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dose any one know what safemode is on desire. To start it you need to reboot you phone and on the boot animation you need to spam the track ball until the boot animation reboot and then spam meny key until the phone start.
P.S is a gray zone and text safe mode in it when it start in safe mode.
the only thing I noticed was the A2SD wasn't working
I'd imagine it's something like regular recovery mode on Linux. But if it's anything like that it should have full root permissions.
jullejul said:
Hello
To start it you need to reboot you phone and on the boot animation you need to spam the track ball until the boot animation reboot and then spam meny key until the phone start.
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Actually, you just need to power up your phone whilst holding down menu, and keep it held down until the phone has fully booted.
When in safe mode, the phone will not run any 3rd party applications or widgets - so, if you've installed an app that is causing problems (e.g. reboots on boot up), you can boot up in safe mode and uninstall it.
Regards,
Dave
foxmeister said:
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Actually, you just need to power up your phone whilst holding down menu, and keep it held down until the phone has fully booted.
When in safe mode, the phone will not run any 3rd party applications or widgets - so, if you've installed an app that is causing problems (e.g. reboots on boot up), you can boot up in safe mode and uninstall it.
Regards,
Dave
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Nice to know.
Hi, after having troubles booting, I am in safe mode, but want to know how to get back out of it !!! Thanks
Turn the phone off?
EddyOS said:
Turn the phone off?
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I wont bite on that one.... !!!
I have turned it off, removed the battery, i have recently upgraded to 2.2, then today it wouldnt boot, managed to get it inot safe mode, now I wonder how to get it back out.
Thanks
Just reboot the phone.
i have rebooted it, you two senior member are grade A, I'm not gonna pop up on a forum, and not of tried everything that i read on google, thats why i bit my lip with the other blokes post.
pascanu said:
Just reboot the phone.[/QUOok......................
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EddyOS said:
Turn the phone off?
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I found you can boot into safe mode by holding the trackpad during the entire boot sequance
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How do you know you're in safe mode? I tried it a few times and it didn't look any different than my normal homescreen.
elliotshoe said:
How do you know you're in safe mode? I tried it a few times and it didn't look any different than my normal homescreen.
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In the bottom left hand corner of the screen it said safe mode in a box
oo didnt know there was a safe mode lol
every android device has some sort of safe mode, and you can get into them differently depending on the device.. it basically restricts the options in running operation
This really is more of a general thread than a development one
do you really need a safe mode when you basically flash a new ROM twice a week???
I have sprint Galaxy s3 with jelly bean rooted. On new years eve I installed a 3rd party app from the market to see if I could get a hot spot. don't even remember the name of the app. I ran it and it locked my phone up. I pulled the battery and when it rebooted it was in safe mode. In safe mode I uninstalled the program but it did not help me at all. Any time I reboot it goes right to safe mode. I have tried several times to get to download mode and recovery mode and have not been able to reach either. The phone works fine in safe mode I could even do a factory reset and with no problem the phone resets and goes right back to safe mode when it boots up to the new factory set up. No 3rd party apps are seen and no download mode or recovery mode can be obtained in the usual ways we use to boot to them. I am stumped any ideas from anyone.
Try use kies!
Hi. You can try this method.
1- get or make a usb jig
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2- turn off your s2. Pull the batt out for 10 sec and press on button w/out inserting the batt.
After doing that, try to boot into download mode. Sometimes yhe phone need some rest,juat pull out the batt for 5-10min and retry. I suggest that you try to enter recovery mode before heading to download mode..
Sent from my GT-I9070 using xda app-developers app
BlackCl0udMY said:
Hi. You can try this method.
1- get or make a usb jig
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2- turn off your s2. Pull the batt out for 10 sec and press on button w/out inserting the batt.
After doing that, try to boot into download mode. Sometimes yhe phone need some rest,juat pull out the batt for 5-10min and retry. I suggest that you try to enter recovery mode before heading to download mode..
Sent from my GT-I9070 using xda app-developers app
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That could be the problem.. "turn off your s2" He may fix that one.. But the S3 will still be broke :laugh:
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BlackCl0udMY said:
Hi. You can try this method.
1- get or make a usb jig
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2- turn off your s2. Pull the batt out for 10 sec and press on button w/out inserting the batt.
After doing that, try to boot into download mode. Sometimes yhe phone need some rest,juat pull out the batt for 5-10min and retry. I suggest that you try to enter recovery mode before heading to download mode..
Sent from my GT-I9070 using xda app-developers app
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it always gets as far as the warning screen when going to download mode. when pressing volume up or down nothing happens. I have to long press start key or pull battery to get it out of the warning screen
patrick6465 said:
it always gets as far as the warning screen when going to download mode. when pressing volume up or down nothing happens. I have to long press start key or pull battery to get it out of the warning screen
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Strange. I haven't seen any do this before.. So it'll stick at the download totally? Hmm.. can you get to recovery now?
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milky1112 said:
Strange. I haven't seen any do this before.. So it'll stick at the download totally? Hmm.. can you get to recovery now?
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no not at all
patrick6465 said:
no not at all
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Yeah, i'm at a loss, was gonna say if you can get into DL mode, then could odin to sock. I'm not sure of any other way to get around it and force that puppy to boot back into normal land.
Try this.. Power off phone... Restart, once you see Samsung logo, Press the Menu capacitive button repeatedly. (read this is how to get into safemode) maybe it'll work to reboot you OUT of safe mode. (Note i'm just searching the web to see if i can find anything) And i did pull that for a i9300 International, but it may work for this one as well.. (just a shot)
Seen another with similar issue, Pull SD and battery for 10 min.. When rebooted, went back to normal. Again these are all shots in the dark..
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milky1112 said:
Yeah, i'm at a loss, was gonna say if you can get into DL mode, then could odin to sock. I'm not sure of any other way to get around it and force that puppy to boot back into normal land.
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Ya this is strange i've been searching all day on different forums and google and haven't seen any other posts with the same issue.
patrick6465 said:
Ya this is strange i've been searching all day on different forums and google and haven't seen any other posts with the same issue.
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I found a few. Try those methods I posted. lemme know if they work.
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milky1112 said:
Yeah, i'm at a loss, was gonna say if you can get into DL mode, then could odin to sock. I'm not sure of any other way to get around it and force that puppy to boot back into normal land.
Try this.. Power off phone... Restart, once you see Samsung logo, Press the Menu capacitive button repeatedly. (read this is how to get into safemode) maybe it'll work to reboot you OUT of safe mode. (Note i'm just searching the web to see if i can find anything) And i did pull that for a i9300 International, but it may work for this one as well.. (just a shot)
Seen another with similar issue, Pull SD and battery for 10 min.. When rebooted, went back to normal. Again these are all shots in the dark..
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no go with this one either
patrick6465 said:
no go with this one either
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May be time for a visit to your neighborhood Sprint store! Thats the only methods i found that might work.. Just searched for S3 stuck in safe mode.
patrick6465 said:
I have sprint Galaxy s3 with jelly bean rooted. On new years eve I installed a 3rd party app from the market to see if I could get a hot spot. don't even remember the name of the app. I ran it and it locked my phone up. I pulled the battery and when it rebooted it was in safe mode. In safe mode I uninstalled the program but it did not help me at all. Any time I reboot it goes right to safe mode. I have tried several times to get to download mode and recovery mode and have not been able to reach either. The phone works fine in safe mode I could even do a factory reset and with no problem the phone resets and goes right back to safe mode when it boots up to the new factory set up. No 3rd party apps are seen and no download mode or recovery mode can be obtained in the usual ways we use to boot to them. I am stumped any ideas from anyone.
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You have the root, why not use it instead of sudo-randomly smashing keys *Grin* ? If you don't have a Terminal app install one of those, su to root (answer to allow root when Superuser/SuperSu asks you) then run "reboot recovery". When/If recovery comes up wipe Cache, Dalvik-Cache, fix permissions and so forth, then try to restart into the system and see if "Safe Mode" crap persist.
I had my phone come up in Safe Mode one time, can't remember what I played with to even trigger it though. If this doesn't work, you can use something like Rom Toolbox Pro, or another fun tool to wipe the caches while the phone is up in Safe Mode.
Happy Flashing,
sponix
sponix2ipfw said:
You have the root, why not use it instead of sudo-randomly smashing keys *Grin* ? If you don't have a Terminal app install one of those, su to root (answer to allow root when Superuser/SuperSu asks you) then run "reboot recovery". When/If recovery comes up wipe Cache, Dalvik-Cache, fix permissions and so forth, then try to restart into the system and see if "Safe Mode" crap persist.
I had my phone come up in Safe Mode one time, can't remember what I played with to even trigger it though. If this doesn't work, you can use something like Rom Toolbox Pro, or another fun tool to wipe the caches while the phone is up in Safe Mode.
Happy Flashing,
sponix
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"No 3rd party apps are seen" Wouldn't Terminal be apart of this one? If so then he couldn't get into it. Just my guess. and those methods i posted were from others with same issue. Def worth a try. Never heard of Safe Mode on these till now Lol..
Are u sure none of your keys are stuck? Mine would do that if my case was holding in one of the keys IE volume key or power button
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fedge1234 said:
Are u sure none of your keys are stuck? Mine would do that if my case was holding in one of the keys IE volume key or power button
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That is the one thing that has me questioning. The volume button seems to move freely however; I have tried volume button when booted up in safe mode and the volume down does not move. the volume up moved the volume control up. although when pressing vol. down when trying to go do download mode it boots to download warning screen. unless it is stuck on internally. I don't know, cause the button moves freely.
Mine was in safe mode once. All I did is reboot it and mine went away.
Galaxy S3- Cyanogenmod 10!
Nexus Style!
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xxXismakillXxx said:
Try use kies!
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Thanks this d root is no longerdid help me make my decision . I am taking the phone to sprint store. by downloading and using keys it seems that the software does not cause my problem. I hooked up to kies and did a complete firmware upgrade. Although there is no upgrade it still reloaded jellybean. It did a complete restore though and root is no longer present. Super user is gone. But I still have the same safe mode issues. I am guessing that this is a hardware problem probably the volume key. I feel ok with taking it to sprint since root is gone. who knows maybe i'll get a new one. Thanks to all who helped I surely appreciate it.
Patrick
Did u reset flash counter before unroot?
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fedge1234 said:
Did u reset flash counter before unroot?
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no not sure how to do that or if I would have been able too because of safe mode limitations.
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yawako said:
Warning to everyone please avoid using Freegee Relock feature it can cause semi hardbrick or worst a full hardbrick.
I just had a SEMI NIGHTMARE using Freegee
I installed Freegee, then installed CWM classic installation, everything went fine also made nandroid and efs backup. So I decided to Relock and then "semi hardbrick" happen.
Why Semi Hardbrick because you think you can no longer use the usual Download Mode tricks. (Insert USB, when battery show press the combo key) but that will not happen no matter what you do.
What you see in the screen is a freeze up LG logo with error like secure boot encryption in two lines or something like that.
The hard reset command still work but you cant go any further you will see the error again.
Ok here's the trick and its very tricky its like catching a fly for a Download Mode.
Normally during boot LG logo normally flick twice, then the battery shows if your insert the cable or the animation Logo if loading the system, mine don,t during this trouble time.
What happen that it seems you cant turn off your phone it persist to turn ON with boot encrption error on the screen but to turn OFF you press and hold volume down or up or both and power (this is the key to go Download Mode)
I used the volume down + up and power button
While turning off the device and you think the logo stops showing up release the key then quickly insert usb cable when the LED light turns ON quickly press the Volume UP, DOWN, POWER congrats Download Mode ^_^
I reminder to anyone Please don't use the Freegee Relock function. But if want to witness the near death experience go ahead its safe now ^_^
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so please confirm you were plugin in the whole time right??
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yawako said:
Yeah I remember I was still plugin (charging using PC) when I use the Relock function of course I have to reboot after that.
If you mean when it gets error you cant plugin your usb because it will trigger the device to turn ON and it persist to turn ON
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when you are plugged in either by charger or computer, you might not enter recovery or download mode.
turn off your phone by pressing power for extended time.
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yawako said:
You think I dont know what I posted here why not try it for yourself if you have a unit like mine.
If only I took picture of that damned boot error.
Are you sure about download mode? Not using cable?
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what i have seen here and done myself, sometimes no matter how smart you are or knowledge you have, one always misses the smallest of the things.
yes if you are plugged in you will have a had time to get into download mode or even recovery. sometimes it just wont enter either.
also sometimes phones seems turned off but its not that's where pressing power for extended times comes up. otherwise it will try to boot on plug.
You are far from hard bricked (that's the good news). If the device turns on at all its not hard bricked. If you are getting a security error its most likely because you uninstalled some system apps and didn't put them back before relocking. You might also have not had a backup of your boot.img. Freegee will restore your phone without a boot.img backup if it can't find it, since at least that would put you close enough to stock if you had to take it in, and you can still use download mode.
You can get to download mode because you see the lge logo, download mode is before that logo in the boot sequence.
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Shelnutt2 said:
You are far from hard bricked (that's the good news). If the device turns on at all its not hard bricked. If you are getting a security error its most likely because you uninstalled some system apps and didn't put them back before relocking. You might also have not had a backup of your boot.img. Freegee will restore your phone without a boot.img backup if it can't find it, since at least that would put you close enough to stock if you had to take it in, and you can still use download mode.
You can get to download mode because you see the lge logo, download mode is before that logo in the boot sequence.
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Good luck with your FreeGee
Hi folks.
I am looking for some help in recovering my phone. My phone was fine till a couple of days back, all of a sudden i see that it is at "Phone is starting" phase for days now. I am on Android 11.
What i have tried so far:
1. Rebooted
2. Wiped cache and rebooted
3. On boot menu, tried repair apps
None of it is helping. Not sure whats going on. Is there hope?
Try a factory reset... you'll lose all data which you hopefully backed up before this.
It maybe malware, a software issue or a hardware failure.
Is there anything else that can be tried without factory reset?
harshahs said:
Is there anything else that can be tried without factory reset?
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If you can repair what's causing the boot loop if it's not hardware related.
That's beyond my knowledge limits.
See if you can boot into safe mode.
The 2 times my N10+ boot looped on me because of a buggy launcher after a few boot attempts it automatically defaulted to safe mode.
blackhawk said:
If you can repair what's causing the boot loop if it's not hardware related.
That's beyond my knowledge limits.
See if you can boot into safe mode.
The 2 times my N10+ boot looped on me because of a buggy launcher after a few boot attempts it automatically defaulted to safe mode.
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Well, i have tried safe mode and it ends in the same state as "Phone is starting". The phone starting phase comes after my fingerprint is authenticated, ie phone is up and when i login, it goes to this state. I can access the top menu, and go to the settings, cannot launch any apps though.
harshahs said:
Well, i have tried safe mode and it ends in the same state as "Phone is starting". The phone starting phase comes after my fingerprint is authenticated, ie phone is up and when i login, it goes to this state. I can access the top menu, and go to the settings, cannot launch any apps though.
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Try booting it plugged into the charger.
At this point I would have done a factory reset especially if I didn't know what caused it.
harshahs said:
Is there anything else that can be tried without factory reset?
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Connect phone with pc and set it into Download mode: as soon as the device is in Download mode, this issue will be fixed automatically. You should not remove the device or use it until the fixing process gets over, else the device can get bricked. After the fixing process is over, the device will restart, fixing all the issues.
xXx yYy said:
Connect phone with pc and set it into Download mode: as soon as the device is in Download mode, this issue will be fixed automatically. You should not remove the device or use it until the fixing process gets over, else the device can get bricked. After the fixing process is over, the device will restart, fixing all the issues.
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What should i do after i go into the download mode?
I have the same issue, did you find a fix?
I already have this issue. i just turn off the 'Power Saving' And it be back to normal, welcome
I'm stuck in the same situation, only i cannot turn off "Power saving" via the shortcut (no reaction at all but all other setting buttons function) and when opening "Battery and Device care" settings closes and back to "Phone is starting".
Also connecting via usb in "Download mode" makes no difference whatsoever... I'm at a los because I'd rather not factory reset because of loss of data...
Any more things I could try by any chance?
Thx a lot!!
A.
chestanen said:
I'm stuck in the same situation, only i cannot turn off "Power saving" via the shortcut (no reaction at all but all other setting buttons function) and when opening "Battery and Device care" settings closes and back to "Phone is starting".
Also connecting via usb in "Download mode" makes no difference whatsoever... I'm at a los because I'd rather not factory reset because of loss of data...
Any more things I could try by any chance?
Thx a lot!!
A.
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Boot into safe mode. If you can first backup your critical data which should have already been done. Then try to correct the fault. If this works it's likely a 3rd party app.
Thx Blackhawk but safe mode doesn't make the smartphone startup and is also stuck on "Phone is starting". I know backup's should of been taken but it's the phone of one of my daughters (and yes kids don't always do as they're told) so I might as well dig my own grave if I reset the phone
On the other hand, this might learn them a valuable lesson
Any other tips/tricks someone?
nasserisonfire said:
I already have this issue. i just turn off the 'Power Saving' And it be back to normal, welcome
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Holy crap that worked! Thanks!
jreblando said:
Holy crap that worked! Thanks!
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Wow. Now that's bare bones
I never use that setting as it was always problematic... consequences.
Is there any other solution??