Hi, I'm stuck in an app F/C loop and have read about entering 'Safe Mode' to load only system apps (NB: NOT the same as 'recovery mode' or bootloader.) I've tried all combinations of buttons till my fingers nearly bleed:
Hold down volume up & down during boot
Hold down menu "
Hold down home "
Hold down menu & home "
Can someone give me a precise instruction of what definitely works to get the Nexus S into "safe mode" please?
holding the power button continuously even after its into booting usually does it for me.
Sadly this does nothing on my Nexus S 3G. I remove battery, insert battery, hold power, and wait till it's fully booted. No safe mode. Is that right? Can you test again?
Try reinstalling your rom then fixing permissions
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CJSnet said:
Hi, I'm stuck in an app F/C loop and have read about entering 'Safe Mode' to load only system apps (NB: NOT the same as 'recovery mode' or bootloader.) I've tried all combinations of buttons till my fingers nearly bleed:
Hold down volume up & down during boot
Hold down menu "
Hold down home "
Hold down menu & home "
Can someone give me a precise instruction of what definitely works to get the Nexus S into "safe mode" please?
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What exactly is your F/C loop? Do you mean a boot loop, or an app F/C on you continually?
If it's the later, how is it stopping you from using your phone?
Just trying to understand to help you.
actually it's my first time hear something about safe mode ...
if it is an application force close , try flash new ROM , this usually happens due to too many applications on your system
beside , consider the number of application of Android , i'm sure you can find some application similar
Holding down the menu button during boot up works for me
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Fix permissions on rom manager and reboot.. Bamm.. You are good to go
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CJSnet said:
Hi, I'm stuck in an app F/C loop and have read about entering 'Safe Mode' to load only system apps (NB: NOT the same as 'recovery mode' or bootloader.) I've tried all combinations of buttons till my fingers nearly bleed:
Hold down volume up & down during boot
Hold down menu "
Hold down home "
Hold down menu & home "
Can someone give me a precise instruction of what definitely works to get the Nexus S into "safe mode" please?
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You can entery into SAFE MODE easy. Shut down your phone after that keep and don't let down volume and power till the pone is completaly open , now you can release it. You will see in the lower left corner "Safe Mode" - normal you are in realy SAFE MODE, try this till you will see the message. It's work for I9023 and perhaps for the rest.
Holding volume down + power during the full boot process worked for me. Thanks
I have a Fido Razr HD (xt925) in Canada, running stock JB, not unlocked/rooted/anything, just the standard phone.
So I did a hard reset, on the suggestion of some to deal with the stuttering issues (which I found were quite bad). Now I have somewhat of a worse issue, it's stuck in an infinite loop of the android update logo (the green android with the spinning blue thing), then a black screen then the motorola logo. Occassionally it shows the android logo on it's bag with a red symbol with a ! in it (which I presume means it's corrupt). It's just repeating endlessly. After 20 minutes or so I tried a few things, plugging it into a PC, holding down the power/volume up/volume down buttons (which makes it go to a black screen while I'm holding them, but then it goes back to looping as soon as I release them), nothing works.
Any suggestions on what I can do or is this a return to the store because it's dead problem?
Just try Power + volume down for 10 seconds (simulates a battery pull.) Aside from that if you can get into stock recovery try wiping data and cache and then rebooting. If you can't, take it back.
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I have a Fido Razr HD (xt925) in Canada, running stock JB, not unlocked/rooted/anything, just the standard phone.
So I did a hard reset, on the suggestion of some to deal with the stuttering issues (which I found were quite bad). Now I have somewhat of a worse issue, it's stuck in an infinite loop of the android update logo (the green android with the spinning blue thing), then a black screen then the motorola logo. Occassionally it shows the android logo on it's bag with a red symbol with a ! in it (which I presume means it's corrupt). It's just repeating endlessly. After 20 minutes or so I tried a few things, plugging it into a PC, holding down the power/volume up/volume down buttons (which makes it go to a black screen while I'm holding them, but then it goes back to looping as soon as I release them), nothing works.
Any suggestions on what I can do or is this a return to the store because it's dead problem?
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Did you ever get it fixed? I had the same issue and eventually found a path to success. Let me know if not and I'll see if I can help!
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Did you ever get it fixed? I had the same issue and eventually found a path to success. Let me know if not and I'll see if I can help!
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I wouldn't mind if you posted your path to success in case I run into the same problem at some point. My bootloader hasn't been unlocked as of yet. I'm holding out for a ROM that's really, really worth a proper flashing but am scared as hell about the issues people run into.. factory reset loops and failures, bootloader unlock loops now apparently. With the exception of Busybox, which has an uninstaller, I have everything symlinked into my /system directory from a folder in /data and it works great and makes everything easy to keep track of but there's always the doubt of the stray app that put a file there when I granted permission and I didn't know about it.
For my Razr HD, I found that holding volume up and down while the android logo did it's spinning until it ended got me to the recovery menu.. However this hasn't really fixed anything, every time I restart the phone it goes through the same process again and does a hard reset all over again. After a few seconds in the recovery menu it restarts the phone again and goes through a normal load process, but the phone is hard reset every time. It doesn't matter what option I select in the boot menu, it does the same thing (so I don't think it's detecting what option I select at all).
So back to Fido it goes.
Scratch the above post, someone posted a fix on the Fido forums that works perfectly, see thematrix49's post here - fido.ca/t5/forums/forumtopicpage/board-id/Smartphones/thread-id/8805
Same issue. Took me a while to figure it out through an amalgamation of various online helps. I repeated it several times to make sure it worked before I posted.
I was experiencing android logo with blue loading bar... after a few seconds it would stop and then quickly show the android symbol on its back with a red exclamation point logo. Then it would shut off.
- To restart, press and hold both power and volume down for approximately 10 seconds, then let go of the power.
(Should show Motorola logo, then go to green Android logo again)
- At Android Logo, immediately press the middle of the volume up/down rocker.... this should engage both buttons at once.
(I was able to initiate this with one press in the middle of the volume rocker... other times it took me a few quick presses)
(If done properly, the screen should stop and some yellow text will appear on the left side of the android logo.. let it continue, it may fail)
It should say:
Formatting /data....
Formatting /cache....
Data wipe failied.
Performing BP Masterclear...
This will bring up a blue text menu at the top. Use volume up/down to navigate. Power to select.
Go down to "wipe data/factory reset" and select by hitting power. Go down to "yes" and select by hitting power.
It should properly format the /data and /cache after about a minute. Once it completes it will bring the blue text menu back up. Select "reboot system now" by hitting the power button.
Voila.
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Took a while to get the volume press to work, it's just a press, not a press and hold. I just kept tapping it over and over until it worked.
Guys can you post your build.prop and default.prop files? it needed to get fido fw with jb.
THANK YOU.......My Motorola xt925 went "Boot Loop" after i reset the settings. Neither Telstra or Motorola could help. Excellent work Champdood.......
champdood said:
Scratch the above post, someone posted a fix on the Fido forums that works perfectly, see thematrix49's post here - fido.ca/t5/forums/forumtopicpage/board-id/Smartphones/thread-id/8805
Took a while to get the volume press to work, it's just a press, not a press and hold. I just kept tapping it over and over until it worked.
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You are a king among men. I was stuck on this issue for so so so so long. I was downloading roms and trying to flash them and god knows what else!
champdood said:
Scratch the above post, someone posted a fix on the Fido forums that works perfectly, see thematrix49's post here - fido.ca/t5/forums/forumtopicpage/board-id/Smartphones/thread-id/8805
Took a while to get the volume press to work, it's just a press, not a press and hold. I just kept tapping it over and over until it worked.
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THANK YOU! You just saved me so much trouble and it was quite the worrisome situation I was in. Sidenote for anyone reading this after June 6, 2013. The link to that Fido forum may be dead but Champdood's instructions are the straight goods! :good:
Is there a permanent fix for this? I have to go through those fix steps every time I wipe my phone as it continues to go into loop...
FunkmasterC said:
Is there a permanent fix for this? I have to go through those fix steps every time I wipe my phone as it continues to go into loop...
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Me too! I also noticed that the version that re-installed (the one time I did it) wasn't completely stable. It acted super weird adding an icon of one of my apps to the top left position of the screen one swipe over from the main/home screen every time I did a reboot.
At first I didn't even know what was happening only that my Google Now widget (which I usually keep in that space) was disappearing every time I rebooted and an icon was in the top left corner instead. Finally, I realized what was happening. Weirdest part of it all is that if the OS put an icon in there, on a reboot it would remain the same. But if I tried putting an icon there (or widget) on reboot it would be replaced.
Champdood saved my phone...
I would like to add that the same thing happened to me. I performed a factory reset from Settings > Privacy > Factory Reset and that just sent the phone into an endless loop of red logo > android logo > android logo on back > power off > repeat. Nice job Motorola.
On Motorola help pages it was all about Power button + Down and getting the white menu where you volume down to choose and volume up to select. That would successfully reset the phone but as soon as I powered down and up again: back in the infinite loop.
In desparation, I found this thread. Completely unique to hit the Power Up+Down simultaneous as a press not a hold when see the Android logo, indeed, brought up a blue screen, followed the instructions, successfully reset and so far, have been able to successfully power down and back up again. Will be bookmarking this page.
Thank you so much Champdood!
Alternative External Reset Instructions from Motorola themselves...
Hey, as mentioned Champdood's factory reset instructions work fine. Since reading this thread, I realized other's are having the same problem resetting using the menu (Settings > Privacy > Factory Reset), so I initiated a chat with Motorola about this. The person would not respond to my quizzing about the reason for this but did say it was called an Internal Reset and then named Champdood's method the External Reset. He also gave slightly different instructions for accessing the blue menu. I am reproducing both sets of instructions for you all here:
From Motorola Customer Service:
PERFORMING AN INTERNAL RESET:
From the home screen of your phone, touch Menu
Touch System settings
Scroll down and touch Privacy
Touch Factory Data Reset
Scroll down and check Erase internal storage if you would like to erase all the data on the phone internal storage such as applications, music, movies or photos.
Touch Reset Phone
PERFORMING AN EXTERNAL RESET:
WARNING: When using this feature; everything is deleted from the device.
NOTE: Reset will require a minimum battery level of 25%. If you are unable to perform a reset, please charge for 20-30 minutes and try reset again.
With the phone powered off, press the VOL UP + VOL DOWN KEY together + POWER KEY .
The device will display different BOOT OPTIONS
Use the VOL DOWN Key to SCROLL to Recovery and VOL UP Key to SELECT
Tip: If the device reboots, you may have waited to long to make a selection, you will need to begin the process again.
The device will display the Motorola logo and then the Android in distress ( logo with Exclamation mark)
Press and hold the VOL DOWN key for 5-10 seconds
While still holding the VOL DOWN key tap and release the VOL UP key.
The device will display additional menu options (Text will appear in BLUE)
Use the VOL DOWN Key to scroll to Wipe data / factory reset and the POWER Key to SELECT this option.
Use the VOL DOWN key again to select YES - delete all user data and press the POWER key to CONFIRM
Once the Formatting is complete, press the POWER key to confirm a REBOOT
The device will reboot and start the normal power up sequence .
Motorola Razor Issue Fixed
Your Tip really helped me fix my Motorola Razor HD phone.
Created my account only to write a thanks and to comment for the same.
Thanks
Another thanks.
My wife's phone was doing this after a Settings menu factory reset, but the instructions champdood posted worked.
I had to re-re-format the data and cache partitions about four times, but after that it worked!
And somehow root was preserved; SuperSU was missing, but I had root over adb.
Cheers champdood.
Perfect fix
champdood said:
Scratch the above post, someone posted a fix on the Fido forums that works perfectly, see thematrix49's post here - fido.ca/t5/forums/forumtopicpage/board-id/Smartphones/thread-id/8805
Took a while to get the volume press to work, it's just a press, not a press and hold. I just kept tapping it over and over until it worked.
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Hey Champdood, THANKS! Your fix worked a treat - XT-925 now back on-line and loving it!!
Awesome, looks like the fixed worked on this POS Motorola I got here at work. Thanks.
my verizon xt 925 stucks at the loading screen logo, after it i had a low battery and it went off. Please help, my email is [email protected]
anthony
hello guys
i have the problem with my motorola xt925,
it refused to boot, uit only gets stuck at the loading screen logo (the red eye)
i tried hard reseting it but it does not show the android distress after i selected the recovery in the boot menu.
please help
I am running Cm11 nightly , can't remember the day i think it is 2/21. Well randomly today, the phone rebooted and went into a bootloop. I am not sure why it is doing this now. But even if i remove the battery, and replace it the phone will bootup automatically and continue the bootloop. I can not get into recovery, just Odin. I have read that people have been having trouble with the power button sticking, can anyone confirm this? Any other suggestions?
Thanks
Try volume up + home + power to get into recovery. When you see the blue text in the top left corner saying "rebooting recovery" let go of the power button but continue to hold home and Vol up
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Sandman-007 said:
Try volume up + home + power to get into recovery. When you see the blue text in the top left corner saying "rebooting recovery" let go of the power button but continue to hold home and Vol up
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If I do this, I see the blue text in the top left but then I get the Samsung loading screen and then it shuts off and reboots.
Aarron.Hulswitt said:
If I do this, I see the blue text in the top left but then I get the Samsung loading screen and then it shuts off and reboots.
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another option if you cant get into custom recovery is to flash it with a stock rom using ODIN, you will lose everything but it might be your only option as to recovering your phone.
I have figured out that it is a hardware issue. I can boot into the phone if I continuously press the power button as it is booting up. But once it gets fully turns on, the power screen will constantly come up and eventually the phone will just reboot and start the whole process over again. From what I can see, the power button circuit is stuck in on I believe.
Thanks for all the suggestions guys. Looks like I am just going to have to get a replacement.
On my SM-P900 I am not able to boot into recovery mode. I'm pretty sure I have at least a couple of times but now it will no longer work. I believe the key combination is "Volume Up" + "Home" + "Power" until the splash screen is visible then let go of the "Power" button. Am I correct? Has anybody else seen this problem with the SM-P900?
Thanks.
Hmmm, I don´t know on your device, but both on my P905 and on my S4 after last firmware update, I noticed that if you continue pressing the three keys the device boots normally.
to boot in recovery, you should release the keys once you see a small blue writing (never investigated what it says) on the top left of the screen (if I well remember the position).
Give it a try and let me know if it works for you too.
@aviator1
Thanks for the tip. I tried your suggestion until my fingers bled without luck. No matter what I tried I never saw any text (blue or otherwise), just the flash screen.
I don't know about the home key, from a complete shut down I use the volume up key. I'll hold volume up first and then hold power until the very instant that the screen gets power and then I'll release power button while still holding volume up.
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@muzzy996
Thanks for the tip but I couldn't get this to work either
Hey guys
This might seem basic. Of course I can use adb or the buttons to get to the bootloader/fastboot. But occasionally when I'm messing with my n5, I do something that forces a reboot, or maybe I accidently hit the wrong key, or don't do the buttons right - now it's booting up, but, as often happens at these times, now you have to wait for the applications to 'optimize'.
That takes a good long while with 200+ apps! I know I can hold the power and force another reboot, but I can never seem to get it to go to the bootloader while forcing a boot by holding the power/vol+/vol- .
Am I missing something, or is there no way to "abort" a boot, and somehow get to fastboot mode ?
On my old phones, I would pull the battery, jumping straight to "power off" mode, then hold the vol and power like usual and be off to the races.
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Hey guys
This might seem basic. Of course I can use adb or the buttons to get to the bootloader/fastboot. But occasionally when I'm messing with my n5, I do something that forces a reboot, or maybe I accidently hit the wrong key, or don't do the buttons right - now it's booting up, but, as often happens at these times, now you have to wait for the applications to 'optimize'.
That takes a good long while with 200+ apps! I know I can hold the power and force another reboot, but I can never seem to get it to go to the bootloader while forcing a boot by holding the power/vol+/vol- .
Am I missing something, or is there no way to "abort" a boot, and somehow get to fastboot mode ?
On my old phones, I would pull the battery, jumping straight to "power off" mode, then hold the vol and power like usual and be off to the races.
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To force a reboot into fastboot mode, hold Power + Vol down. You can do it whenever you want.
That's ^ the procedure... For me the easiest is to hooks power to force reboot once it vibrates and starts to go black let go of power and hold volume down to get into bootloader.