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.
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Hi all
I've done something stupid to my phone.
Been fiddling with auto-brightness settings, and now the screen won't switch on.
Got CyanogenMod 7.1 stable for the HTC Desire HD, had it loaded for close to a month(been enjoying it).
I've rebooted, pulled battery, SD card, SIM, everything. On boot the display shows the HTC logo, and the CyanogenMod BootScreen, immediately after that, I see the screen off animation, where it would normally go to homescreen. I know the phone is still on, the notification light is flashing, and via USB I can get screenshots of my lockscreen(widgetlocker).
When I click the power button a few times, intervals of ~3 seconds, the screen flashes just quick enough to see my lockscreen, but it really is a split second flash.
I've got Juice Defender Beta, I think the latest, used it for a couple weeks. Today I wanted to test the auto brightness settings it "supports"(beta feature). I noticed no changes, so I skipped over to the custom display settings for cyanogenmod, under Settings/Cyanogen .../display/Auto Brightness.
I fiddled there, as I've so done before, couldn't find the right balance , so I left my phone for a bit, it clicked the screen off, now screen is 'stuck' off.
I understand that this may be Juice Defender's doing, but since I was fiddling with cyanogen settings too, I'm posting here and to JD support, just in case. There might be a conflict.
Anyone know how I would debug this through ADB? I would really like to disable auto-brightness, that would probably eliminate Cyanogen from causing this (as the settings I changed related to Auto-Bright).
I tried this, no luck.
Otherwise, how to reset Juice Defender settings via ADB, or through a USB screenview... thing?
I've got a NANDroid backup, but its a little dusty, I've done a lot of customisation and such since, I'd prefer to avoid using it.
This is, of course, urgent. I can't use my phone at all, so any help is greatly appreciated.
EDIT: Solved it. Booted into safe mode, disabled what I changed, sorted. Still no idea what caused it, but ja, I fixed it. Android has a safe mode? Good to know...
Hi all running litening Rom and my phone was displaying safe mode? See attached screenshot
Bottom left of every screen
Sent from my GT-I9300 using xda premium
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.
EDIT:
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
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
Today I got my phone in. I was on the first set up page and it wouldn't respond to any of my touches. The buttons would glow like I was touching them but it wouldn't type or input. I soft reset it. It worked when I used assist touch. I hard reset it, wiped cache and factory reset. It fixed and I installed all my apps and when I plugged it into the charger it stopped working again. I can open the camera by double pressing the home button to unlock my phone but i can't open anything. It will glow like I'm pressing it but it won't open. I can pull down my notifications bar but none of my toggles or setting icon will work, again, they will glow just not open. I came back to my room and randomly it was working again, after 5 mins it stopped again.
Thank you for your attention.
ATT 64 GB
Galaxy S6 (not edge)
I don't know if this is the cause/solution to your problem, but I know S Voice can cause lag issues. By default, double pressing the home button (when device is unlocked) opens the S Voice. Frankly, it's redundant and pointless, as it's a mediocre attempt at Google Now. Open it, then go into the settings, and disable it. It causes lag because it's waiting to see if you're going to press it again or not.
But if that doesn't fix it, and it's doing that stuff before you've even set it up, I'd tend to think you've got a faulty unit. The capacitive buttons are part of the screen/digitizer, so maybe you've got a bum one.
Hi.
I recently bought a S9+ off ebay and it started to glitch and go into a black screen with only a few icons like the signal bar and battery icon showing. So I tried to reboot and reset the phone through the recovery menu but nothing fixed it.
It just boots up and shows "android is starting" then goes to the black screen and randomly shows that some system process (eg: System UI) has stopped working and gives the options to wait or close it. Neither option does anything. Other than that I'm able to long press the power button and get the power off menu, but can't actually turn it off or restart.
So I tried a stock firmware flash through Odin which completed successfully and the phone booted to the setup screen. But i can't select any other language other than Canadian English cuz the phone will freeze and go into the black screen again. I can only get back to the setup screen by doing a factory reset in the recovery menu. If I continue the setup without changing the language I can get as far as the connect to a WiFi network( which I can't skip cuz I wasn't able to turn off FRP before doing the reset) But when I turn on the WiFi it just loads for a bit and doesn't do anything or display any available networks. And still after a few minutes the phone goes back to the black screen.
I couldn't find any info regarding this issue by searching on Google or the XDA forums.
Please any help regarding this issue is much appreciated.
Thanks