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Today I was installing a few things through Cydia and all of a sudden my iPhone restarted. That in itself is not too weird but when my iPhone rebooted it booted into “Safe Mode.” I had never seen this before. I got a pop-up warning that said,
“Mobile Substrate Safe Mode. We apologize for the inconvenience, but SpringBoard has just crashed. A recent software installation, upgrade, or removal might have been the cause of this. Your device is now running in Safe Mode. All extensions that support this safety system are disabled. Reboot (or restart SpringBoard) to return to normal mode.”
When I hit Dismiss it went to my SpringBoard but everything was grey and it said Safe Mode where the time is usually displayed. Neither Doug nor I had ever seen or heard of this before. Let me know in the comments if you iPhone or iPod Touch has ever booted into Safe Mode.
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So how did you get out of safemode?
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Brooke on September 18th, 2008 2:28 pm:
Just restarted my iPhone and everything went back to normal.
tizocman on September 18th, 2008 8:16 pm:
you can also fast respring using bossprefs
fab_rick on September 18th, 2008 8:46 pm:
it is a ‘mobile substrate’ safe mode not an iPhone safe mode as seems to be the impression below. Mobile Substrate is written by Saurik. I assume this is put in place to avoid a continual crash of the springboard by some dodgy theme or plugin. This way you can dissable the last theme item or any mobile substrate plugin (eg 5 icon dock or new safari file access) that you instsalled and stop your phone crashing. Saurik is protecting you all. The man is a living legend! Everyone buy him a beer!
mohamed on March 10th, 2009 8:20 pm:
i have a problem with my i phone it went into the safe mode and i did every thing i know and it didnt work i restareted it reinstalled cydia every thing and still in safe mode plz help me
ken on May 13th, 2009 1:41 pm:
i just removed my safe mode,,, i just un installed the stack aplication
juank on July 6th, 2009 11:55 am:
mi cel esta e modo seguro como lo quito?
sylviano on November 17th, 2009 9:03 am:
my iphone went in to this safe mode thing and i tried allthe above mentioned and nttn seemed to work, after a long period of time i tried turning it off it never went off, i decided to reset my iphone and now it doesn’t go on past the apple screen, is thier a way possible of getting this fixed? if so please let me know thanking u in advance
Never heard of it…
Are you able to run Apps in the Safe Mode?
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Jay Freeman (saurik) on September 26th, 2008 4:04 am:
Yes, but any extension that is compatible with this system is disabled. Examples of such programs: IntelliScreen (sometimes, the authors have refused to implement this fully unless I turn off some of the protection to hide some of their bugs), Dock2, Five Icon Dock, Stacks, QuickGold, WinterBoard, Veency, etc.
The new “Mobile Substrate” update that came out in Cydia today causes this. Verified on 2 different iPhones.
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Ignacio Michel on September 18th, 2008 6:03 pm:
This is true the thing to blame is the Mobile Substrate update needed by winterboard to operate properly in 2.1 firmware, I hope Saurik will fix this as soon as possible
Jay Freeman (saurik) on September 26th, 2008 4:03 am:
Yes, Mobile Substrate now “causes” this in that it now has a feature to protect you from SpringBoard crashing. What is happening is that QuickGold or IntelliSense or some other extension is crashing SpringBoard, and Mobile Substrate is putting you in safe mode to help you deal with the problem (in case it is sufficiently deterministic that this is your only recourse).
Mine did it when I was syncing my applications from itunes. It flashed for a second, then at the top it read “safe mode”. My custom battery and slider when to factory settings but it didn’t stop syncing. When it was through syncing my icons was factory and my springboard was a mess liked my phone crashed on me. I just rebooted my phone by pressing the power and home button together and it was fine, like it never happen.
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alvareo on September 19th, 2008 8:34 pm:
same thing here
theiphonehacker101 on July 30th, 2009 3:36 pm:
YA JUST DELETE STACK AND IT GOES BACK TO NORMAL!
Sawboss on August 10th, 2009 2:21 pm:
How to delete stack? i know nothing about this phone but ive got the mobile substrate crash problem too.
Could this finally be the fix for the Apple logo of death when installing and app crashes and forced a restore over and over again?
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fab_rick on September 18th, 2008 9:17 pm:
if you have ssh installed and it is activated or you have it set to always be on at boot in bossprefs you can dial into you phone while it is stuck at the logo screen. If you then go to /Users/Applications and move the contents of that folder (ie all appstore apps) out of that folder to your computer so you have no appstore apps your phone will start correctly on the next boot. Simply copy the apps back again and you will be back to a working phone again, until the next crash that is!
Safe Mode is so weird for a Mac. It’s such a Windows thing. To the majority of iPhone users, who are PC owners, it isn’t unusual. To a Mac user, it’s absolutely foreign. I can’t imagine the ipHone designers incorporating something called “Safe Mode” on a Mac, and make no mistake, an iPhone is a Mac.
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DClay on September 18th, 2008 3:07 pm:
Are you serious, who cares….
MacVenom on September 18th, 2008 3:27 pm:
I care. Thanks for the info.
Stevey101 on September 18th, 2008 4:07 pm:
There is Safe Mode for mac.
rje on September 18th, 2008 4:15 pm:
Of course I’m serious. I’m a Mac chauvinist. To the person who says there is Safe Mode on a Mac, I’ve never encountered Safe Mode on a Mac.
I could be wrong. Nevertheless, I’ve been on
Macs for many years and never seen it.
lb jeffries on September 18th, 2008 4:34 pm:
Macs have had ‘Safe Mode’ since before most people had even heard of Windows. I know that it’s at least as old as Mac OS 6, and that came out twenty years ago.
The reason most Mac users don’t know about it, is that the user must intentionally choose that by hitting the Shift key while booting, there’s no screen that pops up like in Windows right there in your face (and all too frequently, I might add)
Dustin James on September 18th, 2008 10:03 pm:
Sorry to say it… but jeffries right…
it’s silly to think that any computer wouldn’t have a safe mode…
the idea of one is just that you can get into the core system and run core things… that is for the safety of the user.
it just makes since..
Ken on September 19th, 2008 11:24 am:
Everyone makes it sound like a HUGE problem in Windows. In fact, it is a Windows Safety net when things go wrong with other things, such as other Apps or Hardware and Drivers. It allows one to go in and safely REMOVE the offending problem. You generally only get them with messing with things that are not approved by windows….
brett on September 20th, 2008 6:24 pm:
safemode isn’t new to a mac.
Even in the system 6 days you could boot holding shift which would cause extensions not to load. This allowed you to get in an remove a recently added extension that may have been causing a lock-up.
OS X has the same safe mode. It will force a directory check of the startup volume, loads only required kernel extensions, disables non-default fonts, trashes font caches, and disables startup items and login items.
Macs are great, but get your head out of the sand.
rje on September 20th, 2008 9:07 pm:
Get my head out of the sand? Give me a break. I’ve used Macs since 1984. I have never encountered Safe Mode. I have encountered it hundreds of times with Windows. You know, it’s one thing to enlighten someone who doesn’t know. It’s another thing to swipe at people who who really don’t deserve it.
quis5550 on November 9th, 2008 12:05 pm:
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Just so you guys know, Macs do have safeboot.
And the safe mode on the iphone sounds very similar (in the way that it disables extensions) to the Macs
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If this really is the SWOD replacement, then whoever makes mobilesubstrate is a genius! But only a PC owner would think of a fix like this, lol
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pwnd!
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Do a review on veency!!! has to be the best app ever!!!!!!!!!
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Stevey101 on September 18th, 2008 4:07 pm:
Do a review on X-plane 9!!! has to be the best app ever!!!!!!!!!
I had the same thing today but I didn’t go into safe mode. My phone reatarted and was stuck on the apple logo. My phone became really hot so I decided to do a hard boot.
Everything works fine now!! Thank god. And I’m still on 2.0.1 cause jailbreak is taking forever to come out.
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thats what i call Apple Pwnage!
lol
Wow Safe Mode, they DO care!!!
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same today after install vnc but reboot and everything fine
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That happen to me yesterday. I removed an app, my phone restarted itself and that safe mode came up.
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hi on March 29th, 2009 5:41 pm:
jj
It happened to me after I update some programs on cydia never seen this before.
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Gen.1 or 3G phone Brooke? I have a Gen.1 and it has never went into safe mode….
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Douglas on September 18th, 2008 8:34 pm:
3G
Happened to me today and I’m on 2.0.2 so it is not just a 2.1 new thing.
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You can thank Saurik. Safe Mode = SWOD protection
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Jay Freeman (saurik) on September 26th, 2008 4:01 am:
This is exactly correct.
YES!!! it happened to me today. What is weird is that I wasn’t installing , uninstalling or changing anything. It just rebooted and I got safemode . It hasn’t happened since… but I’m wondering how that happened.
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hello guys the same just happened to me right now… another thing that has been happening to me is that my phone stops ringing out of nothing, it just vibrates and I’ve checked the silence button of course, then I have to restart it and it rings again…. any clue?
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[...] di base di Cydia, quello del mobilesubstrate ha causato qualche problema, Brooke del sito appleiphoneschool si è trovato per la prima volta di fronte al Safe Mode (una sorta di Windowsiana modalita’ [...]
Happened to me too. I was playing Sudoku and suddenly the SpringBoard restart (my iPhone did not rebooted) and I am in safe mode. When reboot my iPhone, everything OK. I have iPhone 1 gen with 2.1 installed.
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I actually had something very weird happen when running Installer the other day. I got a phone call, while browsing Installer, and when I tried to answer it, my phone froze. I tried rebooting it, but it was stuck on the pineapple icon. iTunes kept refusing to recognize it, so then I tried rejailbreaking it. Still wouldn’t work. I kept restarting iTunes, and plugging and unplugging the phone. Finally, it just randomly booted up like nothing had happened. The only difference is that now Cydia doesn’t recognize any of the programs I’ve downloaded, before or since. I can still run them, but they appear in Cydia as if I haven’t already put them on my phone. Weird.
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ps sorry for replying to the wrong post at the top! User error!
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Hi guys, I had the same thing happen to me. I think it has to do with the latest update to Winterboard. Saurik has placed a “warning” for everyone on the info page. He does mention that the issue has always been there but now for whatever reason the phones are rebooting, (maybe do to the changes Apple has made in 2.x firmwares). I think the safe mode was put there to protect our phones from losing all our stuff. Saurik has been GREAT and am sure he will have it solved soon.
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Jay Freeman (saurik) on September 26th, 2008 4:01 am:
That notice is completely unrelated to Safe Mode. When you install WinterBoard, for some reason I don’t yet understand, SpringBoard gets disconnected from the thermal watchdog. When this happens it takes about a minute before the phone gets concerned that it is overheating and reboots. This is not a crash and does not invoke Safe Mode.
Some of you may experience some issues after updating Cydia and installing or de-installing applications. The error you may see is Mobile Substrate Safe Mode. According to Saurik it has to do with Winterboard and the update of Mobile Substrate in Cydia. This was needed to get many applications compatible with firmware 2.1.
The solution for this issue is simple. Just reboot your iPhone and all will be ok again. Saurik is currently working on a fix so no worries.
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Jay Freeman (saurik) on September 26th, 2008 3:55 am:
This is completely false. I am not working on fixing anything. All of my software was working on 2.1 from the beginning and Mobile Safe Mode A) does not cause these problems and B) does not need to get fixed to make anything work. Other software is crashing and Mobile Safe Mode kicks in to let you fix the problem. Please please please stop spreading these rumors about Mobile Substrate.
I also saw this Safe Mode message today, it happened several times but only when I was creating a Web Clip i.e. while in Mobile Safari I chose to add a page to the Home Page and when I did this the spinner started spinning for a few seconds and the Safe Mode screen popped up. FWIW I have the 5 Icon utility activy on the dock and it caused 4 icons to be visible in a row and the 5th icon was pushed to the side.
As mentioned earlier in this thread its fastest if you go into Boss Prefs and do a fast spring rather than doing a restart of the phone. Whats odd is the Web Clip was still created and nothing seemed out of sorts except being forced into Safe Mode and having to spring start the phone. I then created 3 more Web Clips of different web sites and the same thing happened EVERY time.
Though it’s very annoying IF this is actually saving us from something dramatic happening to mess up my iPhone then I must thank the Substrate author for adding this safety net.
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Jay Freeman (saurik) on September 26th, 2008 3:56 am:
I think that Stacks had a bug where if you added a webclip it immediately crashed all of SpringBoard. If you have that installed, please remove it.
Just wanted to know if this happened to anyone else. I don’t know what happened, but now my Cydia won’t work after syncing with iTunes to backup some applications. Now all of a sudden when i launch Cydia, it just springs back to the springboard. Anyone know why and how to solve this prob.? Thanks.
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It never happened to me so far. I have 2 first gen with 2.0.2 and 2.1. It would be very interresting to know how to invoke this Safe Mode intentionally to be able to remove a bad application like on Windows. Do you think it possible?
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Jay Freeman (saurik) on September 26th, 2008 3:56 am:
You should never need to invoke Safe Mode manually. If you need to end up in Safe Mode (SpringBoard is crashing) you will end up in Safe Mode.
I had this happen too. And it was a friend who was playing with my phone when it did it. I thought he just had the touch of death because it has never happened to me.
I just rebooted my phone and it was fine after.
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Happened to me aswell, im on 2.0.2 it done it twice i just restarted and it was fine and still is at the moment.
Thanks to bosspreff’s resarting the springboard was easy too which seemed to help
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I just got it today after installing IntelliScreen… and twice!!!
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Jay Freeman (saurik) on September 26th, 2008 3:57 am:
Yes, welcome to IntelliScreen: the program designed to crash SpringBoard fastest and most often.
thats some scary $#it that has never happen to me. What were u installing?
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I found out how to enter safe mode
1. Install veency on your iphone/ipod
2. connect to your iphone/ipod with a vnc server
3. hold your middle mouse button and slide to power off
4. instead of turning off, your iphone/ipod will go into safe mode
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Sahara on September 19th, 2008 1:07 pm:
I copied this info from here http://www.ipodtouchfans.com/forums/showthread.php?p=933714#post933714
One reason for me I think is IntelliScreen and Second reason is Mobile Substrate. Saurik if you can please fix it soon as possible, it is big stuff.
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Jay Freeman (saurik) on September 26th, 2008 3:57 am:
Mobile Substrate is not to blame for this. Mobile Substrate is attempting to save you from IntelliScreen crashing your phone. There is seriously nothing for me to fix here.
this just happened i was deleting a web app and it was wierd cause it was taking some time then poof a message pops up saying Mobile Substrate Safe Mode but uh its all good now i restarted my phone and its working well i wondered why this happens
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happend to me like 3 times already after i installed intelliscreen … this app is really getting to me
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my iPhone has just booted into Safe Mode too!!
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happend today 3 times after i installed the newest intelliscreen update!!
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also happened to me twice after installing intelling screen, during locking. I’ve uninstalled intelliscreen which was causing my mail to crash very frequently. will see if safe mode pops up again…
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I installed an app from itunes and now my ipod touch is stuck on the spining wheel. what should I do? Can I fix ths w/o a restore?
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Jay Freeman (saurik) on September 26th, 2008 3:59 am:
You have probably run into the bug in App Store where, if you install too many applications, then SpringBoard can’t resynchronize its icon catalog before it is killed by the watchdog. If you can ssh in you can temporarily dismantle /var/mobile/Applications and spoonfeed them back to SpringBoard. This bug has been fixed AFAIK in 2.1, which everyone should upgrade to ASAP.
Happened same thing while uninstalling MobileTerminal. Restart also helped.
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meebz on September 25th, 2008 4:59 pm:
Same here, MobileTerminal.
I just went to winterboard and clicked on a theme
and it went back to normal.
When I am listening to music it crashes while receiving a text/call.
Any one found a solution for this or does it require a restore.
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iphonemaster9 on September 22nd, 2008 5:06 pm:
just reboot (turn of and turn back on) and safe mode should go away
Jay Freeman (saurik) on September 26th, 2008 3:59 am:
I believe this is due to a bug in IntelliScreen. You should send some nasty e-mails to the authors asking when they will fix this bug.
I PUT A THEME ON MY IPHONE AND IT WENT TO SAFE MODE I FIXED IT JUST BY REBOOTING
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EVERY time I recieve a txt my iphone goes into safe mode! I’ve tried uninstalling winterboard yet still this problem persists! Anyone have any ideas?
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ok….after many uninstallings of many different apps it seems that ‘Kate’ was the cause of my (above) problem. Shame as I found Kate a rather usefull app!
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Mobile Safe Mode is designed to protect you from crashes in SpringBoard. When SpringBoard crashes it is often deterministic and it is often fatal. This is where you usually end up with the “SWOD”. Now, instead, Mobile Safe Mode kicks in and disables extensions (only ones that are compatible with this system, unfortunately) and puts you into a state where you may be able to fix the problem.
THIS IS NOT A BUG IN MOBILE SUBSTRATE. This is a /protection/ feature of Mobile Substrate that is protecting you from /other software/.
The #1 most common reason SpringBoard crashes is because you are using IntelliScreen. This product is very very unstable and crashes almost all the time. I’m frankly surprised at how often this thing crashes.
The next issue that people often have is that they are using Kate at the same time as some extension that isn’t compatible with Kate, such as my extensions WinterBoard or Five Icon Dock.
A final rather recent set of issues has to do with QuickGold. The author has decided to hook into a number of the installation routines and was crashing the phone consistently when you installed applications.
Finally, I think Stacks crashes if you add webclips.
I repeat: THIS IS NOT A BUG IN MOBILE SUBSTRATE. Something /else/ you have installed is crashing horribly and you are being rescued by Mobile Substrate.
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[...] dia vi no site Apple iPhone School que o iPhone do cara entrou em Safe Mode e ele nunca tinha visto isso. Essa semana ocorreu comigo [...]
I had the same problem and decided to reset the phone. I am now stuck on the main screen and it wont budge. help
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[...] Safe Mode! I did get a little nervous but because I know it’s not a big deal and I’ve seen it before on other websites, I actually thought it was pretty cool that it [...]
well I haven’t installed intelliscreen or any of the above apps and yesterday it went into reboot 15-20 times and I’m not exageratting. Ot may not be SUBSTRATE.. but it’s a very VERY recent problem. I didn’t get SWOD 15-20 times a day. so it’s not limited to the above mentioned apps b/c I don’t have them
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great with more protection, but not if it crashes everything. Randomly goes into safemode syncing, emailing, etc. How can I downgrade mobile substrate?
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same thing happened to me. I was using bossprefs when it safe moded.
Just wanted to type!
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mine crashed too while unistalling an app from cydia. at least the iphone software wont corrupt and end up going back to apple
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daniu on November 5th, 2008 5:04 am:
RE: my previous comment:
my springboard keeps crashing non-stop even after rebooting. anybody has solutions?
I installed the SummerBoard theme BlackLight and every since, my iPhone has resprung every text I recieve. I’ve uninstalled both the theme and SummerBoard itself, but to no avail. Any ideas?
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quis5550 on November 9th, 2008 12:01 pm:
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ssh into your phone goto library and copy two files mobile substrate files for backup and delete mobile safety file and respring iphone it will set twice after that is works fine .
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hope that worked
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you will get double reboot but no safe mode follow my steps on post or reply
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apps doesnt seem to function right just a suggestion
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So I had the same thing happen (safe mode), rebooted, and never got past the pineapple logo. Tried to restore after using pwnage 2 and got the error code 1600 when in the restore process in itunes. Am I completely screwed.
Oh, one more odd thing. When I tried to go in recovery mode one, I got a cartoon of Steve Jobs with a talk bubble with what looked like russian text.
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Today I had the same issue… Even after couple of restart it was not coming out of “Safe Mode”. Luckily the phone had SSH running.
After doing following on command line over SSH
# apt-get update
# apt-get upgrade
# reboot
resolved the issue.
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[...] ab_rick reply on September 18, 2008: [...]
My iphone always go to safemode. I’d tried several times to reboot ( using bosspref / holding power and home button ) , but it still going to safe mode…. Somebody got any idea ?
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i go tu safe mode tu play BIA app, but i just wonder if safe mode is bad tu ur phone???
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Zack on May 22nd, 2009 7:12 am:
learn to spell newfag.
Zack on May 22nd, 2009 7:13 am:
but how do you get into safe mode.. my phone used to go into safemode whenever i “add to homescreen” or w/e from the internet, like adding an icon for 4chan or something;P
here are your options from the easy way to the hard way:
it’s just happend to me !!
option 1
Deleting the extenstions to MobileSubstrate:
SSH to your device and run this command
rm -R /Library/MobileSubstrate/DynamicLibraries
option 2
remove of the WinterBoard:
SSH to your device and run this command
apt-get remove winterboard
this will also remove the theme you installed
option 3
removing MobileSubstrate:
SSH to your device and run this command
apt-get remove mobilesubstrate
one of this should do the trick
hope this helps
Haim Chibotero
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I’ve heard of this before but never seen a screen shot, weird.
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i had this, happend because of ‘STACK’ app, but the thing is i had this previously and it never crashed my iphone befor, so why now???
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Hi I am on 2.1 (2G) and my iphone is setup with a passcode. Today after installing a file from Cydia it went into safe mode and refuses to exit from safe mode…. even after rebooting maybe 40 times now. Your help is much appreciated.
PS: I am a windows user, pls don’t tell me to SSH i am not familiar with the process.
SAURIK HELP PLEASE !
Thanks a million.
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Tab on February 10th, 2009 5:42 pm:
Do you have anything yet?
Same problem here.
Thanks.
Same problem here.
Today I deleted a package from Installer, after that my phone turned into MOBILESUBSTRATE SAFE MODE and turns into safe mode over and over. Soft and hard reboot, recovery mode + hard reboot… nothing works….
Safe mode is also limited to only 4 app that are ALL shortcuts for website via safari. Nothing else is there to see.
Note: cydia didn’t start up for 4 times, before I was deleting a package in Installer.
Anybody no how to get rid op the safe mode please???
Thanks a lot
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how can i sole the problem of safe mode
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how can soleve the safe mode poblem
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Iphone (3G running on 2.2.1) turned to safe mode right after making changes on settings, including Stacks. Could not exit safe mode, and finally needed to re-install 2.2.1. After that I checked again all the settings, including Stacks. Same thing again and the phone stayed at safe mode. I hit Cydia and just removed Stacks and the problem was solved.
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My iPhone 1st gen will not exit safe mode. It happened after I installed a font type using FontSwap. I currently have 2.2.1 installed. No apps work!!! They all try to load, then close and the main safe mode screen is up. Any ideas how to resolve this issue? Should I use iTunes to reinstall 2.2.1, then rejailbrake it? I don’t know what to do next.Any suggestions will be of great help….Thanks!!!
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Robbie on February 23rd, 2009 2:12 pm:
Update…..I restored iphone using iTunes and rejailbroke my phone. Everything works fine now.
Hi every one,
I have been having exit safe mode for a long time . it’s a pain. finily, i found the selution. Go to settings, general, then go all the way down to reset. click on reset all. follow the rest.
thank you all
Toufik
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Hi, I have basically read everything here and I have kinda of the same problem. I am new to macs though I have done my research, yes i have the 2.2.1 version of the 2g iphone and it is jailbroken with cydia and installer, also i have toggle SSH too..so why is it that when I try to install ANY free application from Apple Apps,it brings me to the ‘enter account information’ and the second I press any button to do so, it tells me ” We apologize for this inconvenience, but springboard has just crashed. a recent software installation, upgrade or removal might have been the cause of this…” and it goes into Safemode.
It is not a huge problem, though I would REALLY appreciate it if I could Fully Use my new iphone and download these apps! Can Anyone help me out on how to fix this in some detail please? The only programs I have installed that might have caused this was – Sosiphone, Toggle SSH and Flashlight. What Do I DO??
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i had the same problem with this safe mode thing i deleted winterboard and my phone went back to normal. hope this will help
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…well actually, i don’t have any problem at all but just thought to pass by and say hello
Just kidding! Actually guys, I had the same problem this morning but thanks God I solved it, you might be wondering how….
after I tired to fix it for more than 5 hours and it didnt work I went to some shop this afternoon and bought another mobile!!!
So life goes on, so just take it easy and keep going
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my phone got dropped into a dog’s water bowl for an indeterminate amount of time. it could have been a minute, five, or an hour, who knows. when i pulled it out, it was extremely pissed and essentially not working. it kept rebooting itself, half of the time in safe mode, half the time in ‘normal’ mode (in either of which it was freaking out). after a few hours on a fan to dry it out, it returned to normal. does anyone know how to initiate safe mode?
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Zack on May 22nd, 2009 7:01 am:
lmao, next time it happens to find itself in water, wrap it in a bit of papertowel, and cake it in sugar. leave it for a couple days, works great.
I’m talkin like.. in the middle of 1lb of sugar thing=]
But if you do figure out a way to get into safe mode, please let me know D:
My iPhone did the same thing it went into safe mode thried to reset it and 30 min later went tback to safe mode took winter board off and still went to to safe mode
agine does any one know what to do i’m still tryin to figure it out. Plezzzzzz Help
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remove winterboard solved my iphone’s safe mode problem
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hi, had an issue with mobile substrate safe mode, just wondering could you tell me how can i manage to fix problem.
i’ve had installed supreme preferences for iPhone, and I decided to delete it cus i didn’t need it anymore, when i went to cydia and deleted it my phone rebooted in safe mode(that wasn’t the problem9, but the interesting thing is that when i exit the safe mode my phone applications ( such as: text, phone, notes, calendar, etc.) disappeared, and all of the jailbroken apps or even apps from app store worked just fine, and i could see them, so i was wondering if anyone could help me, if not should i install the firmware again? thanks a lot
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Hi.plz can anyone help me..i have a problem iphone safe mode,,but its diffrient.i installe font swap last time.and checkibg font one by one and respring..there is two option respring or relounch .then i relaunch.after 5 or 6 time i checkded.my phone is automatically run on safe mode.its abt 2 hours ago its still on safe mode.i cant open any application to stop running winterboard or delete that fonts because its again n agian respring.,just dnt stop 4 a sec.plz help me i dnt wana restor my iphone.plz plz.waiting,,mail me,,bye
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i am so depressed i really need help this happened with me and i pressed restart and now it is stock and i only have icy left i have no installer cydia or safari and when i try to install them on icy it does not work i can not restore because i always get error 13 and 1601 i origionally jailbroke it with quickfreedom if that helps.please help i am really angry annoyed sad and depressed
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Not sure what happened today,but i did install the application that you can have smiley faces instead of the signal bars,well i also installed the sweetmail,but never activated it since i did ask Brooke about having both lockscreen apps at the same time.
Anyhow,i was closing my phone then opening it up a few times since i was getting a few e-mails and text messages,so then my phone went to reboot on its own,then i got a alert stating the same thing above,but except it was iphone safe mode,even showed a SAD FACE and then some letter and number codes next to the face,so then i did a restart feature,i did see two other options,and i just went with restart,it did have some sort of information as to which option you can choose,but it seemed to work for me after the restart,so weird though.
Now i did read above,and some people did lose some cydia apps, mine actually did not,so not sure what happened with that.
Does anyone think that maybe it is because either we do not turn off the phones or that we keep them on all the time? Not sure if i am making sense here.
But i do enjoy my Jailbroken Iphone!
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My iPhone 3G has been in safe mode before.. but now i cant get it into safe mode if i try.Now winterboard wont appear, i think i poofed it and deleted poof, and poof wont open, just shuts itself down..? i need to figure out a way to get into safe mode, to see if poof works, any help?
Version 2.2.1
modem firmware 4.22.01
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Hi All
I having same problem to day Then I figure out
1. You have to connect to internet (with WI FI)
2.Uninstall springboard and springjump from CYDIA those cause the crash and
make your Iphone in the safe mode with unhappy face after turned ON/OFF
3.Last step,Go to the setting option chose General then Reset –>Reset all setting
—> hit OK…That All
Now Your Iphone out off safe mode and back to nomal
Hope all you guys will figure out like I did mine
GOOD LUCK
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Hello evrybody; I had the problem (exit safe mode) screens; finally today I removed NOTIFIER aplication from Big Boss; it was good enought; my iphone is back and perfect again finally…
GOd bless SAURIK for ever a living mith.
Regards from Ecuador South America
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yes same here now am installing something through cydia and now it says reboot device and i did and now its not starting up could you tell me what that means too please.
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I’ve been having the same probs for couple of days and finally i got here and read all the comments and the one that worked for me was■Hieunguyen’s comments w/o deleting any progs. all i did was
>Settings>General>Reset>Reset All Settings.
Once reset it, all the probs just went away. I hope the would word for some of u guys, at least.
Thanks
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meant work for u guts not “word”. u knew what i meant any way!!
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Ya, mine went in safe mode and took forever to reboot so I just deleted my last app (qtweeter i think) I downloaded and it was fine
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i restarted my iphone and nothing happened
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My ipod went into safe mode and wouldnt come out i deleted stack and now works fine
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Every time rearrange icons it freezes and goes into safe mode@@@@@!!!!!!!!@@@@@@??????????????????? Why????????
Restored-rejailbroke-”regot” everything-except the safe mode triggers-stack,dock2, 5icondock…
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I just did like Ken on May 13th. Went into safe mode after downloading Stack. So I did try what Ken said and it works.. Thank you. I was worried as I reboot and respring and nothing had happened.
Peace
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my iphone have some serious problem…..my iphone stuck at apple logo there and i had try to hard reset it but it still same…..this problem occur after i install the winter board ….then i restart my iphone and stuck at apple logo there…any suggestion can help me solve this problem?
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I was using supreme perference when it suddenly flashed and returned to the lockscreen. It went into safe mode.
It says:
“We apologize for the inconvenience, but SpringBoard has just crashed.
MobileSubstrate /did not/ cause this problem: it has protected you from it.
Your device is now running in Safe Mode. All extensions that support this safety system are disabled.
Reboot (or restart SpringBoard) to return to the normal mode. To return to this dialog touch the status bar.”
It doesn’t say at all what has crashed springboard and supreme perference is GONE when I go to the settings panel. I’ve tried a hard reset, tried to shut down and reboot it, but all with no results. I this supreme perference is making springboard to crash. Anyone knows how to deal with this?
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I got problem regarding safe mode, I unistalled bunch of applications and nothing happened..still in safe mode….I uninstalled Winter Board…now it is fine…
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WOW! Jay you are one patient guy… Hats off to you
What worked for me
Uninstall: Mobile Substrate (this will also remove winterboard)
Then reinstall: Winterboard and so far all is working fine (in my case)
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i was downloading updates from cydia tonight (cant remember which updates though… smart huh) and before it was finished one of my friends thought it would be funny and push the power button. Now im running in safe mode… every time i try to exit safe mode by restarting springboard/ restart my phone/ or remove/uninstall any program from cydia i get the same message (’okay’/'restart’/'help’). PLEASE HELP!!!!!
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my too, how to get rid of it, reboot not work
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what i did that worked was to reinstall winterboard and mobile substrate. after i did that everything went back to normal.
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okay this weirder i was in safe mode and everything but i decide to take off my jailbreak by reseting all my settings and uptaded the new version.. as it was rebooting the icon apple poped up then froze! since then i cant open my phone cuz it freezes there everytime.. the worst thing is that it froze right before it actually oppen so my itunes cant read it so no RESTORE
if any one knows this probleme help me thx
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