Few days back after returning to home I saw My phone going on safe mode, I don't know how did it happen, it was in my pocket when I was driving a bike. And when I checked it after returning to home it already was on safe mode and even the stock launcher was activated. I restarted the phone, then it was working fine but few of my widgets were removed automatically. What would b the reason behind it?
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I think its while in your pocket you might have pressed the button combination the reason it goes into safe mode is if their are force closes nd it doesn't load 3rd party apps so your able to uninstall the app that's causing the Fc the painful part is when you reboot it masses up your Widgets all you have to do is set them up again someone correct me if I'm wrong
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phone is running in safe mode? lower left corner shows that. bricked? data isnt working right now and calendar kept FC.
Did you manage to get windows 98 on your phone lol. I have never seen that before. Try nandroid restore or factory reset or reflash rom.
I've seen safe mode on android phones before and a reboot usually makes it go away
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I had a safe mode too. Reboot it.
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I think if you hold menu during boot it will come up in safe mode. Sometimes I'll do it accidentally if I touch the right place at the right time when handling the phone when it boots. It's a pain because I have to put most of my widgets back to the desktop because they get the problem loading error. I also freak out because I think my phone got wiped
My phone is in safe mode!
HOLLY COW, SAFE MODE IS REAL!
I've tried to get into safe mode in the past to no avail.
Out of the blue, I look down on my phone it says "Safe mode" on the lower left corner in a ghosted box. How the heck did I get myself into there? I've tried every key combo in the past to no avail. I musta restarted my phone and had my hand on the capactive buttons without knowing.
I want to take a snapsoht with Shootme, but it won't let me open Shootme for some reason.
LOL anyway just got excited there for a second.
Now I rebooted and can't get back in safe mode. How the heck do you get into safe mode? I've tried every capactive button combo people have suggested
I had to send on my og g1 due to being stuck in safe mode...my menu button was stuck, causing it to go into safe mode on every boot. Its nothing new really.
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jamesd86 said:
I had to send on my og g1 due to being stuck in safe mode...my menu button was stuck, causing it to go into safe mode on every boot. Its nothing new really.
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ya I know it's not new, I just never been able to get into it. Then suddenly today my phon was in safe mode, now for the life of me, I can't get it to go back in.
I just booted ibto,safe mode by holding menu and powering on...hold menu untill you see safe mode on the bottom of the screen.
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I just booted ibto,safe mode by holding menu and powering on...hold menu untill you see safe mode on the bottom of the screen.
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Didn't work for me, kept my finger on menu, powered on my phone, kept finger on menu the entire time, no safe mode.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=872006
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=872006
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ya i had that happen to my widgets
but i still cant get back into safe mode.
oh well
I must have gotten lucky because all my widgets worked fine after i rebooted my phone ealier.
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I must have gotten lucky because all my widgets worked fine after i rebooted my phone ealier.
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It might depend on which widget. I rebooted once after safe mode. I'm on stock JI6.
SamsungVibrant said:
HOLLY COW, SAFE MODE IS REAL!
I've tried to get into safe mode in the past to no avail.
Out of the blue, I look down on my phone it says "Safe mode" on the lower left corner in a ghosted box. How the heck did I get myself into there? I've tried every key combo in the past to no avail. I musta restarted my phone and had my hand on the capactive buttons without knowing.
I want to take a snapsoht with Shootme, but it won't let me open Shootme for some reason.
LOL anyway just got excited there for a second.
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Just like a computer the phone will only startup the the bare basics to let it run. All third party apps will not work in safe mode.
Fear the beard...
I had my vibrant go into safe mode once also, my phone was not charged so when i got to work i plugged it into my work computer, after a while grabbed my phone and it was dead, Zip, zero, nada. After awhile pulled the battery out, and put it back in, the phone started up, but into safe mode. What i believed happened was when you plug in a mass storage device (AKA Thumb drive) into a computer at work, it trying to encrypt the device, and i think my phone said "Nope not gonna happen" and locked itselfs. Not sure, but not going to plug itin again.
I just managed to make a Tasker profile that reboots the phone at a certain time. But tasker makes the phone reboot forever now. Is there a safe mode thats doesnt load up installed apps so that I can remove the profile??
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I just managed to make a Tasker profile that reboots the phone at a certain time. But tasker makes the phone reboot forever now. Is there a safe mode thats doesnt load up installed apps so that I can remove the profile??
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No there is no safe mode that i am aware of, you'll have to boot into recovery then do a full wipe unless someone else knows an easier way....
Yes there is a safe mode.
I somehow found it this morning.
Phone was off in my suit pocket, i turned it on whilst in the pocket and when I took the phone out (around 5 mins later) it was in safe mode.
Now how do I know this, well it was quite clear.......at the bottom left of the screen it actually says 'SAFE MODE', this appeared on every screen and I noticed that certain apps on my home screen were then missing too.
To get rid of it, i turned the phone off, took the battery out and then restarted the phone.
EDIt--- found it.....power on phone and hold menu and back at the same time
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Been posted before something similar dont know how or why or where but could be useful .
jje
I am using CM7 latest weekely every thing is perfect but now suddenly my phones screen turns on like call is coming and turns back off after 2 sec and this happens randomly.
is this expected behavior?
is there any work around?
My fiancee has an atrix that is totally stock and hers just started doing this yesterday. I would also like to know the answer to this. I was thinking it was a hardware issue with the power button but hopefully i am wrong, that way I dont have to mess with a warranty exchange. Any help would be appreciated.
by any chance have u just start using this app "Memory Booster - RAM Optimizer" if yes then this might be the one, i have just messed around in its settingsd and no screen wakup problems so far
https://market.android.com/details?...xLDEsImltb2JsaWZlLm1lbW9yeWJvb3N0ZXIubGl0ZSJd
No. The only apps that I think might cause this that I have on her phone is beautiful widgets and a data toggle. She has had these apps on there for awhile and the phone just started to act up.
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Both me and my brother own atrix and it happens on both.It was happening on stock 2.3.4 and now on cm7 as well it must be something with the phone not a rom related issue
i also have beautiful widgets, can sk8trix conform that his and his brother phone have this app too. if yes then this might be the cause. or we have to tell each other whole list of apps that we have installed to narrow down the culprit.
On her phone I have all of her apps that are supposed to sync turned off. I recently installed data enabler for her so she would have a data toggle on her home screen. I use advanced task manager to kill her apps by force stopping them. Last night I used it and closed everything and turned her screen off. 5 minutes later it come on for about two seconds and shut off. I have been looking at what apps might be causing this and really dont see anything unusual except for the data enabler and beautiful widgets. I will uninstall both of those and report back later on to let you know the result. Hopefully someone else will come along with a better solution.
xateeq said:
i also have beautiful widgets, can sk8trix conform that his and his brother phone have this app too. if yes then this might be the cause. or we have to tell each other whole list of apps that we have installed to narrow down the culprit.
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I don't use beautiful widgets ever.....I even tried with a clean install no apps installed except stock cm7 apps and google apps and it still happened so I gave up trying to figure it out.
it doesn't shorten my battery life at all so I don't worry however if there is a fix I will use it because it is annoying.
Edit the only time the phones wake up by themselves is right after we hit the power button to turn the screen off or when the phone firat boots and is still locked it will turn the screen off and turn it back on the dim again.
I dont think its cm7 issue cos i was at weekly # 4 and there was no issue then i flashed tuch recovery and after that boot it started happening. Then i flashed latest weekely and reverted back to old recovery. And i agree this only happen when i turn screen off (randomly)
OK here is where I am at now with this problem. I uninstalled both apps and it seems to be ok for the time being, but my fiancee told me she had been receiving weird messages in her notification bar. I looked into it and she was getting ads in her notification bar. So I downloaded AirPush Detector from the market and ran a scan on her phone and it detected a couple of apps pushing notifications. I got rid of the apps and now im back to checking the phone again. I dont know if that AirPush app would help you guys out or not but it would hurt to try.
since i have started this thread my problems have gone away like a little *****, and i dont know how to recreate this problem any more so i am stuck with no problem no solution thing.
12 hrs passed no problem so far.
It was apps in the background running. Airpush helped. I told her from now on no more free apps, i would rather buy them then fight this **** again. I put the data toggle and beautiful widgets back on her phone and it's ok. Thanks for your guys input.
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I use advanced task manager to kill her apps by force stopping them. Last night I used it and closed everything and turned her screen off. 5 minutes later it come on for about two seconds and shut off. I have been looking at what apps might be causing this and really dont see anything unusual except for the data enabler and beautiful widgets. I will uninstall both of those and report back later on to let you know the result. Hopefully someone else will come along with a better solution.
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I am having The same problem with my Samsung Galaxy ace Gt-5830i.
Earlier it had problems with charging and SD card. So we took it to authorized service center. And they said they had formatted the phone and installed stock ROM on it. They also replaced the charger port. But now after two days the phone screen is turning on and off at repeated intervals (for about 2 Seconds). So what might be the problem.
I'm not sure if anyone has experienced this on their 3d before and when I searched the topic there was no real definition or solution. Yesterday while playing around on the phone I had a random reboot (ZR3D Rom using Anthrax) and when the phone booted again I had the message "Safe Mode" in the lower left hand of the screen.
God knows I thought I really screwed something up, booted to recovery, wiped cache, dalvik, and fixed permission to no avail. So this morning I get to work and have some time to look up this safe mode and came across this article:
http://androinica.com/2010/08/how-to-activate-android’s-safe-mode-to-get-out-of-a-force-close-loop/
I had no idea that our phones could do this and its quit the neat feature, in a nut shell if you have a program that keeps force closing and you can not use the phone because of this, the phone can be booted into the safe mode which prevents the phone from loading 3rd party apps so you can remove the app that was giving you problems. All that is needed is a battery pull then hold the menu button while powering the phone on and vice versa to get rid of safe mode.
Like I said I'm not sure if anyone else had this problem or even knew about it but I thought I would share just in case someone needs help.
That's some good info. Thanks.
Holding the volume down once the splash screen appears will put you in safe mode as well, with any reboot no need for a battery pull. You will feel a hard vibrate, stronger than the normal quick one you get on a normal boot.
interesting info... didn't know that.
on another note.... i have never had a third party app repeatedly force close on me. in the ROM flashing world it has always been a system app.... this method would be useless in that scenario lol.
interesting, though, learn something new everyday.
It has actually been helpful for me, finding out what apps are comparable with joelz's cm9 kang rom.
My phone is stock and I am not interested in any mods.
The m9 has a lot of issues and I found another.
HTC told me to boot in safe mode to try to see if an app was causing issues. For the record, I get a screen black out when swipping away a screen or returning to home screen when first booted up. I reset twice and it's still there.
Anyway, I try safe mode out and when I boot back up, all of my apps seemed to have their data erased. All of my app placement customizations were gone and I started getting an error for LTE, which has never happened prior. It was a mess.
I factory reset again and it seems fine, appearing to be as it was before.
What was that glitch about? It was such an odd and incredibly bad thing to happen.
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My phone is stock and I am not interested in any mods.
The m9 has a lot of issues and I found another.
HTC told me to boot in safe mode to try to see if an app was causing issues. For the record, I get a screen black out when swipping away a screen or returning to home screen when first booted up. I reset twice and it's still there.
Anyway, I try safe mode out and when I boot back up, all of my apps seemed to have their data erased. All of my app placement customizations were gone and I started getting an error for LTE, which has never happened prior. It was a mess.
I factory reset again and it seems fine, appearing to be as it was before.
What was that glitch about? It was such an odd and incredibly bad thing to happen.
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It is not a glitch, that's how safe mode works. It turns off all network connection, 3rd party apps and only loads necessary drivers. Similar to the way safe mode works on a computer. However Android can't recover data once it is lost after reboot.
So you're telling me safe mode is suppose to basically screw up your phone in order for you to see if maybe a third party app is a problem? That. Is. Crazy. It really defeats the purpose of any aid it could have.
It's a huge risk to take. I wonder why they'd design it this way. On the sprint forums, anyone who reported putting their phone in safe mode never mentioned any losses after. Maybe they didn't want to state them then?
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It is not a glitch, that's how safe mode works. It turns off all network connection, 3rd party apps and only loads necessary drivers. Similar to the way safe mode works on a computer. However Android can't recover data once it is lost after reboot.
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Wait, are you referring to data that could have happened during safe mode? And once it was back to normal, it didn't save any new data? If so, that's not what I was talking about.
Literally all app data, even preexisting was gone and my phone set up was hugely altered.
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Wait, are you referring to data that could have happened during safe mode? And once it was back to normal, it didn't save any new data? If so, that's not what I was talking about.
Literally all app data, even preexisting was gone and my phone set up was hugely altered.
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Yes all app data is erased during safe mode that includes Sense Home which is you home screens setup. Android is setup that way because it loads only apps no data. Data is usually the cause of issues. If everything works fine in Safe Mode mostly the issue is the apps data. It is an Android thing and not phone specific.