The word "reboot" stands for the process of restarting a running device, i.e. it involves shutting it down and immediately starting it up again. The root of the word can be taken as advice: Get the device into its boots (i.e. running) again.
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What's the best way to restart Android via command line (remotely)?
I'm looking for the best / friendliest way to reboot my rooted android 4.1.1 device. I found these solutions so far:
su -c "reboot" - Causes problems with wifi after restart on my device... I read ...
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SGS3 in app screen restarts
I am having a problem with my Samsung Galaxy S3. I bought this last year. No damage so far. I usually download apps/games in Play store when all of a sudden I noticed my screen blacks out for a ...
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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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Samsung Galaxy S3 black screen and automatic reboots
I have a Samsung Galaxy S3, purchased on July 2012.
Sometimes, when I press the power button, the screen keeps black. The button LEDs turn on, but nothing else happens, and I have to remove the ...
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Should I reboot my phone regularly?
After noticing that my Galaxy S3 sometimes grew slow after a week or so of not rebooting, I set up a Llama task which reboots my phone automatically every night (under certain conditions).
My ...
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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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Rezound in a boot loop
My Rezound has randomly just turned off and on for a while and it doesn't stop until I take the battery out and remove the SIM card. Any ways to fix this? Thanks!
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Samsung Galaxy S3 will not reboot
I have a Samsung Galaxy S3.
For the last couple of days, it has been freezing quite regularly. I had to hold the power button and reboot, sometimes more than once. The last time I tried this, the ...
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My phone reboots after a kernel oops, what can I do?
I use the CyanogenMod firmware on my phone (CM7.2 on a HTC Wildfire) and when I take photos it sometimes reboots. I found out that a kernel oops happens due to a null pointer dereference in the ...
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Galaxy fit stuck at boot screen
My galaxy fit became unresponsive after the phone memory got full, so I removed the battery and replaced it back. Now my phone is stuck on the booting screen, it just shows the glowing samsung text ...
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my GT-S 5830 frequently restarting after factory reset
I have Rooted GT-S 5830 Galaxy ACE, was working slow, so i thought to Factory reset and i did it. But as the phone restart ,it start frequently restarting. Pls help me.
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Motorola Defy + Keeps Rebooting
I bought another Defy + for my daughter. I also have one which is fine.
Hers keeps shutting down and rebooting, especially when it's away from the WiFi. It also has the latest system update. We tried ...
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HTC Desire Z stuck in boot-loop
I'm a total n00b with Android, and the existing questions tagged boot-loop didn't help me.
Apologies if I missed something "obvious"!
I've borrowed a used HTC Desire Z from my brother so I can decide ...
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Restart camera service
I have a smartphone which the camera doesn't work very well with CyanogenMod.
Sometimes (and very often), after taking some picture the camera stops working until I restart the phone.
When I try ...
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How to reboot an android device?
Unfortunately, the power button doesn't work and I'm not able to power off the device.
The only way, is physically pull out the battery, but if I'll do so, I wont be able to power it on again.
The ...
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Cyanogenmod remains in a bootloader loop
Hello I have a Wildfire and I installed Cyanogenmod 7.2.0 following this guide: http://wiki.cyanogenmod.org/wiki/HTC_Wildfire:_Full_Update_Guide
After I did this the keyboard stopped working so I ...
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Aside from the usability improvement, does rebooting the phone as opposed to shuting down and turning on give any improvement?
Is it faster to reboot the phone instead of turning it off and on again? I know in computers when restart is selected the power supply is left on and it doesn't have to perform POST so time is saved ...
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My Samsung Galaxy S2 is constantly shutting down
Recently, whenever I am using an app or doing something on my phone other than texting or reading, my phone will up and shut off on me. When I try to reboot sometimes it will get all the way back to ...
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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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Samsung Galaxy S3 not booting up, just shows ”Samsung Galaxy S3 GT-19300” black screen
This morning I woke up to my Samsung Galaxy S3 which just “hung” during the start-up screen with the white text “Samsung Galaxy S3 GT-19300” on a black background. It never comes to the “Enter ...
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Device always boots in recovery mode, but apparently there is no recovery partition
We have a BSNL Penta IS709c (cheapest tablet currently available / Oct 2012) running Android 4.0.
Feeling adventurous, I issued reboot recovery through adb and the device tried to reboot in recovery ...
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How to track reboots in Jelly Bean
Samsung Galaxy Nexus (Verizon) with Android 4.1.1 (unrooted).
I seem to be having unusually frequent reboots of my phone; sometimes multiple times in a day. Certainly much more frequent than with Ice ...
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Stop a force reboot
Today I was prompted to install (firmware?) updates from ATT on my HTC Vivid. My phone is rooted and this apparently breaks the update process. The phone shut down and went to the red exclamation ...
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How can I reset my SGH-999?
I have a Samsung Galaxy S3 (SGH-999) and am trying to do a hard reset. Somewhere along the line, things got a bit messed up. It keeps telling me I have a firmware update, and when I click start to ...
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MadTeam's CyanogenMod 7 restarting itself randomly
I installed MadTeam's CyanogenMod 7 on my Galaxy 5 few weeks ago. First time I root and install a mod, but fairly uneventful process. My phone got way faster, and except for maybe getting a little ...
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Galaxy Blaze reboots upon power off
I have T-Mobile Galaxy S Blaze, running 2.3.6. I rooted the phone months ago, uninstalled T-Mobile bloatware (using Titanium Backup Free), and have been enjoying using it for a while.
Recently ...
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Sony Xperia Pro is stuck in bootloop. How to fix?
Yesterday, my rooted Xperia Pro decided to go into perpetual restart mode. I tried removing the SIM and SD cards to no avail. I tried reflashing the ICS upgrade. I tried throwing my phone across the ...
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How to enable adbd to listen to a port at boot time in Android?
I have a rooted HTC Hero, and what I want to do is to enable the adbd
to listen to a port at boot time.
I tried some code found here:
setprop service.adb.tcp.port 5555
stop adbd
start adbd
in an ...
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during reboot stuck on “Samsung” logo
After installing CM9 on my Samsung Galaxy S+ (Plus) it gets stuck in the "SAMSUNG" screen whenever I restart, the very first screen (I guess). I have to press the Power button 10 seconds to restart ...
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BackupManager causing my phone to reboot
Every ~2 hours my phone reboots itself, it started doing this 2-3 days ago, I may have installed/uninstalled some apps around that time but I don't remember exactly.
I've gotten a screenshot of the ...
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Android PandaBoard: Linux terminal output for debugging?
My research team is currently considering investing in a PandaBoard for Android b/c we are developing a custom kernel/sys-image and would like Linux terminal output.
Does the Pandaboard give me ...
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Android boot-up messages for debugging?
I am trying to figure out if Android (i.e. Galaxy Nexus, Nexus S, and/or Motorola Xoom) come with some sort of capability to produce a "boot-up" log. (kind of like Linux boot-up screen) It would be ...
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How to disable company starting screen when the phone is switch on
I am using a Samsang Galaxy Ace. When I switch my phone on, it takes too much time. The Samsung screen comes for approximately 30 seconds or more before the phone is on and usable.
Can I change this ...
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GO Launcher EX: widget lost after reboot
Whenever I reboot, widget get lost in GO Launcher EX.
how can I fix this?
NB: the widget is on the internal memory
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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 ...
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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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Samsung Galaxy Spica won't boot up fully. Just restarts over and over
My Samsung galaxy won't turn on properly. Basically it turns on, shows the 'OMG screen' which it does when it crashes, then goes to the Samsung loading bar, but then goes back to the crash screen. It ...
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Is there a way to preserve tabs that were open in Froyo 2.2's stock browser?
When my Droid X's Froyo 2.2 browser gets killed for whatever reason (reboot, memory manager killing it), it loses 100% of its open tabs and reopens with Google's home page in a single tab.
If you ...
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Why does my Iconia A500 occasionally stop responding?
I have an stock-standard Acer Iconia A500 32G WiFi-only tablet. The screen usually turns on immediately when I press the power button.
However, it sometimes refuses to respond and I have to hold ...
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Can adb start my android device that shows up as “offline”?
I can see my device in adb devices. It shows up as "offline".
When it is "ready":
$ adb shell
$ su
# reboot
This would reboot my device.
The exact problem is that my cellphone has been turning off ...
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Something causes my phone to hang and reboot
This problem always happens after I restore my apps from Titanium Backup and move them to the SD card, regardless which ROM. However, I noticed that this problem has something to do with the SD card. ...
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What does Hot Boot mean?
In Miui ROMs, there are four options for rebooting a phone from the power menu:
What does "Hot Boot" mean, technically speaking? Are there any circumstances where a hot boot could cause harm? Are ...
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Does freezing apps in Titanium Backup Pro require a phone reboot to take effect?
When freezing apps using Titanium Backup Pro, do I have to reboot for the freeze to take effect? (e.g. not be started anymore, even if applicaple Intent is fired off?)
Does it depend on whether the ...
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Galaxy Nexus restarts non-stop before completely booting
I'm aware of the suddenly restarts of the Galaxy Nexus, but in my case it restarts before managing to boot completely and it does that in a non-stop loop. It happened while my phone was on a stand by ...
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ClockworkMod Recovery pops up during phone turn on
When I turn on my Galaxy S2 phone, ClockworkMod Recovery v4.0.0.2 pops up with the list of options,
1- reboot system now
2- apply update from sdcard
3- wipe data/factory reset
4- wipe cache ...
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How can I determine the cause of random device reboots?
After being annoyed with my previous ROM, I thought I'd install ICS on my SGS2 (until CM9 comes out). But, sadly, it now reboots several times a day without any real reason. The device is just lying ...
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Sony Ericsson Xperia Arc randomly reboots
I realise this might be a repeat question, or discussed at length in some related posts, please don't hesitate to discipline me if I'm being redundant.
I just really want to know not only if anyone ...
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Samsung Galaxy S heat up a lot, getting restarted and slow start up time
I'm using Samsung galaxy S with O.S. 2.3.3. I'm having the following problems.
It is getting heated up a lot. Because of this the battery is drained so faster.
That too when it is getting charged if I ...
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Should i do the factory reset? If yes, what will i lose?
My android ( htc desire s ) phone is working fine when i don't put my micro sd card in it ( this card was free with the phone ). But my phone keeps restarting every few minutes if i keep the memory ...
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My Device Keeps Rebooting (LogCat attached)
For some reason, after I changed my device's battery. It just keeps rebooting and here's a LogCat of the error:
E/JavaBinder( 1305): *** Uncaught remote exception! (Exceptions are not yet supported ...
