Safe mode in android??

[swordfish123]

Something weird happened today. I was playing cut the rope and my phone hanged and restarted. I am on spicagenmod. When it restarted it said "safe mode" in the left bottom corner and all my installed apps were gone. Restarted again but same thing happened. I cleared dalvik cache and then it got back to normal.

Does anyone know what this safe mode is. I thought it was only in windows. Hope there is no issue with the hardware.

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[darkblade318]

This might help.
http://androinica.com/2010/08/how-to-activate-android%E2%80%99s-safe-mode-to-get-out-of-a-force-close-loop/

It's just a mode where your apps are disabled, so you can uninstall any apps causing you a force close loop. No idea how to enter it though, this was what I found after googling it.

[Kalén]

would be nice to include in recovery an option to enter

[andrei1015]

Happened to me yesterday after a normal reboot. Another reboot and it was gone. First and only time it happened to me in ~7 months of using this phone. And i've had a few continuous force closing apps...

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[HTD]

Well that's safe... I guess

[munchy_cool]

never happened to me on any of my phones ....this is weird ..

[boofman]

never happened to me on any of my phones ....this is weird ..

me neither..but this is something we could use..(or hopefully don't need to use, but just in case)..could the OP please indicate which version / mods / tweaks on the phone when it happened?

[HTD]

*sigh*

It works on all android versions. I guess cos its working on cm6 for me.

1.Shut down phone.
2.Hold menu buttton, and then hold call down button to boot phone.
3.keep holding both menu & call down button until you feel the vibration after boot.
4.safe mode *magic gliters*

[swordfish123]

Did a bit of Googling. I guess there is nothing to worry about. Cut the rope might have caused it.

Anyway my config.
JC1 baseband
Spicagenmod basic 1.3a
Yonip 22b kernel
No other tweaks or mods

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[shawfield]

Hi new member here...has anyone ever had a problem where their Spica loses signal in good signal area & only gets the signal if you reboot the phone ?
This happened on my previous phone but I thought it just needed repair, so I binned it & bought a new one. Now its happening on
my Spica. Also toggling the airplane mode brings the signal back again.

Is this a known bug in Android or is there a known cure ?

Thanks