Safe mode

[drhere]

Don't know if anyone knows of this, but last night I was watching Twig (This Week in Google) a show on Leo LaPorte's Twit network This Week in Google 156 | TWiT.TV

Towards the end of each week's episode, they have a tool and tips section. Kevin Purdy who is a Lifehacker editor and Android enthusiast (he is sometimes on Twit's All About Android Tuesday show), was a guest. He had a tool that JB users can use to troubleshoot their JB device.

There is a way to place your Jelly Bean device (it will only work on 4.1 or later) in safe mode, like Windows safe mode, it will only load the core apps and processes.
Press the power button like you would if you are going to power down your device, when the window on the screen comes up asking if you want to Power Down, go into Airplane mode, etc. Press and hold the Power Off option on the screen (not the physical power button), you will then get a prompt asking if you want to reboot into safe mode.

This is new, first appearing in JB.

 

[1088933]

Wow, pretty awesome. Thanks for the share!

 

[rogerjenn]

Some folks claim that Safe Mode disables downloaded apps.

It didn't for me. I had to use Safe Mode to get past a problem caused by the NBC Olympics Extra app: My Nexus 7 displayed a blank screen on boot. Repeate reboots didn't solve the problem.

Booting in Safe Mode (as described above) solved the problem without affecting any of my apps.

To get out of safe mode, power down, then hold the Volume Up buttonwhile pressing the Power button to restart.

--rj

 

[jpr]

It disables downloaded apps WHILE you're in safe mode. Also, it will disable any widgets you added even after you reboot normally, so back up any widgets you have that you have spent time customizing or be ready to re-configure them.

 

[tigergoalie7]

Does anyone know of a way to pull an ICS device out of safe mode? My wife inadvertently got stuck in it and i can't figure out how to get back out. She's using an Epic Touch for Sprint. I've seen it on the first epic also and could not, for the life of me, figure out how to boot back up normally.

Any help would be greatly appreciated!!!

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[project.in.process]

Does anyone know of a way to pull an ICS device out of safe mode? My wife inadvertently got stuck in it and i can't figure out how to get back out. She's using an Epic Touch for Sprint. I've seen it on the first epic also and could not, for the life of me, figure out how to boot back up normally.

Any help would be greatly appreciated!!!

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any of the below options:

1) reboot
2) in the unlikely event--make sure none of the buttons are stuck in (this is, apparently, a common issue for safe-mode)
3) battery pull
4) factory reset
5) "have you pulled your SDCARD and tried booting up and see if that changes things? Sometimes a faulty SDCARD can cause strange things to happen.."--Paul627g


if that fails,
take to the Sprint Store and see if it's an internal hardware (or software) malfunction causing the phone to think it's in Safe Mode