what happened to my android?

[donald 1]

this might be a tough one, I have a boost mobile Samsung android, im not even sure what it is officially called, it is one of the ones that has buttons and a touch screen,yesterday I was walking down the street and I found a very old pager that was probably from the 80s or early 90s, it was turned on and hooked up to a service provider but the battery was dead,it was one of those old ones that runs on a double a battery, I put it in my pocket next to my android phone, I think the pagers electrical field messed up my cell phone some how,the phone worked fine all day until I put it on the charger, the phone would not charge, then eventually the screen went blank for a long time, the phone did not do anything at all, then I got a screen on that said something about returning back to factory setting or something like that , it also said downloading , then the screen just went blank again and now it will not even turn on or do anything at all

 

[Mr. Lucky]

I doubt very much that proximity to the pager caused your problem. More likely, having them in the same pocket probably depressed some combination of buttone on your phone. It would seem that your only recourse now is to indeed do a factory reset. To do so, fully charge the battery and then start a Recovery boot. Instructions for recovery vary by manufacturer and model, so you must first get the model name or number. If you phone has a removeable battery, the model# should be on a label that will be visible once you remove it (not the 15 or 17 digit number; that's your IMEI). Once you have the model# you should be able to use a search engine to get a model name (e.g., Galaxy S2) from the model#. Then you would search (for example) for "galaxy s2 recovery boot." Alternatively, or if you do not have a removeable battery, you could try a Google image search for "Samsung mobile phones" and try to match up an image with your device. Either way, once you get into Recovery, use the menu selection for clearing cache, and then "wipe data" (it may also be worded "wipe data/reset" or "clear data" or something similar). It will then either automatically reboot or present you with a menu option to reboot (do NOT simply turn off and then on to reboot).

Note that if this procedure is successful, all your data and apps wll be gone and you'll have to reconfigure from scratch. If you kept backups and have everything synched, this won't be a problem. Regardless, it beats having to replace your phone. GL!