
With this beach bag, you can read, take pictures and view stuff on your smart devices without fear of any of these hazards. You can follow us on Twitter, add us to your circle on Google+ or like our Facebook page to keep yourself updated on all the latest from Microsoft, Google, Apple and the web.Who doesn’t love the beach? Um: technology! Sand, wind, animals, kids, mud, it’s like eating spaghetti with a white shirt on - something is bound to go wrong. While we hope you never encounter an issue that requires you to try this, it’s a handy solution to have up your sleeve, should be need arise. It’s unclear as to why manufacturers would choose to hide something this useful so obscurely, but in AOSP, this is definitely easier.
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You’ll see the same dialog box, wherein tapping OK will put your Android into safe mode.Īndroid’s safe mode is perhaps more useful than what Windows offer for desktops, since it’s far easier to troubleshoot problems using this as compared to its PC counterpart. Then, instead of the Power off option, press and hold Reboot. On an AOSP ROM, especially CM10.1 (Android 4.2 Jelly Bean base), press and hold the on/off button like before to get to the Power menu.Hit OK when that happens, and the next reboot will put your Android into safe mode. Then, hold down the Power Off/Shut Down option, until you see a dialog box asking you to confirm rebooting to safe mode. On a stock ICS or Jelly Bean ROM, press and hold the power button until the power menu shows up.This is much easier than the former process, although the method differs for stock firmware and AOSP-based ROMs like CM10, AOKP etc. Rebooting an active Android device into safe mode However, it should be noted that you would do it once the splash screen shows up – doing so earlier will interrupt the bootloader, and most likely put you in recovery or bootloader menu instead of getting safe mode. This is to ensure that you don’t miss the key press just because the button chose to disable itself at that time.Īgain, since these methods vary from device to device, trying them out one-by-one might help you. For devices with capacitive buttons, make sure to hold the menu key when the LED underneath lights up, release it when LED turns off, and then pressing and holding again when it lights up again.Pressing and holding the menu key when starting up the phone.Try holding both the volume keys pressed when booting.Then, if you have a device that’s stuck in boot loop, the said mode will let you check if it’s a bootloader problem, or if you have just got something running that causes the boot sequence to complete, but fails the operating system itself to start. Let’s say you were facing severe battery drain safe mode will let you pin-point as to whether (perhaps) a widget was responsible for it or not. Since this mode loads only the Android system apps, and eliminates all the third-party components from the start up sequence, you can identify if the problem was caused due to an app that you deployed later. There can be multiple reasons for wanting to boot your Android phone or tablet in safe mode. For developers, this is pretty common knowledge, but even a casual user can benefit out of it. Akin to the desktop OS, Android’s Safe Mode boots up the device with minimal configuration, loading only the apps in /system partition and disabling all others, along with the wallpaper, widgets, and any other customizations that you may have, so you can identify and remove the source of the problem. If you’ve ever used a Windows-based PC, you would probably be familiar with how safe mode operates. For all those cases, Google has built-in a neat hidden feature in Android, called safe mode. Even worse are the cases when you start suffering from severe battery drain, or when the device itself goes into a boot loop after having installed a certain APK.
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However, there still might be time when you install an app that doesn’t agree with your operating system or firmware version, or that might have some broken pieces of code, or any other issue, resulting in the same problems that we discussed above. Long gone are the days when an Android device would go into constant freezes, get repeated app Force Closes, or would generally become sluggish in performance a huge of contribution of that goes to the open source development community, too, that strive day and night to make our devices more useful and stable.


Android has now become a generally pretty stable platform/operating system for smartphones and tablets, and every new iteration only adds to that.
