My G4 spontaneously rebooted at 2am - the blue boot screen lit up the darkened room. I rolled over and went back to sleep. This morning it was showing no mobile network; the only clue as to why came when I tried sending an SMS and got an error "This might work if you insert a SIM". Powered down, reseated SIM and rebooted. The phone's now stuck in an infinite reboot loop. I've tried holding down power and volume buttons to get the boot menu; neither "recovery mode" or "factory mode" have made any difference.
A quick Google has found a lot of complaints of the same thing but no suggested fixes except what I've already tried.
I can't afford to chuck out a six month old device and buy a new one: I just want what I paid for to work. Help!
EDIT: if it helps, the boot loader text includes the line "Baseband: <not found>" . That would fit the lack of mobile network I guess, but why would it suddenly lose track of a core radio function that's presumably surface mounted on the motherboard?
To save time -- no, I haven't rooted it or made any other mods apart from installing perhaps a dozen apps, all from the Play store.
EDIT 2: "recovery mode" gives a graphic of the android mascot on it's back with the chest hatch open with a big red "!" in triangle, and the words "No command". Not helpful.
A quick Google has found a lot of complaints of the same thing but no suggested fixes except what I've already tried.
I can't afford to chuck out a six month old device and buy a new one: I just want what I paid for to work. Help!
EDIT: if it helps, the boot loader text includes the line "Baseband: <not found>" . That would fit the lack of mobile network I guess, but why would it suddenly lose track of a core radio function that's presumably surface mounted on the motherboard?
To save time -- no, I haven't rooted it or made any other mods apart from installing perhaps a dozen apps, all from the Play store.
EDIT 2: "recovery mode" gives a graphic of the android mascot on it's back with the chest hatch open with a big red "!" in triangle, and the words "No command". Not helpful.
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