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Root Booting into safe mode?

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sega dude

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I am having a boot loop issue that I think is being caused by something that loads after lookout loads on boot up. I want to boot into safe mode but I can't get it to work. I am running MTDEV CM7 12-28-12. I read that you have to hold down the menu button while booting, but when I do this, it just boots normally. Is there something else I have to do? Is there an app that has the option to boot to safe mode?
 
sega dude said:
I am having a boot loop issue that I think is being caused by something that loads after lookout loads on boot up. I want to boot into safe mode but I can't get it to work. I am running MTDEV CM7 12-28-12. I read that you have to hold down the menu button while booting, but when I do this, it just boots normally. Is there something else I have to do? Is there an app that has the option to boot to safe mode?
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I have not heard of safe mode on the phone. I know we have download mode and recovery. To do those you would hold the volume buttons before hitting the power button. For recovery you would get the splash logo then the recovery screen (as if you didn't know) and download just pops up.

Since you could extract apps from a nandroid backup, I wonder if you could remove a suspected app???
Maybe make a copy of the backup and try with a clearing of the /cache and davik cache.
 
dsmryder said:
I have not heard of safe mode on the phone. I know we have download mode and recovery. To do those you would hold the volume buttons before hitting the power button. For recovery you would get the splash logo then the recovery screen (as if you didn't know) and download just pops up.

Since you could extract apps from a nandroid backup, I wonder if you could remove a suspected app???
Maybe make a copy of the backup and try with a clearing of the /cache and davik cache.
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I've heard of safe mode on the S3, but never heard mention of it on the MT.

So are you thinking of the OP pulling an app out of a nandriod & then flashing the backup dsmryder? You probably know a lot more about this than I do, but wouldn't futzing with the nandroid change the md5 and cause CWM to bail when you tried to flash it?
 
As much as I don't want to, I'm gonna have to do a data wipe/factory reset. There are alot more things starting on startup than I thought. What will happen to the apps I put on the SD card? Will they transition into the clean install or will I loose the space on the SD card?
 
rcsrich said:
I've heard of safe mode on the S3, but never heard mention of it on the MT.

So are you thinking of the OP pulling an app out of a nandriod & then flashing the backup dsmryder? You probably know a lot more about this than I do, but wouldn't futzing with the nandroid change the md5 and cause CWM to bail when you tried to flash it?
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I forgot that CWR does a checksum check. It might be possible to fudge it if nessacery.
 
sega dude said:
As much as I don't want to, I'm gonna have to do a data wipe/factory reset. There are alot more things starting on startup than I thought. What will happen to the apps I put on the SD card? Will they transition into the clean install or will I loose the space on the SD card?
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Did you use something like link2sd, or did you just chose the "move to SD" option in application manager? I haven't even been in that position (always kept apps on internal storage), but I don't think it would hurt to try- worst that could happen is that it doesn't recognize them & you just have to reinstall them. I think, don't quote me on that since I haven't actually tried it...
 
rcsrich said:
Maybe- or it might be possible to just generate a new one, but I wouldn't know how to do it....
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I Linux, at least Ubuntu 10.04, it's native. You would just run the command
Code: 
md5sum (the name of the file or folder)
The only problem I can see is if you did link stuff to your SDcard.
 
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