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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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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

Phone freezing at boot after chainfire install.

Hey guys, I just installed calkulin's 1.5 rom and if I install chainfire it freezes at the gs2 screen. Anyone have any ideas?
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Is there a way for me to get a log or something when I try to install?
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Joffie87 said:
Is there a way for me to get a log or something when I try to install?
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i had the same problem. i just left it alone on gs2 for over 5 mins and it booted properly. it could be different with your phone, iam not sure why this happened.

Thanks that worked. Took like 10 though.
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donp2700 said:
i had the same problem. i just left it alone on gs2 for over 5 mins and it booted properly. it could be different with your phone, iam not sure why this happened.
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This is happening to mine as well with Caulkins 1.5a. By leaving it alone for 5 or 10 you mean install it, download the Chainfire's drivers, install the Nvidia Drivers and leave it alone for 5 to 10 minutes then boot? Just wondering. I love that app. Thanks.

I realized what was making mine bug out. I would have the default driver on Nvidia and that kept making it go into a loop. I set the default to none and just use the per app option on games that need the specific driver. Phone's working like a charm.

(Solved) BRICKED my nexus please help.

hi
i just installed CM10 on my nexus (FULL WIPE/WIPED CACHE/WIPED DALVIK CACHE)
then when i was restoring my apps via myBackup root app.
it asked me to reboot , i did then my nexus cant be switched on.
Guys please help me.

evil_penguin said:
hi
i just installed CM10 on my nexus (FULL WIPE/WIPED CACHE/WIPED DALVIK CACHE)
then when i was restoring my apps via myBackup root app.
it asked me to reboot , i did then my nexus cant be switched on.
Guys please help me.
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Sorry for the simple questions but did you pull the battery? Are you sure your battery is is not dead?

Do you have access to recovery?
If no flash a firmware with fastboot.
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[email protected] said:
Sorry for the simple questions but did you pull the battery? Are you sure your battery is is not dead?
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yes i pulled my battery ,it didnt help
Battery was 60%

Well I doubt its bricked, but try holding the power button longer than normal. Connect it it to the pc and see what happens?
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gm007 said:
Do you have access to recovery?
If no flash a firmware with fastboot.
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NO access to recovery
no access to fastboot

Remove the battery for 30 sec and try again.
Do you have offline charging??
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SOLVED
i don't know what happened.
suddenly it rebooted on its own.
Something is wrong with My backup root app?

evil_penguin said:
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i don't know what happened.
suddenly it rebooted on its own.
Something is wrong with My backup root app?
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You should still be able to get into fastboot menu and recovery though through holding volume up and down and then the power button.....
Anyway, glad you back up again.

Was your phone hot? It's possible that safety throttle stuff shut down the phone and waited till it cooled off? I honestly don't know how the throttle craps works.
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[email protected] said:
You should still be able to get into fastboot menu and recovery though through holding volume up and down and then the power button.....
Anyway, glad you back up again.
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I am not new to flashing roms.
i tried that it didnt go to fastboot mode/odin mode etc.
Thanks.

withbloodskies said:
Was your phone hot? It's possible that safety throttle stuff shut down the phone and waited till it cooled off? I honestly don't know how the throttle craps works.
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i dont think so.
When i was restoring my apps ,my phone was charging via PC.
Something to do with myBackup root app ??
Thanks.

evil_penguin said:
i dont think so.
When i was restoring my apps ,my phone was charging via PC.
Something to do with myBackup root app ??
Thanks.
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Dunno I looked at the app and honestly I don't like it.. it feels bad.
I've always used Titanium Backup and it works great.
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withbloodskies said:
Dunno I looked at the app and honestly I don't like it.. it feels bad.
I've always used Titanium Backup and it works great.
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I have tried many backup apps.
but Titanium backup is confusing for me. I dont know how to use it properly.

if you where charging through your pc with usb cable
then maybe your usb cable wasnt correctly and had giving it a electrical shock
this happens to me a lot when i charge my phone
my pc self is buggy but yeah

[Q] phone freeze

I have a S3 I747 the heres my problem is the phone most of the time will not go into sleep mode and not time out the screen and lock up and some times the phone will just lock up while using it. I have to hit the power button to turn the screen off and hit it again to get things to work at times I got to reset the phone to get going like some apps my just not load so resetting the phone is the only option and the app works fine any advise.

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I have a S3 I747 the heres my problem is the phone most of the time will not go into sleep mode and not time out the screen and lock up and some times the phone will just lock up while using it. I have to hit the power button to turn the screen off and hit it again to get things to work at times I got to reset the phone to get going like some apps my just not load so resetting the phone is the only option and the app works fine any advise.
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Happened to me one time on stock. I just ended up full wiping. Happened again on a rooted tw rom, i full wiped and the problem was gone...
^basically try wiping bro.

lokster_1000 said:
I have a S3 I747 the heres my problem is the phone most of the time will not go into sleep mode and not time out the screen and lock up and some times the phone will just lock up while using it. I have to hit the power button to turn the screen off and hit it again to get things to work at times I got to reset the phone to get going like some apps my just not load so resetting the phone is the only option and the app works fine any advise.
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Are you on stock ? If so then just do as stated above. If you are rooted, we might need more info.

I installed several roms full wipe and still same thing some roms worst then others but over all same thing

Tried using different scheduler/governor?
Also, are you doing anything specific when it locks up? Any app being used?

Try kernel C on intergalactic ROM thread
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diablo009 said:
Try kernel C on intergalactic ROM thread
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The phone locks up to where I won't get calls or txt messages or even make a call till I re-boot it

lokster_1000 said:
The phone locks up to where I won't get calls or txt messages or even make a call till I re-boot it
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Are you on kernel C?

diablo009 said:
Are you on kernel C?
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I've Looked theres no reference to a kernel c in the forum

Not in forums. Look in intergalactic ROM thread.
My phone didn't like the latest 3.4 kernel.
Edit: Check your PM.
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