Help Phone factory reset itself after entering Safe Mode
- By nickdalzell
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Everytime my phone get an update notification, there's always two options: first option is download the update, the next one is delay which will make the notification vanish and reappear few days later. That would mean my auto update is disabled right? One more thing is before the problem occur, my phone last update was from May 2022. When the device got in Safe mode trouble, I ran an update check and update my phone to latest version (September 2022).
Unless you specifically told the phone to 'not auto download on wifi' (uncheck 'auto download updates on wifi' in settings-->Software update) what happens is as follows:
You get a prompt that a new software update is ready to install. The options will be 'install now' or 'install later'
If you tap 'install later,' it will nag you three more times, and after the third, the update will be required.
This is the default setting out of the box. If you have unchecked that option (because like me, you hate updates changing what shouldn't be changed, for example) then you will just be continually nagged from time to time to download the update. Either way, if you chose to install it, things can break sometimes, and forces safe mode reboot.
I've ONLY had Android go into safe mode if there's a problem. I have never figured any way to manually force safe mode as a boot option. Usually if the phone isn't boot looping, it just boots into safe mode if something is wrong.
I'm going out on a limb here, but what I believe happened, is the phone was in the OP's pocket, and decided to install an update by itself (perhaps the OP had hit the 3 postpone limit and let it be) and somewhere in that time something went wrong, and the phone rebooted into safe mode. I doubt jostling did anything.
Also, if the phone woke up to remind OP about the update, or something from movement unlocked the phone (I've had pocket launching of apps and pocket unlocking tons if I just had 'swipe to unlock' as the only unlock option) and probably tapped the update button and whatver happened next is anyone's guess.