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baldysimon

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A weird one this, yesterday I was somewhere I needed to be very quiet, so I tried to shutdown my phone. I hold the power button select shutdown, the phone turns off and comes back on again (restarts). It does it again and again, there is no way to shut it down. On each restart I get an error report saying abnormal restart. The phone is perfect apart from this, help! It's not like I ever really have to switch it off but knowing I can't is.bugging me.
 
Afternoon :)

Could you keep the power button pressed in until you get a 5 second count down and the phone restarts this will do a proper hard restart, then when its rebooted try and shutdown again...

Hope this helps
 
hi mate, i have been having this issue on and off for the last month and its been driving me insane!

this issue happened to me first with the Desire HD where when put a newly installed app to SD, it would cause the phone to repeatedly restart. With the DHD i could remove the sd card while the phone was off and then switch the phone on. this would usually sort the problemn as i could then 'hot-insert' the SD and uninstal my latest app download.

the problem i faced with the HOX is that there is no removable SD, but i think i have just stumbled upon a fix today. when the phone decided to restart for the hundredth, i waited until it powered up and then put it into airplane mode. i left my phone in airplane for about 30 mins and the phone did not restart. i have now disabled the airplane mode and the phone seems to be fine, although i haven't dared to restart the phone incase i have to listen to that blasted T-Mobile sh*tty boot up tune again:mad:.

i have no idea what is actually causing this problem but it is also causing my phone to become so hot that a cant put it in my pocket for fear of burns. i also get that alternating green/red LED flash.

Rant over, let me know if this works for you:D.
 
I've had the same issue, and also a slightly different one...

A while ago I went to the theatre and decided to put my phone into airplane mode then switch it off, so that if it was accidentally switched on whilst in my pocket it would be in airplane mode so wouldn't ring or whatever. I activated airplane mode, waited until the notification bar displayed the picture of the plane, and then switched it off... and the phone just restarted itself. It would keep restarting on shutdown until I turned airplane mode off and went back into "normal" mode, at which point I could shut it down. The same thing has happened a few times, including once when I was going on a plane.

(This is on a UK Orange branded One X, with fastboot disabled by the way.)
 
Ive had problems turning mine ON in the past! Took multiple presses of the power button to turn it on, but sometimes it took only one quick press. Doesn't bother me now as i nver really turn it off.
 
Two questions:

  1. Was it plugged in?
  2. Do you have ClockworkMod Recovery installed?

If yes to both, that's why. CWM causes the phone to power on when on charge.
 
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