there was no lockscreen, went straight to the homescreen. This is where it went nasty, the capacitive keys outright weren't responding, the device wasn't slow as such, nor was the CPU running hot or doing anything intensive (I have CPU load display enabled), but the date was set to Jan 1970, and the phone couldn't pull a signal at all. WiFi outright wouldn't switch on either. So I tried rebooting it a few times, to no prevail. For some reason, I accidentally tapped Bluetooth in the quick settings panel, the phone crashed and rebooted, and wouldn't stay on for more then 3 seconds? Before crashing and rebooting. I've since gone into recovery and tried a factory reset, cleared cache and media too, but to no luck. Phone still doesn't stay on for more than about 3 seconds once it actually gets into CM (The welcome to CM screen, it crashes 3 sec immediately after boot).
I have no idea what I'm supposed to do, can anyone try shed some light on this? Much help would be appreciated and I sincerely APOLOGISE for the wall of text. Many thanks.
^Dat wall of text doe (sorry about that)
Check out this thread:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2922849
PS. You might want to consider using paragraphs in future posts, that's one hell of a long paragraph there [emoji13]
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Thank you man for the pointer, I'll give it a go. And yeah sorry for the wall.
No worries, I hope it works for you.
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I am having the same issue since last night. Put my phone to charge and when I picked it up it stayed on for about a minute unable to connect to Wifi or cellular signal. Then it went to a crazy boot loop. Wiped cache, media and at the end data. Now it boots and it stays on for a few seconds and reboots. I will try the solution when I get home tonight but I was just curious if it worked for you.
Hi, i have an s6 (non edge), i do have it insured so not sure if i would be best trying to get it swapped or see how it goes?
I have had no problems up to now, been using it most of the day fine, the last time i looked at my phone was probaby about 30 mins before this happened and it had about 75% battery.
before i took my phone out my pocket and it was completely off, i kept pushing the power button in and getting no response at all, i plugged the phone into the mains and nothing happened, no charge light etc..
So i just left it connected to the mains with nothing happening for about 15 mins, then out the blue i pressed the power button in again and it come on, at it was starting i noticed it said android is updating an app (as it does when you have just installed a new fw) but this was only for 1 app by the looks, i hadn't installed anything new i can think of, not sure if thats related or not important?
Anyway my phone seems ok at the moment but now im not sure if i should just take it back the shop and get it changed seems i have it insured anyway, the phone is around 3 months old now.
Sorry, i am just editing this, i have just remembered one main point which i forgot i done earlier when reading that it can help your phone, i did go into dev options and i changed the 'limit background processes to 4' as i read this can help it, not sure if this was a bad idea?
Any advice?
Thanks
James
Possibly a defective battery.
My Nexus 6P was recently broken but my GF (on accident lol but still she's lucky I love her. If it had been anyone else, like one of my guy friends, I prolly woulda had to hit em haha j/k)
Anyways, borrowed a friend Acatel 4060a IDEAL. He dropped it off last night. I then factory reset it and all that, hooked up my google accounts, downloaded WoW - Hearthstone and my Drastic DS emulator, and everything was fine. Then this morning I was bored and figured I would see about if this cheap POS is rootable. Which it is, and I proceeded to do so. Everything worked fine the whole morning, til bout 45min ago, I was leaving to run up to the AT&T store to get a SIM card so I could hook it up to my account, and on the way out the door I reset it cause I just had finished updating some apps in the play store. It then became stuck at the Bootlogo. So I then did what you always do in this case, try taking the battery out and the SD Card, then putting just the battery back in, see if that works. Didn't. Tried just resetting it a few more times, and let it sit for like 20min hoping maybe it was just taking extra long. Nope. So I then booted into the stock recovery wiped the cache and did a wipe/factory reset. Still nothing, still stuck. Tried a couple more times. Still nothing. And this phone apparently doesn't have a download mode, so I can even plug it into my laptop cause it can't make a connection obviously without being in download mode, or fully booted into the OS. I am at my wits end.
I'm hoping one of you fine peeps might have a suggestion of something I could try that I perhaps have overlooked or didn't know about. Learn something new every day right So please HELP ! lol its gonna be at almost 2 more weeks til I get paid and will be able to afford the Insurance Deposit for them to send me a replacement Nexus 6P, and I got way too much going on right now and I can't go two weeks without a phone.
I'm All Ears !
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My Nexus 6P was recently broken but my GF (on accident lol but still she's lucky I love her. If it had been anyone else, like one of my guy friends, I prolly woulda had to hit em haha j/k)
Anyways, borrowed a friend Acatel 4060a IDEAL. He dropped it off last night. I then factory reset it and all that, hooked up my google accounts, downloaded WoW - Hearthstone and my Drastic DS emulator, and everything was fine. Then this morning I was bored and figured I would see about if this cheap POS is rootable. Which it is, and I proceeded to do so. Everything worked fine the whole morning, til bout 45min ago, I was leaving to run up to the AT&T store to get a SIM card so I could hook it up to my account, and on the way out the door I reset it cause I just had finished updating some apps in the play store. It then became stuck at the Bootlogo. So I then did what you always do in this case, try taking the battery out and the SD Card, then putting just the battery back in, see if that works. Didn't. Tried just resetting it a few more times, and let it sit for like 20min hoping maybe it was just taking extra long. Nope. So I then booted into the stock recovery wiped the cache and did a wipe/factory reset. Still nothing, still stuck. Tried a couple more times. Still nothing. And this phone apparently doesn't have a download mode, so I can even plug it into my laptop cause it can't make a connection obviously without being in download mode, or fully booted into the OS. I am at my wits end.
I'm hoping one of you fine peeps might have a suggestion of something I could try that I perhaps have overlooked or didn't know about. Learn something new every day right So please HELP ! lol its gonna be at almost 2 more weeks til I get paid and will be able to afford the Insurance Deposit for them to send me a replacement Nexus 6P, and I got way too much going on right now and I can't go two weeks without a phone.
I'm All Ears !
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I'm assuming you used Kingroot to root it? It's a common issue for Kingroot to cause a bootloop.
Typically, this is fixed by re-flashing the stock firmware but you have to get it to connect to PC to do it, and that's only if the stock firmware is even available.
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Okay so it may be a little redundant but I'm gonna start from the beginning I bought a pixel 2 about a year and 1-2 months ago on Amazon I immediately knew I needed root and a custom ROM so I put linage on it as it was at the time the only ROM being updated I then switched to 2 others pixel dust and it was great but was missing a few features so I tried another one I'm still on and terrified to turn my phone off I'm not blaming the ROM
I went to bed the other day charging my phone got up on 100 scrolled Facebook for maybe 10-15 and it was on 78 I figured maybe I was on it longer than I thought or maybe it was too bright idk but I thought ok I'll go out and take less than 5 and I'll be back to charge it but I never got a chance the screen went black and never came back on. I plugged it in for an hour and nothing. I tryed PC it didn't show up at all no device manager nothing so I took the screen off and unplugged the battery (hesitantly) as I didn't know if it would ever work again I then used my heat gun on it set at about 445 (I don't know if it's bad solder just trying something new) I then put it back together and when I did it was in qqm 9008 (hard bricked) so I unplugged the battery again and it reboot to recovery before rebooting to the os.
Now I'm scared on what to do as I don't want the device to die incase it won't turn on again cause I lost work and can't afford another but I need to know if there's anything I can do to ensure that it doesn't happen long enough for me to flash a new ROM incase it's the ROM so please anyone with this phone that can help me out even a little would be great