My uncle bought a second-hand phone from a thrift store, and it worked well and perfectly fine at first. Later on, after having installed a few games from the Play store, the phone went dead and suddenly started going into an endless boot loop where the screen has two red and blue rectangles overlaying a green background. It does not boot up into the OS whatsoever unless you place it on charge, and wait for it to charge fully to 100%, then switch it off and back on again.
But then, once you are in the OS, the WiFi doesn't work, nor does the OS register the SIM card. And as soon as you unplug it, it shuts down and returns to the boot loop. It's also buggy when it comes to the battery, because you can charge it for an entire day, but as soon as you remove the battery and insert it again, the charge is back at 0%.
I would love to get this phone to work. So if anyone knows anything I can try, please let me know. I'd be very grateful. Otherwise, I may just as well throw it away, which I don't want to because I am very poor and can hardly afford another phone.
Thanks in advance.
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So, I was just browsing on my phone, as usual, when all of a sudden it made a loud beep then shut off. It tried to restart itself, but after the LG logo popped up, gray lines came up all over screen, like an old TV that wasn't getting enough reception, and it shut off again: for good. It will not even attempt to come back on or even boot into recovery. It's just completely dead. Plugging it into a charger makes no difference and neither does removing and reinserting the battery. It is rooted and unlocked, but I did that around six months ago. It is still running the stock ROM. I have never put a custom ROM on it. I have not done anything unusual with it. I've just been using it normally. I tried to Google what happened, but couldn't find ANYTHING. I'm praying it's the battery, but will have to order one from Amazon and wait as there's nowhere to get one in my rural area. Has anyone ever heard of this?? A very loud beep an then completely dying?? Please, please help!!!
Celeste8157 said:
So, I was just browsing on my phone, as usual, when all of a sudden it made a loud beep then shut off. It tried to restart itself, but after the LG logo popped up, gray lines came up all over screen, like an old TV that wasn't getting enough reception, and it shut off again: for good. It will not even attempt to come back on or even boot into recovery. It's just completely dead. Plugging it into a charger makes no difference and neither does removing and reinserting the battery. It is rooted and unlocked, but I did that around six months ago. It is still running the stock ROM. I have never put a custom ROM on it. I have not done anything unusual with it. I've just been using it normally. I tried to Google what happened, but couldn't find ANYTHING. I'm praying it's the battery, but will have to order one from Amazon and wait as there's nowhere to get one in my rural area. Has anyone ever heard of this?? A very loud beep an then completely dying?? Please, please help!!!
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It could be the battery. But sounds like your phone is dead.
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Celeste8157 said:
So, I was just browsing on my phone, as usual, when all of a sudden it made a loud beep then shut off. It tried to restart itself, but after the LG logo popped up, gray lines came up all over screen, like an old TV that wasn't getting enough reception, and it shut off again: for good. It will not even attempt to come back on or even boot into recovery. It's just completely dead. Plugging it into a charger makes no difference and neither does removing and reinserting the battery. It is rooted and unlocked, but I did that around six months ago. It is still running the stock ROM. I have never put a custom ROM on it. I have not done anything unusual with it. I've just been using it normally. I tried to Google what happened, but couldn't find ANYTHING. I'm praying it's the battery, but will have to order one from Amazon and wait as there's nowhere to get one in my rural area. Has anyone ever heard of this?? A very loud beep an then completely dying?? Please, please help!!!
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Normally when battery goes on these things they just keep rebooting u nles plugged in and even when plugged in sometimes they stll reboot
Came home from work yesterday and the Pure XL was dead, said it needed to be charged. Never happened before but I figured whatever and plugged it in and went to sleep. Woke up this morning and powered on the phone and the all white BLU splash screen came up and then the phone went off. Came on again and the all white BLU splash screen came up and went off. Ive tried holding down the power button for over a minute. Tried holding the power button and volume keys to boot into recovery from 10 seconds to 2 minutes, nothing stops it! It just keeps rebooting. This has been my apprehension towards purchasing phones with non removable batteries. The boot recycle happens about every 15 seconds and the phone vibrates everytime it boots up for the past 2 hours. Its getting very annoying and there is no way to make it stop. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
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Came home from work yesterday and the Pure XL was dead, said it needed to be charged. Never happened before but I figured whatever and plugged it in and went to sleep. Woke up this morning and powered on the phone and the all white BLU splash screen came up and then the phone went off. Came on again and the all white BLU splash screen came up and went off. Ive tried holding down the power button for over a minute. Tried holding the power button and volume keys to boot into recovery from 10 seconds to 2 minutes, nothing stops it! It just keeps rebooting. This has been my apprehension towards purchasing phones with non removable batteries. The boot recycle happens about every 15 seconds and the phone vibrates everytime it boots up for the past 2 hours. Its getting very annoying and there is no way to make it stop. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
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Plug it into your computer (you'll notice that there will be a longer black screen in-between the bootloops) and hold down the power button for at least 10 seconds or more, then release it after the next vibration and the white BLU screen shows up. It might take a couple of tries.
If you manage to boot into at least recovery but can't boot into the system, then try clearing your cache/dalvik cache and try rebooting into system again.
If all of the above doesn't work for you, then your boot.img/system has gone bad, and you'll have to flash the stock images with SP Flash Tool (both of which can be found on other posts on this forum).
follow the instructions on the SP flash tool thread... sounds like what happened to me after bad flash... theres a lot of information in that thread that will set you up...
Thanks for the quick replies guys. The PC trick didnt work at all. I just called BLU and asked for a replacement(havent heard back from them ironically). I put the phone in the basement so I wouldnt have to deal with that incessant buzzing every 15 seconds. Eventually the battery died. Since I had it powered off finally, I plugged it in for about 10 minutes to give it enough of a charge to power on but not stay on to buzz for another 2 hours. This time I powered it on using the master reset button combo and was finally able to wipe the cache and restart the phone. Took a good 4 or 5 minutes to boot after that, but everything has been fine since. Really dont know what initially caused the issue, never happened before. Good thing too, cause BLU told me that they would send me a RMA within the hour and I still havent heard from them. Think this will be my last BLU phone. Thanks for the assist.
My phone Is stocked without root or Twrp. And I find my self having a bootloop once a month for an odd reason. This forces me to take bat out and put it back in or just let it loop til battery dies
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My phone Is stocked without root or Twrp. And I find my self having a bootloop once a month for an odd reason. This forces me to take bat out and put it back in or just let it loop til battery dies
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My phone is basically out of the box and I'm getting boot loop problems when I first boot. This happens like once a month
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This happened to me for first time yesterday. Bought the phone earlier this year and everything worked fine. I restarted the phone because my sound recorder app froze up twice on open and the infinite boot started until the battery died. Tried the {power}{vol up} thing, didn't work to stop it, so I put it in my car and went back to the conference I was attending. Battery was dead when I got out. Contacted BLU by phone and they started a ticket for me, but I figured I'd see if other people were having this issue and learn what they did because I'd rather not be out of a phone for however long it takes for BLU to replace mine. Stumbled on this page. I never rooted my phone. And BLU only sent one wireless update since I've had the phone. I'm trying to get into the menu by connecting to the computer. Worked the first time, I cleared cache, and tried to backup my files, but I'd taken out the SD card in expectation of sending it to BLU. So, Powered off the phone, put the card back in, and now I haven't been able to get the menu back. Still working on it, if there are any suggestions anyone drops on me before Tuesday when I'll likely ship it (or at least hope to because I'll be yelling at them Monday), I'd appreciate it.
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This happened to me for first time yesterday. Bought the phone earlier this year and everything worked fine. I restarted the phone because my sound recorder app froze up twice on open and the infinite boot started until the battery died. Tried the {power}{vol up} thing, didn't work to stop it, so I put it in my car and went back to the conference I was attending. Battery was dead when I got out. Contacted BLU by phone and they started a ticket for me, but I figured I'd see if other people were having this issue and learn what they did because I'd rather not be out of a phone for however long it takes for BLU to replace mine. Stumbled on this page. I never rooted my phone. And BLU only sent one wireless update since I've had the phone. I'm trying to get into the menu by connecting to the computer. Worked the first time, I cleared cache, and tried to backup my files, but I'd taken out the SD card in expectation of sending it to BLU. So, Powered off the phone, put the card back in, and now I haven't been able to get the menu back. Still working on it, if there are any suggestions anyone drops on me before Tuesday when I'll likely ship it (or at least hope to because I'll be yelling at them Monday), I'd appreciate it.
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I tried to flash the phone, but the bootloop apparently wouldn't allow that. I had 0.0% progress after 3 hours. I then tried to go back into the menu you get from {Power}{Vol UP}: still no go. So, I started to take the phone apart again to get ready for shipping. The battery was still low so it didn't take long for it to die after I unplugged it from the computer. Out of curiosity, I tried to repeat finding the menu like I did earlier that day (conditions were that the phone had no charge when I connected it to the computer, and my SD card was removed.) No go. But, then I hit {Power}{Vol Up}{Vol Down} just to see what happened, and boom. My phone loaded up. No loop... Figured somehow the files had copied and the status bar was wrong. Turned the phone off, put my SD card back in and turned the phone on. Loop reappears ...I waited for the phone to die again, took out the SD, attempted to turn it on and the loop was there. Connected it to the computer and hit all 3 buttons, and the phone loads up. So, now I'm confused. Is there any way that the problem is some crappy connection to the SD?
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I have TMO Nexus 5, 2.5 yrs old. Suddenly, my phone shuts down with more than have battery charge remaining. I cannot do anything by pressing any buttons. it is dead. If I connect to the charger, phone goes on the loop. The google sign appears on the screen, then it goes dark in a second or 2, then sign appears again, and so on. I can access the bootloader menu but only for a second. Then the phone goes off again. I cannot even properly turn it off, even when press power/volume up/down keys together. It just will not shut off.
Happened a few times before, but I was able to revive it by charging 3-4 hours and eventually it stopped looping. This time, no luck. Between the episodes like this, it worked just fine. Stock, never rooted, latest android 6.01.
Bad battery or something else? I did order the battery and will try to swap it, but would like to know if this could be anything else.
Normally, I would try to simply remove the battery and then put it back, but this battery is a little trickier to remove. I do not want to do this until I decide the battery needs to be changed.
Thanks very much.
So,, first of all, hello everyone! I'm new, I'm not a device-proficient, and I'm in a problem with my phone.
This might get complicated.
So my problem starts just some days ago. When I am charging my phone with a tablet charger, it now stuck on the COOLPAD screen when plugged in. It bricked itself, but if I restart boot the phone it will turn on and goes normal, so I turn it off again then charge it with an appropriate charger. And it works and charges. Although that usually the tab charger didn't do this to my phone before.
But then.... That's just the start.
When I booted it on after charge fully and then turned off for some hours, it will boot, but no sound coming when booting on COOLPAD screen, which indicates a problem. The booting on the screen of that takes long, very long then when it's On, surprise surprise the wifi can't connect to any nets suddenly, Sim card cant be read (indicated as No Service) , SD card not detected as well(also indicated as No SD card) . Seems like a malfunction. I had experience the same before 5 months ago (and it goes semi-perma so I asked Coolpad center for software reinstall).
So what did I do? I restarted the phone through the Chinese recovery mode. Booted up right, and back to normal. But this happens just when I boot it on morning now. I am scared this might get worse and will completely bootloop or brick my phone in the future (just like the same problem I face some month ago).
So should I never turn my phone off again or is there a fix for this? Tried factory resetting it in the past, the problem just got even worse so I won't do it again the third time my phone is broken again after software reinstall again. Please help, can't really switch phone until able to find a very reasonable priced ones.:crying:
NOTE: Some day before, my Coolshow app got disabled by Play Store because of "danger" reasons. It is a system app that comes with Coolpad. I can't enable it again because the enable app isn't there, just a greyed out Disable button. I don't like to reset the preferences of apps because it'll make me need to set everything up again. Problem already occurring 3 days ago, till now.
Last year I picked up a Huawei Mate 9 (MHA-L29), but never really was able to use it as I couldn't activate it with my carrier at the time. So the phone sat in the box for more or less a full calendar year. It was fully functioning, I never rooted or flashed any kind of ROM/recovery on it, 100% stock.
After changing carriers, I decided a few days ago to try and activate it. Initially, it wouldn't power on at all. It wouldn't charge either, even with the original cable (or any other cable I tried). Then I remembered reading something about batteries in a Reddit thread (ELI5: "Why do 'dead' batteries work when you take them out of the remote and switch slots," or something like that) and somebody mentioned a chemical reaction triggered by the body heat transferred while handling them. So I decided to put the phone in my pocket and warm it up between my legs for about 10 minutes, and bam, suddenly it would power on with the charger connected, but it was stuck in a bootloop, wouldn't bring up the charging animation, and just repeated the process of showing the "Powered by Android" screen.
So now I'm stuck on this bootloop, can't access recovery/fastboot menus, nothing. It just powers off and powers on, over and over. Also, it won't power on without being connected to the charger. I've let it sit for as long as an hour or so charging, but it doesn't seem to do anything, as once it is unplugged, it immediately turns off. My computer doesn't seem to recognize it either, when plugged in and going through it's bootloop cycle.
Any ideas? Is this thing hardbricked? Is the battery a goner? What route might I take to go about fixing it, or getting it repaired? Is it even worth trying to get it repaired?
Any feedback would be appreciated!