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Safe Mode

This may be a dumb question but before today I never even knew it existed. What is "safe mode"? Is that like safe mode on a windows pc where it only loads default drivers, or is it something else entirely?
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I'm interested too. In what capacity did you first learn of "safe mode"?

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I don't think this exists on this phone, so I am not sure what you're talking about here.
There is the bootloader, recovery, and then normal phone functions.
Where did you hear about safe mode?

I know there's hboot.. recovery and bootloader. But safe mode never heard of it
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I actually found out about it on accident. My phone kept looping at the boot animation. I went to pull the battery but accidently hit vol down and power button at same time wile pulling off the cover. All of a sudden phone vibrated 3 times and then booted but it had safe mode printed in the lower left corner. I tried googling it but couldnt find anything thay explained exactly what it is.
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You can try it on your phones. When the boot animation starts playing hold vol down and power at the same time. Keep holding it untill your phone vibrates.
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cmlusco said:
this may be a dumb question but before today i never even knew it existed. What is "safe mode"? Is that like safe mode on a windows pc where it only loads default drivers, or is it something else entirely?
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its just like windows safe mode. Only loading the minimum on the phone incase something went honorably wrong.

synisterwolf said:
its just like windows safe mode. Only loading the minimum on the phone incase something went honorably wrong.
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It did allow me to fix my phone without having to restore a nandroid. I was trying to get a hotboot mod to work on the new stock rooted GB when i got the boot loop. But being able to boot into safe mode allowed me to change the moded file back to the original therfore fixing my boot loop issue.
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Hmmm I did try it but couldn't replicate your results. I tried holding V-&Power at both the splash screen and the bootanimation. Both attempts yeilded only booting normally.

wildstang83 said:
Hmmm I did try it but couldn't replicate your results. I tried holding V-&Power at both the splash screen and the bootanimation. Both attempts yeilded only booting normally.
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Hmm not sure works constitently for me. You have to keep holding them until your phone vibrates. You are on a DINC right? Are you on custom or stock rom, not sure if its specific to the rom or not. I am on stock rooted GB.
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cmlusco said:
Hmm not sure works constitently for me. You have to keep holding them until your phone vibrates. You are on a DINC right? Are you on custom or stock rom, not sure if its specific to the rom or not. I am on stock rooted GB.
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Yea no, I think its a HTC Sense thing. I'm currently running CM Nightly 168 so I don't think its a 'general' Android thing.

wildstang83 said:
Yea no, I think its a HTC Sense thing. I'm currently running CM Nightly 168 so I don't think its a 'general' Android thing.
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Good to know seems like it might come in handy sometimes.
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It happened to me once before, I was flashing stuff like crazy and then all of a sudden "safe mode". I just restored my device and it was gone.
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After the restore it was all good.
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I've been doing some more googling and it seems every stock rom running android phone has safe mode, but different phones have different ways of entering into it. Some vol down and power, some vol up and power, some you have to hold the menu button, some vol down power and menu, and some holding down the track ball.
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Hmm, never stumbled onto that before. Thanks to everyone for feedback!

Interesting, I'll have to try it next time I change up my phone config
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Wow, that just saved me from a lot of trouble. Flashed a voltage table that was unstable and caused the phone to bootloop, this worked saving me from an uninstall.
CM7 Nightly
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Cryous said:
Interesting, I'll have to try it next time I change up my phone config
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Wow, that just saved me from a lot of trouble. Flashed a voltage table that was unstable and caused the phone to bootloop, this worked saving me from an uninstall.
CM7 Nightly
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Saved me a lot of trouble and time too. Cant believe i never knew about it. Also this did work on CM nightly? The earlier post by wildstang said he could not get it to work with cm. Leaving me to believe it was a stock rom or sense related thing.
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Rom: Stock Gingerbread

I don't know, it worked for me yesterday, however I'm not sure what I pressed. I can't seem to get back into safe mode now
Edit, seems like if you press vol down, menu, and trackball it goes into safe mode. I updated my cm7 nightly, now safemode does not work....
Source:
http://androidforums.com/incredible-support-troubleshooting/89073-how-access-safe-mode-android-incredible.html
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This happened to me yesterday while I was running the RC5 Community ROM. The phone froze would not respond so I went to pull the battery and it rebooted itself into Safe Mode. Took me by surprise too.
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Please, hard reboot your phone!

I believe that once you've done your first hard reboot on this phone the UI becomes permanently jumpy/choppy/laggy. Anyone?
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every HTC / Samsung phone after restart, it takes them at least a good 1~2 minute to settle down

AllGamer said:
every HTC / Samsung phone after restart, it takes them at least a good 1~2 minute to settle down
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You've missed the "permanently" part.
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i'll test that as soon as mine arrives next week, until then i can't verify much

No lag here after 2 reboots. One of which was pulling the battery after turning the phone off to get the serial number.

mziol said:
No lag here after 2 reboots. One of which was pulling the battery after turning the phone off to get the serial number.
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yeah, i remember you did that for the other guy, that was looking for the battery part number

By hard reboot I mean VolUp+Power. I'm not talking about powering off the phone.
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that's technically a factory / ROM reset back to default

Exactly my point. It should be stutter free by default, right?
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Why would you do that anyways??
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Dude, I just spent the last two days getting the phone setup the way I want it...
When we get root and I can create a nandroid backup I'll try a factory reset
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Have you tried doing it again?
I have hard reset and factory reset my device at least 6 times without issue really. I had to do it the first time since I tried to port over 26000 texts it didn't seem to like that too much =)

ronin4740 said:
Dude, I just spent the last two days getting the phone setup the way I want it...
When we get root and I can create a nandroid backup I'll try a factory reset
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Dude, it's different from Factory Data Reset. It doesn't erase affect your setup. Ok. How about a simple reboot - just by holding power button. Can you do that and tell me what happens?
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efenili said:
Have you tried doing it again?
I have hard reset and factory reset my device at least 6 times without issue really. I had to do it the first time since I tried to port over 26000 texts it didn't seem to like that too much =)
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My routine to make it relatively smooth: Power Off / Power on while holding VolUp+Power and waiting for it to vibrate a couple of times / Turn off display animations / Turn off wallpaper scrolling.
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webisweb said:
My routine to make it relatively smooth: Power Off / Power on while holding VolUp+Power and waiting for it to vibrate a couple of times / Turn off display animations / Turn off wallpaper scrolling.
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When you hard reboot it actually factory resets the data the reason its lagging cause its reinstalling all the Bloatware Tmobile put on it. So you need at least 5-7 minutes.

Ive already done a hard reset on my phone after receiving it and the reason was i had a issue with music on my sd card. I dont see the lag you speak of. If its persistent then get it replaced. I have no issues as of yet with the phone and its running great. My only slight issue is battery but that is most likely due to bloat.

webisweb said:
Dude, it's different from Factory Data Reset. It doesn't erase affect your setup. Ok. How about a simple reboot - just by holding power button. Can you do that and tell me what happens?
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Have done plenty of normal reboots via the power button (power off then power on) and pulling the battery. Mine is still quite a bit more snappy than the Vibrant it replaced.

Can somebody smash their phone for me and let me know if its damaged after? It seems all phones are damaged after they're smashed.
Seriously op, if you know it messes up the phone, why ask others to do it? Why would anybody do that anyways? Seems pointless.
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Lol
10 char
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The_Biz said:
Can somebody smash their phone for me and let me know if its damaged after? It seems all phones are damaged after they're smashed.
Seriously op, if you know it messes up the phone, why ask others to do it? Why would anybody do that anyways? Seems pointless.
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I've smashed mine several times, one of which was even a sledgehammer dropped from a 3-story building right onto the glass. no damage here, it's actually less damaged than my MT4G was fresh out of the box
Sorry, just had to post the other side of things too lol

Crazy issues after update

This is in regard to the Sprint s2.hopefully this is correct forum. I'm posting this on behalf of my dad, it's his phone. His phone is fully stock and just received the ics update from Sprint. Once he did that, his phone is practically unusable.
First his email would constantly fc. Then GPS went down... though would work in random occurrences. Now just popped up the most bizarre issue. He is suddenly getting errors stating the voltage is too high for charging. The phone is not plugged in. Tried pulling the battery, once back in, the phone goes into off state charging mode and won't power back on without going into recovery. Again, the phone isn't even plugged in, and this is happening with two different batteries.
If it were my phone I'd be calling Sprint getting a new one, but this is his work phone and he's got a lot set up on it. Any ideas?
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He will need to call sprint and get a replacement or do a factory reset
Remove your SD card. This done by removing the back of the phone case and pressing the SD card into it’s socket. When you release pressure on the SD card it will pop out and you can remove it.
Hold down the Volume Up and Power buttons simultaneously.
Continue holding the Volume Up and Power buttons until the Samsung Galaxy S II logo screen is displayed.
When the Galaxy S II logo screen is displayed, release the Power button but continue holding the Volume Up button until the Android System Recovery menu is displayed.
Once you are on the Android System Recovery menu, select the wipe data/factory reset option. Moving the selection up and down is done with the Volume Up and Volume Down buttons. Once you have the wipe data/factory reset option highlighted, you select it by touching the Home button.
Once you have chosen the factory reset option, you will see a confirmation screen. Highlight the Yes — delete all user data option and touch the Home button to select it.
The procees of wiping the phone should only take a few seconds and when it is finished, you will be returned to the Android System Recovery menu.
Highlight and select the reboot system now option
You phone will reboot back into normal operating mode (this first boot will take a little longer than usual)
Reinsert your SD and put the back cover in place.
WARNING THIS WILL ERASE ALL DATA

From my understanding of the Samsung ics kernel, that's how people have be hard bricking their phones. Because the eMMC wipe option is still in the code. Its caused by doing a massive wipe in the stock android recovery.
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Doing a factory reset could cause a hard brick on these phones? Just to be clear I have a bit of knowledge on the phones, I'm running cm9 on my note, just trying to help him out.
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cgibsong002 said:
Doing a factory reset could cause a hard brick on these phones? Just to be clear I have a bit of knowledge on the phones, I'm running cm9 on my note, just trying to help him out.
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use shubs 1 click odin back to EL29 and then ODIN rooted FF18, be sure to backup and wipe data, wiping data is important, using the factory reset option COULD potentially brick it, as the code that causes emmc bricks is still in the kernel of the OTA

cgibsong002 said:
Doing a factory reset could cause a hard brick on these phones? Just to be clear I have a bit of knowledge on the phones, I'm running cm9 on my note, just trying to help him out.
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I wasn't saying you didn't know about the brick. I was saying that the ota kernel still has the brick code in it. All good bro
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g_ding84 said:
I wasn't saying you didn't know about the brick. I was saying that the ota kernel still has the brick code in it. All good bro
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Whoops, no, I should've separated those two statements. I would've never guessed a factory reset could brick. I was just saying I know a bit about phones since my note is similar and I've messed with mine a lot.
He does not want to reset since he has to much saved info, and if I rooted him then he's kinda stuck as well since he doesn't have the time to mess with that stuff. Was hoping there was potentially a simple solution but maybe he'll just have to take it to a store.
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A store would probably be best. They will probably just do a factory reset so backup what you can now.

someguyatx said:
A store would probably be best. They will probably just do a factory reset so backup what you can now.
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How to backup? I would use cwm nandroid but if un rooted ?
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Is there any chance the phone got wet. Voltage/Micro plug issues in some cases are caused by moisture. If you take it to a corp store rest assured they will tear it down and look at the litmus paper.

sponge66 said:
Is there any chance the phone got wet. Voltage/Micro plug issues in some cases are caused by moisture. If you take it to a corp store rest assured they will tear it down and look at the litmus paper.
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Red or white is wet? I forget.
And still wondering about how to back up in rooted
Thanks
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[Q] SGS3 Won't Boot [But Vibrates]

It's weird...whenever I try to do any of those things, the screen will turn on for a moment [the backlight, no logo or anything comes up] and then after about a second immediately turns off....I tried injecting a rooted version of the stock rom with Odin into my phone, but I kept getting strange error messages like TouchWiz isn't working and some other android process isn't working.
[That didn't work, so I decided to try a different method. This is where I ****ed up, because I forgot to go back to stock rom...]
Anyways, after that, I tried to use the SGS3 Toolkit [if you search sgs3 toolkit xda, it'll come up] and I tried to use that to root. I went to "rooting options" and i selected option number 3, the all in one. I got to the point where it mentions your phone must be in USB debugging, and now nothing comes up when I try to start the phone..but it vibrates whenever I hold the power button long enough [as if it was working normally]. I can't get into download mode right now, either...
How do I reverse this and go back to stock? Please help...thank you so much.
EDIT: It's weird...whenever I try to do any of those things, the screen will turn on for a moment [the backlight, no logo or anything comes up] and then after about a second immediately turns off....

I'm basing this answer based on how I understood what you said...
But, if you're already rooted, then hopefully you've made a backup before installing another ROM. If you have a backup, then put into recovery and backup.

I wasn't already rooted, I was trying to root it. I can't get into recovery.

jeikei4life said:
I wasn't already rooted, I was trying to root it. I can't get into recovery.
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Can you get into download mode? By holding Volume up, home up and power.

Ksunnyv1011 said:
Can you get into download mode? By holding Volume up, home up and power.
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download mode is volume down, home then power..just sayin

Cannot get it into download mode... D:

Did you try pulling battery then putting it in and trying to boot recovery or download mode?
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Was your phone plugged in when you tried get get into download mode? if so, try unplugging it and give it another shot. the s3 can be kind of funkysometimes.

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Did you try pulling battery then putting it in and trying to boot recovery or download mode?
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Just tried it. It doesn't seem to want to go into download mode...
arctic84 said:
Was your phone plugged in when you tried get get into download mode? if so, try unplugging it and give it another shot. the s3 can be kind of funkysometimes.
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Same thing, no dice :[

Plug it into the computer and see if anything shows in device manager.
I hate to say though, I think you may be bricked....
Unless anyone else can think of something to try?
Sorry man...
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Also you can try safe mode. Doubt it'll work but I just learned how to do it so thought id suggest. Hold volume down + power.
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It's weird...whenever I try to do any of those things, the screen will turn on for a moment [the backlight, no logo or anything comes up] and then after about a second immediately turns off....

Have you plugged into the computer and checked device manager yet? What does it say?
I think if it says something like qhsusb that means its bricked.
I'm hoping someone can verify that though since I'm going by memory.
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DocHoliday77 said:
Have you plugged into the computer and checked device manager yet? What does it say?
I think if it says something like qhsusb that means its bricked.
I'm hoping someone can verify that though since I'm going by memory.
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You are correct doc! Qhsusb_dload is a brick
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chrisram88 said:
You are correct doc! Qhsusb_dload is a brick
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It doesn't even come up...sounds like I should assume the worst now?

jeikei4life said:
It doesn't even come up...sounds like I should assume the worst now?
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No it should even if it's hard bricked. Maybe the pc isn't recognizing it
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I dont know what to tell you from here dude. Try every port on your pc to see if it at least tries to find it.
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Maybe your phone actually died. Probably a faulty phone
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Well, I sent it back to T-Mobile and said hey it doesn't work. Let's see if they say anything about it. They sent me a new one, though

I'm having exactly the same problem with my T-Mobile Galaxy SII T989 running Open Kang AOKP JB Jelly Bean. After reading this thread, and another related thread (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1679492), my less than scientific observation is that pressing/massaging/jiggling the power button seems to bring the device back to life. At least until it flakes out again. The posts in this thread were a big help. I was going to ditch the ROM, which would have been a shame. Thanks.

[Q] can not get to settings

Hello, I have a samsung epic. I can not get to the settings. Is there any way to hard reset the phone without going into the settings? there is nothing on the phone that I mind losing. I just need to reset it or get to the settings.

What settings do you need access too? What ROM are you on? What carrier?
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I figured it out. It is a stock rom on sprint. If anyone needs to know you hold down the photo button, the volume down and the power all at the same time to get to the boot page and then from there you can do a factory reset.

pabobert said:
I figured it out. It is a stock rom on sprint. If anyone needs to know you hold down the photo button, the volume down and the power all at the same time to get to the boot page and then from there you can do a factory reset.
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Lol.
That's how you get into recovery. You should have first tried to use the fix permissions option, rather than a full reset.
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How do you do that so that I know for next time?

pabobert said:
How do you do that so that I know for next time?
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Available on CWM & TWRP recoveries. Been so long that I've seen stock recovery that I forget if it's even an option. Doubt it is though.
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