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Posted: May 17 2012 03:35 pm

I have an unmodded Samsung Infuse 4G which is currently stuck in a bootloop. This happened once before, but it broke on its own randomly. I would like to get my phone back on, but no idea how to fix it. I do not currently have a USB cable at my disposal (Will after work). Is there any way to break the loop? Will it break on its own if the battery dies?

Posted: May 17 2012 03:40 pm

um not sure what you can do.

obviously, try taking out the battery for a minute & letting it reset like that. also, try taking out battery & microsd card & letting it boot up w/out the memory card. otherwise, unless you can get to the boot menu, you might be SOL a bit.

if its under a year though, you should still be covered under warranty. especially since its unmodded.

Posted: May 17 2012 05:02 pm

First, try to get into Recovery Mode. Remove the battery, then replace it and hold down both volume buttons and the power button until you see a menu. If even that doesn't work, for Samsung phones, the absolute last resort to get it into some kind of flashable state is to force it into Download Mode using what's called a USB jig. You can make a jig yourself by connecting 301k ohms of resistors between two pins on a micro USB plug you won't miss or buy one from eBay. If that fails, then ship it off for warranty.

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Posted: May 17 2012 07:43 pm

Phone finally booted properly. Sent a few texts then it rebooted again (properly). I decided to reboot it manually hoping it'd help, and it went back into the boot loop. And now the battery is dead.

Posted: May 17 2012 09:20 pm

Yeah, you might want to call support for that then.

Posted: May 18 2012 04:24 am

If I could've gotten the stupid thing into download mode I could've just factory reset it using Odin, but no such luck. Have a new one in the mail and my old Pantech that I can use for the time being. Thank God I still have that old phone because otherwise I'd have no alarm clock!