Rarely my note 3 will reset itself into Safe mode, with out prompt or button pressing. After a reset the file folders in my apps box will then become empty and the Apps I have in my phone will be out of their designated files. Does anyone know how to prevent this? Does anyone know how to fix this?
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My sgs2 suddenly locked me out of my phone. I was playing around with the screen lock (numbers) just pressing some random numbers and after some 40-50 attempts of wrong passwords i entered the right password and it does not let me login now. Before formatting the phone i would want to copy some videos which i really want. Do you guys have any solution to the lock issue or is there any other way i can copy data from my phone ?
Thanks in advance.
Renish
AFAIK, there is a button called "forgot password" below, if in case that button doesn't exists, try download this https://market.android.com/details?id=se.curity.android.screenlockbypass will help you bypass the screen, and lets you backup your files.
Option 1. See if you see any forget password link etc, which will prompt you to enter your primary google account password. If you enter it correctly, you are in. No worries.
Option 2. Remove battery and re-insert. Turn on phone by pressing " Vol Up + Menu + Power " at the same time, which will take you to recovery.
Then select factory reset. It will not delete your videos. But you will lose all your apps installed from Market, your google/twitter/facebook accounts etc.
Your camera photos, videos, other videos on the phone will not be deleted.
if you do a factory reset your data will remain there, you will lose all the apps tho but i believe its the easier way
Thanks guys.. i managed to recover my phone and i have the resurrection mod on it now..
The phone was left out in the sun for an hour or so. Once it was brought inside the phone was off and would not turn on. I had to hold the power button down for about 15 seconds before it rebooted and turned on. The phone seemed to be fine for a few days. Then we noticed it would keep rebooting randomly, or so we thought it was random. Turns out the internal storage is inaccessible. You cannot add or delete anything from the phone. If you try, the phone will reboot. If you deleted something (an account, a picture, icon from home scree, etc) it will return after the reboot. I have went to recovery and attempted a system restore but all that happens is the screen goes black with a red triangle. When you force it to reboot everything is the way it was before. I have tried to access it via astro file manager and through win 7 and win 8. No matter which way you try you cannot delete or add to storage.
Any ideas or is it a brick?
Thanks for any advice or replies.
mbanken
mbanken said:
I have tried to access it via astro file manager and through win 7 and win 8. No matter which way you try you cannot delete or add to storage.
Any ideas or is it a brick?
Thanks for any advice or replies.
mbanken
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It definitely looks like a hardware issue, you might want to return it for servicing.
Hello. I flooded my phone. After a month of rest finally launched but it still comes into the safe mode. Volume down does not work. Is there any way to force disable safe mode?
I move apk's from /data/app to /system/app but that isn't solution... I have block vol down on main board from water.. So maybe someone know how block safe mode for example in kernel?
Good Day,
I am really struggling to find a satisfactory answer. I have Galaxy S6 Edge which is locked and won't accept the Password. I dont have the Wi-Fi on or Location on to use Google or Samsung unlock services. I don't want to lose any pictures and I am not sure how this will work as Samsung Galaxy S6 Edge has internal memory and I am not sure if I perform the Factory Reset/Wipe data through recovery(Volume rocker Up + Power + Home keys pressed together), will that also delete the pictures inside DCIM folder and other?
I am using stock ROM and phone is NOT rooted. Please please can someone confirm this for me.
The phone is going through this weird 1 hour lock cycles every time I try to enter the password. . I have to wait 60 minutes before I can try the next password (I am in fact noting down the combinations failed so far).
I think yes. If you can access the device via adb, try adb pull (pull a folder) and copy the necessary files that you need.
Summary:
So this morning (abiout six hours ago) my beloved S2 running CM12 crashed and could not reliable boot since then, it goes into some kind of weird bootloop.
The issue in detail:
Attempting to boot (long press on power button) will bring up the "Galaxy I9100" as sually and continues with the CM12 bootloader animation. After the typical time required to boot it vibrates slightly as usual, but afterwards the screen dims for about a second and the whole process is repeated.
What I did shortly before the issue:
Google Play wanted to update apps, but I was out of internal memory. So I went to /data/data and searched and deleted all files containing "cache". I've done this about 20-40 times over the last months (I didn't keep count) and never had any issue.
Things I've tried:
It is possible to access the recovery mode, but the options in CM12's recoverey are very limited (unlike TWRP for example). I cleared the cache but it had no effect.
After taking out the battery the "optimizing apps" windows pops up. When it's done, user input (enter sim, unlock pattern, homecreen) is possible, but only for a few seconds. The first time I missed the chance, the second and thired time I immediately restarted into safe mode.
Safe mode works surprisingly well, the first time I used it to let google continue the updates and disabled autostart of Applock and Greenify, the second time I uninstalled both Apps and cleared the dalvic cache (simply by deleting data/dalvic/). Neither attemped solved the issue.
What I'm currently doing:
After booting into safe mode for the 4th time I'm starting to back up all user data. Communication with a PC works only for some time, but reconnecting solves the issue (for now).
So what's next?:
Honestly I've no idea what I'm doing. I've installed CM on 3 devices in the past 4 years, but thats all experience I have. I'm hoping that I'm just missing an important detail and can get around all these problems with a simple fix. If not, I'd try a clean install, but I'd like to avoid that.
So, if you've got ANY IDEA what the issue might be or what to try, I'm open for all suggestions! Chances are that I haven't left the safe mode since posting, so you can also request sceenshots of anything you need. Thanks!
Screenshots or other related documents are in my sync.com folder: https [colum slash slash] cp [dot] sync [dot] com/dl/9b9bc5440#5b27p5ig-jfevicd7-kbnrzgcj-i2giy43b
Current screenshots: installed apps, phone info
I'll update this thread with all step that I take, so that a) you know where I am b) I remember everything and c) people with similar problems might benifit:
• The USB connection was kinda fragile, so I copied all data to the micro SD instead
• sdcard0 could be copied without problems
• phone crashed during coping of other files in root. Folder "sys" has been copied (at least partionally) before crash
• reboot normal, but always with message "Trebuchet was closed"
• seems to work fine now
• exit plane mode (I've enabled it before to charge quicker and reduce heat) and display turns black
• medium long press on power button brings up restart menu, nothing else can be done (checked: double click home button for camera, long click for recent apps)
• turn on airplane mode again and restart and its just fine again
• tried out a different sim card, same issue.
Based on all this, I'd say the issue is a third party app acting (badly) on the ppresence of a mobile connection. Weird. Will investigate the issue further tomorrow, or - more likely - flash the new lineageOS version. I'll report back when I know more.
After making a backup of ALL files I followed the pinned tutorial to install linageOS. Everything - including mobile connection - seems to work fine now! Thanks @djibe89 for such an amazing easy-to-follow tutorial
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