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[Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Boosoth1st:
'Fixing Permissions' on Recovery seems to do the trick... without SD Card though...

'Fixing Permissions' on Recovery seems to do the trick... I took out the SD Card and the SIM and still had issues, then I went to recovery again and selected 'Fix Permissions' on Recovery TWRP and now it starts... I have done this before... So if you have no success without the SD and SIM try wiping Cache and Dalvik Cache and now it boots!. Now I have to figure out which apps' data are on the Ext SD card and remove it, hopefully this does the trick!
[Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Boosoth1st:
If you have a recovery installed, it may help you the "Fix Permissions" function on the recovery, I have TWRP and it worked for me... I did a Cache and Dalvik Cache wipe, plus

'Fix Permissions'

and it worked when even without the SIM would not work before...
[Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kriszty:
this is no solution !!, Samsung just released today new firmware ( 116MB MJ6 ) , still not online for my n9005 , but i hope this

will solve some problems !:rolleyes:
[Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] henklbr:
MJ6-firmware is online now:

http://www.sammobile.com/firmwares/3/?download=20935

Model: SM-N9005

Country: United Kingdom

Version: Android 4.3

Changelist: 1937874

Build date: Mon, 21 Oct 2013 12:20:12 +0000

Product Code: BTU

PDA: N9005XXUDMJ6

CSC: N9005OXADMJ4

MODEM: N9005XXUDMJ4
[Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kriszty:
i have now the n9005xxubmj3 firmware, will this firmware install in my sm-n9005 ?
[Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Boosoth1st:
True not a permanent solution, but for a temporary one if you want to use your phone at all: I forgot to mention that if you turn it off from TWRP recovery instead of reboot after wiping Dalvik Cache and Cache and fixing permissions afterwards....

Then it should start okay, no matter if you have the SIM and SD cards inserted, at least that's what i experienced... but again if I restart or turn off the phone without airplane mode, the whole drama of getting a reboot will start:(

I don't know if you can wipe dalvik and Cache from a Stock recovery though, you may be able to... but if you do: remember to "turn it off" instead of "Reboot". Good luck!
[Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Runamuck0870:
TWRP not an option on my Verizon N3. Crashes to Touchwiz right at execution.

Running my N3 for 18 hours in safe mode without a crash now. My issue appears to be app conflict somewhere but I have no idea how to isolate.
[Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Boosoth1st:
How do you run on safe mode? I think I remember seeing it on my phone somewhere...
[Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Blorf:
I experienced the spontaneous reboot issue on a new Verizon Wireless phone ordered online. The phone would reboot spontaneously while working on random things such as entering text into a browser form, opening an app, typing an email, etc. It was random and I could not find a pattern. Sometimes it would reboot while sitting on the table in sleep mode. It started before I installed apps, and it did not matter whether the memory card was installed or not. Apps crashed all the time.

I brought the phone to 2 stores. In the first I was served by a patronizing twit. ("You certainly have a lot going on on this phone.... Bluetooth... Are you actually using that???") She literally gave me a migraine.

I brought it to the second store where the tech said the only thing he could do is a hard reset. So he did that, I reinstalled the apps and set up the phone again. It rebooted half a dozen times during that exercise. By the next day it had rebooted more than ten times, many app crashes and the phone hung completely once and required a battery removal to get it started again. I went back to the store and they did a DOA replacement of the phone.

It's been 3 days now and phone # 2 is working flawlessly. I'm having a blast with it.

My conclusion: There's a manufacturing defect somewhere in this phone. Maybe a firmware patch can offer a workaround but I'm betting a replacement of the defective units will be required. If you have this problem, your phone is not functioning correctly and should be replaced. If you're waiting for a magic patch to fix this problem you're wasting time.
[Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kriszty:
after 2 weeks off continuous rebooting, i decided today to return the phone, NO SAMSUMG ANYMORE FOR ME !!
[Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Snugglesthemonkey:
I installed the updated firmware. I have gone all day without the phone restarting itself. Not once today. No boot loop.

So far so good.
[Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kriszty:
good news for you, but we don,t have a new firmware yet , and from what i know the Netherlands are veryyyyyy slow with updates

still using the ubmj3 firmware, just wonder if i can use the other firmware
[Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] henklbr:
Then you know wrong: the Netherlands were fast with the last 2 updates, within a week!

So don't bring wrong info here!

Yes: you can update your phone with the BTU-firmware with ODIN; it's your choice!
[Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kriszty:
i will try it tonight, thanks
[Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] alge30:
So, is this problem gone after the update? Because i want to buy this phone, but will not if it's still the "major" issue.
[Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Snugglesthemonkey:
I wish I could give you a clear answer. I updated the phone and things seem much better. No problems for a few days. But now it seems to be freezing again. Not nearly as much as before, but there is still some issue unresolved. And just as I type this the phone restarted by itself. Froze twice this morning. Its noon now.

I have not installed any more apps since the update. Not clear why things would be ok and now be troublesome again.

Wish I new if this phone should be returned or sit tight for another update.

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And it just happened again, and I am stuck on the logo screen.

Often things crash an app / a phone process....

Just for your information my phone has not been rooted or altered in anyway. Also no SD card.
[Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ultramag69:
That is really odd, I have 2 Note 3's, 1 from Malaysia and 1 stock Australian... I have never experienced these problems you seem to have and if I did it would be returned as this is a bit of a problem for such an expensive toy...
[Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Runamuck0870:
I've been able to resolve this but wish I could explain the exact conflict.

For me, had to "Turn Off" and/or uninstall these three apps:

-Google +

-Pen.Up

-FaceBook

I've since added back FaceBook and two days have passed since a reboot or boot loop.

Pen.Up and a Google + are native to a stock phone. They appear to work fine until Pen.Up does an update and then my problems start. If I just remove it, then Google + does an update and issues start. Facebook does fine until you attempt to post an update, then phone reboots itself.

I suspect there is a conflict with location services.....apps trying to access this, find them disabled, and then peg both RAM and CPU until it crashes phone. But with so much crapware on my N3 from Verizon, I'm just guessing after days of monitoring app behaviors and interactions. This should NOT be this difficult!

In SAFE mode phone will run for days just fine....making this a software issue.
[Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] alge30:
This is horrible!!! Thanks for your answer, so I'll be waiting before buy, i hope samsung can solve this(10001bug) quick, because I want this phone!
[Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] indopride:
I don't know if I have the same issue as you guys but my device works good if its booted up but when I reboot it manually it comes most of the times in a boot-loop.. sometimes it boots up and i have no wallpaper and it gives a system proces error..

I've tried a couple of factory resets, without sd card, without sim card, without any app installed.. tried the airplane mode.. nothing helps!

Any ideas?
[Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] captainhakan:
I'm happy for you. Your conclusion is my biggest nightmare. I have realised my device's bootloop problem 3 days after purchase and I have waited for a firmware update which could fix this fer weeks till i finally decided to root my Note 3 breaking Knox count to hopefully find a solution to fix it using root privilages. So if this is not a software related bug i totally screwed up cause i have already voided Knox Warranty which is necessary for a replacement. My device runs pretty well now after trying possible solutions in this thread. But boottoop problem is still there. I have no bootloops with about 200 apps installed including the pre installed system apps but when I install more apps bootloops come back and don't even let me boot my phone. It is really disturbing to know it can come back anytime as I've upgraded to note3 from note2 mainly because of huge memory so I can keep more apps installed. I just hope it's not a hardware malfunction
[Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Snugglesthemonkey:
I have had all these problems...and after the firmware update it seemed better for a few days.

Then there was a Knox update and now there is often a Security message about an application accessing the phone.

Phone resets by itself often again.

How many of you returned the phone for a new one and have had your replacement phone be trouble free?
[Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lahoof:
I returned two & am on the 3rd.. still with the same issue..
[Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Blorf:
My phone is still trouble-free. No issues at all since it was replaced.
[Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] captainhakan:
How many apps have you got installled?
[Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] captainhakan:
I was ignorant to never try this before. I've seen the message long ago but itfelt irrelevant so i never tried.

It fixed my bootloop problems for good. I think each and everyone with bootloop problems should try this first and report back the results. If this works for everyone then we should rename the thread as "solved" and put the solution at first message of the thread.

I still doubt if my device is malfunctioned with or without bootloops though as my brother who also has the note3 never has boot issues with "always allow scanning" wifi setting on. He's not used to install as many apps as I do though so it might be a combination of installed apps not functioning when this setting is on.
[Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] HansCastorp:
Ok I've read through this thread and I understand the fix above is for the bootloops...I am among the ones who *only* get like 10 random reboots a day, no bootloops. Has anyone been able to solve this issue?
[Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gnadenlos:
In my experience the real problem is if too many apps/processes start at once during boot. If you use Bootmanager (defim - in PlayStore) and stop some of your apps from starting at boot (a lot of apps want to do this for stupid reasons) the bootloop is gone, too.

The solution you used is only another way to relieve the system during boot. WiFi assisted GPS is useful for faster GPS fixes, more accurate location indoors and to save battery - it's not very good to disable that feature. Samsung has to fix this!
[Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Snugglesthemonkey:
I get random reboots all the time. Its not just you. It would reboot even after a factory reset with no apps installed and no SD card.

Not sure if there will be some update to fix this or we need to get our money back asap.
[Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kiru:
I also had the random reboot problem. My note would reboot roughly 4-5 times a day. Never rooted...no apps.... Factory restored... Still had random reboots. I have now exchanged my device for another one and haven't had a random reboot for 2 days now. This may not be the news some folks want to hear as it may be hardware related vs software.
[Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] HansCastorp:
Yeah but random reboots are...random, how do you show them when you go to exchange the phone, that it does that?
[Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kriszty:
true, i had before my firmware update to ubmj3 , no random reboots ( 3 weeks ) !!, but after the update it started to random boot.

so it has to be firmware

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after just another random reboot, i just ref lashed the firmware to udmj7 , lets see now !!

i will let you know
[Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] captainhakan:
I totally agree Samsung has to fix this (whatever it is). Samsung should also make a press statement describing what exactly this bootloop issue is and if this is software or hardware related as well. Maybe some of the Note 3 devices have malfunctioned gps chips which doesn't allow the chip to get location from wifi. I don't really know. But I've really started to enjoy my Note3 after I fixed the bootloops by simply disabling that setting. No bootloops anymore no matter how many apps I have installed. I'm totally satisfied now.
[Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kiru:
I guess my carrier here is pretty good. I just called the tech support line and they had no problem sending me another one after I described what was happening.
[Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] HansCastorp:
Guess I'll unroot it, restore in and try my carrier's goodness...
[Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] flochy:
After having bootloops this morning (absolutely no reason, as my phone was only charging this morning), I found this topic a bit too late.

I flashed back everything with the latest rom available (Stock pre-rooted, I'm getting sick of these Custom Rom with a ratio benefit/bugs < 1, and with most of the time a poor battery life).

Everything's back on track, but I found this topic, which I found interesting since it could happen anytime...

The thing is, should I have known what can cause this bootloop (according to what is said here), there would be nothing to be done once bootlooping...

I'd like indeed to turn on the WIFI assisted GPS.

For the moment, I installed Xposed Framework + Bootmanager as suggested above. I was very surprised to see the list of apps that starts on boot ! I removed at least half of them.

I now hope that bootloop will not happen again, because I don't have necessarily all the tools required to re-flash on the fly...
[Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] HansCastorp:
Did anyone try flashing a custom rom? Does this solve the random reboot issue, or it's not confirmed?
[Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kriszty:
i flashed this morning my ubmj3 firmware with the udmj7 firmware, i rooted the device . now 8 hours later still no random reboots :cyclops:

keep my fingers crossed :good:. if starting again, i will flash this rom for a another change.
[Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kriszty:
i had still random boots with udmj7 , saterday i flashed with the new echo slim rom, and until now , 1.5 day,s later. still no single reboot.:good:
[Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kriszty:
after 3-4 day,s without rebooting, my battery was empty, and i had to recharge it, so with a full battery, the problems starting again. Looks like a battery fault or something like this .
[Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] henklbr:
Instead of complaining everytime about your Note 3 rebooting:

why not going back to your reseller, tell the problem and ask for a replacement?

I had the same problem with my 1st Note 3, bought at Coolblue in the Netherlands.

I explaned my problem, and I could exchange my Note 3 for a new one without questions asked (they knew about the bootloop-problem!)!
[Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kriszty:
it,s not complaining, it,s a software bug !!, i bought it second hand, so no warranty for me.

if i read this forum, i,m not the only one. and if there is any solution it would be handy to talk abaout it on this forum.

( that,s what this forum is about or not ?)

for me the solution was flashing a new rom, the booting is now much less 2 times a day.
[Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] papertreeprophet:
Just to chime in; so far for me turning off scaning has stopped the boot loops. Everything is working perfectly for now. Part of me is tempted to try and get a new one, but part if me is afraid I'll go through multiple that are even worse off.
[Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] greywolfst1:
Reboot cycle even with WiFi search off

I have also gotten the reboot cycle for my rooted Note 3. It start after I had already unchecked the 'Always allow scanning' button in wi-fi (I disabled it when I bought the phone). I notice it doesn't occur very often and it always follows an update in the app store.

The first time the reboot cycle started I noticed that all my purchased apps were uninstalled and trying to reinstall them caused a reboot. I cleared the play store cache and uninstalled the updates (one solution I read on these forums) which then proceeded to cause the reboot loop ad nauseum. To solve this I pulled the battery and then the sd card. Replaced the battery, rebooted, then replaced the sd card after all updating apps finished updating. This prevented any further reboot cycles for 3 days.

I am pretty confident that the boot loop on my phone is related to the updating of apps from the play store. Since I cleared the play store cache the default was to update over wi-fi (rather than to notify me as I initially had the setting), thus allowing the reboot loop to occur during app updates the 2nd time. I repeated the steps above and seems to prevent the loop from reoccurring. I have also set my play store to only update when I authorize it. I hope samsung and google fix this because we should not have to pull our SD cards in order to update apps in our phones.

I have also watched which apps cause the loop and there seems to be no pattern. It seems to be a problem with the updater. Perhaps these are apps that I have on the sd card that do not update properly? I will keep an eye to see if may be these apps causing the loops are housed on the sd but I do not think I moved many apps over due to the crazy amount of internal storage on the phone.
[Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] captainhakan:
Just to report again that I never had a single bootloop for almost 2 weeks now after turning off "always allow apps wifi location check". Reboots have become noticeably faster as well. So I'm pretty happy with my bootloop-free note 3 device now.
[Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] flochy:
Since my last bootloops (a week ago), I installed a pre-rooted stock Rom (no modification other than CWM and SU).

Yesterday morning, I take my phone (approx. half charged), and as I turn screen on : bootloop !!

Of course, since last week, I forgot to back up everything, so I got super bored to re-flash the phone. As this thread gave me a few leads, I tried to remove battery, sim card & SD card. Replace battery and reboot : no bootloop ! So I turned off always-wi-fi scanning-gps-buggy-thing, turned off the phone, replaced sim and SD card, turned on. Let's rock ! :cool:

My conclusion :

The localization through wifi is responsible for the bootloops, although removing SD/Sim card (I don't know which one allows to break the bootloops, as I removed both) can help to access the system and turn off the service.

I will now backup everything (I still didn't do it), and maybe turn on again localization if I'm a player... :unsure:
[Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Snugglesthemonkey:
Returned

I took my N9005 LTE to a Samsung service center where they said it would be sent to the factory to be repaired. Today I got a call from them and they informed me that they can't fix it and I will be given a refund.

I used mine for 29 days..tried the suggestions you guys mentioned throughout this thread but no luck. No SD card, No apps, adjusted settings..nothing..Sometimes the phone would seem ok for a day then it would start to freeze and reboot again.

Not sure if I should take my refund and buy another. Maybe I will have better luck. I did love the phone.

Good Luck to all.
[Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jillora:
Unfortunately the solutions in this thread didn't help. I still get random reboots and the occasional boot loop after unchecking always allow scanning and doing a factory reset, Turning off wifi completely while out and about helps, but I still get the reboots.I'll have to see if Tmobile can exchange it.
[Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kriszty:
my note 3 had a lot of random boots, i noticed that when this happened, it was mostly in area,s where i had bad signal. i tried by now already 6 roms, all without much succes. random boots still 4-8 time,s a day. last week i tried to install 3g/4g signal boosters. i know this is not a solution, but for me my phone boots now only 1 time ( at 2 day,s ) by now i can live with this...

so my opinion is, that it,s signal related 3g/4g/wifi !!

so maybe this tiny solution can help other people...
[Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] puppybone69:
All I know is, I had no bootloops at all until I installed an update for S Health app, using Samsung Apps app. This update appeared to install itself correctly, but upon completion immediately caused a reboot that looped a few times and changed the icon for S Health app to a green Android with a name like .com.sec.something. So I did a restart, which also caused a reboot that looped a few times, before all traces of S Health ever being installed were gone on their own, with no uninstall of it on my part. Then no bootloops at all again for several days, until I reinstalled the S Health app again. This time doing so caused my stock browser to run very sluggishly before freezing and becoming unresponsive to inputs of any sort until I closed it with Task Manager. Restarting the browser again after that produced the same results, so I restarted my phone. This produced the worst bootloop yet, and removing the battery didn't resolve it. So I did the home/power/volume up command and then chose reboot now from the menu. This produced just a few more bootloops before finally stabilizing and allowing me to arrive here. I have the black Sprint version, unrooted, with no SD card inserted or ever inserted, using the stock TouchWiz launcher. I also have about 500 apps installed, and only about 1gb of my 32gb built in storage free. My roommate has the white Sprint version, unrooted, with a 16gb memory card from his previous Galaxy S2 from Sprint inserted exactly as it was inserted in his previous phone, complete with several gb of pictures and other files saved on it, and he's had no bootloops or other issues with it yet, beyond having to reinstall all the apps that were installed on his SD card when it was in his previous phone. Also, we both haven't enabled airplane mode or disabled constant wifi scanning, and I don't know if he's updated the S Health app on his phone yet or not, or if he uninstalled it or not, but I had no bootloops at all while I had S Health uninstalled.
[Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] fpiret:
I too have to problem

I have my device for about 2 months now and the reboots started two days ago. The first time after I tried to connect the device to the charger; and the second time this morning when I disconnected it from the charger (mini usb).

I do not recall having installed anything the day the phone started the reboots, but it can be that an application (I do not have that many, about 30/40) upgraded.

My device is a UK one that I got from the Samsung Store in London/Straford. So it is not branded to any service provider.