I would appreciate some help on a question I have regarding my boyfriend's MyTouch 3G 1.2. (I hope I posted this in the correct place, moderators please be so kind to move if I did not.) The other night my boyfriend brought me his phone over and asked me what was "safe" mode. His phone had apparently booted itself into this mode for some reason I am unable to ascertain. His phone said "safe mode" on the bottom left of the screen and had reverted back to the stock launcher or home screen ( I had him running ADW Launcher instead) and all of his apps except for stock apps and one " food finder" app were gone. I checked his phone, when I saw no apparent damage or cause for this I pulled his battery and restarted the phone. It immediately started back up with no problems and went back to running ADW Launcher and all his downloaded apps reappeared. It has not happened since. If anyone could answer my question I would be grateful. Thank you.
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Don't worry, this is the right thread.
Safe mode can be enabled be booting the device while holding the menu button. (I think... at least it was on the G1) and it basically runs the system service, acore, phone and launcher. That's about it. Other apps that would normally start up at boot are disabled to include secondary home screen Apps.
Your boyfriends phone should be fine.
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So I was playing with my nexus s and the screen shut off with out the old TV animation and woke it back up and I see SAFE MODE in the bottom left.
I rebooted and was back to normal..... has anybody else had this problem and how did it happen? What caused it?
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I had the same thing happen to me last night as well. I'm not sure what caused it? Like you I rebooted my phone, and I was all good again.
Happened to me yesterday when booting the phone. Rebooted and everything went back to normal.
that happened to me when i had my HTC Hero CDMA
i never figured out what it was.
I had this same thing on my myTouch 3G. If you held down a button while starting up it put the
Phone in Safe Mode. It basically made all non-default applications not work. Did you guys try starting it up while holding a button?
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I had the same thing. I remember I was trying to boot into bootloader with the down volume key. That didn't work but I think that may have been the cause. Of course I now know it's the up button that does it all.
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Hi guys from what i have read the safe mode is in case you get app. that starts to act up my making your phone go nuts you can go in to safe mode by turn off your phone and while turning it on hold the menu button you go in to safe mode that way no third party app. are loaded so you can delete the app. that gave you the trouble that's what i have seen on the nexus s!!!!!!
good deal. I remember that I was wiping the screen off on my shirt while booting. Must have been what caused it. Useful info for the future for sure.
It happens when you turn on teh phone and half way through the boot process you hold the volume buttons
So, I have just gotten my Kindle Fire. I decided to install Go Launcher EX on it and it seems to have messed it up. My Kindle is not rooted (and I don't want it to be rooted).
When I installed Go Launcher, it froze my device so I restarted it. When I turned it on, a selection comes up for which launcher i want to pick. Then it says unexpected error in the notifications and freezes...
How do I fix this? Also do you think customer support will accept this return to get a new one?
EDIT: It seems only the interface is frozen, because when I hold home button the shut down menu comes up.
You might want to watch here...
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1409772
Android 2.3, 407band, DSC 7.0 rom, Go launcher (default), Zeam launcher (secondary)
Today while using an app called wallbase, I hit the home button while the app was setting a wall paper for me (normally I wait until it says wallpaper set). The home screen popped up but then Go launcher had a FC error (which it has never had since I've been using it). It had the option fc or wait I hit wait. Next my wall paper went black then my screen followed by two vibrations and a notification sound I never heard my device make.
I rebooted to the lock screen with a black background and no service on the screen. It was unresponsive to my touch and after about 10sec. it gave the same two vibrations and sound from before then shut the screen off. The power button did not turn on the display so I had to hold it down for about 20sec for it to reboot to dell logo. From there i went into nandroid and flashed severals roms loaded to the lock screen, rinse/repeat, to find the same result (simple streak, streakroid, older version of dsc).
I reset permissions, wiped cache and dalvik, calibrated screen. Want to avoid a factory reset because I don't have a backup.
Help guys? Mods please move to the appropriate forum.
If all fails and you don't have another alternative.
install the DSC v0.70 update, it shouldn't delete your 'data'.
I would backup your streak, better be safe than sorry.
So I tried letting it sit with the battery out for the night (6 hours) and booting it up this morning with the ac charger. It loads to the same lock screen (standard screen with black background and no service on screen) and all my start up apps loads, it even showed me a text notification. I did notice that the time was wrong though and never changed.
Any one have this issue before? What suggestions are there to combat this? The G.Note doesn't fit into my budget right now. May have to factory reset this and sell it as a last resort.
Help guys?
Outlook for this issue looks grim. Seem others with a similiar issue on different devices have had to factory reset or return it to manufacturer.
Before I do that, is there are any possible way for me to backup some of my app data?
Anyone know if Dell still helps with this device?
I use the app cadrebible often(its the only one I really care about) but it doesn't auto sync/backup and my last manual backup must be from Dec2011 - yea makes me want to cry.
I can load into fastboot, so is there a way I can uninstall a few apps I suspect are causing the issue? Move files from the phones to the sd card/computer?
factory reset. Mod feel free to close thread. -- yes im crying.
Did you try calibrating the touch screen?
My phone froze so i did what i normally do and thats pull the battery, replace and reboot. While the phone was booting up i held down the vol key trying to not wake my girlfriend up since its quite early in the morning. Once booted back up i saw the words "safe mode" in the bottom left hand corner. Now i understand what safe mode is for the PC and have used this function many times before but i'm really not sure why and what use it would give to our HD2. Could someone shed some light on what this might be good for on a mobile phone?
I also noticed that all my downloaded apps are missing while in safe mode but after a normal reboot the safe mode disappeared and my apps restored to normal. For reference there is a picture below of what I'm talking about. I'm using the latest version of CoreDroid if anyone cares to know. I took the screenshot using DroidExplorer since i did not have any access to my downloaded apps and even after i downloaded a new screenshot app from the market it would not see it in the list or the gallery. Only after a reboot could i see and use my downloaded apps again.
On a side note while using DroidExplorer the hue of my wallpaper seemed really off. Does anyone know of a fix for this?
So I take it no one else has held down the volume button during boot? Every time it goes into safe mode. I would really like to know what use this would be on a cell phone so if anyone has any clue, please let me know.
My volume buttons got stuck once and it happened to me too, if I understood what I read correctly it is a tool to allow you to start up the phone if an app has caused it to become unresponsive. I am assuming that it is more for people developing apps to be able to start up and remove their mistakes.
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This was kind of what i gathered because when you run in safe mode all user apps disappear. Well i though it would be useful if I ever made a mistake and installed something that messed my phone up but your explanation of being designed for developers makes perfect sense. Thanks!!
Hello everyone. long time lurker first time poster,
I've had my V20 since the beginning of July, I rooted it the first week. It had been running great (stock rom) until the last 2 weeks. The first thing that i noticed was that my Google Chrome and Play store were missing from my home screen. I checked the app drawer, nothing, then went to the application manager, still could not be found. Did some quick research and found nothing helpful. I eventually went through a "battery saving" app like greenify or wakelock (I can't remember) and found the application data. I was thankfully able to go to the play store through said app and open them, which placed them back into view in my app drawer. This was a strange occurrence but brushed it off as nothing.
Fast forward to this week and more issues are arising. More apps are randomly vanishing, I only noticed because one particular app I use to disable annoying services was gone and the stock settings came back. After getting that back to block the services my phone has become very laggy. still functioning just slow at times. I also get a random vibration with no notification or prompt showing on screen. This only happens when the phone is awake. It is not a full vibration just a quick buzz, similar to a single key press with haptic feedback turned on. This happens while nothing is visably taking place on screen and no input from me. I have checked all settings I can think of, but still am stumped. The last issue is with my mobile connectivity, at random times my 4G will have no connection. I thought it was just bad reception because wifi was working fine. I confirmed it is just 4g because while i was in a small area with blocked signal it dropped to 3g and worked fine, but as soon as it switched back to 4g boom no connection. I have tried rebooting several times when these issues occurred, toggled many settings and even uninstalled several apps I thought could cause problems. I am having no luck and cannot find any common problems through my research.
TL;DR
- rooted v20 running stock rom
-random apps being removed but still installed
-4G connection issues
-random <100ms vibration
-times of bad lag
short of flashing back to original any thoughts or ideas will be greatly appreciated. thanks in advance
Factory reset to start.
Pull battery. Replace.
Hold vol down.
Press power.
HOLD powerbutton.
When LG logo shows, let go of powerbutton 1x.
ONLY 1X needed.
Re depress power, stat.
Select yes 2x.
Boots into TWRP. Factory reset.
If aboce doesnt work wipe all but external sd
Reinstall preferred ROM.
profit?