Performance & Storage

Android Phone Keeps Restarting? Causes and Fixes

Random reboots, separate software causes from battery/hardware ones and fix them.

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Random restarts have two families of causes: software (an app, a bad update) and hardware (battery, overheating). Safe Mode is the quickest way to tell which one you have.

  1. 1Boot into Safe Mode. Stable there? An installed app is the cause, remove recent ones.
  2. 2Check for overheating: restarts during games/charging point to heat, remove the case, avoid charging while gaming.
  3. 3Update Android and all apps.
  4. 4Check battery health, a worn battery causes sudden shutdowns that look like restarts.
  5. 5Wipe the cache partition from Recovery.
  6. 6Persisting? Back up and factory reset; if even that fails, it's hardware (battery or board).

Tip: Estimate battery wear with our calculator, below 80% health, unexpected shutdowns become common.

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