womamig223
I had the very same issue this morning on my Pixel 8 Pro and just created an account to explain the solution that worked for me.
Symptoms:
- Phone stuck in boot loop: Booting Another OS → Google logo → GrapheneOS logo → shutdown.
- Ghost battery symbol; no charging percentage.
- Power + Volume Down doesn’t enter recovery.
Leaving phone on charge approx. 90 mins did not help, phone kept in the booting cycle but I did notice at one point, there was a lock screen for Primary profile, with airplane mode on and a date 14th August...!
My Rescue Steps:
- I put phone on Wireless charge after a few mins I checked phone with charge approx. 5% and lock screen appears.
- Unlock phone, turn Airplane mode off — date should correct automatically.
- Switch back to wired charger — phone should resume fast charging.
- Allow system updates to complete
Cause - I thought I had a problem with my charging port but apparently Google Pixel phones automatically attempt to boot when a charging cable is plugged in. In this case, the battery was too low to complete the boot. The phone tried to power on, failed, shut down, and then immediately tried to boot again because the cable was connected — creating a continuous boot loop. I have previously had the phone run flat and recharged without an issue but this time it was a problem maybe because a system update had started? I presume the airplane mode coming on and date change was GrapheneOS trying to conserve battery?
I found the cause thanks to @WhoTheFuckisAlice on this thread https://discuss.grapheneos.org/d/4057-unable-to-boot-into-graphene-after-phone-running-out-of-battery/ which I had not read through to the end until I had resolved the issue myself! I had also tried pressing the power button during the warning of booting another OS but only briefly not realising what my actual issue was.
So, if you do not have a wireless charger, then try to pause the boot until the phone has enough charge. That saves the panic of having to sideload or factory reset as in the other posts!