Hello everyone.
Recently my Sony X1 has been restarting everytime right after it hits the windows green screen. Unfortunately I had figured this out a little too late, and my battery wasn't able to charge up again for a while. But searching these forums I found a solution to that, which was to charge the phone without the battery, then place it in afterwards.
My phone starts up again but the same problem still occurs. My phone keeps rebooting it self right after it hits the window screen. The only other thing I have observed is sometimes when I turn on my phone for a split second my screen emits small black and white squares that are distorted.
Any suggestions would be appreciated if there is a way to solve this.
Thanks.
I've gone to many of threads looking for help to try to get my phone back on and working but nothing has helped so far. I can get to the fastboot screen and thats about it. Every choice on there either gets me stuck back on the black screen or it stays on the motorola screen until the battery runs out. When i plug it into my computer it installs the drivers but there isnt a way for me to get into the files on my phone and treats it like an unrecognized device, any help?
Hey @bobbybelcher,
Check this out : http://forum.xda-developers.com/moto-g/help/moto-g-bootup-problem-recovery-mode-t3122492
Do you have the same or similar issue?
If so,tell me your :
OS,Bootloader Version,what commands you tested/working and preferably images like the ones I did.
Hey everyone, I'll start by saying I'm new to these forums, so go easy...
I've had an S7 (Verizon SM-G930V) for probably 3 years, recently it randomly glitched/locked up (screen had strange color bars through what I was looking at) phone restarted and then was stuck in a boot loop. It's never been wet or dropped hard and is in really good shape. I shut it off and attempted to re-start with the same results... Got a new S20+ so I at least have a device, but I'm determined to get the lost month on the old S7 back since I had a backup from early Feb.
I tried a new battery since that was mentioned, didn't change anything, however in messing with trying to get the phone to boot have discovered a few strange message screens and behavior...
1. Phone will eventually stop responding to key presses, have to pull battery connector, wait, then it will re-boot, but every time the blue 'Recovery Mode...' is displayed. If I touch nothing, it will boot and start 'installing updates' but eventually lock and restart. At one point it made it as far as the Verizon screen, then died.
2. I can get the phone to to into the recovery menu and it will respond to commands. I've tried restart normally, boot to safe mode, and shut down phone normally, all of which result in the same restart and recovery mode message and then the lock during the update.
3. I have successfully made it to the download mode screen a few times, but don't have the knowledge of what needs to be done there and which files I would need to upload to it to make that work. (phone was totally stock rom) It had recently updated to the latest version available from Verizon which I think was 8.0?
4. Now I have found a new error screen which I have not seen before... The little Android guy has X's in his eyes and a large yellow sign with ! in it says 'No Command' and then the phone restarts? It also during that finally responded to being plugged in via USB charging, however normally it shows no signs of charging other than being warm and actually charging the battery (verified with a meter)
5. When the phone is on, it gets warm quite quickly (it's still split open and the tin covers are warm, but not hot)
Hopefully someone can help out. I wouldn't say there's anything too critical on there, but there are some pics I'd really like to have back :crying:
Thanks everyone!
bigblkyj said:
Hey everyone, I'll start by saying I'm new to these forums, so go easy...
I've had an S7 (Verizon SM-G930V) for probably 3 years, recently it randomly glitched/locked up (screen had strange color bars through what I was looking at) phone restarted and then was stuck in a boot loop. It's never been wet or dropped hard and is in really good shape. I shut it off and attempted to re-start with the same results... Got a new S20+ so I at least have a device, but I'm determined to get the lost month on the old S7 back since I had a backup from early Feb.
I tried a new battery since that was mentioned, didn't change anything, however in messing with trying to get the phone to boot have discovered a few strange message screens and behavior...
1. Phone will eventually stop responding to key presses, have to pull battery connector, wait, then it will re-boot, but every time the blue 'Recovery Mode...' is displayed. If I touch nothing, it will boot and start 'installing updates' but eventually lock and restart. At one point it made it as far as the Verizon screen, then died.
2. I can get the phone to to into the recovery menu and it will respond to commands. I've tried restart normally, boot to safe mode, and shut down phone normally, all of which result in the same restart and recovery mode message and then the lock during the update.
3. I have successfully made it to the download mode screen a few times, but don't have the knowledge of what needs to be done there and which files I would need to upload to it to make that work. (phone was totally stock rom) It had recently updated to the latest version available from Verizon which I think was 8.0?
4. Now I have found a new error screen which I have not seen before... The little Android guy has X's in his eyes and a large yellow sign with ! in it says 'No Command' and then the phone restarts? It also during that finally responded to being plugged in via USB charging, however normally it shows no signs of charging other than being warm and actually charging the battery (verified with a meter)
5. When the phone is on, it gets warm quite quickly (it's still split open and the tin covers are warm, but not hot)
Hopefully someone can help out. I wouldn't say there's anything too critical on there, but there are some pics I'd really like to have back :crying:
Thanks everyone!
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If what you've described is correct, all of the solutions involve flashing the stock firmware which will of course wipe the device.
Were your photos not stored in a folder on the SD card?
There is a chance you can recover the device using Samsung Kies with the emergency recover option but if you've encountered the "no command" screen it's not looking good.
Unfortunately I did have an SD card installed, but I normally kept my camera pics on the phone's memory, since I have had an SD card fail as well and lost everything on there.
So this took an unexpected turn yesterday pretty much right after posting this... I've been messing with the phone, unplugging the battery each time, and have managed to get into different menus which kept making me think that something still had to be working if I could do that. Well, after leaving the No Command message on the screen it magically booted into the Recovery menu with (finally) the option to wipe the cache partition, which I did and rebooted normally. Believe it or not, it booted normally and into the OS like nothing ever happened?!
I instantly plugged it into my PC and ran Smart Switch which started taking a backup! About 25% though the device restarted again and was really warm to the touch on the RF covers inside. Bummer...
So I figured heat was now the issue for some reason... I waited for it to cool and then reinstalled the SD card and figured, if I could get it to boot long enough, the SD card is a quicker transfer and I'd just use ES File Explorer to try and do a photo dump to the SD card and see how far it would get. It actually made it all the way through and gave me enough time to grab some other stuff before getting hot and restarting again.
I believe the overheating is being caused by my opening of the device though... Currently I have the antennas removed and the speaker so that I'm able to quickly access the battery connector (which BTW seems to be the trick here to this working) But inadvertently, without the larger wireless charging coil in place, it relieved the pressure on the motherboard and broke the thermal paste connection between the chipset and the copper heatsink (I didn't tear it down further to check, but I can hear the 'sticking and peeling' when you press down on it).
I think what I'm going to do is apply pressure with a chip clip or something similar (non conductive) and see if I can grab a backup again before it restarts. After the cache wipe the phone seems to understand that it's plugged in and charging now which is a new thing as well...
Sorry for the long winded posts, but if this at all helps even one person with the same situation as I have, maybe that'll be worth getting lost in here
hi all, ive had my s7 for 3 years now, amazing phone, but a few weeks ago this freezing reboot problem appeared and idk whats going on, my phone isnt rooted, and ive never messed with custom OS or any of that, its on android 7 stock, the battery is still good, but im wondering if this freezing problem is software or hardware related, when it freezes and reboots it gets stuck on the first logo, if i dont force it to shut off it will stay that way or keep rebooting till it runs out of battery, so after i force it to shut off sometimes it reboots immediatly and sometimes it stays black for a while and boots randomly, i try to go into recovery menu and most times it freezes on no command screen and if i leave it there the phone gets incredibly hot, so i force shut it again and this time with the charger connected so it shows charging icon as if its shut down... i leave it for a while then turn it on and its working untill it freezes again... i am considering installing lineage os incase the firmware is corrupt but im not very familiar with all of this and after reading other posts where the user did way more complicated stuff and the problem maintained... im not sure if its really gonna work, so im looking for advice on here
I have a Google Pixel 1 that I gave to my daughter for her first phone. It was working perfectly yesterday and then the battery seemed to die, so she plugged it in to charge. Today, it looked like it wasn't turning on. There's nothing on the screen, no sounds, no vibration. I thought the battery was still dead and it wasn't charging, but when I plug it into my computer, Android File Transfer pops up like it normally does when I plug a phone in. So I think it's on but just not displaying anything on the screen. I can't even use AFT because it gives me the usual error message that means I have to unlock the phone, but I can't see the screen to put in the password to unlock it.
Is there anything I can do to recover the phone? And what is the diagnosis. Did the screen just die?
Thanks!