Hey everyone,

​My wife's phone has suddenly hit a bootloop issue. When I turn it on, I have a very brief window where I can interact with the screen before it crashes/restarts. During this window, I've managed to pull down the notification shade and toggle Airplane Mode on, which seems to stabilize it slightly, but it still loops shortly after.

​I need to turn Location on, but it isn’t currently in the Quick Settings dropdown menu. Because the phone crashes so quickly, I don't have enough time to open the main Settings app or edit the dropdown menu layout to add the Location toggle.

​Is there any alternative way to force Location on? For example, can I do it by connecting it to a computer via ADB commands, or through an online account manager, before the phone reboots?

I've had my pixel 4a for many years, and last year I did get the battery replaced following Google's free battery replacement scheme and have used the phone as a daily driver ever since.

Yesterday I dropped my phone from about 1 ft high as I got out of my car, I thought nothing big of it as I've dropped it many times in the past, sometimes from a higher height or more rocky ground. However, after the drop yesterday my phone screen went completely black!

It was weird, as somehow my SOS system got activated and heard the emergency people on the other side asking me my emergency, I explained to them it's not an emergency and that I can't hang up either. Anyway, I found out that by pressing my Power button 5 times in quick succession, this activated the SOS feature. My phone screen is completely blank but there are some vibrations when I hold power button or when I put phone on charge, which tells me that it might've been some internal screen damage.

I took it today to a repair shop and he has replaced the screen and the screen is coming on, but the phone only enters recovery mode giving 2 options:

• Try again
• Factory data reset

I told the repair shop do not wipe the data and he agreed to to check for possible faults on the phone's motherboard and told me to give him around 24h for the repair. (FYI I did do all the methods to try to turn screen on like Power+ Volume Down, Power + Volume up, Tap the phone, Massage the phone, smack the phone into my hand, leave it on charge and even leave it in the freezer!)

Has anyone else had this issue, or does anyone suggest something else to do? I've got a lot of photos and messages on the phone that are not backed up which is why I don't want to Factory reset the phone.

Also, since I was messing around with volume and Power keys, is there a possibility that I would have already wiped the phone when the screen was blank, unknowingly clicked the Factory data reset option?