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Help Note 3 booting - a boot so nice it does it twice

sjfwhite

sjfwhite

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Ever since I got my Note 3, when booting either from power off mode or restarting, it goes through the boot sequence twice. I am thankful that it's not the bootloop that others have experienced but irritating nonetheless. I do have a microSD card installed. Anybody else experience this? If so, any fix?

By the way, I have an SM-NP900W8 from Rogers in Canada. It's not unlocked or rooted. Thanks!
 
Sounds like a problem to me. Neither of my Not3s double-boot, not have I heard of anyone else having the problem. I'd bring it back.
 
Hello and welcome to the forums. I see your having a problem with a android device. Now since your not rooted or unlocked . I would do a factory reset . If that doesn't seem to stop it the next thing is to check to see if device doesn't have any updates pending .. if the device is current on updates . It time to roll down to the store .
 
BRAINZ2013 said:
Hello and welcome to the forums. I see your having a problem with a android device. Now since your not rooted or unlocked . I would do a factory reset . If that doesn't seem to stop it the next thing is to check to see if device doesn't have any updates pending .. if the device is current on updates . It time to roll down to the store .
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Thanks - i'll try the factory reset on the weekend. The phone works fine otherwise, it's only when it needs to be rebooted or started that it goes through the boot process twice. Weird...

EDIT: Ok - I just confirmed that it only does this when the 64GB microSD is installed. Thoughts? Thanks for anyone who has any ideas. :)
 
Try this:

Go to:

Settings > Connections > WiFi > (menu soft button) Advanced

Uncheck 'Always Allow Scanning' (5th item down on Advanced settings page).

Go back to Home screen, long-hold power button, and select 'Restart' from the dialog box that appears.

Hopefully this will resolve the problem for you. The 'Always Allow Scanning' advanced setting under WiFi isn't really necessary and can cause boot loop issues. My Note 3 began doing this and removing the external SD card would stop the boot loop from occurring, thus leading me to assume the problem was related to the SD card is some way. This turned out to not be the case.
 
Deaj said:
Try this:

Go to:

Settings > Connections > WiFi > (menu soft button) Advanced

Uncheck 'Always Allow Scanning' (5th item down on Advanced settings page).

Go back to Home screen, long-hold power button, and select 'Restart' from the dialog box that appears.

Hopefully this will resolve the problem for you. The 'Always Allow Scanning' advanced setting under WiFi isn't really necessary and can cause boot loop issues. My Note 3 began doing this and removing the external SD card would stop the boot loop from occurring, thus leading me to assume the problem was related to the SD card is some way. This turned out to not be the case.
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Nice find! That worked! Now I am going to reenable considering that I know it is not a problem with my phone but rather a bug in the software ;) Thanks a lot!
 
I was having this same issue and now its fixed! Thank you for the information, I would never have thought it would be that setting making my phone restart.
 
Deaj said:
Try this:

Go to:

Settings > Connections > WiFi > (menu soft button) Advanced

Uncheck 'Always Allow Scanning' (5th item down on Advanced settings page).

Go back to Home screen, long-hold power button, and select 'Restart' from the dialog box that appears.

Hopefully this will resolve the problem for you. The 'Always Allow Scanning' advanced setting under WiFi isn't really necessary and can cause boot loop issues. My Note 3 began doing this and removing the external SD card would stop the boot loop from occurring, thus leading me to assume the problem was related to the SD card is some way. This turned out to not be the case.
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wow, this has been driving me crazy for months, ever since I installed a rooted 4.3 stock ROM on my GS3. I thought it was something with root access. Seems to have solved the Android System (UID) asking for superuser access too. Thanks again!
 
Deaj said:
Try this:

Go to:

Settings > Connections > WiFi > (menu soft button) Advanced

Uncheck 'Always Allow Scanning' (5th item down on Advanced settings page).

Go back to Home screen, long-hold power button, and select 'Restart' from the dialog box that appears.

Hopefully this will resolve the problem for you. The 'Always Allow Scanning' advanced setting under WiFi isn't really necessary and can cause boot loop issues. My Note 3 began doing this and removing the external SD card would stop the boot loop from occurring, thus leading me to assume the problem was related to the SD card is some way. This turned out to not be the case.
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It is posts like this that make this forum as a whole fantastic. An annoying problem cured. :)

I have had this problem since I rooted, and assumed it was an annoying inconvenience, that increased boot time and at first scared the hell out of me. On a start up Phone would cycle through to my lock screen (if left to do it's stuff), show the lock screen very briefly and then restart to a point where the "SAMSUNG" logo on a black screen would dim and brighten (symptoms of a bootloop!) for around ten seconds before it buzzed, the soft key lights would light up and it would then boot to normal.
 
This has elimated the double (sometimes triple) boot and sped it up to how I remember it used to be. The boot time was something I was impressed with when I first got the phone, I assumed it had slowed because I'd bogged the phone down with apps.
I was currently playing trial and error with my xposed modules because I thought one of them was causing the problem, I can stop that now.
On a side note, doesn't this setting also effect a NLP wakelock? My battery life is already quite good but I'll keep an eye on this wakelock for changes
 
sjfwhite said:
Ever since I got my Note 3, when booting either from power off mode or restarting, it goes through the boot sequence twice. I am thankful that it's not the bootloop that others have experienced but irritating nonetheless. I do have a microSD card installed. Anybody else experience this? If so, any fix?

By the way, I have an SM-NP900W8 from Rogers in Canada. It's not unlocked or rooted. Thanks!
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Mine (T-mobile US) only does it sometimes. Other than that the phone works fine so I'm leaving it alone.
 
I have a note 3 on Sprint and just experienced a series of bootloops as well.....had to pull out the battery.........though after pulling the battery......no such issue any more.
 
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