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My S3 rebooted itself and never booted afterwards

nickdalzell

Extreme Android User
I have a rooted Verizon Galaxy S3, and it's random rebooted before (it's an SD card problem as the same card caused similar problems on other phones and it always happened while playing music off the card) and i never thought nothing of when it did it today except after an hour i went to check on it to see the custom ROM's boot animation still on the screen. i tried rebooting and battery pulling. no good. had to factory reset. which sucks as i had like 200 plus apps and tons of homescreen mods i am still in the process of getting back. since it required a factory reset i have no logcat to offer. i'd like to know what happened? it was not even warm, and was perfectly fine this morning. it did this about 4PM at work today. yesterday it froze twice requiring a battery pull which was new but worked fine afterwards. i have not installed any new apps only had updated a few from the Play Store. i am guessing humidity shorted it out and corrupted the /data partition but not too sure. i seem to have issues with Android phones at work especially when steam ends up under the glass of the screen. it's been awfully humid lately.
 
hmmm, that is odd. You get steam/condensation under the screen? I wonder if some of that moisture made it inside the device?? Does that happen often?
 
No idea what happend mate but do yourself a favour and start making regular nandroid and tibu backups :beer:
 
steam under the screen has been a constant with Samsung devices (including my now-dead Precedent) since i've been working outside in 95+ degrees with 98% humidity with a 78% dewpoint lately. usually it just random reboots the phone occasionally but never has caused it to bootloop like that. it was much worse before the Otterbox case with belt clip, i used to carry it in pocket--and my pockets would get soaked with sweat--imagine what good that did lol

moisture under the glass is a constant when i go from an air-conditioned shop at 78 degrees immediately outside in the above mentioned conditions.
 
yeah it cant be doing the phone any good. The only upside is that its probably very pure water so no lasting damage. Wonder if water resistant phones like the Xperia Z protect against water in gas form?
 
haha it random rebooted today at work, at the most humid part of the day. thankfully it wasn't bootlooping so no data loss. i once said in many other threads that the reason i hadn't bought a higher end device is because my type of job kills phones, so my track record with them isn't great.
 
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