Use this tag for issues with the "boot-process" of your Android device.
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samsung galaxy s2 continually flashes and will not turn on
I hope someone can please help me!! I have had my galaxy s2 for about 1 year with no problems until now. I have never dropped the phone or gotten it wet etc...today I forgot to pay my bill and phone ...
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Desire stuck in Boot Loop After mod install
I installed an Audio Mod 'BeatsAudio' through clockworkmod recovery on my HTC Desire. After i rebooted it just keeps looping the boot logo over and over. I have tried removing the battery, sim and SD ...
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Is it safe to wipe boot?
Amon Ra recovery lets you selectively wipe "boot". Is that the bootloader? If "boot" gets wiped, can your phone still boot?
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Sprint Galaxy Nexus stuck in boot-loop
I have a stock Sprint Galaxy Nexus device. This device is unrooted, I have made no changes to the OS / Rom whatsoever.
Today this device froze, it was showing a completely black screen except for the ...
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Boot hangs after firmware update
I flashed my Samsung Galaxy Ace (GT-S5830) with the Cyanogenmod 7.2 release, the install went fine without any errors.
Powering the phone on shows a black screen with the word "ANDROID" in white, ...
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How do I boot my Samsung Nexus S into safe mode?
I have a Samsung Nexus S with Android 2.3.
I somehow managed to set the Zoodles application to start up with laucher. As a result, whenever I boot my phone, I see the Zoodles app and cannot close it ...
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Seems like my SD Card just died… can I insert a new one?
So today my HTC Desire randomly froze, then started acting strangely - only showed the background image, nothing else. Didn't respond to power-off or anything so I pulled the battery.
After this, it ...
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Yellow Triangle at bootup
A few days ago I bought a Samsung Galaxy S2. But, at phone start up under the Galaxy S2 Logo I see a strange Yellow Triangle. I read a few forum posts found on google, but I have some doubts about ...
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Disable splashscreen - BOOTLOGO disabled
First off all I must start by saying that I am not an Android Expert.
I Have some android TV box ( not a phone ) which is of some unknown third party chinese vendor . it is already rooted .
I need ...
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Is there a special boot mode to boot into a system with root access (on Galaxy S)?
What if the Samsung Galaxy S I've got has already been rooted?..
Is there perhaps a special boot mode which would boot into the system with root access?
Or normally, a "rooted" device always boots ...
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My Sony Xperia S started rebooting after i installed Beats Audio Installation
I was looking through the Google Play Store after I rooted my Sony Xperia S The other day, and came upon the app "Beats Audio Installation" & Downloaded it and then when i opened the app and ...
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Can I boot into other OS (such as Ubuntu) from an Android OS tablet that have a USB host?
I have the following scenario:
A user have a Android OS tablet that have Android 4.0
The tablet have a full USB port (not the mini USB port)
The user have a thumbdrive that have a boot from USB ...
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How to use Tasker to kill apps on/after device boot?
I have several apps auto start at boot, and it's really not necessary. So I'm trying to use Tasker to kill them on/after device boot.
Tasker has a "Event - Device Boot" option, but it seems that does ...
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Arnova 10 G2 won't start
I recently got a Arnova 10 G2 in my workplace for testing. But unfortunately this device doesn't start up at all. I have charged it now for more than half a day. The Green led glows while I connect ...
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How to re-edit /system file to reboot phone?
How does one re-set or edit the /system/build.prop, when changes kept it from booting up again? Rooted Optimus.
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Why is my Kyocera Echo taking 6 minutes to boot?
I have a Kyocera Echo that now takes about 6 minutes to boot. I haven't rooted it or tried to perform any 'hacks' on it. I've had it for a few months now. It's running Android 2.3 if that helps. I am ...
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how to lower boot up time? (many apps 122, rooted device)
[old subject: link2sd not mounting second partition, "quick restart"
fails too]
[IMPORTANT: boot time took 20 minutes, see at the end...]
My phone suddenly reboot (while I was ...
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Samsung Galaxy tab 10 does not start up
My tablet won't start. With the USB cable connected I can start my tablet using the "power & volume" trick.
When in prompt menue for various reboot options it says in yellow text
Can't access ...
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MicroSD card performance during boot
I have a Nook HD+ and a Nook HD.
When I ran CyanogenMod off of a MicroSD card, the Class I (43MB/s) doesn't even boot! I spent $30 on a 32GB one.
The Class 10 (10MB/s) 16GB booted, but ran poorly
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Samsung Galaxy Ace GT-S5830 it neither goes into download mode( vol down+menu+power buttons) or ram dump mode (vol up+ power buttons)
my Samsung Galaxy ace gt-s5830 has just “hung” during the start-up screen with the white text “Samsung
www.samsung.com "on a black background.
I have tried to restart it and to take the battery out ...
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init.d doesn't get executed
i am using samsung s2 and a custom rom, external sd card is mounted to /emmc but i want it to mount to /mnt/sdcard/external_sd, how could i mount it using init.d?
i made a file called "99mount" with ...
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Why does my device not start up? [closed]
I have an MID with Android version 1.5. Today, when I turned it on, it just showed Tux the penguin for a very long time. It did not start up.
The power was fairly well charged.
I pressed the power ...
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Is it possible to Boot into Safe Mode on an Android Device as a Precautionary Measure If Required?
Is it possible to Boot into Safe Mode on an Android Device, similar to booting up into safe mode on a Windows PC ?
An example being In Windows if you were infected with a virus you may want to ...
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HTC One S won't boot after battery fully drained
Today the battery of my HTC One S got completely empty and when trying to reboot it's just stuck on the splash screen.
I am rooted and have Trickdroid 8.1 installed. This is an 4.0.4 ICS ROM.
I've ...
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Computer does not boot when Galaxy 2 in USB port
Yesterday Samsung Kies updated my phone to Jelly Beans. After that if I leave my phone plugged in usb port of my Dell Precision, the computer does not boot. It loads the bios, but never goes to the ...
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How to access the internal memory of HTC Explorer
I have HTC Explorer and with Root Explorer put a file into /system/lib directory.
After reset, the phone will not boot. Now I cannot access to the internal memory via the phone and I need to access ...
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HTC Wildfire won't boot
My HTC Wildfire will not boot up. When I boot normally with the SD card in, I only get a screen that says "Fastboot" with the options bootloader, reboot, reboot bootloader and power down. It says to ...
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Creating partitions through script in init.rc
Context/Resume:
I'm changing the android platform to create two partitions in a SD Card. I need to do this as early as possible. I'm currently trying in init.rc
It would be nice to obfuscate the ...
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what is the download mode
could anybody explain what is this download mode?
As described in here How to root Innos A35
as I hold vol up +vol down 5 seconds and at the same time connecting the USB cable to
my computer it shows ...
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How to fix the boot of an android tablet
I have a Plum link tablet that when it is booting doesn't load the OS. When it tries loading the OS it gives me this error: Unfortunately system UI has stopped, and then cannot complete loading the ...
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Samsung Galaxy s3 won't boot
My Samsung keep booting up and then after the intro where it should show my home screen it showing a blue flashing Samsung sign with the Led light glowing blue as well. I have tried taking out the ...
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Android does not boot because of missing apk files in system/app folder
I moved the question from http://stackoverflow.com/q/15872848/1665807
I have a rooted Huawei u8825d phone.I want to know if there were no apk files in "/system/app/" folder.
So,I moved these apk ...
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Why will my Samsung Galaxy Gio not turn on
My Samsung Galaxy Gio hasn't been working properly for a few days, and now it won't even turn on. I can get it to the recovery page, but it will not do anything after that. I was thinking that it ...
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How to fix Cyanogenmod 7 hanging on boot animation after NO firmware changes
I've been using my Google Nexus S with Cyanogenmod 7 for about a year now. Sometimes it rebooted out of the sudden or locked up but all in all worked well.
Today I rebootet the phone und since then ...
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Samsung s duos not booting into recovery
I have flashed the recovery.tar using odin by following this tutorial http://www.droidiser.com/2012/10/how-to-root-samsung-galaxy-s-duos-install-cwm.html
but after this,when I try to boot into ...
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Xperia Play (R800a) stuck at Sony Ericcson logo on boot
OK then: Recently, the Xperia Play's screen has been broke. I just put in the new flex cable and THAT seems to work... except now:
I can only start the phone on USB power, otherwise it freezes at ...
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SD card “damaged” after every reboot / power off
When I turn off my phone, next time it says SD card is damaged and all data is gone, I can only reformat it. The phone is "gionee iq275" (also known as "Fly" in Russia), Android version is 2.3.4. What ...
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DOMO X3G Not Booting
I have a rooted DOMO X3G Slate. I installed Novotools to install CWM image, when I restarted the tablet, it is just showing a green robot logo. Not anything else. It's supposed to show the company ...
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How can I learn why my nexus 4 is stuck with the startup animation?
I have a week-old Nexus 4, unrooted with only play-store apps.
Since I've had it, I've found a few times it in the morning stuck with the startup animation (the colorful Nexus X). I was able to boot ...
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Have I lost my phone forever because of samsung firmware?
Okay so I've had my s3 for quiet a while but never actually used it properly until today.
First issue was it didn't get past the samsung boot logo, it showed the carriers boot logo( three UK) ...
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Auto boot when charger connected (for HTC Magic)
I want to let Android OS to boot automatically when the charger connected (for HTC Magic) without pressing power button
I found this guide:
Complete boot when charging
If your phone only gets one ...
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How to edit init.rc in Samsung Galaxy S3 i9300?
I would like to edit the init.rc in an i9300. I understand that editing the file as-is will not work as the file is reloaded from the boot image's ramdisk upon every bootup. After some googling, I ...
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How can I know from boot which img is on (system or recovery)?
From boot, is there a way to know which .img is going to be run?
Can I write a script / program that would run from init.rc (e.g. from pre-init), and print the .img (system/recovery)?
Where is the ...
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I can not reboot my Glaxy s 9000
I was running CynogenMod 10 successfully on my Galaxy S 9000 till I got an update message which I unfortunately applied. It seems it could not get access to my apps installed to sdcard. Unfortunately, ...
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Cant boot into android recovery with Atrix 4G [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Can’t boot to Clockwork Recovery on Atrix (several methods tried)
I've rooted my Atrix 4G and installed CWM.
Now, on boot, when selecting the Android Recovery I get to a ...
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ZTE V9 light ftm startup error
My ZTE v9 light tablet won't go past the 'android' loading screen and go to the main menu.
I think it happened when I didn't install an application the correct way and everything started crashing. ...
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Titan HS-7TB4-4BNDL Tablet Not Booting
Recently, I bought a Titan HS-7TB4-4BNDL from Canada at Walmart's.
When I turned it on, it stopped booting. The screen froze with the HIP-STREET at the center of the screen. Then, it went blank.
I ...
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Is it possible to load only an .apk file on boot?
It is possible to override a step in the boot process (after all underlying dependencies have been met) to load an .apk file automatically? The optimal solution would be without something such as ...
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Can't go into any *HBOOT
I was updating my apps on my htc Desire while I got into low memory; as I'm using link2sd and it takes some time to view the "true memory" I decided to reboot my phone while I had 154KB. With surprise ...
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Samsung Galaxy s2 stuck on boot screen after an OTA upgrade
I upgraded firmware on my Samsung Galaxy SII via OTA. My starting firmware was android 2.3.4 (gingerbread) and after two successful updates it was on android 2.3.6 . Now it prompted me for another ...
