[Xiaomi Redmi Note 7 Questions & Answers] tiguy99:
Saturday night, I plug my 1 week old phone on the charger at 9%. I power off the phone and see the battery charging animation. I turned it back on as usual but this time my phone did something I've never seen before.

It started bootlooping!

I was like what the hell.

It loaded up to the lock screen and then rebooted. This happened over and over again for about an hour.

After googling, I found a thread about a Redni Note 5 pro having the same issue.

The solution was to hold power and Volume down until the phone rebooted to recovery.

After doing that, I was presented with the option to reboot to system, wipe phone (which I definitely didn't want) and connect to My Assistant.

I chose the first option and sure enough....my phone was stuck in a boot loop once again.

This is my first Xiaomi phone. It's not rooted at all and has locked bootloader on the stock 10.3.5 ROM. Fresh out the box...just a few apps, some photos and texts.

I've seen stuff like this before happen with rooted phones but never on a brand new non rooted phone.

Fortunately (and with lots of prayer), I was able to let the phone battery drain out completely since it wouldn't power off.

Sunday morning, I plugged it back on the charger and to my surprise, I saw the battery animation only this time!

After charging fully, I turned it on and saw it bootlooping again. After 5 mins, I decided to remove both my SIM tray with both SIM and micro SD.

THIS time, the phone stopped bootlooping entirely! Again....what the hell was my question ?.

Normally, my nerves are steel but yesterday, they were more like spaghetti lol

Against my own judgement, I wanted to test if it was my own SIM card causing the issue or if my micro SD card caused the issue.

I placed the SIM try back in with each card 1 by 1 however, the phone immediately started bootlooping on it's own right from system!

I've never seen this before with any other phone or brand I've used in the past.

This activity occurred again and again regardless which card was inserted. With no cards, the phone worked normally.

I decided, you know what, at this point, I'm going to back up my data during and factory reset since now I have access.

Thank God that worked!

After many hours of backing up data, factory resetting my phone and then restoring everything on Mother's Day ( which meant working around free time and planned activities with my Wife), I am happy to say my phone is back working normally with the same SIM card and Micro SD as if nothing happened.

Fluke or not, definitely going to be watching this phone carefully to see if the problem is gone for good.

I will say this, when I first took the phone out the box last week, I turned it on and watched it update to MiUI 10.3.5. Normally I factory reset my phones after updates to be safe but since the phone was still new, I did not factory reset this time. That could be the reason it did this...I'm still not sure.

Sometimes I power my phones off, connect the charger and turn them on. For years I've never had an issue or doing it this way. For a few days I didn't have an issue with my Redmi Note 7 either. After this experience, I will stop doing that entirely.

My question is, have any of you encountered random random boot loops with any of your Xiaomi products? How did it occur and how did you fix it?