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Hi,
my Galaxy S GT-i9000 got into force close loop and I am now stuck after Android boot. Before performing a hard reset (and spending a week setting up the phone and apps again) I would like to try with safe mode: unfortunately I was so far unable to find how to get into safe mode on it.
Anybody could help? Thank you.
BB
I don't remember there being a Safe Mode. Although you can go to Download Mode and flash a new firmware. It should fix the problem you're having.
There is a safe mode. I've unintentionally ended up in it a few times. I have no clue how to get there willingly though.
Edit: That was easy... Just power on the phone while holding the menu button, just as on a bunch of other android phones.
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bbanzai said:
Hi,
my Galaxy S GT-i9000 got into force close loop and I am now stuck after Android boot. Before performing a hard reset (and spending a week setting up the phone and apps again) I would like to try with safe mode: unfortunately I was so far unable to find how to get into safe mode on it.
Anybody could help? Thank you.
BB
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look at recovery mode
http://forum.xda-developers.com/wiki/index.php?title=Samsung_Galaxy_S/Vibrant_GT-I9000M
mickeko said:
There is a safe mode. I've unintentionally ended up in it a few times. I have no clue how to get there willingly though.
Edit: That was easy... Just power on the phone while holding the menu button, just as on a bunch of other android phones.
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Thanks for the suggestion. With menu button you mean the left-most one, right? I tried this already and seemed to have no effect. I will try again a few times.
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AllGamer said:
look at recovery mode
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Thank you. I already checked I can get to the recovery mode menu, but I understand this would reset everything on the phone, including personal settings and third party apps. I am looking for a way to avoid this, if at all possible: all I need to do is uninstall a looping application.
BB
Ok I found it. For some reason on my Galaxy safe mode is entered by pressing
Menu+Home+Power On
Thank you everybody for your help, the phone is in good shape again now.
BB
bbanzai said:
Ok I found it. For some reason on my Galaxy safe mode is entered by pressing
Menu+Home+Power On
Thank you everybody for your help, the phone is in good shape again now.
BB
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Perhaps they've changed it in newer firmware. I hope so, it annoys me when I end up there unintentionally.
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bbanzai said:
Ok I found it. For some reason on my Galaxy safe mode is entered by pressing
Menu+Home+Power On
Thank you everybody for your help, the phone is in good shape again now.
BB
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can you post your model number according to the sticker in the battery compartment?
it's weird that it uses Menu + Home + Power
AllGamer said:
can you post your model number according to the sticker in the battery compartment?
it's weird that it uses Menu + Home + Power
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Model: GT-i9000
SSN: -I9000GSMH
Is this what you were interested in?
BB
can some one try these buttons and see if it works?
i read on another topic and some people were able to get in
but i still can't get it to go into Safe Mode
I tried and no luck
i have a 3 button disabled phone
Seems random to me... Sometimes I get safe mode by doing a jig and perform some weird wicca rituals.
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Today i restartet my SGS and on the reboot i swyped the Display over my T-Shirt to clean the screen. Even before the Pin-Input showed up, in the left bottom corner i had "safe mode" written. As my intention was not to go into this mode i restartet again.
After this, my widgets didn´t work anymore, so i had to take them of the screen and put them again. And all my well sortet apps in the menu are now unsorted.
But no big deal.
Finally i found out how to go into the Safe-Mode every time you need.
As soon as you start your SGS you have to press for a half a second constantly the left Softkey, meaning don´t have it pressed all the time, but touching it every half a second. When coming to the Pin-Input you cann stop it and you will see on the left bottom corner Safe-Mode!
Very usefull if a third-party Launcher or Widget makes some trouble.
i tried it, it didn't work
Which firmware are you on?
AllGamer said:
i tried it, it didn't work
Which firmware are you on?
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Really? tried it 3 times now and every time i was able to get in. I´m on 2.1 I9000XXJF5
You have to touch the button as soon as the screen shows the Samsung Logo, even when the Softkey only will light up 2-3 seconds after the Power on!
I´ve taken a photo. As my Phone is in german it shows not Safe mode but sichere Modus. But it is the same.
it might be another key for the JH2 ROM
i'll see if i can figure it out, but so far the few methods we've figured out doesn't work on the JH2
AllGamer said:
it might be another key for the JH2 ROM
i'll see if i can figure it out, but so far the few methods we've figured out doesn't work on the JH2
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Ok thanks for testing. Maybe its like the Recovery mode that doesn´t work on some devices without patching.
i'm hoping that is not the case, but it might be true
Hey, my nine year-old nephew came to me today with a question.
He has managed to lock himself out of his xperia x8, forgot both the unlock pattern and his google details.
I tried to force a factory reset with pushing the two buttons left/right under the lcd and the power but cant get it to work.
Any suggestions to what i can do?
This is so much easier with phones with straight-forward recovery mode
Thanks in advance!
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pzayx said:
Hey, my nine year-old nephew came to me today with a question.
He has managed to lock himself out of his xperia x8, forgot both the unlock pattern and his google details.
I tried to force a factory reset with pushing the two buttons left/right under the lcd and the power but cant get it to work.
Any suggestions to what i can do?
This is so much easier with phones with straight-forward recovery mode
Thanks in advance!
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TRY THIS:
- Have someone call the locked phone.
- Answer it.
- Leave the call connected!!!
- While leaving the call connected, push the "back" key over and over. NOT the home key!!!
It should eventually take you to the home screen.
- Go to the home screen,
- Go to settings,
- Go to google accounts,
- Add another google account,
- Sign in to that one--- (must have wifi connected, as you're trying to communicate with the google servers while you're on a phone call-- it will prompt you to turn on wifi, if you forget)--
- After it accepts the new account credentials, and logs you in, hang up the phone, and go back to the lock screen.
- This time, use the new google account you just added, to bypass the slide lock pattern
Let me know how it goes!
Thanks for the great answer, but unfortunately it refused to take me to the homescreen.
Im gratefull for every tips i can get,
Worst case scenario i would have to grant him root access and cm7
what a thing to play with
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pzayx said:
Thanks for the great answer, but unfortunately it refused to take me to the homescreen.
Im gratefull for every tips i can get,
Worst case scenario i would have to grant him root access and cm7
what a thing to play with
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If he doesn't have anything important on the phone, then download and install Sony PC Companion 2.1, and do the following:
- Turn off the phone, and unplug it from the PC
- Turn on Sony PC Companion on your PC
- In PC Companion, enter the Support Zone tab
- Go to Update Phone Software
A window will pop out, saying that it cannot find your phone
- Click on Fix Phone
- Click on Continue
A window will pop out, saying that you will lose all your data
- TICK the BOX
- Click on continue
An update process will began.
Wait for it to show a window with all the SONY mobile phones
- Find your phone (X8)
- Click on the phone.
Now all you have to do is follow the on-screen instructions. It will tell you to hold the back button and plug your turned-off X8 to the PC, then it will erase everything, and download the original 2.1 ROM to your X8.
The exact wording for the above instructions inside Sony PC Companion might be slightly different, as I'm using a Polish language installation.
If you don't want to erase your data on the X8, then try this LINK.
or this one
or this one
Thank you, shall try it when i get home tonight and report back!
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thanks!
thank you for the excellent tips WhatWhatInTheButt,
i tried the latter three links first, but i could not get it to work the way i wanted,
so after a few swear words and some struggle in with the pc companion i decided to read your post line by line and found out that i had overlooked the crucial points in the instructions!
Thanks a lot, guess i will have a happy fellow over here tomorrow
Cool! Glad could help!
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THANK U VERY MUCH WhatWhatInTheButt :good::good::good::good::good::good::good::good::good:
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THANK U VERY MUCH WhatWhatInTheButt :good::good::good::good::good::good::good::good::good:
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did it myself one time(forgetting the pattern because i made it hard) i was on PrimeHD
full wipe solved it
WhatWhatInTheButt said:
TRY THIS:
- Have someone call the locked phone.
- Answer it.
- Leave the call connected!!!
- While leaving the call connected, push the "back" key over and over. NOT the home key!!!
It should eventually take you to the home screen.
- Go to the home screen,
- Go to settings,
- Go to google accounts,
- Add another google account,
- Sign in to that one--- (must have wifi connected, as you're trying to communicate with the google servers while you're on a phone call-- it will prompt you to turn on wifi, if you forget)--
- After it accepts the new account credentials, and logs you in, hang up the phone, and go back to the lock screen.
- This time, use the new google account you just added, to bypass the slide lock pattern
Let me know how it goes!
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Same here but with Xperia Go.
A friend of mine comitted sucide and his parents asked me to unlock his phone , i know stuff or two about android but never had this issue.
Phone is xperia Go i even dont know its running ics or or jb .
I am thinking of to root this phone and then install cwm recovery and i will backup every thing data system and every thing.
then format the system partition i think it will rester the phone and there wil be no password again and then i can advance resotre his data partition with cwm will it work ?????? Any tips are welcome guys i dont want to start with out knowing it that it would work or not.
Ok so not sure what the heck i did but I cannot answer my phone.
It is rooted, and does not have ICS, pretty standard goods.
About 2 days ago i turned on the phone and lots of my on screen apps were gone from the screen, still on the phone but just gone from the scrolling screens.
Phone rings yesterday and i hear it, but the caller ID never pops up and I cannot answer the phone, no option to do so what so ever.
I press the phone icon and it just shows the keypad and again no option to answer the phone.
Something else i noticed is the swipe down options are gone as well. GPS, DATA, etc, it does not even swipe down at all.
Entertaining suggestions
The weekend is here and I REALLY need my phone lol
Cheers
johseph said:
Ok so not sure what the heck i did but I cannot answer my phone.
It is rooted, and does not have ICS, pretty standard goods.
About 2 days ago i turned on the phone and lots of my on screen apps were gone from the screen, still on the phone but just gone from the scrolling screens.
Phone rings yesterday and i hear it, but the caller ID never pops up and I cannot answer the phone, no option to do so what so ever.
I press the phone icon and it just shows the keypad and again no option to answer the phone.
Something else i noticed is the swipe down options are gone as well. GPS, DATA, etc, it does not even swipe down at all.
Entertaining suggestions
The weekend is here and I REALLY need my phone lol
Cheers
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If Your are on gingerbread just go settings/security factory reset
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msedek said:
If Your are on gingerbread just go settings/security factory reset
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I tried that before and nothing, i think it may be the rom i have installed.
Sometimes it will just crash and reboot too.
I guess I should go back to the stock rom maybe, but i did a titanium backup before but it did not backup and i lost all of my s memo notes amongst other things.
Grrr
May just donate it to the concrete.
johseph said:
I tried that before and nothing, i think it may be the rom i have installed.
Sometimes it will just crash and reboot too.
I guess I should go back to the stock rom maybe, but i did a titanium backup before but it did not backup and i lost all of my s memo notes amongst other things.
Grrr
May just donate it to the concrete.
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No factory reset under location and security tab though
johseph said:
No factory reset under location and security tab though
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under settings > backup & reset
nokiamodeln91 said:
under settings > backup & reset
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now my phone is stuck in reload mode now, awesommmmme!
still?
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nokiamodeln91 said:
still?
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Yeah i have the android guy and it says do not turn off target
(asks if u want to load custom OS) Odin Mode
or if i press volume down and reset phone
i just get the loading screen from whatever firmware i put on there when i first starting adding roms and so on ages ago
bump
ok, what if you try instead of pressing volume down press volume up and clear data and cache? And then again put it in download mode and try to restart? I am not sure I understand what exactly is you problem...
carlitos66 said:
ok, what if you try instead of pressing volume down press volume up and clear data and cache? And then again put it in download mode and try to restart? I am not sure I understand what exactly is you problem...
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The problem is that whether i do vol up or vol down it still just cycles and never comes out of that mode.
I have gone and did the data wipe and then vol down and it just cycles and never stops. I recall this issue when i installed the rom but it said it may take time but if longer than 5 min take the battery out and reset. I have done this and nothing.
So now, i did vol up again and i get the Android guy and it reads at the top Odin Mode and downloading, do not turn off target. And this just never does anything.
Cant take it to Orange for fix because it has custom firmware and they will tell me to have a nice day, warranty voided.
johseph said:
The problem is that whether i do vol up or vol down it still just cycles and never comes out of that mode.
I have gone and did the data wipe and then vol down and it just cycles and never stops. I recall this issue when i installed the rom but it said it may take time but if longer than 5 min take the battery out and reset. I have done this and nothing.
So now, i did vol up again and i get the Android guy and it reads at the top Odin Mode and downloading, do not turn off target. And this just never does anything.
Cant take it to Orange for fix because it has custom firmware and they will tell me to have a nice day, warranty voided.
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Is it possible i some how wiped off any rom or old OS from the phone?
I had always been a window person till now, and had an iphone as well so this is my first Android tinkering lesson. #fail
I can get the phone to a screen reading HyperDroid RedPill Recovery but it will not restore anything nor install.
Grrrrr
Sounds like you need to get in touch with QBking77 on YouTube. He is a rooting master and also has a Galaxy Note...I'll see if he has an unroot video
[EDIT] Here's the unroot/unbrick video
http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=m8tg9AlfOQ8
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check out [GUIDE] How to revive your bricked Note by buggies in the general forum. It requires you to connect to a windows computer to repartition....sounds like they are having a similar problem to you
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Jcossack88 said:
Sounds like you need to get in touch with QBking77 on YouTube. He is a rooting master and also has a Galaxy Note...I'll see if he has an unroot video
[EDIT] Here's the unroot/unbrick video
http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=m8tg9AlfOQ8
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check out [GUIDE] How to revive your bricked Note by buggies in the general forum. It requires you to connect to a windows computer to repartition....sounds like they are having a similar problem to you
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Does this work on the NON AT&T version, i live in the UK and have a different version
This is very first time on XDA, actually Im a reader, this is my first attempt to make a thread after facing some troubleshoot problems in Samsung note 1. I've samsung gt-n7000, which has written 4G LTE on the back cover, after research I get to know this is an american version. OK>!
well, I want to factory reset my phone because its giving me troubleshoot problem and have so much data inside. I checked the phone through few apps whether its rooted or not, its not rooted.
I tried the simple easy way to reset VOLUME KEY+HOME BUTTON+POWER ON/OFF button but its not working. The phone is not going in the mood where I can select further options. The phone is just turning on.
what is another possible way to factory reset using software? I also want to change the regional software of the phone, anyone can guide how can I perform that on my phone?
I remember changing the HTC G7 regional software by reading on XDA forum on some thread that was really help ful but I couldn't find much this time for samsung note 1.
need any thing else to know feel free to ask.
I'll really appreciate the help.
You have to push power, home and volume up. Release power button when Samsung (white) appears. Keep pressing the other buttons till recovery mode starts. Easy as that... ?
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What Android vers are you on? DO NOT DO ANY WIPES if you r on ICS
And if its the LTE version, you are in the wrong place. That's the GT-N7005 if i remember
Just like another user on the forum, I have a dead screen and solid blue LED always on. Is there a way to use ODIN or some other software to access the phone data via computer to backup data and also wipe? Phone is bone stock.
Thanks!!
You can try to use sidesync on the PC to connect to the phone and display it's screen on the pc to control it that way...
That would be awesome but wouldn't I need access to the phone to install sidestep and run it before I could control the phone from my pc?
gfunk4698844 said:
That would be awesome but wouldn't I need access to the phone to install sidestep and run it before I could control the phone from my pc?
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I thought maybe you had it installed already. Sigh...
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KruseLudsMobile said:
I thought maybe you had it installed already. Sigh...
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Doh
gfunk4698844 said:
Doh
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Doh to you
Hello android geniuses! My cousin has this exact same problem right now, I came here as a last resort looking for a solution.
He broke his screen and lcd while drunk and he has insurance, but is worried about sending the phone in to be fixed/replaced because he has incriminating texts about buying drugs etc on the phone.
Is there a way to factory reset the phone with the screen broken?
My sonly uggestion atm is to reboot into recovery and try to factory reset based upon copying the button presses of a youtube video. He does not have usb debugging enabled and we can't even manage to explore his files through windows.
Thank you if you even read this, I am super grateful for any suggestions
Edit: We factory reset the phone through android device manager. OP, that might be your best bet too mate.
DieselpunkCyborg said:
Hello android geniuses! My cousin has this exact same problem right now, I came here as a last resort looking for a solution.
He broke his screen and lcd while drunk and he has insurance, but is worried about sending the phone in to be fixed/replaced because he has incriminating texts about buying drugs etc on the phone.
Is there a way to factory reset the phone with the screen broken?
My sonly uggestion atm is to reboot into recovery and try to factory reset based upon copying the button presses of a youtube video. He does not have usb debugging enabled and we can't even manage to explore his files through windows.
Thank you if you even read this, I am super grateful for any suggestions
Edit: We factory reset the phone through android device manager. OP, that might be your best bet too mate.
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What's the phone number? Post it here so everybody knows where they can get drugs! LOL
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gfunk4698844 said:
Doh
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Doh to you
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Maybe you can try installing sidesync through the google play store on a PC, but I don't know how you'd open the app. Maybe there's a way to use adb?