yes, i think i got that from all the reading i've done.
tomorrow i'll take my phone to someone who may be able to fix it. if not, i think a hard reset is all i got :/
i was able to go on safe mode, but device kept restarting. i couldn't stay on to recover my data in order to try and do a hard reset.
is there a way to recover data while turned off or in android recovery mode ?