I was at the gym and my phone was getting low on battery. I went to put it into airplane mode since I get no signal in there anyway. From that point on in went crazy. First the screen was like half on half off, very dim. Couldn't get it to respond to anything, so I pulled the battery. When the phone came back on it seemed for a brief second like I was back to default Velocity 0.4, there were the default shortcuts on the home screen which I always delete. The phone still wasn't responsive so I pulled the battery again.
Now I'm totally stuck. The phone will boot all the way and get to the lock screen. As soon as I unlock, I am bombarded by force closes for just about every single app, including LauncherPro, so I am unable to access any settings or anything. I still have the notification bar on top, but the rest of the homescreen is blank behind the FC windows. I click Force Close on all of them and it just starts the loop again.
I was at the gym and my phone was getting low on battery. I went to put it into airplane mode since I get no signal in there anyway. From that point on in went crazy. First the screen was like half on half off, very dim. Couldn't get it to respond to anything, so I pulled the battery. When the phone came back on it seemed for a brief second like I was back to default Velocity 0.4, there were the default shortcuts on the home screen which I always delete. The phone still wasn't responsive so I pulled the battery again.
Now I'm totally stuck. The phone will boot all the way and get to the lock screen. As soon as I unlock, I am bombarded by force closes for just about every single app, including LauncherPro, so I am unable to access any settings or anything. I still have the notification bar on top, but the rest of the homescreen is blank behind the FC windows. I click Force Close on all of them and it just starts the loop again.
I would suggest you reflash you latest Nandroid and call it a day.
Your not going to come back from that otherwise.
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I was at the gym and my phone was getting low on battery. I went to put it into airplane mode since I get no signal in there anyway. From that point on in went crazy. First the screen was like half on half off, very dim. Couldn't get it to respond to anything, so I pulled the battery. When the phone came back on it seemed for a brief second like I was back to default Velocity 0.4, there were the default shortcuts on the home screen which I always delete. The phone still wasn't responsive so I pulled the battery again.
Now I'm totally stuck. The phone will boot all the way and get to the lock screen. As soon as I unlock, I am bombarded by force closes for just about every single app, including LauncherPro, so I am unable to access any settings or anything. I still have the notification bar on top, but the rest of the homescreen is blank behind the FC windows. I click Force Close on all of them and it just starts the loop again.
Honestly, I have no idea, but at this point I think it might be wise to boot into recovery and flash the ROM again or whatever backup you may have.
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Okay I got into recovery, wiped data/cache/dalvik, reinstalled V4 from Zip. Now it is getting stuck at the red eye logo that is part of the V4 boot sequence. It flashes for a while, goes back to the white Droid logo that precedes it, gets back to the red eye, loop loop loop. What should my next move be?
Okay I got into recovery, wiped data/cache/dalvik, reinstalled V4 from Zip. Now it is getting stuck at the red eye logo that is part of the V4 boot sequence. It flashes for a while, goes back to the white Droid logo that precedes it, gets back to the red eye, loop loop loop. What should my next move be?
Flash a different ROM from your SD and see if it takes.
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Tried V3 that I still have on my SD. Stuck at the Velocity boot logo that was part of the boot sequence for V3 as well. I think I still have Raptor on my card, guess I'll try that next lol. This doesn't seem good.
Okay I got into recovery, wiped data/cache/dalvik, reinstalled V4 from Zip. Now it is getting stuck at the red eye logo that is part of the V4 boot sequence. It flashes for a while, goes back to the white Droid logo that precedes it, gets back to the red eye, loop loop loop. What should my next move be?
If you have apps 2 sd and you didnt wipe the Ext.... that can and usually does cause boot loops.
Is wiping the EXT partition the same as "format EXT"? Because that's what I did lol.
Raptor got stuck during boot too. I pulled battery, took out SD card, and it booted all the way. So I guess it is something with my SD causing the hangup.
Is wiping the EXT partition the same as "format EXT"? Because that's what I did lol.
Raptor got stuck during boot too. I pulled battery, took out SD card, and it booted all the way. So I guess it is something with my SD causing the hangup.
not quite the same...if youre using the amon-ra recovery, its under wipe...then wipe sd ext...format ext doesnt erase whats on there from what i know
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Is wiping the EXT partition the same as "format EXT"? Because that's what I did lol.
Raptor got stuck during boot too. I pulled battery, took out SD card, and it booted all the way. So I guess it is something with my SD causing the hangup.
Ummmm yeah that was bad.
No Formating is not wiping. Ouch
Do you have a Nandroid with ext backup laying around somewhere?
Is wiping the EXT partition the same as "format EXT"? Because that's what I did lol.
Raptor got stuck during boot too. I pulled battery, took out SD card, and it booted all the way. So I guess it is something with my SD causing the hangup.
Your going to need to repartition the Sd card to have an ext and then hopefully you have a Nandroid of somekind..... somewhere?? maybe??
just a lil back up....
Well if you dont no biggy we can get ya back up a million different ways.
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I'm using clockwork recovery and didn't see any "Wipe EXT" that's why I went with format.
Nope I don't have any nandroid backups around lol. I'm not that worried about anything that was on my phone, I can copy my pix and music off my SD card if I need to and then proceed with doing whatever I need to do to get back up and running. My contacts are backed up on Google and I didn't have any apps with any important data, so if I need to do something drastic to get going again, no biggie.
For what it's worth once the phone is booted, I can reinsert the SD card and it works fine, well at least from what I can tell.
I'd suggest switching to the amon-ra recovery if you intend to use apps2sd. It has that wipe ext option which is invaluable for flashing new ROMs that have apps2sd support built in. It prevents you from having to reformat\repartition the SDCard everytime you flash a new ROM that has it.
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Ok I managed to get ROM manager working, re-partitioned my SD, and got back to Velocity 0.4.
Yeah I totally forgot about how Clockwork recovery can't recognize the EXT partition to wipe it, so I've switched ROMs a few times and probably created a conflict that finally revealed itself today when the phone rebooted.
I may switch to amonra. Is that just something you flash from a zip like a ROM?
Thanks for all the help everyone, I thought I finally sent my phone to the graveyard today.
There is a clockwork to aloha zip file you can flash. Look around the forum. It's on here somewhere. I also believe ROM manager gives you an option to flash an alternate recovery.
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Ok I managed to get ROM manager working, re-partitioned my SD, and got back to Velocity 0.4.
Yeah I totally forgot about how Clockwork recovery can't recognize the EXT partition to wipe it, so I've switched ROMs a few times and probably created a conflict that finally revealed itself today when the phone rebooted.
I may switch to amonra. Is that just something you flash from a zip like a ROM?
Thanks for all the help everyone, I thought I finally sent my phone to the graveyard today.
Help. I am having the same exact problem but have yet to find a solution. Right now my phone has nothing on it but the velocity rom files that i have tried to flash but all flash then get stuck at the loop stage. I think i partitioned my sd but i don't know how to stop it from looping PLEASE HELP! i just want my phone working and not a brick.
Well like I said above, my solution to get past the boot loop was to end up booting the phone with the SD card removed. Once the phone booted, I was able to re-insert the SD card, partition again, thus clearing away any existing conflicts. Then after that I was able to leave the SD card in, flash a ROM, and have the phone boot with no problems. So the key to my success was that I was able to get past the boot loop by removing the SD card and then turning the phone on.
ok so i was able to get into rom manager by booting the phone with out the sd but then when i re-partion the sd card and try to flash velocity.4 it goes back to being stuck at the droid eye
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ok so i was able to get into rom manager by booting the phone with out the sd but then when i re-partion the sd card and try to flash velocity.4 it goes back to being stuck at the droid eye
You can get a can of compressed air remove the battery and SD card and blow out the SD slot to see if you have anything blocking a good contact. The phones SD connector may be bad, or more likely the SD card itself is.
Try to reformat the entire card and see if you get any errors during format. If you continue to get these errors with the old card in the phone try a new SD card.
Last edited by dautley; January 8th, 2011 at 12:22 PM.
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Help - airplane mode and phone went haywire
