Windows boots into Safe Mode but not into Normal Mode - Off-topic

I think I should have posted this here...
I'm typing right now from Safe Mode.
FYI: I'm running Vista Home Premium with Service Pack 2
Here's what happened:
I installed Darkfall to try it out. Was running good for about 15 minutes. Then my computer freezes, restarts, and now I can't get into Normal Windows, but I can get into Safe Mode. I believe my graphics card overheated. But it seems fine cause I'm using my computer right now, just in safe mode =/
First I thought it was Darkfall, so I unistalled it. Nothing
Second, I thought it was Visual C++ that Darkfall installed, uninstalled it. Nothing
I tried fixing the registery with CCleaner. Nothing
I tried last known configuration. Nothing
My last resort is a OS reinstall, but I'm trying to avoid that. Anyone have any ideas?
Oh also….when I try to get into normal windows I can see the progress bar, everything, then right before the login screen comes up it turns black and it hangs.

thank you to everyone who visited this page, I have uninstalled my video drivers and it now boots lol

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how do i uninstall windows live?

I want to completely remove windows live 10 from my HTC touch. I installed it, and it keeps suddenly causing my device to restart while logging in. I then tried reinstalling Version 8, but it still does it... how do i completely remove windows live from my phone... so that i can just give it a clean install again.
If it's not in the ROM, you can remove it via start>settings>system>remove programs.
I did this, rebooted the device, and looked in the Programs menu only to still see "Windows Live" there. I click it, and it still doesn't work. It's the version 10 that's still there, yet not showing up in "remove programs"... Please HELP!
Oh thank you for starting me off with a good start, I did however manage to figure it out. What I did was I realized that version 10 was still there, So I installed it again, basically just to add uninstall support, uninstalled it (thinking i would then have it all gone) only to be shocked to see it's still there... out of striking curiosity I run the program one last time and it finally connects without problem.

Aww crap... Did I brick my phone?

I installed Windows Mobile 6.1 this morning, then I transferred the Kaiser Tweak, Faster typing, and Aurora V1 CAB files. I ran installed tweak and typing cab's, then I ran the battery status CAB file like it said to in the sticky. Now my phone won't respond to anything. The main screen comes on with the time, and the time is right, but I can't push anything. When I open the keyboard, the screen stays in portrait mode.
When it is connected to my PC, the phone keeps restarting like it's trying to install something. PC won't recognize a connection now either.
The backlight comes on when I touch the screen, but that's about it.
Is there anything I can do to fix this/reverse what I did?
ok i just entered the bootloader, and ran the wm6.1 install again. We'll see what happens
Did you try a Hard reset?, before trying another rom, i may be worth tp try.
Good Luck !
benner410 said:
I installed Windows Mobile 6.1 this morning, then I transferred the Kaiser Tweak, Faster typing, and Aurora V1 CAB files. I ran installed tweak and typing cab's, then I ran the battery status CAB file like it said to in the sticky. Now my phone won't respond to anything. The main screen comes on with the time, and the time is right, but I can't push anything. When I open the keyboard, the screen stays in portrait mode.
When it is connected to my PC, the phone keeps restarting like it's trying to install something. PC won't recognize a connection now either.
The backlight comes on when I touch the screen, but that's about it.
Is there anything I can do to fix this/reverse what I did?
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It may be due to the battery status. As the kaiser does not overclock, that program may be messing with it!

[Q] infinite boot and many other problems

I'll tell you the whole story, to get your best understanding of my problem, so please read and help me if you can!
So i've had quite a few problems while trying to modify some stuff on my Android Samsung Galaxy S I9000M from Bell.
At first what I did was root my phone. Secondly I installed Darky's 5.6 Gingerbread edition, but like a dumbass I didn't understand how to install, so I dragged and dropped through the windows explorer the contents from the .zip.
Ever since I've done this, i've had non stop problems.
I've installed Odin 3.0 and the samsung drivers for my Windows 7 64bit computer, and have had the phone recognized by the Odin software when it's in recovery mode, as well as when using it as USB storage. I have never had the phone be recognized by Samsung Kies.
So after I screwed up the installation of Darky's 5.6 my phone started to act all screwed, problems like a ton of force closes, and a few missing apps. This isn't even the worst of it.
My phone started after a while to load up normally, and once I unlocked the device from it's home screen, it would immediately restart, and do it's fancy google color thing for a minute, and then load it's home screen. It would then do this automatically until I took the battery out.
One day after being fed up from hearing my dad yell at me after I just got the phone, I hooked it up to Odin got it to be recognized by my computer, and then tried to load on a new firmware. Nothing worked. There was no message saying it worked, no progress bar was moving, and nothing in the text area where it tells you what its doing, was moving from it's original state of recognizing the device.
I pulled out the device in frustration and turned it on. TADA! Something in there seemed to make it revive and actually work as a phone again. So I made sure it was charged all the time and tried to refrain from restarting the device in fear it would happen.
Well it had restarted, and things were still working fine, no big problems, nothing that wasn't fixed by a restart. Then suddenly I kept getting a lot of force closes on my SMS apps, or Phone app, as well as pretty much anything that was running on my phone started to force close, so I reset my phone.
Bam. Everything has hit the fan now.
My phone turned on and all I had was an Applications button in my single menu window. No phone, no sms, no settings or anything. When i clicked it, it would force close. On my phones first window, it would show "YouTube", "Calculator" and 3 other apps, which I never used.
Ever since then my phone has been a brick to me, with no connectivity to Odin, and no random working resets.
I've tried almost everything I've read here, and my biggest problem is that it's not connecting to Odin properly.
So please, what can I do to fix my phone without having to go pay to get it fixed. Bell said they would charge me $35 to even send it out and then charge me on top of that to fix it.
so no one has any idea what i'm doing wrong? or has experienced similar problems?
Try to reinstall the drivers in kies.
If that don't work do download
Them from android development site.
It should work.
Try the phone in all mode you can to get the drivers to install right.
Then you can try to fix it with kies or odin.
**DamianGTO Steam kernel. 349MB Ram. 256HZ. ext2. js3 base**
Another approach
I too cannot get odin or kies (or usb mass storage) recognized on the PC. I tried for a long time and gave up.
Are you rooted or can you access the root dir? If not can you access the external SD card or market so that you can root?
Do you have clockwork mod or similar?
I can only base my experience never using odin or a pc...
If you can get into recovery mode and start using (if you do not have it already)clockworks mod (and/or steam recovery - which I highly recommend as it can access the removable sd card which is useful to load stuff on to when things go sideways see why in my post http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=929020 ).
Then you can flash whatever you want from the root directory or with steam from the external SD car (root dir there) no odin or pc required (directly).
Then I'd start with stock or at least a custom rom that is based on your carriers stock and go from there.
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wastedkila said:
I'll tell you the whole story, to get your best understanding of my problem, so please read and help me if you can!
So i've had quite a few problems while trying to modify some stuff on my Android Samsung Galaxy S I9000M from Bell.
At first what I did was root my phone. Secondly I installed Darky's 5.6 Gingerbread edition, but like a dumbass I didn't understand how to install, so I dragged and dropped through the windows explorer the contents from the .zip.
Ever since I've done this, i've had non stop problems.
I've installed Odin 3.0 and the samsung drivers for my Windows 7 64bit computer, and have had the phone recognized by the Odin software when it's in recovery mode, as well as when using it as USB storage. I have never had the phone be recognized by Samsung Kies.
So after I screwed up the installation of Darky's 5.6 my phone started to act all screwed, problems like a ton of force closes, and a few missing apps. This isn't even the worst of it.
My phone started after a while to load up normally, and once I unlocked the device from it's home screen, it would immediately restart, and do it's fancy google color thing for a minute, and then load it's home screen. It would then do this automatically until I took the battery out.
One day after being fed up from hearing my dad yell at me after I just got the phone, I hooked it up to Odin got it to be recognized by my computer, and then tried to load on a new firmware. Nothing worked. There was no message saying it worked, no progress bar was moving, and nothing in the text area where it tells you what its doing, was moving from it's original state of recognizing the device.
I pulled out the device in frustration and turned it on. TADA! Something in there seemed to make it revive and actually work as a phone again. So I made sure it was charged all the time and tried to refrain from restarting the device in fear it would happen.
Well it had restarted, and things were still working fine, no big problems, nothing that wasn't fixed by a restart. Then suddenly I kept getting a lot of force closes on my SMS apps, or Phone app, as well as pretty much anything that was running on my phone started to force close, so I reset my phone.
Bam. Everything has hit the fan now.
My phone turned on and all I had was an Applications button in my single menu window. No phone, no sms, no settings or anything. When i clicked it, it would force close. On my phones first window, it would show "YouTube", "Calculator" and 3 other apps, which I never used.
Ever since then my phone has been a brick to me, with no connectivity to Odin, and no random working resets.
I've tried almost everything I've read here, and my biggest problem is that it's not connecting to Odin properly.
So please, what can I do to fix my phone without having to go pay to get it fixed. Bell said they would charge me $35 to even send it out and then charge me on top of that to fix it.
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Hey!
I've had the EXACT same problem as you. did you try to put your phone into DOWNLOAD MODE (Close phone, then hold volume down, then home, then power) to see if it connects to odin? Also, before you do anything, make sure you turn on odin first and then select all the files you want. After thats done, then put your phone into download mode, then connect the phone to your computer thru the USB.

Doh, may have bricked tab. :( HALP!!

Think i may have bricked my tab... FAIL.
Verizon Tab. Running stock OS. Was rooted
Bought the Bootstrap recovery so i could do a nandroid backup. I kept failing the VZW update, so i figured do a backup, then remove bootstrap and reflash things to get it right. However...It doesn't work like the Droid X or 2 bootstrap. So that i wasn't prepared for. It automatically ran the backup fine, but on the reboot it just went nowhere and was stuck in a boot loop.
I tried vol up + power, did nothing. Did Vol down + power and got to Downloading screeen. :O Didn't have time to **** with it then, i was getting an oil change and honestly thought it would have just given me the option to run a backup...not run a backup and flash and all the other stuff it did.
Finally get time today to tweak it. It won't even turn on to downloading screen. Can't even get it to bootloop. I plugged it it in the wall and the battery symbol shows, but...it has the spinning "thinking" logo showing, though it never spins and i cannot see how much charge is on it.
I downloaded Hemidall or however you spell it, and the stock verizon tab files. It won't even see the device when i plug it into the laptop. Yes i have the drivers installed. I have hooked up my tab to my laptop MANY times. Running Windows 7 64 bit. Also have Ubuntu if needed. Also downloaded and installed that Visual C++ thing that needed to be downloaded with it.
Any ideas of what to do other then use it as a paper weight? I know i can send it back to Samsung, but i don't think the wife would appreciate me bricking my tablet like that. LOL Somehow i cannot see her taking that as a good thing.
Should i just leave it plugged in for a few hours and hope it starts showing a status update? Been 45 min now, showing nothing.
Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.
edit: OK been a bit longer, took it off, can get it to get stuck at Samsung loading screen again. XD Just didn't try download screen yet cause i want to make sure it is FULLY charged. Only crappy thing is that it still won't show battery status while it is charging, just the thinking symbol. Hope i don't fry the battery then
edit again: Still can't be recognized by Heimdall. CRAP. Anyone know the Vendor ID, Product ID and Interface ID to use to install the proper drivers through zdag??
edit again: hooked up while in download mode, was able to install drivers. Did clean install and rebooted. All fine now. WOOT

phone turns off by itself

Hi, this happend already to me few times so I decided to put it on here.
Sometimes when I pick up my phone and try to unlock it nothing happens, fingerprint and button all the same it looks like it completely Off. Then i have to press few times a button to actually start it and it's booting. There is huge battery loss after it boot up. See image.
I am in Stock 4.0.2 no root just few standard apps installed. Nothing fancy. This happend already few times to me. I left the phone locked and when I want to unlock its dead. Also it is behaving weirdly, when I turn it off manually I just need to press longer a button and it's turning on, but here I need to press it few times to work.
Does it happen to anyone else?
terragady said:
Hi, this happend already to me few times so I decided to put it on here.
Sometimes when I pick up my phone and try to unlock it nothing happens, fingerprint and button all the same it looks like it completely Off. Then i have to press few times a button to actually start it and it's booting. There is huge battery loss after it boot up. See image.
I am in Stock 4.0.2 no root just few standard apps installed. Nothing fancy. This happend already few times to me. I left the phone locked and when I want to unlock its dead. Also it is behaving weirdly, when I turn it off manually I just need to press longer a button and it's turning on, but here I need to press it few times to work.
Does it happen to anyone else?
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Honestly, there's not enough information to understand exactly why it's happening. You need to get a logcat in the time before the reboot; unfortunately, logcats get erased during a reboot so it might be a little tricky getting it if the reboot is seemingly random. Someone had posted this as a possible way of getting the log:
"Retrieving the logs is tricky, since the log cache gets erased on reboot. If the phone reboots even while sitting on a charger, try running adb logcat continuously (you will need Android SDK and USB drivers installed and configured on your PC.) When the phone reboots, look at the last several pages in the command prompt window for any errors or abnormalities."
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Otherwise, it's hard for anyone to help. I'm not much help in actually figuring out the issue, but I know if you can get the log, someone else probably can help.
For more information on logcats: Logcat Tutorial
Yeah I was trying to connect it to PC but nothing, so it is turned off. I will try next time to run command when turning on, maybe there will be something but I do not see it working before it gets erased. I was hoping that anyone else is having this problem so it might be rom related. It is completely random so you can;t guess when it happens.
I had it only few times so it's not super annoying but still it is not normal behavior. In addition it is weird that battery went from 55% to 33%, just phone reboot will not drain that much... I hope there is nothing wrong with the phone itself.
terragady said:
Yeah I was trying to connect it to PC but nothing, so it is turned off. I will try next time to run command when turning on, maybe there will be something but I do not see it working before it gets erased. I was hoping that anyone else is having this problem so it might be rom related. It is completely random so you can;t guess when it happens.
I had it only few times so it's not super annoying but still it is not normal behavior. In addition it is weird that battery went from 55% to 33%, just phone reboot will not drain that much... I hope there is nothing wrong with the phone itself.
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Check in advanced to see if schedule off is on
Nope it's off
Happened to me to on 4.0.2. Rebooted twice a day.
Solution to me was Qualcomm flash back to stock 3.5.1 and uodate from internal to 3.5.4. OTA 4.0.2.
The theard "how to unbrick".
Not one reboot until now in days.
I think I found a culprit responsible for it. It is Hill Climb 2 game which doesn't close properly sometimes and I think it causes some kind of crash in the system. Is it possible?
terragady said:
I think I found a culprit responsible for it. It is Hill Climb 2 game which doesn't close properly sometimes and I think it causes some kind of crash in the system. Is it possible?
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It's possible. Not necessarily the reason, but it might be. Either uninstall the app or freeze it using Titanium. Greenify might also work, but that allows the app to start itself up and potentially continue the issue. See if that stops the crashes for a couple of days.
The problem is that it doesn't happen often and only when I quit the game and lock the phone immediately after that. I am not sure if that's a reason though, just guessing because it happens after this last time. I will uninstall this game anyway, it's just time eater

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