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Help Won't Boot up and start correctly

xman95

Android Enthusiast
Nov 17, 2011
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When I turn on the tablet, I can see the boot animation fine.
It appears that the device is booting into the OS (JB I believe) where I can see the Home screen temporarily.
Then it just goes blank and I can't do anything or see anything.

My thinking is that it ran out of memory and it is stuck in some loop when it boots up. I can see the icon that shows this in the notification bar (many other things there too).

I can get to recovery, but I can't select anything there for some reason. I was hoping to factory reset it, and hope that this would solve the problem.

Questions:
Any idea what may be wrong?
Is there any other way to factory reset the device? Maybe via the computer and usb cable

I thought I had root a long time ago, and I did install the custom recovery when I first got it. But I may have lost root some time ago. I do remember a few apps saying that I needed root for some strange reason but ignored it. So I'm thinking some kind of update may have happened and now it may be stuck.

Thanks for any advice!!
 

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