Endless Rebooting

I've been reading lots about this problem from last year. The iPod reboots itself repeatedly about evey ten seconds. There have been lots of posts on this topic, and everything from bad files with low bit rates to bad firmware has been blamed. I just want apple to know that as of 7/19/2007 I am STILL having the same problem. It seems to have went away for a few months, but it's back as bad as ever, possibly worse. It seems to have started again about the time iTunes was updated to accommodate the iPhone.
Please work on this. Thanks.
Powerbook G4 Mac OS X (10.4.10)

I've investigated further. It seems the problem has to do with either the photos or contacts. When I DON'T sync them, the problem goes away.
Any ideas?

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Satellite L500-1DT: HDD Recovery of Win 7 is stuck in endless reboot loop

This is a detailed bug report so please bear with me.
If you can help, or can confirm you've had the same happen to you, I'll be grateful.
I've owned several Toshiba laptops before and I even used to work for Toshiba so rest assured I like the machine. But I've got a problem with its recovery software. I just bought a laptop, Satellite L500-1DT with Windows 7 64 bit, on behalf of a non-techie who lives elsewhere. Since I know from experience that I will occasionally have to field panic calls along the lines of "it's become too slow", "how do I get rid of the accumulated junk", "maybe it's got a virus" and so on, the first thing I checked was the automatic recovery, i.e. how to bring the HD back to "as new" state.
So I booted into the machine, answered the questions until I got into the OS proper, and then ran the "make a recovery DVD" program. Double layer DVD verified ok. With the freshly made DVD, I swapped the supplied HD for a spare I had (much smaller: only 40 GB instead of 320) and booted the rescue DVD hoping that it would remake me a clean system on the blank drive.
It did repartition the drive according to its scheme, with more or less half the space for Windows and the other half for Data including the recovery files. It did install the system in the Windows partition. It then rebooted into the installed Windows 7 to finalize the installation. There, trouble began: an endless loop of reboots for hours until I stopped it.
Loop:
* reboot
* black screen with bright 4-colour windows logo "starting windows"
* black screen with light blade and "setup is preparing your computer for first use"
* blue "welcome" white screen with "please wait" and horizontal bar with green blob, saying "Finishing the installation may take several minutes. Please dont interrupt or shutdown the computer!"
* blue screen saying it's shutting down
Repeat the above forever.
I have seen it reboot way over 10 times over the course of several hours. And every time it pretends it's the first time it does that. Surely that's not normal!
I tried stopping it with ctrl-alt-del and task manager but the white screen would go on top of even the task manager, making it hard to kill any processes or even inspect what they were. I stopped it by holding down the power button until it switched off. Then when it rebooted it said if I wanted safe mode. I tried that. It went into the routine above and at some point it said it couldn't proceed with the installation if it was in safe mode. So it rebooted into regular mode and then... finished! It finally broke out of the endless loop!
Then it asked me all the usual questions about language, registration etc, as it had done the first time I had turned it on. This seemed good. I finally got back into a newly installed OS and all seemed fine, except I later discovered that some programs that were there before were not installed.
With bravery bordering stupidity (*) I even re-did the procedure on the supplied hard disk instead of my spare one: first I nuked the windows partition, then I did rescue from the HD (with F8), not with the DVD I had made. Result: similar rigmarole, with endless reboots.
After I stopped it, it sort-of-worked, as above, but now some other programs were missing, notably the Toshiba DVD player.
(*) motivated by: better try this now, with the computer here and all my tools and other computers ready at hand, than when the computer is away at its owner's home and that's the only thing left to try with me at the other end of a phone line. Been there before.
Now, that specific one (DVD player) I could download from the support page and it installed fine; but what else might be missing or not working that I didn't notice? Clearly the restore process isn't working as it should.
Am I the first or only one to whom this happens? Am I doing anything wrong? Is there anything else I should try?
I need to make sure this restore procedure works flawlessly while I still have the computer in my hands. If it doesn't, there's no chance I'm going to be able to do a remote reinstall for my non-techie once I am asked to clean up the laptop over the phone a few months from now.
Thanks in advance
[Update: while looking for the right place where I could post this I found that other people are reporting the same problem. It's definitely a bug in the distributed recovery software for W7-64, not an isolated problem of my machine. See for example
http://forums.computers.toshiba-europe.com/forums/thread.jspa?threadID=49421&tstart=0 where user kwarc is describing the same symptoms with a Satellite L505.

I am glad to report some unexpected SUCCESS!
I left the computer at what it was doing when I wrote the previous
post. I came back to it an hour later or so (I had stopped counting
the reboots, though occasionally I'd hear that typical chime from the
other room, saying it was doing one more cycle) and I noticed
something slightly different: the white screen with "finishing the
installation may take several minutes" had a blue blob, not a green
blob, in the progress bar, and the blob was rectangular rather than
rounded. Very odd! Something different had happened, like a change of
theme. And a little while after that, the process really finished and
I got to the white screen that asks about what language etc etc, like
when I first turned on the new computer.
Great!
All I can conclude from this experience:
Even a reinstall that works will DEFINITELY involve many reboots that
seem to be getting nowhere. Apparently, progress is being made, even
though it looks like the process is stuck in a loop of reboots.
It would just be nice if it said something like "Before I finish
restoring, I'm going to have to reboot 26 times, please hang on; now
doing cycle 8 of 26". (Numbers are made up.) It doesn't, but just
knowing about it is helpful.
Perhaps worth redoing the install once more and making a note of how
long it really takes from beginning to end when it does work.
I still don't know if the process I described in the first post was
really stuck because of some other error or whether it would have
ended eventually. If I wanted to be really sure I could re-restore
everything on that hard disk once more.
I have no idea whether wiping all partitions from the disk before
reinstalling did any good or not: it shouldn't have made a difference
since, as I said, I noticed that the first thing the restore program
did was redo all the partitions itself. On the other hand we have
experimental proof that the restore can work on a HD without any
partitions.
Thanks again PauPau---the most useful thing you said, for me, was the
data point that for you it had worked. That's what made me try again
and leave the computer on indefinitely through the innumerable
reboots, just in case.
I'll repost a definitive answer on how long a successful restore
process should take once I get round to redoing it on the supplied 320
GB HD.

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Please help my ipad just rebooted after me turnng it on and it is in wat people call a endless reboot mode where it wont start up please help

please help my ipad just rebooted after me turnng it on and it is in wat people call a endless reboot mode where it wont start up please help

Hi Patkid27,
Welcome to the Support Communities!
The article below may be able to help you with this.
Click on the link to see more details and screenshots.
iOS: Not responding or does not turn on
http://support.apple.com/kb/ts3281
Cheers,
- Judy

Endless reboot loop iphone 4s

The story is, put them ios 6 .., test the week, then decided to 5.1.1 - put and here begins the endless reboot loop ...

You're not making much sense. If you installed the iOS 6 beta, you will hve to take your question to the discussion group provided for registered developers to discuss it.
Beta software can not be discussed in the public forums.
If you are not a registered developer, you are out of luck (not to mention, a thief).

Endless reboot

my iphone has gone into an endless reboot after an OTA update. pls help me fix this. :((

Just in case anyone at apple is paying attention. This has happened to me four times now. Iphone 3G 16GB. The phone rebooted while installing and app (once while syncing an app from iTunes and three times while doing AppStore installs OTA). This leaves the phone completely useless until you do a full recovery on the phone. It is very irritating to be stuck without your phone for a whole day until you can get back to your computer.

IPad stuck with endless reboots

It gets stuck on the apple logo and then shuts off. It does this over and over.
I have got it into recovery and dfu mode and restored it.
But after it completes it, it goes back to the endless reboots.

Sorry your iPad is acting up, (I had issues with my iPad air) I couldn't get it to work the way it should so I took it in to an Apple store and they completely took care of it, (it was still under warranty.) So since you have an iPad Air 2 the best suggestion is what kromern posted, but be sure to back up your iPad on your PC or in iCloud if you have enough space then try to restore it using iTunes on your PC. (if you haven't already,)
Go here for info on doing that: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1414
and if that doesn't work try and locate an Apple store near you... call first and check what the store can do for you, and what, if any charges they may require.
Good luck, I hope you are able to get some assistance and have your iPad working as it should.
K.

Stuck in endless reboot

I'm stuck in an endless reboot, meaning it powers on to the apple logo , sits there for a few minutes and then powers off and restarts the same cycle. This only started out as occasional reboots, then the next day it was rebooting a lot, then the third day I tried fixing it with hard restarts and using itunes to restore it. It didn't help any. So this time I tried to reset all my setting on phone, it loaded and turned on- then started the constant reboot process again.
I tried hooking it up to itunes in DHU but itunes tells me the the "Software update server could not me contacted" and didn't give me anyways on how to fix that.
I really need my phone for work and other jobs and having a brick of a phone isn't going to help.
My phone just stopped showing the symbol to connect to itunes and began the reboot session over again.
What can I do?

To rule out a software issue, set it up as new device, without using the latest backup. Set up your settings manually and see if the phone works after that.
If yes, restore from the latest backup. If the problem comes back, the backup contained damaged data causing these issues.
Use iTunes to restore your iOS device to factory settings - Apple Support
or without iTunes and your computer:
How to erase your iOS device and then set it up as a new device or restore it from backups
If the phone does not work after setting it back to factory settings, your problem might be hardware related and the phone has to be checked by an Authorized Apple Service Provider or Apple Support:
iPhone - Contact Support - Apple Support

P6N SLI Platinum – endless reboot loop. Need help!

P6N SLI Platinum – endless reboot loop. Need help!
Configuration;
Windows XP Pro, SP-2
On old hard drive (Maxtor) I installed in the new case
OCZ GameXStream OCZ700GXSSLI ATX12V 700W Power Supply
MSI P6N SLI Platinum
EVGA 256-P2-N550-T2 7600GT
INTEL Dual Core E4400
MEMORY tried two different ones;
GeIL Esoteria 2GB (2 x 1GB) 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM DDR2 800 (PC2 6400)
Kingston Value Ram 1GB 667MH (of course tried in different slots, stick @ time)
NEC DVD player/burner
Old Maxtor IDE drive W/OS (I have new Seagate serial but won’t install it until I get everything else running.
Computer goes in an endless reboot cycle. First, showing a black screen with small parallel white hash marks. Can pull up Bios but that’s as far as I can go. At first, I thought the high end Geil memory might be at fault. But after installing the more generic Kingston I get the same looping.
In Bios, it is reading all my hardware; CPU, memory, hard drives, temperatures, voltages, etc. the only thing it doesn’t specifically show is the Evga video card. I don’t know if there is really any place it would show except in Hardware Profile.
One other thing, Bios is showing the NEC as the Primary IDE Master and the Maxtor as the Secondary IDE master (although I have tried it both ways). I generally like to boot first from my DVD then go to hard drive.
I don’t know where to go from here. Can anyone give me some suggestions?
Thanks,
Clickman

two replies;
To Vernonion
With JUST new Sata drive & DVD I get message "Reboot & select proper boot device or insert boot media in selected boot device & press a key" in other words, install windows. No flashing anything.
To Maesus
Yes, have tried boot sequence every which way . DVD functions as I ran Memtest for 4 hours last night.
I think I will use the information mentioned in the 3 links V gave me earlier to "repair" the OS on my old Maxtor drive. It is partitioned with OS in one area by itself, docs in another partition, programs another, etc. so I wouldn't lose any work. At worst, I might have to reinstall some programs. At best, I accomplish what I set out to do.
Many thanks,
Clickman

Endless rebooting, lock button no longer works, restart comes up unwanted

Hello all! I tried to search online but I was not able to find an answer. My iPhone 3G 3.1.2 (recently updated but had similar problems with 3.0) is practically in unusable condition. It will no longer let me lock the phone, at times, it wants to restart on it's on non-stop and it will go to an endless rebooting cycle on its own. The only time I can stop the endless rebooting cycle is when I plug the iPhone to my computer or stereo integrated car jack. It appears that my phone works ok when it's plugged in but obviously this is an inconvenience. Is this a software issue or has something shorted on the inside? It seems to be getting worse and worse. I hope we can help each other by starting this discussion. Thank you all in advance!

Welcome to the discussions,
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If this does not solve your problem, restore "as new iphone" and don't use your backup to get your settings back, your backup may contain corrupt files causing this behavior.
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Endless reboot after 1.1.3 ... works fine when plugged in.

Hi - I updated to 1.1.3. Ever since, my phone reboots a short while after I unplug it (from a computer or a wall charger). It reboots endlessly until I plug it in. It seems to work fine when I'm using it, but as soon as it's idle and unplugged for a few minutes, it starts rebooting. anyone else having problems like this? it really *****
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Yeah i had the same problem. i'm sure it's not the upgrade. i think it is the phone it's self. i took it in to the apple store and the gave me a new phone. the new one works just fine with the upgrade besides the problem with the sms that everyone else is having a problem with. dosen't put them in order it *****.

Macbook- Endless reboot cycle- Failed 10.5.2 attempt!!!!

Hi,
I've got a Macbook. I tried doing the 10.5.2 update and then it froze along the process, so I rebooted. The computer wouldn't get past the white screen spinning wheel Apple screen on startup, so I figured I really screwed things up. So I put in the Leopard disk and did an Archive and Install thinking that I could start anew. After that though, all my machine does is go to the white Apple spinning screen for a while before it restarts, by itself, again and again. It is an endless cycle.
Please can someone help me. Please don't tell me what I should have done(permissions repair etc. I did that) I need some advice for what I should do from here. Thanks!
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Recovery disk stuck in endless reboot - sat. P35

I'm just trying to reinstall winxp home to a newly installed hard drive after my old drive died.
Ok, here's system info
   model name:   Satellite P35-S611
   part #:       PSP 30U-20H001
Recovery disk info
   Toshiba
   Recovery and Applications / Drivers DVD
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Recovery disk shrink wrap label info
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   Sat. P35 Recovery Package
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{1} As per only instructions on the back of the recovery disk case; I power up while holding the "C" key.
{2} The disk boots a dos session and text pops up for a full system restore ( F1 to continue, F2 to cancel )
{3} I press F1.
{4} A text warning screen pops up about losing all data when formatting the hard drive ( C to continue, A to abort )
{5} I press C
{6} 2 or 3 seconds later my laptop reboots to the dos session in step {2}, there are no warnings or messages, just an endless loop of this "recovery" software asking me to press F1 and C to continue.
I have multiple *nix live cds and can partition and format this new drive to anything this recovery cd needs, but there is NO documentation about this rcovery disk other than power up while holding the "C" key.

Some more details about this UNSOLVED failure in the recovery discs code.
{step 2 screen is:}
Welcome to the Toshiba Recovery utility.
This process will restore the original default system install on your hard drive.
Note that the current contents of your hard drive will be erased and replaced by the default system install. You should back up your system before continuing.
By selecting OK, you are accepting the terms of the Microsoft end-user license agreement that appears in the Windows License Agreement Setup Screen.
F1 = OK, F2 = Cancel
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{Breifly followed by:}
The recovery is in progress, please wait
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2. Keep the CD/DVD in the drive until you are asked to remove it.
If you do not want to erase the contents of your hard isk drive then press 'A' to abort.
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G560 - enabling BitLocker causes endless reboots

I have just bought a G560 (Core i5 430M, 4GB RAM, Windows 7 Home Premium) and upgraded it with a Windows Anytime upgrade to Windows 7 Ultimate. I have changed the group policy to allow BitLocker without a TPM and then tried to turn on BitLocker to encrypt the system drive (C). It correctly generated an encryption key and saved it to a USB key. Before it actually starts any encrypting it tries to reboot in order to check that it can successfully read the encryption key from the USB key as it boots. So far so good. Then the problems start. It reboots and flashes up a message saying that it has successfully read the encryption key, and then it should boot into Windows, but instead it just goes into an endless loop of rebooting, flashing up the message saying that it has successfully read the encryption key, rebooting, .....
I've downloaded and successfully installed the latest BIOS update (v25). I have even deleted all partitions from the hard drive and re-installed Windows from scratch, installed all the latest drivers from Lenovo's website (but without Onekey Recovery, ReadyComm and Veriface), and tried again. Exactly the same problem though.
Having spent the whole weekend trying to resolve this problem suggestions would be very welcome! Lenovo's initial response was "what is BitLocker?", followed by "it's a Microsoft problem so you need to contact Microsoft"

I am not sure what to say... clearly the bitlocker module isn't being installed correctly. As a temp fix, I would suggest Truecrypt. You don't have to worry about multiple partitions, and in my opinion is more secure than bitlocker
http://www.truecrypt.org/
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/ edit: didn't see that you upgraded to ultimate.

MBP rebooting itself and then endlessly rebooting.

Hi All,
I'm having an interesting problem with my Santa Rosa MBP, which is about 4 months old. Twice now after using Toast 9 to burn DVD's, my computer has shut it self off and then continues to reboot endlessly. This occurs after I've written and verified a disc and choose to mount it, once I click "mount it" said problem occurs. I then do a hard shut off, and reboot normally.
I've also been experiencing system freezes while running disk utility to verify/or repair my externals, and my internal. I'm also experiencing occasional system freezes when using coverflow in iTunes.
I take good care of my computer, repair permissions regularly, and just recently ran the apple hardware test which found no problems.
Any ideas? Thanks for looking.

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Pertaining to system rebooting:
4/25/08 12:22:51 PM Software Update[1718] Package Authoring Error: installation-check results requires a message
4/25/08 12:22:51 PM Software Update[1718] Package Authoring Error: installation-check results requires a message
4/25/08 12:22:51 PM Software Update[1718] Package Authoring Error: installation-check results requires a message
4/25/08 12:22:51 PM Software Update[1718] Package Authoring Error: installation-check results requires a message
4/25/08 12:22:51 PM Software Update[1718] Package Authoring Error: installation-check results requires a message
4/25/08 12:23:25 PM installdb[1724] Opened receipt database on '/' with schema 17.
4/25/08 12:23:26 PM Software Update[1718] JavaScript error "Undefined value" while running "_choice_suvisible"
4/25/08 12:23:26 PM Software Update[1718] _choice_suvisible returned error: Undefined value
4/25/08 1:36:58 PM /usr/sbin/ocspd[1754] starting
4/25/08 1:37:42 PM Finder[99] NSOpenGLAutoscaleBounds=NO
4/25/08 1:38:20 PM QuickTime Player[1756] NSOpenGLAutoscaleBounds=NO
4/25/08 1:39:04 PM QuickTime Player[1756] CGImageDestinationAddImageFromSource image 0 of source is nil
4/25/08 1:39:04 PM QuickTime Player[1756] CGImageDestinationFinalize image destination does not have enough images
4/25/08 1:39:04 PM [0x0-0x74074].com.apple.quicktimeplayer[1756] Fri Apr 25 13:39:04 phaedruss-macbook-pro.local QuickTime Player[1756] <Error>: CGImageDestinationAddImageFromSource image 0 of source is nil\n
4/25/08 1:39:04 PM [0x0-0x74074].com.apple.quicktimeplayer[1756] Fri Apr 25 13:39:04 phaedruss-macbook-pro.local QuickTime Player[1756] <Error>: CGImageDestinationFinalize image destination does not have enough images\n
4/25/08 2:46:08 PM /Applications/QuickTime Player.app/Contents/MacOS/QuickTime Player[1783] _RemoveTimeTask(), the current time manager task 0x1cd5070c being removed is also currently executing its tmAddr routine, so unexpected things may result ( Radar #4555679 ).
4/25/08 3:06:42 PM QuickTime Player[1783] NSOpenGLAutoscaleBounds=NO
4/25/08 3:14:47 PM /usr/sbin/ocspd[1796] starting
4/25/08 3:15:43 PM /usr/sbin/spindump[1799] process 1798 is being monitored
Messages related to problem drive:
4/25/08 4:36:48 PM mds[30] (/Volumes/NIETZSCHE/.Spotlight-V100/Store-V1/Stores/90662AA3-B0A7-4B23-864C-680 900DCA8AB)(Error) IndexCI in ContentIndexOpenBulk:Could not open /Volumes/NIETZSCHE/.Spotlight-V100/Store-V1/Stores/90662AA3-B0A7-4B23-864C-6809 00DCA8AB/live.2.; needs recovery
4/25/08 4:36:48 PM mds[30] (/Volumes/NIETZSCHE/.Spotlight-V100/Store-V1/Stores/90662AA3-B0A7-4B23-864C-680 900DCA8AB)(Error) IndexCI in recoverIndex:recover canceled (0.)
This one disturbs me - what does it mean?
4/25/08 3:15:54 PM [0x0-0x7f07f].com.adobe.AfterEffects[1798] I'm the snoop.

Endless Reboot loop (not jailbroken) while updating to ios 8.2

I have an ipad mini with retina display and while I was updating it to ios 8.2 and it was at the process of restarting i got the blue screen.
I have tried almost everything I could find on the internet. The device wont turn off or restart no matter how long I would hold the power and home buttons
It would still keep restarting and getting the blue screen. I tried connecting it to my mac and restore it with itunes but itunes wouldnt identify the device even though
it was properly connected and my ipad wasnt jailbroken. I also tried the software called Reiboot but it still wouldnt read my device.
the reboot and blue screen process has been going on for hours and I dont know what too do.
any help will be much appreciated.

Assuming that this phone was never jailbroken, put it in recovery mode and restore as described in this article:
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