What should I do if my device won’t open and the start-up icon keeps spinning?
What should I do if my device won’t open and the start-up icon keeps spinning?
I’ve recently encountered a very frustrating problem with my device. Whenever I try to turn it on, it just won’t open. Instead of booting up normally, I’m stuck staring at the start-up icon, which just keeps spinning continuously. I have no idea what could be causing this issue, and it’s preventing me from accessing any of my important files and applications. It’s beginning to disrupt my daily routine and productivity. Has anyone else experienced this? It feels like my device is stuck in some sort of endless loop, and I would love to understand more about why this is happening and if there is any way out of this situation.
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I can relate to the frustration when my Windows laptop did the same thing. Here’s the procedure I used to fix it: 1. Perform a hard shutdown by holding the power button for about 10 seconds. 2. Restart the laptop and keep pressing the F8 key to access the Advanced Boot Options menu. 3. Select ‘Repair Your Computer’ and hit Enter. 4. Navigate through the System Recovery Options to perform a Startup Repair. Following these steps, my system managed to get past the spinning icon and boot correctly.
My experience with a Linux machine stuck on the spinning icon was resolved with the following steps: 1. Boot from a live USB. 2. Open a terminal and run sudo fsck /dev/sdX to check and repair file system errors (replace ‘sdX’ with your actual disk identifier). 3. Once fsck completes, it will report on and possibly fix issues preventing normal startup. After this, booting my system was problem-free.
I had this issue on my MacBook Air not too long ago, and here’s how I fixed it by booting into Safe Mode: 1. First, make sure your Mac is completely shut down. 2. Press the power button and immediately hold the Shift key. 3. Release the Shift key once the Apple logo appears and the progress bar begins to load. 4. Safe Mode will run diagnostic checks and only load necessary software. From there, I was able to remove the software causing the start-up hang. This temporary environment helped me pinpoint and resolve the issue.
Having a similar issue on my Android phone, my solution was clearing the cache partition: 1. Power off the device completely. 2. Hold the Power button and Volume Down button until the phone boots into the Recovery Mode. 3. Use volume keys to navigate to ‘Wipe Cache Partition’ and select it with the Power button. 4. After wiping the cache, reboot the device. This fixed the boot loop for my phone, and I was able to use it normally.
In one instance with my iMac, the start-up wheel wouldn’t stop spinning, hinting it might be a disk issue. Here’s what worked: 1. Restart your Mac, then press and hold Command + R to enter Recovery Mode. 2. From the macOS Utilities menu, select Disk Utility. 3. Choose your startup disk and use ‘First Aid’ to scan for errors. 4. Disk Utility will fix any minor issues it can find, and this allowed my iMac to boot up normally again.
My MacBook Pro exhibited the spinning wheel on startup, and resetting the NVRAM helped: 1. I shut down my Mac, then turned it back on while immediately pressing Option, Command, P, and R keys together. 2. I held these keys for about 20 seconds. 3. After releasing the keys, the Mac started up normally, and I backed up all necessary files before seeking further diagnostics. This reset can sometimes clear the software hang causing the spinning icon.