Safe Mode

LostZeit · #1 (**permalink**) 01-24-2008, 11:35 AM

Is there a way to startup the phone in safe mode? I installed some apps now when the phone comes up it freezes at the today screen and I can't do anything.

Brent212 · #2 (**permalink**) 01-05-2009, 08:06 PM

Bump. I have the same problem.

**hibby50** · #3 (**permalink**) 01-05-2009, 08:08 PM

some spb products will do this after u soft reset multiple times in a row close to eachother. otherwise you gotta hard reset.

**guitardoc64** · #4 (**permalink**) 01-05-2009, 08:22 PM

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Originally Posted by hibby50

some spb products will do this after u soft reset multiple times in a row close to eachother. otherwise you gotta hard reset.

True. SPB Pocket Plus has a safemode. Don't think it will help these folks due to them not having it installed prior to the lockups. Hard reset may be the only option here.

Brent212 · #5 (**permalink**) 01-05-2009, 08:26 PM

I just got so lucky I can't believe it.

I thought my phone was bricked completely. I had just installed Ultimate Launch, gone into the settings, and made some changes. When I applied the changes, my phone froze and the only way I could get it to respond to anything was by pulling the battery and restarting. After several attempts at pushing/holding buttons while it started up, I was about to give up and do a hard reset. What a ***** it would have been to reinstall/configure everything. Plus, I haven't run a backup in awhile, so I'd lose a good amount of contacts, messages, etc.

So I finally tried plugging the phone into my computer, and while the phone was starting up, I noticed that active sync would temporariliy connect on the computer for a second or two before the phone froze up and was unresponsive. It wasn't long enough to allow me to click on the "Explore" button in active sync, though.

So I opened up windows explorer, went to the "Mobile Device" object under My Computer, restarted the phone, and as soon as I saw some activity in the active sync window, I hit F5 to refresh explorer, and my phone's files popped up. I quickly went into the Program Files directory, and deleted the Ultimate Launch directory. It gave me an access violation error for UltimateLaunch.dll, but everything else was deleted. I looked at my phone and it wasn't frozen! There was a message at the top of the today screen saying some error occured in Ultimate Launch, but that was no big deal. I went to my today screen settings, disabled Ultimate Launch, then uninstalled it.

Everything seems back to normal now. Very nice.

95FormulaTA · #6 (**permalink**) 01-06-2009, 06:21 AM

I had this happen also with UL, I believe it's a known issue with having two instances of HTC home running. That's what it was for me anyway. I was able to just keep pressing the top right corner (where the close button would be) while the thing rebooted. It closed out of UL before it could launch. I then went in the today controls and disabled htc home and rebooted. Has worked fine since, I've had UL running for over a year now.