Hi all running litening Rom and my phone was displaying safe mode? See attached screenshot
Bottom left of every screen
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Every android phone can boot into safe mode, its pretty much what you would expect from a safe mode on a pc.
All third party content is disabled etc.
A reboot *should* put you back to normal, failing that try to pull battery for 30 seconds then reboot.
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http://www.tested.com/news/feature/...ds-safe-mode-to-save-a-phone-from-boot-loops/
read that ^
On Samsung’s devices, almost all users will be able to access Safe Mode with by pressing and holding the menu button during start up. If it’s a capacitive menu key, make sure to release and press again each time the LED under the key comes back on. You don’t want to miss the catch for Safe Mode because the button released itself.
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BEWARE - Safe Mode on Samsung Galaxy Note 2
My GM2 accidentally went into Safe Mode this morning - I guess because I pulled the battery while the phone was not yet fully down.
At first, I was shocked as it looked like my phone was reset to factory state. Then I realized the "Safe Mode" in the bottom left corner.
I think that in Safe Mode simply all user-installed are disabled (which may be achieved also using "pm disable" on the console), BUT:
apparently due to bugs, at least on the Galaxy Note 2, all accounts, contacts, calendars, and SMS got DELETED or became inaccessible!
What a crappy feature.
Thanks goodness, after re-starting the phone (to enter normal mode), I was able to restore part of the data using Titanium Backup.
/data/data/com.android.providers.contacts/databases/contacts2.db is still present, but for some reason it is ignored
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Ok, so i recently exchanged my SGS 1 to an SGS 2 and now i have a weird problem:
right away i flashed SlimIcs 4.2 , everything went fine and the rom was working like it should , but then i noticed that when my phones screen is off and its in idle, the screen lights up every 1minute or so by itself.
I also noticed that it stays in idle normally when charging the phone or when listening to music which seems odd ..
I tried changing the kernel to Siyah and Dorimanx, neither helped
I disabled android logger, disabled wifi and wifi notifications, tried to find a rogue app by using Airblocker app.. No go .
Im running out of ideas, has anyone had this annoying problem? it wouldnt even bother me, but ofcourse its eating my battery up by preventing my phone to sleep properly.
I would really appreciate some help to get my new phone up and running!
Download GSam battery monitor from play store and select app usage. then at the top, select app sucker and a drop down box will appear. Then select "view number of times waking device".
It should then show what app is waking it up.
But after you installed the app, wait half an hour or so, so it can get a reading.
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*boy*racer* said:
Download GSam battery monitor from play store and select app usage. then at the top, select app sucker and a drop down box will appear. Then select "view number of times waking device".
It should then show what app is waking it up.
But after you installed the app, wait half an hour or so, so it can get a reading.
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Thanks for the fast reply! i will try this and report back the readings!
Ok. I installed the app, juicedefender and 2x battery were on the top of the list.. so i deleted them but the problem continues.. ideas?
Umm. There is a way to put the phone into safe mode. It boots up without the apps you downloaded. Maybe try that and see if it is an app that's causing it.
I'm just about to find out How to put into safe mode.
Edit: 1. Switch off the phone by pressing on the Power button.
2. Then turn the phone back on, while it is turning on press and hold the Menu button.
3. Now continue to hold*the Menu button until you see the Home screen. On the home screen you see it say Safe Mode on the left hand corner.
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*boy*racer* said:
Umm. There is a way to put the phone into safe mode. It boots up without the apps you downloaded. Maybe try that and see if it is an app that's causing it.
I'm just about to find out How to put into safe mode.
Edit: 1. Switch off the phone by pressing on the Power button.
2. Then turn the phone back on, while it is turning on press and hold the Menu button.
3. Now continue to hold*the Menu button until you see the Home screen. On the home screen you see it say Safe Mode on the left hand corner.
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I once got into it by-mistake once.
Think it was by repeatedly pressing the menu button when the bootanimation starts
EDIT: Seems I got a bit late when replying
i cant manage to get into safe mode.. but weird as it is, the phone doesnt turn the screen off so often than before.. got a 1%/ h drain last night.. but it still does it. Soo frustrating -.-
I downloaded BetterBatteryStats , and will run a few tests, i will report back tommorrow
To put into safe mode, hold menu soft key soon as the boot animation begins. Then release when phone is fully booted.
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Just cant get it to boot in safemode.. i have a feeling that the phone has some other issues too cause, when i turn it off it wont go off , only reboot back. Anyways, i managed to produce a log with BetterBatteryStats app.. if anyone with knowledge could take a look
EDIT: I have pretty muched solved the draining problem from over 4%/h to 1%/h , my screen is still waking up now and then, but it doesnt bother me since my drain is good. Thanks for everyone who helped me get this phone working like it should!
Currently, my phone is coming across as useless other than as a torch. I am trying to turn on the screen of my phone, although nothing at all happens. Sometimes, if I'm lucky, it turns on and shows me my home screen background, however it takes so long to load that the screen goes back off again. I think this problem is due to an XPosed module in Sense Toolbox 6 that I enabled, that allows you to turn on the torch by long-pressing on the power button, however I am really not sure. Another likely possibility is a lag issue from the high amount of apps I'm running. At the moment I am considering restoring one of my backups because the problem is so bad (If I can get it to turn off, that is). Please help me!
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Currently, my phone is coming across as useless other than as a torch. I am trying to turn on the screen of my phone, although nothing at all happens. Sometimes, if I'm lucky, it turns on and shows me my home screen background, however it takes so long to load that the screen goes back off again. I think this problem is due to an XPosed module in Sense Toolbox 6 that I enabled, that allows you to turn on the torch by long-pressing on the power button, however I am really not sure. Another likely possibility is a lag issue from the high amount of apps I'm running. At the moment I am considering restoring one of my backups because the problem is so bad (If I can get it to turn off, that is). Please help me!
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As long as you have ADB enabled you should be able to connect it to you pc via ADB and type "adb reboot recovery" this will reboot you straight to recovery where you can restore your backup or disable Xposed framework see link here https://seo-michael.co.uk/how-to-disable-xposed-installer/ for howto . I think you can even disable certain modules via ADB then "adb reboot" but I can't remember the detail you would have to google it.
MiniBlu
i can feel the vibration and hear it turn on but i cant see whats on my screen
Hey guys, I really need your help, today I had to wait for my little sister to finish an exam, but because I had like 8 percent of battery life I turned on the Ultra power saving mode on my S7 Edge, I clicked accept then waited for the lock screen to show up, I swiped to unlock my phone with my password and the keyboard doesn't pop up, I keep tapping and trying, restart the phone, tried again, nothing, booted into recovery to wipe cache didn't do anything neither, booting into safe mode was another waste of time, and then I realized I had disabled the samsung keyboard some months ago in order to switch completely to the GBoard keyboard (I thought this may save battery life), I don't remember if I deactivated it normally or through some package disabler. And since the Ultra Power Saving Mode deactivates most apps, it deactivated my GBoard, and since the samsung keyboard was also disabled, it didn't bring the keyboard up, I can't disable the ultra power saving mode because I need to INPUT THE PASSWORD WITH NO KEYBOARD, and fingerprints are also disabled so I'm pretty much locked out, I was wondering if there was anything I could do, like a command to uninstall the package disabler or to activate the keyboard again or if I could install a zip that would do some magic through recovery, because I haven't found anything at all, thank you.
Anyone know how I've managed to p0wn myself such that only the attached lockscreen, a pixelated picture of the time and battery left, is available?
* Don't see any mechanism for unlocking the phone
* When I call the phone, it still rings, and I can talk.
* When I get a new text message, a "text icon" shows up in about a 5x5 "pixel" graphic.
* Also get a graphic for hangout chats.
* Holding down the power button for 45ish seconds does nothing (30 seconds is normally enough to power off a phone, right?)
Maybe I should have swapped out this ROM back when builds were disabled And perhaps now I'm paying for installing this ROM (ROM taken from https://forum.xda-developers.com/one-m9/orig-development/rom-lineageos-14-1-t3584522) in the first place. That, or an app has compromised my lock-screen (ty android for burying permissions like that and not giving me an option to disallow this particular one anyway). That, or I've managed to turn on some sort of accessibility mode. Ironically, I love the privacy features of the lineage builds and would love to keep using them.
Attached: Screenshot of lock-screen while Android seems to be fully-on in the background
PS -- my current remediation plan is to let the battery run out, start the phone in recovery mode, and to flash a new ROM. It'd be great if someone knew that I had just turned on some sort of accessibility/simplicity mode and knew how I could get out of it.
I've never seen that before but have you tried rebooting the phone to see if it goes away?
I know you can't pull the battery but you can force a reboot by button combination.
Its usually Power and Volume up on HTC devices, Holding them both at the same time for 10 seconds or longer should force reboot it.
Fantastic -- that's exactly what it was -- HTC Dot View mode. Holding power + volume up did the trick! Thanks!
I was moving a bunch of hard drives around, so I'm guessing a magnet triggered the mode. The phone seemingly couldn't get itself out of that mode, even though the magnets (hard drives) had been moved away.
Pawbrotm said:
I think this is LineageOS version of HTC Dot View case mode. Something just went wrong and this mode got triggered. Reboot the phone and it should be fine.
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Critical Detox said:
Its usually Power and Volume up on HTC devices, Holding them both at the same time for 10 seconds or longer should force reboot it.
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shaqman89 said:
It's dot case in play
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Hi all,
I got this Xperia M5 that's been giving out warnings about memory being full and I suppose it finally gave in. It only partially boots after like a full minute of showing you those blue waves. When it 'boots' the screen is black and nothing works, except you can see the status bar with just the battery icon, no-SIM icon and the clock.
Weird thing is when the device is powered off, you can press the power button once and it'll display a large battery indicator which shows the percentage normally-- I've seen this go up from 0 to over 90 something incrementally.
But when it's 'on' the way I just described, the battery is always at 0% with a red ! next to it.
Anyway, when it's in this weird half-life mode, you can actually pull down the notification bar normally, and tap stuff as well. Flashlight works, you can see an actual WiFi list (nothing happens when you connect) etc. When you launch stuff through here though, like settings, it won't open anything. It'll make the sound as if it's launched something but the remainder of the screen will still be black.
Using the dedicated camera button, I can access the camera. It works (sort of), meaning you can see the camera display where the screen used to be black. And it immediately says "system process is not responding," so I'm guessing this is a system issue where it can't load basic stuff like the homescreen?
Whatever you do or don't do, it stops responding after a couple minutes and shuts itself off.
Stuff I've already tried:
- Safe mode (volume down + power), just 'boots normally'
- Recovery mode (volume up + power) done that for over two minutes, does nothing or just 'boots normally'
- Hold down the tiny yellow 'off' button under the SIM/SD cover, did nothing.
- Xperia Companion: PC won't recognize the phone either in that zombie state, or when it's off, so I tried 'device cannot be detected', shut phone down, held down volume down button, connected USB still holding down, waited for a while and viola, nothing happened.
It's factory OS, never messed around with it and I don't know the version (could be 5?).
Any ideas?
Guys at this point all I'm wondering is if anyone ever managed to brick a phone that's as semi-responsive as this one, in the history of bricked android phones anywhere.. I mean how could it be bricked when you can (sort of) boot and even open the camera?
you said it boots in download mode?
paranoic(d) said:
you said it boots in download mode?
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No I wouldn't say download, it's weird-- there's the status bar at the top and soft navigation keys at the bottom, but the homescreen in between these is black. I tried tapping this black area to see if stuff is there logically but you just can't see them, but there was no interaction, no sound or anything.
I am able to pull down the status bar to reveal the usual buttons and such, like I mentioned before you can turn on the flashlight, click to see a list of available wifis etc. But you can't access settings through here, I mean you tap settings and the main part of the screen is still black.
The only way to get the screen to work is to open the camera through its dedicated button, where the camera display works normally, you can switch cameras etc. Tried accessing the gallery through here but it didn't work.
I just don't wanna buy a new phone when this one doesn't seem bricked at all. If it like didn't respond at all and nothing appeared on the screen I wouldn't think twice before buying the first phone I see on Google.
im afraid that you have to flash stock rom again if you will boot into download/fastboot mode.but your problem seems strange.what was the last thing you have done before phone stuck like this?
paranoic(d) said:
im afraid that you have to flash stock rom again if you will boot into download/fastboot mode.but your problem seems strange.what was the last thing you have done before phone stuck like this?
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Not my phone but it'd been going on about low memory for a while now. I got the PC to recognize it once in that zombie state, so I'll try that with Companion if I can get it to half-boot again. I'll post updates if anything happens.
antiglue said:
Not my phone but it'd been going on about low memory for a while now. I got the PC to recognize it once in that zombie state, so I'll try that with Companion if I can get it to half-boot again. I'll post updates if anything happens.
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okay keep us updated