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Stuck in safe mode help

I need help getting the wife's phone out of safe mode. I rooted the phone and its on a stock rooted 2.2.1 rom and if you do a restart it loads the the boot loader screen and I can pick recovery and then restart but it still boots in to safe mode says it in the bottom left corner. She has apps and stuff on there so trying to get everything back but not really sure how to get this fixed. Also have pulled the battery out and still no luck going to safe mode. I guess if I can't get it fixed can I install a factory stock rom back on it to fix this? I know if I do she will lose everything. Just need the best option to get this fixed.
Thanks

"Safe mode"???? I've never heard of that.

Yeah it the bottom left corner of the phone it says safe mode it says it down near the home icon and over top off the circle with the up arrow. It looks like it may only load mainly core apps and some others but not all kind of like a windows pc in safe mode. And like I said I've pulled the battery out and rebooted and still says it and also from the boot loader screen picked recovery and then restart and once booted it still says it in the bottom left corner.

I gotta ask... Are you sure this is an Inspire?

Yes this is a inspire. I'm at work and once I get home I will use my inspire and take a pic of the screen with it saying it and upload it here. Mine I just got and haven't rooted it yet still a little unsure on the new way so you may see some questions from me on it a little later.

I have seen people stuck in safe mode . The guy was stuck in hboot and would not boot up. somehow he managed to boot it up but he said it was in safe mode. he was going to flash the gingerbread ruu, but havent gotten an update.
you posted in the thread gene it was titled bricked.
as to the question isse here. you might have to flash a new rom, though not ideal. But google does a good job of backing up apps/settings

I'll be damned:
http://www.technipages.com/htc-hero-start-in-safe-mode.html
This seems more applicable to the Inspire:
http://www.myvusers.com/forums/htc-thunderbolt/7426-safe-mode-htc-thunderbolt-adr6400.html

I'll try and see if one of these works. I think I read some where about the hero and tried it but may not have. So will give it a shot.
Thanks

sreadesjr said:
I'll try and see if one of these works. I think I read some where about the hero and tried it but may not have. So will give it a shot.
Thanks
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Apparently the hero has a "hard" menu key. The Inspire does not so you have to ue a different "hard" key. I tried it and the thunderbolt method works for the Inspire (using VOL "hard" key).
It was mentioned over on #liberatedAria that you may have a stuck VOL-UP key so it goes into safe mode every time you boot.

Ok thanks Gene I'll try it for the thunderbolt method. Like you said the key maybe stuck. So when you powered back on you held power and vol up key and it turned safe mode off for you then? Just checking cause not sure if vol down does any thing or you always use the up vol.

sreadesjr said:
Ok thanks Gene I'll try it for the thunderbolt method. Like you said the key maybe stuck. So when you powered back on you held power and vol up key and it turned safe mode off for you then? Just checking cause not sure if vol down does any thing or you always use the up vol.
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No, I just rebooted. That's why we thought the key might be stuck.

yeah I think it is the vol key stuck as soon as you try to turn phone on it just goes to hboot screen. Sense I do believe the volume key is stuck does anyone know how hard it would be to fix this problem? I'm sure I can order a new volume button on ebay but not sure that will fix the problem. I need to get it fixed so I can get it back to factory rom so I then can take it back to AT&T cause I do have insurance on the phone but don't believe they will take it back cause of it loading to the hboot screen menu.

Can anyone give me any suggestions on what to do to get this fixed? And would it be possible to use the stock rom or stock exe file to put it back to stock form to take it back to AT&T to get it repaired or can I repair this problem myself by ordering a new volume key off ebay.

You should try gene pooles s-on tool in the Dev section. Since you have insurance I would just have it replaced

[Q] I'm having a problem getting into Recovery mode

Hey guys,
I wondering if anyone could help me out?
My problem is that my phone isn't allowing me to start into Recovery mode. I take out the battery and re-insert it, then hold the Volume down + Power button, but it just normally boots the phone. What's frustrating me is that the first couple times I attempted it, it worked, and now all of a sudden it doesn't. I've had other Android phones, and I've never had a problem like this. So, any help would be grealy appreciated. Thanks!

Can you get in recovery from ROM manager?
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I dont know if the same thing that happened to you, but but I was having the same issue. I'm used to my G1 just barely holding down home and power, with the Sensation I had to hold down vol and power for like 15 secs.
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Gregree said:
Hey guys,
I wondering if anyone could help me out?
My problem is that my phone isn't allowing me to start into Recovery mode. I take out the battery and re-insert it, then hold the Volume down + Power button, but it just normally boots the phone. What's frustrating me is that the first couple times I attempted it, it worked, and now all of a sudden it doesn't. I've had other Android phones, and I've never had a problem like this. So, any help would be grealy appreciated. Thanks!
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Go into Settings -> Power and disable the Fastboot option. That is what is preventing you from booting into Recovery. You also will want to enable ADB Debugging under Settings -> Applications -> Development

You could also try the other way by going into the bootloader then into the recovery.
Whilst the phone is on, reboot the phone. Once the screen turns off, hold the volume down button for a while until the bootloader screen pops up. Select the option to load recovery. I've been doing it this way.
Now that I think about it, maybe there's a way to skip straight to recovery instead of bootloader =\

It worked! Thank you guys for your help!
Damn, I used to know all this stuff, too. I didn't think it's been that long since I've tried to mess with any Android device. Errr
But anyways, thanks, again!

@ op, glad ppl helped u bt u should prolly hit 'em thanks buttons when u get help
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[Q] big phone problem

i have a charger stock everything. for some reason it will not go pass the boot screen. and keeps restarting. battery is full. can anybody help me out? Can i do a hard reset or something?

If you haven't modded it at all, it might be a hardware issue.
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It might be an app you downloaded, though, you could try reflashing the stock rom: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1108115

yea i was thinking that. i pulled the battery and everything. still nothing just keep rebooting and shutting off.

dtruth313 said:
yea i was thinking that. i pulled the battery and everything. still nothing just keep rebooting and shutting off.
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how about try to boot recover mode (this will wipe all data on your phone). Hold down Volume up and home button then press and hold power button until you see recover screen (blue), select recovery and press the power button to execute. Good luck and hope it's not hardware issue.

I had the same problem yesterday , I had to reodin to stock and it worked perfectly . But Verizon is still sending me a new unit . But it will work . Goodluck
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My phones screen won't wake.

My phones screen seems to shut off and not wake up. I can tell the phone is on though because the buttons light up. And if I press and hold the back button the flashlight turns on. Also the volume rockers seemed to work but the screen stays off. Occasionally it seems to turn back on but but it'll just go back off again. Rebooting the phone doesn't working and I've also installed two different ROMs on it. Any advice on how to solve this?

Relock bootloader with fastboot oem lock cmd and download and run the ruu according to your phone version and see if the problem persists. If you don't know how to get into fast boot hold power and volume down until buttons stop flashing and keep holding volume down till you get See the screen with skating HTC men. Or if you have a backup in recovery you can restore from recovery and see if that helps your problem.

WhatTheAndroid? said:
Relock bootloader with fastboot oem lock cmd and download and run the ruu according to your phone version and see if the problem persists. If you don't know how to get into fast boot hold power and volume down until buttons stop flashing and keep holding volume down till you get See the screen with skating HTC men. Or if you have a backup in recovery you can restore from recovery and see if that helps your problem.
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I was hoping I wasn't going to have to do that but I will if its my only option.

Kernel mods will do that also.
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Do you have backups in recovery, and like before you flashed roms? (stock rooted)

subarudroid said:
Kernel mods will do that also.
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Haven't messed with any kernels. I was running the latest CM10 nightly when it happened. Figured it was the rom so I switched to the stable version but problems still happened.
WhatTheAndroid? said:
Do you have backups in recovery, and like before you flashed roms? (stock rooted)
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No. No backups unfortunately.

My other suggestions would be to make sure you don't have a corrupt zip. Downloading from chrome or from you phone I've had issues. Ei8 or ie9 works well for me. Hope you get it figured out.
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Blank Screen Remedy?
h1m said:
My phones screen seems to shut off and not wake up. I can tell the phone is on though because the buttons light up. And if I press and hold the back button the flashlight turns on. Also the volume rockers seemed to work but the screen stays off. Occasionally it seems to turn back on but but it'll just go back off again. Rebooting the phone doesn't working and I've also installed two different ROMs on it. Any advice on how to solve this?
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That was happening to my phone. I found that if i applied pressure to opposite corners at the same time, the screen would come back. If i let go, the screen would return to black. Everything worked when I touched the screen, volume rockers, etc. I took it into AT&T and they gave me a new one under warranty. I was running CleanRom 5.1 at the time. I honestly do not believe my problem was caused by over flashing or any type of hacking. SO, try to flex or contort the phone in different directions and see if you can cause it to turn on and off.

I ended up having to use RUU. The problem seems to be fixed. Still don't know what caused it but at least it wasn't a hardware issue.

A thanks would be nice

WhatTheAndroid? said:
A thanks would be nice
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I appreciate you taking the time to help. And anyone for that matter but unfortunately the problem is still there. Might have to return it. Hopefully I won't get any issues from ATT for being rooted.

[Q] Stuck with bootloop no bootloader access :/

Hello, just to start I have read through probably 100 post regarding similar issues but none are working. I have the ATT Htc one x EVITA 3.18 version. I did the super CID unlocked my bootloader through htc dev, flashed twrp recovery, and got a custom rom, gapps etc.. in twrp I wiped all data,system,cache, factory reset. Then flashed my rom and gapps (being kinda new to HTC devices I didn't flash the boot.img from the rom) now my phone after restarting just continues a bootloop (HTC Quietly Brilliant) screen, then powers off repeating this over and over.. I tried holding the volume down with the power button it just loops again, the I tried some other suggestions like holding power and vol down until the flashes stop and releasing power while continuing to hold volume down, again loops, then tried using volume up as well...none of these are working I don't understand what happened and why I can't get into any of these? I did not run any RUU. I tried using adb but of course i cant get into fastboot or anything so the phone is not recognized. If anyone could please help I really do appreciate it. I know this has been all over the threads but I read for the past 3 hours and could not get anything to work.. Thanks in advanced for any help it is much appreciated. :crying:

First of all, don't hold volume up and power, that's bad news. Trying random button combinations is a really bad idea. While it's looping just hold volume and the next time it starts again it should reach the bootloader.
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timmaaa said:
First of all, don't hold volume up and power, that's bad news. Trying random button combinations is a really bad idea. While it's looping just hold volume and the next time it starts again it should reach the bootloader.
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Thanks for the reply timmaaa... I usually would not try the other button presses just someone else had said that worked for them, but thanks for the advice. I did try what you said and just holding the volume down button, let it bootloop, and keep holding and it just continues to bootloop :/ it stay off for about 20 seconds the same then bootloops, with the htc screen for about 5 seconds the rinse and repeats D**n this thing is annoying. Any other Ideas? Thanks again man appreciate it.

if you are SOFF u can go for RUU?

Sonone said:
if you are SOFF u can go for RUU?
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No I'm still s-on I didn't try to RUU cus I read it would brick..but seems I'm somewhat bricked anyway:silly:

sensei_777 said:
No I'm still s-on I didn't try to RUU cus I read it would brick..but seems I'm somewhat bricked anyway:silly:
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are you sure you did get the SUPER CID cause if its not then you can RUU your device!
cause if you are not SUPERCID get a matching RUU or a latest version meant for your device!
only if you could somehow manage your phone to get recognized by a PC etc then you could flash boot.img with some toolkit etc and everything would have been fine!
but unless some expert actually figures out your problem dont RUU!
i really wonder whats obstructing the boot loader access!??
please let me know if u can get your device back to normal!

Sonone said:
are you sure you did get the SUPER CID cause if its not then you can RUU your device!
cause if you are not SUPERCID get a matching RUU or a latest version meant for your device!
only if you could somehow manage your phone to get recognized by a PC etc then you could flash boot.img with some toolkit etc and everything would have been fine!
but unless some expert actually figures out your problem dont RUU!
i really wonder whats obstructing the boot loader access!??
please let me know if u can get your device back to normal!
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I had to change the CID to unlock the bootloader on htc dev, its like 11111 so that is super CID right?
Yea I've tried everything to get to adb since I am familiar with adb but its a no go none of the tool kits or even manual cmd is recognizing the device.. I had a one x just like this before and never had the problem getting into bootloader so I don't really get what is blocking it. Only thing I had done was flash twrp recovery, wiped data/factory reset, system and cache, then flashed the rom as one usually would and gapps, just I had forgot about these phones needing you to flash the boot.img. that is all I did to it. Kinda sucks I just got this thing yesterday from a friend too.

Yes, 11111111 is SuperCID. In any case I probably wouldn't attempt an RUU while the phone is this unstable, could be quite dangerous. It's possible the "adb reboot bootloader" command might work if you catch it at the right time in the boot cycle.
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timmaaa said:
Yes, 11111111 is SuperCID. In any case I probably wouldn't attempt an RUU while the phone is this unstable, could be quite dangerous. It's possible the "adb reboot bootloader" command might work if you catch it at the right time in the boot cycle.
Sent from my Evita
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Thanks bud, well I can't get it to catch even using super finger speed cmd'ing lol.. oh well.. I'm not gonna try anything else other than the usual ways to get into bootloader until someone else has some idea what might be blocking it from entering. Is there anyway to turn it off? its just restarting over and over with the bootloop. Or does one just let it go dead? I suppose worse case senario sending it for Jtag would fix it right? thanks again to the both of you.

I believe in the command window your can press the down key to give the previous command again, so if you hit down and enter one after the other (spamming it) you might have a chance. I'm really surprised that continually holding volume down during the loop process isn't getting you to bootloader, that's very strange. There's no way to turn it off. But, it usually burns through a fair bit of battery during a boot loop so you could wait for it to die completely, charge it for a couple of hours, and then try the volume down + power combination to get to the bootloader. I hope it works, let us know how you go.
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timmaaa said:
I believe in the command window your can press the down key to give the previous command again, so if you hit down and enter one after the other (spamming it) you might have a chance. I'm really surprised that continually holding volume down during the loop process isn't getting you to bootloader, that's very strange. There's no way to turn it off. But, it usually burns through a fair bit of battery during a boot loop so you could wait for it to die completely, charge it for a couple of hours, and then try the volume down + power combination to get to the bootloader. I hope it works, let us know how you go.
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Yes well on my laptop its the up key that's what I was doing was spamming, you can hear the connected device sound on then off, but it just doesn't see it. I will let you all know once its working again and what I did or had to do to get it back so that it may possibly help others that run into the same issue. If not I suppose I'll try to get it Jtagged, too nice of a phone to use as a paperweight really

Yeah sorry, I knew it was one of the arrow keys, kinda took a stab in the dark at that one :sly:
Sent from my Evita

Hold down the power button until the phone turns off. You'll see the buttons flash. This simulates a battery pull. Then wait a few secs then hold vol down and press power button for 2 secs while still holding vol down. Wait for bootloader
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You should hold volume down while holding power. Holding power alone just initiates a reboot, not a power down, so if you're not holding volume down at the same time when the reboot kicks in it'll just reboot as normal.
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timmaaa said:
You should hold volume down while holding power. Holding power alone just initiates a reboot, not a power down, so if you're not holding volume down at the same time when the reboot kicks in it'll just reboot as normal.
Sent from my Evita
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Nothing is working guys :/ full Battery drain and everything it just keeps looping no matter what I do it will not go in bootloader :crying: thanks for trying to help

If you are trying while the phone is plugged into power it will not work.
The method I use is to hold power until the screen shuts off then I let go of power and hold volume down until the bootloader comes up.
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exad said:
If you are trying while the phone is plugged into power it will not work.
The method I use is to hold power until the screen shuts off then I let go of power and hold volume down until the bootloader comes up.
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Yes I don't have power plugged in, I've never had a problem like this. . I also don't even have to turn off the screen everytime it loops it goes off for a good 20 seconds or more. But I did try what you all said too and it seems there is not even an effect at all it just loops
YAY!! I was messing around and held volume up and volume down with power, and it put the phone into some kind of off/sleep mode, then it recognized the device in windows device manager and said device cannot start, so I tried uninstalling the driver and then refreshed to let it reinstall them and during the reinstall i tried running the adb command and it let me back into bootloader! woo! that was lucky.. hopefully this can be helpful to others that get stuck like that. I'm worried now though i have bootloader sitting pretty what should I do first? I'm scared to loop again thanks all.

sensei_777 said:
Yes I don't have power plugged in, I've never had a problem like this. . I also don't even have to turn off the screen everytime it loops it goes off for a good 20 seconds or more. But I did try what you all said too and it seems there is not even an effect at all it just loops
YAY!! I was messing around and held volume up and volume down with power, and it put the phone into some kind of off/sleep mode, then it recognized the device in windows device manager and said device cannot start, so I tried uninstalling the driver and then refreshed to let it reinstall them and during the reinstall i tried running the adb command and it let me back into bootloader! woo! that was lucky.. hopefully this can be helpful to others that get stuck like that. I'm worried now though i have bootloader sitting pretty what should I do first? I'm scared to loop again thanks all.
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Just flashed the boot.img good to go now thanks for the advice everyone