I have an HTC One X+, just over a year old. Yesterday, it started rebooting itself over and over, every 30 seconds to 2 minutes. Weirdly, it DOESN'T reboot when I'm actively using an app on it - just when it's sitting idle. So, it's not a boot loop per se - it boots fine, and I can use it - but as soon as I put it down, or put it in my pocket, it goes back into the re-re-start cycle. Which, I think, makes it not quite the same
At first I figured it might be a battery thing, so I let it drain all the way then charge. As soon as I plug it in to charge, it turns itself ON, and keeps rebooting. How it can do that even with fast boot turned off, I have no idea.
I tried booting in safe mode, and it still keeps restarting. Tried factory reset (3-4 times), and that doesn't help either. I've tried it from the boot loader, and from the settings menu, both wiped all my apps, but neither solved the problem.
When I try to boot to recovery, I get this horrible red triangle with exclamation mark. I tried wiping the cache from there, and when I do, it goes to a green circle screen with a progress bar. But the progress bar doesn't seem to start filling before it resets again.
I don't have root, and haven't really messed with it besides installing apps from play store - which I haven't done in more than a week. So I can't imagine anything I did caused the problem. But I also can't imagine that it's a hardware problem (e.g. fault in the power button) because presumably then it would happen regardless of what's open or running.
Taking it to a shop for repairs is not really an option - I live in South Africa, and there's no one who repairs HTC anything within 1000 miles or so. What else can I do?
At first I figured it might be a battery thing, so I let it drain all the way then charge. As soon as I plug it in to charge, it turns itself ON, and keeps rebooting. How it can do that even with fast boot turned off, I have no idea.
I tried booting in safe mode, and it still keeps restarting. Tried factory reset (3-4 times), and that doesn't help either. I've tried it from the boot loader, and from the settings menu, both wiped all my apps, but neither solved the problem.
When I try to boot to recovery, I get this horrible red triangle with exclamation mark. I tried wiping the cache from there, and when I do, it goes to a green circle screen with a progress bar. But the progress bar doesn't seem to start filling before it resets again.
I don't have root, and haven't really messed with it besides installing apps from play store - which I haven't done in more than a week. So I can't imagine anything I did caused the problem. But I also can't imagine that it's a hardware problem (e.g. fault in the power button) because presumably then it would happen regardless of what's open or running.
Taking it to a shop for repairs is not really an option - I live in South Africa, and there's no one who repairs HTC anything within 1000 miles or so. What else can I do?