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Safe Mode?

I was using the Music player. After an MP3 file ended I looked at my phone and it was in Safe Mode (the text "safe mode" was in the block in the lower left-hand corner of the screen.
My live wallpaper was replaced the default Nexus wallpaper. I rebooted and it came back to normal. Any idea why this happened? I don't believe my phone rebooted into Safe Mode. It seemed to just enter into that state.
Any ideas?

all android phones have a SAFE MODE
each phone has a different combination of keys, or screen wipe, or combination of both to enter into the SAFE MODE
as the name implies it is just like your PC machine, it lets you go into SAFE MODE to fix whatever problem might be preventing it from working normally
rebooting the phone will go back to Normal Mode

My Nexus S did something similar just now. Screen off, screen on in safe mode.
Does anyone know why I would nearly instantly switch to safe mode?
I'm on ASOP 2.3. I rebooted and everything was normal.

To boot into safe mode, you hold the 'menu' key while booting
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I'm sorry if my post was unclear.
I did not hold down the menu key on boot. I did nothing special to enter safe mode.
My phone was on, I blanked the screen with browser and LauncherPro running, and when I unblanked my screen 5sec later it was in safe mode with the default launcher.
Has anyone else seen this specificity?

Supermighty said:
I'm sorry if my post was unclear.
I did not hold down the menu key on boot. I did nothing special to enter safe mode.
My phone was on, I blanked the screen with browser and LauncherPro running, and when I unblanked my screen 5sec later it was in safe mode with the default launcher.
Has anyone else seen this specificity?
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Are you sure your phone didn't reboot on its own you just happened to hold the menu button? xD

That would be a slim chance. The time from me blanking the screen and putting it in my pocket to pulling it out again was maybe 5 seconds. I didn't see the nexus boot screen, so I don't think it did. But I guess it's possible.
I haven't had it happen since then.

Leagoo T5c stuck

hello xda members,
I have Leagoo T5c . problem; one morning it shows errors that home screen and some other google service not responding. i restarted phone. and now it shows ' powered by android' till battery drain. hard reset not working (i cant get to it). when i trying to connect to laptop device manager shows unknown device for few sec, after hard reset combination.
I tried to contact seller and manufacturer I used jut month after buying. what would be suggestion if they don't help? re flash? I would need link or instruction, because i haven't done it before.

mobremontas said:
hello xda members,
I have Leagoo T5c . problem; one morning it shows errors that home screen and some other google service not responding. i restarted phone. and now it shows ' powered by android' till battery drain. hard reset not working (i cant get to it). when i trying to connect to laptop device manager shows unknown device for few sec, after hard reset combination.
I tried to contact seller and manufacturer I used jut month after buying. what would be suggestion if they don't help? re flash? I would need link or instruction, because i haven't done it before.
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hello,
less help form manufacturer, the same what you can find on web.
Problem: I try to reflash software with Upgrade Download, but on 42 sec. (register reading) it stops. any suggestions
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what's up your t5c now ?

Hello,sorry but that's my 1st time in a forum,and i hope to write in the right place... Ok,listen please, i try a disaster! In a moment of confusion and disattention I’ll wipe all sistem with twrp,and i repeat WIPED All Sistem. I never had do Nand backup. Now, phone is always started in 1st start sreen with only Android word on screen. It doesn’t shut down and if i try to push off,in some secons it restart. I have a leagoo t5c. With pc i’d downloading every drivers and firmware,but pc doesnt see phone,or if it do that,spd can’t install firmware. Can you teach me,if there’s a metod,to reinstall all system if it is possible with Windows 10. Thank’s for attention, have a nice day to everybody!

I don't know if you finally got to salvage your T5c, but in order for the flashing app to recognize your phone, you must leave it turned off, THEN plug it into a USB port on your PC, THEN press the Power button AND Volume Up button AND Volume Down button at the same time.
You wait a few seconds, and you should see the phone appear in the flashing app main window with the word "Ready" in the lower left corner. Then you can click on the Download button in the top menu bar, and wait until you see a green "Passed" mention. Then you can unplug your phone and either configure it as a new device (that's what I do) or restore content from a backup.

SystemUI Crashing at Random and other weird behavior

Hey all,
My Pixel 3 standard started freaking out today. I have initiated an exchange, yet thought perhaps someone may have had/fixed similar issues. I was in the middle of playing a game and my screen kept shutting off. I closed the application and found that SystemUI was crashing at random intervals, which is what was causing the screen to blank. The phone was also very slow at this time and wouldn't respond to several inputs. I also had a few instances where the phone opened random apps on its own. I tried going into safe mode and I don't seem to experience the issue. I am presently unrooted and on the latest November OTA. I've also tried removing any apps that updated today as that's when the issues started.
I've started the exchange process, yet it's five days out for a replacement and it's going to be painful to be without a fully functional phone for that amount of time.
Any ideas of what to try? I thought perhaps crash logs, yet I'm not sure which to parse...
Thanks!

I too started seeing System UI isn't responding message. Tapping to wake the phone or pressing hardware buttons had a delay in both normal mode and safe mode. I tried reapplying an OTA image from December and same result. So I tried Factory image vs OTA image, same result. Turned off always on display to see if that improved. Same result. Removed any case and screen protector to see if that was contributing, but same result.
I'm having a harder time getting google to initiate the exchange as I bought my device off swappa and can't access the original owner's email or order id. Never thought that was needed - until now. Buyer beware. I bought pixel 1 and 2 straight from google, but went secondhand with the pixel 3. My mistake.
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Have you factory restored?

I have tried to factory reset my phone and I'm still having this problem.
It happens at random when getting an incoming call, I can't see the caller screen, the UI is frozen, can't silence it pressing the buttons, can't wake up the screen until the phone decides to let me use it.
It's so annoying.

I am stuck with this issue during this lockdown, can somebody help? Or tell me what worked for them?

Ainol Q88 stuck on boot screen

In 2019, my sister bought a tablet made in Shenzhen. This tablet has a lot of issues I have ever considered since November, with the password being set up automatically from the Ainol kids' mode app. There were other problems since the first problem is in November:
On November 3rd, I turned on this tablet, since it is a month old. The animation turned up regularly and I was looking for what's next. Then the tablet shows a full-screen Gboard keyboard layout, which caused Gboard to crash and it keeps stopping and crashing after the keyboard reloaded. The screen size is 7 inches, or 6x3.5 inches, which is running 320 dpi. I reset this tablet since I can't put in the password, which the Gboard pops up all 26 letters, numbers, and symbols.
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In mid-November 2019, I turned on this tablet and set up the tablet. After I put in my Google account, it loads, then the screen turns black. The Google Play Services were crashing and it can't run again, so I have to reset this tablet.
In early 2020 I kept hard reset over and over since the Ainol tablet makes the software or firmware corrupt. When I turn on this tablet, it starts up fine, but it doesn't animate and it kept saying the "Ainol" logo and "Powered by Android Go edition." It runs Android Go edition Oreo with 1 gigabyte of RAM and 16 gigabytes of storage. I tried to hard reset (either clearing the cache or factory cache without clearing the cache or both), but it still shows the startup screen frozen. I tried safe mode, but it still doesn't work, even when I press these buttons going into safe mode. The screen is stuck for over an hour and it can't startup.
The tablet has an Allwinner A50 processor and the motherboard as shown below. I took out three screws to reveal the front of the motherboard, made in 2016. On the board ID, it was 04K0310119C0, and I knew that the board contains numbers like TZX-750Q2, and in the front, 114AMX.
The two images on the bottom were the ways to fix the tablet stuck on the startup screen, but it doesn't work. The battery is non-removable and was soldered into the main board. The battery is 2200 mAH. Please note that my camera is at least 14 years old and is blurry.

Locked out of Galaxy S22 following / after update -- device rejects / won't accept the correct password

Hello! Posting widely.
Around Nov 11th, about two weeks ago, I caved in and accepted the prompts on my S22 to undergo a firmware update. I'm not 100% positive, but based on the timing (and the assumption that this isn't a carrier update but a Samsung one) I think it was probably the One UI 5.0 rolling out for Android this fall. I was prompted to put in my password to complete the update, but my device rejected the correct password that I've always used since I activated the phone in July!
I have only a few attempts left before my device factory-resets, but apparently this isn't unheard of for Galaxy phones (https://us.community.samsung.com/t5/Galaxy-S-Phones/Phone-locked-after-last-update/td-p/730622 -- but calling the specialist number listed therein, multiple times, led to nothing but the suggestion to do a hard / factory reset). I really don't want to lose all data since my last backup!
So far I've tried these steps over the past two+ weeks or so:
- Samsung Find My Mobile is apparently not set up on this device, even Samsung has no record of it
- Android Device Manager won't even ring the phone. It had the correct GPS location at first, but not after I let the phone die and charged it up again. Multiple soft resets haven't allowed it to find via GPS, but despite the never-even-ringing I did try hitting "Lock" and changing the password just once while it still "saw" the phone on the map. Now it just says can't reach device.
- Restarting in Safe Mode: still asks for the password, with "attempts remaining" countdown where it I left it. Can't even hit "Shut Down" or "Restart" buttons because that asks for the password, too.
- Recovery Mode / boot menu ... can't imagine anything I saw there was helpful. Perhaps "wipe cache partition" if something is glitchy? Or, is there any way to roll back to previous Android software I had prior to the update ... or force the same update again via ADB and hope it let me in this time??
- Many support calls to Best Buy, Verizion, and Samsung!
P.S. Not the safest, but I've been using the same password for another, still-in-use device for months now, and I used the eyeball icon on m Android to make sure I'm typing it right, so I know it's correct. I'm not sure what version I'm running or anything, can't get in to check. I'm able to connect apparently to my home, recognized WiFi source just by tapping the WiFi icon, and my Location icon is also lit as active when I drop down from the top of the screen.
Note about the images: my phone language is set to Italian. I bought it in the US, just prefer to see things written in Italian on it.
Is there any way I can hope to enter the phone even just once, to get my data off, without a factory reset? Seems like Samsung says absolutely not.
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