HT201269 endless reboot cycle
hello and thanks for reading i was earsing my phone to start over and it got stuck on a loop werethe phone starts and then goes back the apple logo does anybody know a soultion
Just an Update in case anyone else has a similar problem..
Went to the Genius bar at the Apple store. They booted my machine using one of their external hard drives and ran the 10.5.2 COMBO Update. That did the trick and I'm back up running again. thanks Apple!!
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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.
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I currently have an iMac (Intel Core 2 Duo) running Tiger, OSX 10.4.11 and am trying to upgrade to Snow Leopard and am stuck in an endless reboot cycle before the install starts. I insert the disk, click on "Install Mac OS X" and I get a window that has one button, which says "reboot" The messsage says "reboot to start install". I reboot, then the disk pops out and when my computer starts again, I put it back in and it starts all over again. HELP!!! Thanks so much.OK, so I should have put the disclaimer, I need step by step instructions ... I rebooted (from apple menu) and held down the "c" key when the chime hits, but it still pops out the SL install CD and takes me to my usual log in. Am I doing something wrong? Thanks!
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Reboot cycle only when disconencted from base
Hi.
I have an iphone 1.1.4
The screen froze while playing music and would not reboot. I did the home + power reset and it sent it into an endless reboot cycle. I attempted to restore via itunes and it gave me error 2003. After 4 or 5 tries i got it to restore, now when i remove it from the cradle a black line appears 1/2 inch from the bottom of the screen, and the phone slowly fades to white and resumes the reboot cycle. Once i plug it back into the cradle it works fine, as long as i keep it plugged in. Any suggestions? I have previously dropped the phone and it is now dented so i dont think apple warranty applies.
this phone has NOT BEEN JAILBREAKED or bricked or whatever.
EDIT: i tried unplugging the usb cable from the pc while keeping the phone in its cradle, and it still turns off. any suggestions would be much appreciated.
Message was edited by: detriHi littlemisstq,
Based on your description of the issue and the troubleshooting you have already attempted, it does sound like your iPhone may need service. You may find the following page helpful:
Service Answer Center - iPhone
http://support.apple.com/kb/index?page=servicefaq&geo=United_States&product=ipho ne
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Hey all,
I sync'd my 5G iPod classic up to my new computer earlier and now it's stuck in an endless reboot cycle. It starts turning on (black apple screen), runs for about 30 seconds, and then cuts out and starts booting up again. It's charged up and doesn't respond to being plugged into the computer. I've tried doing the manual reset (holding the click button and menu simultaneously) but that won't snap it out of it. It's been doing this for a couple hours and I don't know how to snap it out of this cycle -- any help you can provide would be appreciated!
Thanks in advance!Try forcing the iPod into disk mode first, then connecting it to your computer and see if that makes it show up in iTunes...
Putting iPod into Disk Mode
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1363?viewlocale=en_US
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I have installed the Tech Preview Enterprise version and all went well, till the system got stuck in an endless reboot cycle, it reboots; gets to the windows logo, shows the progress wheel for about 30 seconds; then a black screen with the evaluation number
in the bottom right corner and then just stops and reboots. It has been doing this for several hours now, any ideas of how to break this cycle or do I need to wipe it and go back to the old OSHi
Can you boot into safe mode and then check the logs for errors why its not booting?
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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,
Clickmantwo 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,
first thing to try would be a reset, hold the sleep and home button until the Apple logo comes up.
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.
Restoring: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1414 -
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. -
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 -
After interrupting an installation of a program downloaded from the internet on my mac in a reboot cycle will not start, I've already done the disk check and it's ok and I reinstalled the OS 10.8 Lion
In this case, I think that there's something damaged that can't be fixed just reinstalling OS X.
If you don't want to lose files, you will have to create a second partition in the hard drive and install OS X there, so you will be able to recover everything you need. Then, you will have to erase the first partition and reinstall OS X. Follow these steps:
1. Hold Command and R keys while your Mac is starting to start into OS X Recovery, and open Disk Utility.
2. You can follow the steps of this site to create a second partition > http://pondini.org/OSX/DU3.html
3. After creating the second partition, close Disk Utility and install OS X on the second partition.
4. When the installation finishes, open Finder and, in the sidebar, you will see the other partition. Open it and recover the files you need.
5. After doing that, repeat the step 1.
6. Select “Macintosh HD” in the sidebar, go to Erase tab and erase the disk.
7. Close Disk Utility and install OS X on the first partition.
After doing all of these steps (you will need a lot of time to do this), you can delete the second partition you created and add the size of this partition into the first one > http://pondini.org/OSX/DU4.html -
My phone is stuck in endless reboot mode. I have it in recovery mIode now. My computer wont let me reset it and i have done everything suggested. I completely uninstalled my security (Norton) so I dont see how removing and changing ports will help. Im getting error code 9. Besides, I dont know how to configure ports and let itunes pass things. Please help! Thanks!
My phone is stuck in endless reboot mode. I have it in recovery mIode now. My computer wont let me reset it and i have done everything suggested. I completely uninstalled my security (Norton) so I dont see how removing and changing ports will help. Im getting error code 9. Besides, I dont know how to configure ports and let itunes pass things. Please help! Thanks!
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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
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 -
Torch Reboot Cycle Problem after Blackberry ID Update
Hi!
I started my App World to download a few new applications. It went on to ask me to do an ID update, which i did. After installing the Blackberry ID, the phone asked me to restart it, which i did.
But now, it has gone into a reboot cycle and refuses to start. I tried starting the phone in Safe Mode, but when the screen becomes white (just before starting the phone) and i leave the 'Escape' button, BANG! Back into the reboot cycle. It doesnt even boot up in the safe mode. I tried like a zillion times to get it working in safe mode, but to no avail.
Any help please? I need to get the phone up and running as soon as possible! A fast response will make my day!
Model: Blackberry Torch 9800
OS: Version 6 (never updated, so original one which came with the phone)
Carrier: Idea (India)
Thank you,
regards,
Eeshan UmbraniHello,
If you can't get it to boot into Safe Mode (which can be tricky indeed), then perhaps this KB will be useful:
KB27956 How to recover a BlackBerry smartphone from any state
Good luck!
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I own a 2ghz Macbook with 2gb ram and am running Mac OS X 10.5.2.
I have performed all the latest software updates but now my Macbook is stuck in a cycle of booting, getting to the grey screen with the apple, churning for a few minutes then rebooting. It continues to do this and never reaches the OS.
I've found if I boot from the Leopard DVD, cancel the install and reboot from the menu it boots properly and as long as I sleep it, it will work correctly. But if I reboot or shutdown and start again I get stuck in the constant reboot cycle again.
Any ideas?A.E.S.'s suggestion is definitely the first thing to try. If Disk Utility does not resolve your issue and reports no underlying disk errors or is able to repair whatever disk errors it finds, try an Archive and Install. If Disk Utility reports underlying disk errors that it's unable to repair, you'll probably have to do an Erase and Install. Also, be sure to back up all important information before doing the Erase and Install.
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