After searching the forums and the internet in general, I was unable to find anybody that knew how to get into safe mode on the SGS Vibrant. In an effort to help a friend with a FC loop from hell, I have persisted until I discovered how it's done.
Power up the phone and start pressing the capacitive buttons. As soon as they light up during the boot up process, usually once the video of the 'S' begins, press and hold MENU & HOME all the way through the boot process until you see SAFE MODE appear in the bottom left of the screen. At that point you can release the buttons and you will now be in safe mode. This is similar to safe mode on Windows PCs. It will load just the bare minimum to get the system up and running. This is helpful if you have some rogue app crashing the system or as in my case, a launcher that went into a FC loop and wouldn't break free. To return the phone to normal, just reboot.
**Be aware that any widgets you had on your screens will need to be thrown to the trash and replaced upon restart.**
Great tip!
Thanks.
Wow... thanks. Wasn't even aware safe mode existed......
patriot1973 said:
After searching the forums and the internet in general, I was unable to find anybody that knew how to get into safe mode on the SGS Vibrant. In an effort to help a friend with a FC loop from hell, I have persisted until I discovered how it's done.
Power up the phone and start pressing the capacitive buttons. As soon as they light up during the boot up process, usually once the video of the 'S' begins, press and hold MENU & HOME all the way through the boot process until you see SAFE MODE appear in the bottom left of the screen. At that point you can release the buttons and you will now be in safe mode. This is similar to safe mode on Windows PCs. It will load just the bare minimum to get the system up and running. This is helpful if you have some rogue app crashing the system or as in my case, a launcher that went into a FC loop and wouldn't break free. To return the phone to normal, just reboot.
**Be aware that any widgets you had on your screens will need to be thrown to the trash and replaced upon restart.**
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+1 This should be in the Bible Thread. Great find!
You should repost this in the android dev forums
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patriot, thanks for creating the thread man. I've added it to the Sticky..
I have tried this on Froyo JPM
I have tried this on Eugene's JPM 2.2, but it does not work.
Is this only on 2.1 ROMS and what build specifically are you referring to?
bert269 said:
I have tried this on Eugene's JPM 2.2, but it does not work.
Is this only on 2.1 ROMS and what build specifically are you referring to?
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I'm using Stock 2.1/JI6. Safe mode *might* be omitted or broken on custom ROMs. For discovery sake, maybe you can keep trying it. Sometimes it can be tricky to get into, because timing can be everything. Keep us posted...
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patriot, thanks for creating the thread man. I've added it to the Sticky..
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Thanks! Glad I could contribute something useful to the community. I know XDA has upped my level of knowledge in a year's time.
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I posted this in Cyanogen's main thread but it got pretty much overlooked. So I'm posting here
So I've been using Cyanogen builds for quite a while now and absolutely love them them. One problem I've had consistently with every build since the beginning is that window animations are pretty much non-existent. The transitions are fine though. Animations are enabled in settings and in spare parts, any setting i put it on other than very slow makes it seem like window animations are off. The very slow setting just makes it super choppy. I've searched and not found anybody else having this problem or at least not like me. I don't have apps2sd or swap going. Just the straight fat32. Tried it with the three partitions and same thing. Transitions are fine but window animations are crap. Other non Cyanogen builds work fine. If anybody can point me in the right direction or help me out that would be awesome. Fortunately the Cyan builds are so awesome that I can look past crappy window animations but it would be nice Thanks guys
anybody?
So no one has had or has even heard of this happening? Surely its something simple that can just be fixed through the terminal or something...
I remeber seeing ur post in his main thread. It works for me on normal speed. Have u tryed wiping and reflashing?
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I remeber seeing ur post in his main thread. It works for me on normal speed. Have u tryed wiping and reflashing?
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Oh yeah for sure. Countless times. I've used tons of different roms and wiped almost everytime I switch. I always end up coming back cyanogen though. The more I think about it though its not all window animations that are bad. Like when a menu pops up from the bottom or when the volume fades in and out. Its really only when I press and hold that whichever window it pulls up doesn't animate well. Such as pressing and holding the home screen.
Have u posted this on cyanogenmod.com under the issues tab, its worth a shot. If cyanogen can reproduce it he will most likely fix it.
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Have u posted this on cyanogenmod.com under the issues tab, its worth a shot. If cyanogen can reproduce it he will most likely fix it.
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Hmm. Good idea. I'll give it a shot and see what happens. Thanks for your help
i dont why my vibrant is lagy i mean its 1ghz procesoor i should't lag at all. iphone 3gs was faster. but when i set to factory default it works good again. but than after day or two it lags. please help....
You should do a search first, it has been discussed before, read this: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=727279 hope it helps.
On a second note, this is the DEVELOPMENT section... questions about anything goes in Vibrant GENERAL forum.
StefanB.
I have yet to have any lag of any kind....
Also this is the developers section. This post belongs in the general section over here
http://forum.xda-developers.com/forumdisplay.php?f=709
hope you phone stops lagging
Same problem here. Runs great for a while but now it lags. Did a factory reset and it helped a bit. Also cannot get into the hard reset menu after root.
-Power down phone
-Hold Volume down key
-Press and release power button
Correct?
Gets me nowhere.....phone boots up as usual.
While in the phone settings -> Privacy -> Reset. That will erase everything, except what is on your SD card (both of them) and if you rooted, the root files.
ekeefe41 said:
I have yet to have any lag of any kind....
Also this is the developers section. This post belongs in the general section over here
http://forum.xda-developers.com/forumdisplay.php?f=709
hope you phone stops lagging
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i dont want to root my phone
flameinthefire said:
i dont want to root my phone
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Thn you're out of luck for now. By simply moving app data storage, all lag is fixed, nothing harmful is really done. Rooting is easy And you could unroot it in minutes, your only option for now.
afive720 said:
Thn you're out of luck for now. By simply moving app data storage, all lag is fixed, nothing harmful is really done. Rooting is easy And you could unroot it in minutes, your only option for now.
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Could you post the way to move app data storage? I've been out of the Android game for a bit and don't remember all the ADB commands.
Also, please move this to General... not meant for Development
Just applied the fix...I get 1600+ on quadrant now. =D
Is there any way to apply this via terminal? I already have more than 130mb of app data so i'd be referring to method 2.
CaseyG said:
Same problem here. Runs great for a while but now it lags. Did a factory reset and it helped a bit. Also cannot get into the hard reset menu after root.
-Power down phone
-Hold Volume down key
-Press and release power button
Correct?
Gets me nowhere.....phone boots up as usual.
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You have to hold down both the volume UP and volume DOWN keys before you hit power to get to the recovery menu
Goog1e Phone said:
Just applied the fix...I get 1600+ on quadrant now. =D
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How did you get 1600+ on the Quadrant test??? I get in the range of 790-890
I found that clearing application caches helped a lot. I use CacheMate, but you must be rooted. There is also an option to clear cache from recovery menu, but I'm not sure what it does.
which fix did you exactly appt to get 1600? I normally average around 930 with the fix that moves app data to nand.
Feeling Vibrant on xda-app
i can't post under the dev thread and i hope i'm not breaking any posting rules but i was hoping someone can help me figure out why everytime i try to install the 2.2.8 or higher it doens't work. everything goes fine untill boot, the screen emulates the tv turning off and black screen after that. it doens't shut off because the home buttons still light up, but screen is black. tried installing with voodoo shut off, or on, nothing. tried going from 2.2.6 which is my daily driver (with tw's dow 1.3 kernel, open to suggestions if another kernel would work better with axura and be around the same performance) anywho, still didn't work. tried going from bionix v to it and still nothing. not sure if im missing anything, agian thanks to all the devs for all the help, hope someone can shed some light on the situation.
thank you boys and girls of the droiddev universe
Try flashing to jfd first then to axura
Instructions - http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=734475
When I flashed mine I went from 2.2.7 to the newest one I think its 2.2.9.0 when it boots just give it some time it takes a while because its also installing voodoo if you lost your patience and reboot by removing the battery you might have to odin back to stock and reflash axura
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Boot up on 2.2.8 and later is 5-12 minutes you need to wait. After you install and then reboot, look at the clock and time it, DO NOT rely on your sense of timing.
BTW, it takes a long time to boot after, even when you add a new theme. Remember it is in ext 4 not RFS, that rewrite process is slower.
thanks alot guys, it did just need some more patience on my part, def takes longer than the previous versions, working great, thanks again for all the help. side note, anyone know how i can toggle between front and back cameras in the video callings apps. none of them recognize it, but it works fine for mirror apps and such.
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thanks alot guys, it did just need some more patience on my part, def takes longer than the previous versions, working great, thanks again for all the help. side note, anyone know how i can toggle between front and back cameras in the video callings apps. none of them recognize it, but it works fine for mirror apps and such.
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Go to Camera, hit that and open/ then hit the tab to show menu setting (if it is not already open) in the upper left corner there is a little icon with a circle arrow around a camera icon. hit that that changes back to front and vice versa.
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Go to Camera, hit that and open/ then hit the tab to show menu setting (if it is not already open) in the upper left corner there is a little icon with a circle arrow around a camera icon. hit that that changes back to front and vice versa.
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the camera is working and recognized by the rom, and even apps in the market, such as mirror apps and funny pic apps. it isn't recognized by the video calling apps, like fring, tango and even yahoo messenger. that's the one i need help with.
I don't have the app and I did these screens using a combo of home and back button. I'm more than positive those are the two to success.
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I don't have the app and I did these screens using a combo of home and back button. I'm more than positive those are the two to success.
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Most people have come to the same consensus but no one (as far as I know) has been able to reproduce the screen shot feature effectively.
yeah, i accidentally took a screen shot somehow when i was running bionix v 1.2 (i think that was the rom i was on). no clue how i did it and couldn't do it again, but it was some key combo...
Any idea how to capture videos with at least 24 fps?
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yeah, i accidentally took a screen shot somehow when i was running bionix v 1.2 (i think that was the rom i was on). no clue how i did it and couldn't do it again, but it was some key combo...
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Same here...
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same here on bionix
I'm fairly certain it's because of lag. On the international galaxy S with froyo, you press the home button (the big thing in the middle of the touch sensitive keys) and back. This happens because the home key is not a touch sensitive key. On the vibrant the keys are all touch sensitive. I believe that they are not multitouch so you cannot hit both the home and back at the same time. So I think that somehow the home command is hanging up and the back key is pressed so it simulates the action that is supposed to give the screen shot. I think that samsung recognized this flaw and redid the commands on the galaxy tab. My tab takes screenshots by pressing the power and back.
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I'm fairly certain it's because of lag. On the international galaxy S with froyo, you press the home button (the big thing in the middle of the touch sensitive keys) and back. This happens because the home key is not a touch sensitive key. On the vibrant the keys are all touch sensitive. I believe that they are not multitouch so you cannot hit both the home and back at the same time. So I think that somehow the home command is hanging up and the back key is pressed so it simulates the action that is supposed to give the screen shot. I think that samsung recognized this flaw and redid the commands on the galaxy tab. My tab takes screenshots by pressing the power and back.
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sounds likely because my phone was lagging when i did it, but wouldn't that just cause a race condition? or maybe i running an i9k based kernel (i can't remember).
Your theory is probably fact. There are people with some SGS phones that claim they can take screenshots consistently with back+home while others, myself included took a screenshot accidentally and have been unable to reproduce it since. I recall that I had just upgraded to froyo.ka6 via mini kies and was adding/rearranging shortcuts to one of my home screens. I hit the home key to get back to my main home screen and I got a screen shot. Haven't been able to do it again.
Since my Vibrant came with Eclair and was later upgraded to Froyo I believe that this was a feature that just wasn't meant for Vibrant or just was overlooked when Samsung ported Froyo to Vibrant. This feature probably works reliably on phones that come stock with Froyo, not those that are upgraded to Froyo. It's almost as if Samsung wasn't planning on Froyo for the Vibrant but due to the outcry here and possibly other forums Samsung hastily modified the base Froyo and released it via kies mini.
ScreenCapture service is there, just no documentation exists on how to trigger it for Vibrant.
There is apparently one developer who has figured how to trigger the ScreenCapture service:
http://www.appbrain.com/app/screen-...tomorrowkey.android.screencaptureshortcutfree
The only screen capture app that DOES NOT require root but requires Froyo..It even saves to the same directory as ScreenCapture service. I use the free version and it works better than drocap2 or screenshot it on my Vibrant.
App looks interesting, but I don't agree with some of the permissions it requests..... like location and full internet access.
Another vote for home+back key combo taking a screenshot, and that functionality being crippled due to the all touch-sensitive vibrant keys as opposed to the physical i9000 home key. I have taken a screenshot before, and it was going back home by hitting the home button, then the app lagging and me hitting the back button to try to get out of the app.
Chalup said:
Any idea how to capture videos with at least 24 fps?
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App looks interesting, but I don't agree with some of the permissions it requests..... like location and full internet access.
Another vote for home+back key combo taking a screenshot, and that functionality being crippled due to the all touch-sensitive vibrant keys as opposed to the physical i9000 home key. I have taken a screenshot before, and it was going back home by hitting the home button, then the app lagging and me hitting the back button to try to get out of the app.
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I don't agree with the permissions either but it's nothing nefarious. It's ad-supported freeware, and like most adware the internet access and location permissions is to deliver targeted ads to you, such as if you're in New York you will then see ads for places near you. That's what adware is all about, no corporation cares where you are at any given time, they just want your money. There is a higher chance of success that you will respond to an advertisement that is targeted to your interests (that's what tracking cookies are for, if you browse a lot of sports related sites, most of the ads you will see will be sports related.)
The paid version has no ads btw. I wonder how effective ads are since most people I know ignore them entirely.
Anyway, after trying drocap2 and screenshotit screencaptureshortcut is still better for froyo since no root access is require and unlike drocap2 there is no 'screenshot captured' pasted on your images.
So far the best screen capture imo is Android SDK but that requires a PC. Non-PC is screencaptureshortcut.
Anyway now that one developer has figured out how to trigger ScreenCapture service I'm sure we'll be seeing more and better apps soon.
Mysterious screen shot has been happening to me too, I thought I was the only one!
Was searching for an answer to my mystery and I see this old thread, seems like I'm not the only one!!!
Is the mystery solved yet? It's been happening to me too lately, and just happened again about 20 mins ago. I don't know how I did it!
Ok so, I don't have any screen shot or screen capture apps installed on my phone. Yet sometimes mysteriously I take a screen capture. The phone says "screen captured" and it even makes an album in my gallery called "ScreenCapture" with the screen captured picture inside it.
I'm on rooted Froyo 2.2 KB5, and no screen capture apps installed.
I think the mystery involves a combination of the power button with one of the capactive buttons, but I can never reproduce it, it just happens by accident and freaks me out.
The only other time my phone has done something mysterious was when I somehow went into "safemode." Yes, "safemode" similar to Windows safemode. I have never been able to get back into safemode either.
2 mysteries of this phone I would love to solve.
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Was searching for an answer to my mystery and I see this old thread, seems like I'm not the only one!!!
Is the mystery solved yet? It's been happening to me too lately, and just happened again about 20 mins ago. I don't know how I did it!
Ok so, I don't have any screen shot or screen capture apps installed on my phone. Yet sometimes mysteriously I take a screen capture. The phone says "screen captured" and it even makes an album in my gallery called "ScreenCapture" with the screen captured picture inside it.
I'm on rooted Froyo 2.2 KB5, and no screen capture apps installed.
I think the mystery involves a combination of the power button with one of the capactive buttons, but I can never reproduce it, it just happens by accident and freaks me out.
The only other time my phone has done something mysterious was when I somehow went into "safemode." Yes, "safemode" similar to Windows safemode. I have never been able to get back into safemode either.
2 mysteries of this phone I would love to solve.
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I don't think its been solved
I just downloaded an app to take screenies.
So, now we have the possibility to have custom ROMs, flasheable with CWM. THere are already two guys who have put effort out there, and maybe they'd want some ideas on what you people would like. What do you consider that should be in your custom ROM of choice?
Myself, I would love a Reboot and Screenshot option in the power off menu.
Maybe a minimalist version of 2.3?
I want the touchpads to be able to contol the system/launcher, like the D-Pad cans.
Great question.
I already have reboot options in the power menu of my ROM. Taking a serious look at the Screenshot option. Not many ROMs appear to have it though, but I'm going to give it a shot.
Landscape mode for the launcher would be awesome. I know you can use a custom launcher, but I really like the one that comes with the phone
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Landscape mode for the launcher would be awesome. I know you can use a custom launcher, but I really like the one that comes with the phone
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there was a guy who edited the HomeAPK and made it 3 screens landscape
you can edit the Home through comp. to make it more
The stock launcher, at least in the last build, does have landscape support
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USB OTG would be nice, though that would take some work to do since the stock SE kernel for our play do not support it
Regards Dousan...
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Maybe a minimalist version of 2.3?
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This, with the auto brightness fixed, and overclocking. 'tis all I want in a ROM.
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Naatan said:
Landscape mode for the launcher would be awesome. I know you can use a custom launcher, but I really like the one that comes with the phone
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The one that comes with the phone does have landscape mode.........
1) Auto Brigtness disable
2) Overclock
3) Use the touchpad as a touchscreen emulator (eg swiping on the touchpad is the same as swiping on the screen, great for browsing without touching the screen)
4) Enable the FM radio
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+1 for this. The only thing I liked about the Verizon Play is that it's basically running stock gingerbread. Currently, I'm using my custom "hybrid" of r800i rom mixed with r800x launcher/apps. The upside is that I removed all the sony junk and replaced it with stock android apps (dialer, calendar, contacts, etc) while keeping stuff like working touchpad (which failed me in cyanogenmod) and playstation pocket. The downside is that I can't replace the sony lockscreen and statusbar with the stock one. For now, I'm just using widgetlock to emulate it.
If someone can get a working stock gingerbread rom with NOTHING extra (not even hidden SE apps and services), but still have working playstation pocket and touchpads/xperia optimized apps. I will use it.
AndroHero's ROM is certainly in that path.
But really... the stock GB Launcher too? It couldn't be more spartan if it tried...
I took a good run at adding a Screenshot menu item to the power menu but haven't been successful yet. Ends up crashing on boot, unfortunately, so I'm doing something wrong. Not giving up yet though. Decompiling JARs and trying to understand it all is a huge pain in the ass.
I've got reboot options already though along with the ability to overclock and undervolt.
I was looking towards pretty much going as stock Android as possible, but I wasn't sure anyone would want it.
need a 3g and wifi transfer rate in status bar, to make sure all the things running at the background and another app like fpse or psx4droid just for play ,bcz this is xperia play
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Vanilla GB Rom, with PSPocket and Touchpads working (which if CM7 did, would be AWESOME)
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I took a good run at adding a Screenshot menu item to the power menu but haven't been successful yet. Ends up crashing on boot, unfortunately, so I'm doing something wrong. Not giving up yet though. Decompiling JARs and trying to understand it all is a huge pain in the ass.
I've got reboot options already though along with the ability to overclock and undervolt.
I was looking towards pretty much going as stock Android as possible, but I wasn't sure anyone would want it.
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Actually AndroHero is working in that direction too.
zerojay said:
I took a good run at adding a Screenshot menu item to the power menu but haven't been successful yet. Ends up crashing on boot, unfortunately, so I'm doing something wrong. Not giving up yet though. Decompiling JARs and trying to understand it all is a huge pain in the ass.
I've got reboot options already though along with the ability to overclock and undervolt.
I was looking towards pretty much going as stock Android as possible, but I wasn't sure anyone would want it.
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I can't get reboot in power menu working. Well i can get it to work, but then the power off option reboots the device too
There's also the issue with Recovery just rebooting and not directly starting recovery yet. I'll take a look at what Power off is doing on mine as well.
Power Off seems to work fine for me. Are you maybe running it with the USB cable plugged in?
ROM i want?
Something useful,like a better signal for WIFI,5MPHD (if allowed by its hardware limitations) , however,what i REEALLY want is the 10Finger Touchscreen imporvement blagus is working on on SEtweak
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ROM i want?
Something useful,like a better signal for WIFI,5MPHD (if allowed by its hardware limitations) , however,what i REEALLY want is the 10Finger Touchscreen imporvement blagus is working on on SEtweak
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About the 10 finger touch screen. what would you use it for? i've always wondered this lol.