Just going by your description on what happened, a very offhand guess would be the internal storage media chip failed, triggering a boot loop and then eventually a complete failure.
When a smartphone gets stuck in a boot loop, the most common problem is the installed Android operating system can no longer be loaded into RAM when the phone is starting up. That Android OS resides on the internal storage so a software-based boot loop is due to something corrupted the OS enough that it can't be read from the internal storage, and a hardware-based boot loop would be due to something like the internal storage chip failing, or some other vital component on the logic board itself failing. In that case, the Android OS can't be accessed at all. The boot loop is just the phone trying to start up, but it can't access the OS so it just gets stuck in its boot up process.
A software-based boot loop is more common, with a hardware component failing not so common. But it can happen. But you it doesn't seem like you have a lot of options in this situation. You might want to take your phone to a trusted phone repair shop to have them look it over, but be sure to get estimates on pricing. It might not be worth spending money on this phone and you might want to look into buying a new one instead.

Regarding discharging the battery to 0%, that's typically a very bad practice with any smartphone battery. That might have been something to try with a Ni-Cad battery 15 years ago but battery technology and development with Ni-Cads has changed quite a bit since that time, so stop doing that.
For a smartphone, manually discharging it to 0% likely killed the battery. A typical Li-ion smartphone battery requires at least a 5% minimum charge to stay functional. For some better insight and factual info on this:

Of course, it's your choice. But you asked for advice, and everyone's advice is to take a backup.

(Some stuff you'll be able to back up wirelessly, which is another option if the power is too unstable for anything else).

That will depend on how many apps you have. It should not take too long..... probably a few minutes or so.

What has changed since you bought the phone?
Who is your provider / carrier?
You say your other devices are the same, meaning what? All are compromised?
Most likely your accounts would be hacked that are tied to your devices.

spman said:

Unable to find it, what is the equivalent of the triple tap in Samsung A32 5G?

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Google is YOUR friend...

what is your model number? where did you get the firmware from? do you have a link? are you sure you flashed the correct firmware for your device? firmware are VERY specific to the device. flashing the wrong one is not good.

if your mother board is fried u cannot recover any data in it just through it our and buy a new one

Thanks, it works

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For each red card, you then lose one of the letters offered in the next round.
Primarily, the game should only take nouns, but the dictionary is unfortunately not yet fully fine-tuned as I'm not from an English-speaking country, but if there are problems, you can either double-tap the unrecognized word to suggest it be added to the dictionary, or conversely, you can double-tap a word that has been recognized by your opponent and shouldn't be to suggest it be removed from the dictionary.


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Chibibi said:

There is a blank notification that always pop up. I dont know where it came from and what it does but everytime i watch a video and it pops up, it automatically mutes my phone's volume. I have to lower up or lower down the volume to unmute it again and again. Please help, do i need to reformat my phone or factory reset? It has all my work's login authentication

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yeah, I was facing this issue too....and while I was surfing for solutions I came across your problem...but I solved it!!!!!!
As the notification appears pull down the quick settings menu and press and hold the blank information I will give you the info and show the system utilis app and turn off its notification using the slider button beside.....done!!!
pls drop a meaasge in case you can't

have you verified that they are gone via your computer? you log into google photos on your web browser and see if your photos are there or not.

i never have any issues with my google photos. i still have photos that i took on my htc hero which was over a decade or so ago!!!!!!!

what phone do you have? have you tried re-booting your phone?

Thank you

Rgarner said:

I guess he didn't. My friend got it with a lot of apps still there when they probably would have disappeared. The guy must have been really disgusted with it. Why isn't there an option to export contacts, not just import them? Is the phone really that cheap?

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do not know why there is not an export option.

and with tech.....you get what you pay for.

if the contacts are still on the phone, he can go to the play store and search for saving contacts.

here is my search:

do not know if any will be available for your friends phone or not.

ocnbrze said:

i use samsung smart switch. it backs up most of my app and its data, but not all. i would use sms backup to backup and restore your text messages. and make sure your google account is all sync'd up. this will make sure that your google contacts and your photos are all saved to the cloud.

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I backup my contacts and photos separately so not so worried about those.

I installed SMS Backup and performed a backup to Dropbox within minutes. Very user-friendly.

Otherwise I would just like to capture apps, app data, widgets, layout, settings, Wi-Fi / Bluetooth connections etc and backup to Dropbox or a USB connected drive and be able to restore to a new phone. Are these all captured via the following backup mechanism?

Settings-> Accounts and backup - Smart switch -> External storage transfer

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Happy Memorial Day everyone.

Nerve been an issue for me. It's just like computers. Download a picture or image and it's in the download folder...... same as android.

RideOnTarget said:

My screen is totally black now and unresponsive though every thing else seems to be working. I am hearing notifications, etc. I am hoping that when the replacement arrives that maybe smartswitch will work without input from the broken screen. I don't think I had/have Google photos.

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Well let's hope that using Smart Switch when you're phone was at least minimally usable will have made at least one full backup on your data, and to an external source, like a computer. If that is the case, you should be able to use the Smart Switch utility on your new phone to restore your previous data.
Keep in mind that except for a few exceptions (i.e. WhatsApp data) that Smart Switch will be able to backup/restore your entire user account. Then it to from an old phone to a new one. Apps like Google Photos only pertain to photo and video content so that would only be part of your all your data.

If you don't have a Smart Switch full backup however, that could be a problem. The other alternative is to do a direct phone-to-phone transfer of your user account but that involves being at least some ability to do things on your old phone. It is a user interactive process, and on both phones.

Guys, i tried to put in production and it worked without errors, this error occurred only in automated machines tests in google play console...thanks

I didn't respond because I'd never seen anything on my phone called "Recent Photos". But then when I read your thread I wondered whether this might be something to do with the Samsung gallery app (which, despite owning an s21, I don't use at all), and opening that app, pressing the 3 line menu and selecting "Recent" does give me a timeline view of images on my phone. Is this what you are talking about?

(I might add that my Samsung Gallery is also an old version because I don't update Samsung apps that I don't use, so may look different to yours as well).

Personally I doubt very much that "recent photos" is actually a folder. Different gallery apps can show different collections of images, ordered by time, by folder, sorted into photos and videos, or whatever, but when a picture shows in a timeline view or a folder view, or in your Gallery app vs Google Photos, it will be the same file in every case. So if you delete it in one place it will be gone from them all.

noshabarehman said:

That's worth concerning

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worth concerning? why is it "worth concerning"? why is it worth it and not just "concerning"? how much is it worth?

Welcome !

What exactly was deleted? It's not clear from your post. You mentioned the clipboard in the title, but it will be different if you cut a piece of text or tried to move a file that way.

I'm not optimistic either way - data recovery in Android is always problematic, so I'd always recommend copying important stuff and then deleting the original afterwards. But more information might help.

svim said:

If that has been determined and verified to be the problem, that's just a software issue. The upgrade process failed in some way that affected the video driver/firmware. Why not just try reapplying the upgrade or re-flash the phone with its newer, stock (international) ROM? Software fixes are less involved than hardware swapping of components. Fixing up that international model will negate the need to mess with that T-Mobile model.



Yes, the housing is the same for that model line (8T). But I still think you're better off just fixing that international model. Even if you do have all that work done, you're still going to need to flash the stock ROM on that T-Mobile phone to solve it's carrier-lock issue.

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Dannydet said:

Dude, we've given you all the best advice.
If you don't believe us, or don't want to sound like a pain in the a** you're free to reach out to other Android Forums that are out there.
Jeez take a pill.

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MustangLife said:

Odds are you are going to end up with 2 phones that have been busted open trying to fix one phone. The end result is two basically dead parts phones.

You should just bite the bullet and resale the OP8T and start from square one. When buying unlocked phones, non carrier specific phones you need to research what models will work in your area. I've seen so many incorrect descriptions on Ebay and Amazon. Not just look at Global phones either, look at each specific model and the bands that phone supports. Every manufacturer is very different about what bands they support in what areas except Apple and Google. The new Apple/Google phones basically support all bands worldwide

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I have done swapping displays of Oneplus 8T between KB2007 & KB2000.

All work perfectly fine except the FINGERPRINT

Fingerprint does not being recognized at all.

Does anybody have an answer to this ?

What I found googling is it needs to be recalibrated through a oneplus official store

Does anyone have any idea about any other way, as I am not having a OP official store in my country

Anyone's help here is greatly appreciated.

Have you rebooted the phone? and then checking the volume?

Funny thing: I received another update for my s21 last night, less than a fortnight after the previous one (and after my phone had had a couple of UI hangups and another spontaneous restart yesterday). Update description was standard boilerplate, but the top item was "Stability and reliability: device behaviour has been improved". Too soon to say whether it has fixed the issues, but a second update in rapid succession looks a lot like they've realised that the previous one was buggy.