How To Boot into Safe mode on Any Android Device

Safe Mode!

Booting into this mode is quite easy, and it requires holding –on most occasions- just a button. Safe mode is that light mode where only system applications are loaded onto the OS. This means that, all third party applications will not be loaded and hence, not work.

The safe mode is there for you to perform some troubleshooting on your phone in the event of a device malfunction, and determine if the malfunction was caused by an application you’ve installed on your phone -For example, when you all of a sudden start experiencing restarting or freezing by your smartphone. If your phone stops restarting or freezing (or stops acting funny)

after you boot into the safe mode, then the cause of malfunctioning is most probably an application you have installed.

In this mode, all the basic features of the phone works and the system or preloaded applications can be accessed, e.g. playing music, making phone calls…

Safe mode booting steps

To boot directly to safe mode into any android device, do the following!

    1.       Completely turn off your smartphone (if possible, hard-reset it by removing the Battery)

    2.       After  that, wait a few seconds then hold the power button till the Phone responds (normal power up procedure)

    3.       Just after the boot image shows up or before the boot animation starts, hold the VOLUME DOWN button till booting is completed

    4.       You should get a strong and long vibration to confirm that the safe mode was successfully loaded before the normal Android UI is shown

    5.       There should be a small and transparent banner in the bottom left corner of your screen with caption “Safe mode”

    6.       Please repeat these steps if safe mode not successfully loaded

In a situation where the VOLUME DOWN button don’t work for your device (though not likely), use the VOLUME UP button instead.

After a successful safe mode boot,

              1.       Go to “settings”-“Apps”

              2.       Under the “Downloaded” tab, uninstall recently installed applications

              3.       Restart device and allow to boot normally

              4.       Confirm if problem is solved

              5.       Repeat above steps until the culprit app(s) is removed

Good luck!