Why does my Samsung Galaxy S2 continue to reboot after media scanning?

[AC Question]

Samsung Galaxy S2 continues to reboot after media scanning

Samsung Galaxy S2 continues to reboot after media scanning. It goes through the scanning process and says completed. Then it restarts, scans, then restarts. It cycles through this process about every 30 seconds.
Any way to fix this?

 

[B. Diddy]

Re: Samsung Galaxy S2 continues to reboot after media scanning

Welcome to Android Central! It's possible the SD card has a corrupt file. Power off, remove the SD card, then boot up again. Does the bootloop persist? If not, then insert the card into your computer and run chkdsk to look for bad sectors: http://forums.androidcentral.com/am...guide-using-chkdsk-fix-corrupted-sd-card.html

 

[klbailey89]

Re: Samsung Galaxy S2 continues to reboot after media scanning

Thank you for the reply. My phone does not have an SD card inserted. Therefore, is there any other potential fix?

 

[B. Diddy]

Re: Samsung Galaxy S2 continues to reboot after media scanning

Although less common, it's possible a media file on Internal Storage is corrupt. But this may present a problem, since the solution would be to remove the corrupt media file, and you can't if the phone won't stay on long enough to use a file manager or connect to a computer.

Try booting into Safe Mode and see if the problem persists: https://support.t-mobile.com/docs/DOC-11423.

If that doesn't help, try booting into Recovery and wiping the cache partition: http://forums.androidcentral.com/sa...ing-into-recovery-mode-galaxy-s2-s3-tab2.html