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I was on att site looking at the plans, what's funny they had plans with unlimited incoming calls. So I called about what they had on the site, they said they didn't have that but my phone is stuck on it and a soft reset won't work, I can't turn my phone off or nothing, what's the problem ?
i have a simple fix - take the battery out. then put it back in. "power cycling" usually works when a soft reset doesnt work. good luck
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I don't know has anyone had this problem but when I take the battery and put it back it go to the same screen after it loads up. I don't know what I did but something is seriously wrong .
Next step is hard reset.
freeborock said:
I don't know has anyone had this problem but when I take the battery and put it back it go to the same screen after it loads up. I don't know what I did but something is seriously wrong .
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What screen are you stuck on? If you deny the phone power, it cannot come back to the we browser?
I have an app that is crashing at the start-up of my phone and the error loops and will not let me get to the home screen to uninstall it. I have searched this site and google for how to start the phone in Safe mode so I can uninstall and can't find it anywhere! Can someone re-post or tell me where to find the info?
Thank you so much!
i dont think there is a safe mode, but you can always factory data reset from recovery.
If i recall thats holding power + vol down when your phone is turned completely off.
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There is one on the g1 (dream) I don't remember what it was but there was one. And on the g2 idk maybe its n the book I didnt read it.
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there is also a safe mode on the slide so there may also be one on this phone, when/if you figure it out please post
I been reading online and it looks like most androids have safe mode and you get to it by.
*Powering Off the phone
*Powering on the phone
*Pushing and holding the menu button when you see the Logo. i.e g1, g2 my touch, nexus etc...
I would try but i dont have my phone with me right now my girl has its. But it wouldnt hurt if you tryed it
xile6 said:
I been reading online and it looks like most androids have safe mode and you get to it by.
*Powering Off the phone
*Powering on the phone
*Pushing and holding the menu button when you see the Logo. i.e g1, g2 my touch, nexus etc...
I would try but i dont have my phone with me right now my girl has its. But it wouldnt hurt if you tryed it
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So far- that hasn't worked for me... Tried holding the track pad down, and the home key as well...
LOLLLLL @ OP
SAFE MODE..... lmaooooooooo I cant stop laughing (sorry)
but yea the only way to enter recovery is holdin power and vol. down button.
funkadesi said:
LOLLLLL @ OP
SAFE MODE..... lmaooooooooo I cant stop laughing (sorry)
but yea the only way to enter recovery is holdin power and vol. down button.
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Hum y r u laughting? He isnt talking about recovery he is talking about safe mode. Do ur home work before you post. Safe mode disable auto start apps so you can uninstall apps if ur in a fc loop. Back in the g1 openhome days it came in handy.
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I'll take a stab and guess that he's laughing at the fact that the OP said "safe mode", which is commonly found on Windows OS, but since the Android is running on top of a Linux kernel, that may have tickled his funny bone.
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Sv3nt3k said:
I'll take a stab and guess that he's laughing at the fact that the OP said "safe mode", which is commonly found on Windows OS, but since the Android is running on top of a Linux kernel, that may have tickled his funny bone.
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Well, there is/was a known safe mode for the older G1/MT3G/Hero, so I guess the last laugh is on him. :x
*OP, you need to search one of those forums mentioned. Try out what they have. No guarentees though.
Sv3nt3k said:
I'll take a stab and guess that he's laughing at the fact that the OP said "safe mode", which is commonly found on Windows OS, but since the Android is running on top of a Linux kernel, that may have tickled his funny bone.
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Maybe but now a days safe mode is just what stuff call it now. On cars its limp mode but newer car makers are saying safe mode now
eViL D: said:
Well, there is/was a known safe mode for the older G1/MT3G/Hero, so I guess the last laugh is on him. :x
*OP, you need to search one of those forums mentioned. Try out what they have. No guarentees though.
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Yea I tryed all the stuff nothing is working.
Holding menu, trackpad, menu on keyboard, Nothing that worked for the nexus, droids,evo or g1/my touch works.
There all the same tho just holding menu while it boots up but none of that works
xile6 said:
Hum y r u laughting? He isnt talking about recovery he is talking about safe mode. Do ur home work before you post. Safe mode disable auto start apps so you can uninstall apps if ur in a fc loop. Back in the g1 openhome days it came in handy.
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As far as I know, there is no SAFE mode on the G2... that anyone knows of.
Sv3nt3k said:
I'll take a stab and guess that he's laughing at the fact that the OP said "safe mode", which is commonly found on Windows OS, but since the Android is running on top of a Linux kernel, that may have tickled his funny bone.
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Thank you sir, that is EXACTLY what happened
eViL D: said:
Well, there is/was a known safe mode for the older G1/MT3G/Hero, so I guess the last laugh is on him. :x
*OP, you need to search one of those forums mentioned. Try out what they have. No guarentees though.
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I didnt own my MT3G long enough to find out that there was such a thing called SAFE mode... To be honest I tried to stay from XDA, because it's so easy to get pulled into the rom flashing business.
And yet... here I am
I meant no harm... its just that I was sitting here at work and I couldnt stop laughing.... but now that I know such a thing exists, I stand corrected.
This is a problem
This is a big problem. I need to be able to debug an application bug that causes the phone not to start up, and going through the factory reset is just too harsh. This is especially a problem for end-users that experience such problems, and they end up losing data due to having to factory reset. Safe mode should be mandatory on all android phones, IMHO. If anyone is reading this over at Google or phone manufacturer's end PLEASE include Safe Mode in every android phone model.
Noyabronok said:
This is a big problem. I need to be able to debug an application bug that causes the phone not to start up, and going through the factory reset is just too harsh. This is especially a problem for end-users that experience such problems, and they end up losing data due to having to factory reset. Safe mode should be mandatory on all android phones, IMHO. If anyone is reading this over at Google or phone manufacturer's end PLEASE include Safe Mode in every android phone model.
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If you are rooted, you can boot into recovery and use adb to remove the offending app.
Press down the keyboard "S" key (yeah S for Safe mode) at HTC logo during boot.
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Press down the keyboard "S" key (yeah S for Safe mode) at HTC logo during boot.
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Whoa, nice find, if you found it! I just held the S button down the entire time through bootup (idk if you had to but I did) and I'm in safe mode. To bad op didn't find this out earlier
If only I had found this post 10 days earlyer,now my phone is in the shop and who know when I'll get it back...
If this for real? Hold down s?
sure is, but it wont do much accept it wont allow /data apps from loading - truthfully this isnt be the most helpful way of fixing anything thats why it isnt really talked about.
i could see if you had a malicious app wreaking havoc you could find this useful, if you dont want to wipe all. but lets say you overclocked your phone too much and it wont boot,
it would be easier to just flash a kernel on top of the rom without a wipe.
granted i dont think safe mode would even reset clock speeds.... time to test... eh, too much work
Wow makes me wonder what all the other buttons will do... Press W for warp speed
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Curious here...
Have a totally new, unactivated Dinc sitting here. Trying if possible to get a full backup of the virgin ROM on it. When I say it's virgin, I mean brand new - never activated, never even powered on until a few ago.
Since the first thing it does is walk you through activation, something I don't want to do, any idea how to get past the setup screens so that I can get USB debugging turned on so that I can get a custom recovery on it? Or an update.zip or PB31img.zip that I can get onto the SD card to bypass the need for USB debugging?
Thanks!
R
PS: If you wonder why I want to bypass activation, it's a phone that's bought as a replacement for my daughter for Xmas, so I don't want to tip my hand by activating it and subsequently nuking the service on her current.. And trying to save myself the trouble of doing all on xmas day. And yeah, I have other Dinc's here so I'm not totally clueless with them. Thx.
I had managed to get the since rooted and running a custom Ron without activating it on just wifi. Should work for you too. Just be careful if it's an slcd inc.
khanam said:
I had managed to get the since rooted and running a custom Ron without activating it on just wifi. Should work for you too. Just be careful if it's an slcd inc.
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Thanks... Appreciate the response, but on power on first screen asks language, second wants to activate, so I can't get deep enough in to get the wifi info in nor turned on unless I can figure how to bypass the setup screens.
Like I said, this unit hasn't ever been on, so it's going through the setup that would normally be handled by Verizon before they hand you the phone...Not really a position that I'd expect that the majority of users here have ever seen.
And it is indeed an SLCD, but mine is also so I'm pretty aware of the hoops I'll have to jump through there.
Can't you just go ahead and skip all the steps and root your phone. Then go to recovery and wipe back to factory resets? That should work.
Stoney 666 said:
Can't you just go ahead and skip all the steps and root your phone. Then go to recovery and wipe back to factory resets? That should work.
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Ahh, I wish. No option to skip. You get nothing but activate or emergency call in the second screen. Back just takes you to the language screen.
pm me your esn ill activate it on pageplus, that way you can get past it then we'll deactivate it.
I did this for my wife's last phone though not a smart phone. I had to activate it at the store before leaving, as soon as i got home i asked to see her phone to "update the service" and started to tell her about the *228 ...new towers etc....
I didn't update the service just re-activated her phone so she wouldn't know.
Worked well for me and didn't ruin the surprise
Seems like you could just do unrevoked,power down boot into recovery and nandroid there.
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He can't root because he cannot get past activation screen, to set up debugging mode.
slawson said:
pm me your esn ill activate it on pageplus, that way you can get past it then we'll deactivate it.
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Thanks slawson. Appreciate the offer.. but seriously rather than inconvenience someone I'll just wait until Xmas and do it then if I can't get past the activation screen some other way or getting into it with a custom recovery image. I'll still be able to get a pretty much virgin shot of the ROM, albeit it'll be an activated phone.
I was hoping to catch it in an unactivated state if at all possible, since I've found references by people cooking ROM's that a backup of an activated phone still has the ESN tucked away in obscure corners and subsequently isn't of much value - or at least can lead to potential issues if used other than on the phone it came from.
it's not an inconvienence just let me know other wise.
Can't you bypass the activation screen by pressing in the top left corner, top right corner, bottom right corner, then bottom left corner of the screen?
caseym said:
Can't you bypass the activation screen by pressing in the top left corner, top right corner, bottom right corner, then bottom left corner of the screen?
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Naa, just tried it. Tough to do too with my fat fingers since the activate button takes the bottom right and the emergency button the bottom left
CCrew said:
Naa, just tried it. Tough to do too with my fat fingers since the activate button takes the bottom right and the emergency button the bottom left
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Are you sure you're doing it right?
Mr. Spontaneous said:
Are you sure you're doing it right?
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Wasn't, since I hadn't seen that trick and his post said start in the top left. Yours shows top right. My screen is different than the one in the link, but looks to be the same functionality
That said, Appreciate all for the input, but it's in the box and wrapped with paper, ribbon and bow now.. I'll attack it again on Xmas if anyone else wants to weigh in.
caseym said:
Can't you bypass the activation screen by pressing in the top left corner, top right corner, bottom right corner, then bottom left corner of the screen?
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Pretty sure this is only for AOSP Roms, not Sense.
Hit the search key (magnifying glass) and type settings. It bypasses the setup menu
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hey guys, my girlfriend just bought a new evo that has the gingerbread ota already installed. i want to root it and install a gingerbread rom (synergy to be specific). i understand that i need to revert back to froyo first, and then i plan on using the auto root from here--> http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=838448. my question is whats the best way to revert to an older ruu? i did it on my thunderbolt by just flashing in cwm but i was already rooted. ive read something about using fastboot but ive never done anything with that on my thunderbolt, so could someone point me in the right direction?
edit: did some more research, turns out the new hboot wont allow you to downgrade an ruu, and there's currently no way to install an older hboot. looks like im stuck waiting( well actually she is, i can still enjoy my root )
turn off phone completely (pull battery) press power button and volume down at same time. Thats brings you to Hboot. if there is S-on at the top of the screen somewhere just reboot and wait until someone comes up with a definate method of rooting the 2.3.3 otherwise you might look like a fool by breaking ur gf new phone.
Michaud85 said:
turn off phone completely (pull battery) press power button and volume down at same time. Thats brings you to Hboot. if there is S-on at the top of the screen somewhere just reboot and wait until someone comes up with a definate method of rooting the 2.3.3 otherwise you might look like a fool by breaking ur gf new phone.
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haha my thoughts exactly. and unless sprint ships there phones pre-rooted im gonna assume its still s-on since i havent touched it yet lol
haha yeah i just got my phone today and its so stupid how they force their OS on you. You cant even shut the phone off without pulling the battery (the power off in the menu just puts it to sleep so it boots up quickly when u power on). Hopefully someone can save us from this non rooted nightmare soon.
Michaud85 said:
wait until someone comes up with a definate method of rooting the 2.3.3 otherwise you might look like a fool by breaking ur gf new phone.
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I haven't laughed this hard in a long time, thanks!
Another way to get s-off is to put the phone on the stage at a strip club. Them exotics dancers can help you get it off...lmao
Michaud85 said:
haha yeah i just got my phone today and its so stupid how they force their OS on you. You cant even shut the phone off without pulling the battery (the power off in the menu just puts it to sleep so it boots up quickly when u power on). Hopefully someone can save us from this non rooted nightmare soon.
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It sounds like you still have fast boot on. Just go into settings and applications the unchecked fastboot. Then it'll turn all the way off.
firket2000 said:
It sounds like you still have fast boot on. Just go into settings and applications the unchecked fastboot. Then it'll turn all the way off.
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That will be settings/power settings. buddy
evolishesh said:
That will be settings/power settings. buddy
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Nope just checked its applications at least on so keep nonrooted evo
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Nope just checked its applications at least on so keep nonrooted evo
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yup on mine to
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As the title suggests, my screen is inoperable but I can hear notifications come through, so it's booting up. Any way to get unbacked data off of it?
wbreslin951 said:
As the title suggests, my screen is inoperable but I can hear notifications come through, so it's booting up. Any way to get unbacked data off of it?
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I'd say plug it in to the computer and try getting into the phone.. You might have to tap on the screen even though it's broken it could probably still accept touch and you'll need to try to tap "ok" in order to get access or you'll have to try to use smart switch app to try.
The screen is unresponsive, I can't even try to guess where the buttons are to enter the pin
wbreslin951 said:
The screen is unresponsive, I can't even try to guess where the buttons are to enter the pin
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Your best bet is try to find a screen then.. I had that problem 1 time in my life and I found a screen on Ebay that was cracked pretty badly but it still worked and it allowed me to at least connect it and get my stuff transferred.. You should also check your gmail account because the Google account you have a lot of the phones backup themselves automatically and you might be able to get it back onto another phone.
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Your best bet is try to find a screen then.. I had that problem 1 time in my life and I found a screen on Ebay that was cracked pretty badly but it still worked and it allowed me to at least connect it and get my stuff transferred.. You should also check your gmail account because the Google account you have a lot of the phones backup themselves automatically and you might be able to get it back onto another phone.
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I would be able to help you get what you need off the phone if youre in the NJ area. Ive been able to help out people in similar situations before. Just let me know if you have exhausted other options and you dont mind handing over your phone temporarily to a complete stranger . Seriously though, I can see if I can help.
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I would be able to help you get what you need off the phone if youre in the NJ area. Ive been able to help out people in similar situations before. Just let me know if you have exhausted other options and you dont mind handing over your phone temporarily to a complete stranger . Seriously though, I can see if I can help.
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Wrong person my friend.. My phone is not broken and I'm no where near new Jersey anyway haha.. @wbreslin951 was the one asking for help so you should tag him instead of me by tapping reply on his message..
MrMike2182 said:
Wrong person my friend.. My phone is not broken and I'm no where near new Jersey anyway haha.. @wbreslin951 was the one asking for help so you should tag him instead of me by tapping reply on his message..
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such a no0b move. thanks for the help