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Activate Safe Mode - Vibrant

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...

s15274n said:
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.

Help getting rid of the system bar (or modify it)

Alright, first of all, this is an internal device, I will not be using these changes on my own device.
We use tablets (previously Galaxy Tabs) in our office for employees to use an internal application. Our application manages its own navigation, and users do not need to access anything else other than the application. I made it a home screen launcher so it's the first thing that loads. On the Galaxy Tab (Android 2.3), I'm also hijacking all the hardware buttons in the device and I can properly secure the device.
However, on Android 3.0, there are no hardware buttons anymore, and you cannot hide the system bar, I have no way to secure the device if the system bar is always there. I understand why it needs to be there, but this is really killing me.
I have 3 options:
Root the device, try to disable the system bar by editing the framework-res.apk --- Already tried this, unsuccesful since I couldn't find anything in there.
Wait for Android 3.0 to drop in AOSP, build my own custom rom which hides the system bar and do my own modifications on it.
Build Android 2.3 from AOSP for the XOOM -- this will be a lot of work, and I would need help, is anyone interested on helping me with this?
Thanks everyone.

velazcod said:
Alright, first of all, this is an internal device, I will not be using these changes on my own device.
We use tablets (previously Galaxy Tabs) in our office for employees to use an internal application. Our application manages its own navigation, and users do not need to access anything else other than the application. I made it a home screen launcher so it's the first thing that loads. On the Galaxy Tab (Android 2.3), I'm also hijacking all the hardware buttons in the device and I can properly secure the device.
However, on Android 3.0, there are no hardware buttons anymore, and you cannot hide the system bar, I have no way to secure the device if the system bar is always there. I understand why it needs to be there, but this is really killing me.
I have 3 options:
Root the device, try to disable the system bar by editing the framework-res.apk --- Already tried this, unsuccesful since I couldn't find anything in there.
Wait for Android 3.0 to drop in AOSP, build my own custom rom which hides the system bar and do my own modifications on it.
Build Android 2.3 from AOSP for the XOOM -- this will be a lot of work, and I would need help, is anyone interested on helping me with this?
Thanks everyone.
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Downgrading to 2.3 might be your best bet, wish 3.0 AOSP would hurry up, want to get somethings working differently as well myself. Let us all know if you downgrade and how it went! Wouldn't mind trying to sneak the shut off animation onto 3.0 if possible.

kenhunt said:
Downgrading to 2.3 might be your best bet, wish 3.0 AOSP would hurry up, want to get somethings working differently as well myself. Let us all know if you downgrade and how it went! Wouldn't mind trying to sneak the shut off animation onto 3.0 if possible.
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Yeah, I haven't gotten into it yesterday, but the only thing I'm concerned about running 2.3 on the Tab is the whole issue with Dual-core support, not sure if I would even be able to do it thanks to that, but I'll see. I'm also trying to call a few contacts to see if we can get into some kind of agreement with Moto to try to get the source code early... we'll see...

Have you tried running a different launcher? They allow you to hide system bars on the old android os...might work on 3.0
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bwcorvus said:
Have you tried running a different launcher? They allow you to hide system bars on the old android os...might work on 3.0
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Yeah, that won't work, the system bar is part of the framework, it's very very low level, you can't hide it since it allows the user to navigate through the device. Before 3.0, devices were required to have hardware buttons, that's not a requirement anymore because of this system bar, it will always always be there.

Atrix runs 2.3 and the same processor

destroyerbmx said:
Atrix runs 2.3 and the same processor
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True, hopefully they release the kernel source soon so I can take a look and see if I can try to make 2.3 work on the XOOM with the same kernel that's working with 3.0.

here is Tegra 2 with many options running various versions of 2.2 and 2.3.
you should reach out to GoJimi over there.

destroyerbmx said:
Atrix runs 2.3 and the same processor
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I'm pretty sure atrix is running 2.2.

u can't do anything until source drops. You need baksmali for framework and custom recovery to flash.

I think your best bet would probably be changing the DPI settings somehow (Like they did for the HC build on some phones to get the tablet version) and it would cause you to go into the "phone" version of HC (Doesn't have the system bar) then I would say modify the volume buttons and lock button long presses to recreate the home/back/multitasking buttons if you really want them (such as they have done for the i*hone android ports because ios is dumb and has 1 button). Just a suggestion and honestly I have no idea if this would work.

I'm sure the system bar has a process you can kill with root. I know the status bar can be killed this way on 2.3. Watch logcat and see what you can find. Anyone know more on this?

Porting 2.2 from the g-tab maybe. Similiar hardware I think.
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Just installed lcd denisty on mine and put it at 240 from the default 160...the system bar was gone.

bwcorvus said:
Just installed lcd denisty on mine and put it at 240 from the default 160...the system bar was gone.
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Glad to see it worked now hopefully the OP sees it. GL to all
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Could you please check your /system/build.prop to see whether the lcd density app has added any code?
I usually tweak density directly through this file but the code isnt there atm on my xoom.

I tried changing the density yesterday and was disappointed to discover that the LCD density wasn't in the build.prop. adding the line of code didn't work, either.
XOOM'd from the XDA app.

ftgg99 said:
Could you please check your /system/build.prop to see whether the lcd density app has added any code?
I usually tweak density directly through this file but the code isnt there atm on my xoom.
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Looking at the date on my build.prop it hasn't been modified. And just to be sure i looked through the file, nothing in there.

Huh, I wasn't receiving notifications on email even though I'm subscribed for instant notifications...
anways, will try the density trick, but that seems like a pain in the butt to redo all the layouts in our app, but that is a very very clever idea, might work.
Update: Yes it works, but only if you use one of those apps, not when editing the system.prop file, anyone care to share what's exactly being edited here?
Thanks again!
Update 2: Actually, I had a typo on the line I wrote on the build.prop, if you write 'ro.sf.lcd_density=240' (or whatever density you want to use), push it and reboot, it does work as it should.

how are u going to press "home" or "back"?
xoom doenst have physical buttons like phones.
how do u get back to home screen if u downgrade to 2.x？

What would you want in a custom ROM?

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

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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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...

sdlaurin said:
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

sdlaurin said:
Maybe a minimalist version of 2.3?
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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)

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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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

Cat_On_Droid said:
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.

[Q] I MESSED up my Galaxy S4. Help?

Let me elaborate:
So earlier today I was messing around with Density Changer while going to Kingsville to see my brother. I was messing around with the DPI value, changing it from 480 to 420 and such. I changed it to 520 and, like normal, asked me to reboot. I rebooted.
The phone started up a lot longer than usual. I thought that this was just a simple glitch, but it took longer for a reason. The time and date on my lock screen wasn't working. Messaging, Contacts, Camera, Samsung keyboard, and the sort wasn't working. Worst of all, TouchWiz wasn't working either. In panic, I tried to open Density Changer from settings but couldn't. I reset my phone to the factory settings. It was rather quick to format (I didn't have much except for some PSP roms and gallery images). I was relieved for a bit, but when it booted it was still unfunctional, not to mention the keyboard still didn't work, so I had to skip a ton of steps. Since TouchWiz was still broken, I set the home screen to Easy Mode. When I looked around with Easy Mode, I realized that you can run apps there without it crashing. I felt so dumb. So now I can't log in to the Play Store to undo what I did, I don't have the app anymore, TouchWiz won't work, I don't even know if I can recieve messages, yada yada. I feel like I am so screwed.
TL;DR changed the DPI from 480 to 520, all hell went loose. did factory reset in panic, even more screw.
Does anyone know what I can do instead of sending it for repair? I don't think AT&T will be able to repair it anyways-- just to give me a new phone.

Try download the last official att rom and use odin. You can find it here in XDA forum. Good luck
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wawis said:
Try download the last official att rom and use odin. You can find it here in XDA forum. Good luck
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I appreciate that you want to help! It means a lot. But before I attempt this, does this change absolutely EVERYTHING to default? I think the reason why my phone got so messed up was because the DPI was too high. :/

Do you know what firmware you're on? And if you have a custom recovery did you make a nandroid before you started messing around? If you did, like you should have, just restore that.

Dabreaker9 said:
I appreciate that you want to help! It means a lot. But before I attempt this, does this change absolutely EVERYTHING to default? I think the reason why my phone got so messed up was because the DPI was too high. :/
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MAKE SURE YOUR NOT ON THE MF3 UPDATE. IF YOU ARE DO NOT ATTEMPT.
If your running MDL or lower, then download the MDL package and flash it with odin. It will indeed make everything stock.
MDL Package
http://www.androidfilehost.com/?fid=23134718111253756
Odin
http://www.androidfilehost.com/?fid=23134718111253763
1. Place phone in download mode
2. Hook to computer via USB
3. Open Odin
4. Click the PDA button and place the MDL file you just downloaded there.
5. Click start.
The process will take a few minutes, so don't panic. Let me know if that fixed it.

Shoot, man. I'm on the MF3 update. I have root though, will that help with fixing it?

jd1639 said:
Do you know what firmware you're on? And if you have a custom recovery did you make a nandroid before you started messing around? If you did, like you should have, just restore that.
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I'm on the MF3 firmware. I didn't make any custom recovery file things.

Dabreaker9 said:
I'm on the MF3 firmware. I didn't make any custom recovery file things.
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Go to a Best Buy that has a Samsung Experience booth and see if they will restore factory MF3 for you. Then, I suggest you don't do ANYTHING to your phone but use it for calls and stock abilities.

it really amazes me just how many people in the past few days have screwed up their phones, and the ONLY reason is because they didn't read

deadenz said:
it really amazes me just how many people in the past few days have screwed up their phones, and the ONLY reason is because they didn't read
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Yep, the more popular the phone, the more people that get a hold of it that shouldn't be doing anything with it except making calls. Laziness and ignorance will create a brick every time. The truly funny part is how quick they run here to make a post for people to fix their screw-ups, but they wouldn't come here to take a little time and effort to learn and read about what to do and how to do it in the first place.

deadenz said:
it really amazes me just how many people in the past few days have screwed up their phones, and the ONLY reason is because they didn't read
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Hey, now. I almost have it fixed. I just need the .apk file for Density Changer so I can install it, paste "480" into the box and reboot. Would someone be so kind to do it for me? This laptop is a school laptop which has Fortinet as an antivirus and a website restrictor. I would do it myself but my parents are considering taking me to AT&T ASAP when I go back home tomorrow.
But, yeah. I should have read on. I know that bigger values made the screen smaller, but I guess the S4 goes crazy when that happens.

Dabreaker9 said:
Let me elaborate:
So earlier today I was messing around with Density Changer while going to Kingsville to see my brother. I was messing around with the DPI value, changing it from 480 to 420 and such. I changed it to 520 and, like normal, asked me to reboot. I rebooted.
The phone started up a lot longer than usual. I thought that this was just a simple glitch, but it took longer for a reason. The time and date on my lock screen wasn't working. Messaging, Contacts, Camera, Samsung keyboard, and the sort wasn't working. Worst of all, TouchWiz wasn't working either. In panic, I tried to open Density Changer from settings but couldn't. I reset my phone to the factory settings. It was rather quick to format (I didn't have much except for some PSP roms and gallery images). I was relieved for a bit, but when it booted it was still unfunctional, not to mention the keyboard still didn't work, so I had to skip a ton of steps. Since TouchWiz was still broken, I set the home screen to Easy Mode. When I looked around with Easy Mode, I realized that you can run apps there without it crashing. I felt so dumb. So now I can't log in to the Play Store to undo what I did, I don't have the app anymore, TouchWiz won't work, I don't even know if I can recieve messages, yada yada. I feel like I am so screwed.
TL;DR changed the DPI from 480 to 520, all hell went loose. did factory reset in panic, even more screw.
Does anyone know what I can do instead of sending it for repair? I don't think AT&T will be able to repair it anyways-- just to give me a new phone.
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You can try using a root level file explorer to navigate to /system, long press build.prop to open with a text editor, find the following line and change it to 480, then reboot. Root Explorer or ES File Explorer will do what you need.
ro.sf.lcd_density=480

upndwn4par said:
You can try using a root level file explorer to navigate to /system, long press build.prop to open with a text editor, find the following line and change it to 480, then reboot. Root Explorer or ES File Explorer will do what you need.
ro.sf.lcd_density=480
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Keyboard doesn't work. I was almost going to do that until I realized it. I'm just looking around for any DPI changing applications that allow it to any number (LCD Density Changer only allows it to 280).
I would set it to 280 if I could handle the small-ass icons. I can't, so I'm not gonna bother with that.

scott14719 said:
Yep, the more popular the phone, the more people that get a hold of it that shouldn't be doing anything with it except making calls. Laziness and ignorance will create a brick every time. The truly funny part is how quick they run here to make a post for people to fix their screw-ups, but they wouldn't come here to take a little time and effort to learn and read about what to do and how to do it in the first place.
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God damn, man. You say it like you've never messed up something on your phone before. I know, I'm a **** for not reading if it was safe, but I'm almost positive you've messed up one way or another before?

Dabreaker9 said:
Keyboard doesn't work. I was almost going to do that until I realized it. I'm just looking around for any DPI changing applications that allow it to any number (LCD Density Changer only allows it to 280).
I would set it to 280 if I could handle the small-ass icons. I can't, so I'm not gonna bother with that.
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Ooops. missed the keyboard part.
What ROM are you running? Stock MF3?

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Ooops. missed the keyboard part.
What ROM are you running? Stock MF3?
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The default MF3, yeah. Fixed it with www-57.zip-pysha-re.co-m/v/78538033/file.html (remove those dashes). I went on Google Chrome and used voice recognition to get 460, pasted it in the DPI box, applied it. Everything's good now.

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God damn, man. You say it like you've never messed up something on your phone before. I know, I'm a **** for not reading if it was safe, but I'm almost positive you've messed up one way or another before?
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Umm... Yeah Scott is a little grumpy when he sees things over and over again lol. I'm glad you were able to get it fixed.
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Dabreaker9 said:
God damn, man. You say it like you've never messed up something on your phone before. I know, I'm a **** for not reading if it was safe, but I'm almost positive you've messed up one way or another before?
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Well, it's really not about messing up. What is done is done. It's about learning from it and not doing it again. I can tell you are on the right path because you are trying to fix it. You screwed up... a lot of people screw up...what is important is not doing it again. Always read as much as you can about anything before you try it. It's just a phone and it is always replaceable but you can save yourself a lot of trouble by reading before doing. Like I said, i think you realize that. I'm sure you don't want to go through this type of trouble again to just get the phone working. What you did (change the dpi) isn't a big deal but it has big consequences. I was mostly referring to people that that try to "root", put custom recoveries on their phones, custom ROMs, etc. There is so much information about these things in the XDA forums it isn't funny, yet people think they don't need to read and learn about it or they think their time is too valuable. But as soon as they screw up (and they always do), all of the sudden, they find the time to come to XDA and beg for someone to fix their phone. As soon as someone points out that they should have read and learned in the first place, they get a smug attitude and act like people "owe" them a fix for their stupidity. Like I said, not necessarily your situation, but it happens all of the time regardless.
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I'm am glad you fixed your phone and is is encouraging to see how much work and effort you put into fixing it. It would be nice if everyone put that kind of effort into fixing their phones. I have a feeling you will do just fine with modifying your phone.

[Q] Screen Rotation

Not quite sure where to post this, so I'll try here. Mods, please move to the correct forum if it is in the wrong one.
Back when the OG Droid came out, the screen could rotate all 4 ways (up, landscape left, landscape right, upside down). Never had a need for it, but it was cool. I noticed that as Android evolved, being able to hold your device upside down disappeared. Again, never had a need for it, so IO didn't care.
Now, I need it. In my car, I put the phone in the cupholder of my armrest/center console. Because the charging and headphone jack is on the bottom, I have to operate everything upside down. Is this an Android or manufacturer *feature* that was removed? Can it be put back? Can a mod be made to make it work?
I don't want a dock for my phone, I've had them before, and don't like them. I also like to have full control of my phone, not just what the manufacturer wants me to control.
Thanks.

There seem to be a few apps in the Play store that may help, here is one that looks promising:
Edit: can't post links. Do a search for Screen Rotation Control

Klotar said:
There seem to be a few apps in the Play store that may help, here is one that looks promising:
Edit: can't post links. Do a search for Screen Rotation Control
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I never thought to look for an app. Thanks, I'll check it out right now.
EDIT: Turns out it's a no-go. It has the option for reverse portrait, but it doesn't work.

If you have rooted your phone look for Roms that support this.
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crashN2u said:
I never thought to look for an app. Thanks, I'll check it out right now.
EDIT: Turns out it's a no-go. It has the option for reverse portrait, but it doesn't work.
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Ultimate Rotation Control by FAMEIT *does* support reverse portrait or at least the licensed version does. But I did root, not sure if that matters.
Good luck!
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crashN2u said:
EDIT: Turns out it's a no-go. It has the option for reverse portrait, but it doesn't work.
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Dang. There were a few options but that one looked promising by the description.
Try a search in the app store for "Reverse Portrait" and give the free ones a shot...? Some seem to have a "force" option for when it doesn't happen automatically (or lock in reverse portrait). If they can be invoked with one click, it wouldn't seem too much of an inconvenience.
Edit: Rotation Control Lite was the one I was looking at, might try that myself.