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How can I reboot into recovery from fastboot?
(Self answering here because I only found this answer after hours of dredging through 200 page threads of forum posts.)
There are two non-standard but semi-prevalent methods that may work depending ...
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What's the best way to restart Android via command line (remotely)?
What is the device doing exactly when I'm pushing the (hardware) power button? I guess that's the most friendly way.
You get to see a dialog with an option to power off the device (stock Android ...
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Long-pressing power button shows Assistant, how to restart the device?
Long pressing the power button is still the standard gesture to show the power menu, including the restart option. However, the Assistant is likely due to the system gesture setting.
At least for ...
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How to enable adbd to listen to a port at boot time in Android?
Replace "service" by "persist" to keep it upon reboot :
setprop persist.adb.tcp.port 5555
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How to disable bad RAM addresses and fix bad storage blocks?
This might not be a direct solution to your problem, but I'm sharing my thoughts on it.
SHORT ANSWER
It's not very likely for RAM on embedded systems to get defective. And if it does, solutions ...
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Optimizing Apps: Why?
This is something in Android that is called the dalvik-cache. It's basically an optimized version of the android package you usually install/download on your phone. This is usually done while ...
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Why does "adb reboot" shut down my phone so much faster than usual before it reboots? Is it skipping important steps?
Other Stack Exchange users have already answered this question in posts elsewhere.
t0mm13b writes that, while displaying your carrier's shutdown animation:
Android is safely shutting down vital ...
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Music stored on the External SD Card is removed from playlists at reboot
After more experimentation, I've made a breakthrough. Ultimately, this all happens cause Android's Media Scanner will scan the internal SD for media at startup. When it finds Playlist files it ...
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How to restart android, without touch or removing battery?
Press and hold the power button for 10-20 secs and your phone will force reboot, in most cases anyway. If your phone still doesn't reboot, then you'll have to remove the battery and if its not ...
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Android instantly reboots on incoming call
The answer was not obvious. It's because of the corrupted telecom.service (dialer) app. BLOX 2016 always had issues with ringtones, but I guess they completely ruined it in some of their updates. The ...
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How to set restricted user as default user on reboot?
I am suggesting two solutions. Both of them require root access, and both were tested on a OnePlus 6 running Android 10.
Solution #1
Have the following script (let's call it switch-user.sh) run during ...
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LPM reboot Samsung Galaxy S7
This has been hell to figure out. Might as well put it out here to help anyone else googling around.
For the Samsung Galaxy S7, first the script:
#!/system/bin/sh
# Script to reboot the system as ...
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Wileyfox Swift won't turn on
Probably too late for you, but in case others stumble across this page while seeking help, like I did.....
I had a similar problem and contacted them via their chat function on their website. I was ...
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Cannot boot into fastbootd OnePlus 8T
I downloaded Android's SDK Platform-Tools, extracted the platform-tools folder and ran a terminal in side that directory. When I executed ./fastboot reboot fastboot it did boot into fastbootd ...
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Salvage Android Phone as Linux-Server (radio/wifi hardware broken)
I solved by myself so I'm sharing so it might be useful for others.
Deeper disable wifi/radio = recompile android Linux Kernel disabling wifi/radio drivers
First I tested the Lineage OS custom ROM for ...
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Reboot Android devices automatically at a specific time (i.e. 3 AM) every day
Run the following shell script from init.d (or /data/adb/*.d/ in case of Magisk). Or run directly from init's .rc file. See How to run an executable on boot and keep it running?
#!/system/bin/sh -e
# ...
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Long-pressing power button shows Assistant, how to restart the device?
On a Pixel Device
Power + volume up pressed simultaneously will give you options to restart amongst others
Note: You won't find the bug report option unless you enable it from developer options (...
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What is the difference between temp root & pemanent root? What is a soft reboot?
Permanent root vs. Temp root:
Permanent root:
Root persists a reboot
No need to re-root after rebooting
Root access in boot phase (needed for some apps that run after Android is booted)
Usually ...
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Set Warranty Bit: Kernel
Short answer: you don't need to worry.
Provided you pay your bills, your carrier does not care much, if at all, that you root/ flash Roms and such. No extra steps will have to be taken either; its ...
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Can you restart the launcher apart from restarting the phone?
10 years later...
The first step is to find the name of your current launcher a.k.a. "Home app". Unless you switched away from the one provided by default, you probably don't know that. The ...
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`adb reboot -p` usually reboots instead of power-down which it is supposed to
Many phones start booting when a power cable is attached. This could be the reason here for the phone rebooting instantly instead of staying off.
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Auto start two apps on split screen after reboot
You can accomplish with automation. Using Automate to demonstrate how to do it:
Select the Broadcast Receive block. Click on it, in the Action section, select "Boot completed". Click Done.
Select App ...
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restart Android phone when power button stopped working
It would appear that the only way to reboot the device in the case where the phone is not rooted and when the power button is unavailable is through adb.
As per StackOverflow, it would appear that ...
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Pixel 3a XL repeatedly crashes and reboots when connecting to a specific Wi-Fi network
This is a known, supposedly fixed but not yet pushed into production issue for Wi-Fi networks utilizing 802.11k:
https://issuetracker.google.com/issues/144381412
See also:
https://www.reddit.com/r/...
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Samsung phone keeps restarting
First solution : Since you tried both wiping all data and only the cache the only thing as far as I know left to do is to install either a backed up rom you made earlier or install a fresh official ...
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Set Warranty Bit: Kernel
You have that message most likely because you flashed a custom ROM and/or kernel which cannot pass Samsung's verification. Don't worry about it if your phone functions fine right now - it only ...
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Sony Xperia M2 black screen when turned on
I had a similar problem in Xperia E3 and couldn't wake the device So i just used custom Rom and it worked .This happened again and i had to flash stock firmware and erased user data during flash. This ...
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Visiting site using Chrome restarts device
Do you have antivirus installed on your phone? If so go to settings and lower the security setting from high to medium i sems as though its a security feature you may have on i just visted the page ...
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Galaxy S5 Freezes Constantly
As a method of starting to debug this, Linux keeps a log for the kernel. I'm not sure if /proc/last_kmsg is there or not, but you want the kernel log.
I'd start by replacing the stock recovery with ...
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Micromax Canvas 2 Restarting Problem. Show modem log on the way?
Try this,
formating your device that will solve your problem regarding to restarting device sucessfully.
I hope above solution will help you.
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